skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native Dallas-ite, who moved to Denver.... there is much more to compare for getting the heck out of concrete-strip-mall-culture-void Dallas than cash. Denver? Pay is ok'ish, but the mountain biking is amazing!

Edit: However, the people in Dallas are the nicest I've met. Really miss southern hospitality compared to here, where everyone thinks I'm hitting on them for being so outgoing...
I wish they included rust benchmark code so we can play around and improve it. If the issue really is the bounds checks, then there are many ways to massage Rust code to make it obvious they're not needed. But it seems you can't really play with it without running on actual hardware.
iFixit gives Fairphone 3 a perfect 10 for repairability
That was 4-5 years ago. No, I don't own my own home. The SF real estate market is inflated, IMO, and I could easily see housing prices drop once the populace has had enough of restrictive development policies. Salaries are high enough that I'm still saving good money while renting.
edit: and for the record, I'm one of those "new grads" making a self-admittedly absurd amount of money for what honestly amounts to a relatively meaningless contribution to society. Yea, I take the salary (and try to donate a good bit of it), but it still makes me feel uneasy that I'm being paid this much in the first place.

I'm sorry, how was I supposed to read that? If someone tells you that they lack experience, it is entirely within the pale to comment on or draw conclusions from their lack of experience.

And no, I do not want to measure your genitalia. That doesn't have any place on Hacker News.
Just view light as like being in line at the DMV.
Oh, yes, Vonnegut, source of one of my favorite ever quotes.

However, I do think the "unfinished series" idea has some merit to it.
Sure you can: People examining each other's work deter corruption and also have a good chance of noticing it. Only if a reviewer and a meta-reviewer collude to mis-review do you have a problem, and that should be rather rare.
I highly recommend watch Buster Keaton with Philip Glass on as the soundtrack. Fun times.
The "GCC specific" one mentioned is the same as the technique mentioned here.
There's an MVNO owned by the Canadian ISP tucows called Ting, I used them for my primary mobile service for some time (I would still but I wanted access to Verizon's 700 and 800 Mhz bands for better coverage at my residence so I switched). Anyhow last time I checked they've since added several awesome (and self configurable via their account dashboard) features like multi factor auth settings for # porting, comprehensive forwading options, port locking, locking a line to a sim or device, among other security related overlays to their service some assible via REST API, IIRC. They offer live, immediatly accessable by phone call, north american based (US/Canada), friendly, usually native english spreaking knowledgable support agents and start their minimum service tier pricing at $6/line/month with the ability to toggle (block) voice, sms and data services for each line. For < $90/yr you can configure a pretty secure dedicated line for 2FA.
Thanks for your comment. Can you please point out, anywhere in it, where it is suggested, implied, or stated that people should stop talking about/buying cars, or discussing/taking high salaries?

If not, I'm going to stop this discussion because it's probably just going to devolve into incivility from here.
> If you put some money in an interest-bearing account you could at least buy a new home when you got back.

If you do it in a country that doesn't allow you to be declared legally dead when you are out of contact for a couple centuries, and if the institutions involved don't collapse, and if the interest on the account outpaces inflation, sure.

What percentage of the banks that were around 222 years ago have not failed?
No, there is a difference between people that genuinely want to provide good information, expand knowledge, etc and people that are just using hype buzzwords to generate sales leads.
California's AG Xavier Becerra might have some legitimate reason for staying out of this investigation, but, if so, he hasn't tweeted about it. It's interesting though, because he has in the past come out against Big Pharma, Wall Street banks, and fraudulent charities. I'm sure he'll join this lawsuit too. It just wouldn't make sense for him to stay out of it.
I want to highlight very few Uber drivers make more than minimum wage once the total costs are taken into account.
hi, how can I raise my Karma?
Currently we have no known materials that would actually survive a 111 light year trip to another solar system, so that fact that we can't actually build the space elevator when we get there seems irrelevant. They're both roughly the same order of magnitude of impossible with our current technology.
Possible.

The system got broken by the 2009 rescue attempts (QE 1,2,3).

We are in a different regime right now (negative interest rates). I would not bet on any recession now or in the future.
Does it receive real security updates (i.e. all the CVEs that are supposed to be fixed by that patch level are actually fixed), or "whatever we can reasonably fix" updates where e.g. the kernel is left on an outdated version without fixes because the fixes never got backported and upgrading the kernel is impossible due to limited support from e.g. the SoC vendor?

https://www.wired.com/story/android-phones-hide-missed-secur...
Chippo sold 7 months of inventory in 1 day
I am not sure, but all I can say is sign up for my chatbot. :)
It's owned by Firefox and controlled by the Mozilla Foundation! That's why I use C#. It's open.
A linear model on a heretofore unknown predictor is basically how all hedge funds make money.

