skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rule #1: Do not use debt to fund consumption or purchase assets that historically are not expected to appreciate within 5 years.

People are getting into debt to buy cars and go on vacation, this is ridiculous. Buying a house, even if it's a stretch on your income -- is not too bad. You can build equity and there is lots of support, you can even rent out a room. But going into debt to buy a luxury car? Absolute stupidity.
I don't think dueling anecdotes are very useful without some context management. I won't ask after the particulars of your background with this stuff, because that might be asking you to admit to a crime. Please consider reading my reply to a sibling comment of yours for some context on where I'm coming from, if you'd like.
At this point I’m fairly certain a trade deal with china won’t happen and we’re just being weaned off our dependency on their manufacturing.
Actually I (also) know of someone who needs web scraping so I will also give your name to them thank you.
I want at-large representatives for the entire state, based on general election polling rank. This is unlikely, of course, because it threatens the two-party hegemon.
If you can't argue to someone's compassionate side, nor their economic rationally, all you're left with is negating the value of their vote whenever possible. There is no point in engaging or fighting against a brick wall.
The mortgage would actually be closer to $1600 unless I'm missing something.
Two cars at $706 a month each.[0]

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/
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I can’t comment on the specific project, but it could do the opposite. Dams eventually silt up and the changes in waterflow can cause a lot of other undesirable changes. If planned poorly enough, hydroelectric shouldn’t even be considered renewable energy.
I'm not sure if this is a mesh network or not, but it sure sounds cool. Plus, it has a Who's Who os VCs behind it.
I'm genuinely not trying to be hateful, and these next sentences are not meant to be as shitty sounding as they might sound, but I don't know how else to phrase this. I have this question when I hear people like you say things like that:

Why can't you just support policies that help other people without worrying about yourself?

Is 'I had it bad so everyone else should, too' really where you want to live?
> Rolling back code and rebuilding to run a test is a pain, and you aren’t going to do it very often, even if you have a suspicion that things aren’t working quite as well in a particular case you hadn’t considered during the rewrite.

> What I try to do nowadays is to implement new ideas in parallel with the old ones, rather than mutating the existing code. This allows easy and honest comparison between them, and makes it trivial to go back to the old reliable path when the spiffy new one starts showing flaws. The difference between changing a console variable to get a different behavior versus running an old exe, let alone reverting code changes and rebuilding, is significant.

This is great advice, always being able to compare and easily switch between parallel implementations is key to maintaining systems long into the future and not doing the v2 rewrites every 6 months.

Creating a solid system that doesn't have breaking changes, but new paths/flows to use at will is key to debugging between the two and maintaining a live app/game/system/infrastructure.

Parallel implementations sometime takes more work and more care to signatures and surface/facades in the app, but the benefits in debugging, comparing multiple implementations and easing into new systems when they are fully ready, not rushed, is iterative knowledge from the trenches of the shippers that was learned through pain.
I cannot help you with (1), but I think I can help with alleviating your fears regarding (2).

Just by understanding scales and progressions you won't "start hearing them everywhere" and "fall into patterns". There are no "right" and "wrong" progressions in contemporary music, they are just there. By understanding the theory, you will see why you might like certain things and dislike others. It won't take away your enjoyment from music and it won't change your music tastes. Whatever progression is "right" in someone's eyes will be "wrong" in eyes of another person.

Music theory is as close to math as one can get in arts, imo. There are no "right" or "wrong" numbers, everything is very neutral and non-biased. Yes, some progressions sound more right or wrong to most people, but that's mostly because of our collectively shaped taste of music, and learning theory will not force you into any kind of tastes on its own. It might motivate you to explore more diverse music, as you will be looking for more novelty in patterns, but that imo is a good thing and, in fact, is the opposite of being locked into the "ivory tower".

So my advice on it would be to stop fretting and to just dive deep into the music theory :)
JVM Anatomy Quark #8: Local Variable Reachability
Thank you will pass your name to the right person.
Did you demand money when they bailed out the banks? Or what about when they recently passed massive tax cuts for the rich? Did you demand money then? Do you demand money every time someone declares bankruptcy due to medical bills (they can't give that medical treatment back!).

So many garbage people that can't see the forest for the trees. Think of how many more customers with disposable income you could have (if you wanted to start a business) if so many people in this country weren't deep in debt.
> an fraction of the overall tech sector jobs

Wait, what? Where have you been? I mean, 9/10 is a fraction, so yeah… but I’ve been in software development for 25 years across five different geographic regions (of the United States) and I’m usually the _only_ non-Indian non-H1B software developer there.
The article could have maybe picked someone more sympathetic.

