skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a lot of these articles ignore the fact that conditions are better than ever for almost everyone. Inequality as an absolute metric is not that relevant if people have more real purchasing power. And a job being undesirable is not relevant either - people shouldn’t feel entitled to getting exactly the wage they want, doing exactly the job they want, living exactly where they want, and so on. Their purchasing power is what ultimately matters.

Note for example, that GDP PPP per capita is at an all time high https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-pp...

Note that per IMF data, the US is higher on GDP PPP per capita than the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, ... that is, the countries often put on a pedestal by people on Twitter or Reddit: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/profile/OEMDC/WEO

Also poverty rate is dropping, food insecurity is dropping, and more: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trumps-policie...
(Original data/reports at https://census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.ht...)
All the ones I recall are extremely limited on a number of fronts. They limited to a small group of people, for a limited time, and generally the funds are quite limited. I personally don't think these even qualify as UBI because some of the proposed positives for UBI do not exist when it has such limits. For example, if you are only getting UBI for 2 years, you have to plan out for the rest of your life after those 2 years and can't make the same choices as if you were being given UBI for life.
You're likely referring to Medicaid, then, not Medicare.

Can't say I'm too fussed about impoverished people getting a few boxes of diapers, and using ambulances for transit reveals an underlying societal problem more than individual greed.
Kids of 2 to 4 shouldn’t be using screens.
Jobs that suck are that way not because they need to suck, it's because it's in the interest of the people offering them (people with more power than the people they are hiring) to offer them in the most humiliating, dangerous, and cheapest way possible. If you don't like it, you can be replaced.
"Mozilla makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit." - people are using Chromium, Firefox usage is dropping, so Mozilla should do the right thing - fork and de-google Chromium and save the web.

Also, I am donating each year real money to Mozilla, without using its browser. Call it FUD, call it I don't know what, but on desktop I am using Chrome, with the usual ad-blocking plugins, on Mobile I am using Brave.
Transportation cost is higher thanks to poor infrastructure. Rent for a single bedroom is higher thanks to poor zoning/building code regulations.
I think GP’s point was that what you want is called “C++”.
Spontaneous Human Induction
Are you.... calling children "toy humans"?
They don't and they're not.

Look at the defense allocations for basic research into hypersonic capable materials to prove that they are still years away the most basic deployment and once the research is done, there is no supply base to make the materials (FA8650-20-S-5003)
Yeah ok buddy
And also because of function overloading in, say, C++. To link code two functions with the same identifier which differ only in signature (e.g. types of arguments), we need to pass them to linker as two different functions with different identifiers.
Synthetic insulation warms while wet as well, that's primarily why people choose it over down.
I got it from a blood transfusion when I was a child.

I got diagnosed back in 2016, and the available treatments back then wasn't great. As an alternative, my doctor signed me up for the clinical trials for the drug now known as Harvoni. I figured that it's a moonshot and didn't pay it any mind. (Having read Stephen King's Firestarter didn't help either.) I also moved to a different city for a job. Months later the drug company called and told me I qualified. The drug trial would have been free and would have cured my hep C, but alas I can't afford to quit my job and fly back to the old city for 3 months. (In hindsight I probably should have.)

Around 2018 when generic Harvoni became available from Indian manufacturers, I got serious about curing my hep C once and for all. I found a doctor that's willing to work with foreign-sourced Harvoni and ordered it online for $1300 (all out of pocket). I started the treatment under my doctor's directions and it went smoothly.
I assumed OP was talking post-war era.
Pollution gets solved by regulation, this had been shown again and again.
I need to study more
Ah, thank you for explaining! That makes sense.
I describe something very similar here: https://github.com/jawj/web-scraping-for-researchers
There's a cynical joke at Google that's something along the lines of "we're mostly calling other services and moving protocol buffers around."

I think most people at FAANG companies probably end up doing the same. For every Jeff Dean doing something cutting edge there are probably like a 1000 engineers working on things that really aren't that glamorous, like iterative product improvements and integration.
You are overlooking healthcare costs. Most Americans are one fractured leg away from bankruptcy.
yeh, exactly this.

I've been on some pretty terrible "trips" (if you can call them that) while smoking weed. I don't know if I can call them hallucinations, but I definitely felt like I couldn't tell whether something I imagined actually happened or not and was just general confused and anxious. I mean, there have been the times where I've smoked and enjoyed it, but I now always have this lingering anxiety when I do that I might fall into that type of bad trip. This is the main reason I'm very cautious about LSD - I fear what a bad acid trip could end up like.
Yes, that's the problem with quoting prices. Most articles I see written about publicly traded stocks at least pull a current price. With something as volatile as Bitcoin, this becomes even more important.
An article with a better, and more dramatic explanation of the same opinion I have:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2010365
This seems like a MUCH easier version of Minesweeper, purely due to the fact that when you're down to guessing it's guaranteed to be safe.

