skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a (older) millennial, one of the unanticipated benefits of my military service was near financial freedom. When I was 18, all I wanted to do fly airplanes. I didn’t realize it would help me have options when I decided I was done flying.

I graduated from a top private university with no debt in 2004. My parents didn’t pay for any of it (indeed, they couldn’t). I was on a full ROTC scholarship which covered all my tuition and books. It also paid a monthly stipend of ~$350/mo which covered my minimal needs. Room and board was covered by summer jobs like painting houses and some other random scholarships I got from other sources.

No one goes into the military to get rich, but if you are savvy, you can do very well in your 20s. I always had a roommate. I ended up buying two (low cost) houses which I then rented to buddies on the same base. When on deployment, in a combat zone, we got tax free pay – and almost nothing to spend it on. Being a saver anyway, I threw them into index funds and a few tech stocks in the early 2010s. I started a Roth in 2004, maxing my contributions every year since (benefitting from having no loan payments).

When I got out of active service, I went to a very expensive, top graduate school using the GI Bill. It paid for over 80% of tuition, and since I was in the Bay Area, a very generous housing stipend. The rest I made up for via other veteran and religious related scholarships.

At 35, I had a nice nest egg built up, two prestigious degrees paid for via my early military career choice, and a very nice job lined up after graduation with significant upside. My wife and I have no debt (aside from our current house), some cash flowing investment properties, and positive career prospects going forward. I also have the option of continuing with (minimal impact) reserve service to get a small, but meaningful monthly pension at the age of 60.

The decisions (unanticipated in many instances) early on have enabled an empowering financial future. We’re not uber-wealthy…yet. But we are secure - all without family contributions.

Some caveats: Most of my military career I lived in low cost of living areas (think rural Mississippi, Texas, and California). I was unmarried with no kids. I had a propensity to save (similar military peers with a similar trajectory had a lot less cash when they got out…and some have a lot more).

I write this only to present an alternative, showing the unanticipated rewards from making a particular career choice. The key thing here is the immense value of getting education paid for and being able to invest the money that would’ve gone to loan payments over a decade or more.

For many the military may not be the right move (and there are downsides)…but in my case, it had immense financial upside (and I got 1800 free flight hours out of the deal!), especially for a public school kid coming from a modest family. To you 17 year olds without money looking for options, taking advantage of government funded education in return for military service can be a lucrative path if tied to other cost-minimization strategies.
Because it is more like $200K/year and 0.1% chance of $500K or $75K/year and a 0.1% chance of $5M. It would be silly to take the latter over an expected 5 year tenure.
What do you think the breakdown of applicants by gender is for these roles? Are you suggesting that females should be forced into occupations they don't voluntarily choose? The countries that have the most egalitarian societies show difference in gender preference maximizing, not minimizing.
It's possible to both discriminate against men, yet have more men in the workforce, if women voluntarily are choosing not to enter a profession.

In fact, that seems to be the problem: no amount of discrimination against men resolves that women simply are choosing careers in a different distribution to what men do, but the only policy lever that can really be utilized is discrimination at various stages of education or employment.

This has left people aiming for a fantasy, and using increasingly aggressive discrimination to try and carry it out, biology be damned.
Sticky reader sounds like a feature users would want and publishers would hate. TL;DR - pages from certain sites are always displayed in reader mode. Of course, this would cause havoc with any advertising. That said, I'm all for it!
I have a second PR coming :)
it's because it's been proven to be effective regardless of location or time

It's not very effective if kids move away to find work. Then it fails both the grandparents & the parents. That might be its greatest shortcoming.
I honest think the probability of that is quite close to 0.
That number wouldn't get as many clicks though
maybe use a slightly darker blue and a lighter weight underline that wouldn't contrast quite as much? (i'm not a designer so take that for what it's worth)
Let's not act as though those are in any ways similar.
Elementary school teaching does require less academic rigor than a university professor. Same applies to RNs vs an anesthesiologist.

I do not mean to belittle those career choices (if anything, I myself want to become a k12 school teacher at some point in life). But, there are a certain set of traits that are needed to excel at the 'prestigious' careers. Disposition towards hard work beyond the standard 9-5, an acumen for logical reasoning, ability to retain large quantities of information are all more rare than social skills and empathy, which take precedence in elementary teaching or nursing.

Our culture idolizes the hard working, career oriented person, that sacrifice other things in life to singularly chase this money and fame driven idea of success. This is irrespective of how physically/mentally healthy it is, or if it positively correlates to long term happiness.

