skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's instructive to take the "What's left over" amount ($7,300) and add back all the things which are actually savings (401k, ~half of the mortgage, student loans): $47,600. This couple has a national household median income (pre-tax!) worth of money left over after their already ridiculous expenditures.

They should just stick the $7,300 into an "Other savings" line item and proclaim themselves to be living literally paycheck-to-paycheck.
The obsession with "AI" is particularly fascinating.

10 years ago, before it was a household term, people could mention without blushing that their production implementation ended up being a simple if-statement. If anything, being able to come up with an insight that was clear and well-focused enough to be implemented in such a straightforward way was a feather in one's cap.

Nowadays, if you aren't building a model with at least a few million parameters (though billions would be better), that ends up being so complex that the only hope for productionizing it is to stick it into a container and ask the engineering and ops folks not to peek inside it too carefully - sort of like a parent leaving the door to their teenager's bedroom closed - then nobody wants to take it seriously.

Call me a curmudgeon, but it doesn't half remind me of a while back when I was being directed to process 12MB datasets on a distributed computing cluster. At some point the tools stopped being a means to an end, and started being the only thing anybody cares about.
I have had some mild success with "do not talk to me about food except at mealtimes" in conjunction with "canonical mealtime is between 6 and 8 PM, and absolutely nothing past 10 PM".

What I really need now is an AR ad-blocker--like Joo-Janta context-sensitive sunglasses--that will detect food-related advertisements and displays in the real world and blot them out with black rectangles and/or white noise.

Being hungry stimulates appetite, but so too does just thinking about food. And after priming my awareness of it, nearly everyone around me does something or other to make me think about food, and quite a lot are doing it intentionally, to get at my money. (Even just reading this thread is sort of screwing me up for the rest of the day.) I get the sense that Pavlov's dogs might get fat if someone followed them around all the time, continually ringing that bell.

Even my office has that stupid kitchenette right outside the door, with people frequently in there messing with the coffee and fridge and microwave. So then I close my door and blot out the world, and I can easily ride out hours 11 through 20 of fasting. Unless someone sends "donuts in the lab" over e-mail, or "Food Truck X is in the parking lot until 12:00". Aargh.

So now I'm sitting here with one part of my brain telling itself, "No, you are not really hungry. That's the spoiled punk asshole part of your brain trying to get you to eat by injecting obsessive thoughts about food." Any little thing can set that douchebag off, and then it's a fight for the entire rest of the day. When out alone in the wild, or isolated in a sealed box, no one cares whether you eat or starve, so that "go eat something" lobe never gets triggered externally. But the instant you're back, there's that 20-foot-tall Big Mac on a billboard telling you what exit to take. Even if you don't get off and buy one, it wakes up the appetite jerk, who starts offering unhelpful alternative suggestions. And it only shuts up after continuously whining for many hours, or when sleeping.
Maybe so. It just seems sometimes like humans have become too good at remaking ourselves in the image of our machines.
Still, the games will have a vulkan renderer and run on some form of linux, making an official port to the actual OS more likely.
I can't say anything for most of those but clothes for 4 people should not come out to 10k a year, especially since they said nothing fancy. Even buying high-quality name brand clothing, how do you go through enough in a year to need to buy more? All of the >$20 clothes I have have lasted years, and will continue to be usable for the next few. I would be surprised if most of them don't get donated, in close to perfect condition.

I get that they have kids and so must buy new clothes more often, but if you buy designer brands for your kid that's the problem.
I mean if they shot a deer, then ran it over with their car, it would look like a deer that was shot then ran over. You'd have to mangle the animal severely to make a rifle/bow wound difficult to find.
"While roadkill cuisine may not yet be mainstream" (like it will be someday)

"stereotyped hillbilly eating roadkill has been replaced by an environmentally and food conscientious middle-class urbanite"

lol am i reading the onion?
From my 2016 letter on Energy to Candidate Trump,

https://archive.org/download/20160422TrumpEnergyLetterSC/201...

QUOTE

We must finish taming fire.

It is no longer enough to raise sensible children without an irrational fear of nuclear energy. They must become aware at a young age that there is a silent war on and they must, in order to ensure the continued survival of modern civilization, begin to oppose and publicly ridicule anyone exhibiting this fear. This may range from a gentle instruction and chiding of those who express misgivings honestly and openly, to a direct and aggressive attack on the greatest dangers of our time — the ones who deliberately cloak their anti-nuclear sentiment in Byzantine ways intended to derail debate and parry the subject to other 'alternative' approaches.

It is unethical to see no clear path to unbounded Energy as anything but an existential threat.

