skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. Never even thought about it, it was just a realisation one day when I sat down and went over all my finances.

My full story is quite, interesting, I guess is the right word :)

Two weeks before I turned eighteen I became a dad (the mother who became my now-ex-wife). That made me grow up fast. I got a job and worked my ass off to impress and get promotions. We got married at 21 and bought a house as we had a decent-ish joint income and had some savings behind us (plus some family help on the deposit). We bought a little 2 bed house in Hertfordshire for £116k. We separated at 24 and sold the house literally 2 months before the 08 crash.

I am not what most would consider frugal though. I still buy things, I just bought a new laptop, phone, I have a nice TV, PS4, etc. I just don't have any expensive hobbies. I don't spend crazy amounts of designer clothes. I run rather than pay for the gym, etc. I also buy things out-right (such as my phone) rather than get an expensive monthly contract. Doing so saves way more than most people realise. So I wouldn't say frugal but I am very aware of what I buy and try to be as sensible as possible with money.
> A college that is governed by the predominant culture cannot be a "safe space."

I disagree with this line of thinking. College shouldn't culturally be a "safe place". It should be physically safe, but culturally? You should be challenged when you go to college.

This "safe place" idea could apply to anyone. Should the highly religious, sheltered home schooler feel culturally safe at college from the predominate culture that went to schools with other kids and were exposed to different views?

Of course not.

> If we want to argue that a college space isn't a place where people are by default treated with respect

Treating people with respect is different from exposing them to ideas that might challenge their beliefs, or might be culturally different.
They may have done a bad job, but they didn't come out ahead. They lost a tone of money on the deal.
I have no WSJ account. The service apparently does, since I use it to get around their paywall pretty often
> These things only work if everyone is using them without extra effort.

It works fine without "everyone" using it. It can be used as best-effort security rather than a complete blanket.
I'm sure the same line of argument was made when desktop printers became abundant.
Depends on the area. Wealthy in SF/LA/NYC is very different than wealthy in KC/OKC/DFW. Mostly it's how far your dollar goes (can you live off your investments alone).
For RCS? I've not seen any yet, but the protocol is just getting off the ground.
I agree, and if I were forced to answer I would say that even the CA constitution probably doesn't apply to Facebook et. al.

I think the point I have in mind is that there are less restrictions on speech as the venue becomes more private, and this is for good reasons, large websites as a platform for mass conversation are relatively new, and come with their own benefits and drawbacks when they choose to restrict speech. And because these trade-offs are new, the debate should be about these pros and cons, rather than flat statements that censorship is bad, or that private companies can do whatever they want, no matter how severe.

It should be a policy debate. The CA constitution probably doesn't apply, but the legislature can intervene anyway, and I don't think an argument that says "these platforms are important enough to modern-day communication that they should do so in some manner" is completely insane.
>Any restrictions at all rapidly escalate into enormous restrictions [...]

This is a slippery slope argument and it is as weak as any.

Hate speech is that speech which has historically been used to 'justify' vast amounts of violence against mostly innocent people. More accurately, it is speech that is used to promote emotions which cause people to conveniently accept justifications of violence that overlook the individuality of a person. The speech that does this is designed to do it. And the consequences of engaging in such thinking can be almost arbitrarily bad.

The first amendment was written before WW2. It was written before Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, radio, television, internet, and modern journalism. It was also written by people with a questionable understanding of modern liberalism and to appease people with a far worse understanding of liberalism.

The first amendment is not sacred. Even if you can find fault in every alternative, this does nothing to absolve the faults already within it.

> the moment you say that sort of preaching isn't allowed anymore you run into the question of people's right to practice religion

Clearly christianity is outlawed in the US because stoning people (and by extension, homosexuals) is illegal. All that's happened here is that you're not allowed to grant yourself arbitrary rights by claiming they are 'religious.' All societies restrict the authority of religion. Either through secular principles such as this, or through religious persecution committed by another religion.

>I am struggling to think of cases where someone stood up and announced "kill those people" and it actually happened

This is laughable. Your ignorance isn't a argument. "I can't find any examples of something I didn't bother to look for examples of."
To a larger context beyond Facebook, how else human life could be without getting programmed? Any exposure to culture literally is a process of being programed from shopping at BestBuy to watch a movie in a theatre to take a flight with first class and economy cabins. Maybe the argument here is "The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops" but is there any study that long-term loops aren't just as powerful as short term feedback programming? Or I guess the concern here is the centralization of programming done by one company, but then again, the process is centralized, but the content is still diverse and mostly created by those who'd have done the programming outside of such process.

