skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing it as a euphemism is, itself, morbid.

“Guys, I have some bad news. Brian, our star programmer, is leaving to work for a competitor.”

‘Oh no! We depended on him so much!’

“Hah! I’m just messing with you. He was hit by a bus and died.”

‘Phew! I was worried I had a job that didn’t pay competitively!’
I was getting funny looks from taxi drivers and waitresses, all of whom were disappointed that another primitive foreigner was forcing them to use cash.

I simply don't like the thought that if I forget my phone, get my phone taken from me, drop my phone and it breaks, or run out of battery that I'll be stranded somewhere and unable to buy food, check in to a hotel, or even get home.

Societies should move toward more payment methods, not fewer. Redundancy is important, especially with something as essential as currency. Look at the recent CenturyLink outage which reduced non-cash sales at stores that relied on it for credit card transactions to zero.

Too much risk in too small a basket.
Pretty much. Some argue a lot of higher-education is merely signaling. So you can't say it's worthless, only that the value is different than is publicly discussed/assumed.

This is an interesting interview about it: http://www.econtalk.org/bryan-caplan-on-the-case-against-edu...
I've seen them available at auction in the past.

https://autoauctions.gsa.gov/GSAAutoAuctions/

https://www.govdeals.com/

https://www.publicsurplus.com

https://craigslist.org
National data on the paycheck-to-paycheck experience is flimsy, but a recent report from the Federal Reserve spotlights the prevalence of extra-tight budgets: Four in 10 adults say they couldn’t produce $400 in an emergency without sliding into debt or selling something, according to the 2017 figures.

This quote links to a report from the Federal Reserve, which contains this gem:

When asked about their finances, 74 percent of adults said they were either doing okay or living comfortably in 2017—over 10 percentage points more than in the first survey in 2013.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2017-repor...

In other words, the survey finds tat 4/10 people can't cough up $400, yet 3/4 say things are fine for them personally.

Later in the report:

To assess actual financial literacy, respondents are asked five basic questions about finances (table 34).

The most missed question (42% of responded answered correctly):

Considering a long time period (for example, 10 or 20 years), which asset described below normally gives the highest returns [Stocks, Bonds, Savings accounts, Precious metals] [Correct answer is Stocks]

I suspect that the view of things being fine financially may be a case of ignorance is bliss.
>Rust will eat up your car in a lot of the world.

Yeah, I live in the Northeast US and, with one exception, rust has been the proximate cause of retiring every vehicle I've ever owned (as well as a few expensive near end-of-life repairs I shouldn't have had done).

The situation is much better than it was 40 years or so again but, if you drive a vehicle in the winter around here, you're still looking at a realistic maximum life of 10 to 15 years before everything just starts falling apart.

I have a 20 year old Honda Del Sol I've garaged in the winter for about the last 10 years. Whenever I take it into the Honda dealer there are always mechanics that want to ooh and ahh over it because they said you basically don't see them around New England any longer.
Wow they are cheap!!
HEIF (based on HEVC and support on MacOS/iOS + Android + Windows) is already way better than JPEG. It also provides HW acceleration.

HEIF is made by MPEG. HEIG is extensible (see AVIF fusing the AV1 royalty-free codec). Also an application format (MIAF) will ensure interoperability.

While waiting for native browser support, some js implementation would do the job.

What else?
The consequences for the prospective retiree are the same regardless of whether the company is actually broke.
We are mostly tech people here, right? Given that, I have a suggestion. We should all be smart, compensated well, etc.

If you worry about things like this, study what's been said by Warren Buffet, Jack Bogle, and Ray Dalio. These guys have won the game and explain clearly how anyone (yes anyone) can slowly accumulate wealth. It really does work.

The site Bogleheads.org is full of helpful ideas and people that will guide anyone that asks nicely.

