skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's what I am trying to say: I don't see anything worth it for me to pursue. Which is why I am curious what it is that you think is so important that you think it's worth pursuing, because I see nothing of the sort.

> If you're getting paid, you're likely doing something important. People do tend to like to hold on to their money.

No, just no. You are committing the error of putting too much faith in the ability of the economic system to capture value. The economic system does not capture value well. All it does is measure scarcity vs desire.

Online casino developers are basically doing harmful work and can be paid quite well.

Social workers, paramedics, etc., and other groups of people doing legitimately important work are paid little, and mothers are paid none.

According to the current economic system of value, oxygen is worthless, as well.

I thought this was honestly obvious and I'm alarmed at your implication that the system's conception of value can be at all used to measure importance. The system surely measures something, but it isn't that.
Perhaps this is stating the obvious, but I don't think there's universal agreement on what constitutes "social progress".
Do you think the recent Uber crash will hurt their chances?
Some situations are not hard, and some are. I wouldn't make a generalization like that.
Of course there’s a lot of
nuance there. But certainly we can all agree on two things:

1. YC has not had good returns because it has only had one IPO (apparently selling Twitch and Cruise for $1B each don’t count as a win?)

2. While it’s difficult to know what the true value of YC companies is, the fact that there are nearly 100 companies valued at $100m+ is not just a “vanity metric.” Especially st the later stages of more mature companies there are real dollars trading hands and there’s more liquidity available on secondary markets.
“And the Creuziger family, with 420 acres the largest landowner in the Foxconn area, has turned down the village’s $50,000 an acre offer for open land.”

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018/02/20/emi...
As a huge fan of 2001, “somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring” is a totally valid critique of the movie.

Its contemporaneous success at the time was tied to the rise of the late 1960s counterculture, which was somewhat of a lucky break.

As an asde, I've always loved the rotation-match space docking sequence: https://twitter.com/Doomlaser/status/981172150001373184 — that is the kind of engineering choreography that SpaceX's recent synchronized double rocket landing reminded me of.

And one of my early creative career highlights was convincing everyone at Tapulous to give me the go ahead to do a 7 and a half minute tribute to the 2001 stargate sequence as the final boss in Tap Tap Dance, set to Phantom Pt. II by Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JLnyHT7IU#t=26s
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain that and including all the links.

I've had issues in the past with atomic transactions in Django still appearing to have race conditions and I think this explains why. Really appreciate it.
The pension and health concessions were never cheap to give away. Someone just had the brilliant idea that since voters aren't able to spend time analyzing and verifying the numbers, and there are no laws regarding how to calculate them, that you can just understate the costs and let the future deal with it.
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In my conceptualization, money is not the thing that is borrowed. Money is just the measuring stick. What's actually borrowed is the stuff bought with the money. And that stuff is made in the past or present, not the future.

For example, imagine I take a loan to buy a house. The people who built the house invested their labor with the expectation of future payment. Or if they spent their wages, then the firm that fronted their wages invested labor into building the firm with the expectation of future payment.

Generally, if one borrows, someone else must loan. This means that if you are consuming before producing, then at some point in the economic chain, there is someone who has produced but not yet consumed.

It is in this sense that I conceptualize borrowing as coming from the past.

This notion is reflected in the GDP equation of a closed economy: GDP = C + I. Any consumption over production must be balanced by investment, which is itself past production.

Of course, if we are to conceptualize literally, then borrowers do not borrow from either the future or the past. They borrow from banks.
I agree with your post because Elixir has brought so much beyond syntax to the BEAM such as tool aesthetics and community building. However, Elixir does not compile to BEAM bytecode directly. The compiler emits Erlang terms first which are then compiled to bytecode.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#History_i...
It used to be $20k for 7%, now it’s basically $120k for 7% with pro rats rights (that’s again a simplification, but it’s close enough for this conversation).

I agree that n companies valued at over x isn’t a great metric, except that the number is so huge and the valuation so high that a single company could return the entire amount YC has invested, and what we’re debating is if YC are “kingmakers.” By nearly any possible measure they are.
You can also get a chromecast audio for $35 and even connect it with optical. Great way to get support for spotify and multiple other services.
From a development perspective, native apps are faster and cheaper to build and maintain, as well as more up to date. Probably the only reason to do a web app is so you can have a team with only one core skill.
According to FB, it takes 90 days for an account to actually be deleted. If you 'delete' your account and then login before the 90 day period has passed your account is just reinstated. I'd love to see what percentage of these users stay off of FB long enough for their accounts to actually get removed.
Any reason you used sass over postcss?
It means I had shares that I could sell a ton a moments notice on a secondary market, and so far as I could tell the market for those shares was enormous. I’d guess anyone, including VCs and founders, at the top 50 or so YC companies could sell their shares at any time to a large number of willing buyers, given the ability to do so. Therefore I’d argue that the value of those shares is far different from a “vanity metric.”
Anytime that the main proficiency of this large organization is not data center management. Which is most of the time.
When it comes to doing my taxes, $10 or $20 isn’t enough of a deterrent for me to instead opt for a “set of tax forms that are very likely filled in with the correct answers.”
I fully share the feeling that they were describing of Kubrick where he couldn't "see" things described verbally. For instance I have the hardest time picturing a word spelled out loud to me.

