skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We find that the initially high economic return to applied STEM degrees declines by more than 50 percent in the first decade of working life. This coincides with a rapid exit of college graduates from STEM occupations. Using detailed job vacancy data, we show that STEM jobs change especially quickly over time, leading to flatter age-earnings profiles as the skills of older cohorts became obsolete."
Wow.. it finally makes sense why I binge on hacker news.

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well I am going with, paying more attention to children regardless of skill, hobby, or whatnot, improves their results across the board.

Each time I read a story about how doing X improves a child's ability I simply think, well yeah, paying more attention to them does that.
You might take a look at openSUSE Leap. I use the rolling update variant Tumbleweed for my laptops. But my feeling is that they are working hard to find the sweet spot between stable and bleeding edge.
RDF, SPARQL and Linked Data are standards for interchange. They don't care about the underlying technology, you could definitely expose a relational SQL database using a Linked Data endpoint.
No idea. I’m not an expert.

My physics intuition says that air filter is almost equally effective whereever it is (your mouth or another person’s mouth). It depends on the details though - how big the virus is? How far does it travel? How much of it comes out “dry” vs in water droplets? How big are these water droplets? What’s the distance it can travel in a droplet vs “dry”? And so on and so on. My prior says that eyes aren’t a big transmission factor (as the virus has particular affinity towards lung cell receptors) and that the only way that mask efficiency is radically different depending on who’s wearing it is, if the virus is mostly exhaled in water droplets and most of them evaporate in the next 1-2 meters (so when you inhale through a mask, it doesn’t filter the tiny virus particles, whereas exhaling into a mask does filter the less tiny water droplets).

But the bigger point is, it doesn’t matter. Masks can help, and that should be enough to make a decision, like a general rule or recommendation to wear masks (or face coverings).
Obviously, perfect stability and perfectly up-to-date packages are not possible, but I think Ubuntu LTS is a good compromise. I've used Arch (which I enjoy using to improve my understanding of Linux w/their excellent docs), Debian, Fedora, OpenBSD, etc and I always find myself going back to Ubuntu LTS for my work machine.

Lots of projects also put out PPAs with frequent releases for Ubuntu, which are ideal if you need the very latest and greatest. Just realize that you're relinquishing root access to every PPA you add, so be very careful whose PPAs you install, and try to limit them to the extent possible (same applies to any apt repo, obviously).
I have great respect for Stephen Diehl and love his writing. But I must respectfully disagree. I think it’s fantastic that Haskell is seeing more paying jobs and corporate sponsored development thanks to crypto, and indeed Haskell can help reduce fraud in cryptocurrency, like what happened with the Ethereum’s DAO.

The comparisons of crypto that he makes to frontier banks are interesting but IMHO profoundly misguided. Crypto is not a fad; it is here to stay (or at least for some currencies!). He may disagree but it’s hard to imagine bitcoin disappearing in the next decade.

I see the challenge more about what excites the current, established Haskell community (linear types! Freer monads!) vs the corporate community, who want maintainable and forward compatible code. Crypto companies could conceivably resist the traditionally fast pace of GHC development. Indeed, a lot of money rides on there being no exploitable bugs.

For all my respect of Stephen and his tremendous technical expertise, I’m disappointed to see this argument being leveled as an armchair economist condemning his peer’s work on moral grounds. I think a different, equally rational person could look at crypto and see a future in it, and I don’t think we should cast aside people for having different future expectations.

Disclosure: I am an investor in Kadena, a blockchain implemented in Haskell
Way before than that. It sounds easy in theory but it was amazing how their platform auto moderated content. People used to go around finding new ways like clipping the video frame and adding unrelated content. Slowing down video, audio etc.
Wow this site is very well done. The amount of filters on the search page is insane. Also love the look and fast loading. Clearly a lot of hard work must have been put to make this. Congrats on the launch and I wish you all the best.

P.S. Just out of curiosity, what's the business model for this site?
> as one cannot guarantee the server that downloads games will work in 10 years

While true, the pain point with Stadia is you have no downloads, for better and for worse. If Nintendo take their download servers down, you can still play all of your downloaded purchases.

