skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In CNBC Make It’s survey, 32% of people said their discretionary spending was the No. 1 cause of their current credit card debt.

I'm never so glad to be an introverted technophile as when I find out how much my coworkers spend on amusement. They spend $200 a month on cable and Pay-Per-View while I watch Youtube and Netflix. They pay $65 for videogames and spend thousands of dollars a year on vacations. They sink hundreds of dollars into Candy Crush and Pokemon Go. They get the newest Galaxy Note every year despite only using their phone for Facebook and texting.

If you're a casual consumer in the 21st century companies and culture will eat you alive.
That requires orbital construction. Also that imposes very severe constraints on size and shape of those pieces. This is not technology that we have demonstrated in a meaningful way.

For example the stage of the Apollo mission that took it from Earth orbit to a trajectory that would intercept the Moon was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB, which nearly twice the maximum payload of the Falcon Heavy. Do you really want to trust this step to a rocket that has to be assembled and fueled in space?
Teaching AI to Play Flappy Bird Using Genetic Algorithms
That's a bit dramatic to my comment, imo. You could say the same for police, or any institution that uses identifying information - even uniforms.

Like it or not we all have piles of metadata that follow us around. A big one is our face. It won't take long for facial recognition to do the same thing I mentioned in the previous post; except you won't have a choice then. Hell, you won't even know.

The metadata badge idea was of course not serious; but it doesn't seem so farfetched to me or absolutely terrible. It (as I proposed it), at least, would be something you controlled.

Which, unlike state IDs, licenses or Nazi' camp badges are not something you would control.

I do not appreciate the extreme association with a free-thought idea to that of the worst massacre in history. I'll assume you meant no harm, but still - I figured I had to at least express clarification.
> I don't have a concrete answer to "how do I not die"

Michael Greger, MD does: How Not to Die [0]. Basically, to save you from reading the book, go vegan. He has a great cookbook too based on the advice in the book [1]. His nutritionfacts.org site in general is an excellent, science/fact-based resource.

[0] https://nutritionfacts.org/book/

[1] https://nutritionfacts.org/cookbook/
He is free to do what ever he wants but I find nothing reasonable in generalization that reduced complex individuals into two bits of information, skin and gender. To quote Carl Sagan, reducing people down to single bits of information is intellectual laziness.

"Ethnic groups are stereotyped, the citizens of other nations and religions are stereotyped, the genders and sexual preferences are stereotyped, people born in various times of the year are stereotyped (Sun-sign astrology), and occupations are stereotyped. The most generous interpretation ascribes it to a kind of intellectual laziness: instead of judging people on their individual merits and deficits, we concentrate on one or two bits of information about them, and then place them in a small number of previously constructed pigeonholes.

This saves the trouble of thinking, at the price in many cases of committing a profound injustice. It also shields the stereotyper from contact with the enormous variety of people, the multiplicity of ways of being human. Even if stereotyping were valid on average, it is bound to fail in many individual cases: human variation runs to bell-type curves. There's an average value of any quality, and smaller numbers of people running off in both extremes."
I have used the beautiful Olympus OMD E-10 Mk.III -- can't really say if it's going to be allowed in a concert[0], but it has a great advantage: it looks like a retro camera, and many people actually think it's an analog (ie, physical film) camera. I absolutely loved it's low light performance, though I've seen review compare it to the Sony A7 family and it'd seem those surpass it.

Before getting it, I owned two compact Canons, the G12 and G16 and both were a joy to use: fast stabilized lenses, """large""" sensors (at least for a compact camera) and lots of integrated features. The newer lineup has sort of derailed and there are tons of very-similar-with-tiny-differences models, but you'd be looking at either the G1X Mk2 or the G7x Mk2 (those are the ones that look more like compacts rather than "pro" cameras).

[0] since it's a mirrorless, so some would say a pro camera, hence not allowed without a permit.
www.erowid.org/

might have people with similar experiences.
IIRC Apple is borrowing hundreds of billions to pay as dividends/buybacks because it's cheaper to pay interest than it is to pay taxes on money earned overseas.
> Basic necessities and healthcare costs may be sending some people into debt, but more people point to spending on non-essential items like clothing and entertainment as the main culprit. In CNBC Make It’s survey, 32% of people said their discretionary spending was the No. 1 cause of their current credit card debt.

> Another 9% say the majority of their debt comes from paying for travel. Americans spend an average of $483 a month on non-essentials such as dining out, entertainment, luxury items and vacations, Schwab’s 2019 Modern Wealth report found.

I wonder how this compares to past generations, and if it's more true now, I wonder what the cause is. More aggressive advertising? Propping up one's mental health in the face of a stressful socio-political climate (its effects greatly amplified by social media)? FOMO (also amplified by social media)?
so it's probably some off the shelf ANPR tech that sends info into a database?

same as my local supermarket's car park?
Looks like his last name end with an `x`
You’re a good person to ask this then. Can you do paleo/keto plant based/whole foods? Or are beans/nuts not allowed at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_...

