skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't factor in lost opportunities due to the increase in expense and hassle of relocation.

Selling my residence is so far down my personal list of "frictions to relocation" as to be irrelevant. I hate moving, period. So does my wife.

I also personally do not see having to dispose of a property when moving as that big a deal. Again, that's me.

> Renters are happier. That is worth something.

First off, the article doesn't say that. It says that owners are generally not any happier.

Second, it's one citation. You shouldn't be making absolute statements off one citation.

Third, the overall thrust of the research is the more general "experience > stuff". I find that to be a highly personal decision and not something where population studies can inform the individual.
One of the many reasons why I switched back to Firefox, among extensions support on mobile.

We need an open competitor to push back, not align themselves with Google's interests.
I don't think you would ever lose a concept like 'aboveness' - even if that word didn't exist in our language, we would have found away to express the same idea, perhaps in a less abstract way like 'closer to the sky'
The most advanced, most functional is Vector: https://www.anki.com/en-us/vector

There is a Python SDK available for it so you can fully control every aspect of Vector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTIp2tHwgs
But how does it smell?
You can change formats, but they can't lend more than a single copy at any given time or they will be violating copyright (and making more copies of a book than they actually have).
Oxytocin-gaze positive loop and the coevolution of human-dog bonds
I would like to know when, if ever, we will be able to have a conversation on HN about whether women working (i.e. working outside rather than raising a family) is an absolute unquestionable good thing.
Surely we can't complain about falling birth rates at the same time that we complain about we don't have enough women working?
Japan particularly wants to avoid the elephant in the room.
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> Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree.

Of course, the majority of these are probably retail, manufacturing, and support staff. Cook himself has a degree (MBA), as do most of the software engineers at Apple, I’m sure.
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Hi rubyn00bie. I am the author. I agree with what you wrote. It is really important to understand the history of economic political thought. Nowadays most economic careers, specially in the developed world, are way too focused on mathematics. That is why I wrote: "Not only do we not fully understand how the economy works but also there is an endless debate on how it should function. Everyone has values and an ideology even if they don’t tell you. You should keep that in mind while studying economics. In this roadmap I try to recommend the tools easily available and that are a part of the current economic thought."
Ask HN: Service that aggregates personal medical lab reports
Patients often go to different doctors, and there can be different lab tests performed. Different doctors use different labs, for example, Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp.
The labs have all your information. Some have advanced features, for example plotting the glucose level of the past 6 months, etc.

However, there is no way to aggregate all the information from different labs.
Is there a service that aggregates this information? Say a user upload lab reports themselves.
Who's complaining about falling birth rates? The planet is overpopulated, fewer humans can only be a good thing.
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There were tons of almost-PC-compatible manufacturers back then, selling their proprietary very slightly better, but incompatible systems. They'd have a slightly faster but incompatible bus system, slightly higher capacity floppy disks with a custom format, a proprietary interface that was quicker but only worked with their own printers, a higher resolution display or with more colours but which required special software to take advantage of it.

The Unix workstation market that NeXT, Sun and SGI competed in was a bit different and didn't really overlap much with the PC market.
It's not true.

Think of Dropbox or Instagram or even Amazon

What's there which technologically can't be replicated given enough money?

It's the userbase/network effect which can't be reflected if given
Yes, absolutely. We don't have kids, so we tend to not travel in the peak season, and we avoid the most popular destinations in any case.
I've been using Seafile recently and generally liking it. The experience with the iOS app absolutely leaves something to be desired (photos only as far as I can see, even though the server and web app supports other kinds of files) though. The web apps support in app editing of markdown files. There's an admin UI so you can easily manage accounts, and by default everything is private unless shared.

The server was very straightforward to set up on a DO droplet. They even have an install guide for Seafile on Ubuntu 18.04

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-sync...
The Economist had an article about 6 weeks ago that reached the opposite conclusion. It essentially found a comfortable middle class lifestyle was going to be hard to achieve without higher education now, compared with previous generations. Now, it wasn’t specifically looking at coders and Tim was, but the title doesn’t mention that.
Well not really. I stay in a place where water drought is a looming dark cloud on the horizon, so from that perspective..

1. Affordable device that harvests water from air

Water wastage is a huge problem, so..

2. IoT devices that detects leakages in main pipes

3. IoT water meters for individual apartments in housing societies. One of the major problem is water is not metered per households in large apartments, so there is very less incentive to repair leakages (flush etc.) or use water carefully the same way as metered electricity.

