skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that these high salaries are increasingly stifling innovation.
How can you justify quitting a job that pays so high to yourself, to your family and to your peers to risk it all on something new?
The test of conviction and sticking to your values becomes incredibly hard in face of these large lumps of cash, and sadly it means that people that could have created are instead settling for comfort.
A few years down the line we'll see people experimenting with bringing in more textures and decorative details and then, hey, here we are back in the world of faux leather-bound planners and music players made out of jeans and whatnot.

And I, for one, will be delighted, because I've been tired of everything having to be flat shapes on bright white backgrounds for at least half the past decade.
Ok, considering someone had such good idea which is rather obvious in hindsight, but no one had it yet, what would you do to get at least some good money from that, when you don't have enough money to invest in it yourself?
Blaming this on bread and circuses alone is as tone deaf as the article with regards to the problems with poverty in this nation. To be fair, there is a real limiting of opportunity as education is increasingly used as a caste delimiter. However the real issue still is financial insecurity:

* Consider that 1 in 5 people people today struggle with paying the rent and face rental insecurity (https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rental-insecurity-...).
* Before you claim that they should be buying instead of renting, also consider that you have to have a good credit rating to buy (which automatically cuts off 1/2 of the population; average credit rating is 700: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/10/average-fico-score-hits-an-a...) and you have to be able to put down at least 10% which varies widely in the US (https://www.zillow.com/home-values/) but would probably require at least 20,000 in savings. If you have money in savings you probably don't have rental insecurity. In fact median net worth is $200 according to the last US survey here (https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf17.pdf), and mean net worth is _negative_. In short, the majority of people in this country can't afford to buy and they will not be in a position to buy anytime soon, if they are still worried about not getting evicted.
* Almost 14% of households in the US have food insecurity (https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...). That's nearly 1 in 7. So much for the "bread" part of the theory. You think any of those people can afford to invest in the stock market, create new businesses, or take on any risk that could threaten starvation of their families? Do you think they can afford to send kids to college without taking loans?
* And a voice on the internet, a printing press to the least advantaged? 89% of people have a computer at home, but that means at least 10% don't. That 89% number is so high because the stats include smartphones (https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...). Unless they go to the library to use the computer, they are not in the "public" internet discourse. And you better bet that all these categories are intersectional.

99% of serfs. Gah. There is still real poverty in this nation, people afraid of starving, people afraid of having nowhere to live, worried about underemployment, a laughable opportunity at higher education, no real way to climb up the social ladder, and it is not yet getting better. The imbalance is only being talked about because it is becoming increasingly difficult for the upper 80% who don't have these issues to perceive themselves as part of the 1%.
A list of books recommended by Soman Chainani
Apple Arcade is a pretty good fix for this; for a basic monthly fee you get access to over a hundred games with no ads or in-app purchases
Very good point about sending test e-mails, which also reminds me of the next friendly reminder: SES has a Mailbox Simulator [0] where you can send e-mails to specific e-mail addresses and check the notifications you receive, e.g., bounces.

If you're using the SNS notifications [1], these notifications will be JSON objects [2]; you can then use a notification to extract the information needed, e.g. a bouncing e-mail address to be stored in a local registry in case of a bounce notification.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbo...

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notifi...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notifi...
I bet it is yet another law to bring back knowledge and manufacturing to US.
I was watching one of the lectures on "Power Politics" that got upload to the Yale youtube recently. They cover this in one of the lectures. They show video of two monkeys in cages. One if given cucumber. It's content. Then the researcher gives the other monkey a grape. The monkey with the cucumber now throws out its cucumber, and rattles the cage when it doesn't get grapes. The Yale presenter as an interesting interpretation of it, that it's not a protest against inequality. The monkey is not enraged that the research has a bowl full of cucumbers and grapes, it's furious that another monkey in a cage just like it, is getting grapes instead of cucumbers.

https://youtu.be/q53DF6ySOZg?t=2341
Cement requires 1450 degrees Celsius, this solar raid manages 1000+!? how are you going to boil heavy lime and clay up on that 10 meter high tower?

Everything Bill Gates has ever done (or financed) has been stolen, a fraud or both.

Edit: Whoa, heavy bias towards Mr Gates, a surprise dear HN community. I'm using my karma to learn! ;)
Time is money, so betting on action with no immediate benefit (reading a book, voting for the "correct" candidate from the wrong party) versus action with immediate benefits (the dopamine rush from playing a video game, or skipping voting to go to work/enjoy your day off) is risky, at least as far as Scumbag Brain is concerned.

