skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A microeconomic reply to a macroeconomic problem.

What bank will finance the mortgage on his incoming generating properties via 30 year mortgages when almost everyone is unemployed? Does the existing massively overgrown and under automated FIRE sector downscale to only 1% of the population having all the income and wealth? If it doesn't downscale, perhaps it doesn't operate at all, then how will he finance his real estate purchases via loans? He will have to pay cash and instead of 1/3 down on each income generating property he'll have to pay 100% for one property. Or prices will have to collapse by a minimum of 2/3 to clear the market.

His properties are not income generating if the renters have no income. The purpose of the discussion is what do we do when essentially no one has income or net wealth anymore? The phrase incoming generating property means nothing if there's no rent to collect because no one has jobs or income or wealth anymore.

Someone without power today can trust the courts and cops to protect his three properties because "everyone owns property or at least half of us or so". How does that break down when no one has any money? If there's only one landlord in the city who owns almost all property and he asks the cops to lean on him to sell his three houses, or squatters take over and there's no government support, because private property as we know it today is obsolete when no one owns anything, what does he do?

Assuming the above is somehow fixed, lets see if its sustainable via replication. How do you get money from trading runescape coal in 2040 if no one playing games has any money? My kids have no money because they're little kids. Assuming they continue to have no money, how many games of tic tac toe do they need to play to afford three houses each if the net profit off each game played is $0 because no one playing has any money to lose?

The future being unevenly distributed, being a slumlord today in Detroit is kinda like being a suburban landlord in 2030 perhaps, or an urbanite landlord in 2040, assuming you believe in new urbanism which is very popular here. The 50th percentile landlord will impact reality like a bug hitting a windshield long before the 90%th percentile landlord, which is a whole nother topic. Eventually only the top 1% of landlords will be in on the game much like only 1% of the population will have old fashioned jobs or participate in the old fashioned economy via pay and wealth, which brings us back to the original macroeconomic problem. Surely you can't be implying that 99 landlords will rent their 297 houses to the one guy who still has an old fashioned job?
Many services support otp authentication and don't require a phone number for 2fa anymore.

facebook, google, dropbox, evernote, github, gitlab, amazon, ...
I assume the Cas9 endonuclease activity is the cause of the toxicity... The theory does not require that though, only that the treatment kills/damages the cells containing the target sequence.
I have no idea what your point is, if any.

I will note that "from [a] practical point of view ONLY", it is incredibly impractical for a compiler to gratuitously break real code that relies on behavior that deviates from spec; if that reliance is common, the practical thing to do is to support that behavior, which they do: "The optimizer does go to some effort to "do the right thing" when it is obvious what the programmer meant (such as code that does "* (int *)P" when P is a pointer to float)." --blogpost by the second most widely used C compiler, clang/llvm: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

Which is why projects like Cerberus are valuable.
I suppose. Too bad it's hard to beat Google's search results relevancy (or is it?) I by default always use Google Chrome. Sometimes Firefox.

To me it is somewhat like trying to use anonymous currency, you have to buy it from somewhere, and then somehow use it while remaining anonymous. I don't know maybe not, recently bought a fraction of a bitcoin, went through coinbase seemed pretty dumb 'Here's my real name, my address, my picture, etc...' but then you could transfer it to a wallet and make it disappear from there but... I don't know. I have no reason to use it anonymously either. Just another place to keep money. I'm not able to have "real" bank accounts because I was an idiot and destroyed my credit score. Oh well dumb will be dumb.
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A few airplanes sunk the Yamato. It would have been far more effective if the Japanese had sunk (!) that money into better aircraft and better pilot training.
I like IVPN. Based in Gibraltar, excellent bandwidth, plenty of servers, accepts Bitcoin, uses OpenVPN.
Do you think the fear is irrational?
>I thought people learned this sort of thing in grade school.

Along with tact and general respect for others?
Holding people responsible for their actions is cheaper than bailing them out, both locally (it costs nothing in every single case) and globally (people are more careful to stay out of trouble in the first place if there is no bailout). Socialism is expensive and only in the last century made barely possible at all.

Many communities to this day can only afford shaming and there are lots of people raised on the ideals of personal responsibility and staying out of trouble for the good of you and others who would have to support you if shit goes wrong. Suggesting that everybody is to compulsorily pay for bastard children or other avoidable misfortunes is bound to piss them off. That's how your pussy-grabbing politicians rise to power.
I don't think this author is being fair to direct response advertising. One of the most important pillars of direct response marketing is to target effectively. That means spending a lot of time getting to know your target audience, their habits, the media they actually pay attention to.

