skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That story is from 2017, however the premise that most Americans can't afford $400-$500 is fraudulent and has been debunked numerous times.[1] The real number from the Fed survey is 12%. It keeps getting repeated in various ways, year after year, because it's amazing headline bait. Mostly politicians like using it for propaganda while ignoring the actual original survey details. Harris, Sanders and Warren have all been using it for propaganda purposes.

> It is a myth that a large share of people can’t cover a $400 emergency expense. Why does the story persist?"

> The question comes from the annual “Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households” by the Federal Reserve. The report finds, in 2018, that 61% of adults would cover a $400 unexpected expense using cash (or its equivalent)."

> The report states: “Twelve percent of adults would be unable to pay the expense by any means.”

> The report also goes out of its way to make clear that some of the 39% who wouldn’t use cash might still have $400 in the bank: “It is possible that some would choose to borrow even if they had $400 available, preserving their cash as a buffer for other expenses.” In a footnote, the report even cites a 2016 study finding that 76 percent of households had $400 in liquid assets, even after taking into account monthly expenses.

> The common misinterpretation of this finding in the study is particularly strange in light of two other questions on the same survey. The Fed asks respondents whether they are able to pay all of their bills in full. Only 17% say they can’t pay some bills.

> The Fed also asks respondents how a $400 emergency expense that they had to pay would affect their ability to pay their other bills. Eighty-five percent report that they would still be able to pay all their bills. Only 14% say that the emergency expense would result in their not being able to pay some bills.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...
> "for the people who actually have to solve problems”

Yeah, if you’re not using VGA ports you’re not solving problems...???
It's possible to design an orthography that distinguishes between phonemes that most speakers distinguish, and the accept all variants (here e.g. lebretri, leboratri) as valid spellings. After all, we already have variant pronunciations reflected in spelling with some common words e.g. (dreamt, dreamed), (knelt, kneeled), (lit, lighted).
Can you just get an HDMI-to-VGA adapter plug?
If we actually cure aging before he kicks it, then eventually they'll have a motivation to tinker with people's brains to adapt them to living for, let's say centuries to start. Just back uo your memories into your exobrain!
When you feel you could better implement X for your niche needs.
For non-commercial projects I always use at least a one second delay, even for large sites. For commercial projects I have actually advocated to clients that they contact the site's owners and ask to arrange a data use agreement. And a couple have really done it and been satisfied by the result which was cleaner data and continuous updates at a reasonable cost.

Seriously, why not? I've never lost anything doing this, you can always scrape (with delay) as Plan B. A little dose of ethics goes a long way!
an acquaintance of mine went through this experience. started a business with friends. the business went bust, and the friends broke up over it.

"make friends through business, but don't make business with friends" was his response. a quote that stuck with me ever since.
I would go with Kotlin 90% of the time. It's faster, has better syntax, strong type checks, great ecosystem and community (Jetbrains, Spring, Google support it). It has some wicked cool Reactive support and scales pretty well. So I would go with Kotlin.

Unless, you want to build a prototype and do not know the language. NodeJS may help you get started quickly.
DnD and similar games are a great way to get to know someones character. how they act in a game shows how they might act in business. (a game with higher stakes)
Same here! I haven't been able to learn a new programming (well) language in the past 3 years. I get to understand basic syntax and have to move on.
Haven't seen any copy Apple's trackpad size, unfortunately. They're copying the wrong things.
America Has Fallen Out of Love with the Suburbs
Poor battery life is what I've experienced with all Sony laptop machines I've used. Always a disappointment.
Many assumptions were made in coming up with this number.
How's the ECC RAM support with the 3000 series?
Yeah I suppose that's true. The cost to build or consolidate is definitely there, but Target is always gong to need a corporate office. Having separate offices is an annual thing. Seems like they should bite the bullet and just consolidate.
Trackpoint/clit-mouse is awesome.
It has a higher learning curve, but far more speed and control than a trackpad. Basically, I have not yet met a trackpad user who is not painful to watch as a trackpoint user.

- You can have pixel-level precision
- You can have fast movements from edge to edge of the screen
- You can use it without moving your fingers away from the keyboard
- You can use it without moving your elbows or arms around
+ It is therefore great for small laptops, small spaces (in airplane seat, on a bench, etc)