On that note, I have much more faith in Nintendo's future handling of digital purchases this time around. They've put a lot more effort into the Switch's digital services compared to the Wii, which at times felt like an afterthought with the whole "WiiWare" artificial gatekeeping fiasco.
I would add the following points:

4. Funding - How are you going to fund UBI today? How are you going to fund UBI through a global recession, war or global pandemic? Given the hard choice of continuing to pay UBI or keeping a key economic contributor from collapsing, which will you pick?

What will you do if people generally take the option to not work? In the UK, I believe we now have some fifth generation families that have never worked a day in their lives, and it's not clear how to motivate them to work with the safety net providing enough money for the small number of luxury items they enjoy.

5. Protection - Social wealth-fare systems need to be protected from outside influences. It's not feasible to import all the poor people from across the globe and pay them all a decent living allowance, the economy simply cannot support it. This will in turn have some knock-on effect for immigration policies.

6. Acceptance - When social systems such as the NHS (socialist healthcare) and a form of basic income (for those not working) were introduced in the UK, people were ashamed to use them. Gradually attitudes towards these systems changed, from shame, to general acceptance to expecting. Where people originally begrudgingly took money from the government to see them through hard times, but now consider it as a viable income to replace working. I would imagine the same to be true of UBI. As social attitudes towards UBI relax, I would expect to see unemployment increase.

7. Tax - You're going to fund this through taxes, which will mean increasing taxes on the rich. This will provide a higher incentive for them to avoid paying taxes. The result of implementing UBI could be to drive your 1% away. Also, as with the current tax-brackets (taxes based on incomes), people are dis-incentivized to work towards a promotion as the work-load increase doesn't increase linearly with income after tax.

I think Europe will have to think very hard about some of these questions, I would consider the coronavirus to have provided an unintentional opportunity to observe how such a situation may unfold.
Frigate birds also spend most of their lives aloft. They struggle to take off if they land on solid ground or water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigatebird
What studies show that exercise makes children smarter?
Emails show Mark Zuckerberg feared startups were building faster than FB in 2012
> whereas in such an application you would probably prefer it to scroll one column horizontally or one row (though maybe more than one) vertically.

But isn't this exactly what element.scrollIntoView() is supposed to be for?

Native scrollbars, styled with scrollbar-width and textareas resizing with cols attribute is pretty straight forward if you do the box-sizing right.
I've only ever watched SPARK Ada from afar and never written code using it, so keep in mind that my comment might be a bit one-sided.

I doubt Dafny will have native targets (which I assume is a prerequisite for the "critical-systems" work you're talking about) any time soon if ever. There's just not enough resources behind it. AFAICT, basically all the development, Stack Overflow answering, etc. is all powered by a single dude (Rustan Leino). So I don't think it'll be competing in the same space as SPARK Ada any time soon simply due to resource availability.

Nonetheless Dafny as a language is, I think, strictly more expressive than SPARK. For example, Dafny's functions (vs methods) allow for the very nice expression of arithmetic invariants that I don't think SPARK supports (look at the Fibonacci example in the online tutorial here: https://rise4fun.com/Dafny/tutorial that has the standard mathematical definition of Fibonacci numbers as a function and then implements it as a method).
haha thanks! It's the first time I heard someone described in this way (justin.tv + github).

The platform is still very young, 4 months old. I am trying to bring more features into it. Audio update is the next thing.
How is clothing free? Last time I checked I paid 50 bucks for a shirt. Food is cheap and no one cares if you waste it.
Wouldn't this give other companies in other countries (who thereby can't be split up) more power and prominence?
Everyone does better at IQ tests if they repeatedly practice IQ tests. A lot of those rely on you being fast at identifying a repeating pattern but there's only a finite amount of them. You can learn a few of the complex ones that are harder for you and bruteforce a sequence into fitting it, and anyone can do that.
Ski resorts push lift-ticket seller Liftopia toward bankruptcy
In the Evil Empire days of Microsoft, a few different people explained to me that there's a lot of populism in antitrust cases.

That through history, the monopolist really only loses once their list of friends and allies grows thin. Microsoft beat every case until a couple years after the crowd had turned on them. I don't think the crowd has turned on Google yet.

What has changed in this time is that the EU has gotten sharp teeth and quite a lot of backbone, so they end up winning cases that help us a little bit here in the States long before we get around to the same sort of conclusions.
Not everything needs an objective quantifiable measure of academic performance to make it a good thing people should know.

