skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The overwhelming majority of talent in financial services is working to serve paying customers and to trade legitimately and legally on financial markets.

There are occasional scams like this in financial services, just as there are occasional scams in any industry. To uniquely demonize financial services as a result is not fair.
I wouldn't use it for comparison between competitors but for vetting the service and UI/UX and implementation process I would say they are useful, if not 100% accurate. You just have to calibrate knowing that usually the most enthusiastic customers are the ones leaving reviews.
Doing revision of a book is OK. but the issue is, when we start writing a book, the version may be say 0.2, and when we release the book, the version may be 0.4. So the main thing is, the book got outdated in the release itself. So just think about our situation. Do we have motivation to write another book? I had this situation and I have changed the content of the book at the end of final edit. This is painful.
I see this a lot lately, where a product is "improved" by adding more complexity, but the additional maintenance cost is hidden from the user. It's the same with cars getting more and more software, home automation etc.
According to this, Netflix recommends at least 25mbps for 4k

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

I honestly don't really know, video encoding is not my thing.
Which implementation though? If you're only talking to yourself - you don't really need to (de)serialize to/from json - in many (most) use cases the json serializer will be different from the deserializer, and the data structure will be in a different memory model and/or runtime... And I don't think there's a standard way to tag a json document hinting that 32bits is enough, or here comes a 128 bit float?
The robots were too efficient. They could bring items so quickly that the productivity expectations for workers more than doubled

Here's an old Kiva Robotics video that shows how picking works.[1] It's an utterly mindless job. An automated laser pointer points to the bin from which to take an object. A lighted button shows which box to put it in. A new bin then moves into position, and this goes on. Training time required is about 30 seconds. Amazon liked the system and bought Kiva. The company, not just the system.

So anyone with basic eye-hand coordination can do picking, computers check that it's done right, there's no future in the job, and Amazon is trying to automate the picking process anyway. Classic assembly-line job.

[1] https://youtu.be/CWNuaPE4DTc
A VPN would prevent SNI snooping since traffic over it is encrypted. Of course, the ISP could block the TLS handshake between you and the VPN server if that's how your VPN functions.

Tor would similarly work.
My chief curiosity is, for those who (for whatever reason) remain just as poverty stricken under this plan- then what?

Are we keeping the other safety nets & layering this one on top? Or dissolving others?
>The plasma heats up, but how do you turn that into useful electrical energy?

I appreciate that many people are commenting 'you couple the plasma to a working fluid', but I think the original comment was more along the line of how you couple a confined plasma to a working fluid. By definition the plasma is in a hard vacuum, magnetically bottled. What, then, is the coupling method? Thermal photons escaping confinement? I genuinely have no idea myself, but would really like to know.
> See how silly that sounds when you change the subject to something that we know is difficult.

In what way does this sound silly? We could easily be talking about Dirac and Bohr both learning how to read, in which case "they're so smart, you couldn't possibly do anything they did" would be obvious nonsense. The point here is that exceptional people doing something doesn't imply a high bar, and

> "Being an adult" is even more open ended.

Well obviously. There's no objective test of what makes one an adult[1], so it's inherently an opinion. An adult _can_ do all of those things, though they probably shouldn't, and a big part of what makes the world shitty is down to people like this doing things and making decisions that they shouldn't be, including in the way they vote (it still boggles the mind that people think it makes sense to vote on the basis of a policy you haven't bothered to even _try_ to educate yourself on).

[1] Colloquially, obviously. The legal sense is defined fairly rigorously (though it doesn't mean quite the same thing as the colloquial sense)
Most of that was before the two tier tax system emerged, on for labor—which can not be avoided under any circumstances—and one for business owners which can actually result in negative tax rates.
I get what you are saying, but it's going to be hard to compete with the speed of a jet engine, with propellers or ducted fans.

Unless I'm mistaken? Can ducted fans match the speed of a jet engine?
They are not. The site belongs to Jamie Zawinski, who is commonly referred to as jwz. Zawinski is a well-known programmer (known for free software contributions) and current owner of the DNA Lounge.
Global society has indeed become far more efficient today than in the 1950s. That's precisely why a working class job no longer affords a middle class lifestyle.

All industrialized countries except the United States were physically destroyed by World War II. The US was the only place where any significant amount of industrial infrastructure still existed, so the US had a massive postwar economic boom as the nearly sole supplier of industrial goods as the rest of the world lay in ruins.

American workers thus enjoyed a brief period where a basic working class industrial job could pay for a middle class lifestyle, entirely due to that inefficiency.