Coming up with the predictor is often the hard part. For example, take the tweets of a (sane) president and run sentiment analysis on it. If it is positively correlated with mentioning an equity, the sentiment of the tweet might be a good linear predictor of the stock price.

The math is simple once the feature is well defined.

Feature development is the current frontier, as I understand it.
Doesn’t Uber in the USA just assign rides automatically? Or do drivers opt into the rides they want? But what you describe is how didi works in China when interfacing with taxis (you could get a taxi or ride share through the app, drivers will simply ack any rides they want to take, payment is handled normally, didi doesn’t get a cut).
Unpopular opinion destined to attract downvotes but: IMHO the NSA spying program was outrageous...for the colossal waste of money and time it was.

First, if you're really worried about privacy, why is it not a DEFCON 1 outrage that state DMVs are selling your info to private investigators? [1] Or if you're really worried about your personal liberty, isn't your local police force a greater threat then NSA eavesdroppers?

Back in 2013 the NSA claimed it was spying on 29 petabytes of internet data (out of 1826) a day [2], or 1.6%. That's both a trivial amount of overall traffic and an insanely large dataset at the same time (since it accumulates every day).

Isn't a big chunk of that traffic encrypted? Even if it's not, how do you find terrorists in that data? Do they self-identify? Even if they use a trivial substitution cipher ('cupcakes' instead of 'bombs') it would evade these billion-dollar supercomputers.

To me the NSA's spying program was security theater akin to airport security: expensive machines that don't even catch terrorists. They fail their own internal tests 95% of the time! [3]. I personally would like to know what algorithms the NSA was using to successfully identify terrorist data in exobytes of (possibly encrypted) datasets. Sounds like billions spent on airport scanners to me.

Finally, on a political level, Snowden seems like a massive hypocrite to me for hiding in China, which harvests the organs of political prisoners [4] and Russia, which routinely assassinates political opponents and journalists [5]. But he's mad that what, the US was reading his Gmail?

I realize he's super popular among the HN crowd and the libertarians for whom all gov't surveillance is evil but I, for one, am not a Snowden admirer. Downvote away.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-hunger-demands-29-petabyte...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...

[5] https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-shows-us-what-happens-t...
That automating the process (since human employees don't directly read that email) makes the thing more efficient, and thus worse, as well as easier to misuse.

While I agree with your larger point, I don't agree with this subjective value judgement and am not sure why it's necessary to lump it in with the rest of your (valid) points. Why do I want to see ads for things I'm not interested in? How is that in any way "better?"

What I definitely don't want is unauthorized humans reading my email. (Even so, I have to assume that is exactly what will happen whenever I type or dictate anything into a computer. I've operated on that basis since before GMail, Google, or even the civilian Internet existed.)
>Recommendations for a better life
>If you’re one of the many families struggling to get ahead in >an expensive city on a high salary, here are five >suggestions:

>1. Limit your household income up to $321,451 after all >deductions.

The solution is your money problems is to make less money. :facepalm:
...as we do... E.g., K12 and University CS professors.
It's be interesting to see how Rust performs compared to vector packet processing (https://fd.io/technology/). My hunch is, it's not very easy to implement something similar in Rust that can keep the instruction cache hot, especially going by the data from this paper.
You seem to be implying a false choice here. Specifically that we (the government is comprised of individuals) can not engage both in labor protections at the same time as we attempt to create a universal health care system.
Just as a reminder,

circle e = 0
earth e = 0.0167
ellipse e < 1
parabola e = 1
hyperbola e > 1

So at e = 3, this object is in a sense bouncing off the sun at an angle of 180 * 2 * invsec(3) / pi or ~141 degrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentricity_(mathematics)
eBay is a marketplace because people have always bought and sold stuff. There was no pre-existing marketplace of drivers looking to drive people around for money before Uber came along.
Eccentricity is a way of characterizing the curve the object makes around the sun. <1 is an ellipse, and so the object would be in orbit around the sun, and hence probably not interstellar. >1 is hyperbolic, and thus not gravitationally bound to the sun, and so probably interstellar.

The closer the eccentricity is to 1 without being equal or less, the more "curved" the trajectory is and the nearer its closes approach to the sun will be.
yup, infinite scrolling = infinite ad impressions

the problem is people who cargo-cult Facebook and use infinite scrolling in their business apps which don't have ads
Not at all, it's par for the course for a country's government to review such a deal, some pass and some don't.

Recently (2016) in the UK SoftBank's acquisition of Arm was at least somewhat controversially approved; it was by no means a done deal just because SB offered and shareholders agreed.
That's not what zero-sum means. The definition of a zero sum "game" is simply one where the participants' payoffs (here, profits) sum to zero.

