skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saved/invested money is stored freedom, i.e. ability to choose how to live. The social safety net provided (or not) by others can be changed or withdrawn by the perfidy of government. It can be great when it works, but when it doesn't, what are your options? What happens when the usually acceptable public health care system fails, and you need to get treated right now, or in a different way than the local system dictates? If you don't have savings and/or the ability to travel, you will have to take what's offered.

The social safety net may provide some degree of safety, but it often doesn't offer freedom to choose.

Freedom means being able to take the time to care for yourself or your loved ones if something happens.

That day came for my family several years ago, and my wife and I are constantly reminded how much worse things would have been (even here in enlightened Canada) if we didn't have that kind of freedom.
I extended the life of my iPad 2 by jail breaking. I can't say for the updates since Apple stopped updating it. It only very recently truly gave up the ghost, so that is one positive.

The negatives: You must re-ailbreak at each upgrade because the vulnerabilities they exploit change by definition between versions.

A lot of the time, the jailbreak fails and you simply restart and do it again. Perfectly fine if you are patient enough to put up with a 15 minute boot cycle.

Eventually it makes you hyper-averse to anything that might cause a reboot - updates and battery drains are dreadful.

And after an update, there is no guarantee that a newer jailbreak will work. o all your cydia-installed apps won't work until you get it jailbroken again.

Sooo, jailbreak for the novelty. Bu be aware the caveats can very easily mak it totally not worthwhile. It did keep my iPad alive and usable for years, but there was nothing smooth about the process.

Of course, ymmv. There are people out there that probably find cydia to be awesome in every regard.
Only if anybody could verify such use...
The only reason I know - was hell to learn how to fly. Very unstable and it had quite the reputation for killings its test pilots.
I’m 100% the opposite way. My wife is very frugal, but I save nothing. What’s the point of pinching every single penny? That’s not life; it’s survival. Even more ironic is the fact that this is multiple decades of mere survival all aimed towards one goal: ensuring survival in those decades when work is no longer possible. Perhaps I’m obtuse, but this isn’t a life worth living. I want to enjoy my healthy years in the here and now. I like my disposable income, I like living in a nice neighborhood, I like taking vacations, I like eating out. I’m keenly aware that I’ll be left penniless once I can no longer work, but I have a plan for that. Until then, I have a couple of good decades left, so I’ll enjoy this time together with my family. I’ll cross that other bridge when I get there.
Maybe the person at work who asked you to use it (or whomever) vouched for you already? I don't know how it works but that would make sense.
Lack of public recognition for their creative efforts would just as aggressively socialize the less talented people out of trying to create for all but the most determined.
Do registrars accept pre-paid Visa "gift cards" and the like? Those were much less restricted circa 2009, right? (I could be wrong, that's just my general impression)
See also discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20123720 (35 comments)

Also, please: "Operators, where are your MANRS?"

https://www.manrs.org/
Yes totally.

Nice timing, in that I just wrote about this exact topic a few days ago at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/protecting-your-code-and-ip-w...
Yes, this weather-report manipulation is the tip of the iceberg.

The station managers get frequent directives from corporate management to hype more-or-less fake stories, and suppress other (real) stories, largely for political purposes.

Before the FCC rescinded its balanced-reporting rules this sort of foolishness was contained, at the cost of sometimes requiring airing fringe lunacy. Now fringe lunacy is often the whole story.
> A lot of Chinese people know this: It takes more than one generation to build stability

A lot of every people know this. It's called "the American dream". You may have heard of it.
you can if you want...
Not GP, but personally I do not mind. I have voluntarily shared my DNA information with a number of people.

Health insurance is not important here (UK), and life insurance is much less of an important concern to me as I will not have children. But I can see why if that is not the case, you would be more concerned.

I do have some concerns about it being used by the police, though public availability is unlikely to make a difference there. I've never committed any crimes, but the police are known for using scientifically and statistically invalid methods to prosecute.
If they want more of my skin in the game, they can put more zeroes in my bank account.
A red light camera doesn’t watch you everywhere, it watches you at a traffic intersection where you are already watched by highway cameras, other people. It only retains a photo (of a car, usually the back) if you run a red light too.
The article by no means establishes your assertion.
In fact, validate the username and password might need to be artificially slowed down to protect against side channel and credential stuffing attacks :)
The idea was dumb by the way, but the code looks interesting, thanks for sharing.
From the click user point of view, yeah.

From the dev user or packager point of view, no.

First, there is no namespace in JS. Secondly, the import instruction standard is not implemented everywhere, so we need a bundler. First, the network makes everything harder. And finally, JS has virtually no stdlib.

