skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's comparing two different years in the exact same region to show decline, his point isn't that there aren't any insects left on earth.
In contrast to the other commentators here, I enjoyed that! Thanks
This is definitely politically motivated. I was with a (Chinese citizen) friend when airport security found a few rounds of ammunition in her baggage, and the guards just shrugged and confiscated it. No further issues.
If you find the robot cool... check this out. :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyN-CRNrb3E
The point is that it keeps adding up year after year. Sure we could use less plastic and still the series of partial sums converges to a really large number.

This is not sustainable. Elephants in Africa. Insects and birds. Desertification. Deforestation. Brazil chopped down the size of Hong Kong in a few weeks. Plastic in the oceans. CO2 PPM is on a steady rise. Permafrost is melting. And we are saying what?
while there is variance in how my models do against a test set, its highly unlikely my rank 10 model is going to dethrone a #1 rank model, nor a rank 1k model going to beat mine. Its possible, but only because I over fit the public leader board, and good ML practices help prevent that (such as if your cross validation improves a model but it does worse on the public leader board, be inclined to trust your cross validation).
Sorry, but this is completely factually incorrect. France pays 1100 Euro per year per capita for healthcare.

Private insurance is a tiny cost of average 30 Euro and reimburses you for damages. Does not pay for healthcare. Entirely different kind of insurance.

In US, a single copay with health insurance can take triple this, most common ones are few hundred USD, baseline insurance is still expensive. However, yearly it's... Still more expensive as double the percentage of GDP than France.
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Most such stories fall apart after a little prodding. Almost always, detentions are either dumb mistakes, quickly reversed, or the result of actual lawbreaking. Often you read a little further and it's like, "well yes, the drugs I was selling were technically against Chinese law, but..."

However, that is not as fun a conclusion as joining in on bashing the outgroup.
I know an ex-junkman. He said that MTBE gasoline pissed him off because it went bad they had to pay to get rid of it. But they would fill their cars with the non MTBE gasoline no matter how old it was.
Slides link: https://ldpreload.com/p/kernel-modules-in-rust-lssna2019.pdf
> Medical bankruptcy was a big problem, but under the ACA the yearly out of pocket max has all but eliminated these

Not any more [1]. The Trump administration has sufficiently weakened ACA that you can now get insurance that isn't sufficient to prevent you from getting a huge bill if you have the temerity to have a heart attack or something else expensive like that.

Or you might not even have insurance, since they also killed the tax penalty for not having insurance.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21012474
> When you take out a loan, it doesn't decrease your net worth, right?

Quite right. If you dissipate the borrowed money, though, your net worth will go down by the amount of the loan. If you invest it, and the investment does better than the interest on the loan, your net worth goes up.
Wish you wouldn’t have shown me that.. this time next year I’ll be surrounded by a pile of Sony GM Lenses.
If the problem is getting "lucky" on a test set, then it seems like you could do several rounds of splitting test/training set, retraining from scratch each time, and then take the median performance. Not great if training takes a long time, but it would at least conclusively answer the question.
I have no problem fixing government, but it has been shown time and time again that the biggest bag for your vote is to vote is local elections. Making your voice heard on the local government level can and will have more of an effect, with less influence (on average) by corporate monies than at any other point in the political process. The focus has continuously been swayed to a larger, more centralized power stricter with a greater disconnect that seems to be less interested in "getting to know" for lack of a better phrase, it's constituency. It's a matter of scale. Local governments, by their nature, are going to be more interested in their local constituency. They, then will come together to answer to a larger, managing power. At least, that's the theory. Ceding these self interested small government bodies to large monoliths seems like a step backwards. Even when thinking about it from a program architecture standpoint, it seems like going back to the 70's style of monolithic services instead of the modern approach.
Thank you for sending me down and unexpected and thankfully not incredibly long wormhole. The loss of productivity was worth it.
I haven't, but have certainly experienced driving through regions where there are still insects. Northern MN for example, that was reminiscent of what it used to be like driving through NE.

That's besides the point though, at least along the route I drive most often, which is i80 between SF and Chicago, there's been a very visible decline of insects over the past ~1.5 decades according to the windshield gauge.
Did the cost match when you add the school debt, a thing that in general does not exist in EU?

Did you use PPP to evaluate value?
I think this is both possible and desirable. Basically, create a bridge between rustc and Clang, kind of like Swift's C importer, but far more complex in order to be able to do things like instantiate C++ templates on demand (perhaps even with Rust types as arguments!).

However, it would also be extremely hard; I don't think any programming language has ever created such a tight bridge to C++. The existing approaches I've seen are:

- Swig, rust-bindgen, etc.: Pass through auto-generated C ABI wrappers; support for generics is limited and requires declaring up front what types you want to instantiate them with.

