skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number you’re quoting as the US is actually the average across the oecd. The US is 50% higher

“In the United States, the average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is USD 44 049 a year”

In addition the website says average, and doesn’t describe whether it means a mean or a median.
I have another reply to this in this thread, and I stand by it, but I thought this might explain the use of the terms 'art' and 'spiritual' used in the article.

Western navigation is typically learned explicitly, meaning that it consists of a set of techniques that can be explained and carried out by that rational part of the brain.

This has many advantages, except that the rational part of the brain has less 'bandwidth' than the rest of the brain. The brain is a massively parallel machine that can respond to patterns in myriad ways, with the rational part being just one late addition, kind of like a calculator grafted on.[1]

The tiny bandwidth of the rational part of the brain is why we need calculators, why we take notes, have books, devise theorems and notations. We do this because it reduces the bandwidth required to reason about a given problem.

That integral you are trying to solve for homework in university, has just about as many 'parts' as the algebra problems you used to solve in grade 7.[2] Theres'a huge intellectual scaffolding underneath that integral sign, and many revisions of that scaffolding were developed, of course, but your brain in university does not have a bigger bandwidth than it did in grade 7.

But there are other ways of learning and knowing. And it's not so woo woo: implicit learning.

I bet you now how to catch a ball. How hard would it be for you to rationally[3] explain to me how ta catch a ball if I've never done it?

But you could trivially teach me to catch a ball, you'd toss it to me and give me hints until I caught it, and then I'd practice that till it became automatic. Then I'd have trouble explaining that to someone, but I could teach them in the same experiential way and so the skill can be passed on.[4]

This is why it's harder to teach a computer to catch a ball than it is to teach it to navigate.

So this 'spiritual' word, is hinting that the Polynesian navigators learned their navigation skills implicitly.

Relying much more on non rational (but not irrational) parts of the brain: recognizing patterns in nature, the position of stars yes, but tons of other clues that westerners have the luxury of ignoring because our charts and tables and GPS can just get us there already without all of that messy stuff.

Once a skill is acquired in this manner, it can be very hard to explain to someone else making it look uncanny to outsiders perhaps.

I think the word mystical might have been better than spiritual. But art fits pretty well for a skill learned in this way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory

[3] I mean a list of instructions that can be carried out so that success is guaranteed when correctly executed.

[4] A better example might be a sport like say surfing. It takes years to learn, and good surfers have a hard time explaining certain things. You just have observe nature (waves) and develop an intuition.
For me biographies are easier, like The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.

Sometimes I make Anki flash cards for interesting facts, it can serve as a motivational factor for continuing on.

I feel non-fiction books are supposed to engaged with; I am supposed to stop for a minute and stare into space turning an idea over in my head, maybe ask or email someone about it or research it online.

I think people who tear through non-fiction books like fiction often have a self-cultivated structure to when and how they read books. They pick a book or topic they're curious about and make sure they apply themselves to it systematically...
> criminal charges

Boeing informed the FAA of the changes, and the FAA decided that the pilots and airlines did not need to be informed. Criminal charges for Boeing would be extremely surprising.
Yes I suspect the article is being loose with the facts.
That's like suggesting that once a patch exists for a vulnerability in software that tye vulnerability no longer exists.

Dissemination of information about a risk is an entirely separate issue from creating a solution to the underlying flaw.
I wanted to create things; games, demos; even boring business applications ‘out of nothing’. That was when I was 80 around 35 years ago. I still do and still have the same feeling when I finish something.
Yeah, but not the same kind of loud and uncomfortable, as anyone who has actually heard these things in person knows immediately.
Agreed. Seems like it would either be awfully complex (and expensive), or a jarring experience compared to most trackpads.

If you're a trackpoint user, Lenovo's usb/bluetooth thinkpad keyboard offers the same kb+mouse combo in a similar form factor.
I run Haiku natively on MacBook Pro 2014 (11.3), on SSD with EFI boot. Have working audio (headphones only), wired ethernet (no WiFi), very usable Hi-DPI display (2880x1800) with basic framebuffer driver. Retina MBP up to 2015 should all work like mine. Good enough for developing apps.
GitHub analytics, watch who followed/unfollowed, starred/unstarred and downloads
Huh. Article won't load for me in HN app or in Chrome. Maybe incompatible with traffic filters?
That only helps if you live in vancouver and get paid in USD.
I totally agree and trying to point it out all the time when I hear "they". But the reality is - when some person sits looooong away in Washington and makes some rules - they are hardly connected to the people they represent. Smaller and more compact governing bodies I think would resolve the problem, where we would still get a benefit of a dedicated person working on organizing life in the region, and yet not too disconnected to be called "they".
odd, college computing branch director mentioned that a few times but it was never the subject of a class or even a chapter. Thanks for the hint.
So, basically, better spec, not changing spec once defined and tracking, and static code analysis are the bottomline of what you are implementing.