Sound familiar? That is similar to the tactic fronted by frenetic climate alarmists who are trying to push a dozen pet agendas and several for-profit agendas crafted specially for them, all at once — rallying the people over a global average temperature signal that is presently buried in noise, and a CO2-to-temperature causation that may turn out to be nil or even backwards. Unfortunately there is an international scam in progress and the scammers are clever, they have seized the moral high-ground because it had been left unoccupied and undefended. Those who praise humanity and progress for its own sake, and would remind others we should never judge ourselves in haste, must have wandered off somewhere.

There is also a scuffle on the Global Warming moral high-ground as the folks who run nuclear power plants are kicked in the face and tossed off the mound. They expected to be welcomed with open arms because nuclear energy will help save the planet from CO2. They did not realize the movement is rife with people whose irrational fear of radiation exceeds any commitment to the environment. Anyone who even mentions nuclear power gets a feral and brutal response. I've taken pity on the nuclear industry and have tried to explain the phenomenon but they're not taking it very well. Like the Amish, our nuclear power industry needs staunch defenders surrounding it. They're just too polite for their own good.

Unfortunately, we have passed beyond peak politeness. To force Energy debates to address practical solutions, bullies are needed. We must rout the occupiers and re-take the moral high-ground because we place a high priority on survival, and for the children's sake. And because ... well ... "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals..." And other such stuff.
This. There's no way anything technical is imposing this limit.
Or a use Garmin watch, and get even more metrics. It's like strapping the elastic stack to your body.
Come on. Rice is the staple crop for most of Asia. If it is so unhealthy why is there no galloping obesity across Asia?
It once was the canonical X in "we banned X why haven't we banned Y" (where Y is something like "assault rifles" or "peanuts") but perhaps only for people of a certain age. A more recent example: the Boeing 737 MAX was grounded after two accidents out of a few hundred thousand flights.
New research explores potential downside of nudging people to behave differently
If you like this story about California, we also have a bridge to sell you!

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/10/from-250-million-to-6...
The goal is not to impose hardship on them, but instead remind them for two months out of the year just how little minimum wage actually is. Most of them could probably blow that $500 paycheck on a single trip to the grocery store.
The bay area will lose more experienced older workers if the only way to exist here is to share an apartment with other young single people. Companies should care about this.
China had it so easy under that treaty. If the US colonies had been given terms like that we'd probably still be British subjects.
As an example of this (though for a non-RFC document):

Here's the "source" XML that is authored: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.xml

That can be compiled in to this HTML: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html

Or to this RFC-like plaintext: view-source:https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.txt

Most new RFCs are authored this way.
Recently I saw a talk where John Carmack said he is working with camera manufacturers to find ways to reduce firmware overhead on the image coming out of the sensor for VR/AR applications to reduce latency. A lot can happen in a few decades, but this is a very hard problem to solve.
An avian Berg Katse! (Bird Katse?)
A lot of people like wild game. And why let it go to waste, especially when it would likely be displacing some other form of food consumption?
DOE proposal to roll back lightbulb efficiency risks billions in energy savings
An Acela-like train probably wouldn't be that fast. On the Northeast Corridor, the Acela is only around an hour faster than the regional and part of that is just making fewer stops. My guess is you'd still be looking at 7+ hours in CA, at which point most people would just fly.

(Very few people actually take the Northeast Corridor from Boston to DC because it's pretty much a full-day trip. But New York is in about the middle so there are two popular sub-sections--unlike the case with CA.)
And yet, the average American will never be able to use cloud gaming comfortably.
But watch out for "enriched".

I'm stealing this from somewhere, and I don't recall the source. But someone said "enriched" flour is like this: You're walking down the street. A mugger steals your watch, your wallet (including credit cards), your belt, and your glasses. Then he gives you back your belt and $20 from your wallet, and says, "There, I've enriched you".
Why is Googleʼs design so bad then if they have such a tough interview process? Corporate structure/culture kills even best-of-the best talentʼs initiative? I think, what they need is non-conformism. But they donʼt select presumably for non-conformism during interview. They select for obedience. (Just thinking out loud)
When Google (having so much resources) will release a product whose UI would make people say, “wow?” Not just the (superior) data-processing capabilities or pretty good hardware.
We make a little over $500K and I would not say we are struggling day to day, but we won't have so much saved as people expect. We lead a modest life (live in an apt, drive a compact) and live in SV.

Monthly House rent is $3000, Kids schools is $2400, kids activities is $2000, groceries and eating out is $1500, travel expenses averaged is $1000, misc expenses (gas,utils,shopping,car maint) is $2000. We do not have any debt.

We pay over $160k in federal/state income taxes and save $38k in 401k, $15k in 529 accounts annually.

Most of these expenses are regular day to day expenses we can't cut down on to save more.
What Is the Real Difference Between Data Science and Software Engineering Teams?
Growjo Awarding Fastest Growing Companies/Startups in California
You will then be horrified to learn that US intelligence has a written mandate to obtain foreign technology that the US lacks and make it available to US industry.

