skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're an investor the other advantage is that youth is cheap.

The VC model is to fund a lot of sometimes wacky ideas, the founders live on ramen for a year or two and work out the kinks of the business model and code a prototype. You don't need seniority for this you just need people with open minds who work long hours so enthusiastic youngsters work great. If an investment achieves product market fit you start bringing on some more senior people at that point.
This question is also answered by the MHLW statistics [1].

On page 2, the line graph at the top represents the percentage of available paid leave days taken on average, with the absolute numbers below. So, the average worker in Heisei 25 (2013) had 18.5 days of leave, of which he took 9.0, or 48.8%.

(Not including public holidays.)

[1] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/file/05-Shingikai-11201000-Roudoukiju... (in Japanese)
Denmark did this recently with any type of face-covering, and judging by how Reddit gushed over the decision it should be no trouble to enact similar legislation elsewhere:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/31/europe/denmark-face-veil-...
Ask HN: Why are LaTeX error messages so baffling?
My current curiosity is Pony. I read the early history[0] and tutorial[1] and was immediately hooked. At work, I would tend to choose Go for lowish-level applications but for personal exploration choose something with greater future potential where everything hasn't already been built.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280565
[1] https://tutorial.ponylang.org/
How do you know I am "he"? But anyway, I neither raised chickens to the level of humans nor thought I was doing so.

And my "actions"? What actions? I literally don't know what you are saying. I didn't take any actions or describe any.

The pure quantity of lives built here is negative. I wasn't making a judgment about the quality or significance of the lives. If there has to be a conflict (I don't think that's inevitable), I support the human lives over chicken ones. I'm just not so dense that I completely disregard the notion of chicken lives (as the headline does, not that the business is doing that).
Just curious, why the anonymous response? You clearly have read Goldreich, which is enough entropy to narrow down your identity to about 1000 people in the world.
Just send either a 16-bit or 32-bit packet length before sending a packet. Much easier than abusing the protocol, and the reader knows how large of a buffer to allocate.
The Myth of the Rule of Law
Wow, 230GB celebrity photo dataset caught me off guard.
Unlikely. I am a Thai so I have been reading a lot of info since the beginning, and most people initially suggest that they shouldn't be in too deep since that Monk junction section is very narrow, steep, and hard to pass, even on foot.

It comes out later that the group frequent this cave many time before.
Ah, that's a subtle but in retrospect obvious consideration. Fascinating stuff to think about.
> What advantage does it hold over normal sales?

Same reason as gangs requiring a new initiate to kill someone. If you have someone expose themselves doing something taboo and you yourself do it too, then a mutual bond is built.

The article says as much.
Bingo! "A/B testing" aka completely randomized design: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pri/section3/pri331...

Mountains can be moved with randomized control trials.
Reclare – A Declarative State and Logic Management Library
As long as people believe that efficiency == profits, I doubt the view will change.
Pfizer raises prices on 100 drugs–again–despite backlash from public, lawmakers
Yeah, I noticed it was floating VMs, which is an interesting way to go. On one hand, it's less parts to go kaput, on the other hand, those parts need to be more robust.

The main thing that might make me shy away is the added exposure at the edge. If the VM hosting is dedicated to just the network failover/firewall, it seems wasteful, and if it isn't it seems unnecessary exposed.

The only other thing I'm not sure of, since I'm not too familiar with AL the VM solutions nowadays, is whether an actual hardware failure of the active VM hardware allows seamless failover (which you do get with what we were doing back in the day).

Edit: although, it's not hard to emulate the stuff we were doing using some OpenBSD virts on those two boxes, which even if they don't support full hardware failure with the current setup they then would. Since you're playing with the for fun, you might be interested in trying it. If you find OpenBSD intimidating, you can use pfsense to do the same, which is a dedicated GUI configured FreeBSD distro that offers much the same (there were some CARP implementation differences/bugs in FreeBSD way back, but I think they got fixed up long ago).
Obligatory check out protonmail
> I turned down several invites to such activities and got the usual gay jokes behind my back.

