skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$84.95 RCA Voyager Pro 7 16GB Tablet with Keyboard Case Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) in Purple [1].

I've seen other RCA Voyagers going for $50 or less, even at Walmart.

* 7.0" touchscreen

* 1.3GHz Quad-Core processor

* 16GB of storage memory

* Google Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS

* Webcam, WiFi and Bluetooth

And then install Termux [2], which is a nifty Linux that runs on Android.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/RCA-Voyager-Keyboard-Marshmallow-RCT6...

[2] https://termux.com/
Good question. Super SIMs actually don’t have a phone number that is publicly addressable. You could use a Twilio phone number and our voice SDK to wire up VoIP calling to and from a device; however, Twilio phone numbers will be treated as VoIP numbers and can often not be used for verification systems.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think your subtle distinction between the market and ecosystem is key here because they don't fully map 1 to 1. And you're correct that the market is downstream from the ecosystem itself. But with that said, I'm not sure that I agree with the spirit of your argument.

> the gays would be outcompeted genetically by non-gays, and the identity wouldn't persist, right?

I'm not sure that's historically accurate. The connection between pederasty and upper caste aristocracy goes back to Greek civilization, if not earlier, and is its own kind of a cultural reproduction mechanism that seemed to have elements of both mentorship and romance. Without a doubt, it's something that I still see today in elite circles.

> The fact that the role of "finance guy" exists at all is a product of the broader cultural ecosystem

I think I'd beg to disagree -- not with the product of the ecosystem part, but with the idea that it's cultural rather than socioeconomic and caste based. And maybe this comes back to my point earlier, which is a friction point that maybe both the IQ shredder concept and this article fail to account for, which is a certain degree of lifestyle dynamism.

That is to say, is that finance guy stuck as a finance guy forever? Or does he eventually accumulate enough wealth before moving on to a separate phase of his life, one where he can have a family of whatever size he wants with the best partner he can find that will take him? Because if that's the case, then maybe both the IQ shredder and Idiocracy argument perhaps only serve a useful function when referring to the lower and middle class, and fail to account for the upper class. And this, too seems to make intuitive sense to me: even as we see the middle class hollowed out, the upper class in America (and maybe across the world) continue to see increased prosperity at levels never before seen in history.

> If your sociological frame makes the world look like a dys/utopia, consider that it might be a flawed frame, at least if your goal is to see clearly.

I think the warning against dualistic frames is fair to keep in mind. But if you have a non-dualistic frame, that "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed" then I think that it's equally fair to warn that a frame which conflates an observed scenario to as a dystopic frame rather than evidence of an apoptotic mechanism could itself be the flawed frame.
I've been using a Pi 4 4GB as a desktop for a couple months now. Considering that my other main computer is an ancient Thinkpad, I don't feel hampered by the speed. I used a Pi 3B for a desktop replacement for a while and while it was fine with my typical use (emacs+mostly command line) "modern" browsing was uncomfortably slow. It was perfectly capable of video playback in standard formats but there are problem sites using codecs which are not supported by the media decoder in the Pi. The situation with the Pi 4 is quite similar but it's just about fast enough for Youtube now.

Most any school or office could switch to the Pi 4 seamlessly these days for sure though.
FCC has “serious doubts” that SpaceX can deliver latencies under 100ms
> This is a pretty short sighted observation. It's obvious to most tech folk here that yes, moving up to higher abstractions, higher level languages and paradigms comes at a performance cost.

This is not even necessarily true. There are zero cost abstractions. Compilers can generate better assembly code than the overwhelming majority of developers.
I didn’t expect to see another CSS Ze player, given there’s so few of us now. There’s a good chance we play together!
Thousands of hours spent playing and making maps, I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
Two years of micro-front ends: A retrospective
I took two tries to get into Transmigration of Timothy Archer. What got me through the second time was finding out that it was a fictionalized portrait of a real and fascinating person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pike

I also just liked reading Dick's descriptions of the Bay Area.
But then there are things that do make a difference. Take for instance homogenized vs non-homogenized milk. This processing destroys lactoferrin which is a molecule that strongly binds iron and reduces its absorption. Before someone argues this is actually bad, understand first why milk has lactoferrin and how this apparently only cosmetic process of homogenization has nutritional and health consequences.
Turning down management roles seems key, nobody wants to be middle management but you're often ushered there by leadership then RIFd when things turn sour. Seen it happen to a few.
Looks great, we're using a similar product for building a massive guerrilla network of solar powered IOT devices in strategic locations collecting some alternative data for hedge funds.
Absolutely this. Our body is constantly trying to maintain homeostasis, so when you make a big lifestyle change your body tries to react in the opposite direction.

