skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. Those statistics would imply that there is a huge number with little to no savings at all which is what the article speaks to. Medians will move towards zero more quickly than means when as more zeros are added to the data set.

A 32 year old has been working for about 10 years. S&P500 has been growing at 10.5% with dividends reinvested for the last 10 years. That means about $3500/yr in 401k contributions would get you to the average account balance. Take into account employer matches and that's honestly not as much as you expect it to be. Traditional wisdom is to put away 10% and employers have started to implement the auto-incrementing auto-enrollment features into their 401k plans that Richard Thaler has been promoting for the last several years.
Patterns for Resilient Architecture
Game loops seldom sleep...

Probably doesn't help that there are all kinds of minor idle animations in the games, even when there's nothing else really going on.
Minor nitpick, at least in North America sheep meat is mutton. Lamb is the word for a young sheep and also the meat from the animal.
Uh huh; I'm pretty sure "Scooby Snacks" aren't fictional. They looked pretty familiar on the show.

" . . . Shaggy and Scooby go crazy for this, and I have to wonder why."

(NSFW?) https://www.leafly.com/hybrid/scooby-snack
I can't tell if you're being serious or tongue-in-cheek, but I like this comment nonetheless.

Did Unicode ever have any business assigning separate code points for italic versions of latin glyphs? Am I ignorant as to their true purpose?

EDIT: SEMI just answered my second question. Math. Makes sense.
Too true. I really liked the experiments they did with rat park to argue against the skinner model of addiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
> For example, in the past, when someone asked you for directions you gave it to them. Now some people are like “don’t you have google?” Same goes for asking for any type of informational help.

There's a difference between asking for help because you are having problems and asking for help because you are lazy. There's a spectrum along this, but if you ask too much of a random person, just for your own benefit, they will feel rightly taken advantage of. You probably wouldn't solicit a random passerby to help you move all your furniture in or out of a building, but you might quickly call for help from anyone around if the specific item you are moving is about to be dropped. This is all a roundabout way of saying people are generally happy to help if it costs little compared to how much it helps.

As for directions, in the past knowing how to get somewhere was hard without prior knowledge, and providing help cost relatively little to the person helping compared to the help gained by the other. Stopping to give someone directions that are less accurate that can be found on any number of services that most people have access to can easily be seen as inconveniencing someone for little or no reason. That said, I've had good experiences by also explaining why I need directions from someone while asking. Suffixing your request with something like "I have directions but they aren't making any sense to me" or "My phone died" seems to make all the difference.
>Your worry seems misplaced.

I wish I could agree with you, but I cannot. Industries are hiring psychologists in order to increase the addiction of software (especially videogames) -- perfecting just the right amount of time before a reward is given, tuning the sounds to be "just so", etc. It's hard enough for an adult to resist, with years of defense mechanisms established, in places like Casinos or video games. But now that same degree of subterfuge is being employed for iPad games targeted at toddlers. What can an unprepared child do to resist? A: very little.

It is parent vs. corporation, now, in a battle for the child's mind.
Can Containers Help Developers Save the World?
Can anyone with more knowledge in the area point me to some resources/surveys regarding state of the art techniques for compressing machine learning models? I'd be particularly interested to see experiments exploring what a plot of model size reduction vs. accuracy cost looks like for different techniques. For example is there usually a graceful degradation in terms of accuracy loss as you compress more, or is there often some kind of tipping point where accuracy plummets?
https://twitter.com/WiredUK/status/1027491933013372928
The idea (ranking stocks by sum of the absolute value of the coefficients) is valid, but that line of code (variance explained by each component) doesn't do that.
Introducing BlockScout – The Open Source Ethereum Explorer
Incorrect. Here are some numbers:

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-stat...

They don't have this category exactly, but it is clear that that there are many more than "a few other cases" that are not full-time W-2 employees. For example, 25M returns in 2015 (17%) have no wage income at all and around 13% have self-employment income.
There's flat tax proposals and implementations at every level of the economy in different countries, not all of them have to do with income tax.

E.g. the case of the warm and cold chicken being taxed at different rates, as described in the linked Economist article.

It's common in places with such a distinction in the tax code for some stores to sell packaged cold food clearly intended to be eaten on the go, and then to conveniently offer a customer-operated microwave on-site partly as a way to avoid paying a tax that distinguishes between food sold as groceries v.s. take-away food.

I'm not advocating for flat taxes, but it is correct to say that such proposals in general do away with such emergent absurdities, and decrease the need for government bureaucracy.
Product Management and When Other Departments Need Help
Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
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The title is a bit aggressive I think. While the correlated noise discussed in the tweets is suspicious, there doesn't seem to be any definitive evidence of fraud yet.

