skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what "officially" would mean in this context, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb which derives from what people already seem to generally think.

It has issues in the teen years, but from about age 22 onward, it seems to match well with [US] societal mores.
Your manager wants to see this! Do you know what happens if you look good? Your manager gets to look good too. It is in their interest for you to be a stellar employee.
Because this isn't an engineering discipline, there's no science, it's all pop culture. Alan Kay:

Computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can happen. In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when television came on the scene and some of its inventors thought it would be a way of getting Shakespeare to the masses. But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand Shakespeare. What television was able to do was to capture people as they were. So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture.

Basically everyone roots for their favorite team.
You may like the Temporary Container add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
> So if they cannot afford half a million in wages they should either close or move offshore?

Unironically yes. Thats is what they should do. If you pay below market wages, well sucks to be you, I don't care if you complain.

But to give an actual good face alternative, they could hire lower skilled employees from non-traditional backgrounds, and train them up.
I agree that is not a good reason to ban everyone that is simply mistaken. But I have seen users flag one another for absolutely no reason other than they dislike their views being colored as incorrect, or dishonest when the behavior is repeated again and again. That is rather absurd and provides shelter for ignorance. I’m sure those people are very intelligent in their actual area of expertise, but their immaturity shows through in other areas and it’s rather toxic to witness a mod stepping in to say their pride has higher priority than letting someone directly confront their ignorance with facts and truth. Yes this is the internet, we all have better things we could do with our time than debate with strangers. However this also one of the most intellectual and influential havens for discussing tech and nearly anything else found to be interesting.

Modern times have also brought on about a host of new issues where technology can be both beneficial and a detriment to society. The rapid spread of misinformation is a major technological and social issue. How are we going to navigate the new era that is becoming more complex, conflicts are increasing, and people are becoming more partisan and incorrectly reinforced because technology and modern life makes it very easy to filter out the inconvenient facts that they need not be confronted with?

My point is we should not be assisting the enablement of misinformation. Being a hotbed for powerful people and powerful ideas, there is a certain amount of responsibility that needs to be accepted in preventing the spread of misinformation. Rules of discourse that prevent resolutions is something I believe is harmful rather than helpful at HN, and enables the spread of misinformation.

Alternatively, those that don’t like an atmosphere where less than well informed views are actually challenged may very well choose to leave on their own accord, and they will no longer be spreading misinformation here. Bans are probably not needed at all really, we just shouldn’t be enabling.
The US healthcare system is probably the best in the world if you're rich.

I had the usual PPO plan when I worked as a SW engineer in the US. It was fine given that my wife and I were young and healthy. We still paid a couple of thousand dollars out of pocket when our son was born after a perfectly normal delivery which was a bit annoying, but again I could afford it so no big deal.

However, our next door neighbour, who was an American citizen and worked as a courier, did not have health insurance provided through his employer which was almost certainly a contributing factor to him dropping dead of a heart attack in his mid 40s leaving behind a wife and young son. I think it's safe to assume that his life expectancy would have been higher if he'd lived in a country like Canada or Australia where there is universal healthcare, especially for potentially life threatening conditions.

I think it's unfortunate that Canada is used as the most common comparison in the universal healthcare debate in the US since (even as a Canadian) I think the Canadian healthcare system is worse than pretty much any other developed country except the US!

I'm currently living in Australia where I think the healthcare system is excellent since it combines a base universal healthcare system with a parallel private system with relatively affordable private insurance (which I pay for myself, it's totally separate from your employer). This model is similar in most other West countries (e.g., UK, Germany, France, Sweden (!)), the notable exception being Canada where there is no meaningful private healthcare option, unless you can afford to pay cash in the US, which e.g. a former boss of Vancouver did. So it makes it more difficult for Americans to claim the Canadian system is better when the fact is that many (albeit relatively wealthy) Canadians jump the public queue in Canada by going to the US.
Jimmy and misunderstandings kinda clash
Most of them work well. There's one I had to remove because it caused kernel panics.
The article mentions one facet of this: once you’ve mastered a modal interface, it can feel really fast. It may or may not actually be fast, but it feels fast, and that is a pleasant feeling.
DEFLATE compressed data consists of blocks. Each block can be either uncompressed, or compressed with a pre-defined Huffman table (the variant mentioned in the parent comment), or compressed with a dynamic Huffman table. Many DEFLATE compressors would consider all three options (at higher -j values) and choose the best. So, one does not need to tune DEFLATE to get the advantage of dynamic Huffman tables. And any kind of arithmetic encoding (or the new hotness, Assymetric Numeral Systems) would do a better job.

