skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That will sound crazy to people not from the west coast or Manhattan, but it's not as crazy as it sounds.

A house price-to-income of 1.5x - 3x was long considered normal, and is still obtainable in middle America, the south, upstate NY and much of the NE, etc. But certainly not out west.

Meanwhile on the west coast, price-to-income is routinely in the realm of 10x - 20x, with the upper end being the norm in Silicon Valley.

Consider Palo Alto, where median household income is $137,000 a year and median housing currently is $3,000,000, making price-to-income 21x.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/paloaltocitycal...

https://www.zillow.com/palo-alto-ca/home-values/

Now if you really want to ponder how far things have gone awry, consider what the typical middle class lifestyle of 1960s America was then, and what that same lifestyle would cost today, as this article does:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/are-you-real...

Put simply, you need to earn more than you think, and if you want a typical "middle class" lifestyle on a regular income, you should probably not live on the west coast.
There are thousands of papers published each month in some fields. Are you going to read and evaluate them all?

No, you want some sort of structure where you have people you trust do some sorting. That's what the publishing system does. (Plus the editing process).

Elsevier is earning money because they have created a structure of evaluation that's not entirely garbage, and that is self-reinforcing. It might be good to replace them with a non-profit approach, but isn't easy.
Hm. $50 million when the team has already been successful. Why, when only $1M would suffice? What on earth could $50M do? Remember the old saying: "Mo money mo problems" B.S.
It was anything but sly. He occasionally writes "I, I mean, Horselover Fat..." and never once concretely states that he and Fat weren't the same person.

Valis was part of Dick's attempt to interpret and come to terms with that experience
It doesn't balance the trade deficit at all. It does improve the current account balance but that's not necessarily a good thing for US exports.
Low. About 100-120k for senior level.
That is a separate issue. His comments made the incredibly talented researchers at OpenAI look really bad. I suspect this is one of the prime reasons he is leaving.
There are other ways to get into any field besides studying it in school, but if you are going to go to school anyway and want to study something directly relevant to robotics, how about a mechatronics or a controls engineering program?
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This could still become a problem (if each dependency statically bundles its own dependencies) if any of the types are exposed in an API. For example say there is a Twitch and Facebook SDK that both expose a SetUserProfile(Image) function, and Image is provided by a third library (that is used by both SDKs).

If both SDKs use different versions of the Image library, the internals of the Image struct may have changed (maybe they added support for black and white images). Even though the change may be backwards compatible at a source code level, an Image struct v1.15 wouldn't work as an Image struct v1.16 unless it had the same internal private fields (and they were used in the same way).

Now, your code that loads an Image from disk can't work. It will either use v1.15 and be compatible with Twitch, or use 1.16 and be compatible with Facebook, but not both. A shared dependency works around this issue as long as the changes are backwards compatible - in this case Go would see that the minimum required version is v1.16 and both SDKs (and your code) would use that (or a newer version if you list it as a requirement).
Hacker news loves upvoting articles about bloom filters (and Bayesian probability - its on the front page again this evening.) Personally I've never found a use for either of them in practice.
This should be labeled as a PDF
I'd add in career progression
People who love their moms are less intelligent than those who love their dads? There is a dissertation in psychoanalytics just waiting to be written.
Get 2 or 3 teenagers and you'll see what!
>So we can talk shit about the management and people we don't like!

Heh, at my last job we always went out to a pub for some burgers and beer on Fridays. 75% of the conversation revolved around exactly this. I found it an important way to decompress and let off steam.
Just found the prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378458
Getting people to buy something doesn't always mean you provided them value. Some methods of making a buck are exploitative, like if they rely on deception, for example. There are scenarios where "middlemen" exist to take part of the wealth and not create any. Or where people are paid to be destructive for various reasons. A corrupt politician paid (in campaign donations, whatever) to pass a law to create a barrier to a market is being destructive, not constructive. It is a net loss overall.
Is there some specification that covers what it is supposed to mean if a host is listed more than once in .netrc?

The man page for netrc on most Unix or Unix-like systems that I checked includes this for how the "machine" token is handled:

> Identify a remote machine name. The auto-login process searches the .netrc file for a machine token that matches the remote machine specified on the ftp command line or as an open command argument. Once a match is made, the subsequent .netrc tokens are processed, stopping when the end of file is reached or another machine or a default token is encountered

That specifically talks about ftp's use of .netrc, and as described only the first entry for a host is ever processed.

I can think of two ways to take that, from the point of view of a programmer thinking of using .netrc for a program that is not ftp.

