skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is that by picking a random real number C, there is a chance it will fall between A and B over time, no matter how the other person picks their numbers A and B. It's the infinite range C can be drawn from which gives you a strictly >50% of guessing the higher of A or B no matter how the other player tries to game the system.
a competition kart with a single solid rear axle has a different steering setup from the car. the wheels also dig into the ground to lift one of the rear tires up, which allows the cart to actually turn. otherwise they understeer under enough throttle.

when a car goes fast enough you actually want anti-ackermann. the slip angles and not the actual angles are what matter, and the inner wheel
has a different load which means it needs to turn less rather than more in order to still grip.
That's what I do now when people ask me if they should have kids. I always say the same thing: All the benefits are intangible and all the drawbacks are tangible.
That's not what the GDPR says. There's no bright line for the number of employees handling data.

A DPO should be assigned if:

>(a) the processing is carried out by a public authority or body, except for courts acting in their judicial capacity;

>(b) the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, their scope and/or their purposes, require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale; or

>(c) the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing on a large scale of special categories of data pursuant to Article 9 and personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10.

(Article 37)

And in any case a data protection officer is different from a representative, as the title of Article 27 indicates ("Representatives of controllers or processors not established in the Union").
> I personally see it inevitable that everything in banking/finance will move to a decentralized model, with smart contracts as a driving force, because of autonomy.

People don't want autonomy.

I don't want to be my own bank.

My bank is insured, they are secure, they provide me with a ton of services, and there is an identifiable party to go to if it all goes wrong, or if liability needs to be established.

This idea that decentralisation is amazing because people can free themselves from the shackles of financial institutions is just all backwards when you start to look at what those entities actually provide.

And this -

> Smart contracts allowing for autonomous organisations might well be the first time a species is organising itself without a central entity.

Is just meaningless utopianism.
PIP is usually the pink slip with 2 exceptions:
1. forced ranking. Even if you have the best team in the world, someone will be the last in that team. It can be avoided by rotations if the manager is smart enough.
2. Edge cases. I personally got via transfer a direct report already on a PIP from the previous manager. The short story: the previous manager is a moron (still working in the company, promoted since, failing upwards), that person is fine, working in the company 8 years later, mid-rated.
Just as it's hard to stay healthy when everybody around you is sick, it's hard to stay wealthy when everybody around you is poor. Locking yourself away in gated communities to keep out the hoards isn't really freedom.
Got cash? Brex it!
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Seems interesting, and I'll probably check it out. Been looking (albeit not very hard) for a neat entry into the blockchain field, this might be it.

Doubtless there are other excellent resources, this timed it pretty well for me.

My biggest gripe so far is that I had to turn off the contnet blocking in Firefox for the e-mail field to show up...
Well in the sense that it didn't end up being a comparably large humanitarian crisis on our borders, and that we didn't break the Union into pieces (though the tensions created may well lead to that).

Not well in the sense that when the same thing happens again with climate refugees, only 10-100x the size, I don't see us surviving.
Do you really need that though? If revenue is not large enough to start a BV? You can still get insurance and separate bank accounts.

I did it before with a Dutch partner, we just started a VOF together. Our plan was to turn it into a BV once revenue reached a certain point (it never did, so we didn't... it was a side hustle).
Almost nobody wants to receive via transfer someone with a PIP.
Katyn Massacre (1940)
Wealth Taxes: A Future Battleground
On my current job most of the engineers have little engineering experience. Mostly we use modern tools but it's obvious that they had been set up once and since then nobody took care to maintain/tweak them. That makes the workflow very disorganized and sometimes tedious.

Decisions are often made very spontaneously, the process (Scrum) is often skipped and a lot of blaming happens even in meetings. One guy sometimes spontaneously walks up to others and starts loud arguments or blaming. Also there seems to be low trust among the department heads. Many tasks I work on the agreed upon solution changes back and forth.

It's a real mess, so getting fired would be the easiest option. But probably I'll just have to keep my eyes open for a new job and then switch.
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Often called internal DSLs.
I remember reading that google said that they would not fire someone for voicing their opinion but I can't find the source right now.
We laude past figures with our current criteria for acceptable behavior. Why not criticize?
>What does it mean exactly? They only need one short video and one short wifi capture to get 84% success rate?

