skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second the motion on firecalc because it really helps you visualize in how many 30 year periods historically you would have gone to zero (which is obviously the thing everyone most needs to avoid). The 100 year averages are useless as they don't encapsulate realistic investing lifetime chunks of around 30 years, the firecalc approach gets around this with the 30 year increment parameter (which you can tweak as well). It's a better way to approach the problem.
That reminds me!

Pre-smart phone era. I was outside a club and out of my eye I see a homeless guy in a wheelchair. But he's going super fast. Like... way too fast.

Then I realize, he's got four little dogs pulling him on leashes like a tiny bobsled team.

He was BOOKING it fast.

Never in my life had I wished more for a camera. People online always think I'm making the story up.
For my own things, my accounts will just linger until the provider either goes out of business, or until account inactivity leads to deletion. Hopefully I wrote something witty or clever prior to going on permanent vacation.

If I had my own small business, I would set up a legal trust and specify who and what is required to access a bank safe deposit box and what information was required to decrypt things.
In Brazil, federal, state and some local governments publish what is called "Diário Oficial". It's a daily ledger of official hirings, firings, payments, votes on legislative chambers and even criminal indictments. The Brazilian Congress also post all the laws and amendments proposed and approved on its website http://www2.camara.leg.br/.

While AI is no solution for corruption, it could create a more transparent system with a lot more accountability highlighting the potential misuse of money.

Actually, even without sophisticated technology, whoever decides to read the free and available content, will quickly find many things that jump the eyes. For instance, I remember seeing that my city, under the new mayor, was paying for school buses while the school was off, in the month of January and three times the amount the previous administration used to pay (while kids were in school).
My city also had even a helicopter for the local security force, which was not actually police and was not able to even carry guns. The helicopter was paid, faithfull, for many years. But seen in public only once, in a parade.

At the time (many years ago), I tipped newspapers and nobody cared.

A few years ago I created a simple script that to download all the public available law proposals from the Congress (https://github.com/pablomelo/baixa_camara) and downloaded 300GB of data.

I wanted to create an app where voters could see where and what was the allegiance of their representatives (In Brazil there's no district division and a candidate for Congress can get votes from anywhere in the state. While it prevent's gerrymandering, it also allows politicians to have little commitment to their constituents).
Earthmover Distance
I think there's still an argument that it's not enough, as road wear varies with the 4th power of tire load. Ultimately time is another factor in road wear and breakdown, so utilization rates matter, but on balance freight traffic is subsidized.
I fully expected that this title was a reference to the more-famed A Modest Proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Rather surprised that The Atlantic wouldn't have been self-aware re: the title.
What you're describing is really just a guilt free reward.

It all boils down to bad habits and broken mindsets. There's that old saying of if you want to get something done, ask the busiest person in the room to do it.
Talk: Please Don't Mock Me (and Other Test Double Advice)
I meant to know what percentages he used, conservative/aggressive is relative.

In the US the FED Interest Rate was about ~.25-.55 a couple years ago where the Brazilian was ~14%
I got used to typing "UPDATE SET x=x WHERE ..." and then going back and changing the "x=x" to the actual column assignments after I typed the WHERE clause.
From attackers maybe?

Protection in no way implies privacy.
Ask HN: Can the US House and Senate be replaced with a website, should it?
I am very interested in discussion around this topic. Thanks for taking the time to look.
The Evidence Act can further restrain the court but in a scenario that is ambiguous the court will rely on case law (e.g. law the court itself made up based on prior decisions). Should parliament disagree with the decisions of the court they may amend the law to force a change in future trials.

We're used to hearing about the supreme court restraining the actions of parliament by declaring something unconstitutional but in actuality the parliament exercises far more control over the court than vice versa. Even in the case of the court declaring something unconstitutional parliament could overrule them by changing the constitution itself (although that is extremely unlikely given the political climate).
The sentiment is hardly unique to western culture either. Off the top of my head the Hindu Caste System seems like a pretty good example of a system that excuses the mistreatment of the poor.
Exactly. Or to partially quote the 11th Doctor from Doctor Who:

"...we're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
You get advantages from trucks in terms of flexibility and lower inventory due to faster shipment times. It doesn't make sense for things like coal, sure, but there's very real advantages you gain through shipping by truck instead of rail.
No, you were demonstrating a classic strawman argument. A bigoted strawman argument, at that.

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
It's not an issue if you care enough to read the description. This is not some underhanded sneaky thing that Facebook's trying to hide. Users can choose not to install the app.
The problem in that space has nothing to do with money or reaching fans. It is that to succeed as an artist via online tools, your primary skill must be marketing. All the existing sites bring success not to the best creators, but to the best marketers of their creations.

