skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, informed by what I’ve witnessed personally amongst my peers, poor people are lazier, at least in a statistical, group-average sort of way. This isn’t meant to contradict anything you say about privilege or economic status of parents. In fact kids learn that hard work and contentiousness pay off from their role models, parents, and peers. So successful parents end up having successful kids, and the phenomenon is not explained fully by Dad’s connections. Saying it’s “privilege” is only the beginning of understanding. There are some aspects of personality that parents are imparting to kids, and if you’re interested in helping the rest of the kids, you have to understand what that is.
How Individual Traders Can Benefit from Teamwork
while maintaining their fiduciary duty to investors.

I'm not so convinced. That's a huge cash pile. If they brought some back and handed it out as dividends, I'd feel the benefit. I'm not inherently averse to them investing it instead of giving it to me straight away, but at some point I do want it.
> In risk adjusted terms bailouts lose money by having easier terms than private investments.

That's similar to saying I lost money because a bank offered you your mortgage for 4% when I could have lent you that money at 10%.
I don't get it, in the olden days where forums were popular everyone knew that the final say of the content in that forum was of the administrators. Now, however, we join a website we do not own, run by people we do not know, and expect them to what, do as we say? Yeah, doesn't work like that. I'm not supporting what Facebook does, but I'm not against it either. Like it, use it, don't like it, don't use it.
Easy answer: yes it does.

Think of something else like monopoly: money. Does it matter where your money came from? A drug network killing teenagers across the country or selling iphones to rich people. One makes you a criminal, the other makes you Steve Jobs.
Can a Middle-Man Actually Reduce Costs?
Dude, you have issues.
I don't know about the US but in my country manual agricultural labor pays so much only immigrants living in hay barns can afford to do the work. for everyone else it doesn't pay enough to do the work
قناة كرتون نتورك بالعربية “ CN Arabic ” بث مباشر الأن – بيجا سوفت
#MeToo: Are You In?
You can see a simple demo at https://web.fe.up.pt/~arestivo/remark.search/ (try pressing Ctrl+F, searching for slide and then F3)
I second this ask: the parent's claim is new to me.
I never really understood the argument that taxing spending taxes rich people a lower proportion of their income. Even allowing for investments and savings, rich and poor are all going to spend the money they have in their life (ignore or tax the estates).

If there’s a 10% sales tax, then 9.0909...% of your wealth will go to it, no matter how much you make, invest, save.
I think this is the reason Microsoft can wait a few years before attacking the mobile phone market again. The new mobile phones will support an average desktop user experience. Not saying that Microsoft will execute this well but the Surface was a success.
> Samuel Woolley, an information warfare expert who was director of Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Research Team, questioned the timing of the directives, saying they came after he and associates had repeatedly warned Twitter officials that the existing deletion policy already was undermining their efforts — and those of many other researchers — to determine the extent of Russia’s attempts to manipulate the social media platform.

So next time get a subpoena?
Lots of prisoners work and they are paid below minimum wage to subsidize there housing cost.
Because the guy who makes 5 times more will spend 5 times more?
I don't know why you say "free market fanboys" don't like basic income; libertarians seem to be one of the major supporting factions.
No sun in Estonia in my experience hehe
Amazon is now the size of a small country
But by how much and does it actually matter? It's also a pretty small example. The problem of complexity outstripping benefits only grows the more you inspect the frontend landscape.

My main point is just that the implication that JS is required otherwise the UX will be unbearable is false. It's also really easy to mess up the UX with JS and I see it constantly. I would take a fast form post over a cumbersome JS powered experience any day.
Would be nice if you would mention what is your country.
Thanks, adding to my watch list!
Socialism might be central planning. Basic income is almost the opposite of central planning, because it replaces all sorts of conditional and focused welfare with what is equivalent to a negative income tax.

That's why so many libertarians are on board with the idea.
The deadlier drug crises that we don’t consider public health emergencies
Ooh. I don't know if I have the time
Coincoin – Blockchain Based Cryptocurrency Proof-Of-Concept in Elixir
Coaching Should Be the New Free Lunch
Won't adding salt to meals and perhaps a pinch to water in the morning be sufficient?
This site lets you see visualisations of sorting algorithms, and hear them
This is also relevant to your comment: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07663
FYI, the author of this has started the Growth Coaching Institute, if anyone wants to start providing their "free lunch".

https://www.growthcoachinginstitute.org
> With Crystal, data scientists could have the ease-of-use of Python/Ruby combined with the performance of C.

Big if true.

Are there any benchmarks to back up this claim? There is some mention of experiments, but I'm not seeing any numbers or code.
This article couldn't be more of an attack towards men. Fuck whoever wrote it. That shit can come from anyone.
Some things are already free, such as the air. We don't worry about it day-to-dzy, because we have that need met. Once a need is met, we worry about the next one. There is no end to our needs and wants. So, with basic income, it just means all those needs step up one rung.

