skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Put everything else in index funds every paycheck, and only check your balance every now and then. Let time be on your side.

In what index funds? I am primarily an index fund investor myself, but there are dozens of indexes to potentially invest in, so just saying "buy index funds" is inadequate advice.
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Phenylketonuria Treatment Using Modified E. Coli. Gets Tested
There is a flipside to this. In the last few months I have started playing two new games - Apex Legends and Rainbow 6: Siege. Total cost for those two games is £8.50. They are both supported by microtransactions for cosmetics, leading to no cost for Apex, and a low price for R6 (which is admittedly also a 4 year old game).

As someone who has gone from a significant income to a non-existent one due to founding a company, I quite like that my gaming is subsidised by those who are willing to spend lots of money on cosmetics.
I switched servers to Keep-Alive, but then I found out that it would introduce race conditions, at least with the Apache HTTP Client.

The client would in the middle of sending a new request, but the server would have already decided to close the connection and the request would fail.

I believe this is a common problem, can and yet the spec has nothing to address this obvious race condition.

Right?
and what else should we use? Other IMs want phone registration, have questionable privacy, constantly change....
I don't think it's particularly a women-centric issue and you're never going to have a real discussion about it while it's posed as one. The majority of the burden of children obviously falls on women but time wise it's a small component, mostly concentrated in the first year or two, versus the 20 years of needing to maintain a household, take the kids to school, etc. that follow. The woman is always going to need take a half a year or more off (ideally) for each child, that's fixed, but who takes the following 20 off is up to the couple.

The question is really whether or not two income households are unquestionably a good thing, to which the answer seems like a strong "No". Even without the birth rate issue I struggle to conceive of mechanism by which it isn't a vicious circle of more people entering the workforce, driving incomes down (and driving the cost of scarce resources like certain housing up), forcing more households to become two income to keep up with no obvious benefit for anyone but the people doing the employing.
Splashdown of Crew Dragon DM-1
I highly contemplated both Zurich and Luxembourg because of my finance tech experience (SocGen, BoA, Wells Fargo, Goldman Stackzzz). I love Switzerland.
Ask HN: How would GDPR apply to dual citizens?
Let's say I'm a citizen of America and England. I go to a site, and they collect my data. I later send said site a GDPR notice demanding they delete my data. The company fires back, claiming that I accessed their service from a US IP and so accessed it in my capacity as an American citizen. I claim I've accessed it as a Brit.

How would this go down in court?
February Report of Peer 2 Peer Investing
Define "successful" ? What does that mean exactly ? A lot of money ? A good life away from trouble ?
Be in the middle class mean you are successful ?

Really that definition matter a lot and the you might need a college degree to be successful
The risk is not completely unmitigated in that they generate random database, user, and passwords automatically. These are not the 'appname' password your security-clueless developer chose. The question is what is the risk that PostgreSQL has an authentication bypass vulnerability. Compared to the risk that your web app developers got authentication and authorization at the web app layer wrong, this is very unlikely. And given such a web application vector, your database behind the firewall is just as vulnerable to attack through the web app.
Conversely, there are a bunch of countries where you can get your PPL before your driving license. I first flew a plane when I was 14. It's not that hard.
How can I effectively manage a hobby game project?
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
I concur. Taking his statement as meaning all of college is a bit disingenuous. It's more about the feeling that you "have" to go to college no matter what you study. Of course if you want to become a doctor you need to go to college, but going to college just for having been to college is not something we should encourage young people to do.
> I was recently recommended to read the book Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely, first published in 1992 (or was it 1991?) and apparently no longer in print...

You can buy a new copy on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0887308554/
Still waiting for “Skype for email,” wherein notifications of new messages would be delivered through something else than Skype, namely email.
Seems like the whole mission was a 100% success?
I wonder what Wolfram Alpha uses.
I think details on issuance times are needed, some of those can easily be taking half a year or more to get, other are known to routinely miss advertised times (blue card)
>The Apple CEO also said he believes that it should be a requirement for every kid in the U.S. to have some level of coding education before they graduate high school. Apple launched its Everyone Can Code program in 2016, a curriculum designed to help students from Kindergarten to college learn coding.

