skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been many studies surrounding CEOs.[1] A large portion of them keep showing that a bad CEO is worse than no CEO, an average CEO likely isn't actually doing anything, and a good CEO is probably just lucky. This topic has been researched and had the data poured over to the ends of the earth to find that "special CEO sauce". The reality? There is likely a tiny subset of all CEOs that are actually worth 271 times what the typical worker is making (Steve Jobs comes to mind). That subset of actual talented visionary CEOs is probably a ridiculously small number (eg 1% of CEOs in a global pool). The rest of the time it's just a good ol' boys club for the already rich.
[1] an example https://hbr.org/2015/11/are-successful-ceos-just-lucky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
They can tackle profit from other angles - sell medical supplies, etc.
Not an expert? That doesn't mean you can't teach
I think the best thing for people to do is to program a simple game or two and see that the need for full python support is really not needed. In Godot you are scripting elements.
I often think about smaller vehicles. Would it be possible and better to have a rail system with lots of small pods slinging around instead of bus-sized containers?

Each station would need to allow for the pods to pull over without blocking the flow of continuing traffic.
Welcome to the club! Yeah, you wake up one day in your 30s or early 40s and realize that the IT industry is 98% bullshit and there's no way back. What's worse? The feeling that you're repeating yourself--every year, the same crap over and over.

Based on the number of liquor stores in my locale, many people are self-medicating all the time. So that's the typical middle class route--alcohol and drugs. It makes the divorce industry operate, and the DUI industry as well. The "court-ordered rehab" place near my house is going gangbusters practically every night of the week.

I'm probably even worse of a case than you are--I have the money to change but I can't even figure out how. It's not like I'm going back to school to blow a bunch more of my life sitting in classrooms all over again. I'll probably just retire early and find some rural place with a decent library.

Then there's the anomie--buying shit you don't need. None of that crap matters at all. I got back into skiing, which lasted a few years, but am now "meh, those resorts are full of whack jobs and stoners and it's super expensive for mostly bad snow."

I took up welding and that's been okay. In general, making things is therapeutic. Fixing things is also therapeutic. Throwing stuff away, removing, returning your life to the basics is good.

I also pick up trash in a 2 mile radius. I have a bike rigged with a basket to make it easier. I don't "adopt a highway" or do any other "look at me picking up trash aren't I great" bs on social media, I just pick up trash.

The last thing I can recommend is martial arts and/or Zen meditation. There's value in that but don't go to the strip mall places, those are the McDonald's version. You have to find the real deal people and they're around. Hitting things is therapeutic.

I don't know what else to tell you about being disappointed with other people except that it's always been that way. People haven't changed, there's just way more of them and that's one of our biggest problems, unfortunately.
My guess is that they’ll build a super HMO.

The way to change the game in healthcare is to eject the legacy bullshit. Own the experience as a vertical, don’t accept Medicare/Medicaid and the price controls that come with it and you slice out a lot of the overheads.
This video stands by itself for all you need to know about the situation. It is pretty clear cut that this Rogers guy 'scum bagged' his way to his prominence when gaming was in a quite less developed state.
These are identity hash maps, so they need an identity hash function. That's pretty conventional terminology, used by for example Java, Ruby, ...
This article is actually just about them buying the cars. But currently their service operates in a small area in Arizona... A state chosen because they decided not to require Waymo to disclose safety statistics that other states like California require of self-driving cars.
Twitter Advice for President Trump: A Statistical Adventure
To be fair the new arrow operator syntax is a bit cryptic. I am sure Ruby offers plenty of things like that, because when I look at Ruby codebases I often don't understand what they intend to achieve.
It's an identity hash function. It's a hash of some arbitrary representation of the identity of the object.
> McDonaldize/Amazonize American healthcare

CVS is sorta trying to do that (acquisition of Aetna is a big pointer)
If he were injecting enough of something to actually cause the required DNA damage there would be necrosis at the injection site. If enough to have a systemic effect it would basically be chemo therapy. Whatever he is injecting is inactivated/diluted/etc.
Wouldn't the same thing happen with ":-)", which is likely to appear (and be relevant) in quotations if nothing else?

I'd expect a screen reader to handle ":-)", and given that Slack has had /shrug for years, I am curious if screen readers also know how to pronounce the shrug yet.

