skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You obviously know this, but for those who are not familiar with America, regarding #2 above, the experience in the US is vastly different from other rich countries.

> The lower threshold for the U.S. is $23,416 PPP-adjusted 2010 dollars per year.

A person that makes this in the US usually will not receive health insurance at work. Depending on the specifics of the person's demographics/state/income, a worker at the boundary between "middle income" and "lower income" may not be eligible for ACA subsidies and may not make enough to pay premiums. The middle/lower part of the income range is where a lot of the uninsured live. Jobs that pay near this boundary also tend not to come with real health insurance. So the frequent debate about repealing the ACA means that even if they are insured today, these folks do not have any healthcare security as the nation actively debates repealing their lifeline. (IIRC the Supreme Court will decide this summer whether millions of people lose their insurance this year. It's not a sure thing either way.)

My personal take is that not until you're fairly rich (upper middle class) can you attain roughly the level of healthcare security that comes with residency in other rich countries. And even that requires you to stay employed, so it's still a lesser quality of security.

Similar factors apply to the rest of the safety net. The US might be the worst rich country to live in if you're low-income/modest income.
This is 100% snark and 100% true, at the same time.
We use Jenkins for our builds (and soon simple testcases), which then feeds into our system that's built from scratch. However, we are looking to productized the system as we had some discussions with other corporate partners who are interested in as well.

The system we've built in-house is fairly simple to keep development fast - versioning is manual (https://packaging.python.org/guides/hosting-your-own-index/) but no reason why you couldn't use a repository manager.

For monitoring, we essentially track any activity related to the model including inputs, outputs, timestamps, duration, etc. to a database and have JavaScript charts render. We might put this into Kafka but seems overkill at the moment and likely force us to hire an actual support team.
we ship directly from the farm.
Did they finish rolling them out? I know that is (was?) the plan, but when I interviewed last year at the Santa Monica location, they only had whiteboard.
> Emissions avoided are as good as emissions removed from the air.

If my household budget followed this reasoning, I could offset my Starbucks today by avoiding purchasing one tomorrow.

Every stage in the REC calculation - "solar panels they wouldn't have purchased otherwise", "emissions that would have happened without the solar panels", etc - are ripe for very profitable and fictional adjustments.

The gap between the actual cost of removing carbon from the air, and the cost of an REC, gives a hint as to the difference in how meaningful they are.
Are all the 'packages' here reproducible? I'd love to be able to run something like `wapm verify <package>`, or `wapm verify --all`. Running arbitrary code from random people on my computer is sketchy even when I can look at the code. Its far more sketchy when I can't.
Does Baseball Need Automated Strike Zone? These Numbers Say Yes
This is why I moved my family to Patagonia. The concept of Time is different here. I've finally managed to do really deep work from my 'garage office'.

My best ideas come while either driving my son to school or taking a fishing break on the lake just meters near our home. Back to Basics.

Weekends are 99% Tech-free now, and it's been amazing so far.
That's probably meltdown and spectre V2 (i.e. cross process poisoning of indirect branch predictor). There is no hardware/firmware fix yet (and possibly ever) for spectre v1, only software mitigations.
>Once again, where's your proof? You know, studies, experiments, demonstrations comparing real-world (or even dummy) projects and concluding the above?

I explicitly said no. I'm not here to fulfill your personal requests. If that's what you want, Hacker News comments are probably
the wrong place to ask, and I'm not personally interested in conducting such studies. I'm already convinced, so it wouldn't really benefit me much.

>Because gut feelings aren't going to convince me, or any other questioning individual.

OK. This isn't gut feelings though. It's a discussion about subjective matters.

If that was too much writing, then so is any meaningful discussion about the differences between programming languages. I'm not going to attempt to discuss this further.
In general, savings is investment, as an identity. An economy must save in order to invest for higher future standard of living.

Short term investment goals is precisely the problem. If one invests for a return only in their lifetime (for consumption), one can't make longer-term investments that have intergenerational benefits (consider the concept of investment broadly).

Only the state would be able to do that, so you'd better hope for a good state.
This, using synchronized is a mistake unless you really need to use some exotic collection without an implementation in java.util.concurrent
"Five Asian Countries Dump More Plastic Into Oceans Than Anyone Else Combined" [1] We should help these countries first to recycle and reduce their plastic usage if we want to make a real difference.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahleung/2018/04/21/five-asi...
> If you mean the whole world, then yes that is (mostly) true, but it is true for every high income nation, and therefore not really informative.

