skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand this sentiment, it doesn't persuade me either (but I am also in a situation that allows me to own multiple vehicles).

That said, my experience is primarily anecedotal; people I know who own only a truck, dealers who are selling trucks, and various reader survey type "Why buy a truck" articles that show up in the popular press like Popular Mechanics or Car & Driver from time to time.

You have focused on the actual need versus the perceived need. The aforementioned dealers are big on selling the "unknown future need" and the fear of finding yourself in a position where having the truck would solve your problem but you don't have one.

Like your argument above, I tend to be much more analytical in my purchases and so I like to believe I am not influenced as strongly by the "what if ..." arguments. (It must have some effect since I don't own a pickup truck at the moment :-). I have also learned, that precision thinking isn't always the dominant force in a lot of buyers making buying decisions. I encourage anyone thinking about this question to talk to truck owners and ask them what they were thinking when they bought their truck and how much of how they anticipated using it was something they actually did post purchase.
The problem is this: Trolling engages users. It makes users angry and it keeps users on your site because they are now “engaged” and being “retained”. If we got rid of all the noise (read: All of the heated arguments not backed by objective facts), many people would spend a lot less time online.
> hashes from different hash algorithms cannot be used with each other

That’s what I thought, but your mention of pHash alluded to it maybe being an open source drop in replacement for PhotoDNA, so I wanted to clarify instead of assuming.
I'm not even American, and just getting used to not calling myself young anymore (but intend to keep cycling for many more years).
Chicago is one of the private schools where the sticker price is essentially fictional. There may be a small number of students each year from wealthy families who pay that, but I'm reasonably sure it's nowhere near what the average student actually pays.
The number of political activists that are just joining Twitter now and want to start by posting my times a day about the one issue must be small compared to the troll accounts. It even should be relatively easy to come up with a model to predict if someone is an experienced user based on the actions they take on the platform.
I’m not sure Chicago State is going to be around much longer...
Been running Linux servers for years. FreeBSD is what gave me back the passion to run servers.

It's such a well structured operating system. The documentation is just great and Jails are a really nice way to get lightly isolated environments to run different web services.

Thanks to all the people who make FreeBSD possible!
Please read the article.

> Researchers have found a woman with a rare genetic mutation that has protected her from dementia even though her brain has developed major neurological features of the disease.

> She, like thousands of her relatives, going back generations, was born with a gene mutation that causes people to begin having memory and thinking problems in their 40s and deteriorate rapidly toward death around age 60.
Government is put in opposition to liberty not because it's called government, but because it holds a lot of power, and any concentration of power limits liberty, whether it's in the hands of government or corporations. At least the government is accountable (in principle) to the electorate and not to a board of directors.
Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (2015)
Having money to buy something to eat is also the right thing to do for any individual. As one comment said, options are limited. I’m playing the devil’s advocate here but only just.
Okay, given this, I'm going to rewrite Wikipedia to say "in universal algebra", to disambiguate the context in which it's quoting Cohn.
You’re not supposed to do anything else except what you want to.

I’ve typed on a laptop sitting below an external monitor for since 2006ish. I do this because I want a narrow keyboard without a numeric keypad centred below my displays.

I want a touchpad directly below the keyboard so that can reach it quickly before returning to the home row. I want everything as symmetrical as possible.

I touch type with a non qwerty layout so I want my keyboard to have the same feel regardless of if I’m in the office or away on business.

I find heavy, long throw keys make my wrists tired so I use a very light pressure short travel much more comfortable over the long term. Eg the kind of switches you get on laptops.

I have an IBM model m and a Pok3r with MX Brown switches on the for comparison and I don’t really care for either of them.

Your usecases maybe different from mine. I’m fine with that.
It looks normal on mobile safari.
Awesome. As a pure Chromium user, thank you!

It is healthy for key web infrastructure to be driven by multiple large stakeholders.
It would actually be the wrong way to tip the politics. California is not unaffordable because of an absence of deeply leftist sentiment.
Tech spends money on lobbying local politicians to write favorable public policy. This should be obvious.
You say that like it's a bad thing and not the real intent.
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I've been doubting a mortgage is worthwhile debt for society for a while now. For the individual, it's not worthwhile, it's just pretty much the only way you can get a house anymore -- unless you are very adventurous. Even the amortization schedule is weighted to benefit the banks.

