skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in the topic, NYTimes did a great article:

Towers of Secrecy
Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate
By LOUISE STORY and STEPHANIE SAULFEB. 7, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreig...
They're popular enough they go out of stock in the employee store pretty often; I had to wait a month to get one for buddy.

It's pretty neat even if it basically just sits on my desk. I think I've used it more times as a square edge than as a ruler.
This may be a one-off thing, but I remember playing an online trivial game with some Chinese post-docs. They had no idea who Chung Kai-Shek was! It was almost as if pre-CCP history didn't exist.
Division by invariant integers using multiplication [pdf]
Where will my body be in five years? Quantum effects will definitely be manifest enough that the answer to that is not deterministic. Maybe because I am not a professional philosopher I'm missing the special meaning of the work deterministic as used here. I think the point of the OP was that computers are a specially designed system that is very complicated, but at the bottom created by humans who have spent a lot of time and effort to make it deterministic unlike the the "real" world.
I agree but Jakarta is not terribly poor, with a GDP of over $400B [1]. The problem seems more rooted in a low-trust political environment that is riddled with corruption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta
It was the submitter who invoked Facebook.
Duniter: Fair Production of Cryptocurrences with Universal Dividend
42 weeks of billing a year, rather.

So I average about 32 hours a week (or billing 4 out of 5 weeks) over the course of a given calendar year. As I said, I'm very busy all the time. I took 6 months off for a reason.
> as a South Korean, America having such an opinion basically means my country is forced to "choose side", hurting our economy and destabilizing military balance in East Asia.

What the heck are you talking about? South Korea has already chosen a side. Your country runs military exercises jointly with the USA and Japan.

Americans spilled blood and gave their lives to defend South Korea after North Korea (backed by China and Soviet Russia) invaded on 6/25/1950. The US sent hundreds of thousands of troops to defend South Korea, and currently has 30k troops stationed in South Korea. Our two countries have agreed that the USA would take military command if war were to break out.

There are extreme human rights abuses and health deficiencies on the north side of the 38th Parallel, but the south side has grown to be economically powerful and extremely prosperous despite being a fairly poor country at the outset of the war. Your country and mine maintain a free trade agreement, and have traded 100 billion dollars worth of goods this year.

I personally bought a Samsung phone and a Samsung TV, so I'm about $3k of that.

Don't forget who your friends are!
You can't judge risk by outcomes, so I don't think it can ever be quantified objectively. Risk always depends on what you know and what you don't know and what you think might have happened if things were different.

What was the risk of Trump winning the election? Some people think that after it happened, the odds are retroactively 100%. I think that the odds were probably about 30%, since that's what polling implied on the eve of the election. But then one may argue that we know things we didn't know then, that it might have been rigged and therefore the probability was higher than 30%.

If you imagine repeating anything 1000 times, to find out the odds of an outcome, you have to decide what you are holding the same and what you are not. If you hold nothing the same, it makes no sense to compare. If you hold everything the same, you trivially expect the exact same outcome.

I think the fact that you can spin different stories about what risks were actually taken is why investing, and life in general, is hard to optimize.

Your probabilities for anything after an event depend on your probabilities assumed prior.
Thanks the response!

It makes sense. It sounds like a similar result operationally to using something like Macrium for a master image backup. This is something I wanted to prevent because modifying that master image backup on a regular basis is such a task. With my scripting solution, it's just editing a few json files.

My working environment is constantly changing, especially these days. My preferences also change as I optimize my workflows. My thoughts were to use the approach of For each change in implementation, make a change in code.

The other important thing, to me, is that I am free to install any wacky software I may need to try without worrying what it's doing to my system. Something like intermittent backups will lead to accumulation of garbage files when doing this. And if I choose to adopt the software, I add it to my setup package.

How do I modify the VM on a regular basis?

I trust the input but maybe my understanding is limited by lack of context. I wish I could find a decent training source on this.
Move outside the city. I lived in Pacifica. Pretty much anything along BART is easy to get into the city. I parked at Colma where fortunately the dead don't drive :-)

Pacifica was awesome because you're just a hill from the hustle and bustle but it felt like a detached town. So many nice people there. Hwy 1 is annoying at rush hour (or most hours) but it was a really nice community.
There is clearly an interest because we routinely see links about crypto-backed currencies make it to the front page but the quality of comments is usually astonishingly low. I don't know if that is because people "hate it" or if they overestimate their own knowledge of the topic.
North Korea flooded with illicit information carried by hydrogen balloons tensio
Please provide literally any evidence you have that the average consultant can reliably and repeatedly generate 5-figures-a-week-individual consultancy. I can already tell you no such evidence exists but if you want to search for it, you are free to do so.

