skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, it does not violate your rights that you are obligated to pay a portion of your income to the rest of us, in the form of the government.

That is part of the terms of your citizenship here, an agreement to which your parents consented on your behalf when you were too young to consent.

If you refuse to pay the tax, people with guns do not come for you. Your wages may be garnished, or money taken from your savings accounts, because that money you owe in tax is not yours. It's all of ours, to use for public goods and services, to be shared by all of us.

People who refuse to pay tax are stealing from all of us.

People who don't like the tax arrangement in this country are free to 1) try to change it or 2) leave. I welcome both options. Stealing from us, that just makes me angry.
Slightly off topic, but the beauty of Switzerland was such a stark contrast to where I grew up in New Jersey that it almost made me angry. All these people, going about their daily lives in Switzerland seemingly oblivious to the fairy-tale landscape around them!
Just be very, very careful of your home environment. I ended up with neighbors from hell, while caught in a mortgage. Working from home was not an option (yes, they were that bad).

So, in the larger context, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, FIRST. BEFORE you work on your work environment, make sure your home environment is safe and restorative. (And, these days, has a fast enough connection.)

All else will come from this. Remote work. Or, when that's not possible, simple relief from stress when you are away from work.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, FIRST.
Honest question: How can he get all the required permits in such a short amount of time?

(Unless, of course, the usual processes are being overridden by a presidential order.)
Flipping your argument around a bit, you work from 10am to noon every day in order to have civilization.

Starting at 10, you put in about twenty minutes of work defending you, your family, and your possessions from other, less scrupulous folks (defense). Then you spend about forty five minutes putting a little bit aside for your future self (SS, Medicare). After that, another 15 minutes of work provides insurance against becoming catastrophically poor and sick (Medicaid). The rest of the time covers everything else: building infrastructure so you can move around, inspections so that you, your food and your medicine are safe (FDA, USDA, OSHA, EPA), regulations so that you can save and invest with confidence (SEC, CFPB), and the like. You maybe spend thirty seconds, maybe a minute on research (which forms the basis for new treatments that keep you alive, lays the groundwork for new products that delight you, and even helps you understand your place in the universe). At the stroke of noon, you spend an instant working on some things that perhaps you're not sure about (National Endowment for the Arts, NPR (maybe)), and then you're back to making money for yourself.

I would argue this is a fantastic deal!
Any time I meet or hear about someone like this, who comes back to the US after living in western Europe, I really have to wonder about them. Especially this one: she's just complaining a lot about life in America not being as great as in Switzerland. Well, that's no surprise. What did she expect? Even worse, she's just in time for Trumpism. She couldn't have picked a worse time to come back.
How is it bad for society for bright students to excel?
Especially since people get voted out of office went the major indexes lose significant value. So there is significant political pressure to maintain increases just like there is in residential real estate. I have a hunch outside of extraordinary events we won't see many loses in any indexes going forward.
Will the tunnel go from Space X to Elon Musk's house?
As someone who knows a lot of trump supporters and trump haters, this is what people who are afraid of trump need to recognize. I've seen the advice from this article work first hand, and I've seen people who don't understand what the author is talking about make situations worse first hand.
because you're not a single-issue voter, and you agree with the majority of their policies and are actually trying to pull them in a less-extreme direction?

Seriously, your argument is just the party-level version of "why would you run for office in america, a country that elected someone who denies climate change and says vaccines cause autism?" Easy - to lead them in a positive direction!
I remember reading that the majority of government officials in China are either scientists or engineers.

Would be very intriguing to see this play out in a democratic society.
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In my experience, kdb+'s k and q (which is broadly speaking a legibility wrapper around k, which again broadly speaking is APL without unicode) are phenomenally fast for dense time series datasets. Though they can struggle (relatively, still pretty fast) with sparse data that's not really what they are built for. They were built for high-performance trading systems, and trading data is dense.

If you like writing dense, clever regexs (which I do) then you'll love k & q. The amount that you can get done with just a few characters is unparalleled.

Which leads to, IMHO, their main drawback: k/q (like clever regexes) are often write-only code. Picking up another's codebase or even your own after some time has passed can be very hard/impossible because of how mindbendingly dense with logic the code it. Even if they were the best choice for a given domain, I'd try to steer clear of using them for anything other then exploratory work that doesn't need to be maintained.
Without trying to be snarky, this sounds like a post-hoc rationalization.
How do you differentiate between an irrational market and a bad prediction? I'm honestly at a loss
At least that Xeon Phi is a great piece of engineering! :)
You missed the point; I must have been unclear. I'll try again.

