skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the GP meant that these people do not intend to stay in the same home beyond the life of the mortgage. So yes, they pay off the original loan when they sell, but they immediately turn around and take out another.

I don't agree with the GP on much of anything they said there, but that's my take on it. Maybe they meant interest only loans? I don't know why anyone would take out an interest only loan for a primary residence they intend to live in for some time, but I'm guessing here.
Yeah. Even though I've had my own collocated hardware since Bubble 1.0, I'm looking to move all of that to the cloud. When your own hardware works, it works reliably for years. But when something breaks it's an urgent fire drill, [1] and I'm entirely over those.

[1] Unless you have warm spares for everything, but that means you're paying twice as much and still will have a non-urgent fire drill to replace the failed hardware so you're back to n+1.
> "We don't get enough sleep, and we are not going to "change our ways" because there are already too few hours in most people's days to do things they enjoy. Call it a sad fact of life because that's what it is"

This honestly is spot on the way I think about it - I can sleep early, but who benefits from my day to day learning as an adult? My employer maybe? Me in some minor long term ways?

Or I can stay up and do things I enjoy, wake myself up with an alarm every day and consume enough caffeine to bridge the gap. This way, I get more enjoyment out of my life in a very direct and measurable way.

If 5-6 hours of sleep a night is enough to get paid, I'm not going to make a sacrifice that will cost me personally.
At the risk of starting a conversation that's more about general insomnia and tangential to the article, has anyone dealt with early morning insomnia? This article doesn't seem to mention it, but I'm wondering if resetting one's circadian rhythms will help.
With smoking it actually helps prevent children from acquiring the addiction if they grow up in a society where people rarely smoke. Denormalization of smoking has been proven to work.
By far the more interesting part here is that they got a terminal to display on an e-ink screen. I've wanted to try that for a while now. If I could have my normal displays, plus and e-ink display as a terminal, that would really be sweet.
The delivery on this program is extremely annoying and slow paced (and rushed on points that ought be slow).

:(
That doesn’t seems like a huge amount to be honest.

It’s not unusual for marijuana busts in the US to be measured in tons.

I’d assume total US consumption is probably in the thousands of tons of marijuana?
> It does deprive the server of a living wage.

No, the owner of the place deprives his/her employee of a living wage. I don't see how can that be possibly the responsibility of the customers.
Minimum student loan payments are fixed while your income should grow. What starts out as 20% of your first paycheck won't be 20% by year five.
Yes. Any front-of-house restaurant staff that gets a share of tips are subject to those laws, and it's ridiculous. Worse, some restaurants even force the tips to be split between dishwashers, who actually are making minimum wage in many cases, so waitstaff get crushed even harder.
Spotify comes to Wear OS with stand-alone app, Spotify Connect support
That's fine, but my problem with that line of thinking is that the norms we live with now have evolved to reward the workers who are serving the most affluent guests, not necessarily those working the hardest or who are paid the least.

For example, do you make a point of tipping the cashier at McDonalds? I'd bet that if you tried to and a manager saw you they would refuse it because the company doesn't want others to feel compelled to tip because they want to retain their image of a low-cost restaurant. Coffee shops selling $5 cups of coffee don't have that concern because people who frequent those places probably are a lot less price sensitive than those who eat at fast food restaurants.

15% used to be the norm across the board and adjusted from there based on the level of service. Now 20% is expected regardless of the level of service. In restaurants where a 20% gratuity is included in the bill I've noticed a significant drop-off in the level of service, even to the point where I would tip less than 20% if given the option, and I say that as someone who worked as a waiter at one point.
My team would like to take a look at your resume. Shoot me an email with your resume (and linkedin profile link if you have one) at vertol.next@gmail.com.
I agree there is an unwarranted stigma against blue collar jobs, but I think HN romanticizes the professions as well.

I have multiple people in my family who work as plumbers and carpenters and it's not as simple as you make it out. When the getting is good, it's nice, but they have all struggled with longish periods of unemployment, injuries, etc.
The negative health impact is going to diminish your enjoyment of life.
It's really just a matter of whether it's customary, which is only loosely related to whether it actually makes any sense.

Your taxi driver gets most if not all of your fare, but it's still expected to tip them. A grocery store cashier gets none of your payment directly, but you don't tip them. Don't try to make sense of it, just do what others do.
Wow. I'm surprised to see this on here. I used to work Johnson, he's is a super nice guy and always made time to have long conversations with me about optimization.