This problem cannot be solved by politics, but rather by education. Happy (and prosperous) 2019 to all!
Wants a login.
In large part because defined-benefit pensions have been mostly eliminated, and so the problems actually being faced today are all the unfunded obligations accrued in the past.
What visual language are you using? All of them that I’ve used have for-loops, too.
The question in the article reminds me what I read yesterday about an interview with Bram Moolenaar (author of Vim):

> How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future?

> Keep me alive.

https://www.binpress.com/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-intervie...
Show HN: Finally stick to your new years resolution and write more with Blurt
A very fun poem on the theme by Oliver Wendell Holmes (the father of the famed American jurist): http://holyjoe.org/poetry/holmes1.htm
As Venezuela’s woes worsen, Colombia looks elsewhere for trade
>Harassment is a crime.

Which goes back to the other poster's question of where is the problem if it is a factual claim. Assuming they share in the same answer as you, it seems the problem occurs at the point where stating factual statements crosses over into harassment.

While a generic answer that I generally find agreeable, the devil is always in the details, no? Where exactly is that line, and is there still not a problem if someone behaves in manner that is extremely close to but not crossing that line?
I hope the SEC also finds the jokes funny, because if some moron invest money in your site and later loose all the money, he can claim that he was convinced by the reviews.
I have minor Tourette syndrome and the compulsion to twitch is a very similar feeling to cute aggression. I also have intrusive thoughts. They are probably all related.
I don't think it is any easier or harder. The difficulty remains the same.

Today, the web stack is much more accessible, and accessible to a much larger group of people. Indeed, a non-trivial number of its parts are relatively automated (e.g. Weebly). In 1995, it was only accessible to a much smaller group of people. Mobile app development will soon reach the same point. And yet, there are plenty of new technologies and ecosystems - to learn and creatively generate something from - that are inaccessible to people in the same way the web was in 1995.

Experiment until you find something people want that has a promising business model and tech model design. If you get traction, don't take investment from just anyone (I'm reminded of Amazon's VC arm working with Amazon to copy a portfolio companies' product, which then buried that startup). Etc. Etc. There are plenty of other early-stage strategic heuristics you can utilize to your advantage.

Perceived weaknesses or disadvantages can be the other-side of an actual strength or advantage.

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I want to emphasize this point more: often times, the lack of resources (whether financial, intellectual, etc.) is the setting of a creative breakthrough that generates the successful business model and tech model.
i just watched this as per tradition, and wondered if if someone ever thought to post the video on hackernews only to find this article.

i knew this was a german production, but i had no idea that it it actually originated in the UK and yet was never played on UK TV before.
If lenders stay away, then execs get screwed and rest of the company gets screwed as well because now everyone is out of their jobs. Isn't that a worse outcome overall?
I actually like how it compiles down. In a native macOS app I just released this morning, I wrote originally in Preact, converting JSX to function calls to avoid a build phase, and eventually replaced the Preact function with a custom function that creates DOM elements directly. Not only was it a fun learning experience, but it took a relatively tiny amount of time to do, precisely because translating JSX to equivalent DOM node creation code is so predictable and transparent.
> Does doing NLP essentially mean having to learn ML at this point?

Yes. Everything in NLP nowadays involve ML. Most NLP problems have some structure (e.g., generating a sequence from another sequence like in Machine Translation, or predicting a tag for each word in a sequence like in part of speech tagging). Once you have good ML fundamentals it's not that difficult to get into NLP.

Also, even though different tasks in NLP share structure and characteristics, it's a large field with different areas of expertise. You don't need to know everything. Focus on the problems that interest you first.
> Parents are supposed to be omniscient?

The majority of single parents haven't fallen from some perfect baby making situation. They make a risky, selfish choice, usually after the fact.

You shouldn't breed if your situation isn't stable. You shouldn't breed if your partner isn't 100% committed to having children. You shouldn't breed if you are living paycheck to paycheck already.

