skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er... No, I brain farted. The diphthong in "day" is /eɪ/. /aɪ/ (which I was listing as /ai/ on my phone) is as the word "tie".

So maybe that makes it more obvious why it would be easy to confuse /e/ and /eɪ/, especially when your native language only has the latter. Brain heuristics work regardless of whether you want them to or not, and they'll fill in the missing /ɪ/ even if it's not present.
Yes, but I've basically only seen this with pennies and quarters, because they are physically very similar to their US equivalents. I don't think anyone would accept a Canadian $20 in exchange for US$20. (I also doubt that they'd accept more than a few at a time.)
This is about Medicaid, not Medicare (we should probably change the headline here).
I have been wondering about this. Appreciate it if anyone provide some idea.

I mean it it quite easy nowadays to set up a network both wired and wireless to share among neighbours. I did that. But lastly, it needs to be connected to the internet/first mile. If I can negotiate enough numbers and do the fiber laying work myself, how can i get the internet connection at wholesale?
I think you're still mixing up solvency and liquidity, and this is the key to making sense of fractional reserve banking.

If a bank has too many people demanding their deposits back at once, that's a liquidity crisis. It's not insolvent. A bank can be perfectly solvent, in that it has more assets than liabilities, and still not have enough reserves to satisfy people right now.
IANAG, but you're not accounting for processes that remove salt from the ocean. All of our salt mines come from somewhere -- crust that's been elevated to make an inland sea, that gradually evaporates and leaves a salt deposit. This can then get buried.

Possibly when the tectonic processes stop on Earth, the oceans will continue to get salty from weathering of rocks. And you won't have much addition of water from volcanism, only a little bit from space. But life gets generally hard without active tectonics anyway.
GoPro- How a Hero Is Losing Millions [video]
Just isolate code on different cores.
>…or read the source code…

Good idea:

Step #1: read modules/libpref/Preferences.cpp

Step #2: default all function calls to `PREF_SetBoolPref`
for `kTelemetryPref` with args true to false; remove all
`PREF_LockPref` calls with kTelemetryPref

Step #3: ./mach build
The reason for this is a lot of investors are looking for unicorns, not businesses with a high(ish) probability of success.

Well managed, slower growing businesses have a vastly larger chance of success (good for the founders), but a lower NPV. As a founder you will/should be biased towards success over NPV because of your risk concentration, but an investor can spread their risk over as many startups as they like and so only care about NPV.

The only thing worse that taking investors money is going bankrupt. If you can bootstrap then bootstrap - the pain is only worse in the beginning (most of the time).
In this case the bias looks like it's intended to get people "literate" about subjects which would help them navigate life with a bit more solid footing, so the intent seems good. We'll have to look at the consequences and reevaluate the effort.
I use both uBlock Origin and uMatrix with Firefox. uMatrix is an extension written by the same author as uBlock Origin which allows you to block JavaScript, cookies, AJAX calls and various other things on a very granular basis (e.g., allow references to JavaScript on jquery.com from example.com, but block it from other sites).
Same, I feel it's irresponsible not to provide more details about this issue.
Pay in bonuses rather than salary, then. It's fairly common for top performers in both finance and big-tech for performance bonuses to equal or surpass one's base salary. That connects compensation to results, and makes it clear that you're being paid because you went over and above rather than because your employer doesn't know what market rate is.
I believe it says they re-evaluate and give them more classes and also have an option for exemption (like if they just don't "get" the remediation.
They should have bought shit tons of DDR4 in 2016 and have it on eBay, new in box, now.
I always used NoScript for Firefox and tor, which I find works well.

I don't use anything for Chrome (my main browser), but rather just switch to Firefox when I come across JS annoyances on a site. I'd also like to hear some Chrome options that are easy to use and toggle.
Ask HN: Best scifi of 2017? (Vernor Vinge/Larry Niven style)
There is a subtle issue that comes into play here

a. High performance employee who works at employer A has already given ample evidence of going over and above usual metrics of efficiency.

b. High performance employee decides to go into the market and shop around but other prospective employers have to largely take the employee on their word and their portfolio about their performance. Since these prospective employers have not yet witnessed the said over achievements, rationally speaking they would apply a slight discount.

c. Given the above, the existing employer can use the information asymmetry wrt to other employers to their advantage. They can as a pricing strategy apply the same discount to the employees compensation that other prospective employers would.

What do you think about the idea about slightly overpaying for your high performance employees. This way when they go and look around they realise that they are valued.
Can someone point to a reliable website where I can buy the required materials? I think this is going to be a big question for beginners.
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Juggling with packets: floating data storage
This is a stupid article with a stupid title. Those who wish to sell items to those countries would do their research and consider this problem. If they don’t solve it, it’s because they don’t want to deal with all the mess of international shipping to a country without proper addresses.
Maybe I don't listen to conservative radio or whatever, but while I believe you that there are people who said those things, it was never something you had front and center by celebrities, and other cultural personalities, etc.