But without basic needs met, a workforce is less productive.

It's a similar argument as for universal health care and education. If that's too contentious, consider that most civilizations provide many things to their citizens, such as roads, currency, military, law and law enforcement. that are free to the user.

Thw difference is that today, basic income can be afforded by the state.
UBI is free money for landlords.

Just once, just one single time, I'd like to hear or read a convincing explanation for how UBI will not be completely captured by rents. I'm still waiting.
I don't see any support for your assertion. Why wouldn't we continue the status quo for a 1000 years? There certainly have been long periods in history where royalty has lived in riches and the majority have worked their ass off to support them. Only at the end do the royals get killed. But right now we're just starting! I expect this to last much longer too this time, since we have more automation now.
Apple has a financial arm half the size of Goldman Sachs
One is here https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
I always see UBI mentioned when people discuss automation and the disruption of labor. Automation could address your last concern regarding inflation and jobs people don’t want to do.
Rentiers are a very small group that arguably organize resources, they don't do nothing. For instance, it is commonly accepted that the markets that allow for rentiers to exist far outperform communist and the older king/nobility directed markets and even mercantilist markets.

Pensioners are a temporary aberration. Of course we can take care of a fixed and tiny percentage of the population while everything else is growing. The issue is, that we've stopped growing. Population growth in the west stopped long ago. That means that for the coming 20 years or so pensioners will "grow" exponentially (or rather exponentially growing birthrates from 50-60 years ago will get transformed into pensioner growth), whereas the working population will actually shrink. Even in China. In Japan it will crash.

And in case you feel like automation will save us ... well, where is it ? Productivity growth stopped in the 80s, along with the introduction of large scale automation.

Unless something dramatically changes from now on there automation looks like at best it can temporarily prevent worse than the current situation.

And what could change ? Having computers organize things is old hat by now. Having factories, actual production automated ... even older hat. Mines, ... just about the only thing with real economic impact remaining is house building.
The forums were/are usually catering to niches. Facebook is a behemoth. To many people, the internet is basically it.
The people who thought the referendum was illegal and didn't matter, didn't show up. In part because of fears of violence from police (shall we say) "enthusiastically" enforcing the law.

The people who wanted the referendum to go through were motivated to show up despite the violence. Because they believed in their cause.

So no, the "yes" voters were likely not discouraged from showing up. Or, the "soft" yes votes were discouraged.
Really fascinating, the low energy aspect is intriguing.
Is Elm using a particular library for its persistent structures, or are they custom for Elm?

I've read that it has both List and Array, yet neither appears to be ideal for proper functional programming; List, as you say, is a linked list, yet it is recommended [0] over Array for functional operations like map, fold, etc -- but you wouldn't normally want linked lists for that sort of thing, esp. if your maps and folds were part of a larger data transformation of composed functions. Does Elm offer anything similar to the structure of ClojureScript's persistent vector?

I have learned that FP without the guts of serious persistent structures is not so good in practice.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37707577/array-vs-list-i...
You fund it with a Georgist style land value tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
> 2. What happens in your body when you don't sleep enough?

You happen to create blurry charts ;-)
When I wrote the article I didn't have access to code I worked on 2 decades ago, and if I did I couldn't have used it in the article anyway. This was indented to illustrate the problem with problem with column 73, not to handle all possible cases.

Having said that, situations like would come up sometimes. You really did have to decide ahead of time how big field could be. You could leave extra filler bytes in your tables (literally named "filler") but it was still a big hassle to deal with.
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Based on my own experiences with both, I'd say: Yes. Although I'm sure you couldn't prove it mathematically (yet).
Hi

On this demo image [0], why isn't "text" found as well since there is clearly text in the image. Is it because "text" isn't considered an object? If so, what would it take (based on your article) to also train for text?

Thanks!

[0] https://i.imgur.com/0jwgJAG.png
You're completely right to question that assumption. It's very much possible to quantify the amount of error, or even just ballpark it. But numerical math is hard! :)

And .. even a raytracer doesn't sum that many numbers, maybe a few thousand[0]? So even then it's still a very reasonable question to ask.

[0] assuming a Monte Carlo pathtracer type of thing with 5-10 bounces or so. BTW, do you think you'd ever need more than five? Unless you're rendering close-to-parallel reflective surfaces, but the appearance of those is often as confusing in real life as it is when rendered correctly.
Eight hours, junior devs interviewing, pointless questions...

You can leave an interview at any time if you're not feeling it. You're not obligated to stick it out. I've bailed on interviews before. It sounds like you really wanted this job, though, so I understand wanting to see it through.