Most people don't understand that when you start a new habit it often replaces another. When you start going to the gym you might walk less. When you eat smaller meals you might snack more. etc. I'd love to see a list of all the unconscious decisions your body makes in response to fitness/nutrition interventions.
I usually use a MacBook but I also use a beefed up System76 laptop with a good GPU, i7, and double the memory. Things like large Haskell builds, anything using TensorFlow, etc. runs so much faster than my MacBook there is no comparison.

Everyone gets to choose their own setup, but to be honest, if I didn't like my Apple Mac+Watch+iPhone+iPad interop so much, I would always use the much faster Linux system. At my old job, I had the fastest current MacBook Pro configuration and it was much slower than my System76 rig.
In my humble opinion, PKD was grazing what the perennial philosophy offers to be the Truth of existence. To quote Waking Life:

> Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy
Well yes, besides it running afoul of laws governing anti-mafia/cartel dealings, the risk of fraud is very high.
> I wouldn't be surprised to see a serious push for legalized polygamy in a few years

Why? Who do you think would benefit from this?
First, note you're likely to get some survivorship bias in these responses - older people who left the industry are less likely to comment on HN.

That said, as a developer in their mid-40s, here's my take:

1. In general, mid-level engineering management jobs (which I consider Manager to Senior Director level) pay significantly more because they are shittier jobs. Sure, there is the rare soul that loves these kind of jobs, but I think most Directors would freely admit they liked their day-to-day a lot more when they were coding. I find that the type of folks who succeed in these roles have basically stopped caring about work so much and are much more invested in their family life. I.e. they don't "love" their job, but they do well at it because they want to make a nice living for their family.

2. I went the senior engineer -> architect -> director -> senior director route, and honestly I hated being a director/senior director. I don't mind so much managing people, and I really enjoy mentoring, but at the director/senior director level you're doing a ton of managing up, which I hate, and there are a ton of logistical responsibilities at this level that I find mind-numbingly boring.

3. So I switched companies and am now a "principal engineer", which I love and I think is my sweet spot. I don't have any official direct reports, but I do a lot of mentoring and general "team management". Given my history, the senior execs at my company appreciate some of my "management-level input", but they know I'm most effective if I'm not involved in tweaking job-level band discussions. To echo another commenter, I do just enough management-level stuff to keep me involved at a high level, but I spend the majority of my time writing code, doing code reviews, and working closely with product management to give engineering input re: new features.
I agree, it's my favorite, but The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is far to weird to make into a movie.
In the United States our justice system applies the principal of "Innocent until proven guilty." In other words, when you are merely accused of a crime you are presumed to not be a criminal. The state has to actually prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you, the accused, committed the crime. People in Jail are not criminals until they are put on trial, convicted, and sentenced at which point they are convicts and go to prison.
Get Ripcord. The only sane way to use Slack or Discord.
People who neglected paying parking tickets and the like due to mental health issues and rampant poverty. You should look more into it..
Sounds like he should have stayed in academia.
Being able to do something about this, especially in these extraordinary circumstances, and still not doing it is a sign of acting in bad faith. More so when the issue lies with your intentionally crippled (as in "not just an oversight") implementation. Stalling is perhaps too soft a word. On the other hand PayPal is more than willing to blame COVID19 for delays in issues that should officially be resolved faster and that are causing losses to others. So they're willing to use the "extraordinary circumstances" excuse when and only when it suits them. Another sign that they are acting in bad faith.
I've been through some very similar stuff. It was two years after "I" was blown to pieces before I had really integrated these strong pangs of anxiety, memories that I was nothing at all and that ultimately reality is terrifyingly absurd. It's been a long process of learning that these pangs are important learning experiences, that they are fuel for compassion for others, that curiosity and awareness transform them into something else... etc. etc. down the rabbithole of self-care for the unwilling mystic.

If you're interested in what I did with all that since then, I'd be happy to chat more and share what I've learned, where I'm at, and where I'm headed. Seconded on the cup of virtual coffee, /u/artsyca, although of course I'm perfectly happy not to crash y'all's party.
>they were no more dangerous

If they were arrested then statistically speaking they are far more likely than the average person to be criminals.

I feel like one of the ultimate sources of tension in western society today is that one side puts far too much faith into the good in people, a perspective that can only come from ivory tower privilege. This comment is a perfect example.

