skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point.

The main thing I wanted to point out was that 59k / year "households" are typically more than one person. Maybe 2 or 3 people (if you have 2-working roommates in your house, that's 3-incomes in a single household).

IIRC, the 59k / year per house is roughly 2-working people per house (2x income streams per housing unit).
Over 80% of Americans live in an urban area[1] so it's pretty absurd to claim "city-folk" represents some elite minority. Median household income in NYC is $57,782 [2]. The idea that America is split into some wealth urban minority vs a near majority of lower income rural population that understands "reality" is complete fantasy.

It doesn't change the fact that $100k is still a lot of money, but the people for whom that a lot a money aren't on some farm in the middle of the country, they're driving your uber, greeting you at the entrance to your apartment and delivering your instacart.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...

[2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...
Northwest Arkansas has https://leisurlist.com/
Amen, brother!
Yes on documentation. They have a beginner's book and everything else is pretty advanced or reference material. Some additional intermediate content would be good like how the Julia project does it.
Hey dude, it looks like you're shadowbanned from HN. Just thought you should know.
One that comes to mind is the Supreme Court enforced ban on creating a firearms registry.

No, that's not the Supreme Court. That's the Firearms Owner Protection Act of 1986.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act
We are struggling with reliability when using mounting solutions for big data in S3. Would this help?
In a recent blog post Walter talked about adding borrowing to D. Is this planned to be implemented and if so do you see any hurdles and/or benefits in relation to your Vision?

Looking forward what new perspective you bring to the community!
Look for places that other people don't want to live. There are plenty of midwestern cities with senior developer jobs paying $100k+ and a low cost of living. My two bedroom condo 20 minutes from the downtown of a major metro area was $80k.
Housing in Texas is still very cheap comparatively. And salaries are $100k+ in tech. You can get a house in round Rock ( for example 1309 green terrace Dr is on the market for under $240k and it's a 2300 sqft house with a 2 car garage ) and it's an 18 minute drive from Apple and Facebook.
At least where I'm at, those areas have already been built out at least twenty years ago. So unless you want to buy a McMansion, housing isn't cheap.
I'm building Mixily.com as a general event-organizing tool. Like an alternative to FB events, but with better styling, features, and privacy policy. It launched in July and works great for one-off events.

For recurring events, we have some features in private beta, like pre-set guest lists and a forum. Email me at andrew@mixily.com if you want to try it out!
US owl-killing experiment raises thorny questions
It would be great if the DevTools input fields behaved like all other input fields in Firefox ;-) Things like Ctrl+C/V, Ctrl+(Shift+)Left/Right, and others I'm probably forgetting right now (am on phone).
> “ boring lunch to me would just 2 slices of bread over just ham.”

Literally we’re talking about exactly that plus some fat. I don’t see how the fat all of the sudden makes it not boring. Especially given this is then eaten daily.
In the US, "social security branch" is not a soup kitchen. It's a branch office of the Social Security Administration, a government department which provides monetary benefits. They can't sign you up for benefits if you don't have an ID.

However, the human beings who work there could give you advice on where and how to get an ID - which might differ depending on your individual circumstances. A computer probably wouldn't give you any more information than you could read on the internet, and if that info doesn't make sense or doesn't apply to you, you're going to have trouble finding better information.
SketchUp and FreeCAD are competitors in the same market.
Next up: oracle sues Amazon for not using their product.
You changed your argument from (or at least, what I understood to be your argument):

1. Bankers are primarily interested by money, which includes employees of the Swedish central bank

2. There is a conflict of interest because the prize is funded by a bank

to:

3. Economists are more motivated by money than doctors.

1 and 2 are not relevant because the central bank is not a bank in any meaningful sense.

I fail to see how 3 has any impact on how one should view the economics prize. Could you elaborate?
For me, there are some queries that Google usually gives me better results. I couldn't tell you exactly what (mostly obscure code snippets, I think), and they're a relative minority, but sometimes I do use !g. It's not that often, though, and I'm a happy DDG user on all my computers.
That could be. Unless I'm actually using it, I block all requests to Google servers. I have good enough results with DDG and Bing that it's not worth enabling Google's spyware.
Alternatively, use !s to search StartPage and get Google results without having to load a Google webpage.
> Your linked source is talking about an entirely different issue.

It's a court ruling that shut down North Carolina voter ID and early voting laws, in part because the defense of those laws included that that literal quote about it making harder for black people to vote.

> All we know is that some Republicans are biased, just as all people have biases.

When 'some' is enough to control a state legislature, and similar things happen across the country (https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-su...), it's a logical conclusion.

> Also, your source is not substantiated.

