skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's completely accurate at that macro scale. At a smaller scale of paying bills and product selection, I know trust fund adults who can save thousands using tricks poor people know; don't spend money / pay bills until it's necessary, use credit cards to defer interest, avoid pushy extras/upgrades/insurance, buy during sales, buy resellable brands, sell your phone instead of trading it in, check for new deals annually, etc.

Because of the macro skills you mentioned, they don't need to do those things. But they also don't know how to.
Yeah, this has been a good year so far. I actually pulled a decent chunk of money out early on. I'd have been better off not doing so though it probably helped me sleep better through some of the swings. And, even so, it's been a good year with almost entirely passive investing.

Of course, it's not just this year. Anyone who has been able to have a significant of money in the market over the past ten years with any reasonable diversification strategy has done more than OK--even if they've been somewhat conservative.
It was more work 5 years ago, doing 5-6-7k$

These days it is a few minutes a few times a week, doing support.
https://packetriot.com

Provides HTTP/S and TCP tunneling and is a comprehensive alternative to ngrok. I started it in Jan 2019. $4.3k ARR in 2020.
This is pretty bad journalism and just kind of meant to stoke the fire of controversy. The subpoena will most likely be dropped (as ICE would with almost certainty lose in court[1]).

The Yale Law Journal article cited does argue that even though it's worrysome that there's no federal reporter's privilege, there's plenty of precedent, including constitutional (state-level), statutory as well as common-law protections that can be invoked to throw out this kind of lawsuit.

[1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-de-facto-reporter...
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
TeX: A Tale of Two Worlds
> I know what I'm getting them for Christmas

A TV with a good panel and a separate smart stick? :D

Really, that's the best choice. Always has been.

My neighbour called me because his Google apps (particularly, Youtube) stopped working on his smart TV. It's a cheap HiSense or something.

Still on warranty, but the store won't do anything as the hardware is fine, and they say the manufacturer is responsible for software updates. Which have stopped coming.

I'm pretty sure he didn't quite understand my "apps are Google property and they need to be updated every few months but this company stopped doing that" explanation, but anyway, he now has a dumb TV in the kitchen, and he specifically bought it so the wife could find recipes online, log in to Facebook and watch Youtube.

I told him to just get an Android computer stick, which will work just as well and last way longer. At the very least, it can be manually updated, unlike the built-in software.
This classic historical literature is well worth reading
Do you use the Magrittr pipes? Works well with data.table for me.
> "clamshell mode"

Yeah, that particular phrase kind of irks me. Most people who don't use Apple products simply call that 'with the lid closed.'
What matters is the reason that it's not knowable. Some things are knowable in principle but not in practice because of technological or economic constraints, like whether or not there are life-supporting planets in the Andromeda galaxy. But in principle, if you could build a big enough telescope, you could know. Quantum experiments are not predictable even in principle. Even with arbitrarily advanced technology and unlimited resources, you can never know the outcome of a quantum experiment (assuming QM is correct, of course). That is an operational definition of the idea that the information required to predict a quantum experiment does not exist in our universe.
If you try to speak a protocol which is not yours.
It's sort of a form of the paradox of tolerance. If there is no moderation, the least pleasant/most abrasive people will drag the quality of discussion down, and drive everyone else away. That's not to say I agree with the conclusions of the author of the blog post
There are certainly groups were People are uncomfortable unless everyone is a dick.
I highly recommend that anyone who buys IoT devices, including smart TVs, gets a router or access point that supports multiple SSIDs and VLANS.

You can segregate your IoT devices from the rest of your stuff. You can even give a VLAN per device if you really want to, although it's probably not worth the effort.

I have 3 VLANs: one for my home network where my computers are, one for my security system, and one for the rest of my IoT devices. I don't even trust my Roomba on my home network!

I have a Unifi Dream Machine, but there are a few other consumer products that can achieve this kind of setup. If you have basic knowledge of how to use a computer, you can follow some YouTube tutorials about how to set up VLANs and firewall most of your devices from reaching your home computers.
My ISP in the UK returns NXDOMAIN for records pointing to 10. ips. I had to go through a lengthy process to have that issue fixed with them. Their support had no idea, and was trying to tell me it's nothing to do with them.
Yes, competing "one level up" is a nice short way of puting it.
Totally unrelated since I can't access the website, but one thing that I'd like to see in a typing system used in data analysis is to be able to see the dimension of the data structures used. For instance, to be able to tell at compile time if a matrix multiplication is going to crash due to dimension mismatch.

