skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never forget the teacher who marked my exam question wrong because I wrote the result as a slashed zero and not a regular zero. When I asked the Prof, he told me that "a slashed zero is the empty symbol." This was not an exam about sets.

But I learned my lesson and never slashed my zeroes again.
How has the real estate investment turned out?
I'm fairly certain most libraries would consider "loaning books" as one of the services they provide. The public good paid for by taxes is that they loan for free.

Part of the administrative overhead is making sure they get the books back.
Here is a relatively famous study on rent control in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It identifies billions of dollars that resulted from the end of rent control in 1994, controlling for other economic trends.

https://www.nber.org/digest/oct12/w18125.html

Although the year 1994 in a city a few miles away isn't exactly the same as New York, it seems far fetched to argue we wouldn't observe the same thing if we ended rent control here today.
There are way more people nowadays than there used to be. To make things harder, people can easily move from one place to other very far ones in a short notice, nearly instantly, and with no quarantine period when they will be distrusted by everyone.
When I saw this my first thought was this is one of those instances of "client wouldn't pay so I put it up on github". Would love to know the story behind why this got released as open source.

Thanks for sharing!
> How do you prevent the tragedy of the commons without knowing who has what?

Does this exact argument not apply to the "anonymous" corporations mentioned in the article?
I meant how many people will break one key in a trivial way to get a bigger replacement they actually would have to pay for otherwise. (because the warranty ran out)
Comic Sans, or something closely similar, seems to be a preferred font for chord symbols and other indications in sheet music. I encounter it a lot, playing jazz. Maybe there's something about readability under adverse conditions, e.g., under low light, at a distance, with lots of distractions.

And like kindergarten material, the chord symbols in good music charts are printed big.
You've got that exactly backwards. In theory, the risk free return should be equal to negative the rate of inflation.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_rule
Failure to automatically launch the missiles.

In that case that might even be planned incompetence.
>users expect it to change over time

No, they expect to have the opportunity to upgrade to newer versions which may be different if they want those differences. They don't expect the one they bought, learned to use, and have grown proficient with to suddenly be completely different one day for no good reason.

Consider buying a truck because you haul stuff around a lot. You don't expect to just come out to your driveway one morning and find a fuel-efficient minicar there instead because someone at the car company decided that people like fuel-efficient vehicles, so they would steal back all the trucks they made and replace them. However, maybe you used to haul a lot of cargo but you don't anymore so you've been thinking of replacing the truck and a fuel-efficient car would interest you, but you want that to be your choice.
Speed of transportation and speed of communication - when ideas and capital move at light speed instead of horse speed, society changes in correspondingly massive ways.
Side topic on bypassing their income.

If you are not going to pay them, and not going to view it -- then they lost the income -- you might as well bypass the pay wall..
1) Slowly makes sense but I need to diversify - which I probably will do more quickly than slowly.

2) I'm fairly literate financially but need more depth and breadth.

3) Revocable trust and wills are in the works.

4) Asked friends for recommendations, agreed!

5) Agree. I've told one person (outside of work folks who are in the same situation) and that was a mistake.

6) Spouse is fully informed and has delegated all decisions to me. Oooof.

7) Good advice re: expected safe return!

8) Agree investing in simple things. Investing in America or the World with a diversified portfolio makes sense.

9) agree with diversification and risk tolerance as a function of dynamic market.

10) Real estate seems fun but not really - too many societal changes and troublesome renters.

Good point that you 'can't take it it with you' - interesting to see that as an actual issue to deal with.

Great input - thanks!
I think your example (international spy) is on a very different level than someone stealing private money. Spies are normally working with the approval of their country, so the prosecution there does not make sense.
Yes. It seems like it's not the kind of thing a government should be saying because you're from the west. Forcing someone to do something that betters their lives is not seen as bad or propagandized as bad in China.

The basic point in the post is "Look, those Tibetans no longer waste their time worshiping gods and are instead working hard to better their lives thanks to the Chinese Government."
If you follow the right people you can have a good experience. I try to strike some balance to avoid echo chambers. If you've ever wanted to learn the perspectives on life and fighting of a convicted war criminal/terrorist then Quora's your place.

The thing I absolutely loathe, however are these clickbait answers - always about sex - written by anonymous users and normal answers that - because the photos load before the text - have borderline porn to draw people in. It ruins the site.
There's a guy who teaches math that makes sense from the bottom up if anybody is interested https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A714C94D40392AB

If you supplement his rational math with those books from AOPS (art of problem solving curriculum) to practice, it's actually quite easy. Their intro to number theory book is a good example of exploring the 'beauty' (in quotes so I don't sound like a cringeworthy pseudophilosopher)
I work for a government agency. You’d be surprised how often we play very complex versions of this game.

