skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vimes#Boots_theory_of_soci...

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

> Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

> But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

> This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
The usual. Employees get thanks, execs get banks. When will we stop tolerating it. And BTW, the wealthy do not need your help defending them.
I'd love to see an analysis of "incidental" expenditure increases over the past decade. For example the increase cost of a phone bill with the addition of a three year payment plan for a $1100 phone. The added cost of student load payments starting to eat at new graduates. Increasing number of subscription services like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Imperfect Produce. The addition of "Gig" and event economy expenditures such as Uber, UberEats, PrimeNow, AirBnB, StubHub, etc.

If I break down my expenses over the past three years I can clearly identify the lifestyle creep of modern consumerism. Is this the new norm? Is this what's responsible for articles like this? Or is it just more traditional inflation?
"Read" is not "skimmed".

My assessment is due to the fact that functional programming was not what Backus had in mind, and FP reflects that.

FP reflects an algebra of programs, not traditional functional programming. It doesn't suffer from these problems that the author is stating.

If the author read said paper and not skimmed it, they might have been on the right track.

EDIT: Downvoting me because you disagree with me is petty, childish, and really does say a lot about the user base of this site.
Firefox Focus is the fastest android browser experience. I use that as my default browser, and only swap to normal Firefox when using a site I need to login to
RE-PC in Seattle is like an indoor tech junkyard.
From Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor
Doesn’t mention historical data. I’m willing to believe (actually I’d even bet) it’s worse today than during previous booms, but why oh why can’t we have better sources on this site?
Pretty broad but, from one section in the article, sounds like they're using convolutional layers in their networks?
Un-paywalled version: https://medium.com/@reallynotdavidhuang/on-the-benefits-of-p...
Over and over again I'll click a link from Twitter or elsewhere, and in mere moments I'm thinking to myself…waaait a sec, is this another crappy AMP page?

It never looks right. It's always "off" in some weird (and sometimes very obvious) way. Nearly every time I go to the real page on the real website, it looks better and functions better. Since I use an ad blocker, it's never a problem for me that the real site might want to load heavier ads on mobile.

AMP is a plague on the open web. It's offensive, I never request it, and it never solves any problem for me. I'm glad I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine so I never get kicked to AMP pages from search. As a web developer, I've vowed never to implement AMP on any of my client sites and will explain to my clients why if asked (and so far I've never been asked).

Just say no to AMP.
Nobody is talking about electric cars except you.

We're talking about electricity use in the home: for lighting, small electronics, small appliances like a rice cooker or kettle (displacing wood), etc. These are real quality of life improvements: reducing time spent gathering wood, reducing smoke inhalation, reducing cooking time.

There is no "infrastructure" of these things, it's a completely stand alone system that requires little maintenance unlike a rotating machine.

I have been in the Himalaya where solar panels from China are transported on yaks over the border to Nepal where people buy them on put them on their homes for 50 or 100W of electricity, the first they've ever had. How would you propose these people to use oil? They are hundreds of km from a road driveable with a heavy truck, thousands of km from a pipeline.

Off-grid solar power is the MOST reliable form of power generation that exists. It requires no fuel, the amount of resource availability can be predicted with near-certainty without any technology, it has no moving parts, it doesn't require high-voltage equipment or transformers, and it can easily be broken into small pieces for transport on foot or pack animal.

That's why I brought up my profession, because you seem to misunderstand what is actually entailed in providing electricity. I've designed, built and run power plants of all types and I would never say that thermal is more reliable for developing countries than renewables.
One cold winter Monday morning in 8th grade, my first-period class had to meet in the hallway outside the classroom.

The reason? It was about 90°F (32°C) in the classroom.

On the previous Friday, one of the teachers turned the thermostat dial up as far as it would go. Presumably they intended to turn it down later but forgot.
This is all about class distinctions. At a certain level they become indistinguishable from aristocracy.

The entire premise for paying execs high salaries is that they have demanding jobs that few people have the skills to do and the work entails risks which ordinary workers do not take. And this justifies exorbitant pay and lavish bonuses. But the reality is that most of these people have no special talents, and even when they run a company into the ground and hurt people (such as those workers who end up, often, with missing pay, fucked up pensions, and no jobs, etc.) and the businesses they are supposed to be stewarding, they still end up being awarded bonuses.
World's 100 best pens
How to Overcome Cognitive Bias with a Falsification Mindset
There seems to be an English page too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Büsingen_am_Hochrhein
That "integration with the browser’s garbage collector" feature in the webassembly roadmap doesn't mean the inclusion of a GC - it means there will be a mechanism by which a WASM-implemented GC can cooperate with the browser GC.