The income you and I have today is inextricably tied to the system of government, taxation, and trade that we are in. You can't talk about holding one fixed and changing the other in any meaningful way.

Now the toy examples - two guys on an island have some of their own problems. If it's just you and I on an island we won't bother with currency or payment (this is part of why it's a toy model). Their tends to be furious hand-waving between this sort of example and a "real" economy, and part of the reason for that is much of the mess as it scales up in practice (e.g. in actual history) tends to be creation of exactly the sort of institutions OP is trying to elide. I'm not sure I buy it, but there is at least an argument to be made that they are necessarily tied together.

You can talk about purely theoretical systems with a different basis - but they are completely different systems. Ones that nobody has actually worked out how to implement, for that matter, though there is lots of theorizing. Always worth remembering that the majority of economic theorizing seems to have a fairly loose connection to the observable world.

Fwiw: the desert island scenario, along with Smith's bartering villages are flawed enough to be probably best avoided.
Depends which 75% of regulations he cuts. If he cuts EPA regulations and there is more pollution as a result of the increase in manufacturing this could result in more deaths in the long run. How about safety regulations get cut so manufacturing gets cheaper but more workers die in manufacturing plants, is that ok?
This! So this!

I wish that we could just drop the Dow entirely and focus on the more modern indices like the S&P. I understand it has historic significance, but let the DOW lie.
My theory is if you have real tradeable info/models that is worth more than ads on a blog you keep your mouth shut until the trade is done.
It's scare-mongering because all food is GMO food. There's no reason to put "GMO" on it except to scare people who have an irrational fear of it.
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> American chocolate tastes distinctively different from the kind made in Belgium, Switzerland or the UK - and most of the time, British people agree that the taste is inferior.

I know it's not hip to defend America, but reading this article, especially how they use "Hershey's" and "American Chocolate" synonymously, makes me think of the sort of folks who vacation in the US for two weeks and leave thinking every grocery store is either 7-Eleven or Walmart. If you don't want Hershey's vomit-smelling chocolate, go to Whole Foods, or PCC, or Trader Joe's and pick up something else.

Besides, if you want good chocolate, get it from Russia. (I don't know why, but it's the truth.)
Yeah, I'll keep that in mind -- some people, even programmers, apparently don't like to read carefully. :)
Maybe you can try Setapp.com - service released today. They provide access to more than 60+ apps without paid upgrades and in-app purchased.
>> Non-technical managers often see somebody that's good as a resource that must be overseen and endlessly exploited for as much work output as possible. Bean-counting ensues.

This is probably a highly subjective opinion, but IMO such people lack emotional intelligence -- not only technical expertise, or any idea on WHAT does it mean to actually work if you will.

I know this is less than flattering statement but it has been my face-to-face experience with such people. They were completely unable to execute casual human interaction outside of work, and I believe both phenomena (that plus the un-empathic view on their subordinates) are tightly linked together.
I think we're really yet to see on both these things, markets usually recover from over-reactions quite quickly, so while we did see those immediate slumps, they did recover.

However, in the longer term, the market will adjust to Trump and Brexit accordingly as actual decisions get made and impacts are felt, it's difficult if not impossible to predict what these might be with any degree of accuracy, one could speculate but ultimately there's just too many moving parts.

I'm not sure I'd promote Bogleheads in specific, but the general theme of passive index fund investing is a good one to make. If you don't want to take big risks or pay big fees, that's the way to go - that's what I do at least.
Isn't this similar to adding lanes to freeways? I was always under the impression that actually makes traffic worse, like this article suggests: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
Long ago, after a life event, I decided to ban stress as an "illogical activity".

I've got so good at it, that sometimes I have to feign being stressed so the higher ups don't think I don't give a damn. (I do, I just don't consider work "life or death")
I don't have an answer to that but I bet no one does regardless of whether you are an expert, trader, president or man on the street.
I disagree. A manager is not an individual contributor. It's important for them to have technical skills, but I don't think it's necessary they be on par with an average developer, let alone better than the best.

* The developers they're managing.
The invisible hand supports Trump
Because populism leads very quicky to dark places. Most all systems of government, of vested authority and state monopoly of violence, are to address our instinct towards populism. Egging on the mob never ends well.
Huh, that's clever! (You meant `[]` though, yes?)
Null-hypothesis statistical testing

The parent poster has ... for some inexplicable reason ... decided that this technique is invalid. This reeks of a profound misunderstanding of the technique, and a failure to discriminate between poor use and invalidity.
Currently limited to the part of the US that's east of the Mississippi.
Wait until they get the property tax bill.
>and that religion was crazy.

