skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take was that he is using a slightly different definition of "chance" or "trial and error" than what is perhaps common. I don't quite grasp his definition enough to be able to do it justice.

I don't know enough about geology to be able to comment intelligently on your digging holes in the ground point. However, from my own background in biology research, a lot of what he writes strikes true with some caveats.

Biological systems are highly complex, and a lot of reductionist basic research work does seem to be driven by understanding along the forms of "I have a mental model of this subsystem, if I do X, then I expect Y." However, a lot is also discovered via his "convexity" principles (which I agree most laypeople would label as "trial and error"). Biologists often discover functions by randomly mutating billions or trillions of individual microbes, screening for interesting phenotypes, and then sequencing to discover the supposedly causal mutations.

Where the understanding approach really breaks down is in engineering systems -- which I believe requires an even higher level of understanding than the qualitative mental models bandied about in biology. We simply don't understand enough to be able to develop most drugs with that sort of rational approach, so reducing costs per attempt (while keeping all else equal, which is something often overlooked) would be beneficial. Unfortunately, things in the industry appear to be heading the other direction.
Their argument is that we have yet to determine the real-world consequences for the correlation observed in the experiment.

In other words: yes, ibuprofen seems to affect something, but we don’t really know whether that effect is significant enough to warrant avoidance of ibuprofen. It might have no observable impact.

(Not saying I agree—this is just their argument.)
Where do you get that IDFA is unique to the publisher?
No. That's the point. Docker and k8s provide a means to express your state requirements and splits state management from process management.

The trick is to express your state requirements. And yeah, you will be burned badly if you don't do this... and maybe docs and such should call this out better to make sure people don't set themselves on fire just because they didn't dig in deeply enough.

But docker and k8s do provide a means to assist in managing this state for you (swarm... not so well just b/c the work hasn't been done).
As an aside, Google has owned land in Kronstorf for a decade. Presumably they pay property tax on it, even if it's not used?

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/11/21/goog...

Anyway, a little after that came out, I asked someone about the project's timeline. They didn't go into details, but they weren't optimistic.

I don't know what has been going on between the two sides, but, ten years later, the land is still undeveloped. In the meantime, Google has built, expanded or announced data centers in Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and Denmark. I wonder what separates those from Austria.
No, you can use a registered agent same as you do in the US when you incorporate in Delaware. You can open a bank account too, though many banks apparently won't participate because of some bank scandals in a nearby baltic country. I happened to be near Estonia and so opened one in person. The scandal problem happened more recently so I am not sure how easy that is right now.

The e-residency card comes with a chip reader that plugs into your computer and does a handshake with the bank. There are a bunch of companies who authenticate via the e-e-residency card: https://e-resident.gov.ee/run-a-company/
I can’t find any record of those being actually sold/installed, or any issues like mentioned in the article? Either way, it is pointless to speculate on technical issues affecting the viability of the Tesla product that doesn't exist yet. We'll only know when solar roof is on the market.
Do you have bloodwork showing reduced testosterone levels? If not, get that first - your situation sounds complicated enough without removing a solution that may not be causing you any measurable harm.
Formal verification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification
> EU funds for open ended projects are notorious for being leeched

Can you give some examples please?
FYI, the link for https://github.com/mingodad/raptorjit-ljs is down.

Congrats for the project, transpilers are great fun.

An impactful project and a logical next step would be writing a new version of Moonshine (http://moonshinejs.org/) or writing a modern full-blown Lua to JS transpiler.
> Having low NAD+ leads to all sorts of terrible

Maybe "the low NAD+ levels" are a symptom, not a cause, since its linked to unrelated diseases?
Less raw materials to produce, easier to transport by rolling, easier to place onto the manhole, easier to stack when transporting/storing in bulk, etc
I learned something new. A broker can sell your stock without your consent?
Curious, does AWS Glue or SchemaCrawler do any type inference past basic data types? Such as string analysis to automatically mark fields as a shipping tracking number, IP address, ISO country/city, correct date format, etc?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18682678
New robotics and vision systems are still very much using c++. Real time object tracking with sensor fusion requires careful handling of resources all of which needs to fit into a larger framework. C++ is the best choice to be able to develop a complex OOP architecture and still be able to get the efficiency where you need it.
So there's nothing in the design that can be done at scale that's useful here? I'm not trying to nit-pick, but are you saying none of the design (except for the power supply) is novel or useful?
Private, quiet space is a visceral need for some people and a frivolous luxury for others. In my experience it's very difficult for the people in these two groups to understand each other. A craving for solitude is an expensive trait, but one I have no qualms about indulging: after spending all day in a giant open floorplan and then commuting on a crush-loaded train, if there were Craigslist strangers in my home I'd be in hell.
> What loopholes do they use to pay next to no taxes?

