skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since you want "mindset oblivious" tools why not write everything from scratch, in C?

Because imagemagick, julia and other specialized programs already provide the advanced algorithms that I need. Unfortunately, julia is not a good team player.
People being forced to pay for someone's healthcare is more heartwarming to you than people voluntarily paying for someone's healthcare?
Last week I compared a standard regression command across several statistical programs (R, Py, Stata, Matlab, Julia, etc) on a stupidly simple 10x5 matrix, and Julia took ages to run (this is on windows). Even loading the CSV file took seconds in Julia, hundreds of times slower than all of the other packages put together.

I'm not sure if they just suck at Windows, but I was extremely dissapointed... :/
What were you planning to use Julia for where its init time matters?
Front door, back door, side door, whatever. Our backyard abuts undeveloped easements in San Francisco and we see rats out at evening and night. I've literally closed the door on a rat trying to tailgate after me. Door was only open long enough for me to walk through.

Roaches have more entry points since they can fly and scale vertical walls.
https://www.patreon.com/jgthms
We do this consistently. It's not hard to beat the market, just need to work at it. One easy way is the wheel strategy, but if you want really good returns, look at options trading.
It depends on how you define better. I happen to love Tokyo but let's not pretend like it's universally better than the US in all regards. In fact a lot of the countries people would think of as having better quality of life than the US have a higher per capita suicide rate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan#/media/File:S...
No one is saying you have to remove slurs from your vocabulary. You should just limit the use of insulting language to when you intend to insult people.

Feel free to use "Democrat party" when your intention is to be insulting. When you aren't trying to be insulting, that phrase is poor communication.
To add another correction to the others:

> Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology (spelling often gets changed as words go from Russian to English).

The differing spelling is because "Chornobyl" (Чорнобиль) is what it's called in Ukrainian, whereas "Chernobyl" (Чернобыль) is a transcription of the same name in Russian.
He can view himself however he wants, but the man just wrote an article that competently covers Turing completeness, regular expressions, and Lindemeyer trees, among other things! He's definitely earned his comp sci merit badge, so to speak.
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Strong Towns has the best explanation of this phenomenon that I’ve seen: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
... That economists get to pretend matter, while ignoring all the numbers that they can't measure and will kill us.

Economics on its own can't measure the impact of unknowns like global warming impact. It just gives the tools to the rich and elite and corporations to resist paying for it and dealing with it for as long as possible.

Everything is NOT QUANTIFIED. The theory of computation, physics, math, the uncertainty principle, and chaos GUARANTEE we do not have accurate quantification.

What does exist is bullshit quantification in favor of the powers that be that fund the studies and think tanks to justify their existence and political desires.

Yet another example of gross overreach of the pseudoscience of Economics.
Playing Go (the the board game). It requires sustained concentration on many thing simultaneously for ~hour. Rinse and repeat for maximum effect. You also have to learn to balance concerns/prioritise correctly and sometimes 'tenuki'--the way to get ahead is to not play.
I even had to write python once, so I built a class where none of the functions were passed self (so it was basically a functional module)
Hire young. Their ethics haven't evolved yet. [0]

[0] Not a condemnation of the young, but they still don't realize what they don't realize at that point.
I regret bringing up any country by name, because every country has at least one issue that is easily searchable on the internet.
Comparing San Francisco to similarly sized Marseille; I would suggest that Europe doesn’t necessarily have to answers either. I lived near Avignon and half of the storefronts in that town are boarded up. You’ll find a similar story across much of France. Paris, Marseille and Lyon suburbs often look like war zones and while the US has some similar areas, there are still plenty of places that don’t. Those that like to compare Europe to the US often look at the capital cities such as Paris as examples, but fail to look beyond the surface. France has considerable decay and economic malaise. Two of my kids were born in France and while it’s a nice place, the opportunity there doesn’t even come close to the US.
Do people in Flint have clean water? The fact that the problem still hasn't been solved but instead brushed under the rug and even the president going there declaring it's all good now shows how corrupt the whole system is. Something like that you find in 3rd world nations.
Reminds me of the old (2003) story where a brand new Microsoft employee blogged a photo of some pallets of Power Macs he saw on the company campus, “Looks like someone is getting some new toys!” Or something to that effect. He was quickly fired.

https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Microsoft-fires-w...
"The Famous Photo" - it's not famous.
"Most dangerous radioactive material" - All radioactive material is dangerous given enough Roentgens.
"Selfie" - Anachronism and misapplication.

I feel like there should be a machine learning like filter that can be applied so this stuff doesn't get posted here anymore.
Your claim was:

> if you let people 'save face' they can just get on board and agree with you. If you force them to grapple with being wrong they will be difficult and will hate your guts

Your response to my post:

> I doubt you properly understand that other people are full thinking beings equal to yourself since you assume everyone secretly agrees with you about every detail of everything all the time and the only issue is whether they are going to admit it or lie.