These folks are actually doing quite well. And their housing is quite affordable.

But, you know, they ran up a bunch of consumer debt, including $8k on a high-interest TJ Maxx card...

The story here is of a middle-class couple overspending on consumer goods.
You forgot to add:

... in any language.
I wonder, are there any patterns here for certain interesting mathematical sets of numbers, like primes, squares, etc?

First glance doesn't show anything obvious, but I'm no mathematician.
The Dictators Handbook is a great book that talks about how natural resources can lead to autocracy a lot of times, because leaders can extract resources, sell them to get money/power and not give a damn about individuals. Countries that have fewer resources tend to need support from a larger selectorate and tend to (not always) lead to more democratic societies.

So that does go with what you said (I don't know their oil history, but I assume they build a society that was culturally western European before they discovered and started extracting oil resources).
France is even using Matrix (which has e2e and is going to make it default soon) for their government communication system.
I'm sure the tradesmen would prefer they buy his/her products vs paying for student debt.
The more interesting part is that we now have pretty good computational models to measure gerrymandering. IIRC correctly, there was two different models developed by different teams and they both actually found very similar results.

One of the two basically ran a Monte Carlo simulation, exploring a subset of all possible configurations, and comparing the average results to that of the current configuration. The other one I believe used a more mathematical approach.

Here's one of the papers:
http://cho.pol.illinois.edu/wendy/papers/talismanic.pdf

EDIT: Here's a Daily episode explaining it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/podcasts/the-daily/gerrym...
Understood, but citing costs without also including the resulting benefit or without comparing to other options (like solar), doesn't really answer any questions. I wouldn't be concerned if the cost is 2x if the output is 10x.

I worked for a solar manufacturer for almost 10 years. I had my blood tested regularly to monitor Cadmium. What is going to be the cost of dealing with all the Cadmium in the 50,000 two foot by four foot modules that we made daily? That's right, daily. Not annually. And we were one manufacturer.

What about the acreage that is consumed and the resulting environmental damage that comes from trying to capture the extremely diffused energy source and then convert a small fraction of it in to energy only to lose a third of it in transmission by the time it gets to power plant?

And cost of development - hasn't taken about 50 years to achieve only about 15% efficiency (assuming economically practical technology).

My point is it doesn't seem like solar is quite as cheap, simple, clean, and safe as it's made out to be while at the same time it seems to get harder and harder to squeeze out more efficiency. It seems to me that nuclear has almost the opposite dynamic.
Terminal.app also is underperfomant. I like iTerm2 but recently switched to kitty. It's the fastest (multi platform) terminal I found. I also switched under Linux to kitty and stopped using terminux.
> balance of approximately $7,500

> about 23 years to pay it off

i'm guessing that's much much higher than 12% interest, although we don't know what the minimum payment is.

i just looked at this site (TJMaxx isn't available in my country [thankfully?]) and it's nearly 30%:

https://www.supermoney.com/reviews/personal-credit-cards/tjx...

not sure if correct but i've never seen 12%, only mid 20s
see https://iterm2.com/python-api/examples/darknight.html and https://iterm2.com/python-api/examples/theme.html
What useful safeguards do you imagine people had to spend time putting up because of the equifax breach?

If you can’t name any, how can there be costs?
Compare Australian wages to the rest of the world. If you go on vacation to other places you see that Australians make more than people from other industrialized nations. You don't see it because your plumber wants to participate, too.
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No. You're exposed when you walk through your town naked, not when you see pictures of it later on in the day.
Because people with personal responsibility paid for themselves AND are now expected to pay for others through their taxes. Why should I be expected to pay for your poor financial decisions?
> Compared to trillions of dollars of unnecessary war spending we've already borrowed for and spent?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

> Tradesmen can be forgiven for not understanding macroeconomic policy though

Well that's very classist of you. I've seen a whole mess of folks with fancy credentials that are about as useful as a pair of tits on a hog.

You know what I saw when I went to university? Professors willfully lowering the bar to cater to unmotived, unprepared students because tuition dollars. Fix that and then we can talk about free education, until then you're just pouring gasoline onto a dumpster fire.
Those who've followed the cypherpunks list for many years know Jim Bell. Of Assassination Politics (AP) fame.

So maybe a year or two ago, he proposed setting up a GoFundMe-style NGO that would take every federal criminal case to trial. The argument being that it wouldn't take more than 10% (or whatever) to overload the system. And so defendants would get cases tossed based on the 6th Amendment.
Congratulations with the launch! It's what I was looking for a few years. I mean I've been working in remote teams for years, and have thought about the exact service with screen/voice-message sharing features, as you created.

