skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, thanks for making this. I tried to give it a shot with a remote MySQL database, but I'm not sure how to specify the connection port (I submitted an issue about it). Sorry if it's obvious and I missed it.
> You have a house

I have a mortgage, insurance, and taxes.

> multiple cars

I'm really tearing up the road in my 2004 Scion (that I got used in 2010) and my 2014 Honda.

I also have exorbitant childcare costs that are leading my wife and I to question the value of my wife or I continuing to work and live in this place.

I'm not rich. I don't live in Ladera Ranch. I don't own a Tesla and a Range Rover. But fuck me for thinking it'd be fun to take my kids to Disneyland or a Zoo.
Climate change absolutely is apocalyptic-levels of bad, just not for the nations contributing the most to climate change yet. It seems to me that the people 'triggered' by 'bogus apocalyptic claims' are those that honestly, in my opinion, don't want to face the stark reality that many people are facing right now due to the way we treat our environment and would prefer to cover their ears and hope it goes away.

Banning that sort of discussion just means nations like Vanuatu get to continually be silenced.
I came to the conclusion that the USA has become a society which goal it is to keep every single citizen below a certain annual salary in debt until their death.
Eh, they look like every other car.
I think the license acquisition process is mostly sufficient. What is think is missing is re testing after. There are 80 year Olds who can hardly see anymore who are still driving. As well disqualifying people from driving for offences like using a phone.
Bitcoin seems intrinsically 'neutral' to me, its 'value' (as a tool) is/becomes what its users do with it.
It really comes down to the money.

I don't want to live in the Bay Area, I find almost nothing I like about it--with one exception: 2-5x what you are going to make in most other cities for work that is often easier.

Almost any city in the Northeast and large parts of the Midwest have better transportation and housing.
I’ve yet to see a solid execution of how to convey INTENT.

It’s the why vs what issue scaled back a layer. With software and systems you want the user to do solve many problems with your solution, but you never let them know your exact intent and that causes shoehorning.
I feel really comfortable being in that bucket. It’s a very large bucket.
Everyone really should read the WP documents [0].

Michael Flynn's 'LESSONS LEARNED RECORD OF INTERVIEW'[1] is some astonishing reading. Yes, that Mike Flynn [2]. You really should read it yourself, but I'll summarize my impressions of it [3].

Flynn essentially makes the point that the total war effort was, start to finish, a chuckle-fuck. He goes into a few specific points and events for him. One event (the New Ansari Bank heist) reads more like a Clive Cussler paperback. Though he is picking out events that support his thesis, the summation he has is that The Beltway and White House have all but forgotten him and his efforts. And those sacrifices that others made, not just for the US, but for Canada, the UK, and Afghanistan proper.

He specifically calls out the culture of 'blowing smoke up your ass' that was the reporting situation on the ground. Time and again, commanders only choose the rosy bit and leave out the mountain of shit. Time and again, new commanders come in, are flabbergasted at reality, and then do the same to their next in line.

Honestly, the tone that I get is one of exhaustion. But, clearly in the RECORD, there is a simmer of hatred for the whole debacle. Personally, I get a whiff of vengeance.

That RECORD was taken at 9am EST on Nov 10 2015.

Exactly one month and two hours later, Dec 10 2015 7pm MSK, Mike Flynn is at dinner sitting directly next to, shoulder to shoulder with, Putin and Gorbachev[4].

Mike is very likely a traitor. But his testimony in the RECORD shows a very long, clear, logical, and sympathetic path towards his decisions.

We should take note here, the Military is becoming frayed, badly so. NFL games and Applebee's discounts aren't making up the difference

This war is intolerable to them. And we are seen as complicit.

