skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average millennial has net worth of $8k, far less than prior generations
FWIW I use binary literals a bunch in python, either when working with binary file formats or with bitfields.
I still remember my 8th grade history teachers response when I told him I was gifted: "Well you haven't done anything gifted in here."

Which is really the main point. Ones circumstances aside, I strongly believe you can achieve what you set your mind to. I've been able to achieve everything I've truly wanted to achieve in my life so far.

I suspect the author of the article wanted to be a mother, married and to work with children. It looks like she achieved these things.
Here is a decent write about about 4 such student lawsuits...funny you mention the federal government, because as you will see in this article the Dept. Of Ed. Was involved in these efforts to reset the discharge clocks, because the program was going to cost them more than expected. Specifically right before the first batch of discharged loans the Dept of Ed changed their rules on the fly (in violation of the Act) to make students ineligible for discharge.

https://www.studentloanplanner.com/pslf-lawsuit/

Edit: I think In all 4 of these cases the Dept. Of Ed. Already approved these discharges, sent approval letters, then changed their rules and revoked the discharges. Again the rule changes were in violation of law and done because the costs of the program were so large.
The Huawei Sanction Might Just Pop the Tech Bubble
"Businesses rely on being shitty so we can't outlaw being shitty or they might have to find a way to operate without being shitty, or else stop operating" isn't really convincing me.
You can always send a letter, right?
If "Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone"

Is true does that mean those households do without those things? Or are they subsidized via other methods? Medicare/medicaid for health insurance for example. Such programs often have income maximums that households may be attempting to optimise for.

We often hear about millions not making a living wage but the fact that we don't have millions of corpses makes that claim less effective as it exposes it as rhetoric. Or perhaps millions are dying from exposure and malnutrition as is claimed and I can't find that data.
It used to be common to refer to politicians by their initials. JFK, LBJ, FDR for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt. It seemed to go out of style when we started knowing them by their diminutives. E.G. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton.
I'm not exactly sure which analyses you'd like to see, but all the data is here in csv format if you want to run your own visualizations: https://github.com/owenshen24/charting-death-analysis/tree/m...
> Only issue is, a lot of places I looked pay well below market rates :/ (at least for software engineers)

aerospace places tend to just have one engineering rate, and it's dominated by what aerospace engineering graduates cost. which is less than what software folks cost.

aerospace graduates are all high on hubble pictures and "we're doing spaaaaace!", so they charge way less.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20061064 and marked it off-topic.
When the code of a function is compiled fully until CPU instructions, the line declaring the function name and arguments disappears in the process; it's only used as metadata by the compiler (AOT or JIT).

There's no x86/ARM/etc instructions that represent a function declaration.
Because it's rife with bad actors due to a lack of regulation. And even the good actors are kind of forced to be bad actors in order to compete. Lacking better regulation it's just a horrible business model for consumers, with really no exceptions since anyone who plays nice will ultimately lose out to less scrupulous players.
This is the first I've heard that the DNC/Podesta emails were forged, do you have a source for that?

And personally, assuming the emails are legit, I would rather they release that info before the election when it actually matters instead of afterwards. If a candidate is engaging in collusion/corruption to rig the primary against a competitor (Sanders) and receiving debate questions prior to a debate that's something I'd want voters to know about.
It's a very well written book! Short and sweet. Not that novel as expected, but a still very good read for a weekend.
Here's an example: https://imgur.com/a/fWRwTf7

Chrome is on the left, Firefox is on the right. In my opinion, Firefox's text looks terrible.
Is that because they really want to move on or is it because the email doesn't tell the whole story?

Curious to hear Medium's response.
> I claim that this is wrong.

Over 90% of Mozilla's funding comes from having Google search as the default[0]. If FF users weren't seeing ads, then Google would have no reason to pay for that service. So Mozilla loses its funding.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
"Only" about 10 years. This has a very complicated orbit and needs to use fuel to adjust and stay on it.
You may want to consider this affects literally every piece of software in every language that has ever called into another library.
People forget there was an entire series leading up to the Saturn V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Saturn_development

They've got a Saturn IB at an Alabama rest stop outside of Huntsville. Surprisingly small, but still towers above you!
Another criticism of this haste is that you set yourself up to be taken advantage of by profiteers or genuine malicious actors. I understand the urgency to save lives as soon as possible; but the risk is high and uncertain.
Still worth to have it exposed...
I have plenty of tales of impatient boomer relatives who have jammed up the micro-USB port on their devices by forcing it in the wrong way. It was a lot harder to do this with mini-USB, and I'm glad the subsequent revision (USB-C) is largely foolproof.
There is also the new GraphQL integration into mobx-state-tree that was just announced last week by the author of mobx, you can check it here https://github.com/mobxjs/mst-gql
I agree, exposure to lead, particularly from gasoline, was a huge factor in violent crime.