Key aspects upon this are that it works by matching up their style of walking (gate), so the person needs to be moving not only in the wifi data capture, but also the video they are matching with.

They use the video to extrapolate a 3D mesh model of that person walking. Then model a wifi signal upon that model and produce a signature for that person that they can then use to match up with what the wifi signal is picking up.

Whilst measuring some bodies way of walking has been done many times before, this add's another way of doing that - but without the need for a camera feed.

So with this approach - no they can't produce a video image of the scene behind the wall from the wifi signal(s).

Remember - individuals have many unique traits, many of which we havn't tapped into yet, though as far as walking styles go - that has been done for years, this just creates another way of measuring those and matching up with other forms of data, video in this case. Other things that could be explioted this way would be for example sound - a contact mic array would allow you to (thru a wall) measure a person's heartbeat to some degree and match that up to an individual. Privacy wise, this may well traction well compared to other forms of surveillance.
How many markets have there been in history that don't have some kind of central authority involved - to issue the money used if nothing else?

Edit: Of course there have been barter based markets, but aren't markets actually more effective when there is a central authority?
Worst case is it adds to the wasteful hype-train and significant portions of the tech industry continue to be way-layed by a shiny boondoggle with get-rich-quick connotations.
There are many legitimate uses of Tor. Like opposition in oppressed regimes. But criminals probably make the most out of it. The thing is, it might be the most convenient tool nowadays for selling drugs, etc, but if you'll remove it, criminals will find other ways to connect. Some will be caught, but most won't. And good people might lose a valueable tool to defend themselves.
Good question, using this abbreviation for everything that starts with 'crypto' is just dumb. On Wikipedia, the crypto page is enormous:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto
Yeah some of his earlier stuff was never very PC eg.

>At a speech in Mumbai in 1896, Gandhi said that the Europeans in Natal wished “to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
> Move out of your world and visit countries with failing currencies.

None of whom use or would actually benefit from buying into your cryptocurrency of choice.
I don't want to be an ass but: We've been told that too many times.

If it's not open source I won't trust my private images to an app.

Great idea though!
I get it. It’s lonely and if you’re not careful to leave the house it gets worse. The good news is you have plenty of time to work on a side project but that requires first improving mental state to have enough motivation.
Perhaps that also says something interesting about today's mores, unless one thinks we have already achieved perfection.
I'd rather have one on ML startups
Just wondering, what do you think about a company refusing to serve a gay person? Would they have the freedom of association?

Even if you say that they should be free to not serve said person, this still does not make it ethical - just like if you start calling homosexuals slurs out of nowhere, just because you are free to do it, it does not mean that you won't be an asshole.
Well,

https://coiniq.com/cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/

So much for the safety, speed and cost efficiency of crypto currencies.
Stop reading just the headlines. They are protesting against poor government performance, corruption, and all of this stuff.
Iraqi government shuts down the internet as they want, in this case, possibly, to stop the protesters from organising.
Good point, I may have read too much into your message.
> Personally I think someone required to have a degree (master's for quoted salary), continued education requirements, and licensing earning under $50K/year starting is too low.

The effects of M.Ed. and other educational training on teacher effectiveness is not reliably distinguishable from zero. This contrasts with experience which increases teacher effectiveness up to six years and subject matter expertise.

So if continuing education and the most common teacher’s Master’s degree does nothing for students and costs money we shouldn’t reward it. By all means encourage and subsidize things we know help students, like a Master’s in Math for Math teachers or in English for English teachers, but M.Ed.s and Ed.D.s don’t do squat for anyone except the teachers who get better pay and faster promotions.
How about a lower bar, then: has blockchain/crypto tech ever been demonstrated to be economically viable for anything besides a store of value? There has been a ton of hype about e.g. Cryptokitties but it seems to follow a hype and bust cycle every single time.
>Student loans should also be discharged in bankruptcy.

That would kill student loans because most students would declare bankruptcy as soon as they have graduated.
"Because it's the right thing to do."

