skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ correllates somewhat with income and even more with school performance, so by “controlling for IQ”, the authors are intentionally flattening and hiding some of the income variation. They’re effectively discounting for the probability of going to college in the first place. That will, of course, hide differences in income due to going to college.

The actual data shown in that reference seems to tell a different story, it shows people with college degrees earning 20-50k per year, on average, after taxes. That will sum to more than $100k over a lifetime.
Nobody is an island, your freedom to make poor life choices is my liability to support as your health deteriorates and my tax dollars have to pay for the externalities of tobacco consumption. It’s not being outlawed, it’s being delayed until you can make better life choices with the wisdom of age and experience.
> because you can make the same argument about any program that benefits the poor

Yes, I think many things go straight back into land.

The UK has 'housing benefit'. It's 'landlord benefit', because it subsidises unpayable rents.
Sure, I used the FX rate in your case as you are paid USA wages but your debt was NZD.
Trying to unfuck vim's encryption spawned a very interesting Github thread, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/638
Both R and pandas force you to wrap your problem around dataframes and vectorized operations. But sometimes you really do just want to write a loop that iterates over the data.

Right now the only way to do that without significant performance costs is to drop down into C or avoid the problem completely by using Julia.

Having worked with both R and Python on large datasets, I think both languages are really easy until they aren’t. Eventually you hit a performance wall.
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Hopefully they increase the age you can vote, enlist in the military, consent to sex, and can be tried as an adult.
Ah great, I agree, there is a balance to strike
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>Or an outright ban?

Consider for a moment how indescribably weird it is for the FDA to have jurisdiction here and not ban tobacco.

The FDA evaluates on the basis of safety and efficacy: how the hell they’re squaring this circle is kind of beyond me.
The harmful health effects of tobacco products, which are a cost born by society while tobacco companies enrich themselves, mean that we can tolerate significant downsides of changes in tobacco accessibility, and it’s still very much worth it.
Haha, especially if you like burning couches! I went to Waikato.
Incase anyone didn’t know but Linuxserver.io creates a shitload of docket containers for a NAS solution called Unraid. Many of the containers are well maintained and stable. One of the most user friendly network attaches storage solutions I’ve ever used.
This tool is heavily setup to work with streams.

However, if your disk is exposed -- lots of other things, including shell history, swap, etc. may give you away.

The problem with stuff like "gives users read/write access" -- is that it presumes a narrow use case. What if you're encrypting digital audio? Source code? etc.

Should it also turn on your mic and try to determine if you're in a room alone? :P Demand you use an anti-tempest font?

There is only so much a tool can do. It's important that the tool does what it can within the context that it'll be used, but beyond that the best it can do is be clear about it's limitations.
Oh believe you me, after decades of this kind of crap us non-Americans have become quite cautious about buying American products!
There's much ballyhoo made about the ignorance of the conservative base and the misconceptions they hold due to the fake news and conspiracy theories that circulates within their social circles.

But I see the ignorance of the left-wing base as just as dangerous. The idea that there's a capitalist conspiracy to trick the populace into believing that free markets are better for public welfare, and that price controls like minimum wage and rent control harm the public, is extremely widely accepted.

Left-wing misconceptions about economics are even more consequential than right-wing populist ideas about vaccines. They have the critical mass of support needed to turn into policy in the most economically important housing markets in the US.
I already replied to your other comment but in the interest of correcting this misinformation, you can neither ship your bricked device to Sonos nor bring it into a Sonos store.

https://twitter.com/sonossupport/status/1179459927624036357?...

https://twitter.com/sonossupport/status/1198204183335309313?...

https://twitter.com/sonossupport/status/1196142002406133761?...
>Advertising can simply aim to raise awareness of the existence of a product.

We don't need advertising for that.

In 1950s maybe, but in the age of review sites, consumer reviews, forums, product search engines, vlogs, etc we could just as well find anything without advertising.

