skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet when we considered the variables you mentioned, the conclusion didn’t change.

What is the point of mentioning that decreasing household size could make the number misleading, when household size didn’t decrease by a significant amount? What is the point of repeatedly bringing up workforce participation by women?

It’s fine to say that a measure might be misleading because of other factors. But when those factors don’t actually make it misleading for the example being discussed, I don’t really get the point.

It’s also weird that you focus entirely on the possibility that everyone is better off. Isn’t it also possible that everyone is worse off while the median household income remains flat? Smells of ideological bias.
I guess it taught me that karma is worthless. It’s easy to pander and make popular posts but they are usually a pedestrian opinion (did you know that (country) is BAD?) , a variation on a tired joke, or some boring tidbit (the SR-71 fast L O L).
> Quick question to all HN's; Is Dark Souls "Addictive"?

I don't think so. I'm a heavy dark souls fan plus Bloodborne and Sekiro. I've been playing since Demon's Souls. Probably one of my top 5 favorite franchises of all time, aggregate playtime probably in the high hundreds maybe thousands of hours.

Personally, I can play the game more than maybe a couple hours at a time because they require a level of attention so great that I'm exhausted after a couple hours. I have to put it down after some time.
I enjoy studying and considering stoicism but I have to think statements like
>one of the biggest groups of people interested in it seems to be millennials who work in the tech industry

and considering a simplified description of stoicism

>the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.

To be an indictment of our industry. We're not coal-miners. We're not picking out in the fields or roofing in the hot sun. Cafeterias and RSUs aren't hardships.
Yes, well, why should we accept new, conflicting information? The reasonable thing to do is to wait before you have a good enough reason to accept a new thing.
"Wyze was all over this from the get-go."

Sorry - this is a regular software bug. They can't just say 'hey patched that bug'.

If they were 'all over it', it never would have happened.

People's private lives are obviously very important to them, these companies should be super conservative like banks, not willy nilly like startups. Unfortunately, I don't think the business would exist as such, the 'real cost of operational overhead' of doing '5 nines' secure instead of '3 nines secure' might be too much for the business model to sustain.

Not in my home.
I don't think the problem is necessarily whether it's real people. The problem is that if you're not careful, Reddit becomes the upvote Olympics.

You can't build a healthy social diet on just approval. Some people do that with real life. It just happens to be far easier to do on the internet because we figured out that approval is addictive and drives user engagement.
I spent many years of my life working on websites that used ads as a monetization method. I've spent thousands of hours working on projects where the intention is to "show more ads" or "implement more effective ads".

To be honest, I wish I spent that time looking for a cure for cancer instead. Or advertising for a cure to cancer. But I don't think showing ads to people is dishonest, a scam, or spying on people.
I can tell you have the best intentions but the path to hell is paved with good intentions. There are ways to moderate political discussion but the reality is probably that hacker news has no interest or ability in moderating political topics. The most interesting conversation in my view would be one that changes minds on a political subject. That can’t happen here.
Another O’Reilly author here and this article is spot on — particularly about blocking out specific times to write.
Tangentially related: it's a pity there aren't more websites like this one: [0]

It's nice to compare different translations in-line. The last line of section 3 is an excellent example of how different translations can be: [1]

Enchiridion is well worth a read (I gather Carter has the best translation but I've gleaned this from places like Reddit so pinch of salt!), and I also enjoyed Derren Brown's Happy [0] which draws heavily on stoicism, summarising a lot of famous works on it as he goes.

[0] - https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/display:Code:ec,twh,pem,sw/se...
[1] - https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/display:Code:ec,twh,pem,sw/se...
[2] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy
i haven’t looked at the fars in quite a few years, but i’m pretty sure there would be stuff in there that references stuff like pitch stability (which is how i’d define the “hardware problem”), is that not the case? i’m afk atm.

i still maintain my macro point, either way.

making the airframe on a pax airliner aerodynamically stable during normal takeoff and landing operations seems like basic “good engineering” to me.
> I would make student debt dischargeable through bankruptcy and I would also favor the federal government no longer providing, subsidizing, or guaranteeing student loans.

I completed a Bachelor and Master degrees at a top 50 world-ranked university with an (Australian) government sponsored loan of, by graduation, around $30k USD, that I never would've had a hope of funding privately at that point in my life (or honestly any point after if I had never gotten the degree and hence a high-paying job).

My loan is not dischargeable through bankruptcy, and is repaid as a percentage of taxable income (~10% at the top tier), and not repaid at all if you earn below a threshold a few multiples above the poverty line. The "interest" is actually just inflation as the cash rate from the reserve bank is applied to the outstanding balance at year end. My interest last year was $800 AUD on a $40k AUD balance.