4. Rain water harvesting

5. Home water purifier

I maybe missing many more obvious ones but sure there would be many more if one gives this problem space deeper thought.
It amazes me how many systems (coughHeroku) leave database access open to the Internet. Is that actually acceptable in most people’s threat model? There’s no way I’d let my team deploy something like that to production.
The book's Wikipedia page mentions that Cringely made it available online for free, complete with link:

https://www.cringely.com/tag/accidental-empires/
I agree. It is really important to have practical experience. It is like programming. You can read a lot of books but if you don't code, you don't really learn.
The host and guest reviews are withheld from the opposite party until both have been submitted. Therefore the review of you by the host was not influenced by your negative review of them.
Especially when it's a major product and you literally have thousands of engineers.
>...manufacturing, and support staff...

Aren't those outsourced (to different countries, no less), so they wouldn't actually be counted as US employment statistics?
Higher land prices mean it is only profitable to build luxury apartments and therefore new construction is more expensive than the average. However what people seem to forget is that each unit of housing means more people can live in the area and eventually the luxury apartments will become average apartments in 30 years.
Is that literally a meal voucher?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal_voucher
It works that way for me when I play it. To see this, it seems to help to look at the picture but have half an eye on the changing NN evaluation. I don't think my perception is simply responding to the changing NN output, as there are times when I disagree with it. My guess is that, by dividing my attention, I reevaluate the picture more frequently.
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Andrew Yang 2020 pres candidate articulated the realities of college education extremely well in the world of automation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMCsXq_mYw
The cost of housing isn't universal, and price changes are extremely local. Education (college/university) costs are going up due to bigger administrative departments and are sustained by government backed loans. Fewer people go to theaters nowadays, so theaters have to wring more money out of their customers.
Sounds familiar:

> Vladimir Bukovsky maintained that the middle ground between the Big Lie of Soviet propaganda and the truth was itself a lie, and one should not be looking for a middle ground between disinformation and information.[5] According to him, people from the Western pluralistic civilization are more prone to this fallacy because they are used to resolving problems by making compromises and accepting alternative interpretations—unlike Russians, who are looking for the absolute truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
They aren’t? China is really good at copying/stealing other people’s ideas. Not coming up with the next big thing.
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> Drivers do not have a duty of care to yield to pedestrians who do not have the right of way, although drivers have other duties.

That's not what's written there at all.
I obsessively read I, Cringely when I was in college in the late 90s. It was the Stratechery of its time, and taught me an immense amount about the tech business.
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The most and least politically open-minded counties in the United States
I'm the author of the post.

With regard to operator precedence, my position may be closer to yours than you think. In the post I linked to about intransitive operator precedence (https://blog.adamant-lang.org/2019/operator-precedence/) I describe what I want. Basically, I think basic order of operations like `*` before `+` and associativity are important. But in more complicated cases you should be forced to put in parentheses. Exactly where that line is drawn can be debated. What I want is a way of handling operator precedence that is more complicated under the hood, but should be more natural for the programmer as it will respect basic precedence, but not leave you guessing about confusing expressions. i.e. `a/b/c` could be illegal and require parentheses even though `a+b/c` doesn't.
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As one of those affected (see my other comments on this thread), I want to be judged on the output of my work and not on my skin color.
If this lines up with a previous study, the effects are most likely due to flavorings. Nicotine might also be linked but that is unknown at this point.
Yes, I agree with you. (No idea who downvoted my and why either.)

This (well known) illusion is NOT an adversarial example. Though, I explain why for people working with AI (e.g. me) the title seemed like mentioning an adversarial example. There are plenty of examples of "just rotate and a vulture becomes an orangutan" where it does not look like an orangutan for humans.

Vide: "A Rotation and a Translation Suffice: Fooling CNNs with Simple Transformations" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.02779.pdf
WELCOME to Germany! <3 Lovely and smart people all around, great foreigner scene and startup scene as well, so you’ll never feel alone. People super open and approachable, love Americans :))
The Japanese government for one. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47127738

They already have more pensioners than children being born. The same trend can be seen in virtually every single developed country. We are soon to going to not be able to afford to pay these pensioners if there are not enough people paying taxes. Hopefully you don't actually think pensions are somehow grown on trees.
Funny how these days it's the inverse, isn't it? Everyone, including Microsoft with Windows 10, seems to be obsessed with making PCs into large hand-helds and phones as far as user interfaces are concerned.
> centrist/centre-right government that is (mildly) interested in simplifying government procedures.

None of this is in any way true; I've known several people personally who've had difficult and expensive fights with the Home Office, and every indication has been that they're looking to reduce absolute numbers at any cost, including egregiously unfair processes.

