skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On casinos and jackpots the individual doesn’t owe any taxes made by gambling winnings as they are paid by the casino/whatever in Finland.
Wood structures built to current code will survive most hurricanes just fine.
It is. Net profits are not taxed, but the profits of any profitable trade are. Trades resulting in loss are ignored.

The tax authorities interpreted cryptocurrencies not as a currency or as a financial asset, but as "trade agreements", which allowed them to take this stance. I'm not sure why they would skew the taxation so far against taxpayers' favor.
Most larger companies have clearly defined boundaries between IT and software development. And with the push towards automation and security at every layer of the stack, even IT has a growing role for software architecture and development skills.
Coke sell over 1.9 billion drinks per day, so that 100 metric tons is spread pretty thin.

https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/how-many-cans-of-coca-cola-a...
https://www.SkipTheDrive.com is also a great resource for remote jobs.
> investing in crypto

LOL
If I recall correctly, people liked the taste of Pepsi in small amounts, but preferred Coca-Cola as a 'proper' beverage. Don't have a source at hand, so by all means correct me if I'm wrong.
This ability gives you a huge competitive advantage in times of limited resources, so most likely others have died/had limited offspring.
I'm pretty sure the grad student has the MacBook and coffee too.
Him and Mathias Wandel (woodwork shop) have some tangible zen effect on my mind. It may be subjective but crafting with simple material, and mostly your hands* is extremely satisfying to watch and also very tempting to do. Society creates a distortion in which every pleasure sits behind some door but here they do tons of fun stuff outside just like that.
Versionstamped operations and transaction logging are fully transactional. Watches are asynchronous: they are used to optimize a polling loop that would "work" without them.
I am not sure if they got into the OS at that speed. From the video I got the impression that they adjusted the core frequency and voltages using software, once inside the OS.
Well not really. It is just that you can only deduct losses on things that the government deems to be investments which in the case of crypto currencies they don’t.
Timber framed houses are common in Scandinavia. They are also pretty common in the UK, but you wouldn't know it because they often have a non-loadbearing brick or blockwork outer skin which relies on the timber frame for stability, i.e. to resist wind loads. A timber structure will last as long as a masonry structure if the main structural timber frame is kept dry. Timber cladding, like they have in the US and Scandinavia, does need to be kept painted and parts will need to be replaced occasionally.
I like that there is an attempt to provide construction workers with more safety. The only problem would be insufficient enforcement allowing some contractors to underbid for projects causing a shortage of money and manpower. The other alternative is a race to the bottom where desperate people choose between taking unnecessary risks to put food on the table or not work. This would only seem to benefit the wealthy.
I can improve the lower bound a bit.

Let V be the volume (content) of a hypersphere of radius 0.99 (twice the radius of the spheres in the question). The total volume in which the centres of the spheres can lie is 0.01^1000000. So if the densest packing uses n spheres, then we must have nV >= 0.01^1000000 or else there would be a point at least 0.99 away from the centre of any sphere, and we could add an extra one there.

Using Stirling's approximation to bound V above gives that n is greater than 10^388118.6...
Sounds fair. I'm convinced to try out their service, it's good to see that they also added pricing to their website. Let's see how it's better compared to Presto as they have the similar use-case.
That sounds so familiar. Except houses built weren't summer houses but primary homes and it was happening very recently, maybe it's still happening?

Legalization in our case is still a hot topic. There is a local party for people with illegal houses.
In STEM there is certainly a shortage of academic jobs for qualified PhD holders. Not everyone who gets a PhD is equal, but academic stem wouldn't lose anything by being able to recruit more of the people they train.
If you buy stocks in a publicly traded Finnish company, then you're taking on a risk in the hope of making a profit. But you are also putting your money at work in the Finnish economy, stimulating job creation and growth. Everybody wins, hopefully.

If, on the other hand, you put down your money in bitcoin or at the online blackjack tables then you're gambling, not investing. Win or lose, your gamble creates zero domestic growth. Why should any government incentivize that?
>I have heard senior engineers just stop interviewing and often switch jobs via their network/friends.

Count me in that group. I have no desire to go through that BS. Seems like the bozos have taken over and ruined development work.
I feel like you have to know a little bit about a lot of things. Like, yeah, you have to have a basic understanding of SOME graph theory when programming computers, but you don't really need anything too advanced. Yes, I guess you need to understand SOME category theory to be able to use advanced typing systems effectively, but it's a very surface level understanding of a very deep field. Same thing with most of the other fields mentioned.

One thing that wasn't mentioned: if you're doing any kind of graphics programming, you use a huge amount of basic linear algebra every day. Vectors, matrices, dot/cross products, affine transforms, spaces and subspaces, that kind of thing. If you're doing more advanced stuff, a working knowledge of how to solve large linear systems (i.e. things like Gauss-Seidel/Jacobi methods) and the physics of light transmission is also useful. If you're doing physics simulations, obviously you need a working familiarity with calculus.

