skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've set Google Play to prompt for my password on every purchase. It's a 40 character random alpha, mixed case, symbols and number password. Hard to type when sober, impossible while drunk. Helps prevent impulse/accidental purchases. I have to really want something to transcribe that in (not stored anywhere on my phone).

I have my password stored on the Xbox, but I've made abundantly clear that they are not able to purchase anything without consent. My kids are 10 & 12 and know it's really money and if they make even a single purchase without consent all gaming and internet privileges go away indefinitely. I get immediate receipts via text, so the ban hammer would go down quickly.

Edit, also the kids arent allowed to my phone, either. They have their own devices, and can't purchase anything on theirs (requires Mom's password). My wife likewise has her iPhone to prompt for password on purchases.
$15/hour is “inhumanly low”? Since when?

Amazon has been a leader in paying unskilled workers a good salary at huge scale.
Marriage rates seem to have been ignored.
That's a factor directly correlated to home ownership.
The root cause of addiction is the same, whether it's a behavioural addiction like video games, exercise, gambling, or sex, or drugs. It's reward seeking behaviour trying to cause a rise in dopamine levels. The physiological effects of substance abuse is generally worse, but the cause is the same, from my experience and people I know the root cause is underlying psychological issues that cause people to engage in self destructive reward seeking behaviour as an unhealthy coping mechanism.

This is where I think that addiction education is completely inadequate. They teach you in school that a certain percentage of people who will do drugs (or gamble, or play video games) will get addicted, like it's some random chance. It's not a random chance though. It's easy to tell people to not do drugs, or not play video games, or to ban them from doing it, but fundamentally they're just going to engage in some other destructive behaviour if they aren't given the tools and support to engage in healthy coping strategies. We need to be teaching people how to identify addictive behaviour as it starts, we need to teach people how to reach out for support and to ensure that support is available, and we need to teach people mental hygiene. We tell people to brush their teeth and wash their hands because you don't want to get sick, but we never bother to teach people how to look after their mind.
Instead of !g, try !s for Startpage, a proxied Google.
If ever you're in Washington, D.C., visit the Air & Space Museum, which has a room containing the ORIGINAL Wright Flyer. It is absolutely spectacular. To give context, the room contains one of their bicycles along with much context and background. Worth the trip every time I visit D.C.
They'll do exactly as much damage as they can get away with. If there's no regulation standing in their way, or the potential profits outweigh the consequences, of course they'll continue their malfeasance. I don't know why this is surprising to anyone. The nature of any corporation is to act in its own self-interest. I guess Mighty Earth is doing what they can, but it's like raking leaves in the forest, in the middle of a raging wildfire. The only way that anything is going to change is through effective regulation and credible enforcement. Trying to wheedle and cajole Cargill into growing a conscience is a manifest exercise in futility.
Yes it does allow you to open multiple channels at the same time. I don't know how useful that is, but I'd like to see how people actually use it before jumping to my own conclusions.

The idle state is definitely something I'm considering for bandwidth and privacy reasons. Sqwiggle (now defunct) did this quite well. I'm also thinking about adding a way to pixelate or blur your feed while still remaining 'present'.
I understand all of that, but still am willing to be in the Stallman or tinfoil-hat conspiracy nut camp just to be safe. I'm too old to be actively trying to figure out whom to trust, and whom not, especially since there are so many actors involved. So it's best to distrust everyone.

We can have a discussion about which life jacket brand is the most reliable, and what advanced underwater-breathing technique we could practice, or the hundreds of ways to save ourselves from drowning. But the only way to be absolutely certain is not to get into water in the first place.
There are still people working on packet filtering! The BPF enhancements are benefiting lots of different areas of the Linux world at the same time.

Cilium [1] is a great example of how the new capabilities of BPF can be used for more complex packet filtering, such as understanding higher level protocols.

