skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The income has been adjusted for inflation and inflation includes housing.

I think the difference between now and 50 years ago is that everyone wants to live in a few select dense cities where back then most of the middle class didn’t want to live in cities (especially true in the US).
Privacy (particularly medical privacy) is probably the most overrated issue of our time.

60M people die per year of preventable reasons, for example. Or the fact that we are very sensitive to extinction (single planet we are running some experiments on), another one.
> "Aboriginal people just commit more crime" is a factual statement about how many aboriginal people committing crime

The statement "people who have been abused continuously for 200 years commit more crime" might be true, and is not racist. [0]

The statement "Aboriginal people just commit more crime" is true only because Aboriginal people have been abused continuously for 200 years.

If you single out the race but leave out the cause, then the statement is clearly racist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
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If you think privacy is the major concern of most people then no offence, but you've had a pretty privileged life.

I doubt it's even the major concern of most people in Western countries due to unemployment, poverty, debt etc. let alone developing nations which have the real risk of actual famine and so on.
We use pokerstars.bet which has an option to obtain free tokens and to host a “home” game. You share your “club id” so your friends can register for and join your game. Some friends observe the game without playing. Separately, we join a zoom while playing. $20 buy in and the software allows optional buy-backs for a period.

It scales automatically to number of players so we’ve had multiple tables going at once in a game that collapse down as players are eliminated.

Pokerstars is a beast, it opens a million windows, but I gotta admit, it’s also got a million features - though once it did incorrectly decide the winning hang which left all of us scratching our heads and 1 person very upset.
No one cares what you want
I'm sorry, but this guy is a goofball. He proposes all kinds of rules but hasn't thought deeply, on a systems level, about what it means to have and enforce rules.

Rules about information are hard to define precisely and are often gamed. Information rules require the government getting involved in information transfers at a very deep level. It opens up society to all kinds of more serious threats in regards to civil liberties and totalitarianism.

Its very easy to say "we should have rules to do XYZ". Its much harder to say what those rules should be and figure out how to prevent those rules from creating ambiguity that enriches lawyers and impoverishes everyone else.

Everyone wants to make rules with good intensions but they are too arrogant to understand the systems implications of such endeavors. Everything has unpredictable second order effects, and OP is totally clueless. He should first work on some cross border applications that implicate user data and then he should make posts on the Internet about privacy.
and memory tricked me. Whitespace doesn't work for regex and quoting terminators.
Docopt exists (now, think it was originally python) for many languages including bash [0] (or perhaps it's POSIX, haven't checked).

I like it too, not least because I can use ~the same thing in multiple languages and not have to remind myself how the arg parser for language X works each time.

[0] - https://github.com/docopt/docopts
> Developers are responsible for releasing updates, not flatpak.

That's what distribution maintainers do.

> They are not trying to be more secure than manually installing packages on your system.

That's downgrade from distribution experience.
Exactly! It's even worse than that, because even if your parents did know how to install an ad blocker it would not solve the problem.

Data monopolies are fighting blockers, and the more they're used, the harder they fight.

Pointing the finger at your parents is totally wrong. Your parents aren't at fault, all these damned spyware companies are at fault.

This trite cliche has got to stop. It's both factually incorrect and morally unconscionable.
Fantastic read. This is the type of rare content I come to HN for (opposed to Reddit). Thank you!
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The google font issue is obviously down to you, but GitHub pages doesn't add anything that gets flagged by Privacy Badger.
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Lots of people are calling all white people racist.

White fragility is a best seller being heavily pushed by people all over America.
More detail in other comment below but we use pokerstars.bet.
I think you are conflating systemic corruption with culture.
It's unfair to blame culture as the sole instigator of said corruption.

You can tell it's not cultural by the way Greeks abroad are not known for "gaming the system".
For anybody that wants to start with pelican I had written a tutorial post about it at https://spapas.github.io/2013/10/07/pelican-static-windows/.

Also that blog is made with pelican and hosted with GitHub pages so you can see some of pelican's features. I'm using it for more than 7 years and am really happy with it (the fact that I am familiar with python and can debug some problems myself definitely helps)
In other news, the pot calls the kettle black
Oh because they are just as much gambles as the other, there are several cultures that require a distinction between gambling and investing, and many cultures that don’t and won’t try to rationalize it just so they can sleep at night.

The only reason positive expected value financial games exist is because there exist certain external cases that make them profitable almost all the time, such as inflation. But if your trade isn't sticking around for that, they aren't inherently positive expected value.

