skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto.

Also when someone is barely getting by, assuming they are not dealing with addiction or violence and generally just subsisting, you can bet they know exactly what to do with that last $20. E.g. groceries with the highest calories per dollar, how many bus passes to get at a time, etc.

If budgeting is what is meant by investment (since obviously we're not talking about saving if there's nothing to be saved), from what I have seen poor people are incredibly good at it.

Contrast that with money managers who are generally just bad and can't outperform the market, not for lack of trying. Is "investment" really the right idea, and who says it's the number one importance compared to basic human needs?

Why does everything have to be about abstract efficiency and cost? It's not like there's a shortage of business opportunities for techno-luxuries that are fun to produce and trade, that we absolutely must go after basic rights via austerity. Lousy rentier mindset, we should have to be creative to profit. Once monopolies emerge they should be broken up, and once technologies become necessary for daily life, access to them should become a right. Tax incentives to invest in R&D instead of hoarding wealth could be expanded. So many things can be done to mitigate issues within "social democracy" without going full public ownership or eliminating private property. Question is, once these things are implemented, how can their repeal be prevented? Time to open up and revise constitutions.
Many xmas lights flicker, even when they're not in blinking mode. With the really crappy ones it's often noticeable just by looking at them. With some of the slightly less crappy ones, it's easier to notice when looking at them out of the corner of your eye.
Answer to the Ultimate Question of (On-Call) Life,the Universe,and Everything:71
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I lived in Laos in the late 70's/Early 80's. Even with full use of the diplomatic pouch, a letter to the US and back was a 3-month round trip, with only a ~80% success rate. We'd learned to send one, then its carbon copy with the next bag, just in case.

Phoning home was utterly impossible. The only cable line back was a fax machine the size of a refrigerator that went straight to the State Department, and was the only room guarded by stern men with guns.

(the slightly more disposable diplomats themselves had only local, unarmed security to pick from. This was a non-trivial risk- while we were there, the Japanese ambassador and his wife were both murdered. Perhaps surprisingly to some in modern times, Americans were pretty well received by the local population. It was safer for us to go shopping than, say, the French, Russians, or Japanese, although it was still too much of a risk for me to go to a local school. The Australians were the most popular, although I strongly suspect this was also linked to them having a nice swimming pool that they shared with everyone.)

The only doctor we had access to was a retired, somewhat eccentric Swedish veterinarian who specialized in pigs, and pigs were pretty close to people for most things.

(He kept a copy of Playboar on his office reception table.)

And finally, I remember getting chased through the metal detector (they didn't really care about guns, for the most part. It was people trying to carry durian in an enclosed space that really pissed them off) by a scared water buffalo in the airport, which then proceeded to run around on the airstrip for an hour until the local kid from the farm it came from hopped on his back and rode him home.

Of course, nowadays I can pull up any of half a dozen free webcams and see who is strolling down the streets near where I once lived. It feels like a lifetime ago, and yet I'm barely in my mid-40's as it is. Things sure do change fast.
> I think you've hit on the fundamental contradiction of agile and scrum.

IMHO, Scrum is a tool bring an agile development process to a classical project organization. The idea behind Scrum is to build your own 'bubble' (the development team) where you can use an agile approach while assigning people who are meant to manage the interactions with the rest of the organization (Scrum Masters).

So in the end, Scrum is some kind of practical approach to bringing agile development practices to large organizations and obviously, that is a compromise. So there is no contradiction, it is just that Scrum is not the solution, but a (first stage) tool to change existing organizations to become the agile organizations we would like to work within.

Sadly many companies think they are 'Agile' once they adopted Scrum, but often they embraced the 'Processes and Tools' while agile clearly states that 'Individuals and interactions' are the relevant part:

http://agilemanifesto.org
Software Sprawl, the Golden Path, and Scaling Teams with Agency
Look up lucid dreams.
TSMC has already an alpha tape out using EUV. The tech may finally have arrived.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13445/tsmc-first-7nm-euv-chip...
I do not agree
according the latest public poll, Taiwanese people choose independent and "keep current status(not unification)"
are more than unification.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2018/09/19/2...
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Childhood has changed a lot in recent centuries.[0] Now, in most developed nations, at least, it's child-focused. And as hard as that may sometimes be for parents, it's a great thing.

0) The History of Childhood by Lloyd DeMause (1995).
Software Engineering – A philosophical activity
You could be right. But evolution is full of examples of adversity and pain in the short run has long term benefits. Illness breeds resistance, bacteria strengthen the immune system, exertion leads to regrowth of stronger muscles. Perhaps the transition to adulthood must be difficult and tough and painful and challenging simply because an adult is a person that has faced all that and learned and grown stronger, smarter and kinder?