1. .netrc was designed for ftp. If I'm going to use another programs' file I should use it exactly like it is documented to use it...so I should only look at the first matching machine too.

2. .netrc was designed for ftp, but it is explicitly documented as only looking at the first matching machine. What that tells me is that I can go ahead and tell my users to use .netrc for my program too, and if they need different credentials for my service than they do for ftp on a given machine, go ahead and make a separate machine entry for my program. Just make sure it is not the FIRST machine entry for that machine. I can add some way for them to tell my program which entry to use when there are multiple machine entries that match. Either a command line argument, an environment variable, or since ftp is guaranteed to not process other than the first match I could even add a new token in .netrc that marks my entry.
> Last I checked the USA didn't have mandated paid holidays, unlike literally every other country in the world.

The UK, Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, and ~57 other countries do not have mandated paid holidays. Norway provides for two days. It's certainly common, particularly in the developed world; claiming it's literally every other country is blatantly false.
I understand that it's fashionable to be cynical about ICOs. However the IPFS people have clearly been working their asses off writing solid software and giving it to us for free, for several years now. All along they've been talking about their plan for filecoin.

With that track record, the burden is on you to explain why you think they will suddenly throw all that away, and stop working on a project they're so clearly passionate about, ruining their reputation in the process.
Really, you should not be using your registrar's nameservers, precisely because that only makes switching registrars more complicated. Run your own or use a separate DNS hosting provider.
Detroit is actually a pretty cool place in a lot of ways but the streets as you mentioned are absolutely terrible. On top of how torn up they are, there is practically no light on the street. A few dim street lights scatter much too far apart gives you major arteries where you can barely see anything. Then there is the fact that the actual design of the streets is terrible, with lots of odd mechanics you don't see anywhere else, one way streets, and the old 'michigan left' (turn right, then find a place to turn around.
It will be open-sourced at some point within the next 2 years without a doubt.

Like I explained in the FAQ, the plans and the potential are huge, and it would be really silly to risk it all just to become another data miner. Even if it's very sophisticated, and there's a 0.01% change it's found out, why risk everything? Besides, it's simply illegal. All the information about me and the company is public.

I wonder if you have the same concerns about other closed source software like Sublime Text.
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In my experience, its actually at real scale (tens of millions of concurrents) that you want to move off of AWS, and at smaller scales where it makes the most sense.
>"We excluded quasi-randomised trials and trials that were incomplete or included 20% or more of participants with bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, or treatment-resistant depression."

Wikipedia defines treatment resistant depression as "cases of major depressive disorder that do not respond adequately to appropriate courses of at least two antidepressants."

Maybe I'm unfamiliar with study methodology, but doesn't this undermine the study's conclusion? It's essentially stating that forms of deppresesion that respond well to antidepressants respond well to antidepressants.
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I don’t think they are trying to delegitimize it. They questioned if we can even consider it new, and if it’s the problem we should be prioritizing. Both good questions, but either way, cleaning up our government and economy is the most important step in reforming our vulnerable campaign system and electoral process. I can’t tell what it is you propose but let’s discuss it later.
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I think the idea is to paste a text problem (not big life problems) (with loop mode) and use 1 to 2 minutes and then see the issue more smaller or tractable.
Yes, I agree. I guess the question is what is meant by inevitable. The meanings of biological and physical in this instance aren't really all that different, if the biological problem is a limitation of the underlying physics. Ultimately, the scarcity of usable energy is driving this trade-off, which is a physical limitation of the universe. It becomes 'possible' in the sense that a O(n^100) algorithm is 'feasible' (see Arora and Barak, section 1.6.2). If maintaining a youthful state indefinitely increases our energy consumption hundredfold entirely due to the cost of maintaining a low entropy state in a highly complex system, is that really 'possible'? If we have to pay an ever increasing energetic cost to maintain ourselves, it is both a biological trade-off and a physical inevitability.
It can be both. Indy bookstores seemed to have reached an equilibrium point after the onslaught of both the big boxes and Amazon. There are many fewer stores, but those that remain are often profitable with loyal followings. They had to innovate to branch into things like becoming half-coffee/half-bookstores, or become better big-boxes themselves, or focus on community events and authors.

Perhaps we'll see a collapse of local news (which really has already happened) and the resurgence of quality national news on a smaller, less competitive, but sustainable basis?
Maybe PKD didn't travel backwards in time to the era of Jesus but forwards in time to the era of Yeezus...

Perhaps it was rather sideways.

