skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I was in my mid 20s and out of shape with a history of failing to lose weight, I went to a trainer who worked with bodybuilders, my logic at the time was "I should get guidance from people that dedicate their lives to controlling how they look and get so much from their diets".

The no. 1 piece of advice he gave me.... "If you can't grow it or kill it, don't eat it". I've been in incredible shape for over a decade following this simple rule and its also exposed to me just how hard it is to follow this rule when traveling in the US.
Of course they are. Google is better at cloud and better at Linux, and Steam/Proton are already turning the tide for big games being available on Linux. If Stadia forces all triple-A titles to be Vulkan compatible, and more likely, Linux-compatible, Windows's strangehold on desktop gaming further weakens.

As a Linux user, cloud gaming excites me even though I have no intentions of ever using it.
I beg to differ. Lox is salt cured (brined) for an extended period and not smoked. It's usually somewhat salty. Nova is short cured and cold smoked, and not nearly as salty as lox. At least at the Jewish delis I've been to. Google backs me up.
They have mortgage payments: it's trivial for a house to just up and eat $10k of your money, for one example. That's the big differentiator: at this level of income, they can afford to just pay random expenses that many folks would have to just jam onto eternal credit card debt.

EDIT: nvm, I misread the parent, and other sibling comments illuminate the actual breakdown of this line item.
that population only declined proportionally, not numerically. so if consumption didn't drop, you'd have the exact number of dairy farms as before
>4. Say most ophthalmic lenses filtering blue light don't do very much, and specialized ones (you'd say very orange or red) are required for circadian effects.

I have had years of success averting personal blue-light issues using what probably falls into the "specialized" lenses category: Uvex S1933X glasses. They came in a 3-pack on Amazon for around $25. The pairs are next to my bed, on my desk, and in my backpack. Inexpensive enough to where I won't loose sleep over breaking a pair. Good not just for device screens, but also for the annoying bright blue power buttons/indicators on just about every other peripheral.
It absolutely is savings. Compare two people:

Person #1
- Makes $6000/month

- Has an interest-only mortgage payment of $1000/month (yes it's still possible to get interest-only mortgages)

- All other expenses are $4000/month

- Puts $1000/month in a savings account

Person #2
- Makes $6000/month

- Has a mortgage payment of $1000 interest + $1000 principal = $2000/month

- All other expenses are $4000/month

Person #1 and #2 are saving the exact same amount of money. Over time if nothing changes Person #2 will actually be saving more, because the interest portion of the mortgage payment will decrease and the principal portion will increase.
Think of debt simplisticly, as negative savings. If you have debt, your net worth is "below zero". If you have 10k debt and 10k savings, your net worth is still (simplisticly) zero.

So, far from thinking about credit availability or credit worthiness, if you just think of debt as negative savings, you can see debt and savings mutually annihilate (like matter and antimatter), and sum to zero.

Debt is a wonderful, powerful invention -- but for many people who are unaware that debt costs interest, this simple model can help them reason about debt and decide to pay it off rather than letting it linger or taking out more debt.
When does a human cross the threshold to become a bot?
I have had no better customer service at Mom and Pops than at Walmart, maybe it is just my area.
That would be the monthly credit card bill :-). It autopays the gym, the uber rides, the gifts, etc etc etc.
"We'll do anything to solve the housing crisis!"

"How about building more housing?"

"Anything but that!"
Then Facebook shouldn't be giving out offers or interviewing so many people?

I think these are primarily offers given to interns. Otherwise, why go through the interview process if you don't want to work there? It may be a better place to go for internship than for full time.

Then again, maybe their compensation packages may no longer be competitive. It's possible.
Yes, and those people wouldn't be considered "struggling" or "living paycheck to paycheck", which is the point.
I have the obligatory does it work with GPUs question. I have lamented writing out jacobians for GPUs by hand for ages, and thought, SymPy should be able to do this.
Yeah but $10k a month?
>Just this month, CNBC ran a story entitled “Here’s a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average.”

Yes, because they have been running that story monthly since 2017!

https://twitter.com/ejenk/status/1110616128118759424

I don't think CNBC is trying to drive a narrative here, but I do imagine that they're getting ReallyGoodEngagement™ out of articles like this since they tend to inspire immediate outrage and incredulity.

patio11's take on this: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1110615594561212416
“Value-Oriented Brand Aligned with Favorable Consumer Trends. We believe that consumers’ search for value is the new normal in retail. The success of off-price retailers represents a secular consumer shift toward value as a leading factor in purchasing decisions. Moreover, as Millennials mature and Baby Boomers age, they are increasingly focused on value, driving shopper traffic towards the deep discount channel. According to published research, between 1988 and 2016, traditional grocery retailers ceded over 45 percentage points of market share to non-traditional grocery stores, including convenience stores, wholesale clubs, supercenters, dollar stores, drug stores and discounters. These trends have continued even after the completion of recessionary cycles, indicating that value remains a leading factor in consumers’ retail purchasing decisions despite the return of stronger economic conditions. According to the National Retail Federation, 89% of all shoppers across geographies, household incomes, genders and age demographics, shop at discount retailers, including off-price, dollar, outlet and discount grocery stores. We have spent decades building our IO and opportunistic purchasing models to offer deep discounts in a customer-friendly store environment, which enables us to take advantage of this ongoing preference for value.”

