skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in rural Poland, and still visit frequently. Trust me, it's really poor. It does a great job of presenting itself as richer than it is, but leave one of the metro areas like Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, whatever, and you see people living in what would be considered abject poverty in the US. It can barely keep its existing infrastructure working well.
I don’t understand the downvotes.

No one wants just-in-time, no-redundancies production of critical-to-life resources. You would be willing to subsidize a healthcare market to ensure hospitals didn’t have the exact supply of antibiotics on hand required “on average.” You wouldn’t want water purification plants to produce a market-optimum amount of water with no room for variation.

Why would you want that for your food supply?

Don’t get me wrong, there are other issues on hand - lack of diversification, oligopoly, etc. but the fundamental argument of “we subsidize critical resources because people die if there’s a shortage” isn’t a terrible idea.
The market and nature. Groundwater depletion:
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...

And this can't be entirely restored.. since when water is removed, the cavities in the dirt/rock that held the water collapse, and they can't be refilled (for example).

Making the midwest more sustainable would be a good thing.
They suspsended the rider's account, the very least they could do is suspend the driver's account till the matter is resolved (Seattle Police Dept lists cases online FYI). Without suspensions, your letting two people who have been in a violent altercation continue to put the rest of your drivers & riders in jeopardy.
Conditional LSTM-GAN for Melody Generation from Lyrics
Yeah the article makes no attempt to explain why they are "curves," or why the slopes look like that at all.

Here's my shot-in-the-dark, random attempt to line up the curves more to my intuitions and make them kind of work in relation to each other:
https://sketch.io/render/sk-6839906b1c270084fb96acb3fdae4249...
There's a short article on jaxenter covering this:

https://jaxenter.com/manifold-say-goodbye-to-checked-excepti...
I’m acting on the fact that almost all my investments are in the S&P 500, and I don’t have a (easy) way to pick my favorite 450 out of those 500. How would knowing the worst 50 be already priced in? They would be priced lower than they should? Good let’s get them out of my index. How else?
Most farms are owned by Cargill or Monsanto

Can you supply some citations for that statement?

[edit] Wikipedia would indicate Non-family corporate farms account for 1.36 percent of US farmland area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_farming#North_Americ... [/edit]
This is a misrepresentation of our argument.

It's a quote from your own devs in your own thread, and there are other similar ones. I don't know what your exact argument is but what's there sounds adversarial and reads more or less like telling Mozilla, Morrie Kessler-style, that they're being an unconscionable ballbreaker. There's probably some better, clearer way to present whatever it is you have in mind. Morrie didn't win the argument either.
Yeah...I will not miss their infrastructure at all. If you live in a moderately-populated area (anywhere on the west coast), the stations have been laughable. They're overcrowded and many stalls are VERY OFTEN broken. I may wait up to 30 minutes in line and sometimes up to a quarter of the stalls are either outright broken or trickle-charge. Not to mention the complete lack of a proper queue system leading to disagreements every single time about who was there first, etc. If you own a home, this is probably a non-issue. For the rest of us (which is most of us, at least in California), good luck. FWIW, when I first purchased I was one Tesla of a handful in the entire city (east coast). Moving here, I am one in a handful in every square mile.

I just ditched my Model S after 3 years and I feel great about it. I absolutely won't miss the charging, but I also won't miss the laughably barebones interior, litany of software bugs, or unjustifiably high price tag, either. The driving however, I absolutely will miss, but there's much more to the experience than that with a fully-electric.
Service people? Seriously, people who make $100,000 a year will have a lot of trouble living in a nice place and still be able to save for retirement. I don't know how many people in the Bay Area make $100k or less, but I would guess many millions.
Out of personal (and painful) experience, using Spark for general-purpose ETL processes is a bad idea. Spark is meant to be used in highly-distributed systems and with tables that have like trillions of rows. RDDs use an optimized distributed programming model that takes a lot of practice and getting used to. Some operations are virtually impossible due to the fact that executors run on separate contexts. Caveat emptor.
Right. Protests are a means to an end and the people should be clear about what the end is. That's the whole point of not being administered by China in the first place, where you would just voice your discontent and let the 'technocratic' 'leadership' figure out a solution. The people have to self-direct towards a long term goal.

I think the current situation is tricky in that the 2 issues are partly conflated in the sense that Hong Kong needs to be careful to not just give the half-democratic colonial leash to China. But that's the extent of it (since Beijing didn't setup that colonial structure), and it's important to not conflate the rest of the issues with it. The institutional/functional half of the legco basically seems like a collection of medieval guilds and I don't see it trying to, or having the financial incentive to resolve societal issues for the bottom of the society anytime soon.