I have pity for the people that feel they need to split hairs over this.... while paying for insurance.
The Old Reader....
Fair enough, I'm not intimately familiar with how randomised algorithms are most often analysed in a very formal sense (I never saw an explicit theory of it, even though I've seen multiple more "intuitive" analyses). My point was more that there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to describe an expected runtime via O notation, whether or not that's the right way to do it in practice.

> Of course, you can also analyze randomly distributed inputs. But that's a different beast, because in practice you seldom have a good handle on those distributions.

But isn't this how it works for a hash table? It was my understanding that the actual hash function is deterministic, so there are no random choices to make - the randomness comes from the inputs; on the other hand you do have some assumptions (maybe not strictly proven) about the collision frequency, which should allow you to get a handle on the input distribution, or am I wrong?
Note that the forum for tt-rss has a category called "Gas Chamber" for hiding threads, and the maintainer actively defending this choice[1], which might or might not influence your choice. It definitely does for me.

[1]: https://community.tt-rss.org/t/a-category-named-gas-chamber/...
It's a real time trading website, so every millisecond counts.
> And who gets to decide who is an asshole?

These things are not as ill-defined as you assert. I think we can all come up with a generally agreed upon description of what it means to be an asshole. Someone who does not treat others with respect, is cruel, demeaning, etc.

> So you become more inclusive by excluding people?

An "inclusive culture" is referring specifically to the culture among the people working at an organization. The population at large includes many people who are insistent on intentionally excluding others. An "inclusive culture" has never meant "hire anyone no matter what they do!".

Don't confuse "inclusive culture" with "a culture that results from including everyone". Those are two different things.

>> Demonstrate to your employees that it is valuable to be inclusive.

> Sound like virtue signalling to me.

One of the primary roles of a leader is to signal expectations, some explicit, and some implicit. Call it what you want, the point is: a leader's subordinates will learn the bounds of acceptable and unacceptable behavior from the norms that you set.
Yep, Warren Buffet has a level of deal flow second to none.

The average person who feels that deals are few and far between doesn't feel like they are in a position to say no.
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There's a whole mix of real issues here. Number one for me is that money won't buy quality and its quality we're sorely lacking on "journalism" today.
Desktop too. At least on macOS, in both Firefox and Chrome.
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This is another interesting data point.

In 1997, it took 1,768 hours of work at the median wage to purchase a Dodge Caravan. In 2018, it took just 1,396 hours of work at the current median wage.

In 1997, it took 1,565 hours of work at the median wage to purchase a Toyota Camry. In 2018, it took just 1,258 hours of work at the current median wage.

Also, not only do you work fewer hours today than 20 years ago, the car you get is of higher quality / safety.

https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1230516154281553920
It's something you'll see in pretty much every disfavored group: people will attempt to push themselves up by pushing the others down. They'll say "I'm not like other X", reinforcing the idea that X actually does whatever bad things you imagine they do, and deserves to be looked down on.

They usually don't even recognize that that's what they're implying. They merely want to set themselves up as worthwhile and ask not to be pre-judged. But collectively, you get "crab mentality" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality).
Do you think Japan is a decade ahead of Singapore as well?

If anything, I always have the impression Singapore is ahead of the rest of the world in many respects.

(Not in all respect. Not in cycling or craft beer.)
I looked at the video and it seemed fine. Only problem is that complete rookies were watching it too.

I hang out in some rookie forums and it seems like every other day someone posts a snippet and I find that they have used foo/bar somewhere in the code without realizing it was supposed to be a placeholder. CWH made a tutorial on how to get some text from your computer into an open source repository and that is commendable, but his viewers have forgotten to do the bit where they actually produce content worth merging and that is not his fault.
I took am automotive technology class in highschool and my teacher was amazing at teaching students the art diagnostics and troubleshooting. The skills I learned from that teacher did far more to get me where I am today in my career (started out at the bottom ring of IT Support and have since moved up through Sysadmin roles and now in the dev process automation game) than any other class.
> You could then host the font on your own site.

Only if you have a licence for it — font licences are typically prohibitively expensive for individuals' use.
Let me put it this way: if you were to create a Venn diagram of habitual drug and alcohol users and people who get incarcerated, 90+% of the incarcerated people would also be in the habitual users circle.

I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but that's not the argument I'm making here.
Their server and/or your client might not be setup for session reuse. Definitely a thing to check.
In an organization that size there should be a whole team of internal experts as well as independent, external customer and product research resources devoted to understanding customer needs and desires. Those needs should be researched and matched up to projected solutions within your product.

