skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for cars in the UK, https://www.racfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/car...
shows what I thought and that is car ownership per household has increased in the UK since 1985.

Equally, whilst comparing money and inflation etc, you also need to factor in the increase in `standards` and by that, things like TV, phones, transport.... and compare to the past period. Heck, give it a few years and if you don't own a 4k TV, fiber internet and a 5G smartphone - you will be classed as living in poverty in the UK.

Many things have become cheaper over time, which has also seen social patterns change. Less pubs and pub usage, though offset that with restaurant usage and you see how in some ways, it is hard to compare A to B, when their makeup is different that the aspect you can compare, become blurred in interpretation. Thus whilst you could say things like the headline, the nuances become much harder the further you compare.
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This company has always been a joke.
Romans... Slavers who washed their mouths and clothes with urine, and shat on the streets. They really weren't into this "treating people humanely" thing. Most of their lives were quite brutal: https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/05/arthriti...

> The average ancient Roman worker was riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and was dead by 30 thanks to a diet
of rotting grains and a lifetime of hard labour, a new study has found
Cool product! Does the data on the wall go to your servers or its stored locally on the machine? How about a one time payment version for the app that allows this
During your rotation, you have to have your phone with you. I go to the movies and to nice dinners. I would definitely get my rotation covered for a wedding or camping.

You should have faith in the systems that you build. If you don't want to carry a pager for them, why does someone else want to do it?
Teenagers are biologically driven to stay up late and wake up late, as shown in studies of sleep schedules in laboratory conditions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820578/

> Adolescents continue to show a delayed circadian (or internal clock) phase as indicated by daily endocrine rhythms even after several weeks of regulated schedules that allow for sufficient sleep. This delay is maintained under controlled laboratory conditions in which there is limited possibility for social influence.
And yet work start times won't adjust.
What is the "this" that you don't agree with? The theorized causality? It's not a question of whether the kids in the Seattle study slept more or not. They did sleep more. The question is why, and I think most people agree that it is clearly because of the later school start time.
The whole idea here is that you do not need to fetch an extra image. The image is generated in code on the client side from the short string. So there is no network connection needed, and the placeholder is there instantly.
There's a study that indicates that your theory is either incorrect or incomplete, as grades improved with a 1 hour delay in school start time. What part of the study do you not find convincing?
Wow... They can now move icons around.

Seriously, if this is nowhere near the usability of Ubuntu Touch, which was abandoned because it didn't have a chance, how can this succeed? The first iPhone in 2007 could do this.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a truly open Linux-based smartphone OS happen without the involvement of big business. I just don't think it's going to happen. If anyone has a shot it's sailfish and even that was too barebones to use last time I tried it (about 3 months ago), even with the Android compatibility layer.
A big problem here in US is kids logistics -- parents spend way too much time getting their kids somewhere and back.

In Eastern Europe I remember parents just told me to not forget about pool after school, so I get on the bus and went 6 stops to the pool after school myself.

That only worked since age of 8 for me, of course, before that logistics was probably a problem for my parents as well.
He's not a politician, he's a reality show host. He just happens to be president too.
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The article discusses that circadian rhythms in teens changes such that later sleep is normal
Metabase is great. I did a workshop on it last night and people were really impressed that it was free.

They also loved the X-ray feature.
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His COTI (Cost-of-Thriving Index) is hand-wavy, means nothing to me, and (lo and behold) validates his hypothesis, namely, that CPI is somehow incorrect and inflation is fake news.
What do you disagree with? This is something that actually happened. They changed start times and the students slept more.
Have read your post. Interesting! Is the code perhaps already available?
> the main table at work is over 500 columns wide...

This is horrifying, but at least not as horrifying as the public sector database I once had to work with that predated proper support for foreign keys, so there was a relationship table that was about 4 columns wide and must have had more rows than the rest of the database combined.

Even the database they had moved this schema to struggled with that many join operations.
How much of this is due to the growth in labor force in general and the prevalence of dual income families. See: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/facts-over-time/women-i....

If you go further back (50s - 60s), it was very common for a household to survive on a single income. Even 30-40 years ago when I grew up, our family of 6 lived off a single income from a non-college graduate.

That's very hard to do now, except for certain fields like tech.
TL;DR: Journalists saying things you don't like? Just tweak the laws (or misapply current laws) to make them criminals. EZ
Simplicity and reliability are the biggest reasons I've stayed with DO for so many years. The combination of droplets, spaces and simple load balancing is the sweet-spot for me. Not to mention a simple, consistent bill each month that makes budgeting much easier. Thanks DO and keep up the amazing work!
> what about building a platform that would facilitate the "collect, clean and analyze data" aspect of this for non-technical business owners?

