skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor typos in the article: In using the word "Horse" to show Chinese character evolution, the "Regular" is marked from 220 AD to 907 AD. As a matter of fact, that kind of characters were almost the "standard" in Chinese before Chinese government simplified many words around 1950. Even now, the Republic of China (a.k.a. Taiwan) still recognizes the "Regular" characters as the standard. Among Chinese people in the world, it it also known as the "Traditional" characters.
That reads like an early version of BULLRUN.
Sure. As with any other distributed processing, if you have enough other resources, you can run out of network. Or if something happens to reduce capacity of the network, it's going to constrain the rest of your system.

It depends on what you're doing. At work we have several systems that needed to upgrade to 2x 10G Ethernet (from 2x 1G), but not much pushes that limit at the moment. Our newer hosting is more badwidth with smaller CPU and RAM, so we expect to see more CPU constraints than network constraints.
As far as I know, thickness is a synonym for density. Quote from the article:

To calculate thickness, for each gray matter voxel we computed the distance to the closest non-gray matter voxel. In 2D-space, for each voxel, we took the maximum distance value of the corresponding 3D voxels across all layers and multiplied by two. Mean thickness in each subregion was calculated by averaging thickness of all 2D voxels within each region of interest.
Runtime Compiled C++
Interesting!

What's SMW? I'm not familiar with the term and searching for it isn't being particularly helpful.
Also, maybe the cause and effect is backwards. People who lose brain capacity could become less active?
I bought the Ryzen 1700 with a discrete RX4xx card (cheapest one that would comfortable drive two 2560x1440 displays) because the Ryzen 1700 + GPU was about half what the 8 core/16 thread Intel offering at the time would have been.

Intel has boosted core counts in response but the Ryzen is still better on a $/perf for my needs.
I think the economical argument that is most fundamental is that public benefits are a promise of the states future revenue. It is like a bond with no adjustment to risk.

If people like public pensions let them have it, but let only people in their sector pay for it. It is absolutely immoral for someone to pay a tax to fulfill the promise of a decade old decision on someone else. Few things show how clearly people forget the State doesnt have money of its own than thinking that the state can fulfill an obligation without taking more from the innocent bystanders.

Defined benefit plans should have a defined tax scope, and if they fail, they go bankrupt and thats it.
maybe tao lost his edge
This is a rare example of extreme understatement in a headline. If the figure given in the article is true, about 800 trillion viruses fall to Earth each day per square kilometer.
May I ask what technologies have you worked on ?

What skills were required at the NYC Hedge Fund?
There are several C++ sandboxes online. This one lets you set the compiler flags that you need for these SIMD ISAs, I think up through AVX2: http://www.compileonline.com/compile_cpp_online.php.
And now i am old...
Ask HN: Is There Any Multi Region App Engine or Kubernets?
I love deploying an app on Kubernetes, but I want to deploy it in 5 AWS region at once. I want a simple configuration which auto scales.

Is there any such service?
Guess what... one might call such aggressive growth of memory consumption as a “cancer” which kills a system by taking up all available resources! And that cancerous behavior would never have become dangerous till some other “problem” was “solved” :-)
Public benefits in general are a scam. They are not funded by the workers tax, its funded by everyones taxes.
I'm pretty sure you can also backup stuff to the Internet Archive.
haha this is very relatable - there are massive rewards for signalling
Please stop with the right wing propaganda.
As a non native speaker, continuous effort to read everything in english and watch english movies helped to improve. If possible, try people facing job in service industry for year or two and it can help you a lot as practice ground.
But in Chinese, “every character has to be adjusted,” says Su of Justfont. “Each one is its own image, with its own design needs.”

That's a key concept not only for font design, but also for learners of Chinese. For certain characters like 醫 you have to scale down or elongate the radicals to be balanced within a unified whole. Add the importance of stroke order and simplified vs. traditional characters, and learning basic writing skills (let alone calligraphy) gets really tricky.
What exactly frustrates you about Go's JSON handling? In my experience its among the best in typed languages. Define a struct (or just use an untyped map), optionally specify json tags for field names, pass it and the json to json.Unmarshal. Go is literally designed for this use case; systems programming, sharing messages between systems. Compared to other typed languages like Rust or Java, its at least as simple, if not simpler.
This new Samsung Galaxy phone can't connect to the internet
It's just taken as a given that the government will protect commercial property from fires, whereas having immediate medical care is seen as an extravagance.

It would very profitable to start charging commercial properties for fire protection, the same way we charge for medical care, but that's just unacceptable for the businesses that are used to getting a free ride on the taxpayer's dime.
ReactOS 4.8 released NT6+ support, Better kernel stability and NTFS and UI impro
Stephen Fry: Do we give AI fire? [video]
1. Taxes

Getting customers is easy for me (because I am a sales guy)
Too many projects, too much money but little time...