Principally routing investment gains through a series of entities, each which assesses transaction expenses, until no taxable gains are left. Luxembourg, Andorra and the Isle of Man are favourites for extracting income. The fixed cost of this plumbing is high, so it only makes sense if you’re investing €10+ million at a time. But it surprised me when I first saw how complicated simple European transactions were compared to American ones. (The former would route through a menagerie of family trusts, companies and other entities. The latter, at worst, would route through a Delaware LLC or Cayman LP.)
According to the Wikipedia [1]

Reasons for the shape might include:

* A round manhole cover cannot fall through its circular opening, whereas a square manhole cover might fall in if it were inserted diagonally in the hole. The existence of a "lip" holding up the lid means that the underlying hole is smaller than the cover, so that other shapes might suffice. (A Reuleaux triangle or other curve of constant width would also serve this purpose, but round covers are much easier to manufacture.)

* Round tubes are the strongest and most material-efficient shape against the compression of the earth around them.

* A round manhole cover of a given diameter has a smaller surface area than a square cover of the same width, thus less material is needed to cast the manhole cover, meaning lower cost.

* The bearing surfaces of manhole frames and covers are machined to assure flatness and prevent them from becoming dislodged by traffic. Round castings are much easier to machine using a lathe.

* Circular covers do not need to be rotated to align with the manhole.

* A round manhole cover can be more easily moved by being rolled.

* A round manhole cover can be easily locked in place with a quarter turn (as is done in countries like France), which makes them hard to open without a special tool. Lockable covers do not have to be made as heavy, because traffic passing over them cannot lift them up by suction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover
impl Drop for Acid {
fn drop(&mut self) {
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}
}
Flies like a frisbee when Superman throws it...
Is anyone surprised by the notion that ratcheting is critical for consolidating gains made from chance events? I thought that was a trivial observation (maybe my biologist bias is showing here).
>a bias just means you have a preconceived view on a topic

Yes, but is it not also bias to leap to a conclusion someone is bias because they don't agree with the status quo?

> But ~40 mothers also isn't a large enough sample size.

I've spoken with many more than that over the past three decades, but I've yet to see a significantly larger sample size in any of the studies on sugar or Red 40.

>Being paid [..] is called corruption, not bias.

Of course it is, except when it's not disclosed. That is part of what the article linked here addresses. Some of those studies have been taken as being uncorrupted for decades now and that has very much influenced the current beliefs on the subject.

> I will -- there is absolutely no link

Well, I've heard too many stories about mom's taking their children to get vaccinated and describing the effects as "It's like the very next day or two their lights just went out".

I have no personal experience with this, but I won't dismiss that. There are so many variables that could affect this that it would be imprudent to do so, and those that sell vaccines are highly motivated to ignore those who've brought it up.

It's so easy to assume we know everything. It's human nature in fact to delude ourselves this way. Considering how much we do not know about how gut bugs interact with almost everything we are exposed to, that alone provides more than enough reason to avoid concrete statements like "there is absolutely no link" and doing so is most certainly proof of bias.

It's a huge leap to ignore those who witness these effects and again I can draw from my own personal experience when my first wife's doctors told me "there is absolutely no link between women having a child and psychosis". And that happened not just once, but twice.

All of her doctors, everyone of them, were arrogantly and insistently dead assed wrong and now we know they were all wrong beyond any doubt. How many moms do you think they all ignored before they finally saw the light?

It was 1 to 2 out of every 1,000 deliveries. An abortion can trigger it too.

So, if you preconceive those same odds could never apply to vaccines and autism because only 1 or 2 out of every 1,000 mom's say that was the cause you may well be wrong for a very long time even while a preventative treatment is staring you in the face.
I think this line of thinking is fallacious on the premise that the industry is growing at such a fast rate the next generation of engineers and developers is exponentially larger than the previous creating this illusion that most of the older folks must have retired by their 30s or 40s.
I love PlantUML so much that I made my own Confluence plugin Called PowerPlantUML: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219122/powerplantuml...
Internet is typically spotty, slow, and expensive on cruises. May be an opportunity for improvement.
> What does this require of Britain today? An apology? Absolutely. Reparations? Perhaps

Indian here, I seriously don't understand lot of Indians(atleast on reddit) are still obsessed with the British history, yes the British stole from India, get over it.

There are big Indian crooks who stole from India in the last couple of years and they are enjoying their lives in the UK, the Indian govt does not bother them then why bother about British looting 60 years back.
> in the UK, you can open an account in minutes on your mobile phone with any photo ID, even if you're not a UK resident.