IMO, it leads to an obsession to prove that men and women being equal, would have equal outcomes on this narrow benchmark for success.
It both neglects the fact that that social norms haven't changed as much and that equal outcome is meaningless without context.

p.s: nice to see someone use 'beg the question' in the correct context.
One thing i was thinking would be also cool is improving the image view (when you open .png url for example).it would be nice if it had proper smooth zoom using mouse wheel, and some preset zoom buttons for fit to screen, 1 to 1 pixel, etc. Maybe it could also open image links in just some simple popup window.

Other than that i would really like updated bookmark and history manager.
(I try to avoid low-content comments here, but I'm LMAO at the fullscreen close-up of sir's forehead. Awesome article and project though!)
Probably because they think, as you did, that "it's a lot harder to kill people with things that aren't guns."

Fortunately that means they use guns instead of more dangerous weapons.
The idea that our responsibility is just to our families instead of to each other ends up with the American patriarchal anarchism where rich people are happy to lie about climate change, knowing they are lying, so they can destroy the earth to enrich themselves far beyond their needs in service of their "family wealth".
No, the solution is technological and close at hand:

An obnoxious voice synthesizer that takes the agent on a long and fruitless journey.

The people who do robocalls are only using the robot to get you into a conversation. At that stage -at least when I've been called- a human takes over and tries to talk you into whatever it is they're selling.

If you eat up the person's time with GPT-2 generated BS that's voice synthesized, the operator wastes his time.
Seems to me that if there is truly nothing more to this story, your colleague has a very clear lawsuit.
Every programmers should know something about memory, because software are becoming bloat [1] [2] because of a new generation of programmers who doesn't optimize their code.

So, of course, you had a wonderful career, but it doesn't prove that you write efficient code

[1] http://www.rntz.net/post/against-software-development.html
[2] http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
The major tech companies in general down-level you on the way in. It's because the skills that lead to success within Google and success elsewhere are different skillsets that intersect on common engineering skillsets.

I tend to think of it this way: Google has tens of thousands of engineers. That's an ecosystem the size of a few thousand startups, except stuffed into one company. It has its way of doing things, and to move up in this ecosystem you don't just master your own startup, you master the ecosystem around you.

That and a noticeable amount of elitism.
Inflammation and infection tend to go hand in hand. My best understanding is that each can promote the other and treating either successfully can reduce the other.

Chemical conditions that promote inflammation tend to promote infection. Infection tends to cause inflammation.

You likely cannot neatly separate these two health issues.
>I suggest that the fear is based more around "what is the government likely to do" than "what is the government allowed to do".

Government is not a monolithic being. Each branch have their own intention and goals.

In any case, due process is underdeveloped in China and the police does have a lot of arbitrary powers that will affect people's lifes. For example, the police is allowed to detain anybody at their pleasure for up to 15 days; there is no appeal and the incident stays on your record forever.

Most time they don't have any reason to mess with a random individual, but they won't be sorry about it either when it happens.
I've gone over 112mph on every track I've been to, despite handling being important.
IMO, companies should not be allowed to keep salaries private but I do think employees should be able to keep their own salaries private. I don't want coworkers or the public to know my income for all sorts of reasons. It's just not anyone else's business.

This whole notion that the only way for someone who thinks they aren't paid enough to get a raise is to know everyone else's salary and then use that as leverage is absurd. If you feel like you aren't paid enough ask for a raise and explain why you feel that way. If you're turned down look for a different job that values you at a level you're comfortable with. If you still can't make the amount you desire maybe then it is time to check your own assumptions and see what you can do to provide more value so that you can get it in return.
Or it's showing genuine respect for your employee's job, autonomy and skillset, and implicitly acknowledging that you probably aren't going to do as good a job as they would.

"Mind if I take this call?" could easily be met with "would you mind taking the one afterwards? I know who's dialling in and we're just wrapping up a long-running issue"
I think a key difference here is that a greater awareness of market-rate salaries preemptively affect those "want to work on video games" decisions much more than working for a volunteer organization. Corporate organizations in general put a lot of effort and culture into suppressing open knowledge and comparisons of pay rates.
Idk, socialism ideologies brought 35 hours work weeks, decriminalization of homosexuality, worker rights, unions, social welfare, mandatory paid vacations, job security, decent minimum wage, pensions, public telco / electricity / gas companies, public health system, public and affordable transport systems, &c. to France. Some of these things are still lacking in countries like Germany, or the US.

I don't understand how socialism is perceived so differently between Europe and the US. When the current US gov talks about socialism it just sounds like they're addressing authoritarian communism. Maybe we're just using the same word for vastly different things.

For example the french definition goes something like that, according to wikipedia : "The word socialism covers a very diverse set of currents of thought and political movements, the common point of which is to seek a more just social and economic organization. The original goal of socialism is to achieve social equality, or at least a reduction of inequalities".