Or maybe you wouldn’t. In any case, in my experience, about once a week. Essentially, your sponsors lets you know they want an answer to an unanswerable question (“how can we best weaponize salmon?”). Then we play “guess the answer the sponsor wants”.
You won't be running a VM on a doc like this, but 4GB is plenty for most everyday tasks. My laptop running Windows has 4GB RAM, and it runs common web tasks just fine, and I use it regularly for:

- Slack
- video meetings
- Netflix
- Google docs

Honestly, I think you'll be more limited by CPU performance than memory, unless you try to run a VM or something.

I don't know about you, but this is exactly the type of backup laptop I'm looking for. It probably won't be my main laptop for work, but it's plenty for most casual uses. Basically it's replace my Chromebook as a more capable, hackable alternative.
This is super cool. I’ve been working on an idea that would mesh well with this, I’ll have to explore it more this weekend.

Thanks for sharing!
You seem to have it figured out- I'd love to talk with you privately. I like your point of view.

One of my advisors said one of his clients spend $30k on an A/V room for playing video games. And although that seems excessive it's so much less than other things.

I love your approach on charity and will dwell on it.

Thank you for your comments!
JS1k Speech Synthesizer
Job interview take-home exercise?
Facebook Vigilantes Hunting for Pedophiles
If I could I'd upvote this 100 times, it's funny to see people thinking their side is the "one true side of the story", be it the US or China. If you haven't lived in both worlds and understand values and cultures of both, don't be so quick on your feet to think your existing beliefs are the entire truth.
No, calling a number is expensive. It takes time, processing power, a phone plan, etc. It also alerts the victim, as well as your phone provider who will likely shut you down. Calculating a hash is cheap, a single GPU can calculate 5 billion sha256 hashes/second.
> How should climate change or air pollution or any of it be partisan?

The question is 'who should give something up to deal with [X]'. It is likely that the situation will become unresolvably partisan in any democracy.

If the conversation were about clean air and making energy efficient decisions then it would not be a partisan issue. However, I've had conversations with people who seriously proposing 'solutions' like deindustrialising civilisation. I don't want that sort of people to be in charge of anything.

It is a partisan issue because the choices presented are 'take actions that do not impact our standard of living' and 'take actions that reduce our standard of living'.
"We know what's best for the user" is assuming you are even designing for the user in the first place.

The user is often not the customer, and design changes are ultimately here to serve the company, not the user:

- How can we increase number of ads users will tolerate?
- How do we increase the amount of content users share?
- How do we increase the number of likes/hearts they send?

I wouldn't be surprised if the lionshare of user backlash comes from decisions that weren't meant to serve the user in the first place.
It isn't much different in the working world. Answers are expected regardless of how impossible they may be and frankly most management do not take a non answer well.
Correct, and since that bias is towards larger NEOs, which are relatively easier to detect then smaller objects, they can be reasonably confident about that estimate.
It is the medium to small size NEOs that are the most worrisome. They are harder to detect, and hence harder to estimate how many are out there.
http://archive.is/unc4f
I was of course only talking about the present and future. That's what matters when it comes to foreign policy.
> China's violations are certainly serious, but it's just not comparable to the sheer extent of the West's.

Within recent history this just isn't true.

In fact I'm not even sure it's true over history going back to the creation of the colonies: Decades spent under communism - millions dead, freedom totally unknown and nothing to show for it. I don't know to assign magnitude to anything like that, but to say they aren't comparable is wrong.
The interactive 3D orbital graphic is great for visualizing the orbits and how they cross the Earth's path.
I hope they fix the weight distribution. I watched a video about the original Pinebook and the laptop tilted back when the screen went past 120deg or so. I imagine it's because the internals are so small and clumped together at the back, but it seems so annoying to have to hold it down while typing.

I'll likely buy one once they get an ANSI layout. I've been meaning to pick up a RockPro64 for a NAS, but I decided the RAM wasn't quite enough to run ZFS well, but I won't be needing that much RAM for a casual laptop.
I just quit my old job after 10 year at the company 6 of which I was an App Dev for. I applied for several jobs did three interviews for Sr. Dev positions and received 2 offers. After I received each offer I expressed that my highest level of education was a GED, each time it was stated that is not a problem. I don't even have an education portion in my resume. It's been a non-issue so far.
https://fredlybrand.com/2014/05/03/seven-red-lines-aka-the-e... ?
There's no scrutiny at all, it's rather a form of predatory selling to taxpayer-funded organizations that overpay for such services (although to the taxpayer the ROI is by definition negative - in the best case it's a loss of service subscription money and more often it involves tax hikes and more government spending to fight "climate changes").

