skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of it. Having grown up poor myself, and having family and old connections that are still poor, I can tell you that there's another element to it as well.

A lot of poor people resent society due to their poverty. There's a constant meme that their poverty is some one else's fault ("the man", "the rich", "white people", "government", "minorities", "foreigners" are all common ones, depending who you're talking to). It's a defeatist point of view, but it does two things. It allows them to protect their egos by directing blame for their situation at other people. It also allows them to justify poor decisions, because the world is setup against them, so why bother? You will often see this kind of rhetoric if you spend casual time with people in poverty.

You'll also see a slightly different permutation of this, where some people in poverty see the way out as only possible through someone else's actions. Whether that be a charity, the government, or just a personal relationship. They feel very disempowered and defeated, and often look for events out of their control to "save" them, rather than taking actions to correct their situation. Again, why bother saving money if you can't fix the situation. You might as well have a good time while you wait for someone else to save you.

I, personally, believe these mental traps to be a non-trivial part of what keeps people in poverty.
Because of vendor lock in. When you move a lot of data between S3 and EC2 it costs nothing (or very cheap). When you move data outside of AWS, there is extra cost, so it might not even be cheaper overall.
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This is just an overly elaborate concept of a centralized (or commonly accessible table) of states that other independent systems can use for their own “triggers”.

What seems like a lifetime ago, we achieved this with IBM MQSeries allowing us to send events from a Microsoft transaction server (MTS) object to a COBOL program that listened for the events to insert records into an order entry system that was on an AS/400 DB2 db.

Maybe an Event Bus concept carries all the expected “good design aspects” of this pattern. But it is just another example of an integration concept - but please can we stop with evangelizing this as though it ought to be the linchpin or necessary aspect of a good modern system you are starting with!

Edit: this design concept 25 years ago was the best we had considering the zero alternatives for guaranteeing that events don’t get lost etc. IOW: this design itself was a compromise for absence of a cohesive and unified database (what the Event Bus crew and the Microservices crowd would now call a monolith)!
Yev here -> This question's beyond me, lemme see if I can get a dev on the line :D

*Edit - sounds like BBR is used in some of the environment!
That's nonsense. The only sliver of truth might be the waning of the influence of churches, which I might add, are not particularly helpful to when they decide to shun the members of the community who need the most help.

At least in my northern coastal state, there are lots and lots of family resources that were put in place as a result of the persistent work of the "intellectual class". Free library programs for all ages of children, free health education programs, and so on.
Exactly my point! (Maybe expressed poorly) .. They're not mutually exclusive solutions in any way.
> I'm surprised you would call a genuine pursuit of authentic truth a fetish

That's an overreaching interpretation of what I wrote. One can pursue the truth without declaring everything else as worthless. Plus, I dispute the idea that "non-authentic" mysteries can't convey truth.

> now enjoy MCU and Star Wars movies in their place, even reading and writing fan fiction about it.

Well, I don't. I do enjoy, for example, The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton. Is the mystery of Sunday illusory? I care not one whit.
JPMorgan said to be in talks to merge its blockchain unit with ConsenSys
> > Poverty is not a lack of character – it’s a lack of cash.

> No. Poverty is a lack of education and, more importantly, mentorship.

No, poverty is a lack of material wealth.

A lack of education (of which mentorship is a component) may contribute to the durability of poverty, but it is far from the only factor which does so; active class discrimination in distribution of opportunity by the non-poor, both personally and through institutional, including public, policy, is also a factor.
This is the only lesson I really took away from Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad."

People will say what they will about the man, and his kin, that he's a peddler and just another business man out for himself. I'm sure much of that is true, and personally I can't reconcile the fact that he is personal friends with DJT...

However his strongest point throughout that book is that it is essential that people who want to 'make money' rather than taking it, need to be educated on the subject. He juxtaposes this with his view of the situation present: that people are only educated to become good workers, and to depend on one institution or another for their income.

I am still trying to internalise a lot of the sentiment from that book and my financial self-education will continue (I hope) for many more years.
I think this is likely the case.

A number of years ago my parents heard of a very young single mother in their community. She was being housed at a local woman's shelter, but was kicked out for continually breaking the rules regarding use of the stipend that was provided for each mother. She had two kids and nowhere to go, so my parents took her in for what they thought would be a couple weeks.

The weeks bled into months, and by the time that my parents thought she would be fine moving out, they had housed her for close to half a year.

My parents learned many new things about poverty by having her and her kids there for so long. One of the most significant was the severity of the mental/emotional/psychological strain that someone who is destitute is burdened with. My parents were able to find her a part-time job, they paid for everything, and cooked most of the meals. She struggled though to even just get up in the morning, let alone make it to work on time or even go at all. She lost the job. And sometimes all she could do was sit on the porch and chain smoke.