I believe easy screen sharing is important part of remote work, thought I think it should be in other way, i.e. I want to share a part of my screen (static pic or video) with a comment/question. There is a need for that almost every day.

Short walkie-talkie like conversation as you have are really great for remote teams, it can improve work and communications. Basically I want to say "good morning" to others, without really interrupting them, but letting them know I'm available now.

I guess I'll be your customer with my next project :)
Can you add a way to contact you in your profile?
You forgot to factor in UberEats, Disney trips, and other one off expenses that end up easily being $75+ a pop. Expenses that some people would budget for a week or two (or longer), people are easily spending on a single event. That hefty $4000 in your checking account quickly dwindles down to nothing because they spent $500 bucks over the weekend on multiple UberEats and a quick run to the mall.
What are the yields on corporate debt? Companies will certainly downsize when the next recession hits, but if the interest rates are low and locked in, how bad will it be?
We haven't added a backdoor to WhatsApp. The Forbes contributor referred to a technical talk about client side AI in general to conclude that we might do client side scanning of content on WhatsApp for anti-abuse purposes.

To be crystal clear, we have not done this, have zero plans to do so, and if we ever did it would be quite obvious and detectable that we had done it. We understand the serious concerns this type of approach would raise which is why we are opposed to it.
A marline hitch vs. a half hitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hitch_knots
Realtime Stock Ticker Example with Golang
Quote: "some crime(s) punishable by jail time"

The charge is that the definition of serious crime has expanded to make everyone liable to go to jail. Traffic infractions do not fit the charge, because while a large majority of people will at some point break those laws, very few people consider the rules of the road an oppressive plot to enslave the population.
Honestly what would you do if you need to switch hundreds of distinct cases? Hundreds of classes implementing an interface?
> Well that's very classist of you. I've seen a whole mess of folks with fancy credentials that are about as useful as a pair of tits on a hog.

I wouldn't have a welder or other tradesperson perform neurosurgery on me, nor argue as my defense attorney in court. Why would I expect them any more qualified to set economic policy? That's not classism, that's common sense and reason. What is more astounding is that someone could be of the opinion that as person not educated in economics should have the ability to set such policy.

An intelligent, rational human being evaluates a decision and delegates the responsibility to a domain expert when they have ascertained that the domain knowledge and experience they have falls outside of what is required to make said decision. Any other course of action isn't just irrational, but possibly dangerous ("unknown unknowns", "you don't know what you don't know").
This is why we have the senate, two votes per state even though alaska has less people than the city of Seattle.

The point of the electoral college was that news travels slowly so voting for a rep to vote for you to represent your district was the right thing to do. Now, everyone can vote for themselves and probably should and we can have it counted in a day or two.
This isn't true... imagine half the population passing on their phones to get a new one, and the other half always getting used phones because the new ones are (say) too expensive to justify it. Versus another population where neither group gets new phones. They're quite obviously not consuming things at the same rate. And by passing it on, you're enabling people who might never cycle through phones to actually do that now. (Which is most definitely not to say that you shouldn't buy used or pass on an old device. 100% please very much do do so. You'll obviously prevent some folks from buying new, and it will obviously reduce consumption. Just don't come to the mistaken conclusion that it's equivalent to keeping your old device and not upgrading at all.)
I feel like this part of the article is a bit misleading:

> it emerged the company had been listening to intimate conversations of customers, even when users hadn’t activated the device by saying the phrase “Ok Google”. [ ... ] In a blog post, Google later admitted the claims were accurate.

While not outright stating it, this makes it sound as if Google admitted that listening regardless of whether the user said "OK Google".

Here's what the blog post (https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/more-information-...) actually says:

> The Google Assistant only sends audio to Google after your device detects that you’re interacting with the Assistant—for example, by saying “Hey Google” [ ... ] Rarely, devices that have the Google Assistant built in may experience what we call a “false accept.”
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> Compared to trillions of dollars of unnecessary war spending we've already borrowed for and spent?

There can be multiple bad ideas at one time. Wasting money is wasting money.
Using debt to buy a depreciating asset is fine in a lot of situations, and different people are in different situations. For example, I'd rather have $20k in cash and a 3 year 1% loan for a car than have $0 in cash and no loan.

Making hard rules about debt is what gets people into trouble in the first place. We need to spend some time teaching/learning how to reason about debt in order to make these decisions.
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Salary bracket?
This is the first thing I thought of when I learned about Libra. It's terrifying.
I am a huge fan of Build Your Own Lisp in C. I knew how to program since I was a kid. It was all inelegant but working code. Using this website's walk through helped me to refine my understanding. Anecdotally, I suggested it to 2 beginners I knew, and they found it very intuitive.

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