Where was their childhood when my parents had to go look for the sheep in the mountains all by themselves, even as they had just started in school? When their favorite little lamb that they had cared for for years became dinner? When the parents were too busy trying to scrape together enough food for winter to play with them or look after them? My point isn't that things were much worse then, but that it's never been easy. Things are just difficult in a different way.
it usually works the other way around - they give you a 2-3% discount when paying with your mobile. in that sense, an extra fee for accepting physical cash is already there.
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Any November k1 visa filer? Do you happen to know if this is an accurate timeline https://rapidvisa.com/k1-visa-timeline/
I agree with all of your thoughtful response and agree that option 3 is the best.

While a deflationary spiral seems bad, and I agree its a bad spiral to go down, a deflation after massive inflation is ok. A deflation in asset prices through rising interest rates frees up surplus capital in the hands of people.

For example, lesser rent/mortgage payments means more cash in hand to spend on say furniture.

Lowering of prices would also allow other investors to take some risks. For example, if the cost of input goods into a factory start reducing, that would free up capital to hire more people or do more R&D.

Of course, that only works while deleveraging from a bubble. I agree that deflation from "median" yoy inflation is probably not healthy.

Too much deflation will also cause people to lose jobs because of lack of investment. But like I said, there is a floor to it. Capital freed up because of lower asset prices will circulate in the economy again.

At the essence of this discussion, we are picking winners and losers. I'm not a fan of government making those picks. But, from what we've seen over the last 25 years, impunity from risks has created moral hazards already (such as promising 7% yoy growth to pension funds) with no concern of risk. The lenders need to take some risk and only that way will speculation end.

For example, without bitcoin bust this year, people would've kept speculating the value of bitcoin to the moon (as was happening last year). With this bust, bitcoin denominated assets are still denominated the same but on real terms, they are deflated.

Will that kill the bitcoin industry? Maybe. But for sure it will get rid of the excesses, speculation, fraud, overpromising and basically make humans aware that "Investments are subject to market risk. Please read the offer document carefully before investing"

To conclude, while defaults sound bad, they're not as bad after such a bubble is created (so long as they don't cause systemic faults, at which point, the system should switch to minor inflation, UBI)
A decent article, not pefect but well done. Too often is wildlife, forestry and agricultural sciences tainted with the general populous's biases and misinformation about what is eco-friendly or green despite most people have almost zero experience in any relevant fields. People get taught some simplistic model or ideal as children and never get taught anything beyond that, so they mistakenly believe that they learned all the important and relevant parts to complete the picture. But in reality 9/10 people have never grown more than a few lawn weeds or an extremely hardy house plant that you have to actively attempt to kill. Add in some mass media fluff pieces and bullshit targeted political ads and you got a whole pool of nonsense shielded under the guise of 'common knowledge.'
What is a good alternative to Quora?

I know of Stack Overflow/Exchange however you can’t ask open ended questions there
Mobile phones, free wifi, Facebook, Instagram – and all that – have ruined backpacking.

I did the SE Asia thing in 2003 and it was magical. We met strangers over beer and cigarettes and had all sorts of random conversations. You booked a bus to the next place in the local travel agent. I’ve still never figured out how the tickets worked; how the bus company back in Pnomh Penh knew that someone in Sihanoukville* had bought a ticket.

I’ve been back a bunch of times since, and now it’s just kids on their phones.

A couple of years ago I sat behind a pair of Swedish girls on a beach in Koh Tao: sunset over idyllic beach ahead, cheap cocktail in hand, beanbag-under-bum, yet I watched the two of them just cycle through the social media apps on their phones checking for updates. It was all I could do to not ask them why they’d bothered coming away. It was tragic and it made me sad.

(*An unbelievable paradise in 2003. A total shit-hole now.)
Why would YT recommend you something you already subscribe to? just go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
TLDR: if, in a post apocalyptic world, your home laboratory is still running, you are able to grow penicillium or aspergillus cultures. These may, or likely may not, produce penicillin..
featured requested - want list of countries which offer work visa(permits)
Flashing bike lights are ubiquitous in the United States. I prefer them because I can distinguish a cyclist from what could be a slow car missing a tail light.
Site is 503'd, unfortunately.
The Power of Incentives: Inside the Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior
Sleep? more like Twitch.
We're not talking about the size of single values, we're talking about the cardinality of the set of all distinct values of a given type. I.e. "How many different Strings are there?"
Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s
*infinite?
I will believe it until it shows on Amazon.
A point on flags: yes it would be great if the user wouldn't have to remember to provide --gc-tag explicitly. Bringing that even further, I'd like to be able to specify the cluster in the config (likely in the last "actualization" layer).
Conceptually it's like the namespace: you can currently craft configs that are parametric on a given namespace and then fix that value to a given deployment specific choice. IMHO clusters should be the same except currently they are "outside the config" since the choice of the cluster affects the API endpoint the tool has to talk to.