We can have flat listings of products, attributes, etc, and products raise to the top by good reviews, positive word of mouth, etc (with payola and review tampering punishable with hefty fines). Any other kind of advertising would only serve to raise awareness of a product that doesn't deserve it against others that do.

Besides most products, including the tons of crappy foodstuff, fast fashion crap, snake oil cures, BS $100 dollar for a $10 dollar third world manufactured item, crappy stuff people don't need, etc., would be better off not existing -- not having awareness of them raised...

https://www.monbiot.com/2012/12/10/the-gift-of-death/
Seriously I'm just fine with Electron applications. It's 2019, and that only for a couple more days. We have RAM, this is a good thing to burn it for.
I mean, there’s plenty of reasons to stop at cigarettes. The slope really isn’t as slippery as you’re making it out to be.
One thing I don't see talked about a lot is the risk involved in going to college.

All the frequently-cited studies about college look at the incomes of college graduates versus the incomes of non-college graduates, and then compare that to the cost of education, and that generally looks fairly positive.

But of students who enroll in 4-year programs, only 60% graduate within 6 years[1]. For these students, college has actively harmed them: they're saddled with crippling debt, but don't get the benefits of a college degree. Also consider that they aren't working as many hours, if any, during college, so they lose even more in wages they could have earned.

The EV if starting and finishing college is coming into question, but the EV of starting college is clearly negative if you have only a 60% chance of finishing.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40
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I don't know how mainstream is today but Clojure for sure. It was my first attempt with a functional language and I really enjoyed it.
Tobacco isn’t the drug. Nicotine is. There are other ways to consume the drug, and it has a lot of positive effects.

Regardless - it’s a win for you I guess - but does anyone else’s opinion matter?
There's a few comments about the military age being 18 in the USA.

I'm not American, and live in a country where the drinking age is 18 (and believe it should stay that way), but it seems to me like maybe the enlistment age should be raised.

18 isn't old enough to be signing up to fight and die overseas. Do we really want people going straight from the football field to the battlefield?
They have a free version thats good enough for a lot of people. I'm assuming they use that.
It's streaming on-line encryption. That's literally the point of streaming encryption: not buffering whole messages. The rest of your point directly follows from "not buffering whole messages".
“_I_ have to pay for _you_” is a particularly empty argument when there are no restrictions on calorie consumption, motorcycle usage, sedentary lifestyle, dangerous hobbies, etc. Also it is a similarly entitled argument to telling police “I pay your salary!”
I bet you have Real Strong Opinions about seatbelts, too.
> child porn, terrorist videos, and copyright violation

One of these is not like the others.

> "such things shouldn't be allowed on the Internet"

This is why people created things like Tor in the first place. The internet is not a country. Nobody should get to decide what is and isn't allowed on the internet.
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I'd imagine people wanting to bypass this would still consume retail tobacco products via a 21+ proxy agent. I just think the cost of paying off a proxy would be cheaper than the cost of buying via some black market vendor (and low risk, since you're likely getting the real product via someone you likely know and trust).

Or just via common fake IDs that certain vendors will happily take, since it provides the vendor just enough legal protection for reasonable doubt.

Keep in mind that the new market for black market products is quite small (only people between 18-20), and the cost/risk of setting it up quite high. It could happen, but I think there are better alternatives to bypass this block-aid. It isn't really comparable to prohibition or the war on drugs, as those were/are global bans Vs. the entire population.
Most cars sold in Europe these days are FWD.
> it’s being delayed until you can make better life choices with the wisdom of age and experience

and yet you can join the army and kill some people before you have the wisdom of age and experience?
Why not? I can install latest windows 10 or ubuntu on my laptop from 2005.
On the other hand, normalizing corruption like has been done since the Iran-Contra affair, where people faced no consequences and were pardoned, is the reason why you end up with blatant corrupt administrations like we have today.