[1] https://cilium.io/
This sort of comment just makes me despair, because you seem to be complaining about Google not taking enough control of determining what you want, and I see that as a tremendous problem (the problem) what with their attempts already.

Here's an example of what I hate about Google. I searched for recipes "without eggs". It gave me hundreds and hundreds of hits for "without eggs or butter". Now that may be what most people want, sure, but it's eradicated the possibility of other permutations. When you guess what people want to search for, you remove the ability to search for nearly every other possibility imaginable.

It makes me feel like Skynet has already won.
Airliners are the safest form of transport ever devised. You’re safer in an airliner than you are in the shower.

Space travel is one of the most dangerous forms of transport ever devised. Even the most insane, wildly optimistic estimates for the safety of the Shuttle were orders of magnitude more dangerous than an airliner.

Comparing the two does not make sense. If airliners are your standard of safety for space travel, you might as well take a shortcut and just say “don’t launch humans into space.”
Yes, and like the edison light bulb and birdseye frozen fish, you need infrastructure: smooth roads. Horse and cart are more tolerant.
I spent many years building a database backend from scratch. Right from the beginning, you need a fast way to look up a file address given a simple key, and that mechanism needs to be persistent. Thus to build a database you first need ... a database. Bootstrapping this thing was tricky.
Here are the types, with names provide by me, what they would be called if USB-IF was sane and friendly:

USB-C v2a3: USB 2.0 rated at 3A

USB-C v2a5: USB 2.0 rated at 5A

USB-C v3a3 and v3g1a3: USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5gbps) rated at 3A

USB-C v3a5 and v3g1a5: USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5gbps) rated at 5A

USB-C v3g2a3 USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10gbps) rated at 3A

USB-C v3g2a5: USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10gpbs) rated at 5A
Wait a minute, USB-C Thunderbolt 3 cables are also USB-C to USB-C cables, aren't they? Why aren't they included in this article? I guess there's 6 kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables, except for all the other kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables. How many are there really?
They don't even need to clever as much as persistent, because of the selection effects.
I swear Cannondale road bikes have more in common with aircraft than terrestrial vehicles. You gotta see the aluminum welds on insanely thin tubes.

Disclaimer: I lost my 20+-year-old baby-blue R800TT to frame damage that I bought while making $4.25/hour. #SadDayForMe
Because without an 18 speed bike you might as well be walking.
Why Apollo 11 looked so different to black America
Why I don’t have WiFi in my apartment
"Sufficiently round" is harder than it may seem. A roller or needle bearing would be immensely easier (cylindrical grinding between centres is a bit of a doddle compared to spherical accuracy)... and then you've still got the problem of making them sufficiently precisely that all of the rollers actually bear. Even today you make 'em in quantity first and sort them afterwards. A well-lapped plain bearing/bushing would work better than a bad roller.

(Yes, you can make something that looks like a ball or roller bearing even on a cheap 3D printer, and it may even have less friction than the thing that looks like a plain bearing/bushing you can make on the same machine, but it's not going to roll freely and take a load.)
Google will now take a three or four word search and remove precisely the critical phrase that makes it useful at all. Like, I was looking for "New York XYZ" and it cheerfully spits out top hits with "New York" crossed out.
Yup - credit cards offer incentives (for example, 2% cash back) - I can't think of any good reason not to get one and have it set up so that it automatically deducts the balance from your bank account once a month - this makes it effectively a debit card where everything you purchase is 2% cheaper.
Any pro tips to go remote?
People freaking out about Tesla is an entire industry. It has happened the entire history of the company, without pause. It means nothing.
Don't they earn this amount of cash several times per day solely off fortnite?
Several CPU’s had specific loop instructions. These are slow on x86, but where sometimes useful on other CPU’s.

Though this is half remembered second hand info, so your mileage may very.
so ... what?

