skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you described is exactly how I experience things in my head as well, including that redrawing part.

I've noticed though that as I've spent years learning Japanese characters, I am somewhat better at visualizing them in my head. I can see (or "feel", as it's not really visual exactly in the same sense as seeing, although they are not just concepts but have spatial locations) whole subcomponents at a time instead of having to plot each line.
Yes, this. My parents had very little to no ability to save money due to dealing with basic survival plus raising me. Had my father not passed away, they likely would not have saved any sort of money to support a college fund.

A fair amount of that money went to support my family because by that time my mother and my step father (also a fisherman) were disabled as a result of their job and practically unable to work. It was through that money plus the aid I got from FAFSA that allowed me to get through college and support my parents, though I had to make many other health sacrifices along the way.
It feels weird that your setup is seen as unusual. Maintaining a home NAS, self-hosting everything, offline and remote backups: This is how I've done things for years (decades?) Besides a brief stint with Gmail, which I weaned myself off of a few years ago, I'm not tied to any particular online service at all. I'm not dependent on the whims of some company, whose interests do not align with my own, to maintain my access to photos, financial records, music, E-mail, etc. If I lost all my online accounts tomorrow (besides my ISP and a single VPS I still use), life would go on as usual.

What's strange and foreign to me is the world where people rely on other companies for so much of their online lives.
> so as you can imagine, a birth certificate isn't enough.

Why isn't a birth certificate enough to get a passport? I got my passport using nothing but my issued-by-a-small-Texas-town birth certificate.

I can't imagine why a birth certificate wouldn't be enough. If it isn't, and only a passport is, how do we go from birth certificate to passport? Driving license? My state permitted me to get a full driving license with, again, just a birth certificate. So is getting a passport by using a birth certificate and a driving license just using a birth certificate but with extra steps?
Same here, my hands and feet just "do their thing". I don't think about it particularly at all.
This seems well-intentioned, but I can't help but find ghastly the idea of a keyboard which applies some vague heuristics to police expression in the name of "positivity".

I'm reminded of an old Buttercup Festival strip:

http://www.buttercupfestival.com/39vol2.gif

"My parents didn't want me drawing depressing pictures as a child, so they only gave me yellow crayons. I mostly drew our canary getting struck by lightning."
And one of those cost approximately my annual salary and the other doesn't.

Telling people automatics are great when you are referencing a type that the majority of people will never have a chance of owning is a classic Hacker News manual-vs-automatic discussion trope.
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It's an Elon Musk outfit; misinformation is in its DNA.
My point was that none of it was simple. There are many other poor Americans that have had issues pop up like this but are unable to afford or find lawyers to represent them in court. You're absolutely correct that we're lucky that not only did we win the suit but that the lawyer took on the case.

Other people aren't as lucky.
i learned to drive stick on my WRX and it was the only manual I've ever driven for 5+ years. It wasn't until I had to pick up my brother in laws car from the shop where I noticed how heavy my clutch was and how boggy the first and 2nd gear are at low speeds.

but i never had the cramping problem and love driving it in stop and go traffic. keeps me entertained / sane with something to do. recently noticed my left calf is bigger than my right
I'm just trying to say that it's not like my life completely sucks now.

Dating someone half your age carries burdens too. People probably think I'm a creep or that I set out to ditch my wife for someone younger. I felt embarrassed for a while but now I got over it.
O wow, call me filter bubbled. I just plainly assumed that automatic gear shifting would be software controlled. Thanks.
Having just come back from Hockenheim with my racing license, I can tell you that driving a manual car very fast is much harder and more demanding than doing the same with an automatic. That's precisely why I drive a manual: it's more challenging and makes me learn more about race driving techniques, not to mention controlling the car. It demands of me to be an ever better driver. I have to be at least twice as good as other participants with automatics. I like that.
I agree with this in principle, except that a good docs library should also have nice full text searching capability. I've yet to see a FT search capability that works nicely with a static doc site.
> Are you saying there are some unstated engineering limitations that would hinder getting to the desired "C" by connecting more battery cells in parallel?

When connected in parallel, each cell has to discharge at same rate within a small margin. That means you have to match cells by capacity and internal resistance during manufacturing process. The more cells you put in parallel, the more chance some of them will age differently and cause whole battery to underperform or fail spectacularly.
i emailed you regarding this ;)
An automatic transmission and manual transmission actually have very different physical designs.

