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> Too little difference between working wage and welfare

I’ve been on welfare in France for a few months to focus on a project. I’ve seen from the inside how the sytem disincentive attempt at working or learning. I’ll list some reason why.

- You cannot get the money if you have a job or are enrolled in a formation which encourage doing nothing

- Money is not huge if you have a rent, but it also come with reduction on phone, electricity, ... bills and transportation

- If you work, for every euro earned it will be substracted on what you gain during the next trimester

- There is almost no checking done. I didn’t have to justify my situation or choices to the social worker

- There is no nationality or language requirement which encourage (illegal) immigration. I’ve seen people angry against social workers because... the form was not in English

- There is long delay (in weeks or months) for everything so you want to avoid changing your situation too often

All in all this is not a way to reintegrate to society (by working) if you have a problem entering it or due to a lay off. It is a separate way of living with people specializing in it, a large part having no intention to work whatsoever. And I speak here about honest people, because I’ve talk to people who not only are on welfare but are working on the side without declaring it.
If you write the calibration info to the video LUT, why does software also need to know about it? Isn't your monitor displaying perfectly calibrated sRGB at that point?
Oh, that's largely a myth. These seller do have some influence, but it's much less important than what they want you to perceived. Fashion tastes comes from a lot of sources and some is part of your identity.

That's part of what makes this industry hard.
I think you misread me. Smoking marijuana is committing a crime that one can't retire on (it's not even profitable, which doesn't really speak to whether it's a good idea but certainly means its not in line with the mother's advice). A bank robbery, at a large enough scale and if successful, could easily provide enough money to retire in some poorer non-extradition countries - but the attempt is almost certainly a worse idea than smoking marijuana with friends.
This strikes me as an issue between understanding these events from the point of view of an external observer, and a test particle or person falling into the hole. From the POV of the observer, your statements are largely accurate, for certain types of universes. For the test particle, there is no freeze frame, all proceeds normally.

The key is the Relative in Relativity.

Truthfully, there is no clear answer as to what a black hole has for an interior, or if it really has one. Holographic theorists would argue that the event horizon is the black hole, String theorists would argue that there is an interior, but no singularity. We just don’t know.
Ask HN: Python/Scala/Rust/CPP/Go – What do u use when u deploy ML in production?
Most of researchers these days prototype using Python & R. However, when you put ML systems into productions, accuracy is not the only metric. Teams care about scalability and the speed of their system 1

What do you use when you deploy ML in production ?. Which technology make it easier for you to build faster and more reliable infrastructure.

Most of answers to this question on [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7zizn3/d_python_scala_rust_or_go_what_do_you_use_when/). I am curious to see more diverse answers and why teams tend to use specific technology for ML ?
I read that some people [1] actually enjoy being woken up at 2am by the roar of a motorcycle engine. Imagine that.

[1] https://www.theonion.com/wow-check-out-that-motorcycle-revvi...
https://mitmproxy.org/docs/latest/concepts-modes/#reverse-pr...

It's an operation mode, no recipe
I guess him and his brother are off to do coke in some other startup’s bathroom.
No, poor people will buy a bar of eg Michel Cluizel or Green and Blacks or Lindt, instead of Cadburys or Galaxy or Herschey.
Eh. Kuwait, Iraq, same thing, right? (~similar place, different decade) Also, the Balkans look far scarier when it's a few hours' drive...and even scarier in retrospect, when you find that some of your friends of the same age fought in the Yugoslav war(s).
What do you get from having your savings in BRK? I thought they don't return anything to shareholders?
I'm pretty sure you can't buy that version in the US.
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I think you mean 1000 bps (10%)?
Typeclasses - thought you could use that whole dictionary work around, or write namespaced variants.
Idealistic hipster here.

I've hitched a ride from Kent to Van Horn which is about as far in the opposite direction. West Texas is beautiful. Bring a bicycle, and don't go in the summer.
Bootstrap is working on a high school physics curriculum for ninth graders, which integrates functional programming as a fundamental component. They only have a landing page up at the moment [0], but I attended a very cool workshop they gave this summer. They’ve designed the programming language to avoid any “incidental complexity”—Physics teachers only have to teach the CS that’s absolutely necessary for the physics education goals they’re trying to achieve.

[0] http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/spring2018/courses/p...
What strikes me about this is that Toronto notably gave relatively little in terms of incentives during the Amazon HQ2 hoopla [1], yet here we have a case where it seems that the city has ceded a bit too much in order to land a headline-grabbing deal. It's tough to tell which side is being unreasonable.