(There seem to be additional long term ideas int he wasm design repos for adding more GC support, but they seem vague at this point and it's not clear how interested browser vendors or language implementors are)
Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual
I think it wouldn’t even need to be a wasm task to cache these things. If the runtime is downloaded as a separate module, the browsers http cache should already do the job.

What wasm might be able to do in addition is having a carved version of loaded runtime available in order to reduce startup times.
Too late now but more kids is a big part of the problem. Environmentally it’s probably the worst thing the average person can do.
What a terrible article. Sure, yeah, you're poor, own it, give up. Go buy that fast food shit, get fat and damage your health. Buy all that alcohol that helps you get through life, that will definitely help. FFS.

No, you try, fail, try again, fail, try some more - to save up, and start making more. All that advice glosses over just how hard it actually is (not that it can even convey it properly), and it takes time, but you can't give up unless you're ready to kick the bucket at any time.
Tattoo Disadvantages-Dealing with the Pros and Cons
I hope you enjoy the book -- the AMS sale does give a great price! Part of the reason I went with the AMS was that they're a nonprofit and their prices are reasonable for a hardcover book printed (offset, not digital on-demand) in color.

As the author, I'll add a few remarks and answer some questions about the book.

1. I made a book webpage at illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com. The errata are there. Also you can find a series of programming tutorials, if you wish to learn number theory with Python. I go from programming basics to primality-testing, RSA, etc.

2. I didn't provide solutions in the book. :( But there's always online discussion boards. Someday I'll write many more exercises and provide some solutions.

3. It's been used as a textbook for undergraduate number theory, e.g. at Rice, UC San Diego, next semester at Georgia Tech I think, etc.

4. No full e-book version is planned. It's all very old-fashioned, but I spent a lot of time on page layout, optimizing for print, etc.

5. I took a stronger stance on zero being a natural number in an early draft. Now I just try to make it clear that it's the convention I choose. If it's good for Bourbaki, it's good for me.

Feel free to drop a note if you have more questions about the book. My email is not hard to find.

Happy holidays!
Marty Weissman
I don’t like AMP, but I am so happy to see when websites complain that “leads dropped by 59%” because of it.

For “leads” to drop that much it must mean they weren’t legitimate, happy leads in the first place. I bet those “leads” came from a shit letter popup or other similar dark pattern, in which case AMP works as designed and benefits the user by shielding them from such garbage.

AMP is bad for the web in the long term. But it is a decent stop-gap solution given that nobody is willing to make their websites bearable without Google’s pressure.

EDIT: I just tried their website again without an ad blocker and sure enough, I was asked to subscribe to their shitletter.
The elephant in the room is most doctors (et al) in the US seem to be functionally incompetent, because their attention has been "optimized" into (useless) 10 minute slices. And in a hospital, this goes doubly so.

I've started just making it a point to go with my father to his appointments, to make them actually do their job. They're all personable and knowledgeable, but also just looking to do the medical equivalent of making one tiny edit, starting a recompile, and going back to browsing the web. For example, one specialist goes through a spiel about the next step being to do a certain test - I had to remind him this was the follow up for the results. He disappeared for 5 minutes to reread the file, then came back and had the real appointment.

What's needed isn't "more care", it's any care.
Most advice on anything is useless if you're not the target audience.

If you're earning nothing and have no savings, you need crisis mode budgeting.

Think the financial equivalent of malnourishment - you don't want the regular food pyramid, you need an IV drip.

This doesn't actually change ever. The 'best course of action' changes at every level.

Poor people money advice is worthless to rich people too. Lower middle class advice on 'how to save for a home deposit' is completely useless to the wealthy.

Usain Bolt doesn't take advice from the guy running in the park either.
Yes, this is the part of our Zfs snapshots that many people don’t appreciate – they are immutable from your perspective. If an attacker gains access to your rsync.net credentials and destroys your local copy and your remote copy you still have seven days (or more) to discover this and access your historical snap shots which are online live and Browsable.
It was hard to utilise all those cores. I am sure game architectures evolved during the years, but back then we didn't know how to split the code to optimally utilise all available resources.
> abstractions ... nightmarish ... Swift and AppKit/UIKit

What would those be? Genuinely curious.
“The worst company to the open source” is a bold claim when there are thousands (millions?) of companies that don’t open source anything at all.

Last time I checked, Nvidia has quite a bit of open source software on GitHub.