Basically, far from being vestigial, my boss has been advised that a trackpoint-equipped laptop is a "condition of employment" for me.
I played Eve for awhile and was in one of the bigger alliances, and knew people who did just that. It seemed to give them purpose and I really can't blame them. However I'm unsure if living off of social benefits was a product of the game itself or some other factors that are 'legitimate'.
I never liked the guitar hero games. They're not much like playing a real guitar and every time i played them it just made me want to go play my guitar instead. Especially knowing how to actually play some of the songs in those games. The note patterns they used for the buttons didn't match up to how you actually played the songs. (Using the right most button for a note you'd actually use your middle or ring finger to play rather than your pinky for example)
Would work well in the winter!
Convenience stores in Seoul used to (maybe they still do?) swap battery packs for Android phones for a small fee. My phone's battery time cut in half after the first time I did it. I would have been much more concerned if it was my car.
Polanyi’s Paradox
"All or nothing" isn't necessarily a problem. The problem is when it's "nothing" too often.
Reading about the IPA invariably brings to mind what we have in Sanskrit, the language, and Devanagari, the script.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Devanagari

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants

The consonants are neatly divided into five categories, depending upon where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth/teeth/lips (back to front) - guttural (k as in kite, g as in go), palatal (ch as in chair, j as in jug), retroflex (t as in tap, d as in dog), dental (th as in thin, dh as in them), and labial (p as in pet, b as in bear).

Each of these also have an aspirated version, and there's a nasal at the end - so 5 in each category times 5 categories = 25 main consonants.

Then there are the vowels, semi-vowels, and spirants as different categories by themselves, each of which can be systematically tacked on to each of the consonants.

This systematic categorization of sounds and writing forms is amazing for a language that was developed a few thousand years ago.

There are of course some sounds that are not part of the system, like x, z and f. Some vowels too - like the a in bad, but all in all, the amount of thought put into the system is amazing.
I think it's common knowledge that rain water is excellent for plants. But I don't think many people know the mechanism of action. Although I suspected water somehow picked up nitrogen in the air, I wasn't aware exactly how. Thank you for sharing!
I wouldn't consider Apple, Facebook, or Google to have a "consolidated work campus". All three are spread across many suburban office buildings, even spread across multiple cities. Maybe some financial firms in New York are consolidated in one building?
when getting a client, i always like to start off with a smaller project before jumping into something big. same would goes for a co-founder. lets start a loose cooperation, without long-term commitment. let's see how it goes. make that commitment after the initial project(s) have gone well.
This is part 3 of a 3 blog post series:

Part 1: https://hollymath.dreamwidth.org/981594.html (has nice intro; good place to start)

Part 2: https://hollymath.dreamwidth.org/983513.html

Part 3: https://hollymath.dreamwidth.org/999852.html (the link posted)
Interesting in what way?
Right, the projectors themselves aren’t VGA-only (because of course they’re not—-when did you last see a VGA-only monitor?). But the room infrastructure often still is, so there’s only a VGA cable coming out of the wall.
They waste even more than that -- almost $7,541,244 and 33 cents -- by having their bathrooms 20 meters down the hall instead of installing urinals in their cubicles.

Seriously, though, my work has a 15-minute sidewalk loop that doesn't even go anywhere, and employees who go on a daily walk are more productive because of that. Besides the cardio, vitamin D, and sleep cycle benefits, people make friendship bonds and solve bugs while walking together. This office setup probably reduces turnover and health insurance costs by more than the stated amount.
There's more to life than achievements. An experience, however unreal it may be, is valuable to the person experiencing it, regardless of whether or not anything is achieved outside of the experience itself. It's only escapism if it's a problem. My 2 cents.
What is a situation where liscensing your software as GPL is "questionable if not down right improper"?

The entire point of the GPL is to spread the adoption of free as in freedom software. If you aren't willing to share your project with the community you are not allowed to use the community's work.
There certainly are many pros of various kinds who prefer the trackpad; in fact, I would say that in any given group (however we define "pros" and "amaterus" when it comes to laptops:), most people will prefer trackpad.
But I am to this day convinced it's simply the learning curve - until the day I see a video or a person using trackpad that doesn't make me cringe in the same way that a two-finger key-hunter does.

I can understand that this seems patronizing, I struggle to put it in a way that doesn't seem personal, but for years I have witnessed colleagues who claim to be excellent with trackpad, they love it, it's great... and then they take 3-5 times longer to get things done as they go swipe... swipe... swipe oh there I am at the other end of the screen... swipe... swipe... oh there's the button:-/
Well I guess this is anecdotal evidende. I speak both fluently and find French way more irregular. I've never heard someone saying that French is consistent. You're perhaps thinking of spanish? People usually talk about German when they think of consistency.
I don't think they would start allowing the use of professional jargon as spelling words, such as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. But I may be mistaken.
In the corporate world, it's stunning how many portable and built-in projectors, or board-room TVs, have only VGA. Basically I always need to have a VGA dongle in my laptop bag unless the laptop has the VGA port itself.

Outside of corporate world though, it's still frequently the lowest common denominator. Everything else has simply existed less time and been part of fewer machines. If not VGA then what - HDMI? DisplayPort? USB-C? Choices explode and you never quite have the right port / cable / dongle...
There is value in not telling your compiler to look for all headers in your project root. There is no telling what clash that will create.