In that vein, I don't believe laziness exists; just misaligned incentives. Intellectual, even emotional appeals tend not to work when people are insecure. You have to alleviate the insecurity somehow.
Fair point. It becomes financial crime for the drug seller, but you're right that Bitcoin is also good for other kinds of crime. In a world where marijuana legalization wasn't happening, I think Bitcoin would have more of a chance.
Some customers expect you to be on call 24/7 if they think you work for them full time. Setting clear expectations that you always have other clients removes that.
Let the mods know publically, by posting comments. Don't trust the mods to be genuine in private conversations.
How the Pentagon Was Duped by Contractors Using Shell Companies
> Every fork is vulnerable to the same attack, which is why such a switch doesn't make sense.

No, it wouldn't. I don't think you're understanding the solution I'm proposing. There isn't an amount of computing power that allows you to submit invalid blocks.
"Can you be more specific on why you think the people who sent emails are "evil" and deserve to be judged" Sure. they did something to harm another person without any real benefit to society. I know you argue that "her students parents may not want a porn actor to teach their children" but of course there is no actual harm of a porn actor teaching children. Parents only object to the idea that a porn actor is teaching their children, which might never be known if the emails were not sent. What if you were a teacher and also liked to engage in S&M. Someone takes a picture of you through your bedroom window and sends it to your school. Do you think parents want some teacher with a weird kink teaching their kids? Would you feel ok about losing your job in such a situation?
For a few years as a consultant, I was working 9 months and taking 3 months off in between. Can't complain about that.
Or perhaps they do know exactly how much consumers care about these issues (spoiler: not much), and are simply building for their consumers. The few hundred / thousand people flooding Twitter and opinion columns don't speak for the 2 billion people who use Facebook.
If we had a worldwide, federated identity system, there's a problem with this I can already see: what's stopping nation's like China from expanding their social credit system to the population of the world then, against their will for example? For what purpose, I can't know, but it doesn't seem ideal.

On one hand, it would be incredibly useful to only ever have to deal with one service or standard for identities (and that could include the possibility of making things easier for identity theft products to do their job) but it brings with it these other risks around centralizing that kind of information.
I agree. As 20+ years as a consultant, I can't imagine billing "per project". That dream project where the requirements don't change and the scope is perfectly estimated in advance doesn't exist.
Have you thought about adding a read only link that just shows the rendered Markdown (but doesn't reveal the identifier for the editable markdown)?
Ubiquiti’s Unifi Dream Machine and Amplifi Alien
I mean if you want 3 identical rows to just statically be at the bottom of a view you can always define the row in XML then put it in a vertical LinearLayout at the bottom using the <include> tag. You maintain modularity without cumbersome code to deal with.

This has the added benefit of being able to see the views without having to compile your code.
You know, behind these on-the-surface feel-good / oh-that's-cool stories is generally a less positive tale of deferred maintenance and poor choices by AA (and other airlines) that leads to this kind of rescue flight being necessary.

The article was from 2016, and the question you want to be asking is, "how often should a 2 year old 787 be having engine issues requiring unplanned diversion?" and is AA's maintenance regime causing them to encounter these situations more than is expected?

What you will generally find is that because of labor costs in the US, and the thin maintenance margins that our carriers are incentivized to follow (partly also because penalties for stranding passengers is quite low), these kinds of diversions are more frequent than other airlines operating better-maintained long-haul routes.

Things are always breaking on airplanes. How much proactive maintenance is conducted is up to the airline, and determines how much builds up before 1 out of many issues on the minimum equipment list rises enough to ground the aircraft. It's quite an active decision for an airline, actually. In this case, AA maintenance probably made a decision (under all the other constraints they face) to fly the 787 to Shanghai (where they don't have a full maintenance depot) with some marginally performing or slightly-overdue-for-recommended-replacement engine part. And then on the return the strategy backfired.