Babies aren't magical. Parents aren't inherently beyond reproach.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/books/review-in-hillbilly...
Ideally this case would be insured; you'd also be eligible for Social Security survivors benefits.
With a 401k, you own the underlying assets, and a brokerage is just holding them for you.

With a pension, you own a promise from the employer to pay you a fixed amount. How it does that is (theoretically) none of your concern.

Some consider pensions to be more pro-worker because you're entitled to the same payout regardless of market performance. But it seems to be turning out that the 401k is more worker-friendly, as there's no promise to be reneged.
ok, thanks, will do next time. I see they've already removed the black bar so good for now I guess.
I bet future machine consciousness learning will result on machines thinking we’re so cute they’ll destroy us
Been using Blurt for the past week as an early tester of writing efforts. It has been really nice to have a goal every day to hit as I try to build a writing habit. It's my new years resolution, but I wanted to start early.

So far what is working for me to keep my habit up:

- Have a list of topics to write about

- Set aside a specific time each day to write (trying to figure out what time works best still)

- Use the blur function on Blurt to do a brain dump

I still haven't built the habit where it comes "naturally", but I think this will help. I sub-consciously know that I want to meet my writing goal every day and keep my streak up.
We all understood what he meant.
But if you can provide a superior alternative conveying the same meaning succinctly, please do.
If you’re going to cheat, go all the way and recite it in base 2^882,589,933-1.

Learning that also will help you cover larger primes, once they get found.
>No, it should not be a rule

Sorry for the confusion, I didn't mean for it to exist as an actual rule, just as an recommendation by the institution in question. Such as a campus police department giving out safety tips.
Cool yeah! I listened to the first three courses (Math for ML / Linear and Logistic Regression / Elements of Data Science) on my commute, and even though I thought I knew things, just persisting in "re-learning" the material helped a lot to fill in the gaps for me. I was just browsing the links again too, there's a whole lot of other courses/specialities after that too (if not posted there, maybe elsewhere).

I am not an expert, but from what I've heard/seen, being really solid on the fundamentals of regression and feature modeling (and not being afraid to read and apply ArXiv papers) are all key. And eagerness and statistics go a long way and are valuable to companies.
What happens when there isn't enough money to pay the benefit? As you say, due to increasing life expectancy.

Both social security and employer held pensions have to cut their payouts, but only one of them is democratic and has even a chance of being run in the interests of the beneficiaries.

"The group only needs to save the amount the average person will need" - the same is true if you buy an annuity. Or, give people preferential tax treatment for keeping money in their pension post retirement, don't let their family inherit it.
I think you hit the head on the nail with describing someone in my life. I always thought it was deep-seated insecurities about their appearance causing this behavior, it very well may be but now it dawned on me that depression and insecurities may not be mutually exclusive and insecurities may stem from depression. Thanks for sharing.
I decided in college that a 40 hr workweek wasn't the optimal amount for me. I've since learned that for white-collar jobs, employers really really want full-time employees[1]. My way around this was: consume as if I made ~half as much and take extended sabbaticals. The final piece in the puzzle was ACA exchanges, as I can now get stable (though expensive and high-deductible) health insurance while unemployed.

This obviously isn't a binary, but I've been consistently fascinated with the inability of the people I know (generally middle- to upper-middle class) to shift their consumption downwards to meet a goal. Not everyone wants as much leisure time as I do, but I know tons of people with all sorts of reasons they'd like to save more, and every one of them consumes more while making less than me (when I'm working). I used to think the issue was that I grew up without a lot of disposable income, but now I know people with similar backgrounds whose floor on consumption rises in lockstep with their income.

That is to say, I don't disagree with your analysis here, but for God's sake _why_ do people do it?

[1] Contracting is obviously possible, but it often constrains the type of work you can do.
it is worth noting that there actually exist multiple versions of it, as it apparently has been played and recorded multiple times
I think Ben Evans is a lot more optimistic than I am about about how feasible to train good models from data. By the time you have considered all the caveats, the number of candidates for applying ML greatly decreases.
Very much appalled at the poor attention to detail taken in the documentation of this experiment.