[1] http://business.financialpost.com/technology/ontario-to-offe...
To the jerks downvoting my comment, the ggp comment says:

Can you do volunteer community management for an organizations some tech organization? Can you somehow finagle some volunteer resume copywriting for Stanford graduates through some organization? You'll never get anything from the graduates you help, but it's the people in whatever non-profit you are working with that will remember your skill and drive. Or anything that gets you working with people who can hire you later. It snowballs from there.

When I rebutted that, they did a 100% about face saying they never work for free themselves. So if they never work for free but are telling me to work for free to try get paid work, it is dumb advice. But, hey, let's not confuse anyone with the facts. Let's just pretend I'm a bitch for being pissed off that no amount of proving myself or doing what works for the guys ever works for me and it has kept me trapped in dire poverty for many years.

When the guys here are looking to do business, they exchange emails or other contact info and take it to private discussion. When I try to do the same, I get hit on or ignored.

You see this in comments on HN all the damn time that people say "email in profile" or whatever. Guys do business and help each other out via private discussions.

People leaving public comments with stupid advice they would not follow themselves are absolutely not in any way taking me seriously. It is virtue signaling, just pretending to care without really helping, and it just deepens the problem.

When guys take each other seriously as business people, they hash out problems and solutions privately. The vast majority of men will not have a private conversation with me unless they are hoping for a hookup. That is the crux of the problem here.
Looks like "mitmdump -p 443 -R http://localhost:80/" should do the trick
I’ve thought multiple times about attending. In terms of planning, based on those who have went before, when should one start planning and booking accommodations and other travel related logistics? By the time I get around to thinking about going (usually when the annual report is received), I gather it’s already quite late.
https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.046.than.h...

Doesn't look like a description of black hole, honestly.
I also have this question. I mean, the ones and zeros that get sent over your DisplayPort/whatnot cable for some specific color in your favorite color space should be identical for all computers everywhere. Why don't we then just calibrate the monitors themselves, rather than the whole OS?
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I would visit so it's not my problem. Unhealthy people typically don't enjoy outdoor activities or find them too challenging.
Are you suggesting it's unusual or undesirable for a pension fund to not be paying out currently? If a country creates a sovereign wealth fund for when the proverbial and in this case literal well eventually dries up and it doesn't need to tap into that currently, and there's $200k for every citizen in that piggy bank, that seems like a pretty good thing for preventing social unrest and perhaps even promoting social cohesion. A 25 year old in Belgium or Greece or Spain has a lot more reason to worry there won't be anything left by the time it's their turn than someone in a country that _doesn't even have to use their largest fund yet_.

Also, when you say "chosen to defer the use of their wealth", you mean "invest at a rate of about 6% annually"? As long as they're otherwise meeting all of their commitments, I'm not seeing the problem.
Will you challenge him on any of his positions now that you have the floor in this comment section?
It always bugs the hell out of me that many large organizations will file for patents that they have no intent of developing. I worked at a certain large corporation previously and they would have patent brain storming camps encouraging various employees to think of and file for patents on just about any topic regardless of the business's involvement in that field. A large majority of patents that come out of those workshops either stifle innovation in that area completely or are used to later extort someone who wishes to actually bring it to market.
I have to task switch _a lot_ in my job. My day consists of writing code, supporting content creators with their tools issues (which often leads to switching to a different piece of code to fix a blocker), and supporting my team as they work on their tasks. Often I don't have the luxury of choosing when to switch tasks, but when I do or when I'm being hit with a ton of things at once it helps to take a short coffee break, re-prioritise things in your mind (or on paper via a list), and then get back to it.

Days when I can just work on one thing without interruptions are extremely appreciated but so rare. When I do have the luxury of finishing a big task that took several days and not being immediately pulled away by someone else to another task I take advantage of the downtime and maybe try to go home early, do some reading, or have a longer "fika" with a coworker.
Last time I did this, I had to reverse the binaries and remove the cert pinning code. There are a few examples of this around the place, but it can get fairly complex pretty quickly.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaEBbFbvcY

This is mind blowing...shatters my misconception of blackholes....is there any more books on this?
Ask HN: What's the best framework for displaying web elements using VR headset?
I have an admin dashboard that includes several graphs and real time statistics, My goal is displaying this data using VR technology. what would be the best framework for that case? Android VR? Unity? React Web VR? (I will to use my phone with VR headset)
It’s a fair comparison because they’re both within equal reach.

