skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Great reference. I mean, a hell of a lot of fundamental research is beyond ethics. Maybe the CIA has an island somewhere?
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That drop in birth rate isn't unique to Iran. It's one of the most well-studied phenomena in sociology. It has a name, too, the demographic transition. As you pointed out, educating women is considered a key part of ushering in the demographic transition.

The Wikipedia page is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

(Not a sociologist, but used to be married to one.)
Surveillance by corporations is also used for:
- creating, maintaining and exploiting information asymmetry
- manipulating markets, fostering rent-seeking
- finding new ways of externalizing costs that escape easy detection
- polluting honest policy debate
- manipulating the democratic decision-making process
- avoiding responsibility for malfeasance
- etc, etc, etc, etc, etc and yet more etc

On the large scale, I do not want these entities to have access to weapons-grade behavioural models. On the small scale, I do not want them to have compromising information about individual behaviour. They will use whatever leverage they gain to enrich themselves far beyond their utility.
As far as I know the case was closed then reopened after some embarrassing US document leaked, and without any new relevant element. As far as I know, the Sweden authorities had the possibility to interrogate Assange without extraditing him, yet for some reason did not use that possibility.

Finding reliable sources with all relevant details is a hassle, so take it with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, I believe at this point that this unrelated affair is more an attempt at character assassination than a real thing. (I do recall that he reportedly didn't used protection, which would qualify him as a major jerk. Legislations seem to disagree on whether this was a crime or not, though.)
I watched a Ted talk sometime ago about how they've discovered a method to genetically modify mosquitoes to eradicate entire populations of mosquitoes from an area (I think it was it made them mos babies die due to genetic engineering).

I couldn't find it now but it seemed like a massive success at the time almost eliminating all mosquitoes from the a city in Brazil (iirc).

Anyone know what happened to it? If that were to come to fruition than a lot of disease in addition to malaria like chikungunya, dengue, etc will be cured too.
One unintended outcome of this is probably going to be age discrimination. If companies are now required to provide health care they is an incentive to hire younger workers with cheaper healthcare expenses than older people who cost more.
In Ireland starting is about EUR 40K, Senior would be about 55-60K, about 10-20K more in Dublin but you would spend that on rent alone

side note: above 33K tax is 50%+ on each and every euro, about 20% below

How does one relocate to the US, sigh
Wow, it's high leverage on top of unusual leverage on top of high leverage. Quoting from the OP:

"Boil things down and WeWork is a leveraged real estate company[a] propped up by a leveraged pool of late-stage venture capital (the Vision Fund)[b], which is in turn controlled by a leveraged telecoms and technology company (SoftBank).[c]"

It's like Peter borrowing a large amount of money to invest with Paul, who then, unusually, borrows on top of Peter's investment to invest with Mary, who then borrows another large amount of money on top of Peter's investment to invest in her own scheme. What happens if Mary can't pay back?

--

[a] WeWork has borrowed and wants to borrow more to finance operations, both in the form of corporate debt and in the form of long-term lease commitments: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1533523/000119312519...

[b] The Vision Fund has borrowed money on top of Softbank's investment:
https://archive.is/o/9I97g/https://www.ft.com/content/b6fe31...

[c] Softbank has borrowed money to invest in the Vision Fund: https://archive.is/o/9I97g/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar...
This seems like it would be a bad sale to make. Having one of the world's largest exchanges seems like it would be a strategic asset for a country that it wouldn't want to lose. To top it off, the buyer is an authoritarian regime that has been intent on expanding its influence to all areas of the global economy at the same time that it threatens or penalized companies that don't tow it's authoritarian line or propaganda. Messing with the LSE could have a highly disruptive impact on the UK & greater European region, which isn't power I'd want any 3rd party to have.
This is a contradiction. You first assume complete market efficiency (assets are priced in) to support that the market is random and unpredictable. Then you say that a hedge funds' payroll is no better than random guessing (something you could scale up without hiring anyone). This means that quants are grossly overpaid (assets don't reflect their true price) and that the trader's market is highly inefficient... That's having your cake and eating it too: a rational irrational market.

And it is a hypothesis that can't be disproven or proven, since, in a round-about way, it concerns non-computable concepts like Kolmogorov Complexity/Randomness (The efficient market hypothesis basically states that the stock market is an optimally compressed computer program, there are no discernible patterns left to reduce the "file" size).

There are numerous tried and tested ways to beat the market, including:

- Have more information than other players
- Have better models than other players
- Make faster decisions than other players
- Have enough energy to perturb the system and predict the outcome (this is the big one that is out of reach of most individuals and non-Physics PhD's).

