skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I’ve seen both sides. I’ve seen people get social security or disability benefits and coast for the rest of their lives without working even though they have the ability to do so without affecting their benefits. I assume they value sleeping in and not having to answer to anyone. Their idea of a good time is spending hours hiking or watching tv or various other things that have negligible cost.

I’ve also known those who get said benefits and either use it as a leg-up to get ahead or just donate it while they keep working. Honestly, I’ve seen more in the former category than the latter.

I suspect it cuts down along the industriousness subset of the Big Five personality traits. Those who get intrinsic satisfaction doing/building are probably likely to be in the latter group. I bet HN skews towards this which is why so many find it difficult to comprehend why somebody would want to just loaf around with their life. To your very thoughtful questions about why someone wouldn’t want to continue working, my guess is the roles they qualify for aren’t intrinsically satisfying to them because it’s a poor mating of their personality and the jobs society has deemed necessary or they don’t pay enough to make the juice worth the squeeze
My concern is that lenders will start loaning against it at ridiculously high rates on UBI income streams - "Get 100K today for signing away your UBI payments!" or "just pay us the monthly amount of your UBI payment!".

After thinking about it a while, I realized the law would need to protect the UBI payments from being accessible in bankruptcy. That would significantly limit lenders willing to lend on that money. Those who did would be charging very high-interest rates on it and probably limit the total amount backed by it, so someone can't borrow 200k and then declare bankruptcy but have it be protected.

Even writing this out now, I'm not sure that this would work because I'm not sure how you prioritize lenders for someone's assets who declares bankruptcy.

I also see upward pressure on housing prices - right now, few landlords know what the market can take for pricing. It would be easy to bump everyone's rent by a few hundred dollars when UBI kicks in because you know everyone can afford it.

Technology and the market structure are so efficient at extracting value from things that it's hard to design any policy that will effectively achieve the desired outcome of providing food, clothing, and shelter for all citizens without some wonky unintended consequences.
Ask HN: Have you transitioned from industry to academia?
I'm curious if anyone in HN has tried to pursue an academic career after several years in industry. I'd love to hear about your experience.

Much seems to be written about the importance of strong publications at a young age in determining a successful academic career.

Time spent in industry is seemingly a detriment in this regard. This makes me wonder if it's folly to hope to enter an academic career without having followed a more established academic career path.
A more detailed and technical writeup on the benefits of active learning: You should try active learning - https://medium.com/aquarium-learning/you-should-try-active-l...

Also, Aquarium Learning is just awesome. Super slick.
I wouldn't say it's all about eyes on the street. There are more dangerous and less dangerous neighborhood overall--especially if you're a confused-looking tourist. But I agree that a well-lit busy city avenue will tend to be safer than some deserted street.
Thank you, now it's worse than before!

No really, i get your points (through you other answers too).

I decided to just dive into CL, if you have some valuable resource, i would like to know!
Optimization. Then again, one could probably calculate gradients numerically.
Years ago, my dad's hospital had a rule that the head of the department had to review all slides before you gave a presentation at a conference. The department heads had one consistent rule: they had to be able to view your slide without putting it in the projector and tell what it said. Worked pretty well: you can imagine how big and limited the content would have to be to be able to view it on a slide with the naked eye, and it kept people from filling slides with bullet points.
Clear N95 face masks designed by Ford could be huge for hearing impaired
Someone in this thread just posted Alpine.js. Literally made my day! This is what I want and would ever want in the kind of apps we build.

Node: I am not sure but so often do I come across a package that only works on a previous node version (say v10). How come Node is not backwards compatible? Node v14 should be able to run anything that runs on Node v10. This is a runtime, not some library. Also, I discovered recently about LTS and non-LTS versions of node. Who knew. The whole ecosystem is rickety and not up to standards IMO.
I remember Beyond Egg brand mayonnaise pushing their product as a healthier cholesterol free alternative. In trying to track down those claims just now, I learned that the FDA cracked down on them because mayonnaise is required to contain egg, and that the egg council went after them and ran afoul of the USDA. It really makes me think about who funds these studies and why.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-egg-board-investigati...
Sure feels like it. One would tend to tell HN about their "showing".
I'm intrigued. Do you own datacenters or piggybacking of some existing infra?
> He is pretty honest

"funding secured"

"pedo guy"
Which word in their statement indicates causation? I generally look for the word 'because'.
Well, yes and no ...

Of course we have switches in our racks and of course we could find a way to plug you in ...

However, there would be a lot of administrative overhead just to get you inside the datacenter in question, not to mention how we would clear you and your equipment, etc.