(Is Slack screen-reader-accessible?)
I agree with you generally, but not in this case. Anyone with a double digit IQ should have been able to know that this was illegal. This wasn't one of those gray areas where federal agents are wondering how far their power goes. A simple comprehension of basic human rights as they have been acknowledged formally in law should lead any decent, reasonable person to conclude these surveillance programs were seriously against the law. That's why I don't apply the same good faith exemption that most law enforcement receives most of the time. This is gross, willful negligence and they are now trying to claim ignorance.
It's not just the cost. It's the incredible inefficiency of the operations, and, the gerrymandering of coverage. Under the ACA, I had to choose between allowing my family to continue to see their lifetime care givers, or, paying in network rates, for the full year, because the insurance company I chose gave me incorrect information when they were trying to get my business (my wife is less kind in evaluating their motives). I paid $30,000 in health care expenses out of pocket that year for what was essentially a healthy family. I was not permitted to change insurance companies once I learned they had misled me.

Buffet calls them a tapeworm, I call it the next, ongoing rape of the American middle class.
Because there are more people who have the technical skills to run hedge funds than there are hedge funds. You fill the manager role with someone you're comfortable with on many levels.

OTOH, professional sports leagues are about winning intense competition, and skill is much more important. Even then, coaches and owners play favorites.

It's not a binary system, it's a spectrum, and professional sports are towards one end of the spectrum and hedge fund management and VC founding are towards the other end.
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> I love the fact that the words " "Kafka," "Pony," and "Wallaroo" are all together in one sentence, and not as part of an elaborate joke

Why are these two things mutually exclusive?
Hugo vs. Jekyll: Benchmarked
By the way, the reason your friends might say they "don't have time" yet play repetitive shooters or other games for hours on end is perhaps that those kinds of game require much less emotional investment. I know I'm like that, some games I just can't play because I know it'll take me forever to finish them, but I've still probably plowed down a good couple of hundred hours into BF1. Why? Because I don't have to recall the story or characters from two weeks ago, when I last played the game. I love a good story based game, but if it takes more than a few hours to play through there's a good chance I'll never finish it, unless it's very compelling. Horizon Zero Dawn is an example of a story driven game that had my attention from start to finish, but the only game I recall having that kind of pull on me before that was probably Fallout 2.
>Personally, I think it is patronizing if not downright deceitful to pretend differences don't exist between isolated demographics,

We don't have many isolated demographics (although there are some) both because pre-modern humans were capable of traveling over extremely long distances (i.e. isolation is unlikely) and because humans haven't been around for a particularly long time.

Unlike many species humans are surprisingly genetically similar to each other[0]. Some of this also results from the fact that humans may have passed through a very small genetic bottleneck 100,000 years ago in which the human population was reduced to around 3,000-10,000 people other studies dispute this but arrive at similar genetic conclusions [1].

>but it will remain a touchy subject for a long time and most scientists will see what happened to Watson and pursue other areas of research.

This isn't fair to scientists that legitimately engage in controversial topics. Watson is a bit of a crank, for example:

>'In a lecture hall jammed with more than 200 Berkeley students and faculty members, Watson showed a slide of sad-faced model Kate Moss to support his contention that thin people are unhappy and therefore more ambitious. "Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them," Watson said."' [3]

That isn't a scientific conclusion. Much of the anger against Watson is that he says stupid unscientific things to support his own biases and then hides behind his discovery. This follows a pattern, which occurs across the political spectrum, in which a scientist who makes an important discovery thinks that discovery means everything they say is correct.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation

[1]: Population Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/17/1/2/975516

[2]: http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Nobel-Winner-s-Theorie...
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"Mass surveillance was conducted illegally before and continues to this day. Does anyone really think some "law" will change this?"

What it changes is whether you can be criminally prosecuted based on circumstantial / irrelevant / trumped up evidence.
Was it a full sequence?

Did you get it back as a file?
Apple were one of the last of the major companies to come out with a statement regarding Meltdown and Spectre. The BBC articles for Intel and the rest were written a day or so earlier.
Glitching is not universally considered "well and good" by speedrunners. There are multiple categories. Claiming you have a glitchless run that uses glitches is cheating. You may also run in a category that permits certain glitches, in the no-holds-barred category that must be run on real hardware, or the tool-assisted category, or any other game-specific category. Same deal.

This is the current state of the world. 10 years or so ago and before, there was a much stronger presumption of glitchlessness. Though you'd still encounter the problem that rigorously defining "glitch" can be quite challenging.
> Good point, but if we can't rely on the law to help us what will be left?

The only options remaining, when you can't trust the laws or the systems that create the laws, are attrition (pervasive encryption and decentralizing of networks to deny governments access to information coupled with aggressive leaking and whistleblowing to limit their effectiveness), violence (which serves the interests of authoritarians and extremists) or acceptance of the status quo.
That's a great question.

Yes, Pony Kafka is currently slower than the C client. But it is also almost completely untuned as of right now. We expect there is a lot of low hanging fruit on that front that will give us significant gains.

