skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was failing classes in college, I had a conversation with a dean who suggested that I subconsciously didn't want to be there, and that I was committing academic self-sabotage as a result. This struck me as an extravagant, bizarre theory. (Cynically, I also wonder if she was trying to convince me to voluntarily leave the college so that I wouldn't ding their graduation rate.)

I tend to be suspicious of this kind of move, where what seems like a character flaw is explained away as something more benign. In the article in question, the author suggests that the woman writing in is not really lazy, but has been holding back out of fear that she might disappoint herself. But why can't she just be lazy? I don't doubt that there are people who have the kind of subtle psychology that the author suggests. But I wonder if we're too eager to accept such explanations because they are more comforting than more straightforward, harsher ones.
Blockchains are one thing and Bitcoin is another. I'm not really suggesting you use neither :)

Better bank tech exists in many places outside the US (pretty much everywhere, really). Better bank tech does not guarantee my ability to send you money, and it certainly does not provide that ability if any single one of a number of large private and/or public entities decide to preclude me from it.

Guaranteed access and censorship resistance. That is a clear advantage of cryptocurrencies at this time (not of blockchains, mind you), and I think it's a significant one. That doesn't mean you should use them.

If you are curious and up to the challenge I will give you an Argentina (where I currently live) bank account number and if you can get USD 1 in it by the end of next week I will send you $50 worth of the cryptocurrency of your choice.

PS Also I don't want to sound presumptuous but it seems to me you use the word "blockchain" as an equivalent to "bitcoin" or "cryptocurrency". It could be the case that some of the points in this type of discussion rely on the differences between those concepts.
Look 90% of your remarks are based on the misunderstanding that treasury bonds create currency. They do not. That was one of the rules introduced after the 1930 disaster.

Your argument is dependent on the financial system as it existed in, not even the 20th, but the 19th century. Taxes do not "delete" dollars. Treasury bonds do not create dollars. None of that is true.

The FED balance sheet, and the private fractional reserve banking is the ONLY thing that creates money in the united states (and similar systems exist in Europe, and other developed economies). There is NOTHING ELSE, and certainly not treasury bonds, that creates either credit or currency.

Second misunderstanding is about government spending. The point is not whether it distorts the market. According to Keynesian THEORY the point is to distort the market, so I do not think that government spending is bad in that regard. According to Keynesian practice ... let's not go there.

Government spending is bad because it inherently is not an investment in future wealth production. It is like the car registrations. It can "avoid" (to an extent) negative externalities of certain markets, like the police preventing theft to an extent, but it inherently does not produce. If everybody followed the law, government would be superfluous : in theory, under that condition, you could simply close the government up tomorrow, and nothing would change. THAT's why government spending is bad, and should take a back seat to private investment. Because in theory private investment leads to future wealth creation, whereas government spending is economically the equivalent of buying booze and drinking it.

> …or well, if all the treasury bonds were cashed in and no more issued (so it wasn't moving debt around but actually paying it off), then we'd all need real dollars like

This is my main issue with your line of thinking. No. Very simply, no. The two are different. FED balance sheet versus treasury bonds. They're like whales and teapots. They are entirely different things.
This is part of where I don't know where to find the numbers I want to find. :)

Are one-off procedures amenable to medical-tourism destinations a major part of US total healthcare costs? Or is it expensive, often-for-rest-of-life, prescriptions and treatment courses for certain conditions? Or just the simple requirements of keeping an ever-larger/ever-older aging population alive through falls/heart attacks/kidney failures/whatever?

Pointers to the data would be appreciated, here. :)

Or numbers around research budgets: what does the international research profile around, say, lab-grown replacement organs look like compared to the in-US one?

What I have found so far is that even within the US, quality of care and outcomes vary wildly (doctors and nurses are only human, too, after all) and you can generally figure out where you should go for what condition, but it's not very easy. And it's problematic at a certain point to say that it should be easier: the best 10% of practicioners for a certain condition likely can't see 100% of the patient load. How do you decide who gets the crappy doctors? (International medical tourism is a slightly different can of worms, but one I understand less because my experience is that most health coverage doesn't give you much internationally, so domestic medical tourism seems much more attractive.)
I’ve made the argument before that it’s not a lack of housing we have, it’s a lack of livable communities.

We have a housing glut in this country, most of it is just in places that are far from jobs, services, transit, and community amenities. If we created more moderately sized, walkable, transit friendly cities this problem wouldn’t be so bad.