Just against Europe (France, Germany, and UK). If everyone is poorer, I don't see the win. Remember Europe used to have a higher GPD per capita than the US not so long ago.
Flow telemetry like NetFlow in general; ntop, specifically.
I find paint extremely useful for screenshots. PrintScreen, Win+R, mspaint, crop it, add some red boxes, done.

Using the snipping tool is infinitely slower for me. Win, snipp, click new, select region, click the edit in paint 3d button, wait for Paint3D to open, add boxes.

mspaint opens instantly and is sufficient for basic tasks, that's why I like it when using windows.
Very, very responsibly.
Truly a super cool video.

If you ever tried to think of how to explain a criticism of social media's harms, etc. And then thick of solutions - this video is for you.

Start at like 21:00 for "kids and social media"
and like 24:20 for Tristan Harris's talk to start.
In-process construction is pretty difficult to evaluate the value of for banks. Often times, the market will value an investment property much higher than a bank will value it, because the banks aren't always in the business of real-estate speculation. a 40% discount on the price of the finished development is sometimes more than the land may be appraised to by a bank.

It comes down to: if you are interested in real estate investment (either renting or flipping), you are going to find the property more valuable than a bank, who isn't as interested and would just auction it off if they had to own it.
Despite Hollywood portraying the mob as predominantly Italian, virtually the entire cast of this sordid story have Jewish names.
> Verified?

It was sufficiently verified to get Andy fired. It clearly met the bar to be seen as a problem by the company.

> Regardless, if you are harassed, sue. If you don't like your company, quit. Causing a huge media uproar accomplishes nothing other than showing that you can't behave professionally.

It empowers other victims to speak out, employees to organize, and demand change. As a result of the walk-out, a number of positive changes took place inside Google.

Your argument is an authoritarian one, that values the appearance of propriety and conformity more then actual propriety.
I'd expect much of that whole prohibition thing also had some effect.
On a per pupil basis, the US is near the top in spending. The problem is that money does not make it into teacher salaries or even into the classrooms. Like many other parts of the US government, the money gets wasted away in administration.

This also is not a new thing. When I was in high school years ago, quite a few school buildings in the county were literally falling down trailers. With that going on, the school board decided to build a huge brand new building on some of the most expensive real estate downtown. There were some protests and the news did stories about it, but in the end the building was built. And, there are still schools with buildings that are nearly falling down.
Oh, neat! Thanks! I had somehow missed that there was a tagged memory extension to x86; I'm going to have to check that out.
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How does the hardware visible context get suitably updated if the confidential data in the other SIP isn't touched by execution (speculative or otherwise)? Doesn't something need to be pulling that state into the visible context?
I looked this up one time, why this was such a big deal. Vidalia's are finicky like wine grapes. You need the right microbiome, you can't just plant them everywhere because demand is high. They might grow but don't taste right.

I suspect that, like vinyards, if demand stays up long enough we'll find all sorts of weird little spots all over the world with nearly the right kind of soil and moisture and heat.

[edit] Rereading: It's a regional appellation but the taste has much to do with low sulfur content in the soil.
Some people might interpret this as gatekeeping,...

I don't think it is gatekeeping to suggest people learn something about a subject before developing & propogating strong opinions on it. Obviously this is one of the best ways to learn some of the ins and outs.
Photos can be deleted. It would be detected and then law enforcement would or would not do anything.

A blockchain voting system would enable us to detect vote tampering, and then law enforcement would or would not do something about it.

What's the difference?

IMO, 99% of the people wont understand a blockchain system. To them it will just be "X won because a computer said so". So the question is do we want society to be filled with people thinking "I know those votes were made with pen on paper and were counted by my neighbors and trusted friends" or do we want society filled with people who think "it must be true because a computer said so"?
Note: caps are for emphasis not yelling.

Household income is a stupid metric. In America, the top 20% of households contains TWICE as many PEOPLE as the bottom 20% of households. The top 20% of households contains FOUR times as many income earners as the bottom 20% of households. The top 20% of households contains THREE times as many children and HALF as many retirees as the bottom 20% of households.

So when someone says America has too many "poor" households. Consider that those poor households EXIST because they are WEALTHY enough to afford it!

Consider Italy. More households in the middle income share than America. Is that because Italy is an economic paradise? Or because of a strong, centralized bureaucracy capable of administering income distribution schemes? Maybe. But it could be the case that the old and young can not afford to establish their own households. So they continue to live with the working members of their family and enjoy the "benefit" of being a middle class household.

