skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son and I got our M1s this summer and a couple used Ninja 250s to use as starter bikes.

Observations: This is a good hobby to start when you're younger. My 19yo son picked it up quickly, hasn't had any problems, handles the bike well and is of course, fearless.

Myself, on the other hand, being 49yo and a klutz in general, has come close to disaster more than a handful of times, pulled my hamstring badly among other bumps and bruises, and it's only been a few months. I've yet to get to the point where the fun outweighs the fear. I've definitely had moments in the Santa Cruz mountains, but for the most part I'm seriously debating whether I'm going to keep riding.
From what I've heard, a big issue is kids playing on their parents' phones and just clicking OK to all the in-app coins that they need to continue playing. And then at the end of the month, the parents receive a $2000 credit card bill and are shocked.

Here's an example of a "game" that is basically gambling for kids:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coin-master/id406889139

And here's the class action lawsuit where I heard about it:
https://www.classaction.org/news/coin-master-mobile-casino-g...

Here's another game that looks like it was for kids, but is actually a "social casino": https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coin-kingdom/id1462733996

Or this one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/piggy-boom/id1129050711
"I am completely hooked on this game! I absolutely love it! I spend more money on this game than I do my own self! It’s worth it though!"

Also, this article is excellent:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/monetizing-children

"the design technique that Zynga describes as “fun pain”, the idea is to inflict some very uncomfortable situation on a player in their game, and then offer to remove that situation in return for money. While the vast majority of adults will make the assessment that it is in their best interest to not spend the money and to just exit the application that is designed to hurt them, it is biologically harder to come to this conclusion if the decision maker is a child."

"retailers will sell Zynga time cards for cash to children of any age, without the presence of an adult"
Scanning content on-server means that a single false positive is sitting there, ready to be maliciously misused by any prosecutor who cares to issue a dragnet warrant.

These sorts of dragnet warrants have become increasingly common.

>Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/

It's not like we haven't seen Google's on-server data hordes misused to falsely accuse users before.

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for MURDER and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...

Apple's system is designed to protect you from being associated with false positives, until that threshold of 30 matches is reached. Even then, the next step is to have a human review the data.

Google has never been willing to hire human beings to supervise the decisions an algorithm makes.
Unless you have huge batteries, 90w constant draw is 2.1kW a day.

With all that other hardware, you'd have to be essentially tethered to the grid, or be recharging your batteries from grid regularly. (looks like you have 6x100 watt solar panels which won't do much for that kind of consumption)
I'm not on the nix train but this affects rvm too if a particular version isn't available.
https://archive.is/6LyYi
There's a lot of repetition, e.g. 'nowadays'. 3 uses in one post.
Yeah, this is why SB9/10 work - they override the problem of that vocal minority of locals.
> The prevailing advice simply wouldn't be to start moving more for the obese/morbidly obese if this were the case

Considering the state of the obesity epidemic, maybe that prevailing advice is not working well?
Why didn't they give you increases as you delivered and showed them value? This is always the key question to ask. If you are worth 40% more to them now, why didn't they keep you happy before you went looking? Did you ask for more and they said no, so you went looking and now suddenly they are ok with it?

IMO, accepting counter offers is almost always a mistake. Take the new opportunity, get new experiences and learn from others. There are times this could be bad advice, but as a general rule this is correct. You went on market for a reason, if money is the only reason you still have to ask why your current employer didn't address it along the way. If you've been there 3 years you shouldn't be 40% behind market.

BTW In a good company the promotion requirement here is so they can sell it to management and try to make it not look like you are "disloyal". In some companies this is because they stick to rigid salary bands (nearly always a bad idea when based on primarily title). In bad companies this is just a trick to make you feel more valued and hold you to a different standard which they will find ways to make sure you fail to either replace you or ironically to trap you.

FWIW, I think the disloyal crap is total BS, but I've been in too many meetings over my career where it is a factor so just be aware.
Don't worry, the taxpayer has it covered
Buried towards the bottom of the essay is the fact that the author has accepted a full time offer from Facebook. So yeah, the last year of college (and a degree stamp) is meaningless as long as he plans to stay in the tech world.
In the past I wrote a simple formula evaluator in Python I used to replicate some multicell calculation - the spreadsheet I had took the form of mostly simple algebra being performed in a scanning pattern against various small windows in time (rows) from a set of columns. I just extracted the cell formula definitions and transformed them.

It may not be that hard to replicate the set of formulas you need to get 90%+ of your excel model.

If someone implements a 90% reimplementation of Excel in Python that would be a really useful library for stuff like this. You could do some neat stuff with dependency identification too.
What I meant was that for specialties that require more hands-on, emergency (life or death situation) practice such as cardiac/neuro/ortho surgeons (including anesthesiologists because they are part of the surgical teams), we should not allow anyone to easily get licenses (I will not be the judge of whether the current amount of training required for these specialists is enough or not to folks with better knowledge).