[0] Honestly, they are very approachable. Whomever is on their 'data viz' team is doing a great job. Somehow, very boring text documents become exciting.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn

[3] Reminder, these records are what WP could publish at all and they state that these records are very 'sanitized'. Also, just reading the red highlights is good too. Really, read it.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn#/media/File:Vlad...
Couldn't agree more. I moved to a small city from NYC and what they're paying here for a senior developer is about what I made when I was 19. Why even bother? I rather just live cheap, not work at all and enjoy my life to the fullest. Then they have the nerve to complain that they can't hire anyone, lol.
Indeed, although $5k is nowhere near enough to cover full time childcare.
Your both points (very valid) could perhaps be wrapped up as:

Indexes have lower computational complexity for certain tasks (in particular range queries & sort), but higher constants than typical hashing.

Thus indexes make more sense with two-tiered memory; to cache in RAM metadata about data kept in block storage.

How that could be put to good use with the L1 cache being much faster than RAM is anyone's guess[1].

--

[1] without guessing, we already know a small interpreter that fits in L1 can be blazing fast.
Most students in CS are hired prior to graduation. On both sides the savings of skipping that last semester are marginal, and on the student side there's a nontrivial opportunity cost. 6 months of: studying whatever problem you want with the background you need to maybe solve it, networking, building code/ideas you own, socializing with a purpose (courting) or for fun, or, if you're smart, a bit of all 3.
Don't write sentences. Write bullet points. Arrange those bullet points into groups. That becomes your table of contents. Continue to add more bullet points over time, and rearrange them as necessary. Eventually, you'll get the picture of what the documentation should look like. Then you can convert the bullet points into prose.

The reason you do it this way is that it's way easier to write bullets that it is to write sentences. It allows you to focus on substance instead of form. It's analogous to typing into a plain text editor and not worrying about formatting. Formatting, and form, do matter, a lot. But you can add them later.
I don't think it "solves for this"... Those types of units are not cheap where I am and they're rare. It's not like you spend $100-200k and suddenly you have a suitable multi-generational home. Where I am - it's going to be at least $1m-2m extra. The kids can't afford that in a mortgage - let alone cash that a remodel would require.
Quality care SHOULD cost a lot of money because hard educational labor (child care) should be well compensated!

Great quality teachers (early childhood) SHOULD be able to earn $75-100K + Which means that really daycare should be at least somewhere around $50-75K/year.
This doesn't seem to make sense. I worked at a company with a Minneapolis office once and everyone there made $150-200k+
Uber for laundry sounds like a business plan to me.
Our daycare used the State's regulated rate. I live in zip 97201 and it's $1,415 a day for infant care. This is the basic licensed daycare rate. I found that childcare would use this a base and go up there there.

https://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ASSISTANCE/CHILD-CARE/Pages/Rates...
Marke_t_ Maker?
I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing here. I put comparators compulsively everywhere, especially because I switch between multiple languages, but I also don't trust my memory and keep a close eye on the documentation, therefore I usually end up with

if (isupper(c) != 0)
And here am I, just using what's in the standard library. of the language I'm writing. Never occured to me to try a different one.
Shame the person earning that can’t afford their own childcare.
Little known (or, maybe widely known fact): The Pointer Sisters sung the Pinball Number song.
Yes, radix is faster. But at that point I was looking for stability and simplicity over all else. Merge sort was stable and simple to implement, with decent performance.
Throw in all those Food Network chefs whose recipe books are full of ingredients you're, realistically, only ever gonna use for that one recipe, and the leftovers of which'll—let's face it—just end up sitting around cluttering your pantry or fridge until they go bad.
I've been seeing a nutritionist to try to help with weight loss and his emphasis has been on a healthy plate, which is a plate that is half vegetables, a quarter protein, a quarter starch or grains. Even at nice restaurants, it is extremely difficult to order meals that fit these proportions, and, as you move down the quick service spectrum it gets harder and harder. By the time you arrive at fast food, its difficult to find a vegetable at all.

And, almost all the vegetables you find at quick service restaurants are lettuce or greens heavy salads, which are fine, but not ideal. Really, the only way to guarantee that you are getting a vegetable heavy diet is by cooking at home.