I don't mean to imply that America is perfect and that Italy is not. I only want to say that this chart is an awful way to represent data and is, in my opinion, intentionally misleading.
> MOOCs seem like the answer to so many questions about higher learning. I hope they revolutionize American education, and soon.

Both higher and secondary should be revolutionized with MOOCs, not as replacements for traditional schooling by themselves, but as an enabling technology for flipped classrooms with no in-person lecture where all in-person contact time is high-value interaction.
The linked talk provides context and use cases within the first 10 minutes or so: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/cadence-microservice-ar...
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We’ve also had three entire continents to take population pressure off of Europe for the last several hundred years. We’ll see what happens now that the Americas and Australia are pretty well settled.
I love WebAssembly/WASI, but I'm concerned about us repeating the mistakes of the past.

How does the dependency model work? Can I safely install parallel streams of software? Does it support unprivileged installation? Is the installation stateless (no scriptlets/lifecycle scripts)?
Thanks for sharing your story. I think there are a lot of people out there like me not looking to be a unicorn company, but would love to be the next VidaliaOnions.com
>This causes them to act against their own best interests.

That doesn't follow. You can act completely selfishly by not voting for unsustainable policies that appear to benefit you in the near term but would harm you in the long term.
If I disable HW acceleration on the desktop it's horrible perf wise, like VSCode and all the electron app are slow, there is aliasing all over the place when moving windows, slowness ect ...

( Ubuntu 18.04 / Unity on a Dell XPS 13 from 2016 )
"Things that are true" seems a bit of a stretch here.
Yeah, but he did it AFTER the leap of faith. It makes all the difference. This is all about letting go of your ego.
I feel like they could care, but the network effects are so strong, and the negatives are hidden for now. This is because for the most part the people designing and implementing the tech are not classically or obviously "bad" people, nor are they designing it for those purposes. Plus its complicated, so many people defer to social proof, which is a stacked metric because the strong network effects are involved. I don't know that its a "care/not" care dynamic instead of a "what where the incentives acting on those who taught you" dynamic.
add cracked pepper and a squeeze of lime.. mamma-mia!
Right - it's probably very relevant to discussions of, say, Google's AI council that Google's purpose in putting Kay Coles James on their board was not that the Heritage Foundation's views per se should be represented (note that they didn't do corresponding representation of other political factions) but that she and the foundation have significant legitimacy and influence with the politically powerful parts of the American right wing, with which Google is generally in political trouble, and therefore it was a good way to allow Google to execute on its AI-related goals and therefore make money without political backlash.

A genuine ethics board would not include people whose real job is to curry favor with government - it's sufficiently close to unethical that it's a bad way to get started - and would be generally fine with saying "This task is ethically permissible, but not an ethical imperative, and so if it's politically difficult to do it, we should just do other things."
My point about the Constitutional convention is that they were able to postpone resolving a contentious issue in order to make progress on things they can agree on. That's what it truly means to be progressive.

IMO, the activists outright lie
to and manipulate the public to achieve their objectives by overly simplifying the positions of the Hertitage Foundation. Regardless, it doesn't really matter because the Heritage Foundation represents the beliefs of a large proportion of the population, so their voice is important.
I find it strange you're pulling out stats to refute the person you're responding to and prove an oddly specific quote that I believe misses the point entirely.
For me, the hardest part was getting enough experience to show employers that I knew what I was doing. Once you get the ball rolling, it's much easier to get interviews etc.
Genuine Question: Apart from maybe the money or a nice resume entry, why would you/do you want to?
How will a future where are animals that humans consume leading happy lives decrease demand? Doesn't decreasing demand counter your point about creating more lives being a better thing, since that would lead to less lives?

Even if I was optimistic about farming being able to have animals leading happy lives, it would still ignore many negative factors dealing with animal consumption:

1. The environmental impact from animal consumption would increase if all animals lead happy lives and consumption stayed the same.

2. Dairy products could no longer be produced as that would lead to unhappy animals

3. The sustainability of eating animals, we produce feed for them, and then we eat them. It would make much more sense to only produce feed for us.
But we aren't doing that. For example, Medicare already has the budget for universal health care, if we are going by standards for cost effectiveness that are set by other first world countries. But we don't have universal health care, do we?

Imagine having a government that through intense reform gave us top tier primary education, universal health care, and 10x more infrastructure, and they did it without raising taxes. All of that is possible today.