About a half a year later my parents decided that she was probably well enough to be independent. They worked with some other families in the community to get her an apartment, a car, and a new job (good pay and part-time). She still has a lot of struggles, but can now fend for herself.

I'm guessing some people who lift themselves from poverty are both lucky and have a psychological makeup which keeps them stable enough to do the necessary work in getting there. We either forget, ignore, or are ignorant of others that need a lot more hand-holding along the way.
>There are many denominations that LARP as Christian, Jew, or Muslim while advocating for gay rights, but they accomplish this by discarding large parts of their holy texts.

How is this LARPing and less legitimate than the others? No TRUE Christian would x y z.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286925

It seems this submission has new technical details, so we won't treat it as a dupe.
I can only speak for myself but I got it because it looked like an awesome pocket ssh console. And it was. Connectbot was ready to go on launch thanks to the sdk and emulator that was released ahead of time.

Android being open source was a huge factor too but I probably would have stuck with the Treo 680 for a while longer if it wasn't for the keyboard.

And I do use a BB key2 right now :) At least until I get my fxtec pro1.

BB seems to have stopped selling the Key2 in the US a few months back so I really hope my current one holds out long enough.
There's webkit too by Apple. And browsers based on it is available for Linux too. And no, webkit and Blink are not the same engine. Blink is a fork of webkit by Google and while they share a heritage they have different feature set now.
If there is a sidewalk offering her a lift is patently ridiculous.
This article cites several research studies as well as the results of the casino in North Carolina and is a great read - and I hope people read it, digest it, and then comment (rather than comment based on the title).

This is actually what presidential candidate Andrew Yang is trying to change. He calls this the "Scarcity mindset" and it doesn't just affect poor decisions, but also inability to think about things like climate change.

This is why his proposal for Universal Basic Income of $1000 is believed to raise the poor's IQ by 13 points because having no money decrease your IQ by 13 points.

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/how-to-increase-your-iq...

New Hampshire votes today for the Democrat primary...if you're in NH, you can change the country.
Yeah, I'm using the C nomenclature ("aliasing" vs "association") because HN commenters are broadly unfamiliar with Fortran.

What I mean by "default" is that if I declare a function with two array arguments in Fortran, with the simplest possible syntax, the compiler assumes that they do not alias (are not associated). By contrast, if I declare a function with two pointer arguments in C, with the simplest possible syntax, the compiler assumes that they may alias (are associated in some unspecified manner).

The C semantics are certainly safer, but they lead to lots of "Fortran is faster than C" blog posts by people who either don't know about or simply don't want to use the annotations.
I think that's a take that is obviously wrong for many people. The g1 was fun because of the hardware, and it didn't have an expensive plan, it was easy to write apps for. I liked the keyboard, I could put music on it that I controlled. It was my phone, instead of that mba thing, the blackberry. It was the perfect device for me at the time.
Commodity virtualized server with 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, storage is on NAS. We have hundreds of these typical SQL instances.

db has lot of rows, around 20k rows logged per minute and the events are logged 24/7 three years.

Again, because the schema is well designed, I use clustered index on Date to filter and analyze and the engine actually never reads the whole db all the time. It actually read only the pages I need, and that's the benefit from millions of man-hours MSFT invested in optimizing its SQL engine.

typical response time depends on date period, I try to write queries that dont take more than a 5-10 secs to run.

if you have RDBMS performance problems - just hire an expensive DBA for a brief period and learn-learn-learn from her how to work with large data effectively. DBAs can optimize your db to run as fast as a your hardware I/O speed.
how is building and maintaining your own reputation a problem for low volume sender?
Exactly, a lot of people assume that any of those options aside from the strict layering is "unclean" code. Clean code is code that is easy to read, easy to modify and more or less DRY. The rest is dressing.
I often wonder if we, as humans during this era, are really at the primitive end of the introduction of computers and big data.

We're still incredibly new to the concept of storing PB's of easily searchable and accessible data, and can be accessed at the speed of light.

At the same time, exposing this can do real human harm, depending on the motives (for example, Cambridge Analytica).

I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has 'settled' down.

We're seeing this today with facial recognition and machine learning - new concepts today that will grow old with time.

I wish I was capable of seeing all of this 'big tech' in that time to see how it matures. To say we have a long way to go is an understatement.

Breaches like this should be impossible as there should be designs against it.
No, as someone who grew up quite poor I (my parents) needed cash.
If love was rational but it's filled with emotion. There are also plenty of partners above the poverty line that leave their families.