The less we cook at home and the more we eat out, the fatter we (as a society) will become.
That has nothing to do with the Bitcoin protocol, rather it's a "security" measure by Coinbase.

A typical Bitcoin transaction, even with minimum fees, confirms in under an hour.
Apple had plenty of misfires under Steve as well. iTools, Apple Hi-Fi, etc. People forget.

The crappy MBP keyboard illustrates my point. I suspect that Apple neglected the Mac for a long time (in many ways) because its executives switched to using primarily iPads [1].

1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/11/09/apple-ceo-tim-coo...
Moore's law is effectively dried up. We're at or within sight of the physical limits.
Node.js Basics [pdf]
I am the same. I started eating extremely basic and lost nearly 50 pounds and save a ton of money -- rice, potatoes, peas, corn, lentils. I don't give a hoot about variety, so that helps.
The timing could be better, but you have to understand, it's hard to find anything to do with massive wealth in Vietnam. You either start a car company or you blow it on black market Rhino horn for your hangovers.
That sounds exactly like how car salesmen talk about the latest Ford pickup truck in order to get you hooked on an expensive car loan. And come to think of it, it is actually exactly the same scheme. And Americans are buying it.
> Because we're now locked into binary

Binary has so many useful properties that are relatively intuitive to understand. Binary is a uniquely convenient number system. Even day to day, base-two number systems are hyper-convenient.

One thing I can think of that balanced ternary has interesting properties for is 2D space partitioning. Balanced ternary partitioning is an interesting tool; then again, you could just use modulo binary space partitioning (i.e. wrap the space around by half the width of a binary partition), it's almost as good. I wonder what the balanced ternary equivalent of an octree would be, I guess it would be a 27-tree, kinda cool, like the 3² tree.

> used in the Soviet Union until 1970

So was a planned economy, and they still haven't recovered. The KGB sure have staying power though, must be the balanced ternary advantage! ;- )

It's not like balanced ternary has no positives, but you have to acknowledge that well before even decent relay computers were invented, binary was already much better explored than balanced ternary; obviously relay computers helped solidify that (though bi-quinary did not survive, popular as it was since Colossus).
I think you really are missing the point, though. You may have found the comment entitled, but I don’t think there was anything fundamentally offensive about it, and your reaction reflects more about your discomfort with the existence of the upper middle class than it does about the actual topic under consideration. No one is asking you to feel sorry for them — they’re just illustrating a point about where money gets spent in the US economy.

Dual income families are — and for decades have been — spending their extra second income on housing rather than the rest of the economy. The comment you’re referring to is therefore very relevant because it shows that trend in action. Housing — and other opportunities in life it enables, like access to schools, (real life) social networks, safety, etc. — supersedes everything else in importance for many families, so second incomes are just spent on what is ultimately a bidding war over housing.
Greens keep pretty well and have decent, smoothish availability year-round. I'd guess that's why they favor them at restaurants.
He would wonder why they need a physical cable to connect at all.
You Live Your Life Online. Don’t Forget Your Manners
Already done (several times) and on the startup scrap heap.
It's not storytelling or any other skill. It's who you know. Look at the recycled clowns that are many CEOs. Buy back shares. Hire more recycled faces. Nothing interesting there.
Is it a two-sided marketplace? I am currently building one. If you're willing to adjust it to meet our requirements, let's talk!
I really like the simultaneous views of all variations and complementary colors in all the modes.

Since you’re asking about tools, What I also like about my current go-to, http://paletton.com is the URL dynamically changes the #hash to match the settings so you can just bookmark the page when you have things dialed in instead of clicking save. Also, you can vary the angles in the various complementary color modes.
People don't use browsers to look at ads. So from a user standpoint ads shouldn't be there in the first place.
In Sydney average cost of daycare per childcare is very high — about USD 90. Denmark is half the cost. Often what drives up the cost is heavy regulation of ‘quality standards’.
Mila: The smartest, most thoughtful air purifier ever made
I'm not sure about other container solutions, but Docker isn't a black box at all. It's fully introspectable -- I often dump a container's file system to see what's actually included.
This is probably not quite what you're talking about, but:

I'm convinced there's a bunch of interesting single-purpose Android devices that simply aren't available to the general public. The manufacturers are large companies that you've probably heard of that don't do business on places like AliExpress. Unfortunately, the devices in question are "enterprise" products, and sold accordingly.