I'm surprised they didn't just invite you to a place that caters for both.
Yeah, classical A/B testing only works if you specify the duration of time that the experiment will run in advance and stick to it. There are ways that you can continuously monitor how an experiment is performing (Google "sequential Bayesian analysis") but the math is quite a bit more complex and nuanced.

Honestly, for most startups a simple multi-armed bandit approach is probably the way to go. Don't worry about statistical significance; just throw some "lite" reinforcement learning on top of your product's aesthetics and enjoy the incremental profit. (Caveat: do not apply MAB to major product changes.)
I like your 'water cooling Celerons' analogy.

It is hard to beat a stock, as supplied by the telco, router with a generic Android phone for maximum uptime. If one connection is wired and the other is wifi then the computer handles broadband difficulties with no problems.

If you are actually serious about 'single point of failure' then you just need to live with someone that is likely to not pay the bills for electricity or broadband. Being insufficiently creditworthy to have better than a pay as you go burner phone helps too as every byte costs $$$. Living in an area where any nice toys will get stolen/destroyed also 'helps' as a refurbished laptop running linux is then only practical option. Congested wifi 'helps' too, a basic wifi booster with ethernet out becomes truly useful for 'blazing speeds', particularly if wanting your backup network to come from the local cafe or some neighbour with an easily Googlable password.

Having a local server for development and version control means that you are good to go when it comes to useful work even if there is no connectivity going.

For entertainment a regular FM radio works fine. Two refurbished laptops and a USB stick for bulk transfer of current project stuff makes it fully possible to pull an all-nighter even if there is no electricity due to bills-not-being paid reasons. A nice add is a Chromebook, those things designed for nine year olds with a battery that lasts 10 hours with no difficulty does the job with better wifi than any normal laptop, no fans and no thermal runaway.

Even better, the whole kit can be put in a modest backpack and a bit of couch-surfing later one can be back in business.

It is much more satisfying to do more with less, I would probably hate myself if I had a basement full of servers and only whiled away the hours on social media rather than do 'work'.

This budget ethos is anti-pattern but why should it be? The carbon footprint of operating on low-power refurbished hardware is penguin friendly and cheap. If your apps are supposed to be compatible with regular consumer PCs then it doesn't really help to have a beast of a machine with 4K screen, 32Gb or RAM and some quad Xeon. Maybe a linux toolchain with no virtualisation is better for making one's code performant on target devices. Obviously an SSD helps.

The kids and the grandparents can read books together if the devices are down. They can also listen to the FM radio. What's not to like?

Thank goodness I don't do company IT. Yes it would consist of two refurbished laptops hidden under the floorboards, servicing 50-100 office workers without any difficulty.
I'd love to see it happen, but keep in mind that not all democrats are gung-ho about raising taxes for things like education (or cutting spending in other areas).

I'm trying to find total funding numbers for public universities and am coming up short on nicely formatted nation-wide data. However, it looks like in CA, UC per-student public funding dropped from $23,000 to $8,000 from the late 70s to 2017 [1]. In the same time period, tuition went up from $630 (in 1976 dollars) to $12,630 last year. I can't find comprehensive information on the third big component of funding - alumni donations, but at UC Berkeley they have been growing significantly year over year for at least 7 years [2]. States are very different in how they fund schools, though. For example, Texas has a sovereign wealth fund that generates a huge amount of money. In Massachusetts, tuition growth outpaced per-student funding cuts over the last 15 years - look at chart 7 in [3].

Anecdotally, it seems like total funding is going up with tuition, but the money is going towards things like student annexes, stadiums, ancillary faculty salaries, etc. that generally have little to no impact on education outcomes.

