skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Is there any reason that you can't continue to do that?
I'm gonna split the difference on that - casual thieves are attracted to stuff, organized thieves do some research. I know about a pattern of robberies of film crews (an industry I used to work in) in my area - these can be profitable because camera gear in particular is quite expensive so a small well-equipped film crew is standing on the street with $10-20k worth of poorly-secured gear, which they probably don't care about losing because it's insured. The modus operandi is consistent enough that I'm fairly sure the thieves are working from city-issued permits.
We should all live like that girl in San Francisco. Simple thread bags, cardboard, glass jars. No waste.

The amount of shit we waste, to be processed is crazy.
A. It is not mandatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_Indepen...

B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...: "The federal government paid 100% of the cost of Medicaid eligibility expansion in participating states in 2014, 2015, and 2016; and will pay 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% in 2020 and all subsequent years."
It also presumes that one can simulate the world at low cost. In AlphaGo Zero it takes 0.4 s for 1.600 node extensions, but in this case the cost of the world is negligible. Anyway, assuming you need that many node extensions to get decent quality updates, that puts a rather a tight limit on the cost of simulating the world.
Keep in mind the following:

1. Economic theories can be empirically descriptive without being constructively prescriptive (much like other theoretical disciplines, such as math or physics),

2. You're reading about his work from what is effectively a watered down blurb on a Bloomberg webpage,

3. He actually is the founder and chief investment officer of a fund with over $5B AUM, so yes, he likely is "rich".
If Tesla does buy them hopefully that would lead to a turnaround on the B1's safety aspects - for instance there are no airbags.
While plausible, this study doesn't suggest that.

They mention it as a potential cause, but did no research to that effect and even state they made no attempt to measure such things.
> (someone else manages my password).

I'm curious what you mean by this.. someone set your FB password and has to log in for you in order for you to be able to access it? That seems weird. Why?
Well where I'm from all the local businesses are either competitive on price or politically connected.

If you can't/wont be competitive on price well the selectman better be your friend. When the selectman is your friend you need not fear competitors. Their site plans will be bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.
Only in certain (US) states are house prices public information.
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A lawsuit is a bigger risk than a house robbery, IMO. A big reason why people don't get sued is because they aren't a defendant you can get a lot of money out of. Publicly showing off a top 2% salary or asset level will change that.

Like, if you own your house outright, it's often worthwhile to get a HELOC without ever drawing from it. That way, when an attorney tries to figure out if you're worth suing, it doesn't look like you have six figures worth of housing equity to go after.
For me it’s the medium itself. eBooks are ok if they’re short or fiction, but for heavy duty reading, I need a wide spread, and I need to be able to annotate and flick through fast, either to preview or jump to another section. Can’t do all that on a digital device.
I think getting $2 billion without having a product to sell is a pretty good magic trick.
True, horizontal scaling will always save you no matter how slow the front end is. Cost becomes significant at a certain level too though. For example, Google estimates each search query goes to over a thousand machines. If you need 100x 1000 machines to serve a query because the back end is PHP it adds up.

And you can make Python or even PHP fast if you try hard enough.

My argument is that the engineer overhead for Go and new breeds of Java frameworks are small enough that it makes no sense to use anything else if you're planning on scaling for real.

If you start with something else the cost of making a slow language fast and the multiples of extra machines you need costs far more than just using the faster language to start with

For the benchmark you posted, take a good look at the "realistic" vs "stripped" implementations and whether the test used an ORM. You'll quickly see that the realistic test applications with any kind of ORM are exclusively C#, Java, Go, and C++
I made no statement about the "super wealthy". I was simply arguing that taxes are not in fact taken by force (at least in the US where citizens are free to emigrate).

Your hyperbolic example of places "where the rich are taxed to death" also seems to confirm the argument that choice is available.
My wife has a square or two of Ghirardelli 86% dark chocolate each day - one square being about 60 calories. I can't imagine eating over a dozen per day!
>what data sources they use

Usually the data is reported by the employer themselves.

You can query the employment data without querying the full Equifax report.
The rise in popularity (and price) of Westafalias recently has been interesting to watch! Huge demand (even on $100k pre-upgraded versions), which seems to be driven by younger folks.
Interesting tidbit, in the sentence in the article " To explore these patterns further, we conducted three studies that explored college students' ability to comprehend information on paper and from screens."

"Three studies" is linked to a single study, not three. The study is on the site tandfonline.com (Taylor and Francis), where you have to pay to read the study.

