skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don’t see how some people going to a rank 5 school instead of rank 15 school would drastically change the US. And trust me, look at the endowments of these schools. Outside of some public ones, it’s not a money issue. Harvard could easily 3x their enrollment with their endowment money
One study that notes that it may be very flawed about one topic doesn't prove anything relative to:

"Yet people continue to argue how communism doesn't work"

The your scale and what this news story says are just totally on different planets.
Sorry if my post came off as rude - it was not my intention.
Go-matrixprofile – Golang library for timeseries motifs and segmenting
Let me add to that.

It you don’t have somebody challenging you and checking your work, you will likely plateau very quickly unless you are especially gifted.

You will Hit walls of concrete and walls of glass.

You will misunderstand concepts and not notice it.

Your proofs will have logical gaps and you won’t notice it.
Depends. Everything is a double tax somewhere. Do you want to collect it as a corporate tax, a shareholder tax, an income tax, a sales tax etc. My warped viewpoint sees capital gains tax as very much a retaxing of corporate profit. If people own a company, and as a collective pay tax on their profit yearly/quarterly, they pay it again when they get rid of their shares? Imho, if you are going to raise capital gains, you need to lower the corporate tax rate.
It's not just that it's easier, but you can get much finer detail, you don't have to deal with vias, and you can do more than two layers. And (big plus in my book), you don't have to deal with the inevitability of breaking those insanely small end mills.

The only benefit over having a board shop do it is the turnaround time, and even that's essentially a tradeoff of time vs money.

I just sent a board off to OSHPark. 3.5"x2.3" two-layer board for essentially $15 each.
Those "way more understanding people" are your real friends. Congratulations for locating them!
Right, but I think Netflix will be less likely to admit that given that it's the more probable outcome.

If Fortnite is their largest competition then I, as a hypothetical stakholder/investor, am not going to be entirely concerned, since it seems unlikely that it'll actually have an effect.

Then again, there are some thinking people who might think that if this analysis might betray some backwards internal understanding of the company.
How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself
I've found checking out even with automated checkout to be a slow and a poor user experience. Kroger stores in Seattle illustrate this very well, waiting in line for 8 minutes just to pay isn't fun. Removing everything from the cart, scanning it, and putting it back is silly.

I really can't imagine younger people going to physical grocery stores in the future.

Walmart owns the majority of its store locations.
I think it's a little sad that we're now back to writing our own widget sets.

On Linux too, the toolkits of a handful of the applications I use are also, shall we say, "home made".

In fact, widgets in Windows have been theme-able since XP. Why couldn't that have been made more available?
Year of the Ethereum Experiment
Ask HN: How to deal with burning through capital?
I've saved up for a while working at a big tech company and now I'm burning through my savings working on my own startup. Any time I have expenditures I feel awful, especially spending large amounts of money, but I also know these are necessary.

I think fundamentally I don't have a good perspective about money. How should I wrap my mind around this financial situation so that I can stop hesitating on spending?
> Do you mean something like: "force the player in landscape mode when you hit the fullscreen button on a mobile device?". I like it, YouTube does that with it's mobile apps and I find it practical.

Exactly, I also find it useful and get annoyed when I have to manually activate landscape mode on my device to get the player to use the whole screen (I have auto rotation disabled most of the time).
A few years ago, I was on my way for an interview. An asshole cut my way in the most dangerous way you can imagine that I nearly kill a pedestrian, because both the pedestrian and I did not know where to do, thanks to this F1 driver and his expensive car, so I hit brakes and the poor pedestrian jumped onto my car to avoid getting hit by that moron.

I swore the shit out of this bastard. He was looking at me like the devil...

15 minutes later, I was outside the reception of the company I was about to get interviewed.

The lady told me to go to the conference room.

Guess who came for the interview? The ASSHOLE!

"oh, you! Hi, bye!"
Interior Design Marketing Strategies: An Interview with Jerry Jacobs
OK, but I still stand behind my premise. Bookies make money regardless by which team wins. Casinos show profits betting on red and black simultaneously because of the zeros. And it happens all the time in much more complex way in markets.

Also the financial term I was thinking of I believe is called "Futures" and it is used to protect against large swings in currency values between countries. Inverters exploit this through arbitrage.
It is really hard to truly self-study in mathematics. Going through the opencourseware and reading textbooks (working as many exercises as you can, of course) will get you only so far. It is important to have someone (ideally with a PhD-level education in mathematics) who you can meet with to guide your study, correct mistakes and answer questions.
This is actually Waymo's strategy that Waymo is allegedly actually using in Arizona, so presumably it is serious. (Though I agree it's a terrible idea.)
Making everyone take a cut instead of firing the lowest performers in your company is a bad idea. It hurts your top performers, and makes it more likely they will leave. I've been through this during the bust and top performers leaving is guaranteed to happen if they know they're getting a pay cut.
TLA+ lets you work at much different scales. I have one spec I'm working on where the "domain model" is multiple nodes trying to reach consensus, where some fraction of the nodes are adversarial and intentionally trying to subvert the others. With that you can ask questions like "what is the maximum fraction that can be adversarial and still guarantee these specific global system properties."