I'm not sure we'll ever get to a point where people don't make mistakes with important decisions.
Had a similar idea the other day. To search Twitter for "is there an app", "I want an app", etc., and display those on a page. Let people do a simple upvote, and use that to start training a model on what constitutes a "good" idea (there is a lot of chaff when searching those phrases).
I fully agree with you, but I couldn't think of a worst example that this article. It reads like someone complaining about being ostracized because of buying the wrong type of caviar or a non exclusive enough bottle of wine.
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There's everything on upwork ! Really good workers, bad people (lying about their schedule, deliverable, making up false excuses and insulting you) and average freelancers. If you are looking for someone remotely for a few well-defined small tasks upwork is really good to start with
It's explained in the article.
Where is this bitterness for such a generic category of people as "intellectuals" coming from? I totally agree with what you're saying except the blame of - who? All educated people? All smart people? (Unless you're using that word as a shorthand for something more specific that maybe I would agree with.)
>spend their money on iPhones, cigars, alcohol and cable TV instead of saving it

Do you spend your money on those things instead of saving it?
Zimbabwe and Venezuela didn't print and spend. They took loans in foreign currency and spend that.

Money printing alters just the nominal value of the currency. You can't buy more stuff by printing more money. You can decease the real wages and real value loans denominated in that currency with monetary inflation. Because the countries you mentioned had debt denominated in foreign currency they could not change the real value of their loans.

(it's common layman internet fallacy to draw back all macroeconomic discussion into money printing)
Heh, the guy who referred me even let me in on that common exit plan ;)

I agree with you on Amazon not being so bad. I had a lot of autonomy and was asked to both be an engineer and build technical solutions and own processes end-to-end (which included some project management.) It was a great experience!
That's understandable. But what exactly is the thought process in having so many tabs (10+) open in the first place?
I don't know, as someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family, I feel like if your parents are not good parents you're basically screwed. You just have to wait until you're grown up and make that tech salary to pay your therapist for a long time.

If there is neglect or abuse at home, it doesn't matter if there's some mildly positive neighbours / aunts / church people, I think it's hard for that to make a real difference.
>custom search engines via keywords

Right-click in a search field; "Add a Keyword for this Search..."
and as soon as Blink forked, Apple purged a ton of Google/Samsung specific code from Webkit.
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I agree in general that fuzziness isn't desirable. :) But the lack of a proper and widely accepted definition of FP is a perennial issue, and I don't see a resolution in sight. It's not a lack of clear understanding in my opinion, but rather a lack of consensus, and I'm not confident that FP will ever coalesce into a singular definition.

What I see in practice is that we have various tribes, using various FP languages, who each define FP in terms of the languages they use (e.g., an FP lang must have certain type-system features, or be non-strict, or etc.). To put it crudely, FP is the thing that we do in our language, and which we perceive others as not doing. I've used the term "tribe" intentionally, as I do think that tribal thinking has had a role to play in the muddying of the term.

Given this, I think it's reasonable to demote FP to the level of "feeling", at least in general conversation. Discussions within a certain language community, or in the context of a book or article, are a different matter of course since a formal, contextual definition can be given there.
That may be so, but this idea does absolutely nothing to help someone get out of poverty. If you were born to financially illiterate parents and grow up poor or end up poor as a result, pointing to how it was stuff out of your control that made you poor will lead to nothing else but continuing to stay poor until you start doing things and making choices that lead you out of that situation.

It sucks and isn't really fair, but the person best equipped to extract you from poverty is you. No one can make your choices for you, and you're far better off taking your life into your own hands and working to improve it than hoping that greater society will intervene on your behalf simply because your situation isn't favourable to you or because you're not entirely to blame for ending up in it.
Are there any studies on how this affects recognition? I'm labeling some vehicles and will my neural net learn better (for say vehicle identification) from a row of identical vehicles, individual vehicles with overlap, non-overlapping parts only?
New Math Makes Scientists More Certain About Quantum Uncertainties
Cash is appealing because it's "cheap" and scalable.

It's a cold, clinical approach that lets "leaders" feel good and appeals to people at first glance but doesn't actually solve problems.

The things that will change people, families, and cities require true leadership, mentoring, holding people accountable, and friendship. It requires deep personal investment in people and neighborhoods and can't be done from an office downtown.
And the study you posted doesn't refute his anecdote. If we always listened to depersonalized studies rather than using the context of a situation, than we will make extremely poor choices of how to handle bad situations like this

The OP gives strong analysis for why giving this family money directly doesn't solve any other structural problems
Maybe I’m a pessimist but I don’t really think lessons are learned by companies, lessons are learned by individuals.

