skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that comment was poorly worded and confusing. I think what they might have meant was AMZN would have to earn $500B of profit over the next several years and based on 3% profit margin that would need $16T in revenue to earn that amount of profit.

The math works out to approximately 7 years, though the comment just wrote "some time in the future".
Yep, similar here though didn't think to look for the quadrilaterals! Just broke the bottom figure in to it's component shapes/lines and then stared at the top figure to see where the front face and the top two diagonal lines coming off it would fit.
Google-born startup thinks its time for a ground-source heat pump renaissance
Sexist? I saw no sexism in that memo beyond stating the obvious facts followed by a neutered VP response further followed by SJW neutered Google employee "males" on social media stating they stand by their female counter-parts hoping to get a piece.

And it came from a "classical liberal" no less, consider me shocked. I thought Google was entirely castrated, but it seems only the public mouthpiece parts are. Which this new "VP" demonstrated so disgustingly. And seriously, did they have to go so over the top to make sure the diversity VP was a woman as well? Pffh
>To me that's definitely in the realm of "fix this if you need to run this program more than once"

Maybe the programmer doesn't need to use this more than once?
I had a failed relationship that lasted 8 years before. But I know what you are talking about. Time can kill love.

I do believe we're on the right track however. We are sensitive to the relationship killers and we are actively addressing them. Being inert is not our thing.
When I was working full time and working on my doctorate I had very long days for 27 months. Several months I was only averaging 2 hours of sleep. I can say for me, working longer hours was not ideal. I had trouble concentrating. At times I could not complete simple tasks. I had leg cramps that were excruciating. We had a very short timeline to complete a ridiculous amount of work.

I firmly believe that obtaining a doctorate is as much about jumping through hoops that they have set on fire as it is mastery of your academic field of study. I just wonder the quality that was surrendered because sleep was in critically short supply.

In business, I believe it is better to work smart than to work hard. I acknowledge that when I was working on my doctorate had I taken a step back even for a solid day, I would have recharged and likely saved myself 5x that in lost productivity. Unfortunately, it is hard to see that when you are under intense pressure to produce huge volumes of work on a very brief timeline.
"Microsoft + Apple will both.." I imagine people use + to get by character limit in the title.
Hey man, it's the Internet, anything's possible.
Not the person you were asking, however we (two adults, no kids) haven't had a TV per se since 2006. The 'no receiver' thing is less of a distinction now than it used to be, despite 'Internet TV' taking a while to land in AU, but it used to be the best way to describe our arrangement.

We still watch TV shows and Movies, periodically, but on a short-throw projector.

This takes up less room by day, of course, and because we have a convenient wall or blind to use as the screen it also doesn't lend to a 'circle of chairs around the TV' visual that I expect some people do not like. And, of course, if doing a genuine time-fill there's laptop, desktop, or tablet to catch up on something - though the comparatively low-quality experience seems to mean this happens less frequently.

Because it takes some small amount of effort to set up, and bulb life is a gentle back-of-mind consideration, we tend to watch TV in the evenings, and intentionally.

A perhaps subtle distinction, but I know enough people who've grown up with the TV on all the time, and who now find that so normal that they've inflicted the same thing on their own children. Visiting the homes of people with an always-on TV puts me in the same mood as having to listen to talk-back radio, anything with adverts, 'news' video+audio at train stations, and so on - viz. foul.

As an aside, decent projectors are around AUD $1k - less than a TV with a smaller display (albeit a better objective quality). For people who don't have an always-on approach to TV, it's a good option in terms of cost, experience and gentle encouragement of being more thoughtful with what / when you watch.
There are other studies that show increased life satisfaction with increased income well past $500k/year.
>Poverty in the US is overwhelmingly an issue for women and children. If we valued women so much, this travesty should not be true.

This is incorrect. 14% of women are under the poverty line, to 10% of men. That's not "overwhelming". On the flip side, a significant majority of the homeless are men.

The gender difference seen in the poverty statistic is in my estimation due to the fact that women are generally less motivated than men to earn money, and thus less willing to make sacrifices to do so (which is why men overwhelmingly work dangerous jobs, and are 10X more likely to die in a work place accident as a result). This will result in the lower income levels seen in the female demographic, which will extend to more women having income levels that fall under the poverty line.
A dumpster is one thing. A theater seat cushion is something else.

I agree that we're a bunch of nervous Nellies these days, quivering in thrall to an overgrown police-military-industrial complex. But I'd probably draw the line at continuing to show the movie after a bomb goes off in the theater, as described in the article.
The Ship of Theseus question is certainly relevant to a discussion of identity changing over time (our body's cells are constantly turning over), but I think it's completely unrelated to a discussion of the line between my gut bacteria and me.