Add to that that we we are stuck in npm land, with acute lefpadite, packages breaking the public API every sunday, and a mad hatter packager like webpack as our lord and savior, and you have a recipe for terrible times.
The top question Python learners ask me is:

How do I package my Python program for small scale distribution to non-technical people?

The end target is usually Windows so I suggest PyInstaller but it doesn't feel exactly elegant although it is better than py2exe.

Maybe there is some alternative on the horizon?
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I like the breaking of the mold. I hate the world that has been created in which our daily life is somehow working toward this magic retirement years.

I see people that age, some are in good shape, a lot are not. A lot die before they even get to enjoy that. What is the point?
Yeah, I've made a bunch of assumptions about what the husband is like based on what can be inferred from this article.

I'll keep that to myself because I don't want to offend anyone and get downvoted, though a lot of it is drawn from what I was like when I dated someone like the author.

She only had to spend half of her post-China childhood in poverty before her mom started earning doctor money, but she still thought/behaved very much like the writer of this article. Though unlike the author, she hates her parents.

I see compulsive frugality as a boon in a capitalist society. Especially in the United States.
Ground them hot days, fly cold days... :)
I disagree. Shipping for beer can be up to 20% of the cost depending on where it is coming from. One of the main reasons for the increase in cans for American craft brewers is that the freight savings (both in and out of the brewery) increases profits in a significant manor.
More people still will die as a result of Texas’s refusal to lower the speed limit on all roads to 5mph.
Haven't tried it myself, but have read about nimgrep in previous HN nim threads. Just checked:

https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html

Excerpt:

Nimgrep is a command line tool for search&replace tasks. It can search for regex or peg patterns and can search whole directories at once. User confirmation for every single replace operation can be requested. Nimgrep has particularly good support for Nim's eccentric style insensitivity. Apart from that it is a generic text manipulation tool.
Super cool. I've been looking for a more in depth example for a while like this.
I could not understand this news the first time I heard whispers of it. I’d been to makers faire many times and they showed every sign of slow growth and tons of enthusiasm. It took me this paragraph to understand what happened:

> “It started as a venture-backed company but we realized it wasn’t a venture-backed opportunity” Dougherty admits, as his company had raised $10 million from Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, and Floodgate.

> “The company wasn’t that interesting to its investors anymore. It was failing as a business but not as a mission. Should it be a non-profit or something like that? Some of our best successes for instance are in education.”
Sadly, the source code is unreadable without the emulator.
Oh, almost forget.

6 - If you want to compile Python to an exe, use nuitka (http://nuitka.net/), not p2exe, cx_freeze and co.
I did not bother reading the article, but the title made me think of signaling. "I can afford them, and I don't even need to work for that so I don't care how impractical they are".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/feed/a41653-1999d...

"Elegant dress serves its purpose of elegance not only in that it is expensive, but also because it is the insignia of leisure," Thorsten Veblen wrote in his classic "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899). "It not only shows that the wearer is able to consume a relatively large value, but it argues at the same time that he consumes without producing."
Maybe the execution is shit but the idea behind it is interesting enough that you'll pick up some community developers that will code you something for free.

Not applicable in this particular case I think...
Hey guys its cool to see that you like my project. Unfortunately these types of things happen to independent contractors often and theres not a whole lot you can do about it but learn from mistakes. I used some awesome tech for the first time in this one like react-native-web which is now in Expo and react-spring for those sexy animations. Im happy for any of you guys to use this project as a boilerplate, learn some stuff from it or make fun of my code
I'm trying to wrap my mind around what the author means by saying the value would come "from leveraging data to eventually create a rental marketplace where users can find the perfect apartment to move into."
AND WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE.

Pretty shrill piece. Absolutely no mention of previous investigations showing that the perverse incentive (ticket revenue) of the cameras was killing people by using extremely short yellow lights.

Example:

> 2) Dallas, Texas

> An investigation by KDFW-TV, a local TV station, found that of the ten cameras that issued the greatest number of tickets in the city, seven were located at intersections where the yellow duration is shorter than the bare minimum recommended by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

https://www.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...

I find the cameras irritating, and sketchy for due process reasons, but I’m not affiliated with either side here.

However, as a developer I do have some mixed emotions about how much money these cities are being charged by the people who developed these systems (it’s a lot, but software, like remodeling, always costs more than you expect due to unknowns).

