skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure he totally underindexes on experience. He was long Apple at a time it was very common to think that Android + OEMs would soon be "good enough" and thus price would be only factor and Apple would suffer. He recognized the importance of user experience and that "feeling of good will" more than most industry analysts.
Child support payments are not the cause of women's financial woes after divorce, but you can absolutely look at the same general sentence: "Women that marry in their late 20s and have kids in their 30s don't like the idea of living in a crappy apartment, driving a 15yo Civic and eating rice and beans well into their 50s because they're getting bent over for" being women who had kids, often put their careers on the back burner, often were not aware of financial decision-making within the marriage, & got divorced without the ability to make as much money.

Yeah, it's complicated; you can see one paper here [1] that quantifies the post-divorce earnings gap. It is improving. Anyhow, divorce is a ludicrously bad economic decision for many women. Don't know if that's a factor in the changing rate.

[1] https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/iser_working_papers/2008-...
A more recent book: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7519.html There's a chapter on divorce & child support. Gets pretty mathy.
An interesting survey from UBS (the numbers are buried) about female abdication of financial decision-making responsibility in marriages: https://www.ubs.com/content/dam/WealthManagementAmericas/doc...
>BTW - why is lack of free will a downer? I perceive is as neutral.

Not the GP, but lack of free will implies that people have no agency over their actions, and hence can't really take pride in anything they've accomplished. They're just squishy robots following their programming and lying to themselves about why they do the things they do.

Or at least that's one depressing way to interpret it.
I always waited until my interns left and then "collected" their monitors. Eventually I had too many monitors (Just managing the asset tags and reconciling things was a huge pain.), and replaced everything with a small 24" 4K.
>Addicts and alcoholics can turn their lives around, even though they remain addicts for life.

The "addicts for life" is an American puritan view (by AA and other such groups) -- not some scientific fact. Certainly not the view everywhere in the world. You can have an alcoholic of 5-10 years that recovered and can still enjoy the occasional drink just fine without getting back to regular drinking.
Yes. Every one of them signed bunch of documents.
> by matching employee gifts

The employees of those companies collectively donated $50,000.

Also, WMF has more than enough money to run Wikipedia probably indefinitely anyway. They do other things, but Wikipedia is at no risk of going away.
Sigh... the dependencies remind me of the "left-pad" and "is-positive" package.

Most of the heavy lifting on this one is done by the `is-ci` package [1], which is what does (obviously) the "is this a CI server" request.

But it doesn't end there. `is-ci` just does a single call within the broader `ci-info` library [2].

Any reason it couldn't have just imported `ci-info` and used its `isCI` function?

[1] https://github.com/watson/is-ci

[2] https://github.com/watson/ci-info
Good luck getting the top talent that has moved to the US, UK or Switzerland years ago.
SF / Bay Area:

1. Public Transit - a lot of the city isn't super walkable, and BART is dirty/unreliable/sometimes-sketchy. Something like NYC's subway system would be a game changer for me, but I tend to stay between only a few neighborhoods I can walk to, else I have to lyft (pretty quick, but usually around $8 to $15 each way).

2. No seasons - Personal preference, but I love winter and fall, and we don't really get either. Some people love this, but for me, the whole year feels like perpetual summer purgatory.

3. Yuck - The streets of SF are gross. WAY grosser than NYC. Like, human feces on every block in the areas surrounding the Tenderloin. Even in nicer areas like the Financial District, the streets are covered in trash and smelly.

4. Homeless population - It's absurd how many homeless folks there are, and the extent to which they're dehumanized on the streets of SF. Many of them have mental health issues, and some have tendencies towards getting aggressive. It's disheartening to see, and in order to survive in the city, you kind of have to come to terms with tuning it out in a way that I don't think is good for the empathetic, human part of being a person.

5. Crime / drugs - I have fairly thick skin with respect to sketchiness, but it's so bad that the police don't respond in person to car break-ins anymore (they can't afford to). You can see a whole host of people shooting up heroin directly across the street from the police station. You can find discarded needles and crack pipes in most neighborhoods. In some neighborhoods (especially the TL, lower nob hill), it can take the police a long time to check up on reported disturbances unless they're violent.

6. Not a great place for dating (for cishet men, at least. I can't speak to other folks' experiences) - There are more men in the city than women, which sometimes feels like a shortage of available women in the dating pool. YMMV
The other humans in this city are awful

philly
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What's holding France and everybody else back from creating the next Google, is that there is only ever one Google.

Looking at the list of largest tech companies globally, there are perhaps four dozen very large tech companies in the West. Based on their ages, one might get founded in the entire West in a given year on average during the modern transistor era.