Now imagine that that same government proposed a new program for FTTH in all major metro areas. Passing funding for such a program would be a breeze. The government could say "this will cost you $x less than you are currently paying" and people would actually believe them!
I suspect an even bigger problem is that there are powerful players who seem to have have an interest in the opposite - that is, reducing the number of potential voters who actually vote. I can't imagine them letting mandatory voting go without a real fight.
Notably though, shearings are very 'rare'. Any pertubation will make a shearing no longer a shearing. At least, if I remember correctly.
Yep, and who gets to set the standards for training and proficiency? And what exactly is a "militia"? Surely it's not random people with firearms. That would not be very well regulated (in any sense), would it?
>In the US there's a strong belief in self reliance.

This is mostly a self-aggrandizing myth. According to the world values survey (here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inglehart_Values_Map...) the US puts LESS emphasis on self-expression than most of the Nordics and even the Anglosphere outside of the British Isles. All countries have much stronger safety nets than we do. It's Britain and the US where Thatcherism shredded the safety net, and in both cases the conservative parties went hard on racially coded appeals to get working class support to do it.

Just from eyeballing it, I would guess traditionalism vs. secular-rationalism is the axis that determines robustness of the safety net. But that's a hard correlation to draw just because of how much variables like state capacity and literacy play a role.

> People just don't believe in hand outs, to anyone (I know I don't). There's nothing racist about that.

It's not a coincidence that all the talk about "hand outs" focused on racially coded language about who is receiving the hand outs. It's not an accident that the "welfare queen" narratives were always in the projects of urban areas and never in trailer parks.

>You're also ignoring many other social issues that Republican's have traditionally supported that have nothing to do with race. There are probably very few people taking race into consideration at all when they vote.

Plenty of other countries have socially conservative parties that still advocate for strong welfare states. Christian Democratic parties throughout Europe are like this. Christian Democrats start losing to right wing conservatives right around when a lot of immigrants or refugees show up. This too, is not a coincidence.
Well said. The notion that Qt widgets are "finished" was just an aspiration not to spend much more money on it I think; they sort of rowed back on this when it became apparent that Qt Quick isn't always appropriate, but by then it had sort of spread around as a "Qt fact" amongst people who didn't actually use it.

The number of rough edges, missing bits and outright bugs mean that it's certainly not "finished"... just like all software really.
The connotation of using a goalkeeper is more like "avoiding Paint to pass", which is not what the article talks about.
There are also a lot of advantages once you automate this via a camera. Now you can put cheap cameras near spots and/or mount the cameras on cars to automate ticketing as police are driving around on other business.
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I'm a software engineer largely because my father and grandfather were union laborers. My and my cousins' generation was the first in our family to be able to go to college. And it was precisely because the union was so easy to get in to that my father and grandfather were able to get good paying jobs with benefits without a college education. A low barrier to entry to a profession is no reason not to build a union.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwbzxemJZIc
Those are the same markup tools found in Preview.

If you open an image or PDF in preview, just go to View -> Show Markup Toolbar

Or you can choose tools right from the Annotate menu.
I always just thought of it as a thing that is indexable.
You overestimate how much a car costs and you overestimate how many middle-class people are paying for their own healthcare.
I just started reading his Understanding Beliefs yesterday and love it thus far. Recommended.
These claims are blown out of proportion and/or simply untrue.

Screen tearing: both Intel and AMD have hardware-backed "TearFree" buffering to prevent tearing. Bad performance: citation required - in my experience, Xorg is way faster. Touchscreen support - in most cases just works out of the box thanks to libinput. No HiDPI support for different scales per monitor - simply wrong - this is trivial with xrandr.
It’s an interesting idea, but you could pitch it much better. What is the problem you are trying to fix? How do you fix it? Why is it different?
It reminds me a bit of OMEA that Jetbrains developed about 15 years ago. It was a desktop based information manager built on RSS but with full text search capabilities across desktop, email integration with Outlook and others. https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/OMEA/Omea+Frascati+...

On the technical side, I think it would be much more powerful to have a native experience. The web is flooded with electron apps. How about a Flutter based UI, which would also work on mobile?
Too Old to Commit Crime? (2015)
Seems like: https://github.com/dronesforwork
This reminds me of a story I read about 10 years ago of a Japanese manufacturer of a very specific type and format of scientific lab notebook that ended production. I think about the story every now and then and go on a deep dive, but can never find it. Buried in the web.
Cool image. Can drag / rotate it, etc., along at least 2 axes.
I very likely got the percentage wrong. It was in the 2005 timeframe that I was looking at doing this.

I remember that it was a substantial savings, but I can't say exactly where the 40% number came from. It was condos in a retirement community so the builder was making a big deal of "these tenants won't leave until they die..."