Consider that when you wonder, "is it just me, or why does airline X seem to have so many more delays and aircraft swaps than others?"
Wow! was my college experience weird? The only thing that felt like a "zero sum" competition for me was dating (and that, only if you restricted yourself to the engineering school. The whole university had a gender ratio of something like 3:1.) Most interactions I had with people where pleasant. One of the first interactions I remember was comparing Mandelbrot viewers with another person that taught themselves to program in their teens. Neither was "better" IMO: his was faster but required a specific Nvidia card, mine was slower but could run on nearly anything including my e-ink kindle. Most of my other friendships where like this, we built things and did things together and that doesn't take anything away from anyone. My learning math doesn't make you worse at it and your understanding of chemistry won't make me worse at it. I think people tend to naturally turn things into zero sum competitions when they really don't need to be.

I think the author is right though, it's true zero sum competitions that make enemies and the only person I've ever thought of as an enemy was a "friend" that my ex constantly visited at night before breaking up with me.
Bloom cared about the canon for its aesthetic value, and was quite skeptical about the whole notion that literature (in a narrow sense) could be relevant to social change. From that POV, the absence of Marx (or for that matter, of many other non-fiction authors, who are included in other "great works" lists but missing here) might be quite understandable.
Thank you, that is great! Will certainly play around with that :)
So (to quote Woz): “a lot of Artificial and not a much Intelligence”?
As California Tries to Make Contract Workers Employees, Industries Push Back
The customer found someone to do the work and was willing to pay for it. If he had his customer's interests at heart, his objection should have ended the moment the customer made a decision. No need to "lose it".
Ask HN: What are some security and privacy tips when creating a website?
I will be starting with mainly blog-like content. Perhaps some stories with interactive elements.

As the website owner, how do I ensure my own privacy? Also, how do I minimize tracking of visitors while getting some form of analytics? Any security tips are welcome too.
Very useful and relevant (esp. for me). The exercises you list are easy enough to do and boy do my eyes get sore.
Not the OP, but (I think) I get what he means.

If you're working a project on a full-time basis, the client will expect to be able to call you up and get you on the line at pretty much any time (and yes, often outside of normal work hours, in my experience). If you're on a "part-time" basis, you don't have this pressure because the expectations are set differently.
He omits a lot of philosophy, science, economics, and so on, that aren't directly relevant to the literary canon.
> Your “proof” is an anecdote that was easily disproven by a link.

Real-world problems don't go away when you try to brush them aside. You either face the facts or remain in fantasy land.

> If it takes your developers two weeks to host an API in a Lambda

Please don't put words in other people's mouths. You have absolutely no idea about what the problems were and already made it quite clear that you don't care about facts or reality, and simply prefer to fabricate accusations to avoid discussing technical issues. That speaks volumes about your own competence and technical ability.
'Baby' and the Birth of Modern Computing (2018)
These are great notes!

I’ve been writing for years, but I am constantly finding out that I still have a long way to go.

Thanks!
Your reading speed would likely improve if you read that much.

EDIT: I'm a bit amused by the downvotes here. I've posted plenty of controversial opinions on HN and rarely get this many downvotes. This one seems pretty non-controversial by comparison: is there really some disagreement that reading a lot will result in becoming a faster reader? I'm genuinely confused.
> Unless you think studying only English grammar, morphology, syntax etc. qualifies as studying linguistics, in which case you’re wrong

The idea that as soon as you're studying linguistics of a particular language, you're not studying linguistics at all seems deeply flawed. Does studying applied math not count at studying math? Or, is studying the physics of light in crystals not really studying physics?

What I agree with is that if you decide to study linguistics, that doesn't mean you speak foreign languages (a common misunderstanding in largely monolingual countries, such as the USA). You study how the languages function, and how they are formed, linguistically speaking. But, studying linguistics of English surely counts as studying linguistics.
> but do you believe the solution is (solely) technological?

Largely yes. Technological solutions are definite and verifiable. Political solutions (behavioral coercion) is rarely so, you never know the adverse effects of pushing people to do X. Politics creates too much tension, too much expenditure of energy on things that have little effect, while technology multipliers can be huge. And they lose credibility easily because of the co-opting of environmental issues for political posturing (e.g. the twice-a-month-moving-to Strasbourg European Parliament declaring a climate emergency)
IF someone employees you full-time, the 40-ish hours they pay for is always interpreted as whenever they need you (if they're working you are too, right?). If you're part-time the mental model is you are only available for a very specific subset of hours (which a crisis rarely honours) or the expectation is you don't respond immediately because you're not a full-time engagement. Either way you don't have to be on call 24/7
The same applies to advisory type consulting as well. Even people who are more generalist than others are still fairly specialized in the grand scheme of things. On the one hand, you don't want to be so specialized that almost no one is a potential customer. But get too broad and you're getting out of the realm of having knowledge/experience that people will pay a real premium for.