I believe this algorithm is widely used in the video game industry?
Because most of these loans are guaranteed by the fed and no politician is going to run on a "take away student loans" platform.
To be totally fair, I might get upset over a "library tax" that turned out to be actually funding community gardens. Those aren't even related ideas.
theoretic physics stoped being the 'weird-what-if-from-academia' to be the 'weird-what-if' in general
Thanks. I installed Workouts++. I will try to use it to record my runs and how activity data is presented. Though I am not yet sure I can use it w/o an Apple watch.
I think the delivery is good and paced just right.
How much time have you spent working food service?
"Hey @OnePlus! I don't think this EngineerMode APK must be in an user build..."

https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/930216866395672578
Some people also have luck with Magnesium L-Threonate
Eh, I'm not sure about this. And even if it is, I'm not sure it'd be a good thing.

Firstly, as much as some people hate to hear it, journalism is a lot like the app store in that there are huge incentives to offer it for as low a price as possible, and huge risks to anyone who decides to charge a reasonable price afterwards. Indeed, for many average people, price basically is the only thing they care about in these markets, and the only reason they read any news sites or services is because they're free.

If a media outlet charges money, all that usually happens is a small percentage of readers pay, and the rest go to one of the many competitors offering it for nothing. And the more sources that do the former, the bigger the gains are for the ones who don't.

I think people also overstate how large the percentage of readers/viewers/listeners/whatever who pay for quality content is. It's enough to pay for some small publications to keep running, but likely not something that'll scale to the whole industry.

Additionally, if this does become the norm for more 'credible' publications, it may also disadvantage those who can't afford all these subscriptions or what not, driving them to the less credible sites running on ad dollars. What do you think is more likely to go for memberships? Something like the New York Times or Breitbart?

Probably the former. So it's the likes of the latter who would end up being the main source of news and articles for people who can't afford/don't want to pay for journalism. Is that a good thing? Probably not.

Still, maybe they'll prove me wrong there. I just personally doubt there'll ever be a world where a large percentage/all journalism is supported by memberships.
Those are amusing examples, as taxi drivers are traditionally tipped, though not as much anymore. For taxi drivers and hair stylists, it's a bit of a different scale.

Taxis/Ubers, I usually just add a couple bucks to the fare, or just pay with a slightly larger bill on purpose, and have them keep the change (if a $17 fare, give a $20). Similarly, bellhops at hotels are a similar role of giving a couple dollars instead of a percentage once they've brought your bag to your room (as there is no exchange of money during the entire process). Valet drivers are another example.

Hairstylists should be tipped because their payment structure is different. They aren't usually employed by the place you get your hair cut at, rather they lease a chair from the location. They are forced to use the prices displayed, and they get a small cut of that. You then tip them additionally depending on how well of a cut they did. I personally usually do (with a $15 haircut as an example) a $5-6 tip for a good cut, and $3-4 if it's just OK.
This is configurable in the point of sale system. In my experience at local places it seems relatively evenly split between pretax and posttax. Not clear if there's a consistent default across all the various POS systems.

For example, Square's documentation: https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5069-accept-tips-wit...

>You will need to select if you would like your tips to be added before or after your taxes have been applied to the sale.
That definitely looks very interesting, I'll look into that.

Clustering on non linearly separable clusters is also one of the reasons we chose DBSCAN back then :)
Don't confuse slavery with the end of slavery.

These are different.
So you walk into a place, you say you want a muffin, they hand it to you and expect a 20% tip for that?

Like wtf?! US is weird.
I believe it was the ipv4 adapters being disabled, or something else being disabled or set wrong in the adapter settings. No idea how it gets like that in the first place, but apparently it's a problem that's happened to other people often enough for there to be a few threads about it on various support forums.
KEYBOARDS ONLY HAVE CAPITAL LETTERS! /S
Is it really? I have never seen it happen to anyone, or heard of it happening. I'd expect it to be far more common to be publicly shamed for peering at the screen while someone else is making a purchase.
The reason America has awful education and healthcare is not due to lack of taxes. It's due to government mismanagement.
I’m usually on Europe’s side against tech giants (Facebook fine, google antitrust fine, WhatsApp, mostly for unfair Ireland loophole with apple taxes) but this looks incredibly dumb to me. I’m fairly anti google but now that they have a 90% market share I want them to charge a ton for each phone and force someone to create a brand new OS that competes with android or iOS, fix all the security, convince developers to build for that, market it to millions, force a satisfied consumer base to learn a new OS and deal with a brand new UI.