One of the problems with this is how custom each data set for each client would be. My mind has been on this topic since the a16z article on "The new business of AI ..." [1] which was posted to HN in the last couple of days. The key idea is the question of how to decouple the process of collecting, cleaning and analyzing data from the process of acquiring customers for that data, and not how to solve the problem of collecting, cleaning and analyzing data. Developers want to solve the technical challenge (how to build the processes) but not the business challenge (how to find customers willing to buy the resultant data).

I do believe there is a market for start-ups to partner with exiting companies to help them wrangle their data. It just isn't the market I'm thinking of.

1. https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-i...
> If capitalists evade taxes, we will claw back their profits

But how? The only plans I've seen from Sanders, Warren, etc. are wealth taxes and specific taxes on stock transactions. I think anyone who thinks those can be implemented successfully and people are not going to change their behavior to evade them is just dreaming. Yang proposed a VAT tax, which seems to be the only thing that's somewhat viable for preventing evasion. No matter how well-intentioned these plans are, they're not going to work if they can't be funded.

Disclaimer: I voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary. Based on his 2020 campaign, I would not do so again.
This is the primary reason for an early start. Primary school, bussing schedules and athletics can shift.

This leaves the question: why does work start so early? If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults.
Yeah, it’s a nice thought, but completely unworkable. I live 0.99 miles (seriously!) from my kids’ school. The minimum bus distance in 1 mile - so they won’t send buses to pick up my kids. That means that they have to walk 0.99 miles, sometimes in the rain, sometimes in the cold, across three fairly busy intersections, or I have to drive them. My commute is about an hour long (longer because I’m driving at the worst possible time), so I’m getting into work later than everybody else as it is.
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Of course it’s an excellent predictor in a MIXED group. Testosterone predicts BEING male or not and being male predicts violent crime, almost perfectly.
I like them. I haven't been a fan of all the flat and monochrome icons that have been popular during the last decade.

All the icons start to look the same and converge on basic shapes with no color to distinguish features. Plus, many designers no longer put labels on buttons/icons, compounding the problem.
You're stating Assange claims the DNC emails Wikileaks published were not obtained by the Russian Federation?

It's a great hedge, like how Rohrabacher didn't actually offer a pardon, just offered to petition the president for one.

'Multiple U.S intelligence agencies concluded people with direct ties to the Kremlin gave WikiLeaks hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Commi...
1. Testing cars you can't afford is awesome. Knowing the full range of experience in a good can be very enlightening. How much better is a $10,000 camera from a $1,000 camera, or $400 wine from $4? I used to run a tasting group which is basically a way to pool money and try liquors that are vastly out of our individual price range and I highly recommend it. You can try expensive cars and mattresses for free, that's even better!

2. What's wrong with thinking "Well it is great, but its not $2000 great." You aren't beholden to the thoughts you had about how worth-it it might be before you tried it.
Yes, decentralized wouldn't be enough. I'd want anonymously decentralized.
Miami's art district has become a global business hub
This sounds like a great idea for an open source community. Hack these exercise bikes/street scooters/e-bikes that end up in landfills or in ditches and release a method of flashing functional firmware to them. Reminds me of the Open Source E-Reader Community
ex:
https://github.com/fread-ink/fread-vagrant
I can’t speak to friendships of 70 years, but I have a number of friends I’ve known for the better part of 10 to 15 years. I find there’s a few things that help foster these kinds of relationships:

1. You genuinely like each other.

2. The relationship is positive, meaning each party contributes in positive ways to the well-being of each other.

3. Proximity helps, but in cases where friends get separated due to circumstances of life: stay in touch. Make a point to call now and then, send a holiday card, involve them in travel plans, etc. maintaining contact is key.

4. For people you do lose contact with: check in. I know SO many people who let fantastic friendships wither due to fear of getting back in touch. What’s a year or two of downtime compared a friendship that can last decades? Reach out, they’ll be happy to hear from you.

Relationships take effort, and friendships are no different. Look for ones that add to your life in positive ways, try to do the same for them, and hang on to them as best you can. Good luck!
+1 for the EBITDA focus when they're trying to sell. It felt like hollowing out of offerings for sake of looking good on paper.

We burned a few big clients at a previous gig because the cost-benefit of them wasn't above a certain threshold, even though they were objectively large and consistently growing customers. Few years later one got bought by a defense contractor, the other by a well known consumer goods firm; both expanded their spend. My sales execs were very salty about that...