What I do notice about conservatives is a rush to "buy guns" --that's their knee jerk moreso than, "screw it, I'm leaving."
I fully agree with what you said above.

Please also note that I did not criticize the compensation philosophy, I just wished that it was transparent to the employees. If the deal is well understood by both parties the likelihood of heartburn goes down dramatically.
A rocky planet the size of jupiter is not physically impossible. It is almost certainly incompatible with life, but there is nothing in the laws of physics that would cause such a sized planet to explode or collapse.
A Decentralized Music Industry – An Idea
Great stuff! Thanks
Wife is Bulgarian. I discovered how great it was by accident, I guess you could say.

I speak broken Bulgarian.
I've been reading happy by Derren Brown and really enjoying his take on how we keep thinking in stories and put us as the hero, when no such story exists, and failing often means very little if you think of it as a positive outcome
It appears that about 12.5% of Japan's land area is old-growth forest. [1] However, I believe it is also true that there was a fair amount of deforestation in the WWII period, and that today, the majority of the forest is modified or plantations.

[1] https://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/archive/Japan...
I was responding to the statement that "We simply focus all of our effort on the things we do not yet understand."

Kuhn (short summary) pointed out that paradigms arise which, after a time, cause scientists that have 'bought in' to resist attempts to modify them. Many scientists get 'stuck' in the current paradigm and pooh-pooh attempts to modify them. The history of science demonstrates this over and over ... EG Wegener, EG Clovis.

Yep, Kuhn recognizes progress. His major point is that progress doesn't come from the orthodox establishment.
don't you as a programmer feel familiar with longidentifiers. Would you prefer in dent a-gogo ers? Yes, my latin is lacking.
Really?! Then I should consider moving from Italy to the UK! (I am a father of three, and here there are no exemptions at all for diapers, baby food, bottles, and so on. VAT here is 22%.)
Of all those, perh Patrick or Sanders. Defo not Harris. She's a progressive's progressive and does not really represent me in many instances.
I like Sanders because he truly cares about Americans, the jobs unions represent (not that I like unions, they are corrupt). Now, he is a bit idealistic, and I think that's his fatal political flaw. He's also an anti-globalist and I'm alright with that.
We did away with those recently because people found them confusing. https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/12/15/improving-the-repository... details that change and some other recent ones.
Very cool. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it captures filesystem effects like 'mtime' or other ways the real time can leak out implicitly.
search engines pay for 80% of mozilla's cheques, so search engines have 80% control over mozilla's income, which is a bit iffy, especially for something meant to be community controlled and directed (non profit open source right?)
There used to be a saying, "it takes a village to raise a child." This was a very real phenomenon where kids would run around an entire town, and everyone felt responsible for them.

This structure has fallen apart in the last 100-150 years or so as wealth, individuality, and other factors you note have dominated western, especially American, life, although the same thing has happened widely in Europe.

Thus the burden, instead of being born by many and therefore not being "so bad", is instead entirely born by 2 or 1 and it is of course that multiple more work. If 25 people would have shared the burden before, you, alone, are now doing all of it, along with the burdens of increased costs, expectations, responsibilities, etc. It's no wonder that raising kids is such a non-starter for many.

The solution, from my point of view, is not to not have kids. That just promotes losing our humanity. For me it is to change those structures that make family so hard.

If we lose what makes us human... wtf is the point of all the things we build.
> misattributing the kick from the caffeine to something they just read online and now MUST share IMMEDIATELY with EVERYONE

I think this is why I continue reading a few dozen webcomics every day. Some of them are good, but oh boy is that caffeine kicking in.
I don't think it's just SV, I've seen job postings in Boston for 3+ years experience and it was listed as a senior engineer. I think it's because many companies try to use titles as compensation. I've gotten the "senior engineer" title 3 times in my career. Two of those times it was given to me in the same conversation where I was told there was going to be no raises that year.
This is exactly what I suggested - overpay, but not by too much.

If you pay too much more than they can earn elsewhere then they become effectively handcuffed to you and feel they can’t leave even if they want to because they can’t find an equivalent paying job elsewhere.
I am in Perth, Western Australia which is one of the Mediterranean climate zones in the world.