Am I right?

Do you find that having some kind of intelligent agent based analysis on PR and spec is going to help you?
That would drive me absolutely and completely insane.
yeah but part of cracking down on vote buying has to do with making it difficult to track if you actually did vote for who you said you would, with online voting it becomes totally possible to track you did the vote, give it to the guy who has promised to pay you, forgive your debts, the debts of your son, not beat you up, allow you to keep your job etc. etc.
One way is to show that, given a state of the universe, it is possible to determine the next state. From what I understand, this does not seem to be the case.
It rubs you the wrong way because you don't understand it. It is blatantly obvious, but some people do not have the ability to see it. Those who have eyes to see see it, no matter who lies. Nobody is telling anybody to shut up, just that it is obvious that there is no meritocracy, even if you cannot see that truth.
A Datalog program is guaranteed to terminate (if finite databases). A prolog or miniKanren one doesn’t.
Datalog is not Turing-complete.
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"basically compete with "Desktop Linux" in terms of functionality"
On what terms?

"Not everything works or is polished to the degree we'd like ... but it's nearly there"
What does nearly mean?

Please don't interpret those as being argumentative rhetorical questions, I take the we to mean you're a contributor, so you have the right to define those.

The first Alpha was in 2009? So personally I'd expect you to be there by now. And I'd expect an OS that just works, which would include working USB 3, and a decent web browser.

So when is a stable release due, (I would like to try it)?

What are your aims for the OS? Do you want an OS that I can recommend grandma puts on her computer knowing it will work, or is it an OS where I'll have fun diving into config files?
Reading the website etc I've understood the longterm aim to be the former. If I'm wrong please let me know, so I can calibrate my expectations.

Thanks for your reply btw. I do want you to succeed.
I saw someone blowing snow in New York with a leaf blower the other day...
Thanks for the repies we are doing the same almost :)
CA has some good laws, such as regarding non competes, parental leave, sick leave, environmental laws, legal marijuana, assisted suicide. Nice weather and landscapes also help.
Uber whistleblower: 'I wanted to speak up, share my story and get back to work'
I think I recall LaBRI being fond of infinite trees for logic programming too. I like trees. I never saw the paper you linked so thanks a lot.
The pinch-to-zoom demo looks that way due to them using it in chrome, which is janky by design as it zooms in discrete steps. Later in the video they show some more granular controls such as rotation of objects and it looks quite responsive to me.

We probably have to wait for some more hands-on videos, but the product itself looks promising.
Thank you for your comment and taking a look into this :) This makes sense and will need to think how better to separate different request types for different response codes..
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As Daylight Saving Looms, Suppose We Spring Forward, and Never Fall Back?
> as we once believed earth was centre of the universe (exceptionalism once again)

The earth actually is (roughly speaking) the centre of the observable universe, which quite possibly is all the universe we can ever know.

If this is a computer simulation, you'd expect some parts of the simulation to be much more accurate then others. Our psychology would be simulated to a great degree of accuracy, distant galaxies would be simulated at only a very coarse level. So, the centre of the simulated universe, the area with the highest degree of simulation accuracy, would be this planet. So, if we are in a computer simulation–and if we don't know, let's say the probability is 50%–then the earth is the centre of the universe after all.

If philosophical idealism is true, and esse is percipi, then the area around the earth (which is highly observed by minds) exists in more detail, has a greater degree of existence, than distant galaxies. So, philosophical idealism can lead to a similar conclusion as the simulation thesis, that the earth actually is the approximate centre of the universe.
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> Many of us have heard the phrase "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going."

Do people out there really think Airbus have such lower safety standards that they won't fly on them? They must struggle to get around even the US domestic routes these days.
It's funny but sometimes I feel like I spend as much time doing reporting as someone as when I was entry level. The difference is sometimes my team isn't able to run these reports or I'd rather they focus on other things.
Ah okay. I think I am beginning to understand your point of view. :)

Can this concept be extended to a parent-child relationship where the parent is replaced by a trained professional?
It would seem many have tried to enact change in Russia in the past, often with less than positive outcomes. Sometimes the only reasonable thing you can do for your life is leave.
I would argue your selective enforcement of moderation is more harmful to the commentary than the original comment. This is your site, do what you want, but I really don’t think this is the comment you want to fight, considering the other pendatry, bickering and outright hate I’ve seen around here.
Run vs. Code as a cloud-IDE on your own server
Likewise for the BSD ports.

