skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but sometimes it's best to take multiple simultaneous approaches when solving a problem, and sometimes the root of a problem is hard enough to solve that other approaches end up being more effective, at least in the short term. Means restriction is well-studied and does reduce suicide rates.

There was a point in my life where I chose to die, and the reason I'm alive right now is because I didn't have immediate access to lethal means. Every extra minute that it takes to figure out how to kill yourself is another minute of opportunity to change your mind, and that's what saved me. We absolutely should be focusing on mental health, but means restriction (particularly gun control in the US) is also an important thing for people to understand and consider.
I’ve used them on prem and hosted. For on prem, definitely. It’s like any other big install of software (sql server cluster, oracle financials). All on site, no data out. Brought in 3rd party data, shared no data out.

Cloud same, but they host and promise not to do anything. Like any other enterprise cloud product.

The only data they gave us was either open sets like weather or census or stuff anyone can buy like Quintiles. So there was no “magic data set” we could mix in or something.
I just don't see Go ever becoming a good language for numerical computing. There was such a push with implementing [multidimensional arrays in Go](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6282) but it looks like it's been shot down more than once.

When using Python and R interactively, the syntactic sugar and functions that allow for rapid analysis (subsetting, indexing, merging data objects etc etc) more than make up for the slowness of the language. If someone wanted to implement that workflow in Go for repeated analysis of very large datasets, I doubt they would need it to be interactive.

But it looks like Julia might become the goto numerical language that is compiled and fast.
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I disagree, and the reason Is that the word prescription is a legal and medical jargon term with specific meanings and ethical requirements.

However an opinion is not. Thus building a moral barrier there.

Some other opinions that many doctors have: everyone should drink more water. Everyone should exercise. Many people will get this advice/opinions without a prescription for such.
These are not really grants.
Well, it _really_ ought to link to some neutral third party that just administrates stuff, as if the audit repository belonged to Deloitte that lets them take things back afterwards which is also bad.

However there might well not be such a third party for the Wild West of cryptocurrency. "Hooray" ? Maybe someone will build one with blockchain :(
Both masters and PhD students attend grad school to get their degree, so this isn't really disambiguating.
Interestingly, from https://www.iconomi.net/audit/201804

> * Reserves were verified by Deloitte. This number includes funds locked in a Parity multi-sig wallet containing $42,773,123.61 USD in value. ICONOMI is solvent even if the locked funds are not included in the reserves.

They basically are missing $42m because it's stuck in a Parity multi-sig wallet. Parity multi-sig wallets no longer work. They're apparently solvent anyway so it's no big deal, but I'm surprised that information is relegated to a tiny footnote.
Just curious, what companies (or kinds of companies) are betting on Scala nowadays? It seems that the people wanting "better Java" all decided they like Kotlin, and the functional programming people now gravitate more towards either F# (for .NET ecosystem) or OCaml/Reason (for the more unixy world). And the academic/research/learning crowd seems to like Haskell more.

Who's still in Scala boat? Are Google or Fb or other big cos known to give back to open-source growing any Scala codebases now?
There's a difference between the measurement "how much homework a student have" and the measurement "how much parents help with children's homework". The article is about the latter, while the GP discusses the former. I'm pretty sure Finnish students have homework.

I also think the "poorer countries" is a red herring (e.g. Singapore scores quite highly on the list), I think it's more about cultural differences and competition about a much more limited number of places for higher education.

My own (very limited) experience with the education systems in several Asian countries is that the focus is more on feeding students facts. Whereas the education in the Nordic countries generally focus more on learning how to solve problems, either by yourself or in groups.
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Can you give indicators of how good you are? Just to help people understand what ‘good’ and sill getting 1M+ actually means
Well, all taxation can be considered unreasonable. It's true that the system doesn't work similarly for cryptocurrencies and stock, but that's no reason not to pay your taxes. It's not like the system came as a surprise to the people who sold crypto in 2017.

My personal experience is that most Finns whine about taxes, yet they also complain if healthcare and infrastructure and education isn't perfect and completely free. I feel that as a smart responsible adult it's better to be happy that I have income to pay taxes for, and be grateful of everything the taxes pay for. If I didn't like the way things are done in Finland, I'm free to move elsewhere (or take up politics, get elected and change everything the way I like it).
I'm skeptical of this, and went looking for primary sources. The Finnish tax authority website seems to have a different example:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=y&prev... (from https://www.vero.fi/syventavat-vero-ohjeet/ohje-hakusivu/484... )

"Example 1: One person has in the past bought 1,000 bitcoins for 500 euros, ie one Bitcoin cost EUR 0.5. He later bought more 500 bitcoins for 500 euros, which means that one euro received one bitcoin at that time. After purchasing, he holds 1 500 bitcoins.