I disagree that the problem is specifically easy access to capital. There is a value in attending university; it creates an educated population which benefits everyone. I believe the core of the problem in the US is the lack of appetite for regulation and government intervention leading to a situation where the government guarantees private capital to fund things that they don't control the cost of. This creates a reason for the lender to discount the risk of the debt (because the government guarantees it by making it undischargeable) leading to capability for borrowers to get bigger loans. Universities quickly cottoned on and billed more for less, and the cycle continues until it (eventually) collapses.

The cost of degrees in Australia are easily regulated as the majority of universities are government institutions. There is one private university but the government loan limits are often not enough to finish a 4 year degree there so in reality only rich kids whose parents wish to buy them business connections attend.

I think it's the government guaranteeing loans to expensive institutions are the problem, not that people are getting degrees. Why remove all government loan assistance? Just stop giving it to people who want to go to private universities.
check out this project https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer. I wish something like Hammerspoon existed for Linux.
It's just this generations spin on new-age spiritualism. Boomers were there decades ago. The difference: we're now mining Zeno instead of Jung.

Not necessarily a bad thing in some ways. There's lots of anxiety and neuroticism in our generation and we need tools besides benzodiazepines to address them.
> What does any of what you just typed out have to do with the original comment about someone who drives for GrubHub for supplemental income and feel that they prefer to be an independent contractor as opposed to an employee?

It is a policy proposal that allows them to do so without suffering the risks you identified. If they like to be an independent contractor but don't like those risks, they should ask the government for a UBI rather than a law requiring them to be reclassified as an employee, which then mitigates those risks without requiring them to indirectly overpay for unemployment insurance that suffers from an insurance fraud problem that a UBI doesn't (among other advantages).

> Wouldn't it be better use of time to go find a discussion specifically about what you are talking about?

Here's one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20069094

Based on their comment, the person there was apparently not aware of the details of the discussions that have been had about this numerous times by other people. Which is fine -- many people really are only having these discussions for the first time. There is nothing wrong with that.

But why do you assume that no one reading this thread has never been exposed to this information before? Some people have, but no one requires that they participate in a similar discussion again.

It's not as if we're on a totally irrelevant tangent here. The fact that some people have discussed it in the past doesn't reduce its relevance as a policy alternative.
Speaking as an automotive mechanic in a small chain of Midwest shops, this has been an automotive punchline for 30 years. It started with chain primary shoes in Harley Davidson's going to plastic and is seen today in BMW water pump assemblies.

None of them, not one, is equal or superior to a sintered powder, stamped, or forged metal gear. Even aluminum in low torque applications will grossly outperform plastic, for example in sunroof gears. I'll believe the hype when I start seeing these as drive/bull gears in things like chainsaws.
And if the universe is spherical?
College is for educations. It's not a vo-tech academy. Also, you're running away from the discussion. The issue is about students becoming unhireable upon graduation. An associate level developer will be able to fix the issues with a junior level developer who would use that sql statement and AWS credentials, and frankly, being able to crank out that sql statement is far beyond what the average graduate can do to begin with.
Sequel to Michael Crichton’s ‘Andromeda Strain’ due in fall
I installed the [i3 edition of Manjaro](https://manjaro.org/download/i3/) last weekend. I was up and running with a beautiful environment providing most of the listed utilities in an hour or so. I have been incredibly happy with the setup.

The edition could still use some more love (e.g., I had to set up auto-mounting and HiDPI compatible configs myself), but it is remarkably cohesive and (relatively) easy to get going.

There is definitely room for improvement, but this is probably a good place to look or inspiration, and contributing to advance this work might be a good use of energy for those interested.
A transactional schema usually isn't ideal for running analytics on. So you create a data warehouse that transforms your data into a schema that's more amenable to reporting. They probably have a ton of marketing data also they integrate into the data warehouse to run analysis on.
There's a difference between a slow starter, or someone who lacks confidence, and someone unwilling to put forth the effort to learn something because his professor didn't put him in a high chair and spoon feed it to him.
Given all the environments I've worked in, including midsize construction projects I'm willing to bet my hand on the fact that some engineers or third party planning bureaus actually did spot these flaws and reported them and then were turned down and ignored, but not before having been told that it's not their decision/problem.

That's always the moment when I'm happy to have documented the decisions.
Marcus Aurelius is responsible for raising and empowering his son Commodus - the emperor depicted in the movie Gladiator.

It's useful to keep this in mind when reading his meditations. Yes, the message can be nice and joyful to read. Yet the man who wrote them created a tyrant and contributed to untold suffering.
Admittedly I have 0 familiarity of the internals of a corporate electrical engineering environment, but this is a logically sound idea that in many other industries is standard. OS 10.02, Apache license v. 2, Archer router xyz Rev 02.
What's the limiting factor here in the case of MCAS?
Drexel 5611
> MCAS has nothing to do with force feedback on the yoke

When did I say it has anything to do with it?