The reality is if you get a typical 30-year mortgage, your house costs you 3x the list price you thought you were buying it for.

>In 1940, the median home value in the U.S. was just $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars, according to data from the U.S. Census.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/how-much-housing-prices-have...

Why 1940? Because Fannie Mae was created in 1938 after a housing crisis in the 1930's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae

The majority of a person's labor throughout their life is now given to banks. It doesn't take 30% of your productivity for 30 years to build a house. It doesn't take 10 years for a person to build a house. You can build a 1,000 sqft house in a year with $50,000 worth of materials (even less) and a piece of land.

Where has the rest of the typical $200/sqft home cost gone? To the banks! That's $150,000 cash, and $450,000 total outlay of capital, if you buy that cash with a mortgage.

I propose, the loans themselves are the reason we now dedicate a decade of our life to our shelter. I do not believe this is a good thing. I do not believe this is worthwhile.

You will save money and have a better, more free life -- debt free life, if you save up enough money to buy land, plus $50,000 of materials and build your house yourself.

Loans enable every single level of the housing industry vertical to extract more money from you. Architects costs more. Utility services cost more. Building codes get more onerous. Builders charge more. Insurance companies charge more (since the houses cost more). Taxable values go up, costing you more. All of these increased costs are enabled and exacerbated by mortgage "innovation."

Everyone wants this except the first time buyer, but the first time buyer takes all the risk with a new purchase.

It is completely unbalanced. The younger generation is suffering the most and I think it's unfair and detrimental to the future of society.
It’s very interesting from a scientific standpoint. Finding conditions like this can give valuable insight to causality of the different symptoms. You just can’t test all possible mutations to asses their effect.
Everyone who has enough resources to pay for this kind of PR services - that would be correct. I used to work for an ad company which provided "artificial opinions" to a bunch of clients, including a charity for disabled people for example.
I buy it. I'm just going off the Wikipedia list, I don't actually know anything about Chicago.
This would not provide very much privacy protection at all. Almost all trips will be unique with this level of granularity, so it will be easy to de-anonymize. I do privacy research with this type of data and have found numerous sources that used aggregation schemes with similar levels of granularity. In those public datasets, I was able to identify trips moving between a high school and a local planned parenthood, for example. 100m is far smaller than the size of school campus and most buildings.

To address privacy issues, data needs to be aggregated, with trip clusters with less than 5-10 trips dropped. Differential privacy strategies also exist, but dropping groups with low number of user contributions is the easiest solution to implement.
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The key is in the subtitle:

> But fewer students are paying the full tuition

Any seller who can legally charge different prices based on means is under impossibly strong pressure to exercise that power. Universities do this by having "full" tuition rates that almost no one pays.
FYI Voyager 1 is about 20 light hours away.
That's basically how healthcare works as well, and I don't think anyone would argue that healthcare is in a good place in the US.
It took me until 2019 to discover Paul's blog post - Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule and it has been invaluable http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

I now run a mix of densely packed manager schedule and maker schedule whilst maintaining a number of large OSS projects and a consultancy business.
> So creating a new super company name, like Alphabet, which sounds a lot like Altria (phillip morris) to me, that isn't directly tied to the other companies would have been a sensible direction.

Kinda off-topic, but I feel like such corporate renamings should be illegal, or at least heavily scrutinized and subject to regulatory approval. Brands are socially useful to help track both positive and negative perceptions. Personal name changes often cannot be performed to "to avoid the consequences of a criminal conviction" [1], and I don't think the a company should be able to use them to avoid the reputational consequences of their actions.

[1] for instance: https://law.justia.com/codes/colorado/2017/title-13/change-o...
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Shusshh, don't wake HN.
Voyager 1 is about 0,0023409 lightyears away from earth (voyager 2 is a bit closer than that).

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
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Even in America, often producers wield more political power than consumers. Farm policies are often dictated by the interests of farmers more than the interests of people who eat food. Tariffs have traditionally been a mechanism to protect domestic producers at the expense of domestic consumers. Immigration provides economic benefits but some of these come at the expense of individual workers who face more competition. Even defense policy is affected: decisions are largely driven by the goal of creating or protecting jobs in particular states and districts rather than by the actual needs of the military.