This is a complete Google win. Now they can charge without looking bad.
I use KeePass with DropBox on Windows, Linux and Android.
It's not a critical infrastructure at all, it's just an info portal. It used to be a full html website made with Microsoft Frontpage by one lady who works there. We use PHP so that instead of a single huge html page filled with info which is useless for 90% of the people who'd read it, we ask your profile and then we filter only the relevant information.
> There was another attitude that they felt life was like "If I push button X" (that would be go to school) "Then I get Y" (job, money, etc) and if it didn't work that easily then it was just terrible.

It's kind of amazing that this is still being perpetuated. When I graduated high school 20 years ago, this was the mantra. Even then, it was a bullshit line. I got a degree in graphic design after high school, and there was a large portion of that class who did not find work in that field. I was near the top of our class, and I struggled to get interviews.

While it is ultimately an 18 year old's job to make this decision, parents and administrators are apparently still shoving "college solves all problems" down the throats of high school students. Is it because they don't know what else to tell these kids?
Sadly, the tilde commands don't work at all if you're using ControlMaster.
Read the book Pitch Anything. It will help you come up with ways to reach people based on what works for you. It will also avoid the extremely common problem that you're providing logical reasoning to someone whose brain has routed what you're saying to /dev/null.

My wife's natural tendency is to help solve problems for people. Before that book, she'd talk to someone, noticed that the most urgent problem that they wanted solved is her bothering them, and the obvious solution would leave her with no sale.

Now she is able to playfully get their interest and attention. She gets them to talk through a real problem that they have, it doesn't matter what. She helps them work through how to solve it. She doesn't try to sell them anything. It is up to them to decide whether the experience was enjoyable and valuable enough that they wish to work with https://www.leanst.com/ more. Enough do that sales is fun for her, and has not been a bottleneck to growth.

You're not selling consulting and aren't her, so her exact approach probably won't work for you. But I'd still bet that that book will help you.
There is nothing wrong about being a plumber, electrician, carpenter etc, except when your dad is a carpenter, and you see him breaking his knees all day, while the media is flooded by young, good-looking people making twice what he makes working in an air-conditioned building with a gym and bean bags chairs.

Then everyone wants to do it, and suddenly big companies get their pick ivy league applicants, Podunk U gets a pile of cash for selling a dream, and the young adult is left on the hook.
I read it as, he owes money on a warehouse, and if he can't pay that debt the contents will be seized and likely destroyed.
>Do HNers still use cash?

Yes. And not even for the ultra-privacy-minded people.

I use cash for bodegas (small corner stores in NYC) because they have card minimums I don't want to hit.
I'm highly doubtful that it'll diminish my enjoyment of life by more than the 2.5 hours a day worth of enjoyment I wouldn't otherwise have. That's like adding a full month of time to every year.

I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow and I'd be damn glad I took that extra time for myself each and every day.
I don't see how we should automatically trust them because we "own" the hardware. If its not open source and able to be verified by third parties, what does it matter if we have the "keys"? $500 for proprietary hardware just seems odd considering the goal here.
Bonus points: leave the pi/raspberry login there for when they get old enough to google about VTs and figure out how to exit the matrix.
It's not a problem, it's a lot simpler than typing matching braces everywhere. Python is one of the easiest languages to learn.
Behind the Scenes of GitHub Token Scanning
Key word being "request." It's optional, and you can choose not to pay one.
Yeah I've started doing no tip on the iPad, but I feel guilty every time, which is ridiculous really even though I wouldn't have thought twice about it 3 years ago when I wasn't prompted to leave a tip.

Also tipping a bartender for popping a cap off my beer or pulling a lever on a tap...

Also tipping in a full service restaurant is equally fucking weird. Like why am I paying you a percentage of the food I order, why don't I just pay you (how good a job you did) * (how long I sat at your table).
correct: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/

this is the subprime bubble all over again, with the govt providing a risk free opportunity for private entities to maintain the insane price runaway until it all comes crashing down.
These signs rarely state how much the project costs, though. They just say it was part of such and such tax. At least the ones I have seen.
From Twitter's perspective, meme-makers aren't the enemy. Drama is good for their revenue numbers. Bulk fake accounts are a problem in general, so I'm sure they noticed the spike. But I'd guess the false election information is the honest motivation for the mass ban. People have basically given them and Facebook a mulligan on the 2016 election. But they definitely don't want to be blamed twice an a row for ruining democracy; not only does it make them look careless, but it significantly raises the risks of intemperate regulatory action.
2. Simulated what the detector would have reported for each.