If they had made a law that cameras can only be used on intersections with yellows longer than the DOT’s recommendation, many of these lights would be turned off anyway unless the cities accept the lights as a preventative measure (ie a cost center).
If the cameras had been placed only at locations that were dangerous and where it would be important to have video evidence to be used in criminal or civil proceedings, and done in a revenue-neutral way, then I might agree with the article.
Unfortunately, they were used as a way to screw as many people as possible out of money and generate as much profits as possible for the companies. And that business model is one that I violently disagree with.
We have always been at war with Eurasia!
> nowawadays you can just get all of that information off your smart-phone

Really, where? When it comes to super-local specific, curated information, I find it really hard to duplicate what you used to get from local radio stations. You certainly have all the different bits and pieces, but IMO not in a way that curates it to a consistent view, and sense of community, the way radio used to.
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Maybe it backfires and everybody thinks “What a stupid client who can’t appreciate that the contractor wrote in Haskell in a point-free style.”
> Just screams unprofessionalism in my opinion.

Surely the guy not paying is the unprofessional one?

Sure, since "he signed", he could have probably taken legal action, but that's often a long and costly process. How is cutting your losses and walking away (but outsourcing the code you wrote) unprofessional?
This thing wants the password for your bank account? WTF? That's way more than it needs. Enough info to authorize an ACH transfer, maybe. But the login password for your bank account? No way.

That voids Bank of America's security guarantee.[1] If you provide info for an ACH transfer, and the other party abuses that info, it's reversible. If you provide login info and the other party abuses that info, it's not.

[1] https://www.bankofamerica.com/online-banking/online-banking-...
Here's the thing though: suppose you have worked for some previous employer, and seen their proprietary codebase. By your logic, you'll never be able to work on anything else or for any other employer without being a legal risk to them.

I do not think the chances of me implementing something so similar to something I have read before such that it would constitute copyright infringement are very high. I usually can't even remember the exact way I wrote some piece of code months ago myself, let alone something I read...
The encoding/decoding cost is painful :(

I mean in this context if you're doing that level of scale. For a lot of purposes json is totally fine.
I convinced the teenager who mows my lawn to start spraying for bugs as a side gig to his lawn mowing gig. He now makes more money doing that than mowing lawns. Cost to start: $15. Makes $25 per visit. Takes about 30 minutes or less to spray the exterior of a house with off the shelf stuff. He is fully booked for the summer and does 4 clients a day (because he does not drive and uses a bicycle).
The phrase "financial pollution" recently came to mind in the context of foreign investors buying and sitting on real estate and driving up costs for local residents. I think the phrase may apply to a lot of things.

Keynes seems to have been right about the problems of "saving beyond planned investment." It seems to create even more problems than he imagined. A little of it does end up finding interesting important ventures but most of it is big dumb money that chases bubbles or gets parked in socially destructive rent seeking operations. Money is made for some investors but the overall ROI for civilization is a net negative; making money by destroying wealth.
What's unprofessional about that? It doesn't name and shame the client. It's just a true statement of fact.
I think I’ll trust the Sherpa from the article instead of you. The article is literally about how Everest is very hard and dangerous and that how tourists are being convinced it’s not.
> Some people also save with the thought of giving away a ton of money at death, but this again holds money out of useful purposes until decades away.

What makes you believe that? The overwhelming majority of savings are held in bonds, stocks and real estate, not in paper notes in a vault. You might quible over the usefulness of savings and investments vs other allocations, but assuming is useless is pretty extreme.
Yes, but this is increasingly common in online services. Reputable services like Wealthfront also work like this, requiring your bank login to work. The fact that Plaid has their entire business built around providing “bank logins as a service” speaks to that.

I don’t like it either, but I’m not sure how you could get archaic banks and low-tech consumers to adopt something better.
You are talking about Cho Oyu, not Everest. Everest, especially without supplementary oxygen, is a major achievement and if you don't prepare well, you are likely to increase mortality rate. Not to mention avalanches, falling seracs and a sudden major change of local weather can kill you anytime without any warning.
C# has assignment and mentioning overloading by aliasing to getters and setters. The setter may be holding a shared lock and this pattern may make it release.
I thought the law stated that what was plainly visible (in plain sight) was implicitly and universally considered evidence. If that is true (not sure that it is) wouldn't that mean it's perfectly legal to do whatever you want with pictures?
It is better to have 100 guilty men go free than to have 1 free man jailed. I'd rather have no traffic cameras than any that have even one false positive.
"Code red?" That doesn't even mean anything! Where is the word "weather" in that? Or "severe?" Or whatever it is that they're pretending to convey?

This is about as cravenly stupid as California's "red flag alert." WTF does that mean? Red flags will be falling from the sky, snarling traffic and causing mayhem?

Human stupidity is boundless.
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This seems like a very one-sided write-up. Other cities/states have done away with red light cameras based on fraud or because they turned out to just be revenue generators (installed at intersections with few/no fatal accidents).