So far, in Python at least, at best I can tell that it's a float array, without specifying the dimension (for example 2d for a matrix) or better, specifying its dimension is (n,p) where n and p are both type variables.
Working around Chrome's bugs just disincentivizes Google from fixing them.
Habits. Haven't updated my CSS skills as much as I would've wanted along the years. I'm mostly writing CSS like it's year 2010.
But people do want to reinvent Java in all their programming languages.
Well, considering politics during your thinking is quite important, as often you can't get a correct answer (e.g. to why a thing is certain way or why a potentially promising course of action is actually unlikely to succeed) without taking politics into account.

In most cases where you'd want to convince others about something, the political connotations of various arguments matter just as much (or even more) as how sound these arguments are logically.

Obviously, there are certain avenues of thinking where we'd want to perform a pure rational, impartial analysis while explicitly disregarding any politics. However, that's a minority of the cases, and even then when trying to communicate that analysis, politics becomes relevant once again. Even the desire to carefully describe a particular analysis as apolitical is driven by political motivations i.e. to make that analysis more convincing to others with different political alignment.

As Aristotle said, "Man is by nature a social animal" - it makes all sense that our default mode of thinking and the associated decisionmaking shortcuts are heavily driven by social and political aspects, because in many circumstances the social impact and political perception of some statement is more important than whether it's technically true.
They can, but they will lack features like vacation mode, cleaning mode, fault sensors, and door ajar audio notification.
It's not binding, but it's a hint they may listen to where you can say things like if there's a certain URL structure where your server would keep serving content infinitely and just waste the crawlers time and resources, you can hint to them they maybe they should avoid certain URLs, but hey if they wanna waste their resources crawling that anyway be my guest!
Hacking a consistent workout routine during Covid
it's been harder than ever to devote time and energy away from building companies, especially during COVID, but I have found some success with focusing on "getting there" 2x per week as it relates to cardio & resistance training
Individuals will retain the freedom to speak even if we shutdown social networks.

That's the point you are missing.

> whatever you're doing isn't making the world better.

Imagine what a nation founded to avoid taxation and that became a superpower by securing resources in half of the World by starting wars or supporting dictators that committed genocides is doing to make the World better...
> Most humans in a matter of a few hours can operate any multi-ton vehicle in most weather anywhere in the world.

I was shocked at how easy it was to rent a car (with insurance!) in a country that drives on the other side of the road, and how not inept I was at driving like that. It's still a little nerve-racking.
The next few years will be a very interesting time in global markets, so whichever way it goes, I'm sure you'll have something to write about. ;-)
As a minority growing up in a developing world with actual problems, I never once even heard of these "waters" until immigrating to the most wealthy & powerful country in the world.

Such is the product of a country which hasn't had any real problems in half a century.
What good is it to be aware of the propaganda if no one gets to act and defend the values they seem worthy of protection?

Take the Hong Kong situation. If "highinfo/curious" chinese people in mainland China look at it and just repeat the Party line of "they are just troublemakers" instead of supporting them as loudly and as effectively as they can, then all this awareness of being fed propaganda is as good as nothing.

I mean, you are actually parroting the bullshit about concentration camps being about "integrating minorities". Minorities that are being tortured and brainwashed into submission are not "integrated", just destroyed while keeping a shell of the people to show around.
IMO it should be like Fennel and just support `lambda` and `λ`. The latter is not even that hard to type, in virtually any free (libre) OS you can just

$ echo '
<Multi_key> <Y> <Y> : "Λ" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
<Multi_key> <y> <y> : "λ" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
' >> ~/.XCompose

If you’re limited by a nonfree OS you should be able to patch the problem with free duct tape like Karabiner or AutoHotKey.

And in vim you can just

<C-K>*l

in insert mode (which can be done with option-l on macOS if you `inoremap ¬ <C-K>*l` https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/230422/type-lambda...).
They said IBKR. Margin rates here: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1595

Subject to change at any time, but 1.59% per annum up to $100k, 1.09% up to $1M, and 0.75% after that. Lower rates in some other currencies.
(founder of Dgraph Labs here)

Hasura is a great product, but it is a GraphQL layer on top of Postgres. So, what you need to do to use Hasura is to first lay out all the tables in Postgres, and then map those table schemas to GraphQL schema. Any changes to the schema would then need to be applied first to the Postgres instance, and then brought back to Hasura. Of course, Hasura has benefits in that if you're already on Postgres and don't want to move to another DB, then it makes for an easy adoption.

Dgraph works very differently. It's a native GraphQL database. You set the GraphQL schema directly. Any changes are done within the GraphQL schema itself, and the database figures out how to serve that best. Not to mention, the database is optimized for running GraphQL queries, so fast joins, traversals and so on coming directly from the storage layer. Not to mention it scales as your data size grows without needing to do data denormalization.

Overall, app iteration can be much faster with Dgraph.
> it's flawlessly undetectable in terms of brightness -- the interface white and grays don't change at all.