Nowadays, things are far more equal and efficient globally. American workers no longer enjoy exclusive access to industrial infrastructure, so having a basic job once again yields only a basic lifestyle.
The inputrc change is nice, but not quite the same as what fish does.

If I type a part of a previous command in and then press the up arrow in fish it will only cycle through history records that contain that as a substring (which is really the killer part of the feature).

(Yes I know you can do similar things in bash but you have to press other keys to put it in the history search mode)
Instead of yapping about how you "deactivated your Facebook account"; maybe you should do some inner reflection on how your work directly contributes to potentially making the world a worse place to live.

I mean, this is HN after all, where the majority of users work in tech.

All these kinds of posts, in addition to recent stories of techies' in-fighting (parents vs. single techies, want the same bay area pay for moving to the Midwest, etc. etc.), really has gradually opened my eyes to what SV is all about.
We probably should be cautious reading anything about JS optimization that's 12 years old. It might have been true at the time, but now with the highly-optimized V8 engine, and a set of native methods that didn't exist back then, there's a pretty good chance there's another way to do this that's even faster.
The problem is we’re now at the point where we have mountains of code that doesn’t handle the edge cases and very little that can be done outside of being super conservative about what send an unknown JSON parser.
Is it possible to assist the plane during its take off phase? Maybe with a electric wire that supplies energy and detaches. I know it’s messy. Or maybe using something like balloon to gain altitude and then engines to cruise? Or a special battery bank that gets depleted during take off and detached + a recovery mechanism?
> Making investments is much easier than making actual things, so more people do it

A talented person will make as much money or perhaps more money in software engineering than financial services. Most people in financial services make very little money, 60k-150k being a common range.
Yes, open source is very powerful. But it is also the exception and if you want a piece of bespoke software you're likely going to have to pay someone for it. It's pretty rare that someone would say 'I need some software to do 'x'' and then magically a team of talented individuals jumps forward to say 'we will provide it for free' and will maintain it for free to boot for the rest of its service life.

Software has very little reproduction cost, but behind that function call is a lot of stuff written by people who in turn were simply paid for their work.

True altruism is rare, and even if there are lots of open source examples of exactly that that still makes it exceptional and mostly because people already wanted to write a particular piece of software.
I didn't read the paywalled article, but if there were expected to be 40.5 four-match sequences, and 48 were observed, that doesn't seem to be a problem.

A Poisson distribution (i.e., rare events limit) should approximately apply here. For a Poisson with a rate of 40.5, the standard deviation would be sqrt(40.5) ~ 6.4, so 48 counts is just over 1 standard deviation high (1.18 to be exact). Not a problem.

Especially if we were measuring k-matches, for k=2, 3, 4, and looking for an exceptional value in any of the above.
Does vertically farmed produce really taste better?
There could be a mismatch with the national statistics, but the Amazon data has rates by year and warehouse type so the upward trend is still bad. I know at the factory/distribution center I worked at once upon a time, we tracked OSHA recordables / hour.
then the judge should have been more precise because this is a night and day difference. If Windows, the operating system itself, would function as a walled garden, that is to say every developer for windows would have to shell over 30% of their revenue, we'd have started a revolution two decades ago.

Apple's app store isn't comparable to the XBox store (revenue on the apple store was 50 billion last year, compared to three on the xbox), it's comparable in reach to the Windows ecosystem overall.
I gave it a try a while back but it apparently needs IPv6 to be enabled to use its web interface. Is this still the case?
Just finished my first novel (in French); will be sending it to publishers next week. If they reject it IDK what I'll do (dump it or auto-publish).

But, I'm super happy to have done it. I wrote poems and novellas when I was younger. A complete novel is something else entirely. Even if it doesn't go anywhere, the feeling of having done it is really great.
+1 for Impossible Burgers!
> Jeff Bezos’ 14 leadership principles are famous inside and outside Amazon for vividly articulating what is expected of the company’s leaders. The first is customer obsession. “Leaders start with the customer and work backwards,” it reads.

And yet Amazon has no real interest in solving its counterfeit problem, the same way it has no real interest in solving its safety problem.

I feel like it's all PR and bullshit at this point. And I'd say the overwhelming evidence of them lying about safety reports is a pretty strong indicator of how their actions don't match their words.

