skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most every discussion I've come across that touches on money advice, I've see a variant of this comment "This world view doesn't incorporate (my) reality of the poorest of the Western world and is so in invalid and offensive".

I'm not sure what motivates this. If you invert the situation and someone made a list with stuff like "use coupons", would rich people come by and say "this is dumb because it only saves you $0.50 and I (as a rich person) don't care about $0.50"?

People have different starting conditions and different current situations, if what's described isn't relevant to yours--why does it bother you so? Let the people who find value in it find value in it.
I hear this a lot, but it's a 20 year wait to really pay off. Yes, absolutely worth doing, but hardly adequate.
Average property price in Auckland is 1.2M NZD. Property prices rose 20%+ last year in Auckland. So the capital gains quoted aren't really average, the average rate is half of that.

Sure there are outliers; but if your property costs 2.4M NZD (1.7M USD) then those numbers are accurate. Either way, land is the best investment right now and I don't see it crashing any time soon.

"Land can only go up". Even with COVID and closed borders.
> It's bizarre to me how many of the same people that say we need to massively rethink policing

Policing has many aspects, and some may be currently working while others may not. See "Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924367

> […] it's a good idea to put the right to defend yourself from people attempting to do you harm behind a piece of paper given out by the police.

Waiting periods, background checks, and prohibitions associated with domestic violence reduce gun violence:

* https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html

Waiting periods also help reduce suicide (as does safe storage laws).
It certainly sounds like a form of extortion to me. "We have a large amount of personal information that can be used to take out loans in your name. We, and others like us, have repeatedly shown that these databases are not secure. They will remain insecure unless you pay us."
I wish the plan 9 commentators here would get their facts straight because I'm so bored of dispelling them that I can barely be bothered to do so anymore. tl;dr this post is full of misinformation.

1) Plan 9 has the Mothra web browser which was originally written by Tom Duff but doesn't support any modern features as it was built in the 90's. However, there is a "working" (send patches) port of Netsurf with JS support.

"was a project called APE" ??? You mean there is a library called APE, which has allowed people to port things like video codecs. See the Treason video player.

2) everything as a file is just an abstraction between services and resources. /dev/bltblt is also long long long dead and replaced by /dev/draw sometime in the mid 90's. Where did you get such outdated nonsense from? /dev/draw is a 2d engine that you load text and bitmaps into and issue commands to draw them to the screen. Rumor has it someone is working on a 3D subsystem too. It'd also be nice to have a /dev/gpu where we can load different graphical kernels or gpgpu kernels into. Though have fun reading through 1500+ page hardware manuals for each gpu architecture, if you can get them (it's an extremely hard problem for any os community to solve outside of big corps.)

3) You information is woefully incorrect and your 2/3 points moot. There are a few people who have the ability to run it as a daily driver today if you put the effort in. It hasn't been research since bell gave up on it. It's a lovely little lightweight os with built in network transparent rpc between all programs. Very clean interface and design. It's a shame you didnt put more effort into learning about it and instead post misinformation.
Are you assuming that this antiviral only works on coronaviruses? Maybe that's not the case.
Could you be more specific about your experience with Ivermectin? Its side-effects can be pretty serious, right?
I tried to find if there are any concrete ideas how to clean this mess. Can anyone point me to research on how these deep sea barrels can be lifted back and properly handled?

How does one destroy DDT? Is there any way it can be burned safely?
Many of those artists starved to death, or otherwise perished, before they were recognized as greats, and their works became seen as important and valuable.

And the 20th century was quite full of rich artists making it, too.
Because people aren’t robots, and like to get to know the people with whom they spend ~40 hours every week?
I won't argue the data, which I don't have a study to refute, but I wish we could know the change since 2016.
That's kind of what identity theft is, and it is distressingly possible.
It's easy to not focus on money when you've got it.
I was a fan when Coinbase did this, I am a fan when Basecamp did this, I don't want or expect companies to "use their platform" just because they have one. If that's the premise of the company, go for it, if not then don't.

I am not a white cis male, as some might assume.
The big difference is Texas isn't ran by morons who make it impossible to build homes.

The anti building laws of California are by far the biggest reasons housing is so expensive. Even if Austin gets pricey, you can always drive into the city.

As someone who left California, I will say no one in their right mind should live there. No matter how much you earn, you'll never realistically out earn the cost of living. I found myself quickly deep in credit card debt trying to be cool in California. It's just a horrible place to live, I had to estrange myself from my family to move, and it was absolutely worth it. Anyone who tries to make you live in such a horrible place does not care about you at all.

People are also phenomenally nicer in other cities, I was shocked at how easy it was to meet my girlfriend once I got to Chicago. It's as if Chicago's this amazing City where people understand you need to work to get things you want instead of thinking you're entitled to everything.