While the english version says "Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management,[10] as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.[11] Social ownership can be public, collective or cooperative ownership, or citizen ownership of equity."

Not so long ago we all witnessed an artifact of earlier social movements when the so called yellow vests went in the streets to protest for better wages and pensions (as well as other things). Now if you listen to the news, these people are just lazy, uneducated, violent and should be sent to jail. Well, guess what, when people were fed up of sending their 12 years old kids to the coal mine 80 hours a week they didn't wait for the elite to care, they took what they deserved, through social movements deeply influenced by socialism. (just like it happened for black people in the 60s-70s in the us)

So again, when Trumps says "America Will Never Be A Socialist Country"; "We Were Born Free And We Will Stay Free", I don't see what socialism has to do with that. We're talking about the #1 world economy, telling the world that socialism is bad, while at the same time his people die of diabetes because they can't afford insulin due to a heavily privatized health industry. Where is the "we the people" in that ?

I stand by what I said, a healthy dose of socialism wouldn't harm the US a bit, quite the opposite.
>Perhaps we should look into what type of federal dollars are flowing to the red states, and then shrink those programs.

So we're cutting safety net programs for the poor and elderly and agricultural subsidies. Call me crazy here but I don't think "fuck the poor and the farmers" is a very solid plan.
The "nuclear family" is more mobile than the "extended family". If you want your workforce capable of moving about the country to follow the demand for labor, the "nuclear family" can be a desirable thing for that reason alone.

To be clear I'm not talking about seasonal migrant farm labor, more like (for example) the decline of the rust belt & coal belt, and the rise of tech hubs.
It's called "government" and "progressive taxation" and "labor laws" and not only does this coordination as a society level reduce inequality, it also increases GDP over time as everyone benefits from investments in the commons.
Looks like it stopped updating as of February 2nd, but otherwise it's pretty reliable, and as noted in the description, it's free. (you probably won't hit the 1TB limit working with this dataset). Here's a few queries I've done recently to answer ad-hoc questions to get an exact answer:

Top posts about bootstrapping (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258249):

#standardSQL
SELECT *
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE REGEXP_CONTAINS(title, '[Bb]ootstrap')
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 100

Count of YC startup posts over time by month (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19185946):

#standardSQL
SELECT TIMESTAMP_TRUNC(timestamp, MONTH) as month_posted,
COUNT(*) as num_posts_gte_5
FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE REGEXP_CONTAINS(title, 'YC [S|W][0-9]{2}')
AND score >= 5
AND timestamp >= '2015-01-01'
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1
How is that moving the goal post? The question at hand is whether individuals are fairly compensated based on their amount of experience and ability to contribute. Compensation is affected by job title, therefore job title is absolutely relevant.
But digging deep into the pockets of the middle class is just so easy these days.
HA! They followed my naming convention !! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258939 )

Ok, that's probably just a coincidence...but still. :)
You think dealing with C++ libraries is easier than "pip install <library>"?
A First Look at Pramila Jayapal’s “Medicare for All Act of 2019”, HR 1384
To be fair, though, how many people were lucky enough to get out right at the peak of the bubble?

The more likely scenario is you've invested in that relocation, paying the financial and social costs, and then suddenly it's 2001 and you have no job, no stock, and no community to fall back on. So yeah, a philosophical view is probably wise. :)
Just buy a tuner and remove the limiter. If you're taking the car on the track you probably have a tuner already anyway.

Limiters are nothing new.
Although I disagree with your assumption (that it's valuable that men and women are equal in every, or at least this particular, dimension), I want to point out that you're forgetting another option - to make women (mothers) more economically valuable (so they compare favourably with fathers / childless individuals). You can simply reward companies whose employees have children! This would also correctly incentivize hard-working smart people to procreate (if rewards are proportional to taxes/salaries).
If only the states could form some kind of democratic collective action mechanism to avoid getting ripped off like this, some kind of union of states.
Your argument doesn't counter his/hers.

It could be that fewer women are entering engineering fields at the top of the funnel (after high school). So every woman who applies for a job in the field could be getting one while on the whole, women still making up a tiny proportion of the workforce in that field.

In any case even if every engineering class in college has women in the majority, and every one of them is getting a job that a man previously held, it will still take a generation for parity to become visible in the workplace.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12701

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=386

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10134
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/teacher-shortage-us...
How do you mitigate overhead from making copies all the time with immutability? By using moves and changing ownership a lot?
> The talk is about disaster response

We haven't exactly had one of those in decades, so yeah. I'd say it's a bit telling that there's only interest/means for volunteers to map the developing world when there has been a disaster, but I digress.