It literally links directly to the court judgement.
Yes, because their search completion is very good, they still have great local data if you give them a city or a zip, and they’re better at inferring what you meant to search for when you make a mistake.
What's their occupation? You don't need huge student loans to get that kind of salary as a software engineer.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21252185.
There's a certain career path that seems to start with a top-tier MBA, and by one's 30s has one running a VC backed company as CEO (you have 40 employees and one of them is your executive assistant—can't let your CEO job take up your entire work day like it's a real job, after all!), sitting on the board of a couple others, "advisor" positions with a startup or two or a fund, self-promoting on social media constantly, and apparently still having plenty of time for family & kids (and for posting about how tough it is a busy working executive/entrepreneur/investor like you to find time for the long afternoon weekday family picnic, as part of the self-promoting social media posts).

It's like a whole other world. A world where you can have five jobs and none of them take more than a couple hours a day and all of them pay fat checks. WTF.

Oh but better make sure you own anything your little peon workers do in their off time. Wouldn't want them giving your business anything but their all, 40+hrs a week.

(source: snooping on Linkedin, mostly, plus conversations here and there)
I think it's utilized more than we might think. DDG put up pretty big bill-boards around a lot of small and large cities. I believe those were mostly around "tech-forward cities" because it might be an easier crowd to get under the fold. They have a neat stats page where they track site traffic. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic It certainly looks promising. I've switched to ddg as my primary search, and I regularly do find queries that goog answers better. My partner often uses one of my devices and they have not complained about not being able to find what they were looking for.

There's certainly power of default at play where people just don't want something seemingly unfamiliar, but there's also plenty of queries that the big G answers without a sweat that DDG just can't seem to gather info on.

Anyways, that's a long winded way of saying that yea, I think a respectable number of "real world" people use dduckgo.
you're not getting a starter home for 30k in Dayton unless it comes without walls and was a former meth lab.
>> Maybe in cities, but my rural town just barely got stop light cameras, so I highly doubt this is true of rural America.

Do you think rural towns in China are any different?

>> In America no one will bother looking at the footage unless a bank robbery happened and your car was the getaway car.

That might have been true ten years ago, but certainly not today.

https://qz.com/1458475/the-dea-and-ice-are-hiding-surveillan...
Thanks for the alert to the paywall and the comments. I had originally read it on Nature and included the reference provided on the article.

The lack of consistency in results is definitely an issue, and it's true that it may be turn out to be a net benefit overall, which is why I believe we still don't have a clear understanding of the situation. Considering that bacteria adapt to their environment, we may see further unpredictable effects. The risk as I see it is not knowing how it may turn out before deploying it on a massive scale.
> more mnemonic names tend to be over-specific

I feel like this applies just as much (if not more so) to calling something the "contents of the address part of the register" or "contents of the decrement part of the register", especially when in actuality the "car" and "cdr" of a cons cell are implemented in a way that has nothing to do with an IBM 704.

> short, and just the right visual distance apart

Even shorter (and similar visual distance apart) would be cl and cr (for "cons left" and "cons right", i.e. the car and cdr, respectively). Or pl and pr if we swap "cons"/"cell" for "pair". Like car and cdr, these can be combined into other operations, like (cllllr foo) -> (cl (cl (cl (cl (cr foo))))). Heck, we could go even shorter with just "l" and "r". They're even kinda pronounceable ("cull", "curr", "cullullullullurr"). Literally all the upsides of "car" and "cdr" without any historical baggage.

Point being, if Bel is supposed to be a reconceptualization of Lisp, it feels really weird to not reconceptualize how we talk about cons cells and the contents thereof.

> after a week of using Lisp, car and cdr mean the two halves of a cons cell,

This could be true for any chosen terminology here. Unless you meant Lisp in general and not this particular dialect, in which case there are counterexamples to that (namely: Clojure, last I checked).
On your landing page, change "Link you bank..." to "Link your bank...".

The FAQ says "In order to fund operations and grow our platform we currently take up to 5c from every dollar donated, however our goal is to reduce that figure as the number of users grows." Does that mean after the first dollar is donated $0.05 is removed or is it continuous (i.e. a %age)?

Does Olive provide a statement for total yearly charitable contributions for tax purposes?

Thanks and interesting idea!
That's funny, I love the movie but hate the book.

I guess it all depends on whether you enjoy the book's explanation for the world and specifically, Howl. To me it was too distracting.
No, this code "got messy" because the person writing it has no clue what they're doing in Python. This code was never clean.
How does Capacitor compare to for example Cordova or Flutter or React Native?
From their site I gather it's like Cordova 2.0?
With W2 employment, you and your employer split the payroll tax responsibility. When you're self-employed, you pay both halves.

If you adjust your rates accordingly, it's a wash for everyone involved (this is one of many reasons the 1099 price per hour should be around twice the W2 price per hour).