Nothing in the definition prevents some participants from being better players than others. As you noted above, some entities might also prefer to "buy" stability for their main operation instead of trying to minimize their spending on some of its inputs. Nevertheless, for every dollar made on futures, someone has lost (at least) that much. Except for the market-maker, the entire thing is a closed system. Thus, you'd expect the average return, across everyone trading the contract, to be zero, which is exactly what this paper shows.

The paper does show 47 people who turned a profit. Their analysis can't distinguish between rubes who haven't (yet) reverted to the mean and savvy traders with some kind of effective edge. It would be interesting to see what the loss distribution looks like.
The U.S. isn't perfect, but it's not China.

Also most of the important numbers that the average person cares about such as inflation or unemployment are collected in a very rigorous way that is hard for a government officials to modify without leaving a damning paper trail. Not to mention the vast majority of private measures match up with these numbers.

These measures are by no means perfect. The unemployment rate has significantly over estimated the health of the economy since the great recession, but this isn't due to a conspiracy. It's caused because it systematically under counts people who have dropped out of the labor force, or are under employed. (This is for the most popular unemployment rate number, there are much better employment numbers to use that don't suffer from this issue.)
You mean taxis?
You want to accelerate lower down in the gravity well, however not too low due to atmosphere losses. It’s more efficient that way.

Launching from stationary altitude doesn’t save much at all
> At least for me that's the only reason I use Uber. If they are, as they claim, just a lead-gen platform, I'd rather call a taxi. At least taxis are legally bound to provide me a certain level of service.

Most of us don’t have such great experiences with taxis as you do. “Legally bound” still leaves a lot of wiggle room for really crappy experiences.
What is defined as "valuable" to you? People and companies have different definitions, and as your age into the workforce, how you contribute to your work changes.

As a 22 year old dev, "valuable" can be defined as writing code and building products while working 60+ hrs a week, which is what many do in SV. As you age, you write less code and contribute to building products in different ways like architecting the platform and thinking about the business more than the product itself. This is what experience gets you as you age.

I think you're saying that the later deserves more compensation and no 22 year old is worth $200k. I don't think that's true. And most of SV doesn't think that's true. SV likes people that can build and make things, and will pay someone handsomely to build a product and iterate.
That does raise a huge number of ethical issues.

Do we have the right to interfere on a planet which may already have life?
What hipster marketing is here?

WeWork is also a New York company.
At least it would be a source of materials on the way there.
I;m going to interpret your comment nicely and assume you read my comment before the edit, but I was a new grad. I made that edit (the one you quoted) to emphasize the fact that I am familiar with the high salaries and personally receive one. However, it would have been more accurate to say that I was a new grad years ago, but am not anymore.

Regardless, even if I was a new grad, it would not have been justification for your reductive and dismissiveness. That is not good faith discussion.

>And no, I do not want to measure your genitalia. That doesn't have any place on Hacker News.

Then why did you bring it up? Genuinely asking.
Working age labor participation; there's a huge demographic shift in place towards old people across almost all first world countries. Not sure if they measure this at all, as the historic assumptions was that the distribution of population across age didn't vary much.
We don't have the capability to send anything there now. Sending even a tiny probe that is capable of communicating back to Earth from our closest stellar neighbor is beyond our current technology. People are actively working on it, but it's unlikely that we will have the technology to even send an unmanned probe to this star within our lifetimes. We might send a probe to Alpha Centauri, but it's even questionable whether it will be fast enough to arrive within our lifetimes.
I'm questioning the current convoluted way government have to do to protect worker.

What is the purpose of the labor protection in the first place ? To help the worker right ? Then why not just directly help the worker.

Instead of forcing company to provide health care to their worker, why not the government itself provide health care directly.
People have been calling the next recession for more than 3 years, it'll be fun to return to this prediction when we actually do have a recession, as you think it's likely within 3 years.

By the way, a recession is technically 2 quarters of negative growth, so assuming we start from when we actually know we're in recession, it's a minimum of 6 months from now before we are in recession so ".390625 years" would be a definite no.
There's truth to that story, but it doesn't paint the whole picture.

Rural life is dull, you have a limited social circle and limited access to culture. And you have few opportunities. People today still crowd into overpriced cities with poor living conditions, because they dream of 'making it', and they can't bear the thought of toiling away at agriculture (or at a lesser job).

In China, an entire generation has been uplifted out of poverty by voluntarily relocating off of farms and into manufacturing jobs, and it's been so successful that it's cited as a reason for the popularity of current authoritarian leadership.
I'm not a fan of the whole "late-stage capitalism" meme, but I think that perfectly describes your complaint here.

The ideal approach is two pronged, you raise the standard which benefits society as a whole and increase the social safety net to take care of those few lost in transition.

