skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taken economic stats with a grain of salt for some time - one because I think after the Carter presidency, the executive branch had a huge incentive to fudge the stats.

The other because macro numbers such as CPI and unemployment rates only tell a high-level story, not the one that mattered - which is, what is happening to ME?

But it should be hypothetically possible nowadays to compute a useful individual CPI based on individual buying habits.

Same goes for taxes - it should be possible to determine how much of one's spending power goes to taxes - income, sales, inclusive taxes such as excise/VAT, etc.

Regarding jobs, it might be possible to develop an "employability" stat based on one's current job, age, and maybe location.
Stop saying you're crazy. You need to take a break and then you need a routine. Regarding routine:

1. Create a WEEKLY schedule, like a school schedule, that you repeat every week. (Search 'mangaka schedule' for an extreme example.) Keep it visible (e.g. computer/phone wallpaper). The more routines the better. Remove unpredictability. Eat and sleep at the same times. Put them on the schedule. Establish a healthy, simple go-to meal to make or buy for each meal of the day. Put them on the schedule. Put "free time" blocks on the schedule. Check your email and messages at the same times each day and put them on the schedule. This will help structure your thinking.

2. Establish a goal, such as learning to code a language. Find a recommended means to accomplish it that you're comfortable with and stick to it. Set a low-bar of entry. 30-min of coding study/work a day. Do not let yourself do more even if you want to until you have a couple of weeks under your belt and no longer hesitate to do it each day. (This point will come.) To aid this, create a tally. For every 30-min block you do, mark it off. This is a visual reminder of your progress. (http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/03/23/deep-habits-should-you...)

3. I'm going to assume you drink coffee. If you can't concentrate, you have to reduce your caffeine to black or green tea. Make it tasty enough that you'll actually drink it. Do not try drinking coffee again until you have an established routine. If you smoke, this is obviously also causing your thoughts to ping-pong.

4. Most important is fitness. People think fitness is for your body, but it's primarily for your mind. Fitness will help you learn how to structure your life by rewarding you with dopamine hits, less stress, more energy, calmer thinking, reduced insomnia, and a better body. This usually starts kicking in after three visits. Don't think too hard. Find a recommended routine online, join a gym, and stick to it. And, put it on the schedule. Also, walk everyday, such as to the gym. Have a destination. Use music/podcasts/audiobooks if it helps.

LASTLY, DO NOT USE THE GODDAMN INTERNET WHILE YOU ARE COMMITTING TO A BLOCK ON YOUR SCHEDULE UNLESS IT'S A FREE BLOCK.

For what it's worth, I'm 36 and am more productive and creative and in better shape than any other point in my life.
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She's very lucky that the storm surge avoided the spot where she was standing.
Fast tests and static languages
I'm tempted to move from Android to an Apple phone partly for that reason.

I'm tired of the endless android situations where an app seems to be able to do whatever regardless of permissions... and permissions can't really be managed anyway. I also don't belive Google will ever get a handle on those permissions / privacy, they just don't care to.

It doesn't help that google killed the nexus line and now we have pixels that are premium priced anyway so I may as well consider Apple where I didn't before.

The camera is also a big deal to me so a lot of the "hey it's not a pixel but" options just don't do it for me.
Sure they do! I would just refer you to the CATO site to have your pick of thoughtful, well researched articles. Now you run off and have a read and come back with a link if you find a specific article that doesn't meet your specifications.
The BM part wasn't so interesting, but the questions they were pondering were fun.
1. No. Teardowns have shown nothing of that sort. It's a marketing decision to push people to buy $170 airpods. In fact, there's a very popular tech blogger's video where he successfully adds in a headphone jack[1] to his iPhone 8.

2. No. Samsung phones are far more water resistant than iPhones are with a jack on it. I would love to see your links to said research.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
That's okay :)

It started as an experiment and the initial results convinced me to make an app out of it rather than letting it be an experiment. I believe it's not possible to make a good recommendation system in general, with the limited data available about the community users. Using the HN API, I could only find user's submissions and comments (upvotes are private, thus limiting the amount of useful data). I ended up using only the submissions to determine user's topics of interest.
Do you think fluid simulation is advanced enough at this stage to simulate something like, "Assuming sea level rises 6 feet at the coast, this is how the surge will propagate across the landscape"?