Postmortems are important to drive home what went wrong, but newcomers won’t read them all.

That’s why you need people with experience and people with tenure.

What companies sometimes do: They encode lessons into rules, which tend to survive turnover. But that comes with its own set of problems, where you end up having a lot of rules who’s reason is forgotten.
> The big problem is that far too many people care about the man who lost his job and far too few people care about the underage woman who was coerced.

It's actually the opposite, far too many people get easily influenced by propaganda, hence why the man lost his job.

On top of that the man lost his job is a fact, but a claim of an underage woman who was supposedly coerced is not and is not verifiable, it's just white propaganda. If people weren't so naive and accepting of propagandistic authoritative claims, this wouldn't have happened.
Discuss fervently, make some tickets, writeup in Confluence. Then act surprised when it happens two years from now.
Does anyone have any opinions and experience using backblaze as a personal only cloud storage and offsite backup for smaller amounts of data (under 30 TB)
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No, it's not a red herring. The point is that Wikipedia could use a database that didn't rely on a limited number of access endpoints, which would make it harder to censor. And you don't need duplicate access controls if the database implemented them fully.

This is not restricted to the blockchain, of course. Something like e.g. SSB fits the bill.
12 gigs? Currently I have ~12 tabs open and it's using ~500mb of my RAM, according to top. What caused your Firefox to eat up 12 gb?
I was at google at the time of the spectrum bidding (but not having anything to do with phones) and that was a different situation. Recall that there was some minimum amount of money in the spectrum bid to require that the wireless data use would follow net neutrality rules. I remember they discussed this at TGIF and google was bidding up until it went over that amount. It wasn't a secret, it was openly discussed at tgif.
What exactly is the thought process behind having so many tabs open? For example, I close tabs when I am done with a site and / or when I can't read the site title on the tabs any more.
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This point comes out from time to time, I do not agree with it at all.

If history has showed us something, is that great people come from all sorts of backgrounds and situations, and that includes all sorts of families of course!
Virus storytellers challenge China’s official narrative
At a previous job, we had an internal Wiki with a page titled: "Cow in a ditch" which was specifically for this purpose.

Otherwise, it's mostly Confluence now, but no specific page of lessons learned, instead, those lessons are dotted around in individual documentation pages.
Awesome, thanks for replying!
I said core features, not the entire browser. Their bookmark manager hasn't changed for many many years.
How many tabs? I've used Firefox for years on 8 or less total gigabytes of RAM, and I've hit 40 tabs occasionally and regularly 20, and never ran out of RAM because of Firefox.
One thing not mentioned here that would be helpful to others: what did the VCs you met with actually care about in your deck vs. what you thought they would care about? My personal experience has been that first time founders tend to misjudge this.
The point is it's open source, so people will volunteer to work on what they want. Just because the bugs you cared about weren't worked on doesn't mean this work took any resources away that could have been applied to them.
Ask HN: How do you manage your financials?
Hey, Im wondering how do people go about managing their financials, between paying off loans, saving money and investing. Do people feel like they are making the best decisions when it comes to money?
This is very disappointing.
Ask HN: What are the best html5 and CSS3 only website you know?
Due to this recent manifesto about How to design a webpage to last https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840140, the polemic about Google AMP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733.

What are the best html5 and css3 websites without javascript you know?

Best in terms of design or website architecture
The high cost of a free coding bootcamp
lol, good luck with that.

Even if a person made that decision, "nature uh uh finds a way".
Judge Alsup Berates DoorDash for Trying to Escape Its Own Arbitration Agreement
Boeing uses pretty much everything.

Ada is still widely used and having decent Ada experience will get you a job pretty quickly, especially if you know how to get things done with most of the run-time disabled.

F-22 flight controls are all Ada for example. The new training tools are C#/C++ (Unity). Inventory tracking is Java.
This book is hot garbage. His analysis of real estate (apperently not an asset) is so bad that I cannot imagine that anyone who read this book made money. Even if the author wasn't shady I'd throw it away
As a US citizen and resident I would far more prefer to have to contend with the US Govt than the CCP on this matter. At least in the US there is some legal procedure, accountability and civil society culture around limiting govt power. With the CCP there is none of that, neither for Chinese citizens nor foreigners.

It’s clear that the CCP is assembling a database of information on everyone in the developed world, not just in China, and that they intend to use it as part of their soft power arsenal (along everything else from economic incentives to Confucious Institutes).

The CCP is much more frightening and less accountable than the US Govt, especially as they reach parity in soft and hard power.