That is an excellent idea, I'm going to have to try this and see if I'm really as good at Minesweeper as I think or if I just get lucky sometimes on unproven squares.

Also somewhat relevant, there's a recent Minesweeper roguelike that recently came out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1141220/DemonCrawl/
I dropped my paid Dropbox account when they instituted "two factor authentication" because it broke the use case of file transfer between trusted parties using a single account. Now I'm going to drop my OneDrive account for the same reason.
His Noodlyness is displeased with your blasphemy.
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> because it's in the interest of the people offering them (people with more power than the people they are hiring) to offer them in the most humiliating, dangerous, and cheapest way possible.

"cheapest" is obvious, but why "most humiliating, dangerous"? What incentive do the latter serve?
I’d like to hope all startups aren’t like this, but the incessant talk about culture and values at my last one could only be interpreted as USSR-type propaganda.
How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain
I'm having a harder time coming up with a language that doesn't have native Windows support. All of the language runtimes I've worked with (node, ruby, python, java, c#, php) have had native Windows binaries.
Add federal regulation requiring ships to simply not spew out pollution in population centers. They’ll need electric drives to navigate into major cities or they can dock in less populated areas (both of which are economic disasters for cruise companies - so obviously can’t be implemented on state level as they’d just switch destinations).
I don't think the title of this article is good or portrays what it is really getting at. It is not really about having a cushy job that you like going to, but instead more about how jobs available today don't pay well.

The pay does not match up to inflation, healthcare costs and cost of living. Put the cost of higher education into that mix and it just adds to the problem. So many are stuck paying off high students loans to only be able to get mediocre paying jobs.

"only 40 percent of Americans currently have 'good' jobs."

Meaning head of household jobs. That is a problem!
Work doesn't need to be fun. It also doesn't need to be demoralizing or humiliating.
I think they know that, but humans will do it anyway. And that’s sad!
the C execution model has demonstrably held us back because the practical transition plan for migrating existing C codebases would be automated translation (of the C Turing tarpit) into sane functional/formal models
Yes, that's the most likely reading, I'm just making a (poor) joke.
I helped a friend build a house out of those foam blocks: it's a lot of fun and you're able to bring a bunch of people together in a "barn raising" tradition that you wouldn't be able to do with traditional construction.
"For the median job-seeker in Trump’s America, the odds may be good, but the good jobs are an oddity."

This is lazy writing at best.
Nested functions don't exist in C++ (except for lambdas).
I have a hard time figuring out how forbidding concurrent task from communicating would necessarily make them faster. Also, how is FP a more accurate model of eg. AMD64 than imperative style? How would eg. "Clear Global Interrupt Flag" instruction be modeled in FP with no states?
And anything that C can do C++ can also do but better and easier and safer. So yeah... Obsolete.
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You'd have to go back to Great Grandparents to mix it up with Nazi's, for most people under 50. Maybe Great-Great...
How classroom technology is holding students back (little evidence they help)
Sublime Text was MAGICAL for me as a teen learning to code for the first time. It ran so fast on computers that couldn't practically run Visual Studio. Most of my introduction to programming happened through this text editor. I don't use Sublime much anymore but it was a huge influence on my development as a programmer.
Found it! Documentary was "One of Us" on Netflix, here's a quote:

"One, a teenager, Ari, left as his thirst for knowledge came into conflict with religious restrictions. “Wikipedia,” he says, “was a gift from God.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/movies/one-of-us-review.h...
This is actually a very good point but I don't know how this breaks down exactly. Can you give an example of a virtual server suitable for go vs java and the respective price points from a common provider?
Agreed. It's the classic case of not presenting any evidence or basis for one of the more foundational points of an article.
MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020
There's also Luigi. https://github.com/spotify/luigi
The article says nothing about the false positive and false negative rates of the test, and proceeds as if the screening is infallible.

Even given what was said in the article, one has to assume that the incidence of the infection in the general population is quite low—probably measured in basis points—which means that the false positive rate of the test would have to be very low to get a high positive predictive value. It may well be so, but we'd need to know that (and the costs of treating the uninfected) to understand whether universal testing is really warranted
In my mind, Schrödinger's cat was an important thought experiment that pointed strongly in this direction. Whether it is just a limitation stemming from our current knowledge of physics or something else is still debatable.
Bought two of those last March. Mostly positive experience so far.

Previous firmware didn't restore U2F key from backup, but current one does. It also didn't have any kind of lockdown, so I did it via UDEV rules, luckily current firmware has a lock button, which even sends "Super-l".

