skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. There's a lot of research into the causes of black/white inequality and IQ differences. It's nowhere near as conclusive as you suggest. This is not phrenology so your comparison to that is an unproductive straw-man.

Where's the evidence that there is no significant inherent biological such as genetics? Just because it's a popular belief doesn't mean it's strongly supported by evidence. I haven't seen any. I even saw an adoption study that attempted to answer that, and when it embarrassingly turned out that black kids still had lower IQs despite their white adopted families, the authors suddenly discovered they'd forgotten to control for age at adoption and that must surely have been the cause of the differences. They were silent on the effect of the race of the biological parents even though it could be clearly seen in the data that the more black biological parents a child had, the lower his IQ despite the race and income of his adopted parents.
OCaml does this I believe.
I didn't have any issues witg Signal until they introduced this crypto BS recently. Now I'm suspicious of them. I don't know if that's unfounded or not, but I don't know much about crypto and I don't have any interest in spending my time researching this to see whether it's a problem for me or not.

Maybe I should take the time. But I guarantee I'm not the only person feeling this way, and most people will simply avoid Signal if they're doing suspicious stuff that they don't understand.
Food banks also get a lot of bulk food donations from grocery stores and distributors. But they need cash to pay for trucks to pick up the donations, and to rent operating space.
> on top of that, the state income tax on a prof's salary is 9-10%.

I think you are either too optimistic in what a professor can earn in California, or you are missing that taxes are marginal. I know a CS professor at UCLA who just makes around $120k, so single filer California taxes would pay just be around 6.5%. If you throw in a spouse with an additional $80k of income, you’ll hit 6%.

To pay an effective 10% rate in California, a single filer would have to make $700k/year and a married couple would need to make more than a million.

A school like UCLA deals with their faculty not making enough to buy a house in LA (or especially Westwood) by giving them access to special kinds of loans.
Most people I know that grew up in Southern California want to live long-term in California.

Most people I know that grew up in a different state and tried living in Southern California, end up hating it and leaving.

If you’re used to Southern California you’re probably more likely to put up with it’s many problems because it’s home, there’s great food, plenty of things to do, and of course the amazing weather. If you’re an outsider, I can see why living in California seems absurd if you’re not used to the heavy traffic and high prices.
Midwest US. Restaurants and "non essential" businesses were closed here for a little while but everything reopened (with some capacity limitations) by about June 2020. Supermarkets, department stores such as Target, Walmart, never closed.

I've been working from home but going shopping, going to the gym, etc. as normal since the reopening last June. I never was much for eating at restaurants but they have been open also.

Other places in the US were far more locked down. I'm glad I don't live there.
> drive out along some country road and dump it in a ravine.

I have several acres of forested land. Anytime we clear out underbrush it's chock full of dumped garbage and drink containers. Ugh.
It'd be a lot cheaper if they iterated and could service the machine if needed. Waterfall is the most expensive way of doing something.
Yeah it's frustrating. WA also requires this, in fairness. It's very annoying though. I want a messenger app that's not owned by Facebook and doesn't require that I'm constantly glued to my phone to use it.
Be careful eating tinned fish that much. My cousin became very ill in university - losing hair, losing weight, sleepy all the time. They tested her for everything. Eventually they realized she had high levels of mercury from eating a tin of tuna daily. Sardines might be okay because they are smaller, so they bioaggregate less.
Clearly the state just wants to make sure that any prospective college professors can distinguish marginal tax rate from effective tax rate. :P
Signal is growing.
> FL seems happy.

Not especially. Rents have tripled and available homes have dropped to ~0, due to a sudden influx of move-ins buying every sq inch of property.

Meanwhile wages remain well below national average. Auto, housing and health insurance are each among the highest in the nation. Our homeless population has long been enormous and is getting ready to skyrocket. Excepting kids, socials services for the vulnerable are largely non-existent. We've spent more time in drought than out of it over the last 30 years. The 13th month of summer is the worst btw. Coastal beaches are routinely closed due to high bacteria counts.

Past that it's probably like everywhere.
Charitable donations increased 5% from 2018 to 2019 (before COVID). We don't have the data on 2020 yet.

https://www.nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-g...
FYI - your website is an unreadable catastrophe on Firefox for Android.
Absolutely. Which is why we require askers to fill out a template which asks the big questions up-front; version, config, logs, what do you want to do, what did you try, what did you read. It always takes longer if askers are stubborn and don't answer those questions properly. Help me help you.
I'm pretty sure it does - or maybe it's the e-privacy directive or something else, they all get called GDPR. But you have to make clicking no obvious, easy, and not degrade functionality.
82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as popular as chocolate
I think you are mixing up open source with free software.

