skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a correct calculation, however the US has sovereign wealth funds which are usually administered on a state level and are usually orietned towards a specific funding goal (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_School_Fund) , as well as social security.
The Social Security Trust Fund is a sovereign wealth fund it's not called like that due to historic convention, but it does operate like one.

Overall a pretty stark difference between the funds is the source and volatility of the revenue, US funds tend to be considerably more safe in those regards, and the how and where it is invested.
55-60% of Norway's (and there are calls to increase this to 70%) fund is invested in the international stock markets, US funds are for the most part invested locally (within the US) and in considerably less volatile commodities.

A large scale financial crisis can erase much of Norway's SWF while having considerably less effect on US social security and state level SWF's.
"being nitpicky here but we shouldn't be promoting "time in the gym" as a measurement of a workout's success. frankly, if you're doing an "intense" workout for "2 hours" something's wrong."

Some background, and you can adjust to fit your personal situation ...

I am 39 years old and in order to do (relatively) heavy squats and deadlifts I require about 45 minutes of prehab, stretching, warmups and accessory exercises.

I also have 3 kids so I can't do two weight workouts per week.

Therefore, I "lift weights" for two hours each week, the first 45 minutes of which is a fairly intense and comprehensive lead-up to two (yes, just two) sets of squats, followed by the rest of my leg/back exercises, then 15 minutes of upper body prehab/stretching/warmup and 30 mins of actual lifting.

So yeah - 25 and no kids ? By all means, enjoy your hour long workout :)
You may want to check your display settings. Possibly too much contrast.

Many TVs have horribly excessive color saturation and contrast settings by default, in order to look sharp and colorful (specifically, more sharp and colorful than the next brand) at the store. Maybe that applies to computer monitors too.
Nope, world doesn't end, but scaled images look wrong, some more than others. For more examples see http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
> Because there is no alternative.

Just out of curiosity and for purely educational purposes (I admittedly know very little about the topic), how about something like I2P or FreeNet? Are these at all viable alternatives?

What other choices do we have for "anonymity" outside of the usual VPN/Proxy?
What's annoying about automatic faucets is that with most of them you can't change the temperature of the water, and 95% of the time it's too damn hot.
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Interesting that Nim (lang) is used in the examples- good readable code too
They trained it with some flags to say whether an enemy or item was onscreen, but it ran on pixel data only. I'm sure a bit more work could get it to train on pixels only as well, but my guess is it would take more time and tweaking than they were capable of applying.
Norway's oil money story is one of the weirdest. Are there any examples in history where a country has saved up such a big stash? Are they planning to retire young, as a nation?
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Out of curiosity, what happens when you go to this page in a private window:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/en

Note the "en" in the URL and "English" in the language selector in the top right of the page.

The button text and input placeholder text is not in English for me, nor is the text at the bottom of the page. Blogger, Google groups and I think other Google stuff, like Flights, is the same.
Not downloadable on 13" mid 2009 macbook pro
"The solution involves cutting holes in the wings of the jets and removing the bad insulation"

That doesn't sound like a long term design.
What I would say to this guy is this.

Your "virtual" life is also real. The news that you read, happen in real world. The people whom you talk to are real people. There's no "real life" and "non-real life". Everything that happens to you is "real life" by definition. That includes social networks etc.

The only thing that matters is whether it is a life that you're comfortable with, or not. And there is certainly a point that many people are not actually comfortable, but forced into comforming.

Being uncomfortable about it because it's "not real" is a fallacy, though.
A professional is in sort of a weird position union-wise though. He often is part of some organization of professionals. That organization doesn't negotiate one employment contract for all (or even large portions of) its members, but it does have a lot of sway over whether he can be hired in that profession and give him a convenient higher power to support his refusal to commit some sort of professional misconduct. "Union" definitely has the wrong connotation though.
> Tor is not, nor has it ever been, trustworthy. Hell, you can still try active deanonymization for youself: https://github.com/Miserlou/Detour

Is it even possible to protect against end-to-end time correlation attacks without massively increasing latency?
In this vein, Some very interesting work is being done by the church group at Harvard to encode cells to withstand all viral infections at the genetic level.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101657-synthetic-super...
As I said, crypto is not CS but CS can be used to implement cryptography.