Some people who work for me are lazy.

Other than this, life is good :)
Very often this stuff is caused by developmental or shock trauma of some kind.

One way of describing it is this folks aren't in a contracted or defended state due to the current context of their lives.

Psychedelics (used responsibly) can help to face the emotions (and past experiences) that the psyche has been holding back and supressing (thus depression).

There are numerous access points to shift these patterns, but psychedelics and non-ordinary states work (like Breathwork) have proven to be very effective in my life and in the lives of many I know and work with.
When you say, "forget about it", regarding trying going solo with an idea, do you say that because the only hope for a chance at bringing and keeping the idea at viability is to simultaneously have 5,000 USD , liquid -- and to be, yourself, or close friends/co-founders with some kind of technologies Wunderkind? Like, the only hope at getting capital while staying organized, focused and adaptive is to have a healthy savings to dispose of?

I'm hoping there's still hope that a motivated and disciplined individual, today, can strive towards what might as morally well be their American (read: capitalist) birthright. I think it was someone at YC who stripped my self-defeating default to dismissal of the idea of becoming a lower middle class American owner when they wrote, "Build something users love, and spend less than you make. How hard is that?"
It becomes quite evident in studies like this, but nearly all social science related studies are based on the exact same pattern. For instance the emotional intelligence study, which has been repeatedly cited and been reasonably influential, was based on putting people into groups, having them do tasks such as [literally] writing a shopping list, and then showing that the groups that did the tasks most efficiently were not strictly composed of those that had the highest IQ. So therefore it was implied that individual merit alone does not determine results of groups, but rather some 'emotional intelligence' does.

It's absolutely atrocious logic since B is in no way implied from A. For instance to show this then you would need to, at the minimum, put the people that all individually do the best at e.g. writing a shopping list, into a group, and then compare them against people that individually do worse but score well on the [again literally] 'Reading the Eyes in the Mind' test that was used to measure 'emotional intelligence'. Of course that was not done, and I don't think it's unreasonable to speculate because we know what the result would be - and that's not publishable. Yet bad science paired with an astounding headline and you are suddenly good to go.

Yeah, a bit of a rant but it's incredibly disappointing how awful the social sciences have become. And that decline pairs ironically with a massive increase in the reporting of their results, which become ever more grand and increasingly clickbaity, in the media.
A Brief History of Chemical War
I saw this posted on Reddit and Facebook a while back and I can't really stand this whole "NOPE NOPE NOPE" culture we have where everything is judged by how icky it is.

And the top comments fight over who has the least tolerance for it.

I think it's a symptom of the broader topic of anti-intellectualism in our culture where reactions are more important than intrigue and exploration.

A video of a crab eating a bird might seem like a weird tipping point to have this moment but it's a video that I happened to see in four different places where the top comments were all the same mix of "well I'm never going near crabs again lol" and "nuke it from orbit lol" and "wish I hadn't seen this lol" and "I'll be sure to do my part to eat more crabs lol."
Turtle graphics all the way down.
Face it y'all, privacy is dead. Sure, GDPR and the current FB outrage will result in some new rules, legislation, etc. Perhaps we'll all have to opt-in for certain data tracking activities. Maybe the way our personal data flies around the internet will be a little less obfuscated. But we live in a digital world and it's very easy to track every packet of data we send and receive. And because we can do it, eventually we will do it. The new standards we setup may give us a false sense of control but, over time, apathy and convenience will lead us back to about where we're at now.
Can you name some countries that do this?
> Machine learning, the logic- and rule-based branch of AI supporting Predata....

That's a really embarrassing mistake.
"I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable -- except for having just jumped."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers
> The notion that 'working longer' is 'needed' as a consequence of anything besides a completely failed and derailed socio-economic model is absurd.

Yes and no. I used to have this same intuition but think that people today, even on the low bracket, have a better life than the previous generations mid-wealthy had. Think how much an iphone would be worth in 1950, and think how many people have it today. It is definitely a great measure of wealth. Look at the internet that has made entertainment virtually free: if you have an internet connection there is no shortage of content ever. And we still produce more content! Who works to produce more content if you could not watch all of youtube right now!

We will turn to idleness only when the benefits we get by further work are less than the value of it. When auto-piloted airplanes with auto-drilled oil and auto-cooks and auto-hotels will make everyone travel a lot more and work less, but maybe at that point we will want to work to get our seat to go to Mars, or the latest art exhibition, or the greatest meal, or better life for your kids.
I learned Morse many decades ago and still remember much of it, but if I was in that situation now I'd probably think of FM-encoded ASCII first... and while it might not be as "efficent" as Morse, I think ASCII is much easier to remember and only requires two states to transmit.
Yes, too much of it is going to pensions, for example.
In other news, you will be shocked to hear that major journals also don't accept photographs of proofs clearly worked out on the blackboard. Although, to be fair, I have also not tested this myself.
Oh, you're right, I forgot HTML! That is co-edited by someone from Bocoup too. So make it 5 out of 15.
Alex Schultz's "Growth" @ Startup School: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec06/
> If you work for an employer that uses a major payroll system, tax prep software can often directly import your paycheck information and for the most part you’re done.