Everyone wants to cram into SF, NY, and a handful of other places because of the access to economic opportunity and urbanist lifestyle. If they could get some measure of that elsewhere, even a not as good but okay enough version, many would gladly move and alleviate the pressure. But because of how we do our built environments these dense cities are islands of urbanism in an ocean of sprawl.
I carry daily the Kershaw 1660PUR Leek Folding Knife (Purple) with SpeedSafe. I originally purchased one for my wife after extended research for her uses and hand size but liked it so much myself I purchased another to keep on me. I really like the very sharp point for detail work, efficient size, and the fact that it opens easily with one hand. It can be locked closed for keeping at the ready safely in a purse, for transport, or if walking about in NYC. It's just a bit small for my hands but this is a known and accepted trade-off. I can be agile with it despite the fact I wish it reached a bit farther towards my pinky grip when in my hand. I carry in my back right pocket. The knife an its vibrant color sticks out of my pocket just a small amount.

I'm considering changing to either of the following wooden handle 'gentleman' knives:

Benchmade - North Fork 15031 Knife, Drop-Point with Stabilized Wooden Handle

Boker Plus 01BO734 Urban Trapper 3 1/2 in. Blade

If you end up going with either of these let me know how they feel!
Sorry we have to charge money for beta. Because it's a physical product that requires material, printing & shipping cost, we needed to ask our testers to pay a small fee.
Is it possible that the self-driving cars will have the same effect? The rides will be cheaper and more people might want to be on the go.
I still think Python is a superior teaching language. Less weird behaviors and just easier to get the basics of things like manipulating arrays and strings, reading/writing from a file, creating a "for" loop, etc. etc.

That being said there is a solid point to the article. If students want to delve into graphical displays great. Suggest they investigate JavaScript (after they get the basics of traversing an array down). Or teach both languages at once switching to JS for graphical portions. They are similar enough this shouldn't be too difficult. Plus it would help prevent language tunnel vision or language clinging and/or new language phobia.
Supply chain logistics and proof of ownership is a non-currency use case of blockchain technology.
I tend to use parentheses in the way that it appears most people are using the emdash (like in your second example).
One question - Before you pass a judgement on government "bad" rules, let ask you something, have you ever run any company of decent size? Because if you do, you will realize things are more difficult than you realize.

Let's take an example of a retailer. She buys stuff from a company to sell in her stores. And she has How or when does her book it as a revenue? When it is bought? When it is sold? Common sense says after it is sold. What happens if there is a return? There are so many rules to cater to so many things. It's something you can hardcode into program code.

> bitcoin there just isn't any credit.

And far from you belief, it is not a good thing.

> optionally with an instruction that it'd be paid back if an "oracle" (anyone else on the blockchain)

I like how a statement defending cryptocurrencies goes all over the place.

Pray tell, how are "oracles" implemented in "bitcoin"?

Also, why should people not trust the government but random "anyone else on the blockchain"?

That said, I am still waiting for someone to explain me this "triple accounting" thing on blockchain.
> [JS is] not the best way to show what boolean logic is and the difference between for and while loops.

It's really no worse for that than any commonly used language. Perhaps you meant something else?
I'm not sure how this got here, but wow, Heather Havrilesky is still around.
She wrote for Suck in the early days of the web.

http://www.suck.com/fish/contributors/havrilesky/
Further to the running costs: if replacing battery cells worn out by 700 one-hour-flight cycles costs €12,000 (again citing http://www.flypipistrel.com/price-lists/PIPISTREL-ALPHA-ELEC...), that’s €17.14/hour, which is over AU$26.

So if you consider that to be a “fuel cost” (seems reasonable to me), then your “$3 an hour to run the plane's engine” has multiplied by ten—so much for “one-tenth the cost of a fuel engine”! (Yes, to make the comparison fair we need to factor engine maintenance costs into it, which can reasonably be expected to fall in the electric motor’s favour, but I don’t care to speculate how it may balance out this matter of the battery cost.)
> Showing me the life expectancy averaged across an entire country of 300 million doesn't motivate me to do anything.

This is not the point of life expectancy statistics. It's not to motivate people. And It's not about you. Just because you're thinking it's about you and that it's not relevant to you to be put in the same bucket with others proves my point.

This is an intentionally nation-scale barometer which is used to asses the Human Development Index. It's more tied with Income inequality than with your diet and exercise regimen.
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What you see on the diagrams are pictures taken by the drone swarm which moves alongside the train. In other words the pictures show events happening on a plane of simultaneity.

Observer in the train can only see events which happened in their past light cone. So they definitely cannot see right tower's future.

('They' is used as gender neutral version of gender neutral 'he')
The link may be dead, but the site still exists. Here's the 1401-digit prime:

https://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php?number_id=953
The Life and Times of a Virus Techytalk.online
So change the metrics with them.

Cross comparisons are certainly not that valuable if the metric you’re using to compare is motivating people to engage in maladaptive policy.
You're in a really self-selecting crowd then. Less than half the people I know use it, mostly because my social group is outside of the tech world.
Discussions of "risk factors" tend to take this into account.