> The 737 does not have artificial feel in any case, as far as I know. There's a direct mechanical linkage from the yoke to the control surfaces, so no artificial feel is necessary.

Modern planes come with stick shaker-pusher systems: https://www.flyingmag.com/how-it-works-stick-shaker-pusher

That's what I was referring to. Also whilst the 737 does have mechanical linkages to the control surfaces, they are there primarily for redundancy so the plane is flyable in case of hydraulics/power failure. By definition any hydraulics assisted system requires artificial force feedback.
Did it really? MS lost browser dominance because they purposefully let IE stagnate at 6, and Firefox then Chrome ate their lunch. They lost OS dominance because of the unforeseen dramatic rise of post-iPhone smartphones. The combination of WebKit on iPhones and Android plus Google using it's own market clout to push Chrome on desktop is what really put the nail in IE's coffin. The anti-trust actions from the US and the EU had little to do with this (the EU's decision to force MS to prompt the user to choose a browser happened in late 2009 when these developments were already well under way, and was limited to EU region installs IIRC). MS still dominates OS's on desktops and laptops, but no one seems to care about that anymore.

We have to remember that from IE4-6 before Firefox came around Internet Explorer really was the best browser in town. When MS dropped the ball on that, it was market forces that caused them to lose market share, not any government action. Same with Windows Mobile/PocketPC. And if the EU's goal was to foster browser diversity in their suit against MS, they missed the boat on that entirely.
Thank you for writing about this. I am happy to see you engaging with the community on this.
This illustrates a fundamental misunderstanding of time dilation. Direction has no impact, and this example that is often used is terrible for illustrating what is being proposed re. time dilation, because it just has to do with the perception of time as it relates to light reflecting off of a clock within certain frames of reference.
Usually you only get in trouble for dumping in the context of exported goods.
Hay's translation is the only one I found readable. The rest as you found out are full of archaic verbosity.
I feel dumber for have even skimmed that article. How can you work for a homophobic chicken restaurant and talk about how wonderfully compassionate your job is?
I don't know for sure, but he may have scrolled down only far enough to see the Comments section and thought that was the end of the post.
Makes sense..
I'd never heard about that Austin program. That's pretty cool!

Link: https://savings.austinenergy.com/rebates/residential/offerin...
I don't find NetFlix compelling because after I watch great movie X the service cannot recommend me another movie that is of the same caliber.

Also, there are a lot of independent movies and TV shows on NetFlix. And they suck. Horrible acting and plot but the cover is sometimes good enough to trick you into wasting time taking a look.
Everyone makes mistakes, few people make multi-billion dollar companies that shape the industry they occupy.
I have had a tough time getting my 4k ext display to properly scale with i3. I tried arandr but the fonts are too small. With scaling , Emacs, Firefox and alacritty seem to be ok but things seem sluggish on my x230. How did you do it ?
you are badly incorrect -- adversarial listening devices are increasing, especially where there is a power imbalance
>donjohnr

There's no way Donald Robertson is on Hackernews?!

Edit: I guess it is. Just really surprised you even know what HN is. Never thought you'd be here posting articles.
> Without a doubt, the company is founded on Biblical principles. Even so, I have never seen any expectation placed on the employees to conform to any particular religion, and I have worked with people from a variety of religious backgrounds who love the company and the culture here.

No atheists then?
With all due respect to Harari's historical analysis, he seems to make some logic jumps that are unacceptable in a serious philosophical discussion. From the article you cited: "'free will' isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology." This is a false dichotomy. Free will is still a deep philosophical question. When I read his "Homo Deus", the lack of soundness of his challenge on liberalism seemed to contrast with the quality of the rest of the book.
I have the same problem with Anker lightning cables, which I don't consider that "cheap", on both an iPhone SE and an iPad air.

The issue persists even after replacing the iPhone lightning port with a brand new one, across two different Anker cables.

I guess I'll be sticking to original Apple cables, still, it's mildly infuriating.
They were ordered to be broken up, a la AT&T and Standard Oil. When that decision got neutered, it was indeed business as usual.
How does Manjaro compare to Ubuntu for the “new user seamless install of everything” and “easy update for new users”
I wish they would rework the laws so that being an employee or contractor mattered less. It seems we've created a perverse financial incentive to encourage this behavior of pretending everyone is a contractor.
I was a manjaro i3 user for months on my old laptop, but got a new one with an optimus setup (nvidia card with intel igpu). Yeah, I know, "nvidia bad for oss etc.", but that's what was sold. And cuda is still the gold standard for compute. I had to switch because I couldn't get gpu switching working on my manjaro; nvidia card was stuck in D3 state. Very sad, though I'm now on i3 arch and happy.
"At Chick-fil-A, we care for the whole person. Whether you’re an employee or a customer."