Or will it be more like "If 6 feet of water is in this (fairly localized) area, this is how the local region will be affected"?
Golang and algebraic data types
They didn't turn Rotterdam into Rotterdam over night either. It took several decades of infrastructure work for the city to become bikeable.
> We will be living with this housing stock for decades--if not centuries--to come.

I had the impression suburban homes tend not to be well-built. They may last a few decades, but that's about it.
> Just because a person is next to me doesn't mean I like him or will have a deep relationship with him/her.

This is absolutely true, of course.

What I would like to point out is that interaction in the physical space is higher resolution than what you tend to get in virtual environments. In my experience, when you make a remote friend, you have even better interactions when you're together physically.

It's sort of like sports - you may like watching a certain sport or you may not like it. But, regardless of how much you like it, you'll like it more if you're actually at the game. There's just something about being there in person that makes it more fun.
Apple is happy to use women and people of color as art, not authority
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> the labor force participation rate of high-school and college-aged people (ages 16-24) is down dramatically

Is to be expected. Easier access to college, general push to get a degree no matter what, plus raising cost of labour (minimal wage, healthcare regulations, etc.) equals drop in participation from youngsters.
I will spend some time on this later next week. At first glance my preferred D standard tuning (DGCFAD) does not seem to be available.
If I've learned anything about economics it's that Newton 3rd Law basically applies to anything an economist says.
Why do we always assume little people do things for their self benefit with no regard for their 'reasoning/explanations', but when it comes to big guys we instantly assuming their stated reasons have no ulterior motives?

The law is really blatant in it's intention; this was a move against free speech. The 'unintended consequences narrative' is so blatantly false, I'm dumbfounded how it could be seriously quoted by otherwise logical and reasonable people.
We already do! Human work is the real component, currency is the imaginary component. Currency is made up book keeping that eventually cancels out once everyone has settled their exchange of labour.
C'mon. A car is a steel cage that has been obsessively engineered to protect it's occupants in the case of a collision.
Public transportation in Chicago sucks. The blue line incredibly crowded, id rather not get stabbed or thrown on to the tracks on the red. Metra is pretty ok. Also cyclists in Chicago apparently are allowed to do whatever they want. Run red lights, clip pedestriansnon the the sidewalks.
Instead of...

Object.entries(newDict).forEach(element => {
console.log(`${element[0]} ${element[1]}`)
})

... you could write ...

for (const key in newDict) {
console.log(`${key} ${newDict[key]}`)
}

... or ...

for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(newDict)) {
console.log(`${key} ${value}`)
}
Because the problems that are correlated with lower life expectancy are highly localized.
> Perhaps poverty, access to healthcare, or education is a bigger factor? Do you have evidence race is the "real problem"?

You're asking if I have evidence that the IHS is an absolute disaster, which impacts mortality rates and life expectancy?

Yes, that's a problem that's been very well-documented for the past seventy years.
> I wonder if they separate those who wish to/need to work from those who don't. For those who have given up searching, that is.

Indeed they do. The rate you most commonly see tries to measure unemployment in the active labor force. If you're not actively looking for work, you're not counted as unemployed. There are other measures which do count "discouraged workers" and others not usually included. They're much higher.
The Brother's Karamazov by Dostoevsky.

I gained an entirely new perspective on love for mankind. There was a passage about taking the blame for all of humanity's sins onto oneself, realizing that this is true, and then forgiving yourself. It's a hard idea to explain or even agree with, but the principle moves me, and the more I think about it, the truer it seems.
Thanks for fixing! Any chance you could post your test set, BTW?
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I think it depends a lot on the mode of transportation. An hour driving a car is really awful. An hour sitting in transit or a car someone else is driving is ok-ish because you can at least read a book or something. Though a lot of transit is standing room only which is again rather unpleasant. An hour of walking or cycling IMO is not bad if you have a desk job. Much more pleasant way to get exercise than going to a gym all the time, as many car commuters seem to do.
Right...I'm somewhat of a "militant" cyclist. I think it has the capacity to radically change how people get to and from work if we can shift people's perspectives regarding using them, and build protected bike lanes/highways/trails that reach all over and access public transportation.