There is no moral imperative associated with open source software; its goal is to leverage the community for more effective software development to further business goals.

Free software is all about sharing as a moral good. But as far as I can see, Crossbar doesn’t claim to be part of the free software movement, only that it is open source.
The downtime I understand being a concern, especially for laypeople. The GP comment specifically identified Signal's secretiveness surrounding their server as the dealbreaker that made them "fine with WhatsApp", which is what I was actually responding to (didn't make that clear).

That said, Re: downtime, I've been using Signal for years now with non-techie family, and I've never had any complaints from them outside of that one two-day window. Signal is doing remarkably well even today. It seems like they just failed to adapt to the massive spike in load they had that week.
I'm a little sad that it's removed. Votes on HN are a fickle beast, a popularity contest. IMO, it's usually worth saying what you really think even if it might not be received too well. Especially if it's a unique and genuine perspective, rather than spam or mindless snark. IMO, if you've never been downvoted to -4, you've probably never said anything really interesting either.
The US gov obstructed WHO team doing research into the origins of COVID on Chinese soil? How?

There are no good and no bad guys, of course, but the topic is a very specific event and concrete facts, so shades and “what about X?” can go elsewhere as far as I’m concerned.
You should take a look at https://www.levels.fyi/ to recalibrate your pay bands
That worked. Amazing that it can be so flakey.
Different failure modes. Trezor is close to "mess up and everything's gone". Banks are closer to: share the password and a new transfer destinations will be confirmed over phone, may be checked against fraud databases, may be reverted in flight, may be reverted after sending, may be covered by insurance, ...
Trying to eat something different everyday is an American obsession that I'll never understand. It's just so stressful and inconvenient. I grew up in a small town where eating the same for dinner everyday was extremely common. Tea or coffee and bread. The only variable would be what you put in your bread. Some days it would be butter, some days it would jam. Some days it would be honey, some days it would be avocado.
I’ve been very happy with Fastmail after leaving Google Business.
> Teaching in general is best done by "peeling the onion".

My experience is that best way depends on the student, the thing you want to teach and probably even on the time of the day.

The best teachers are able to adapt to that.
Yet here we are, using the Latin alphabet, communicating in a language largely comprised of Romance and Greek words, and (me, at least) living in a world dominated by Western political ideas drawn almost completely from the Greco-Roman world.
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Yeah, but they took the time to go there for the experience and still missed out on it.
A lot of his other food isn't mentioned. The weight around his neck shows his exercise has definitely slowed down. Lack of exercise is a factor for stroke. That is a long term trend for him. He's definitely slowed down over the years and likely hasn't adjusted his diet. I'd guess he's consuming more bread/sugar than that regular supper implies. Likely some long term dietary deficiencies as well.

At 72(?), though, he's still doing better than plenty of others. Full of flaws and imperfections like everyone else but he's doing his thing and apparently enjoying it, so good for him.
I'm not the volunteering type, but I went to a work-arranged event where we tutored kids. I ended up feeling mostly guilty after doing it because it would be better for these kids to have ongoing mentoring by the same person than a revolving pool of tech randos.
I wasn't talking about the downtime. The GP comment said that the thing that drove them away from Signal was the Mobilecoin debacle. I was drawing a parallel between that and Mozilla pushing Pocket (or any of their other missteps).

I totally get why the downtime turned a lot of people off, but that's not what GP identified as what drove them to be "fine with WhatsApp".
> Fast forward all that time, and the housing market you complain about will likely be a huge wealth generator for you

But this perpetuates the problem, and makes it much worse for the next generation! You do realize that this can't continue indefinitely, right? I mean, maybe this doesn't bother you, which I suppose is fine. Does it bother you?

Look, you're technically right. I also own a house in California, and am far better off because of it. But it still bothers the hell out of me.

I'd much rather fix the problem in the general case than adopt this "I've got mine, therefore everything is fine" sense of entitlement.

Do you really want to be 90 years old in your $50 million NorCal farmhouse paying your grandfathered in $15,000/year property taxes when everyone else paying $500,000/year decide that enough is enough and torch the place?

A retirement strategy that depends on screwing over a younger generation and hoping that they don't manage to get revenge before you die is a risky bet.
Sounds good to me. Most of California's perceived problems are from rampant growth in the population centers.

I doubt it will last though. Any improvements will simply beckon back more population, no?
I love Apple Pay as of today. I rarely need my credit card anymore for transactions.

I caught myself without the ability to buy gas. Shell gas stations in the SF Bay Area have NFC readers but I’ve never found one that works at all.

I was near empty of gas, pulled into a Shell hoping it worked with Apple Pay. Waved the iPhone over the reader, “Card not supported.” Realized also I had left my physical wallet at home.