> I used to have a similar scarcity mentality --- thinking that because other people were successful, it was like the lottery -- based purely on chance.

> But I learned over time to develop a abundance mentality -- rather than say 'it can't be done' -- to change my mode of thinking to say 'how did they do it, and is there anything for me to learn.'

You probably should look up 'reliably' and 'repeatable' and the definition of those words. You really should not attack a straw man.

I just understand the probability of X event is Y and I'm not naive enough to try to talk myself into wasting energy on low probability paths.

The 5 figures a week consultancy path is exactly such a low probability path.
Yeah I always roll my eyes when I see people touting laziness as a virtue. Time to open eyes.
I use radio for that. It's good for when you're doing something else that's not too absorbing (programming is out of question for me). Since you have something else to do, you by definition don't have time to sift through potentially interesting stuff.
I think the article might be worth reading from a how-not-to perspective. It seems very much like the author is applying paradigms from object-imperative languages to a functional language and meeting resistance.

It's perfectly fine to not know how to express things idiomatically when learning a new language that uses an unfamiliar paradigm, but a critique written from that perspective is only useful in that it's a list of indicators that you're not using the language effectively.
Case in point...
Also, Bitfinex almost always has a lower price than the other exchanges so there's almost no opportunities to actually do this; the only major exception was when the trustworthiness of Bitfinex's dollar deposits themselves were in question, which is a bad time to be doing arbitrage. Plus, you're going to be paying interest on your shorts for the entire time period they're open which eats into your profits. There's also the risk of the price increasing enough that a margin call liquidates your short position before the prices converge enough that you can close your position and take a profit.
Everyone who has kids decided to do so, the only thing that varies is the amount of options considered.
My modal engagement was with a SaaS company with $20 million a year sales, a few dozen employees, and 1~3 very strapped people wearing the marketing hat.

“How much email do you send?” “We have a newsletter.” “What else?” “Welcome to free trial email. “What else?” “Nothing.”

I write proposal.

You should:

1) Have a pre-sales drip campaign positioned as a “free course about X delivered over email” w/ 8 emails arriving over the course of a month. This will push people at purchasing the product in 2 of the emails.

2) You should email people 4 times during the trial depending on their level of engagement with it. Here’s a decision tree.

3) You should email people within 80% of their monthly quota offering a discount to move to the next higher plan.

4) You should email your entire userbase and upgrade as many as possible to annual billing for a 10% discount to the cost of their current plan.

You can tell your engineering team to do this for you, but there is 0% chance they schedule this because it is boring scutwork and they’d rather do those features you have scheduled this quarter. Or you can have me just do it. I need a commit bit and probably two weeks. It will cost you $30k per week.

Probabalistically this makes you $2 million in next 12 months but your results are your results; you keep all the upside and my invoice is due regardless.
if it would've been just that...
but if your "express" edition is harder to configure/install than a kubernetes cluster (the hard way) than something is really really wrong.
How does record access work? Is it via generated record accessor functions (pretty crappy, used by Haskell) or does OCaml now have true row types (as in PureScript (and perhaps Elm))? Can you have multiple types with the same record field name?
In Asia’s Fattest Country, Nutritionists Take Money from Food Giants
Great, thanks! Fixed now.
Thanks for the link. Seems interesting.
BQ is a serverless though.
Yes and yes. My experience is shared with a lot of other random commenters. Clearly the threshold for this battery warning is lower that the threshold for throttling.
> People are so bold, they're always willing to sacrifice other people's lives to defend freedom.

South Korea's forces had lost 70,000 men in five days before the USA came to your aid in 1950. In the fighting that ensued, 37,000 Americans perished to defend your country. Please consider that.
The episodes are on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/groups/96331/videos/80799353

It's definitely worth watching for anyone interesting in the history of early Silicon Valley.
Why does that matter? 99% of people investing in Tesla probably don't care about whether electric cars will help reduce pollution. They care if the stock goes up and it makes them money. That doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss the merits of electric cars.
IMO don't apologize. OPs comment is meant to discredit you and is rude for someone WHO WORKS AT THE SAME COMPANY.

There is a larger issue where the use of "junior front end engineer" means "Don't take this persons opinion seriously".

Your are 1. an engineer 2. work at Facebook. There are far better ways to say "there are other opinions at our company too"
>1. Users have a USD account and a BTC account. They can’t sell their bitcoins and withdraw their cash, but they can buy more bitcoins using their newly-topped-up USD account – which contains trapped “dollars” which can’t be used for anything else.

that doesn't really address my question. the USD have to have come from somewhere, and in both case, it's either natural demand (from people wanting to buy BTC), or a net zero effect (from selling, then subsequently buying).
> what would be your perspective if the U.S. decided that South Korea was no longer worth defending ...