I bike two miles to a train station downtown, and I take the train to a stop in a nearby city, bike two miles to work. Sometimes I bike all the way home (20 miles-ish) for a nice, convenient workout. I also get to work from home two days a week. I read books on the train, I have made great friends on the train. This is the best commute I have ever had, and I will miss it dearly if/when my situation changes.

That said, I can never go completely car free. My wife and I like to go hiking in the mountains or go to the coast with our dogs on the weekend. A car is the only way to get there with our pets.
>>The point that he's making is not that individual observation should trump objective measures, but the epistemic claim that if what we perceive contradicts those measures, it's worth interrogating the validity of those measures.

I don't know if I agree with this. I mean okay, if your house is on fire and your thermometer is showing a comfortable 75 F, you should probably question your thermometer. But in the overwhelming majority of situations, especially involving extremely complex phenomena such as a national economy, one should absolutely not trust their perception or use it to question the validity of empirical evidence that has been collected.
I'd argue that the GNU/Unix text interface is open, interoperable, and highly polished. The key ingredient is time.

Modern windowing systems are also very similar. A Windows 3.1 or early MacOS user would have no trouble using a computer today.

Touch and phone interfaces will get there, too, as both software and culture evolve together.

I can't wait for, and would love to support, the Debian of phone architectures. In past HN threads, it has been suggested to me that the real blocker for a good open phone OS is at the hardware/kernel level. That was the state of the hardware environment in the late nineties and early 2000s.

Give it time, effort, and support, and a great and open OS will emerge.
True but has a common failure mode, aka "how X won the election if I don't know a single person who voted for him?". It's rather hard to directly perceive a diverse 300+M trillion-dollar economy without resorting to some aggregating measures.
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I don't disagree. Simply price what it'll cost me to live in low density housing away from other people and I'm happy to pay. I will pay whatever it costs to not live in a dense urban core (to your points about environmental impact, we own two Teslas, have solar panels on the roof, have an electric lawnmower, and consume most of our power on site).

Sprawl is not unsustainable if you internalize the external costs, and I'll argue it'll get cheaper as mobility moves to electric vehicles and trucks, new infrastructure (with higher longevity) is built in new subdivisions instead of trying to replace 100+ year old gas, water, and sewer mains, etc.

@village-idiot: To your deleted comment, yes, my Teslas have a carbon impact during their manufacturing, but it is less than the SUV and pickup truck we used to own. It is very difficult to have no impact whatsoever on the Earth; optimize the best you can.
> Personally, I think the Boomers are in for a big shock when they try to sell their homes for a "fair" price, and discover that Millennials neither want nor can afford large suburban homes

There are plenty of foreigner investors who'd be happy to buy their property.
The story of what went wrong with New Coke was that Coca Cola's research was based entirely on sip tests and people preferred the slightly sweeter taste. I read in Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" and people ultimately didn't want to drink an entire can of the stuff. This went down as one of the most famous blunders in market research history.

https://www.printrunner.com/blog/sip-testing-potential-emplo...

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/what-new-coke-conti...
You definitely don't need winter tires; all-season tires work just fine. And an ice scraper (or even a shovel) isn't a burden for motorists. Also, winters in Copenhagen are probably quite a lot warmer than many places in the U.S. (the lowest average monthly temperature is barely below freezing!). Quite a different story from Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, or Des Moines.
I've commuted on bike in Montreal down to about -10C. No special clothing, no special tires.
Definitely agree about the teacher bit, if you can find a decent one, or can afford it. I find that sitting in or jamming, or even playing over standards is really helpful just to get things going. You have to remember that a lot of the jazz greats of the 20th century had little to no formal music education, let alone the complexities of jazz theory.
37,461 people were killed by motor vehicles in the United States in 2016[1]. Whether it's more pleasurable to live in a city or a suburb is beside the point; our only options are to encourage the use of cycling and mass transit, or to condemn 37,461 more people to death every year from now on.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8124...
If it's a true old school style moped (small engine/electric motor with pedals) that's probably fine, but something like a vespa or small motorcycle should be in a separate area.
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I’m always shocked how few people swap out for winter tires in appropriate climates.