This is the real sticking point here. If you're not a highly religious person (or at least willing to claim to be one), and not willing to publicly advocate religion in your campaign, then you're not going to get anywhere in the Republican Party.

Republican voters simply will NOT vote for someone who isn't religious. And non-religious voters will not vote for a Republican.
Same reason you're complaining in a comment instead of doing things.
This. The only moments I feel stressed now is when I have to stand in front of 200 people.
I have a VP who told me the same thing about autonomy, mastery, and purpose - do you have any material where the three words are used and in more detail?
They can't, it's a political statement. It will likely not happen but for a small range of high-value products.
Maybe because it's a popular topic and many readers may assume it's linked. Of course it's also possible the author just wants to dramatize this event.
> The last time this story made rounds on HN, quite a few readers were ripping into the people described in the article, and it sure feels good to do so, but... I don't know about you, but if I had more money than I conceivably ever needed, I sure would contemplate having a helicopter on standby and a luxury compound in some scenic part of the world. You know, just for fun, just in case.

Yes, but then I'd do what I already do, spend most of my energy and passion on thinking about and working on fixing problems I didn't cause and that hardly affect me. Which I'm sure plenty of wealthy -- the best of them -- already do. I agree it's not mutually exclusive, for what it's worth. That is completely true, and there are empathic, responsible super rich people just like sociopathic, reckless poor people exist. But let's not use people we can imagine to exist to excuse the detached clowns we see with our own eyes and who make sure we get to hear about their every brain fart, too.

> We should also remember that unlike many many of the stars of "Doomsday Preppers" who seemed inexplicably frightened by the prospect of social unrest in the US, the ultra-rich may actually have something to worry about.

I know what you mean, but really, think about you just wrote. For every person, for every living being, their life is an ocean in which you, your wealth and all your ancestors and offspring are not even a tiny speck, and when they die, "their whole universe" dies with them. So, does having a lot of material, or things to worry about, really increase the intensity of that attachment? Is that not also at the very least orthogonal? When it comes to intensity of live, of being at ease with who one is, of not being on the run from oneself, then little kids and dogs and a million "types" of people come to mind before the super rich do. But of course, that's all very subjective. I just know who makes me think "good for them" and who makes me feel sad for them.

> When angry masses take it to the streets, it's not the cookie-cutter, mixed income, urban sprawl neighborhoods that are going to be set ablaze.

Whenever catastrophy strikes, or war or other things are done by people, it's the elderly, the children, the poor, the sick and so on who suffer first, last, and the hardest throughout, make no mistake. Besides, so far various elites have been doing great at polarizing angry masses and having them at each other's throats. They might also be the ones who have the drones and whatnot, so angry crowds taking to the streets would be the perfect excuse to fast track totalitarianism even harder, but I'm sure there will be ways to goad them into it anyway. To me, that's the greasy old man showing his junk in front of the curtain, I can't even imagine what is behind it.
Even among the tracked schools there is sometimes a problem with gifted students being held back by the rest. I had to transfer to a public school for 7th & 8th grade (ages 12-13). They were so behind it was unreal.

After learning basic fractions for 4 years in the public school system, a friend and I made a chess set out of paper scraps. Our typical day involved doing the day's classwork and homework in an hour while the teacher lectured and then playing chess for the rest of the day. We played chess for several months until near the end of the year when a substitute confiscated our set and threw it away.
Some standardized test scores are released on different dates depending on the location of your IP (divided into zones like Eastern, Central, Western US, and International).
Upvoting to save for reading the article later. I've done this a few times, though I try to be sure the article seems good enough.
Apple Pay transactions up 50 percent last year
New book: 7 Habits which Ruin your Technical Team
Absolutely this! I do my main work one hour before everyone else in the office. The rest of the day i'm just trying to focus, while everyone else keeps talking, chatting, phoning or commenting their current task to themselves.
>Lousy work culture that produces the best output in the world.

It's that only if you ignore the output per capita and just views the countries?
If you had a bunch of money to put in the stock market, would you:

- Put 1/3 of it in now and the other 2/3 in when the next crash hits
- Wait until it all goes to shit and put it all in then, keeping it in a high-yield savings account until then (they make about as much as CDs these days)

Would love to hear opinions!
This was a good idea for a test. I'll definitely check out the author's other stuff. Commenting briefly on cost: while the article mentions the free 32 bit version early on, the actual benchmarks were done using the commercial version. I've had the impression the comercial version was cost prohibitive for us poor folks. For those interested in experimenting with Xeon Phi though, it looks like you can get started for ~$5k: http://dap.xeonphi.com/
> Why is it scaremongering?