Another one involved modeling several microservices, each of which had its own team and codebase. That kind of scale is really hard to do at the lines-of-code level of verification.
Same here, except it was my uncle. He worked at the plant in Nevada. I remember speaking to him a few days before the firings and he said Elon Musk was coming to the factory and that was not a good sign. Next thing he knew lots of people were summarily fired.
Our in-house DB at Stream also runs on top of RocksDB + Raft. Its amazing just how much faster it is than anything else out there (especially compared to cassandra). Instagram uses rocksdb as storage for Cassandra, Linkedin and pinterest use rocksdb. As soon as you have the time to build your own db using rocksdb you get really finegrained control over performance.

https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...
Does chip and Medicaid cover absolutely everyone who might need it? Are there people who, despite the coverage, are still left with outstanding costs they can't meet?

My understanding is that in Cuba, there is no applying to services like Chip, or Medicaid. Theres no chance you won't get coverage, as everyone, by default, gets the care they need. Wait times are non existent for the pregnant or disabled across the country, not just in certain regions.

It doesn't seem totally unlikely that the people that """"fall through the cracks"""" in the American systems are enough to swing infant mortality rates.
Apache NetBeans 10 Release Date and Features
You notice they put it up at CES and no where else. That's because those attendees are part of the minority population of people who care. Tim Cook talks about privacy to programmers and investors, but just has celebrities dancing to show how fun the iPhone is to the masses.
I tried it on MySpace and it didn't work. Nor could I figure out what did work or what my account even is/was. I suspect MySpace has removed inactive users, though, possibly due to issues like this.
"Owners of tabloid newspapers" ... you and I have very different ideas from who and what the British ruling class are.

Might I suggest you put yourself through another test. Get a job at the local McDonalds (or a cleaner, or driver, or ...). Look at the conditions, look who takes the jobs and why. Because it will make it VERY obvious what needs to change, and why exiting the EU is seen as a viable option.

I understand why you say that Brexit won't help with that (although I do think it might make it possible to prevent things from deteriorating further). And I even agree with that assessment, you see, but at least take a look at the other side of the argument from the perspective of the other side of the argument.
How reliable are the Cuban statistics?
I ended up choosing Dear ImGui recently
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Pains of IT Outsourcing and How to Prevent Them in Three Steps
I really like your comment, thanks.

I suppose the question that many people would like to ask, but it's hard to test is:

"Can we rank the speed of languages, given each are used by a domain expert to take full advantage of the features of that language"

or some such.

i.e. if a masterful C programmer and a masterful C++ programmer and a masterful Java Programmer and a masterful Ruby programmer all write something, which is faster.

I'm sure the answer is "it depends", because that's always the answer.
Thanks much I will try to follow
This article is extremely misleading. One of the main causes of infant mortality is parental obesity. [1] As America becomes more and more obese we're going to see more and more of these sort of consequences. For instance our declining life expectancy is also related to this. Diseases ranging from cardiovascular to cancer had been steadily retreating, but as our waist lines expanded the frequency and mortality of these sorts of things have once again begun rising. Better healthcare is not a magic pill for unhealthy lifestyles.

In other words, this is about a healthier people - not about a comparable people with better access to healthcare. I'd expect to see these numbers level out in time. Cubans have also been thickening up as the article does mention, but they're still quite far behind us.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674328/
The Sarah officer was not officer in CIC which had pee bottles, Sarah officer was the one who did not contacted CIC.

Also, the answer to "If she was the boss, why did she tolerate others doing what she can't?" assumes a lot about the boss. Tolerating something boss himself cant do by boss is pretty normal. (Not that I think pee bottles are sign of good management.)

The answer to "If she wasn't the boss, it seems she has a pretty good case for having been subjected to a toxic work environment." is that well, that happen and soldiers tolerate a lot. She might have good reasons not to open that can of worms. It is usually better not to.
yes, just looks like another textbook scam to get your money before you even get to see how well the product works. Thank you, next.
Reposting this because I feel like my comment was hidden by the company. Speaking of ethical, this product seems to be very similar to another product, Crane.ai and it seems like the CEO of the company that developed Crane.ai, has commented below.
X-Originating-IP
Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?
wealth isn't the same as money. And people would equally criticise the government for printing money to increase its % share.
Amazon will win because they will be able to compete on price and convenience. They don't have the massive overhead of the stores weighing them down. You're also forgetting that many young people who work in economically relevant areas of the country don't have cars.