A well-kept little dirty secret.
Feedback is valuable, and I did take it seriously. It's not new feedback.

> Marketing however isn't at all about what you like but what your average site visitor likes.

I agree 100%. But anecdotes, mine, yours or anyone else's, aren't data.
I think this depends on your genetics a bit.

I personally start putting weight on very quickly with even pretty minimal amounts of carb, natural or processed. My wife is more tolerant of processed carbs, and in fact needs more natural carbs than I can personally tolerate.
Global Takedown Shows the Anatomy of a Modern Cybercriminal Supply Chain
When I was immersed in the leftist outrage bubble, I used to think this video was ridiculous and insulting, but after breaking out of that bubble, this video has become startlingly accurate.
I mean realistically the only actual argument is if the upstate line is there, or immediately north of Westchester County.
The thing is, there's so much capital floating around with nowhere to go that it's not clear to me when it's going to come crashing down. It's not just real estate speculation, it's also venture capital feeding exploding tech valuations which results in all these new millionaires who buy up what little real estate there is.
What is a bunch of random nerds going to do? They have no power to fine or arrest. All they can do is document the evidence and turn it over to the FCC, which does happen on occasion. But, I have listened to ARRL division directors talking about trying for years to get well-documented egregious cases of malicious interference dealt with by the FCC. The FCC just can not be bothered. It's not so much that they can't be bothered to collect evidence, which they can't, but even if they have evidence, that can't be bothered to act on it. The FCC should be a technical organization but is pathetically political.

One of my ham friends deals with the FCC often, because he works in spectrum management at the NTIA. The stories he tells make me never want to set foot in D.C. except to visit all the museums that my taxes fund.
You can also run in on-demand mode and exclude your home WiFi, which is what I do. Then you'll be connected to the VPN at all times except when you're on the home WiFi.
There are a lot of nonlinearities. Taxes, healthcare, eligibility for the financial aid when the kids go to college, etc.
I think this is actually rather typical of dictatorships - the more 'absolute' the power of the leader, the less dispersed sovereignty is, the more they end up having to go with the current. There are two standard reasons for this. First, when you have a coalition, even in a non-democratic state, and the coalition agrees to do something, you're pretty safe - because you have everybody who matters on board. Second, people often end up in the position of absolute tough-man dictator because, unfortunately, that's what a lot of people want from their leaders. So it's often the case that the strongman stuff follows from a relatively weak grasp on power, rather than the other way around, as the leaders are pushed to play the part the audience wants from them (pre-WW2 Japan has been said to have been like this).

PS: This is actually the classic Roman formula. The Emperor uses the support of the mob (soldiers, citizens, etc) to counterbalance against the traditional nobility (senate). So you get guys who technically are the absolute ruler and god of the state, bending over backwards to keep public opinion sweet.
Technology hubs are accelerating innovation in Zimbabwe
Newsom should have used the money to upgrade Caltrain and SF rail stations, and THEN cancel the project. At least then something useful would have gotten done.
Yeah, I probably have the cash. But it's just for tracking sleep. I know that I sleep like shit. I go to bed at 0030 and wake up at 0700. Don't really know what difference the ring would make here.

No idea what the ring would tell me what I don't really know and how in the world I would turn the data into something usable.
I don't think rust has polymorphic recursion. GHC is already pretty fast on non-polymorphic recursion.
This bill doesn't propose upzoning the kinds of neighborhoods where the "McMansions" are. Those houses are generally speaking way out in the suburbs and exurbs. SB 50 targets regions close to major cities, and most of that are "old growth" neighborhoods.

And, to your second statement: if people do indeed have a "right" to a home less than $2 million, they can exercise that right. It just might not be in Palo Alto.
I don't use Quora anymore, it's full of irrelevant answers.
While my heart empathizes with the anti-consumerist and fear of the end of the world sentiments expressed on this thread, I wonder if it is the loneliness issue that keeps being cited in many modern studies.

I think I could have easily been on this path to misery, but then I formed a soccer team that plays once a week. We play and then go out for beers. The whole team has bonded. I cannot tell you how much a difference it has made in my life. The joy I get from playing together and then hanging out afterwards is immeasurable.

I have people in my close circle, even my significant other, who feels like they have limited social interactions. The rise of social media, lack of group activities, the rise of suicide, social isolation, blah blah blah, you can fill in the rest.

I am very scared for our collective future but I cannot emphasize enough how important this small social activity of playing a sport together with people I have come to really like has given me purpose and joy that made an enormous difference in my life.
Also at the end it says "not non-zero cost". Assuming the double-negative is a mistake, they should delete either the "not" or the "non-".
No it isn't. It's a US thing.
Companies should move out of the Bay Area.
I can genuinely see that anybody could 'struggle' anywhere, once you consider living costs and the miscellaneous monthly payments adult life insidiously inflicts upon you.
Whilst income gradually rises, your corresponding monthly outgoings seem OK - until the income dries up (I've just watched the excellent NoClip documentary on the implosion of Telltale games in Marin County).