Also interesting is that Taylor and Francis, on their website taylorandfrancis.com, says "Taylor & Francis Group publishes books for all levels of academic study and professional development, across a wide range of subjects and disciplines."

So long story short, this is a study saying that books are better, that's on a site who's main business is publishing books. Not saying the study is inaccurate, but I find an article, about how books are better, on a book publishers site, somewhat suspect.
Same. I don't know if it's the pesticides on the farm fields by my parents' house, or what. There used to be swarms of them, maybe 2-3 feet in diameter. Now just a hand full. It's been like that for over 20 years.

Same with gnats, but I don't get nostalgic about those.
AlphaGo is still based around layers of 3×3 local convolutions.

That represents a strong assumption about locality in the network design. I would expect AlphaGo to perform poorly on the game "Go with the vertices randomly permuted".
It’s more like a spigot that is draining into corporate coffers, and out of the communities. There’s not much money left and what does move around all doesn’t stay in or anywhere near town.
It's a real pity that sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities. Otherwise, with free parking and high rent, I suppose that cars would become the pods everyone has been dreaming of.
But the article is citing them as a net positive. no? And its just not 400 companies but also 2,600 patents.
Yes and no.
In many ways the probelems we are addressing are much more complicated than were being addressed 100 years ago. Often advanced statistical methods need to be used to make inferences. We are often looking for 2% signal over noise, trying to understand complex dynamical systems. Even without anything nefarious, and careful execution of rigorous methods, unmeasured 3rd variables can be different across study samples, and you can't measure everything. Even if you could, you won't have the statistical power. Random assignment is nice, but not every field can do it ethically. Even with random assignment, there is no guarantee that the effect of unmeasured 3rd variables will average to zero. That is. Science is harder than many give credit for.

That said, the competition and incentives in science are perverse. Peer review quality has declined, if only because everyone is in a rat race to survive, and being a peer reviewer does not do much for getting you a job or tenure.
Elites are still making all the decisions in the past and now. Actually I think this is a shift of elite thinking from a rounded "greek classics" education, and value of the foundations of civilization line of thinking, to everything has to pay it's way type of thinking.
Hmm. In Germany, I shop batteries at conrad.de - an electronic retailer chain. They're expensive, yes, but the stock is quality, you can get weird stuff like coin cells with solderable pads on them (which gets handy when you're repairing old stuff with soldered batteries!) and you can have them ship to the nearest store for pickup.
You expressed my exact thoughts and I was about to link to the same insightful article. I guess my comment could've been shortened as a silent upvote, but I commented anyway.
I occasionally use the "hey Siri" feature while in bed to mess with alarms in the morning (i.e. cancel whatever I had set and set a later one in the morning ;) apparently my morning groggy voice always requires a second hey Siri.

As an aside, alarms are literally the only thing I've ever used Siri for.
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The Honda Element had some great features - it was a perfect "surf and explore" car.

Only thing that kept me from getting one was the fact that the front doors have to be opened for the rear doors to open. Kind of a pain, especially when you're picking someone up in the rain (which happens surprisingly often in Florida!)
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Um last I checked this same law also requires employers to provide the salary range for the position if requested.
I have and it makes me a little sick every time I have to throw out or recycle packaging material. I agree 100% with everything you wrote.

Another example of a smokescreen it "biodegradable". It's complete BS. For an experiment I buried a biodegradable tray in the dirt. Years later it still looks like brand new with no visible degradation.

Northern Europe seems a bit better; I understand that in Germany shippers have to accept their shipping material back, which have let them to package with actual popcorn which can be fed to live stock or simply buried in the ground.
For pre-trained word2vec and fastText vectors, I think kuschku is talking about https://github.com/Kyubyong/wordvectors
Ask HN: Advice using Stoicism/Meditation/Zen Buddhism,etc. to buildup resilience
I'm still relatively young (20-25) and have launched a side project while working. Its been quite stressful and I have seen a lot of negative energy come out especially with those who work with me on the project.

So I have thought of relying on meditation and related literature to help calm me down and keep me mentally resilient as it seems that these techniques have helped others in the past.

Any actionable advice on how I can start this and buildup mental resilience?
> The entire point is that it's deeply screwed up for you to need to hide your wealth from your neighbors--or from some set of neighbors but not others--for fear of being robbed.

That's a normative statement, not a positive one. I don't consider it at all screwed up or intrinsically wrong to want to hide my income from my neighbors.
Dealing with threads and shared memory properly is way harder than getting acquainted with modern C++ or Java.

