skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a higher number of people taking out five figure 8% loans that aren't used to purchase an education making it relatively painless to pay back, is solid evidence of less financial literacy. There are still ways to get a college degree without taking out 5 figure loans. You just have to go to a cheaper school and work while in college. It's what I did.
I think this is one of the reasons it is hard to interpret this data. You view it as effectively not being able to cover it, but I (and possibly a lot of people responding to the survey) view it as a normal mode of operation to put something on a card and pay it off when it is due (and thus pay zero interest).

I keep an emergency fund that is in the tens of thousands of dollars, yet I would cover a $400 emergency in this way - put it on a card and pay it off when due, pulling the cash out of my emergency fund to make the payment. The way the responses are worded makes it hard to get too much meaning out of it.
Anyone have advice on staying cool at night? Now that it’s getting warmer I’m having a hard time sleeping at night. I don’t want to just turn the air down really low since others in my house wouldn’t like it. I don’t want to run a fan all night either. This tech doesn’t really seem to be there yet
tl;dr: EasyDNS is going full remote only and doesn't have an office any more.
(push using geometric pre-reserve) vs ((exact-per-element growth + concat) x N times) vs (exact reserve and then add the elements) . Being the third case analogous to the "builder" concatenation technique (resize the element to receive the concatenation for the final size, and copy the N strings into the resized space).

The concat privitive not doing geometric pre-reserve is not a bad thing, in my opinion, even if in this case is slower, because of memory saving for the most frequent case. Of course, the concat operation should be always efficient when destination container has enough space.
But you watch it. Read it. Play with it. You like doing those things? Do you pay for those things? Or download them for free?
Although an interesting article, I had to laugh out loud when I read "it’s pretty shocking to see what garbage is circulating” - and the comment wasn't about Buzzfeed!
Similar depth of field and total light gathered.

I'm aware that sensor size doesn't change depth of field, however if you compensate the focal length to produce the same field of view on both sensors, you then need to compensate the aperture to arrive at the same depth of field.

So a 50mm f1.4 on a full frame sensor would be roughly equivalent to an 85mm f/2.4 on one of these digital medium format sensors.
Which is why I specified I was talking about the front-end.
You're doing it right now...hopefully
Do you actually believe that?

What about the cities where Airbnb skirts the regulation and zoning and makes it a hell for people living there? What about Airbnb filing a lawsuit against cities when city wants an occupancy tax? If Airbnb was so serious about helping hosts pay their rent, it would only allow one unit per person/owner to be listed on the platform and honour the day limit imposed by some cities. You and I both know it very well that Airbnb is nothing but a glorified hotel now. There are studies out there that nicer neighbourhoods of the city where Airbnbs tend to concentrate have seen more increase in rent compared to other neighbourhoods.

I really liked, in fact love the idea of Airbnb if it functioned the way it was supposed to be. But all it has done in desirable cities (speaking of Toronto in my case) is take units off the market for long term renters who actually live and work in the city, thus contributing to increase in rental prices and make it tougher for people to buy their first unit since people are investing money into buying x+1st property to Airbnb in it. I'll appreciate it if you actually reply to this post, and i'm willing to discuss it further.
It seems to me that disturbingly many people (predominantly western white men, I'd hazard, but women aren't spared either) are afflicted by a syndrome which makes them truly believe that race, ethnicity or nationality don't matter and that we're all the same. Not that we should have the same rights and obligations, but that we're the same with some cute, "enriching" but irrelevant exceptions such as music, food, etc.

Unfortunately for them, they're also the only ones believing that, ending up in the unenviable situation of sacrificing their individuality, grovelling for unity and making up excuses for the inevitable cultural friction. Meanwhile everyone else is damn proud of their heritage and they stick together.
Where is it shown it's runaway?
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Well damn, good point.
Except putting something on a credit card that you routinely pay off at the end of the month isn't really borrowing. OK. Some percentage will have to cut back to make the end of month payment. But a lot of people routinely put just about everything on credit cards for perfectly rational convenience/rewards reasons.
> I couldn't create an index after the import, too slow.

What made that "too slow"?

I just tested it, and it's not too bad. This is on my development environment (~3yo laptop, reasonably powerful), with all kinds of compile-time debugging enabled - but with compiler optimizations turned on.

CREATE TABLE hashes(hash text, count int);
BEGIN;
TRUNCATE hashes;
\copy hashes FROM program '7z e -so ~/tmp/pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-count-v4.7z pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-count-v4.txt' WITH (DELIMITER ':', FREEZE);
Time: 1245024.360 ms (20:45.024)
COMMIT;

The bottleneck is 7z decompressing:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
24403 andres 20 0 31480 22292 4544 R 73.8 0.1 14:54.09 7z
23701 andres 20 0 4380008 11488 9024 S 27.9 0.0 5:42.04 postgres

And with a bit config the PG side could be made consdierably faster.