Also distressing was the number of people convinced that all wheel drive made their car safer in the snow.
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The best ones I have read take it a little closer to the guitar: "Learn the freboard" Learn why the freboard is the way it is, why it is tuned the way it is, why no one for hundreds of years has been able to come up with a better tuning system -- then learning rhythm, chords and scales will be a bonus side effect. The very excellent book "Fretboard Logic" takes this approach
Great job!
One idea: Have some tracks ( from Spotify api?) to play along that matches the selected scales.
I've found that playing on top of songs works pretty well, improvising up and down is very easy if you are playing the safe notes of the scale, finding how the singing melody fits the scale, then how the solo fits the scale..etc is a funnier way to memorise the scale.
Yeah, also costs are rising at an insane rate. Health care and college are both an order of magnitude higher than they were when millenials were children, and even then many of us saw our parents work hard and still not build any savings until their kids were on their own. I haven't bothered looking for it but it would be interesting to see the difference in cost of raising a child over the past century
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I think programming is definitely more prone to have bad problems with distractions. Some problems may take days, weeks or months of focused work to develop a mental model. I think a lot of other functions don't require this long time focus. They are done in smaller chunks.
Both are the same failure mode: "You used to always do X. You shouldn't do that anymore."

In my example, X was "tell patient they have a death sentence". The fact that yours is closer to a specific situation in the article does not make it "a different failure mode" with different dynamics and causes.
POS removes the trustless and decentralized nature of blockchain.
> You still have yet to seriously engage the notion that the Chinese government is perpetrating wholesale oppression of a class of people simply for having a different identity. Whatever the US does doesn’t change how morally reprehensible that is.

The US systematically does the same to its black portion of the population since always, sometimes in extreme ways, other times in soft ways.
> Can Earth sustain a population of 10+ billion humans, the majority of them working full time and for longer times, using up resources at a rapidly increasing rate?

The alternative view is that all this activity generates innovation and problem solving, which increases th carrying capacity of the planet.
Because race is genetic and genetic variations lead to wildly disparate "outcomes." Your zip code is one of the weakest influences on your health and lifespan, relative to other scientifically proven factors.
I know nothing about the latter three cities, but most of Seattle is made up of low-density, residential-only neighborhoods, very suburban-feeling to my sensibilities - and I'm talking about the city proper, too, not including all the even-more-suburban areas surrounding.
Android itself is "open", but if you want to do much with it, you want it with Google Apps.
I have a hard time getting worked up about getting tracked online. I'm looking at Facebook's suggested groups right now. I've been on facebook since around 2013. The groups they try to suggest to me are:

one for a game I play that I used facebook to log into. Makes sense.

1st edition advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
I haven't mentioned Dungeons and dragons and haven't played it since the mid 1980s

Grindr aesthetics. I am hetero so I'm not sure what this is.

Indy Nostalgia. I live in Indiana so I guess that is somewhat relevant.

Hearthstone Australia. I live in Indiana and I don't play Hearthstone.

A few days ago I was talking about this with a friend and looked and facebook had suggested I join a group for progressive Asian-American Christians. I am not Asian-American or a Christian.

If this is the best they can do with 15 years worth of data then I don't think I have too much to worry about.
Maybe this is really the project of some common ancestor?
> returning to the bicycle, an 18th century city technology, is regressive, not the way forward

Just because something is old does not mean it is a bad idea. By the way, bicycles were first developed in the 19th century (not 18th) and have been continuously improved since then. And motor vehicles are not much newer, anyway. The Benz Patent Motor Car was sold in the 1880s. For comparison, the most popular type of bike sold today, the "safety bike" became popular in the late 1880s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_bicycle

I've explained cycling to high-tech types as taking advantage of the literal nanotechnology the human body uses. Bikes make use of the human body much more than cars in my view.
You can be part of a community anywhere in the world. I have lots of equally remotely working kick-abouts here.
Yea, I was talking about further filtering "discouraged workers", or those who've given up searching for work. I think it'd be interesting to apply the "wish to/need to" filter to those who are employed, too!

This article[1] gets into a bit, but

"Some men choose not to work and can afford not to. That’s great, Furman says. But for many, probably most, dropping out of the work force not only means a lack of income but also a loss of the dignity that comes with not working."

still sounds like conjecture, to me.

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-a...