For one person, their tax accountant made an error in filing to the Inland Revenue. That resulted in a fight that cost 6 months, £12k legal fees, and was barred from working or renting property during that time.

Nor is it appropriate to characterise any government contemplating no deal Brexit as "centrist".
Not everything can be solved by IoT/AI/blockchain...
Does it run under wine?

https://help.libbyapp.com/6059.htm

> If you have an Adobe-compatible ereader (like a NOOK or Kobo), you can download Libby ebooks on a computer, then use Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) to transfer them to your device:

> 1) Open libbyapp.com on a computer and go to Shelf > Loans.

> 2) Select Send To A Device.

> 3) Click select your device, then choose Adobe-compatible ereader.
Note: If you've sent books to Kindle in the past, you may need to click your Kindle device at the top of the screen instead of select your device.

> 4) Select Download DRM File.

> 5) Open the file in ADE and transfer the book to your ereader. (Learn how using this article from OverDrive Help.)

trivially easy
> Big computers and little computers are completely different beasts created by radically different groups of people. It's logical, I know, to assume that the personal computer came from shrinking a mainframe, but that's not the way it happened.

This seems off. Those little computers in your phones run a flavor of Unix, just like the mainframes did (besides VMS, etc). Also, those little computers connect to the cloud, which is just like a mainframe. If anything, history is repeating itself.
I'm glad somebody said this. I totally agree. I still use the Picasa desktop software. It's brilliant for picking out best pics and tweaking them. The web interface just doesn't compare.

When they announced that the desktop software was going away, I immediately downloaded the final version and archived it away. More than likely I will use it until Windows no longer supports it... unless someone "makes a better Picasa".
A lot of current jobs directly tied to some sort of college degrees will be automated out of existence in the near future.
True, although Steve Jobs didn't have a college degree. Bill Gates dropped out too. We have to be careful to avoid survivorship bias though.
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Sometimes I feel in development corners are cut. You get what you pay for. Also, people lie on their CV’s.
I appreciate the follow through of showing how the package is set up. That's something a lot of articles or blog posts on racket seem to miss.
I like Airbnb but I am surprised by their reputation as having expertise in front-end web development. The web UI is very slow to load and during on-page interactions, it is confusing to navigate between listing and related pages, and there are other badly designed aspects, such as the way that in order to select a menu item, one has to move the trackpad horizontally and then vertically to avoid dismissing the open menu while en route to the desired menu item.
My issue is with the made up term "Latinx" vs the correct Latino.
I don't think you need a college degree to be successful, i don't even think you need a good college degree. I do believe it increases your chances of living a comfortable and fulfilling life.
True. I prefer to look at them as janitors, and not good ones either. They seem to be un-making it by removing more features than they've added.
http://www.realtimerendering.com/raytracinggems/ has Errata
nice idea :)))!
This isn't _the_ Skype though, it's the old lync with a new design. You _think_ you can just join a conference call with your normal skype app, but instead, you need to use their "web" app.

Using the term web app you might think that you can just point your browser at the URL and join, however, they've opted to make you download something where the actual conference takes place.
This seems rather bizarre, as Microsoft apparently want people to move away from edge since they are working on a new chromium based browser.
Your result is including all infractions of any type across the board and indicates that poor water safety is rare and isolated.

To get the total sum, it's compiled over 34 years, and says: "relatively few community water systems (3–10%) incur health-based violations in a given year."

It also states that in the most dense parts of the country, urban regions, there are rarely problems.

As well as this conclusion: "Generally, water systems in the United States provide reliable and high-quality drinking water. Violations tend to be infrequent."
The Japanese government, who would like a workforce capable of sustaining their economy?
Exactly. People think it's easy so they vote for it to be made harder, again and again, resulting in an increasingly unfair system.
What else would you call a hipster?
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I get paid 250K EUR in Geneva for writing deadbeat Scala code for Banks. I doubt anyone can match that in Europe

I am straight out of ETH Zurich so my experience is negligible.
If author stops by: good article, wish you covered application accounts. e.g. some places create a unique app account per sub-domain, others do it via application.
But if someone phishes you on you+BankCo@example.com you're probably more likely to imagine it's legit. Swings and roundabouts.
I did the same thing — I had $5k to my name and quit my job and traveled through Central America for 3 months. A completely life changing experience, and I met my eventual wife who was taking Spanish classes down there and happened to live near my home town.

I don’t think anybody stays at $5 a night hostels in Guatemala for status.
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Ha! Its only hyperbole if it isn't true. Paper money grows on trees!