Because, like it or not, a label that says "note, this product contains acids" would alarm many people who would immediately ask themselves "Wait, why do they need to tell me that? Better just play it safe."

> Why should we exclude stock/source information from the consumer?

It's not about hiding information, it's about the regrettable fact that mandatory labelling communicates a lot more than just the words on the label.
To his laser shark pool.
Dude this is from 2016
A brain wide chemical signal that enhances memory
To be honest, the second one I have a hard time parsing.

I would expect that ranges is on the end, but it is somewhere in the middle.

[item for item in subrange for subrange in ranges]

is clearer to me. Then I can scan from left to right. It would read like a pipeline.

Now I need to start in the middle (ranges), scan to the left (for subrange), then to to the end (for item in subrange) and then back to the beginning (item). Or something like that, it is hard to follow your own eye movements. :)

Note that I seldom use python and the * pattern is something I recognize from another language, so I am biased. I imagine a seasoned python dev has no problems with the second case.

Btw, does python let you overload those comprehensions? That would be nice.
I doubt it will matter very much. Smart kids will grow up to be employed in intellectually stimulating knowledge based work. They will be likely be surrounded by people with similar intellectual capabilities. I know that "learning how to interact with everyone" gives people a warm fuzzy feeling but the lack of it is unlikely to be a serious handicap.
The LA freeway system never completed its original rational design. As a result a vehicle must take a round-about path to get from one place to another.

Musk's tunnel would be a direct express route between popular endpoints.
If you want to help the Chestnut tree join The American Chestnut Foundation - http://www.acf.org/. They do research into developing disease resistant varieties of Chestnut.
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The U.S. is very behind many European countries in the work-life balance department. It's kinda surprising that America – with its liberal policies for private companies – is so backwards when it comes to caring about their employees.

The points in the article could apply to policies/norms in Sweden as well. Here, we get at least 4 weeks of paid vacation per year, as well as some insurances and a very generous parental leave (1 year for each parent).
But we won't be celebrating 20.1k in the same way.
Fine, but what if there is a chance that the huge heap of regulations supporting entrenched interests is broken up? I'm looking at you Comcast
I imagine there are two factors at play here:

1. Since digging takes time, you really only need the permits where you are actually digging. So if you start on a piece of land you largely control, or can quickly get permits for, you could theoretically bore until where you need the next permit.

2. For all these permits, you would apply for them in parallel, so you don't really need 100% of the permits for the entire length of the tunnel to start.
How would other schools suffer?
I also think UI will be one of the first areas to be partially automated, or web based at least, partly because there is so much public data to consume and it all fits common patterns which is just what AI is good at.

The actual businesses though are all different so there is no stack of data that can describe how to architect those systems.
Sorry, I didn't write it for people who lack reading comprehension! I'll remember your ilk in the next post.
Trump for all his craziness is vehemently pro business.

I think this might generally be correct however he seems to be more vehemently "Pro American Worker" and so far when that collides with his "Pro Business" stance the worker is currently winning. Attempting to get businesses to repatriate jobs is not necessarily a "pro-business" stance.
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... and traffic is still horrible.
The difficulty is arbitrary and set socially (mechanistically it is currently set by a formula in the software; it could be set differently if people decided to use different software...).

So having a lower difficulty at time t is a terrible reason for a given miner to move to a given chain, they have to also believe that it will be the consensus chain that maximizes their value/opportunity in the future.

Also, if you don't care about distributed consensus (discarding chains outside the network to make it keep working), POW mining is an expensive and inconvenient way to keep a ledger.
Try picturing them all in their underwear ;)
> This is a squandered opportunity to try to get scientific minded people into running for the republican seats, which is how you would get real change in the discourse.

I believe his point is that getting scientists into Republican seats might re-shape the party from being anti-science, to being a pro-science, fiscally conservative alternative to the Democrats.

One of the major parties being unacceptable is highly problematic.
In the US. Our school does one day a week for the gifted kids. I have volunteered at the school and love the program. Only issue is it fair to the other kids? You get in based an IQ test.
The government would still have to operate schools, because of two failure modes:

1. Lack of capacity: Families that can't find schools for their kids, or entire regions that are "school deserts."

2. Schools that fail or go bankrupt.

Both are cases of private businesses pocketing public money while externalizing their risks and leaving the government with the cost of bailing them out.

I speculate that a law of economics or politics is: If something requires universal access for everybody, then it will be effectively supported by the government, even if the mechanism is not obvious.
" the majority has decided something and that they have a right to force their will on everyone."

Well, it's not your proposal that we organize society following your favourite principles instead?
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