But u need a house contract/utility bill. I was in this situation recently. Arrived from non EU. Cannot sign a rental agreement as i did not have bank account and could not get bank account as i had no rental agreements!
This sounds like a terrible idea. You can provide a way for people to opt out of legacy behavior, but don't break them outright unless you want to lose your most faithful, long-term users.
This is actually pretty nice. Sometimes to explain stuff and flows, I draw shitty graphics in emails by using a combination of ASCII characters. This is like the pro version of that.
Only if taken in excessive doses. It’s fairly harmless if taken as instructed.
Good blog post, nice write up of the conversation, but she left out the part at the end where the CEO bemoans the shortage of qualified software engineers.
This article proposes raising levels of NAD to counter aging related dna damage.

My google search also resulted in: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-12-pathway-linked-slower...

TLDR; NAD+ over-activeness is associated with a deadly form of brain cancer, and the article ends with an open question from an expert if it could be modulated to not have this adverse effect.

The next step is probably figuring out the tricky balance between these two ends.
I’ve never worked in SV. Only small enterprises, Microsoft, a handful of local startups, and one SV company. The SV company had above average retention compared to most of the non SV places I’ve worked. The 3 year range has been pretty much the norm in my experience (20 years or so). 5 years has been on the high end in every company I’ve worked for. It is anecdotal, but it is what I’ve seen consistently across markets both large and small.
If you're using PlantUML on Confluence, check out the free plugin that I threw together: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219122/powerplantuml...
Whoops, I assumed the obfuscator would encrypt those strings. I should have checked that more carefully. Oh well!
Google stopped asking brainteaser questions like that because they found no correlation in its hiring usefulness.
Ha. Plus, it serves as an alarm clock!
Nice, thank you. I have been using fish for a long time, but wasn't aware of these.

Have defined the following:

abbr -a gp 'git push'
abbr -a k kubectl
abbr -a n 'npm run'
abbr -a y yarn
abbr -a m make

Now, when I type n, then SPACE, then TAB, I can get the list of npm tasks for example.
> some government or entity accepted Bitcoin

But this is already happening. There are multiple places around the world that accept bitcoin to pay for their taxes.

> it's not actually worth anything in the long run because eventually everyone has to cash out.

Is gold worth nothing, because eventually people have to cash out? Gold is also deflationary.

What people need to understand is that deflationary currencies have existed for centuries. The idea of a federal reserve, constantly controlling inflation rates, is a new phenomenon.

People 200 years ago somehow survived with deflationary currencies.

I am in favor of free choice. And I see no reason why people shouldn't have the choice to own a deflationary currency. If you don't like deflationary currencies, all you have to do is simply not use it, and leave the rest of us who disagree alone.
Yes, see sibling comment.
> have inherited $30M, then lost most of it. The title makes it seem like he was clipping coupons and eating ramen.

He was doing that. He was also working multiple jobs. He also had an inheritance. It was all of these things.
IMO the problem with software methodologies is leaky abstraction.

There just isn't a general framework that tells you how to categorize and deal with every issue that you come up with.

The main thing I get from the various methodologies is general philosophies. Things like "try to get feedback incorporated quickly". Or "Identify in advance the things that are expensive to change".
From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11671985
Full Metal Jacket: A visual dataflow language (2016)
> I can't say I noticed any obvious benefit from either regimen

What could you have noticed?
A rainforest hermit who stepped out of the wild [video]
Top 9 Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones
Ask HN: What books/activities do you recommended for being more charismatic?
One of my big goals for 2019 is to become more charming and charismatic. What resources have helped you guys?

One that helped me a lot personally was this book "never split the difference"
XP wasn't a set of practices, or methodology, it was a set of principles. "Value working software" etc. The "methodology" flows from there: only do the things that help support the principles, get rid of everything else you can (up to and including many of the scrum rituals/meetings).
Ironically all the utility covers I see in the UK are square.

I also think the casting argument is a good one and its a lot easier to cast a round object than a square one (its to do with how molten metal flows)
I love my VW GTI.
Yeah it’s like - OK what systems are not like that? Pre written technology eras where one could lose knowledge if a tribe member died?

Maybe The Great Leap Forward when Mao killed a bunch of intellectuals?
Hmm, sorry I did not mean to imply that. It is indeed true that both docker volumes and k8s PVs are just host bind mounts.

However I did mean to clarify that - k8s does not uses docker volumes. Whatever performance issues one notices could either be associated with storage provider or container writable layer.
> But the aha moment for me was that not everyone does well in those fast-paced brainstorming sessions. A lot of people (including me) prefer to sit with a cup of coffee and some data and try to think things through.

This is me. Hard to get that across in an interview, but once people work with me, they're cool with me coming back an hour later in an email with some thoughts on the last meeting topic. They know and respect that that's the way I work[0].