A fair argument could be the programming now is much more organized and can be done more efficiently toward a certain goal, but I don't think having more efficiency in this context is necessarily a concern - most concepts that can be programmed can also be re-programmed just as quickly. If Facebook is willing to expose a button to de-program a user they should be capable of doing that.

We might become inconsistent as individual human beings from this, namely what I believe yesterday is different from what I believe today or the next hour due to facebook, but later on some other programming might ease this confusion and convince you that nature is just as inconsistent as you.
It's definitely inspired some folks. I recently went to a local event and there was a stand there selling "cheese toast" at $8 a pop. To be clear, it was not a sandwich, they weren't using nice bread (just storebought Texas toast), and the cheese selection was just the standard fare (cheddar, parm, jack). No clue where they got that exorbitant price from.
Yes Emacs IPython Notebook is alive and kicking [1]. I recently wrote a tool on top of it and found most everything to work, even as I was banging on it pretty hard at times.

- [1] https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook
There is always the other risk of dying in an accident at 30. Live is an adventure but not guaranteed. Don't forget to enjoy the journey.
We don't really know that they lost the bet. In fact, it seems equally, if not more likely that they profited on the deal, by siphoning money out of the company over the last 12 years. This is a good primer on how these firms operate:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-th...
20 minutes of discomfort to save 12+ hours of flight time? Sounds worth it to me.
Aircraft choice plays a role here. Airlines tend to use more efficient aircraft for longer flights.
My student loan debt doesnt go away if I find meaningful but low paid work. Admittedly it was my choice to take on that debt but on the other hand society had decided that I was too young to responsibly drink and had to pay higher rates on car insurance. Somehow though, I, and everyone else at that age is allowed, and encouraged, to sign up for life altering debt for a piece of paper that got me a job at a call center.

Trying to get enough money to retire early now is entirely to make it possible to take on meaningful work instead of the soul crushing jobs that are mosy modern software engineer positions

Note: I said modern software engineer _positions_ and not practices as I've found that most companies are incapable politically of implementing best practices if they deviate at all from how things have been done in the past 20 years on the enterprise side, while the startup side is long hours for a lottery ticket.
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The point of the article was that, while one might be skeptical at first, the provenance of data is forgotten faster than the data itself.

The emotional impact of a video will be remembered long after it was discovered to be fake.
Why do I doubt they are the real losers here? Bloomberg states that they pocketed over $470M in fees.[1] And I imagine they were able to write off losses against wins elsewhere. So the real losers still seem to be the employees and the American people. A few years back I was talking to an east coast banker turned VC and he was pooping on the leveraged buyout industry. He said that all the debt payments are tax deductible, so you take a cash flow positive company, saddle it with debt, and essentially stop paying taxes to the government and turn that into payouts for the investors.[2] He said if you look at other countries with different tax policies in regards to debt, you don’t find the same scale of the industry. Perhaps with a better tax policy we could have seen a more natural outcome for Toys ‘R’ Us? I assume unfortunately that the limit on deductions in the second linked article never made it into law and went the way of closing the carried interest loophole.[3]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-privateequity/u-s...
[3] https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-love-welfarefor-th...
“Average” can mean “median”.

Also, human IQ is distributed in such a way that the mean is approximately also the median, which, by definition of IQ, is 100.
the article doesn't go into much detail about what the management fees were for or how much of the fee would be profit to the LBO group. its entirely possible that the LBO groups have a management staff on hand they parachute into their investments and this fee pays their wages and there is nothing much else left over.
Enjoying life.
Same way you differentiate between an airplane and an alien spaceship. One is common, the other is so absurdly rare its not even worth considering.
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⌘+f 'health', ⌘+f 'insurance' - no hits.

All this talk about retiring early when living frugally is a bunch of horseshit. It's 'Fuck you money' or bust.

- Completely counterproductive to live frugally in order to retire early so that you can continue living frugally without working for 'the man'

- if you really want independence from your employer, it needs to be complete independence. Not the independence that risks bankrupting you whenever you or your family have a serious health condition

- 'Mr. Money Mustache' is so full of crap sometimes, I wonder if I'm reading /r/frugal_jerk and people often forget that 'Mr. Money Mustache' is a business in itself with different incentives than solely teaching you how to 'game the system' and 'escape the ratrace'

- sometimes the frugal part takes up so much time and energy it's counterproductive to go that way when you're really well paid. Not to mention the decrease in quality of life

After decades in this business, if you want a happy semi-independent life the following advice is what I can think of:

- work on yourself, cultivate your craft, become a specialist so that you call the shots whenever you need to change jobs and afford to pick jobs allowing you to work on what you really want

- work on side-projects and constantly learn new stuff. If you manage to get a passive income stream, good for you but don't necessarily make it a life goal

- screw corporate loyalty. Change jobs every 3-4 years, you'll learn way more and your income will be miles ahead of your former colleagues

- don't buy stupid shit you can't afford (including but not limited to: fancy cars, McMansions, travel for the sake of traveling, etc..) unless they are a central part of your existence

- follow some basic money management rules (max out retirement funds, keep emergency cash while investing your savings, etc..)