Creating an index:

CREATE INDEX ON hashes(hash COLLATE "C");
Time: 709595.370 ms (11:49.595)

And yes, without the COLLATE, and FREEZE above, it'd have taken a bit longer. But not that much.

This is all while I also was working on the same loptop, including recompiling etc.

EDIT: Formatting #2
In my case I don't particularly want more toys, which makes my approach easier for me than for others. I personally view it as not needing to work as hard.

I have enough money, and have enough fun, so I can relax a bit rather than pushing myself for more income.
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How is that true? push shouldn't be reallocating the array on each call. You seem to be alluding to a linked list of arrays.
Wait, the light is all incoherent before it passes the dotted line, then coherent until it bounces and passes back through? What's going on?
It's just a matter of getting the community reorganized. That's the beauty of bit torrent. Content is hosted no where in particular, instead it's maintained everywhere. The seeders just need to be rallied.
this story was just discussed on airtalk [0], including a segment with gov. newsom, where the thrust was whether the striking down of sb50 is compatible with the progressivism espoused by many californians.

it’s not. opposition to building housing is squarely conservative—an impulse to keep things the same for selfish advantage rather than sharing prosperity with others.

with that said, these labels are merely that—they don’t have to define us in the ways that they seem to do. let’s throw off the labels and work on welcoming people into our neighborhoods. let’s build housing for them and let them enrich our lives.

but it’s hard. i have a neighbor who complains about being priced out of our neighborhood while at the same time complaining about the people coming in. *sigh~

[0] https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/
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You are creating a false dichotomy by using the word stealing in the first place.

If you accidentally take a picture of my shitty origami art project you are not stealing

If you walk into a factory and take the mold for a military sonar device you are stealing.

At what point does changing the first story into the second story does it become stealing?

Either you can pinpoint a minimal set of changes in which it becomes stealing OR 'stealing' vs 'not stealing' is insufficient to accurately describe a situation
Yikes, please no. Mutating your state will put you in a world of hurt.
>Microsoft's web apps are a grim reminder of how desktop UIs have evolved backwards. (I’m in the midst of evaluating Office 365 as part of some IT transitions at work.) It's missing tons of features even compared to Word 2000. And it's a total pig. I thought Office was a pig before, but moving it to the Web made everything 10x worse. (Google Docs is less of a pig, but that seems to be because it has less functionality than Gobe Productive on BeOS.)

Sure, that's all true, but this backwards devolution also ensures the important thing: that you don't really own the code you run, a centralized provider does, and they can change or break it as they please, without having to remain compatible with your machine. This is a business model problem: they've decided they do better off turning your general-purpose, user-programmable personal computer into a dumb terminal that uses 10x bloated-ass Javascript frameworks to make AJAX calls to their HTTP servers.
What is the SWAP for this device? Not so interesting if it requires a large battery.
If these churches weren't churches they would have been condemned for not being up to code.

Lets put our nation's most prized and irreplaceable artifacts in it!
I (used to) implement EV certs among other duties and I don't pay attention to them either.

Step One: Create Doofenshmirtz Evil LLC.

Step Two: Register HugsAndTrustBanking.com to LLC

Step Three: Get the legal services of Dewy Cheetum & Howe to issue a letter stating Evil LLC is your legitimate business.

Step Three: Show CA "proof" of ownership for Doofenshmirtz Evil LLC and HugsAndTrustBanking.com.

Step Four: Get genuine EV cert for your shady scam operation.

Step Five: Profit.

EV certs are dumb, you can trust me on that[0].

[0]https://i.imgur.com/1dbJUQ9.jpg
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I run a website that focuses on math driven, low cost living.

The longer I run this website, the less sympathic I've become.

I see so much waste, I see so many excuses.

I think this paycheck to paycheck lifestyle is chosen by the person (or their biology). There are plenty of opportunities to save money or make more, but people choose not to.
The hash of infinity in Python was hardcoded to have the digits of π
Really? HBO got a lot of pushback in Norway this year for the crappy video quality they deliver. A lot of people opted to download the torrent releases based on Amazon has much better quality, even though they had a HBO subscription
I LOVE POSTGRESQL EVEN IF I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A DATABSE IS.
The real motive is your latter point, to capture evergreen money through government spending. Trying to find opportunities to be the vendor of choice in new ways.
I currently have all my ZFS drives on top of LUKS for my storage disks. I don't have the disks to shuffle things around at this point, but when I need to expand, I'm sure I'll use the native encryption on new disks! This is pretty big.

On my boot volume, I run full disk encryption (luks+ext4 for everything including /boot). Grub has built-in support for luks type 1 (do not use luks version 2! Grub can't unlock those yet. I learned that the hard way :-P).