[0] I'm not the only one on the team who does this, so that helps.
If you stopped the dosage, would you expect to lose the weight and muscle? Seems easy to test.
Kelly, on His Way Out, Says Administration Long Ago Abandoned Idea of Wall
If cut-through is enabled in the switch, it won't even drop on bad checksum, since by the time the switch can tell the checksum is wrong, it has already forwarded the entire packet.
Yes. If you're a musician or attend lots of live shows, consider visiting an audiologist and investing in some custom-formed earplugs. You'll be able to hear clearly and comfortably without destroying your hearing over time.
The expected value of an infinite series of coin flips centers on 0. Sure, you might get lucky, but you can't leverage that as a strategy to ratchet up value. That's the point about luck in the non convex case.

To your mining example, that's where prospecting comes in. Use your knowledge to make checking candidate locations cheaper (increasing convexity) - knowledge of geology to approximate likelihood, improvements to technology to determine if gold exists, etc. Then go check as many candidate mines as possible. It's much more cost effective to have a lot of shallow mines than it is to extract every ounce all the way down to the crust from a single mine.
I'll take the troll bait. So if the US military does it then it's perfectly fine?
At least in my area Century Link business is the only isp I can get at my house that doesnt come with a data cap. Both CenturyLink home and our cable provider have data caps that are enforced. And working from home along with Netflix and YouTube blow me through the 80gb limit every month. Causing me to have to raise my plan. And I’m not paying $200 a month for unlimited bandwidth.
As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony”
> Python 3 fiasco

Python 3 - fiasco or not - happened and went away. C++ fiasco is still ongoing with no end in sight - both on tooling side and language complexity side.
OP meant non-digital as in “meatspace interaction”
Don't forget also: round manhole covers are a Schelling point.

Making a manhole cover round is one of the first intuitive shapes you'd think to make them (along with squares and rectangles); and so you'd guess, as a construction company gearing up to sell the concept of concrete manholes with removable iron-plate covers to a municipality (back in the 1800s or whenever we first got them) that what the municipality will ask you to make is round manhole covers. So you provisionally set up your tooling for round manhole covers, and build a few for the demo. And the municipality assumes you're the expert about good manhole-cover shapes, and so just goes with the flow, rather than trying to figure out the best shape themselves. So you end up with "the first intuitive thing that worked" spreading via network/"system compatibility" effects.

Same with road widths; same with screw drives.
15 years ago I was interviewing for an engineering job and the VP of engineering at a company asked this question. I happened to have heard this question previously so spouted off a bunch of answers and impressed the heck out of the VP. And that is the real problem with this kind of questions. They largely depend on if you heard the question before or not.
Yes, even when making the right (though unnecessarily risky) call an unrelated third party can still show up out of the blue and ruin everything. There are more failure modes to luck than are commonly understood.
The covers are round because the holes are round. :P
> In fact, paracetamol poisoning is the primary cause of death in overdoses (in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand)[2].

No, it isn't, and for the people who die from paracetamol it's an intentional overdose, it's very rarely an accidental overdose.

In the US about 500 people die each year from acetaminophen overdose per year, compared to over 70,000 from opioids.

Your link number 3 is talking about compounds containing paracetamol. For example, this includes coproxamol. Anyone overdosing on coproxamol was dying from the opioid (dextropropoxyphene), not from the paracetamol.

In the UK we have the ONS deaths related to drugs poisoning. Figure six shows deaths compared by drug type, and paracetamol clear isn't the highest: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

We also have the NCISH data. Item 120 here: https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=38469

3095 deaths by self-poisoning.

Substance Number
Opiates/opioids 947 33%
- opiates only 746 26%
- paracetamol/opiate compound 201 7%
Non-opiate analgesics 205 7%
Antipsychotics 302 11%
Antidepressants 587 21%
- tricyclics 271 9%
- SSRI/SNRIs 260 9%
- other antidepressants 56 2%

Paracetamol is dangerous in overdose, but that says nothing about its safety in normal usage.
Yes, community management is important.

I think the downvotes/flags were because your comment was unsubstantive and snarky. We're trying for better than that here. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following the rules when posting here?

Also, please don't post insinuations of astroturfing or similar abuse like this. That's also in the site guidelines. We're happy to investigate if you're worried about abuse, but the thing to do in that case is email us at hn@ycombinator.com, not take a thread further off topic and/or into flamewar.
Or better - Elastigirl!
https://twitter.com/SamuelGavin/status/1008636415524171776
This is our future. Con jobs on a global scale, completely unregulated and with no repercussions.

The profits of bitcoin didn’t come out of thin air. Every dollar someone made was a dollar someone else lost.