Most cases, when you need to parallelize and multiprocess doesn't cut it, you'll likely need to go to the C++ module route anyway.
I wanted to keep my first business as a life-style business, to fund other ventures, because the income is financially a much better deal than a sale... but also found that it just takes too much to run miltiple ventures (Elon Musk notwithstanding).

Really liked the "see an opportunity", of the business being worth more owned by them - the sale creates value in the world. Really, it's how a sale of anything, product/service, should be.

Unfortunately, getting a business into a saleable state, and getting a sale actually done, seem about as much work as creating a profitable (but not self-running) business in the first place. Conceptually analogous to Brooks' program vs. product.

> In a strategic acquisition, businesses can be purchased

Typo/something missing after that?
Eh, vanilla Java or Go is at least an order of magnitude faster than those other languages without messing with anything. You can mess around with the JVM and interfacing to native code but it's rarely needed because it's already within a low multiple of C performance writing things normally.

Arguments about what language is better are pretty flamey but it's hard to argue that performance is not an advantage of Go/Java
Tesla Faces Lawsuit for Racial Harassment in Its Factories
What the US would look like if it guaranteed everyone a job
30,000 studies are a lot, but are only 0.2% of studies using cell lines, per my light reading of the paper. Moreover, some results will still generalize, as even if contaminated, they may still be cancerous cells of another lineage.

In some ways I think these kinds of things are more about having the time and resources to keep things organized. It is a constant struggle in labs by people who may be expert biologists, but amateur database managers.
Sure and they all pay even lower wages than Walmart and employ few people.

I grew up in one of these types of locations. There was absolutely nothing glorious about the Mom & Pop stores that employed few people, paid crap wages and offered zero benefits at all (because they all made little money, couldn't afford to purchase in volume (margins), and were always drifting on the edge of going out of business).

Since Walmart showed up there, wages are up over 50% in ~20 years. Walmart absorbed all the perpetual under-employment in the low skill pool, along with teenagers and retired elderly. It helped set a base income for the entire population by altering the local economy.
Anyone who has read any of Lincoln's papers knows that simply isn't the way he would talk, or really anyone from his time period. The language that we use today around innovation, envisioning futures, boldly creating the world we want to live in, etc. is post-WWII.
I was wondering similar, for instance what is the proximity of those 400 companies to the Universities that their research produces?
Well, the thing that word2vec can (and should)
be understood in terms of word coincidences (and pointwise mutual information) is important, but hardly new. I tried to explain it here:
http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html.

There is a temptation to use just the word pair counts, skipping SVD, but it won't yield in the best results. Creating vectors not only compresses data, but also finds general patterns. This compression is super important for less frequent words (otherwise we get a lot of overfitting). See "Why do low dimensional embeddings work better than high-dimensional ones?" from http://www.offconvex.org/2016/02/14/word-embeddings-2/.
Herd immunity. Men can transmit it, and you can't guarantee every woman is going to get the vaccine (yet).
i.e. Hamming advised everyone to work on the most important problem(s) in their field, and precisely not to "Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy."

Maybe for him these two were the same. There is something cold about his recommendation, though. I'm not sure what motivated him. Impressing himself with important discoveries? I never in all his talking about missile trajectories and weapons-related work came across any evidence of ethical considerations. Godement's Algebra with its inspiring political and ethical conscience - its author was man as well as mathematician - made me vividly aware of how a work of mathematics/physics can either be ethical, or it can pretend that ethics are not its concern. Or rather, like a heartless child, act without ever even considering consequences. Maybe Hamming was just working on the important problems in his field, and disregarding all else, and thought that was enough.
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That's just like the "I'm a perfectionist" answer to the "what's your biggest weakness?" interview question.
I wouldn't put it past employers which do drug tests to fire you for perfectly legal CBD, though...
Murder in the Mediterranean: Crime Writing on Corsica
I use a different computer for every single website.
The factors needed to gauge cause-and-effect between media coverage and nation-level politics are so diffuse and broad that I feel it would be impossible to distinguish a world in which the tail wags the dog versus vice versa. Publishing stories favorable to the USSR is not a binary or discrete action. Neither is giving them the Pulitzer award. NYT's positive/whitewashing coverage of USSR could have been a result of the NYT reporters and editors being sympathetic towards Communists. And the government and business eagerness to have a relationship was made possible from Soviet sympathies being normalized.

Why do Chomsky and his fellow believers point to such massive hard-to-prove examples like the Vietnam War to argue systemic and planned bias between media, business, and government? Why not more everyday examples, such as news outlets' ubiquitous coverage of violent crime. As someone who's worked to procure crime data from local jurisdictions to publish for the newspaper, I can tell you that bureaucrats and businessfolks most definitely do not like publicizing this information, or emphasizing crime events, because it's bad for business, particularly real estate.

