skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot more to being poor than not having money. Being poor and healthy is not the same as being poor and unhealthy, as the most obvious example. Being poor but healthy, smart and/or educated, non-addicted, connected to family and friends who will keep you off that last step to oblivion is different than being poor and none of those things. Poor nutrition and sleep and being cold all the time can really do a number on your brain. So can the stress of not knowing where your - or your children's - next meal is coming from. The isolation and despair and distrust that come with spending any time at all in that condition can stay with you for years.

So yeah, poor people follow a very different decision process, which might not seem rational to people who have only ever been poor in the low-bank-balance sense (if that). Don't tell someone who's already deprived to deprive themselves further. Those small indulgences might be the only thing keeping people from giving up entirely. To the extent that the truly poor need advice from the less poor at all, it's advice on how to secure the most basic of needs in the short to medium term. Only then, only when the most severe psychological effects of being poor have been dealt with, is it rational to expect that people will start looking further up Maslow's pyramid to things like longer-term financial security.
Ah, but it's not always done for comfort optimization.

Older electrical meters weren't all that accurate, especially for larger systems - that's true even today. They're analog as an only option of measurement due to incredible amounts of power going through them (too noisy for hall effect sensors). Large buildings are reactive loads to the grid, almost like an inductor. Anyhow, older meters picked up velocity for usage calculations.

Some A/C controllers carefully modeled how fast the power meters accelerated as an instrument, then used that information against them, throttling and ramping power use to slow the measurements down, basically causing under-metering.

Saved USPS millions a year in power bills.
You’ve got on-disk data structure, resource management, getting writes safely committed, programming language implementation, and transaction management. You can start with a subset of these.
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It’s been actively worked on, you can see plenty of samples on YouTube. Like many ML applications, it sort of works, but the quality leaves plenty to be desired.
Any ledger software could fit the bill here, double entry journal.
> Why cant someone in Africa, or wherever, get a degree in physics from Harvard?

I would put this somewhat differently: why should you need a degree in physics from Harvard to do physics? What value does that credential actually add?

Note, btw, that my own alma mater, MIT, has all of its course materials (lectures, problem sets, selected solutions) available online for free:

https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
My biggest dream is for some version of QNX along with the Photon GUI to be fully open sourced. Even if it was QNX 4.

It would be a game changer.
Not mentioned in the piece, but California actually has a voluntary, arguably market-based tax incentive for historic house preservation, the Mills Act:

http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21412
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Cultures change over 4,000+ years enough to be unrecognizable.
Wow! This thread brings back some fond memories. Long ago, I came across a tiny Java applet linked on Fark to a Japanese forum post. Everyone loved it but I found it annoyingly small. It was barely 300px x 400px. I had been coding my senior thesis in Java and had recently learned how to use a Java decompiler.

So I downloaded the applet, decompiled it, spent a few minutes figuring out exactly where the dimensions were setup, changed them to 960x640, compiled it all, and hosted it on my site: http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/

I'm always apprehensive about taking any credit for the Falling Sand Game because I DID NOT make it but I'm always glad to see it in the wild. First it was Fark, then a few months later Digg, then Reddit. At one point someone created a Wikipedia page linking to the enlarged version I was hosting, then it got deleted as not-notable, then someone wrote a song about FSG, then a hundred different versions of FSG popped up, many non-Java and functioning much better than the applet, then the Wikipedia page came back up.

I've long stopped getting giddy emails from office slackers about how much time they waste on my site but even though I didn't really create this amazing game/toy/zen-garden, I feel lucky to have been a tiny part of the arcane pop-culture movement.
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Some books I've enjoyed in the past year:

Wish to laugh?

* Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah

* Yes please! by Amy Poehler

Think?

* Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

* Where Good Ideas Come from, by Steven Johnson

* The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene: An Intimate History both by Mukherjee Siddhartha

Learn (more) about great thinkers?