Manual transmissions typically consist mainly of a locking mechanism that is physically moved with the shifter for gear selection and a clutch plate to couple the transmission to the engine. Typically you have one physical gear for every logical gear, and you're using the shifter to physically connect to the gear you want to use. The clutch plate is a friction material, and you press it against the flywheel (which connects to the engine) for them to stick together; press them together and the engine spins the transmission, pull them apart and you're in neutral.

In your typical automatic transmission, instead of having a physical gear for every logical gear, you have multiple sets of planetary gearsets (typically 3 sets for a 6 speed). Each planetary gearset has its own clutch to allow different parts of the planetary gearset to spin, allowing for multiple different ratios. The computer controls which clutches are applied to make the right ratio for the "gear" you're in. A torque converter is used to connect an automatic transmission to the engine instead of a clutch. Torque converters are two fans facing each other submerged in liquid, when one fan spins, it moves the liquid which spins the other fan.

Planetary gearsets of the auto transmission are typically bigger than simple gears, and the torque convertor with two fans and liquid is significantly bigger than a clutch plate which is just a flat disk.

Now you're thinking, why can't a computer just control the clutch plate movement. Well, BMW tried it with their SMG gearbox. Turns out computers aren't very good at determining how much force to apply to the clutch (which also wears over time) so that the car doesn't jerk or lag, much less figure out whether you wanted aggressive clutch engagement or you wanted the clutch to slip. Compared to letting physics do it's thing in a torque converter, a computer controlling a moving part was also much more complicated and less reliable and less predictable. The computer is already not very good at predicting what gear you want to be in, it was also not good at predicting how direct you wanted your power applied. So it ended up being worst of both worlds, none of the simplicity of a true manual, and none of the smoothness of a typical auto.
I move all my organized links (bookmarks) into a folder called 'old' and make a new, better, system. Rinse and repeat every two years.
> we also have lots of studies showing that the best of the lowest socioeconomic class almost never do better than the laziest of the uppermost socioeconomic class.

Could you point me to one? I've seen a number of studies on averages, and anecdotally, this contradicts my experience, so I'd be interested in whatever data you're referring to.
Seems cool. I'm browsing your own doc and found one thing i hate tho. Could you please please let user himself decide, if he wants to open next pages(your "Next to read") in new browser tab or in the same one? I hate how every second website doesn't respect this.
They're not fully capitalist. Their economic success began when they started their slow conversion to capitalism, and has proceeded in lockstep with their loosening of economic regulation. This is not a co-incidence.
And those people were able to rise by hurting the natives originally living there... no free lunch theorem strikes again
Play his role without the death of his father and incidental lawyer willing to work pro-bono (or, I suspect, on commission): would his hard work have gotten him anywhere besides an early grave? Having been to sea, I can personally say that I seriously doubt he would have gotten much further than his father. Born as grist for the mill.
I don't see anything in the parent's comment indicating that he supports unfettered self-interest.

As far as I can tell almost everyone nowadays supports the idea of having markets which are partially free, but subject to some regulation (which was Smith's position). Hardcore Rand and Marx devotees are on the fringe. We are all just debating the degree and character of the regulation.

We debate within Smith's world because he was right and it's easy to see, free markets tend to produce big winners who have so much wealth and power that they eventually find a way to corrupt the market. Regulation should focus on this basic problem: there's no great social upside to a $100B company becoming an $200B company, whereas there's lots of social upside to promoting lots of competition, small firms, and a sense of fairness so that everyone can pursue their self-interest.
The empty page dummy text rectangles are extremely annoying. There's no reason pure text needs a spinner.
Ditto on the colo provider question.

Which virtualization do you use on server and how do you handle remote admin and security updates for guest VMs and host?
I hate autoplaying videos and bloated adware as much as anyone else on here, and I'm very partial to arguments in favor of increased accessibility. But the thesis of the article is that optimizing cost-to-produce at the expense of time-spent-waiting-for-the-page-to-load is an optimization that fundamentally undercuts the poor.

There wasn't much data showing this to be true, and I suspect the opposite may be. If reducing pageload time increased costs, would poor people be happy to pay more for the faster product, or would it just drive them out from being able to afford it? Or in the case of free services that make money via advertising and tracking, would it be better to do more of that to pay for the extra cost needed to produce the good in order to shave off pageload time? I'm not so sure. "Make it better and more expensive" is an easy argument to make if you're a wealthy software engineer, but I'm not convinced that applying "better and more expensive" as a value helps those lower on the socioeconomic ladder.