Anyway, with remote work now being seen as viable I can see the idea of having expensive big offices becoming antiquated.
Cryptocurrency is not a stock and lots of people make predictions and bold statements about other things like gold and silver.

Nothing here would be significant if the other side of the equation wasn't people soaking up the slightest drip of nonsense and turning it into a frenzy of something they don't understand.
I don't see such requests, no. But they happen every time I turn on the water or anything electrical. They are completely seamless and I get feedback at the end of every month whereby I can think, hmm, I should be more careful to turn off the AC when I'm going out. But on a daily basis I don't have to think about it much. This is what I mean by seamless.

If you're reading 247 different sources of information in an hour, unless you're doing some kind of heavy research, you're probably overloading your brain in any case. How many blog articles can you read in an hour? Less than ten, probably more like 5, if they're actually worth reading.
Civil disagreement is possible. Debate between people who disagree, with passion and with civility, is one of the joys of existence. Better than sex and more accepted in public, many find.

Just like sex, when it goes bad it goes very bad.

Note: I say nothing against kinks and meta-"bad" acting where appropriate, I love a good flaming rant just like a donkey show. Consent and lack of harm are the guides there.
for any that are curious, I just learned the default, maximum speed limit in New Zealand is just 62mph! It seems living on an island paradise changes the need for speed.
I was a student at Trilogy. Not sure what they mean. The course was fun. The good students leveled up in their careers. I certainly did.
Currently on a project initially written with throwaway code. It became a production project. The code survives to this day and we don't dare poke it too much.
America has poor control of its international borders and would be unconstitutional, not just unpopular, to lock down with a right of freedom of movement from state to state.
US population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s
I agree that Pagerank and its derivatives are enormously valuable, but a disadvantage is that the graph isn't exposed, only an ordered list of search results. Even if you leave aside the issue of this being weighted by known user preferences, it's akin to trying to understand the structure of a tree by looking at a handful of leaves.
I still have it, still love it. Considering eventually upgrading to a used later model Volt (main diff being 50 mile electric range and CarPlay/Android Auto support).
That is a great explainer, simple and clear. Thanks for posting!
This is why I have been self employed for over a decade and there is no going back. I have no interest in dealing with any of this. I just want to work on solving problems.
Glassdoor/others are good for ballpark ranges which is good enough for me. If you want to know ahead of time, there are some employers who opt into that. IMO the value brought by a human being is complex and they deserve a chance to argue their worth, so there is no sense in advertising a price point that may vary. We are all primarily competing against ourselves in a sense, and allowing wiggle room on compensation lets employers and employees make better connections.

If you don't want that, go to a union, work for a government, or do something with an hourly wage.
What? I'm telling an anecdote about blackberries over here. It's not commentary on the broader topic.
That's already illegal, and was illegal when it happened. Not sure what your point is?
The initial draft of the pdf from the EFF court case was improperly censored. In that draft, now censored and sealed, you'll find only one interesting piece of information:

The FBI adopts the practices of the NSA and CIA with regards to information sharing and the policy base on privacy, information access, and responsibilities on how to handle it, among other things. I'd quote the document but i don't have a copy and i dont think anyone cares anymore anyway
Worse than innefective; some studies have found that the HCQ arm fared worse than placebo.

Not to mention the more fantastical misuses out there, such as nebulizing it straight into the lungs.
I wish the abstract actually summarized her points.
Even more than that, one of the administrators previously told me via email that HN is not able to rename accounts (presumably they use account names instead of numeric IDs as a key somewhere). So the only explanation for the displayed author on that post having changed is that they switched the author of the post, the original author's account could not have been renamed.
The way to convince the disbelievers is with large randomized controlled trials.
Not surprising that gun ownership has gone down as its a major pain in the ass to get a gun in some states. In my state it's virtually impossible in the major metropolitan areas to own a gun without being politically connected. Similarly in the burbs and towns YMMV may vary depending on the local police chief.