* Einstein or Leonardo da Vinci or Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

* Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, by Phil Knight

Yuval Noah Harari 3 good ones:

* Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

* Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

* 21 lessons for the 21st century

From time to time, I try to put some good ones over here: https://greenido.wordpress.com/?s=book
I live in a community where there is very little oversight like this (by design), but my mortgage requires that I cover my home for the cost to rebuild, not the market value. I questioned this because in my case it’s more than twice the value, but apparently it’s how things are normally done.
This is just tangential personal reflection but I feel like at every stage in my life I've been in some kind of bubble. Bubbles come and go depending on my environment and life experience. Being situated on a university campus, mostly insulated from the concerns of the real world and free to exercise the curiosities of youth -- that was probably my first big bubble. I had no access to or understanding of the concerns of most people working to make a living or raising families. Similarly I can think of periods of time when I was in a bad relationship, or stuck at a menial job. My day-to-day experience constitutes a filter bubble, and I don't even think it's good or bad. I feel like the media bubbles under discussion are symptomatic of a larger cultural malady in which our experience, our own personal bubbles, are so confused and impoverished that we jump at any screen or soundbite just to have some medium through which to experience anything.
Yes they would. Banks are not the only finance means.

On a more basic level, we set expectations for standard of living, and business actually depends on, expects those behaviors, while half the nation does not have income to meet those expectations, often despite full time or more labor.

This idea of shitty jobs being worthless completely ignores the cost of the laborers. And those costs fall on all of us.

Why subsidize business in this way?

Or, if we want to do that, why so much angst over assistance?
> In today's global economy, it is very hard to be among the world's top 100 or 1,000 for a particular skill, even with years of practice.

Why do you need to be in the top 1,000? Why do you need to be in the top 100,000?

If I have a market of 5,000 people around me who want my service, why is it not OK to be the best you can be for 100 of those people paying you $5,000 a year (or some other amount)? If I'm doing my part for those 2% and someone else, perhaps a large company, is doing the same for 50%, what's the problem? :-)
Agreed - i work for a place that has "Organizational Debt" and I really wanted to read about that concept in general - specifically from the perspective of a company.
If you're sending the biometric over the network you're doing it wrong. Apple uses a secure enclave and the biometric (fingerprint or facial scan) never gets extracted from the chip, ever.
The author seems to miss the point of filter bubbles.

There's a known cognitive bias where people tend to seek out information that mainly validates their existing views. Filter bubbles become a major enabler of that, allowing them to develop horse blinders to reality. Filter bubbles can lead people down into more extremist views that don't mesh with reality, rather than giving them exposure to counterarguments and allowing them to develop a more well-rounded view.
Do you mean knock out by kinetic weapons? So would some sort of EMP get them all instead, get past any shielding?
As a practical matter, how would the city know unless neighbors report the construction activity? The question then is, can the city be trusted to maintain the anonymity of the reporter.

Anyone have direct experience on this?
and the original source of both the engadget and geek articles: https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-cont...
Not that uncommon compared to what? Getting struck by lightning? Is this really what Tesla should be optimizing for?
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Shouldn't that be a matter of documentation in the first place instead of just keeping structures indefinitely?

It reminds me of the Metropolitan Sepulchre plan in the 19th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Sepulchre). While they went with garden cemeteries instead I believe the important point is that cities are for the living and the now and not the past. I personally think that there may be a value to keeping the old around but just mere archivism shouldn't be a reason. If people actually visit it frequently enough certainly keep it but if it is just for the information, we have books for that.
“Subtle control of the web platform” is strictly better than the explicit control of the web platform and the web browser space the currently enjoy. Microsoft’s IE and Edge together currently have just 10% market share, compared to Chrome’s ~70%. Step 1 to winning back a meaningful amount of control over the web platform is making a browser people actually use. And if in the meanwhile you can win other important battles? Amazing!

I feel people don’t analyze this move realistically in the current context, but instead compare it to some imagined magical alternative where we snap our fingers and have a fresh new viable competitor or people just decide to switch away from a browser most people like.