Open sourcing something that you have developed and paid for(!) should always be at the discretion of those who did so.
A shoutout to https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/ as a community that is attempting to discuss and distill the kind of financial advice that is useful for those with little to no means.

> Much of the financial advice online and on reddit is aimed at people who have varying degrees of disposable income, ability to invest, lots of free time, available transportation, no kids, a partner, access to credit, and beyond. This is a place for people who do not have a lot, nor ideal circumstances, to help each other get by and hopefully move up in the world.
Could you use a lever to multiply travel distance while working with very strong magnets close together to make the force curve a bit more linear?
This advice seems pretty irrelevant. She just said that these people do not have any spare money to save up, but this advice is "save up".
I'm proud of that boy.
> Boys have always been heavily into things.

As opposed to girls, really? Or are boys just more at risk of being very lightly tethered socially, or not grounded at all?

I played Ambermoon not just before school, but before breakfast, for months until I had completed it -- nothing got me out of bed like that game. But still, I just now went through the list of these 10 items again, and I honestly don't see my younger self in that, at all. Maybe I'm in denial, but I can't even think of social things I let go because of that, it was the other way around, I lost interest for a while during puberty, then my interest was re-kindled as I got bored of partying. If I wasn't spending so much time at computers, I would just be reading more, I'm pretty sure.

> The intellectual history of every genius is a series of obsessions.

Is that really true? Isn't that just calling doing things and having interests obsessions? I think Hannah Arendt was a genius for example, I'm not seeing the obsession though.

Every addiction can be called an obsession, but not every addiction an obsession.
The article is unfortunately unclear on this, but I believe they succeeded only on the Android phones, not with the iPhone X they also tried it on.

To wit: "[..] four Android models and an iPhone X.

Bad news if you’re an Android user: all four phones unlocked with the 3D printed head."
Any recommend iOS client?
Mindfulness meditation, at least, is very different. A key attribute is awareness of the current moment -- the here and now. Books, including non-fiction, take the reader to another place.
The real question here is if the author went to college and got a degree, why are they working in sandwich shops? I'm not saying there's not a reasonable explanation for their situation, but any discussion of their particular problem should start there. Obviously there are people who are doing the best they can in a sandwich shop, and those people may need better support than they're getting, but I don't think that's quite the case here.
No, you don't if you are an EU national [0].

> If you are an EU national , you do not need to show your national ID card or passport when you are travelling from one border-free Schengen EU country to another.

[0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/eu-c...
HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll dead at 35
Well, for example, many other corporations have a friendlier stance to open source. It is not only about money and profits.
> The way I see it, being poor is like having cancer

What a terrible way to look at it, making it seem like it’s entirely out of your control and you need outside help just to survive. There’s many examples of people who have climbed out of poverty to middle class, even upper class. I highly doubt they’d spread the advice that being poor is a hopeless disease.
WireGuard for iOS (beta via Testflight App): https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-November/00...
A previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12632881.
Is that a problem? Swear words have their place in a language. You should explain when it’s appropriate and when not to use these words instead of pretending they don’t exist.
Self Sovereign Identity: A distant dream?
I've read that those may be illegal or unenforceable according to the law. Check your jurisdiction.
The .NET and web development community both seem to have an obsession with adding abstractions, so it is not surprising to see such layering. In general it seems the vast majority of the web apps I've been forced to use are either slow, huge, or both, and I'm not convinced that should be the way it is.

Edit: wow, downvotes. Not that I really care, but it shows the "stick the head in the sand and don't care about bloat, ignore everyone complaining" mentality that pervades the community...
<something you have> + <something you know> = <something you are>

Sounds ok to me, at least in the weird arithmetic of this tired talking point that invariable makes an appearance every time the subject is discussed, usually in a tone of letting us in on some great, newly discovered revelation.
Also Point Roberts, WA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington
Apple reportedly developing custom cellular modem amid battle with Qualcomm
My response to the first, at least, is that sometimes you can do everything right but still lose.

Edit to add: I am however skeptical of Sears' particular situation. I'm not sure these execs have the company's best interests in mind.
Our Motion Through Space Isn't a Vortex, but Something Far More Interesting
Can you just duplicate the card and use that image as a backup? I’ve stashed a few away like this but pcdoodle’s suggested solution sounds a lot more elegant.
Schengen Agreement was only implemented relatively recently (80's/90's?). How were border controls near these enclaves/exclaves handled for all the years before that?
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/awidevelop.html

2018 numbers not reported (obviously), and given this being the first year of the tax overhaul, this year “should” have resulted in a much higher average increase in salary (if you believe trickle down to work, this would be the year for it to finally work.)
Cannabis use and the risk of developing a psychotic disorder
Very late, but Designing for the Digital Age - Kim Goodwin

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Digital-Age-Human-Centered-...
I'm also an Amp hater and welcomed this news. Then, I went to the site. Because I really hate AMP I dismissed all three of their mobile pop ups; one after another. After reading the article I tried to use the back button to go back to hacker news; took three clicks (maybe one for each popup)? I'm guessing you are correct and they need to take another look for causation.
> Android is all about choice and user empowerment!