Sure, those who disagree will claim that the real problem is the opposite, but my point is that the side of the protestors lacks nuance in their worldview; often people are bad and you can't just blindly blame society for every criminal.
Price is a race to the bottom. Nobody wants that. Look at Oil.

None of them want to be known as the cheapest provider. They want to be the best provider.

Twist on Argumentum ad crumenam [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_crumenam]: Fallacy that if it is more expensive, it is better.
Generally shareholders would prefer a ceo whose incentives are aligned with those of the company. On the one hand maybe it’s good that Dorsey could fuck off from twitter if things went bad and not suffer too much from it: it allows him to take risks and ceos not wanting to take reasonable risks as much as shareholders would like (because they have a undiversified interest in their company doing well but more importantly not doing badly whereas shareholders are typically more diversified and so can accept a bigger loss) is a known issue with many public companies. On the other hand, if he can fuck off and do ok if things go bad, maybe he is less motivated to stop them going bad.

A second issue is that people may feel that he will not be able to do the job properly if he is splitting his time between companies, and twitter have to care about the opinions of their shareholders and their users and their advertisers and their employees. Any of those groups may feel this. A main part of the job of the CEO will be deciding what the companies values are and making sure they are reflected by the firm’s actions. For Twitter at the moment this seems like a harder job than for many companies so possibly it would be even harder than usual to be a part-time CEO.
Yes, some kind of de-conditioning and "seeing the world with fresh eyes" has often been attributed to the psychedelic experience.

I'd take it all with a grain of sand, however. Just because what one experiences on psychedelics might seem "more real than real" doesn't mean it actually is. Some have described psychedelics as superplacebos.. people can be very suggestible in such states, and are prone to believing what they want to believe.
Hobbies for Academics
In brief: there’s a good chance that age and experience will change you into wanting a leadership role. Start laying the groundwork for that now, even if you don’t think The Change will ever come.

As much as I wanted it to last forever, I eventually lost interest in being an individual contributor in favor of guiding others. My contribution was assessed not just on my own output but also on the output of those to whom I gave guidance.

Then I ditched tech completely and split my time between baking baguettes in the country and working as CS teacher.

Life and priorities change. Some fit naturally into a well trodden career path — such as going from an individual contributor to a manager. Some life and mindset changes will require you to find fulfillment elsewhere though. Techie to techie manager might not be enough change to sate you.

The most common pattern though, in my experience, is to switch to management because you want to. To that extent, assume this might happen to you too, and lay some foundations now just in case.
As an American that avoids sugar like the toxin it is I agree. The food manufacturers put it in everything. I got an off brand of milk the other day because of the shortage, a local brand it had added sugar, I took two gulps and said "WTF". Bread it's like a staple now in baking white bread fuck it pack it with sugar from corn. Pizza make %50 of the sauce sugar. Drinks, would you like 100MG of liquid sugars in every $5 bottle? Coffee: Have some bean filtered water with that Mocha sugar sludge.
> A low ping to a server won't help too much if you have high ping to the online client itself

What? The client is the browser, running in your own machine. You can absolutely ping servers.
Developing on Slack versus Microsoft Teams
Why did you choose Slack (or Teams) platform to build your bot/app? Trying to figure out which one to pick first. Slack has a strong community but Teams now has more users and enterprise paying accounts.
> All told, EYOS Expeditions said that just seven people had reached the point before Sullivan, all of whom were men.

So she is both the first female spacewalker AND the first female Challenger Deep diver. That is really remarkable, talk about opening doors and being a role model.
As another commenter has pointed out, if your application server is in the same region as your MongoDB Atlas deployment, you're not paying for transfer to your application tier.

You'd only have to worry about outbound data transfer from your app servers to the internet.
Nice job dehumanizing anyone who doesn't benefit from the current system. In other news, poor people just need to work harder!
CS231n – Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition: Backpropagation
What I mean more is, once those devices are connected to "the network" is there a way to limit the usage of those SIMs so they could only connect to my systems, and not connect to "the internet" at large.
No, for the record I didn't use any judgement.

I also didn't say that men didn't have preferences either.

I don't think there is any disagreement so the word 'hypergamy' shouldn't be a dirty word.

However, I think the people expressing concern about female hypergamy are saying the same thing you are but that for men they might have broader taste and for women more narrow and that may lead to situations where vast swaths of men are un-dateable. I don't have any opinion on that scenario. I don't know much about it.
This is not the proper conclusion. He also started regular resistance training.