This seems like most compelling argument in favor of the business model. Though, this IPO seems like a sucker bet.
Income - Spending = Savings. It's an accounting identity.

A common trick people pull in the shitty version of these articles is counting savings as "spending" and then declaring that "At the end of the month, there's $0 left!", because by definition if you count savings as spending, then you never "save" anything.

Let's say I have a $100k mortgage, take in $1000 a month, and spend (in the true sense of the word) $500. Whether I apply the remaining $500 to my mortgage balance or put it in my savings account has no material bearing on my net worth. The unspent money is "saved" whether it goes into cash reserves or debt reduction.
As a fain of rail travel, and someone who sometimes needs to travel this corridor, I was really looking forward to riding this line.

I noticed a lot of the California headlines about this have painted it along the lines of "Evil Trump administration killing California high speed rail!"

The reality is, though, that California botched this project. The Federal funding was contingent on California making progress, and the amount of funding was sized for the size of the project.

California has made little progress, and the size of the project has been reduced. It's only fiscally responsible for the feds to take back the money. Just like if you promise a VC a million users in the first year, but only deliver 10,000 they're going to look at you sideways.

FTA: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), said on Thursday it had canceled the funding awarded in a 2010 agreement after it said the state had “repeatedly failed to comply” and “failed to make reasonable progress on the project.”

Fortunately, high speed rail is making (slow) progress in other states like Florida, Illinois and Texas. Hopefully the money can do some good in those places.
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Let's say that instead of paying down $100 dollars a month on the principal of the loan they'd only paid the interest and stuck the $100 in a savings account. Would you consider that savings? Would you consider it better to have $0 in debt and $0 in your savings account than being $1000 dollars in debt and having $1000 in your savings account.
Outside of most FPS and some really tight-action platformers streaming pioneered by OnLive is more than enough especially for the casual gamer.

When OnLive was operational I had no trouble playing Batman (something something Arkham?) on their American servers from a MacBook Air in Sweden. I had a similar experience later with LiquidSky which was running regular games downloaded from Steam in their cloud and streaming video to my laptop.

If they do cooperate on creating a similar service, this will definitely be a net win for the gamers.

However, if that's what happens, and if the service is successful, we might end up seeing less games tailored to run on the console's hardware with low latencies, and we'll end up having cloud-optimised games (much like we have mobile-optimised games now). But this is pure speculation at this point.
> A lot of this is about moral philosophy, which doesn't interest me

That's what the free will debate in philosophy is about: whether there's a coherent conception of free volition that can justify holding an actor morally responsible for their choices.

The philosophical question is the context of "free will" discussed by the article. Other notions of free will may or may not overlap, as I described in my other comment.

> Sunni Muslims don't believe in free will, and certainly believe in moral responsibility.

Interesting claim, but from what I've just read they do believe in free will, but they also believe that God knows all outcomes, ie. determinism/predestination. In other words, they are Compatibilists.
I once was invited to interview for a startup to work with their (mostly remote) team for a week, for which they would compensate me at a decent rate. I never managed to find the drive to take a week off for this, but yes, it would have been tricky to explain to my then manager.
Well, yes, individually food alone would be difficult. I listed several items assuming a mixture of all of them could add up to 100k.

Oh, I didn't add hobbyist activities- if my personal passion was vintage first edition signed books I could probably blow thousands and thousands easily.
> The cost of nuclear or the cost of wind/solar/storage?

Nuclear. Note that I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, just that it's a hard sell, even without risk perception.
> their compensation packages may no longer be competitive

They're competitive cash-wise. But the career hit is unmistakable.

(My friends who had other options eventually got tired of carrying around reputation that comes with that place. If you have no other options, that's one thing. But not everyone loves broadcasting that fact.)
The EU was something good when it was an union of countries.

When that shifted to pushing for a United States of Europe, politicians lost all support. An Italian doesn't feel any connection to a Brit, a Pole doesn't feel like he'd have anything in common with a Greek, etc.

On top of that the evident failure of the Euro made a lot of people that were neutral change their minds about how good this whole experiment was.
I feel bad for the Facebook employees below middle management level, but I also really would like some harsh penalties directed at Zuckerberg et al.