I think this would be really hard. For example, you need to simulate how the detector responds to different planet compositions, different signal to noise ratios at different distances from the star. A sphere in vacuum model may be a gross simplification.
Strange that this guy's business was bankrupted by the anti-competitive practices of the company he loves so much yet he doesn't seem to be that upset about it.
Pensions make up less of the budget than you might think. A rather large chunk of the budget is spent on Social Security or other programs have a low employee to cost ratio. The DoD for example spends quite a bit on defense contractors and has relatively few people who stay long enough to collect a pension.
>You can ask libraries to get books you are interested in.

I can also just go online and buy them and they show up at my front door.

>You get the value out of the library that you put into it.

My tax liability is such that that I put a lot of value into the library. I try to get use of the library, but I'm not going to inconvenience myself to use it. That it's easier for me to spend the $5-$10 to buy a book rather than deal with the ILL bologna is a sign that the library isn't really working for me.

>it comes across as selfish and staying in your ideological bubble.

And that's my prerogative. However, it's not like I'm hoarding my money and acting like a scrooge mcduck. Every dollar my library gets to keep the dust off of feminist "all men are bad" literature is a dollar that's not going to alleviating hunger or malaria. Isn't it selfish of the library to misuse the money that could be better spent on the less fortunate?
I would argue that one of the reasons why physics news has been quiet is because the state of the field has moved beyond a lay person's understanding at more than a high level.
> Municipal politics can be brutal too.

Municipal politics are the most brutal. I've seen fistfights at school board meetings! National politics get a lot of attention, but local is where citizens are directly affected.
Alcohol just covers it up temporarily and can ruin your sleep cycle as well. Have you tried exercise? That works for many people as well. Magic Mushrooms are also a very happy illegal substance that really help me.
I would guess there are dozens of cases of that actually happening a year. And then the person got fired.
There’s certainly a popular belief that government is mismanaged, but I’m not entirely sure it is, or at least is to the extent and in the areas that anti-tax advocates believe.

Of course make government more effective and efficient. Very few would argue against that.
But at some point, there’s just nothing to trim. However if one’s underlying assumption is all public spending is bad, then of course there’s more to cut, it’s just that the argument to justify the cut is disingenuous.
> Finally, in the interest of transparency, the Titan M firmware source code will be publicly available soon. While Google holds the root keys necessary to sign Titan M firmware, it will be possible to reproduce binary builds based on the public source for the purpose of binary transparency.

and

> Transparency around every step of the design process — from logic gates to boot code to the applications — gives us confidence in the defenses we're providing for our users. We know what's inside, how it got there, how it works, and who can make changes.

This should be a boon for security researchers! I'm really looking forward to what comes out of fuzzing that whole subsystem. I imagine attacks against the secure enclave would be a lot easier to perform (and ideally, report to Apple) if it was feasible to attack it with pure software.
Keep watching. It's a series that covers a lot of great spacetime and quantum physics topics from a rare perspective.

Also, go through the older videos. A lot of what's covered today builds on the previously released shows.
I'm pretty sure that video feed is actually sent to your phone through a Dropcam cloud server. Your Dropcam is a client which connects to the cloud server, as is your phone.
Governments in general do a terrible job at PR. I remember a "controversy" during the Obama administration which was caused by the phrase "you didn't build that" which was basically him trying to promote the stability and infrastructure that the government provides for innovation and entrepreneurship.

For a rich nation like the US there's a lot we need to be thankful to our government for. The fact that I can hop on a cross country flight and have no worries at all about clashing with another plane is a testament to the FAA. Organizations like the NIH provide valuable research for drug development. DARPA help to fund the internet!

The government deserves loads of criticism but at the same time our views of it are so cynical it leads to situations like this.
I have a client who had me start a project 5 years ago to create a new product line; we integrated some weather API into it years ago and I couldn't remember who we used, but I just checked and it turns out that it is Wunderground.com--- but the lucky part is that the product is still unreleased due to scope creep, bad specifications, and horrendous delays. So I guess this is just one more delay to re-implement the weather functionality. You know there's trouble when your APIs start dropping off like this... We probably won't be finished for a long time yet anyways! I wonder what the next API to close will be...
440 is actually an international standard, not American.

>In 1939, there was an international conference held in London that resulted in a recommendation to use A = 440 Hz, as a compromise between the various tuning systems used at the time, some of which reached beyond 450 Hz. This recommendation was further supported by the fact that the BBC required their orchestras to tune to 440 Hz instead of 439 Hz because 439 is a prime number, and the corresponding frequency was hard to generate electronically with standard electronic clocks. Eventually, in 1955, the standard A = 440 Hz was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).*

* https://jakubmarian.com/the-432-hz-vs-440-hz-conspiracy-theo...