That's why I always ask candidates how they feel it's going so far when I begin an interview. Any issues on our end? You should be checking in with yourself at least between every interview to gauge how you feel. The vast majority of interviewers are shitty, so if you're not feeling great it's probably more on them than you.
Not years
Ask HN: Career Advice
Hi all,

I am looking for some career advice…

I currently work in an internal Creative Services department in a reasonably large company, which is a subsidiary of a larger company, which in turn is a subsidiary of a much larger company...

The products are visual in nature so there are always good materials to work from and with. Therefore I have a good variety of past projects and a good portfolio ( although not fully assembled )

My role is ‘digital designer’, a role I have grown into via my previous agency-side employers over the past 10 years. ( I graduated with a Print Design background, all other skills I have acquired on my own time )

My current role revolves around creating digital marketing materials, which these days revolve around recutting/creating video assets for social media, designing and building online advertising and bespoke internal tools and systems.

My skill set is wide and covers the gamut of concepting, design and development.

The below are top-line things but

Advanced in:
3/4’s of Adobes tools,
HTML,
CSS,
Javascript,
Greensock

Pretty Good with:
PHP,
Php frameworks ( Laravel ),
MySQL

I am curious in nature and love a challenge.

I am on any OS from Linux, OSX and Windows. Although my preference is for OSX.

I am comfortable working on the command line.

I am considered the ‘go-to’ guy for anything technical, perhaps that says more than what I can put into words.

Anyway to my point... I really enjoy the development side of things and I would like to move my career path in that direction. BUT as I have no formal training in this I am unsure of how I stack up, where gaps are in my knowledge,’ known unknowns' are my perceived achilles heel.

Things to note:
I have a wife and young daughter.
I live in London, UK.
I have good benefits in my current role.
I have a good salary for my role, but not necessarily for my skill set.

Advice please!

Best,
IW
I don't think so. The "censorship machine" will first be publicly motivated by the necessity to limit media piracy, then if necessary they will use the usual child porn consensus device to shift public opinion towards its acceptance, since nobody would dare to oppose it.
Finally, once it is working, they'll use it to detect and quash dissent much before it reaches the torches and pitchforks level.
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Last chart: UK and Spain have a 1 hour time zone difference, but apparently only 15 minutes difference in bed time. (On approximately same longitude)
Well, any decent company setting up proper emails sends multipart bodies: one for html, and one for plaintext. Text-only clients should never be missing out on the essentials. Of course this relies on companies doing things properly, which is sadly not always the case.
> Do we need all this JS?

The answer to this question is always no.
If you're scared, it's best not to do it.

IMO the best approach is to read about experiences on Erowid and similar sites, get used to which dosages go approximately how far, and when you finally are ready, prepare your mindset and externalities to promote a good experience rather than a bad one. It really is all in your head.
We are not preserving the status quo right now, the rich are getting richer.

There is also the point that 1000 years ago the poor didn't know that they could kill kings, there are more examples of how to do it now.
Hmm, had no idea long sleep is also linked to developing more diseases. Also makes one wonder in what way the causal effect (if any?) works, i.e. do those people tend to sleep more because of the diseases or is it the other way around?
Fluent Python is the best intermediate level Python book I have read. It is one book you wish to have more and more pages.
Have you discussed your career desires with your manager? That'd be the first thing I'd do, since I don't sense any desire to move companies.

There may be a way for you to transition to more development. If that is possible, I'd definitely bring up comp change, but first determine if a transition is possible.
It's also solved by modern editors that do syntax highlighting. Both emacs and vim flagged that period as an error when I was working on the example in the article. But sadly the editor I was using at the time did not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest-lived_soverei...
But you don't detect that one case where you are actually compromised. You dismiss it like you do all the false positives. At best, when you get pwned you think back to having dismissed the key change warning and know what happened, but how does that actually help you?
Is it April already? Looking outside, it just started getting cold, not the other way round.
I've always loved Jackie Chan's movies for their childlike innocence. The logic in his movies is the logic of kids, which is also why kids absolutely love his movies (as I did).

The villains and heroes in his movies think the way kids do. If you defeat the neighborhood bad guy, of course all crime would stop. If you're a rich guy, of course you'd turn your entire wealth into diamonds. Who wouldn't want diamonds?

The violence in his movies is also never really sinister. Nor are the villains - especially the thugs-for-hire cannon fodder - ever truly evil. In Rumble in the Bronx, the initial bad guy - Tony (iirc) - becomes Jackie's friend once he realizes that Jackie is actually a good guy.

That's child logic, and I absolutely love it.

I know some "serious" movie critics fault his movies for their simplistic plot lines, but to me, this is a feature, not a flaw.