- keep good work life balance constantly so that you don't get burned out or daydream about your early retirement
Ok, but what are we verifying, the pre-adjusted numbers, or the post-adjusted numbers? And is there a document a reasonably intelligent layman can refer to to get the complete story behind how various measurements have been adjusted?

For fun, sometimes I try to find someone who can explain to me where the "97% of scientists support the man-made global warming theory" statistic came from, and I'm pretty sure I found the original source, but the problem is, it doesn't say 97% of scientists support it, or that 97% of papers support it. Now, if The Informed would just be up front and admit that "ok, that particular claim is a bit imprecise to be quite honest, here's the actual story....." this would be perfectly fine with me. But when instead both official authors and any advocate I've encountered online instead doubles down on the misstatement, or refuses to answer perfectly straightforward questions but instead attacks me and starts calling me names.....well, my spider senses go off a bit.

And then I read things like:
"The US right, for decades now but accelerating in recent years, rejects mainstream institutions: not just science but academia, journalism, and government. It has devolved into thoroughly tribal epistemology: what is good for us is true."
....and the logical side of my brain says "well yes, that is certainly true for a lot of conservatives, but certainly not all" and then I start to notice a pattern where very few pro-AGW-thoery people seem to be able to resist saying things that are not true, when lying is absolutely not necessary in any way, and I think to myself, this whole situation seems a bit suspicious.

So, partially because I'm genuinely skeptical, partially because I have quite a number of issues with the current political climate and state of discourse, and partially to return just a small portion of the cntiness I've experienced from online know-it-alls, I'm going to set my launch chair just on the other side of the "denier" line, because "fck me? Well fck you too!"

Besides, the economic prospects in the future for my kids doesn't look so bright and no one seems to give two shts about that, so maybe I'm not overly motivated to care about your interests either.
Or go out and read more sources as this system originally intended. It's not like they are unavailable. Can't blame Facebook for sheer laziness.
Exactly, where'd that 5 billion in loans go? Poof!
Bear in mind that 80F is a typical overnight low in most parts of TX during the summer, particularly in most of the heavily populated areas. Typical high temps during the summer months are mid to upper 90's or higher. Most of these same areas also have relatively high humidity, so it feels even hotter and can take quite a while for the temperature to drop even after the sun sets.
These have happened intermittently through my life when my stress is high. This is only personal clue I can give to you "why" otherwise maybe you're just getting good at it.

In my last episode, I was floating toward a wall and all these thoughts were firing, "you're in a dream", "you'll go through the wall", "don't be afraid" but the rational side that felt like I was going to slam into a wall freaked out just at the wall & I woke. I still wish I just let myself slip through the wall..
If they enjoy it, they will probably keep working. The point is having saved enough that they can make that decision based on enjoyment, not based on needing to pay their mortgage and buy food.
Sure, but will your grandma say the same? My point is that this will never be a normal every day thing for the masses like air travel today.
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Interesting.

Given the level of knowledge the author now has of the underlying data structure and algorithmic thinking, I suspect that learning a "real" programming language would only be a small leap and would open up a ton of capabilities for them.

That's pretty much been my experience with visual SQL query builders as well - by the time someone is able to use it efficiently, they are not only a small step from just writing the code, but they'll end up being many times faster if they did. That said, I think visual development definitely has a place; it's great for visualizing the relationships between things and reducing complexity. Once that's done, optimizations and sometimes the actual implementation of the blocks you're connecting is best done in traditional code.
I commend Wikipedia for providing a configuration option to disable this feature. Netflix could learn a lot from Wikipedia.
You just build second strike capabilities and call it a day. If {Russia, U.S.} gets off a first strike, then {U.S., Russia} can still get off a second strike, therefore neither will strike first.

Well, that's one option. Russia will need an early warning network to rival the American one either way, and given that and proper flight path registration... maybe there would be no confusion. Maybe.
I know this is a joke but just for safety's sake, I want to mention that this would be a bad idea in a modern toaster. The grates close, covering them in melted cheese, and now you have either a ruined toaster or a fire hazard on your hands.

I remember when this image was making the internet rounds a couple years ago and I was surprised how many people hadn't thought about the issues with it. Luckily, I know no one that had tried it for real.
I agree sql is here to stay. For ml you need data and sql is best place to store data. You can use various sql queries to get feature for ml system.
> Avoid reserved words

Glad you cleared this up for the rest of us.