[1 worth reading - some interesting data] http://www.ppic.org/publication/higher-education-funding-in-...
[2] http://www.dailycal.org/2016/07/17/uc-berkeley-receives-reco...
[3] http://massbudget.org/report_window.php?loc=higher-education...
If you slip the wheels it will take longer to come to a stop. Sliding friction is always lower than static friction.
Right. Just like China etc. So anyone in the EU will need to use VPNs and/or Tor to reach the real Internet. I mean, it's one thing to force respect for people's privacy. But this stuff is fundamentally inconsistent with the Internet.
Yeah...at a startup, doing this many 1:1s doesn't make too much sense. Doing a bunch of 1:1 to get people going the same direction means they weren't already in the same direction...means you're burning resources. At BigCo it makes perfect sense since there's 1000 things going on and no one cares about your thing until you show them why.

(hi!)
> Tesla, meanwhile, has sold $131m in tax credits to casinos thanks to transferable tax credits

I'm curious why a company would sell off its tax credits.
Present value vs future value, or ?
I assume they sell them for a discount, or else why would anyone buy them?
Specifically, he says he doesn’t like “big idea” languages, and says that Rust is one of them.
An extra 20ms, or an extra sever, is very different than sloppy JavaScript bogging down someone's computer. That's crap code.
Guido accepted PEP 572. Python now has assignment expressions
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I'm pretty sure it's always been very normal in Thai society. The sex tourism, at least for westerners, started with the RnR stuff, as the story goes, but Huai Kwang is 98% Thai clients and probably 30X+ the size of any of the more visible Bangkok "sex tourism spots" (patpong, nana, cowboy). 97%+ of the sex being paid for in Thailand is being paid for by Thai people. The main thing that changed due to foreign influence was Thai people letting the sex workers spill into the streets instead of working more discretely.
Oh. Thanks for the correction!
A Cruise-on-Cruise crash reveals the hardest thing about self-driving tech
If this applied to the entire world, sure. But this just adds the EU to China, Russia, Iran, etc. That is getting to be a huge chunk, I admit. But EU users will just need VPNs and/or Tor to escape.
I don't think "figure out" and "stumbled upon" is quite that similar. Figure out, to me, implies that there were actively tinkering with it.
$40m convention cancelled due to San Francisco's homelessness and opioid crisis
"There's a very good reason for everything we do. Nothing is arbitrary."

Bahahahahahaa!!!
> After 10 years it was suppose to be loosen.

it is childish at best to selectively focus on WTO agreements only. when China is banned from purchasing most high tech stuff from the US, even some intel Xeon processors and DELL computers, how could you possibly expect to have easier access to the Chinese market?

The US government should also become more consistent when it comes to international treaties and agreements, if those WTO agreements are indeed so bad to the US, why not just follow America's own paths in the Iranian deal, the Paris Climate deal and the UN human right commission case? Rather than keep crying on whether WTO is fair or not, maybe it is time to pack up and leave WTO? Trump mentioned it recently but didn't have the balls to actually make it happen, so sad.
LaTeX errors are 'well defined', i.e. they have a set way they appear, so they can be parsed by a machine.

They aren't really meant for you, as a user, but rather for whatever is calling LaTeX as a library. It's one of the reasons that an IDE is recommended rather than a text editor.

You can see a good breakdown here. [0]

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Errors_and_Warnings
In an episode of Billions, they go to a strip club for some full contact lap dances. I met a Wall Street I-banker who went on and on about hooking up with strippers. I wonder how common this is still in the US.
> 5,000 gallon subterranean tank.
...about 19,000 litres.
That seems like tremendous overkill. Are you also planning on using that for home heating? If not, it seems like a very large maintenance burden for anything other than some kind of survival scenario.
Having programmed for 50 years and going strong, why would I want to submerge myself in pettifoggery? It sounds like something to be left to naive young software engineers who need to learn more about the real world.
full article without paywall: http://marketcoinnews.com/2018/07/ripple-labs-faces-third-se...
Can confirm Amsterdam is better than any American city.
> someone finds a body, it's going to remain an unsolved mystery.