People keep turning up to work on third world garbage dumps for cents/day earnings, so...
That's all true, and almost entirely irrelevant to the (very strong!) claim "a software engineer who hasn't built some mechanism is not worthy of the title".
Others have made solid recommendations in this thread.
Early to the game myself but my sense is that starting with syndicates for the first ~10 investments is the way to go.
I made three statements. They're all true as far as I can see. Would the downvoters care to speak up?
I think for the fire to start, there has to be titanium fragments, not smooth, solid titanium
Great article, but I would like to point out a common misconception regarding mechanical advantage that featured in the article. Mechanical advantage is not completely determined by the gear ratio. You also have to take into account crank length and the wheel size. Total mechanical advantage is determined by these three factors together. See https://sheldonbrown.com/gain.html
first of all, thank you for the thoughtful reply.

let me address your point about welfare first. in the US, we really don't like the idea of tax dollars going towards drugs, alcohol, etc., so the federal and most state governments generally don't just give cash to poor people. they either give food stamps (to be redeemed at grocery stores) or even drug test people to make sure they are not misusing the funds. some research (I don't have time to get a citation, sorry) has found that the government spends more money to make sure that people don't buy drugs than they would actually waste on drugs in the first place! I don't love the idea of my tax dollars going to feed an addiction, but it's silly to spend more money to prevent them from doing it. so I say if someone is legally entitled to get some money from the government, just give it to them as cash if it's more efficient. they can decide what to do with it.

to be clear, I don't think alcohol is evil, and I think the parties your friend organizes sound great! consumed in moderation, alcohol can certainly help people form important bonds, and a good meal shared with other people can be worth a lot more than its nutritional value.

all I'm saying is that I don't like to give cash directly to a person whom I suspect is going to spend all of it on their addiction. if someone is holding a sign saying "hungry, need help" and they refuse anything but cash, that's kind of suspicious. if, like you said, I could pay them $10-20 to help with a small task, I would consider the money fairly earned and I would be fine with whatever the person spent it on.
Turing machine has unbounded memory. There is a difference between unbounded and unlimited memory: You can extend the tape as needed, but at any given step of computation, the used space is finite.

A Turing machine with bounded memory is called linear bounded automaton. Although LBA is less powerful than a Turing machine in the absolute sense, it is not trivial to form a problem that a Turing machine could decide but a LBA could not.
Neither modern console nor PC game store exclusives are "completely artificial" when those contracts provide an influx of cash for the developer or studio.

Gamedev isn't cheap, especially for indies and smaller studios.
Solving Hard Coreference Problems
I think you're misreading the parent. They're implying you can start the reaction with a sparkler, not that the sparkler reaction is the same.
I know that its theoretically possible to make thermite, I'm more referring to whether it is as easy as making the aluminum version where most people could make it if they tried hard enough in their garage (assuming you arent trying to make thermite if you live in an apartment).
I have a form of Cystic Fibrosis. The classic form had a life expectancy of 36 or 37 when I was diagnosed just before my 36th birthday.

My oldest son has the same diagnosis. We are supposed to be on thousands of dollars a month worth of drugs. We are both drug free our "diet and lifestyle" based approach to managing our condition is saving an estimated $200k to $500k annually.

Working from home so I have control over my environment has been a big part of that. No job in the world pays enough to make it worthwhile to go back on the eight or nine prescription drugs I've gotten off of.

I do work very part-time as the webmaster for a local non-profit. I am trying to figure out how to get more clients doing website work.

It still would not likely be big bucks.

I would be amenable to accepting the right job. I can't accept just any job. It doesn't make sense for me.

I think I have knowledge and skills worth money. I'm quite confident if I were a man this would not be such an intractable problem.

I don't plan to discuss my personal situation further. I know people mean well, but it's extremely unhelpful and dismissive to get these kind of one-off suggestions from strangers who don't really know enough about my life to make useful suggestions.

I made a general comment. Someone replied to that and asked a few questions. I responded with a good faith reply. As is often the case, the result is a bunch of people wanting to talk about me and my personal problems and not actually take my framing of the situation seriously.