For example, the self-service kiosks at Taco Bell seem to be Android-based, though I can't confirm this. Good luck finding a supplier who will sell you those in lots of less than a thousand.

Swinging around to your original question, I occasionally hear about MIPS-based Android tablets made for Indian or Chinese markets. I'm sure they're on AliExpress, but I doubt they're clearly labeled as MIPS.
What's your intent? Sell the rights outright or sell it as some sort of service? Do you want to create a new persistent business out of this situation?
Well modern America has no real food culture. Most countries combine the same 5 local staples like rice, vegetables meat, local seasonings etc so they always have it on hand and know how to easily make something. Here check an Nytimes recipe and it will have you doing hours of prep and ridiculous steps like getting one pan out and dirty just to slightly toast something to make it restaurant quality presentation. Don’t get me wrong I love that detailed stuff because cooking is an escape and relaxing for me but there is no easy first step for most people to acquire a few simple recipes and techniques that they can execute quickly here so they go for instant gratification frozen food boxes.
That seems like fairly big news given how pervasive US tech is. Not so much the built part but the software side
Why are people choosing to accept salaries that are too low?
It's still trivial to target users where browser="safari".

But with Safari's recent changes you can no longer target users on Safari where "non-empty cart"=true, because that relied on cookies and tracking which are no longer available.

On a per-impression basis advertisers are willing to pay (way, way) more if they know they are reaching someone who has already visited their site and been engaged enough to add-to-cart. There are plenty of other examples but abandoned-cart-retargeting is one of the most obvious ways advertisers can see good ROI on expensive ad impressions.
Kids could play outside alone in the 40s, 50s and 60s too, and child mortality wasn't 1800s they might all die levels. And in some developed countries like germany and japan it still is possible today [0]. Everything that jedberg described wouldn't probably happen.

Around the 70s the workload ratchet started going up, with each decade adding more and more restrictions. Look at stranger things, today it's a bit iffy to let 12 year olds go out biking by themselves to see their friends. In the 80s you could!

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/reader-center/free-range-...
How do other countries compare, specifically Asian, urban areas where street food is ubiquitous?
While I think there is great benefit in using concise and clear language, I highly disagree if anyone takes away the idea their documentation should be a themed after an RFC (I do enjoy reading RFCs though!)

This [0] was imo an excellent discussion on documentation that gets to the issue much more than word and formatting choices.

The short is there isn’t “documentation” as one thing, but four.

1. Tutorials where you start to finish explain it to a newbie,

2. How to guides where you explain specific tasks,

3. Discussions where you lose all formal pretext and explain your INTENT (huge) and reasoning for decisions, like you would actually explain to a person, not a robot, not some cute marketing talk

4. Technical reference that goes over the actual mechanics and the weeds that people need only once they’re working with your solution.

It was on HN at least once.
[0] https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/
I've worked on a ton of dataflow systems which were macro-dataflow, i.e. they executed on conventional processors. Great programming model in many instances.
It's expensive. About 2 years ago my girlfriend moved in with her service animal and my landlord forbid us from using the communal laundry machine due to allergies he said another tenant has. From that point forward, I took my laundry to one of those places that charge by the pound because there were no DIY laundromats nearby. I loved it. Super convenient. But the costs really added up.
On modern hardware a key lookup in a hash table isn't necessarily a single page read! Sure, it's a single virtual memory access, but if that page isn't in your TLB you need to read the page table... and if the page containing that part of the page table isn't in the TLB you need to read that page...