This obsession with growth is metaphorically cancer. It has to grow no matter what, until the once-healthy host has long since died and all that's left is an enormous tumor.
I’m also a layperson and also a fan of the 7-X, almost on purely aesthetic grounds. The plasma shape is a beautiful twisted loop, the magnets resemble a French crueler, and with the shielding and instrumentation it has all the charm of a steampunk time machine
Great call on #2. We will be adding that onto our site. Thanks.
> It's crazy that this kind of thing is tolerated in financial markets

It's not tolerated, that's why they're being fined
No idea why you are being downvoted. This is dead on. Oreos are vegan, but it doesn’t make them healthy. I think the terms Vegetarian and Vegan are extremely misleading as most people assume that means healthy. I prefer “Whole Food, Plant Based” which would be hard to eat in an unhealthy manner.
> Bernie is not a perfect leftist, and has certainly had some shitty takes and policies; sometimes people get better (and sometimes they don't).

The wording here demonstrates deep disrespect for people whose ideas, experiences, conclusions and understanding of the world differs from your own.
I've been using fish for a long time from the 1.x branch, after a long time using bash, and tcsh before that in the 90's. Before that the primitive CMD and DOS.

I like much of what the new crew (who took it over) have done, but after installing it on a new machine recently I realized I didn't like their web configuration and some defaults. Which I almost never use, but a newbie would.

First, terminals have much improved in the last three decades. There's no obvious reason a curses-like app couldn't take the place of the web app. Configuring the shell from the web is rather gratuitous and weird IMHO.

A second, minor concern is the use of blue hues in their syntax highlighting defaults. Blue on black is rather unreadable, hard to see on its own, weakest of the colors due to eye sensitivity. It's also bad at night-time. I'd like to see a more neutral/warmer color palette for the default.

I have other nitpicks, such as their docs are not good enough on how all the types of variables work, and why you pick one or the other, for example. They moved away from the daemon, and variables no longer get propagated across shells. That was a neat feature but they removed it around the time they instituted the web server. I don't really get those design choices, but there's still no friendlier shell.
I think you're lumping contractual EULAs with technical limitations and they're not the same thing.

If I bought a system that I am technically able to install anything I want onto, I don't think courts should enforce a EULA that forbids me from doing so.

But that doesn't mean I think the courts should forbid the manufacturer from implementing technical controls to stop unapproved software from being installed.

Those are two very different things, and the courts should treat them differently.

For one, there are consumers who buy iOS devices explicitly because they are hardened against unapproved software. Comparing the amount of malware on Android with what is on iOS proves that this is not an irrational decision.

I don't choose to buy a device like that, but I don't want courts saying that companies are not legally allowed to make such devices.
> Inflation's been normal?

Actually, inflation has been very low.

> The median price of a US home has gone up 45%

The median sale price of existing homes has gone up 45%. Without knowing the profile of homes sold, it's hard to say what it means. It could just be that turnover has accelerated at the higher end of the market, or slowed at the lower end, or both (which would be consistent with basically everything I've seen about the real estate market since 2008, both in terms of direct reports and indirect influences—better lending terms but stricter qualifications to get a loan at all, for instance.)

> The US is experiencing at least 13% and practically 45% asset-price inflation over the period you referenced.

Asset-price inflation isn’t what the unqualified term inflation refers to, and aside for the fact that money supply can drive both, is otherwise driven by different forces to general inflation (both in terms of distributional and behavioral drivers.)

> I would hardly say that's "normal".

Why not? Certainly the home price measure you've chosen went up a lot less in the 12 years from the trough in 2008 that you measured from than it did in the 12 years leading up to the peak just before the downturn. Even ignoring the question of whether it's a relevant measure, by what standard is it unusually high?
Install Brew

Brew install whatever you need.

Apple is doing a decent job here. Art Student gets a very easy to use computer with a safe app store.

Comp Science student can compile and install whatever they need.
Thank you! :) I totally get it. Same with my book: a new revision of the standard (Fortran 2018) was published half-way through the writing. However, thanks to the glacial pace of the Fortran standards development, I was able to plan for the additions to the language from the start.
Great post and fantastic collection. While most of it is obvious, there are some insightful suggestions as well. Love that these are backed up by data.
I thought that this statement was sufficiently self-evident as to not require examples, anecdotal or otherwise. The comments and downvotes would suggest otherwise, so here goes a basic one.

Look at the voting registration or political donations among academics in the United States. They are skewed almost exclusively toward one party, despite the fact that the country itself is quite divided. Even arguing that it's common for a field to self-select and skew this way or that, there is an extreme political monoculture among the instructors at most U.S. universities.

Now, can one _prove_ that this leads to an insular intellectual culture there that presents one side of an issue? Probably not, that's a hard thing to prove because persuasion and beliefs are a very complex and multi-faceted topic. However, common sense would dictate that yes, when all of your instructions are aligned more or less with one part of the political spectrum the end result is a lopsided presentation of things that has the effect of indoctrinating students to the dominant political view of the instructors, even if that was never the explicit intent.

