skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I think you missed the point of the article, this is a very modest "middle class" kind of budget. Yes you could save a little more here and there, but the point is to have even a modest lifestyle in San Francisco you would need to be making 300k a year. Even if you cut back on a few of the discretionary categories ( food, car, 401k, ... ) and lived like a miser you are going to have 20k of disposable income a year. Like you said that still means you need to have two incomes, and two really well paying incomes.

I think the point the author is getting across is that due to the exteremly high fixed costs of living almost anywhere in the country ( but specifically in big coastal cities ), its impossible to have that kind of "middle class" lifestyle that was the majority of the population in these places a few decades ago.
The principal agent problem - higher recidivism rates cost society indirectly over the long term, but jails make more money in the here and now.
I checked and it didn't seem to work :(
Did Reader do EPUBs? I thought it was just for PDFs, which I presume the new Edge will support (as Chrome does).
Eat my fuck.
Ask HN: Has anyone mentored on Codementor, was it worth it?
I started mentoring on Codementor with mixed results so far. A couple questions for anyone that has done it for at least a month:

1. Once you get enough reviews, is it easier to book clients?
2. After getting comfortable with the platform, are you efficient enough to get at least $100 an hour (including time spent "chatting" with clients)?
3. In general, has it been worth the time you've put in?
I love how articles like this make all these problems seem brand new. As if scammers never existed before the internet. The internet must be so evil.
>As an example, Monzo was quite outspoken about their API at first, but it has since taken a backseat, presumably because they didn't see a huge need for it.

You're not wrong.. but it's still very much functional and has received some recent additions (receipt API). I do wish they'd do more with it, though. I suspect the problem is that most customers just don't care.

The internal API is fairly trivial to begin using, if necessary.
Is there a good quanititative source of information, on the GDP output of goods/services produced by prisoners (or something close to that)? When I was young and didnt know any better, I just thought prisoners produce small things -- like license plates, maybe some furniture repair..
Even if they go back up again it still requires a lot of effort to counter notice it, because it requires a human to do so. The claim is lobbed by an algorithm though.

There need to be severe consequences for claiming everything.
He learned it in USA not in Somalia. That is not fair to Somalia.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not; doesn't that describe just about everything you do interactively on a command line?
My family worked together to install the cabinets in our kitchen, which we then paid to have a granite counter-top on. Yes, there are some unfortunate scratches, but we did a good job.

I would argue that DIY is more equal to assume all risk.
People are waking up, are being red pilled, are joining Q Anon.

G..gle is already losing, and nobody can stop its downfall. FB, twatter ecc. will follow...
From the NYT article linked in this:

> In 2018, Tesla said, it delivered 245,000 cars, mostly in the United States. The research firm IHS Markit, which tracks state motor-vehicle data, counted registrations of 164,000 new Teslas nationwide.

That's a pretty interesting and potentially damning finding. I don't see why anyone would buy an expensive car from Tesla and then fail to register it. It's possible that IHS is just missing legitimately registered cars, but given the long list of exaggerated or just plain false claims made by Musk and Tesla it doesn't seem impossible that they are exaggerating their metric for number of cars delivered.
Maybe, if we popularize the part about data export enough, people will come to realize the kind of things google tracks. I took one data dump last year and unsurprisingly, since I had an android device, Google knew a lot about me. In that order: Devices, Installs, Library (superset of all apps ever installed), Order history, Purchase history, then all my contacts, even the ones I starred on android, then every order I ever placed on anywhere and got a receipt in gmail (it also stored it separately as purchases) with price, ticket number, frequent flyer, merchant, and so on. I was expecting a bit of this so did not feel creeped out, but if more people see it, they will be horrified. Granted, this is when I stop google from recording the data whenever I can - search history, location history, and so on.

Edit: Anecdote wise, Google has a more accurate list of all the addresses I have ever lived at, than I do. They record the address of every physical delivery at whichever place I asked my shipment to be delivered. I have lived at 7-8 different homes (in three cities) in the past 6 years, and I dont have those addresses on hand either. But yeah, google might.
Using an oral irrigation device like a Waterpik can get the particles between the teeth and in pockets under the gum line that brushing and flossing don't get. You'd be surprised, if you don't Waterpik regularly, at how many particles are dislodged into the sink even after brushing with an electric (Oral B) toothbrush.