There is also the secondary concern regarding the thread pools internal to Pony and librdkafka. We've seen first hand how CPU cache invalidation can impact performance so we are very aware of the potential negatives if the Pony and librdkafka threads ever end up fighting with each other over the same CPU resources.
The problem with having a couple of elections per decade is that they lump all decisions (economic, legal, home, foreign, etc.) into one.

Also, the UK's first-past-the-post system has given us a two-party system (Labour and Conservative), which makes elections mostly useless for any issues those two parties agree on, such as surveillance (AFAICT the trajectory of the current surveillance state was set in motion under Blair, and later Brown).

When the Liberal Democrats entered a much-maligned coalition with the Conservatives in 2010, they at least managed to prevent the "Snoopers Charter" getting passed. At the next election, the Conservatives got a majority and passed it as the "Investigatory Powers Act 2016".
It also prevents buyers from feeling cheated. I'd rather play a demo and realize the game's just not very good, than shell out $50 for it and more or less instantly regret it, with very limited (if any) options to return it at that point.
> China Construction Bank opens up accounts for foreigners without Visa.

You need a passport and in my case I asked a local co-worker to go with me for translation purposes just in case. This was good because they had issues with the length of my name and address info that needed to be worked around.
Can a card game make interdisciplinary synthesis and critical thinking fun?
On the debit side, he also pushed the Westminster Paedophile Ring stories that proved to have no basis in reality: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/tom-watson-the-...
"It's unethical!" cried the group so obsessed with protecting those in their inner circle that they regularly find loopholes to keep from recognizing legit records.

There are some good mods at TG, but I find that many, if not most of them, treat it like an elite social club instead of the supposed impartial record authority that they promote themselves as.
The Slut-Shaming of Nikki Haley
> I think it is reasonable to expect a transcription service or screen reader to treat "¯_(ツ)_/¯" like it treats any other word.

For a seeing person, there is negligible difference between "¯_(ツ)_/¯" and "¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

For either a seeing or blind person there is negligible difference between "emoji" and "meoji".

We can all make up emojis on the spot that can only heuristically be decrypted by seeing them as an image, not reading them one character at a time.

Making up a new word is still just a sequence of characters, and can be understood by any medium, whether it's written, braille, audio, etc.

There's no reasonable way to transcript emojis other than a predefined database of them, which unicode already has.
> You need an EU VAT ID to accepts payments from EU citizens.

This was mentioned before: No, you don’t.

Millions of business around the world accept transactions from EU citizens every day without collecting any VAT or having any relationship with the EU.
No great conspiracy here. Any mid to large org maintain such lists. If you fire someone who is wasting the orgs time, do you then want him to show up/get hired/be entertained by some group in the next building/next campus etc who have no idea what the story is?
Smart branding choice, but this is more or less obvious choice that most mega-companies do since forever.
Ah, yes, the "human element", the same thing that leads people to believe they can beat a chess AI by "confusing it" by moving randomly. Still a surprisingly popular belief despite how easy it is to test the theory.
"No human genome has ever been completely sequenced" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534325 There are a lot of gaps where the amount of repetition makes it impossible to reassemble a complete picture from tiny fragments.
> - do you mean bank accounts that don't include a VISA credit card?

He means a VISA, not Visa the brand. In China Visa does not exist and everything is local banks. In many places, except an Apple Store (so I found out), US credit cards cannot be used.
Except that's life.

Here's my answer to that question:

Risky Business(1983):

Miles: Sometimes you gotta say "What the F*ck", make your move.
It's fun to try stuff like this. In iOS for example you can go to Settings - General - Accessibility - VoiceOver to try the screen reader experience.

For the shruggie I get "macron backslash underscore japanese in a different voice slash macron," which sucks. Too bad - I was hoping it would be recognized as a word.
the Url was paste in twice

https://github.com/MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource/tree/tiss...
Constant growth rate gives rise to a quantity that is an exponential function of time [not to be confused with a constant rate of increase, which gives rise to a linear function of time].

As that Wikipedia article says, the continuous-time equation for exponential growth, x(t) = x(0) e^(kt), arises as the solution to the ODE x'(t) = kx, where k is the constant growth rate.

Similarly, in discrete-time, exponential growth follows the equation x_t = x_0 (1+r)^t, where r is the constant growth rate.
> One of the benefits a profit motive brings to insurance companies is pushing back on improper billing by providers

And one of the reasons for the most complicated billing system in the world is for-profit Insurance companies.
I see the argument/utility in using the right tool for the job, even if it was a slightly new language, more than most people. But I have a higher tolerance for risk more than most people (and have experienced the downside costs of those choices, they are very real).