We have no "soil" just a courtyard and planter boxes on our front balcony but I grow a range of edibles in containers

Many herbs - rosemary, thyme, basil, oregano, parsley etc,
Strawberries,
Lemon grass,
Chillies,
Many citrus including quite a few native Australians,
Pomegranites,
Banana,
Blueberries,
Potatoes and sweet potato,
Eggplant and few others.
That is correct. You build the operating system that can woo the kind of developers who you want to do business with.
99% of Australian Green Sea Turtles Studied Turning Female from Climate Change
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Full Phone Specification, First Look, Release Date
All of those things can be done by applications and services. You’re just listening the kinds of applications and services OSes tend to bundle in order to bootstrap an application and service market.
Android Engineer in Southeast Asia at Dahmakan (YC S17)
It's a completely different discussion topic as to if we have the most powerful military. We have a lot of resources sunk into using aircraft carriers to project force around the world, and the current generation of carriers have not faced the current generation of anti-ship missiles.
I remember reading about EROS (Extremely Reliable Operating System) [1] years ago. The killer feature was that you could shut the computer off at any time, and it would always recover a consistent state of everything that was running when you restarted. It also had an advanced security system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS_(microkernel)
The battery life on my touch bar pro is horrendous.
It’s not absurd. If you want Y to get X and you would be perfectly happy to get X without Y then you don’t really want Y.
Enter Itanium.

I mean, we know they are all saying "arm" and "amd" both as negotiating tactic as well as strategically diversifying microarchitectures. That said, I'm not sure it's like amd can deliver more instructions per second per dollar.

I wonder if it would make sense for some loads to prepare for Itanium usage, or even older Atom architectures? Does any one deploy Itanium in the cloud?
It's the 100k paid out to this guy included with that number? Just curious
PowerShell is slow, but writing to files the way he is doing is just a bad pattern. He uses Add-Content not just in loops, but in nested loops. The problem with that is that each time Add-Content is called the system opens the file, adds the content, flushes to disk, and then closes the file. That's a lot of overhead.

In his wine glass script he also uses the PowerShell patten of creating an array ($x = @()) and then appending to it (foreach ($i in $set) { $x += $value * $i }). The problem here is that PowerShell arrays are fixed in size. To append a value to an array, the system creates a new array, copies all the values over with the new one, and then disposes of the old array. It works fine up to about 100 items, but it gets noticeably slow after that. Since it's done with a loop it makes it somewhere between O(n log n) and O(n^2). It's better to just output all the values as a single array ($x = $set | ForEach { $value * $_ }) or to create an ArrayList or List<String> or some C# collection that supports an O(1) append.

He also assigns a lot of variables in his loops and then uses them only once to format a string. He could eliminate those variables and just embed the expressions in the strings.

I got a ~25% performance improvement (210 ms to under 140 ms) with just the script embedded in the article when I switched to StringBuilder instead of Add-Content, and that script doesn't have the poor array pattern. StreamWriter would work, too, with less memory pressure than a StringBuilder. I suspect that with better code you could easily get this down below 3 seconds.
The problem with bonuses is people just concentrate on whatever earns the bonus, not on what is best for the business. Bonuses work well when the metrics are able to be measured accurately, but if not they can create a lot of unproductive behaviour (like sucking up to the boss).
Here’s the original YouTube link: https://youtu.be/AdANAZ-bk44
dawson Engler, you talking about?
Nope. If I sell you my (fully owned) house for $300k, no additional money has been created. There's still only $300k of money. It's the act of lending out some fraction of your deposits/loans from the central bank that allows commercial banks to "create" money.

And yes, the banks are controlling the money supply. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking for more detail.
My mother likes Lime Diet Coke, but now it is Ginger Lime and she won't like it.

I hope this is not some sort of New Coke mistake.

They already rebranded Coke Zero as Coca Cola Zero Sugar.

I've been trying to quit drinking soda, this just might do it for me. Anyone know of any soda alternatives that aren't as bad as soda or coffee tea ect?
>Does the branch predictor have to start tagging every branch guess with some sort of process ID to prevent one process from messing with another’s predictions?

Its worth pointing out that for their newest designs AMD (and Samsung Exynos) uses the full memory address for branch predictions; no doubt Intel's next design will be doing this.
It would not explode or collapse, but it would almost certainly be molten liquid and/or gaseous rock for a very, very long time
On the other hand:

At Google I worked with the Gmail performance team to decrease server downtime by detecting anomalous behavior before server failure. I designed and implemented an original anomaly detection algorithm based on local outlier factors.

Does anyone have any info about anything related to this?

I want to write a program to detect anomalous behavior in my systems too. (Mostly so I can completely ignore the useful information, but still.)
Very curious as to what changed today if performance increased. Some sort of smarter patch? That'd be an amazingly impressive thing to cobble together so quickly.
Ok, so that makes Mozilla beholden to them how exactly? Is Google calling up Mozilla asking them to do them favors in the product? Are Mozilla engineers being asked to write in special features that Google asks for?

Yes, Google provides 90% of the revenue or somewhere around there. But I still haven't heard how exactly Mozilla is doing special favors to Google or is in some way beholden to it.