I find Flossing helps to scrape plaque off the tooth surface between teeth but isn't that great at particle removal. Remember that plaque is really a biofilm so by brushing and flossing you break up the biofilm. The oral irrigator removes the food particles (and blasts the bits of biofilm knocked loose,) from between the teeth. Follow up with some sort of mouthwash now that the biofilm is disturbed.
The failure in implementing lead-free strategies is really interesting, because the sole reason lead was put into electronics solder was that it prevented the tin whisker growth pure tin solder or silver solder experienced.

So some odd-seventy-eighty years later people remove the lead and substitute it with "straight nothin'" and are subsequently surprised they get tin whiskers again?! WTF?
In Poland pay on delivery is still insanely popular and every single delivery company offers it as a payment method. Even international conglomerates like DHL/DPD/UPS will happily accept payment on delivery.
Definitely, I agree that the physical act of CPR is straightforward.
There's no way this is true. I had 2 kids and between yard sales, Old Navy and WalMart there's no way you could spend $500 a month unless you're buying high end, designer clothes and new Air Jordan's every month.
I'm a fan of the colors and typography on this one: https://evenbettermotherfucking.website
One can also understand that you think certain practices are unethical, and disagree.
In Estonia there was barely any talk about article 13. When it passed it was a 3 sentence article in the national newspaper. We had some follow up later, but it was mostly a politician saying that everything's fine.

People are unaware.
A Quick Reference to Regular Expressions
Rarely ESR stays in the acceptable range while the actual capacity is widely out of spec.
Hey fellow Canuck. Look up the term "constructive dismissal" and you might find it applies to your situation in a most favourable way.
Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors
Diet is one of several extremely strong social signalling mechanisms.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/62uroa/clothin...

Subsequent to writing above, I found, related:

"A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades"

Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, and Ivo Welch
University of California, Los Angeles

Abs: An informational cascade occurs when it is optimal for an individual, having observed the actions of those ahead of him, to follow the behavior of the preceding individual without regard to his own information. We argue that localized conformity of behavior and the fragility of mass behaviors can be explained by informational cascades.

Journal of Political Economy, 1992, vol. 100, no. 5

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2138632

http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/bikhchandani9...
How about Dr. Oz instead of Jim Cramer?
I would also be careful about saying it 'works' for the renters.

I know multiple people that are subleasing rent-controlled apartments in SF. The actual renter lives well outside of SF, and sublets the apartment at slightly below market. This works out for both the original renter and the new renter (who would not qualify for rent-control) so there is negative incentive to report.

In some cases, the renter can live off the delta in rent and 'invest' nothing but the security deposit. Risk of getting caught is minimal, and there is little paper-trail.

Interestingly, you now have two people / families rather than just one that is pro-rent control.
A Volvo XC90 is not "modest middle class." It's a luxury vehicle. And a car payment that high is insane.
> Pages don't need a fallback to non-Javascript in 2019.

Strongly disagree. Having your page completely break instead of degrading gracefully puts up a barrier to those who cannot run JavaScript (for example, users with older, weaker computers).
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Your complaint about GNU was that it departed from the UNIX philosophy of one tool doing one thing, and then contrasted that philosophy with what 'real' computer scientists do. Last I checked, there is no 'rule' in computer science that tools must do one thing.

GNU is not Unix, as the name so clearly articulates, so other than your seeming complaint that 'real' computer scientists always write Unix-style utilities, I'm not sure how your criticism of GNU tools doing more than one thing is at all relevant.

FreeBSD was released in 1993, and NetBSD in the same year. BSD as a whole only went from a proprietary distribtuion to open source in that year. GNU was started in 1983, thus making even that criticism of GNU completely unfounded.
Of the papers based on this thesis work, this one has the most comparisons to other magnet families:

"Directly obtained τ-phase MnAl, a high performance magnetic material for permanent magnets"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002245961...

These magnets aren't as strong (in terms of energy product) as those based on rare earth elements, but they are stronger than ferrite permanent magnets. They are also more tolerant of high temperatures than neodymium based magnets.
That's the problem isn't it?

The goal of design isn't to correct the user, but to correct for the user.
This is not because consumers are 'ignorant' or stupid but because of willful deception and complete lack of transparency from Google. What do Google engineers think when they design those deceptive 'improve user experience' dialogs, are they thinking consumers are 'stupid' or are they being extremely shady?

Android being designed to leak like a sieve and Google hoovering up your data without transparency is NOT the users fault, its Google and its engineers willfully engaging in unethical behavior in pursuit of profits. Its can't be that educated people do not know or understand privacy is a basic human right, and collecting and collating data is fundamentally shady and invasive behavior.