- D: You can bind directly to C++ if you rewrite your C++ header in D, generics and all... including the implementations of all inline functions.

Both very limited, especially in template-happy modern C++.
Sure. Creer is very often used in a similar way to tacking on to omou to express best guess/subjectivity/lack of definition. Kirei [da] to omou can be pretty close to Creo que es bonito for thinking something is pretty.

I'm not saying it's one-to-one, just the same kind of issue and you'll see very similar conversations about both. Therefore, it feels familiar and not astounding per Iyer.
Unpopular take incoming ... but I find DataDog useless. I’m biased as I’m a DBA and comprehensive workload metrics are what I need, but the broad use of DataDog or AppDynamics or NewRelic really do data layer performance monitoring a tremendous disservice. Good luck for Cisco that they were shot down.
A house is a nearly guaranteed asset. The value will likely steadily rise throughout the years, and with good homeowners insurance you'll get paid even if the house is destroyed.

An education guarantees nothing. The neurosurgeon could die, or suffer an injury preventing them from performing surgery, or just plain quit and decide to pursue art instead.

Of course the neurosurgeon has a significantly higher potential future value, but it's an unrealized asset.

Also, it's possible to discharge a mortgage through bankruptcy, while student loans are much more difficult to discharge, so you're effectively stuck with that debt forever regardless of your career choice.
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I've stayed in ~70 Airbnbs over the last few years and have never gotten those sorts of demands. That seems unreasonable and I'd just ignore them.
You're suggesting that rustc should do noalias optimizations on MIR? I'm skeptical of that idea... A lot of duplicate loads that would benefit from being coalesced are only visible after LLVM inlining.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gQLrJr2yhPzMCcni/the-optimi...

The competition and test set will still have hidden biases due to the ontology you use.

Sufficient optimization pressure always eventually overcomes your bias control metrics, in the context of actual utility rather than other metrics.

It's well known in cryptography and security that all abstractions are leaky.
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S. Truett Cathy (who I assume is the old dude you mentioned) passed away in September of 2014.
People expect you to ace rounds of leet code style interviews or worse, whiteboard coding interviews.

A lot of people get filtered out.
First exposure to real coding was in college - 16 bit assembly, then C. Never really clicked it all. Then I moved onto higher level courses in Java. It clicked somewhere along the way, I was able to retroactively understand almost everything in assembly and C that didn’t click originally. Magical when I sit and think about it. Almost switched out of electrical engineering in that original phase because of frustration and failure.

Super thankful I had an extra push from people around me, because I love it all now.
For a new problem, success is any solution that passes all test cases and implemented within an acceptable time frame.

I personally think leetcode focuses a bit too much on runtime. In a real interview, the clock is ticking down and the stakes are high. Most people won't pass all test cases. Sometimes it's not even necessary to pass them all to make it to the next round.

It's much easier to rank candidates
by how many test cases they passed than by their algorithm's efficiency.

So in a real interview:

#passedTCs > algorithm efficiency
If I were speaking for myself then I would be talking about how I've visited China more than all those other countries I've listed combined ;). But having been to all those countries, China is still the one place where a foreigner still gets ogled at whereas in those other countries no one bats an eye.
Actually 7% in France, basing it off budget for 2017.

The tax burden is higher because education, public transport, agriculture and social (mostly retirement) are paid in tax rather than mostly privately.

US has the private system for retirement plans and it sometimes fails utterly. The nationalized one does not, though it may not be as big of a payout.
And education saddles people with debt, as well as causes cost (admin) inflation.
We're all time travelers; most of us travel forward at a rate of about 1 second per second.
Agree about the overall point, but this example is unfortunate: complaints about fragmentation are not only about money: crappy apps, less convenience, lack of availability (outside US), etc.
> Then just go and buy various parts kits or buy the parts individually to customize to you own needs.

OK curious: examples of what these, "needs" are?
Our company is very thankful for the models developed for a competition we held through kaggle. The model is in our current release product, and is the current known state of the art for it's task in accuracy / performance.
I just use 3M 60 grit. Cheaper and less scratchy than the stuff they sell at Whole Foods.
If it improves quality of life it is productive.

Hand wave about that all you want.
Other live discussion about same topic/study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018916
Is this some shill HN implant article? lol
Except both the the Lyft and Uber IPOs have been relative flops... not sure how that can be considered "timing it just right"?
Windows can be convenient, but what is the cost of your convenience?

- Fewer hardware manufacturers will publish drivers for other OSes.

- More computer manufacturers will sell computers with Windows preinstalled (and other preinstalled software that you will likely not want in your computer), making your computer more expensive and slower, and sometimes, less secure (search: eDellRoot).

- Fewer game publishers will publish cross-platform builds, even if they use cross-platform libraries. More publishers will prefer Windows-only libraries like DirectX instead of cross-platform alternatives like Vulkan.