Most of all, I believe that we can train capable internal medicine/primary care doctors in just 5-6 years instead of 8+3 years that is required now.
I don't even think a good chunk of what's at the top of HN is anything other than "SEO'd content". The quality is definitely diminishing in recent months.
No background audio.
By looking at how it was applied immediately after creation
They're not going to leave until it threatens their profit line, and even then others will grow to fill their place.

Food deserts aren't and never were created by shoplifting.
"I realize that I’m in the final stretch of college now, but I just can’t bear to waste another second bogged down by things my brain screams are irrelevant when I think (dare I say know) I can replicate everything college can give and hopefully more."

I had to double check that this was no satire, as this is remarkably ignorant. Ironically it demonstrates that no, Simon does not "know", what a classical general education is and what it is supposed to provide, specifically when delivered in an environment that considers academic knowledge and research as valuable as ends, not means.

Dear Simon, a four year education at a credible institution is neither about resume-packing skills nor partying to build a network...

I can't decide if such misplaced self confidence is more demonstrative of generic individual hubris based on no actual world experience,

or an indictment of the conversion over the last decades of four-year college education into a de facto half-million-dollar glorified boot camp,

but either way, what a shame.
> Apple continues to support OS updates on the iPhone 6s, a device released almost 6 years ago. Nor is it reserved for their flagship models - the 2016 iPhone SE also gets the latest and greatest.

I'm not sure whether this is a good thing though. After each major update, older devices become less and less usable. I would appreciate security updates, but I'd gladly skip all these new features that make my phone crawl.
Not to negate the issues presented, but the severity seems overblown. Since when is using social media to talk to friends or going to a show of the nature implied here a "normal human thing"? Pretty sure majority of the world's population are living their lives without these. Seems like first world problems. Maybe that's the real issue plaguing americans, and I say this as an american myself, they have too many "first world problems" and don't appriciate simpler things.
That's CPI, not inflation. CPI has a number of ways that a thumb may be put on the scale, for example hedonic quality adjustments seem to me to be highly subjective.
Intermittent fasting and the leangains regime show that what you eat, and when, is as important as how many calories you ingest.

To lose weight exercise is a 20-30%, and not even necessary under caloric restriction.

At the end it's all thermodynamics.
Although I'm generally pro more nuclear, this argument isn't massively compelling to me. The failed reactors of the past were considered safe when they were built.
One pound bags of flour coming to grocery stores through the grocery supply chains were in high demand, because previously almost no one bought flour on that channel. Meanwhile, bakeries kept on trucking along, AFAICT, with an uninterrupted supply of 50lb bags from the non-retail supply chain.
So I guess it's still using gdb like it's 1999.
> It's almost like there's something cultural happening in America that's making everyone assume the worst when interacting with people they don't know...

I would probably compare it moreso to just the abysmal state of quality of support, even for expensive or important services. Call your health insurance provider and try to get something changed/fixed in a reasonable fashion and you'll be met with red tape/nonsense/phone tag. I am a person that usually starts out angry on any customer support line, only because of the shenanigans it takes to get someone on the phone in the first place.
Pretty sure there's an xkcd for this.
> and #5 is illegal

Only if that's an attempt to evade legal requirements, rather than (for example) moving personal money out of accounts that the ex-spouse has access to.
Instead of regressive taxes on work there should be taxes on monopolies like the location value of land.
> For 99% of you that means living far away from your preferred locale among people you probably loath.

Parent comment is vitriolic but not actually wrong. Myself, I take great comfort in the idea of huge swaths of liberal, well-educated millennials and xennials migrating out of coastal cities and into small towns across the South and Midwest. Can you work remotely? Want to own your own home on a multi-acre lot for $100k, and live in a place with sunshine and warm weather nine months out of the year?

Sure, you'll end up living in the most conservative parts of deeply red states -- but try it. Live among people you disagree with -- we're all still Americans, it'll be OK -- and if enough of your friends and fellow Ivy alumns make the jump you'd be surprised how easily you could turn Texas or Georgia nicely purple.

We've got to end the big sort, at any cost. And the hilarious difference in cost of living is probably our last, best hope.
Several people maintain awesome-x lists. Those, GitHub search and web search are my go to resources.
Expose any Qt5 program via VNC
Personally I wouldn't recommend others' books to someone who is left unfulfilled by such a huge list. I would rather recommend writing or other subjectively-pinned activities, to hold the subject accountable and help them stay out of the critic zone long enough to find their way into more fulfilling growth.
My first year at Columbia in 1994, the university set up a single computer lab in the engineering building (<https://cuit.columbia.edu/computer-lab-technologies/location...>) with them. Although they booted into HP-UX and its Motif window manager, MAE provided Mac emulation and, in practice, was usually used because most students were unfamiliar with X Window, of course.