Regarding the specific example you gave, I’m fairly certain Microdift’s wrapped Chromium can exclude participation to those lists. And frankly I’d be surprised if they didn’t. Microsoft didn’t sign on Google as an OEM provider of a browser for their OS, they are building their own browser on top of Google’s engine. Im not super worried about Microsoft being bullied, they’re probably the best suited to do something like this in a defensible way.
Well, business is a lot of failing forward. And their product is a good one.
I would suspect the heightened realism provided by the sound triggers a slightly elevated response by the autonomic system and feel a bit more pressure if you will as the situation feels more life or death than it does without the audio.

Edit: Try listening to the sound in Mono, Stereo, and Surround Sound to see if that makes a difference. Also try different volumes
It's not "just pedantic" or related to uncertainty.

Classical electrodynamics or classical mechanics did not switch from true to false, they turned into good effective theories. Just like quantum field theory is already considered to be effective theory without any known theory that is more complete.

When the limitations of the quantum field theory theory are known and it works within those limits, the theory is not falsified with new discoveries outside those limits.
This is great film, I highly recommend it. It was released here about a month ago (NZ).

Though I didn't know that there was a 3D version as well.
Uh, people have been joining the military so they can break the law (kill people, etc...) for a lot longer than this cyber security stuff has been around.
True of all generational symbologies.
Do any Android users actually use face unlock? It always seemed like a gimmicky feature from the early days of smartphones when everyone was just trying to build up their patent portfolios.
It doesn't explicitly forbid this, which is where the grey area tends to come into place. The official policy is to consider:

> The extent to which the intern’s work complements, rather than displaces, the work of paid employees while providing significant educational benefits to the intern.

The argument would be made that since the company is charging for work from unpaid interns to be fulfilled only by unpaid interns, it would be displacing the work of paid employees as opposed to complementing them. Of course, there's a lot more to it than just that going into the litmus test.
OT, but I was and am still pretty steamed that Mozilla spearheaded the effort to deprecate WebSQL back in 2010 [1], while providing a replacement that left many disappointed [2] (see comments in both threads universally deriding the decision).

The idea was that javascript libraries would be created that would replicate SQLite in the browser (albeit horribly inefficiently with terrible APIs compared to shipped-with-the-browser native C implementation that is SQLite).

Anyway, now that Firefox has become less relevant than ever with Microsoft's adoption of Chrome, I wonder if there's any chance that WebSQL will live on despite its deprecation? After all, it's still available in Chrome and Safari, which dominate the browser market.

IndexedDB is fine if NoSQL is how you store your data, but an absolute PoS if you want to work efficiently in a relational model with joins, grouping, etc.

Such a shame, every server-side language under the sun compiles to javascript now; imagine being able to share SQL statements between client and server; being able to aggregate data, count & sum with reckless abandon. Instead we have to do it all by hand in javascript, such a step backward [3]

/rant

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9978540

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

[2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/comparing-indexeddb-and-we...
Unless you want everything named Untitled, Untitled(1), Copy of Untitled, Untitled(3), etc. you are going to have to enter a filename at some point.
Instead of funding Mozilla, perhaps funding the many non-Blink, non-Gecko browser authors out there would be more impactful? Even if it's indirectly through spreading responsible ownership of standards discussions and components like Skia/ANGLE/etc.

Disclaimer: independent browser author, unpaid.
My point of view is that a game is something where you play within some parameters or structure.
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This reads to me like Keyboardio is lying and blaming it on “business overseas.”
Before WWI, it used to be like that everywhere.
The company offers training and various courses to the apprentices. The students are generally studying things not related to businesses or digital marketing. They are only interested in these topics and want to learn. So while they watch the courses and read articles, they practice working inside real businesses.

I don't think it's a bad idea, as in many times the real knowledge comes from practicing and using all the techniques you have learnt. But agree that working for free sucks.
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I found it interesting that my responses were much more towards "upholding the law" than the average of others. To me, it's not so much a matter of "upholding the law" as of predictability: the green "ok to cross now" and red "do not cross" signals should have a reliable meaning. If self-driving cars don't take those traffic rules into account, people will find it much harder to predict their actions.
Tesla design studio is in LA. Also, remote meetings are a thing.
> It doesn’t seem any more damning than typical alcohol advertising.

