skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rules have changed and people are still trying to live like their parents did.

Healthcare is expensive. If you are on Obamacare, it is subsidized.

Housing is expensive if you want to live in a "good" neighborhood. There are a lot of "okay" neighborhoods that people can afford just fine.

College is expensive, but it really depends on which university you go to. As much as anything, the college issue is intentional misdirection by the people who are steering parents and kids into those choices. There are very economical options, but the price tags and ramifications of those choices are usually not spelled out very well to the people making those decisions.

Edit: Childcare is absolutely expensive, to the point that I really expect having a parent stay at home to swing back around to being more normal. We have three kids and if my wife worked, it would cost more to have them in daycare than she would make while they were there.
Just to mention, MySQL isn't actually required for WriteFreely -- as of v0.6, you can use SQLite instead.
AA was a drain on family for years. And yet, the addicts got better when it was removed from their lives.

AA as a first step treatment in America is a tragedy. Save us the anecdotes.
I read it as "gets the prize despite competition" as in Cinderella snares Prince Charming despite heavy competion from Snow White and the ugly sisters
I don't even put SD cards in my phones anymore due to corruption. I always got the best SanDisk's I could find. Luckily my Pi that runs probably 8 hours/week hasn't failed, but I have the drive imaged just in case.
Tamper resistant is just a euphemism for "pay Apple $500 for a repair someone else could do for $50".
Not to mention Apple's non-standard-compliance is a notable exception, not the rule. The 30-pin connector and Lightning are basically the only proprietary connectors they've had in recent history, and one is phased out while the other is being phased out as we speak (for the standard USB-C, I might add).

Firewire, USB-C, Bluetooth, POSIX, etc... Apple doesn't do as much non-standard stuff as people on the Internet would have you think.
Several days later, Airbnb stopped responding to customer support emails but they can no longer log into their account (no one mentioned that they were going to delete it though).
However, they still got a terms of service update email, but it came to "deleted-1234-theiremail@example.com", so airbnb obviously still has their email. I don't even think they realize that they'll actually get emails to them adding some random numbers before it.

So now airbnb still has their email, refused to delete it, but they don't have an account they can file a GDPR request against even if they find a way to make their IP address show up properly in geolocation tables to convince them that they live where they say they do.
Have you tried the actual cheeses he mentions?
You also don’t want them to continue fucking you over for years making billions, then get a solid settlement of a few million.
I've done it to 40-50 internet companies.

My experience is internet companies don't collect debt the way you describe. It's the offline companies that do (ISPs, gyms, utilities, banks, etc)

Edit: they also need to inform you before sending your debt for collections, giving you time to get it right with them before any credit score issues. Seriously, people are so worried about keeping their promises to companies that don't reciprocate that concern. Most companies just deal with the consequences of breaking the rules. Why shouldn't we apply the same to them as their users?
Rust now, on average, outperforms C++ in the Benchmarks Game by 3%
Great use for deli cups, cheap and durable enough for storing small parts indefinitely.
The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase
Eh. If that happened, then at least I'd only be paying for myself out of pocket and not also the older generation that saw fit to have their cake, eat it, and leave the bill for the next generation.

(Not that I actually believe there should be a privatised healthcare system.)
Right, I'm sure even using the AWS ARM instances would be faster/cheaper for its performance.
Then that leads to my second question

>Why do we need them at all?

