skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence Scott Sumner's headline a while ago, "The Typical Rich Family Is A Cop Married To A Nurse".

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/the-typical-rich-family-is-...
I remember thinking that things like these will happen with Meetup.com more and more ever since they got acquired by WeWork -- and I've personally heard many organizers around me say that Meetup.com is getting worse and worse, but there's really not much to be done with the discovery dimension as they have the grand majority of the users.

I've since been working on an alternative: https://blinkmeet.com, but that didn't really account for much for various reasons.

I really do think that it's only a matter of time before Meetup.com goes down, this way or another.
Yeah, and even those people would snort derisively at a project designed to keep 2.7 alive like this.

"Getting shit done" doesn't happen if you can't move forward eventually. I'd have substantial concerns hiring someone who can't get over Python 2.7.
Ask HN: Who is hiring for interns? (Summer 2020)
How do you develop and debug triggers?
... but you wouldn't.
That's an awfully one-sided "think of the children" you've got there. Requiring humans to be registered (ie insisting that we be legible to the State), is also a guaranteed path to some forms of lifelong exploitation. So like everything, it's a tradeoff.
Did they really? My recollection is that they had a slow and inefficient pipeline that would never be able to handle the speed that Amazon fills order at.
Not legal, merely “tolerated” (gedogen) by the state and their agents.
Asking what the typical american dream is a bit hyperbolic, no?

For the same reason we seem to be worried about vaping but also want to make sure children get their puberty blockers and can chop off their penises before they could legally have sex or consume a beer.

For the same reason why being a stay at home mother is similar to slavery, but wasting your life away at some joke of an HR job while you're just a slave to your boss is empowering.

For the same reason new companies who are supposed to be taken seriously play video of a shooting range in Kentucky and try to make the public think that it is a foreign country where our stinky old racist president is allowing untold slaughter to take place.

For the same reason the guy who won and aware with Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali is supposed to be the biggest racist of them all while he tells his supporters, who are also the most racist people to have ever lived, that he would like record immigration if done legally.
Oh I totally agree. I'm doing this very thing: SF salary, live in Western MI.

But that's really only available for a small subset of the population.
If you're in a technical job and an occupation that allows it, sure.

Plenty of machinists, auto mechanics, health care professionals and welders aren't gonna have much luck working from home.
I did leave the company after the article came out because of how it jived with my experience.
It was walking distance from the local university + local hospital. My sister at the time was studying to be a medical doctor, so she needed to be close to those two spots.

There wasn't much else going on in the town aside from the university + hospital.
To be fair, AWS does run on Java.
Dallas, TX is one - but as resident, I up and moved to Denver because .... ugh.
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Police jobs have some risks but there are a few engineering jobs there which are not too bad. And the guaranteed pension is the icing on top.
>I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word, but the children of the wealthy and privileged are taking full advantage of meritocracy's retreat.

I'm pretty surprised how people fail to notice the similarities between meritocracy and aristocracy. I don't think it's an obscure fact that aristocracy is meant to be "the rule of the best or the fittest"; and it's so obvious that it failed and degenerated to a hereditary mess that we invented a different word to express the same idea.

Hey, maybe this time will be different and we will get it right, but I don't think mocking those who are skeptics of the term and try to draw attention to the ideological usage will help us.
> Its clear you live in a rich area where $100k isn't much

You mean he doesn't live out in the sticks or a run-down city like Detroit (MI), Gary (IN), or Paterson (NJ). You don't need to live in a rich area for $100k to not be that much.
The classic American Dream is:

* A stable job (that pays "enough" and isn't too stressful)

* Own a home

* (optionally) Raise a family

* Enjoy weekends free, as well as vacations (and the ability to afford them)

At least that is my interpretation. If there are atypical American Dreams, I'm curious what those might include.
> You don't think Google did their own market and user research before making this thing?

Yes. I have even heard that they get market research on features after they had launched instead of early enough to use in decision-making. Google's product team is incompetent.
every major metro has seen an increase in housing costs. West coast may be extreme, but this hits every metro across the country.
Fredrick Brennan calls this the "Pedo Problem", whenever you create a free space for people, pedophiles will flock to it.
Hmm, do most households have two people nowadays?
I can't tell what the "straw man" argument you're referring to. Could you clarify?
GDP growth is typically given as real growth.

From investopedia: "Most of the individual data sets will also be given in real terms, meaning that the data is adjusted for price changes, and is, therefore, net of inflation."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gdp.asp
A 3 hour commute each way is not easy even when you do it only twice a week
You lost that because you didn't file for a tax return correctly...
I'm no fan of MacOS, but I certainly agree with you on this point - there are a multitude of ways to install software on MacOS, and it doesn't go out of it's way to prevent me from using those.
> That little text input takes what you give it, determines what the hell you're trying to figure out, and delivers results on a level that just vastly supersedes anything else.