We regularly accept bare SATA drives as ingress and we support that process in reverse - most likely we would steer you towards that route ...
Assuming you can't get your database close to your users. It depends on the data dependencies between your database calls. If they're independent, and you do them in parallel, you can do pretty well with a frontend near your user, parallel queries to backends wherever.

If your queries have data dependencies, you'd get better results with a front end near your users, and a middle tier api near your database.

But, just TCP (or TLS) termination near your users and the real frontend near your database can make a surprising amount of difference.

On the other hand. There's a lot you can do to make sure things are fast from limited locations. Keep an eye on data size, make sure you're monitoring for and fixing slow queries, optimize your images, etc. If your html takes seconds to serve, it barely matters where you served it from.
I’m not sure of the details but apparently our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, had a “fruitful discussion” with Google yesterday...
For More Inclusive Writing, Look to How Writing Is Taught
It’s possible she has used the email elsewhere, but she doesn’t use her Apple ID email address anywhere else, only with Apple.
Visualize your SQL queries as tables or graphs directly in Jupyter Notebooks
This seems like a “problem” that shouldn’t be solved. If the thing keeping you from algorithmic trading is difficulty in deploying, you probably have no business doing it.

Cynically, this seems like a way to draw more naive novices into the market. As the old saying goes, if you don’t know who the mark is, it’s you.
"the best syntax"

Yes, absolutely. By a long shot. For starters, J can actually be parsed. (k can also be parsed, for what it's worth.)

"Easiest to learn"?

Spend ten minutes using J's built-in Labs feature. Or read J for C Programmers (also ships with the language), if you come from a non-array background. Iverson was able to teach this stuff to public school children in no time at all; modern array languages seem to deliberately make themselves obtuse to outside observers. APL was doomed to obscurity because the people making it decided to please existing customers rather than try and make it approachable.

I don't know when you mean modern

Pretty much every APL2 feature and everything that came after it that they didn't borrow from J.

While J has English control statements, they generally aren't used, but nearly every time I come across something written in Dyalog APL it's full of :If :EndIf and all sorts of atrocious English words which mock the ideal of a better notation than ALGOL.
Ask HN: Is it worth it for me to try and switch fields?
I’m 23. I’ve been working as a software developer professionally for around four year.. No education, etc. At this point my career has been incredibly underwhelming. For the first couple years of my career I was greatly underpaid, and it would seem like I still am, though my salary now is more typical for the career. It’s starting to look like I won't be able to drive my current career in a direction I want in a reasonable amount of time. It won’t be long before I’m considered “old” for many parts of the industry, particularly if I spend any tenure in one place to avoid the negative effects of job hopping, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be stuck doing what I do for another 40+ years.

I don’t really have anything grounding me anywhere (friends, family, meaningful relationships, property, etc.), and occasionally I’ll take a peek at other industries and wonder what it’d be like to do something else instead. I’ve looked at all sorts of things, from other technical fields to relatively high paying business fields. Some of them seem interesting, but will result in low pay, or a lower salary potential than just sticking with what I do now. Others seem miserable but pay pretty good alongside other benefits that I don’t feel like I’m getting now. But in 90% of cases, they rely heavily on credentials. I’ve done the research on going back to school, but the odds are generally not in my favor. If I did, I would likely end up being in my late 20s by the time I could complete and bachelors and in my early 30s by the time I could complete any sort of graduate program (which in many fields seems to be a pretty strong requirement, especially since I wouldn’t get many of the benefits someone 5 years younger than me would from a bachelors program). That seems a bit old to be entering any fields really and I feel like it would work against me, but as I mentioned earlier, I feel pretty miserable with my current career trajectory.
Vanguard and Fidelity balanced outperform these. Not sure I would use this over those choices.
Hey everyone!

This is a collection of my investment modules - strategies codified from my experience in quantitative investing and software development. All categorized into a short compendium.

These models (algo-investors as I call them) serve different purposes, some just remove the stress and emotion of maintaining a portfolio (automated rebalancing, etc), some seek to capitalize on binary events (like elections or regulation changes), some seek to minimize volatility, some seek to "beat the market" (leveraged modules, hedge fund trackers), and some are just fun (wallstreetsbets sentiment tracker).

As some have pointed out: these results DO account for slippage, and many are showing actual live results (not just backtests).

This is a highly regulated environment (I'm US-based), and while not yet registered (in the process), hence why live trading isn't allowed yet, the intention is to have live trading available as soon as possible.
Lots of good advice in this thread. For me:

Most mornings I wake up and feel reasonably ok. I've had much darker periods in my past and think I'm in a pretty good place these days.

I try not to check my phone right away and instead read or write a bit as the day gets started.