This is the case in Japan. No body, no declaration of death. It means people who died in disasters can be declared "missing" indefinitely.
Depends if you are motivated to leave a legacy and a better world for the next generation or not. I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to do legal work but that doesn't mean it isn't the highest impact thing you could do at the stage you are at in your career.
Baudot codes
Rapid antidepressant effects of ayahuasca in depression: a randomized trial
> Rapid antidepressant effects of the psychedelic ayahuasca in treatment-resistant depression: a randomized placebo-controlled trial

> We observed significant antidepressant effects of ayahuasca when compared with placebo at all-time points. MADRS scores were significantly lower in the ayahuasca group compared with placebo at D1 and D2 (p = 0.04), and at D7 (p < 0.0001). Between-group effect sizes increased from D1 to D7 (D1: Cohen's d = 0.84; D2: Cohen's d = 0.84; D7: Cohen's d = 1.49). Response rates were high for both groups at D1 and D2, and significantly higher in the ayahuasca group at D7 (64% v. 27%; p = 0.04). Remission rate showed a trend toward significance at D7 (36% v. 7%, p = 0.054).
So many sitcom episode ideas in this thread... holy sh
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Especially someone busy writing a large collection of the greatest English works of all time.

Alternately, if they couldn't read they'd have to go see his plays performed. That Shakespeare really was a shrewd businessman.
Just the endpoint machine.
You seem to be making a common mistake about Buddhist detachment. It may be helpful to refer to a simplified version of Buddhism's 4 Noble Truths:

1. Suffering exists.

2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires.

3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases.

4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path.

A few points:

- Buddhist detachment isn't detachment from everything — it's detachment from desires, which becomes possible when you recognize that suffering underlies all desirable things.

- The point of detachment, and of buddhism at its core, is to reduce suffering. As opposed to passive nihilism, which is "epitomized by resignation" (at least according to google, I had to look it up https://antimodernist.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/active-vs-pas...)

- The next step after detachment is a set of practices to reduce suffering. Some of the most powerful are the compassion (metta) meditations, i.e. "May I be free from suffering, may those near to me be free from suffering, may all beings be free from suffering". Working to reduce the suffering of all beings is the opposite of resignation.

As my own buddhist teacher (Dan Brown, www.pointingoutway.org) explained it to me, many beginning buddhists get stuck on the detachment part, which leads to nihilism, which leads to resignation, which leads to more suffering. In contrast, "properly executed" buddhist detachment leads to practices that reduce suffering (the Eightfold Path).

Hope that helps.
Pretty cool but also sad to see so much garbage in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8navgU8-tw0&t=126s
Tor isn't such a great solution here, because too many sites discriminate against Tor users, in one way or another. Some impose horrible CAPTCHAs. Or block access entirely. Some allow access, and even logins, but don't allow account creation. And maintaining usable Google or Facebook login accounts via Tor is virtually impossible.

Using VPN services would be far more practical. Although some sites do discriminate against VPN users, it's much less common than for Tor users. The EU could of course block access to VPN servers, just as China has done. But some VPN services use obfsproxy, and so can piggyback on obfuscation efforts by the Tor Project.
Orthodox, not Catholic. But yeah, Batushka is awesome.

Then there’s Reverorum ib Malacht, the Black metal band who studied Catholicism so intently in order to make even more evil, sacreligious music, that they actually ended up converting.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/reverorum-ib-malacht-intervi...
great! I do not know fishing (I just tried for a week with my grandfather) but I can related to watching the fish almost jumping out of the water!
Do you think the quality of the team effects that?
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I thought they were absurd too.

Surely "saw a way through good ole Unk" means he found a way to steal from Uncle Sam.
I think the massive salary drop off will make the late-career transition from engineering to law hard to stomach. Someone in their 40s or 50s with 20-30 years of engineering experience probably has a family, is thinking about their retirement plans, and is commanding the salary of a senior engineer (at least). Very few people are going to be willing to take 3 years off from work to go back to school only to spend another few years as a junior associate making far less than they could as a senior engineer. A lawyer going into policy or any other altruistic area of the law should expect an even larger salary gap.
Considering millions of years of evolution shaped female brains to be the primary caregivers, isn't this a common sense approach and explanation for the behavior?
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My original point was that putting all of our eggs in the same basket is not a good idea, and that our urban cheerleaders have quality-of-life tunnel-vision. I do not believe it is necessary to quote chapter and verse to make that point.