Simply put, there aren't going to be 27 Ubers or Googles or Microsofts. There is one of each. So for France (or any given country) to produce these types of companies, they have to beat everyone else racing to produce that outcome. The odds are extraordinarily low, no matter what you do, once you start adding in all the hurdles, as time is of the essence since it's always winner take most.

What countries like France can do, is produce a lot of mid-size tech companies that can take advantage of local and regional opportunties better than large foreign firms. The long-tail opportunties, in other words, that require being down in the minutiae.

As an example, you'll never produce larger global retailers than Walmart or Amazon, no matter what you do, if you're a given country in the EU. That doesn't mean you can't occasionally beat them at their game on your turf however (as retailers routinely do around the globe). It heavily depends on the nature of the tech / segment in question. The reason that works that way, is similar to why Google, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Intel, Cisco, et al. have done so well as global giants, whereas SAP hasn't been vanquished in the European market by the likes of Oracle and Salesforce. Local relationships are immensely important in some areas of tech. If you're Google, it's the ability to dominate the huge US market, derive immense profit from that base, and rather easily perpetually project outward at claiming pieces of market share all over the planet. That concept only fails if the US economy does, there's nothing France can do to compete with it, unless the EU wants to entirely integrate (they don't and never will, national sovereignty is too important). The real local competitive advantage for a France is in tech where there is friction that provides an advantage based on culture or location. They're not going to produce the next Google, ever, and they shouldn't be aiming for that.
Ask HN: Where should startups list themselves?
We've recently rebranded our company, and as we've begun to add ourselves to Glassdoor, Crunchbase, AngelList, LinkedIn, etc., I've begun to wonder where else we should post about ourselves.
Or cell phone provider
"PERSPECTIVE. The wealthiest person I have spent time with makes about $400mm/year. i couldn't get my mind around that until I did this: OK--let's compare it with someone who makes $40,000/year. It is 10,000x more. Now let's look at prices the way he might. A new Lambo--$235,000 becaome $23.50. First class ticket internationally? $10,000 becomes $1. A full time executive level helper? $8,000/month becomes $0.80/month. A $10mm piece of art you love? $1000. Expensive, so you have to plan a bit. A suite at the best hotel in NYC $10,000/night is $1/night. A $50million home in the Hamptons? $5,000. There is literally nothing you can't buy except."
For anyone that was as curious as I was:

WHERE DO THESE PHOTOS COME FROM?

During the mid-1980s, the City of New York photographed every property in the five boroughs. The project had a bureaucratic origin: the photos were used by the Department of Finance to estimate real property values for taxation purposes. Buildings as well as vacant lots were photographed because both are taxed. Because it was difficult to distinguish while shooting between taxable and tax-exempt buildings, like religious institutions or government offices, the photographers just shot everything. The result is a remarkable body of imagery – over 800,000 color 35mm photos in both negative and print formats.
is it the bank which had problems with USD payments for weeks/months? no thanks, i need reliable bank, they already messed up my USD payment prior this known issues because of changing intermediary bank
I too am always asked to sign arbitration waivers by medical providers. I never do, and I make sure they’re aware of it. I’ve yet to encounter one who will decline to treat me or my family because of it.
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It's definitely a non-New Yorker perspective though.
Anything that interfaces with the outside world (LTA, NFC, Wifi, Bluetooth, ...) or that interfaces with the same components.

There are also problems that tend to come up again and again, even in different systems, like stuff related to caching, power management etc.
You can do all those (sorting, filtering, etc) in Qt as well using the Model/View components. There is a bit of a learning curve to understand the "Qt way of doing MVC", but after that it works fine.

At work we use Qt5 with both C++ and Python (through PyQt) and I love it.
I take it anti-competes and lawsuits over forwarded vague emails are only for the scrubs.
It might give the same answer, but I'm not concluding much from the thought-experiment. The model takes as input its environment, which includes its past decisions. If you pose the same question to it twice, it might choose to do something different the second time just because it weighs "whimsy" as a positive. How random is its RNG? Can it tell? What would it do differently if it knew the answer to these questions?
The course website for EE16A is https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee16a/. Looks like an interesting course.
It's bizarre that people working in an industry that claims to be all about innovation and disruption immediately assume that unions cannot innovate from their Industrial Era forebears.
Useless signaling? 1 million is definitely not useless.
More so for using it in way that makes it technically correct to say that "Volkswagen detects when your code is only being tested and then makes it pass."
Is this not a nice positive story about Millennial's for once?
I'm not sure. This is at odds w/ some parts of the article near the end claiming marriage as a status symbol, specifically:

> Fewer people are getting married [...] Many poorer and less educated Americans are opting not to get married at all

Granted the article is not necessarily any more accurate. My pet theory is lack of societal compulsion.
I'd be surprised if every company in every country came by this maxim, "Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare." Some business cultures are more and less willing to accept collusion and espionage against their suppliers and competitors to make more money.