The only tax preparers that do this charge quite a bit if your AGI is above a certain amount. The others make you do manual data entry. If you have a brokerage account with a lot of trades, it's over — you pretty much need to use a tax preparer that can import that information.

This is true even though the government already has that information from your employer and your brokerage. In GP's country, he doesn't have to do anything at all in these cases.
This might be true but it's not needed.

I'm looking for the documentary about the US economy and the silent industries that secretly prop it up.

Taxing people is work. To make an industry responsible allows both government to not invest and risk additional losses but allowing people to overpay gives them a surplus while allowing for those that make mistakes that cost the government to recoup in justice fees.

I remember the video having lawyers asked what the most profitable industry in America was, they all claimed the legal system when it was accounting.
Different experience here. I did one dive. Nice view from up there. Not very exciting. Falling out of the plane was good fun, felt a bit nuts. The fall was very pleasant. Opening the chute was fun. The canopy ride was boring and uncomfortable hanging in the harness. Saw the video of the guy who jumped before me, he was woohooing all the way.
its not more or less dishonest, they are the exact same numbers
Their success metric may just be reversion to the mean; since they started by selecting the people who had made the most calls, you would expect the number of calls to come from those specific people to fall in the coming years. Since there was also likely some underlying health condition, you would expect the between-year variance to be large. It might well be that their program has no effect whatsoever.
Where Boeings are born
May I ask what's SDM?
I watched a youtube talk with Thomas Metzinger recently. The interviewer asked if he meditated. His response was "yes" (for a significant number of years that I can't remember), "that's how you can tell if someone is serious about the study, and not just interested in an academic career". I found that comment really interesting.
I think a PhD is compulsory at that level
You are going to charge babies 6 grand to pay public pensions?
My point is that you can't blame companies for protecting their business. Their boards wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't.

The system where money translates into such disproportionate control over the law is broken. Two cultural aspects in America are also factors: 1. Corporations are in many aspects viewed as persons (e.g. they're afforded human rights such as freedom of speech), and 2. half of the voting population doesn't vote.
Is it available outside of iTunes?
Pentagon official says America must join artificial intelligence arms race
Any Erlang book recommendations?
> The government paying its debts and not committing wage theft is a public good.

Raising a tax on someone to pay the public benefit of another is also wage theft. Please remember the State doesnt have assets of its own, everything it has it takes from someone else. So if you find it reasonable to pay a special tax on minimum wage jobs to pay a 55-old retired man 70 grand a month of a benefit, you can volunteer your wage and your salary to achieve such a nice ideal.
> They seem dense and dry.

I consider that a feature. I loathe wasting my time by having to dig through layers of prose to get some fact.

But they are probably not suitable as a tutorial, they only make sense when you already know relational database basics and need info on pg-specifics.
List of Free Online Tools for Front-End Web Development
> They refuse to support IMAP push, instead saving push for the Gmail API

What are you talking about ? The IDLE command is completely supported and I'm using it in my mail client with no issues at all.
Do you have any other book suggestions?
My analogy (from a guy who grew up in restaurant and later ran hedge funds) is that it's not just the recipes that make a restaurant.

Any given recipe has a history behind it, an environment (ingredients available, staff expertise, equipment, fashion) in which it was popular, and a future that may or may not be good for it.

There's also all sorts of non-recipe things that matter. How is the restaurant decorated? Is it in the right location, serving clientele that like that kind of thing?

And so on. Like many other businesses, there isn't one central piece of business knowledge that determines success.
Talking to some people in San Francisco, it seems like there is high demand for electrical engineers with hardware experience at the moment. There's tons of programmers, but few hardware people. Check out Lemnos Labs in SF, they just raised some money and are focused on hardware startups.

I would guess $100k-150k salary depending on the company and your experience.
This is fun - http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
To further illustrate: On average that's about 44 calls per person, or a 911 call made by one of those 100 people every week or sometimes two, given that these numbers were over the course of a year.
Its a good one. Because you can see things going that way.
Very interesting read. Thank you for linking it. It has significantly altered my perception of the Citizens United issue. I see now that there's no simple way to balance campaign finance reform against freedom of speech.

Edit: Perhaps instead of focusing on campaign finance reform, we should focus on polling reform, and expanding the house? If we used a better polling system, e.g. candidate ranking, and increased the number of representatives, then it would be much more costly to buy a majority.
Note: of course I meant "Second Reality" in parent's comment, not Second Life.