Though to answer your question, "I" am an emergent phenomenon resulting from the interactions of the atoms in my body. "I" am just a wave passing through the universe, with my body as the medium of transmission. Similarly, "wind" is merely a description of what the air is doing where you are. As the wind blows, the specific air molecules you're observing as "the wind" are completely different from moment to moment, but a breeze persisting through an afternoon is all perceived as being the same wind.
Yeah, the turntable link seemed forced. I went back up to the end of the article after finishing to see if I missed a paragraph or something.

For me, TV is fine. I've been enjoying GoT episodes on Sunday night for the last few weeks. I don't consider an enjoyable show a time-sink, unless you binge-watch for days on end (that's a rarity for me).

As others have said, my cell phone and a variety of interesting websites {cough, cough ... HN ..cough} take-up MUCH more of my time. I'm definitely considering a break from my smart phone, the habits I've developed seem unhealthy. That being said, I would never use my phone at a urinal!
>Federal prosecutors also attempted to block Hutchins' request for bail on grounds he had shot firearms at a shooting range last week while in Vegas for the Black Hat and Defcon security gatherings.

So that's pretty bullshit, huh? Thankfully the magistrate didn't buy it.

Kind of a worrying attack on the exercise of a constitutionally protected right. Slippery slope from that to "Defendant should be denied bail because they've recently been tweeting anti-government slogans".
Living off renting is 100% foolproof with 3 properties. You don't have to pay rent when you own your property.

I don't know if you said "houses" on purpose. Houses are going for more than 0.5 income.
They should just get their threads removed then. There is no reason to silently apply that weird behaviour instead.

In fact, I would expect this to be quite rare as most people would probably use & instead.
Interesting comparison given that the hundred-million-dollar payout came from 10 billion pennies' worth of ad clicks.
Here's one example that comes to mind: because I don't have a TV anymore I now watch GoT at a friend's home, something I had never considered doing before.
In the case of nursing, which is the most popular incarnation of the trope, what it also means is that our first line of health care in the United States are doctors, who are expensive and scarce. "Nurses", who really ought to be called "Associate Doctors" or something similar, do a far better job at handling that job. But the (gendered!) lower status of "nursing" both keeps us from expanding the corps of Nurses-Practitioners as far as we could, and also retards acceptance of NP's as an alternative to full MDs for routine care.
Nope. I'm very interested in the production of film and TV, but actually watching the result gives me an unexplainable anxiety. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I've also learned that a big reason why some people are workaholics is because they don't want to go home. Working late at the office gives them a good excuse.
I doubt the scientists would back his position. It's a gross misunderstanding of their research. He takes the research and jumps a huge gap to get to his conclusion.
Then if the phone had originally 4 gigs of ram, you’d need an extra 4 gigs of ram for each app. I guess you could partition your ram to have 4 gigs as scratch, but that would limit the number of programs you can run.
"Rest and vest" also happens for startups early employees who stay through IPO and are still vesting their initial grants. Generally, they've built up enough domain knowledge about the mostly-hacky systems that they are valuable enough for that knowledge alone and don't have to work very hard.
>I imagine people use + to get by character limit in the title.

What's wrong with that? The same phenomenon occurs on Twitter - people find a way to optimize every character.

Isn't an 80 character limit for titles on a modern web forum really the problem?
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>>> now still video games are predominately marketed towards males, and I would be shocked if there isn't a strong correlation between interest in video games and computers in general

I don't buy that. If you include mobile games, women outnumber men but female mobile game developers don't.

I don't think there's a causation between video games and programming. Correlation, sure. But not causation (Cod is insanely popular among non-programmers)
I'm very effective at being lazy
> I've wondered for a while how fast we could make a phone (or PC) that operated entirely in RAM disk and used flash storage just as a one-to-one backup and storage when powered off. Obviously this would require your phone to have 128GB of RAM. You'd write changes to the flash storage, but it'd mirror RAM as closely as possible without destroying power management or storage life.

PuppyLinux did this for the Eee PC. Worked wonderfully. The only problem was that the distro eventually became outdated, filled with old packages.

http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/EeePC
Yea, autism is a disorder, there's a lot of conflating that with the "autistic savant" myth in this thread, but I understand it's usually pretty debilitating.