Again, though, all of these things are massively deep fields that people dedicate their lives to understanding, but as a programmer you just need to skim the surface, generally speaking.
L’importance de la sécurité dans la Blockchain
Getting a CPU Z validation is a sport, nothing more. But they have to develop tricks and techniques to further their sport, which may have other benefits in terms of understanding the hardware.
More of these mysterious images from Janelia physicist Dr. Eric Betzig's lab in link. Optical innovations, combined adaptive software, are piercing the veil on hitherto unseen phenomena!

Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/eaaq1392
Argentina has 70 years of economical decadence. You can check this article [1] (in Spanish).

[1] https://www.infobae.com/opinion/2018/04/18/siete-decadas-de-...
Well, you could probably find it. You definitely had more of the really large trees in North America as far as I know, historically anyway.

Today, building something with massive sturdy timber would likely not be much cheaper (if at all) than just building a concrete box.
> I think MoarVM/NQP are strikingly similar in their approach

Does MoarVM use a meta-compilation technique? Pypy for example uses meta-tracing and Truffle uses Partial Evaluation to get from an interpreter specification to dynamically compiled code without duplicating the language logic. If yes, could you please point me to further information?

Meta-compilation is the primary innovation in Truffle. It allows to compose languages together and to compile them as one unit.

If you want to know more about the Truffle approach to meta-compilation see this PLDI paper from 2017[1].

[1] http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/pldi17-truffle/pldi17-tru...
The root of the issue is people choosing they want to die, not that people are able to die
Very surprised the article doesn’t mention a few things:

1. Some places just have more homework than others. Chinese kids have mountains of homework aged 7, vastly more than British kids. Chinese parents spend much more time either managing or literally doing their kids homework for them.

2. Efficiency/productivity - What are kids doing in school if their parents are still spending hours and hours after school helping them with homework? How is this a productive use of parents precious work/leisure time?
For the purpose of discussion do you mind giving me an example of such a country
It's almost like that chicken-and-egg scenario!
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I think it depends on how long you want the software to last for.

At one end is a client wanting a quick mock up - yes use libraries.

At the other end is a surgically implanted heart monitor - please dont use a library that depends on an API call.

Using libraries certainly gets the job done quicker (in the short term), but it adds technical debt and brittleness to any project.
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The hood is exactly the wrong place. Blocks, radiators, even oil pans would be far better.

But imho the real market for these will be in low-power environments. Or defense: submarines have near-unlimited heatsink potential and lots of <100 heat sources.
Also, Windows Defender SmartScreen complains about unknown publisher when trying to execute the installer.
Previous discussion, based on better NYT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881818

Original paper in Cell (full text): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.054
It's not overpriced. I've never heard a parent tell their child to grow up and become good with their hands and work in construction. If you're smart, you're filtered out to doctor/lawyer/programmer/engineer, who are getting paid six figures for office work.

If you want talented people to work with their hands, in the heat and cold and rain, risk injury that could cause them permanent damage or render them unable to work, all without nice health insurance benefits and the reliability of a steady deposit into their bank accounts every two weeks, then you have to pay for it.
On the subject, I like videos of people doing non simple geometric tilings to create arch-roofs.

ps: very timely, I was considering finding a spot to make my own these days.
Well, I love Postgres so reading that I can use it for even more use cases is pretty cool.
Restauranteur Looks Back at 2+ Years with No-Tipping Model
Or that video manipulation will become so easy and commonplace that video has zero value as evidence.
Only watched the first couple of videos - but they don't sell ladders in Canada?
It is amazing. With this approach, you wouldn't have to change the battery every 10 minutes.
I would argue that demand has increased dramatically, but the supply of natural-born developers (eg. those tinkering since childhood, not just following the money) has not.
It's XORed with a stream cipher, so it's totally secure (no part of the stream is reused).

The tricky bit might be deciding where to start the stream...
Any feedback about this mini PC from Beelink?
The constant comparison to others really hurts. One is never happy, always looking at the next move to bring happiness which never happens.
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While we can count terrorism rates very accurately, it is not nearly the same with sexual harassment or bias. Terrorism is very public and hard to conceal, sexual harassment is hidden and costly to talk about if you are typical victim.
TimescaleDB turns managed PostgreSQL into time series database
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What's all that memory for?
Land alone is often pretty expensive; can you get a regular mortgage to buy it?
I did this for a data scientist position. It was obnoxious. Compounded by the interviewer believing his dissertation work was representative of the entire machine learning field. I didn't get that job. I'm more interested in the people I'll work with in hiring than what they know. to a certain degree anyways.
Peter Thiel: Libertarian, Contrarian or Something Else?
Replacing 'wsj.com' with 'fullwsj.com' works for any WSJ article. Redirects via Facebook.