I've long felt I had to keep pulling myself back a bit from dabbling in too many things at a relatively cursory level.
Telephone and internet are usually run by private companies no? I think the post meant that the few government run alternatives that exist tend to be better (cheaper, faster, better service etc).
What happens if you give them both grapes?
Has anyone read this book ? It look very attractive but I want to hear some feedback before bookmarking another ML book.
If you're interested in very efficient MCS style reader writer locks, check out this paper:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/mareko/spaa09-scalablerwlocks.p...
RTK GPS is 1cm RMS. And I still can't get over how awesome it is. It's magic.
The list is the object of his statement, but it’s not the context in which he’s making the statement. When he says he “disavows the list” he’s talking about disavowing the idea that the list published as an appendix to his book is a comprehensive list of western canon. (It’s also clear that he’s gotten this question before and doesn’t want to debate the details of specific items on the list.) But it is clear from his statement that “I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out” that he’s not disavowing the idea that the vast majority of the books on the list (all but a “couple”) are in fact in his view part of the western canon.

You’re taking a narrow point made in the context of a discussion with literary nerds (“I don’t want to defend every jot and tiddle of this specific list”) and by presenting it without context, you’re making it seem like he’s rejecting that the list is in his view mostly accurate.
Would be interested to hear more about how you're doing VR in Godot .. does it support tracking and so on already?
>We already know what will happen when findings are unpalatable. We'll think of ways to explain why they don't matter and can't possibly be right, or that we weren't measuring the right thing in the first place. And these are just the more obvious cases!

Exactly. Whether "conservative" or "progressive" in one's politics, the last decade or so has shown that when faced with a value contrary to one's own, or a bias that contradicts one's own currently held biases, one will simply dismiss the contradiction and likely hunker down on those preexisting values or biases.

In the current era that is manifesting itself as who can shout the loudest and most outrageously on social media or new-media, facts and reason be damned.
XMPP lost because there was no big player behind it willing to push it as far as possible under its public name. Only a community of enthusiasts and a steering committee that only cares about what is going in the next spec.

Matrix at least has a company pushing for it, so there's a better chance it'll have more success than XMPP; unfortunately we'll have to wait a few more years to see the difference.
> They are relatively indestructible.

I can second that. I have the pleasure of having my grandfather's Model M ('87) and I use it nearly every day. I had to clean it extensively when I first got it, since both grandparents smoked in their house. Cleaned up nicely, good as new. To think, grandma wanted to throw it out!

I've flown with it several times... Gotten a few smiles from older TSA agents. Haven't mailed it, but its gone both under the seat and in checked baggage and survives each time. (It fits snugly in my messenger bag).

I use it a lot more than my laptop's keyboard and I've had to replace the laptop's up arrow a couple of times...

Oh, and it works wonders with my father's text editor too (vi, though I prefer vim).
Can you self-host it and keep your data to yourself ?
I know this is a quite off topic but as I was reading this and got to the "silk strands" clouds, I couldn't stop thinking about Death Stranding and the "voidout" events in the game.
> I would recommend English to a wealthy student who is destined to oversee some sort of philanthropic, corporate, or political enterprise

Isn't that a rather old-fashioned and even pre-modern POV? A bit like the idea that you should memorize the Confucian classics before being allowed to join the Chinese state bureaucracy. These days, a degree in the social sciences, public policy or the like might be more appropriate.
this series is phenomenal
I'm still waiting for getting the value out of Bitcoin that has been put into it in energy expenditure.
Fry’s is overpriced.. they should up their Shopify game though.
Write an outrage-porn blog post about it and collect ad revenue. But seriously people come up with ideas simultaneously all the time but usually only one of them is getting credit
Books typically (not always) have far more depth regarding the topics they cover. If you do not read books, you are only scratching the surface of the shared knowledge available to you because, no, most of their content is not freely available online.

You are correct that not all books are good, though. For someone like yourself who doesn't have a habit of reading, nor ideal speed and retention, you'll want to select carefully. My advice would be to go ahead and keep reading internet-based content, but as you do so, to think about which topics you wish you could dive deeper on. And then ask others for book recommendations on those topics.