Nonetheless I'd like to point out that there are broad, statistical, gender differences between those who are "thing-oriented" and "people-oriented", that would need to be addressed before we could hope to see 50-50 splits of M/F ratios in every subject today: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-m...
... and Ghana is one of them. I was responding to a guy incorrectly saying Ghana did not have a downrange ocean. I did not assert anything about the equator.
This is one of the coolest things i've ever seen!

It's a rare treat to see low level programming in Common Lisp!!

+100 for Steve Losh!
This isn't the first time I've said this, but I believe doing serious genealogy will 'cure' most people of their love of cursive, and maybe writing things by hand in general.

You get better at reading it, but there is much more bad handwriting out there than good.
... over the hole world, on average, and in the past?
You fail to see the difference between attention and actual debate. Very few of the opposing views actually try to dissect his statements, but choose to rant away. Yonatan's piece being a prime example of an ad hominem that attacks views he never once wrote in favour of.

It's also quite dishonest of you to liken a reasonably well written, source referenced piece with the rants from the clown in the oval office. The manifest was to start a debate, not chants of MAGA.

Instead of general statements about outlandish remarks, attack what he actually said.
Really? The math content on Quora is generally top notch. It depends on who answers the question of course, but there are many high quality writers on Quora with deep understandings of mathematics.
Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)
Simply stated that every HN post about him seems praise worthy of an assholey comment.
Birth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida∗ [pdf]
At the moment, aggregate SaaS costs and data licensing but I expect marketing to eventually become the biggest cost after salaries (or even the biggest overall).
> The most important safety factor is to ride in a way that minimizes the risk of getting into a crash in the first place

I agree with this 100%. Cheers!
Also plenty of people think assholes are cool, otherwise Dan Bilzerian would be a janitor.
I think it's not only engineers. I know several people who are either corporate lawyers or other long-time managers who pretty much go to meetings the whole day because they have nothing real to do. They all are pulling good money but feeling like they are not doing much seems to take a psychological toll.
Yes. I'm the maker of Nomad List.

You can rank/sort by more long-term attributes like quality of life, rent price etc. Property taxes are too granular data to collect for me and impossible to keep up-to-date for 1,000+ cities though.

See https://nomadlist.com/#sort=life_score for a more long-term quality of life ranking of cities.
"But doctor...I am Pagliacci."
Genre specific games that appeal to different genders is not relevant to my point. I was responding specifically to the cause/effect of historical marketing -- specifically OP's sentence: "Early on computers were marketed to men,"

So "early on", we're talking about 1960s/1970s advertisements for mainframes of IBM, DEC, VAX, Burroughs, etc and the 1980s ads for personal computers like IBM PC (original), Apple IIe, Commodore 64, Radio Shack TRS-80, etc.

If we want to blame early period "marketing" for women's lake of interest in computer _programming_, we have to also explain the counterexample of early marketing for PacMan, DonkeyKong, Missile Command not having the same decades long suppression of female computer _gaming_. The video gaming magazines and its ads in the 1980s/1990s were heavily male-dominated. (Arguably, the videogames ads were more male-themed than mainframes' ads. The videogames' ads often had abundant cleavage and skin. The mainframe ads did not.)
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In the 80s and before IBM was THE place to work. Pretty much like Google or Facebook today. In the 90s they slowly started to cut retirement benefits and other perks and now it's not a great place to work at as far as I know.
Where does he say that?

There are lots to say/critique on that manifest, but Yonatan's commentary piece is pure dishonest bile. Ironically it also strengthens the claim of an authoritarian regime at Google and its "our way or the highway" policy when facing discussions.

The piece is simply garbage. It was an ad hominem that attacks viewpoints the original author never presented, such as
"... how women and men are intrinsically different and we should stop trying to make it possible for women to be engineers". Quite the opposite.
>I doubt the scientists would back his position. It's a gross misunderstanding of their research. He takes the research and jumps a huge gap to get to his conclusion.

And what might his conclusion be? You don't even bother stating what his conclusion is. You don't even bother providing evidence as to why it is a "gross misunderstanding" of research.
> There are a lot 'coasters' who reached a certain level and don't want to work any harder. They just do a 9-5 job, won’t work to get promoted, don’t want to get promoted.

Finally someone who understands how being an employee works. You are paid to be present ~ 40 hours a week, as stated in your contract.

Working twice as hard and killing your week end has no point and you won't get promoted. Don't bother.
The Summer Institute of Linguistics site outside Tucson keeps many of the many languages spoken in Mexico in a room with no vents. The fear is that if a fire occurs, the documents with the writing kept within will be lost. I would include those in history, but I am not a purist so much that I consider that language doesn't evolve.
It might be fun and surprising to come up with seemingly unsolveable problems in math, but it isn't actually that hard. Especially if you come from the angle of computer science. Math does not have common tools I'm aware of to deal with many of those problems.