He sells 1 200 bitcoin at a time when one Bitcoin costs 1.5 euros. The sale of virtual currency realizes the taxation of the change in value, giving him a taxable income of EUR 1 800 - (EUR 500 + EUR 200) = 1,100 EUR. After the transaction, a person still has 300 bitcoins purchased for 300 euros. "

"Example 2: One person has in the past bought 1000 bitcoins, with one euro receiving two bitcoins. One Bitcoin cost EUR 0.5. After acquiring, he has owned 2,000 bitcoins.

He buys goods at a total of 1,000 bitcoins at a time when bitcoins cost ten euros per piece. He therefore purchases goods worth a total of EUR 10,000.

The acquisition of goods realizes the taxation of the change in the value of a virtual currency, giving him taxable income in this case as a capital income of EUR 10,000 - EUR 500 = EUR 9,500.

After purchasing the shop, there were still 1,000 bitcoins remaining for the purchase price of 500 euros. "

etc. There's another example which shows making a loss is not a taxable event.
> The 97% white men stat is easy to explain: I imagine it difficult to really prove yourself against implicit bias in the humanities.

Or an even better explanation which also explains STEM disparities: men tend to like subjects that deal with things, women tend to like subjects that deal with people (things vs. people is well studied gendered phenomenon). Notice how she seems to spend a lot of time talking about how boring, unimportant and disconnected her topic is from the real world...
The fact that there was a need for the left-pad module is pretty telling on how comprehensive the stdlib in js is.
Yes, this exactly. Your kids’ education is the way out of poverty. In some families, one child with a decent job will provide a lifeline for the whole family.

Even if the system is broken, even if the quality of education is bad, you have to play along because private education is too expensive.
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Extreme economic incentives perpetuate odd socio-economic behaviour. Look at the Japanese greying population renting everything from fake family to a complete fake wedding with the whole 9 yards[1](Yes Virginia there is a Netflix documentary on it as well[2]).

But enough about Japan. The dangers to India are very real.

- 1 million people entering the workforce every month due to demographics.

- 50% population engaged in agriculture providing 14% of the GDP.

- Difficult labor laws, swamped Judicial system makes for only technology intensive industries that employ fewer people.

It is a unique experiment in the history of Democracies where ~600 Million people need to be lifted out of poverty and into sustainable jobs. This has not been done before.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/paying-fo...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B06Y1JVLD4
Ha, I think that argument is made by people who don't have kids (with homework). It's not leisure for me at all. While I worry about being branded a terrible father for this comment, I will admit that I am a terrible teacher. I have no patience for it.

My kids mess around, constantly want breaks ("Well I've written a line! time for a 10 minute break!"), waste hours doing shit that should take them minutes... When they start "accidentally" dropping their pencils on the floor because they'd rather be faffing around picking it up than working, I often just lose my temper. Man, I'm getting slightly pissed off just thinking about it now! xD

There are brief moments of joy/relief where you can see they've grasped a concept or improved and you can be proud of 'em. But most of the time it is a frustrating experience, slow going, and a slog to get them to do anything. The worst of learning, with the worst of kids messing around, with a massive feeling of wasting everone's time.
Afaik ALL the cola extracts/syrups/starters used by smaller and international soda bottle plants, and chains like macdonals still get their concentrated "Coca-Cola" branded syrups that include the extract from the US.
It looks worse than that. In figure 1 of the paper[1] they only make a comparison between Bajau and Saluan populations. They show the "enlarged spleens" have volume of ~200 cm^3.

However, if you look at humans overall, apparently even these "enlarged spleens" are much smaller than the average spleen:

>"The mean splenic dimensions were ... 333.6 ± 116.1 cm2 in volume."
https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/ajr.184.1.01840045

[1] http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2818%2930386-6

EDIT:

They write:

>"We made ultrasound measurements in two planes such that we were able to calculate spleen volumes according to the methodology outlined in Yetter et al. (2003)"[1]

So lets look at Yetter 2003 for their spleen volumes, in table 2 it shows they are >500 cm^3 on average:
https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/ajr.181.6.1811615

So it looks like these "super spleen divers" actually have relatively small spleens...
Very cool project.

I wonder if compressed sensing would be useful here. In the paper they describe this custom (and seemingly ad-hoc) video compression algorithm that is suitable for the low-power device. Basically, the camera averages blocks of pixels into "super pixels" all in the analog domain, sends these super pixels over the wireless link, and then the receiver can request the individual pixels of any super pixel that seems like it might have changed since the last frame. But with compressed sensing, can't all of this be done by sending random linear combinations of all pixel values (like the single pixel camera)? It seems like then you can avoid the bi-directional link and also get rate adaptation for free.
> Do you have something to back that up? This to me reads like you imply that Elasticsearch does not work and scale.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/resiliency/cur...

https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch

https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-...