The fight for political reform does seem like the right thing to do but I think the only way to success is to stay extremely focused and framing it as a people vs colonial oligarchy issue rather than a British vs China issue or a woke vs brainwashed wumao issue. And most importantly, to not make it about defending the status quo, where Hong Kong will fall deeper in the hole since it not being able to continue to skim off the top of all China trades like it could during the 80s can't float all boats like it could in the past anymore. If Hong Kong fails to prove that its current political system is an advantage rather than a disadvantage that translates to economic and social wellbeing, Beijing will have little incentive to not scrap its system come 2047. And from the present perspective from the Beijing side, all signs would point to it looking like a disadvantage so far when comparing the relative deltas of urban and rural development and wellbeing vs the mainland. This, of course, ignores the fact that the CCP system will hit a glass ceiling in economic development vs countries with mature judicial systems, checks and balances etc, but that’s a limitation for its future potential rather than a present problem for Hong Kong and mainland.
That's not how life works.

You ever seen the graph of foxes and bunnies? Where all the foxes starve when they kill all the bunnies?

That's what happens IRL, too many food producers go bust, the stored glut gets used, and suddenly you're not producing enough and people die.
Ok, but seniority is still the independent variable in all those graphs, so it belongs on the x-axis.
I read all this technical jargon but have no idea what any of it actually does.
The corn loss this year is due to weather, specifically how wet it was. Planting was super late in many areas, if they were able to plant at all.
I kind of love that biased test results funded by Big Water are a thing.
> I've long wished git checkout (and now, git restore) would save the contents of blown-away worktree files somewhere (e.g. a throwaway stash) so that they could be retrieved from the reflog or something.

Magit can do this. See https://magit.vc/manual/magit.html#Wip-Modes
I mean in the US pictures of murder aren’t illegal.
Fertility rates have been decreasing rapidly all over the developing world. For instance, in Brazil it went from over 5 to around 1.7 in just 50 years. It has decreased so much that that country's very generous public pension system, created when the median age was around 18, eats most of the government's budget and has all but collapsed (current median age is 37).

Back in the 1970s your typical sci-fi dystopia was an overcrowded world. Personally I'm more afraid of a world with ghost cities inhabited by a handful of elderly people
Fungus have been looked as one option for this. They are excellent bioaccumulators.
>One would approach peak X as you become more senior, but you would accelerate toward peak X more quickly at first

But the curves are basically the opposite of this. They show less horizontal movement at the junior level than the senior level. The "peak X" you are looking at is not what it appears, you are seeing a "peak seniority" level on each graph and the "skill gain" or whatever is accelerating towards infinity as you approach the most senior person (which you can never reach...?)
Meditating daily has helped with my focus. I can now follow conversations in work meetings a lot longer, without my mind drifting away.
Is there any evidence that Toptal offered a competitive salary in relation to total compensation packages elsewhere? A good senior engineer can get $300k+ at FB or Google. Most startups would offer $160-$200k plus equity. If Toptal "wasn't playing that game," then surely they were offering $300k salaries?
Productivity increases due to automation go to the owners of capital. Many individual’s productivity is not going up, therefore they are worth less.
New account, no other posts, anonymous name, nothing to see here move along
Damore did not get fired for the debunked evopsych nonsense. He got fired by stating the following assumptions:

1) Google does "diversity programs" to increase their number of female employees

2) These programs involve "lowering the bar" to help female applicants get into the company

True, he does not explicitly state that:

3) Therefore, current female applicants are likely to be less competent at their job than current male ones

But I fail to see how this isn't an obvious implication from 1) and 2). This is akin to people "merely asking" about the origin of the IQ gap between blacks and whites and acting shocked when accused of racism.

Note that he also played the same game with the following reasoning:

1) Women have higher degrees of neuroticism, leading to anxiety in high-stress situations

2) High-level positions are often ripe with stress

Again, he does not explicitly state that:

3) Therefore, female employees are less likely to be fit for high-level positions

But the implication is still clear as day. Defending yourself behind "but that's not what I said" doesn't work: people are not stupid and can connect the dots, even if they aren't willing to take your reasoning apart in order to show you why they think you're acting in bad faith. The "but it's all statistical, I wasn't talking about female Googlers" isn't a valid defense either: if I were to argue that men are more likely to be rapists than women (statistically true) and therefore companies should abstain from hiring men (or at the very least, quarantine them to be safe and avoid "false negatives") in order to reduce workplace rape, men would rightfully feel insulted and write me off as crazy. "You're more likely to be a rapist" is a lesser insult than "You're a rapist" but it's still one, and hiding behind the adverb "statistically" doesn't change that.
You're right; chipotle_coyote provided insight that convinced me why I was in the wrong.

I've partially addressed this in another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20720618
If by catch up to progressive states you mean higher taxes, bigger government, more NIMBYism, bans on vaping, etc.