I think a $300 candy bar is stupid, but it’s objectively got no less utility than a $300 meal. You could eat a meal of rice and beans with a $300 candy bar for dessert and from a health and satiety standpoint you’ve probably equaled the $300 meal. The difference is the subjective experience.
I wonder how this would effectively play out. How much market research will be deemed acceptable to accurately say that something hasn't been invented yet? Can Joe Dirt sue a company a year after their patent filing, saying he posted the idea on his Twitter before they filed?
The display at the end of it is an analog device. The calibration confirms that the actual light coming out of the screen is an accurate representation of what the digital information thinks it should be.
The Scandinavian model is much more than just "greater spending on social programs." Sweden and Denmark outrank the U.S. in the Heritage Foundation's Economic Freedom Index: https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking. Their tax system is very flat, with the top marginal rates kicking in at just 1.2-1.6x the average income: https://taxfoundation.org/how-scandinavian-countries-pay-the.... The top 10% in Sweden make 25% of the total income and pay 25% of the total taxes, while in the U.S. they make 33% of the total income and pay 45% of total taxes. Their corporate tax rates are around what the U.S.'s will be under the Trump tax plan.

They're also highly deregulatory. Denmark just got rid of its version of the FCC: http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/04/deregulate-the-fcc. Sweden's approach to building fiber in rural areas is a simple tax rebate of up to $600 for rural folks who choose to have a fiber line built. There's serious discussion in Sweden of things like water privatization.

So the challenge to implementing the "Scandinavian model" isn't just our "southern voters," who oppose more social spending, but also our "San Francisco voters," who insist on a narrow tax base bankrolling that broad social spending, more government intervention, etc.

And ultimately, it comes down to lack of trust. Americans don't trust each other, probably with good reason. Take abortion, for example. In Denmark, like most western European countries, abortion is only permitted up to 12 weeks absent special circumstances. And parental consent is required for minors. In Sweden it's 22 weeks, which is an outlier for Europe. In the U.S., 12 weeks with parental consent would probably be unconstitutional. Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, etc., match Sweden at 22 weeks, and most blue states are at 24-26 weeks.

But in Scandinavia, there is some level of consensus, and abortions are readily available to women under 12 weeks. Even in "blue states," while one side has managed to wrangle 51% of the votes and get a 24-week deadline, the other side has managed to erect roadblocks like restrictions on abortion clinics, which make it very difficult for women to actually get an abortion when they're legally permitted to do so. We're a fragmented and distrustful society that doesn't trust each other, and our stalemates often leave us with the "worst of both worlds."
Great series, so depressing.
It's not about the signal it's about the physical display.

Displays aren't calibrated at the factory. To use an LED-backlit display as an example, not every single LED in the world is created equally. Not every LED is going to give off the exact same wavelength for the same current value.

Extrapolate this out to all the other components and this is the reason that your monitor has built-in physical controls for changing RGB/contrast/brightness values to begin with.

Calibration accounts for this.

As for why ICC profiles are used instead of just changing settings on the monitors, the OSD options usually don't offer enough fine-grained control to get things just right. Display makers are typically targeting main-stream consumers so they provide simple adjustment controls.
Modern mini-split heat pumps are inverter driven and can step up/down their power consumption and cooling capacity pretty much in 1% steps — at least that’s what the marketing material claims.

Normally the cooling output is a function of the set point temperature vs current ambient and the fan speed.

So I’m not sure what you would need to add to allow the units to operate/respond to variation in available power from the panels but certainly they are able to operate at variable output levels.
One of my growing curiosities is...what are the primarily-digital businesses which have “Buffett-Style Wonderfulness”?

Companies like American Express or BNSF have provided value for decades, and will continue to provide. Buffett used his extraordinary understanding to make great investments on these and other companies.

But I am a web guy, not a railroad guy. I want to use what understanding of the web I have to make good long-term investments in great digital companies. Unfortunately it seems like so many of them are in flux, in part because the market grabs their valuation and attaches truly insane expectations.

So my question...what are the digital businesses for which you have the highest expectations? Extra points for not mentioning AmaGooBookSoft.

My few are Stripe, Square, and Zillow.
It's hard to be sad about natural processes doing their natural process thing.

Or did we cut down all the trees and dig up all the grass that was preventing the soil from blowing away?
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Capital gains over time, plus the significant possibility of dividends when Buffett and Munger finally give up the ghost.
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Is there an easy way to set latency for chosen responses? I guess it's possible using mitmdump with custom Python script, but maybe there is such a feature built-in?
Stories like these are why I am led to believe that more and more regulations actually hurt the little guy. Big corporations do not fear more regulations. They can afford the lobbyists to influence politicians to write loopholes, the consultants to jump through the right hoops, and the lawyers to get them off the hook. What can little startups do? Hope that they can raise millions in series A, I suppose.