As of 2018, the embargo, which limits American
businesses from conducting trade with Cuban interests,
remains in effect and is the most enduring trade embargo
in modern history

and

The UN General Assembly has, since 1992, passed a
resolution every year condemning the ongoing impact of
the embargo and declaring it in violation of the Charter
of the United Nations and of international law. In 2014,
out of the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for
the nonbinding resolution, the United States and Israel
voted against and the Pacific Island nations Palau,
Marshall Islands and Micronesia abstained. Human-rights
groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights
Watch, and the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights have also been critical of the embargo.
Critics of the embargo say that the embargo laws are too
harsh, citing the fact that violations can result in up
to 10 years in prison.

and

In a 2005 interview, George P. Shultz, who served as
Secretary of State under Reagan, called the embargo
"insane". Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato
Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies, criticized
the embargo in a June 2009 article:

The embargo has been a failure by every measure. It has
not changed the course or nature of the Cuban
government. It has not liberated a single Cuban citizen.
In fact, the embargo has made the Cuban people a bit
more impoverished, without making them one bit more
free. At the same time, it has deprived Americans of
their freedom to travel and has cost US farmers and
other producers billions of dollars of potential exports.
If it were made by anybody but Facebook, I'd be a lot more interested.

Maybe it's irrational, but I just don't want to support that company.
> lanthanum hydride compounds become superconducting at 250 K

That's about -10F, or -23C.

(And it would make a lot more sense to put that in the article. Most of us don't "think" in Kelvin.)
And if the second vote fails, do you have a third and a fourth vote? Until the outcome is desired?
There is animal called a "marmot" in English that are large squirrels [0]. Groundhogs are part of that family, "Groundhog, woodchuck, or whistlepig, M. monax found in most of North America" [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot#Subgenera_and_species
> Once you get to a certain level of success in the business world, you can't fail. CEOs who run a business into the ground easily find work leading other companies.

There are other paths too, like going on to lead countries.
That's the fundamental problem with "trickle down" economics, it assumes the economy is supply constrained when it is more commonly demand constrained.

I was of the understanding that most orthodox schools of economics fundamentally view demand as infinite. Supply-siders hope to meet demand by increasing supply, lowering prices, and making more goods available to those with fewer resources. Policy-wise, this is achieved through production subsidies, fewer regulations, and tax cuts.

Their opponents (demand-siders?) hope to increase access to goods by increasing the purchasing power of consumers. Policies like social safety nets, public education, and tax increases on the investor class promote this goal.
Nigeria's Gokada raised $5,3M led by Rise Capital
I think "credit card debt" implies they aren't paying it off at the end of each month. Also in the article, it says the average credit card debt is 6,506, this is more than the typical American can afford to pay down on their credit card each month.
I realize that IQ is normalized, but have the tests themselves evolved to better capture what it is that makes us "intelligent" in modern society?

Not to say that the usual pattern recognition type test is no longer valid, but perhaps it is a lesser predictor of functional intelligence now that computers have shouldered a large amount of the cognitive burden traditionally placed on human brains?

I believe that there could be a lessening biological imperative to be "intelligent" as more and more is provided to us rather than created / taken by us. We are more likely to be controlled today (of our own volition) than to seek out ways to control that which we currently do not.

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."
- Thomas Gray (repurposed as a slogan for culture in 2019 and beyond)
Kids are definitely the ultimate cure for loneliness. A couple years in and you're likely to beg for some loneliness ;)
That seems to be begging the question.
I recall learning this too. I never heard that prices shouldn't go up. Maybe the above person meant that the total valuation shouldn't go up? If so, that logic does check out.
I'd also argue SMT technology; while things were moving in that direction before then, it seems like the Apollo program really kicked it in high gear with the need for the compact AGC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

I'd have to think that SMT was available prior to the AGC development, but I don't think it was as widely used commercially (maybe more for the military and avionics?).
That's not how orbits work.

You're not understanding the proposal. The way the "hovering" would work, is that the entire state of one virtual server would be serialized, then sent via line-of-sight high bandwidth comms to the next satellite to go over the region of interest. This way, the entire application's server cluster could incrementally migrate to remain over one geographic area, but do so at a much lower altitude than geosynchronous orbit.
It seems you've missed the point.

Additinally, the Apple whataboutism is a non-sequitur that adds zero to the discussion.
It was designed to help create a timestamp for blocks of transactions. It's doing that just fine for Bitcoin.
The Network graph has gotten increasingly buried in GitHub UX (currently it is under Insights > Network, at one point I recall it was a top level tab of its own) because it's a very useful power user feature, but can be super confusing to new users. (It's particularly a shame it is so hidden because IMNSHO it is the best commit graph that GitHub has, much more useful than the default commits list on the Code tab.)