To me, you're contradicting your own position.
It also seems to me that you're the one that doesn't "properly understand that other people are full thinking beings equal to yourself" based on the arrogance and condescension of your response.
Weather in NYC is pretty bad.
there are actually several variants of keyboards on all devices (not just numeric or alphanumeric). the phone entry keyboard is different, and there are a couple others. it's not just iOS.

to make the right one pop up in ios you have to do stuff like pattern=[0-9]*, but that becomes restrictive, too.

http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/05/triggering-numeric-keyboar...
The Law of Active Management states that IR = IV * sqrt(n)
IV is your “edge” or conviction and n is the number of independent trades you make. So the lower your IV (closer to 50%) the more trades you need to put on.

So there are two ways to make money being an active manager: have a low IV with a high N or have a high IV with a low N. It’s difficult to maximize both at the same time because you won’t be able to find enough trades with a high IV, so you need to keep lowering it (the lowest you can go is obvioisly >50%) to get more trades.

This is why quant funds have so many positions, because they aren’t very certain about their bets. Buffet takes the opposite approach, only putting on a couple massive trades that he thinks have a high IV.
I don't hold it against any language, but it certainly breaks with common convention. The number of simple off by one errors I had when I started writing Lua was a bit irritating.
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I wish Julia would be more strict wrt type coercion of integer to float values.

I've once spent a day debugging the issue caused by the following line of code, where t1, t2 are floats and v is an array:

d = (t2 - t1) * length(v)

It should've been LinearAlgebra.norm():Float instead of length():Int. Had julia been stricter the code would have failed to run, saving me much time.
45 mn is a rather small radius. Didn't you run out of unknown towns after some time? I'm pretty sure I've visited all cities in my neighborhood, at least those that are worth it.
I expect it's a dog whistle referring to black and ethnic crime statistics.
As someone who seemed to be trying to make a point independent of either party, I thought you might appreciate knowing that you were, presumably inadvertently, using a term coined by one of them to attack the other.

I guess not. Use whatever words you like, just be aware of what they’ll convey.
> I never heard of the 'presence test'. What does that entail?

If you're a US citizen living and working abroad, you should read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_earned_income_exclusio...

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

And...uhh...this random blog post that I just found in a search on the subject: https://www.remotefinancialplanner.com/foreign-earned-income...

When you file your taxes as a US expat you get to choose between the foreign earned income exclusion and the foreign tax credit. Which you should choose depends on circumstances, but if you're living full time and working in France and earning less than $100k there then clearly you should just exclude your income and then pay nothing to the US.

If understanding taxes in the US is generally complicated, taxes for expats are definitely even more so. Knowing which income you can exclude is important if you plan to live abroad.

> Yes, you can go to a train station and find not-so-good food.

I lived in France for several years (mostly but not exclusively in Paris) and boy howdy is sandwich culture not reduced to anything so far as "you can go to a train station". Nearly every bakery in the country, and there's like one every few blocks in Paris right next to seventeen pharmacies and a fruit stand, has a display case of pre-made sandwiches. Ham and butter on white bread and kebab wraps are major components of the food culture. You even get jambon beurre and kebab flavored potato chips everywhere, though for the money my favorite potato chip flavor was Quick(r) cheeseburger.

Let's not even get into the ubiquity of frozen tv dinners from Picard.

Does France have restaurants? Sure. But so does literally everywhere else.

> It'd be just like going to Subway here

Paris also has a bunch of Subways and McDonalds and Burger Kings and Dominos and whatever other cheap fast food you can think of, and they're all frequently packed with people, because most of the time what people want in France, like everywhere else, is something cheap and fast (hence the sandwiches). They also have a Chipotle at La Defense if you ever get nostalgic, but at lunch time the line goes out the door.
Very much spot on.
I'm also fascinated by Racket and LOP, but I find it hard to believe in those who claim being more productive than everyone else without proper evidence to back up their statement.

Of course, anyone would expect those proficient in Racket and LOP to have a better understanding of programming and software design in general, and to be generally more productive than many, but that's not necessarily because of LOP.

But regarding your comment on users preferring general tools - I notice this happening in my domain, where the trend is now to build absolutely everything with Python, regardless of whether this is a good choice or not. And it's impressive how libraries are built with embedded languages that feel completely non-pythonic, just for the purpose of using Python. Library writers could at least strive to make better use of the syntax of the general language (see Tensorflow vs. Pytorch).

It'd be interesting to see more studies on general languages vs DSLs, and reasonable heuristics to know when to prefer one over the other.