Or, I guess I should say, reaching fans is the problem... but it isn't correlated with the quality of your work.
I love how the dossier is so accurate that people have to do ad hominem attacks on Steele as a person instead of attacking the dossier.

Literally no one in Congress or anywhere else has been able to find a single thing wrong with it.

There's some terrifying stuff in there including a mysterious 20 percent share in a Russian oil company. The pee tapes. Etc etc.

Really hoping Mueller brings alot of this to light.
I don't understand what the big deal is. If you learn Python 2, you're 95% of the way to Python 3. Honestly, this is like arguing over spaces and tabs. It gets old.
I don't think so. Trump for an example is very easy to see through in terms of his insecurity. People that behave a certain way while they're in extraordinary positions of power, reveal that fragility / insecurity.

China's behavior reeks of insecurity. Here they are, this massive, extremely powerful, rapidly growing economic juggernaut, and they behave like a scared mouse about the South China Sea (as though they really needed to steal that territory from their neighbors), about Vietnam & the US (as though Vietnam could ever threaten them), about the smallest slight from Japan or South Korea (who cares). It's incredibly revealing.

Besides the obviousness of China's reactions and behavior and what it reveals, authoritarian regimes are universally wildly insecure. The people that seek authoritarian positions of power are similarly universally insecure. Take Stalin, he was like a man-child in terms of insecurity, and most dictators you can name from the last century were likewise, that includes everyone from Saddam to Putin (look at his recent tantrum performance, putting on a visual display of Russia nuking the US at his state of the nation speech, trying his best to hide vast insecurity).
For #2 if they could partner with someone like Dice (possibly UK only) that would be great. Really easy to use app, no fees and the QR ticket only appears a few hours before the gig to prevent touts. I think you can even return tickets if there are people on the 'waiting list' although I've never tried that.
Ok, so the right to housing would mean the government can't deprive you of a home.
You will be able order a Honda Urban EV from 2019
Possible veracity aside, that's largely a problem of their PR department.
Drawdown focuses on use of crop residues as feedstock for biochar. Specifically they cite a figure that represents 50% of the crop residues burned annually as being potentially available for biochar feedstock. For reasons I don’t understand, they ignore forestry waste. It is actually much more efficient to make biochar from forestry residue than crop residue.
I have a friend who left tech and went to art school. Now makes puppets for a popular TV show.

Find something that makes money, retrain, get it done.

Hard to say what you should go to without knowing what you disliked about the current thing.
Naively, and based on historical data, I agree with point #1. What worries me about China is that they've had no problem--politically or technologically--collecting massive data sets on their citizenry via a level of mass surveillance that's never been reached AFAICT. On top of that, they're investing hard in artificial intelligence, and the benefits will ultimately be reaped by whoever's in charge of the datasets (in this case, the government). All of that gives them a lot of levers to control and manipulate their citizenry that has not been available to authoritarian governments yet.
Yes. Best if you can get advice from both a physical therapist and physical trainer. At least meet with each one twice, so they can get you started with the right stretches and exercises.
You should look into Sales. Incredibly high earning potential, and one of the few industries where higher education doesn't matter. Feel free to PM if I can help at all.
> which is what a lot of people would call the "real world."

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...

80% of the population lives in urban areas, and this fraction is increasing, so it's unsurprising that most companies target them.
Those numbers make sense at a glance. A truck driver, despite the popular image, more closely resembles specialized work than un-specialized. There are specific skill and documentation requirements to become a Truck driver. The healthcare work you linked to just requires a high-school diploma and no certs, if it's a job like caring for the elderly then the main factor driving up the wage is a shortage of people willing to deal with the challenges of working with an elderly person which can include rude or mentally ill families/customers, excrement, and being comfortable cleaning and/or bathing another human being.
It's a concern because anything that challenges absolute dominance of the US-led order is considered destabilizing and threatening, but there is an asterisk, as in, "by whom"?

If you happen to benefit or be happy with the US-led order, say an ally or vassal (military, economic, or just ideological), then you will feel the same way, naturally. If you are not, you are not so concerned.
Isn't Ripple trying to do precisely that using the blockchain based XRP token?
Go's GC is non-moving, incremental and single-generation. Hotspot GCs are all moving collectors so they make different tradeoffs.
IBM's metronome collector would be the closest one to Go's properties.
In my original comment, I was being consistent when I claimed "I think 7% nominal over a long period (such as a pension fund could expect) is quite reasonable and would expect a pension so funded to be quite stable."