I hate that huge corporations can just kind of shrug and say "oops" to egregious crimes, without any meaningful consequences. Same with corporations not paying tax while still benefiting from the stable society created by those taxes.
VR is the streaming killer. I was not entirely sure they'd even be able to get 2D video streaming like they have, because that already pretty much tapped out the technical prowess we can have. Heck, just running it over a network at all means you're going to experience pauses long enough to drop frames.

Since I assume Sony & Microsoft know this, and they aren't countering with a VR push but instead trying to match them with streaming, I suspect they judge the market either isn't there yet, or may never be there (on any business-realistic time scale). Or they just can't resist the DRM and lockin.
Here's his intro to the trip: https://www.jon-kyle.com/entries/2019-04-19-pct
So when I put money every month into an index fund, that doesn't count as savings?
(The link he posted was for The Millionaire Next Door)
Indeed it might. No matter how careful the writing.
the original word choice was "prepared", which has a different meaning from "capable". if the poor kid never took calculus in high school and the rich kid already understands integration, that's probably two whole college semesters behind on a STEM track. there's no way you could say they're at the same level of preparedness for college. as for "capable", who knows?
I think you’re misinterpreting the term acceptance rate. It’s the number of offers extended that we’re accepted, not the number of applicants who were extended offers.
Why would a C++ version involve method call overhead?

Wouldn't C++ actually be more straightforward with its value-typed template parameters?
And there is a really interesting effect I've noticed which I think of 'sugar blindness' which is that when I stopped eating a lot of sweet things my taste buds became more attuned to the taste of sweet. So things that weren't sweet before, are now. Its really an odd thing to experience.
And that's giving each child their own bedroom and saving one for guests! I grew up with me and two siblings all in the same bedroom. (And honestly, it was alright, I'm probably better for it, and we definitely weren't poor by any measure. So, the figures above should be read as "if we spoil the children", IMO.)
Apparently "miscellaneous" is only $10k/year, "other expenses" is separate from that. The single biggest line item outside of taxes!

There is a further breakdown in the linked article: https://www.financialsamurai.com/scraping-by-on-500000-a-yea...

It includes things like food, student loan payments and "children's lessons".
It describes why machine learning was regarded as separate from statistics twenty years ago. The world has moved on.
$10k a month is $120k a year which is around 20% of the stated income, and a significant proportion of it is paying down principal, which is to say, building wealth.

2 or 3 years of wealthbuilding at that rate is enough to pay for the median American house in cash.
If your car dies and you can't get to work you can use your savings to fix your car so you can keep earning money.

Paying down your debt MAY increase the likelihood that you can borrow again. In the long term not paying interest on it will increase your income over time certainly but in the short term decreased debt and increased savings aren't interchangeable.
Never heard about Lawn Darts.

> In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts in the U.S. Out of that total, 81% were 15 or younger, and half of them were 10 or younger. On the week the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and sent into a coma.

From wikipedia. It's a bad example.
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Plus Caldwell climbed with a missing finger!

That said, I'm not sure I'd rank one over the other. Both feats are incredibly impressive, albeit for different reasons.
Probably child care / private schooling for the two children. Don't see it itemized in the table.
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Rich is when you have a high income. Wealthy is when you have a high net worth.

I find people often confuse the two and it took me a long time to clear up in my mind.

You can be rich, but live paycheck to paycheck. Even be superbly in debt. Lots of upper middle class lives this way.

You can also be wealthy but poor. These are folks with cashflow problems and a lot of illiquid wealth (like a house you can’t sell)

Short term you wanna focus on being rich. High cashflow unlocks many options.

Long term you wanna focus on wealth. Wealth unlocks freedom and peace of mind.
My point was that the 3-4x stat is also not fair. My point was that there are very few fair comparisons, and gave some examples that I think are fair statements.
What does "crashing down" mean, exactly? Do you mean economic development will stall? Then that would imply that home prices will decline and/or people will start leaving the state. If so, then that's the market at work, solving the problem without government intervention.
> Berlin (a major world city)

No. In fact not at all. It is one of the only capital cities in europe that is a cash drain on the nation it resides in. It is in no way a "major world city". It is not a business centre, a financial centre or a cultural centre. It is not even the most interesting or beautiful city in Germany,

Europe mostly has a much better school system with predictable outcomes that can't be achieved in much of America. The reasons for which are for another debate

Not that you don't have a point of some kind, but you are certainly ill informed about how the world works, and your place in it.
From another article with more details on this couple: "$5,000 a month in mortgage expense bought this family a ~$1,500,000, 3/2, 1,700 sqft apartment in Brooklyn a couple years ago."

https://www.financialsamurai.com/scraping-by-on-500000-a-yea...
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Both words are spellings of "lox." Also, lox isn't smoked, it's salt cured. Cold smoked salmon is usually called nova.
>Illinois

It would be nice if in Minnesota we didn't have Wisconsin between us and Illinois so we could do something there.
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There is no career hit associated with Facebook. That’s just ludicrous wishful thinking. People love to complain about Goldman Sachs too, but that still looks good on a resume.
> Where's the actual study?