Once the public understand the full extent of the collection, collation and behavioral targeting in play and regulations start flowing these companies and the engineers who built these systems are going to be tainted.
> I have heard lines like "Why do we have to pay for job training for them if I have to pay for college?"

The answer to this is always, "...to keep his knife away from your throat."
OP here. I'm super curious about other folks using Stripe Billing and their experiences. My SaaS is fairly young, so I probably have missed some things.
For that matter a lot of higher end PC components will advertise "no electrolytic caps" or "all solid state caps" as a feature.
A lot of software, like Libre Office, neither track users, nor sells advertising space, nor charges users.

For important infrastructure pieces, like how businesses communicate with each other, we should strive for this level of privacy and availability.
Doesn't ot still carry the information that they do it?
If you ask "Do you expect.." this question is neutral and you do not know if they do it or not.
What free software are you using that is creating a ton of data in a locked format without allowing a local copy? Solving this end of the problem largely solves the data format issue, and that is not the case in reverse.
I wholeheartedly disagree. This is a public-facing government website. It ought to degrade gracefully in order to reach the broadest possible audience. Or, write a decent site to start with, and you wouldn't have to worry about degrading. The entire page is nothing but a shell for a web app written in JavaScript that doesn't need to be a web app written entirely in JavaScript.
They would probably be held liable under DMCA if they did that.
Stagnant Capitalism
trust, Somali boys behave bad in the west not in Somalia. I went back to Somalia after 27 years and saw very educated youth and wanted to change their country for better if they are left alone by some powers.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/09/british-soma...
Should more CEOs go to jail after data breaches? Elizabeth Warren thinks so
Here's a clear benefit to non-tinkerers, from Stallman himself:

"You deserve to be able to hire your favorite programmer to fix it when it breaks."

from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html

I don't need to know any plumbing myself to appreciate the fact that I can hire professionals to fix or enhance my home system other than the ones who originally built it.
Don't forget that not everyone lives in the US. 10k USD would get you a professional developer for about 3 months in Poland and more depending on how far East you're willing to go. Hell, I'm a professional developer in the UK and 10k USD is my salary for about 2 months(pre-tax).
This is absurd. Many of there expenses reflect nothing more than lifestyle inflation. There is nothing suprising about being able to find things to spend your whole paycheck on.

I was going to list my thoughts line by line but there isn't any deep social or philosophical insight to be gained here. Having expensive taste (a monthly budget of $2100 on food, $500 on clothes, etc) will drain a paycheck of almost any size. These are just self imposed taxes and society has no obligation to make these preferences more affordable.

If anything else can be said - and this may mostly just be personal preferences reinforced by learned frugality, but I am very skeptical of expensive tastes having 'real' merit wether practical (durability, construction, etc) or aestetic (pleasing to the eye, makes some social/political/economic commentary, etc). I don't have the philosophical background to frame my issue with this kind of lifestyle, but I have a hard time believing it's compatible with introspection and contemplation on one's self and society as a whole. I have always seen economic prosperity as the means move beyond material desire and focus more on producing something that has personal and/or lasting value.
What Does the Future Hold for Casual Coders?
AIs don't pay. The dystopia would be replacing the inmates with AI, either so that they don't have to be fed anymore (dark horror future) or to simply maximise lucrative visitor engagement (subtle black mirror style dark future).
Thanks, that sounds like a great way forwards.
> There’s also a lot of research from NASA about the safety of tantalums, and they actually think they’re fairly safe provided you don’t expose them to voltage ripple (so don’t place them on SMPS)

Besides even the shortest over-voltage incidents, Tantalums also don't like high current pulses. Low-ESR power sources with quick ramp ups are a no-no.
You are bad at reasoning. The SSIDs are indicative of those specific people but not their larger group, in whose membership you can't even verify; there's no way OP knows the SSIDs even belong to Chinese grad students! And even if they did, it tells us little about Chinese people in general.
I expect to be able to use Google Products and only pay for them with cursory glances (no clicks) at ads beside search results targeted only by the keywords I searched for and a geographic guesstimate.

I’d say they crossed the “don’t be evil” line when they show me a sponsored link based on something than the current search.
Karoor Soman
Karoor Soman, author and writer of more than 40 books was startled to hear from his friend that a blogger of “huge reputation” had posted a facebook video rant against Karoor Soman and one of his books. Karoor Soman was shocked at hearing this. He is familiar and well experienced to know that there in the literary field, there will be critics and opponents.