I can say that in many cultures both in the US, Germany, Korea, Russia, and China (in what order?) such deceit is expected and considered normal business practice. If you sit and talk with both engineers and business leaders they will be fairly open about it (and concerned about their comoetitors). It may not be long term efficient, but it is definitely short term profitable. Conspiracies based on profit (like the Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe hiring collusion) are not more rare than CEOs getting caught discussing them on email.

A counter quote from Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
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This comment overlooks the fact that the U.S. court system is currently disagreeing with itself over whether the practice of forced individual arbitration is illegal or not. The last time SCOTUS had a case about this in I think 2016, they divided sharply by one vote. This is yet another case involving it where the courts who saw it disagreed with each other.
> Chump change for Bezos. Really.

Ok, then how much should he have given? Keep in mind that Wikipedia didn't even need the money, because they have enough already.
> Microsoft dominance in browsers was beaten by other large corporations throwing resources at open source.

I don't agree with your timing. My memories of the time were

* Browser wars I - Netscape loses, MS rests on its laurels while Netscape releases source code
* Years pass
* Mozilla has been able to build up the Netscape base into a viable product and starts to really make in-roads against MS
* Big corps see success and fund it to avoid MS lock-in
* Years pass
* Chrome comes along

Sure, there was some initial investment in Mozilla, but I sincerely doubt success occurred without relying on a vast number of unfunded volunteer hours. Chrome is cool, but likewise it built on that open source base that you dismiss so lightly.

If market success relies on people doing free work, and the dominance is in place for years because no competitor can compete in that market until the unpaid labor can catch up, then the market isn't what's responsible for the success.
I presume that they do not gift the user with a preference to change this behaviour (either globally or per-sitei), or allow an extension to override it?
But, here's the thing, I don't know what I'm giving away (or selling) and what repercussions it can have on me. With free speech (and other human rights) I can exactly see what it means to have it as a human right. With Privacy, that line becomes hazy and I'm trying to make it clearer. makes sense?
Now that I've slept on it I may have been thinking of the Economist.
Most institutions don’t want to let their clients go—why should AA be any different.
One secret to getting lower prices is occasionally fibbing about the purpose or just not mentioning it. Tell the baker you need a beautiful... anniversary cake, or retirement cake, and stick the plastic people on top yourself. Immediately cheaper! Same with flowers -- you need a bouquet for... something else. Ok, not sure what. Renting a reception hall for a retirement party is cheaper than renting the same space for a wedding.

Of course, some people enjoy the ritual of the cake tasting and decoration decisions and etc.
Oh, they have it.

Unfortunately, some people get tunnel vision about fighting it, and then the propagandists use social media to circulate dishonest smears about them that spread widely out of context. There was an example right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109290

Edit: In fact, the propaganda operation is still ongoing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18051210
My opinion is that having a minimum wage influences people to not make their own target, since an authority figure essentially deemed one hour of work is worth X dollars. Removing the minimum wage would make workers think for themselves how much they should earn and I believe that inclusion in their earning process would lead them to plan better, work better, and therefore earn more.

Essentially, I believe that when the government thinks for the people like declaring a minimum wage the people tend to avoid thinking about it themselves.
Even if it did, that would just delay your signal loss by 10 seconds. It only receives a signal so there's no way it could catch up with what it missed.

A modern service could broadcast music files to your radio and then just schedule those, rather than sending a stream like a FM radio. But that's not how Sirius works now.
https://www.theknot.com/content/military-wedding-ceremony-an...

I've been to a couple of these. The costs are basically nil and you get some perks (honor guards with swords, flyovers etc) that trump any fancy destination wedding.
Apple can FORCE iPhone users to hand over HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS under THREAT OF VIOLENCE.

(That is: you have to pay money for an iPhone, and if you take it without paying the police may come after you.)

I personally think arbitration clauses in situations where the contract is essentially non-negotiable (company/user, company/worker) are basically a way for corporations to opt out of the civil court system, and one can make the case that they should therefore not be allowed (though this is a question for the legislature more than the courts).

In any case, you are absolutely right about the headline.
It’s interesting to think about how recent the massive increase in quality and variety of food really is.

Imagine you were the wealthiest person living in New York City in the 19th or even early 20th century. Your diet would be unbelievably bland. Very few ethnic cuisines, very few spices available, and overall food quality was horrendous due to lack of industrialization, sanitation, and processes that hadn’t been invented yet.