When ratings has to be faked to keep the government happy and ever more indebted, everyone was AAA. Does anyone think this new service will ever produce data that will result in less government spending? I don't believe that climatists who read this believe that. They want more government spending.
That's very kind of you to suggest it won't change me. I hope you're right and expect you are.

Totally love the idea about buying time. Not entirely clear about what to buy access for, but I'll ponder that.

Agree re: confidentiality. Age is 40, and expect to work for another 5-20 years or more.

Working w/ an RIA so things should be good there, totally agree they must be fiduciary.

Agree long term planning; not exactly sure that giving kids money is a great idea. Perhaps some/all college and help w/ house down payment - but life is a struggle (jihad - I'm not Muslim but that's the analogy I use). Agree learning how to teach them is a good goal! The Silver Spoon book looks good for that!
Interesting. Looking at the code, it uses the first 3 bytes of the sha256 hash. That's 24 bits of entropy, or 16777216 possibilities. So if you know the area code, you can find the full phone number with decent probability.

https://github.com/hexway/apple_bleee/blob/master/hash2phone...
I'm no expert and could be missing something. But it doesn't look to me like we have an "inalienable" right to vote. Various amendments do say that our right to vote can't be revoked for certain specific reasons, e.g.,:

- The 15th amendment prohibits denying the right to vote on certain grounds (race, color) but doesn't go beyond that.
- The 19th prohibits denying the right to vote based on sex.
- The 24th prohibits denying the right to vote (in certain federal elections) based on outstanding tax bills.
- The 26th prohibits denying citizens over 18 the right to vote based on age.

But this seems like a weirdly specific list. If the reason isn't on the list, is it still fair game? For instance, AFAIK some states don't let convicted felons vote.
It's not on viveport despite what they say, I've searched for it numerous times, very frustrating.
Indelible ink or similar, perhaps? Maybe some fancy crypto scheme?
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Where voter fraud happens it isn’t random people deciding to vote 3 times. Why would anyone bother?

Actual vote fraud is about political machinery. Now in the US the real election shenanigans are much cheaper and more effective... the big pools of black money and gerrymandering are the tools of modern political machines.
Article is filled with misinformation. And to rail against the US as a whole displays either lack of knowledge or intent to push a political agenda which this clearly is. Corporate formation is state governed so each state law is different though usually similar. Corporate Directors and LLC managers are usually publicly disclosed. Ownership should never have to be disclosed as corporations by their nature are designed to allow ownership to be sold easily to raise capital so may change frequently. None of this has anything to do with taxes or legal compliance which is easily enforced as corporations have to have publicly disclosed registered agents to receive papers and theu lose in court if they don't show up. Most are one or two person companies organized to protect individual liability. Many set up for real estate to serve as vehicles for investment. Those that are public corporations are extremely transparent through SEC filings and shareholder rights. The agenda in this article is clearly to name, shame, tax,politicize, demonize, and socialize small and private businesses that drive the economy and employ the vast majority of the people in this country.
How much information tech companies store on you (2018)
Default keys won’t prevent the touchbar from freezing or bugging out, which has occurred multiple times for me. It’s odd to make such important keys software based and prone to non mechanical failure.
I love the Ember idea! Agree on the vig! If I'm making 5% and they get 2% well that's just not fair!

Umbrella is looking good.

Great input, thanks!
I've looked into this an the USA is uniquely strict in their standards amongst western nations. Most countries give people a second chance in cases except for very serious crimes.
Does anybody know of a blog with a “Future Tech of the Week” feature?
I’m looking for a blog that postulates a future/sci-fi tech/science/Idea/Concept in the style of an “of the Month” feature. I already watch Isaac Arthur but I want something I can read. It doesn’t necessarily have to be in English (I can translate it), it just has to be ongoing as of now, consistent and creative. Some ideas can be broad; others unique and specific. Every month at the least.
Generally no. Fixes (bugfixes and security fixes) yes, changes (and removed features) no.
The extra erosion resistance of having a nearby root system is probably significant.
> That thinking of them as anything other than directions with magnitudes is wrong.

Mathematicians like to think of just about everything as vectors, so that sentence seems a bit off.

Anyway, yeah, starting from abstract definitions is a great way to make a student's life hell. After all, there's a reason universities teach linear algebra twice.
Repeating your point above word for word before you switched accounts doesn't make your argument any stronger.