- Tim Cooke
I think 'blockchain' would've been a much better name for this page. Then again, their target market might be people who have heard 'crypto' on the news, not people who know what blockchain is.
Thinking is limited by intelligence, so just because you think it's the best solution, doesn't mean it's a universal truth, it only means that maybe the human level of intelligence can't think of a better solution.
Here's a fun controversial fact related to the "gender pay gap":

There is no gender discrimination related to pay in the younger portion of the US workforce.
Interesting to see A16Z trying to get on the really early investing as YC is going upstream to latter investing.
Ask HN: Who is investing in side projects?
Curious to see if someone still invests in side projects or not? It would be awesome to connect if you are doing so.
That's awesome, I'll give it a try. Do the python bindings include the Sparse Data functionality? I can't find it in the docs.
How come they never mention that Vice and Proud Boys were founded by the same person?
For the things he is applauded for he should be applauded for and remembered. His life holds valuable lessons for everyone.

For those things that are not applaud worthy, taking those aspects into focus only serves to dismiss the good parts.

No one is perfect in all aspects.
One can argue black markets don't have a central authority and are more effective
I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things.

Sounds pretty weird to me.
In that case, apple shouldn't say that they care about user privacy. They should say they care about user privacy as much as the government where they happen to be operating does.
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> There is, of course, some concern still of not over-using C++ code within the GCC code-base given its increased complexity for an already complex compiler code-base.

"Of course"... That's absurd. The more C++14 they can get into the codebase, the less complex it will get. The bizarre, hackish apparatus needed to work around weaknesses in the old language may be washed away, leaving only the irreducible complexity of the compiling problem itself.
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Kind of amusing that Gandhi was attacked from the establishment, imperialist side by Churchill, and is now under attack from the opposite side. Poor Gandhi can't win.
Fairly rubbish article. It didn't go in depth about any such allegations. Yes, Gandhi in his earlier years would have been a racist by today's standards. And he did evolve as his views on humanity evolved.

This is a far better article on his "racism"
https://m.telegraphindia.com/opinion/how-gandhi-shed-his-rac...
I think free software has caught up on the prettiness score. KDE Plasma 5 looks pretty slick. Graphic designers might niggle at aspects of it, but the layperson won't care.

However, human factors is undervalued. There's a cultural issue in free software wherein good UI is rejected as being for sissies and not worth the effort. Hacking is a social activity, and hackers naturally like to make stuff for other hackers. Hackers tend to be the kind of person who has a lot of patience for tedious bullshit, or they would have thrown up their hands in despair long before becoming a hacker. And so you often hear people defend poor UI with talk of "investing in tools" and "if <UI annoyance> is enough to stop you, you don't have the patience for <activity> anyway". Which is possibly true! But it's a gatekeeping self-fulfilling prophecy.

The trouble is, by the time you're expert enough to write software, you've long since forgotten what good UI even looks like:

"I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as a undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act." — Ken Pier, Xerox PARC
We already had a large study five years ago (n = 453) showing that testosterone didn't have a significant effect on cognitive empathy (RMET). However it found significant effects of testosterone on trait empathy, both positive and negative depending on cortisol levels.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40750-014-0017-...

Not sure why it wasn't cited in this paper.
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You're gonna go to jail.
I replied to another post about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21145050
>Synchronized response: The money is good.

It has to be because many people wouldn't work there.
State of Crypto Markets in Asia
Cars are killing more people – and driverless cars won't solve the problem
To people saying that writing a compiler is almost always an overkill - that's because you and author mean different things by the word "compiler". Or, in other words, that's because your intuition is based on the inflexible languages you're working with.

It's not an accident that the talk/article is about Clojure[0]. A Lisp. In Lisp, "writing a compiler" is a fancier way of saying "writing a possibly code-walking macro", which is still just a fancy way of saying "writing a function that transforms a tree into another tree, and having it run compile-time on parsed program source as the input". 99% of the usual compiler work - tokenizing, building an AST, generating machine/bytecode, optimizing - is handled for you by the host Lisp compiler. All the mechanics are there, and all you have to do is to add the brains you need.