None of this has anything to do with CA income tax.
A female engineer's opinion on why fewer women go in to tech
It's a coupling engineering failure no matter how you spin it.

Diagnostic logging should be stored on a separate (re: decoupled) flash chip. If that flash chip wears out, the car should still drive.

Something is too tightly coupled right now, as evidenced by the existence of the article.
one of my friend got similar email. when he try to schedule video call, getting no available slots message.
Frequent flyers should pay more, not less
Class action suits against the US government (or states) are rare because even if the plaintiff class wins, the government still has to volunteer to pay (in most cases). Sometimes it even requires the legislature budgeting the funds for payment.

Since class action lawyers generally rely on the proceeds of the lawsuit to collect expenses plus ~35% of the proceeds as their fee, it's highly risky for them to take such a case.

Additionally, since the cases in the article are to essentially prevent a debt collection, even if the lawyers win, there isn't necessarily going to be a payout, just an injunction.

One way to handle these situations is to eliminate administrative courts. Two, the government should have to sue to recover money from individuals as any other entity would have to do.

That being said, the article admits that in at least one of the cases, the lady was making payments on what I assume was a legitimate debt, then abruptly stopped. She was surprised to find out she still owed the remainder some years later. That's on her.

But it also makes me question the extent of the problem. If one of the 3 most sympathetic cases that they chose to write about isn't even an illegitimate debt.
It's been a long time since HN was not out of touch.
'MBA stereotype: arrogant, entitled pricks whose life plan from high school was get the right grades, do the right extracurricular activities, go to the right college, get the right grades, get the right internship, get the right job, kiss everyone's ass and get good evaluations, get the right GMAT score, get into HBS, and then be anointed as the elite, highly-paid business person that they were born to be. They were process-oriented people who didn't care about creating value, they just wanted their slice of the pie.'
If you're taking about the European explorers - they didn't - they went looking for new trade routes to lands they already knew about. It was about commerce, not exploration. Only after someone "hit it big" (Columbus) did others follow because they realized the commercial opportunities of finding "new" places.

The Polynesians sailing into the unknown Pacific is a different case, but that was most likely (based on what I've read) a situation of "the poor" venturing out to find new lands for themselves, not well funded expeditions paid for by existing kings.
Must be a director/executive position?
> Performance and value of performance has always been a thing in all nations, whether or not there's the backdrop of nepotism or corruption.

Agree.

> However, if you're saying that somebody has been starved from youth and is now way behind on the kinds of skills which would help a company compete, then in a sense that person is no longer meritorious.

While this is true, it's also an ultra-extreme example. I'm not talking about people born with developmental disabilities, physical or mental, or people who suffer accidents or traumas in life rendering them less competitive. I'm talking about perfectly able-bodied, sharp minded, sprung-from-the-uterus youngsters who's parents committed the crime of being poor in America.

Their parents crime (most not even aware it was a crime) sentences them to a youth of substandard living in homes priced far too expensively, substandard education provided by teachers trying their best in a school system that is funded only 30% as well as a neighboring one, despite having twice the students, because property taxes fund schools for some reason, which I'm sure isn't that wealthy people demand better schools and can pay for it. They are also unable to attend extracurricular activities (if they are even available) unless they can transport themselves to and from them, and of course find the money to pay for what's needed for those activities. And they also more than likely come home to either an empty home or a sleeping parent who's trying their very best to provide them a decent life, and is being hamstrung by stagnant wages, poor working conditions, and is almost certainly strung out to the edge of reason themselves, because again, this system sucks.

And even if you're absolutely perfect at navigating this travesty, which again, I emphasize, is entirely man-made and 100% controlled and facilitated by our Government and society, you are still starting out magnitudes behind your wealthy counterparts.

And if you make a mistake!? Hoo boy. Get ready to do years in prison of your most valuable time because you couldn't sleep with your stomach aching and in a moment of desperation, stole a $0.99 hot dog and got caught. That is of course assuming you aren't shot and killed in the process, again, over a dollar hot dog.

> The hard question to resolve is not "if we can have it all, shall we not just have it all?" The question is when merit is in tension with fairness, what do we value more? Whether the metaphorical movie comes out better? Or that the movie provides opportunities for society to correct injustices? In the context of global economy, the ones who vote on this question are the citizens of the world.

I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
How is Oracle predatory? PostgreSQL is great for web developers and small businesses but in terms of support, security, and enterprise features I think Oracle has PostgreSQL beat. I have been an Oracle database developer for the last five years, they have a great database, not sure what all the hate on HN is about.
The father and six kids hadn't been allowed out for nine years. If this isn't a cult, it's a huge abduction story.

The 25 year old was amazed at the sight of a pub and told them that daylight was very bad for him, that he was only able to get out that night and that he couldn't go back anymore. Apparently he was astonished that there were still any other people in the world.