I hope that doesn’t happen.
That seems plausible. I think it's reasonable to suppose that people who grew up in large families might themselves prefer to have large families, but I also suspect that personal preferences like that aren't all that sticky across more than a few generations. Maybe it balances out. For now, we can just say that most people in well-off societies aren't opting to have large families and that doesn't appear likely to change in the near future.
How else to depose despots
No, there are trading strategies that do work, over multiple years, and can then be adjusted and refined to work even longer.

But obviously nobody is going to publish such strategies. You’re looking at a negative selection of papers.
Or just the right amount of food producers go bust, and things are stable. And then there's an episode of wheat rust/grasshoppers/drought/flooding, and then you're not producing enough food and people die.

(Or, to riff off of what vcf1 said, then you have to spend less of it feeding cattle, and more of it feeding people. That's survivable, at least.)
What’s the political slant? I’m working my way down the memorandum front page articles and getting a very distinctly right wing vibe. Is that the norm, or just a momentary trend?
Cargill (especially) and Monsanto are pretty large, but combined they account for around a quarter of the total revenue.
I don't know if it's the fastest, but I've had good success using Puma with Ruby on Rails in a real-world production site. That said, if performance is your goal, then the web server is only a small part of it. In my experience, the way to get a high-performing Ruby on Rails application is primarily through fragment caching and using a CDN. You can get excellent performance with very little effort that way.
The entire process was badly bungled. The FCC designed a nicely tiered alert system for mobile phones. The CRTC then adopted the same system but tossed out all but the "Presidential" level. Then they delegated responsibility for what to alert about to local authorities.

The end result is cops in Burlington sending end of the world alerts that can't be silenced to people 1500 km and 15 hours away in Thunder Bay about events that took place 2 hours ago. It's complete lunacy.

The tone is so disruptive and loud people are calling 911 to complain. It's so jarring I'm shocked it hasn't resulted in fatal car collisions.

I've been in the states during amber alerts and even natural disaster warnings and the process is simple and effective. The alerts come in and you action them if warranted. Ours are literally the end of the world tone no matter what.
I don't doubt that but apparently we have different definitions of a lot. Additionally latency and hardware also matters, I can say that C is doing n things a second while PHP is doing the same but C is running on EC2 micro instance and PHP is running on 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 dedicated machine. C10K problem was not solved by 1:1 model and this is an old problem. C100K+ is what I see in some of production systems I work on.
Cryptography book from year 1499 – Steganographia
> Mercedes doesn't have an electric car yet

The Mercedes EQC is here now, maybe not in your region yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTew1D5Tk8
Actually this is another such explanation to justify one over the other. I am a believer that world should be built and bound by human to human connections and love, not by some utilitarian construct like nationalism. You can read the book of that noble laureate who influenced me, on this subject from Gutenberg press:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40766
First, Google (along with almost all big tech) needs more people of color. I'm sorry this guy left.

Second: Michael Brown was not murdered. He was a bully who used his size to intimidate people and the evidence shows he had his arm inside the cop car. Everybody of every color should re-think that scenario and come down on the right side of it. Facts are facts.

Third: I'm really sorry that guy moved on. Kelsey Hightower is a beacon of hope in the tech community, we need more examples to encourage future generations. I hope this guy lands somewhere good and finds success.
Netflix offers $400k - $600k salaries to engineers to be competitive with total compensation packages of companies that offer part salary and part stock.

Is there evidence that Toptal offered similar salaries? I wouldn't at all be surprised if they were closer to the $150k range, which is not competitive.
I’d rather go quietly into the night when the time comes that I’m not self sufficient (via assisted suicide). Perhaps that’s wishful thinking, and I won’t have the mental fortitude at that time.
I hope that your personal implementation of your strategy takes into account 2008 ;). Because, hooo, boy, your 20% YoY returns sound great, but may not be taking enough risk of a similar collapse into account.
Huh, I went to UW and never heard about the Center for Healthy Minds. This is really interesting, thanks!

Where does transcendental meditation fall?
C++ vs. OCaml: Ray tracer comparison (2007)
For me, this article doesn't seem to provide much insight at all.

All of these qualities would be expected of any person, who is more experienced than some other people, in any field. An experienced foreman is more independent than a day labourer.

What about something like: "A senior developer is more able to reason about interactions between separate, but related systems." Or: "A senior developer is more able to dig into the lower level bytecode of a Java application to debug a performance issue."

While my examples might not be perfect, at least they make an attempt of being much more concrete.
> Would there be a benefit if we could support and subsidize commercial farms up to a certain size, and no larger, removing the compulsion for ultra-large, mass-industrialization of our agriculture industries?