The same principle applies to a wide variety of economic changes from increased labor regulations, to housing, to free trade, to automation. Your complaint here is mainly that we haven't followed through on protecting those caught in transition. We shouldn't fall into the trap of mistaking that for a valid criticism against raising the societal standard.
Broke the law in nearly every major US City for one.

Does he deserve prison for this, that is a complicated question, but I'd have had no problem with destroying Uber as an entity.
Good enough, as long as you don't get assigned a number that previously belonged to a porn-addicted weirdo, or criminal, or dead-beat who doesn't pay their bills, or any number of other not-nice things that can turn your life into a hot mess despite never doing those things yourself.
Massive (last I checked 13 trillion and rising) negative yields government bonds market all with. Lowering interest rates twice already, heading to another one next week (rumor). Instead of bailing out the homeowners in 2008, they bailed out the banks. "Too big to fail." Think about this stuff people. Nothing has changed, nothing ever changes, Governments are incentivized by the market to steal money from the working class to protect the stability of an economy. It's simple: SLOWLY separate money and state and we don't have to worry about manipulation of the money supply to "protect us." Buy Bitcoin.
Atari ST FD Hardware
Life at 400 (2016)
> if you have time to protest, you're probably not that poor

i dont know what protests you've been attending but the one's ive helped at for laundry and warehouse workers were filled with people that were not only supporting families on minimum wage but also contained people who were here on visas.

in america you're always taking a risk by protesting an employer.
Dreamcast launched September 1999
By law, so courts and fines and stuff?

Obviously it only has meaning because we subscribe to its meaning, but we do, and ceasing to do so would be monumental.
Scientists detect the ringing of a newborn black hole for the first time
> Every single SYSV x64 ABI platform supports at least two uint64_t return values, which are the registers rdi and rax (Actually it might be rbx, I haven't done assembly for a while).

For integer returns, System-V uses rax/rdx.
Life friendly != human friendly.
I've seen that behavior in movements from veganism to pro-gun movements, are those movements puritanical?

I'm just actually curious, it's just a semantic difference and I'm curious how wide of a net you cast with this term.
None of those links support your claim that teachers and nurses are starving. Having a relatively low income (according to polls!) does not mean you are dying on the streets due to malnutrition. Taking a second job does not mean the alternative is peril. I could take a second job to afford a better Ferrari but that does not mean I can't afford a car. Try again.
It's less secure than even passwords.

Beyond SIM card cloning, I could sit behind a target, initiate a SMS auth, and simply wait for the guy to look at his phone. Most of the time it will pop up right on the front screen even if locked. If he misses it, I just wait for him to unlock the phone and look at his SMS. How would you like it if passwords just popped up visible to all on your phone?
> You probably can’t take a 10 or 15 year old cell phone and expect it to work on any carrier out there today.

I believe that the Nokia 3310, released 19 years ago, is still compatible with many networks nowadays (with somewhat degraded coverage). GSM turndowns: https://1ot.mobi/blog/2g-and-3g-networks-are-shutting-down-g...
> (or maybe there is even a flag for this?)

We specifically do not give you a flag to control this behavior, but you can choose to call different functions to use unchecked access.
From [0] we can see that there are 10 banks founded before 1700 and 24 from 1700 to 1800.

So it might not be that far fetched, assuming that the banks keep your accounts open after more than 100 years without use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_banks_in_contin...
Thanks for posting that New Yorker article, it was a great read about the humans behind HN.
No because no "run away" effect. "inverted" mass means that the mass goes on the other side... gravity works the same there.
I'm saddened that Google is the default. I hope Brave asks users in the future, but understand there are probably a few different goals being juggled whilst Brave grows.
My point is that it's impossible for us to keep up and fix everyone's problem for them. We need to empower people to make their own choices. That's the best way to help.
Not a physicist, but I think it might not be that simple. From our
point of view, a ship with constant 1g acceleration increases its
speed by 9.8 m/s every second, but people on a ship moving at a
significant fraction of c take more than one of our seconds to
experience one of their seconds. During the time they experience one of
their seconds, the speed increases more than 9.8 m/s, so they must
experience greater than 1g acceleration. I haven't done the math but it
would be interesting to work out how the acceleration in our reference
frame needs to reduce to ensure constant acceleration in the ship's
reference frame, and how long it would really take to reach .99c
without squashing the passengers.
Exempt status also impacts whether your hours are fixed or not. If they tell you that you must be in the office from 9AM to 5 PM, then you aren’t exempt.
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This is an unnerving yet very accurate description of the current state of academia. I would nuance it by saying that some fields are more "competitive" (i.e. crooked) than others and there is, in general, a lot of respect for work done by others (sometimes expressed through mild jealousy).

I share your conclusion but hope that science itself prevails, that this state we're in now is part of the "self-cleansing" property of science and that specific scientists will be held accountable instead of the concept of science. But I can only hope for now.