The statement was blunt but the reputation is not exactly unearned. These problems become worse proportional to scale.
>>The ancestor who could dive better had more children? Could feed his family better?

I think so too. Also the deep diver got the most beautiful /youngest /healthiest bride who would in turn bear healthier children. Rinse, repeat, with the offspring who inherited same genes. Over 1000 years of the same, the population changes.
An instance of "ignorance is bliss": people would rather see transfers of resources from themselves to billionaires through corporate welfare (often advocating for it in hopes of a better local economy) and special interest lobbying than direct, documented and smaller cash transfers.
Yes, if it hurts it's dangerous. But you can equalize the pressure to avoid it. Many methods, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_clearing
A tip is to equalize very often on the way down, even before you feel it. When you feel it, your tubes are shut closed from the pressure so it's too late. Valsave is the easiest to learn (pinch your nose and blow)

No, no bends. Unless you have been diving scuba earlier the same day. As you don't breathe deep down, only bring air from the surface in your longs, it won't happen.

What you should be worried about is shallow water blackout when ascending. So never hyperventilate, never push your limits, and never dive alone. Limits to breath holding should be pushed on land instead.
Good point, but this is the risk for every cloud hosted software. So every AWS and azure product has this suspicion that’s impossible or extremely difficult to remove.

If you’re really paranoid, then all non-OSS software.

So again, why is Palantir more worrisome than Salesforce?
What is really nasty is the fact that there is a huge demand for phd students as they drive research forward. So they deduce there will be demand once they graduate, which is not the case.
> Over the past 18 months, the nation’s fingerprints have appeared in an increasing number of cyberattacks, ...

Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. No proof, no evidence, no nothing. This whole article is propaganda.

Does anyone really believe that a nation where 99% of people shit in simple holes in the ground could build a competitive cyber army? They lease their internet connections from China. Everything appearing to come from NK could just be China.

Start providing evidence and start doing your job WSJ. Stuff like this will just lead to people hating NK for no reason and enable the Trump administration to go to war with them.
If you provide the billionaire with food stamps, but tax them at 10% of their net worth (which would reduce them to a mere millionaire in ≈65 years), I'm not sure whether anyone would complain about the food stamps.
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I think there is a fleeting sweet spot where your pretty good at it, but not so good it's become routine.

But, I think it varies by person. Some people are happy at factories, others ...
Why not to have a 1 hour technical conversation and figure out if the person knows what you are talking about? Talk about data structures/algorithms/design patterns/OOP 10 minutes for each, plus language specific points if you want and it should be enough.
> Because of my position I can't say much...

Of course you can. Maybe not at work, "on the record", but if there's a social gathering, you might, say, offer your view in a frank conversation about their future prospects.
Timing sometimes matters a whole lot.
In academia though?
Suspected mastermind behind the ‘big Bitcoin heist’ escapes prison
That is the same in all countries, everyone wants to pay less taxes and get everything for free.
Creating a quiz model using BackboneJS?
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That is hilarious. More info on Parity multi-sig wallets available here: https://www.dasp.co/#item-2
Thanks I think I knew .. none of them. :)
Great news! Kind of confused about scala2 and 3 sharing the same standard library. I thought that was being redesigned.
But that’s using the data that DHS, or FBI, or CMS has already. It’s not using some Facebook-sleazy data source. It’s not data reuse, but algorithm reuse. And algorithm is a stretch as it’s like teaching people how to use graph databases.
I'm pretty happy about Ryzen + architecture. They have at least proven that they can iterate on their existing architecture and work on a 12nm die. I was an early adopter of Ryzen and was happy to get my 1800x running stable with all cores at 4GHz. The price to performance ratio of Ryzen is great for almost all workloads.

While this article doesn't mean too much for real world applications. It does show that AMD is really competing with Intel. I agree that if Epyc can penetrate the server market (which I think it can), then it's really going to start an innovation war between Intel and AMD which is going to be good for the consumer.
Scala is used pretty heavily in the big data world, particularly if you are working with Spark.
Haha, same in croatia (and other ex-yu countries), and there's plenty of infrastructure problems as a result. Just look at these 'favelas' in my town.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.5222778,16.4766439,3a,75y,23...

Or this guy in Bosnia that built a two-story house on top of a residential building.

https://www.fokus.ba/vijesti/bih/kako-je-safet-na-zgradi-u-z...

Ah, it's the Balkans after all.
What does "Motte and bailey" mean in this context?

I looked it up[1] and it's about defensive architecture in 10th-century castles. How does that fit in a "mental toolkit across almost every subject"?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle
Americans think 100 years is a long time; and Europeans think 100 kilometers is a long distance.