That strikes me as a pretty low bar. People used to say the same thing about cigarette ads. Which in retrospect were horrific. I once chatted with some people researching at the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library: https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

They had story after story about the depravity of the tobacco advertising industry. The one that stuck with me was the advertising campaign targeted at developmentally disabled adults. Once hooked they were very loyal consumers.
You think the simplest interpretation is that they're conning us similar to their account manager in the story? Why even bother writing that short story?
Move to Signal. It's not complicated. Once upon a time most of India was keeping Orkut propped up. Things change.
I like the idea of the idea of Kickstarter but it's hard to argue against him for execution. I'm only on month 28 of waiting for my Superbook order to ship. Original estimated delivery date? Feb 17. Luckily nothing changed in consumer tech over the past 22 months of bad luck and poor decisions holding delivery up, right?
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I have two sets of grandparents, one is constantly angry and watching Fox News, and the others are angry and watching CNN. Neither will accept any sort of news story from a source that’s not “unbiased”, which means seems to mean supports their side. It’s really frustrating.
What is Vulnerability testing?
This sounds like eugenics by another name
>I guess my point is, some people aren't looking for 5-star GOT/Westworld level quality in their TV watching. If you only have 1 hour per week to watch TV, sure, make it something good. If you watch more TV than that, though, the bar becomes substantially lower.

There is a lot of entertainment out there today, and I'm not going to say it is bad to like these shows but there is absolutely enough quality entertainment out there to last you a lifetime. It's not all in TV though.
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This person is clearly a good writer and is persuasive to a degree. He or she clearly has potential if they find the right place for it.
What did they write in the post that makes you feel this way?
I don't see how hiding your pollution is helpful, in fact it may do the opposite as it allows people to delude themselves into thinking they are living a 'green' life. I already see this sentiment a lot, of people believing living in a city makes them 'greener' because they can't see the pollution their daily life creates everywhere else to supply them.
Absolutely not. In no way should an unskilled worker ever be able to elevate to a skilled position other than through becoming skilled.

You're acting like running a large business isn't a skilled position. It very much is.

A janitor at a hospital cannot become head surgeon by continuing to work as a janitor, and while a janitor is critically important to the hospital, the supply of janitors is such that the pay will never compare to that of the head of the surgical staff.
Maybe just try with a much lower volume?

Volume definitely makes a big difference in how immersed I feel. I usually like it to be fairly high so I have "good hearing" in the game but it can be excessively stimulating at times.
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I would agree, but unfortunately it's not a common kind of thinking. Especially at larger companies. So I think it's useful to have a defined name and a set of practices so that people who aren't used to thinking that way can start to grapple with it.

For example, I got to sit in on a 3-day design thinking class at a large financial company. The attendees were from all over the company, from programmers to back-office people to account reps. Many of them had never met a customer in the course of their jobs. The design thinking concepts were deeply alien their normal work. But by half-way through they had a bunch of real users in for the attendees to interview. By the end, they were forced to produce new product ideas and mock-ups.

It was really a revelation to a lot of the people there. Three days was only enough to give them a taste. But it was clear from the talk afterwards that a lot of them could now see why it was worth thinking beyond their designated jobs and really understanding what they were doing from the user's perspective.
Well, market rate in this context meant the (regional) labor and material costs to construct a generic, equal sqft house with X rooms and Y baths. I perhaps chose the wrong term.

It'd likely require a lawsuit to make them shell out an additional $200k+ for the specialist architect and master carpenter to help recreate the original structure.
You couldn't share SQL statements between the backend and the frontend. It's for the same reason it was shot down: SQL implementations are incredibly varied.
It seems to me to be ideal for automation, yet most seem to be using Linux.

This is probably due to the Open Source status I suspect.
It was at one point. unfortunately RIM got their dirty hands on it...
The very first photo on the page (Chapter 1) shows a plugged-in power cable.
If there’s anyone at MS reading this, I’ll once again implore you to push for Edge to be open sourced, as it should have been before the initial announcement was made.