Why not just email the contract, and the person replies back with "I agree to this"? Simpler and cheaper than paying $150/year.
This is an example of a product that probably does something cool, but really doesn't do a good job of explaining what it does or why I would use it on the front page. But it looks pretty.
Interesting, but maybe not required. You can do a programmatic check of the crystal and PLL. I've had over 200k devices fabbed and deployed without ever directly testing a single crystal. What kind of error rate do you find?
Come on. That last is obviously a "championship" which is completely biased towards American style and palate, and probably only has a very few non-American cheeses in the competition. It is run by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, and might not even have many submissions that aren't from Wisconsin. They only list styles and winners but it is transparently biased/primarily local. Similar comments can be made for the American Cheese Society link.
Scott Kelly spent a year in space – and it literally changed him
real parmigiano doesn't have preservatives so it'll mold in a month after opening; grana padano usually does have and will last longer; both will become dry in time after opening.

in genera both tastes ok even when they dry out, albeit they gets saltier; if one eats cheese slowly, I'd suggest to get one relatively younger (i.e. 9 months) so as the flavor matures it doesn't get overly strong.

they both contain a lot of cholesterol and lot of calories, so I wouldn't call them miracle food, but they do have some nice properties, like they're some of the few cheeses that are suitable for lactose intolerant people (still not for lactose allergic people but ymmv) which makes them a good source of calcium.
I see. And so you're saying productivity of the profession is fixed or somewhat limited. Got it, thanks.
I completely agree on the feelings map. It isn't something that you could rely on and take meaningful actions from the data.

However, it is useful to consider the fact that people's experience and comfort isn't linearly increasing with time. Understanding that there are peaks and troughs can be useful for user experience design.
Am I missing something? I thought it was illegal to not pay out accrued PTO.
(If it isn't, it certainly should be.)
I filed my taxes with Turbo Tax the other day and they compared my salary to other people my age (27) in my state (Oregon), I didn't double check the numbers but Turbo Tax reported that I made about 5 times the average 27 year old in Oregon.

What I've noticed is that there is a huge inequality gap among millennials as well, a lot of millennials have crushing debt and poor job prospects yes -- but others get a job at FAANG at 21. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out as millennials age.
You would not normally be paid for accumulated vacation time so I’m not sure why they’re asking for this other than they have enough combined social media presence to make management capitulate.
$213.5 million - Indian Unit - for “long-term investment”

$16.5 million - Vietnamese Unit - "for operations and sales"

Easy to see where the major investment is.

I see this is as a clear intent to start putting roots in the Indian market, especially since regulations for international phone imports in India are sometimes prohibitive. Though this move isn't to manufacture iPhones right now, they might be making a strategic move to be appealing to Apple, to produce more phones (a future cheap - XR like version maybe?) in India.

That would be in addition to the production already in place in India for some iPhones.

Apple still has the brand awareness in India. The iconic Apple logo's power has yet to die. I'm not sure if they expect to sell high end iPhones about $1000+ in volume, because they will fail.

One because that isn't cheap even for American blood. And the concept of monthly payments for a phone (price exceeding most two wheelers' prices -- a popular mode of transport) won't sit well with people there, especially devoid of all the carrier incentives in the states.

This is also following rumors from a bit ago -
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-india-exclusive/exc...
Pedantic aside: The language is called "Go", please don't propagate "golang" :)
Startup Incubator Takes Full Manhattan Building for New Hybrid Concept
previously (16 hours ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014373
Tencent chose Flink over Storm to power its stream processing platform
I agree, but will never ever comment on this (in a thread, where I'm downvoted).

The worst is being downvoted for the dissemination of fact, ideally supported by sources.

Some lesser smart members of this fine forum seem to even downvote comments like this if they dare to go against the party line.

Then again, and as the moderators outline correctly, it's often auto-corrective and I, for one, upvote comments, which are unfairly downvoted. No matter their merits.

Edit : Clarification
I have a lot of respect for C++ because it's still holding together (thriving even) after changing and adding so much.