Yes, we can print the money and the world won't end. There's not some automatic hyper-inflation that happens when money is minted. There's so much around already you see.

Think of cash as points in a game. If we keep playing games, racking up points, the points don't necessarily become worthless. They may change a little as confidence varies.

It's not about the imaginary points. Its about the goods and services. Goods depend, these days, mostly on automation which isn't going away. So little problem there.

That leaves services. Yes, they depend entirely on human capital. So we're going to have to automate, train assistance animals, or use technology to do away with the need. Especially among the elderly who traditionally require more services.
you don't need that npm library. just `new Agent({ keepAlive: true })` works
Ha, so banks can have fractional reserves but libraries can't. Typical.
That actually sounds interesting, but I dont see why youd need an assert for that. If you markup the comment appropriately so the compiler or a linter sees when you mention another function and identify where you describe the arguments in a docstring, it could do these checks statically.

In fact, Im pretty sure Javadoc and other tools already have that markup.
yeah I was hoping for something about 1-2ft tall ideally with an adjustable camera. Still wouldn't spot all the places but could be useful.
Facebook pushing establishment propaganda? No way. Zuckershill would never do that he loves freedom.
I have a relatively simple GPU with my Rizen, it's ok for my use and GPUs are damn expensive, I understand ;)

BTW, have you metered your consumption? Doing some math on the top of my head, on regular use you "shouldn't" go over 200W and I don't think you should get over 400 in your use peaks. Just out of curiosity because I'm not used to those relatively power hungry GPUs :)
H2 is nearly always better than HTTP/1, BUT it also turns some H1-specific perf optimization techniques (eg sharding, sprites...) into anti-patterns.
Neither is the parent comment.
They do have radio collars, but those only have a range of 1/4 mile or so. There are GPS equivalents but the battery life/size has never been ideal.
I am a former senior software engineer at Apple and I do not have a degree.
> Apple CEO Tim Cook says there’s a “mismatch” between the skills learned in college and the skills that businesses need, especially when it comes to coding. [emphasis added]

So, it's fine when it's Tim Apple saying this! What happened on Twitter was So Unfair and So Sad!
A large portion is, but there is still a small amount of manufacturing in the US, and quite a few facilities that have jobs are filled by employees lacking a college degree to a large degree.
Worth noting that in those days a far smaller percentage of the population were university educated.
Have a look at Elasticsearch. https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

Disclaimer: I work for Elastic.
yeah there's some options for home built I think, I was kind of hoping for an off the shelf system ideally. It kind of surprises me that there isn't one, you'd think the "wander round my house, keeping an eye out for kids/pets" market would be quite big.
It's referring to 8088/8086 machines that ran MS-DOS but were not 100% IBM PC compatible. Stuff like the Amstrad PC 1512 (an 8086 machine with proprietary graphics) and the DEC Rainbow 100 (a very expensive and versatile dual-CPU machine that could run both MS-DOS and CP/M)
Tool rental maybe. I once rented a power tool for 30€ that cost 200€ in total. 7 days and I could just buy it outright... However the residential rent market is pretty fair in my opinion. It is viable for an individual to rent for a whole lifetime and not pay significantly more than the property cost in the first place. As a comparison: I could buy that power tool hundreds of times if I rented it for three years.
They simply don't want to read any bug reports from Firefox users because they don't want to support that browser.
Makes sense - that's culture, a human trait!
I think the OC certainly could've framed it better but declining birth-rates are what drives certain policies[0,1].

One can look at Germany's perspective on migrants as a direct consequence of that (more people working and contributing to the social fund means less of threat of the social structures hitting insolvency).

Though, there's no banners saying, "because of 'x', this is 'y'," one can still derive the subtext from the concerns that the nations are voicing.

So, all of this was just a long-winded way to say that it is a bit disingenous to say that people are complaining about falling birth-rates but it is still a valid concern for many countries - even if they don't come out and explicitly say it.

[0] - https://www.thelocal.se/20190216/hungary-family-plan-reeks-o...

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32929962
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The extra CPU load for our balancers (nginx) didn't translate into any benefits for the user in performance or user experience. We ended up spending CPU cycles for no benefit.

Basically, HTTP/2 is tuned for a very specific case of Google traffic which pretty much never happens in places that aren't Google.
Can someone explain to me as a non-American? What causes those hard boundaries in opinions along the state lines?
Eg. Between Utah and Wyoming, or South Carolina and everywhere around it
I'm surprised. To me it seems like the only reasonable way to use eBooks.