Crypto is no more CS then it is EE. You can implement cryptographic elements in hardware but you don't see the math people setting up shop in the EE labs at a college so I don't know why you see them setting up shop in computer labs.
This must be the 3rd time I see this on HN in the last 5-6 years.
A suggestion to improve upon the user experience of navigating a notebook: http://www.highfivehq.com/#method

The doubly linked list approach might be more useful if entries aren't naturally in chronological order, or if it's more of a graph than a list :)

I also primarily use pen & paper for most things, but even with log entries (as well as simple bullet-journal structures), I struggle to effectively manage projects. I was hoping for more detail on the structures used by others.
I desperately need a mentor. Such people are difficult to find.
The point was that so much has changed in the previous ~80 years that I don't think it's ridiculous to think things will be radically different ~80 years into the future.
Yes, in the Buddhist view, you accumulate karma no matter what you're doing (even if you're procrastinating something), so long as you have an idea of self. So the only way to "really do nothing" is to free yourself from samsara (not a physical place, but the continuity of craving).
You're not claiming you personally drove $X in revenue. You're claiming that the project did, and that you were critical or at least instrumental to its success. If you can back those claims, you're not lying and you have no cause to worry over your honesty. If you can't back them, don't make them.
Information in teleportation can't travel faster than light. Teleportation is not finished until data is transmitted at light speed.
Not sure that makes much sense; tablets are mostly a binding agent that's mixed with a fairly small amount of active ingredient. In most cases, you simply have to change the ratio of binder to achieve the desired dose. Even a 10mg tablet would be very small indeed.

More likely it's demand from people that generally think 'more = better'.
From /r/TOR:

"Old news. This was fixed in 6.0.5.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-605-released

Interesting note: The author is part of the rotor browser fork that is going no where so far. Doesn't look like the reported issue has been fixed there. In fact, no commits since before this blog post."

https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/53u1cd/tor_browser_exp...
You missed part of the post - I wasn't suggesting doing both in a day, I was suggesting that each of them was a good candidate to try in a day.

Also, see my follow-up comment about lifting for 2 hours. tl;dr is that I'm 39 and it takes 45 mins just to prehab/stretch/warmup for heavy squats. YMMV.
You forgot to read the next sentence:

> Perceptive readers will note that 100 does not actually show up on a d100 or rand(100).

That makes the whole point ;)
A four year degree is a certification. What would a "real certification" do differently to make it "real"?

> would simplify interviewing and reduce the "whiteboard hazing"

I doubt it. If a certification is too specific it'll exclude an enormous amount of engineers. Make it too broad and then companies will still have to do the same interviews they do now to verify that a person is a good fit for the specific job opening they want to fill.

I'm eager to hear your proposal on a certification method that doesn't exclude wide swaths of existing and future engineers based on your specific definition of what a software engineer is and isn't, but at the same time is specific enough that having the certification actually means something to other people.
I'm hoping you're being sarcastic, because in my little world that has never been true.

My observations say the correlation is pretty much the other way around: You work more hours because you can't get the stuff done during your allotted time. You're not learning new stuff, you're doing the same you've been doing the previous 8 hours of that: Struggle.

Of course there is brilliant people that just enjoy their work and stay longer every day; but staying longer is not the reason why they're brilliant. Being brilliant, specially on a trade that has a strong creative component, it's not something you can always train. Or at least not by repeating the same tasks over and over.
Why would an 80+ year project receive all of its funding on the first day?
Definitely feeling that, I had to switch to a much-less-effective asthma med because my bad startup company insurance doesn't cover the one I've used for almost my entire post-childhood life. Then, couple that with the typical startup office dogs, and... wheeze.
"Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future." – Yoda
3bn is, one assumed, being used as leverage rather than a primary mover.

If you have matching donations or can kickstart an otherwise self-sustaining process, the end-to-end cost doesn't have to add up to 3bn to be feasible with a 3bn pool of initial capital.

Think of it as venture research.
The thing about both Buffett and Soros is that they get deals that the general investor, or even really good and kinda famous investor, would never get. For example, Buffet did 300 million in unsecured loans (but with front-of-line payback) with Harley Davidson in 2009 at 15 percent, essentially to cover customer financing (i.e. cashflow) not because the company was in any real trouble. You and I would be lucky to find that sort of return from the riskiest loan, let alone a profitable manufacturing company. AND, Buffet could have made more than a Billion extra if he'd bought stock instead of debt, so even when he's wrong he's still getting a sweetheart deal.
Get me a drink from the refrigerator Contest
Use the Nexus brand for them. It's not like they're using that anymore.
An important part is that no information is actually transmitted through the qubits. Information is only effectively "transferred" when measurements can be correlated. So, you can pass a key through the qubit, but the other side won't know the key until the additional measurement information arrives for correlation.

A third party also viewing the entangled qubit would necessarily modify the measurements also, causing correlation failure. A man-in-the-middle attack would only be effective if they also intercepted the measurement information and replaced it with their own. In which case, yes naturally someone who can intercept all your communication and replace it arbitrarily can arbitrarily control your communication.