Mozilla has a contract with Google to be the default search provider for a set period of years. I have never heard of anything else being in there that allows Google to make any product requests on Mozilla.

How come no one wants to say how exactly Mozilla is doing what Google wants?
Each investor is different, but I personally think the ideal pitch is a big vision combined with a pragmatic plan for the first couple of years. If the vision is not that big, then that won't excite most (Silicon Valley) investors.

However, "big vision" is not the same as "crazy vision." A big vision could be "we're going to replace an old incumbent in a $5b industry." A crazy vision could be "we're going to build an amazing piece of technology that very few people think is possible." The crazy vision only works if you have a lot of credibility. One of the only personal examples I have of backing a crazy vision is with Rigetti Quantum Computing (a YC company). The founder, Chad Rigetti, set out to build a quantum computer from the ground up. This is an extremely ambitious goal, but when I spoke to a few Caltech quantum physicists, they said that Chad was one of the 2-3 best people in the world for building a QC. That was a very strong testimonial.

On the planning side, I prefer pragmatic plans and start rolling my eyes if someone's plans sound completely unrealistic. I've seen so many pitch decks with a predicted revenue ramp up that looks like: "$500k sales this year, $4m next year, and $50m in year 3." I've been investing for five years and I've never personally seen a company ramp up that quickly.

What I do want to see though is that if customer acquisition is slow/deliberate, then there's a good reason for that.

Example of a good reason: "I'm working with 3 pilot customers for the next 6 months and focusing on learning and iteration and understanding exactly where their biggest pain points are. I'm intentionally not focused on getting new customers."

Example of a poor reason: "I'm not good at sales but don't want to hire anyone because I think salespeople are overrated. I expect to get 3 pilot customers by myself in the next 6 months, and I think that should be enough to make investors happy."

On an unrelated note, I'm happy to answer any other questions folks have. My background is that I was a sw engineer for 10 years, then moved to seed stage investing about 5 years ago.
> What I do resent is when parents try to make their struggles look like some sort of noble sacrifice

In that respect maybe it is not that different than climbing a mountain, or achieving mastery in a fencing or long distance running. Would you tell those people "I resent your complaints, you brought this upon yourself, should've stayed home and bother bother with your marathon running" say when they the talk about how hard it is and how they got injured or weather was bad.
You could create a __init__.py file that imports everything from each of those files:

from .aaa import *
from .bbb import *
from .ccc import *

Then in each of the other files (aaa.py, etc) put:

from . import *
Yes that is why I said it is unlikely to be compatible with life.

It would almost certainly be molten at the surface with no water no matter the distance from the star due to radioactive decay.
It was a fork of Litecoin (I think?), so yea, someone had to fork it, rebrand everything and publish all the apps. (All the bitcoin derivatives from like 2012-2014 looked exactly the same .. same Android/QT apps .. minor differences and rebranding here and there. The big differences were usually the crypto algorithms and hashing variations...)

But really, your comment goes to something more fundamental in how we look at inventors and Captains of a ship.

Zuckerburge early code leaks of Facebook show it was some pretty terrible PHP, yet we attribute everything to him instead of the hundreds of engineers that made things like Hiphop, Hack, React, etc. etc. Bill Gates was not a good developer. A lot of his early success projects were license purchases and rebrands and not trying to get fucked by IBM. Don't even get me started on the cult of Steve Jobs.

People like to see a Captain of a ship. People like Karl Marx saw those workers rowing the ores. Even people with the nicer more high paying jobs like navigators, sill made a fraction compared to the captain, but it was enough they felt better than the stack below them.

Orwell agreed, but contested that even if the crew men revolt and take control to give everyone a better and more equal share, eventually over time, some people will convince everyone on the boat they should be at the top, and enough people would follow and you'd be back to where you were.

But yes, we always need to have an "Inventor" .. a Tesla or Musk or Ford; the leader of a ship, ignoring the thousands of people that made it happen.
If feels truly odd read you saying "he didn't say it!" and the saying "but it's true!"

It feels like you've gotten yourself a little lost. My guess is that you are indeed suffering from systemic confirmation bias.
The person that pays my paycheck tells me what to do. The only thing Mozilla was told to do in the contract with Google is to have them as the default search engine.

Besides for the search engine requirement per contract, how is Mozilla's product beholden to Google?

I'm somewhat surprised that was downvoted, as I thought people knew how these contracts were arranged and what they included. They're about the default search engine placement, that's it. Google obviously doesn't get to provide input/requirements into Mozilla product design, marketing, etc.
Why is rat poison being used as part of growing marijuana? It doesn’t strike me as an essential pesticide to defend marijuana with?

I’ve never heard of rodents being associated with marijuana destruction. Is marijuana one of those odd crops that attracts a different category of pests? Like flower bulbs and deer?
Money for nothing:is Finland's universal basic income trial too good to be true?