VALIS
When my company moved into a new building, there was a problem with employees leaving dishes in the sink, not wiping up spills, etc. One of our coworkers wrote a letter to 'Dear Abby' who responded in her column. That column was clipped out and posted in the break areas. A bit passive aggressive maybe but it was incredibly effective.
Would you mind sharing your functions when you do have them on hand?
I'm going to throw another link out there and suggest its worth charging a little more and having cleaning staff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
If you take a moment to read the linked comment, you will see that it describes how Cargo's selection algorithm is a simple heuristic that avoids NP-hardness. The subsequent timing example exists to demonstrate that the heuristic actually succeeds at avoiding pathological performance; Servo has more transitive dependencies than any known Rust project, and your development box is certainly more powerful than my $5 VPS.
Philip --> derived from the Greek Philippos, meaning: lover of horses. Dick --> German for fat.
There are transistor designs that can subvert the subthreshold swing limit, see NC-FETs and TFETs.
I have some gripes about using text colors close to the background color (http://contrastrebellion.com), but at least at the same time they're advocating not using grey.

I agree, this is the best design article I've read in maybe a decade.
They are upvoted because they are extremely nifty and useful :)

Check out their usage in Cassandra: http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/operating/bloom_filte...

There should be many more you can find via quick googling.
I think it lines up well with existing theories, that of the oedipal complex combined with the idea that women are smarter.
Let me Google that for you...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/twitter-q4-2017-earnings-rev...
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I rescind my comment!
If you stay away from the west side of the state, you'll even avoid most lake effect snow.
Yes, I always forget to do this. :)
Also a culture of snacking and telling people they can't go hungry even for a minute.

When I was a kid (not so long ago!) I'd eat breakfast in the morning, something small like a sandwich for lunch at school and then dinner at home with the family. There was nothing in between or nothing in the house to eat in between. Leftovers from previous day maybe? Had to wait until mom prepared the dinner. No candy bars or a bags of nuts or crisps.

Now people just reach out and grab an extremely high-calorie snack at any time. It's a habit, a way of passing time.
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Pretty sure the examples fail the test: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Edit: 2.80:1
Automatic weapons are also banned in the US.
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So create a double selling strategy which sells low priced tickets for super fans and sell the rest at auction.

Let's be honest, the "long-term fan" strategy is generally just a profit maximizing strategy due to repeat sells.
Exactly, we are seeing this with lithium too. Papers I have read show its extremely recyclable with potential high yields at scale so don't be scared... unless you're a junior lithium miner!
> and the area has a great lineage for quality pizza

What lineage are you referring to? Domino's and Little Caesars? (Both are headquartered in the area). They are perfectly edible, but I've never heard those described as representing a "quality pizza" lineage.
> I'm a jury consultant who regularly works on patent cases

Thanks for chiming in. There are a lot of "Go Delaware!" comments here, but it is easier to trust ones based on some experience/expertise like this.
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The injunction against ending with prepositions entirely comes from people wanting to turn English into Latin (similarly for split infinitives). There is no basis to deny it, and it's one of those rules where trying to adhere to it makes things harder, not easier, to understand.
I don't follow - how is the relative rarity better than absolute frequency? What really matters is how common your password is - not how highly it's ranked in a compromised password list, which has no relevance to how common it may be.

You want to filter on users choosing a password that's been re-used across all compromised more than N times.

Filtering users on choosing a password that ranks N of M on a list of compromised passwords doesn't tell the user how bad that password is.

In fact, once you get to the rail, the ranking is basically based on sort order and become irrelevant?
> I hope they eventually develop a federated, privacy oriented messaging protocol, once the rapid technological evolution settles down.

Yes. It's hard to get too excited for the 'expansion' of Yet Another Walled Garden. I say this as a long time user of Signal. It's currently the lesser of most evils, but it still has a lot of room for improvement.
Deducing the existence of soul through reasoning and reflection, on the mind and states of consciousness: https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/brdup/brhad_IV-03.html
This is a favorite topic of a favorite author of mine. If you want more information: https://wuu.bi/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick/
Thanks! The scale of such an event is way beyond anything one can possibly imagine.
Banks, there's nothing unusual about a casino withdrawing large amounts of USD.
There are many examples of articles where the publisher does not own the copyright; any article written by US government scientists is not subject to copyright.

Preprints are an excellent option, and every field should make distributing preprints at the standard servers (Arxiv, Biorxiv, etc.) the norm. The broad visibility from open preprint servers seems to be evolving into a different kind of peer review, to the extent that if, in my field, I see a published article with no arXiv preprint I wonder if the authors are trying to hide something.
I use pass too, but technically you just need gpg to do this exact same thing. pass, in this use case, is literally just a very thin wrapper to gpg + a file with your password in it.
Ya, but the FBI is really dropping the ball here.
> How many attempts on average would it take a user to find a password which was not rejected? [...] I'll say one more thing on the idea of blacklists. Users just trivially work around them. Password quality (entropy, guessability) does not generally increase. Bad password policies often decrease password quality, particularly in the case of password expiry.