I would also love onlykey-cli be ported to Python3.

Somebody mentioned here that onlykey isn't fit for keychain use, yet mine is totally fine and USB port shows virtually no signs of wear.
I work at a 100-person startup. We currently do 1 week secondary followed by 1 week primary. This comes up every 2.5 months. On-call is 8am-8pm with any overnight pages going to execs.
I'll not that we originally had people doing daily shifts and it was a huge pain for those who were religiously observant. It was much harder to get someone to cover a Saturday or Sunday shift since nobody wants to cover those. Will send much better
Thats still all relative though. If everyone made between 10-15 bucks an hour, 15 bucks an hour would be enough to pay for anything that matters. Chinese investors aside, the reason an elementary school teacher might have trouble affording an apartment in Manhattan is because they're competing with people who can afford them. Such as the s/w engineer with the cushy job.
They used to scan mail - or at least have an option for that in gmail - to show relevant ads in Gmail.

They stopped doing it years ago I think.
Cars produce little VOCs and are not a significant source. When it comes to particulate matter cars are absolutely eclipsed by sea vessels, with a single cruise ship creating more than a million cars.

VOCs -- irrelevant to this conversation.

SOx, NOs, Particulate Matter -- A single cruise ship is worse than a million cars. The cruise ship industry absolutely eclipses cars by a magnitude+.

Carbon -- cars produce a lot of greenhouse gases. That isn't an air quality issue, though, which is the topic that we're talking about.

Cruise ships are an absolute disaster ecologically. Cars are bad, but again because cars are bad we have made incredible progress.
> If you're a kid and do the cost/benefit analysis

Either you are a kid or you think like an emotionless automaton.

No, people are way more complex that a "cost/benefit analysis"
CCPA goes into effect January 1, but nobody’s sure how the new rules work
Trezor T is vastly superior solution for U2F / WebAuthn and also fully open source. The main advantage is super mature backup (Shamir's secret sharing) and PIN-locking with exponential escape. Being a Bitcoin hardware wallet, security is very well tested.
My friend has worked in a number of different pre-school facilities throughout Boston and most of them had a carved out screen based activity (usually tablets) for at least part of the day. I'm sure the science is still out but in practice it seems ubiquitous.
Flash readout protection on most microcontrollers is a joke. They are almost always vulnerable to attacks ranging from power/clock glitching to asking nicely with the right combination of flash management commands (I'm looking at you, some PICs from the PIC18 series with blockwise erasable Flash including protection bits). I've seen some things disable their read protection by accident because the power supply wasn't hooked up properly and they glitched themselves.

There's a reason we have real secure elements with anti-tamper mechanisms. The problem is that as far as I know there aren't any that you can develop for without signing an NDA.
....this article is about NYC, one of the richest places in NYC. Air pollution doesn't spare the rich.
So, I am older than 4 and have a PhD in a logic-related field. BUT. I have to admit that I had trouble answering some of those questions. For example: "How many blue cats are not bouncing" when there are no blue cats on the screen. The game seems to assume that the right answer is zero, but I'm not sure I concur. There is a presupposition there about blue cats being in existence and if there are none on screen, the result is that, regarding blue cats, we don't have the required information to answer it. Better phrase it "How many cats are there on screen that are blue and bouncing?".
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FTA:

"pollster asked 6,600 U.S. workers what they saw as the defining characteristics of a “good” job, then used their answers to construct a “job-quality index.”
It was well known for us early gmail users that they would scan mails (on-the-fly iirc) to provide relevant ads.

They were fairly up front with it (remember, back in the days Google was a nice trustworthy company or at least that was my impression.)
Perhaps allowing people to call via a static IPv6 address routed to their phone would resolve the issue with spoofing. A single range would be reserved for VOIP services such as 2002::/16 and subscribers would be allocated addresses that could be shortened and made to look to like traditional phone numbers.

I feel like any other solution adds yet more complexity and I would argue the only thing that should be necessary to make calls is an internet connection.

Some VOIP applications already accept calling via IPv4/IPv6 addresses.
Controversial opinion, but I don't think kids ages 2 to 4 should be having screen time, let alone an activity that is better presented with real objects.
Thankfully you can create your own job or at least start moving in that direction. It's easier than ever to do so and can often learn everything you need online. And signs point to this being increasingly the case in both respects.
In some EU countries treatment for hepatitis C is already included in the government sponsored healthcare program.
The “Trump's America” phrase, rather than the more correct “21st century America” (it’s been this way for a while now) makes the whole thing a bit suspicious, too.
FWIW, totally agreed with @MayeulC's comment (to the folks who might be willing to pay for this, the content is too damn important to risk platform lock-in. For this service to even get consideration, I would imagine that everything must be cleanly exportable, such that one needs only pay for continued use of the service).