Those high level solutions should be articulated in a feature roadmap. If appropriate product research has been conducted you will have explored the problem and potential features in depth with customer interviews, focus groups and broader survey customer research to gauge impact on customer retention, license upgrades and then extended that research to understand impact on acquiring new customers.

As an engineer with a feature idea find a way to get it on the radar of that product research team so they can see about validating it with customers.

Having been a professional researcher doing exactly that kind of validation at one point, and now doing a fair amount of development, I have come to believe that building a sandboxed prototype is better than just trying to describe the conceptualized feature. But be careful not to invest too much, time, money or emotional commitment in the prototype. Get it in front of customers for reaction as soon as possible.

If you want more examples and stories feel free to reach out.
This is good research (I presume) but poor quality news. (Like most medical news, but covid really made a focus on it). Obviously covid can do a lot of terrible things. What matters for the public is overall balance of factors and meaningful concrete lifestyle and policy choices based on those, not these single small pieces of info.
That's a valuable tip, thanks. I will look into the LB config if there is anything cache-related.
However, the article's topic verbatim states privavy is "the most important", which makes it an either-or statement by the very nature of a superlative.

The person you replied to did in no way say privacy is not also important, but rightfully pointed out that the survival of life on the planet is more important than privacy.

If anything this says two things:

- superlatives are overused

- just because superlatives are overused doesn't mean we should ignore their semantics
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Your stats are basically gonna look the same as the housing map but they're gonna be skewed by four-ish factors.

Vehicles are much more liquid than housing. You can't load freight trains full of land and ship them to an auction across the country where used land dealers buy them for resale.

Since the 1950s many states have adopted laws (and some states have adopted, repealed and re-adopted) and practices with the effect of increasing the price point of the "minimum viable shitbox". The bottom of the market is just a ton higher in some states than others. It's like how you can't buy a mobile home in Manhatten but with cars.

Used car dealers compete with exporters for cars. If Brazil (or wheverver) has an economic boom they remove used cars from the market in places like the US and Canada increasing cost.

The qualities of a new car and the life-cycle of a car has changed dramatically since the 1950s whereas houses are fundamentally just land prices plus some (with the "some" being a reflection of developers saying "well if I'm gonna buy this expensive-ass land I might as well put an expensive-ass McMansion on it)

Alternative (mostly public) transit options in various places has waxed and waned since the 1950s.

So yes, you could use cars for your point of comparison but you'd basically get the same thing as with housing but with the added downside of more variables to control for any time you want to make a cross-time or cross-location comparison with the data.
Which is the opposite of what a lot of successful people do right - they take loads of risks. It feels as though when you take risks and put yourself out there you deserve the rewards (but I would say this isn't really true either). If you have millions of opportunities like Buffet does of course this statement makes a lot of sense.

I don't think applying Warren Buffet's aphorisms to life is a replicable strategy for success. Like most things making your own path is more important than even being successful in the terms that are important to Buffet or whoever really.
It's all the same incestuous group of agencies and contractors to me. He was employed by the NSA or CIA (Dell, 2009 or 2011) when he found the report and made his decision. Yeah, he changed positions (and contracting agencies) to collect additional data. He had already long since sworn his oath and received his clearance.

Sure, he likely signed a new contract with BAH. If that's where the line between ethical and unethical behavior is located, I guess my worldview needs calibration.

I see you've been downvoted. I upvoted your comment, since you posted a factual link and contributed to the discussion.
I wonder how the perceptual distortions of time that some psychedelics can cause play in with this hypothesis. Psilocybin mushrooms, in particular, can make time seem to pass incredibly slowly. They do have a tendency to make things more interesting and salient than usual which would tie nicely into the presented hypothesis. Though they could also just directly cause neural fatigue as well. There could also be another mechanism at play.
That could describe any country. Certainly Greece, India and Brazil wouldn't make it to the top of my list of countries I'd expect to see described that way.
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> You are likening a nation of humans to a fictional alien species?

If you don't like it, talk to Gene Roddenberry. In ST:TOS the Klingons (IIRC) were used as a stand in for the Soviets:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon#Conception

* https://www.history.com/news/star-trek-series-episodes-vietn...