I don't think 7+% real returns are long-run sustainable and don't plan my retirement around those optimistic figures, even though we've crushed those figures for the last 15 years. It's possible after all this back and forth that we discover that we more or less agree.
I think you forgot to click the “inflation adjusted” checkbox. The real rate of return is closer to ~7%. Also caveat emptor - past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Well, look around more, it's everywhere. Just this week:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/my-brain-made-me-...

The liberal philosophy in general is that people don't need to be responsible for anything, ever:

- Irresponsible sex? Fix it with a free abortion

- Irresponsible diet? Fix it with free healthcare

- Irresponsible drug use? Fix it with free rehab

- Committed a crime? Must be a mental issue, fix it with free mental healthcare.

The liberal mindset is to fix every societal issue with free services, free money, free _____, personal responsibility be darned. Cut off your own arm because you have body integrity identity disorder? The gov't should pay for a prosthetic and therapy!
Ozone in the high atmosphere is a good thing though - the ozone layer. It's only at ground level that it can act as a health hazard.
We need more information about why you didn't like programming. Assuming that you need a job now as opposed to in four years, your best bet is likely something along the lines of technical sales or something else where you can use your work history to your benefit.
The article you linked cherry picks statistics for metropolitan areas (it seems to lump the poor and African American parts of New York with the richer are more white sections) and the article even mentions that unarmed black men are much more likely to be shot and their argument for why that is seems largely anecdotal so the statistics seem less clear than what you linked would imply
I think the difference is that the caste system relies on the poor being there, it doesn't imagine that they should all disappear.
This is all SO fascinating to me. Multiple threads slowing stuff down & 18 decimal places being relevant stick out as surprising.

Part of me is thankful to not have these problems, while another part thinks it'd be a lot of fun to do this kind of last-mile engineering.
Huh. Crazy how close it is to my implementation - https://modelinvesting.com/retirement-calculator/

You have a UI bug on your tooltips on advanced fields. They show up way above where they should be =)
If I may make a suggestion, I think it would help to be more explicit about this. I know several founders of biotech companies treating age related diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, etc who don't apply to YC bc they think YC only wants pills to extend life / parabiosis etc. "longevity" means very different things (and has different connotations) in the "tech" startup world vs the biopharma startup world.

I know a lot of tech VCs are wary of the word "biotech" and related terms bc they got burned a decade ago, but bread and butter biotech is a totally different world the last few years and has been one of the most rewarding areas for startups and investors. The tech funds that lean into traditional biopharma are getting into a lot of great deals while those who try to stay at arms length from traditional biopharma are missing the best opportunities
I'm sure they are aware. It's highly unlikely any writer for the Atlantic would be ignorant of that proposal. They probably just wanted to go forth with the plain meaning.
It's barely even English, and not even clever. They actually took that Byzantium poem and ruined it with poor grammar. I pretty much dismissed this thing right after reading that. Of all the text they could have put on the page...
US is a big bully with its Monroe Doctrine, dictator or not. This is China's version.
> More white men die being shot by police, per violent crime rate, than black men.

What's this statistic even supposed to mean? It looks like you're dividing an absolute number by a per-capita rate but never adjusting for a higher base population of whites in America.
OpenJDK/Hotspot is not the only game in town. Those who really need low latencies can opt to use other JVMs (some commercial) with GCs that provide very low pause times, usually at the expense of some percentage points of throughput. In large corporate environments that might not be a problem.
Yeah. Has anyone really ever seen this "Australia" in person?
It really depends on why you washed out...

If you just crave variety, then doing short consulting contracts might be interesting to you. Recruiters are always looking for people to do 6mo contracts.
AIUI means As I Understand It.

Why can't a failed hyperloop have A/C?
The definition of what constitutes a crime is convenient, though. Nixon started the war on drugs to criminalize black people.
where I work, we have that kind of entertainment stuff in ludicrous quantity, but it's literally never used, except for the interns on Fridays evenings.

I see that more as decoration to make the place look cool
What the hell is Prisma? A look at the latest tools in the GraphQL stack
The article I posted synthesizes its primary conclusion from two biased sources:

1.>According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black

2.>But as Mac Donald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country

Because of the agenda of the media featured on google (wapo, huffpo, et all), it is left to the readers to compile these two sets of data and infer that, if we take the disproportionate confrontation rate for assaults alone, per capita it would explain why more black people appear to be dying.

I don't have time to provide you with a statistical analysis, just note that the sources for this data should be "legitimate," especially when they effextively lie through omission by selectively reporting data to further their pre-drawn conclusion.
Interesting this explanation conveniently omits any mention of how all Nano (aka RaiBlocks) was allocated to the developer, with only some of it being "distributed" via a website with a captcha setup by the lone dev.