It probably also explains the "weird spike" in violence from the 60's to the 80's mentioned at the end of the article, as more and more people started driving and cities converted to car-centric.
I would have loved a more comprehensive search of media. We opted for NYT/G because they had the friendliest APIs given our time constraints.
Java EE is not compatible with Java ME
Crypto path:

EFT transfer to an exchange, purchase crypto (1% fee), withdraw to a different exchange ($1 fee), sell crypto (1% fee), SEPA transfer to recipient.

Classic path:

TransferWise handles everything (0.85% or less). Or:

EFT transfer to Interactive Brokers, FOREX exchange ($20 per million), withdraw via SEPA to Croatian account. They allow you to link both AU and Croatian accounts. Or:

Open an HSBC account in both places and use the online instant account-to-account global transfer tool (rates vary, ~2%) and send a SEPA payment. Or:

Wire money (pricey). Or:

With a brokerage account and an established business you can instantly make your payment through margin (3.9% per annum). IB will allow you to borrow Hrvatska kruna and withdraw instantly via SEPA payment. Then you can transfer in Australian dollars over EFT at your leisure.

Seriously, this is a solved problem and the crypto path is not faster, it's not safer, it's not cheaper, it's not easier.
There's a reason technical writing has the term 'technical' in it. It should be different from how one would writes for a casual audience (who are reading for fun). When reading as a hobby the mystery of where the story will lead to is part of the fun. But when reading a technical document you don't want there to be a mystery, you want to get the message as soon as possible. So it makes sense to have something upfront that tells the reader what the next couple sentences are about. I wouldn't see it as mediocre writing.
https://sspd.gsfc.nasa.gov/restore-L.html

also

https://www.darpa.mil/program/robotic-servicing-of-geosynchr...
I'm pretty sure that was the point he was trying to make. The excuse often made for why rental properties aren't allowed is that tenants are often noisy or cause other problems. He was just pointing out that that can be a problem for owners as well, so whether it's a tenant or a owner that's being noisy is immaterial.
By definition that would exclude most train stations in Japan and Hong Kong.
Good software skills are good writing skills
As /u/tqi pointed out elsewhere, there have been several rubbish Guardian science pieces on the front page in the last few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20040897

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035473

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20034411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20026454
Don't get me wrong. I love PureScript and HKT but the fact that it requires complete buyout to Purescript ecosystem overwhelms my team members and becomes a hard sell. To build a PS layer on top existing JS libraries isn't straight forward. Now that they introduced so many breaking changes, it will take time for other PS libraries to catch up. May be I might go back to PS when 1.0 release happens and I hope many things are stable including libraries which I need in day to day full stack development.

Typescript in the last couple of years introduced a nice way to compose types and ways to get rid of many other common JS gotchas. They have type definitions for almost all the usable npm libraries, which helps you jump-start the development.
He met the girl via a website that claimed to be age-verified. Turns out she lied about her age, and the site didn't actually (properly) verify her. He still should've verified her age himself, but it kinda changes the narrative.
AAN actually sell stuff other than hyper-targeted ads. F and G (and AAN) still can sell ads, just less targeted ones. They would suffer a bit (or a bit more), but not outright be forced out of business. And same goes for most if not all other FAANG-tier companies not explicitly included in that acronym.

As for the "improving service" angle, e.g. Netflix could ask if it's OK to collect history to improve/personalize recommendations.

And a lot of "improvements" and metrics do not really need detailed data collection per person anyway. Collecting anonymous data in broader groupings is often quite fine. E.g. "Strange Things is really popular our total-views counter says ergo order a new season". There is no need for Netflix to know exactly who specifically watched the show to make such a decision.
I think this flourishes only because it comes from the top of Amazon, with Bezo's being the top proponent of this writing-first communication process.
They have to spend a certain % of endowment funds every year (4% maybe) in order to maintain tax-free status.
Took a bit of effort to set up but it works great and is mostly set-it-and-forget-it.
Douglas Adams has taught me the truth!
All of your examples of journalists being harassed by the government relate to Nixon...who was on the verge of impeachment for his abuses of power...