Now, not only end users prefer more general tools (see also: people writing a NES emulator in Emacs Lisp).
At the moment, Switzerland.

We speak one of the languages, know enough of the culture and politics, etc. to be inconspicuous and blend into the crowd. More than that, the culture and people and country have grown on us tremendously. :-)
I've been using an Android app called XFi locator for the last couple of years whenever my wife loses her iPhone. Really simple and works perfectly.
>Quantifying requires numbers, while description does not.

That statement is equivalent to, "Uantifying requires words that start with U, while in complete contrast Wuantifying requires words that start with W." Granted I should have said, "not meaningfully distinct," but the point is that the only reason there appears to be a boundary between Uantifying and Wuantifying is because there is one group of people that know a lot of W-words and almost no U-words, and another group of people that know almost no W-words but many U-words. Each group thinks they see a "material" boundary while in reality the only distinguishing line is edge of their own familiarity.
>Germany censors Nazis now, though. What lesson do we take from that?

Kill Nazis before they kill you.
Have you ever been to a 3rd world nation? You have no conception of what it's like if you really think living in Flint is somehow an analogue.

The sheer lack of perspective of Americans is baffling. You have no conception of just how difficult life can be and frankly, is, for the vast majority of people.
I am very weary of people that describe/brand themselves as productive. There is something about getting a lot of things done that is appealing to all of us, but in the words of a classic “it does not matter how fast you drive if you’re going in the wrong direction”.

Setting that aside, both during the week and during the weekend I optimize for physical and emotional health. Eat well, sleep, exercise, spend time with other humans (your family qualifies as humans :) ).
On top of that, if time allows it: see, learn or experience something new. Reading is awesome for the learning part btw. If I ever “work” on stuff, it’s to scratch an itch I have or to align with the above.

Don’t worry about being productive, especially in a non-work related context. Find out what you enjoy and do that.
I tend to take one-off classes at Stanford to try and see if I can short-circuit some learning that would otherwise come the hard way. Aside from that, sometimes meeting other entrepreneurs, working on long term projects that I don't get to do during the week, and meeting friends to have a few laughs together.
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And yet, isn't it sort of an inadvertent/defacto practice, looking at monetary policy retrospectively? (Not a qualitative/value judgement question)
Thanks for that clarification. 5 years is a lot of evolution for a language that was roughly 2 years old when you used it! Might warrant a revaluation, or at least always state the timeline along with your opinions :-)
US poverty rates have hovered around 11%-15% since the '70s, my bad. https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-un... Income inequality has, however, increased substantially (I assume you agree since you edited that part out). It seems clear enough, therefore, that the financial policies of the last 40 years have at best not helped, and have made some things worse.

> That's just a straw man.

That's not a straw man. Here's a straw man: On an article about US economic policy, Beat claimed that '80s US economic policy had failed. You disputed that based on global economic outcomes since then, refuting an argument that no one had actually made.
I would say so. It's very sad to think of someone dying from a treatable condition because their GoFundMe campaign wasn't popular enough.
Drones will be the key to guerrilla resistance of current armies. Until they deploy swarms themselves.

I also never understood why guerillas never deployed ballon-lofted nets to counter air power.
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Depression and suicide rates are a bad measure of unhappiness or social dysfunction. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/15/depression-is-not-a-pr...
Judging by the articles I've read on it it seems like they do de-plane briefly, it's just described as a "stopover."
Try `racket-mode` for Emacs. It has many of the features that DrRacket has.

https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/blob/master/R...
trash article
And not only that!

Because the layout renders like garbage on mobile devices, and because mobile touch screens are so flakey and unreliable, I accidentally clicked an ad, and had to dump the browser tab before I could even finish reading, just to escape conversion to an accidental one-click purchase of the wares the ad was hawking, because I made the mistake of setting up my mobile browser with detection for an integrated payment method!

Cha-ching!
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I don't know many highly productive people, but the few I know don't differentiate between weekdays and weekends. Working seems to be a habit, and they appear to enjoy it. Might be a case of Stanford duck syndrome though.
It’s really not. Go down to Dhaka’s main river. Gag due to the clouds of gas coming off the raw sewage, and watch as people wash themselves and their clothes in the same river that people are shitting in. It’s absolutely absurd to compare the US to anything like it.
I don’t see how they the presence of those legal immigrants is causing the US to stop taking care of its infrastructure or providing services like health care, etc. Your claim is a bit of a stretch and is the kind of typical nationalistic nonsense that distracts people from focusing on the real causes of these problems.
After a patent is approved, there will be more fees down the line, such as for amending or maintaining the patent. Therefore, the USPTO will make more money from an approved patent than a rejected patent.
People in the rest of the world die because there literally isn't good care available, regardless of whether they can afford it. As a kid, I once got a big cut and my doctor's only solution was to dump an old vial of iodine on it because they didn't have bandaids.