As is used today, signing the measurement information would be an effective mechanism for preventing this. The attacker should be unable to correctly sign their own measurement information, and so you will be able to detect that the key transfer is unreliable.

Once the key is reliably transferred, then it's theoretically a secure one-time pad. That is, you know that it was transferred to the party at the other end of the entangled qubit, and that it was not intercepted along the way.
Using Tor may actually be less secure that using a normal browser.

At least when I connect to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. I don't expect to get hit by a driveby JS exploit, and Google does help with "safe browsing".

With Tor, you're one HTTP website (or not HSTS website) away from a driveby virus, with no way to tell that you're connecting to a dangerous exit node
FWIW, we found that we can dilute Dr. Brommer's soap with water and it works really well in those same foaming soap dispensers (and it foams!). Pure organic saponified oils for washing my hands... for the win.
Offline, I mean. As in "I read an email just before going offline, now can I re-open that email".
And even farther in the long run make it possible to virtually test therapies against arbitrary genetic information.
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No, if you sell widgets, making widgets is a profit center. It has assignable revenues. Cost centers are things like accounting and HR. Engineering can be either a profit center or a cost center, depending on the line of business.
It is laughable to assert "half of the viewership" would be male when they make up the majority of the workforce in engineering roles.
Bootstrap - was this meant as a comment thread reply?
http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/FUD

> libjpeg/SIMD predates libjpeg v7 by several years, which means that our SIMD extensions are not compatible with some of the new features in libjpeg v7 and v8. Thus, merging with the upstream libjpeg code would have been very difficult, if not impossible (more recent comments by the current maintainer of libjpeg indicated that our SIMD extensions would not have been accepted, anyhow.)

> In fact, since jpeg-7, every new release of the IJG's software has broken backward ABI compatibility with prior releases (needlessly, in the case of jpeg-9), and both jpeg-8 and jpeg-9 introduced new, non-standard image formats that couldn't be decoded by previous IJG releases or by other JPEG codecs.
Sometimes payment goes through a third party like BrainTree. So if the merchant wants to minimize the PCI-DSS liability they may use JS to send the data directly to the processor.
Thank you so much! This is great
AI Is the New New Thing (And It’s Taking Over)
He doesn't have user mode yet AFAICT.
Well really you need to say "didn't think users would install any operating system ever" to fit with the information here. Pre-installed Win10 being the only option doesn't seem to fit with the idea that Lenovo would want to sell more PCs.

I guess switching modes, a la progressive enhancement, is impossible with disk access then??
> diagnosing and curing software defects

That's literally my job right now. If I could claim the title of Doctor I'd totally be for certification (but for purely, very selfish reasons).
I found this Veritasium video nice for explaining quantum entanglement at a super basic level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
make sure you have someone close by who feels comfortable telling you when you are wrong
Work with a talented team. You learn things you would never learn otherwise as a solo dev. The human interaction side, writing more universal code. You'd be amazed how much code makes complete sense to the author but isn't clear to team mates.

Learning new things on your own is good. Having a good employer that encourages on the job learning is very important. Whatever you use this year might be obsolete the next. Action Script anyone?

Don't pressure yourself to work all the time. Maintain a healthy balance. Eventually I think every developer goes through a period of being overwhelmed. You can't learn it all, even if you work 15 hour days. Learning is a journey so pace yourself.
Look, the details of FBs operation are certainly not a concern for the consumers: the consumers have the right to get their privacy respected and there is no right FB can invoke to counter it.

The truth is that people do pay for messaging on the internet (email), just not the huge user base a popular free service can get.

As things stands, it does look like the only way to make lots of money out of huge user bases is by selling targeted ads, which in practice seems to be a rather unsavory business that shouldn't be trusted.
Outside of the realm of speculative theories about how measurement works (none of which have managed to really shed any light on the matter yet), there's not much known here other than "that's what happens when you use the prescribed rules for measuring a quantum system on a particular quantum state we call entangled." I promise if we ever get a concrete answer to that question it'll get posted to HN shortly thereafter XD.

> It also sounds like a great way to tell if your information has been unknowingly accessed when it's travelling between two supposedly secure locations.

That's actually one of the currently possible applications of quantum mechanics to cryptography[1]. There are already multiple commercial implementations!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
Not the only reason, and most likely not the primary one.
When adjusted for age Germany has a pretty solid house ownership rate.

Germany is big and has a pretty mobile workforce, in many other countries you are considerably less likely to be moving every 2-5 years across large distances like you are in Germany.