Age, sex, and socioeconomic status dominate.

There are a number of conditions linked to genetics -- types of anemia, heart disease, Tay-Sachs syndrome, off the top of my head.

Environmental exposures map strongly to socioeconomic status, though there are of course regional variations.

Weight, "body mass index" (a horrible measure), body fat percentage (far more useful, but harder to obtain), and various specific exposures and behaviours will cover much else: drink, smokes, injectable drugs, unprotected sex, other high-risk activity.

This is pretty much the life work of epidemiologists, public health statisticians, and actuaries.
By concurrency I mean expressing in the language that a computation or operation is independent, for instance by putting it in a thread or making it lazy, and all the programming techniques that this enables: active objects, order finding (which plays very well with paralellism btw), etc.

Parallelism I see as a hardware feature that can make programs faster.

I thought about the "callback hell", this is a bit more like coroutines, a quite limited form of concurrency (like non-preemptive threads). In this sense Js is very limited in what programming techniques can be taught.
I agree. There are lots of psychological things at work more plausible than not wanting to succeed. (Short attention span, getting sucked into online dopamine rushes, etc)
What about the Sebenza[1]?

Although, at those prices, are you going to use the knife much? Might as well just get a regular Buck or Mercator.

But to each their own.

[1]With option for lefthandedness, however that works.
Again I agree ... it is nice to know the option exists but the value of this option isn't static at every point in time or every context -- the mere existence of it creates a certain level of bullshit that needs to be put up with.
Did it occur to you that the reason why things seem so rosey in China is because the state controls the media?

It's easy to show your country is doing well when you don't have free press?
Could someone explain why dependency-management-systems don't enforce immutable releases? Ie, package owners can publish all the new versions they want, but they are never able to edit/remove/liberate an already-released version. It seems like that would solve so many problems, such as the left-pad fiasco.
More Electron.js!
So why were you failing classes in college?
afaik the pharmaceutical industry is one of the industries with the highest profit margins. I am skeptical of your claims.
Calm down.

It's a reasonable question. Is there life expectancy data for different segments of the population?
> One of the other problems is tricking the branch predictor into speculatively jumping into code of one's choosing.

But to read the data one still must use timing attacks, no?
Isn't Moore's Law currently tied to the progress of photolithography?
What is your point exactly? That I don’t care about other people because I’m more concerned about myself? How is that unusual? Seems like most people are that way.
Have an unbiased source? Most surveys I've seen have the US in the top half of western countries.
The Aputure 528S is rated at 12700 lux at 50 cm. Will check out the Viltrox, thanks.
Personally I’m a big fan of the compose key for such matters. (Both OS X and Linux.) The mnemonics I find easier to remember.

• Compose . . → …

• Compose < " and Compose > " → “ and ”

• Compose < ' and Compose > ' → ‘ and ’

• Compose / = → ≠

• Compose + - → ±

• (couldn't figure out ≈)

• Compose < = → ≤

• Compose > = → ≥

• Compose o o → °

• (no compose for π)
There are degrees beyond JD and MD for the legal and medical fields. JD and MD are just the minimum degrees necessary to practice in those fields. There is no such minimum degree for computing, and computing is a new enough field that many schools didn't even offer it as a major until recently.

Of course, Dr. Pancake has a PhD in a relevant field so your objection doesn't even apply to the candidates you listed.
Intel got a report about this vulnerability from Google in July. Intel's CEO decided to sell stock in November, scheduling the sale in October. Intel also decided to pull the Coffee Lake desktop launch in from early 2018 all the way back to the start of Q4 2017 to try stop the momentum AMD was building with Ryzen, while knowing this vulnerability was present - they're still planning on launching Cascade Lake the first half of this year and god knows if meltdown will be fixed in it or not.

Right now, I think the problem started out of ignorance - but they have abused Google's policy of responsible disclosure to hide the flaw as long as they could and take advantage of their market position while the unknowing public kept buying their products. Now they are pulling the four D's of propaganda in their PR statements all while we are seeing huge performance deltas in graphs from Epic and more?

This is straight up deceptive, I'm glad I switched back to AMD with my new gaming rig and I already have plans in the works to purchase multiple EPYC servers with our datacenter move starting next month.
But what of sentences that end with an abbreviation that ends in a period, like "U.S."? If it's just one space after a period, it's impossible to know that the sentence has ended? I realize in books or published articles this can be typeset in a smart way to make it distinguishable, but what about in ordinary writing?
I love the idea of using other open source projects and their test suites to test the tool. It feels like this approach could be useful for other projects as well. For example, what if you could test changes in your library by running the test suite of a couple of projects that depend on it?
Midsentence injection deserves its own thread. Is it a trend, or am I just noticing it more? It's hard on the brain, because you have to hold the first part of the sentence in memory while you take in the interruption. Your example is great, the one about the security vulnerability. Your revisions are much better in all cases.