That was my concern - if this blacklist is used widely,could it _encourage_ password reuse? If it takes multiple attempts to find a valid password, will the user just find one that is accepted and then use it everywhere?
Twitter purges accounts, and conservatives cry foul
SSRIs are generally indicated for what's called mild/moderate depression, the most common form, not for the serious conditions that you highlighted.

There were some older meta-studies that called into question their general efficacy vs. placebo even for mild/moderate depression but this new meta-study (with the additional previously unpublished data from their initial approval trials) looks like it has finally settled the matter.

Reading this paper I'm amazed at the increased efficacy of some of the newer SSRI's despite not having a novel mechanism of action. This is similar to how effective some of the newer statins are at lowering LDL cholesterol despite the drug class being around for decades.

edit: It looks like I'm a bit out-of-date in my knowledge but the general point still stands. DSM V has a definition of 'major depressive disorder' which seems to have replaced the old mild/moderate categorization and this study looked at all anti-depressants that treat this type of depression, not just SSRIs.
So... a simple yes would have sufficed. They were not profitable, now they are. They may not be later, we'll find out.
> And notice this had nothing to do with the system being ill-conditioned; it was purely due to FP round-off making x just a tiny bit smaller than h.

This doesn't sound right: the comparison function x(t) >= h is extremely ill-conditioned at the point t where x(t)=h, having condition number Inf.
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This list is small for the purposes of password-cracking. Enumerating 500 million things is something a computer can do very quickly.

Consider this: if you store the hash of one of these passwords in your login database, you have stored something that can quickly be turned back into the plaintext password, just by enumerating the list.

Passwords that have been leaked can't become good passwords again.
It is obvious from the article that this is merely a money laundering operation. The feds don't care because it is Chinese money being laundered into the USA and out. The Chinese don't care because it is the people in power (or close to people in power) whose money is usually being laundered.
Why would a password that occurs in this list, but rarely, be safer? Attackers aren't going to skip the rare ones.
The ethics are about how you construct laws around employment based on the sorts of employment relationships the society considers just or ethical. For instance in many states there are regulations around workplace safety. Given the power differential between the employer and employed and general human stupidity it is understood that there are certain limitations that must be placed on an employer to protect the employed. This similar to how society recognizes certain obvious limitations to transactions such as purchasing food, medicine or the construction of Opera houses.
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We can support almost any valid h264 file :D

In an ideal world, you'd send 1080p high profile h264 encoded with a bitrate above 8Mbps (or CRF 18 for x264 nerds), with a max keyframe interval of around 5 seconds. Closed GOPs also makes processing more efficient.
Individuals make an easy target because there's an easy story to tell: that they have bad habits and little willpower. The problem is that this story is incomplete.

The US, at least, is a society which actively incentivizes the preconditions for obesity. The USDA's food pyramid (and now plate) promotes a high carb inflammation diet designed for US agriculture, not citizen health. School food programs (partially based on this) are not healthy and set the stage for later dietary behavior. Grains, meats, and dairy are subsidized by the government making them artificially cheap compared to whole fruits and vegetables. Unhealthy food is enshrined in culture and pushed through advertising. Food deserts are a reality for a large portion of the population.

A better strategy would be to target the problem closer to its source. Incentivize the production of healthier crops and healthier food products. This gives consumers lots of feedback on their choices--each time they go to a supermarket or a restaurant and see prices and nutritional information--as opposed to the occasional doctor visit where they learn just how bad the situation has become.

Ultimately, it's simply unfair the way we treat the sick when we've set them up for failure. Let's create a food-to-health system rather than a system that taunts and then punishes.
It then goes into housing bubbles...which may or may not be in your interest depending if you own a home or not.
> I am Horselover Fat, and I am writing this in the third person to gain much- needed objectivity.
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This is far more likely.

Most people don't even know Saipan exists, much less what goes on there. You'll draw less scrutiny in a middle of nowhere island vs Las Vegas.
That's good, but it is not a substitute for preprint servers. In particular, preprint servers are archival and more discoverable.
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PLOS One fees are $1500 per paper.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/journal-information
The monorail(s) might be more useful if they were accessibly priced and not so far from the strip. At least walking through the casinos is a fairly interesting and air-conditioned experience.