If you have a signed Grub EFI loader, remove the default secure boot keys and add in just the CA/certs for your system and password your BIOS/setup, you have the potential for a very secure system (ignoring the Intel/AMD management systems that are difficult or impossible to disable).
Credit card, payday loans, etc. To a lesser degree car loans.

It often does make sense for many people to take out a loan to buy a car, but car loans tend to be described to people in terms of 'monthly payment' rather than total cost, which makes it easier for people to make bad decisions (e.g., buying that new $30,000 SUV w a 5 year loan instead of the used $15,000 sedan w a 2 year loan).
To be fair it does not, but I'd say the implication that it doesn't is strong, In my device menu at least.

The help section it links to omits a statement used in another section, namely the " Copy a code in a message" section note: https://support.google.com/messages/answer/6080324?p=smart_r...
Takes a lot longer than search, click magnet link, open file.
I would say it's because of their consumerist culture and financial illiteracy, not because of extremely low wages.

I wonder how many of these 40% have a high end smartphone and a big LCD TV in their living room.
It's interesting - for music this has basically been solved because the industry was under tight financial pressures and many companies including Spotify, Apple and Google were able to work out large scale licensing deals. Heck, most music can be obtained legally for free on YouTube these days.

Compare with video where the market is fragmenting beyond repair and I get asked to pirate things for family and friends several times a week. In the gaming world, they never really got the subscription thing worked out decently, the titles are extremely expensive and now fragmentation is annoying consumers there too.

I hope more of these near-zero margin goods will go the cheap subscription route in the future. It makes this a much simpler time for consumers. Right now, I don't know what service even has a given TV show so it's easier to just click the button in Sonarr and watch it show up on my NAS a few minutes later.
Ripping them is exactly as illegal as torrenting while being harder to do and the tools to remove DRM from content are under constant attack. It's easier to just torrent.
You will so the current generation at WalMart in a few years pushing carts and other such tasks when they are forced to realize their retirement savings doesn't cover their needs.

Actually it isn't that bad, a fair number of people don't plan to retire while they can work. A job provides a social experience and meaning in life. If you retire you need to replace that (if you don't you will die quickly - this is known medically), if the job isn't that bad why not keep working? For such people retirement means a nursing home, and if they don't have any money the government will cover that. It isn't for me, I have my own projects I want to do, but maybe it is for you: so long as it is a real decision I don't have a problem with it.
Yup, I have an XT2. I had to buy a grey market zoom because the kit pricing for the graphite body is insane or not available (can't remember which), but the kit lens was something like $350.
That is how an earlier trillion FPS camera worked, but in this case they do capture a handful of frames of a single event at a 100 femtosecond resolution.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
I suggest 'scratch your own <business> itch'. I found these by working in new industries and finding major inefficiencies that could be solved with code :)
You're busy but ...

How do you recommend drawing attention to systemic issues of national mindset where these issues are so much "in the water" that they seem invisible to insiders, but are quite notable to outsiders?

EDIT> More specifically the US/Canada differences are interesting because as Canadians we are very similar, we are immersed in your media, and your products, and yet your values seem gratingly foreign at times. It's a valuable perspective, IMO.
We have a housing cartel ensuring the supply of homes remains lower than demand in areas with decent jobs. So the person who wants to work a 3 hour day can't compete with the person who says "well, I'm willing to work a 5 hour day to afford a home, at least for now".

Of course, in reality it often comes down to the person who wants to work a 40 hour week competing with the workaholic who works all weekend on a regular basis.

Similarly, a lot of couples might prefer to have one partner stay at home and do childcare, but this is impossible (except for the rich) with a housing shortage, because homes will always go to the wealthiest (usually those willing to be two income full-time households).

Once you have 100 households seeking 101 homes instead of 90 homes (etc.) it _does_ become possible. When you're competing with "I'd like a bigger home" vs. "I need any home at all" it gets easier.
I'm reserving judgement until I can hear Elon Musk's take on how to save the cathedral, and whether the chief architect on the project is a pedo.
My take is that copyright got lost when people started treating it as property. In that aspect I think GPL has a better philosophical standing as treating code as a commons to be protected from becoming property. Would not be sad to see it go out as collateral damage if it would mean abolishment of copyright and it’s philosophical failure though.

We should focus more on how to incorporate the commons in all we do. Economics, politics, justice.

This is what John Locke was talking about when he suggested that not everything can be private property.

Yochai Benklers the Wealth of Networks is a good overview of the concept of commons based peer-production, and the tragedy of the anti commons.

Any talk by Lawrence Lessing from way back when the topic was hot is fantastic takes remix culture

Personally I add to that the thinking of Henry George on how an just society should divide the land rent as public dividend. Also checkout geo-libertarianism and surrounding ideologies.

Perhaps taking it a step further:

Locke argues that land becomes property when you mix it with your labor. But only if there is no contention, the land is after all for all to share.