Google Maps is perfectly usable where I live (apart from its continued if understandable confusion about how...irregular roads and road access can be here), and in my experience has been at least useful in all the cities in my home country I've visited. OpenStreetMaps is...not.
I did 150mph on the Autobahn last year on my motorbike on a straight stretch with three lanes. I thought I’d play it safe and stay in the outside lane in case someone from the inside lane decided to overtake another. Two cars undertook me, albeit very considerately, on the inside lane at considerably higher speeds. At that point I felt defeated and decided to take things a bit easier for the rest of my trip.
I thought deflection was preferable to destruction, because it requires much less energy. Is destruction what's needed only if the asteroid is discovered too late to deflect it?
When compiling one language to another, or to assembly, or just straight to object code, the most important things are that a) you produce interfaces (APIs / ABIs) that are easy to use, b) you generate good code.

No one is going to demand that GHC generate readable assembly. Why should they demand that GHC generate readable C if it were generating C instead of assembly?
Thanks! I might give it a shot. But yeah, I think it wouldn't work nearly as well.
Not USB 3.2 Gen 2x2x2?? Come on, consistency people!
> the time frame involved is decades

Usually decades. For example, some early 2000s Ford GTs have appreciated to a multiple of their original selling price
This is because it would drive up rents, the costs would accrue fully to the [lower-income] people renting the property not to the landlord.

It would be great to see renters get to deduct the property tax (up to $10k) that they pay intrinsically as part of their rent, but I doubt it will ever happen.

The Fed is already not losing out when renters pay the property tax through their rent, rent is not deductible, so the Fed is getting all the income tax. The rental income is netted against expenses on the landlord side and any excess is taxed again at the landlords marginal rate.

A dollar can be taxed again and again every time it changes hands. Usually every other time it changes hands there’s an opportunity to net out expenses before being taxed, otherwise taxes would completely swamp the economy.

Company A sells Product A, proceeds of which pays Employee B, who pays rent to Landlord C, who buys Product D from Company D.

In just that short sequence what percentage of the money flow went to taxes? Almost certainly well over 50%, perhaps approaching 70%, mostly borne by Employee B through payroll and income taxes, second by the Landlord C paying high marginal taxes on any rental profit, and lastly by the Employee and Landlord in the form of sales taxes. The Companies in this example do hand some dollars to the IRS and their States, but the dollars all actually come from B and C.
They don't mean "equality" as in "treating people the same regardless of their gender, sex, race, etc" -- they mean "equality" as in "we're going to use increasing levels of force to coerce society to ignore any variation between people, and make every facet of society a paint-by-numbers picture regardless of individual preferences".
It's magiced out of nowhere because even though they need to take a deposit before they lend it, the original deposit remains as a line in the customer's account after it's been lent. It works because people don't normally all try to withdraw their money at the same time.
Church-run schools that exist to indoctrinate children into religious beliefs and refuse to teach basic science in favor of their doctrine should absolutely pay for the externality of the rest of us having to interact with those children later in life.
In 2013 (or 2014?) facebook had my cleaning lady's husband in my friend suggestions. I had never met the guy IRL, no friends in common, and had only spoken to him over text (from what I remember there was something about her not speaking English well so I'd coordinate with him instead). I remember being surprised at the time, but thinking, ok, so they are using phone numbers to link people. All that to say, doesn't sound like a new thing to me.
Also in America even church schools mostly just exist because racist white parents don't want their children to have to share resources with black children.
plenty of people on Portuguese highways every day driving at 200kph... and a whole lot of them between 160 and 180.
> I'm not comfortable driving faster than that.

Of course you're not comfortable driving faster than that in a Honda Fit. That's like saying you're not comfortable going faster than 30 in a golf cart.

In the right car and on the right roads, hitting 120 is as simple and easy as hitting 70 in typical econoboxes. And actually, I'm not even talking about a Porsche 911; more like, every German car, especially Audi/BMW/Merc and up. Effortless is the best word for it, like you push the pedal down and you don't even realize you're in the triple digits because it's so smooth.

But the big problem is the roads and the culture around speed. America doesn't have either of those things, and probably never will.
I cannot think of a single employed person that I know for whom turning down a $1000 1000:1 payoff for 10:1 odds is rational. Maybe a recovering gambling addict who would be triggered by this action, but that's about it.

Turning down an offer can be perfectly rational. I do not know why I am being accused of advocating for always taking options. All I'm claiming is that they aren't always worth zero, and assuming such is an irrational decision. And it's an entirely avoidable irrational decision that can be addressed by considering your own risk preferences, foregone salary, tax consequences, expected company outcomes, professional development, &c.