There are advantages to both ways. However, a single repository permits changes to multiple packages in a single change. In Debian, simple transitions which affect multiple packages can take months or even years to fully propagate through the entire system. Not due to technical difficulty, but the logistics of coordinating the change.

Debian's approach made sense at the time. Developers who were widely distributed, communicating sporadically using dial-up internet connections, needed to be able to work independently and changes which had wide-ranging effects needed discussion and coordination. Nowadays, that can happen on a single merge request on GitLab. Homebrew can do such changes in a single pull request.
It’s the network effects you mentioned. The reason to be here is because people are here.

When a scene gets hot, there's always the danger of grouthink. There is far too much groupthink here. Much of it now is even the toxic kind. "Fear is the mind-killer." However, fear is only the start, only the beachhead. Groupthink is the main body, and it's the mechanism whereby the mind-killing starts to result in real world consequences.

When a scene gets hot, and there's real money and power to be had, it also attracts the sociopaths.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
The person who can make an amazing, open source search engine (like the Google Appliance) that can take in Exchange Servers, File Shares, and any other data source and turn around and be able to do full text search on the data would become very rich- or very well liked.

Some of the examples here show that even in the government, information is not really centrally cataloged or searchable. One hand doesn't know about the other. Maybe some of it is malice, but I have to think part of it is just not having the ability to search Email, File Shares, Sharepoint, et cetera quickly and easily.
The important part might be "it does not require root privileges" & still takes over control over your clipboard
Not a single word about climate change?
San Jose is firmly 'NoCal'. 'Socal' is LA, San Diego.
If Harley Davidson made an electric bike, then people would start buying aftermarket noise makers that play the Harley sound at 140dB.
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This is a real economic problem: adverse selection. But universal coverage doesnt solve it, it just makes everyone pay.
There is the alternate way for internal networks to use a self signed cert authority (registered with each machine), and then use that to sign a machine's individual cert. All other devices that are signed using the CA are accepted. Nothing is leaked using this method.

I remember seeing a good tut on this once... but can't find it atm.
Poor sheep. They will have nightmares from the high-decibel drone of a drone. Will probably start getting genetic changes in their wool from the stress. Why disturb nature with that buzzing annoyance?
I’ve been trying to automate this for a while but don’t know how to do it. Am using split DNS with BIND. The device in question accepts a private key and certificate chain but won’t allow arbitrary software to run so I need to do a manual TXT challenge every 3 months, which is super annoying.

Any pointers?
The article states:

>"To increase this number, you have to either request a higher rate limit or get your domain added to the public suffix list (note: adding your domain here has other implications!)."

Can someone say what those other implications are? I'm not sure why the author would mention this and then fail to state what those are.
I guess I’m not a smart person and my friend group must be full of idiots because concensus among all of us — many of which who have lived in there — is that the Bay Area is terrible. I would never move back. The lifestyle is very hard, even if you make a lot of money, because the public transportation is insufficient to cover everything you want to do in your life. And the culture is boring and getting worse.

I can understand why Americans who have never lived in NY or a nice city outside of the US might think it’s “really hard to find any place on planet earth that’s nicer to live in and to work in”. But this attitude says more about the author than anything inherent to the Bay Area.
I don't think shunting buys that much. The crab claw sail is still limited in how close it can sail to the wind. It's always going to be easier sailing when the wind is favorable. And it turns out that in some parts of some years, the winds are more favorable for sailing east in the South Pacific. Of course sooner or later the prevailing winds will return, and then it will be easier to get home.
There are lots of tech available. But depending on what the issue is with the water you have access to, you need to pick tech. It can be expensive to go overboard.
Ephemerand – GPS-based random number generator
~> p | egrep 'Euler[-–][^ ]+' | sort
Euler–Bernoulli beam equation, a fourth-order ODE concerning the elasticity of structural beams.
Euler–Cauchy equation, a linear equidimensional second-order ODEs with variable coefficients. Its second-order version can emerge from Laplace equation in polar coordinates.
Euler–Fermat theorem, that aφ(m) ≡ 1 (mod m) whenever a is coprime to m, and φ is Euler's totient function
Euler–Fokker genus
Euler–Lagrange equation, a second-order ODE emerging from minimization problems in calculus of variations.
Euler–Lotka equation, a characteristic equation employed in mathematical demography
Euler–Maclaurin formula (Euler's summation formula) relating integrals to sums
Euler–Mascheroni constant, γ ≈ 0.5772, the limiting difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarithm.
Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation, a second-order PDE playing important role in solving the wave equation.
Euler–Rodrigues formula describing the rotation of a vector in three dimensions
Euler–Tricomi equation – a second-order PDE emerging from Euler conservation equations.
Buying an airline ticket is a much better experience than anything else online simply because of this. I wish the same regulation applied to everything.
I'm really glad these points are being pushed in this thread--it is almost impossible to tune a portfolio for performance without knowing something the market doesn't (data, computing power, information). That's why I only ever tune my portfolio for the level of risk that I can tolerate. Because that's pretty much the only thing you _can_ tune for.
For Vancouver? Yes, that's cheap. You may only get one bedroom, but you also have shared access to the rest of the luxury mansion. It's not $1500 for one room.
The Bay Area is a 'critical mass'.