Karoor Soman viewed them from the context of purely literary criticism and never took such things personally. So it was surprising for him when he was notified that his name “Karoor Soman” was mentioned and allegations of copyright infringement was laid. Knowing very well that there are have been jealous people of questionable repute who have always loathed him; he assumed this has to be false and aimed at tarnishing his name.

It was reported by fake media that Karoor Soman supposedly said about this matter directly in a facebook post. How much of this is true or not can be easily guessed? Lol. In all fairness, if Karoor Soman had said anything during that time of an unrelated matter linking social media and abuse, these cyberbullying liars’ aka online abusers (politically correct term- “critics”) would twist that truth.

Today’s social media is used negatively and if it was within a reasonable person’s to respond to it, it is not surprising. Majority of the time, all online abusers and followers have no idea of the complete picture of what’s happening and are quick to make judgements. Some of them have ulterior motives based on revenge, some based on money, and for some others-pure fun of wrecking and disorder. The book in question was an informative book that was published in India and Karoor Soman was the author of this book. There were two editions of the book.

To be continued…
Google Health was a consumer product in the PHR space, not an enterprise infrastructure product.
supporting the EHR space. There is a loose descriptive similarity (they both involve “health records”), but substantively they are not at all the same business domain.

> And, since this is still Beta, it's excluded from the Google Cloud Deprecation policy

Well, sure.

> And even if it was covered, you'd only have one year to migrate off of it -- so I hope you don't have a FDA-certified hardware widget directly talking to Google's API

Yes, that would be very bad design. And not just because of the deprecation policy.
Great. Well done on this. I now have a new favourite dictionary on my zsh CLI thus: alias -g define='BROWSER=w3m ddgr \!wordnik ' Thank you!
Not at all, only very specific kinds of vigilante justice will land you in jail. It is not difficult to hurt people without breaking the law.
Yes, my feeling always has been open source works best when the developers are the users since they feel the pain and see what needs to be changed.
Sorry but there's a reason suburbs exist. When you get slightly older and you want more space to raise a family and want a safe area you move to the suburbs. Also I'm not American so I don't know, but 2100 bucks on food sounds like a lot in a month. My wife and I live on probably $600.

Also just from a budgeting perspective when you say

> Entertainment (Netflix shows, sporting events, social functions, w/e getaways)

You need to be more explicit with where your spending comes from, because that budget is $600/month of with 1.6% is going to netflix.
We recently added an ASCII folding filter, which may help: https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve/pull/1070
Yes, it works quite well to get a sense of the room. The advantage of humming is that people can change the volume to match their level of agreement with the question being asked. If they strongly agree with the question, they can hum very loudly. If they only weakly support it, they can hum quietly. The chairs of thesession can then get an audible sense of the level of agreement (or not).

Often in the sessions I've been in, there may be two hums taken - one for those in support of a question, and one for those opposed. Often there can be a clear distinction - but sometimes the results can be inconclusive if both sides seem to have equal volume. (But that, too, is helpful to the chairs as they can get a sense that the people in the room are divided.)
Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can record them without consent
South Korea's burned out millennials choose YouTube over Samsung
> Those clauses are illegal

Not in the US!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...
'open source' is a brand name co-opted and subverted
OK seriously, the other day at work we were talking about a coworker and one of my other coworkers said, oh you mean Sam Elliot because the first coworker looks like Sam Elliot from Roadhouse. Then there was a 15 minute discussion about the film Roadhouse. I went home and on my youtube recommended videos to watch was one about the movie Roadhouse. I only had my phone on my desk and my work desktop has no internet access. Is this just coincidence¿

Just yesterday i watched Running Man on my Plex Player running on my raspberry pi. Again I now have multiple Running Man videos in my youtube queue.

I hate it but feel so helpless about it. Maybe it is all coincidence and i am just that lucky and should buy a lottery ticket. Does anyone else have this stuff happen?
Average life of a dead Google product is just four years
Hedge fund Renaissance Technologies pulls back on hunt for market trends
Except that it will only apply in the case of a real copyright takedown notice. Platforms don't like dealing with legal disputes, so they will create their own way to send notices of infringement. A platform doesn't have to publish your work, which means that their private solution for takedowns will not be held to that requirement.

It's the EU, so the law being divorced from reality is to be expected.