Documented, public <> headers include other headers that are not documented. There is no telling what their names are.
These are not incompatible with private servers. I can imagine a world where, on setting up your phone, you set up the location of the backup server, which can be a server that you own. On taking a picture, instead of syncing with Google/Apple photos, it syncs with the server that you have chosen. When you share a photo, it indicates that that photo should temporarily be moved from a private folder to a public folder on the backup server.
Only the js community could be so self-centered to assume that everyone will just assume which language is being used for their platform....

Yep, it's js.
I concur.

-I is a traditional option from Unix compilers with a very silly behavior; but for years now we have had something called -iquote in gcc (and clang).

Before -iquote, there was -I- which is deprecated.
It goes even deeper. Most of our drives are there simply because they made our ancestors more likely to survive or reproduce, therefore increasing the likelihood that those drives would be more common in subsequent generations. Some people seem to think that using an MMO is unnatural, but wouldn't even blink at the thought of, e.g., sex with birth control. But both are a subversion of the natural courses of the drives we've inherited from our ancestors.

People whose chosen redirections of their own drives give them high social status -- the builders and commanders -- like to look down on those who choose activities that don't lead to power. IMO, this is conservation of ego, nothing more. We want to feel good about ourselves, so when we gain power beyond that which is required to propagate our genes, we say, "this is because I was a better person than that other guy." We don't like to acknowledge that we're just masturbating a slightly different way.

IMO, the important question is whether playing an MMO actually fulfills your individual values. I know for me with EVE the answer was no, but that's not to say I can't picture an MMO that would. I would bet that for many currently playing it the answer is also no, because we do have addictions, us humans. But I wouldn't turn up my nose at the whole playerbase by any means. After all, who are we on this site to point fingers?
> English-language dictionaries and the reading textbooks I used in elementary school in the US in the 1980s use a different standard.

Perhaps I'm being too nit-picky, but that's actually more just like an alternate English alphabet than it is a phonetic alphabet. The goal of a phonetic alhpabet is to map symbols any sound that is distinguishable in any language, not simply the ones that are distinguishable in English.

X-SAMPA is a lot more like the IPA. It's basically an incomplete encoding of IPA in ASCII. It's a little hack to get around the insufficiencies of inputing characters into computer devices.
> Not a fair comparison. You're talking about motorcycles.

Well, I did say, "as a motorcycle rider... it's mundane".

But fine. There's the C7 Corvette ZR1 with a 2.9-3.1s 0-60, depending on driver. Top speed of 212mph. Hell of a lot faster than the 155mph top speed of the P100. The dodge hellcat with 3.6s. Dodge demon, too. Porsche Turbo S at around 2.6s.

Admittedly, the Porsche is essentially a super car, and the ZR1 could be argued is one, too. Shelby GT350R at 3.9s. Slower, but again, ALL of those cars have a soundtrack, and you can work on them.

> I'd be open to the idea of a plug-in hybrid sports car, but those don't exist at a reasonable price, AFAIK.

I'd be open to that, too. I'm not against hybrids. I'm against purely electric vehicles. Performance cars deserve an ICE. There is literally nothing on earth or in space that will ever change my mind on this.
I recommend it's a small, medium and outsize world, by John Taylor which is probably out of print, but is a fantastic history of fashion written in 1966. Its wry, satirical but informing. Eric Newby also wrote about his family fashion business pre and post war in something wholesale
This was a remarkably detailed and honestly confusing post from Tencent, until I noticed the Chase logo at the top, and it was not by Tencent. (The WeChat team in Tencent there is very small, close, integrated).

Pretty major name clash here, WeChat pay aka WePay, perhaps WeChat Pay, and well, another WePay.

For those not familiar, WeChat, somewhat a WhatsApp+/Facebood Messenger of China, probably earlier mover however riding from QQ, transact billions of yuan in payments every day and together with AliPay is promoting a cashless society (which I think is wrong, I like cash).
It's unbelievable how bad the editing in this article is. I barely skimmed this and came across four typos.
In the case of HP1, the title difference was based on the perception that the alchemical reference in the original title would be less evocative in the American youth market and “sorceror’s stone” would convey the intended idea better to that audience due to cultural difference. I don't know if test marketing or focus groups were involved in that judgement, but I wouldn't be surprised.
http://www.qb64.net/ <-- IIRC that's supposed to be a fully backwards compatible + a bunch of modern enhancements to build QuickBasic/QBasic on modern platforms.

UPDATE: .... And, I should read the link before commenting, because QB64 is mentioned right there nearly above the fold.
Tiobe and PYPL are not market share indices, they're googling indices. I'd be very surprised if Rust really has 1/20 of C++'s market share as in number of companies and programmers that use it.
Looking at the glut of empty affordable housing in Oregon, compared to the mass of homeless people encamped behind a San Francisco Home Depot? I'm gonna have to call your red herring comment irrelevant to the evidence.