For a competition like this, all simple approaches have probably been tried already. The current leader has been tuning their approach for 5 years: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html#1159
I also wasn't able to find any sample code, but this thread [1] has some additional comments about the techniques used in the paper.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/cjy77r/r_vibratio...
Do you remember those stories about label reps getting bands hooked on drugs so they were beholden to the label?

Those people found a new place to work.

There's pushing people out of their comfort zone, and there's pushing people way out of their comfort zone so they are perpetually off-balance and need your help.
It would require multi-touch displays. I have no idea how ubiquitous those are these days, but I know most touchscreens interfaces in my life have not supported it.
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That sounds like heaven, honestly.
Most of the articles I click through to from HN work just fine with all JS, including first party, blocked by uMatrix.
What is nytimes.com using now to detect incognito? Enabling filesystem in incognito used to work until a few days ago.
I haven't used a mouse in years, just Kensington trackballs and laptop trackpads. The trackballs are great; clicking is predominately with the thumb whereas pointing is with the fingers. Even when using fingers for both, it's not something I notice since I've never clicked and moved at the same time - maybe for a gamer it would be different
Fascinating that so much money is going into blockchain startups when I can’t think of that many useful applications for it.
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Hey, I'm Matt, co-founder of HeyAgents.com.au (https://heyagents.com.au/) I'm new to this forum, but here to learn and help provide value and advice to other proptech founders!
How did they get the project in the first place, did you team in the US vet the Indian team before signing the contract?
Raj was on Ezra Klien's podcast recently discussing this topic.

Very much a similar discussion to this article, but they focus a bit more on the macro benefits. I felt like it was a really nice blend of political topics and data science. Raj seems to do a very good job of finding and conveying meaningful insights and statistics.

https://player.fm/series/the-ezra-klein-show/can-raj-chetty-...
Sites don't want to bust the experience for brand new devices I think. That would include things like internet cafes where you log into a clean desktop environment, or browsers you use rarely like maybe one in your car. I think if Google can just get a real disk-backed implementation working for Incognito mode, such that there actually is no difference between Incognito and a new regular browser, this feature will be valuable.
Just pay for NYT and WaPo or close the tab.
>the actual important pages that people want to use?

Where is this special list of important pages? Are the sites I want to use not important? Does your comment need to be so simultaneously defeatist and hostile?
Assuming data is on separate partition or disk, I do nothing after an upgrade to older gear.

A new Mac, Brewfile and dotfiles in git

New Linux, I wrote a bash script years ago that just iterates over an array of pkg names as strings, then clone dotfiles. It checks for apt or pacman; there was a time where I couldn’t pick and kept going back and forth between Debian and Arch ️

For some reason I can’t bring myself to run Homebrew on Linux, even though I know it supports that OS now.
I have seen the same thing for in-house corporate software. I don't think it's specific to government, but that any software that users are mandated to use and is developed for a small number of users will tend to have terrible UI. Particularly when the people building it are not allowed to talk directly to the people who will be using it, and have no idea how they do their jobs.
I can't really make sense of the bandwidth (information rate) of a tactile interface. A measure in units of length would make more sense to me.
You don’t need detailed tracking to run ads. Newspapers did it in the time before the internet.

What did occur, is that advertisers could not be sure of performance so placed more value on the prominence and reputation of the media source. National well reputed papers got the best deals, regardless of real world performance.

It will lead to tight localization again, as advertisers can’t rely on Google just selecting the right people to display ads to, but would have to seek specific sites to advertise on.

The world will be fine.
we are probably still early in the hype cycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
A dollar valuation is bollocks, yes - but a percentage stake of a company valued at 5-10m of (I.e. small-fry) when it gets sold-out to Cisco / Apple / Facebook is not.
Agreed, nearly every commercial use seems better off simply relying on a centrally trusted authority.

"This has to be on the blockchain. But! don't look behind the curtain to everything else in our company that relies (and thrives) on a single point of trust.
Seconded.

The goal of meditation is not to succeed at being free of intruding thoughts. It is to practice noticing intruding thoughts and bringing your mind back to focus.

Having an intruding thought while meditating is not a failure any more than lowering a weight while exercising is a failure. You can’t lift if you don’t lower.
強姦殺人魔、明仁、文仁、徳仁、悠仁が僕を消したがっている幽体離脱時の映像が、もうメチャクチャの支離滅裂なのです（祈）†
Hey Skippy, don't get any water or coffee on the helm controls, or it might either not respond or go full ahead/reverse.

^-- Just one class of examples of what could wrong with not having physical controls.