I would love to own a gun, multiple guns, but some states make it incredibly difficult.
In the US at least, trucks are by far the dominant means of transport, at 5x more freight than trains

(slightly out of date, and by value):
[1] https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017-north-american-freight-num...
> eventually you reach a point where maintaining that large (usually monolithic) codebase becomes so unbearable, so hazardous that you have to stop and rethink the entire design

This assumes that your app will grow indefinitely. What if we had more apps that were considered finished?
Only because I've watched Austin Powers
What would be considered an acceptable amount of tax credit on offer? You want to reduce the burden on the person wanting to own an EV, but you also don’t want to incentivize price inflation for the upgrade and EV charger install.
What is relevant in this specific Ars story for us outsiders to discuss? Is this current state a surprise to anyone? What makes this worth our time to read, aside from being ”omg, look at the day-old drama”?
> is our company discriminating, even unintentionally and do our LGBT and minority employees feel as safe and valued as our straight cis white employees

This is an HR responsibility. You either trust them to avoid and eliminate discrimination or you don't.
Sadly, I agree. Being an engineer, the lesson to me was that marketing and sales teams are critical. I like to think that "a great product will sell itself", but for a high dollar item like a car that's just not true.
Yeah, we have a toddler right now too, and if I’m estimating, during the months of October - February over the last three years I would guess I’m at least a little sick half the time.
Just like wearing a quote from the bible on
your tshirt saying that women aren't supposed
to hold seniority over men would very certainly
get you fired as well, despite that being a
part of your religious textbook and you belonging
to that protected class.

Do you honestly not see a difference between believing a thing, and emblazoning that thing on a t-shirt that your coworkers have to see?
>I have wondered if the COVID-19 pandemic might lead to some results, like extermination of the common cold

But coronavirus is just one of the several viruses which cause common-cold symptoms unless COVID-19 level attention goes to every single one of them I doubt we will ever see an end to it. It's estimated that 20% of coronavirus causes cold.

Perhaps some accidental discovery with mRNA level technological leap would prove me wrong.
I think /individuals/ should be political actors, not companies. Companies should focus on market operations: build product, provide service. Maybe that doesn’t directly answer the question but I’m not sure it’s a great question tbh.
After dealing personally with a few CEOs (good and bad), I’ve come to the conclusion they’re paid proportionally to the amount of damage they can cause.

This probably applies to many other professions. Doctors come to mind. Teachers and police don’t, though.
Data from Israel suggests that the vaccine reduces transmissivity by 70 or so per cent. I do not have the link handy, but there is definitely a coupling.

It's not 100%, but it seems to be more than we hoped for. At least for covid, the viral load is reduced and infection depends on that.
Imagine how excited you would've felt if you won a Roku in 2021. You'd probably try to sell it. Or maybe you'd give it to your grandmother, unless you already gave her one way back in 2012.

The bigger picture is that streaming has become such an expected, basic, embedded functionality and Roku along with other dependent companies failed to adapt.

Yes, Google is in a consistent, self denying state of being evil, but Roku has become the Blackberry of stream boxes. They haven't done anything innovative in years. I won't be surprised if they will be forever flooded by a storm of no-name Chinese Linux/Java powered stream boxes. Obviously these devices don't provide the same user experience, but they definitely reflect Roku's mediocrity.

Roku seems to be playing victim.
My experience with the Chromecast with Google TV is that many apps that are available on other platforms are missing on Google TV / Android TV - one example would be NHK World (the English language service from the Japanese NHK TV) and another example is Flo Sports (a sports streaming app). For this reason I'm thinking of getting a Fire TV or an Apple TV where those missing apps are available.

When I purchased the Google TV device I was under the impression that Android TV was one of the major platform on the market, but later I found out that in terms of apps choice, it's not the best.

Also, it's puzzling that some apps are available for Amazon's Fire TV but not for Google TV / Android TV - both are based on Android so I thought it would be very easy to make an app available to both platforms - maybe there are some technical aspects that I'm missing.
Mathematics is actually one of the few remaining areas of intellectual pursuits which are by and large untainted by salesmanship. I hope it stays that way.
Best to email the mods about that.
I think the issue is if adolescent cyberbullying rises to the level of a crime.

Similar to the US military's idea of Non-Judicial Punishment[0] (drop and give me 50!), school administration often also has the lee-way of assigning punishment to students [1]. This punishment often does not rise to the level of a crime, but still requires action. Things like detention, cleaning toilets, scrubbing hallways, etc. Often, the bully is a minor themselves, and may not understand the implications of their effects. Giving them a police record may not be appropriate if a talking-to will stop the behavior.

SCOTUS's ruling will flesh out this idea a bit more, maybe. If they rule that school administration is able to punish as they see fit for this case, then cyberbullying may be seen as something that does not typically rise to the level of a crime. If they do not, then cyberbullying may need to be revisited as a more serious action on the part of minors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-judicial_punishment

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_discipline
> Are you suggesting this isn't an introduction of new regulations per se, since it was always a deceptive statement?

It was always false and deliberately deceptive to claim that Lambda’s California Retail Installment Contracts were qualified education loans under federal law, and therefore subject to discharge only on cases of undue hardship.