Philip Rosedale's creation only came 10 years after "Second Reality" demo :)
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For me 2001 is the film equivalent of a moving, storied, Piet Mondrian painting. Each frame of the film is geometric story, each frame a geometry that evolves to the next.

One of my all time favorites. Just to watch~
First of all, thank you for all of your hard work. One thing I am curious about though is how you think you can match the "cohesiveness" of Mathematica. While I am not a big fan of Mathematica the language, there is something gained by a top down approach. The options all seem to have the same names, the display tools tend to compose with new functionality well, the symbolic parts integrate well with the numerical tooling. While the poly-sourcing approach of Sage can definitely excel in the features area (and definitely surpass it in more "esoteric" areas of algebra), I do think that the tools end up with a higher barrier to entry since it's much harder to police syntactic and dependency inconsistencies. I am trying to work out some of these problems of my own and was wondering how you're coping with it.
Holy crap! Who thought this was a good idea? Didn't no one object or at least raise questions when this was floated? I get paid hourly, and I can't charge a single hour more than 40 a week, without having to justify it.
Medical testing lab on a chip hardware manufacturing can be pretty lucrative until the sec shuts you down
I think of a Jupyter notebook as a REPL with superpowers. I can try code out in real-time and incrementally like a REPL, but when something breaks, the full history is right in front of me, so I can tweak something 10 lines ago and run the entire thing again like with an ordinary source file. It combines the best of both methods of programming.

Seen that way, sharability is just a nice bonus. Yeah, I'd never try to turn anything directly from a jupyter notebook into a serious way of sharing research results---but for a quick and dirty "here's what I did" on a blog or email or something, or to show students, it does the job.
Did they interview or contact you, then reject you? What was it all like?
Good thing you commented this. I was genuinely worried.
Anything by Doug Hofstadter

* Analogies are the core of thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORB92BU7zk

* Analogy as the Core of Cognition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk

If you haven't read Godel, Escher & Bach, go read it now. Will change your thinking.
That's what autocrypt (https://autocrypt.org/) is going to solve. Automatic opportunistic encryption using existing standards.
Panic[1] was awesome too. It launched a bit earlier than Second Reality, but also a classic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLSmalQyZBU
> I hate waking up early.

I've never seen a school start earlier than 8:15am.
When I was younger, I programmed predominantly in Java and types were infuriating to me.

Then I found ruby and loved how simple it was to not worry about a type system.

Then I found out how infuriating it was to not have types.

Now I’m older and appreciate having types.

Cool story, bro.

Crystal looks cool!
I have been meditating for maybe 6 months now but just for between 10 and 45 minutes a day (and not consistently). I I haven't come close to the level of depth described in the article. I guess its possible but the intensity of such a course must help.
plus some videos :

- [5 min video] @ethcc lightning talk link : https://youtu.be/J_hlQtNtRyA?t=9m20s

- [1 min video] How it works : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ap21p5ai4o
> If you earned salary from one employer and used only a few standard deductions, then filing US taxes should be easy as well.

And it is. Doing your taxes by hand on paper forms in that scenario would only take about 15 minutes.
Depending on what kind of thing you want, I played with this a few years ago and really liked it: https://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/index.html
The original title does not give information on the total number of people, only the 100.
May I ask what's MUMPS , KDB?
Banks pay HW engineers a lot. I know a dude at JPMC (nyc) who is clearing 450k doing HW (dc/priv cloud) design. I wouldn't be surprised if folks at somewhere like two sigma make around the same.
Cool, would you like give me your email? This is mine aW0uamFkZXlkaUBnbWFpbC5jb20=
I did not get contact or interview. In light of the new information by the parent I can only assume that I was "sorted".
I am a founder of $25M company.

$150B must be coming with more BS but more benefits.

If you are in a mood to relax, ofc $150B company.

If you want total control, $10M sounds more fun.
Viruses are fundamentally smaller than bacteria, so they’re not really competitors in the zero-sum sense.

Saying they are in an existential battle is like saying birds and insects are in an existential battle. They might kill each other and occupy the same physical space, but one can’t really replace the other in the fitness landscape.
> hardware progress is slowing down quickly)
I would be interested to know more about this. I haven't heard yet that the progress of GPUs cores for example is declining quickly ...
Off topic a bit... what about those pie charts that are missing the middle. Are they proportional?
Edit: seem to be called donut charts.
Pretty amazing that the crab is smart enough to go for the wings first.
I read that and its good. The meditation subreddit say that "The Mind Illuminated" is similar but better (I haven't read it yet).
I love this quote: "then you have made a desert and called it peace"

Originally from Tacitus: "To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
As someone who commutes via bike to work, this terrifies me.