>Apple is one of several corporations that doesn't require a college diploma for certain jobs

Does anyone else feel like this is just an attempt by Cook to increase the supply of people able to code competently so Apple doesn't have to pay out as much for software engineers like they do now? Just increasing the labor supply to push down wages? Not saying if that is a good or bad thing, just a thought..
Whatever it is I can't see it because TechCrunch are yet another GDPR failure.

Make it easy to say no to tracking because if you don't I'm off.
You can use pretty much anything for that, it only really depends on how big you want it.

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/seeed-technology-c...
> That's why all the demo videos of these things are over water....

I thought they were over water due to FAA regulations. From an article about Larry Page's Kitty Hawk Flyer. [1]

> > In the US, the Flyer falls under the FAA's rules for ultralight aircraft, meaning no pilot's license is needed so long as it's flown over water or "uncongested areas."

[1] https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/kitty-hawk-flyer-electric...
Everyone is a fraud. “A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that investigators cracked Cotten's laptop and discovered money was missing. In fact, they have possession of his laptop and identified money was missing through public blockchain records.”
How far are you supposed to go to get the 57% average? At first it had some success, but after 100+ presses its guesses were correct only 49% of the time.
I think there are useful lessons that can be learned from mobile, that might be applicable to desktop, but you're right Microsoft made exactly the same mistake again in the opposite direction. I'd say they did that most egregiously with Windows 8 though.

Microsoft keep looking at a few data points they have now, extrapolate those into the future and then try to jump directly to that future. Currently it's an attempt to 'catch up' with Apple, but they keep extrapolating straight lines when the actual track of innovation is in curves. They did the same sort of thing with Longhorn, trying to re-invent the PC platform with object oriented database file systems and the whole OS running on .NET because Java looked like it was the wave of the future. They're trying to out-compete rival technologies without really thinking through what they're doing.
lowest fee fund you can find. Vanguard is one that comes to mind
Come up with something more formal and work on it! If you get some evidence of success you should submit it to YC and anyone else that will look at it!

The world doesn't change b/c we will it to, the world changes b/c we take action!
I'm not sure this argument holds... Japan has falling birthrates and non-working women. Maybe the cause is somewhere else? Maybe we could legislate that many (most) jobs must take part-time workers (e.g. in Netherlands IIRC), and that parental leave is covered by the government, and that both employee and employer get a bonus when a child is born (correlated with the previous salary, so that more productive/educated people are more incentivised to have kids).
Minicomputers are just smaller and cheaper versions of their mainframe counterparts. It's only a small step in evolution, and not an important distinction in this context (imho).
unary codes still need two symbols because you need a terminator/separator.

binary codes can be prefix-free thus self terminating.
This You Tube channel details some of the amazing tricks they used to create those seemingly impossible effects. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi29TNPrdbwJLiB-VcWSS...
Wash that down with some Hobo Lager
"Not a day goes by without western media conglomerates publishing an article about how the Japanese are going extinct and need mass immigration now."

This isn't the cause of two-income households because Japan is quite broadly one-income households...? This is almost entirely irrelevant to two-income household discussion. (I'm not decided personally how I feel about it, merely pointing out this specific comment is making 0 sense to me)
Hey look, the audio cassette (what's that??) is only $869!
[Citation Needed]

There are multiple specialities and multiple pay grades. I'd appreciate seeing a citation for this claim.
ELI5, what's the benefit here?

Because now I see mostly the cost of having pieces of the render function shoehorned between input events just so that they can be discarded, because once the render function finishes it's grossly outdated.
How about Accountants? Turbo Tax automated many of the individual needs for accountants, and plenty of investing / portfolio management advice can be found online for free. The last big push is for enterprise / business / high net worth individuals to automate their accountants.

It's not to say accountants won't exist at all: we still need them as Subject Matter Experts to make changes to the software. But we won't need huge numbers of them like we do today.
Seems that way. The program director is on the stream right now saying "Everything happened perfectly, almost right down to the second".

It's pretty amazing watching this. I've been following this company since when I was in high school, before their first (failed) launch. However many years later, they're one step away from actually launching humans.

Can't wait to see them launch people later this year!
Turnkey product development team hardware/software $50/hr flat
This was the dream to me that Samsung's "Linux on Galaxy" system would get close to.