Direct response marketing done right should make advertising go from "unwelcome pest, to welcome guest" - mainly because you're targeting your audience so well.

Many people may think they're doing direct response marketing, but that doesn't mean they're actually doing it.
Would be interesting to see the story of how you guys started from square one and built out your bare metal infrastructure.

Really love the docsearch project btw, great UX.

EDIT: Just found this blog post right after posting this comment https://stories.algolia.com/algolia-s-fury-road-to-a-worldwi...
Faiss query, at least for IVFPQ which is the main emphasis of the library, is based on real vectors as input but against quantized database vectors; the so called “ADC” (asymmetric distance computation), so you don't have to query based on a database vector.

If the data is normalized to lie on a hypersphere, you could find nearest neighbors to a query vector on the opposite point of the hypersphere, for instance.

But, as we sometimes find with, say, negative mining, sometimes what you are interested in is not the “hardest” negative or most dissimilar object as those don’t provide much utility in comparison to your current object; you might something that is reasonably close in some ways but quite different otherwise, which is a more useful negative example. This is more difficult.
> almost everyone has an internal compass which can tell themselves in black or white (people know when they are self-justifying).

What about Nazis or USSR's NKWD - I hardly doubt that all of them knew that what they're doing is immoral.
Meh, not really thought provoking. Poll any women or non white person who lived in Utah and has experienced big city life.
I can't think of any example of animals figuring out how to do anything new in one generation. All your examples evolved over very, very long time scales. Beavers know how to build dams. But they don't adapt dam designs, they don't invent concrete dams, and they don't build huts when they can't build dams. If beavers are faced with a stream unsuitable for damming, they die.
General physicians can refill ADD meds. You mainly need to see a psych to get the script started. You guys are making this out to be some kind of incredible task with an uphill battle. Most health insurance offer free transport to doctors appointments (check your brochure.) Medicaid and medicare always do. Otherwise, public transport or rideshare isnt gonna break your bank for 1 or two visits until your regular doctor will write the refills. Or the psych can give you 2 or 3 months worth of scripts which is often the case.
Your suggesting that white people in the UK are simply going to stop having children? Or, that in 70 years there simply will be no white people left in the UK?

I'm feel pretty confident that the chart doesn't suggest what you're saying - but then, I'm not entirely sure what exactly you're saying.
I wasn't trying to make an objection. I was just trying to understand what the argument was for making the limit 3".

As for the "criminally useful" argument, I struggle to imagine what crimes could be committed with a 4" knife that couldn't be committed with a 3" knife.

You say it's plausible to you that a 3" or 4" limit would reduce knife crime. What makes you think that?
> Companies leave the demand for mental health on the table, because the metally ill don't have anything to offer to them in exchange.

No, companies leave mental health on the table because a CEO can only manage a handful of labor categories, and there are plenty of healthy people to fill those roles. Mentally ill people could profitably fill other roles but the CEO doesn't have the bandwidth to manage a system of the level of complexity that would be required to support those roles. We need a decentralized system (contractors fulfilling stock HR microcontracts) to release that economic value.

Most CEOs are not even able to intelligently manage the 10-20 stock labor categories they currently staff, let alone the millions of categories we need. I think most managers max out at 5-10 roles.
Tesla delivers a record number of vehicles during the first quarter 2017 ~25,000
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To be fair PT Barnum types from thousands of years ago should be no more believable than PT Barnum types from 150 years ago.
I'm not sure I understand the author's vitriol regarding The Black List. I think a lot of untalented people try their hand at fame without going through the pains of education, study, practice, and mastery. This has been made painfully obvious on reality shows, like American Idol, for years, hasn't it?

To me, paying $20 a month for The Black List to tell you that you're not ready seems like a reasonable investment in one's dreams. How could you possibly know where you stand if you never subject yourself to failure and criticism?
I agree with the sentiment but the notion that all the folks inclined to work with their hands just need to become knowledge workers misses the mark I think.

A bigger problem is that capitalists can easily take advantage of labor arbitrage. But laborers can't easily take advantage of cost of living arbitrage.
I was literally wondering why R gave an "accurate" result for 0.2 + 0.1 the other night, despite using doubles. The printer has an algorithm to round then stringify
I think it's mostly not discussed around here because it is fairly low-level plumbing technology, as is a lot of other network tech. You don't see much discussion about SDN approaches, routing protocols, ... around here either. Most "users" of Open vSwitch probably don't know that it runs in the internals of the virtualization platform they are using, since it is hidden away under other layers.

I haven't used it much directly, but it is quite nice and a good piece of software in my opinion.
Because they skill they're looking for is "being under 30". Therefore being cheap to pay, cheap to insure, simple ageism in general, being extremely gullible WRT labor vs reward, being easily manipulable, etc.