If Nixon or Cheney had served jail time, there would probably be more push back against Trump's actions.
Except when you smoke cigarettes the people around you suffer from it too.
The big companies have always been able to pay more than startups, but it feels like salaries have shot way up at the big cos since the wage fixing scandal was exposed. It makes me wonder if the wage fixing had a larger effect than anyone realized, or if there was more going on than what was exposed.

Regardless, part of what makes working at a startup less appealing these days is that companies are staying private longer. Startups could rectify this via regular tender offers.
The key piece you're missing is that there is no trade up part. You get the discount for putting it in recycle mode, but you do not send it to them.

They basically give you discount to brick your old device as a way to kill off the secondary market.
This is a ban on sale, ie a ban on commercial entities profiting from selling or producing tobacco products to <21 year olds. Since when do we need to protect the right to buy cigarettes in a convenient fashion? Last time I checked there isn’t anything about access to branded tobacco products in the UN charter of human rights. Nicotine is stupidly addictive. Smoking causes a long list of health problems, and when they happen society bears the cost while the tobacco companies profit. What does this have to do with the age of voting? If you want to smoke at 18, you can grow your own tobacco plant and damn well smoke it.
The game industry has a completely different way of working compared to other tech fields. Most of their practices seem old fashioned, or anti-patterns, etc. if you look at them from an outside point of view.

But they're trying to do something very hard: control both quality and deadline. It's not like an open source or enterprise IT project. The game has to be finished, good, by a given date. To do that they do many things, including slaughtering sacred cows about how things are supposed to be done. If hard locking saves them time by avoiding wasted efforts, by artists who are probably over-worked already, then what's the problem?
Some countries let people join at 18 but they cannot fight until 20 or older. Essentially the first years are spent in military school and or in a kind of reserve role. It is an interesting compromise that still let's people join up instead of college around 18/19 but with fewer moral hazards.
Historically big companies paid better in cash. Smaller companies gave equity and more flexibility. It’s a rare period when startups can pay more and give better flexibility. It happens every few years but is an outlier. (I’m purposefully being vague about what flexibility means)
Yeah let’s raise the driving age to 21
Never heard the “eunuchs” reference before. I always just thought it was a play on being simpler (uni vs multi).
They say the second best day of your life is the day you buy a boat, and the best day of your life is the day you sell it.
> they have to trust you're actually recycling it instead of keeping it or selling it

Why?
Such comments have been a thing on HN for many years now.
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> been told by Sonos support that there's no way to stop the countdown, forcing them to buy new devices after 21 days

> you can't recover it if you're good with JTAG, because it's blacklisted as "recycled" on their servers. There's nothing stopping these things from working except Sonos says they can't.

These two points are not compatible with each other. If the only effect of recycle mode is that the device gets blacklisted on a Sonos server, then Sonos is trivially able to undo the effects.
I am with you on the ethics side, but he is correct, impact is immaterial, and your numbers confirm it the typical impact of a person, a year, is measured in tons of CO2, 90 kg amounts to like a few days of heating or a festive dinner, or filling up your car tank.

However, if they are not recycled and the materials end up in plastic pollution, heavy metal poisoning, or other damage, that's a whole different story.
oh christ, can we?
Honestly the thing I hate about the rest of the world is the second hand smoke

It hurts my eyes, I know its bad for my lungs, and its aggravating to see the attractive people doing it to blend it, to me its like they are stuck in the 2000s
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A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421175

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118649
Ask HN: Predictions for 2020?
Field/Industry: Software -

- no code hype to continue

- software companies labelling themselves as - “superhuman for X” (whatever that means)

- more open source products (not just libs or frameworks, but full fledged products)

- more companies opting for in-house development

- fight for privacy is going to continue, but it’s all going to be in vain

- decentralised internet, software would continue to be a toy

- in programming language- Python, JS, Golang would continue their upward trends. Rust and wasm ecosystem to grow.

- Remote teams trend to continue

- SaaS offerings would grow more vertical (see “superh... X”)

- I don’t think SaaS consolidation is going to happen (have read a lot of predictions about this)

Opinion- Experienced developers, that side project you always wanted to start, now would be a great time to do that , or switch to engineering management.