It's also possible that the plot of the noise was an honest error or something else.
"No, because the idea behind a flat tax is to eliminate most or all of those deductions,"

Removing deductions has nothing to do with the tax curve. You could do that with the current curve and tweak it accordingly.
Since this article is 9 years old, I was curious about follow-up. Checked LinkedIn and looks like this guy is still with the firm he was with in 2009:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-wagner-60a65b116/

So I guess you...can't open a bank?
Nice! A competitor to Etherscan
> compare photos of the 50s to now

Genuinely curious, what am I supposed to take away from that comparison? I mean, I see a lot of oversized gas-guzzling cars and people with ugly sunglasses. In both sets of photos.
All good points. My only comment would be that the average age of the people in the study was not 32. That was the maximum age.
Ugh. This just further poisons me against unicode being a good thing. ASCII or bust.

"ABCD" and "𝓐𝓑𝓒𝓓" are the same thing, but they also aren't. Am I supposed to normalize everything on username creation to prevent people from making duplicates?
Well, besides apparently spoofing one of their senior colleagues' email addresses to send another colleague an email asking him not to criticise the authors' works. Through Protonmail.
𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝙷𝙽 𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚚𝚞𝚘𝚝𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚒𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚏𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚜. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙵𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚍𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚣𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗 𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚜.
Is Mark Zuckerburg a rich nerd? Is that a good summary of him? Does that imply that if you've experienced nerds, then you can glean insight into Mark's head? If we understand nerds, can we understand Mark Zuckerburg? Or Bill Gates?

I feel so dubious at this label which is meant to provide psychological insight into a person.
tracked in https://github.com/lukaslueg/macro_railroad/issues/5 if anyone cares
It's impossible to earn a high income without others taking a majority of what you "bring in."

Engineers get hammered on equity by Founders, who get hammered by Venture Capitalists, who hand over most of their profits to Institutional funds. It's a food chain thing, but I don't think it's worth getting that upset about.

But then again, Institutional Funds put billions at risk to into Venture Capital funds who put millions at risk to founders who take on more risk, and a boat loat more stress and hassle (usually) than their employees.

Software salespeople need to bring in 4-5x of what they cost. Lawyers and consultants are often tasked with bringing in 3-4x their cost. Why should engineers be any different?

My granddad told me a story a few years ago about a guy who was a fantastically successful oil trader. A buy the whole tanker oil trader kinda guy. One of the reasons he'd been so successful was that he always tried to leave a bit of margin there for other people.

I work as a recruiter. I know exactly how much money I've made my company and how much I've personally been paid. I could make more by starting out on my own. But I'd also take on a lot of hassle that I don't really want to bother with at this point in my life. As long as it remains a fairly reasonable trade, I'll be fine with it.
> But that's not what I wanted. I wanted Chrome's url bar to interpret those unicode code points as an italic version of the actual unicode code points I want. Chrome should add a check for edge cases like these and add branches to map the string to the corresponding non-styled code points automatically.

No, it shouldn't. They are semantically different code points. The _whole point_ is that they are semantically different code points (they're from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, the purpose of which is for e.g. when you have a formula containing 𝘹 and 𝘅 as semantically different characters, where that difference needs to be preserved in copying & pasing, conveyed to screen readers, etc.

> Ooh, here's another one-- if you paste some unicode.style'd text into LibreOffice does it convert it to the "normal" code points and add the relevant styling? If not, it should, otherwise it's broken.

It really, really, really shouldn't, for the same reason as above.

Mathematical symbols are not a replacement for text styles and markup. Trying to make them that will destroy the thing they're actually useful for, the thing they can do that text styling can't do: preserve their semantics when transmitted in plain text (including for accessibility purposes).

This is not styling. It cannot be normalized away. They are semantically different characters.

https://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html#Pf6
We wanted Ambrosia, instead we got Soylent.
It is indeed a very well written comment drawing attention to the issue. One imagines that there could be some explanation that isn't a deliberate attempt at data fabrication. Perhaps there was some temperature dependent process in their measurement apparatus that they didn't understand and it was getting suppressed by high magnetic fields. In their rush to show their results, this could have been overlooked. I don't know how likely that is, but it seems plausible in some sense.
Back to psychology
Large cranial structures matter, especially those influencing the pons.
Wheter you have a triangle in the back of your head like me, allowing both.
Round, or a marble -- in the latter case -- there is a good and a bad eye; and the ability to climb and never make it. Good or bad being semi-arbitrary, but heavily dependant on time -- how far. Just motor no eye, one eye and thor; breidablikk and thor -- we prefer valhalla.
In the latter two cases, one or two eyes; the cerebellum plays a role -- it's war.
So you have Mjolnir, Hammer and Breidablikk; Odin and Frigg are halfs of a cerebellum.
Coherency, speed and bandwidth respectively.
Vili and Ve -- feeling and more(fler); gives choice -- vali, can be fali(dangerous).
I thought it was understood in context and because Americans usually refer to "the Autobahn" as the parts without speed limits.
Have you looked at MAC randomization filtering at all? It should be easy to filter based on probe vs established.
Yeah that got me too, but looking at pics it just looks arid and fairly clear land.