Focusing on "make it cheaper to be better" seems like it would do more to make experiences more equitable — i.e. we should improve the developer experience of high-performance open-source tools so that it takes less time and costs less to make better products, rather than driving up the cost of production at the (literal monetary or privacy) expense of users in order to produce a faster product.

Edit: Or, y'know, we should pay CEOs less and use those savings to make better products without increasing the costs passed on to our users... But somehow I don't see that happening any time soon.
So you’re saying those illegals are basically slaves? Wouldn’t the ethical thing to prevent illegal immigration into the country knowing that these people may be abused?
That labor is not worth more on the open market. Nannies aren't rich. Not even close. My wife stayed at home and for time watched children. Without question I was the better deal.
Sorry, can I have some explanation on how piezo-based ultrasound systems aren't considered fragile? Even within their casing, dropping or banging one risks damaging the crystals.

Using Philips Lumify, Clarius' C-3, and other transducers, I think we've seen a bit of what low cost ($1k - $10k range) ultrasound machines with the same form factor can do to the market. Rather than displace the whole market, low cost ultrasound created a new fragment and opened doors for more clinicians and more clinical applications. The higher end machines are still regularly used and sought after (you can't really get the image quality and amazing beamforming otherwise).

I do like the idea of implantable ultrasound heart monitor! Fun to think about.

Disclosure: one of the co-inventors in the article was my graduate supervisor. I had no relation with this work however.
China proved that you can reduce poverty in spite of those things. There is precisely zero evidence that those policies have done anything to reduce poverty, and a mountain of evidence that those policies, in general, exacerbate poverty.
I've never in my life seen a manual car that doesn't have a hand brake.
> And you think immigrants are responsible for this?

Entirely? No. Partially? Yes.

Most notably immigration has a huge impact on housing and the ever increasing demand for it. This alone is responsible for much of the fall in living standards.
My Mazda 6 manual has a very smooth and light clutch and “hill assist” where the car will brake for you on hills as you ease into gear. It’s an awesome combo and I get virtually no fatigue from driving in stop and go traffic trough hilly areas. My old manual though was another story- you’d have a sore leg after a long drive in bad traffic, and getting stopped on a steep hill with the automatic drivers crawling right up to your rear was nerve wracking.
Finally, a graphical programming environment that is as fast as programming with text files.
It does make me wonder if shit like this will be the force driving society away from nation-states to Neal Stephenson-style corporate franchising [1] or phyles [2]. When it happens to one person, it's a tragedy for them. When it happens to a lot of people, it's a very large market opportunity - providing the security, legal, and currency services that the state no longer offers.

This doesn't detract from your point about it being tempting to authoritarians - this is basically recreating feudalism with modern technology. But it is interesting that denying citizenship actually weakens the state, by creating a power & leadership vacuum that some other institution can step into.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Background

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Phyles
For the 2 banks that I use, it is set by the user. And for BNP you have to change it every 80 uses, so you end up using something really easy to try to remember it...
Social mobility doesn't have anything to do with it really. Even if it is easier for the average citizen to become wealthy, that doesn't entail that the ones actually doing meritorious work are being rewarded accordingly. The "merit" in your idea of a meritocracy only measures the ability to accrue wealth, which is meaningless (as proxy for the more general notion of merit) when rich assholes are rewriting the laws to their own benefit.
Hasn't the aging population paid their fair share though? How does it help to bring in more adults who for the most part have low wage jobs (=little or no taxes to collect), and will most likely live close or the same number of years as the original population?

You could argue that by bringing Filipinos in you lower the wages, and as a result, the native population is less interested in taking such jobs, besides lowering the "status" of the job itself.

I was recently looking for a nanny in Spain and most applicants were Spanish females. Despite that, most parents seem to hire foreign nannies from LA because it's cheaper.

That said, it's really sad if the elderly in Belgium are being taken care of by people they barely can understand. What a nice ending of life!

I remember from my time in the Netherlands that the elderly there get regular visits from a specific person whose job is to socialize with them to solve some of the "loneliness" problems. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happens in Belgium, which is IMO, a growingly anti-social society.

In Spain (which has the highest life expectancy in Europe by the way) many old people are still taken care of by close family members, or in other cases by people from LA who at least speak the same language. I didn't realize how fortunate they actually are.
If the clutch is a problem, it's time to change the master or the clutch cylinder or change the car.
Do you use Synology iOS app for backup to NAS? Is it limited to photos, or can it also handle media like music or video?