How will I ever know by which type of muffin Linus' life was threatened?
discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794397
The amount paid out by Social Security is pretty comparable to state pensions in Germany, and quite a bit more generous than in France or the U.K.
>would electric vehicles last longer? Tesla

Compared to something pre-a ton of electronics? Doubt it. All of those ICs and PCBs are individual failure points and likely to have fairly limited production runs. Then add in ever-changing battery technology...

Just look at Tesla, they will not work on (or provide parts for) anything with a salvage title and look at the first roadster, completely different batteries than they currently use that if allowed to discharge 'completely' are ruined and need to be replaced.

So for an EV you probably have individual computers/chips for anti-lock brakes, traction control, parking assist (if applicable), charging, multiple diagnostic chips, transmission, infotainment, ignition just off the top of my head. With Teslas you'll also have driver assist stuff, all of the chips involved with it phoning home and collecting/reporting data back to Tesla as well. Those are all failure points using components that are likely mostly in-house and not available from OEM sources with Tesla too.

I imagine Tesla has some control over your vehicle too if you attempt to circumvent some things not unlike how their power wall will disable itself if it can't contact the servers within a relatively short period of a few days (I believe it's a few, it might be 24 hours) so if they ever for some reason go out of business that may severely impact usability. The original roadsters are a different battery than being used in current-production Tesla vehicles and I doubt in 10 years they're going to go "Sure thing, we can custom make the 2 of you that are still driving your roadsters new batteries".
Employees are a step function not linear
I don't see why that follows.

But if it were true it would suggest that there are some important questions going unaddressed the way things are right now.
Is std::endl guaranteed to flush the stream? I’d think you’d be better off with std::cout::flush(), std::flush if you prefer manipulators. It would certainly be clearer, assuming it’s not temporary debug code.
GrapheneDB (Neo4j) on Heroku here - relatively small scale project so far (1000's of users) but very easy to use, no problems, great support. If your problem space is a graph, using a graph will make your life easy once you get over the GraphQL learning curve.

We're on Rails and so use the Neo4j.rb gem which has been around for quite a while and also has a ton of work and support around it. The Ruby DSL for it makes it as easy as you would expect in Rails for most basic relationships and queries, and you can access more advanced features or drop into GraphQL as needed.

For our use case, a graph DB was definitely easier than trying to manage relationships and categories in a relational DB but it will definitely depend on your use case. Good luck!
>if you aren't satisfied with a given provider or approach, then explore others.

part of the problem is determining this
It's just a bit of fun, nobody is suggesting you do this in an interview.
Ouch, the venerable iron duke, probably pretty awful indeed.

Still, if it's optimized for the low-speed stop & go stuff it'll just suck to go on highways but I'd expect it to be decent on the surface streets.

That motor was a real heap though, damn the 80s were rough for GM.
I built ML application in my domain which helped demonstrate my capabilities.Networked a fair bit within my company and then got the chance to lead a ML team. Whole process took about 2 years.meanwhile self educated myself continuously over last 3 years. Spent min 20 hours a week coding, reading, learning and discussing ML. Joined ML learning groups helped other folks and learned through their journeys as well.

ML is unfortunately better done in a big company due to data but also a b*Ch due to tremendous friction within org to get things done.

Another key strategy is to commit yourself to build an end 2end ML application, structure your learning around it. I found this a tremendous technique to turbo charge my learning.
Except didn't they charge the same ridiculous fees even when the accounts were not free?
Why did your father become a postal delivery worker if he had a law degree? Its a rather personal question so please don't feel like you have to answer, but it seems like a non-traditional career path.
Something about this makes me laugh uncontrollably. I think it's bringing up the very fond memories of playing The Simpsons: Road Rage (a lightly branded reskinning of Crazy Taxi for Gamecube) as a middle schooler and deliberately doing the most absurd stuff to see what the wacky physics engine would allow. The answer is: quite a lot.