Scientific articles can nowadays be found Sci-Hub:

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.0...
Nothing quite embodies the utter failure of the US and CA in particular as this embarrassing high-speed rail project. This is something that has been pioneered, developed, and commoditized in other countries, both in Europe and Asia.

The CA project had incredibly modest ambitions: a single line, over a relatively short distance, through terrain that isn't too challenging, going at moderate speeds, using completely standard technology. This isn't a hyperloop, a maglev, a hyperfast train, a dense network, or anything else that can fail because of technology risk. It's purely a failure at execution, pretty much entirely because of politics and corruption. In the US, the process for infrastructure construction is entirely broken, and the never-ending political battles that pop up with every project completely incapacitate development.
There's also a typo if you search for "they want ot write"
That’s what it smells like to me too. Could be wrong, but acquiring 80% of the company, then taking it public doesn’t seem like a particularly compelling reason for joe stock picker to buy.
Yea that’s a dismal stat. Roughly, It means smart people don’t want to work for you.
Neat but I'd like to see a demo before purchasing. Possibly allow a trial account or an example video?
> California's housing crisis benefits existing homeowners, and this group has the greatest sway with legislators

Because they vote. New York renters are a powerful contingent. Because they vote.

A large fraction of California has self-selected out of the political process. That is the root of a lot of its problems.
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My water heater has one made from PEX. From memory, I would guess it adds about 18".

With 3/4" PEX at a relatively slow 1.5 GPM flow rate, that adds about 1.4 seconds to 'hot water delivery time', though that's not entirely accurate, because the loop itself has some heated water trapped in it.
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Do you have kids? Maybe not 8500 but there is always something from summer camp to orthodontics etc... Life with kids is worth it 200 percent but expensive.
Cat IIIc has no decision height, but there aren’t any airports that are even planning to install this type of system that I’m aware of. Cat IIIa and IIIb have decision heights of 100ft and 50ft, respectively. Those don’t leave much time for a pilot to execute a go-around.

You’d probably have to engineer the flight path to go through a building, power line, or other obstacle, but that in and of itself seems like a difficult proposition since flight paths leading into an airport with this type of system wouldn’t have 100ft obstacles anywhere near the approach direction. You’d have to spoof the localizer to be offset to the side of the runway to accomplish this, but doing it too far will cause instruments to disagree (GPS, VOR) and ATC to yell at you.

Maybe you could aim it at a nearby taxiway, but to do so (per my understanding of the physics of ILS) you’d have to have your equipment in-line with the taxiway. All of this just seems really hard to pull off in practice.
Fine, incompetence is the wrong word, but malice isn't the right word.
It's free. FREE. Free costs money. Give me a break. I use Dropbox & Evernote free tier. I can't complain about the limits, either I pay up or shut up and use it or find an alternative.
The flip side of "The markets can stay irrational..." is "Someone will probably get lucky anyway. But just because they did, doesn't mean you can learn anything useful from them."
I believe they're talking about the Assassin's Creed: Odyssey trial.
With index fund you can at least have stop-loss order in place. It's hard to set stop-loss order for house.
Can doing a daily crossword or Sudoku puzzle keep your brain young?
I don't want to reopen this 50+ years old can of worms, but I have 2 questions:

1. Is it about homoiconicity in general or specifically s-expressions [EDIT: I see GP writes about s-exps specifically, missed it at first]? Prolog, Erlang, TCL, and Rebol (just some examples) are homoiconic, but not s-exps based. What do you think about them?

2. Do you often read code without syntax highlighting and proper indentation? Assuming the code is properly indented and colorized, what makes it so hard to read in your eyes? Take a look for example at snippets in: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html#(part._.Local_... - what do you feel is wrong with them? Is it only the placement of parens, or is there something else?
Being a millionare and spending a million dollars are exact opposites.
I have second hand exposure to some of this mentality... and I believe a lot of the concern from individuals comes from being entirely of social cultural upbringing where under seven figures is totally inappropriate/failing . .
God, this is insane. I live in France, I earn 30k€ net worth a year, my wife is 23k€ and we feel well. We're far from rich, but at no time in those last 12 months I asked myself "can I buy this ?".

Last year I had to go to the hospital for an emergency, I stayed 3 days and paied... nothing. I'm thankfull for this even if I pay for that service.

What you earn is fondamentaly dependant of the place you live. It seems like SF is quite a hard place to live.