FWIW, naming conventions are like opinions. Everyone has them, and they usually differ from person to person. The best naming convention is a consistent naming convention. Also, naming conventions differ greatly by environment. A group of SQL Server engineers are going to have different standards than those of people working on mysql.
This doesn't seem like an evidence-based opinion.
By "the shackles are in your mind" you mean "if you consciously suppress the fact that if you choose to stop working you'll starve and be homeless, you're already free." That isn't freedom, it's living in a fantasy.
>that detachment helps you keep a more level head while purchasing

I kind of doubt that this is really the case in practice. There is detachment from the walk by impulse buys. But there is also detachment from the part where you spend your money. One click purchases are just too easy.

And Amazon suggestions are getting better all the time at convincing you to buy more and more. Not to mention the discounts on auto delivered products.

The store can only entice me when I decide to get in a car and drive there and walk in. Amazon is just a click or tap away from absolutely anywhere.
We were 21 when we bought the house. Two incomes and a few thousand from parents towards the deposit and it wasn't really all that difficult. The mortgage was around £100 less than renting so it made a lot of sense. It was my ex-wifes parents who persuaded us to do it tbh. We didn't think it would be possible but they were convinced it was the better option (which it was). We had to wait until we were 21 though as almost nobody wanted to give us a mortgage at 19 or 20 for some reason. Seems 21 was the magic number for their risk algorithms.
> I did not call the non-human animal holocaust as The Holocaust (committed by the nazis).

Maybe this is because (at least in Germany and France) any kind of Holocaust comparison is widely deemed offensive. It may be seen as OK in the US sphere, but not in Europe. We actually have a word for this in German ("Holocaustrelativierung"), and organizations like PETA which routinely use Holocaust comparisons when talking about e.g. chick sexing, regularly get flamed for it.
About -10 years ago (at least that's about when a gimp script doing a version of this was put out, Smart Remove / Heal Selection -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h1gZJsjKxs -- I recall Adobe demoing similar stuff at various points though I suppose this is the first time someone's used a generative neural net to fill things in rather than just nearby pixels)
> Being a private company, it might be hard to find out how much cash they extracted from Toys 'R' Us

The firms got $470 million in fees and interest against their $1.3 billion investment [1]. Bain et al lost money. These numbers were disclosed in SEC and bankruptcy filings.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...
Data "scientist", i.e., knows R, basic SQL, and maybe some light JS, and has experience creating nice visualizations in Tableau, etc.

These are skills any business analyst with a good working knowledge in Excel and statistics can learn in a couple of years.

Coming from a marketing background, he probably also helps run A/B testing and funnel/conversion/UI optimizations.
EDIT: This comment is wrong.

> So, they lost a $6.6 billion investment, and made $200 million in management fees? Doesn't sound like a very successful evil plot to me.

They only had to put up 20% of the 6.6B, thus $1.32B. The rest was put up by bond investors I believe.

TRU was also paying upwards of $425M per year on the debt it had. Assuming that 20% of that was to the holders of the $1.32B debt, you get $90M of interest payments. Given that the LBO happened in 2004, there have been 13 years of interest payments, which totals now $1.1B roughly. I am unsure if any principle was paid off, there are no details for that.

Thus $1.1B in interest + $200M in management fees = $1.3B of their investment, discounting inflation adjustments.

Basically KKR, Bain and others are at least close to net zero even though they caused TRU to fail completely.

Lastly, bankruptcy just means that it is insolvent, it doesn't mean that the current debtors get nothing. If the debtors in this case had control over TRU they can ensure it goes bankrupt early enough that it can cover the liabilities to its debtors, namely themselves. If the debtors can get even 50 cents on the dollar, they are net winners.
I find that a specious argument. The same could be said of anything from programming languages to pizza toppings.

"Thing X is bad because it discourages people from learning about things which are not X."

I would argue that JS platforms actually make it much easier to try out other languages because change languages while keeping the rest the same. Tons of languages compile to and/or run on top of JS.
Wow, I saw one of these at the Bristol Industrial Museum. A very impressive piece of kit.
Every time I hear guff about how magnificently 'digital natives' negotiate technology, I have to refrain from being the pain in the arse who points out that perhaps one in a hundred knows how to do anything more than tap where entrained by a corporate interface.
I hadn't been into one in ages, but about six months ago I went into one with my toddler and was shocked how completely un-interactive the experience was. There was almost nothing for him to play with. Just aisle after aisle of hermetically sealed boxes with bright fluorescent lighting and sullen employees.

Couldn't see what the value add was. I'll take my local toy shop, thanks.