Unless of course you are a homosexual. Chick-fil-A sends millions of dollars to support anti lgbqt organizations.
If you look at adtech there’s really only Google and Facebook so it’d call this very close to a monopoly. This is also not a free service so you are only comparing a small subset of Google services which are mostly built to fuel the ad part (Search and YouTube being the biggest one probably)
Depends on the WM you're using. I think (?) there are gui frontends to pacman? Never bothered to use them. But gnome is available on it, same as ubuntu. Of course, it's almost certainly a little less friendly, but probably not much.
Meh. Recognizing an identity is not identity politics and rejecting identity politics is not rejecting identity.
We do not have many adjuncts so I don’t think we actually lose less money on undergraduates. If it were not for the generosity of alumni and an endowment built over two centuries then I am not sure how we would stay afloat.
Perhaps something entirely different than what you're talking about, but...

I believe changing the aircraft type would trigger regulatory events carrying rather gargantuan costs.

Avoiding those seem to be the entire reason for the existence of the 737 MAX.
> When editing, print out your manuscript and edit it with a red pen.

I also do this for all of my papers and find it extremely helpful. Though I’d be curious if any of you have found a good digital process.
http://innoculous.com/2016/01/the-quantum-physics-of-usb-plu...
Does HN use machine learning to flag posts?
Yea, internet points are pretty useless motivation unless you’re trying to become an influencer—you can see this on HN too.
you dont think a human being with a full time job in the first world country deserves basic privacy of 1br apartment?
why dont we triple the property taxes so that entire middle class cant afford living in a house and start living in dorms?
I so agree with this, though I have a slightly different take. As someone who can't part with my GUIs, I'm nevertheless super jealous of all the i3 folks.

As such, what I want is basically i3 in a gnome window. That for me would be the best of both worlds. I can do all my fancy i3 stuff but still have a crisp, efficient UI to get settings/stuff done when it's about ease of use, not speed.
My take is that Apple kind of invented the overlapping windows paradigm, the Xerox Alto didn’t have that concept, IIRC.

Also, dragging something from the desktop and dropping on a floating window was a major breakthrough, which is kind of incompatible with a split screen model.

Personally, on small screens like the original Mac, I think the floating/overlapping WM worked perfectly. On a 30” however, it’s a bit silly.
> There's absolutely no reason why a properly-designed and -vetted MCAS system wouldn't have been a perfectly acceptable solution

Surely that was exactly the MCAS that was installed in both of the planes that crashed.

But the fact it failed so badly suggest it might in fact be a rather difficult system to get right.
Depends on the application for me. .Xresources is where you need the biggest tweak, but email me if you want more specific help.
crime is very low in japan, food is often of quality, low immigration so less chance to end up in some places where you re the only person speaking english and women are not allowed into coffee shops. so yeah building more housing works. in western countries it is a bit more complicated. there are definitly a huge chunk of the real estate that is located in highly undesirable neighborhoods. i don't know many new york well-intended democrats that will trade a spot in chelsea for one in harlem.
Their service is high-touch. Stylists speak with clients constantly, so they record this information.

They also have mobile apps, they run product experiments, they source and sell clothing and manage inventory, they build and iterate on algorithmic approaches to recommend and design clothing (many of which help stylists and never reach the screen of an external client).

You can skim through their Algorithms blog for some more detail. I find them impressive in how they scale the impact of relatively few stylists to about 3M users.

https://www.kleinerperkins.com/files/INTERNET_TRENDS_REPORT_...
Then Android would probably have just based off BSD like iOS did.
The thing that originally got me to switch to i3 was using a serious potato for a few months. 2012 core i3 processor and 8g ram (upgraded) kind of potato. Plenty usable with i3, but had trouble with windows or heavier full desktop environments; i3 was great and snappy and I was able to use the computer just fine.
Even Windows has had a basic level of built-in window tiling functionality for a decade now. You can resize windows to half or a quarter of the screen either with keyboard shortcuts or dragging the window to a side or corner. It works pretty well.
Yikes, I’m sorry. What were your application developers doing to persist this messy data?
sure man western countries are buying top quality materials for your million dollar garage in the middle of london. top quality tar man! LOL.
I think the question you are asking is what if the universe is toroidal. What if you traveled so far you came back around.
Well I certainly enjoyed this, it was great fun to write!

If you have any suggestions or ideas, I'm always happy to hear them!
You can add a nice bar to i3, and probably do even more customization. I'm guessing it wouldn't be to difficult to fork. It's a learning curve, but not too difficult to get over (I'd analogize it to vim). It's nice and easy to use, you just have to know how.