Maybe they meant impenetrable.....as in walking too far off the road won't get you anywhere..... otherwise it seems pretty hikeabke.
Disappointed that knichi wasn't on the list. It sounds yummy in the move Barefoot in the Park when Victor Velasko described it during the cocktail party.

I was really surprised when I found out it was fictional.
Also using similar unicode characters in your username for nefarious spoofing attacks or worse -- https://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/

This is called a Homoglyph attack.

If you accept unicode for strings that should be "unique" (eg username), there are various normalization schemes that basically convert equivalent-ish looking characters into a consistent hash.

I have no doubt spam filters use this.
i've often had more luck passing these captchas randomly selecting 4 boxes from the grid than trying to answer it intelligently. for example it often asks to select a sign -- does the signpost count? only 50% of the time... similarly, it might ask to select cars. does a bus count? there is no consistency, presumably because the training data is ambiguous. does it deter spam? yes, of course. so would a 404.
Yeah and if you live where it is cold and snows, can be even longer.
42M out of 150M tax returns filed in 2015 had taxable interest (1099-INT)

https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-inco...
Seconded. Audio for learning is like getting a fixed dataset in a linked list, and text/transcript is like getting it in a vector. There's zero benefit from the former, and by losing efficient random access, you can no longer skim/skip/search for things.
Michael Dell gambled billions and saved his company – but can he do it again?
No note of parallelism on the roadmap?

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Roadmap
𝔇𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔬 𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫?
You either have to do that, or restrict usernames to ASCII subset only (and face the wrath of non-Latin alphabet users), or restrict to a whitelist of ranges that only represent alpha characters across all languages (i.e. not math symbols, nor box-drawing, nor emoji, etc.)

i8n is complicated because the diversity of language is itself complicated. I feel your pain, though, don't get me wrong.
They're not conspiracy theories at all. The establishment Democrats just don't care, and don't align with the voters in the party. They vote in line with Republicans and Trump over and over. Here are some recent examples, they're essentially neoconservatives at this point.

Schumer won't whip votes to block Kavanaugh [1]. Democrats voted overwhelmingly in favor of the largest Military defense budget in history [2]. Tom Perez reversed a ban on taking donations from fossil fuel companies [3].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/schumer-plays-long-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/06/20/house-an...

[3] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/401356-dnc-pass...
The larger the die the worse the yields, and 7nm will have worse yields than previous generations. AMD will go even harder on MCMs because it makes 7nm cost-effective.
The verification method is called public counting. Here in Germany you can stand next to the ballot box all day to verify that nobody tampers with it and then attend the public counting of the votes.
Try to make sure everyone knows the adjenda ahead of time too if possible so everyone is prepared.
Most of human history is defined by doing manual labor until crippled or dead. Only a subset of people in history have ever had any sort of engineering role. Only in the last few decades have jobs like mine been invented.

No I don't feel like a pawn. I feel like I have been given a tremendous inheritance and now it's my turn to contribute. If anything I look at what those before me created and am disappointed that I'm not their equal.
I've made it, it's just spiced mead. Mine was with cinnamon and clove, but I'm hoping to make another batch with rosemary and maybe thyme soon.
Show HN: The next improved Y combinator startups list
> ... but personal interpretation is moot here because the involved parties agreed that it was a request and fulfilled it.

The exact point is that this is not a fact. This is the conclusion you are reaching based solely on a coincidence of time and excluding other factors, including the months long campaign already operating by the Russians.

> What's more likely, that Donald Trump made the request, and then the Russians stayed late at the office completely coincidentally to do exactly what was in the request, or that the Russians saw the tweet and stayed late at the office to fulfill the request?

It's just as likely the Russians thought it would be worthwhile, funny, disruptive, or otherwise desirable to include these targets because he said this, but that it was neither a request nor a fulfillment of that request. The timing of the event can be significant without it being a literal request.

> Emphasis added.