And that doesn’t even get into the consequences of the lack of refrigeration and refrigerated logistics. It is a stunning achievement that we can eat raw vegetables year round, with such a high confidence in safety that every contamination incident is national news. The modern salad is a tribute to man’s genius and capital investment.
We use (and pay for) PyQt5 at work. Do you have experience with both and if so can you comment on any tangible differences?

If possible, I would rather get behind the "official" one since we also already pay for commercial Qt licenses.
Abusing users isn't OK just because they've found additional ways to extract money from users.

Disclaimer: I was a Google fanboy until a few years ago and I disliked but trusted Google until a couple of weeks ago. Now I don't know what to do but at least I've finally got around to switching my search habits.
The term nouveau rich was coined specifically to describe the rich industrialists who had generated their fortune without being from the old aristocratic families.

Also if hard work led to you having wealth then their wouldn't have been peasants, and even children could buy their own homes after a long day in the fields or mines.

I am an avid critic of the financial industry, but the whole idea of lending money and having a store of it that was trusted enough to accept checks from altered all of society. Prior to that you could only purchase as much material as you had money on hand to buy, or something else to trade. There was no way to borrow 100 dollars to buy materials that you converted into 130 dollars of value without already having 100 dollars
You already have the problem that small fines aren't much of a deterrent effect on wealthy people. Though one might be surprised how butthurt well to do people can be over trivial amounts of money.

A mitigating thing is monthly SS insurance benefits max out.
Do you know if it is working fine with F#? Will possibly try it as I learn F# (on Linux).
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Steve jobs had reiterated multiple times that good artists copy and great artists steal. Apple stole the 'GUI' and 'mouse' from Xerox, constantly violates scores of OS patents held by Microsoft, and now blatantly steals Qualcomm modem code.

Remember when they made a fucking hue and cry over rounded rectangles? The whole $1B with Samsung?

Fucking hypocrites
I have a hilarious story about this from Google:

I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket. They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles."

I'm thinking "this can't possible be right", so I spend some time calculating, and it turned out to be approximately correct. So I'm thinking, "we should hire one less person and give everyone an extra monitor!". I replied "yes, I understand, go ahead and give me an extra monitor anyway". They replied "we'll require triple management approval!". Me: "please proceed". First two managers approved the request, director emails me "Why I'm bother with this?". Me: "they want your approval to give me second monitor", him: "whatever".

And finally few days later I got a second monitor...
libc calls are not faster than system calls.
> I wish someone would do the same thing for commercials on TV. Auto detect the commercial and advance the DVR by its exact duration

They've had it for years now. I was skipping commercials on my HTPC back in 2007-ish. I think the older Tivo's also had this ability.
> Workers should just avoid the game industry until more tolerable and better-paying workplaces arise?

Yes. There are too many people in the industry pursuing their passion product, as opposed to doing something because it will be successful.

If you act like an artist, expect to be treated like one. And artists are treated.... poorly by society.

Not that I don't support the general idea of working on things that you like. I have a couple side project myself, that I am doing for fun. But I have absolutely zero expectation of success, and have a day job (that I like) to pay the bills. I am not going to pretend like my side projects could support me.
Ok, thanks for the info! Yeah the pyinstaller, etc. experiences I've had were trivial to decompile from pyc back to py so for "hide the source" we found that Cython takes it to the next level.

I wonder what fbs does in this case that handles the PyQt import stuff so well.
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I'm trying to find correlated information on young birth rates. My unprofessional guess is that a hell of a lot less people are getting teen pregnant and then marrying about it, which could lead to a messy divorce down the road (the thought of marrying some of the first people I hooked up with... I was 18 fucks sake...)
Mesos 1.7.0 Released
Take a look at Centask https://www.centask.com/ (developer here), It takes the concepts of inbox one step forward and suggest a complete workflow solution, where all tasks and task-related information, including Gmail inbox, are organized and scheduled in one list/hierarchy.
Any feedback will be appreciated
i think you have it backwards- institutions that don’t self sustain, don’t survive.
It actually might be better than 16x...Engineering (especially mechanical) takes a lot of time and upfront money. For instant, the smart car has a highly rated roll cage for safety [1]. It takes a lot of time and money to design and get certifications. Companies need to recover their cost somehow and make a profit.

[1] https://auto.howstuffworks.com/smart-car1.htm
Hasn't Apple basically abandoned the low price phone market in the same period though?
Agreed! Although I use SWIG on my job, pybind11[0] is a nice alternative that I've been looking at.

[0] https://github.com/pybind/pybind11