At least two walks outside in the sun with music or a podcast or silence.

Meditate every day. Work out or run daily. Try to eat reasonably clean, lots of veggies and fruit.

Journaling a few times a week. Therapy twice a month, mostly focused on relationship stuff.

Time every day to focus on myself, my hobbies, my friends, good music, drawing, writing, reading.

No notifications on my phone while I'm trying to focus. Clear communication with my team around deliverables, dates, and issues.

On the philosophical front, reading Alan Watts' Wisdom of Insecurity helped a lot.
I recommend the SPY algorithm. Go to whatever brokerage you like and dollar cost average by putting in 1/365 your budget daily in SPY.

Zero fees, and you can set it and forget it!

In all seriousness the Boglehead strategy looks neat, I'll take a look. Is it difficult to start an ETF? Seems like all of these should just be ETFs you can purchase at any brokerage.
With the $27 trillion in debt we're leaving them, a $1k savings bond seems like the least we could do for the future generation.
> I don't know how this came to be.

The numbers on touch-tone phones (as opposed to rotary-dial kids) and the numbers on computer keyboard number pads are reversed:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

vs

7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3

Why? No one knows...
Hilarious. I'll wait until there is a blue check for my car. And maybe a hat with a blue check that floats over my head.
Another interpretation is that Detroit (historical city of American car manufacturers) may have the legacy/institutional knowledge to build and test such edge cases whereas new Tesla does not.
I'm a simple man – I see F# on HN, I upvote.

This great little language needs a little more love, IMHO
http://archive.is/Ctjoz
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-finally-admits-model-3-bumpers-fa...

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/06/tesla-rolls-out-uv-ligh...

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/319722-tesla-will-recall...
Since the government can and does run infinite budget deficits, it's effectively printed. Sure, some is coming from taxes, but it's pretty unlikely that taxes will go up by an amount equivalent to the program costs.

Economically, inflation is equivalent to a tax on dollar-denominated held wealth, though. So it basically amounts to the same thing as taxes, but is paid for by bondholders, pensioners, people with fat savings accounts, and folks who lack bargaining power in their wages (i.e. most service & manufacturing workers) rather than high-earners.
Fair question, and I guess the answer is both. He didn't provide any advice that seemed bad, he didn't say avoid eggs, he didn't say have bacon with every meal. But I've also been reading everything I can to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Good idea. I use Interactive Brokers for most of these to execute the actual trading (though may consider Alpaca given recent events).
My view is that senior devs do not roll out features for end users, they roll out features for other devs.

As a senior dev, your end-users are more junior devs. And the product you’re building is the Api you give them.

So a good senior dev will do what good product people do. Talk to their users, find where their pain points are, make sure they have the most delightful experience one can have, etc...

It’s like senior engineers in car factories. They’re not building the cars, they’re building the robots that build the robots that build the cars...
The difference is that with something like ElectionGuard - as long as the encrypted result is publicly available - you would remove an entire class of complaints that people have with the current system - individuals would be able to validate that their personal vote was counted appropriately, and you would be able to audit the authenticity of every vote without disclosing/revealing who individuals vote for. Unlike the current system which allows opportunity for fraud and is not always auditable (at least not immediately), the actual voting infrastructure and procedures do not matter as much if we can independently verify the authenticity of the _outcome_.
> how much of the whole system you can fit in your head at once.

It's a consistent issue that's brought up... the majority of bugs are found in large releases. The smaller the release, the less likely you'll create a bug (this is where you get some methodologies moving away from waterfall).

I wonder if the future of security practices will just be "deliver small pieces of functionality / changes"
The Australian PM is from a marketing background so there’s a fair chance the deal changed so Australian tax payers are now paying Google to pay Murdoch media.
F# is a cool language that I have absolutely no use for, sadly.
If you, like myself, prefer value and quality issue like body panel alignment then I agree, stay away from Telsa for now.

But it's subjective. I have friends that prefer an EVs with tech gadgets. And they're happy with their Telsa.

Feels like an efficient market to me. There's lot of car options at different price points and quality standards. Clearly a lot of Tesla's customer are happy with their offering.
You are making assumptions that I wasn't skeptical of this study. I am. This study has pretty strong data behind it, and a much more rigorous methodology than studies which were literally foundational to Ansel Keys' lipid hypothesis that are borderline fraudulent in how the data was manipulated.