Outside of animation, I don't see any western movie maker doing anything remotely similar.
It's possible but no one dares to because it might cost literally millions if a bug shows up.
Yeah, and then get on with your life:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/opinion/sunday/jimmy-cart...

https://www.axios.com/trump-talks-north-korea-with-henry-kis...
I have dedicated this very weekend to digging into Crystal. Uncanny coincidence seeing it popping up here, today of all days.

It is a tremendously nice looking language - and I say this as a pythonesque guy who never wrote one line of Ruby. The feeling I get from community and projects is that it's a very up-and-coming thing, about to take off in a major way. There is just too much enthusiasm and too many things done right for Crystal not to earn some solid share within a very foreseeable future.
>rich and poor are all going to spend the money they have in their life (ignore or tax the estates).

This is a spherical cow in a vaccum style argument. If you ignore estates and also ignore property and other investments that don't pay sales tax then yes, everyone pays the same sales tax. But the rich will disproportionally own investments and properties that will then be passed on to their heirs. Over any period and particarly over a few generations because of compounding this means taxing spending is indeed very regressive.
This is magic. Like an extremely difficult, extremely well choreographed dance.
No, I hadn't heard of STEPS. Thanks for the links!
In french as well (pas à pas).
How do you figure that? Libertarians are by definition against any government involvement in the market. Governments giving citizens money is something that falls under the category of "government involvement."
> Imagine a world without AJAX.

This is my favorite HN quote of the month.
There's a few links to other articles that go into greater detail about that, and from there a whole rabbit-hole of more things :)
How much do you trust the investor? This sounds like an obvious "nooope" to me. If your dream is to own a company, this will be unsatisfying.
Your criticism comes from a very occidental view point.

In eastern cultures, you never talk poorly of your own "family" (in this case, the country), no matter how bad it might be.
So cool! I really enjoy working with Kemal. :)

The State of Crystal at v0.21 article (https://crystal-lang.org/2017/02/24/state-of-crystal-at-0.21...) stated that multithreading with work stealing was coming "soon" and that you already managed to run kemal in parallel. Can you share anything about the current state of that project?
Here's a great blog post about Kemal and Websockets :) http://kemalcr.com/blog/2016/11/13/benchmarking-and-scaling-...
It's too bad browsers never made a prominent button to choose language and instead buried this option deep down.
But you still need to do the server side valuation.
Extract from Plato’s Republic: On That Which Is Correct Politically
Many recruiters spend that time complaining instead of learning anything about the roles they're trying to fill.
London, Vancouver and Hong Kong as well which is far worst then any place on earth.
Why is this a step in the right direction? Having a .onion service provides essentially zero benefit without a hidden backend.

People wanting to access NYT site via Tor, can just navigate to https://www.nytimes.com/ and it'll be significantly faster than the .onion equivalent.
Even though it's experimental I've successfully compiled Kemal with multi-thread support. The throughput was OK. It's promising and will definitely help CPU bound apps :)

You can check the wiki for more info https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Threads-support
This Cardiologist's Cultured Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis
They used to coordinate security stuff on mozilla.dev.security.policy but they switched to blink-dev, maybe to indicate this is Chrome's/Google's position only. The first big use of blink-dev for security that I remember was the Symantec thing.
When a YC Partner visits my city
Great advice. For someone regretting not taking the particle physics path that sometimes dreams 'what if...' you've offered some solace.
As mentioned in the article, library support in Crystal is growing but still far from complete. This GitHub repo might be a good place to start searching for useful shards: https://github.com/veelenga/awesome-crystal/blob/master/READ...
YC21: Puretaint is hiring full stack taint washers.
What is that maximum acceleration? You’re doing a bit of hand waving. There are express subway stops in Manhattan, for example.

Also consider there’s much less noise and a much smoother ride on the maglev.
"...OOP. Moving from Ruby to Go sometimes feels like ignoring 20 years of progress made in language design."

If OOP is so important to them, why did they bother including Elixir in their list of possibilities?

Also, given their problem domain, I'm doubtful of the fit of OOP (vs functional). But regarding Crystal, it is nice to see a potential performant Ruby replacement.
What exactly is your point here? I didn't say "you're 92, time to lay down in bed to die."

Kissinger and Carter probably have done some end of life planning, especially Carter who had brain cancer a couple years ago.
The bit about the stairs _was_ the obviously not literal bit.
Here is another (sort of) real world app I wrote using Crystal and Kemal - a real time race telemetry display app for an F1 racing game [Blog post link] - http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2017/10/28/racing-along-build...
Reason is not transpiled language, it’s frontend replacement to ocaml compiler pipeline. Bucklescript, a different project, is backend replacement that emits Javascript instead of binaries. They can be used together, but don’t have to.