Demographics will work against these legacy retailers and grocers. The elderly who are stuck in their ways and like physical stores will become less mobile while the younger generations would prefer more convenient choices.
Basic incompetence + complete inhumanity + a completely corrupt political system that can be purchased by corporate interest at the expense of the common folk.

In my country (and most others outside of the US I'm sure (even China does employment law better the the US https://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/02/china-employee-terminat...) ) there's legal precedent and legislation to prevent employers from firing people without sufficient reasons and also to penalize employers who break a promise of employment.

The USA however is too corrupt to care for its citizens (HN usually DEMANDS the 'sauce' so here's the 'sauce' https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli....
I received 6 of these emails from October through December. They're all similar, but contain slightly different subject and body text. They refer to the same password I haven't used in a decade, although at that time I used it on a number of services, so I'm unsure of the source.

They all talk about having access to my computer, a recording of me watching porn, and threaten to send it to my contacts unless I send 700-850 USD to a Bitcoin address. The payment amounts and Bitcoin address is different in each of the emails.
I think there's quite a few Cubans who would disagree with your assessment.
That all depends on the supply of reliable dog walkers.
I rarely check my personal email because of the volume of spam and other noise I receive, so if a friend tried to contact me that way I probably wouldn't get it. I don't set up email notifications on my phone for that reason.
Ha!

The first time I did root locus diagrams in Linear Systems (or whatever the course was called), we did everything by hand and I hated it.

10 years after graduation I was in a certificate class for Mechatronics and we had Matlab. The difference was night and day. Suddenly I could play with root locations and see the effect immediately without having to do half an hour of tedious hand calculation. It's amazing how much your attitude improves when the work becomes "fun."
They state themselves the figures aren't to be trusted.
This makes me unsure how to feel about the subject. If Cuba's just lying about infant mortality (I don't know how feasible that would be) it invalidates a lot of things.

I find the point about local, conveniently-accessible doctors leading to earlier diagnoses interesting, too. That seems like a fair point: I've heard a lot about the automobilised nature of america, where cities are built for cars rather then people. If you can't just walk over to the local doctor you've known for the last 5 years to ask about the lump on your back because going to the doctor is seen as a big deal- you can imagine this leading to fewer check-ups.

I've heard a point that the US is in a hellish middle-ground between socialised healthcare ala euroland and hypothetical free-er market healthcare: you can't actually shop around for cheaper treatment, because the government's teamed up with big pharma to reduce competition and obscure pricing.

edit: Just read a comment mentioning obesity as a factor. That makes a lot of sense, as well. Of course a country as fat as america's going to be in a worse health state than one like cuba where people are only starting to bloat up after starving a while back.
CA11: Decentralized WebRTC Phone Network
It sounds like you don’t have a total budget for your startup, broken down into target spending per month and a deadline when you expect to either get even, raise an investment or quit. Maybe start with that? By having a plan you prevent constantly questioning what to do and leave more energy for creative work.
You should know MR. CEO
Definitely, plenty of PhD students looking to make some extra money. I saw requests like this on grad student email lists frequently.
Google Chrome's new UI is ugly, and people are very angry
> I made a meshopt_Allocator class that could allocate large blocks of typed data and remember the allocated pointer; at the end of the scope all allocated blocks would be deleted.

I only write occasional C, and no C++ since college, but I think this Arena pattern is drastically underused. I'd love to see it in web frameworks, where every allocation inside a request comes from the same place, and at the end you just give it all back. It seems like you could even offer that in Ruby. Does Rocket use anything like this? It seems like the kind of thing Rust folks would take advantage of.

Postgres memory allocation follows an Arena pattern, where you use palloc to grab memory, but you rarely have to free it, because it is all freed when the "context" completes. There are nested contexts for things like the connection, the transaction, the sql statement, a function call, etc., so as long as you're allocating from the right context, you can practically ignore cleaning up after yourself. (This is from the perspective of a frequent extension author but someone who has only barely contributed to the core project, so perhaps a more expert contributor can correct me and/or elaborate.)

EDIT: Btw, I really enjoyed the article; thank you for sharing your experiences with us!
Agreed that ain't it. I built up my account relatively quickly to a modest 11k followers and found nothing but emptiness there. Superficial interactions with people I don't know. Meaningless. I never post now. I spend more time thinking about the future, layout out a plan for my life and reading books. ROI of that time spent is much, much higher both in terms of moving my career forward and overall happiness.
Infant mortality in the USA is high relative to other developed countries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_...