Also, it takes a smaller explosive to crack/damage a touchscreen than physical controls into uncontrollability... and now you have a billion dollar paperweight.
I'm working on a new tool called mgmt: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

While I think it's a good fit for the general automation problems we face today, on of the reasons I'd say that it's more difficult to find solutions geared to an individual user's /home/ is that most people don't develop the necessary "resources" to manage those things, or that the tools aren't geared well to support it.

In mgmt's case, we can run rootless, and standalone very easily, so it might be something you can hack on. It is missing the same resources that many other tools are missing, so if you want something special for your /home/, then please send us a patch!

HTH
I use OSM and IRC, so that's fine by me!
> Had he, maybe the price and selection would not have resulted in that degree of wealth extraction (generation)

Not really. The profit on buying for $8 and selling for $11 is about the same as on buying for $9 and selling for $12. You make a little less, because there is lower demand and you have higher initial capital costs for inventory, but it's only a marginal difference.

The reason they don't do it regardless is that if Sam Walton tries selling only the carbon-priced thing for $12 when some competitor is selling the bad thing for $11, the customer chooses the lower price. There is still a Walmart-shaped thing in the economy whether or not it's called Walmart and founded by Sam Walton, because most customers choose that over the thing that costs more.

Because they have instant personal feedback into the price and the taste but not into the long-term health effects of sugar and red meat. But if you can solve that for voters then doesn't the same solution work for customers?
Do you really think higher income individuals have better genes? Overall? ...Or better in a narrow, rat-race sense? Genetic expression changes based on life experience doesn't it? I really don't think section 8 recipients are genetically inferior. Surely that isn't what you are saying, right? I'm not a biologist, but I would wager worse outcomes are mostly a result of continuous stress.
The fact check here is an easy one- just listen to these guys incriminate themselves.
Obama rapes & kills 2 boys. DeBlasio 5, Buttgieg 5, Cuomo 4, Murray 3, Dorsey 3, Thiel 3. Trump $4 billion to cover. Pelosi $3 billion, Harris $1 billion, Schumer $2 billion, to help bring the boys over the border. See pages 18-23, 8, 11, 12, 35, 45, 61, 62
You could encrypt both the regular one and the incognito one, with the only difference being that you persist the key for the regular one.
I already have “USB drives I didn’t buy” on the list of things not to plug in to my computer. It’s easy enough to add “cables I didn’t buy” to that list.
You just need another voice in your head that thanks that vicious asshole for sharing, tells it to STFU, jokes with it, etc, etc, etc.

I talk to myself a lot. And swear at myself a lot. But it's all in good fun, and occasionally some insight pops up.

Also, given my privacy hobby, I end up talking about myself in the third person. But only in the vaguest terms.
Changed to that from https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/11/warning-a.... Thanks!
As per the OP, you are supposed to state whether remote/onsite is acceptable. You didn't do that, and I'm looking for remote work, and your description sounded exciting, so I applied anyway, even though I'm stuck as remote only. I hope I didn't just waste my time :-)
Do you know that this has happened specifically around touchscreens, or is this a more general observation?
"This car has reached the pinnacle of 0-5mph handling".

You're right, not quite so sexy for the ads, lol.

I agree, those things do make a difference. I drive a manual (stick) car with pretty rough low-speed handling. It is a bit unpleasant to drive in bad traffic.
That's where you want to consider second order effects. The type of person who's buying an Apple Wifi router is probably spending a lot of money on Apple products, it's part of the "long tail". They might be the people most likely to evangelize their products. It keeps expertise about wifi inside of Apple.
Getting rid of it seems like a move made by an executive who had to "do something" to look impressive. Apple isn't a cash-poor company that needs to ditch every product that's not part of their core offering. And the Airport wasn't a failed product line, it was a beloved one.

I have a feeling it's more to do with not wanting to help technologically illiterate individuals set up their own wifi, who blame "Apple" when their wifi doesn't work. But of course that's just speculation. The Airport lineup was bar-none the best easy-setup home router on the market when it was pulled.
HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range
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It's similar enough to GrooveShark that I wonder how long of a lifespan it will have.

Of course I can get the content of these sites by disabling JavaScript or otherwise trivially (for me at least) edit the DOM. Obscurity isn't security, so Outline is really just scripting and caching content I could otherwise access so in the grand scheme of things I don't find the website itself to be particularly problematic in the same way I don't find the cassette tape to be. If anything my own behavior and usage of it is the real problem.
In vi you can operate on N chars, words, lines etc. quite efficiently. Mouse based editing, at least beyond what you see on the screen, is more laborious and less accurate. Typing a regexp to find or replace, or moving to a specific location in the file is still modal in a mode less editor.
Sugars are heavily involved in inter cellular signaling we still do not understand at all. All sugars occur in nature within highly fibrous constituents. Fiber has been the helpful constituent on the side that helped with digestion of sugar, but when it isn't simultaneously present, it's a problem.
Hong Kong protest mantra influences how art is designed and distributed
If your only question about helping non-affluent people is "what's in it for me?" then yes, I think you're right about how that sounds. It's not about you.