Also, a recent discussion here on Kubrick and Clarke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781142
Blighted? Give me a break.

They should buy nearby land and relocate the actual houses if families want to keep their house.
The median annual cash compensation for a teacher in my kid's public high school district in Illinois is six figures.

I know that's not true of teachers in other states; Oklahoma teachers look like they're getting shafted.

But in Illinois, where we have a public pension crisis, I don't have trouble coming up with evidence that public sector employees did not make cash comp sacrifices for their defined-benefit pensions.
People do these things sometimes. “Into the Wild” is really a film about a complete buffoon who dies because he doesn’t take a topographical map.
When is the government ever not tightening its belt? It's ridiculous that we can pay for bombs but not pensions. Just tax the rich some more. The debt never matters when it comes to killing but always matters when it comes to salving.
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They have consistently pumped out many of the top companies in Silicon Valley for over 10 years now. Most of the companies are newer, as always, and I don’t think YC would claim they can pick any random company and make them successful, but if YC isn’t a “kingmaker” then there’s no such thing in Silicon Valley.
https://medium.com/@fxn/how-does-elixir-compile-execute-code...

Elixir creates an AST which is transformed into Erlang Abstract Format (http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/absform.html) which is then compiled into Erlang bytecode by Erlang compiler.

Erlang VM's bytecode is largely undocumented (except for third-party attempts like http://erlangonxen.org/more/beam and http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/). So all languages on the Erlang VM either create and compile Erlang Abstract Format or transpile to Core Erlang (https://8thlight.com/blog/kofi-gumbs/2017/05/02/core-erlang....)
In my country most people have Whatsapp group chats with their friends. Usually more than one group for your different social circles. In my opinion it doesnt work that great. I find that most groups have people with too much time on their hands so when I end up having 100+ messages on the group and I just give up trying to catch up.
There are lot of things that government does not know e.g., how much I donated to Goodwill or other charities, or if I have multiple homes with mortgages , then which one is my primary residence.

We can argue that the tax code should be simpler but that's a different argument.
It's not really that simple. My parents tried it this way with me and my bothers, and I didn't care about reading until years after they stopped. One of my brothers also started reading on his own several years after me. What we both needed was to find a topic and genre that touched on other interests we already had.
How's your stand-up career going?
I'm not mentioning age anywhere in my post?

I don't recall starting school at 5, I think it was later than that, but it wasn't in the US. In the first grade already if I didn't know how to read prior, I'd be in huge trouble. Most students were actively struggling to read and continued to struggle for 2 more grades. If you are not ready to read at 5 before school, why would you be ready to read at 5 in school? Why would teaching someone to read 3 months prior would be so much more horrible than waiting for them to hit the school system and suffer in there instead? If that's the argument, school should just start later.

I came into the US school system late but people were seriously struggling with reading in 6th grade, as well. People for whom English was their native language. I am not really seeing that parental interference is not needed.

> Consensus is building that forcing kids to learn to read before they are read(y)

This is a tautology. I'm not sure what is the magical age at which children are "ready" to read, but I am very sure that people should be able to comfortably read by grade 6, and I'm similarly very sure that the educational system alone won't accomplish that.
And as a huge tube amplifier geek I'd like to point out you can in fact still buy sovtek tubes! https://www.tubedepot.com/t/brands/sovtek?gclid=Cj0KCQjwzcbW...
Fernando, the creator of Ipython and ultimately what morphed into Jupyter is missing from your list. That dude is an inspiration.
Don't overthink it, this is China. There is no protection of free speech, quite the contrary, a lot worse is done on a daily basis by that government than yet another form of social media censorship.
By that logic adblock, readable mode, applying your own css and making the text bigger with cmd-+ is 'copyright' infringement since every modification is modifying some copy in memory.
do you want to use universal api or want to create a universal api?
I knew a guy with this. I also have a friend who looks rather like me.