They didn't get an buyer/exit either -- the big lead declined for reasons they didn't tell us -- and had to reformulate a strategy from scratch, which is when heads started to roll.
We fairly recently released Bullet Train as 100% open source (https://bullet-train.io/). We're beginning to make it work, and have been surprised at the amount of enterprise interest it has generated.

Just because the code is open source doesn't mean you can't make money out of it.
That's only true for induced drag, though. Parasitic drag is independent of lift, and would be reduced by flying higher.
More car regulations is linked to globalization ? Inflation of healthcare costs comes from globalization ? OP was just here to spill his political opinion and didn't address the content of the thread
I love the idea of capturing all events and providing the user with an option to label "useful" events. Similarly, I'd like to capture API calls. In a typical modern SPA + REST api setup, calls to the REST api often correspond to events. An analytics integrations that captures all api calls and provides tools to label/transform these api calls as events would prove similarly useful.
You do realize that the "heaps of cheap junk" are made by people who take pride in their own work right? Those people would otherwise have no means to generate enough surplus capital to survive a bad crop season.
What does any of this have to do with the article?

And I'm not positive, but maybe the average lifespan in Rome was 30(considering all the newborn deaths), but I really doubt adult workers were keeling over at 30 on average.
Which mattress did you end up liking? I have an OG purple and love it, but need one for my spare bedroom.
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...and don't forget Erate dollars. Can't fund redundant systems, etc.
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/universal-service-progr...
"You'll look at [the bacon] and you'll say 'That's too crisp!'. That's how I want it."
I was thinking of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt (nice story about Tesler at Apple, by the way) and hence, reading it that way :-)
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So many great people on HN. Has this been attempted before? Is this something that would be appropriate for this community?
To be fair How much has Google contributed to the Trump campaign? Sick and tired of media blaming everything on DJT.
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This seems to me like focusing on the trees instead of the forest. I would think that when discussing Saudi control over a company, we might be interested in more than just some low-level henchmen, but maybe the Saudi prince who owns a third of the company.

To hear some other people talk, this is "conspiracy" territory now. But c'mon, we're supposed to believe that some nobody henchmen are solely responsible for this and ignore the fact that the Saudis own a third of the company.
This tweet was poorly worded, I agree. What he should have said was that the increasing prices of new cars did not show up as inflation in the way economists calculate it, because of the way they adjust for quality improvements. In the full article he explains this more clearly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22378595
Very true. If you've solved the labeling/extraction problem using a means other than ML, you can use that means to generate synthetic data. The situation at my company is exactly this.

Say you use regular expressions to extract sensitive data from standardized, but numerously varied, form documents. The pieces of information extracted are very common classes of data: first name, last name, dates, physical locations.

During the extraction process you can save the complement of the extraction (the "leftovers") and insert generated data at the extraction points. Also, because you've extracted the actual sensitive data, you can exclude that from the set of values used for generation, if it's practical.

Sometimes people get caught up in the math and theory that they fail to see the practical solutions.
FWIW, my Colorado district's high schools are going to start class around 9 to 9:30-ish next year (proposed, at least) all based around research like this.
This makes me wonder what the numbers are for Costco, who pays their employees very well.
In the USA, McD's are often franchised by local owners. So not fleecing a mega-corporation out of free food, fleecing one of your neighbors. FWIW.
It used to be that way but with all the data available to us now, managing fraud isn’t as difficult as it used to be. Definitely not to the tune of 3-4% both ways combined in many cases.
For whatever it is worth, I work for an SI that sells SAASPASS IAM that also includes MFA solutions and our only churn customers are those using RSA SecurID. I assume this will accelerate, but I suppose that will be obvious in a year or two from now. Of the MFA vendors out there RSA will have to invest to keep up pace with other vendors. Let’s see if the new owners are willing to do that.
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A coworker we think has figured it out. Its 365 + leap year days + 31 day month.
> explaining why the worst employees were paid more

except they were likely only viewed as 'worst employees' because of the theft. stopping theft - internal and external - would normally be chalked up to 'best employees', who would be quite deserving of raises (in a hypothetical world).
Except that a current year Honda Fit is a great car, and is probably bigger than a 1970s Civic. I'll concede that it's not quite an apples to apples comparison (for a variety of reasons) but the availability of quality, cheap cars nowadays is nearly unmatched.
I would argue that thats the benefit.

I want people more knowledgable than me to comment and point out the flaws in products/reports/theories. Thats what I love about HN.

How critical are those flaws? It's up to you. If you take the approach of "there is no right or wrong, only opinions" when you read comments, it's much better off.
The analysis you present is very misleading. The CDA doesn't say anything about retroactive moderation or pre-vetting, but grants legal immunity with no regard for moderation styles. So how do you get from here to there?