If it were only Oregon, that'd fly. But we have nearly everywhere in the country that's more than 1-2 hours' travel from a major metropolitan area.

While we can discount some farmland, there's a fracked-land house I can sell you in Ohio for as little as $5K, $10K tops.

The only internet available is dial-up. The planned $150/month 10Mbit-down/1Mbit-up cable internet deal for the county with Comcast fell through back in '11.

The only water is well-water - and you'll have to pay more for a filter system than for the house. The power company will charge you more than a mortgage payment to keep the place surviveably warm in the winter.

And the only jobs? The Walmart closed back in '11. And being from out of town isnt gonna help. But if you're nice to a guy I met at the Denny's about 40 mins from the place, he can get you $8/hour at the Walmart distribution center 90 minutes away on the highway.

Food? There's a Dollar Store about 20 minutes down the road at "downtown." There's a gas station, a McDonalds, and a couple of pawn shops and antique dealers that are effectively interchangeable - that's where you can buy "farnature" if you cant build your own from cord-wood that you buy from neighboring farms. And a gun store that popped back up after the Walmart closed. And the one church left, where the whole town will expect you. And the bar, called "bar's".

If you hear chanting on one Saturday night of the month, accompanied by faint light from the woods out back, that's just the Klan rally where the locals go to blame immigrants and African Americans for taxes still existing. Local Government has effectively collapsed from lack of funding. But the county Sheriff gets to use "Civil Asset Forfeiture" on unwary travellers to put his kids through boarding school.

The house itself? Is a shotgun shack. From the way you talk about people, I expect you have currently closets this size. If the fridge and stove still work, they're still from the 70s. The place probably would have been condemned if the 5-county inspector handn't passed on about five years back.

But hey, its almost the cheapest house in America. Its been on the market since before the housing collapse.
It's a requirement I have of any laptop, and they're tragically hard to find. It's the main reason I like these modern VAIOs and will probably get one.

I'd buy a Purism in a heartbeat if it had dedicated touchpad buttons.

My only other suggestions are some Dell Latitude 7xxx models (e.g. 7390, 7490), or maybe a Fujitsu. None of the Lenovo touchpads count anymore (why are the buttons at the top!?)
No, it's just that VGA ends up as a "good enough" solution to problems way more often than you'd think.
https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/tree/master/src/compiler

Doesn't look simple to me.

This one is in one file, but more than half a megabyte of code spanning close to 12000 lines:

https://github.com/clisp-lang/clisp/blob/master/src/compiler...

The Emacs Lisp byte compiler also doesn't look like a good small example for neophytes:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/emacs-l...
Depends on how you look at it, but IMO: yes. Eve is one of the few (maybe the only?) MMOs with a direct and legitimate conversion between real currency and in-game currency.

You can purchase (with real money) an item called PLEX, which can either be applied to your account to extend your subscription, or sold to another player for in-game currency. There are many players who pay for their subscription by farming in-game.
Why spend time posting on the internet instead of exploring the real world?

Or just understand that different people have different preferences....
There's the Americanist phonetic alphabet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notation), which saw widespread use in North and Central America in the early parts of the 20th century. I think it's mostly been replaced by the IPA.

For the most part, those funny little phonemic notations that dictionaries come up with are just alternate alphabets, and not intendend to be a standard phonetic alphabet.
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
You're welcome. I stumbled on it while browsing and it's a fascinating story.
Last year, Cloudflare announced[0] a product called Cloudflare Access[1] which solves the same problem as VPN, not sure if it can be used as a replacement of VPN totally.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-access/
[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-access/
I did. As a native speaker of English, French (written or spoken) is far more regular.
Oh but there are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
>"w" and "wh" are distinctly different

Right. Rather than eliminating letters, I'd go the other direction, and add more letters to account for the the various digraphs.
Not totally different, with strict immutability enforced for the whole language there's no need for borrow checking. Because there's no identity at all. You don't have to borrow number 3 because another number 3 is the same 3 as any other 3.
I think part of the jumping through hoops consideration is whether the project developers as a group prefer jumping through their own hoops or someone else's.

On some teams it is easier to say "the wise developers of leftPad think these are the hoops we need to jump through" than it is to present your own design that has strengths and weaknesses. On others they will walk miles through flaming coals just to avoid the downsides of someone else's designs.

I honestly have no idea which group is right but devs seem to fall into one or the other. I myself started in the first camp but am wandering toward the second. Sounds like you went the other direction.
Ok, so you want communities to value work that creates value.

Besides, say, actively participating in the production of basic food and shelter, what is valuable work?

A follow-up, how would you defend the value system I'm asking for as non-arbitrary?