One day we both sat down in class next to the face blind kid. Face blind kid went out to the bathroom. lookalike and I swapped seats and exterior clothes (jacket, watch etc). Hilarity ensues.
Yeah, I spent all but 2 years 1998-2011 doing same. FATCA just keeps making it worse.
The Navy basically admitted that the littoral combat ship is a failure
Yeah, they came up with the "DeWitt Clause" and it has made its way into other database EULAs as well. Benchmarks aren't everything though, and they do have their limitations anyway.
Make it one that uses AI to improve diction and displays speech to text subtitles (with choice of a second subtitle in another language) on your cell phone or another display of your choosing, and imagine the improvement in communication and language learning.
It was found that 90 percent of the small businesses fail within one year.

http://smb-trends.com/2011/02/smb-failure-rate-us/

Out of 1280 YC companies, only 139 are listed as dead. Without pulling out a calculator to determine an exact figure, that roughly flips that figure from 90% failure rate to a near 90% success rate. And actually it is worse than that because the 90% failure rate is in the first year and the near 90% success rate for YC is an "all time" figure for the history of YC.

http://yclist.com
I had a girlfriend who was faceblind. She had to explain this to me once, as she walked right by me in a library we were meeting at, as I had cut and dyed my hair.

She had some autoimmune diseases and believed/had read up that her face blindness was likely an effect of the chronic pain she dealt with.
Most likely targeting his own Lisp implementation:
https://github.com/timonoko/nokolisp
You can't do most blue collar jobs at 50, much less 65. Shoveling asphalt, laying track, climbing on top or under heavy machinery, or chasing criminals is backbreaking work. The bodies of these people are permanently worn out by the time they hit 55.

Some are promoted into management, but most org charts are naturally pyramids, so there aren't enough of those jobs for everyone. So what to do with someone who is now too disabled for another blue collar job and is not a "competitive candidate" for a white collar job?
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I'm not a fan of the clickbait title here. It trivializes depression.

I think the only cure for depression is death. Too morbid?

You manage depression with behavior and therapy. You can attempt to treat some of the symptoms with drugs. You can break out of a rut by trying new things. But curing depression... like once and for all? That's not realistic.

"Sky diving helped me get out of a depressive episode," or "Skydiving helped me stave off having depressive episodes..." would be more accurate.
hard to tell exactly what you’re doing from mobile but looos interesting and i’ll look more later - here’s mine let’s collaborate http://www.hyperfiddle.net
Hardware Geeks like me were enthralled.
MGM was lost.
Charles Lippincott reverted the sales pitch to an inference that a really good LSD experience would come with your movie ticket, and 2001 took off.
George Lucas hired Charley when he missed the Christmas 1976 release date, paid him by selling all the T-shirt rights for 100K.
Like 'The Stunt Man', 'One From The Heart', 'The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots', 'Angel and the Badman' et al, sometimes fans have to pry the good stuff from the grey suits.

Do Not lick your ticket.

P.S. I didn't get to read the WSJ screed, i'm outside their club:(
the argument is that police work is more physically demanding and stressful, there's not too many desk jobs.

that said the benefits in some states are ludicrous, cops spike their payout the last few years and retire with $200k pensions and healthcare for life at 50, then move on to your 2nd careers. In the private sector even if you max out your 401k you'd never come close to that sort of retirement.
Messages from A to B are surely stored in the accounts of both A and B (Or more accurately probably stored in a side table referenced from both accounts). Anyway - I really doubt deleting a single account will delete the messages.
iOS 11 simply doesn't offer that many more features to justify its massive power drain compared to iOS 10. My 6 was perfectly fine before I got an iWatch that forced me into Apple's game. If the iPhone 11 doesn't have anything to write home about, I think I may finally switch after having every single iphone from 1-6
MyBinder is great. As well as cocalc and sagemath. There's also https://notebooks.azure.com which is a free hosting of Jupyter notebooks. You get a linux/docker container w a Terminal, Anaconda, etc.

Check out jakevp's book for example:

https://notebooks.azure.com/jakevdp/libraries/PythonDataScie...

Clone to run.

Also try Jupyter Lab (experimental) - closer to an IDE than plain notebooks. right click on a Library (repo) and select Open in Jupyter Lab.

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sounds like NASA and governmental space programs. I mean it feels like the cost and complexity of, for example, flying to Moon has been doubling each decade or so since the original Apollo days and have reached today the levels of practical impossibility. (And that state of things set the stage for Musk).
The data is here: https://gov.oregonlive.com/pers/ (you can download a CSV).

There are 2,032 people making over $100,000 per year. The sum of their pensions is $252,144,041.04 per year. If each were capped at $100,000 per year that would be $203,200,000 per year, so a potential savings of $48,944,041.04
Ahem, the offer that couldn't be refused took place before the horse incident.
Other people have given actual answers, so I'll go ahead and give the non-answer of... use psql instead!