I would say one of the biggest problems is seeing weight loss as either being nutrition or fitness, when it should ALWAYS be seen as a combination.

Why? Because the goal is usually to lose fat. Without muscle stimulus, the body will include muscle in the weight loss. Muscle tissue is important long term for metabolism and other health aspects.
Good to know thanks for clarifying, and also great job on moderating, this place is a pleasure to have discussions on thanks to efforts of people like you.
I got my cat and cat accessories at the Lucky Dog Pet Shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, where he used to get his horsemeat!

https://pkdickbooks.com/pkdworld.html

When I see these stories of mine, written over three decades, I think of the Lucky Dog Pet Store. There's a good reason for that. It has to do with an aspect of not just my life, but the lives of many freelance writers. It's called poverty [........] So anyhow, there I am at the Lucky Dog Pet Store on San Pablo Avenue, In Berkley, California, in the Fifties, buying a pound of ground horsemeat.

Philip K. Dick in the introduction to the Golden Man, 1980
> if the society consumes a majority of its productive members without insuring their reproduction, then they'll be selected against.

This assumes both that productivity is heritable and that the nature of productivity is fixed. The former seems contingently true (assuming the latter), but the latter seems false, as the forms of work considered "productive" tend to shift over time.

The other Problem is the implicit assumption that "[economic] productivity is good", which is an entirely different class of argument than above.
This gives more ammunition to my hot take that degrees from elite universities don't teach you anything special.
Each Linux thread has at least an 8MB virtual memory overhead. I just tested it, and was able to create one million coroutines in a few seconds and with a few hundred megabytes of overhead in Python. If I created just one thousand threads, it would take possibly 8 gigs of memory.
This is interesting to me as a Clojure person - you would be approximately the first person I've seen using core.typed since CircleCI's post in 2015 discussing why it didn't work for them. Are you using more modern versions of core.typed? What's the experience like these days?
If it didn't go away, did you really stop believing in it?
I think its definitely possible, the problem is that after 10 years experience you dont really get much better which caps your salary. My earnings peaked when I was 35 and have gone sideways even shrunk since then. You also have to keep learning - which is a bigger time sink than you think.

Looking back I'm happy but feel like going management route makes more sense and I should have been braver. However there aren't so many management roles either.
Some "real" payment terminals are also suspectible to customer misuse. There have been many cases of customers issuing "refunds" of thousands of euros to themselves when they were supposed to be inputting their PIN - easier if the terminal is out of sight of the seller - e.g. in a car at a drive-in:

(all in Finnish)

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9966606

https://www.is.fi/tampereen-seutu/art-2000006461066.html

https://mikkeli.datagroup.fi/fi/asiakkaille/blogi/haikailema...

https://www.is.fi/digitoday/tietoturva/art-2000005178637.htm...
PayPal has been shady long enough to lose the benefit of the doubt.
Collective problems require collective action. We aren’t born into a just or meritocratic world, but one defined by the wealthy and powerful, who themselves form blocs to defend their interests. You can certainly try to take them on by yourself, but history suggests you won’t be very successful.
It still isn't opt-out. And you still have no exact idea what is and isn't sent - only their promises.

Personally i use ancient trick that block telemetry on metered connection, and you can set LAN to be metered too via registry key.

No idea if it still works to be honest.
>But because of constant security freezes and transfer limits imposed by PayPal and its mobile payment service Venmo, the group is only able to bail out around five people— $20,000 worth of cash bail—per week.

Quite the incendiary headline for an issue of bandwidth. These payment processing companies were never designed for so many and so large transfer amounts. Vice and others expect these companies to snap their fingers and change something that otherwise would take months or years of development. Quite puzzling, especially since Venmo and PayPal are supporting these groups bailing people out, the only complaint is Venmo and PayPal are not doing it fast enough.
Apple is "preparing to announce" the switch, but haven't we heard these rumors for, well, years now? How much more reliable are these rumors now compared to a couple years ago?

I'm a little surprised to see Bloomberg basically cribbing MacRumors.

EDIT: Instantly downvoted? LOL
Microplastics running through our veins
I find it interesting that your two links seem to contradict each other.
May I recommend a movie directed by Linklater called Waking Life.

> Waking Life is a 2001 American experimental philosophical adult animated docufiction film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism.[3] It is centered on a young man who wanders through a succession of dream-like realities wherein he encounters a series of individuals who engage in insightful philosophical discussions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life