Even if Music may not have an affect on academic performance or cognitive skills, it's still a fun skill. Most primary school programs introduce kids to basic music reading, singing, and simple instruments. Some kids like it and enroll in more music programs. Some kids say it's not for them and do other things. But it's nice to give kids that introduction and those options.

If you like music, it can provides decades of enjoyment to learn how to play. It doesn't make you better than people who just listen to and appreciate music, but it can enhance your happiness to be able to pick and and fiddle around with your fiddle or harmonic or guitar every once in a while.

What happened to learning just for the sake of learning and enjoyment?
I've often thought about contributing to the nano project. Having written a few editors myself I still have a passion for it. I use nano for quite a bit.
Canada and Mexico. That's not international coordination.
Apache Software Foundation 2020 Annual Report
> This is also why I pay someone to change my oil. It's a simple procedure, but the list of things that can go wrong is a list.

If you're not going to change your own oil, take it to the dealership or a mechanic that you personally trust (I doubt this exists as mechanics don't really do routine oil changes). Putting the wrong amount of wrong type of engine oil into your engine is the absolute worst thing you can do to your engine.

I encourage everyone to change their own oil. If you run full synthetic (and you should), you will save a fair amount of money. Even if the shop gives you the right weight, and right amount of oil, you're not getting premium oil, and your oil filter is likely the equivalent of an empty tin can at most Tire and Lube type places.

OEM dealerships are the only places I trust to do any kind of fluid change if I'm not doing it myself.
Or even Standard Oil:

"Rockefeller ran the company as its chairman, until his retirement in 1897. He remained the major shareholder, and in 1911, with the dissolution of the Standard Oil trust into 34 smaller companies, Rockefeller became the richest person in modern history, as the initial income of these individual enterprises proved to be much bigger than that of a single larger company."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
Speculation affects housing prices only because of development restrictions. Because only a small fraction of land can legally be developed, it's possible to corner the market for new development. If all property can be developed, there would be orders of magnitude more competitors in the development space, and impossible for an individual or cartel to control.
https://archive.is/Oyn47
about 3) whatever happened to the Server Base Boot Requirements (SBBR) and Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specs? They were supposed to standardize stuff like that.

https://developer.arm.com/architectures/platform-design/serv...
But you'll notice the companies that successfully gain value through merging are typically competitors that are able to generate more value together instead of fighting for the same profits.

The same does not seem to be true for any of the Alphabet companies, except in the sense of being able to leverage shared user data for better targeted ads. Perhaps that does make it worth it to remain one company, but it's debatable, especially for something like Waymo which likely won't benefit from having access to search data.
I would say that a major question now is not "are humans responsible", or even (merely) "what should humans do about it." The real unsettled question now is: how bad is it going to be, and when we don't know for sure, how much should we weight the various bad outcomes?

Without some understanding of this, it's really hard to know how to weigh remediation arguments. If we're facing even a small possibility of worse-than-expected outcomes (as several models are currently predicting [1]) or methane feedback loops [2], then arguments like Shellenberger's aren't really that persuasive.

Unfortunately we're barely getting to the point where a majority of Americans even accept that humans are causing this, despite the overwhelming evidence. So I'm not expecting a particularly informed debate until it's way too late.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-03/climate-m...
[2] https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-strange-methane-leak-...
I don't think it's so much that a second is more significant on the front-end. An entire second is practically an eternity on the backend.

The main difference is how much latency a typical request is likely to have.

On the backend, this optimization would frequently only save you 50 ms, because you are making a low latency call to another service that you are running in the same datacenter.
I do too, but I think this administration lost any benefit of the doubt a long time ago.

When there is enormous evidence of bad behavior it no longer makes sense to assume positive intent.
Why say "in such cases" if you're not referring to a subset of cases?
Other than just publishing a video every day to your team, what else do you have planned for this product for the future?
OK, so if I grasp this, the problem is that an EMV skimmer gets the card number and an iCVV. The bad guys make a stripe card with that number and the iCVV.

That should not work because banks are supposed to look for the iCVV only on dipped transactions, and look for the CVV on swiped transactions (and the CSC for online/telephone transactions).

Some banks apparently left out the logic of matching the type of code to the transaction method, and so using iCVV in place of CVV works for them.