All you (and a few other comments here) are doing is proving my point. Complain all you want, but don't for a second think your problems are even remotely close to what the majority of the rest of the world endures.

I suspect the West as a whole hasn't had real problems in a very long time, so a generation is growing up magnifying their own to victimize themselves. Americans are particularly bad about this.
it may not make sense to wait like a year for the research to get submitted to a conference, rejected by someone doing competing work, submitted to another conference, rejected by a reviewer who didn’t have time to read it, then submitted to a third conference and accepted.
Using France as a representaiton of Europe isn't really sensible. And Europe as a representation of life outside the US even more so.

Travelling to France feels similar to travelling to the US to me. Horrible infrastructure (especially Paris IMHO). Similar feelings for some other European countries, Italy at the forefront.

Better models are places like the Nordics, New Zealand, Singapore. But more middlingly, Canada, Germany, Taiwan, all outclass life in the US or France. Heck, I'd even say China are doing a lot better in many regards (they have their own issues of course, but many aspects are strong).
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Yep. We just did yearly reviews and I got a raise, after a year of hard work leading a project that is now bringing in a bunch of revenue, that was...underwhelming. Doubly so when I compare to the two offers that I turned down last year. They were both rather more than my post-raise salary. I like working for this company for a bunch of reasons, but come on...
Every bully I remember tried to mask their bullying as “helpful” or positive in some way.
highly recommend you test out any of Samsung's recent phones or tablets. s8 and up all have Samsung DeX which polishes the Atrix idea to be usable daily.

Samsung is really attacking this from the business side (automatically load work desktop at work) and actually use it for development on the DeX team.

Its amazing that we can now write android apps on android itself.
Wake up early on Saturday/Sunday. Endurance exercise -- usually relaxed long-distance biking ~20+ miles. In NYC it was limited, but in Washington DC suburbs, I keep strictly to country trails, so it is simultaneously also forest bathing, of sorts (http://www.shinrin-yoku.org/shinrin-yoku.html) Some days i'll walk instead of bike (~6mi) and listen to big-picture audio-books in the seclusion of the forest walk, so awesome.

Be back home by 11am. Before I had family, I used to read the rest of the day and go to restaurants/cafes with friends in the evening. Now, with family, I spend the rest of the day with family doing art, reading, puzzles, playground stuff.

After this, I sleep very well in the evenings because I'm tired to the bone. I'm incredibly productive on Monday/Tuesday after this sort of stress cleanse.
This is what caught my eye too. I'm not familiar with the guts of Fargate, but this seems like very poor performance?
I remember when it took almost a year to refurbish a small
bridge in downtown Ithaca.

There used to people who said the Egyptian Pyramids were built by aliens, but the experience with that bridge made me wonder if the Tappan Zee bridge was built by aliens.
Perfect example of "post your professional experiences on HN and get it ripped apart immediately."

On PANs - sure. However, I (personally) have seen odd-digit PANs but also deal with an industry that sees literally EVERY type of CC number you can imagine from all different areas of the world. Your experience (like mine) is anecdotal. But, here's the kicker - I HAVE to go with what VISA tells me to do because of their individual PCN integration requirements. If VISA is telling me "hey - it's a best practice to support all of our potential PAN formats even though 99% are going to be 16 digit" then I have to support that =)

On phone # formatting - sure. If your use case is the US and Canada things become MUCH more standardized for everything from banking data, to addresses, to (of course) phone numbers. However - I see foreign/odd phone # formats from the Americas constantly as not all the people who are here at this time have a local phone provider. (ie: travel).

I concede on number formatting - but I still use it because (IMO) it has the best/most-consistent mobile experience vs. custom libraries.

On date formatting - sure. "also sucks, btw" let's tell the users WHY it sucks because otherwise it's just trusting some random guy on the internet.

But yea - cool fork on codepen.
Depends on your insurance / employment benefits.

Treating CD/IBD in U.S. could easily cost $250+ month.

But pre-existing condition exclusions might help to secure insurance with comparable treatment.
In addition to the great advice in this thread, I'd recommend finding something which doesn't involve a screen or work context that you can be interested in. The brain works best when it has a multitude of activities, and crises don't seem as large when you have alternate activities.
Performance, as in options with strike prices that result in voodoo accounting and stock buybacks to artificially trigger an inflation in the stock price so they can strike and get out?

I'd believe in such thing if they were on long-term 10 year schedules and other mechanisms to avoid such manipulations.
OTOH a paper on arxiv that receives attention is likely to be better reviewed by the community than it would be by 1-2 reviewers at some point in the future.
Time to start interviewing!