In my ideal scenario my colleagues would just need to know which file to "apply". The file itself (through its name or directory location or comments or more documentation) will guide the user to the meaning of what environment that actually is (dev, staging, production, some well knownv deployment X)
*How to kill yourself with fungal toxins because you fail to grow the correct species.
Does Burning Your Money Make You Poor?
I started out in B2B sales by learning the SPIN model from scratch. A few thousands of calls later it kind of clicked.

Sales is something you really have to practice by making those sales calls and expect to fail a lot until you eventually get it.
Thanks, I enjoyed the read the first time I came across.

I really don't want to come across as an annoying person but please do not submit the same content marketing articles over and over again. This is the 5th time you're submitting this.
Again though, Netflix is not there to grab a user's attention, Netflix is there to grab a user's money. We shouldn't conflate these two base motivations.

If netflix gets you to pay the monthly fee, while at the same time you only use a quarter of the bandwidth of most other netflix users...

well, I'd imagine that's a win for netflix.

Again, we'd need more of Netflix' internal data, but I wouldn't be surprised if a full modeling would reveal that netflix wants to optimize viewing time to be something less than 100% of some break even viewing level. I have to believe that people using Netflix more than a certain amount in a month end up costing netflix instead of benefiing netflix.

But again, we really need access to their internal data to say that for sure.
That's an issue, true. And it's a frustrating state of affairs. But it's not in keeping with the theme of the article. I think the author is hinting at the idea that "premium" economy is an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp, and that people who pay for it are being suckered into paying for pseudo-prestige because of the "premium" label. But unlike the other examples they cite, premium economy is actually better.
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Also browsed all the other websites you recommended. I bookmarked a lot of them. They all look really interesting.
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Thanks for that book! I read 25% of it (couldn't afford more time). It was really interesting to see how the manufacturing process in China went, how he biohacked a virus [1], and how he hacked hardware through UV exposure. This book was actually tangentially related to my idea but not fully. I think that's for the better because with that book a new world opened up for me.

I think I developed a taste for electrical engineering. Life keeps getting more and more interesting, it is a pity that our lives are so short and that most obligatory education methods (e.g. high school) are so ineffective.

[1] Referring to DNA as bits and pairs of bits as functions and how 'function calls' were made with repeating sequences since they always(ish) encode to the same protein and ribosomes make that translation.
Or a narrative about a narrative about a Facebook crisis?
I asked it directly to Quora, but they didn't answer (so wondering if someone knows the answer here). According to GDPR, if I request them, they have to delete all of my data they ever had - Is my understanding true here? I want to do that, but I'm afraid if they'll actually do it.
Things like this seem to indicate an almost complete lack of competence in regards to security and breach response. Can Marriott not afford to hire one full-time, experienced, competent person to oversee security policy? Of course they can. But it seems that they haven't, because someone who's job it is to oversee security policy should certainly be right in the middle of Marriot's response process, and should have caught something like this.

I'm not saying there are no competent people doing security at Marriott. If you work at Marriott doing security work, I'm not trying to attack you; this kind of thing is not one person's fault (unless it really, really, really is, and not even then, because the other people in the organization shouldn't have allowed such a single-point-of-failure). But really.. it's just abysmal.
Do you have any examples of this? I have never noticed this so far, the "crew" is always in the video or am just not watching those videos?
Yes, I'm aware of that. The set of all languages over a finite alphabet should be countably infinite, since you can list them all. For example, for the alphabet {0, 1} all your strings are just the binary representations of natural numbers, which is countable since ℕ is.
This changes with proof of stake. If you own enough tokens, you can 'stake' them and run a node that generates blocks. In return, you get transaction fees. This makes the token effectively a share in the network.
> “I think one of the main reasons YouTube is so successful in emerging markets is that it is more mobile-centric." explains Michael Goodman, Director of Television & Media Strategies at research firm Strategy Analytics

I think he can be wrong here. It is because it is free my friend. People already pay enough for their phones, internet packages in emerging markets comparing to their monthly salaries. As soon as their income increases, you will be able to see a hike in subscriptions.
IoT solution based on XNU? - bit outside of Apple's gamut but I could see it. iotOS

EDIT: Eh, maybe not the copyright is quite old - perhaps more likely some internal test? Run ARM64 XNU tests on Raspberry Pis maybe? They are pretty cheap hardware with lots of ports.
Bitcoin and AI: Trap for Sex Traffickers
you're OK with all the rape going on in india?
> String is a possibly infinitely long ordered list of fixed-size characters, in which case it is countably finite.

BitSequence, as defined in the blogpost, is an "infinitely long ordered list of fixed-size characters" (where the size is 1 bit in this case) - the set of all BitSequence values is infinite - and uncountable.