They already have DeX which provides a large screen UI for your Android device. The next step which they have trialled, but AFAIK not release was to use a separate Linux Distro for the DeX component. Maybe not quite fully converged, but pretty close.
New York City considering legislation to ban cashless retailers
Similarly 'wtf mate' is that Google Hangouts was working fine in Firefox for a while, not at all in Safari… and now it is reversed.
> >The article you cite says that's exactly what happened:

> Nowhere in that article does it claim that black people wanted white people off campus because they hate white people.

neither i nor the person you replied to claimed black people hate white people.
The word "hipster" has always rubbed me the wrong way, mainly because people have very strong opinions about hipsters, and I'm still not entirely sure that word means anything.

Google's definition is "a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream." We used to call people who followed the latest trends and fashions "trendy". The only difference between "trendy" and "hipster" seems to be the qualifier at the end of the hipster definition: "...especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream." But that feels weasle-wordy to me. It's like saying, "a hipster is someone who follows the latest trends and fashions, except when they don't".

People have been wearing flannel and hats for a long time (check your parents' photo albums). Whether or not the person wearing those clothes considers themselves to be making a new fashion statement seems to be an assumption made on behalf of the person calling the other a hipster. Because of that, hearing someone call another person a hipster has always come across as that person projecting their emotions onto another person, not as a description of anything that's actually real.
Others agree with your memory, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19332648.
Using Titanoboa as an Alternative to Ansible
It does work for the majority (> 50%) of users. Is it enough ? No. Is it sufficient to be published ? Yes.
Show HN: Lightdogs – Collect super dogs by using a focus timer
It's worth to note NSA has quite specific needs.

If you need some very specific small functionality by next monday for $1million, then that development can be arranged.

However, NSA could also reasonably want that their targets (who have extensive capabilities of their own, likely including insiders in various companies) can't find out that NSA needs that very specific small functionality by next monday. They may not care if that functionality becomes available to the general public sometime in the next year (preferably in a more general manner that covers the reasonable/common usecases instead of just the one NSA had at the moment), but leaking the information that you needed (and thus probably used) X at time Y often isn't acceptable.

At the very least, they'd need every single employee who works on that feature or can see that this feature was developed to be vetted by them i.e. to have a security clearance; and that also requires the company to have the appropriate processes and infrastructure for separate, secret codebases and builds that can't be seen by uncleared people. And that is something many companies can't or don't want to provide.
Here we go, buckle up. With the amount of power democrats are likely to consolidate in the next few elections there could be some serious movement on this if it becomes a priority for the party.

I think the big three are way too powerful and need to be broken up, but doing so intelligently is a tricky problem that I don't have much faith in government tackling.

Zuckerberg integrating all the services yesterday seems to be a transparent attempt to short circuit splitting the company along these service lines, he knows this is coming. I'll bet $100 he'll soon be talking about how it's impossible to split out insta from facebook because of database keys and integrated AI or whatever.
>I don't think it's particularly a women-centric issue and you're never going to have a real discussion about it while it's posed as one

Sure it is. Unless men start having babies, then women working and the birth rate consequently decreasing is a women-centric issue.
In that land, what are you doing about UI? Still falling back on Java?
It still works like that. I practically had to beg Hex Rays to take my money. They were very skeptical of me at initial purchase, it took about 2 hours of email exchange and phone calls.

When I went to renew my support, they grilled me again. This was just a few weeks ago. I gave up and figured Ghidra was just around the corner. Looking forward to trying it.

I emailed them and told them a) I didn't appreciate being treated like a criminal (won't get into the specifics, but one set of answers led to another set of questions, but I'm a consultant with my own company, website, physical address, company history, blog posts, etc. -- I work in security / reverse engineering of electronic devices)

I also told them I've never had to work so hard to give someone my money. Finally I gave up. Let the market speak.
“The specialization of labor is limited by the extent of the market” - Adam Smith

Having more people is better for us on net because it gives us more human capital and allows us to develop technologies that pay off at scale.

As the world population has grown, our society has gotten wealthier on a per-capita basis, and we still have more than enough food to go around.

It’s not true that overpopulation is happening or that increased population is a negative phenomenon.
Is it Robert X. Cringely's voice on the tape?
i worked on a secret project codenamed "Star Trek" porting 68k assembler based macos to x86 way back in 1992, pretty fun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
>Relying on human intervention for split-second decisions where no actions are necessary for long stretches of time is pure insanity.

This is literally how all human driving works right now.

Seriously, look around at other drivers while you're on a freeway or interstate sometime.