Knowing that and reading this, it makes me wonder what someone would say on the other side.
Because most of these people are accustomed to throwing money at people to solve their problems.
Because rich people in general got used to solving their problems by throwing more money at the issue they face. Everest is no different. Assumption is that even if I am unexperienced, if I buy the most expensive equipment, and get the most expensive sherpa then two weeks later sipping Mojitos on my yacht I can tell averyone “yeah I climbed Mount Everest, no big deal”.
It can be both 'unimpressive' and reckless.
I'm a bit confused here. Do you think he should have accepted his fate and moved on to the next project? And at best just whine about it on online forums.
Considering the initial unethical behavior of the client, I doubt they'll respect the AGPL license.
I mean, I’m in a similar boat. I did the whole “make it rain” thing for a few years by dripping in designer clothes, fancy restaurants, etc. But that lifestyle made me way more anxious as impostor syndrome kicked in. Having money doesn’t really solve problems; there’s always someone with more who will make you feel poor. Buy a Gucci bag and it’ll feel like half the world is dripping bespoke Hermès. You can’t win.

I live way more frugally these days. I don’t intentionally scrimp and save, I just find it difficult to spend what I make without buying $5,000 purses that will get donated when they’re way out of fashion in 2 years.

I know, I know: first world problems. But it’s emblematic of the wealth inequality in the US: a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet while some people have to invest effort into finding ways to spend the money they make.
If you don't care about following license terms, then what difference does it make to you what license is used?
I dive (albeit new) and knowing when to abort is taught over and over again. In general, from both theory and practice, the threshold is pretty low. Any kind of physical and mental stress means you surface.

I guess what makes Everest so different are the costs involved. I imagine the sunk cost fallacy is magnified.
Yes, this is being overlooked by most readers... this article is a woman plainly describing her mental illness.
Hasn’t really helped Japan get out of their 30 year depression, though.
That may well be, but that's just one aspect France has generally always been known for (whether it's accurate, I don't know). New musical styles, for example, mostly came from the US in recent decades. Whether Broadway can be compared to Paris' musicals, I don't know. I just don't see the explosion that you'd expect. Europe should have Star Trek technology if that was the case ;)

And sure, you could argue that they don't cover the basics, but you'd have to expand the understanding of basics, tbh. Germany gives you shelter, food, health insurance, money to spend on culture, public transportation, free education including university, a TV etc pp. That's beyond basics in my book. Sure, a car isn't included, but you don't need one either.
As a dev who does interviews/evaluations it would be a red flag for me, and would affect the lens through which I view every answer/interaction with the candidate.

I think there is a different way to phrase this, something like “this is the result of a collaboration that didn’t end up working out” or whatever. I get that it’s kind of mealy mouthed, but it avoids any aura of conflict in the evaluation.
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What do other large (non-google scale) to medium companies use for authorization? Can anyone recommend open source (preferably) or close source products?
German online payment system called Sofort wants the same... (https://www.klarna.com/sofort/)

The instructions asked me to provide account, card number and OTP login code... then it’s just a matter of scraping all my past 10 years transactions and keep the session alive to snoop on exactly how many condoms I buy...

Criminals
Wait until you get a glimpse into the exciting world of real-time ad bidding. It's every engineer's dream!
So, why are we not closing stations for scheduled code red days on normal weather? They are lying to the public, but it doesn't seem there are any consequences for them, only for the employees that object to the lying.
One expects the US to be behind the EU, a place generally more concerned with the welfare of its citizens than the US, where corporate profits are King.

But when we fall behind Brazil and China, too, alarm bells should be ringing -- if they weren't, already, over US infant mortality soaring past that in dozens of other countries, or life expectancy reverting to a persistent downward trend.

You don't get declining life expectancy without really concerted mismanagement and corruption at the top.
To a certain extent, it is based on trust and what if the trusting model is broken. Is there a need of new design so one can route only to your people you trust. That, well, may break the internet.
It looks like it’s using https://plaid.com/
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How does this prevent a tricky client from paying a nominal $1 (far below whatever was promised) and again throwing the ownership in limbo?
Said client probably picked the wrong people in the first place, and if they couldn't tell then how could they tell now?

I think most small-end jobs end up going to shit for more reasons than bad code, I'm still trying to understand the whole dynamic of how it all goes to crap.

I'd also just like to add if your hypothetical was the case would said developer ever care? I doubt it, they'd just move on to the next sucker.
Yeah, unless banks provide oAuth or APIs to get that information securely and easily revokable, I guess that's the best we have.
That's why you always require a sizeable deposit, never start working for free
The 'more deaths' conclusion comes from cherry picking the only data that might support red light cameras. The reality is that red light cameras do great deal of harm with increased accidents overall which means a greater number of injuries and property damage.
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-red-light-cameras-dont-traffic...

Folks who like red light cameras and the profit they bring are perfectly fine the wrecked lives that come with them.