But I have to wonder, is adding one more big feature wise? Will modules be the feature where it becomes impossible to create a compiler that's both useful amd conforming?
Curbside security guard asked a couple basic questions ("How long were you in Israel? Where are you traveling to?"). The guard at the first security gate inside asked ~20 questions (4-8 is normal). I think answering that I'm a SW engineer to "What do you do for a living?" made her suspicious. I was then directed to a side security area where they searched my bags and discovered my laptop. A few guards then escorted me to a side room. Here there was one guard interrogating me on and off for ~2 hours. Just about any question I asked was met with "We can't tell you that." They confiscated my laptop b/c they had to "run more tests". I said several times I would wait for the tests, but they 'insisted' I leave. As soon as I was through security I went to Turkish airlines for help, but their immediate (read: scripted) response was "We do not deal with airport security."
Of course it is, but you’re not in it for anything but the money.
Most likely backwards compatibility. You can print an email chain and bring it in front of a judge, but it's probably not going to work very well.
Hackers Attack WordPress Sites Using Zero-Day Flaw in a Plugin
Don Syme, on omitting ocaml-style modules from F#:

In addition, there was the question what not to implement. A notable omission from the design was the functorial module system of OCaml. Functors were a key part of Standard ML and a modified form of the feature was included with OCaml, a source of ongoing controversy amongst theoreticians. The author was positively disposed towards functors as a “gold standard” in what parameterization could be in a programming language but was wary of their theoretical complexities. Furthermore, at the time there were relatively few places where functors were used by practicing OCaml programmers. One part of the OCaml module system – nested module definitions – was eventually included in the design of F#. However, functors were perceived to be awkward to implement in a direct way on .NET and it was hard to justify their inclusion in a language design alongside .NET object programming.

The Early History of F#
https://fsharp.org/history/hopl-draft-1.pdf
I've built a petition system that allow users to publish their own petitions and download signatures lists. Got a handful of loyal customers acquired threw relations. MRR is ~500€ since +10 years. Won't give the url here because it's running on a ultra cheap dedicated server at 5€/m, HN would blow it down in one minute :)
I love my Parmigiano-Reggiano too, but agree, it is not a perfect food (perfect in the sense of "complete"). It doesn't have much fiber for instance.
I think it's only mandatory in California.
Erm... Why not use standard screws?
That's interesting. Admittedly, I've not done UI work for many years and I've never used FP for UI development. But what you described is really the way we used to design things with OOP. You'd have classes which represented physical views and would register for events on an event bus. When the events arrived the views would update themselves accordingly.
Drone Sightings Keep Grounding Flights–Here’s Why That Keeps Happening
This is related to the topic of this interesting book about how baby boomers stole resources from their own children (although obviously the supposed cause is quite different from the article):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pinch-Boomers-Childrens-Future-Shou...
Yep, did spacecraft simulation work years ago using Ada95, which was nice in that Ada's OOP support was largely orthogonal to the rest of the language (you could use OOP only where it made sense), unlike Java...
Just to chime in and also say that I'm a very happy healthchecks user.
California, Illinois, Montana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Rhode Island.

I have seen corporate officers pursued successfully for unpaid PTO after corporate insolvency in Illinois.

Side note: This is why “unlimited vacation” is a bit quirky as a benefit. Ask what the minimum is, because that’s what is going to be paid out when you seperate.
Ancient Lights law (“Right to light”) signs map
Thank you very much for all your work on "Game Programming Patterns." It's an amazing resource. I was not aware of "Crafting Interpreters" before now. I can't wait to start digging into it.

I've come across very few Design Patterns, and Software Engineering topics in general, that couldn't be taught/explained from the perspective of game development. I'm surprised that it isn't used as a teaching-tool more often then it is. It's an inherently complex domain that most audiences are already quite familiar with; the "why" behind things is either immediately obvious or easily explained. If someone doesn't know what the requirements are for something like an employee record databases, and how such a system might be used, using that as a context for teaching is not much more useful then "class Widget" and "Foo.Bar()".
It depends on how it is earned/allocated, I suppose.

PTO that is earned over time, as part of your pay period, is a form of compensation to be expected.
Every job I've had has paid accrued PTO/Vacation when being let go or even leaving on your own will.
That's true, but I hope people would hesitate before using this for spreadsheets that don't require virtual rendering.
You can stop littering without being fucked over by it very easily.
Yeah everywhere I worked even HR said outright that they had to pay PTO.