MAE was slow and unstable in my experience unlike yours, and by the time I graduated Macs, I believe, replaced them, which made the lab consistent with what most of the other computer labs had.
….? Or maybe there is a interesting and expected answer that provides a learning experience? It doesn’t hurt to ask.
I stayed away from the beta but hopped on as soon as this was released. Loving the bottom tab bars in safari, I don’t know what all the fuss was about.

Interesting that this “add comment” button on hacker news has some weird default style with a bright blue background.
My biologists friends on twitter were all up in the air about a "Vault Organelle"[0] the other day. Knocking out this organelle doesn't seem to do anything, but everyone seems to agree it must have some corner case function to still be around.

The vault is not a new discovery, but since it doesn't exist in yeast or fruit flies it has somehow not gotten a lot of attention...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_(organelle)
Big forums can cost a lot of money to run and managing the spam can be a mess these days. Not only that the boards that have enough proper tools to deal with the spam aren't free. Sure there are plugins for some forum software that fix a few things, but often you have to install 6 plugins and that still isnt enough, plus then you have to do updates and hope it doesnt break those un-official plugins.
That and Object Pascal being replaced by C++.
> I think also the process to get support is part of what causes the loss of patience.

This exactly. In my city, Comcast's phone support is nothing more than "Did you restart your modem? We'll send out a tech", which can take days.
The idea behind reading older books is that they're already proven to be useful - it's a filter for you to spend less time on useless information. It's generally called the "Lindy effect"
> Most religions have a live-and-let-live attitude when it comes to other people's religious beliefs.

This does not apply to monotheistic faiths. The first problem is that they claim that their god is the only god. The second problem is that they prescribe punishments (death, eternal hellfire etc) for those who do not accept their god. True believers then go out and implement these policies making liberal use of both the carrot and the sword. This has been observed everywhere from ancient Egypt under the rule of Amenhotep IV to modern religions like communism where persecution of other religions is almost a given.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenism
>You keep arguing from the perspective that the school/company necessarily has [...]

Because I am able to separate what is reality and what my ideal is. My ideal aligns closely with yours. But I try not to let it cloud what the reality is; mainly that organizations which provide assets for free to employees/students are allowed to stipulate conditions of use, one of which may be monitoring.

>If I loan a friend something I don't have the right to spy on them, I trust them

You are absolutely allowed to give a laptop to a friend and say "By the way, this has a keylogger on it. If you want to use it, just know that keystrokes are being recorded". You, as the owner of that device, have every right to do that. The key being that you notified the other party (like, for example, terms and conditions of use). Trust doesn't even come into the equation. Would that make you a shitty friend? Yes. Can you still do it? Yes.

>And if you get pissed off at some point in the future about our surveillance state, take a good look in the mirror and figure out if you're part of the problem or not and if you might have been flat out brainwashed

Jesus that escalated quickly. I am saying that organizations are allowed to have terms of use on their equipment, one of those terms being that the device is monitored, and suddenly I'm the cause of the surveillance state.
> One man's "having to read between the lines"

Well apparently there are a whole lot of people , in this thread who agree with me, that this was all pretty unclear.

If most people are unable to understand you or your arguments, that is the fault of the communicator, for being so bad at communicating.
>will have no choice but to switch to a more management role If I want to keep advancing in my career

Why keep advancing? There's no requirement that you actively look for or take promotions. If you make enough money to live comfortably, why would you need to keep moving up?

If the bottleneck is at 150k a year, I'd personally be cool with just stopping. There's no reason to accept a promotion if the job doesn't interest you.
> Systemd's core dump utility stuffs the files in /var/lib/systemd/coredump with 640 permissions and ownership of root:root regardless of who owned the process.

This isn't true for +ACL builds of systemd, look at the output of `getfacl /var/lib/systemd/coredump/$foo` and you'll see.
Skype for business had a similar issue with screen sharing on Windows.
> Unfortunately, none of this applies to Excel because Excel doesn't work well with revision control. Why? Because Excel is not a source file. It is a database coupled with code. [...] The path to enlightement is a more sophisticated revision control systems - ones that can understand Excel.

This is where the author lost me. The "path to enlightenment" is not to build new VCS software. The solution is simply to stop coupling your database with your code. Embrace the Unix philosophy and stop perpetuating monolithic software.