I think the idea of going to the police was completely alien to him.
Carriers have been on 4G LTE for what the last 15 years? That was because of the network investment they'd have to do. When we see 5G, I'd expect 5G LTE instead. AT&T tried to just fake it by changing the icon on the phone, they only do things minimally. We were all supposed to have Fiber to the home by 2004, which tax payers paid billions to telcos to do, but that hasn't happened, because they don't have to and they still get paid.
The point still stands that $100k is still statistically high if you look at the U.S. as a whole.

There's a lot of nice cities that $100k still goes far. Boise, Colorado Springs, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor, Houston...

But if you're from one of the coastal cities the OP was referencing, comparison is the thief of joy
The issue is less about the dollar cost of housing in most places, than the opportunity cost and closing of flexibility in getting into a long term mortgage. In all but the most obnoxiously over-priced areas, if you make $100k, you should be able to buy something on a low down-payment FHA loan, and your total mortgage payment should be less than you'd pay in rent. PMI sucks, but it's not terribly difficult to refinance out of it after a handful of years.

The problem is you're tied down to a location. The market is hot now, but even so, it is not trivial to list a house, get an offer, close, and decamp from it, and it's rare that that goes quickly. If you envision moving around from job to job, rather than settling in for the long haul, a 30-year mortgage is a ball and chain.
Awesome news. For quite a while we had ionic for Angular, react native for React, quasar for Vue, now glad to see ionic officially supports react from now on.

At the moment though, React-Native has 7x downloads comparing to Ionic: https://www.npmtrends.com/ionic-vs-quasar-framework-vs-react...
Agreed, but it's that way for a purpose no? Maybe not a whole 20%, but enough of a buffer so that you won't be underwater on a mortgage in a down housing market.
Same here. I tried DDG years ago and gave up pretty quickly because it wasn't there, then tried again more recently and was positively impressed, but it still lacked some accuracy, then I tried again last year and made the switch.
So is DDG better than Google to me? Nope, and hopefully it will never be, because the only way to get on par with Google, let alone beating them, would imply on DDG side to get as much data as possible about me just like Google does, which would defeat their entire raison d'etre. So I'm okay with DDG being slightly less accurate, and when it doesn't find what I'm looking for I revert to Google for that single search. Currently I use Google on the average from zero to 3 times per day, which is ok.
That's however a choice by someone who values his privacy more than having to press a few more keys or waiting a bit more time to find something; I wouldn't expect the average user to agree with this.
DDG could one day conquer hearts and minds of most technical people, but going beyond that will make an entirely different and much harder challenge.
Researching 'dark social' can help you solve some of that
Yeah...I realize I'm in a privileged position but just pointing out that if you're in a position to F.I.R.E. that taxes in California are actually low to nil for <$50k/yr despite its reputation as a "high tax state."
https://archive.org/download/stackexchange

Note that every item in the internet archive has a torrent file for distribution purposes.
But there is: Some software checks the name and version (major and minor) of the JVM vendor against a whitelist.

Guess which One Rich Asshole company has this practice.
Money that the state collects is more evenly distributed across the population than money billionaires collect.
Before resorting to tossing swear words at third party readers, consider providing at least one example of the problem you are having trouble with.
Why do you limit Meetabit to specific locations? Give us a free form search area and let me start a group anywhere :D
Buy it at all? Do they have to grow their own?
Huh yeah, used something like this for Meteor back in the day. It was incredibly awesome to see and use live.
What is Swiss gun culture like? I know they have one of the highest ownership rates in the world. I was on vacation there a few months ago and was surprised to learn that the government lets you keep your service weapon at the completion of the mandatory military service. Does mandating military service for men make a big impact on gun culture there?
Divorced parents turning to AI- driven smartphone apps to resolve disputes
This one is: "12. Purchase a gun"

On the other hand, unless you are one of the 538 electors, you don't have a constitutional right to vote for the president.

So if "constitutional rights" is the determining factor, it's the ID requirement for guns that you should be fighting against.
Piggy backing on this a bit..

You can now publish a .net core 3.0 app that is:
1- Ready to Run: Part AOT compiled app for the platform.
2- Trimmed: Tree shaken down to only necessary bits from the framework.
3- Single File: Self contained app.

This combination of features provides a really decent balance between size, performance and distribution.
Technically they have to accuse the property being seized as being involved in a crime. Not the person.

But yes, still BS.
Google Kills Daydream VR
If you want to be mind-numbingly bored, sure. Despite the cost of living in a city, I (and others who enjoy city life) would much rather pay to enjoy amenities like public transit and being able to walk to a bar.
The making of browserless.io and solving your own problems
This may actually be a good thing.
Why Machine Learning Is Crucial for Disaster Response