By the same logic, the set of infinite strings is also uncountable (as the GP says, it's trivial to do an injection from BitSequence to infinite strings, so it can't have lower cardinality).
I think basically entrepreneurship is your only shot. Finance maybe, but probably not
There is a ton of quality on YouTube, some of my favorites are Redlettermedia, Baz Battles (focused on historical battles) and Lemmino, his short form documentaries are extremely well edited.

Historia Civils is one of my favorite channels as well. Excellent content.
Well, I don't like those lights either, but calling it selfish, is kinda hard when you compare it to how many cyclists get killed every year because some motorist didn't see them.
Reminds me about the Quora's "India Problem" in 2013. I am an Indian and I stopped going on Quora within a month of joining the service. Now, from the looks of it, it has actually worsened.
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CBTC systems are widely used worldwide.

The best solution is probably for the MTA to buy a system from Siemens or Thales – they have that worldwide knowledge. But last time I discussed this here, I was told funding restrictions meant the company had to be American. Unfortunately for that, this is an area of European expertise.
The typical case definitely was not as you described in my major (chemistry). I had a couple homework heavy classes but most had either a fairly large homework burden that nonetheless comprised only a small (10-20) percent of the grade or no mandatory homework at all, merely recommended problems with 100% of the grade dictated by 2-4 exams.
Yep you left before it got bad.
The one thing that sets many ultra wealthy, especially the self made ones apart from a lot of people is how much they value time. I especially liked the fictional evolution of ultra wealthy into immortals in "altered carbon" because it alleviated time as the most important and finite thing they have.
YouTube recently suggested Impulse to me (sci-fi/drama) out of the blue. Just the first 3 episodes for the rest you needed premium. It definitely looked like a show you would find on Netflix or TV in terms of production.
Each string is finite, its characters come from a finite set; that’s countably infinite (think of it as integers written in base Unicode).

Bitsequences are infinitely long, so that’s uncountably infinite or continuity (think of it as real numbers between 0 and 1, written in binary).
If your problem's complexity is big enough, you can't get good solutions without an explicit architecture step. I've seen quite a few bad ad-hoc architectures being created trying to break down epics that were too big. Your team needs a lot of discipline to come up with a good plan/architecture (per story/epic at least) first. Scrum did not help here, to me it seems it legalized hacking away the day... In some domains you can't pay back that kind of dept easily...

The article may have a clickbait headline, but „have an overview and use JIRA in addition to track the leafs of the work hierarchy“ is true.

What I found is that almost all projects try to organize as tree but they should organize as matrix, at least if there are many cross-cutting components.
I conjured some hypotheticals just to illustrate how many possible causes there are.

My doubt about cause of your problems being psychological traumas of the past comes from sheer number of possible other causes and from how many times those other causes were actual causes of peoples ailments while psychological factors were suspected.

Also slow and partial recovery is suspicious to me. When you find the real cause and remove it, relief is quick and large.

My intelectual objection to your train of thought is that you claimed "I checked everything else." Which is false because there's too much of everything.

You just seen one correlation after years of seeing none and think that's a causation just because of that.

Don't get me wrong I do the same thing. My gf has brain tumors. I give her melatonin every evening just because I've seen some correlation between the times she stopped taking it and started again and how her MRI looked. But I'm telling about it hardly anone because there were too many cases when one thing seemed to work for someone and only after much research it was established that in general it was as stupid idea as it sounded.

My belief that mind is just what the brain does doesn't strongly influence my opinion of your claims. This belief comes from reading about various cases of how brain damage shapes the mind.

Another thing that makes me sceptical is that after what I lived through with my fragile mind I should be suffering for all host of suspicious ailments. But all my ailments can be traced to specific factors like dry air, allergy, working as a programmer, having fun by playing computer games, genetically shitty joints (as my mum's), caffeine poisoning, genetically prone to migraines, skipping eating and drinking, not sleeping enough, being close to 40, not excersising.
Very reasonable decision
Yeah, right? I had this experience in China. You move from being really far outside of what's happening and where things are and what people talk to almost being able to go anywhere yourself, talk to almost anybody and find out what's going on. Smartphones have changed travelling a lot. Although you must sure to get a good VPN before going to China.
Memoization in React
The industrial usage is still unrelated to the price. The amount needed is tiny so the high cost is not a factor.
In a way these are not life changing events. Whether I travel coach or by private jet is largely irrelevant to me.

A bigger impact on your life would be any of the following.

- Your health and exercide.

- The strength of your relationships.

- Having 1 or 2 close friends.

- Being grateful for what you already have.

- Enjoying your work.

- Having a dog.

- Learning new things.

- Giving back.
Creating composite components in React