Where 75% of farm subsidies go or don't go, or what FHA claims as their goal, or the yield and quantity of soviet armaments, is just extraneous information. Playing with Google earth, or just being old enough to remember, will show that there's hardly a piece of dry land in this country that hasn't had a house, a road, or a gas station put on it.

As for intention, perhaps I am giving the government too much credit? I read a lot of these 20th century memoirs and anthologies where some technocrat--like a von Neumann or a Kennan--writes a missive, and a thousand wheels are set into motion. Looking back on it, the sheer efficacy of it all looks more like a missive than a popular movement. The popular movements, like prohibition or Iraq, are often far uglier.
They are talking about the article itself. You wouldn’t want to click on this at work because of the picture of the naked erotic dancer featured.
He may have just never spent any of it. Presuming he's still alive, there might be a duffel-bag full of very well-known serial-numbered bills buried behind his house, with a last will and testament saying "I did it, go dig up the money now, haha, I got away with it".

Sounds crazy, right? But then you remember this guy hijacked a plane and then jumped out of it and maybe crazy is exactly right.
Why is it incredibly ugly when it actually conveys the explicit logic of that which is happening? Can the logic be simplified? Are there any unnecessary characters? I don't see that. This is why I like Python, it's easy to read, and it is easy to refactor and see how you can improve the logic.
Reading the headline, I expected this to be about Death to the World, a zine put out by former punks (and a founding member of Sleep) in an Orthodox monastic order.

http://deathtotheworld.com/about/
Pretty much. One of the most strange things I experience in America is the insistence that America is somehow the most sexist / racist country. Oh boy!

When the current generation of social justice from America floods its banks and arrives in Asia there is going to be an ugly reckoning.

I think the idea that many of China’s troubles (corruption / pollution / freedom reductions) are a byproduct of the extreme rapid move from poverty to wealth combined with an equally extreme arrival of wealth inequality is true. You simply can’t hit the gas pedal and accelerate 40 years into the future in one decade without creating the potential for major discontent.

But socially speaking, the era of progressivism America has experienced has not yet leaked out but it will.

American millenials think they are oppressed, they have no idea what the rest of the world finds normal. This article is a great example of how the rest of the world is currently socially caliberated compared to the USA.

The truth is that America is a paradise of social justice.
Go90 the free streaming video app from Verizon (that is being sunsetted on 31 July) is built in RN
In real empirical practice, which happens more often: google locks a user out of their own data (a user who wasn't intentionally blatantly violating the
TOS), or a non-google-user loses their data to due some technical error or natural disaster?
I'm glad that East Asia is slowly, but surely, becoming less sexist over time. You can see it in Korean dramas, which are very popular across east asia and way less accepting than TV used to be of this kind of thing. The article also mentioned real pushback from the Chinese government, which is great.
Google Drive doesn't back up email and calendar your private machine.
Is it the one used in this paper?

https://youtu.be/XOxxPcy5Gr4
Heck in the US 20 years ago, a coworker of mine was assigned to a job where his first account was some old school east coast bank. One night dude calls "OMG man we are at dinner and the sales guy didn't show up so it's just me and them and they want to hit the strip clubs a couple blocks away after this." I had no good advice as I was a n00b too so I told him to call his boss. He was told "keep them happy" so he spent thousands on dinner, drinks, and strippers for most of the night on the corporate card (cash for the strippers...).

He was sure he would get fired or something. The following Monday his boss told him he heard that everyone had a great time, gave him a pat on the back and noted "I probabbly should have told you they party pretty hard."
Less likely that Google and DO will both lock your account at the same time.