Oddly enough no educational program helps with those already affected, retraining program participants have even been observed to fall behind about one day per 24 hours no matter how intensive the training program.

If they would just pull themselves up by their bootstraps like I do then they'd all look 29 for the rest of their lives, I mean can't all macroeconomic problems be solved by lecturing people to all do microeconomic improvements upon themselves, of course if they did that and no one were over age 29, then ageism would simply result in no one appearing to be over 28 ever being employed again, LOL.
Yes, because time and again we see that we're all the mob, and someone always has leisure, and money, and power, and it always ends badly. Ignoring that and pretending that the current order (whatever current happens to be) is somehow "ordained" or "natural" or "necessary" is a sop to the ego that's as old as the written word at least.
I worked for a year at a super hyped chat-bot company that raised a lot of money pre-revenue, pre-customers, etc. The difference between the press / marketing and the actual product built was incredible. Last I heard they are ditching everything they already built and starting over.
You make it sound so easy. You should be in advertising so that you can show them how easy it is. The truth is good ads are hard to come up with and the ones that really strike gold go viral [1]. I'm content that I can at least skip them after 4 seconds.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA_An6LcWtc
The spam comment is oddly amusing given the nature of the article.
The title is clickbait. The subtitle makes sense though.
This reminds me of the F-35 project. Toyota has invested so much time and money in hydrogen fuel cell technology that they can't admit the obvious flaw: it requires a huge investment by energy companies in expensive fueling stations, which will never happen.

The crucial advantage of an all-electric vehicle is the ability to charge its batteries using the existing electric transmission infrastructure. At my home, I plan to use clean power generated and stored on site. Distributed electric power generation and storage is the future.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13882922
Also "more education" is not really a final solution. At some point education is only increasing competition among workers without adding any value. As soon as your average plumber has a PhD something went wrong. I already met Ueber drivers with a PhD.

We have to face the reality here: Most people simply are not needed anymore. If your wages are not rising according to inflation, the market has spoken and your current profession has an oversupply of workers. It is as simple as that.
The point is less about his mental problems and more about how brutal drug laws are in America. Half of people in American jail's are drug offenders.
How insane?
Portugal, Netherlands have decriminalized drugs and have had no issues.
Generation Why? (2010)
Or, that those advertisers are targeting a demographic that still prefers older mediums over the internet.
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A.K.A the Amazon Suggestion Effect ("You just bought a fridge, here are 12 more fridges!"). I thought Amazon was keeping their suggestions dumb on purpose, so as not to appear too creepy, apparently I was overestimating how smart adtech is in general.
> I think whoever projects 40 years into the future, and sees no need to mention the words "UBI" or "property tax", is in for a surprise

Sorry, but robbing Peter to pay Paul does not strike me as a viable long term strategy either. Much like the current brain drain from other countries to the West, the reverse could easily occur; the talented and wealthy could leave for other countries and find success there.

A saner approach would be re-defining full-time employment to 35 hours or even 30 hours and vigorously enforcing overtime pay requirements, to spread out employment among more people, and taking strong measures to get the cost of living under control enough that single-income households become viable again, so that people can take care of their families and have more time to rebuild the social bonds of their community.
It's not even that surprising. Most of the major news sites are stuffed full of ads that look like fake news articles these days. They probably have the sense to turn them off on articles about fake news, but otherwise they don't care. You just don't hear about it as much because news sites don't generally criticise their fellow news sites in the same way they do sites like Facebook and YouTube that are a threat to their entire industry.
It is cheaper undoubtedly to get the legal drugs. Even with the crumbiest insurance, generics like adderall and morphine have no patents and are extremely cheap. You can use a drug savings card like GoodRX if you lack insurance.

Regarding "regular trips", you mean once a month and then probably once every 2 or 3 months once the doctor has established repoire? It is NO major undertaking. Maybe psychologically. Especially with all the rallying on here in support of that notion.

But how many trips is it to visit the drug dealer? And the risk involved with every trip. You are trivializing the mental block by giving validity to what is an easy physical undertaking.
What kind of tool do you have to monitor traditional ad spend? According to op this should be impossible.
>Women are actually pretty good at that.

But are they just flat out better at it than men? What data do you have to support that assertion? Remember that the majority of programmers are men, and the majority of STEM faculty at research institutions are men. You may struggle with certain things, but there are many men who don't. And of course there are plenty of women who struggle with CS as well.
I look at property-based testing the same way I look at Design by Contract. It can be used to find errors in existing systems, but it's also valuable when you are designing.