Bitwise AND is not a linear function, which is a first obstacle.
using the rearranged form:

((x + (((2*y*z) + (y*y) + (z*z) + (((z*z*z) - (z*y*y))/(x + y)))/(x + z)))/(y + z))

I find by brute force (no pride!) the first solution triplet: 35, 132, 627

Edit: of course, this is not a solution. It's now just an example to others to beware of floating point errors.
That would make sense on a new maintainer. Source of these is a well trusted dev.

I don't know, as I am an outsider, but messaging like this is as important for the crowd as it is for the directly involved.
It was the OP who wrote he "spent the next three years getting paid for doing nothing, and getting pretty depressed about it." I would feel all the worse knowing my pay was taxpayer funded.
Private pilot with a commercial rating here.

One of the things most people don't know is how much commercial flight is dominated by checklists. I always joked if a UFO ever landed on the wing of a 777 the pilot would look over and say "Bob, what's the checklist for UFO landings?"

There's a ton of crisis response and critical thinking, sure, but one of the "tricks" is so much mental clutter is completely eliminated by the appropriate use of checklists. It frees the crew up to focus on the problem instead of all the details.
I believe it's a requirement of font forge that they're using.

It requires file paths, and it will be doing a large amount of reading. Easiest way of solving this is probably just to fake that your memory is a hard drive.
I'd say it's more like the link between secondhand smoke and cancer, which is to say widely believed and seriously overstated.

This stuff was trending upward far before social media. See e.g. Putnam in Bowling Alone for a far more convincing explanation.

Facebook is the snake oil you're being sold as the cure for something that was already on its way up.
Not sure if it bothered anyone else enough to look, but I tracked down the missing source for the header image [1]. The U.S. Declaration of Independence [2] is another nice example of handwriting, but unlike a random, faded (and potential non-English?) recipe, it seems very legible and might not have helped the author's argument.

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/calliope/5094055919/in/gallery...

[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/United_S...

edit: Phrasing
Are you really surprised that people can't get along when they re stuck together 24/7 all days?

That's what happens when they retire.
Perl probably shouldn't be in that list. It's arguable that Larry has had any direct influence on it for at least ten years, perhaps 15.
> I read his paper 3 times, and from what I can tell, that claim didn't exist until you made it.

I literally directly cited the "paper", as you call it. Specifically "evolutionary psychology" and "IQ" explaining the gender and race performance gaps, respectively.
I listened to a podcast from these founders. I don't have kids to buy their products but I would buy from them based on the 1 hour show I listened to
That warning made me want to try it on my hard disk just to see how long it would take...

It was only a couple minutes. That's a bit disappointing.
They were extremely poor though, and they got there through currency manipulation, which is now reaching its limits.
Fundamentally irreconcilable. Staring at a screen is only so helpful when you're under the age of 15
The problem is akin to the land speculation from before the Great Depression. At some point, someone gets "hung" with it because there is no one else to sell it to. It'll be interesting to see where Amazon falls, though it may be many years.
Exactly right.

5478 cycles at 200 miles per is greater than 1,000,000 miles. Few people will put that many miles on a car.

OTOH, given how there are fewer moving parts in EVs, there's certainly a better chance for an EV to make it the distance than for an IC car.
You kinda had me sold on more charge cycle.

And as for commercially available, it seems all the good "professional/industrial" work tools (drills, etc) use LiFePO, even though it's bulkier and heavier (and probably explains why Milwaukee is so goddamned expensive).
How I managed a 365% increase on money for coffee (Bitcoin)
If only that worked in uni maths, my lecturers wouldn't even give one mark for giving the correct answer by the end of the course!
I think even in non-government backed startups, many people could be considered "rent-seeking", putting more focus on raising money than anything productive.

Also, shows like shark tank(while entertaining) give some non-entrepreneurs the perspective that business is a lottery. So many people, when I talk to then about starting a company, they mention some mythical day when I suddenly become rich, and it just doesn't happen that way.

The best definition of money I use is, "money is nothing but a reflection of value you create for other people" -Tony Robbins
The gist of my last performance review was my manager saying "I don't really know what you do most of the time, but things rarely are broken and everything seems to be going okay." (That was a positive review.) That made me realize killing myself is pointless, it wouldn't even get noticed anyway. No one would care. A lot of these companies imagine themselves to be so much better-run than the reality.
Unfortunately, 4.00000009534 is not 4 :)
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