Survivor bias is of course a very real phenomenon, but like other incomplete information games that can be won, or even solved, algorithmically: Poker, international diplomacy, ..., we would not conflate pure luck with the real skills required to play those games consistently well.
Pretty lackluster, to be honest. There's a small-ish local community but not a ton of industry or jobs.

There are many other reasons to love New Orleans, though!
It is not the “probability of [happening by chance]” (as opposed to the probability of [happening for some reason]).

It is the “[probability of happening] by chance” (as opposed to the [probability of not happening] by chance).
Interesting, wonder if we could modulate the electric grid and influence the emotions of a nation?
From the press article:

> Child malaria episodes could be reduced by up to 20% if populations living in high-risk areas are given Ivermectin, [....]

> An expert, independent from the study, said reports of resistance to the current class of malaria drugs are on the rise. [...] “There are cases of the drugs being sold over the counter, leading to their resistance and overuse. [...]”

If the plan is to give everyone the new drug, why don't they expect to get resistant strains soon?
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Unfortunately, with the Check21 whoever issued the physical check will get access to the scanned image of the substitute check together with the bank information of the account the check was credited to.
Not at all: acquisitions can be funded by debt i.e. LSE could have borrowed $27b to buy their strategic asset.

It is a "cash-and-share" transaction, the cash is borrowed. If it were shares only, you take ownership and you give $27b of newly minted shares to the previous owners (as a very crude approximation).

Of course, there's a lot more going on than just the above!
When a person can murder tens or hundreds of people by just yelling, sure we can ban free speech.

(to be more serious: the "speech" equivalent of assault weapons would probably be "hate speech" which is already unlawful)
You make it sound like a super rare and quirky standard - but as far as I can tell it's quite wildly supported?

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/01/a-comprehensive-lis...

Addionally it seems it's backwards compatible - you can use an USB charger, but at slower rate?
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>I think this is only true for narrow definitions of efficient

The definition I was going for is this: 2% of the US is currently employed in the agriculture sector. The US is also a very large exporter of agricultural products. So each ag worker produces over 50x more food than they consume. I think that's pretty amazing.
Controlled modelling of human epiblast and amnion development using stem cells
Why would you want to learn Fart? Useless language.
If they made it work with typescript it would be a react native contender
It's a matter of preference.

M = mega (in metric) = one million

MM = two of the roman numeral M = one thousand thousand = one million.

Both are correct.
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Yes, but what prevents you from creating fake firefox accounts?
" Son may turn out to be the Victor Frankenstein of the cheap-money era. He’s helped create a monster that could do him serious harm."

Why is it that all Frankenstein metaphors are poor? This one at least doesn't confuse the monster and the creator. In the story it's Frankenstein trying to destroy the monster, not the other way around.

In the spirit of productive discourse I'd suggest the sorcerers apprentice as a better comparison.
I mean really understanding the subject of investing. A good book teaching this is "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham ( Buffett based a lot of his philosophy on Graham's "value investing").
The post is not about the typo itself.

"The Dems have fucking lost it" is not proper HN etiquette, at least on my book.
'White men' is just a demographic category. 4.37% (1790/41,000) of fivethirtyeight sites indexed by google mention white men. If anything it's just indicative of The Guardian using less precise terminology than the BBC, which I'm sure discusses the demographic or subdemographics of white, male British people every now and then.

It seems that you are saying that they use sensationalized titles and publish contentious opinion pieces. I hate these tendencies on news orgs as well. But the Guardian isn't nearly as bad as HuffPost or Vox and the like in this regard.
To be frank, that's how I feel about HN: it's a little haven of (usually) calm, rational discussion, and I fear that as it gets more popular the level of discourse and content will decrease.
Fair enough. I'm only familiar with the big tech companies and a few of the smaller ones. Although I'm surprised your husband's brokerage did not have this option for you.
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This is the conclusion people come to naturally when one assumes all the other variables don't change in response to the wage. but they all change

The number of rides change as the price of the ride goes up, which happens when you raise the underlying cost to the rider. (aka supply and demand)

The number of drivers change with the overhead cost-per-driver. If each driver has a fixed healthcare overhead, it makes sense to hire only full time drivers as you can pay the overhead once and get the most hours driven from that sunk cost.

The number of drivers that get hired if you bump the salary also declines for all the reasons above.
One counter intuitive case where quarterly vest is actually better than monthly: tax harvesting in usa.

I am no tax expert, but my read of the IRS rules put restrictions around when you can buy or vest the next batch after doing a harvest. This comes in very handy if the company goes through a rough patch.
Not sure if you’re joking, but I think “moving fast and breaking things” is a bit of an understatement. I mean Vader enabled a heartless dictator to take over the galaxy and personally saw to it that a whole planet of billions of people blew up. Doubtless in the years after Order 66 Vader was responsible for millions of other deaths. I mean he personally strangled Captain Antilles for god’s sake.