Lying about that in commerce in CA was not previously something for which there was previously a clear cause of action, especially one which would allow the State to take action. It’s not, at least in purpose, classic fraud: it is designed not to induce purchases but to dissuade past purchasers from seeking bankruptcy relief.
I'd like to see policy suggestions for preventing "an endless battle royale of cable news level debate among coworkers in a Slack all day long."
> Household gun ownership went from 45% in 1980 down to 32% in 2016:

And yet sales of new guns are up massively. Can you explain this discrepancy?

Perhaps a better interpretation is that the number of households who will admit owning a gun to a stranger who calls them on the phone went from 45% to 32%.

Someone's buying all those guns, dude. It sure isn't collectors who are buying millions of cheap Hi-Points and Kel-Tecs.
Because they are essential for consumer loan industry. And the US has a loan industry, hence obsession with credit ratings.
Yes, definitely iterate and throw away at the start, and understand that clean code has quite a cost, but obviously strive to understand when it's worth it.

Hidden value of clean code: Developer's sanity and willingnses to work on it.

Code has the 'Broken Windows' problem: if it's a pile of dirt, people will treat it like a pile of dirt, and not want to work on it. If it's clean, their their work will have legacy, they're more likely to value their own time and effort.
Your points are well taken. But the more likely explanation for the professor's reaction was just that doing anything in programming language design would be "academic suicide".

The date of his remark was about 1974, and I was suggesting improvements in PL/I that I'd been using for about 4 years.

I believe his view was that academic research for programming languages in practice was over with -- e.g., LISP, APL, Algol 68, and PL/I were all implemented by 1974.

So, your examples show that he was wrong: Long after 1974 others in academics did work in programming languages without academic death via suicide or otherwise.

Sooo, in 1974, views of the academic research content of programming language design varied -- such variations are with us frequently, i.e., make horse races.

But that encounter in 1974 was just one example. I had another one from a computer science professor in the 1990s.

Also, with some irony, in the 1980s and 1990s, I was in the group at IBM's Watson lab that designed and implemented the artificial intelligence rule-based language YES/L1. We published lots of papers in academic conferences. Moreover, beyond just design, I was our lead on joint work with GM Research and was one of our two presenters of our paper at the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) IAAI (Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence) at Stanford; so the work, design, implementation, and application of YES/L1 was regarded as worth of publication in academics. Indeed, MIT published a book with paper from the conference, and our paper was one of the ones published.

So, with my work, I, too, showed that the comments of those two professors I mentioned were not correct.

Still, it remains, with my two examples from professors, there long has been an attitude and belief that work in programming languages is not sufficiently "fundamental" to be in computer science and would be "academic suicide". That has been a common attitude; now both of us have shown that the attitude was not correct, but it remains that that attitude has long existed -- that was my claim, that there was such an attitude. I didn't claim that the attitude was universal or correct.

Given that the attitude has been in academic computer
Actually and honestly: I do not know whether or not Jason and DHH would personally do that. I would caution that you never really know what biases people hold simply from reading their Twitter.

That said, I would be surprised if they took a complaint like this seriously. But what I’m saying is that people used to take this particular complaint seriously within the past 10 years; and that this complaint is easily generalized to a lot of other complaints that feel very relevant.

And moreover the even bigger point is now I have to worry because this has happened to me. Why wouldn’t I be worried it would happen again?

(And this policy is creeping in at multiple workplaces: Coinbase, Basecamp, and at least one other place I’m not at liberty to actually say - and the trend is very concerning).
> Apple could have thrown a bone to folks and just allowed passing url parameters or similar through the App Store links to the app after it’s installed

I thought they already allowed this through deferred deep linking?
> I'm giving Basecamp the benefit of the doubt

I'm not, especially as the post then moves straight into dissolving the DEI committee and moving its responsibilities to HR.
Rails is not a language.

PHP maintainers do fix bugs.

I don't use PHP right now, it's not my favorite language, but I hate when people are trying to excuse their own laziness and incompetence by saying “it’s all because of tool X”.
HackerOne has an open source program which is free. You could start with it: https://www.hackerone.com/company/open-source-community

I'm sure you can talk to them then, and figure out the best strategy to offer paid rewards.
> For example, if the individual started wearing the t-shirt the day after a heated religious debate in the office with an individual that identifies as non-binary, that could be perceived as targeted harassment.

But most of these cases are equivalent to someone being fired for wearing whatever t-shirt at home, so that's not really a distinction that gets you out of the problem.
Most fingerprint (and other biometric devices) sensors do liveness checks
It seems quite shocking to claim that an important sociopolitical issue is not important everywhere and at every moment.
> The clause makes Lambda appear less attractive so not clear why it would be included.

It’s designed to dissuade people from seeking bankruptcy to discharge the debt.