I literally maybe need my physical card once every two weeks when running errands. Everything else is Apple Pay.
Hyperinflation basically achieves this.
My great-grandfather was traveling to USA for work back in 1912. He came back after 6 years and settled in his village becoming its head. Almost everybody in my family knows this story and it's indeed fascinating, because at that time people rarely moved anywhere.

And now we are fascinated by a man living in the same place all his life. It's funny how the concept of norm changes in 100 years.
It strikes me as the quote “nobody goes there, it’s too crowded.”
Thanks for this, indeed I've been able to recover a stick that went non-visible anymore, by using InitDisk
Noise shows up as light gray lines or dots in the DFT. In the Imagemagick example, this noise is removed by replacing those parts with black. But you want to do the reverse, so you should add noise by adding light gray features to the DFT.

I suspect this technique is how the Imagemagick author generated the noisy twigs image:
https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/twigs.jpg
To be clear, I am absolutely not defending capital punishment as a practice. My point is just that, if you have already decided that you are going to do it, like SC has, it is much better for it to be by firing squad than for it to be by electrocution, which was the proposed alternative.
Not just more stuff: more high-end stuff they'd never buy for themselves.
It would be nice to add this to the code in form of a comment, for historical preservation reasons
But the curve for California seems really steady, I don’t think we will see any big surprises in the next ten years barring some kind of Katrina-scale natural disaster.
Granted it was many years ago, but I taught one semester of "college algebra" at a state university. My experience was similar to yours.
Sure, but you don’t do it by never leaving home and never trying anything differently.
Good jobs are not easy to find in lots of places. Don’t underestimate the value of that.
Liverpaste is popular in Scandinavia. It's great on dark rye pumpernickel. It's really quite tasty especially topped with some sliced cucumber and fried onions.
I’ve found (on both sides of the conversation) it’s really effective to find a third party that consistently asks what X is: when I’m on the “answering” side of this problem, I’ve generally found that saying something like “Y is impossible” or “Y can be done this way but that’s usually a bad idea, why do you ask?” Goes a long way to being effective at answering the question.
Very familiar with pasta fagioli (Italian heritage). Ill check this out tho, thanks!
You can have multiple identities, just as you can have them in chrome without being logged in.
search for Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
OR https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
But you can always create a shortcut for each identity...I use this method for Brave.
It also is associated with hundreds of years of the Russian Empire. So it’s also associated with that (largely negative) history in large parts of Europe.
There have been successful (depending on your point of view) attempts of ridding languages of foreign influences.

For example, Icelandic, which in the 19th century had speakers who worked on replacing Danish loanwords with Icelandic neologisms, and today a good amount of effort is put into coining Icelandic words rather than loaning English ones.

Norwegian had something similar albeit with less success. There are two official written standards for Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk. Bokmål retains more Danish influence, and reflects Norwegian dialects with more Danish influence (especially urban centres like Oslo), while Nynorsk is more 'pure' Norwegian, favouring more traditional grammar. Notably, the three gender system features more prominently in Nynorsk, where it is mandatory, as opposed to Bokmål, where the feminine can optionally be given masculine determiners, which is similar to how Swedish and Danish have collapsed the masculine/feminine genders into a single common gender. The movement for Nynorsk was also in the 19th century, powered by Norwegian nationalism, but only about 10-15% of Norwegians use it.

Notably, though, in both cases the efforts to revert foreign influences on the language came from a grassroots, bottom-up approach, rather than a change from the top. And for the more successful case of Icelandic, well, linguistic reform is probably easier if only 300,000 people (probably much less a hundred years ago) speak it.
Afaik this applies exactly like this to most of/all of europe.

I still pay $0.15 per sms. Ok i'm on a prepaid plan but still, that's ridiculous. And my separate (very slow, but more than good enough for HN, voip etc.) mobile internet only sim is $4/month. Of of course with signal that is effectively almost a flatrate for all calls and texts.
Hi, I have updated it with some additional stackoverflow links, you can see many people have struggled with similar issues over time.
in WA it was called peanut paste back in the 90s and prior. Uncommon to hear it now though
Japan has a much better mass transit system and a culture that does not embrace the automobile like the US has. Plus, Japan has far more access to fresh water that California does. And Tokyo doesn't have that many skyscrapers. In fact, for a city of its size it has surprisingly few.

Even if we could magically upgrade every SFH to a multi-family building we'll have very unlivable cities with infrastructure falling well short of comfortably supporting the resulting population. So a realistic and worthwhile path to 100M would be a long and very expensive process.
That was a publicity campaign by Facebook. It never would have grown organically from the open source community because it solves a problem only a handful of companies on the planet have - to offload processing power to the client.
And farm where? The aquifer used by most of the midwest is over half drained and can't be replenished. South of there is dessert. North is cold. East is populous and mountainous.
I think the same thing whenever people talk about how it’s so expensive that nobody can afford it.
> money that expires unless you spend it on goods

Why would anyone want that?
Only 72 hours a week, that's adorable ... When the iPhone first released at Apple I was working 100ish hours a week ...