The Old Republic was flawed, but disruption in this manner was clearly a step towards a new, shittier status quo. Disrupting something and making it worse doesn’t make him a hero.
"Super Maryo World" has been doing this since 2005:

http://www.janis.or.jp/users/segabito/JavaScriptMaryo.html
Thanks, sounds like what I am looking for, but sadly it doesn't seem to be available for Linux :-/
After 9/11, I Raised My Daughters Alone
Murex is going “cloud”
Do you get to elect your defense or sports minister in your country?
> This is a question I always ask all speed readers and the answers are always so muddled. I can never understand what they are getting at.

My business sense tells me there's a potential market for speed hearing here.
This is because there is a metaphysical reality behind everything and humans instinctively recognize that even from a young age.
US = Apple = Capitalism
Definitely - I've always chosen companies where I would be working on the money-making product, not in a cost center. Cost-center software devs around here in enterprise-land are lucky to break $100k.
Why not disclose my current salary? I absolutely would if anyone asked. I wouldn't leave my job over another for a pay raise because I like my job, everything I work on is free software, and I can work as slowly as I want.

When I've worked at start-ups in the industry (I've worked in Palo Alto, SF, Seattle, and other places in NYC), it was like, working crazy hours, constant stress and drama, dealing with annoying requirements, and basically working on stuff I don't care about, like mobile apps, vying for popularity, etc.

If a startup wants to pay me to work on these Astronomy simulations I've made, I'd be interested: https://github.com/ccnmtl/astro-simulations (this is what I've done over the past year at Columbia).
This is true. The profile URL is customizable, and the profile id can be removed from the url.
"...they pass the costs off to you."
I think virtual particles are a different question, as it is at least clear what is being asked (I think they are real, but have seen no convincing arguement one way or the other).

With wavefunctions, I am not actually clear on what the object "wavefunction" is. If you are asking if I believe the wave exists independent of the particle, then no. But I also do not think it is merely a calculation tool.

My view is that it is analogous to "velocity" in classical mechanics. In that it is a property of the object in question. I do not know if that qualifies as "real" or not.
I assume that your solution is too big to fit in the margin of a Web page?
This would be terrible for a large number of Uber riders. Want to go across the Bay Bridge? $100. Airport? $100. Want to get picked up after a night of drinking? $100. Want to get picked up in a poor neighborhood? Not happening.

All the problems associated with taxis: poor service, scams, racism, extortive pricing, will return.
I want to be empathetic to both sides of the argument. Don’t 1099 workers have preferential tax treatments? Why would you give that up and become W2? On the other hand, health insurance is a safety net. I feel like we need a new system where one can be an entrepreneur and still be able to afford healthcare.
California considers age to be a protected class.
I believe he did the right thing, I probably should have made that more clear. I also understand why the government still can't possibly treat him in anyways but as a traitor
They can't. withholding amounts are fixed by the IRS, at 22% below 1 million dollars, 37% above
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> Why wouldn't we? Those are the effect of web people not understanding the law. It doesn't matter whether the law is written by a more international alliance, they would still misunderstand it.

How is it not the law people not understanding the web?

How would you obtain consent from the user to store cookies without a pop-up or an even more disruptive method?
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> Read [..] trick.

Oh, it works with single words too!
Btw, http://levels.fyi for FAANG salaries
> Why is it abhorrent to not have your own kids?

Please explain to me how you plan to enforce your ban on people having more than one kid.
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I'm fascinated by the phenomenon of the signing bonus, which in many other countries Doesn't exist.

Do people really get a lump of money just for agreeing to come work there - while they could just leave on day 2 (or day 1) and pocket the thing? Or - is it like a higher first salary? Also, if the position is highly sought-after - isn't it a bit weird that a signing bonus is offered?
>science journalism

I think this is the case for pretty much every area of journalism. If you are a subject matter expert, you quickly realize that 90% of coverage of that subject is dreadful.
Reminds me of Plato's theory of forms
That's insane. Thank you for the detailed insight.
The Fairphone 2 can run Android 9 via LineageOS. The official versions (the one with and the one without OpenGapps) still get security updates. Can you say the same about Nexus 5X with Android 8.1?
> to rebuild US healthcare system to look like Canadian or any of the European ones would not be as easy as just public agreeing on something

Why not? Canada didn't always have their healthcare system. Canadians just agreed on something and suddenly they had it.
The "hackaday" blog focuses on cool things that are typically (but not necessarily) impractical. He isn't suggesting that this "lambda" be used. Instead, this is a stealth blog-post about "__anon", as far as I can tell.