I’ll restate that as this:

The commons is primary. We all have an equal claim to it all.

To take something from the commons and make it private requires a fair trade. It’s not enough to put a stake in the ground and just claim it. Instead what is lost to the commons must be repaid.

Hence the question should never be, “how should x get paid?” but rather “what value can we derive from granting x exclusivity?”

Just consider for a moment the amount of resources are spent on enforcing the artificial scarcity supposedly motivating copyright.

The primary costs of policing it. Employing people to fight legal battles over it. Implementing automatic enforcements. The cost to those getting caught in violation. The cost of practioners in negotiating rights (what would it cost TPB to secure rights for everything it facilitate access too?)

Then there is the secondary costs. The opportunity costs of not having free access, the Napster that could have been. The things all those people impacted by the primary costs could have done instead, what value could they have provided?

My mind boggles when contemplating it, and I can’t for a second believe that if that is what it takes to get Game of Thrones produced, that I couldn’t live without it for a freer world.
>I feel that Pirate Party may end up like the Green party of few decades ago -- initially perceived as fringe, marginalized, irrelevant; until we realize they are tackling emerging core societal problems.

I don't know how much if at all the Canadian Green Party relates to the US Green Party, but the Green party south of the border is certainly still perceived as "fringe, marginalized, irrelevant". A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that the Canadian Green Party probably still fits that bill as well.
The thing is: we are cutting emissions, but it probably won’t save the planet, if China and India keep growing. The “fairness“ of per capita usage is a separate issue from climate change
How is a living wage defined, precisely? Is it defined as the wage an "average" person would need to earn to live? Or the wage a "frugal" person would need to earn to live?
IMO there's no such thing as a secure digital voting system. Complexity is how vulnerabilities and exploits get into in-use systems. You want things as simple and obvious as possible, and that means using and counting physical objects of some sort.

After all, it's much easier to notice a hundred thousand pieces of paper getting added to the vote-counting system than flipping some bits that represent a hundred thousand votes.

The voting system definitely needs improvement, but a digital app is absolutely not the way to go. Vote-by-mail solves nearly all the issues you've brought up, and seems to me to be a good intermediate step.
Indeed, the main feature of a unsophiscated culture catering to the lowest common denominator is that it is rootless. Japan or anyone adopting it is not a good thing.
The thing is.. when you refuse endure this temporary pain, the natural consequence is that the rest of your life will be filled with more pain.

Sadly for some of us (myself included at many times in my life), we just can't make those decisions as easily as we hoped. Willpower and determination seemed so easy when I was young.
The kind that is maintained for 800 years? It's not like they built it exactly as it remained.
Another situation of too big to fail? I sure hope not.
Why are they still in business? Any worthy regulation of any type would have shut them down already no?
There is a wealth of literature on the subject, no pun intended. Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" (or, more practically, summaries of it) offers one interesting perspective. A different take can be seen in books like "Winners Take All" by Anand Giridharadas.

On the most basic level, you should question your own premises. The reality of extreme wealth inequality is that rich people do have a substantially outsized say in running the government and exercising other forms of power, and they are often able to evade laws as well as engage in activity that is harmful to the poor.
Lenders in Poland still need to make a profit, so are they more restrictive in issuing cards, or is it harder to default on a loan? Or does the government subsidize them?
Unless you don't mind losing the $20K, talk to a lawyer ASAP, and before you pay.

Also, HR/benefits mistakes happen, and that kind of arrangement with an outsourced company can lead to both individuals and organizations trying to cover their butts when a mistake happens, to a ridiculous degree. (I had paperwork showing I'd paid for and gotten insurance, but the actual insurance company said I didn't have coverage. Fortunately, I didn't get sick or injured, and found out on a routine health appointment. Had I found out the hard way, I could've been stuck with devastating bills and a "pre-existing condition" that could prevent getting insurance coverage in the future (given that ACA was/is under attack). There was such a Kafkaesque and underhanded butt-covering by everyone, I never did even get reimbursed for the insurance I paid for but didn't receive. I had better things to do than to sue.)
What frequency limit do you see?

Opus is transparent at that rate. Heck it's virtually transparent at 96 kbps, and does a great job at 64 kbps.
Not a fair evaluation - in a standard resolution picture, say 24MP, with the same FOV, that grass patch would be a green blob.
Btw Demonoid is also still up :D Good old times.
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It's only in demand because of inertia. This is like claiming that Windows is great for no other reason than because so many people use it, or that the US government is a great idea just because it hasn't collapsed yet.

If you think it's so great, then why don't you explain why you can't put today's large high-bypass turbofan engines on it in the normal position without them hitting the runway? How exactly is that a "great design"? It may have been a great design in 1967, but it isn't now, just like a 1967 Mustang chassis may have been OK then, but is totally inadequate now.