To reiterate my main point:

I actually got myself off the street on my own efforts, so I think I know some useful stuff. My comments on HN about homelessness are consistently some of my most upvotes comments.

So people seem to think I make sense.

But most of them don't want to help me do more in this problem space.

So if the world is going to hell in a hand basket, maybe that's because the world thinks that's a cool destination and visiting it to watch the poor people roast is good entertainment. Or at least something more desirable than admitting that maybe a woman knows something actually useful and should grt genuine support for further her work.

I think I'm done here. This conversation is the usual maddening pattern. And after multiple people have basically politely pissed all over me with seeming good intentions, if I get aggravated and lose my cool, that becomes another reason to blame me for my problems and say I deserve to be dirt poor, I deserve to be ostracized, etc.

I seriously doubt most people here could do half as well socially under the same circumstances.
It’s still patent encumbered, and if you happen to sue Google, because they do something shitty, you lose your patent grant.
Tobacco companies are the worst companies in the world.

Followed by Coke and Pepsi including junk food subsidiaries along with junk food restaurants.
Or (in this case) at least set up purchase alerting on the card.
Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette (1927)
IMHO, there's no need to delay or wait.. contradict and break this undesirable image by demonstrating positive and welcoming actions towards visitors of all kinds at every opportunity. I hope and make the future better by taking as many actions now to ensure it as I'm able.
The Amazon Prime Day Deal That Walmart and Target Can't Match
Back then, nullsec was definitely dangerous, but it was also very profitable. It would probably require that you invest quite a lot of time, though that's true with everything in EVE.
That still looks very uncomfortable without pneumatic tires.
Loved this book. If you like tech bio/history books, this one is a must read.
It's not just the salary, it's the working conditions.
Attacks can be statements.

Not responding is always an option, and in a case like this it's the right option, as expressed by the ancient internet adage "please don't feed the trolls". The site guidelines ask the same, albeit less colorfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Study gives insight into sun-induced DNA damage and cell repair
The battle to separate Safa and Marwa, twins, fused at the head
Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts
A free market would allow the employees to unionise to negotiate more effectively the employee side, like Amazon the company uses many people collectively to negotiate the employer side. But Amazon is anti-union and spends money to that effect.

If the free market is a fair market, unionising wouldn't make any difference as the negotiated rates would already be fair and couldn't be any more fair. Amazon wouldn't be spending money to block union efforts, because that would be wasted money. Therefore either this isn't free market, and your comment is wrong (not free market), or this is free market but it isn't fair so your comment is wrong (free market, yet still relevant).
...yes, but you have to remember to use it.

I’ve lost work this way as well; sure, it’s avoidable, but it’s most certainly a pain point.
You are arguing the unstable limit case. There's likely some smaller wage increase that wouldn't impact the prices of goods...
"You just didn't luck into taking the right class."

I disagree. A brilliant teacher is someone who can make almost everybody feel like they understand advanced concepts. For example, Richard Feynman and his book on QED. That doesn't mean even a genius can get most of them to actually understand.

Mainly because of Wikipedia and its frequent lack of pandering to a lay audience for mathematical topics, I've come face to face with how impossible it is for me to understand things at a certain level. I could do undergrad calculus, but it's easy to find topics where I feel like I have a mental disability, or I'm a different species from the people who understand it. It doesn't seem like a difference of degree but of kind.
Yes, the problem is systemic. Amazon is "playing by the rules", it's the rules (of single-minded maximisation of profit) that are the problem.
Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/math) is excellent. I recommend working through the exercises as far as you can and then re-learning concepts grade by grade. I go through this process every few years just to stay fluent.
My old Nokia E90 would beg to differ. It was released before the first iPhone, WiFi works very nice, thank you, has a full web browser, and worked more than well enough as an MP3 player.