The Network graph is extremely useful for getting a sense if a particular fork is dead and if there's a lot of activity happening on another fork (and letting you jump directly to other fork).
It’s possible that Google cutting off Huawei will actually backfire, because it makes having a viable alternative to Android a MUST HAVE instead of just NICE TO HAVE.

It's a must-have for the small companies like Xiaomi that only or mostly make smartphones. But they can't afford to develop an android alternative.

Huawei and Samsung make lots of things other than smartphones and can just leave the market if need be. It's less expensive for both of them to shutter their smartphone business than it is to develop a viable android alternative that developers would want to code for and that consumers would want to use.

Either way think it’s going to lead to more mobile OS competition again, which is a good thing

Unlikely.
Are they considering all credit as debt? I don't think credit that gets its full balance payed on time is debt. Once you pay interest on a balance it becomes debt.
Softbank is not making goofy investments (hover skatebaords), they are making ROI investments (real estate leasing).

Google dumped the robots for strategic reasons, moreover, it's going to be a while before payoff.
I'm possibly wrong but I think Gell-Mann is likely the most underrated scientist of the 20th century.
Do you have any idea how orbits work?

Yes. But your reading comprehension is spotty. Look at the cousin comment:

The way the "hovering" would work, is that the entire state of one virtual server would be serialized, then sent via line-of-sight high bandwidth comms to the next satellite to go over the region of interest. This way, the entire application's server cluster could incrementally migrate to remain over one geographic area, but do so at a much lower altitude than geosynchronous orbit.
I use it constantly. It helps visualize code flow in larger files by collapsing branches of loops or conditionals.
What would be your comparison between the solutions? As in, why would I pick Puppet over Ansible or Terraform for a masterless use-case?
Why is this an increasing issue, since credit cards have been around for decades?
The article states "Middle-class life is now 30% more expensive than it was 20 years ago.".
I think this may be the major contributing factor to this.
That limit is extremely high. Total solar input to the earth is about 10^17 watts. Humans require about 100 watts to produce 1 brainpower -- if AGI is similarly efficient it could produce 10^15 brainpower, or 10,000 brainpower for every human.

If 10,000 people's entire purpose in life was to turn you into paperclips, I don't think you could outrun them for long.
This goes for so, so many things I've seen where it's not even big data, but crap like some small part of their total dataset being a graph (unlikely to ever go beyond a thousandish nodes for any given connected set, and even that'd be unusually high, and certain to be sparsely connected to boot) so of course we have to use a hipster-ass graph db adding thousands in development costs and making the whole thing harder to work with and (demonstrably—this wasn't the first project they'd made this mistake on) less stable eyeroll.

Starting a new project? You almost certainly don't need something other than 1) files (yes, seriously), or 2) SQLite (yes, seriously), or 3) Postgresql or some other multi-paradigm, capable SQL DB. If the former two, please also consider whether you even need a f*cking server or are actually writing something that ought to be desktop/mobile software. That's another expensive, feature-delaying, and UX-harming mistake I've seen.
Isn't it more likely that economic inequality is the primary cause?

https://i.imgur.com/2kfyBPt.png
Is it any easier to move discussion that happened in an email thread?
JIRA is much more complex than that; unlike with BioRender, yours is an unfair simplification. Your argument can be rescued though by replacing JIRA with Trello.
"American have an average of $6,506 in credit card debt, according to a new Experian report out this week."

Although credit reporting agencies have a funny way of calculating debt, which is used for your credit score as well. It's just your current balance, even if you pay it off every month and aren't in "debt". It's hard to tell from the report how they are calculating debt, but I bet it is the amount of money on the credit line waiting to be repaid, even if it isn't costing interest.

Plus, if you wait until the statement due date (which is basically a free extension of the loan, so a good idea, as long as you have automated bill pay that will make sure it makes it right under the deadline), this means that number is likely your past statement plus whatever your current purchases are. You don't control when the credit companies look at your balances, and for mine I was surprised that they were basically reporting 2x my normal revolving credit card usage over the month. I use my credit card for everything if possible, since I get 2% cash back on my Fidelity card (which is great, BTW), as well as great fraud protection and the ability to automatically get an electronic record of every transaction.