They're not driving, they're singing along with the radio, or shaving, or putting on makeup, or sending text messages.

They're not Luftwaffe aces with eagle eyes and steely nerves monitoring the fuel mix and oil pressure while scanning the skies for the silvery glint of the sun off the wings of a P-51 that may herald their last few moments on earth. They're bored people doing their boring commute and even when they have their hands on the wheel they're not really paying attention.
Well, Skype works quite well nowadays, it's one of the most reliable voice services I use and the best part, it doesn't need a binary, it works out-of-the-box through the webpage.
When we talk about basic ag tech, we're not talking about drones or robots, we're not even talking about mechanization, it's mostly fertilizer and seed breeding.

- The accumulated knowledge of crop science is pretty strong, it's not a secret what the limiting factors in cereals crops are.

- Empirical results (see groups like The One Acre Fund, extensive research farm results in the region, high confidence RCTs leave basically no doubt)

- For US farmers prior to ~1930, they had the same average yields as Kenya does currently. In fact, fertilizer usage and yield have a very strong correlation and Kenya has a very similar curve.

Are there factors besides inputs that can impact yield? Absolutely. You could see from satellite imagery the places where conflict reached in Syria by harvest time as that conflict was developing. Market access and infrastructure in Kenya are super hard also, fertilizer is more expensive in rural Kenya than it is in the United States even though the consumers are much poorer.

Basically, there are certainly places that we're not a good fit for. I don't think we could operate in places with active conflicts like South Sudan, but Africa's a real big place. Kenya is quite stable and has effective if not formalized property rights for most smallholders. The thing I always try to remember is that America had very similar problems. The area that is now the great bread basket of the world also used to be referred to as "The Wild West."
It's like using ZeroHedge as your source of news. It is not inaccurate (they generally link to reputable sources), but potentially overblown or out of context.
Yes, but you can get a long way tailoring a Linux distro in a particular way. In an extreme example, Android is a Linux distro.

This is closer to conventional in that it's still Debian and Gnome, but if they are putting development work into making that a cross-platform system then everyone benefits.
A college degree is not some terminal credential to make you into a coding cubicle robot the rest of your life. It goes more towards helping you be a more well-rounded person, for the short time in your life while you are more than just profit to the machine. US execs aren't helping anybody out when they push this anti-college garbage.
The premise of a longshot is that it doesn't seem (and isn't) likely that any given plucky startup is likely to succeed, but the rewards are worth the risk.

Anyway... the military isn't always the ideal market force for driving down costs.
College rules. If someone else is paying. It's too fucking expensive now. Boomers ruined yet another thing.
If it was locked down presumably all you would need to connect to the DB host is a Heroku account. I’d rather have it intentionally open with complimenting security controls.
> I agree with the article, and I will also say if you're looking for a truly special experience, make the effort and go places on the planet where tourists simply don't venture.

I agree, but you don't even have to go where no tourists venture. Just go where less venture. And, if you are American go to where less Americans go.

SEA is packed with Americans now because it's the current trendy place. Eastern Europe outside of the big spots like Prague are still pretty wide open though. Going in the winter also limits the number of other tourist (we went to Budapest in the winter once, enjoyed the hot springs nearly alone one evening and then went ice skating - quite fun).
It used to be like that but these days it is possible to get a security clearance while retaining the second citizenship provided there is no "conflict of interest". Whether there is a conflict of interest or not will be determined by the government investigation of course.
Because it takes part in (and occasionally wins) the Eurovision song contest.
How Alexa Learns
It takes new ideas a long time to catch on - time that is mainly devoted to evolving the idea into something useful. This fact alone dumps most of the responsibility for early technical innovation in the laps of amateurs, who can afford to take the time. Only those who aren't trying to make money can afford to advance a technology that doesn't pay.

This is how I feel about hacker news. People who have the time to advance technology. And I'm grateful to witness so much of it here.
For me, geocaching is what gets me out and helps me discover interesting places. I finally hid my first caches last year and it's a pleasure to read a log of someone having discovered a neat little spot they would never have bumped into otherwise. There are players who've found multiple caches per day average all year round.
I tried...

$ python3
>>> # not using os.urandom to save a import...
>>> rng = open("/dev/urandom", "rb")
>>> "{0:08b}".format(rng.read(1)[0])

And act accordingly, soon the correct rate approaches 50% as expected.