In all seriousness, I was in my 20s, Apple was the dream job, and I was foolish. When you work those kind of hours you are donating money to those own the company. If you are lucky like I was you'll get some of it back. Most do not.
At that age he'd be collecting a government pension yes?
I got the sense he laments others lack of depth in what he has experienced, "They only stayed a moment and didn't see everything!". The irony is that others wonder about his lack of breadth of experience. "He hasn't explored enough and didn't see everything!"

People are different.
Sindre is an example. But I agree with @asddubs. It's pretty rare.
https://github.com/sindresorhus
I am employed at-will and I have yearly written proof that my employer is happy with my work.
And you think that's the default? You know how many people/farmers actually care about animals?

The exception doesn't make the rule.

( My dad was a veterinarian. So I have a lot of personal experience on the subject, under belgian law ofc)
he eats for a few bucks a day, never eats out, never travels, etc. he probably doesn't need much cash to live
I'm against death penalty but for the sake of discussion I don't think it's purpose is vengeance or torture but because society deems that some crimes are irredeemable and are a way of avoiding having to keep the criminal detained indefinitely.
Thanks for this comment. I must have misread at what income the 9% rate kicks in. Is your friend an assistant prof, or does he/she have tenure?
> How could that be?

Florida SWAT raided the home of the person trying to publish the real numbers https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55230764
We've already got half of that, it is called inflation. Anyone who tries to accumulate wealth by holding money in a bank account will either die young or poor.

Anyone who tried to hold cash through COVID probably isn't going to do too crash hot either, there is a lot more money around now than there used to be.
Exactly. Kotlin was actually explicitly designed to be like this and is directly competing with Java as a drop in replacement for it. Consider e.g. the seamless integration into Spring and Android, which both continue to support Java as well. Writing Android applications in Scala is a bit of an uphill battle (but I've heard of people attempting it). Writing Spring applications in Scala is possible in principle, I guess, but it's just not a thing that is very common or that is supported by Spring. Spring and Android have documentation with code samples in both Java and Kotlin, and extensive Kotlin specific stuff in the form of e.g. extension functions. At this point Kotlin is the preferred language for both even though they both maintain compatibility with Java as well and will for years to come.

Spring is about half the server side JVM ecosystem. Android represents a good chunk of frontend usage. Kotlin is a first class citizen for both; Scala just isn't. It has its own frameworks of course but they are kind of niche in comparison.

I think it's great that Java is slowly evolving to have features that other languages have. Kotlin supports Java's records as of this week's 1.5.0 release via an annotation. Meaning that if you have Java code that needs to interact with Kotlin code, you can write a data class that from the Java side looks like a record if you put the right annotation on it. It's a compatibility feature that's only relevant if you are planning to use or support Java. Another notable feature that landed with this week's release include sealed interfaces (it already had sealed classes). You can use both with data classes of course.
That was pretty much my impression on the issue, from conversations with several people who lived there. It's a huge country, and all of the regions have their own language, and it's rare for one of the regional languages to be understood more than 1 or 2 regions away. Picking any one region's language to be the Official National Language would piss off everyone in the other regions whose languages weren't chosen. English is understood moderately well everywhere and allows a universal national language without seeming to unduly favor any particular region.
Their tactic of degrading ux when you don't give them permissions has been happening for a long time.

Accounts in WhatsApp have a username, but if you don't enable contact permissions on your phone, they will only display the contact phone number in the conversation list view. The username is there if you click into their profile from the chat, but WhatsApp wants to punish me instead.
A well known macOS It developer created an app that can give you admin rights and take them away with an app.

https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges

Essentially you can still be the admin on your account but this app can make you a general user. When you need to install anything, run the app and grant yourself temporary admin rights. If you deploy this to employees with a management system, you can define default reversion to general user. It addresses the need to not allow users to be admins all the time, grants only when the need it for installation.
3 states would work best. 1 NorCal which would be heavily blue. SoCal which would lean blueish-purple which Orange County and SD. Then you can carve out a Central Valley state which would be red.

In effect we'd be adding 2 new senators for central/southern California, and it would be 1 red and 1 blue.
To me it feels like that’s why it’s expensive. Either that or it just very coincidentally started getting extremely expensive at the same time housing segregation and home-loan discrimination were banned federally (1968 and 1974 respectively. People ask “WTF happened in 1971?” (https://wtfhappenedin1971.com) like they never took a high school “american history” class.