You mean, what if the US decided that keeping an air force base within 1000 km of Beijing isn't worth the cost?

Well, it that case, it sucks, because our national defense budget will likely have to increase a lot. But an independent country cannot outsource its defense to others forever, so South Korea should have contingency plans for such a case, or at least I hope so.

As you said, alliance goes both ways. The military ties to the US did help us tremendously in the past. But the US is not stationing thousands of soldiers out of goodwill: they're doing it because South Korea is located at a really convenient position in America's game of global dominance. I think it's mutually beneficial (for now), but if America decides it isn't, well then that's it.
When I lived in NYC, a famous celebrity had a condo in the same building as me. As far as I could tell, it never got used. Weirdly enough no one minded until it sold to someone from Saudi Arabia.
I thought LANai was a Myricom design, not a Google one.
Why go to archive.is? It's Github, there's a revision history.
Hah, I guess the traffic borked it. Here was some coverage from PC Gamer on it: http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-geforce-gtx-usb-drive-is-real...
5 Things to Look for When You Contract Out the Back End of Your App
If you have time to list the other books that you own like this and "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet", I'd definitely appreciate it. I love reading these types of stories too!
Non-paywall: http://archive.is/qeMa6

I find this really interesting. There is kinda this pre-disposition to "I was spanked as a kid and I turned out okay" combined with the whole "entitled/snowflake" rubbish that would keep people from really looking at this type of parenting technique.
The circumstances of your area are so individual that without specifying a specific city or town you're pretty much not going to get any useful advice.

And generalizing the Bay Area to all other higher salary + higher CoL places is also going to yield no useful insight. Or in other words - your parent comment about how articles like this are why you don't consider relocating neglects the fact that there are likely middle ground locations where you could be paid a higher wage while still paying a lower rent.

One simply can't extrapolate that much when looking at CoL or salary.
> In the 90s-00s (millennial time) it was even more accessible. You also had the internet to learn from and a vastly larger market for all things tech.

I think you're overstating the degree of access that large parts of the population had for furthering interest in this area.

I was a teenager in the mid-90s. This is when I read about Linux for the first time somewhere online. I remember going to bookstores and trying to find books on learning Linux, but none existed where I lived (Midwest). I managed to install MKLinux on my PPC Mac at the time, but had no idea where to go from there. Online resources were locked behind a dial-up connection and there were no computer clubs or technology meet-ups in my area. Web searches were still a joke at the time.

It wasn’t until years later that I became familiar with Unix and Unix-like systems. The change finally came as a result of widespread broadband adoption and the rise of Google. Around this time, Mac OS X had also arrived and I could finally begin learning the command line without having to dual-boot my computer.

I think you’re overstating the level of access that large parts of the population had for truly going further in the 90s. I’m highly envious of young people today and the access that they now have to resources that essentially didn’t exist when I was that age. That’s probably true for every generation, however.
Maybe they meant it's so fast there's no time to do anything about it.
Indonesia actually has a larger GDP than the Netherlands and the largest economy in South East Asia
Beating TensorFlow Training In-VRAM
$15k now.
I don't think athletic ability directly translates to higher revenue. But, their is also showmanship which more closely relates to revenue.

Some players make 50x+ what other players are making. Having linemen make 10 million per year does not involve adding linemen it involves linemen that are worth being paid 10 million / year.

At the same time football has added new teams over time and increased both the number of players and minimum salary significantly from inception.
I for one would be more interested in seeing solutions to the problems OP has from a professional developer, rather than reading smug answers about how he missed his path to enlightenment.
Last time I checked they were using floating points to represent monetary values. I would not trust this piece of software regardless of how clever their strategy may be.
Although I hope the OP responds since I'd also be interested in details, one thing I've read that helps create a positive environment for remote workers is to make the entire company remote (such as Gitlab) rather than a mix of office and remote employees. This way everyone's using the same communication channels and it reduces the situations where certain groups are more in or out of the loop than other groups.
Personalities are built; you're not born an introvert. Anyone can be built into a leader; go join the Marine Corps if you don't believe me.
> Austin Walker (current editor in chief for Waypoint - Vice's Video Games site) is the walking antithesis of an alt-right bro.

What does being left wing or right wing have to do with anything? We’re talking about sexual harassment, not politics. The majority if the recent high profile cases have been democrats doing the harassment btw.
The answer always involves being interested in marketing, which I find incredibly tedious and dull.