Like Dimitri Fontaine says early in the Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development book mentioned elsewhere in this thread, psql is really powerful. From the \d meta commands to inspect anything and everything in the database, to the variable substitution, nothing beats editing sql in your preferred editor and hitting \i my_query.sql in psql to run it. You can also nest additional \i my_other_query.sql commands inside the files you run with \i, which I've found really useful for repeatedly dropping / installing test tables / views, or setting up test data, before running the query I'm actually interested in. Take the time to customize it by adding a few lines to your .psqlrc file, like \x auto, and \timing and it becomes very usable very quickly.

I used psql for a number of years, then joined a new company where DataGrip was the norm. I gave DataGrip an honest try to see what I might be missing from a GUI SQL client. After a year of using it exclusively, I slowly found myself migrating back to psql and can honestly say I don't miss anything.

But it's also possible I just haven't tried the right GUI client yet. Anyway, I hope you find the PostgreSQL client that works for you!
It might be that airborne transport imposes barriers that smallpox didn't evolve to meet. Perhaps something like resistance to degradation by UV in sunlight.

If so, maybe the apparently large cohort of viruses that do survive airborne dispersal is only a small fraction of the actual virus inventory on our planet.
Cool. I scored 97% on the second one, and 14 on the first one.

I did cheat a little bit on the first one by looking up their names on IMDB, because I can usually better remember which movie they were in and what role they played, than the name of the actor.
My wife picked her state job in large because of the retirement options and it being a 9-5 job.

Her degree is at a higher level, she's a civil engineer and with a professional license on top; as a tech person,I make about 50% more.

If she went to a private company, that actually paid women the same as men, we would make almost the same. Her choice was to bet on the state after having been exploited in the private sector and with no recourse.
I've been working through your exercises and they helped a lot! Thanks so much for your work!
I don't get it. So veganism is supposed to prevent this from happening how ? It happened. If your veganism was an attempt at preventing antibiotics resistance, it completely failed.

And if the message is "it happened but I'm not to blame (and, implicitly, YOU are)" then all I'm going to say is ... I hope you enjoy it, because there is nothing that matters less. You're like a WWI soldier pointing out that he never shot any Austrian duke, as if that will stop a single bullet.
It had better be a lot better technology, since we have permanently reduced Earth's carrying capacity and ruined the climate.
How long has it taken the pyramids to decay to their current status?
tesla's system is lane following which has a radar that knows when the cars in front of you slow down or speed up. that's pretty much it. it's not an autonomous car in general. mine is very reliable for cruise control adjustment, good but not awesome for lane detection (falls down in bad rain for example, works well in clear weather). it tells you this, via display, it knows if its working. I can't understand these fools who thinks its some super advanced system. it really does little more than follow lanes and adjust speed based on detection of cars in front.
yes, essentially. I have no idea why people idolize McCandless. The wilderness is unforgiving and doesn't give a fuck about you...
To generalize, all news is anecdotes and never data and its all manipulating scare mongering (except fivethrityeight and perhaps the economist).

Problem is with the human wetware. People want to read a story.
That's called being in the majority of the entire human race.
People tend to underestimate the extent of Mathematica's libraries. Take for example process control [1]. Not only does Mathematica have a pretty thorough set of functions for solving process control problems, it works with both linear and non-linear systems, and can find symbolic solutions. When I search for python equivalents, I find abandoned or incomplete-looking projects that are much more limited in scope (e.g. linear systems only) and trying to just provide some of Matlab's functionality (i.e. no symbolic analysis)

[1] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/ControlSystems....
Navicat is especially useful if you need to migrate from one database software to some other.
It's not, but for most people it may not matter. Mathematica seems to have a much larger set of integrals, differential equations, special functions, etc. that it can recognize. So as much as I dislike the language itself, I do keep Mathematica installed because in many cases SymPy cannot handle the transformation.

On the other hand, open source tools are catching up. Part of the SymPy project is SymEngine which is a reconstruction in C++. SymEngine is not as feature-filled as SymPy yet, but it flies. It's much faster than SymPy, and also Mathematica. SymEngine.jl works very well since by using the symbolic types in side of Julia you get both the speed (via function specialization) while getting a lot of free features through generic code. For example, Julia code is generic over number types, so if you call inv on a matrix of SymEngine symbols the built-in Base version will compile a fast version for SymEngine symbols and use it. So you have all of Julia's Base available along with Julia packages (yeah, you can put them in a neural net if you wanted to). So SymEngine.jl is the only thing that works when I need that speed, but I do have to keep Mathematica installed for its special handling of specific equations.

And I hate to say it but... the Mathematica notebook is really pretty. You put the exponents up, the fractions on top of each other...