Even if all banks got this right, though, it seems to me you could still get fraud. The CVV is only three digits. Once you've got the card number just make a stripe card and guess the CVV. If it fails, try another CVV. As long as you don't do too many guesses too close together and cause the bank to lock out the card, you should eventually find the right CVV.

Even if the bank is very trigger happy on fraud lockouts, if your skimmers got several thousand card numbers you are going to have many CVV guesses turn out to be right the first time.

Instead of the stripe on cards that have both EMV and stripe being just a copy of the same card that is in the EMV side of things, shouldn't they be separate? The issuing bank should issue two logical cards for the underlying account, with one being EMV only and one being stripe/online only.
Search Engines should punish sits that do this.

They put up a paywall a second after loading so bots can scrape the data and advertise their site as providing answers when really they hide it behind a paywall.
I agree and I like that meta search engines offer fuzzy search matching, because sometimes you know what you want but are not quite sure of the best keywords to use to find it.

I just wish more search engines offered an option or default setting where search results would only include exact matches.
Can you give a situation where CTEs are still a optimization barrier in Postgres?
Not sure about that... I’m just listening the Weinstein episodes (first Bret, not Eric). they’re talking about very controversial topics and going very deep - mainstream media would dismiss most of those as just “conspiracy theories” without even considering them rationally on their merits. I might be biased though, maybe those epispdes aren’t as popular as some other guests.

I think what people miss most in the “mainstream” narrative is honesty & truth.
> This can be represented in a relational database, but a lot of the queries start to become recursive.

Recursive queries are natively supported in SQL, via Common Table Expression (CTE's). It's not like a triplestore is doing anything different underneath.
I can't actually argue numbers with you, but an awful lot of owner-operated small businesses use Gmail. (And Yahoo email, for that matter!)
> You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

If your only opportunity to make friends is at work, that's a really bad situation and it should be a very high priority in your life to fix it. Get a hobby! Find a shared interest to bond over. Go on dates.

Work should not be your primary source of community.
Pichai was a PM actually.
Dulles seems really notorious for this since the article states "About $41 million was taken from travelers, or nearly a quarter of the amount seized nationwide, according to the report. Dulles only accounts for 2 percent of the nation’s air travelers."
Do you ever see places running T568A? I've never seen anything but B in 22 years of IT work.
From what I've been told they didn't. Only the founders managed to get anything out of the sales, plus took pretty lavish salaries while the company was operating (a lot of it from government subsidies).
Ad 1. Background light pollution doesn't create a sharp contrast. But it's irrelevant, since that's something so recent that it can't have any influence on this topic.

2. Where it's really dark, you can't see. Period. No amount of waiting will help.
Hey folks! co-founder here, I'm one of the people behind autoiterative.com. I did a ShowHN yesterday[1], but obviously, the blog post provokes much more engaged discussion, love it ;) I appreciate your feedback, please keep it coming and challenge our assumptions!

I will try to address the questions tomorrow, I already see some of them require a ton of thinking indeed.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23986002
Thanks, really appreciate it.

So right now we have a few features in the backlog

1. Slack / Zapier Integration
2. Ability to view historical videos
3. Transcripts & Search capabilities
4. Ability to add multiple teams
5. Broadcast messages (one-off messages that can be shared publicly outside of Grapevine).

We haven't discussed limits yet - we are being mindful of what's reasonable and how browsers will support lengthy recordings within the app.
This question is a non-starter. Of course nobody knows. Even if the startup is an astronomic amount of funding and strong growth it could still fail. One man's definition of success also drastically varies from another's.

Enjoy your life, put some money in the bank.

If you're lucky, your hard work and intellect will reward you one day. Granted, only hard work get's you a seat at the table, connections might improve the cards you're dealt.
After reading this I decided to downgrade my Ubuntu machine for now until it's figured out. There are instructions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/GRUB2Secu... under the heading "DOWNGRADE `GRUB2`/`GRUB2-SIGNED` TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION FOR RECOVERY"

Under the heading is a small shell script that will download the old debs for you. Note that for it to work and not have wget spam 404:s, you have to update the entire GRUB2_LP_URL and GRUB2_SIGNED_LP_URL to the links in the little table. At first glance it looks like you only have to change GRUB2_VERSION and GRUB2_SIGNED_VERSION.