At around 6 per 1000, compared to 4.3 for the UK (or 2.7 for Japan) for example.

I would imagine, infant mortality isn’t just about a function of healthcare available during pregnancy, but also for the parent before pregnancy. There could of course be multiple other confounding factors (such as life style issues)...
The officer on deck - Sarah Coppock - was responsible for the entire ship while the captain was sleeping. She was on the bridge, not in the CIC where the bottles were.

However, the officer in charge of the CIC - Natalie Combs - was also female.
Infants are generally not vaccinated in the first few month but would have most common shots by the age of 1, with refreshers up to the age of 2.

However they do get protected by what’s called “herd immunity” If a sufficient fraction of all other people are vaccinated, diseases cannot spread. So basically the toddler in the family gets protected because the older kids/parents cannot be disease carrying. So yes, anti-vaxxers are a problem for toddlers (and other people that cannot be vaccinated due to other reasons)
Even shorters need to make their gains from someone else. You are assuming that there are many people betting that climate change will not happen ? I think it’s safe to assume that climate change has been priced into the market.
> It wouldn't have taken Amazon much to build a similar service.

Would people really trust it as much as something completely external?
I was not referring to rank 15 -> 5, I meant that outcomes of students attending a rank 2500 school is typically not particularly good. It is literally impossible to enroll in certain majors at many quality schools despite being academically qualified for the major.
The question here is how do the authors define "startup"? "VC-funded tech company" has a very different implication than "new business".
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Yup, here's some good ones! https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-formal-models

Along with someone fixing a bug well before someone found the bug in the wild: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/31976#issuec...
I think this is wishful thinking. It'd be neat if there was incentive on both sides of the debate, to bet both against and for the idea that climate change will happen. Unfortunately that's not how it is: the real direction of the change in climate will be the most profitable option, and that's where investors will flood. And yeah, that might cause a self-fulfilling prophecy (incentivizing and accelerating climate change), but that's just how it is, that's where we are. Maybe we can try to spread false ideas like yours to make investors think it's good to invest on both sides, but I don't have much faith in its potency to make real impact.
Is there a particular reason why you want to learn upper level mathematics? I have a pretty decent math background and I personally found majority of math boring (particularly linear algebra). The only reason why I did so well in Math is because I know I needed a strong math foundation to do the fun stuff (like fluid dynamics). Without this purpose, I would of passed my math courses in college but definitely would not of excelled in it.
Tiny Generators Turn Body Motion into Weight Control and Wound-Healing Therapies
Hello, I have actually done this. I learned Algebra up to a good amount of Vector Calculus over the course of four years mostly through self-study.

I would leave for work an hour early and either sit in my car or go into a Starbucks and do math. Doing time before work is important. That's when you are at your best. Then after work I would sit in my car and do math for an hour. Then on the weekends, in the morning, I would do three hours of math straight, sitting in my car. Then sometimes in the evening I would do a first pass over a section that I knew I would have to really think hard about the next day that way I had sort of taken the first layer of difficulty off.

Why in my car? Because I simply cannot sit at home and focus enough to study math. I've tried the library but it's too restrictive on what you're allowed to do "oh f*! that's how you do that" doesn't generally go over well in public places. Plus I feel very safe in my car. I can be relax which makes learning a lot easier.

I always take one day off a week (for me that's Tuesday) but aside from that I don't skip.

Get your books at half price books. Math book reviews on Amazon are almost always wrong. I usually have to try two or four books before I find one I can understand. I would just get a book and read it in your car. You don't need the pressure of following along with a schedule where you fall behind and miss out on a topic. You also don't want to miss a topic just because the teacher chose not to include it. Some of the coolest topics/examples don't get covered when you take a course because they don't have the time.

Also, when you get done with a book go through it again and take good notes on note cards that you can review on your drive to work or while you are waiting around. You'll find yourself going back to them over and over again.
Microsoft Is Calling an Audible on Smart Speakers
That is pretty interesting, Texas seems to be pretty business positive in every aspect it can be. I continue to wonder how much Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos has hurt the prospects of other female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and startups in Silicon Valley in general.
Has LIGO Seen Galaxy-Warped Gravitational Waves?
LOL, a 3.4 "earthquake".
Don't forget obesity.
Also, the soviet union got to space faster. Capitalism is good enough until it creates too much waste and uses all resources. The only reason capitalism is still "nice" is that the continuous growth has not been stopped yet. However, we live on a planet with limited resources and capitalism will hit a wall soon enough. I'm not in favor of communism and gulags, but definitely free healthcare, education, true effort by government to solve climate change and wealth redistribution.
Fair points, also depressing ones.
Renaming the company again?