Everybody eats food, pays taxes, pays tariffs, and benefits from the protection of the military, but 300 million people who pay marginally fewer taxes and tariffs, eat marginally cheaper food, and enjoy the defense of a marginally more effective and efficient military are often "outvoted" by geographic concentrations of tens of thousands of people who have substantial vested interests.

Given this inherent bias in democracy, I think it makes sense for policy to at least try to favor the consumer over the producer, just because producers do a good job taking care of themselves already.
Because I can develop my stuff on a mac, then run it on my FBSD fleet?
Pickup trucks are popular because they're almost the right vehicle for any occasion. There's a lot of variation within any named truck model to get you closer to what you might normally need a vehicle for.

If you regularly have up to 5 people in your vehicle, get an extra cab. If it's usually just you, a regular cab works (if you can find one). If you need 6 or more people, you could put seats in the bed, but probably get a van.

If you want to occasional carry large items, but save gas otherwise, get a small engine; a compact truck with a 4-cylinder is no prius, but should be better than CAFE average. If you're towing a boat every weekend, stronger engine options are available.

Maintenance is generally easier than on a modern sedan because things are more accessible. And parts are easier to find because model generations are longer and some parts work for multiple generations. Tires are often more expensive though.

If you want butt warmers and leather everything, that's an option too.

And then you have things like visibility advantages due to ride height and a big, unobstructed rear window (at least for a regular cab).

It's also amazingly easy to clean the bed, if you care. Park on a hill, open the gate, spray water at the top until it runs clean. Or wait for a rain.
What is the European version of SAT/ACT scores and AP tests?
Silly consumer - free trade is only for corporations!
... and was definitely not written by anyone who put any thought into whether the code spins in a tight loop and kills your battery.
> access is restricted behind rigorous entrance exams

In some countries there is no exam at all.
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voyager 1 which is currently the farthest man made object from earth is approx 147 AU away, where as 1 light year is equiv to 63241.1 AU... so it has a little ways to go still :)
Parent said nothing about demand.
It is incredible to me how straightforward and undoubtedly true the point you are making is, yet I've had 0% success in bringing it up in conversation without immediately being called all sorts of names or accused of hating poor people.
In reality it isn't as limiting as you think in the Netherlands. You get different levels of education based on previous school results, but after finishing "mid level" highschool you can continue and take the last two years of "upper level" highschool if it turns out you developed more and are now a better learner at 17 than you were at 14. In total that takes only 1 year extra, because "upper level" is a year longer by default.

Same in college vs university, you can continue from the lower level program into a masters degree as long as you pass the acceptance test or have the required grades.
I was really surprised that modern smartphones are not able to ring an alarm while they are turned off.

My daily driver, Sony Ericsson ELM, rings an alarm each morning I need it, for the last ~9 years. Even when it's off, even if the battery is dead (once had a problem with a charger, couldn't even boot the phone, but it rang each morning for a week).

My iPhone? If it dies, it dies. Not even talking about Android.
Voyager 1, the most distant probe, is about 0.002 light years away from the earth.
Just go for it. Interviewing is like any other scary thing in life: throw yourself into it enough times and it isn't. I used to be scared of jumping off a diving board, and scared of riding a bike until I did both of those things many times as well.

There's a huge salary penalty if you're not constantly looking for the best offers out there (do some Googling to convince yourself this is true). Don't worry about your imposter syndrome -- let others determine if you can get the job or not.

Elite software companies have ridiculous interviews, it's true, and you have to spend at least tens of hours practicing them. But everyone else is pretty reasonable, I've found. There are lots of enterprise shops that don't care about that nonsense.
When my washer from 1988 (I checked) started having issues, I thought, "These are almost entirely mechanical given the age. I ought to be able to ferret things out myself."

I purchased the repair manual and gambled on the parts that I thought were the problem, plus a couple of cheap parts on either side of where I thought the problem might be. I was able to disassemble the washer, swap out what I thought needed swapping out, and I was done. Worked fine.
Does NCMEC support collection and distribution of hashes for alternative functions these days? Six years ago they only supported PhotoDNA hashes (hence why we ported Microsoft’s version of the hash function).

My email is in my profile too, feel free to reach out if I forget.
I have an alarm clock that sets itself based on some radio broadcast of the current time. You need to set which time zone you're in and there's a single switch to turn DST on or off.
Okay, thanks.