Chosing newer languages gets maligned far more often than pigeonholing the wrong old languages onto problems.

Besides someone's got to take risks with (potentially) better technology, as long as they know the risks and fully considered them going in, then by all means. Plus as long as we continue to use C for all systems development the longer we'll have preventable security issues.
It's featured extensively in the video.
If you run a Jekyll or Hugo site (or other), we would love to know what your build times are. For example:

Static Site Generator: Jekyll

Approximate number of pages: 200

Build time: 3.4 seconds
'The Drug Whisperer': Drivers arrested while stone cold sober
Because this is Less Wrong, I'll say that they're making a logical fallacy. A prediction was made that Bitcoin would go well, and it did, but the fact that it went well doesn't mean that the prediction was rationally founded.
Have you seen rates Medicare/Medicaid pays? It's generally way lower vs what private insurance providers can negotiate
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The real problem isn't the server. SMB client implementation in MacOS sucks rocks, period. He could use any high end top of the line cutting edge server hardware, and he would have the same problem: MacOS doesn't know how to move data quickly through the network unless you're using AFP. Or eventually, NFS, but then the Finder behaves erratically.
More with .Net Core (audio)
Amazon is basically about vertical integration. I'd be surprised if they do not enter the provider space. Don't forget the rumors that Amazon is planning to offer its own branded generics.
> it's is still faster and more stable than Apple's SMB support.

Anything is faster and more stable than Apple's SMB support. MacOS is horribly slow and buggy with almost every modern NAS. Fixes include enabling SMB 1.0 (WTF?).
As I said in a prior comment, YMMV and some people love it. What you're saying right now does not ring true for me. But I'm not the kind of person who likes to pressure developers on how they perform their craft. I was just sharing my experience since you seemed to be in doubt about whether or not I was making it up. I'm not.
I think they just wanted something for investors to know by name outside of "other bets". Easier to say you're losing money investing in Waymo than their other more conventional money losing ideas.
> Is WeChat somehow more convenient than this? It sounds like the same number of steps.

Yes because everyone uses WeChat. So it is quick to talk to people inside an app that is already used be everyone.
The Shallowness of Google Translate, by Douglas Hofstadter
A surprising number of people don’t seem to understand how public libraries do collection management. Do you see new books when you go to the library? Does the library have infinite shelf space? They throw out books at roughly the same rate they acquire new ones. If books don’t circulate for a long period (I.e. no one has looked at it in five years), that book is going in the dumpster. It had basically negative value. Most books donated to libraries are worthless, but the donors can’t bring themselves to throw them out, so they have the library do it for them.

“Little free libraries” have similar problems where they just fill up with books no one wants unless their collections get actively culled.

This is a fun story, but only in the same way as articles talking about homeless people rigging their cardboard shanties with solar powered LEDs or something. These people would be much better served by a public library.
I believe Sierra also broke the way that MySQL tunnels were established which broke many MySQL clients.
As long as you have the money to pay for the wedding, sure.

In my case, my fiancée and I are not doing a traditional wedding; we're just registering in a courtroom, and then having a big party with a rented venue, etc. It's still going to cost a few grand.

Marriage is not cheap.
Also, when you get to Atlanta, the train station isn't where you want to be. The train station is not even at a subway station, despite Atlanta having a subway that's decent if you happen to want to go to one of the few places it serves.

(I'm talking about the station that currently serves the only intercity rail in Atlanta, which runs from New York to New Orleans. I am aware that perhaps the former stations downtown were better-located.)
I built one of these adapters some time ago, you can find some information and useful resources here: https://chapelierfou.org/2016/06/a-minitel-as-a-linux-termin...
How to deal with the pressures of scaling an agency (advice from 23 experts)
Squash, the debugger for microservices apps is now supports IntelliJ
Yes, my point is that a transcription service or screen reader will be well served by having a database containing symbol sequences like "¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

And transcription services should certainly recognize "¯_(ツ)_/¯" as a failed attempt at "¯\_(ツ)_/¯". Screen readers probably should too.

If they are sticking to whatever Unicode blesses they aren't serving their users well.

Also, I read provost as talking about the art in general, including a correct shrug, so I replied in that context instead of spending time on the missing \.
They made a decision some time ago that they were a Pony shop. Adding something written in a different language would from their perspective (perhaps) be the additional maintenance burden.
Sorry, I tune out when anyone mentions Marxism and the current Labour government. Considering their policies are in line with most other center ground European countries it just comes across as repeating Daily Mail taking points.

No one is calling Merkel a Marxist yet Germany has free higher education and nationalised rail, and Germany is just one example.