Of the 4 examples you provided, only Wilson didn't violate any laws. Drake and Kiriakou were government intelligence officers and violated federal laws regarding the disclosure of classified information. For Kirakou, the problem was not that he blew the whistle--the problem was how. He could have blown the whistle in a manner that protected classified information, such as by reporting to the Congressional oversight committee, which is what Drake tried to do. Drake was shielded from prosecution because he attempted to follow proper procedure all the way to the extremes and only breached disclosure rules when he was rebuffed. Kirakou didn't even try, which is why he ended up serving time. Brown may have committed a number of hacking-related crimes while a member of Anonymous; his criminal charges related to that and not to his reporting. (Being a journalist only shields you for journalism-related activities. It's not a magic shield to protect you from any crime you commit.) Wilson was never charged with a violation of the Espionage Act, so I'm not sure why he's on your list....
My problem at least is the fog behind it all, let me make the choice of whether I let you sell my information or pay you directly, don't make me assume that everything free comes with strings attached.
Nuclear and Renewables are mostly equivalent when it comes to their CO2 cost

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...

Solar in particular can vary wildly when it comes to the CO2/MWatt because of geography, the ratio of CO2/Mwatt in Atacama desert will be wildly different from a solar plant in Germany, but still, when averaged out, the values of the plants themselves are mostly equivalent.

Yet the problem happens when costs and other externalities are thrown into the picture, a solar plant doesnt need to worry about the storage of nuclear waste, and the mining of new facilities to store that waste, nor the extraction and refining process for Uranium which has all sorts of caveats, solar needs only worry of silica extraction, rare earths (which are needed by other industrial processes anyways) and refining and production, then simple disposal. And unlike Nuclear, the waste disposal of solar panels is comparatively super straight forward.

The big one is the economic cost, where solar and wind heavily undercuts nuclear energy production

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

And solar/wind can be expected to continue falling in price as technology continues to advance and economies of scale pick up the slack, same is not the case for nuclear technology, where safety requirements balloon up the price of the plants, waste management, uranium extraction, and in a competitive disrupted market such as the modern market of energy production, nuclear plants are falling by the wayside as a consequence of continued delays, ever increasing safety requirements and waste management fees increases.

Lastly, nuclear plant construction, is neither "easy, nor speedy". it is an absolutely gruesome afair which has lead to the bankrupcy of many companies

https://www.powermag.com/more-losses-for-firstenergy-fes-see...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-tos...
> ISPs have your web browsing data

Since you worked in this area: What specific things do they track, and by what technical mechanism? DNS requests? (Do they capture those that don't go to their servers?) IP addresses? HTTP snooping? Full HTTP (non-TLS) MITM?
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but pa11y was what a large enterprisey company I used to work at tried to adhere to. http://pa11y.org/
I agree that it really does feel that way. I don't really have an explanation for it either and I do wonder if the figures are accurate.

Where did you buy credits from? The one I found which seems the most legit is Cool Effect: https://www.cooleffect.org/

You can pick your project. This seemed like the most credible "offset" to me:
https://www.cooleffect.org/content/project/renewable-energy-...

Problem with planting or keeping trees is it is a future promise and a long term one and that just seems too easy to break. (either on purpose or due to other factors)
Moore's law itself may be dead but there is still additional potential to explore. Right now, CPUs are mostly two dimensional with only a few layers stacked on top compared to the extent in the other two dimensions.

Compare this to a human brain which too, has a sulcated layering system for the grey matter but the white matter connectome turns it into a fully three dimensional object. We can't produce such a thing with technological means yet.

The CPUs we produce have to be deployed in datacenters and computers within distance to each other, mostly for heat dissipation reasons. We can't just stack $N CPUs onto and next to each other until we reach an object of the size of a brain. It would not be practical to cool that thing. Compare this to human brains which require much less energy (20 Watts on average).

Moore's law is dead but it's about size of transistors. Human axons have diameters of hundreds of nanometers, even the gap of intracellular space of a synapse is approximately 20 nanometers. Compare this to the 5 nanometers we got now. We don't need size improvements to model brains, we need power consumption/heat dissipation/electric loss improvements. Also, CPUs are still very expensive. We also need improvements in manufacturing them more cheaply. Both isn't really requiring node sizes to shrink further.

Sadly, there's a different law called Dennard's Scaling which was precisely about power consumption, but it has been dead for about 13 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
Sending it out beforehand defeats the purpose.
>I'm obviously much more forgiving of people that had to learn English as adults, but somewhat paradoxically I find that they typically write a lot more comprehensibly than most of the native-speaking engineers.

This might seem paradoxical at first, but upon further inspection you realize that those who learn a language (as opposed to acquire it) are better at it.
It was a rather important year. They were traitorous slaver-owners, we weren't.
I hope that everyone uses this. If I was Netlify, I'd pay Mathieu to develop this further (e.g. web UI for people not handy with CLI). What broke Medium for me was their paywall, paid subscriptions, and all that crap. Suddenly, instead of Medium facilitating an author's work reaching readers, it became an impediment in its way.
Jeremy has updated the post in response to the announcement.