Overall it’s going to be a great time for the MBAs and not so exciting time for the techies working in non-core-CS industry (a suggestion to techies - go watch uncle bob’s - future of programming and let’s start bringing some fundamental changes to our profession).
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Of course our ancient ancestors didn't have to "worry" about fasting or being keto, just like they didn't have to "worry" about getting enough cardio and exercise. Yet we do, because otherwise our modern conveniences will keep killing us and making us sick. Fasting and Keto are two answers to the question of "How do we better replicate the way ancient Humans lived?"
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> the most environmental form of recycling is for an object to be reused as is

Just a nit: it’s useful to think of reusing as distinct from recycling. Recycling breaks the object into its raw material.
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No because it’s anti-productive and anti-freedom which is exactly my point
Ownership is an abstract concept enforced by society. It recognize the right to "use and abuse" of a thing. Some societies will forbid you to do things to your body. Some will outlaw some opinions. It makes sense to say that in such cases, you do not own your mind or your body.

I am of the opinion that it is good that individuals have total ownership over their mind and bodies, but it is just that: an opinion. I can't demonstrate it.

If I could somehow infer it being a "natural law" it would not be a satisfying justification, it would just be a naturalistic fallacy. Most of human society's goals are to fight against "natural order" because we, collectively, aim at unnatural things like justice and fairness.
They account for that plus a lot of other factors in the 100k number. Basically the conclusion is, for people born from 1920 to 1980, college was net value add accounting for everything else, but not a huge one.
I think everyone leaks VINs via the NHTSA's site.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle
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If they did step two it wouldn't be nearly as bad.
Yea that’s not free
There is an open source clone of Paint.net called Pinta, based on the original source code of Paint.net.

It's not actively developed anymore, though.
The archive (seemingly erroneously) says this was created in 1989. The text itself, however, says it was from 10/88.
I feel like people that make this argument are really playing with fire. It is meant to be hyperbole to show us that this middle-ground position is irrational, but all it is really doing is reminding us that this middle-ground is a middle-ground and that the ideal is a near complete ban of the addictive cancer sticks.

A lot of people have argued for a "age limit" that essentially increases as one generation ages until it is effectively unlawful for future generations (e.g. age 21 in 2020, 22 in 2021, 31 in 2030, 41 in 2040, etc).

So why 21? Why indeed. Tobacco is no less addictive or deadly at 21, I guess the hope is people will be smarter by then and realize the life-long potential impact of STARTING (which the science does support[0]).

[0] http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/TobaccoMin...
I wish we'd change what's actually considered an adult. It's pretty arbitrary. Pretty sure I was dumber than a box of rocks when I was 18 (or even 21). At the same time I'm sure many under 18 could be considered adults. Unfortunate that rites of passage aren't a thing.
But both genders are prone to suicide, male especially, but that's more societal than genetic. If there is a comparison between equal situations between male and female, you got a point though. But most of the time, I'd say the median male suicide victim is in worse off situation than the median female victim, hollistically
That's an awfully complicated explanation for what seems a simple process.

The idea here is that you have a unit vector represented by three numbers, and you want to represent it as two numbers to save space.
Since it's a unit vector, it obeys

x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 1

so if you have any two of x,y,z, you can get the third, except you need to store its sign somewhere. Their scheme for storing the sign loses some precision, since it maps the sphere into half the disk, costing one bit of precision. This isn't lossless. So you could do equally well with some other encoding to store that one sign bit.

I've seen this done for quaternions, where you have a 4-value unit vector. Same idea.
> Why no one else has made a device that can provide good TV audio and good music playback in a shallow form factor still escapes me. I don't think my requirements were so weird, in freaking 2018.

Am I right in thinking that Sonos fits your requirements? I've found their speakers to be excellent in a small package. I was after the 5s but someone lent me a One as a test. A pair of them are excellent imho.