What I never quite grasp is why "Silicon Valley" job is still seen as a premium, rather than a massive risk.
The sole benefit I can see is that you can flit between jobs and build up your income - but as your income goes up, so does your expenditure/exposure.

I know there are other 'hubs' emerging that are cheaper - but they always seem to be 'emerging'

Is the issue the 'gambler's-dilemma'
or are you on average better off in Silicon Valley
or what?
> We measure up to 48 data points when people read or watch content, to understand how it is consumed and provide insight from that.

I wonder what data points those are, and whether that's GDPR compliant. I assume they have a pretty solid fingerprint with that much data.

It's a valid point, however. Incentivized traffic has always been full of bots, unless you add tough verification steps (aka captcha, answer questions about the content etc) at which point you'll have to pay a lot more for people to jump through your hoops.
Prototype for what? All the tech for high speed rail already exists and is proven to work.

Lots of governemnts around the world do proper infrastructure projects.
https://outline.com/V5JWbk
OTOH, it was eventually completed and it is a big improvement for a variety of reasons (including the elimination of an ugly deteriorating elevated highway) even though Boston traffic is mostly as bad as it's ever been.
Modification, including deletion, would require nominal level of legislative action. The reviews would obviously require a little less, but still enough for a clear majority.

Failure to renew before the actual sunset is what would trigger the automatic deletion/deactivation.
Property crashes do happen from time to time. Even in HK, Mumbai, London, etc...
Honestly glad. Highspeed rail is not going to work in America if it takes 77B and and over 10 years to complete one line. About 10 years ago China had only 1 high speed rail line, now look.
If you do cybersecurity work and Zerodium bug bounties for your stack are less than your yearly wages, you are honor-bound to offer your resignation and request that the company use your salary towards bug bounties.

Fortunately zerodays aren't commonly used.
It's like giving everyone a spot here at the same time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner
>Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB

Come on. According to FB the IRA had 80000 posts over a two year period. In the same period there were 33 trillion FB posts. What moron still believes this garbage?

FB was hung out to dry by Congressional democrats too spineless to own up to their own pathetic failure to defeat Trump.
When it comes to kids, people often confuse what they cost with how much they spend on them.
Based on what I see on Nextdoor and from anti-housing groups in Seattle, I suspect quality of life is coded language for "undesirable" types moving in. If you make your city affordable, you don't get to live in an enclave where everyone has a 7-figure net worth and went to Stanford.
And where are we going to find teachers, nurses, baristas, garbagemen, plumbers, etc. to service the wealthy homeowners when none of these professions pay anywhere enough for people to live on in places like the Bay Area? Soon places like this will be a mix of billionaires, FAANG workers, the retired, and nobody else.
non-celiacs who this inadvertently benefit from cutting down on easy calories. no matter the theory, it's still just about energy in vs energy out
The FCC's Plan to Stop Robocalls Sounds Awfully Familiar
Not trying to be political with my comment but I also own a home and claim more than the standard deduction and got crushed in taxes this year compared to last. Something changed, and at the end, TurboTax said I owed a lot more this year than last and my income was relatively unchanged. That was a shock and now I'm preparing to tighten the belt for the rest of the year. I make substantially more than the Average American (most engineers do) and I paid a ton of taxes last year, I didn't expect to be saddled with a ton more at filing time.
That's interesting, as Hydronic heating is the standard heating method over here in the UK. Reason its not done in the US I image is we don't often ever need AC, so we only need to be able to turn the temp up.
This isn't right. Over time Person #1 should have more savings. Loan interest rates are very low, person #1 shouldn't be putting the money into a savings account, he should be using a better investment. Person #2 is now forgoing the higher return of stocks to pay off the mortgage.

It gets worse for person #2. The house is probably changing in value. If the house goes up in value person #1 is ahead because that money is all his, on the $10k investment, person #2 has a much larger investment to get the same return. If the house goes down person #1 has at most $10k to lose, while person #2 can lose the entire value he has paid in so far.

Of course eventually person #2 has the house paid off and has $2000 to work with.
Just a basic bomb threat can shutdown operations at most places. Not sure about an airport, but just making the threat can cause disruption pretty darn easily.
Ok but how many engineers use React, yarn, or graphql? Facebook is still leading the way in front end development and it’s still a net positive to have that name on your resume. Their brand isn’t any more tainted than Google, Microsoft, or Amazon.
It all depends on the interest rates.

If I can invest with a 10% return, and can borrow at 0%, I'm better off borrowing as much as I can to invest.

But if I have to borrow at 10% and can only invest at 0%, paying off debt is better than saving.