- Fewer software vendors will create cross-platform software.

- Exposure to ads, forced updates, "telemetry" and analytics, and other forms of loss of control over YOUR computer.

- You will be rewarding Microsoft stockholders, including software villains from the 90s.

- If your country gets slammed with US sanctions, Microsoft can no longer sell you software (unless you decide to pirate it, be cut from updates, and be left vulnerable to Internet worms like WannaCry). Call it loss of cyber-sovereignty if you wish.

Now, about .NET... There are Linux builds of the .NET framework. You can use many IDEs to develop. But if you want an editors/IDEs, JetBrains Rider can be a good alternative to Visual Studio.
Did anyone look at some code in Visual Studio with this font.

You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font (C++), it's pretty cool [and I've never seen anything like it before]!
They weren't "really good friends;" TFA says that Lamo called two friends (who then called the feds) immediately after speaking to Manning for the first time.

>According to the documents, Lamo then placed a second call — this time to a business partner, a man named Chet Uber, and he told him what Manning had said. The business partner immediately left a message on the Army's Criminal Investigative Division tip line. That was on May 23, 2010, just two days after Lamo and Manning began their fateful exchange.
That nobody gives a damn and doesn’t even read it kinda proves the point, no?
Better than horses loitering around everywhere, right?
Yes.

It's just what the word means. It's fun as a philosophical exercise to consider humans as natural and so too their interventions but at the end of the day, "natural" is a word that in most cases means not caused or created by humans. It's relative to us.

That's without assessing the goodness or badness of it. Any interventions we pursue to correct climate change and restore biomes will be every bit as unnatural as the ones that caused those things but they can also be good.
If you have ways to eliminate it with time, the DEET is probably long gone from you're organism and that's what matter if you're fine.

On sligthly unrelated and personal note, I made the mistake to pass an MRI with gadolinium based contrast (refuse it if you have choice!) months ago and the lasting effects are still a huge toll on my health (difficulties to think, talk and sleep, skin and paint raidiness, cardiac and sexual (erectile and nearly no spermatogenese, maybe linked to thyroïd?) issues.
I hope this isn't permanent but there is no improvement in sigth, and no explaination for why it wasn't filtered (creatinine level from a blood test months after the incident was on the lower end but still in the normals brackets) that could accord me support from a nephrologist or other specialist to get rid of the deposits.
All legit exchanges (e.g. Coinbase and Gemini) have this problem but there's really no better way for consumers to transfer USD.
Feral hogs, apparently.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/05/feral-hogs-m...
Yes, whole world is doing great, by which you mean China with 6,9%, Romania 6,9%, India with 6,6% and not USA with 2,3%. (Which is better than usual. 2017 numbers.)

Growth is not tied to employment policy, but only cost of labor. It correlates almost 1:1 as selfish big businesses move or outsource where it's cheaper. (Including big tax breaks. USA doesn't have these enough to balance very expensive employment.)

Example from EU: Poland has 4,6% and France 1,8%. Switzerland 1,1% and Finland 2,6%.
The number for France is not too dissimilar from USA and not anything special.
Poland has baroque labor (improving) and especially tax laws.
Related discussion from August about same report:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20737023
That... seems rather convincing? A rather impressive House, MD cosplay, certainly.

I distinctly remember the internet telling me thousand-fold of their absolute confidence that this was mass hysteria, usually with the pose of a really exciting contrarian theory and some blanket dismissal of "so-called experts" and the "mainstream media's" unwillingness to present that idea with similar conviction.

The second-ranking theory was, IIRC, a conspiracy by the US to create the pretext to invade Cuba. I guess the plans changed.
IIRC fees are around 0.25%; what do you want to do with crypto that you see such fees as a problem?
> There's also the fact that outright bans on semi-automatic rifles are an untenable proposal, because they're too legitimately useful to some subsets of civilians

I mean, they banned semi-auto rifles in Oz after a mass shooting. Farmers can still use bolt action .303 rifles for really gnarly beasts like giant hogs.
The idea that free is only possible by trading data is absurd. E.g. Google search and maps can provide sponsored results without knowing everything about you. News sites can have ads related to their content and general target audience.
Off tangent but this is the kind of comment that I come to for HN regularly. Personal insight and experience.
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Actually, there's certainly of reasons you might do maintenance work on company time. At Google for example, the gLinux distribution is heavily based on Debian[1]. Why would individuals do it on company time otherwise? One example is to solve a business problem. I have definitely contributed upstream to open source projects to solve problems at work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gLinux
How wild was the company overall vs just Byrne?
> Why judge an article or opinion on what it's not instead of what it is?