Yes, this is the first time they attacked those particular accounts, yet it is a long list of attacks made by this group. This isn't really saying anything at all except repeating that you consider the timing of it to be significant.
Helps to think about it like this: if you averaged 60 MPH on a two mile drive, your trip would last two minutes. Since your first mile was driven at 30 MPH you've already been driving for exactly two minutes. The only way to hit an average of 60 MPH for the whole trip is if the second mile is instantaneous.
"An athlete goes professional at twenty. At thirty, he is slower but more canny. At forty, he leaves behind the identity that he was born to and that sustained him. He diminishes into fifty, sixty, seventy. Anyone ambitious who lives to be old or even old endures the inevitable loss of ambition’s fulfillment."
It's interesting to see how folks can live in other areas. Because retirement accounts have so many restrictions, people who anticipate spending $1M-$2M on a house in the next 10 years pretty much ignore them. Of course, these homes (at least ones near Palo Alto) are themselves a good investment, and carry tax benefits similar to (but smaller than) retirement accounts.

Hearing the stories here makes me want to leave!
6502 is also what the Terminator ran. We should thank our time traveler saviors for stopping the Furby uprising from happening.
Therefore, when motor rides senses or others porely.
Thor becomes less, making space for Vali.
Being Vanir behind Loki and Idun, if the horse is bad.
You want to break Thor, otherwise you invite Shor with the wolves.
Reminds me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHbaBd3h0FU
In the "Figure 5. Extinguising the SPT" photo, you can see in the toaster reflection that the experimenter appears to be barefoot! Not recommended when playing with fire.

http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/toast-5a.gif
I didn't downvote, but assume it's because one datapoint is not meaningful, and it comes across as immodest.
My experience is that you need to be easier on yourself. That 100x pressure you feel, my guess is that mostly that's yourself. Do the minimum to get by and be easier on yourself till you feel like you are capable of more.
of course the real consequence of the above is that tor/incognito users are essentially being excluded from increasing parts of the web. it's hard to think it isn't intentional either (ie privacy is becoming illegal)
Followed by spam filters keying in on use of such alternative/modifier characters and marking them as spam. Better check your spam folder if you get a lot of e-mails with mathematical formulas.
Google’s DeepMind to Create Product to Spot Eye Disease
It's a simple illustrative paradox, but the world is complicated.

I'd go with choice 5 as well. Maybe it's a world where the same number of gallons is saved (per miles driven) as choice 1, but it's a world where the roads are safer.
Microsoft added a UserVoice forum where we can request and vote for features/changes.
https://skype.uservoice.com
I'm afraid the case isn't that simple for academic publishing.

The authors, i.e., scientists who conducted the research, usually pay a lot of money (typically 1500--2500 USD, depending on the journal) to the journal to get their paper published (of course, after peer review). In this process, neither the authors nor the reviewers get any payment for their work, although they put the most amount of efforts into it. On the other hand, most research papers are funded by the taxpayers, yet the products, aka the published papers, are behind the paywall for individual citizens. The publishers did nothing except typesetting, publishing, and maintaining an online database, but they profit the most from a researcher's work. Besides, some journals may even require the authors to sign away their copyright, meaning the publisher legally owns the work.

In my humble opinion, this is a kleptocratic model and I have no idea why academia has tolerated this for years. But I'm not suggesting any disruptive way to enforce social justice. I just want to emphasize that requesting the papers directly from the authors is totally legal and fair use, if someone does not feel comfortable to use sci-hub.
> Today banks uses fee for everything and everyone is ok with that

They actually don't. Most ATM fees and inter-bank payments (at least in the UK / Europe) are swallowed by the banks rather than exposed to customers.

> So yes, it is very possible to make a profit by not only having those things but having that without fees.

How? As far as I can tell you're describing a bank that runs deposit accounts but doesn't loan the money back - that is not obviously a profitable enterprise. Something in the whole scheme has to make some money to pay for the employees, the infrastructure, and all the other fixed costs.
Another technique for unsupervised feature selection is Principal Feature Analysis (PFA): http://venom.cs.utsa.edu/dmz/techrep/2007/CS-TR-2007-011.pdf
It seems to me that the forged emails are what is being called out as a bizarre fraud, since they definitely are fraudulent. The rest of the thread makes it clear that the experimental results are still to achieve a consensus one way or the other (although it doesn't look good, does it?)
Except if the event is in say, San Diego, LA, San Francisco or New York.
I think we can assume that, given the complexity of a Terminator, the 6502 was just there for I/O, kind of like a BBC Micro with an ARM processor.
>Constantly re-arguing the theoretical neutrality and easy availability of ID (which is generally neither free or easily available, in some cases deliberately) ignores the practical effect of voter ID laws, and the motivations of those pushing for voter ID laws.

I'm not sure why we wouldn't want to guarantee the integrity of our elections. That's what this whole thread is about after all. Voter ID is just one key component of that.
> Removing deductions has nothing to do with the tax curve. You could do that with the current curve and tweak it accordingly.

In theory, but (serious) advocates of the flat tax generally are proposing both.