Mathematics Wikipedia is sometimes very biased towards certain points of view (usually more undergraddy, as evidenced by its insistence with the "abstract algebra" term), so I think it's being a bit too pushy with its "algebra" definition here. I've edited the term to say that this usage of "algebra" is a universal algebra thing.
How does this plan compare to what Intel and others built in NW Portland area a decade ago? Genentech and a few others moved a lot of operations up there, it seems.
I use a $5 simple alarm clock. I don't take my phone into my bedroom. It's improved the quality of my sleep as I don't look at the phone in bed before I go to sleep, and I get up quicker since I don't look at my phone in bed before getting up.
There are a variety of systems that 'work' around the world. The United States' model clearly works to some extent as its universities are still able to attract talented professors from around the world and produce a lot of great research.

There are a few reasons why people would resist the idea of making all universities publicly funded. One of them is that Academic pursuit is now beholden to the state and its interests. In the current system, you can find funding for research in universities from both private and public investment. Also, when all funding is from the government, its bureaucratic nature tends to increase costs. Anyone that has worked with a government contract in the US probably understands how lucrative it can be because the government is not incentivized to reduce costs in a way a private entity would. Anyone that has worked in a department of the government when they have to spend the rest of their budget so it doesn't get reduced also understands this. Interaction with private entities that are incentivized to increase profits with what is basically an infinite money pit is dangerous (who then use said money to push for regulatory capture in congress), and you can see the effects of this in almost every aspect of the U.S. government.

It also further cements the idea that you must go to University in order to be eligible for any sort of job in the U.S. Jobs that traditionally only required a high school education or less now require a 4 year degree. This already is happening to an extent because it's an easy way to eliminate candidates, despite the fact that their profession may or may not require any sort of post-secondary education.

It also is a program that benefits and subsidizes people that either don't need it (wealthy upper class) or are already relatively advantaged in life (middle class). It would unlikely benefit the poor as much as you'd think, as there are still a lot of barriers to getting into higher education that the poor face that the middle and upper class simply don't. From the bottom up they have worse schooling and less opportunities. They may be under pressure to find a job immediately out of school (or drop out of high school) to support their family. The exceptions that can benefit from some program like this likely already can benefit from the current system of scholarships and grants to underprivileged students.

I would like to see a shift to something more similar to Canada where the distinction between college and university is clear. Academic and Vocational (but still professional) schooling being separate can be valuable and serve students with different learning styles better than the largely liberal arts education that universities in the U.S. provide. I'd also like to see some of this theoretical money that is funding tuition-free university towards improving educational opportunities from the bottom up in places that desperately need it. It doesn't matter if your postsecondary education is tuition-free if you can't make it to college.
The difference between an employee and an independent contractor isn't an arbitrary choice that the company and worker can contract as they wish.

If the de-facto nature of the interaction is that of an employee, then (mis)classifying that as a contractor relationship is generally illegal; the specifics depend on the jurisdiction (which is especially tricky if you have people in many jurisdictions) but it may be considered tax fraud because you're not reporting/paying taxes in the way employment requires, it may be considered violation of worker's right laws, etc.

If you're treating your remote workers as independent contractors, then you have to treat them as independent contractors - i.e. they can sell their services also to other employers at the same time, they can set their own hours, they can choose how they achieve the goals and possibly (this may depend on location) subcontract their work instead of doing it themselves, etc.
If they're spending money lobbying local politicians to write favorable housing policy, they should all be fired for incompetence, because none of it is working.
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without a "minority report"-esque system, or preemptively putting the entire population in cages, you cannot prevent every ill of the world.
“Do you want the menu in English, Arabic, or cuneiform?”
Over the long term, it should even out then. Companies are already starting to "rural source" and open up branches in the middle of the country.
How come it can be this expensive? Can't see how a degree would worth 400k seriously
The modern versions are usually gender studies, communications, or English.. As an engineer, it's difficult to accept any non-engineering degree as legitimate :-)

So my nephew is getting his degree in "expeditionary studies":

https://www.plattsburgh.edu/programs/expeditionary-studies-m...

I'm jealous..
> best universities and most sought after students on the planet

All available data shows otherwise.
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