> So we could get rid of section 230 and implement a complicated solution that will have negative knock-on effects and unintended consequences for the entire Internet.

The antitrust route seems much more complicated to me because prosecutors would have to bring a new case to court for every major company, at taxpayers' expense.

What's complicated about repealing a 2-clause law? Is there another part to this process I'm not aware of?

> What problem does revoking section 230 solve that antitrust law doesn't?

Aside from being much simpler and less expensive to taxpayers? It would solve the problem once and for all by removing the source of the problem, instead of forcing the government to handle it one company at a time.
As a datapoint, I once wrote a paper for biology and learned about the existence of salt-rising bread [0], a bread leavened by hydrogen instead of the usual carbon dioxide, with a bacteria known for food poisoning as the rising agent [1]. It is just trivia, of course, though...

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt-rising_bread

[1]: https://www.popsci.com/article/science/clostridium-it-can-ki...
Is metabase similar to statsbot? I just googled metabase, am I looking at the right one?
I have a Leesa and don't love it, but I've had it over a year now, so can't return it. I didn't realize "mom-n-pop mattress stores" existed -- how would one find one?

I ended up with an online-mattress purchase because of a poor experience with both a Mattress Firm store (pushy salespeople) and most obnoxiously with a specific manufacturer, Simmons. I stayed at an AirBnB in SF years ago and the bed was noticeably the most comfortable bed I've ever slept on. I messaged the host _years_ later and asked him what type of bed it was, and to my surprise and delight, he messaged me back with text and images of the tags on the mattress. When I tried contacting Simmons by phone, email, and even Facebook Message, telling them I would BUY that mattress, no matter the cost, if they could point me in the right direction, I got nowhere and was made to feel like I was a bother. So while it's easy for me to believe that these online mattress companies are marketing companies glueing foam together, maybe this is what we needed to make an outdated industry improve.
Wild guess: you started waking up a more consistent time each day (less sleeping in on weekends). This might have been a result of getting more sleep on weekdays and therefore not feeling like you need to sleep in, or of less late night socializing.

As someone who has run the full gamut of sleep schedules over different years of my life, I've found by FAR (orders of magnitude) the most influential factor in how I feel in the morning is the consistency of my wake-up time. The only factor that can sometimes eclipse it is extended periods of sleep deprivation (eg, 1-2 weeks of averaging 4 hours per night).

If you want to try this, I highly recommend an alarm app for Android called Talalarmo - https://f-droid.org/app/trikita.talalarmo
For people who don't know it, please look up "Kolmogorov complexity".
To be fair it was effectively the cheapest computer on the market, in a very aggressive [pricing war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64#Market_war_1982%E...). Other machines on the market such as the Atari 800 cost $899 (>$2000 in 2020)
This is, nowadays, for most parents, because work and school schedules have fallen into a sort equilibrium. If school started later, many work places would be forced to be accommodating. The ones that wouldn't be forced are mostly already an issue for parents with kids in school.
I thought their $5/mo machines are the cheapest on the internet for the specs available. Are there cheaper options? I’m hosting a low traffic page that gets maybe 500-1000 views a month and even at $5/mo it seems overkill IMO.
Note that Warren isn't claiming that everyone is poorer, rather specifically middle-class households that chose to buy expensive housing to get into better school districts. Her argument can be read as saying that housing/education inflation is higher for those families specifically (and therefore lower for everyone else - if it's higher than average for some it must be lower for others, that's the nature of averages).

Also this is unrelated to my point, which is that OP has a misleading and borderline false title.
Maybe it's selection bias, but it seems like every "successful" VC-backed startup I read about ends up destroying what could've been a profitable core product and burning itself up out of the sheer growth-pressure imposed upon it by investors. Dozens of what could have been sustainable small businesses, crumpled up and thrown in the bin because they couldn't achieve ludicrous unicorn growth. That's not good for the economy.

The "quit after round 1" idea makes sense, though.
The not-remotely-true part is that, because inflation indexes are an average, they are way off when applied to specific categories of goods and services.
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The myth that electric cars require less service needs to die.

Maintenance needs in any modern car mostly comes back to value engineering. It's literally someone's job to optimize "how cheaply can we make this part, that it breaks just often enough that people won't complain".

The exact same thing is already happening for electric cars, and you'll need to spend exactly the same amount of time and money on service.

Furthermore, almost none of the service on a modern car is related to the combustion engine itself. It's mainly electronics, linkages, wheel beqrings, shocks, suspension, rust damage, tires etc.

If you think about it, a car that's done 200 000 miles at EOL has only been running for around 200 days continuously. A generator, or the engine on a ship, train, airplane etc. runs more than a full order of magnitude longer.