News organizations most likely have killed stories/beats for not wanting to anger real estate developers, especially developers who happen to rub elbows with the publishers and top editors. Yet if this is a systematic issue, why is the media at a local level so incompetent when it comes to managing the happiness of the local business community when it comes to crime and corruption stories? Many reporters at top-tier institutions like NYT started at local/regional outlets. Do they all have a come-to-Jesus talk with the publisher as part of joining the elite, nationally powerful outlets?
> The next step after that would be for accreditation to be made more flexible, accommodating combinations of work-study, self-study, community college, private lab classes, and standardized testing to qualify a person for an accredited degree without having attended a traditional university at all.

You can already get an accredited 4-year (or graduate) degree without traditional University; e.g., through Western Governor's University, which is an accredited but non-traditional, competency-based, online school that’s been operating for almost 20 years.

https://www.wgu.edu/why_WGU/competency_based_approach
> All <img> have height and width set (Don't specify px or %)

So what unit should be used?
Take a look a vert.x and Dropwizard. Spring Boot can handle maybe 10k requests per second, but Dropwizard is around 200k and vert.x maybe a million.

If you're only using them for a REST API they offer similar features. Spring Boot supports loads of other stuff you probably don't need for something API driven
There's been a good solution in sight for years. Barak Obama campaigned in the primaries on a platform of renegotiating NAFTA. Then he dropped that issue during the general. Trump sang that tune all the way to the White House.

Here's the long story about what's wrong with NAFTA and it's mostly about tax structure. In Mexico they have a VAT sales tax. This is a huge chunk of their federal budget. Most of the taxes are on the consumption side (point of sale), not the production side. Goods produced in Mexico but sold abroad avoid the VAT tax. However, goods produced outside Mexico but sold in Mexico get the same VAT tax as every other good sold. Now let's look at the US. We have no federal sales tax, all of our taxes are on the production side. Every good that leaves a factory has its price loaded up with basically all of our tax costs. It's the production side that's taxed, not the consumption. That means a product manufactured in the US already is loaded up with US taxes, and then gets shipped to Mexico where the VAT is added on top. Double-taxation. Goods produced in Mexico have no VAT, come to the US tariff free, and sold to US consumers where no federal tax is collected on the consumption end. No-tax. You don't need a Ph.D. in Economics to understand what the result of this will be over time.

The way I see it there's two potential solutions to this. One is to renegotiate NAFTA just like we elected Obama and Trump to do. Another would be to restructure our taxes to be more like Mexico and load the taxes on consumption rather than production. This was the signature campaign idea by Herman Cain during the 2012 election with his 9-9-9 plan, though he was laughed at at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%E2%80%939%E2%80%939_Plan. I'm not suggesting that the 9-9-9 plan exactly is good, but only use it to point out that these solutions have been discussed in the mainstream. I remember Ross Perot's entire campaign against Bill Clinton in 1992 was about how much NAFTA would suck all our jobs to Mexico. But we elected Clinton anyways and look what happened.
Nah my parents are barely computer-literate even today. I found QBASIC that came with DOS when I was like 10 which had the source code for 2 simple games and decided I wanted to learn how to make stuff like that. A few years later I read about Linux somewhere and found someone who baked and mailed me Slackware on CDs for a small fee so then I had gcc
One of the reasons npm modules are largely compatible with each other is the fact that they share the same threading model, which is what the event loop offers.

Then, this has a lot of compatibility issues, and release-wise it will be hell. I don't think this is a good idea.
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It's almost as if widespread use of pesticides is having a widespread effect on insects
If you don't have self-control, remove the "self" from the equation?
> Your future salary expectations likely have a basis in your current salary.

Not necessarily true. My future salary expectations (or _needs_) may have to do with a previous salary, my cost of living, my recent experience or education, or my financial situation.

I've worked in different cities with different COL and also taken cuts in a down-turned market. My current employer is getting a bargain.

If I apply for a job and am asked for this information, I may say, I make $X but I need $2X for reasons A, B, C.

This benefits me because the response tells me if I am out of their range or if they can help me pay my bills, potentially.
To what extent can you fool someone into thinking they're doing a productive job? Social welfare for unemployed factory workers feels like not being productive, but what if you raise tariffs on imports to support local industry and give them jobs. Wouldn't it still feel useless? If you know that your job only exists because other Americans are paying you to make you feel productive because they realise you'll enjoy that more than just getting the money directly, wouldn't that be a hollow satisfaction?