- Lots of improvements & better documentation

- Smaller response size, but can be cut down a lot more

- Sub 100ms query performance

> I’m really impressed by the updates that have been made. I do want to reiterate that this isn’t an easy problem to solve, so I think the strides they’ve made are quite good. I’m not sure how connection management works under the hood, so I’ll likely need to experiment with that a bit to measure concurrent connection performance.

edit: formatting
Any links or references? Sounds like a fascinating backstory.
Money exchanging hands is not the problem.

Actually, I think that is the whole problem. Many of these regulations exist because the local government officials want to extract as much value as they can for themselves and their friends.
These Trump Socks Went Viral—and a Nightmare on Amazon Began
They covered Apple last year https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...?
Syntax question, after looking at a couple of examples: Long wished more languages had a ‘where’ clause (suspect it could be really nice to have in Python), but why the ‘where’ at the end of the initial ‘module’ line? I guess it’s doing something consistent, but it does look a bit odd
Could you please stop posting ideological flamebait to HN? It breaks the guidelines and is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So what they are saying is really that they didn't have to try hard at school and so learnt to be lazy and that its not their fault that they're lazy - its society's fault for telling them they are/were gifted?

Please take some personal responsibility for your own actions (or inactions in this case).

Frankly anyone who has had a decent education (even if they were not "gifted") has potential to waste; its not unique to "gifted" people to throw that away.
1. This is a great reason to invest in buried HVDC lines to replace existing high tension lines. Less need to turn them down when fire conditions are present, less likely to start a fire underground. [1] Costs are anywhere between $1.5 million-$5 million per mile.

2. This is a great reason to find incentives and institute mandates for more rooftop solar and distributed energy storage (PowerWalls and the like), instead of generators or battery storage alone for at-risk electrical consumers. This would also help California reach its renewables mandates and enables a more resilient electrical grid.

3. Bury distribution lines as well in fire prone areas when it's efficient to do so [2].

[1] http://www.briantilton.com/NorthernPass/EastonMeeting060715/...

[2] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/pge-to-bury-distribution-li... (PG&E to bury distribution lines serving fire-ravaged Paradise, California)
> DuckDuckGo provides better search results than Google.

DDG is getting better at about the same rate that Google is stuffing new ads and sponsored content into results. It's not a stretch to say that I'm more productive with DDG as my default.

Google is no longer as focused on delivering what I ask for as they were when they weren't a monopoly. Maybe they're still the best, but there have been tons of HN articles recently about biases in Google results.
rms -- Richard Stallman
Raspberry-picking robot completes first field trials
Ask HN: What if we don't let tech ppl interview tech ppl? Does it matter? Why?
I mean if the guy/girl said they coded Java for the past 3 years. Is there anything they couldn't learn on the day job anyways? I think it's just a matter of a couple of months or years? And it is not like the girl/guy are useless in the meantime.
Is this a generational thing, or an industry-you're-in blindness thing? Or both? We had an economy, and even advertising (so, so much of it) before spyvertising was such a huge thing. It was fine. The sky did not fall. For some reason there's a set of people who seem to think it'll be the end of the world if we stop letting companies operate private dragnet spy operations.
Using Brave will provide no benefit regarding the extension changes you are mentioning, unless Brave forks and stays on an older version of Chromium. Where are you seeing speed enhancements? When it comes to loading pages, or in task manager?
- Sauerkraut

- Kefir
> In real life markets are a lot more complicated

Markets are more complicated and people are often irrational, but that doesn't mean the feedback loop isn't there. It is fallacious to assume that substitutes will be found and that technology will continually advance directionally. Conceptually, prices could simply rise to the point where only the very rich get to use personal computers until, 200 years later, genetic engineering brings organic AI.

In reality it's some mix of all the above and much more precisely because the world is irreducibly complex. But I think the point of creating and relying upon transparent markets is precisely so that pricing signals can reach people quickly; and if this induces the wrong behavior according to our normative objectives then it's easier to identify this and we can react accordingly without having to rely on conjecture and our imaginations.
Bootstrapping from Idea to Ramen Profitability in a Year
Why are people entitled to consequence free sex? We may as well fund single payer prostitution.
And that's why everyone who works for Google or Facebook should quit, too, but in the real world there are an insane amount of jobs that ultimately do really bad things, and we need work. So find somewhere that your particular skillset makes a net positive contribution instead of going homeless because almost every single big company is responsible for suffering in the world. The defense contract I worked for also has a strong civil presence and makes things like turn stiles, card readers, and emergency alert systems, and those directly benefit people rather than help murder folks. The idea that "my work directly benefits the part of the company that murders people", given how budgets actually work in large companies, is arguably far more delusional here.