The initial distribution of XRB was performed through
"manual mining" limited via a captcha.
The distribution rate was 17 XRB (Raiblocks) per hour per ip4.

Dev aside, this method was easy to automate, and easy to bypass with the plethora of VPNs and users who own hundreds of IP4/IP6 addresses.

https://github.com/nanocurrency/raiblocks/wiki/Design-featur...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=raiblock+captch...
Awesome tool! I honestly feel like the more of these there are in the world, the better. So many opportunities to help people learn more about investing, saving, etc.

I know that's a bug I need to fix, something with bootstrap. Thanks for pointing it out and hopefully will have a fix tonight!
Depending on your opinion, p3 solves Unicode issues.
> What's the point of having nuclear weapons and not telling everyone?

The point is so that:

(1) You can maintain the highest ground in proliferation discussions focussed on rivals, and

(2) Reveal your own weapons quickly if the geopolitical situation shifts (either as deterrence or, should the situation shift too quickly for that, direct use to blunt an existential threat.)

> The entire point of nuclear weapons is to deter attacks.

No, it's (as with any weapon) to provide the capacity to destroy the enemy if needed.

Like any weapon, this capacity can be publicized to deter attacks, but that is not the sole purpose of the weapon, and it can't be, because deterrence cannot work if it is perceived as the sole purpose of a weapon.
What I find truly interesting of this thinking is that technological advances in the future are cataclysmic, but in the past are necessary.

It never becomes something like "lets destroy all the farming machinery, so we create more jobs plowing the land".
Up to 8X Performance Improvement for Ultra-Deep and Sparse Crawls
The SBC players are either based on libspotify, which has been rotting ever since Spotify deprecated it some years ago, or librespot, which is reverse engineered. Both of these break quite frequently. I don't think Spotify care much at all about Linux but I'm sure the user numbers make that decision easy for them.
I follow about 8,000+ people, because I follow just about anyone who has a relatively active account and who may be affiliated in my professional and academic networks. Partly I do this as passive networking, much easier to reach out to people on a cold call when we follow each other. And partly because I like reading tweets from people who I've never met or really known.

The trick is that I don't treat Twitter as a newscast but as a stream of interesting thoughts to sample from when I have free time. I do keep a secret list of people who use Twitter to put out original work that I'll check from time to time but mostly I find that my general timeline has most of the interesting tweets in it anyway, because of how Twitter curates the top of it -- with the What-You-Might-Have-Missed, even if you have your timeline in chrono order.
I don't see any changelog, does anyone know what's new since the last release?
If they didn't actually fire anyone, you don't think word would get around a 625-person company that the PR statement that a rogue employee was fired was BS?
The Dark Lessons of Cape Town's Drought
In the west, we need a lot more housing, roads, and trains. These could be doubled and it wouldn't be enough. We need a large government intervention on the scale of a Manhattan Project.
"could have great implications for homelessness"

Thinking like a politician, one of the implications might be- since we can count a car as a home, all the people living out of their cars aren't homeless anymore. With this huge reduction in homeless people we can cut the budget to the shelters because they are serving fewer people. They'll definitely win re-election because they simultaneously reduced homelessness and cut spending, and they didn't even have to put forth any effort. Total win for the politicians.
Oh awesome, that does it! And in fact it shows that I have a 6am alarm for tomorrow that I don't need :)
>saving 10% of your salary

impossible for most people

>spend <30% of your gross income on housing

impossible for many (most?) places with jobs

>don't borrow to spend more than you make 90% of the time

this factor is indeed entirely up to individuals and a perpetual point of failure... but refusing to borrow and cutting minor expenses is not a road to any kind of wealth for most people. it's a road to retiring poor. most people are on that road.
It's one of the primary methods to study historical weather patterns.
Which countries around the world are under the explicit and implicit protection of China's military?
I would not worry about it. In a decade or so when this becomes a common problem, expect the major tech companies to come up with their own automated process to handle this. Whatever system you come up with now will probably be obsolete in a few years. I would just let the service providers handle it.
I have similar experience with GP, which is how I ended up writing Gorgonia (https://github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia). Serialization of models is easy: .npy files are very good formats though I know a number of people who will disagree - I find they typically prefer pb as a serialization format, which I think is better for over-the-wire not for storage

Also like GP, I used to work in advertising. The low latency bits are because RTB servers want you to respond within a certain amount of time. When I was in advertising, our solution was to precalculate a whole bunch of things, and throw them into redis. It was then a simple lookup of the hash of a vector (for bidding related stuff)