Some companies I worked at did regular "shutdowns" to get PTO off the books as it showed as a sort of expense they would have to pay.

Maybe BuzzFeed was playing some weird word games and it wasn't PTO... but was?
It's definitely not a simple CRUD vanilla app, thought.
Would it make sense to give them decision making power over the rest of Dropbox's marketing and product direction, not just HelloSign's pending integration?
I agree with the idea that all accrued PTO should be paid out, if the release of the employee was the decision of the company.

I also would like to add, that Buzzfeed did not simply throw these people out the door and into poverty, they did provide severance and benefits through April, which should be plenty of time to find another source of income (hopefully).

"BuzzFeed’s laid-off employees received a severance of a minimum 10 weeks pay, and benefits through April. Taylor’s response to the petition’s organizers said the company wants to meet with staff to discuss the issue"
So something like Firecracker?

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
How I reverse-engineer an application for security assessment
I was searching for a new coworking space, and in the process learned that a very large library with gigabit internet existed near me. I love going to this library to work! It has cool water features that mask the noise and they even have dedicated sound proof study rooms I can rent for calls. Check out the awesome funky 70s style architecture: https://www.google.com/search?q=huntington+beach+central+lib...
Indeed, my apologies. I actually quite like the idea. It reminds me a lot of Erlang, where you set up a bunch of small processes and if any of them die, you can a) try to recover quickly, or b) run in reduced functionality mode. I just haven't been fortunate enough to work with embedded processors where it'd be a good fit; they've either been on the small side (Cortex M, MSP430, AVR) or on the big side (iMX6, AM335x) and just run full-blown Linux.
We use Dokku for a set of services (within a specific scope) at work.

I was highly sceptical of it at first, as I had preferred managing deployments on a lower level—and for some good reasons(similar criticisms with Heroku itself). That said, I have adapted and it's been good. Once we had some customizations in place it worked out great. And the plugins are generally well-done. Very little is too obscured.
Have you used Paper? Also an acquired team, and a great product that has seen a bevy of improvements since being under Dropbox.
I'm not sure I've ever seen hover styling in any spreadsheet app, whether native or online. I think it would detract from the user's focus.

This certainly feels interactive when I interact with it like I would any other spreadsheet. Are you unable to select cells and/or type in them?
Swizzle Inventor: Data Movement Synthesis for GPU Kernels [pdf]
If there is objectivity to beauty, it would deem brutalism as an example of ugliness.

I grew and studied around brutalist buildings and they are impersonal and humbling in the bad way: like when you visit a gothic church. Particularly because of the visible aesthetic decay of its materials.

I love hating brutalism though.
I don't think that Atari was a gleam in the founders' eyes when I last worked on a loading dock. Probably the most complicated devices we schlepped were irons or coffee makers. I do remember rough handling of stuff, but it was stuff that would stand it--paper goods or canned soda.

Having said that, I can see how physical exhaustion and stress would lead to careless handling of goods.
Another company tried that: "News workers unionized. Days later, they were jobless. Was it payback?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/04/dnainfo-goth...
> Right now the US has ~4 workers per retiree. That's going to be dropping to about 2 in the next few decades.

I think it's more like a 1/3 drop will take 45 years:

https://www.econdataus.com/workers.html

not that it changes your overall point by much.
Identifying noise is a valuable service for interested parties.
I've been looking at their site for about 5 minutes and I still have no idea what fomo.com does...
> real parmigiano doesn't have preservatives

Salt is a preservative.
You can't expect this of people. When you do expect this, as you seem to, you end up setting up a society where sociopaths like that guy are able to rise to the top and profit handsomely because the people who made the rules just can't seem to conceive of someone who doesn't mind being an asshole as long as it gets him ahead.
Who the heck even submits this to HN????
Wouldn't that issue be the case for any DB host?
This wasn’t so much about the personal toll of whistleblowing as the fucked up system and the apparent impossibility to do wrong as a US corporation.