One example from my own experience. I had a public health professor who did a multi-part lecture on the evil of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. This took place over several classes resulting in about four hours of total lecture time, and included a fair amount of history. At no point during any lecture did she mention the Cuban missile crisis, i.e. the Cuban government allowing the Soviet Union to place nuclear weapons 90 miles off of the American coast, putting a large portion of the population at risk of nuclear destruction. Now I don't think this necessarily justifies the embargo, but to spend four days of class discussing the embargo on Cuban without a single mention the Cuban missile crisis is intellectually irresponsible at best, and a example of someone's personal bias worming its way into the instruction.
My house is full of CFLs.

When we moved in, I replaced all of the incandescent bulbs with CFLs because we were in that brief period where they were legitimately the best option due to being good enough and cheap enough compared to incandescent. Good LED bulbs (Cree) were still expensive enough that I would have had to drop a few hundred dollars to outfit the whole house.

Good LED bulbs are now common and cheap, and I will replace dead CFLs with them today but for now the existing CFLs work fine and only use marginally more power than LEDs.

As for disposal, I crush the bulbs in a paper bag and then huff the mercury fumes for recreation.
I use an Nvidia Shield with a GTX 1080 graphics card. The PC is wired to the router through a switch, the Shield is on 5GHz wifi, I use a wired controller. My router is an Archer C7. I feel like there's a slight but noticeable input lag when playing on TV and my framerates are a bit worse. For most games it's ok but for twitchy games, say, Furi or Dark Souls, it's annoying.

The Shield network troubleshooter tells me I have 1ms latency even on wifi but still, maybe it would be better wired. I have no easy way to run an ethernet cable to the TV.
I've certainly been following Servo, and there are bits here and there where we've tried to share infrastructure, but ultimately we're making some pretty different decisions, mainly not to base things on Web technology so much, but align more with capabilities provided by the platform.
Marcin is a type wizard. I really enjoyed this typography talk from him as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD-sjtFoEI
> the opinions are not "equal but opposite"

What does this even mean?
The point isn't to be a cynic and a nihlist, it's to become a skeptic and to be mentally trained to always read between the lines. "Critical thinking" as they said in grade school.

The cliche "if you're not paying for it, you're the product" is just the tech nerd's version of "if you don't know who the fish at the table is, you're the fish."

Folks behind the iron curtain got used to that mentality over a few decades in a time when information flowed slowly through newspapers, radio, and early TV... we're now being forced to reckon with these tricks over the course of a few years while moving at the speed of industrialized data collection, microtargeting, and engineered dopamine bursts that maximize engagement.

People living in the cold war era were at least mentally inoculated against these tricks -- in the US we've had no preparation for it. The ease with which we've turned against each other for the easy popcorn comfort of the conspiracy theory or outrage du jour is mind boggling.
Umm. Yes you do, there are literally markets for tax credits that you can buy for pennies on the dollar.
I've been using fish as my default shell for ~3 years now. The faint gray history auto-complete / search that appears when typing commands alone is a killer feature. urxvt + fish + ranger + sauce code pro font = me loving my terminal experience a ton. Thanks fish devs!
It will be for the gamers who think that 10 GB isn't enough VRAM, and as a way for nVidia to have an answer for rumors that AMD's next GPU will have 16 GB.
> who argues for limits.

+1 , want to add, almost everyone argues for limits on immigration because without limits that would be an argument for _unlimited_ immigration.

Sometimes we construe ourselves as vastly separated "islands" of ideologies, when in reality we're more like tight clusters. That is we have similar ideals, and differentiate on how to accomplish them.

For example "Help the poor" is often agreed upon, but then argued about "How to help the poor" . (Do we give them tough love and bootstraps yada yada? or Do we give them support, resources and encouragement and yada yada?).
From what I understand, it's not always the ingredients that make processed food much less nutritious. Even if it doesn't have additives and preservatives, a lot of the nutrition is stripped out during the industrial cooking processes necessary to get them to market at scale. Therefore, while they may not be more processed than their meat-based counterparts, you're still better off avoiding them in favor of whole foods, since you need more to get the same nutritional value.
> This is one of the reasons I paid the premium and went for a Sony instead

I went with the opposite approach- I paid the small bucks to buy an Avera display, and connect it to my own media box. Also, a decent soundbar, because the built-in speakers are terrible. Now I have better sound than any built-in speakers at any price, a decent display, and the best "smart" features (with no ads), all for a price much lower than a "Smart" TV.