Which is really what hackaday is about: finding weird features in hardware/compilers/etc. etc. and using them in some manner. There's a whole lot of obscure features of GCC that are being touched upon in this blogpost (nested functions, whatever is going on with $__anon$, etc. etc.). I can't say that I can figure out exactly what is going on yet, but its kind of exciting to see all of these features get used at once.

https://github.com/wd5gnr/clambda/blob/master/clambda2.c

EDIT: Unfortunately, it just segfaults for me at the moment.

$ gcc --std=gnu99 clambda2.c
$ ./a.out
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1) 7.4.0

This is Ubuntu on Windows, but I doubt that would make a difference.
I'm a slow reader myself. Reading fiction I'm slow. Reading non-fiction I'm very very very slow. I can type faster than I can read. I can read blog posts and news articles fairly quickly. I found in college that against other students using fashionable speed reading techniques I completely beat them academically. The speed reading didn't pick up on subtle ideas and wasn't able to capture complex ones.

I have a relative who is a natural speed reader and who has perfect recall. I realize this is a controversial claim as perfect recall (sometimes called photographic memory) is a myth. It's not a myth more likely extremely rare. I could give her a book around 300 pages she had never seen before. She would read it in about 15 minutes. I then could ask questions about the book and she would answer by exactly quoting sections and citing the page number. So... was this helpful? Well she never went to college or did anything with her life. It was just a weird thing she could do naturally which she didn't exploit except to read and remember precisely absolutely vast numbers of books.
Speed reading, or not subvocalizing, is analogous to touch typing, or not looking at the keyboard. Both are needed for peak WPM metrics, but particular WPM isn't that relevant. Relevant metric is "faster". Even for things that 'need time', it'll take less time with those skills.
Nice idea. Might be a good start to learn to build my own docker images.
Is anyone aware of other content like it on YouTube? Long-form , artistic, very high quality. Channels like 3Blue1Brown and Kurzgesagt are usually great, but I don't think they're the same kind of thing.
This kind of experiment is called a gene drive, and there's a huge debate in scientific communities right now around whether it's responsible or not to use them, particularly around the mosquito problem. A professor of mine who works in the field was discussing this with us last week.

The idea with mosquitoes specifically is that we can wipe out specifically the mosquito populations that carry most diseases. The debate is around whether or not this will upset balance in ecosystems (many feel it will not).

This is just my interpretation, but it seems like there is a sensible portion of detractors who simply want to derisk the experiment as much as possible by collecting more and more data. Then there are others who are in general opposed to this sort of interference in an animal population on ethical grounds.

Related article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lab-tests-gene-drive-wip...
"Hate" speech is not unlawful.
Keybase.io don't care about their users
> Tata motors

The relationship between India & the UK is quite a bit different than with China. Also the impact on the economy that foreign owners could have through an individual company is significantly less than what could be achieved with the continent's largest exchange. In the past China has had no problem financially blackmailing a company into submission when they happen to reference Taiwan as an independent country. It was very much like "Oh, nice business you have, and lots of it in China! Shame if something were to happen to it. Shame about your slip up with Taiwan too. Shut it down, your business in China, for a few weeks. And publicly grovel like a dog begging for a treat."

I can only imagine what they would do if China owned the LSE and there was any type of high-profile disagreement with China & the UK or Europe.
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There's a lot of assumptions here, biggest among them being

>>People wouldn't take $5 per jobs if someone else was offering them $6 or $7

Sure they would. Because a job isn't only wages, there's always some other factors involved in employment decisions. Someone might have med-school and limited free time. There's a ton of reasons why "job with lower pay and factor X" seems more appealing to someone than "job with higher pay only".

Look at game developers. They work horrible hours and often get paid less than similarly skilled devs in other fields. Why? Because demand for these jobs are extremely high relative to supply which provides management with greater bargaining positioning to lower wages.

Some of these people aren't trying to move to a career with higher earning, and see this as their end goal or "a tangential job I'm doing today". This allows them to drive down market rates on the job for people who are in a different circumstance and have higher financial needs.

We can get into a whole discussion about labor vs management and labor rights and best practices and all that. TL;dr- That's an opinion, and it's a lot more nuanced than you're making it out to be.
I think there is more than enough resources on the web to understand stand points of each of those solutions.

For me it seems like those are just tools created to tackle specific problems. Each has own pros and cons. Depending on usecase url based versioning may be worse than mime one. And vice versa.

I just wanned to point out that api versioning can be done equally easly in both ways.