Big corps don't fear regulations, they fear competition. Big corps (I have read elsewhere) /want/ more regulations, because it raises the barrier of entry for the little guys to compete with them. They can afford a tightly-regulated world but little guys cannot.

Google this: Corporations love regulations. Lots of examples.
You mean Norway is the Canada of the EU?
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We essentially are calibrating for the monitor’s version of the color not being 100% accurate. Yo’re right, in a perfect world the monitors would just be correct from the factory.

In practice, monitors change color over time (much mire common in ccfl backlit monitors, i think) and even shift with brightness, so we have to do it “at runtime”
So I should check my passwords against some remote API I have no idea who controls to see if they've been compromised? Does this API always return true?
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At the scale of a small to medium colocation facility you define W per cabinet... Such as a typical 44U height cabinet in a row designed for front to back airflow. 5kW per cabinet would be a normal low range, up to 10-12kW. Then figure out your floor spacing and sq ft usage to determine how many cabinets.
Dane here.

I think this article gets something right, pointing out trust. Another word would be "solidarity" - believing you 'owe' your fellow countryman and that you are on the same team. What's good for you is good for me.

In Denmark, we pay something like 50% tax but we also get a lot of things covered by our state which other countries let the individuals get through expensive insurance.

This means that if my neighbour get rich, I'm happy since that means a better school for my (and his) children, help for my (and his) old parents, roads that gets fixed etc. (Edit: some of the money goes to the state and EU, while a healthy chunk stays in the municipality - this keeps the money close)

My point: it only works if people are indeed on the same team.

That is why big nations are a detriment to this model. If the taxes disappear into black holes, negligent waste and corruption the system crumbles quickly. And as we all know, it takes much longer time to build trust that to kill it. It is a constant battle (which right now, it feels like we're losing, but that doesn't matter for this post).

Can big nations like the U.S. copy this? Well, Denmark is about the size of your average state. So yeah, if each state made an effort to make the public sector make sense internally on state level, it could.

I don't think it will, though. The cultural gap is too wide and expecting people to always be looking out for number one isn't seen as a bad thing.

Just remember that Danes/Scandinavians aren't better people than others (except Swedes; we're ALL better than Swedes!). It is a matter of choice and goals.
Buffet's letters cover this well with respect to other stocks. Basically: if a company reinvests profits and grows, you as owner now own part of a more valuable thing.

This will increase share value on average over time. This isn't speculating in a capital gains increase. This is a measureable increase in value based on earnings.

So, if coca cola increases profits, berkshire can reasonably expect this is to their direct benefit: even if coca cola pays no dividend. They could have basically.

And you can realize a gain when you eventually sell.
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From one of the article links, " aliens can live inside black holes."

>They would also be brightly illuminated by the central singularity and by photons trapped in the same orbit.

That sounds creepily like a typical description of heaven. Timeless, ageless, godlike beings all in a region of intense uniform brightness.
Most streetlamps had been HID lamps for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_discharge_lamp

Efficiency was one reason for this, but the bigger reason was just that (for the duty cycle of a streetlamp) they require fewer installations and last way longer than incandescent bulbs. This means that the maintenance costs are much lower.
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This offers an interesting take on Moore's law.
I see this point raised a lot but the stat is fueled by Western immigrigants—not non-Western immigrants.

You can’t count a bunch of blonde German & French doctors and engineers as disrupting the fabric of society.

Denmark has less than 4% non-Western immigrants while the US has nearly 25%.
Monitors aren't often calibrated from the factory or they are calibrated to be "subjectively" nicer looking, e.g. high contrast and slightly cool white balance to account for show-room floors.

In addition to that the built-in options for configuration are often very simplified and have a coupling. Low resolution control plus simplified options means that you often can't dial in perfect color reproduction. Hence ICC profiles.
So, here's what I don't understand? If it causes societal trouble why let all these troublesome groups in? Does Denmark have some long history as a "nation of immigrants" like the United States does or is this some sort of self-inflicted punishment?
Culture drives attitude and perception.

People who look, worship (or not), work and have other things alike then to cluster together and have a sort of herd mentality.

In a place like the US, we have dramatically different groups of people all over the place. In Norway or Denmark, the differences are nonexistent to an American eye.
The loss of Denmark’s Denmark-ness is a direct consequence of uncontrolled immigration from low-trust countries. The xenophobia is perfectly rational but comes far too late.
Ask HN: What database questions I need to prepare for interviews?
Hi. I'm a backend developer with close to 4 years experience and currently working in Bangalore, India. In my 4 years experience I never got an opportunity to work extensively on database layer. Now, I'm trying to change my job and want to know what are the different concepts I need to learn to ace the database questions in interviews?