Do you mean, for everyday services, for general knowledge, or for specialized information? Personally I am distrustful of "intelligent" results, but that's because I assume they will be gamed (especially for services). Although it's probably silly for weather or something.

The most aggravating thing is trying to ask about something specific and being flooded with content about something basic and probably more popular (of course stripping rarer keywords because why not). But I'm personally interested in search, so curious about people's experiences.
Any satisfactory system will be alterable by

(a) inflationary practices

(b) those scheming to take advantage of loopholes

in 10 or less years.
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LOL, that's actually somewhat plausible considering how many nuts there were back then believing the world would end.

"Plausible" in the context of TFA, of course, if we're gonna go ahead and believe it, for the sake of argument.

I mean, there's not a lot of information to go off, either. The article adds zero additional information (relevant information, I don't care how many beers he drank) over the first paragraph, so all we know is contained in that one sentence. Since the family seems to have been liberated, it would have been interesting to know what actually happened there and how they were convinced not to leave the farm. Shouldn't have been to hard to ask, right?
Just imagine the house you could build from 500000 Vietnamese beers...
You only need 3.5% down with an FHA loan. To put that in perspective, a $300,000 home would only require $10,500 down.
I would say that is a problem in any place where it is desirable to live these days. Locations I've experienced first hand: London, Sydney, Bay area, Los Angeles, Vancouver... and I'm sure there are many more where you can't buy on that salary.
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Instead of looking down on rural folk, consider the possibility that what people like you and me who earn 100k spend might be very different from what we need to spend.

After all, people in big cities by and large don't earn $100k either, and yet they manage to live somehow!
Households != mother + father + children, where income is presumably higher. Households include all living situations which includes households with 1 person, households with 1 person working, etc.
#2 is my life. AWS is cheaper overall but that transition takes a ton of cash, because you have to pay the DBAs AND Oracle AND Amazon until you can transition to AWS (or Azure).
Alternative link for second reference with no paywall:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-35486-1
That's his point. Nobody has any right to it, just like nobody has a right to a specifc lifestyle.
This is a perfectly legitimate course of action, not least because the debt and interests were freely agreed.

A statute of limitations is not aimed at helping people wriggling out of paying off their debts. Depending on the debt and jurisdiction there is bankruptcy for that.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with my first iphone when my op6 kicks the bucket (no sign of that anywhere in sight). I've just been so underwhelmed with every Android phone release that now the main thing that matters to me is the years of updates that the iphones get. I never thought I'd care about that but it looks great now.
What value does an MBA provide today?

It used to be a way to accelerate a career path, but is that even the case anymore?
> and adopting a functional style

Although this won't solve all of your problems, if you can't use F# and want to use a more functional style, then this will help [1].

disclaimer: I'm the author

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
You can even !g put it in the middle of the query if your text cursor happens to be there
+1 for !bib—I didn’t know that one.
Hello,

I'm interested in what Brighter AI is doing with DNN and Generative AI. I'm a 3rd-year undergrad student in the states, but would it be possible for me to do an internship in Berlin? If so, I'll apply in a heartbeat. Thank you.
If you consider automation to be sufficiently tech-y, there's still plenty of jobs like those around, particularly in the rust belt. The people I knew in this area lived in small towns and got paid well enough to live in neighborhoods surrounded by medical doctors.

Part of the problem is these jobs don't have the sex appeal of SV tech so they aren't on people's radar or just not considered desirable because of the nature of manufacturing work.
I once drove my '76 300D for more than a week with no electricity whatsoever. No generator, no battery. Hill started it or borrowed a fresh battery when I needed to start it and let it run until I was done with it.

Electricity was strictly optional on those cars.
oh. didn't know that, and yeah, can confirm - all requests on that page are made to mozilla.org. good! might have been an oversight then.

so this pretty much invalidates my other two comments here.
And then the kids go to college or someone in the family has a medical issue and boom, you're in debt for at least the next decade.
Lately I've been using Forget Me for Chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forget-me-clean-hi... One click wipes cookies, history, and local and session storage for the current site. It works on the NYT and everything else I've tried so far.
Absolutely, butter makes things taste so much better. Plus if you just got bread and meat, it can easily get stuck in your teeth. You need a condiment to make the sandwich easy to eat.
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> There's zero difference in watching a DVD or Blu-Ray vs. streaming on your screen.