How it came to be is related to a variety of factors.

But it has incumbency in some things and will be impossible to compete with in some ways.

Better for regions to develop competencies in which they have some kind of advantage. Alberta makes some kind of specialized natural resources extraction tech. Makes sense!
How privacy centric are you guys?
New Managers: Imagine Failure
> Papa Mau passed before he could finish training the next generation.

However, a new school of navigation was recreated from what he did pass on by one of his students, who recreated his non-instrument trip from Hawaii to Tahiti and then spent decades performing elaborate non-instrument trips around the Pacific as well as teaching other new navigators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainoa_Thompson
It's called land value tax, it's been known for over 100 years. Many on HN think it's "socialism" as their flawed semi-liberal ideology has private property ownership without rent at its core.
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I’ve been sitting with an Advaita teacher for a few years. One of the teaching’s pointers is to observe one’s choices.

I’ve been doing this for at least 3 years and have not yet encountered a choice made out of “free will”, and not by desires, basic needs, thoughts, trauma, conditioning etc.

My conclusion is that in the West, “free will” is an un-investigated label for any combination of the above.

This teacher often speaks of a sense he calls “the false sense of authorship” which claims the responsibility of our actions, thoughts and words.
Certainly, but neither a jumbo jet nor a container ship has a 30 minute delivery time, and presumably that many warheads has a significant radiation signature.
It is a language issue, because the security hole is the fact that you can redefine the Array constructor or accessor methods.

On a similar note, it's also crazy that you can't just use `foo instanceof Array` to figure out if something is an Array because it could be an Array from a different namespace, instead you need `Array.isArray(foo)`.
> deflecting to something unrelated

I don't think it is unrelated that the only accident thus far of a plane with a failure mode that is more difficult for pilots to respond to was on an airline with a notoriously bad safety record.

I fully recognize the fact that airlines and pilots were not informed well enough about MCAS, but I'm also not ignoring the other circumstances of lion air 610

Safety in depth - a single failure should not be a problem. 610 crashed as a result of MCAS, but also a number of other operational failures of Lion Air and the pilots.
BlackBerry has been doing this with the keyboards on their phones for some time now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn6DRcUFj8Y
It's a combination of greed and stupidity.
I learned to code by coding. I guess I could learn to sell by selling.
Note that:

1.) Massachusetts recently passed a law significantly limiting non-competes

2.) I've never been able to find specific numbers, but my experience in Massachusetts is that they're far from universal. I've only had one in my career and that one was quite narrow. (That was EMC which was one of the local employers who fought hardest against the weakening of non-competes.)

I don't like non-competes and personally think the new law should have been stronger than it was. But, historically people jumped around employers like the Route 128 computer companies all the time.
India Imposes Complete Ban on Solid Plastic Waste Imports
I liked computers and the idea of having a good job, so I decided to study computer science. By complete coincidence, I ended up liking it.
Really, the sooner marxism is completely forgotten the better. And what is usually called "cultural marxism" would make Marx and any classic marxist spin in their graves.

I would like to see some references of which groups or individuals, exactly, "treat women as though they were all idiots". Makes for a nice strawman but not anything that Strumia claimed, is it?
> "basically compete with "Desktop Linux" in terms of functionality" On what terms?

Err ... I don't know what you mean?

> "Not everything works or is polished to the degree we'd like ... but it's nearly there" What does nearly mean?

Uh, it means there are still a lot of bugs, and some missing major/minor features in certain areas (e.g. GPU acceleration is a massive TODO / WIP; I have some work on it out-of-tree but it's not in yet.)

> The first Alpha was in 2009? So personally I'd expect you to be there by now.

Uh, excuse me? By whose standards? We are, as I said, 10-15 (well, then it was a little more) people who do this for fun. We have lives outside of open source development, you know. We aren't paid to do this.

> And I'd expect an OS that just works, which would include working USB 3, and a decent web browser.

So you expect a product. Great. Who's paying?

> So when is a stable release due, (I would like to try it)?

What's stopping you from trying it right now...?

> Do you want an OS that I can recommend grandma puts on her computer knowing it will work, or is it an OS where I'll have fun diving into config files? Reading the website etc I've understood the longterm aim to be the former.

That is correct.
Looks as though I should probably be making a doctor's appointment...