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/how-north-koreas-hackers-be...
Why wouldn't the average government just outlaw Sousveillance / Inverse surveillance?
There was another reply that is now gone that stated something similar where the founders would effectively limit their profit gains and declare some statement that their work was done for the people rather than profit...

I’m not trying to bring about a formal argument here and I may be way off, But IMO these type of quotes are borderline reflective of Marxism or wording that belong in Mein Kampf.
Great book too. Or at least it was when my old man gave it to me when i was 12. Fired up the imagination.
AFAIK houses in USA are built with wood. And that's why they are easily destroyed with bad weather.

I don't know if concrete it's generally more expensive than wood, but anyway, it's incredible how expensive were homes before the crisis and how 'cheap' they look.
I totally agree with you and I love Primitive Technology, but let's not lose track on that these videos are edited too. All the failures and retries are left out, what is left is only a clear path from start to finish that looks deceptively easy.
This is a pretty inane article for placing too much emphasis on a stupid gimmick like anti-suicide ceiling fans, when the underlying issue is a serious mental health issue of extraordinarily stressed students.

I'm Indian and I remember the summer of my 12th grade exams back in 2007 just like yesterday because of some latent awareness that something very important is happening here. I sat in so many exams that summer. First was the CBSE boards aka AISSCE (which was the all-important failsafe), then AIEEE (for admission to the NITs), then BITSAT (for admission to BITS), and finally the IITJEE (for admission to the IITs). All these exams are fairly long, and you compete at the national level.

Already back then the competition was fierce with kids enrolling in tuition centers half a decade even before their first attempt at any of these exams (it was quite common for people to try a few times). I could write a very long essay about the depth of preparation that goes into attempting these exams. It is quite natural that the competitive pressures has worsened over the years with students attempting to out-prepare one another by even bigger margins.

In a country so huge, of course not all students attempt this route, but landing a seat in the small list of prestigious institutions is the only ticket to a good career in India for the most part. This is not unlike American students who take AP level courses, demonstrate exceptional talent in sports or music, or volunteer their time in different ways to stand out in the application process at one of the big name schools. So in that sense, this is describing a very relatable struggle among students across nations, though the means are substantially different.
In an authoritarian state, especially one where food is scarce to much of the population, learning a skill that is considered vital to the state is a good way to ensure you can eat.
I dont want it at all, It doesn't have any sense. You don't need to do it to have a Superior software in iPad than in a Mac os, each device is for what it is.
If one is a student who receives government aid, maybe one shouldn't be speculating in crypto-currencies.
My dearest Linkedin: this is the onboarding you should have
Blockchain was the blockchain of 2017...
Perhaps for anti-money laundering compliance.
Wtf. And why even include the name in the first place? Literally no good would have come from that in a story like this. If you must refer to a name use a pseudonym.

This really subtly shows one of the darkest sides of journalism, especially considering it's coming from the WSJ. The engagement of the audience and ad revenue is so important that protecting sources and journalistic integrity is so easily forgotten by the author and editors.
Yes look for hardwood lumber stores. Some of them are chains, we have a small sawmill near us that has or can get just about anything i would want.

You'll still need the DIY shops for hardware/tools/etc.
Ask HN: Are smart people who are very good at what they do happier?
I consider myself average, and I have been struggling recently with that fact. I have a decent job as a Data Scientist, but I feel like I am not very good at it. I have been thinking of trying something which I am really good at, but I can't really find anything.

Do people who excel at what they do find better satisfaction in their work?
In my last job search I solved a dozen or take home assignment. For the one I finally got, I... refused to solve the assignemnt... and it is a very good one. Do everyone a favor and refuse, fixing the situation is in hands of anyone looking for a job.
I agree with 3, not necessarily 4.

The amount of people who uses a product does not determine is quality.

However stars can determine to an extend whether it's a project worth looking at or not.
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Apparently, (much) smaller transistors can be made out of it, for better power efficiency and speed.
This was my understanding as well, Pepsi had a sweeter taste with a slight citrus flavor. Comparatively, it tastes better on first sip, but for a can sized serving, the less sweet taste was preferred.
> Nope, that's just hype. Good ole C++ still rules the day, except for specialized (and smaller in scope and speed needs) games.

Sure, it's C++, and in my perception much C-style C++. And C++ != OOP.

> (Not to mention that I was referring to GUI libraries themselves, complex beasts on their own, not GUI code as used by applications to build their GUIs).