Which kind of makes the person writing it seem dull. Until you realize that's not the content or the purpose of the writing at all. The whole thing is actually, itself, marketing, i.e. somebody's sales pitch for himself. Well no wonder it's a bore.
Foreign investment is certainly a factor as much as the NIMBY-ism of the Bay Area. But people would still be griping about outside money if it were New York investors buying homes and leaving them empty. But it’s not.

Just because the outside investment is Chinese doesn’t make someone xenophobic.
My metric for food price is calories per penny. For example, the 760 calorie slice of pizza for $1.99 at Costco works out to about 3.8 calories per penny, while the 500 calorie Caesar salad for $3.99 works out to about 1.3 calories per penny. In my worked example, the fresh food is more expensive than the junk food from the point of view of 'How much money do I need to spend to keep myself alive today?' Could you post some examples of the calories per penny of the fresh food and junk food costs you are referring to?
Yeah well I always roll my eyes when I see people touting hard work for hard work's sake as a virtue. Time to open eyes.
Yes, but I mean, how much money does a person need? Why do I need to advance up the ladder? I just don’t see the point. I like living my life how I want. If I could do that without a job at all, I would.

Don’t get me wrong, it has its downsides other than the career advancement thing. But commuting and sitting in an open office with no privacy does too. On balance I prefer it.
If you’re lonely, get a dog.
> So I guess its well accepted now that "mainstream media" is not merely there to report what is going on but have active agendas to shape the world according to their wishes. It a weapon of destruction.

I'm not sure what you're angling for, but they're all corporations with market interests. The NYT itsself authored the article.

Your comment appears to be reaching pretty hard to throw in that MSM comment.
I regularly read claims on the Internet that young people don't use Facebook...
> this work ONLY if bitfinex has higher price than other exchange

Bitfinex might well have higher BTC/USD. However, the reason is that people can't get USD off Bitfinex, and so buy BTC to get those off Bitfinex. Thus, if you try to do the arb, you buy BTC cheaply on exchange X (for USD), then sell BTC (simultaneously) expensively on Bitfinex (getting USD).

Now, to realise your paper gains, you either have to wait for the BTC price to converge and then unwind the trade backwards, and have some money left, or you have to get the USD off Bitfinex. But you can't. That's why the price of BTC was so high there in the first place.

TL;DR: Arb is not trivial.
Yeah, it's not easy to convey how pressing the issue is by just stating that Jakarta is sinking, but that really is a surprisingly dumb headline for an otherwise solid article.
GDP per capita is more than 4x in Netherlands (on a PPP basis). On a straight per capita basis, it’s even higher. See, e.g., https://tradingeconomics.com/indonesia/gdp-per-capita
I made a mistake the other day that cost about $500 in damage because our machines work in both imperial and metric measurements. Turns out 20mm/min is only about 1.5 ipm. And there's a big difference between 20 ipm and 1.5 ipm. Like sparks flying everywhere shit melting kind of difference.
I agree that’s ideal. I did it once and really liked it. I thought I could do it again but my current company shut the office in my city shortly after I joined.
There is no “right” application of the 80/20 rule. It has many applications for many contexts
There's a lot of bad stuff that isn't going away. Global powers projecting that power in various ways is one of them. It would absolutely be better if the US/China didn't do the bad things they have done. Good luck stopping that from happening in the future, it's been happening since civilization was created.
All I said is that the tech was more available in the 90s than the 80s. Your story is pretty in-line with what I was thinking honestly.

My point is: fighting technological progress because it’s not happening fast enough seems weird. Should we not encourage it to happen even faster?
The article says they are draining the ground water aquifers too fast and causing the sinking.
You can’t compare language features, only languages
Yes strongly, in comparison. But I also live in one of the last countries on this planet that still has good compensation offers for regular employees. The conditions one faces in working remotely are probably more and more common.

Here's the thing: If you are in your twenties, are offered decent office jobs, and you don't have a wealthy family to back you up, choose office over freedom. Later when you put something aside you can try to get some freedom without risking going broke.

Freedom is no fun without backup. Freedom also means free to get exploited.
I recognize your username from various threads, but I'm unfamiliar with your work. What is it that you consult on? And, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get "demonstrably technically competent" in it? Were you an employee in whatever field it was, and then struck out on your own? I'm fascinated by consulting but have a hard time envisioning what these consultants do that employees don't, at least in the more technical fields.
Of course it's affected by transfer times, it just takes some thought to understand why. Ultimately, in order for this to close out the position for a profit, the prices have to converge for long enough, and in order for that to happen reliably someone has to do arbitrage the slow way by transferring money. While you're waiting for that to happen, you're paying interest on the short position and exposed to the risk of a price increase causing a margin call that liquidates your short at a loss. The amount of profit you can make is also limited by the time it takes for the prices to converge.