This was a really depressing story on multiple levels.
So we complained about open offices back in the day, but compared to isolation, most people end up going back to a big open space with humans talking? :)
WebAuthn.io: A demo of the WebAuthn specification
Ocaml also has open variants where one can add cases to an existing sum type (essentially this is like exceptions but less special) and it’s objects are like a dual of polymorphic variants where you get a record which you may add fields to. Neither of these features is as commonly used as polymorphic variants however.
There's BuiltWith: http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/09/builtwith-is-perhaps-one...
I'm not sure what "normally" is. I've always had vacation time paid out when leaving, though at jobs that have multiple categories of time off, sometimes one category gets paid out and one doesn't.

This is always disclosed up front. In this case, did the company claim they were going to pay out and then they didn't? Or did the company never claim they would, but the ex-employees are "demanding" it anyway?
It's neat and fast. I do think that you should consider implementing a few more common excel shortcuts, to make it really seamless to an advanced excel user. For instance:

- CTRL ARROWS: to move on the grid to the next populated cell

- F2: edit the first cell of the selected range

- CTR ENTER: applies the content of the first cell of the selected range to the whole range (after you pressed F2 to edit it)

- when edit mode, pressing down arrow should leave edit mode and move to the cell below

- CTR *: select area

- SHIFT SPACE / CTR SPACE: to select a row / column
I believe recent versions of Raspbian (at least the ones available on raspberrypi.org) mount all of /var as tmpfs. That's a RAM filesystem.
Sorry, but this is an absolute non-starter, it has zero chance. Nobody trusts Iran on anything "atomic" anymore, and even zero-trust isn't enough - we've been deep in negative territory for quite some time. This is just too radioactive.
A noise-canceling pillow for people with snoring partners
One parent not working has massive negative externalities for everyone. For society the labour force shrinks and the economy follows. Your wife's career is effectively over after 5-10 years off for childcare. If you lose your job your family will be in trouble. If you get divorced you will not enjoy the results.
No. I tried it and it was no different than working in an open office. So I either work from home or I work in a space I rent with three fellow consultants. $500 with all utils in a walkable city and decent food nearby.

Why would I want to deal with the same open office problems? Smelly perfume, still loud with headphone and nosy people.
Wow, that's better than a coworking space. You're fortunate!
The kernel is most certainly not.
And rust

`extern crate foo`

`extern crate "foo-bar" as foo_bar`

This is all legal identifiers but

`use std::path::Path;`

`use std::path::Path as int; // For maximum confusion`

And not that anyone uses this part but:

`mod bazz;`

`#[path = "bazz-bar.rs"] mod bazz_bar;`
If Not Notebooks, Then What?
Many states actually don't require to pay out PTO, but it is wide industry practice and it is the law in California. If they aren't paying PTO, even if legal, that's ridiculous, because as others have said, PTO is interpreted as a form of compensation which could be interpreted as your employer not paying you.
> I am still torn if Rust helps more than it makes everything more complicated

Do you have an example in your code of what is complicated? I took a quick look, and didn’t see anything crazy.
Culture You Can Heft
I agree with all your points, but have you ever disassembled an iPhone or an aluminum Intel Mac? Everyone has them now, but when they started producing them, no one had triwing, pentawing or those microscopic torx bits. And let's not even start on bricking items repaired by non-"apple-approved" shops months later.
>yesterday's factories and warehouses are being converted into coffee shops and homes that people love and pay a premium for.

Also offices for tech companies.
The internet of human things: Implants for everybody and how we get there
Headline seems click-baity?

"It then models this anonymized data in simulations — creating a synthetic population that faithfully replicates a city’s real-world patterns but that “obscures the real-world travel habits of individual people,"