Overall the affordability of housing even when accounting for mortgages and required seed money is considerably better in Germany than in Norway, Sweden or Denmark, and while Germany does have about half the house ownership rate on paper it is also because rent is both available and affordable and is favored by the younger workforce.

One can argue about what is better having to rent until you settle down at the age of 30-35, or buying a house at the age of 19 with decades of mortgage and only having to sell it to move into your parent's house which is still under mortgage.
The house pricing in Oslo rivals NYC these days.

Also while Germany does have a considerable below average age for the EU28, the highest / above average EU28 countries are not those which you would expect, those are the Eastern European countries like Romania, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia etc. countries which were in the USSR/Warsaw Pact or were under socialism at one point or another.
When you give everyone in the country a home at some point in time you'll end up having very high homeownership rates even 50 years later.
Thank you. I'll pick some up and give it a shot.

Are you just re-purposing standard off the shelf foaming soap dispensers or did you buy something in particular (e.g. can I reuse a Method foaming dispenser)?
If you want to mentor semi homeless man without future...
Is it really so easy to control a significant portion of tor exit nodes? I seem to remember there are automatic systems and members of the project checking for suspiscious nodes.
I think this makes sense if you are trying to build skills to start a company yourself, but I think if you want to ride the pay curve, you need to be more agile when it comes to learning new tech.

It is a fact that php devs earn less than RoR engineers. If you want to stay at the top of the pay curve, you need to stay up to date with the latest 'sexy.'
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v6 is the most widely used. v7 and later broke API compatibility. I'm glad of libjpeg-turbo using v6.
....and indeed, there are only Windows 10 drivers.

http://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/Laptops-and-netbook...

WTF is that URL by the way?

Many Skylake systems are like this today. You can boot Windows 7 but there are no USB 2.0 ports so you have no keyboard or mouse. You have to go through an incredibly tedious procedure of slipstreaming USB 3 drivers into the installation, and you don't always know whether you have the right ones from Intel's site.

Restricting disk access seems like a much more foolproof way of closing this off ;-). Businesses can't buy this laptop and use their volume license of Windows 7, which is entirely the point. They can also build in obsolescence in the future by removing driver support.

You might be able to get an OS they're not keen on installed, but if you can't see the disk you've got no chance of getting it installed ;-).
In what way is taxing income any more fair or just? After all, our income belongs to us just as our property does.

It seems odd to object to one but not the other on this basis.
Call yourself whatever the company you want to be hired by wants.
Sure I remember the old winmodem days well, but that was a well known (and very frustrating) problem, which was a stated position of the companies in question.

the customer support bit and wanting to move to the next call is based on my own experience of working in support many years ago, there was a strong temptation to tell the user something to get onto the next call as that was usually your performance metric....
I live in Calgary, Alberta which is pretty much the exact counterpoint to Norway with a very similar historical starting point (size, population, dynamics). It doesn't matter who's in power, all our governments spend like drunken sailors on shore-leave, no sales tax to even out the boom/bust (and counter low-ish taxes), A savings fund that is now empty going into an incredibly rough period.

I'm not says one is better than the other - Norway looks great right now, but didn't when I visited ~10 years ago and my Subway "value" meal cost over $25 CDN - just an interesting counterpoint.

I keep waiting for that manufacturing "bump" from Eastern Canada we were promised from a sinking dollar...
Norway also has foreign debt of greater than $600B or 75% of the Global Fund.
Nice improvement
Define "stay on of your game" first :)

Does it mean "keep or increase your value for your company"? If that's the case: learn to understand the business. Try to walk in your CEO's shoes when making decisions. It'll make your way better. You might learn a new technology and want to apply, but does it play well with your current infrastructure? is it cheap to maintain? will the company be dependent on your existence to fix things?

No technology, programming language or framework would be more valuable than understanding the business.

If it means "know about the latest buzzwords and newest programming languages and frameworks" then I don't know, reading HN to spot the trends maybe? :)

By the way, a golden rule of the so-called battle-hardened professionals is to let someone else fight the battles and learn from their results. In other words, don't be the first to deploy the new buzzword in production :)
Index funds are stocks. The market contracts - frequently. Over long periods of time its gone up.

See the chart below [0] - If you invested all your money in 1965, there is only a 8 year window at the end of the 90s where you would have averaged a 3% return per year. Much of the rest of the time you're looking at negative returns.

[0]: https://static01.nyt.com/packages/images/newsgraphics/2011/0...
You use a similar handle on another very popular discussion website, and you have recently spoken of doing something across state lines which is likely illegal.