That said, where I would seek a tool that really adds value is auto-converting notes (text and math interspersed) into LaTeX, so that (as a value add) it can also be intelligently searched (coupled with an indexing+search solution). I think many academics/knowledge-workers might be open to paying for such a service.

Bonus if you can work well off just smartphone photographs of pages.
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I wonder if it is possible to forward robocalls to another service that will attempt to keep the robocaller busy as long as possible. It would be great if everyone can just answer the robocalls and press a button to forward to a time-waster service. Hopefully, every busy robocall is one less call to another person.
Wikipedia, which of course is not infallible, says that Pakistan rejected US offers to share PAL technology but is believed to have developed their own equivalent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_d...
Wow, that fancy talking sure makes me think you're smart. Maybe you can help me. If I make x and everything I need to live costs x+y, what do I do? Die slowly...? Work a 27 hour day?
This problem doesn't appear to exist at that scale (there exist some spammy call centers of course, and apps to block them...) in Europe.

Not sure if that is legislation, technology or culture/economy related, and whether it's an active solution or it just passively works out.

But what stops the US from doing whatever it Europe is doing to not have tons of robocalls?

For one, making calls costs money. How can robocallers actually do multiple calls at the same time at a reasonable price in the first place? And then this spoofing: isn't the solution against that technological rather than legislation?

EDIT: A thing that gave me the impression the problem is much bigger in the US than Europe, is that the first time I heard about robocalling was in a Simpson's episode from 1996. So autodialers seem to exist for a very long time already in the US, but in Europe they're not really being used (that I know of. If they were used at large scale, I'd have noticed I guess?)
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That's just not true, because C++ won't even allow many of the techniques that make C the awesome language it is. It's different, and that's about as far as it goes.

Add name mangling, ABI issues and crazy compile times to that.

It was potentially safer until they added Exceptions, which tipped the scales so far the other way I can't believe we're still having this discussion.
The generated blurbs/client briefs are deep linked to skillshare as well [1].

[1] https://fakeclients.com/jsarray.js
Thanks for this interesting follow up post! :)
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Ask HN: Advice you received but didn’t appreciate until later?
Broadly speaking what advice have you received which you at the time did not fully understand but which you later came to truly appreciate?

I’ve only later in my life come to realize that for some advice to be fully appreciated and understood you have to live through them. As in you have to learn to appreciate them by experiencing them - often by not adhering to them. I realize if I have had a more open perspective around such advice at a younger age I would have saved myself a tremendous amount of time learning from others’ experiences. Since I still have a long way to go I realize there are still plenty of such nuggets out there which I (and others here) can learn from moving forward - assuming you actually don’t need to live through them to appreciate them.
Cool project! Do you have any plans to make these cards available to hobbyists when you have the drivers worked out?

I've always thought it would be amazing if somebody developed an ethernet interface for the 100-series powerbooks. It would certainly make it easier to transfer files to and from my trusty Powerbook 180.
While I understand your argument, I think there's value in the ambiguity.

1. Clarifying ambiguity and extrapolating are important logic skills.

2. "How many blue cats are not bouncing" is how people actually talk.
There are a lot of rich people out there who have all of their Maslovian needs met but who are absolutely miserable. What happens is that they never really figured out what they wanted out of life, they just assumed that having money would allow them to get it, and they'd figure it out later. But then they get money, realize that they are still miserable (because they still don't really know what they want) and then sink into deep existential despair because if you have a billion dollars and you're still unhappy, now what the fuck do you do?

Ron's second law: the hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.
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Why?

Many people have these "screen time" opinions. I'm not saying I disagree, but why do you think zero screen time is the correct amount?
having a phone number will go the way of the landline

same with email addresses -- this is some combination of your identity and a license to spam you

spam protection is the main feature of gmail because email wasn't designed with fraud in mind -- an email system rebuilt from the ground up for 2019 would be safe for medical information, receipts, not be the giant password reset security hole that email currently is, and not allow randos to spam you

every new product designed in this century needs prevent fraud by design (including spam)
Very true.

But every language that can reach the hardware will have the ability to wreck things in spectacular and hard to predict ways. Every new language ever was touted as the one that would finally solve all our problems. For Java and COBOL the historical record borders on the comical. I have no doubt that the same will go for every other language that we just haven't found the warts in yet. Two steps forward, one step back, that seems to be the way of the world in the programming kingdom.
Where is a good overview of these laws?
Both my VM providers transcribe voice mail into text. Glancing at a transcript to identify spam takes a second. More important I am not interrupted by calls and could check them at the time most convenient to me.