One issue I've found with a similar approach is that many mobile apps are limited to iCloud, Dropbox and Google Driver for state synchronization. Only a few apps (e.g. https://2doapp.com, https://notebooksapp.com, https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/) make the effort to support open standards like WebDAV and CalDAV.

iOS now supports storage providers, so you can use a dedicated application to transfer files between devices via SSH/SMB/etc, but many apps cannot export/import all state via a single backup file.

> Any sensitive data is encrypted

Is this done on clients (E2E) or server? If the server, how do you manage encryption keys?
For the extra keen, here is the Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering paper about this work released Aug 27 2018:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-018-0022-5

Disclosure: one of the co-inventors in the article was my graduate supervisor. I had no relation with this work however.
Iris Automation Is Hiring a Full Stack Recruiter – AI for Drones
...except that that's what we have student loans for. If you want to go to college and study CS, you can do that. Even if you don't have money from one of your parents dying.
I went into divorce naively. I was toughing it out in a crappy marriage, alternating between being suicidal or whacked out on booze/pot/pills/etc. One night I jokingly suggested divorce to my parents and they took me seriously and encouraged it. I didn't seriously consider it as a possibility until that moment. If I had my head on straight, I would have acted differently(switched jobs, taken a mental health break, stashed funds, etc). Instead, I did the right thing and split the $30k cash, kept my high paying job(which ended during the divorce anyway) and tried to help her choose good representation. It ended up screwing me.
umatrix tells me the site, orwell.ru, wants to load a script from yandex.ru.

When Orwell wrote the essay he may still have been feeling his combat wounds from the Spanish Civil War, where he took a bullet in the neck from one of Franco's snipers. He also spent some days manning barricades in the streets of Barcelona, futilely resisting a coup within the Republican government, instigated by a Soviet-backed faction.

Something ironic in that, with the page here coming from a .ru TLD.
I'm not saying that is the best question to ask an interviewee. I'm just saying it's the nicest of the three for me to be on the receiving end of.

(Although, to be clear, "are you a good listener?" is an absolutely terrible question.)
Is there a reason you couldn't simply have taken out a student loan?
Man Drives ‘Transformer’ on Streets of Beijing, Gets Pulled Over by Cops
Yep, we pair at least 80% of the time.
HP to launch a Metal Jet series of 3D printers
It seems to me your policy would lead to the creation of permanent two-class society, where moving between the classes is difficult. Besides, do you really want to live in a fortress segregated from the rest of the society?

Why not invest money in education, training and a social security net that gives poorer individuals the means and space to catapult themselves into wealth?
So readers may be surprised to find that this story does indeed explain a number of secrets, some of the important techniques that have been used by magicians onstage. Perhaps I may be considered guilty of breaking ranks and betraying trust. Actually, there’s a long, important tradition of magic being recorded and published. As my good friend Jay Marshall...has said for many years, "If you want to keep something a secret, publish it." Once in print, information is often filed, forgotten, or dismissed. Publishing a secret takes away its cachet and causes it to be overlooked. Every illusion that I’ve discussed in this book has already been explained in books. – Jim Steinmeyer, Hiding the Elephant

Human life is so far a game of cross-purposes. If we wish a thing to be kept secret, it is sure to be transpire: if we wish it to be known, not a syllable is breathed about it. This is not meant; but it happens from mere simplicity and thoughtlessness. – Hazlitt, On Depth and Superficiality
Very cool, would love to see more content on this topic. Setup guides of individual services, issues you've run into, more on hardware choices, and definitely more on your smart home setup.
The same thing happened to the South American natives, but the immigrants there did not rise. Now they want to move north to the US.

There's something different about the US - capitalism.
Open-access movement hits the silver screen
> I don't see anything in the parent's comment indicating that he supports unfettered self-interest.

I never suggested the parent indicated this.
81% of Australian IT workers experience sexual harassment at work
It seems as if in this thread 'developers' means multiple things: 1. developers who make apps? 2. developers who work for Apple.
81% of employees in IT, media, and telecommunications report experiencing sexual harassment at work in the past 5 years
So the money only supplemented your education? I too was born into poverty and FAFSA paid my way through college.
Next-generation camera for the South Pole Telescope takes data on early universe
Train Donkey Car in Unity Simulator with Reinforcement Learning
> immutable biological trait

So now your two SUVs and white McMansion with a picket fence are an "immutable biological trait"?
> And you think immigrants are responsible for this?

Yeah, it was immigrants who engineered the massive Reagan-era tax burden shift off of elites and on to the working class (and subsequent downward tax burden shifts under Bush 43 and Trump which reinforced the effects of the Reagan shifts.)