I think that's an uncharitable take. We all get that TFA is trying to be poetic, but poetic sentiments can be profound or shallow, and if someone finds this article shallow (as I do myself) that doesn't mean they're attacking it for being poetic.

Also, suggesting the commenter might be having a bad day doesn't come off at all the way I think you intend.
> At the point of sale, in order to figure out whether or not GDPR applies, a business needs to figure out whether or not someone is an EU citizen.

Why? If you have decided to become GDPR compliant then you don't need to know which customers are EU residents. If you really want to know if some customers are not EU residents, you can ask them. There is nothing in the GDPR that requires GDPR residence to prove their residency before you must comply with the GDPR.

> "I'll just comply with every country, and that way I'll never need to figure out who my customers are."

Like most things, you need to comply with the laws of every country you do business in or face the prospect of penalties (which may or may not be enforceable without a legal presence in that country). This is nothing new.

> If you don't want to verify, you can just ask the person if they're European and block them if they say 'yes.'

You could, and some companies have thrown a hissy fit and decided to do location based blocking when there is no evidence that this is sufficient or necessary to indicate that you don't do business in the EU.

This isn't strictly necessary. As long as you don't target EU residents, you don't need to comply with the GDPR. Just don't advertise to europeans, don't talk about having european customers, don't ship to european adresses and/or don't localize to languages from countries where you don't do business.

> In the US, the most direct analogy here is COPPA. COPPA is a set of privacy restrictions for what information can be collected about children under the age of 13. There are traditional ways you can fall foul of COPPA (some sites are just obviously targeting children). But for the most part, the US went with option 3 -- you ask people their age before they sign up for your site, and you block them if they're under 13.

This is not very accurate. COPPA covers more than just what data can be collected. It also has provisions that require the ability to opt-out of the data being shared with 3rd parties and provide notices that clearly detail what your and 3rd parties will use the data for (and who they are and what they do). Additionally, COPPA requires parental consent to collect this data.

COPPA is IMHO a flawed law, the general privacy protections should have just been extended to everyone. Age verification and consent validation were never going to work and it seems patently ridiculous to require companies to collect more dat a to protect privacy.
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Dear language learning fellows,

my name is Marcell, I'm living in Germany as an expat. As I really like learning German by watching videos, I decided to make this process a bit more efficient. First, here are two of my favorite tools:

YouTube: It's fun, engaging, beyond the content you get the value of the real spoken language. I find it especially useful with subtitles.

Linguee: The best dictionary I know. You get not just the meaning, but explanation, grammar forms, examples.

So I decided to combine the two. You can click on each word of the subtitle and it will hit up linguee.com immediately.
Here's an example (German, A1)
https://www.interpolly.com

If you'd like to try it with another video (other language, other level, etc.) drop me a message, hopefully I can help.
I built this primarily for myself, but due to the good feedback I decided to make it public very soon.

Have a nice day!

PS: If you're interested, and would like to get notified, when it starts, you can subscribe here:
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I wasn't expecting a reply, but it was nice to get one. I was just venting my frustration.

Panama, Central America. I signed up for the email notification - years ago :)
I’m going to ask a favor on behalf of a multi billion dollar industry: please figure out how to service cannabis companies.

I build cannabis tech.

Its reall stressful when doing over $1 million in sales in a month and it’s literally all freaking cash and we have to spend hours even with a counting machine counting $20 bills.

Please tell me what your plan is to support legal cannabis.

Thanks
> To me, I'm judging the article based on what it's claiming to be.

Rather what you, the reader, are judging it to claim to be.

> He starts it with a faux linguistic analysis including numbers, faux cultural comparisons, and an analysis of the Japanese language -- which he professes not to know.

There's a lot of flexing that goes on with expats here in Japan. Whoever speaks the best Japanese has the most social cred in many ways. Nonetheless, speaking a languages and performing linguistic analyses on the same are quite different tasks that require less overlapping skills than one might imagine at first blush.

Are you a linguist in Japanese? If not, then why does your opinion on his linguistic analysis matter?

Are you an anthropologist on modern Japan? If not, then what are your credentials for judging his ability to make "cultural comparisons?"

Those are intended as rhetorical questions.

I dunno. Your and 9nGQluzmnq3M's comments just stike me as meta-inconsistent. I'm trying to inject a little self-awareness into the discussion.

In particular 9nGQluzmnq3M's comments about the Japanese language don't line up with my own experience, having used it as the primary language in my personal and professional life for several years. Someone with only a beginning grasp of Japanese flaying someone else with a tad less Japanese; that just strikes me as... harmful.
Access is still a relational database.
Grind on. Get the ticket.
Why are Coinbase fees 1% or more while Coinbase Pro fees are 0.25%? Because noobs don't want to see an order book and hiding the order book from them is worth real money.
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Weren't the bathrooms there for a reason? Were they sold just because of inability to maintain them?