The study which had the strongest impact on my opinions with dietary fat consumption was the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study. It's far, far more rigorous (and expensive) than virtually any of the studies being crapped out by the publish or perish grant-chasers. The absolute vitriol and emotional, irrational responses to the contradictions raised by Framingham really taught me lessons about the fashion-driven, corrupt nature of certain communities in academia.
1. the software doesn't have to have the source code available. It is called "proprietary software" and majority of people use it - Windows, macOS, iOS, and most of Android are proprietary.

2. the hardware, especially electronics, did use to come with "source code". I, for example, remember studying the schematics of my TV set so I could modify it and add composite video input. The ZX80 clone I owned had composite output already, so by bypassing modulator I was able to increase picture quality.

The same used to happen with the cars - there were full service manuals with detailed drawings and assembly instructions, precisely so one could change them.

3. In software specifically, the source availability has a very high practical value:

it helps to fix the problems. For example, I spent an hour yesterday reading source code of my CI system (Jenkins) to figure out if a certain thing was possible.

(this is why some companies which are jot ready for open source at least provide source code under "source available" model)
it helps with build process. Remember bad old days of Windows where your libraries cam in binary form and had to use right runtime / compiler version? This will never happen with SQLite, it even has "single file" version for super easy project integration.
In my opinion it has to do with the access of the various items you mentioned.

Your toaster JUST toast bread and beagles... The power drill just makes holes or screws stuff...

But the moment, say, that your toaster happens to have a "voice recognition system" so you can speak with your toaster how you want your toast... and then in a court case it turns out that your toaster has been recording all the sounds in your kitchen, things kind of take a different look.

I remember a story about some smart tooth brushes... it's all fine when it just has a motor and a battery, but it turned out that the tooth brush was connected to Bluetooth and through it it sent all your teeth brushing activities to the manufacturer. What if the manufacturer decided to sell that data and out of the sudden my dental insurance doesn't want to cover some treatment because of that data?

I hope this makes sense :-) It comes down to visibility. You can see what your toaster and drill are doing, but it's harder to see what X or Y software might be doing, thus open source provides that visibility
Answer from Cloudflare team seems to be "No" - https://community.cloudflare.com/t/could-cloudflare-support-...
To confirm, that Stack Exchange?
I use rss a lot. Is there rss audio reader? I mean, is there an app turn rss feed to audio. If it turn only rss news titles to audio ever better.
The Spectrum of Synchronousness
We have 6 chickens cranking out 5-6 eggs a day so this is a huge relief. Eggs are a significant portion of my daily protein. Since our chickens free range and eat plenty of greens they are pretty high in Omega 3 fatty acids.

I've known that the old school idea that cholesterol in eggs made them unhealthy was mostly bunk, but good to hear it confirmed.

Now I just need to figure out a way to find a good source of nitrate free bacon.
Sorry, the impetus of my comment above was that CRA is introducing FAR MORE configuration/dependency/complexity than maintaining a webpack.config.js file!

The build process of a modern React application has a certain amount of necessary complexity. Hiding it behind a "low-effort" build tool like CRA doesn't change the above and, frankly, is really a disservice to anyone who wants to understand the tools they are working with.

Go ahead, eject a CRA sometime. See how "low-effort" it really is...
> The Fed Chair is the one who stimulates the economy since the late 90s

That's not entirely true, but, yes the Congress (partiularly, Republicans using control of either at least one House of the Congress and/or the Presidency, which has a veto over Congressional legislation) has largely neglected fiscal stimulus in the last couple decades, leaving only monetary stimulus by the Fed (not the Chair alone.)

But the history the article refers to is for the past 100 years, not just since the late 1990s.

> it doesn't matter who is elected

Aside from the fact that the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, including the Chair, who is not a sole dictator over the Board, are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, who is elected matters because who is elected determines whether or not Congress neglects fiscal stimulus. “Who is elected” is why the trend you point to since the late 1990s is a thing: elect people who have a propaganda interest in people not seeing government as capable of stimulating the economy to positions to control government decision-making, and, surprise-surprise, government isn't as likely to effectively stimulate the economy.

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 was a thing, of perhaps too small and not optimally targeted and not followed up on. The CARES Act, and the secobd pandemic relief bill, were things (definitely too small and terribly targeted, but it happened.) It seems quite probable—because of who was elected—that a larger and differently-targeted third pandemic relief bill will likely soon be a thing.
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Resume:
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Every model of every car company has lots of unique problems in very mundane areas where development has stagnated decades ago and most models of manufacturers never experience any problems. This is mind boggling - the problem has been solved by the industry, yet it was chosen to be introduced to that model.

The same exists with buildings. Door and window placement is messed up all the time, despite being a few millenia old art.

It seems fields never really mature, they reach maybe some 90% level and can stay there at best. No problem is ever really solved. If you look away, it might actually get worse.