I will admit I haven't written a NLE program, but integrating complex logic with a complex and hard to understand GUI framework like Qt, meaning there are a lot of states to synchronize, is a lot of inessential complexity. I'm pretty sure it's much easier when you only use GUI primitives and do most of the coding on your own. E.g. a standard box layouting and event bubbling algorithm can't be that much work, and it's MUCH MUCH easier to do it on your own and choose the appropriate structure, instead of writing many helper classes trying to bend the rigid framework.

Taking the example of a NLE program - it has lots of domain-specific state which you must absolutely understand if you want to write such a program. And you absolutely must have a vision how this state should be reflected on the screen. Choosing how to do it is a lot of work. Actually drawing it should be the smaller amount of work, by far. Just separate the state from the GUI library. If you scatter it over thousands of objects, inheriting implementations that you don't own and don't understand - well, of course! that's really hard.
Interesting.

Do they have the concept of "transitive trust"? (Is there a better term for that?)

Let's say I want to buy some new camera. I'd like to express something like:

- People on HN, I trust for 80% (say, because of the technical nature of the product)

- Friends on facebook I trust for 40%

- Friends of friends on facebook, I trust for 10%

Then using this spec, I'd like the system to come up with a sorted list of cameras, with ratings. Would this be possible without privacy issues?

By the way, if a rating system turns out to be robust, we could potentially use it for rating politicians :)
But hey! The extension-files are X509-signed and served over HTTPS with a green location-bar from a known good domain so we all know it’s secure, right?

Oh wait. I guess forcing everyone to use HTTPS and signing everywhere means HTTPS and signing can no longer be used to distinguish serious actors from even plain malware-vendors.

Thanks Google.
https://xkcd.com/353/
This happens in the USA too, except at college level. A nearby shooting range has had a few suicides by Asian students at the end of the spring semester.
I don't get why you want to use this over an IDE.

All you get is cached intermediate variables and being able to print them, am I right?

On the other hand you loose the capability to see the definition of everything externally defined and you can't use the debugger.

Please let me know if I am missing something
If all humans had larger spleens than other primates that would provide evidence for that. I have no idea whether that's true.
I think a smart, hard working person who re-uses modern results from others well and in potentially new ways can create a vast amount of value. Short term, more than the top guys, as a lot of their work may be speculative, and yours would be getting-it-done. Long term, they'll invent some method that leaves you in the dust, but that's fine, just learn that too!
10MM is exactly the market value of the cabin, for as long as the bid stands.

Once the owner accepts that bid, the liquidity in the market has been completely taken, and the likely future market value reverts to ~100,000.
Couple days ago I watched youtube and stumbled onto airline pilot channel. Every company does extensive tests, psychological and technical and most of time simulator flight even if you had thousands hours under your belt. They can kick you out of interview because you are not dressed well enough, like wrong tie to wrong shirt...

Check out interviews and jobs section on pilot forum for comparison with our field: https://www.pprune.org/interviews-jobs-sponsorship-104/
Is this Deloitte USA or one of the franchises elsewhere?

The China Hustles show how easy it is to corrupt these franchises elesewhere, e.g. PWC (China franchise) - although curly braces are rarely mentioned next to PWC name.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80221646

I find it hard to believe Deloitte or the others have auditors with the necessary "blockchain" skills to properly audit these anyway, maybe they pointed them to a bootstrap3 web UI block explorer for <whatever ShitCoin> and said there you see!

LMFAO https://www.iconomi.net/audit - thats it? some HTML page, not even a Deloitte branded PDF? no Deloitee announcement on their website or any official channels? Come on even Tether trainwreck tries harder than this. Reality is the real/full audit includes disclaimers that much of the information has not been verified and taken on face value.

The Deolitte or PWC audit stamp will be included as standard in ThemeForst/TemplateMonster lets-ICO scam templates just as much as the linkedin profile pics next.
I understand where you are coming from, but let me add that this method of counting income applies to any investment income.

So say you put money into an index fund, but something unexpected happens. If you need to liquidate your savings while being a student, the government will slap your fingers for trying to think long-term.

Either way, I admit this only affects the poor -- if you are a bit better off you should be able to afford to incorporate an LLC for 2500€ (half a year rent where I live). By making yourself the sole owner of the company, you can get around all these problems, as juridically the LLC is a separate entity from you doing all the trading. This kind of setting is legal, but practically off limits for many.

Government aid for students is also practically unconditional in Finland and usually covers your rent and then some, basically making your own life instantly ramen profitable. This sounds utopistic to many, and it certainly is, but I think so much potential is lost by the government discouraging young people to take risks on their own.
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Wow sounds like we could take that thyroid hormone to enlarge our own spleen. I wonder if divers have tried that.
They would. Enforcement is a separate issue
“People are stupid, lazy or both” vs. “This is bad usability”