I like it a lot. We might add a bit of an incentive for non-monoculture agriculture - different strains of wheat, for example. (There's some of that already, and we don't want all the smaller farms to do that, but some doing it might be a good idea.)
"Cargill is America’s largest privately-owned company, surpassing
the second place Koch Brothers by billions of dollars in annual revenues. Cargill is the corporate behemoth at the nexus of the global
industrial agriculture system, a system that it has designed to convert large swaths of the planet into chemically dependent industrial
scale monocultures to produce cheap meat, palm oil, and chocolate."

http://www.mightyearth.org/cargillreport
One realization I had about the movie: the witch writes a message to Oz to send Dorothy. He immediately tricks her into going there; presumably to her death.

Not a very good man.
But also:

> Almost every instrument is mean-reverting on short timelines and trending on longer timelines.

i.e. he confirms the momentum factor, which isn't surprising since there's more solid evidence for it than anything else, going back hundreds of years.

He doesn't say what fundamental factors he looked at, so it's possible that value, size, and profitability/quality would hold up as well. All those have been studied pretty extensively in academia, in papers going back decades. The author took only a fairly random sampling of recent papers.
The decline of famine in the developed world long predates the massive farm subsidies that exist in the United States. The last time there was a major famine in England, for example, was in the 1650s. There has never been a major famine in the USA, yet the subsidies we now think of as the Farm Bill only really started in the 1920s.
Google Drive introduces long-requested shortcuts
Beef grazing would need to be accounted for. Land under agistment, set aside and out of production too, but for rate purposes assessed as agriculture? I think you need to focus on cultivated/cropping.
If a politician tells you what he meant to say in a speech do you take it at face value? People lie to themselves and others all the time about what they have said and why they said it.

The text is the truth. What the author says about it is useful but not the end of the story.
Convictions are not the only way for a police encounter to be a problem in the United States. 70% of the local jail population has never been convicted of a crime: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2017_jail_detail.html
I would guess a firearm of some sort, as that's the only thing I can think of that would:

1.) be relevant to a police investigation
2.) be registered or associated with individuals
3.) have few enough of an exact thing in an area for the manual checking to be effective
> The state of the art is a blood draw, followed by detection of THC at a toxicology laboratory using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

> police are willing to pay $20 per test.

Is GC/MS (LC/MS?) really that cheap?
Yep, NZ used to protect its farmers with tariffs and subsidise them. When the tariffs and subsidies were removed, a lot of farmers went bust, it was a painful period. But now our agricultural sector is competitive on the world stage against subsidised and protected competitors.

There's still a ways to go though, we've seen a massive movement towards dairy conversions which is predicated on free water, cheap electricity and the government not pricing externalities like lowland river pollution.
You agree to these things when getting a license. It's like the EULA we never read.
What's wrong with Chicago?
So face saving is defined as not accepting responsibility when the negative consequence has something to do with your standing in society. As opposed to not accepting responsibility because say it may cause legal liability. Am I understanding that right?

In that case I think it’s a meaningless distinction. Because it doesn’t say anything about the individual behavior, but rather, how the 2 societies handle wrongdoing. Japanese society handles wrongdoing by “shunning” the wrongdoer from police company. American society handles it by suing the person.

But either way, face saving has been redefined not by the action, but rather by the consequence of the action, which makes it a fairly meaningless difference in my opinion.
Problem 1: who would want to come to a country where they can be indoctrinated not to have babies?

Problem 2: it is unethical for rich people to depend on the fertility and then parental obligations of poor people in order to produce new people who will then be taxed to pay for the sterile old rich person. That is asking someone else to do all your hard work for you for free.
A market-priced system for food in the United States would still allow for a massive amount of slack in the case of a supply shock. The typical American probably eats 20-30% more calories than are properly healthy for them, and many of their calories come from extremely feed and land-intensive sources like beef.

Of course, you wouldn't switch to this all at once. You'd announce that you are gradually cutting farm subsidies over the next ten years. The least profitable (efficient) operations would close. This would also develop slack in the form of unused land, which could be held in reserve in case of a supply shock like the one you're hypothesizing.
Field sobriety tests are far worse than something objective like this. If a cop has it in for you, you are going to fail the sobriety test regardless of how impaired you actually are.
I would guess Vive Pro/Valve Index with an expensive PC and a bunch of accessories.
Q: How did the US companies lose their Chinese markets?

A: Slowly at first, then all at once.

It's always easier to pay a little for an established service, than to go to the angst and costs of setting it up for yourself. On the other hand, once you find you do need to set it up for yourself, then you never ever need to buy that service again.
Yeah but that one person can have 20 different streaming subscriptions for the TV, for example. Or they could have a really really awesome TV instead of a shitty one. Economic value is somewhat subjective; if people are willing to buy a billion dollars of hats for their video game avatar, that’s a billion dollars of economic activity.
Economic growth is not "for the sake of growth;" it's for the sake of wealth.