But broadly, the long-term benefits of social programs are to create a richer, more stable society. If one's goal is strictly positional, then other people being less poor is negative, because the whole point is having someone to look down upon. However, you can take some comfort from the "more stable" part, as it means your kids are less likely to get guillotined at some point.
Agreed! Migadu is great considering they essentially give you a single mailbox for free and the upgrades aren't per user. The different tiers just have sending limits with the top tier being basically unlimited (at their discretion - they're just worried about spam, rightfully so).

https://www.migadu.com/en/pricing.html
ABS is not much help when your breaks fail. I think that's what GP was referring to.
Ethiopia's Economy Is Booming, but at What Cost?
So do random cookies?
Including quick money transfer. FED is working on an upgrade that will allow instant USD transfers. There's absolutely no reason why the central banks of the world cannot have instant transfers using their non-blockchain databases.

BTC is only good as a deflationary pseudo-commodity, like gold. And like gold a good holding amount is probably below 10%, I'd say below 5% of the portfolio.
I think it is a new attack surface for any company that had the policy to never give out a user's information and is now required to give out the information.
Software developement is an unconstrained field. Computers can do almost anything you dream up. You don't need expensive tools, space, raw materials, or lots of people to make it. Contrast with building a car, where strength of materials, wear and tear, safety requirements, etc. make the design space kind of small.

In other words, there are fewer decisions that can be resolved by "option A is the only way to meet constraints x, y, and z simultaneously."
Why can't Flanders copy the nicer biking path system of Netherlands (Holland)?

I've biked on both, ~300 km.
Since the author doesn’t cite a source for his graphs, we are left to speculate on how recent the data is. Blockchain certainly seemed to me to be very hot in 2018. Not so much this year.
Yeah, the notion that rich people are intrinsically better is one that rich people have believed for centuries at least.

Test scores have a lot to do with parental income, but as you say, that's strongly correlated with money and the things money buys.
Wow, that is just fascinating, you should submit that link as a new post.
One of the questions that appears to be at the heart of the H1-B visas - does rank and file software development still meet the criteria for a specialty occupation?

From https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker... , one of the following must be true for it to be considered a specialty occupation:

> Bachelor’s or higher degree or its equivalent is normally the minimum entry requirement for the position

> The degree requirement for the job is common to the industry or the job is so complex or unique that it can be performed only by an individual with a degree

> The employer normally requires a degree or its equivalent for the position

> The nature of the specific duties is so specialized and complex that the knowledge required to perform the duties is usually associated with the attainment of a bachelor’s or higher degree.

With today's world of bootcamps for entry level software development being more and more common - I really wonder if this is still the case. A bachelors degree is helpful... it signals that a person is willing to work on a multi year program to complete something that has a wide range of requirements... but it's not essential. I work with a person who has a degree in physics and another who went from truck driver to registered nurse to working on medical records software.

Digging into this question, https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocume... - 70% of all H1-B visas are going to computer related occupations.
Do they drop mega-seeds?
Yes, I always look to the FED for cutting edge technology. /s
I work out a lot. I’ve tried taking classes or joining the lifting team. But I don’t like working up out on a schedule. I get to the gym when I get to the gym.

I don’t drink anymore but when I lived in NYC I went to the neighborhood bar and was part of a loose knit group of people who went there too. Classes, schedules and fees don’t point to the same thing.

I do miss the mid 90s indie coffeeshop scene.

I think some of these things may die off when people our age have kids. I didn’t have a kid when I did these things before. Maybe schedules and fees facilitate third place activities when you’re negotiating time with your co-parent. Now my kid is mid-teens and I have my free nights for third place things. But I’m not likely to attend a thing at a time and pay a fee. I’ll go for a trail run, with my partner or by myself.
If you think wealth has nothing to do with crime, you should meet more rich people. Paul Manafort is an instructive example here, as is Jeffery Epstein. Felony and luxury go together just fine. I'd be much more comfortable trusting my younger relatives among people who make the median income than people in the 1% or, worse, the 0.1%.
I don't disagree that it's misleading. Personally, I'd do a small amount of research before dropping that much cash on a car. I certainly wouldn't base my decision on a single sentence from a press release.

Consumers who would, deserve what they get.
Visualizing PEG Parsing
What about sites which display different content depending on origin?