In order to pull this off, you need to know exactly how many nits bright the display is, as well as having complete software control of the actual hardware brightness. On Windows, you have neither. Enabling HDR mode completely throws off your current colors and desktop brightness and you have to reset both your physical monitor settings and dial in the new desktop white point with a software slider Microsoft buried in the advanced HDR settings (that almost nobody knows how to use) to hopefully be somewhere in the vicinity of what you had before.

When it comes to display technology, having vertical integration is a huge benefit. Look at high-DPI: state-of-art on Windows in 2020 is nowhere near as good from a software implementation or actual user experience point of view as it was on day 1 when Apple introduced Retina MacBooks back in 2012.
> I never spent even remotely as much money on a display, so I cannot speak from first-hand experience.

Translation: I don't understand this display.

> But a quick search for graphics-design displays yields several competitor products that have similar or better specs, at generally even lower price tags.

Translation: Despite my lack of knowledge, I feel qualified to say Apple sucks.

Typical HN.
Otherwise known as the Great Conjunction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction
I used to think like you then I realized is not that non smart TVs are better, but that no one is making smart TV non shitty.

Underpowered hardware running a non-optimized version of android...or worse.

If things weren’t done so badly, a unique interface would definitely be the way to go.
Any service they have Enterprise contracts for they are extremely unlikely to shut down.
In addition to that, while Kepler was lecturing on the Great Conjunction he was drawing the trigon [1] which shows how the locations of Great Conjunctions change over time. This drawing (consisting of a triangle inscribed inside a circle that gets shifted over time), inspired him to pursue the idea that the distances to the planets were determined by polygons of different shapes inscribed in circles. This didn't work, so he moved on to Platonic solids, which worked better, but still not perfectly. Eventually this pursuit lead him to the idea of describing the planetary orbits by ellipses.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#/media/File:...
Roughly $350/mo at this point, and I’d love to 10x it this coming year.

I have an Etsy business that I set up last year that doesn’t require much input from me and uses third party fulfillment. I average about 30 sales per month including the holiday season and about $10/order profit.

Dividend stocks currently pay around $50/mo, which buys more stock every time (DRIP), so that should increase nicely over the next 30-40 years. I also buy more on a regular basis, but that does take some effort/research on my part.

I’ll leave out stock, bond and mutual fund growth on its own since that’s not really income per se.

I’m also working on a YouTube channel that I just started last month. It doesn’t even have 10 subscribers but I do point people to product recommendations, which has already gotten me a $45 referral payout. Could be a fluke, but I’m in it for the long term, so we shall see.
Agreed, but I highly recommend checking out nbdev.

It's used to build all of fastai's libraries, and with nbdev, the notebooks ARE the docs and tests.

I use pytest and standard IDE for most projects, but have used nbdev/jupyter on a few work projects and been astounded at the productivity boost.

Git issues with notebooks, producing pip modules, two way syncing between notebooks and code, if there is a problem that naked jupyter has for development, Jeremy Howard and team have solved it with nbdev.

Check it out.
The most common case I’ve hit issues is the remote server is down or blocked but the connection hasn’t yet terminated so exit is no longer possible.
Right, but how much of that would be affected by policies like these? I guarantee you this won’t happen in rural or suburban areas, and even in urban areas, presumably a good portion of that 10% is public transit, taxis, ride share, etc which wouldn’t be affected. Never mind the fact that these policies will only reduce (not eliminate) urbanites driving to work. As ideal as it may be, America isn’t going to completely overhaul its infrastructure to be more European in just a few decades. It will probably move incrementally in that direction, but the bulk of the commuter emissions problem is certainly going to be addressed by making commuter vehicles more efficient (e.g., electric).
A question unrelated to the post ..
Why would you say that the mounting system doesn't make sense in Android? Not rebuking what you said, just want to understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem says:

> In the vernacular of Einstein: locality meant no instantaneous ("spooky") action at a distance; realism meant the moon is there even when not being observed.

That's not what you said. MWI is a realist model; in fact, there's an argument that it's realism turned up to 11.
"There is a principal which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance – That principle is contempt prior to investigation.” -- Herbert Spencer

I find that breaking the habit of being quick to judge leads to open-mindedness. This is also a tenet of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - your first thought and subsequent feelings that arise from that thought are often wrong.
All of the "key features" of this TV are what I want to avoid though. Maybe not as bad a consumer TV, but not that great either:

Content Management/Group Management
SuperSign Control Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Wake-on-LAN
Crestron Connected® (Network Based Control)
I'm guessing just a shift in priorities. People felt panicked when COVID hit, and I imagine for most of them, learning about a new diet wasn't the most important thing.