Excel is a spreadsheet editor. It was never designed to be a database. It can act as a quick-and-dirty database with minimal setup and training required. Sometimes that's all you need and Excel is a fine tool for those situations. But it has limitations.

Stop trying to force Excel as the solution to all your problems and don't be afraid to learn a new tool once in a while.
You are correct, the proper way to do deletions in ClickHouse is to use partitions, and drop partitions. That is probably good enough for most analytical use cases, but YMMV.
the dog must testify, preferably in congress
I had the first generation iPhone SE. Great phone. Some part of the phone degraded though and it started rapidly overheating, and then the iPhone SE (second generation) came out.

If yours dies, I recommend that one. It’s a love letter to the first generation.
Because they want you to move to Windows and proclaim how much better Teams is within the Microsoft ecosystem. The goal is making sure that enterprise doesn't like Linux desktops.
Billions of doses of Ivermectin have been taken by humans.

https://www.merck.com/stories/mectizan/
Excellent comment archeology, this is correct. :)
Yeah, I'm not sure what "risk" this person is taking. They can afford to move around the country while not working, plus they already have an offer from Facebook (which would likely be > $100k) for employment.
Ask HN: Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?
The title says it all. To me, the most important component of a wiki is search. With that said, why is confluence wiki search basically unusable?

(by unusable, I mean I can never find the page I am looking for when I search. Basically, I have to maintain my own wiki of important links I may need to reference in the future)
That’s the summer price between 4pm and 9pm in PG&E territory, yes. Avoiding this rate is pretty straightforward.
Who builds new homes if builders can't own them pre-sale? I imagine you have a carve out for that, but who qualifies as a builder?

What about people who want to live in cities? How do they come together to build say a small condo building? Do we only allow co-ops? How is that financed?

When you say "Americans", do you only mean citizens or permanent residents? Where do temporary residents live?

How do people move to new cities/states? Where will the new housing come from?
They should be imprisoned for theft and allowed to appeal their summary sentence later. Guilty until proven innocent is the way they like to play things, so give them a taste of their own medicine.
It's because my book database doesn't have it. In fact my model identifies 132 mentions of 1984, some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20285306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12518804

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22724495
RIP American Dream.
Yes. The problem is majority who use it are not financially responsible.
You could also do a slipstream build and make a windows iso that had all your programs and drivers pre-installed. It was very handy in the days when windows seemed to require reinstalling every few months.
Because it doesn't actually work. It helps a tiny little bit, in the places that are actually somewhat constrained (like SF/BayArea specifically). But it's not any kind of significant fix. Housing is an investment asset for stock market folks, it doesn't follow a Econ-101 understanding of "supply" and "demand" in any meaningful way.

The Midwest and the South are both way ahead of California on the whole "just build more housing" thing, for example, and have been for many years. And yeah, it makes us somewhat cheaper than a coastal city if you have California dollars to burn. But our Price-to-Income-Ratio's are still in the high 5-7+ range too, just like everywhere else.

We have basically zero population growth, and every single stray piece of land is getting built on right now (record high construction, record high new housing starts, for the past three years straight) and housing prices still rise 10% to 15% every single year like clockwork, with no end in sight.

"Just build more" sounds really pretty, but that alone will never get housing prices back down to a real-world-affordable figure for most people.
I wouldn’t say we’re in a bubble, even though the numbers look like the last bubble. At least in my local market there’s a small number of home sales being distorted by a handful of people at the top of the income distribution.

What we’re seeing is a lack of housing, not middle class people buying up housing they can’t afford.
"The sad part about this is that for the most part it has been solved"

I doubt it has solved basic physics, though. When a huge, fat SUV overlooks you at > 100 km/h - then yes, you want all the protection gimmicks avaiable - but chances are you still wake up in hospital - if you are lucky.

I had the same experience, I was in hospital and feeling like sh* - but next to me was a motorcycle accident. He put my misery into perspective.
Partly true. It's because my wife is an international medical graduate (IMG), so she had to do a lot more work than local (US) grads to show that she is qualified. Having said that, the local grads don't have it easier if you read the comments in this post. I have a few US friends who were pre-meds and are now professional doctors. I know that they had to put a lot of effort to signal to the programs (e.g., research publications, volunteering at big-name clinics/hospitals, etc.) that they are worthy of the residency training (at competitive programs of course).
Then link and/or discuss the newsworthy event, not the market movement.

If you think the Chinese loan company is going to be a problem, feel free to discuss that as the core topic. But looking at the US stock market when the Chinese Bond market is erupting is a bit of a non-sequitur, don't you think?

Given the low value of VIX, the US investors seem rather calm about the event right now. It is news if VIX spikes, as options are bought when investors are scared. But 2% movements and under 30 VIX is rather ordinary, as far as US stock markets go.