Hydrogen flouride is used directly in weapons manufacturing.
Its a defective keyboard design, it will fail sooner or later. The only difference is whether Apple replaces the keyboard now or a few months down the road.
At Buck's Restaurant in Woodside, CA there's a postcard on the wall (or there used to be) from a lady somewhere "else" who said since everyone there is wealthy - could they send her some money.

Let me ask you, shifto, if I can.. Why would you like to have, or as you say 'need' rich friends?
I don't think developers spend that much time gaming metrics unless they are objectively measured against them.

And you would notice if someone's estimates are always higher for the work they are assigned compared to others.
That's not the way DoorDash worked actually.

They offered $1 per delivery plus tips, and would increase the wage if the tips didn't meet the expectation.

If you tipped the driver $100, the driver would get $101.

If you tipped the driver $0, the driver would get $4 - $7 because DD would make up for that.
Anyone have experience with the accuracy of Amazon Transcribe vs the Google offerings? (Google Live Transcribe for Android currently tops my list of impressive transcription offerings.)
The brightest and most productive people I've known can turn off perfectionism at will. Or more accurately, they accept mediocre input from others to find the diamond in the rough. They also accept mediocrity in the process; they don't care if they're brute forcing a part of the solution as long as they know that all of the pieces of the big picture are in place. In other words, they focus on the right thing.

Then, they turn perfectionism on when it comes to their output. They make sure their writing is impeccable and that communication is clear, precise, and efficient.

Unfocused perfectionism is a curse. It's a cause or a symptom of self-sabotage. Probably both.
Corporations are still chartered by the state. Corporations allow capital to be raised and transfered.A necessity in a successful economy. Have a 401k ? Own a stock or mutual fund ? You own a corporation. That wouldn't be possible without the corporate structure.
Examples of ads that reveal how different the world used to be
So is this the bring your own server version of “inactive app hibernation” that you see in the free tiers of PaaS providers like Heroku? If so, that’s neat!
Oh I see. That makes sense if you can get the government to use paper ballots everywhere (best of luck in the US). It does make me wonder how well it would work out in practice though. If verification happens at the same time as the vote, then you can try to correct any issues that come up right then. (Maybe bring additional documentation right then? I don't know.) Whereas if you introduce a delay in between... how many people are actually going to go through the hassle of dealing with it later (especially imagine having to take days off work) to work through the legal bureaucracy and have their votes counted? I feel in the US it seems a little bit too optimistic that it would work out fine, but maybe I'm just pessimistic...
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They are complete opposites in many aspects of their design. It would not make sense.
Timothy Gowers had a similar point at https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0/posts/4bkfusUoXot (dead link now):

> if one asks children a question such as the following: a number 35 bus pulls up at a bus stop and 8 passengers get on; what is the age of the bus driver? A large percentage of children, their minds numbed by years of symbol manipulation, will give the answer 43. This is a tragedy: rather than being trained to think, these children have been trained to do the opposite.

Also here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/11/maths-...

This is basic stimulus-response behaviour: school education is effectively a game that the children are playing to win points, and within that environment “thinking” is wasteful and disincentivized.

(See also: Lockhart's Lament https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament...., the heart-breaking How Children Fail by John Holt, etc.)

Gowers also had a couple of posts on a very different way of teaching mathematics:

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/how-should-mathemati...

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/a-trip-to-watford-gr...
This would be true if the asteroid and the earth are both points. Obviously, they aren't. An observing scientist would not see it this way unless it were heading directly for them.
> It's a shame to see C++ gleefully going down this road, seemingly having finally drunk the Kool-Aid and adopted the myth that handling allocation failure to too difficult and too error prone; that it's not your problem and something else higher up the stack will solve the problem for you. :(

I think the reasoning behind this part of the C++ proposal at hand is a bit more complicated than that. It's imo worth reading section 4.3 specifically about the memory allocation issue, and the motivation for the whole exception overhaul in in section 2 (although that's a bit longer).

The reasoning isn't itself that it's too difficult or such, it's that the overhead required by something like the current exception handling is high, and that it's quite desirable to makr a lot more of the standard library as not throwing exceptions - and the only cause a lot of them throw, is OOM.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...
There is no answer. That's not the point. They want to know your response anyway. Will you be funny, loud, blunt - whatever you do, answer.
I don't see a disagreement about whether your article is correct. Your article talks about which crimes are deportable, not which crimes may result in a later visa application to the US being denied.
It seems that sensible judgements in cases like are few and far between. Hopefully we will see a trend in this direction instead of the hysteria usually surrounding hacking where the perpetrator is viewed in the same category as a mass murderer.
It's mentioned in the section where the author discusses the wide use of greenhouses to grow produce.
Please reach out to me and see if I can help or even collaborate.