Just asking yourself what laws a function should adhere to as you are considering writing it function puts you in a different frame of mind and you can end up with simpler software.
Well, maybe things are in the process of changing, but gay Mormons will not feel completely comfortable until the doctrine forbidding homosexual behavior is consigned to the dustbin of history. You can't say that the behavior is forbidden without having some residue of the belief that homosexuality is inherently sinful, and that residue has impact on people no matter how much you paper over it by trying to be "warm and non-judgmental".

From the FAQ accessible via your link: Identifying as gay may mean you experience same-sex attraction but choose not to act on these feelings.

Yes, and it might also mean that you experience same-sex attraction which is returned and which you choose to act on gleefully! This page is trying to sound non-judgmental, but it shows its true feelings when it says things like this, without allowing for the obvious alternative. And if you think the subtext isn't heard, guess again!
There are a lot of ways that we can address the problem of poverty, and workfare is a legitimate component of a multi-faceted approach, but I think we need to use it very cautiously. If the government has meaningful projects that it wants to accomplish regardless, then giving those jobs (and the training needed to do them) to the unemployed is by all means a good idea. The problem is that the line between workfare and make-work is blurry. If you pay people $16000/year to build the Hoover Dam, that's awesome. But if you pay people more than the job is worth to society, or pay people any amount to do jobs they will view as stupid or pointless, that's counterproductive. The government must ensure that the projects they undertake generate societal value on their own, considering the employment created only as a side-benefit. Furthermore, when you require that people work in order to receive benefits, you are effectively saying that whatever else they would rather be doing with their time is worth less than whatever you are having them do, and whatever you are paying them to do it. Not only is that depressing, the thing they might rather be doing could be something very valuable to society. This is the main argument in favor of universal basic income. The is no requirement that people work, nor is there a requirement that they be unemployed, or anything else in a laundry list of arbitrary requirements. Everyone gets the same amount of money no matter what and no perverse incentives are created.
Yes, and a lot of them take wives from whichever foreign land they were in too. Part of the plan to grow the religion.
This is a discussion of the vagaries of floating point math, on a forum for programmers. I would expect that most folks learned something about how to carry out decimal long division in ~3th–6th grade sometime.

If we can’t assume any kind of common base-line level of background experience but need to re-hash all of school mathematics in every conversation, then it’s hard to have a technical discussion.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with not having an understanding of this point, or forgetting grade school arithmetic, and I’m not trying to be condescending, but it seems weird for the top-level poster to call out the the article’s language. The idea that some fractions don’t have a terminating decimal expansion is “pretty simple” in the context of any reasonable standard for discussion among programmers.

Here’s the language from the article. Is it really that confusing?

> When you have a base 10 system (like ours), it can only express fractions that use a prime factor of the base. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5. So 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 1/8, and 1/10 can all be expressed cleanly because the denominators all use prime factors of 10. In contrast, 1/3, 1/6, and 1/7 are all repeating decimals because their denominators use a prime factor of 3 or 7. In binary (or base 2), the only prime factor is 2. So you can only express fractions cleanly which only contain 2 as a prime factor. In binary, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 would all be expressed cleanly as decimals. While, 1/5 or 1/10 would be repeating decimals.

If the top-level poster was confused and wanted help, he/she could have said something like “Can someone explain this point to me? I don’t understand what it means for 1/7 to be a ‘repeating decimal’, or what a ‘prime factor of the base’ means.”
Yeah, I meant in his specific case. I understood it as not having a 'proper' job is one of the reasons he sees for not having a relationship, while helping in the family business.
So a gay couple is OK now as long as they don't actually do anything... gay? This must be new.

I guess Evergreen is done with then?
Not sure what to take away from that...
let's say bot should be 90% confident that is still giving value to the customer. if not redirect to human.
Thread starvation is still very much a thing on a lot of devices. macOS and iOS even have a Quality Of Service implementation in the kernel specifically to ensure that high-priority threads get to run when they'd otherwise be starved, and this can lead to low-priority threads being suspended for many seconds at a time under high workload. In fact, it's now really dangerous to use a regular spinlock on iOS and macOS because you can get into a priority inversion livelock if threads from different QoS levels are contending the same lock. The Obj-C runtime was seeing delays of tens of seconds in some cases when using spinlocks, so it now uses a private "os_lock" which is a spinlock that uses SPI to "donate" the QoS of the waiting thread to the one that holds the spinlock.
https://www.mullvad.net/ seems like a great option, anyone tried it?
I run a google group called Health Techies. It is small and not terribly active (yet). You are more than welcome to join it.

For now, I occasionally post links to discussions like this one on HN and the occasional article. I worked in insurance for over five years, had annual HIPAA training, etc.