There's definitely more ceremony with putting a disc in the player or going to the theater.
Yeah, that's a classic. But it's also mostly about parsing arbitrary HTML, and that's where "well known" comes in. The data in question looked somewhat like:

<doc>
<bool name"foo">1</bool>
<int name="bar">12345</int>
<str name="baz">test string</str>
<float name="quux">1.234</float>
</doc><doc>
<bool name"foo">0</bool>
...
</doc>

but with a lot more fields per-doc. To pull out each <doc> as a string (using a regex) in a while loop and to then parse the doc into a hash of key-value pairs (another regex) that are stored into an array is less than twenty lines of pretty standard Perl, include exception handling and error reporting:

my @items;
my $count = 0;
while ($item_xml =~ m{<doc>(.*?)</doc>}gsmi) {
try {
# process <doc>
my $item = $1;
my $i = {};
$i->{$1} = $2 while $item =~ m{<(?:arr|date|str|bool|int|float) name="([^"]+)">([^<]+)</[^>]+>}gsmi;
push(@items, $i);
$count++;
}
catch {
warn "Error :: $_";
}
}
print "$count items found\n";

And if you think the regex to pull out the field values is hard to read, it could always be written in the extended format like so (this is overly verbose, but you should get the idea)

my $field_parse_re = q{
# Parse opening tag
< # Start of opening tag
# Any of the allowed tag types
(?: arr
| date
| str
| bool
| int
| float
)
\s # space between tag type and name attribute
name="([^"]+)" # Save tag name as $1, or first returned item
> # End of opening tag

# Parse tag contents
([^<]+) # One or more characters that are not <, in $2, or second item returned

# Parse enough of the closing tag to make sure we got all the contens
</
}smix;

# Now use it
$t->{$1} = $2 while $ticket =~ m{$field_parse_re}gsmi;

In any case, that's a trivial amount of work to beat the fasted XML parsing I could find (and I surveyed a few libraries) by like 14x, IIRC.
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That’s not how that statistic works. It considers all earnings in the household regardless of relations.
LuaVela, the LuaJIT fork I've worked on
Got to be honest, that was my first thought - if anybody actually comes up with something that's actually anonymous and actually uncensorable, it will be shut down, by whatever means necessary, by the government with the full blessing and support of the public.
It averages upwards. Many households have 2 working families so that they can afford the house.

I'd presume that most "single family homes" owned by a single-person would have 1-or-2 rooms rented out, providing 3+ income streams for the household.
> "homes that can be afforded at $100k salary"

There are many places throughout the south, midwest and northeast with decent job markets and dirt cheap housing. The mortgage on my 1800 sq foot house is nearly a third of the cost of my tiny one bedroom back in Seattle. The cost of the entire house is a tenth of a house in the Bay Area.

I am fortunate to work remotely but when deciding where to live I wanted to be able to afford to keep this roof over my families' head even if I didn't have a Bay Area/Seattle gig. I think the biggest obstacle may be coming up with enough cash to secure the financing in the first place, and for that I am grateful to have lived and worked in a tech hub.
A large chunk of the midwest is like that. Housing is very cheap in the small-medium cities (and the big cities are still a lot cheaper than the coasts) and you'll usually find a few local software companies + satellite offices of bigger ones that pay in that range.
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I was living in San Francisco on an after tax income of $500/week for most of 2010-2011. Prices are a bit higher now, but I think I could scrape by on that amount if I had to. I wouldn't want to though.
Why isn't a 1 hour commute enough to find cheap land/housing?
Do you think he actually read all 800+ articles?
The main reason that D hasn't been picked up by anyone is mostly because it is an evolution of C++, not a revolution. Discarding an entire ecosystem for an evolution is not going to happen. Rust took a very different approach and just threw everything away. D looks and feels too much like C++, I would rather have hoped that effort would have been spent on making C++ better.
> If the "victims" of voter fraud truly cared enough, they could audit the voter records for any election. Unless I am wrong, there exists a record of whether or not each person on the rolls actually voted. The intersection of the people who voted with those that are deemed truly inactive would be the extend of the voter fraud (at best).

To be clear -- what do you mean by "truly inactive"? Usually "truly inactive" means they haven't voted. So people who voted are by default not "truly inactive". You would have to take some sort of heuristic estimate of how likely it is that a voter is inactive, and cross that with the voting record, and then attempt to individually contact the voter to verify that they did vote. The quality of such a heuristic would fundamentally affect the results. In other words, the experiment would either confirm widespread voter fraud, or, way more likely, provide no evidence for or against voter fraud.
He might change his mind...eventually. For a long time he was adamant he would never make a computer-generated film, but in 2018 Ghibli released his first ever short CG film: Boro the Caterpillar. Although the film is computer animated, it mimics the hand-drawn aesthetic of 2D animation. (The film is only available to watch in the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaHiPtYWTc
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Problem is a lot of companies get smart and "pay by location". I've seen big cos from the Bay offering half the salary (before currency exchange) for workers in Vancouver.
I would have said a lot of people want, rather than a lot of people "feel entitled to". It's debatable what people are "entitled to", but we live in an age where it would be well within our technological reach to build comfortable homes for everyone. It would however be politically impractical to reallocate land and resources to make that happen, because the people who currently own most of the resources feel entitled to keeping them.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
Counterexample: Denver
Sure ok, but over 6 years a starter house going from $19,000 to $30,000 in Dayton is a lot different on the affordability spectrum than an equivalent house going from $300,000 to $900,000 in Seattle.
I have used stack exchange properties as read-only for several years now. I would continue to contribute so I can payback the help I have received, but it is not a friendly place.