I disagree, strongly. I believe Android is really more about keeping you in the Google ecosystem. So is AMP, so is Chrome. I'm an Android user, but let's not pretend they are really about "choice and user empowerment." That's just the sales pitch. Every single thing Google creates is to collect information on/from us, because that's their revenue model. Selling our data. If you disagree, compare the ad revenue from all of them. Who's is miles ahead? Why? How? You're giving them your data. A LOT of it.
Exactly. No primary or secondary schools I ever went to had A/C, this is in the Northeast. I recall some unpleasant days at 90+ degrees with 90%+ humidity, but it's just the way it was.
Of course "don't by the avacado toast or lattes" doesn't help save you money when you aren't buying that stuff in the first place. Complaining that advice on Google that applies to the 15%-85% bracket doesn't apply to you is similar in saying that "Most health advice is worthless when you have cancer". You have a situation that is outside the norm, and you're trying to apply general information against that, of course it's not going to work.
Agbogbloshie: the world's largest e-waste dump – in pictures
They could (think of it: a bank could just tell government that it has more money in the bank now, or tell another bank that they transferred an x amount to the government’s account there), but regulations forbid it and various controls work hard to prevent it.

A bank creates money when it borrows you money that isn’t fully backed by saving account(s). See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking, which, a.o. says:

”Because banks hold reserves in amounts that are less than the amounts of their deposit liabilities, and because the deposit liabilities are considered money in their own right, fractional-reserve banking permits the money supply to grow beyond the amount of the underlying base money originally created by the central bank.”

The amount by which a bank can do that is regulated, and, in the end, under control of the central bank. The central bank won’t be involved in every minor fluctuation of the amount of money in circulation, though.
Polya & Velleman are classics. They're about problem solving & proof writing techniques, but won't teach you any abstract math. I've only ever heard good things but i've actually never read them myself! Some other suggestions:

Niven - The Theory of Numbers. Contains hints for some of the proof based exercises, and answers for many of the computational exercises. I used it for my undergrad course, I remember it being reasonably beginner friendly.

Pressley - Elementary Differential Geometry. Has terse answers to every exercise! The subject is a nice mixture of concrete and abstract, calculation and proofs, and there's some interesting work using differential geometry in CS via computational geometry. Also i think it's used in robotics and a few other things? This book is very beginner friendly, it will get you about 1/2 way to General Relativity.
This. Complicated systems built in a hurry without proper planning cause so much misery and cost more.
As much as I don't understand the obsession with minecraft/fornite (prefer CSGO, etc), especially with really young kids, a trend that I find that could be comforting for worried parents is that these games are (generally) based on building things and being a bit creative. I think this trend will continue.
I tried to watch a half hour episode of "Strange Inheritance" last night. There was probably only about 10 minutes of show - the rest was commercials, "after the break" previews, and post-break recaps.
It seems. .. you want to use the storytelling signal of an otherworldly adventure, to positively re-enforce learning abstractly about advanced sciences .. ?
> Staff time is really expensive!

It’s a school. Unfortunately it’s not particularly expensive.
Protecting Privacy and Security of Genomic Data in I2b2
Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead
Reddit is a crap place to go for advice if you're in a situation where all the options are sub-optimal because any advice that isn't 100% by the book ethical or any advice that puts a negative externality on society for personal benefit results in down-votes and name callings. Often times that means your "best" options are off the table. It is also very much against "low class" ways of saving money. Stuff like "just smash your old tube TV and throw the pieces in the household trash in order to save the $20 disposal fee" or is not exactly appreciated there. God forbid you tell somebody that they <gasp> shouldn't buy snow tires. The internet in general is just shit when it comes to being frugal. It's really easy to tell someone else how to spend their money.

Edit: Anyone want to tell my why I'm apparently so wrong?
Don't most people get no raise most years?
You can, it’s just risky and expensive and probably not something you want to do.
The climate is changing with or without fossile fuel

The denial of fossil-fuel driven global warming is a position that harms humanity in multitude of ways. Shame on you.
A Trippy Treatment