Or you could view it as the anthropomorphization of the vice of greed or stinginess/miserliness/parsimony.
100ms becomes significant if you're doing teleconferencing or other real time interaction. If we somehow improved latency and jitter on the internet generally, I think that'd do more to improve its usefulness than expanding bandwidth.
And don't forget about the studies out there that show a relationship between load time and revenue in e-commerce: "A 100ms decrease in checkout page load speed amounted to a 1.55% increase in session-based conversion."
The problem is that this takes time. On one PR, sure, okay. But if you have 50 of the spammy PRs, even with Copy and Paste, this will take several minutes (maybe up to an hour, depending) of a maintainers day (and really, per day, however long Hacktoberfest goes on). That's time that they're not spending coding or updating docs in a valid way or spending with family. It would probably be tenable if there were some heuristic that was 100% certain that this was a spammy PR, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
Bo Burnham says the same thing. He’s talented and taking advice from him is akin to following the advice of buying lottery tickets.
I'm not saying it is, I'm saying this is what it feels like for him and that I can understand the feeling.

Also, flatpak doesn't only compete with "AppImage or just running random binaries you find or compiling it yourself". It competes with the package manager, that has worked well for decades. The package manager has issues as well.

Maybe from the authors perspective it looks like everyone wants to throw away the package managers because of some issue they have, instead of tackling these issues. If he then points out the flaws in flatpak, people say "sure it has some issue we need to fix".
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> Do Swiss people also feel shame of being patriotic?
As usual, it depends. Myself? Yes. Patriotism is uncomfortable for me. I live in an awesome country and am glad to live here. But waving flags, being proud of old traditions and partaking in them is not really what I like. But I'm a city kid, my friends who live in more rural places are way more patriotic than me. It could be the usual pattern of people in cities being more left-leaning, and left-leaning somehow not being that patriotic. That's just my impression, maybe that's way off.

> As an outsider, we see Swiss flags advertised on pretty much every Swiss company, product and service. [...]
Yes, that's actually where I get kinda patriotic. It feels flattering that the whole world likes our watches, chocolates and just swiss products in general. So a "Made in Switzerland" label and a little, square swiss flag gives the impression and guarantee that a product is of good quality. Not everything is shiny though - A "friend" of mine sells T-Shirts which are "Made in Switzerland". They are produced and printed in Czechia, but because he applies his labels and packaging in Switzerland, he's able to market and sell them as a swiss product. Pretty messed up if you ask me, lol.

> What, if any, are the views about anti-patriotism that is exemplified by Germans. Hardly see German flags and patriotism there seems to be muted if not outright rejected. Is there any sort of friction?
Germany absolutely tries to mute patriotism, and as far I know that is still because of a certain dude called Hitler and his friends. The Nazis were of course ultra-patriotic and as far fetched as this may sound - Germanys history is quite awkward in that regard.
My parents told me that it was strange to see Germany wave their flags and being proud of their country during the Soccer World Cup of 2006. It wasn't strange for my parents because it made them feel uneasy, but because it was new for germans to show patriotism again. But as I said, that wasn't bad at all, and I or anyone I know doesn't hold any grudge against them. Due to us being able to speak their language, they feel like our big, ex-junkie brother who's got his shit together compared to a couple of centuries ago.
The AfD being as present as they are worry me, though.

As a disclaimer, take what I say with a grain of salt :) Of course I am not the voice of Switzerland, and my answers were probably influenced a bit by my own ethics and ideologies. But feel free to ask any questions, they weren't uncomfortable at all, in the contrary.
Well, I can't argue against what you're saying in your sub-comment here, Google is a for-profit service and provides traffic to other sites, and it's entirely optional via robots.txt whether people want to participate in being indexed.

The problem enters with the insidious tracking that Google uses, that pushes their revenue per 1000 searches to way above any other search provider, alongside their monopoly position in many countries that allows them to be the default search choice in pretty much every major browser and device that's going to search for anything.

Instead of being the agnostic middle-man as search used to be, Google is encroaching on publishers ability to be sustainable propositions, all the while taking their content.

In the UK, Google has 95% of the search market, and 50% of content discovery is via search (sorry, no source at hand). Basically the choice of publishers is to cut off their arm while content aggregators suck the value from their unique content. It's not exactly an elevator pitch to prove the point, but there's countless parties that have elaborated along these lines.

Surely there is room for a search engine purely to point you to other places on the web, is where I stand. Google serving news is just them providing a reason for you to load up google.com rather than any other place, which clearly they've massively succeeded in doing, being a portal rather than a middle man.
But racist? You're going to have to spell that one out for me.

Laws are written by human beings. In the US, a lot of laws were written with explicitly racist goals of denying certain groups equal access. We are still living with that legacy in myriad ways.

If you write laws designed to target certain groups and land them in jail, don't be all shocked when a lot of those folks wind up in jail. And then, yes, "x group just commits more crimes" is a racist statement because it glosses over the context that the "crimes" they commit are "crimes" invented by White power holders to intentionally deny such people rights.