Also, in some places, there were food panics, so people might have been less interested in buying keto groceries, as keto's heavy on meats, cheeses, and other things that spoil quickly.
I think it’s very true that availability and norms will have a lot to do with drug use, and heroin often doesn’t give a second chance to people who are experimenting.

However the with regard to the idea of ‘deep seated issues’ affecting addiction, I believe this is also true.

We have communities here that provide the opportunity for perfect control of substances - they’re remote and access to them is strictly controlled.

There was widespread alcohol addiction in these places. So alcohol was banned, and these places became ‘dry’ communities.

Lacking alcohol, the people turned to inhaling petrol fumes, which created a large social problem.

Eventually, an ‘un-sniffable’ petrol was created to solve this problem. Then the people turned to paint and glue.

It’s recognized that the people in those communities have suffered a deep, inter-generational trauma, which is what drives people to seek ‘numbing’ relief from substances.

However, it’s the belief that reducing availability of substances will solve substance abuse that’s kept the fundamental problems these people have, from being addressed.
> If it did, nurses [...] would be millionaires (there's a shortage of both and they provide high value to society)

I know the situation in Germany will be quite different to that in the US, but the reason we have a shortage of nurses is that the pay is not decided on supply and demand in order to have enough of them, but rather as a political decision.

> The law of supply and demand also doesn't explain or account for things like race/gender pay gaps, monopsonies, and collusion.

I'll mostly (but not completely) agree here. Humans are never fully rational, and that irrationality is certainly a relevant element.

> employment is very sticky

Of course it is. Teaching an employee on your systems/way of working costs money and is an element in the decision of whether or not to hire an employee. This decision affects demand and therefore price/wages.
Comcast in my area has a 1TB/month limit. When I used their service I hit that limit nearly every month.
I’ve seen similar emails and never anyone fired from them. People have tried to claim equivalence with Damore and they are so night and day different that I struggle to believe the comparison is in good faith. The main difference is that the most egregious emails are often from technical leaders attacking those much lower in the pecking order.

Regarding the beauty of modern discrimination that you note. Plaintiffs in these cases almost always lose, because it is almost unprovable and the bar is high (being called the n-word for example isn’t sufficient). Being unfalsifiable provides little solace if there is no consequence to the discrimination.
You're getting them a chromecast?

Because that's what you should.
I would love to hear your answer on how to carry 1 week's worth of groceries for a family of 5 home without a car ... Because honestly, I just can't.
In my opinion, we need a statically typed contender to R, Python and Julia.

The use case is quite simple. Most data-oriented applications where you need linear algebra, probability theory, statistics do contain a significant amount of data pre-processing and business logic once extended to enter production. Here static typing is advantageous. Keeping the whole codebase in the same language is a significant advantage.

Furthemore, some statically typed languages do have typing features that are advantageous for data analysis. Think F# type providers or type systems where e.g. the shape of arrays is guaranteed to match at compile time.

The question is whether Rust is a good language for this, or we need something more like OCaml or F#. All these languages pop up in job offers for quantitative analysis, insurance risk modeling, etc. So there seems to be a demand.
> New Amazon workers aren't the ones who made it a trillion-dollar company. The older ones were. By your standards, the only way Amazon could compensate them fairly is to pay workers in Amazon shares and force them to hold it.

Something like mandatory equity contributions to the company pension fund would probably work.
> Why would you need an update? Updates are mainly necessary for security, which you don't need if the device isn't on the Internet.

You've never had a problem which was fixed by an update or something which added support for, say, a new model peripheral? I have, which is why I allowed for the possibility of wanting to do this on the schedule of your choosing but not the default case.

> I don't see how it's a losing game if you play it correctly. Fine grained policing of types of traffic is a losing game, but wholesale denying transit isn't. There is little difference between my network of tp-link bulbs and say a local modbus network.

I was thinking less narrowly than devices which never need to be online. A TV connected to other players can run entirely offline but there are many other things which legitimately need connectivity and there's no good way to prevent that. For example, think about a device like a Chromecast or Fire TV, or those Facebook video chat appliances — people buy those to stream content so the most you can do is force the vendor to send marketing stuff through the same endpoint they use for your content, and that's increasingly hard to filter (think how useful a “it goes to an IP in AWS. Block y/n?” prompt is). That's why I said it'll require a legal fix since a large fraction of the most invasive devices either already do or could trivially be modified to mix other data in with the traffic needed to function.
Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers
Exactly, I always get a good laugh visiting from time to time "lesswrong" and "slate star codex". Reading the commenters you quickly notice they commit all the same fallacies (from group-thinking, to defering to authority for no reason) that they criticize in "normal" humans.

Needless to say the same applies to HN, and to every one of us.