(As an Australian - we completely fall on the American side of that remark)
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Ha! Since when has that ever stopped anyone?
Its fascinating process where if you're a hot new language you attract a lot of people that like shiny new things. When the next hot new language comes along and those people move on - have you attracted enough of the secondary wave to keep alive? Its going to be interesting to watch Scala adoption in the next few years.
The shared library we are talking about is the upcoming 2.13 library, which has the new collections design. We currently link against the 2.12 library but will switch to 2.13 once that comes out.
The problem with extracting heat from exhaust pipes has never been conversion efficiency but weight. To harvest a useful amount of heat from a combustion engine requires lots of pipe, (surface area) which impacts engine performance. It might work in a fixed power station where weight/size isn't an issue, but you aren't going to see them on a motorcycle exhaust.
Jupyter serves a different purpose than IDEs and text editors. The main use cases are experimentation and presentation.

If you want to try a library it can be more flexible than a REPL and more interactive than a program in its own file.

Jupyter is also used to produce documents that mix code, prose and visualizations. A typical use case is to write a small amount of code that processes some data and produce a chart, providing explanation formatted in Markdown along the way. These documents can be exported in a variety of formats, including printable documents, presentation slides and blog posts. There's a very vibrant and high-quality ecosystem of projects developed around Jupyter which ranges from making interactive documents to running distributed notebook servers.

In general you wouldn't develop a full software project in Jupyter.

Note that Jupyter is not the only project that provides this type of notebook interface. You'll also find Zeppelin coming from the Java community, Observable for JavaScript and the very powerful Nextjournal SasS product.
Swipe-out in Backbonejs without jQuery?
I'm pretty sure the actual audit stamp isn't a piece of clipart and the Deloitte logo reproduced in an off-brand colour with what looks like a subtly different or inaccurately shrunk font (check the D, o and i as well as the horrible kerning)...

And that Deloitte would be delighted to use the word "blockchain" in a press release if they'd actually conducted the audit.

Impressed with what appears to be an unusually flagrant lie.
It reminds me of all the 'Humanity started farming and it allowed people to specialize'.

Also, I imagine that those skills allow you to talk to the outside world without any old people knowing whats going on.
> The example I like to give is that we knew well ahead of time that Tesla would miss on the Model 3 because we knew every vehicle they were selling by model, year, configuration, date and price with <99% accuracy.

Is the way in which you got that information something you can divulge? I mean, was it talking to an employee or was it something exciting and far fetched? By the way, I presume you meant ">99%" or something similar.

> A single creative and competent software engineer can reproduce much of this strategy

By "this strategy", do you mean prediction based on a source of "alternative data"?

Interesting comment, in any case.
Not really, if they were right at the beginning of your career - quite normal for people to trim their CVs like that, esp. these days.
> a nation where 99% of people shit in simple holes in the ground

Now that is propaganda.
> I'm not trying to say there's coke in coca cola

There used to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_%E2%80%93_cocai...

Also explains how the 'spent leaves' are now used.
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If you're interviewing with 10 companies, that would mean a solid month of work. I'd much rather spend 15-30 minutes on the whiteboard per company.

But the whiteboard test should only be a smoke test for can/can-not program (ie. test for impostors and frauds), not an assessment of aptitude or in-depth knowledge about algorithms. 10-15 lines of code or so, "Guess the number", "FizzBuzz", "Count zero bits in 32 bit int", etc.
I only have experience with AWS and on prem and high quality colo like Equinix. Possibly due to reduced complexity and having full control over networking setup but significantly fewer issues vs AWS.
mine hasnt smiled in six years since I installed Gentoo. If anything its a haunted, war-weary stare as I casually insist it compile Chrome and LLVM again. Its a sullen scowl as I compile the latest stub kernel and pack it dutifully alongside dozens of others in the EFI partition.
IMHO you need just enough to be comfortable using math as a tool applied to your particular every-day practical situations, but you don't need to go into the academical depths like e.g. a scientist would have to. And you also need to have at least some faint idea what are the available options, so that, if needed, you know what to google for.
You can be:

A: Correct

B: Liked by the team

C: Both

D: Neither correct nor liked

Managers are often okay with incorrect employees because they can be trained easily. (Whether or not management actually trains them, that's another story - but managers like to believe that they could.)

Managers are less okay with employees that everyone actively dislikes because it's way harder to train someone on how to get along with people.
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...

Once you start recognizing it, you see it everywhere.
>You can imagine how people feel about paying these taxes, when they are so obviously flawed and unjust.

Yep, sounds like taxes. You can either pay them, or see how a judge responds when you refuse and call them flawed and unjust.