Is there a solution to this?

Someone will reinvent a new service, so a new community will form, and then most important data will be recreated?

Can I use the latest court ruling

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/web-scraping-doe...

to repurpose stack exchange data? Or just to keep a stash of data for myself?
I'm with you. Google not only show results where your quotation-marked token is not present but will also include results with synonyms to your token.

I think I'll analyze my browser history of Google searches that are similar enough because I'm tweaking the query to match what I want.
Sure but the only two numbers I saw were 235k and 20k, indicating the set of users removed in Franklin county may have actually been underrepresented (<11%).

However now that i can see the article the 20k is actually 50% of the set of 40k folks that shouldn't have been on the list, which of course is a different story.
> That's both the mother AND father working to bring home $59,039 on the average (before taxes and other costs).

This isn't accurate. That's everyone in the household collectively working to bring home 59,039 on average. 27% of "households" are individuals. 34% of households are couples (that is to say, two people with no dependents. If they're mothers or fathers, they're empty nesters.) So only about a third of households have more than two people (presumably parents + children.)

Not sure what the median income for households with two working parents + children is.
The only issue I have is that headline is very click-baity, making you think this is some crazy family cult or something. Its weird, but not Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Heaven's Gate weird.

The article doesn't detail anything other than they lived "underground". A child moving into the basement of their house lives "underground". You can design homes that go underground.

Furthermore, the 25-year-old went to the pub, not to the police or anywhere. If he was being held against his will, I doubt the pubs the first place you go.
California first in the nation to mandate later school start times
Good to know your threshold for major fuck-ups is 20%. Would you accept a grocery store that overcharges you 20% of the time? Would you accept a car that doesn't start 20% of the time?

A reasonable process would do a spot-check, discover that they are horrifically off, and then implement a second-level check.
When did Argentina turn into Turkey and we didn't realize?
Because as with all legal matters in the US, it is about punishment, not rehabilitation.
Boeing 737 MAX.
Apple laptop keyboards.
VW diesel cars.
The list goes on. MBAs effectively look at any organization as if it is a pin factory.
> replace merge into with INSERT ... ON CONFLICT… DO UPDATE/NOTHING

PostgreSQL supports MERGE statements [1], and a cursory glance doesn't seem to show that Oracle deviates that much from the SQL standard. Is there a particular reason you are avoiding the merge statement or is it simply a readability preference for the non-standard "upsert" ON CONFLICT extension?

(I'm curious because I was a big fan of MERGE statements in a past life. Part of being allowed to use them in that codebase was proving that the standard was pretty well followed across DB vendors [not that we used more than one], as well as that MERGE performance was critical to some very large dataset joins with complex update logic.)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/23520/sql-m...
The trick is usually to get a job locally in SF, do well for a couple years, and then ask to work remote.
You can buy as low as 3% down and then there are the NACA loans and a slew of zero down programs.
I don't look down at them, I grew up in a small town and spend a lot of time in rural America. Most will not get that 100k is not a lot of money in an urban area, especially if you have dependents, since that's more money than anyone they know makes.
Do you allow outright all and any commands in the terminal, sudo and all?

Does the data go through your pipes at all or strictly between assist clients?
This is a relief for me personally, because I've also been thinking about building something that fits this need, and seeing how many people are trying to enter the space by now makes me realize it's about to get very crowded and now I don't feel nearly as bad not getting involved.
FWIW, you could get rid of your DropBox steps if you used something like SyncThing or Resilio Sync on your phone and MBP.
The census data [1] seems to indicate it was $79,781 in 2017 (in 2017 dollars, so $83,569.23 today). Not a large amount, but still 25% higher than the 66.7k number

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcountyma...]
The solution is to not work for those companies.
I've found that both !{string} and {string}! works equally well.
I agree with you on the down payment but from a slightly different POV. There are cases where even saving up to 20% to avoid PMI doesn't also help - particularly states like NJ where you could own a "modest" $300k house but still be out $10k + per year in property taxes.

In order to get mortgage + taxes down to a reasonably "affordable" amount (approx. 40% of take home spent on housing) you need to be looking at up to 40% down to offset the tax expense.