It's actually my first impulse to inject these midsentence clauses. Is it because of a short attention span, or is it a fear of someone raising an objection if I don't qualify every statement?
Note that the article has a comment by Yann LeCun (hopefully it's not an impersonator).

You may also be interested in Differentiable Neural Computers:

- https://deepmind.com/blog/differentiable-neural-computers/

- https://github.com/deepmind/dnc
Rather than that basic page that hasn't been updated in forever, it would have been better to link the "Genode Book"

https://github.com/nfeske/genode-manual

Or a prebuilt version from months ago: https://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-17-05.pd...
Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified
And iOS will auto-correct two hyphens to an em-dash, which is faster than long-holding the dash and sliding over to the em-dash.
Google sold over 6M Home speakers since mid-October
I suppose she first asked you about the underperformance and was not satisfied with the answer. It wouldn’t be a bizarre theory if she saw sufficient intelligence along with a lack of personal investment, in fact it would be a quite reasonable guess.
Why is the left tower "in the past"? Because it "goes further away" from the train? What is "going further away" determined by? Position delta? So if position delta T->pA > position delta T->pB, time offset T->pA < time offset T->pB?
You say that as though Trump doesn't have huge money backing him, not to mention foreign governments with equally deep pockets.
From the little "Sloth" wrote, it sounds like it's possible she might have undiagnosed ADHD.

As someone with ADHD myself, I instantly recognized the inability to get myself to start working on something until the last minute (even if I really, really want to do it) and the piles clothes (despite my propensity for cleanliness). Another hallmark of ADHD that many don't know about is bursts of almost manic productivity for random tasks or when under extreme pressure.

If she does have ADHD, Polly's answer is both unhelpful and somewhat dangerous.
HP has paper launched the DL385 G10 with EPYC, I'm not sure if it's fully available through sales channels or not. Supermicro also has had EPYC systems available for a while - though that won't do you any good at all if you need a big name OEM for "nobody got fired for buying Cisco" reasons.
Genode Foundations Book (201705) [pdf]
Maybe the word 'lazy' is itself a lazy way to describe the behaviors arising from biological factors beyond our control? Maybe medication is in order.
Video Game Addiction Is a Mental Health Disorder
Can anyone point me to the ethnic breakdown of the opioid epidemic? Does it cut across ethnicity/race evenly or does one group suffer more (my guess would be white men).
That's strict transport security between hops. There's no proposal on the table for end-to-end encryption, or even (so far as I know) for a header that would signal that a message be dropped before it's sent over an unencrypted channel --- right now, servers simply agree between themselves to enforce transport security, with no input from messages.
Thank you.

Went searching how to do it in Zsh as well when the Zshell Line Editor (zle) is configured in vi mode:

$ bindkey -M viins '\e.' insert-last-word

Will make ESC-. work from insert mode.
X64dbg: An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows
It's "elevatorized" Stevie don't you think? I blame Seinfeld for making everyone so cracked out on the slap bass back then. I feel like people would re-record tunes just to throw slap bass in there. It felt like popular music had rubber bands in it all the time. Oh, and wall to wall alto sax solos (thanks 80s and George Michael!) Also: note the period-accurate very smooth jazz aiming for a glam jazz feel. This was everywhere back then too. But the cool thing was NYC was much more of a jazz city throughout- I'll never forget one of the first times I took the subway- a guitarist was playing and singing "Ribbon In The Sky" - he was incredible, and I thought... I guess I'm in the right place.
Another good resource, from Tensor Programming : https://youtu.be/LNABJvABhos
'I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.'

-- Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (1878-1943), Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr
SAW: Software Analysis Workbench and Formal Verification Tool
To be clear: store and forward doesn't keep you from doing forward secrecy; it just means that the existing SMTP security infrastructure can't provide end-to-end guarantees. You could come up with some sort of ratcheting protocol for email messages. I don't think you could easily/effectively do X3DH+Sesame with it, though.
Yes, but that's not really the same optics.
You are thinking of operations within a centrally controlled, trusted entity. This is useful for things that happen between entities that don't necessarily trust each other and don't have control of each other's data. Data interoperability, dealing with sketchy vendors, and chain of ownership through many companies, nations, or even departments within large organizations are huge problems that an insane amount of money is thrown at. There is a lot of value in a database of facts that no-one controls and everyone can trust.
I wonder how the em-dash has avoided this. It seems to just fade into the writing and make the phrases sound like the writer wanted them to sound.

Both ellipses and semicolons carry far too much baggage with them, and make a lot of people have strong feelings about the author, occasionally positive.