It also sported a screen comparable to a "retina" display.
> "titanium fire" but my brain substituted "magnesium fire".

Ditto.
I wonder if this is due to google possibly ignoring the robot.txt and Bing (which powers DDG) accepting Linkedin's request? https://www.linkedin.com/robots.txt
Looks bizarre at first, but then you start to see the similarities to a bird.
I wrote a docs api v1 -> org converter in python. I just pulled it into its own repo and it still has a bunch of dependencies related to how I handle auth for other projects, but if you want to take a look it is at [0]. There is an example of how I use the Docs class in an org source bock in the readme (note that I use evil mode, and that you need to view raw to see everything that is going on with the headers). It currently requires a little dance to get everything in the right place at the right indent level, but it could be fully automated. I'm in the process of writing a converter going the other direction in elisp, and I will probably rewrite the python into elisp at some point as well, but for now, following the keystrokes is faster for me than trying to reimplement it to integrate with the org-mode api.

As an overview I use the heading level in the google doc as the corresponding * level (e.g. h1 -> , h2 -> *, etc.). Nearly every construct in the google doc has a 1:1 mapping with some org mode convention (there are some things that I still write in org-syntax in the google doc, such as figure captions and stuff like that.

If I need to export to markdown from org I usually try pandoc (I very rarely do this though). Importing from markdown I use pandoc as well, newer versions do a pretty good job and only need a few tweaks from time to time. Latex export is straight forward using org-mode's built in exporter [1] via the export dispatcher. For full pdf export I use lualatex via texlive with all the pain that that entails.

0. https://github.com/tgbugs/gdocorgpy
1. https://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-export.html
2. https://orgmode.org/manual/The-Export-Dispatcher.html#The-Ex...
Interesting, “It was found that a horse could conveniently raise a weight of 100 pounds attached to the end of the rope while walking at the rate of two and one-half miles per hour, or 220 feet per minute. This is 220 x 100— 22,000 foot-pounds. W att, however, in order to allow for friction in his engine and for good measure added 50 per cent to this amount, thus establishing 33,000 foot-pounds per minute, or 550 foot-pounds per second as the unit of power.” https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&...

It lists other estimates ranging up to 1.5 HP, and also has peak HP from one contest at 14.88HP though that was published in 1926.

PS: One even has Tredgold 6 hrs. 125 lbs. 3 m. p. h. = 1HP.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Seriously. I live in a LOC (low cost of living) state and work as a remote programmer. This is a good scenario.

Lots of people retire to states like Alabama. As you say, nice weather, cheap housing, etc. Every state has it's culture/education/entertainment centers, you can always live close to it.
I generalize them for friends who ask and break them down into these variants:

* USB 3.1 (Type-C to Type-C) Charge Only
* USB 3.1 (Type-C to Type-C) Charge and Data @5Gb
* USB 3.1 (Type-C to Type-C) Charge and Data @10Gb
* Thunderbolt 3 (Type-C to Type-C) Charge and Data @20Gb
* Thunderbolt 3 (Type-C to Type-C) Charge and Data @40Gb

I believe 5/20Gb cables are generally rated at 65W and 10/40Gb cables at 100W. But like you've noted there's no standard labeling. So it's hard to find what you're looking for half the time.

It's just easiest to find Thunderbolt 3 cables since those are backwards compatible and if you buy the 40Gb ones you're going to be safer with regard to plugging both your laptop into a charger and your phone.
Doesn’t matter if your claim is actually correct or not? That’s a hell of an argument.

I’m responsible for the tips waiters receive from me. Amazon is responsible for the wages their workers receive from them. Makes sense to me.
Honest Logos of 2019
Excel on a Mac is better than Numbers. At least Excel can handle tens of thousands of rows without becoming unusable.
If you want to know more about the five grain companies read the book Merchants of Grain. All five have very sharp elbows and only one (Bunge) is public so a lot of the wrangling goes on in private. Cargill is the largest of all of them.