The real question is how much of the accounts are delinquent. In the linked report (https://www.experianplc.com/media/news/2019/state-of-credit-...) 6.7% of people are 90 days late on their payment.
I'm wondering whether it would make sense for the Chinese government to sponsor a phone OS. That would take care of the collective action problem a single manufacturer would face, would make it harder for other countries to employ the strong arm tactics current used with Android, and would help the Chinese government enforce their own censorship and surveillance priorities.
Using debt to pay for basic routine monthly expenses makes a lot of sense in my mind. There are extra consumer protections when you do this, and benefits from credit providers to do it that can add up. I use debt to pay for all my expenses except for my mortgage payments, which is just servicing of another big debt.
Whoops, I meant for net neutrality.
More Productive Git
Theoretically as interest rates go up and corporate taxes go down the benefits of such leveraged recaps should soften. On a stand-alone basis if a firm needs to increase leverage to find an optimal cost of capital, adding debt and buying back stock is a reasonable strategy.
It's very easy. lists.sr.ht, for example, supports importing and exporting mailing list archives as mbox files (a well-known format for email storage).
Isn’t that the mantra? Yoi are assuming that once you leave, the company doesn’t hire your replacement. You are supposed to leave your first few employments if you want to make big gains in your salary and not be stuck with the annual set amount of raise? Hell, I did that and doubled my income. The last work hired someone else and paid them what I got paid.
Tying the CEO salary to employee compensation wouldn’t change that. CEOs get raises because the company is doing better. Isn’t the company doing better because the employees are doing better work? So why does just the CEO get paid more? Who not the employees with him?
It's also interesting to note that Trump's tariffs are estimated to cost Americans about 800 a year, or about 2 months of discretionary spending, yikes.
You've convinced me, we should ditch the capitalistic model.
I use RSS to see the latest news stories. No need for any other third party webpage, IMO.
There are fewer shares, but the book value of the company goes down as well because it is spending cash to buy the shares. So it's not necessarily true that the price should go up.
Why is CEO pay the business of anyone except the Board of Directors?

Why don’t we critique successful actors or athletes for their high pay? The cast of Friends made a million dollars per episode. And they didn’t even make decisions, they literally read lines and made facial expressions at appropriate moments. Certainly the editor and camera operators worked “harder.”
Interesting. I agree that it's not going to be the same, but I welcome that. Currently open source is just a tool for big tech to advance their agenda.

I think this is a brilliant move from MS. They gain goodwill and at the same time help shift expectations of OSS developers towards being paid for work. Given that both of Azure rivals are using FOSS extensively, while MS is not (much?), this could help weaken the rivals.

The reason I welcome this is that too often OSS is simply not good enough and would be (imho) much better if developers were paid for their work.
I think 70% is quite optimistic.
Your definitions don't match conventional understanding.
How many of the 25% have a smart phone released in the last 12 months and premium cable? Go to bars every week? A statistic like the headline is meaningless without a lot more qualification.

Some people are simply irresponsible and bad with money. It should be quantified.
Zurich, Switzerland. There's only one family in my building I'm not really chatting with somewhat regularly. Everyone says I'll get to know them once the weather is right for hanging out in the common grassy area anyways. And that's despite the Swiss having an opinion for being like Germans, but without the openness and legendary sense of humour ;)
There was tons of exciting work being done, apparently. Lots of promise of opportunities to plug away on a hot react frontend, scores of talented teams that sort of thing. I'm sure it is happening like that.

But they were plugging holes as fast as they could with contract recruiters that were throwing whatever would stick. I didn't even get to meet my team before I had an offer in hand.

From mine and his experience, whatever department that was (an ecommerce frontend), seems chaotic, with massive turnover.
Those new gradient bar gauges look great, can't wait to use them on some environmental data.
I make less than 20k a year. Somehow I am able to eat healthy food while living in one of the more expensive metro areas. I have no debt, and even have a little extra at the end of the year to speculate with sometimes. Luck I suppose. It would still be cool to have a full time job, but we can't all have those, apparently.
I think we're in a state of transition that will take a few decades to resolve itself.

In the past, it was difficult to get an idea published. Money and power are definitely not sufficient to show that someone's ideas should be listened to (in some cases, the converse is true), but they're at least weakly correlated to competence. Also, when the barrier to entry was higher, less was produced, so there was a lot more opportunity for coversight.

This lead to printed words and popular speech having an air of authority and truthfulness. I expect that this will be swiftly eroded, and replaced with more caution, as society adjusts.
I have a few problems with that, though. For one, I don't really care about the vast majority of projects that kind of stuff is used for, and for another they often have closed proprietary toolchains.
Project XCloud: More for Gamers and Developers
What investors need to know about Ethereum 2.0
Like the other poster I enjoyed your comment. For what it's worth, the offending comment has been flag killed by the community.
Waiting for better Loki integration.
The Simplest Simple Dependency Injection Container (DIC)
+1 for carbonara. With current anti-carb fads a lot of people have a kneejerk reaction against pasta. But good pasta dishes in modest portion sizes, often staying close to the Italian style recipes, have been good to me.

Also alla gricia or all'amatricana.
The simple version of the theory is that stock buybacks should be price neutral because shareholders effectively lose cash now (for the buyback) but get a higher proportion of future earnings for that cash. If the price of the stock is perfectly efficient, these values should be equal.