On modern hardware, every memory access looks very much like a B-tree lookup.
in your system, who would write the articles?
I think in other words what you say is that the C standard defines sizeof(char) = 1; so that 1 is one byte and that char must be one byte however different architectures can have an addressable space of a size different than 8 bits, 1 byte is not always 8 bits.

This might be why the code space alphabet is defined by the standard so it will at least put an emphasis on 8 bits == 1 byte.
Variant of intermittent fasting improved health in new study
People don't go to the grocery store to give their money to the cashiers. So from a user standpoint the cash registers shouldn't be there in the first place.

The ads typically are paying for what the users are going to the website for. I don't like it, but most users seem to prefer visiting sites with ads over sites they have to pay directly for. I hate how intrusive and abusive many ads can be, block ads on many sites, pay to subscribe to some sites, and hope other models succeed someday, but have to acknowledge that ads do serve a purpose.
In my experience, in college I learned the theoretical and on the job I learned the practical.

For example, I learned how to conjugate verbs in foreign languages, and algorithms with O(n) vs O(log n) in computer science.

Then later in a foriegn country I expanded my my vocabulary. On the job, I learned about version control, how to read other people's code and how to fix bugs.
Ask HN: How to handle services that don't accept valid email addresses?
I recently migrated my email to a .network TLD and am having trouble with about 10% of the sites on which I try to use it.

Most recently was AAMI, an insurance provider. Their form tells me to 'Please enter a valid email address', which of course I've done. It's their aggressive form validation which is causing the problem.

I DM'd them on Twitter, followed up by email (from my perfectly valid email address), and they've told me that "due to the way our system is currently set-up, our online system won't be able to accept the email addresses you wanted to register with".

They suggested that I "use an alternate email address to register for these services", and I've advised them that, instead, I'll be taking my business elsewhere. But I'd rather not have to! I used them in the past, I like everything about them other than this.

Does anyone have any successful strategies for dealing with this sort of thing? It's not like the new TLDs are even that new any more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Knowing when to stop a personal project
Also worth noting is that a lot of the vegetables you get in restaurant dishes have been buttered, salted, and/or sugared to hell to make them taste better in a short amount of time. This, of course, makes it even harder to actually get healthy food when eating out.
It's a three way comparison, not an equality one. If you treat it like that then the return value makes more sense.
The carter quote feels a bit like a myth but it was known that his advisors did tell him the risk with volker would be that he could very well cost him the election. However carter was influenced by the northeast elite on fed policy and went along with their recommendation to go with their man. Maybe no one remembers but it was Paul Volker, himself, who raised interest rates, twice, to high double digits in order to “slow” the economy. It was akin to fixing the economy by strangling it. The reason the economy recovered was Reagan. For the first time in nearly two decades people believed in the future.
> with C# defaulting the ‘==‘ operator

Which is surely the important bit. I can just use "==" in C#.
I was talking more about the 7 year old than the 1 year old. Also grandparents, the village, other house spouses, etc helped with that early workload too.
And I would like to emphasize your point and add that the dismissive observation really isn't helpful because the main point is especially true for those who really do struggle.

If the highest-earners of the middle-class have their discretionary income locked up in housing costs, how much more difficult is it for those who don't have the same level of income. Housing then eats into non-discretionary expenses.
no, unless your policy is written that way.
I'm assuming you're joking. Otherwise, try chocolate or mint chocolate flavors.
You’ve forgotten to include politicians.
What's wrong with Illinois?
Get kids introduced to Home Ec where they learn about food and cooking.

If you get into it early on, it may not be a thing you love to do, but you’re okay with doing.

Same with shop class. There are many people out there for whom fixing things around the house are a bit foreign because they’re not sure how to do it. YouTube does help full in some of that experience but it helps if people have been primed.
Your statement is incorrect, and maybe only valid for your insurance policy(ies).

My policy is not written in such a way.