The idea of a FedEx driver doing the same thing in real life just sounds goofy to me. I suppose the novelty must wear off after a while.
This reminds of Dido's song "Quiet Times", a song about dating someone with depression:

"Now I miss you,

Now I want you,

But I can't have you,

Even when you're here"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOd-rz8lDXQ
Revolut. Live support in 5min. Best bank I had.
It really depends on where you live. Rust will eat up your car in a lot of the world.

All aluminum construction would mitigate a lot of that. When aluminum oxidizes, it tends to form something hard, as opposed to flaky rust. Electric vehicles could be optimized for delivery fleet use with a highly modular construction and a smooth underbody. The modules could be removed for repair while a spare one is swapped in. (This is currently done with M1 Abrams tanks.) Electric drive-trains also require less maintenance, and the open cargo space of a delivery van can facilitate easy access to mechanicals even though the underbody has no openings.
I don't see the point of this, why limit yourself like this?

We are all going to die sooner or later...
Mostly offtopic: I find it ironic this website doesn't render well on Firefox mobile. :(

The page won't let me zoom all the way out.
Not easily. Rust's type system has limits, and what you're talking about is something you'd probably want dependent types for.

But it can catch lots of other logic errors.

The approach I have used in both mypy and rust is to encode state transitions into types. It's more elegant in Rust, and safer as well, but even with mypy it means I could be very sure about certain properties of my service (it was a sensitive service and I needed to be reasonably sure it wouldn't end up in an invalid state).

https://insanitybit.github.io/2016/05/30/beyond-memory-safet...

This is an example of the pattern.

When you take a "Type driven" approach to your code - stating your constraints upfront, and encoding them into your types - you can push a lot of the debug cycle to your compiler.
> But how much farther have we really come in 2018? We have more things, but if you stop working, you will starve or go ill just as quickly as an Irish laborer in 1850.

In the province of Canada that I live in, you get $650 - $800 a month as a single adult if you stop working and enter the system. You are allowed to work on the side and gain up to $200 extra a month.

If you managed to get in the social housing program, you also get housing that is capped at 25% of your income along with free electricity and water. Some also offer internet and tv at a reduced price.

For reference, my 4 rooms apartment's rent is 675$/month.
A proprietary one. A for loop to create connections between nodes? How would that work? It would have to be a self-modifying connection graph.
SVB is at least semi national. They have branches in major cities throughout the USA.
After $900k fine from the FCC, Swarm Tech applies for 150 microsats
hey, ive done this a few times. as a general rule, if you're at an early stage, it really doesn't matter, so go for something convenient. if you're pre-funding or even sub $1m, i'd honestly say go with whatever bank you're already using personally. Just make sure to take the proper corporate formalities and never co-mingle funds.

The most important thing at this stage (and the next stages as well) is to not waste time on things that are irrelevant, so don't make banking more complex than it needs to be. as you grow, your CFO or maybe even COO might have their own processes and preferences, so just keep it as simple as possible till then.

If you are really at the stage that you need a more robust system, brex and stripe are pitching themselves as tech startup friendly for credit card issuance and control, but truly any major bank will do. I've worked closely with Bank of America and Wells Fargo before and my local regional credit union with great success. I was not impressed with US Bank, Keybank, or Chase Bank. I've been really happy with my local credit union though. they have everything and I can speak to high enough ranking people to make sure things keep running smooth. And of course they love nice piles of cash sitting in the accounts.
I can’t register “foo:bar.com” on Hover, GoDaddy, or anywhere else.

There’s a difference between how DNS software is supposed to treat label data as opaque octet strings for forward-compatibility reasons, versus the standards for valid host and domain names enforced by the rest of the Internet standards.
Haha thats great!
For the long term Tesla S owners, it looks like the battery degradation levels off asymptotically at around 90% and looks like the curve will stay mostly flat.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/19/show-me-the-data-the-tr...