--

[0] - Clojure itself actually makes this slightly more difficult than it looks, because of the decisions it made that makes the syntax slightly less obviously homoiconic.
Ist this why the web died and went to facebook?
That is a very interesting way to look at this, one I hadn’t yet considered.
gandhi is cancelled HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Plot twist: As of 2018, Grindr is literally owned by a Chinese holding company, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd.

It looks like they were asked by US regulators to sell it off due to privacy concerns: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-grindr-m-a-beijingkunlun/...
Check your local laws on cryptography and destruction of evidence before trying this. You may still be legally obliged to decrypt the material or go to jail.
Not sure where you're from, but I can at least confirm that in the Netherlands, we're really bad at estimating the amount of time teachers work - erring towards underestimating it.

There are some additional reasons for this. The first is that there's not a 1-on-1 correlation between number of classes to teach and hours of work. It is assumed that teachers spend, IIRC, 30 minutes before a lesson to prepare it. The time it requires in practice, though, strongly depends on your schedule: if you have to teach five different levels of students, that means you're preparing five different lessons. If you teach five different classes, but all of them at the same level, you'll be able to spread the preparation time over all five of them, greatly lowering the average time spent.

The other complicating factor is that there are seasons: summer holiday is relatively calm (you'll have nothing to do for most of the time), whereas exam weeks can be enormously stressful. So while on average a teacher might be working close to a regular, full-time job, it's practically impossible to maintain a 1fte job, since there will regularly be weeks in which the work is simply too overwhelming.

Edit: And one additional point: teachers are really bad at negotiating. They can demand higher wages or fewer working hours, but once push comes to shove, most of them will simply put up with it for fear of harming the students.
What's the difference between discussing and 'taking down'? Is there any way to talk about this without disturbing you, or would you rather that this topic not be discussed at all?
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is supposed to a good book for start ups/indie hackers. I listen to a lot of podcasts in this area and it's mentioned quite a lot.

http://hardthings.bhorowitz.com/
I remember reading the thread. Awesome to hear that you've made some changes for the better. Congratulations from this internet stranger!

Don't shy from letting us know how the new job is. If you feel like talking, please do. I am probably not in the same country, but sometimes it helps to just chit chat with someone in the same field. E-mail is in my profile.
Can you give me a couple of concrete examples? Especially large scale usage that actually impacts the value of Bitcoin? I currently see value in it only as an investment for people with FOMO.

I visited Haiti and over there, people just use their phones to pay each other through their telecom provider, or they use USD. None of them use Bitcoin, they're not even aware it's a thing.
Sounds weird if you phrase it in a weird way, yes.

Just like communicating with strangers via on-demand electric currents is weird as well, if you phrase it like that.
That's indeed weird. How would they not lose track of their dependencies? How do they keep their code lean and load times fast?
I've read it- It's very true profits at Schwab in aggregate are from margin loans often sitting in accounts with no activity but that doesn't have anything to do with what happens to people that trade. It's a totally different question.

Most people at Schwab are not trading a lot every month- usually their&L.

The way to properly do the analysis is run the same trades through a robinhood or a Schwab Vs IB which hardly does this nasty practice. If you have investments of any size the amount of money lost dwarfs anything in his analysis.

So while his analysis is excellent it doesn't have anything to do with the specific question at hand.
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Markets existed millennia before fiat currencies did. Even now, if you look at the world economy instead of an individual economy, there are lots of separate authorities rather than one central one (though, granted, the US government still has quite a bit of power.)
> His life holds valuable lessons for everyone.

Completely agree with this. All of his life holds valuable lessons for everyone. The good and the bad.

I don't think it's healthy to treat someone's bad sides as forbidden topics that should not be discussed because the good sides need to be preserved.
Depends of your usage, on my case that's Windows that used to eat much of my time until I got rid of it and things became simpler. That's especially true with the Windows 10 bloat & lack of QA now.
Hey that's great! Here's the comment you should be responding to: "That's nice, would you mind stating a fact the left is offended by?"
That's like saying "Open Source" won't work because I don't want to be my own maintainer. It's not about one person. You not wanting autonomy or being your own bank doesn't matter. People on coinbase aren't their own bank either.
nice to know.
Thanks for the reply
1680 by 1779 (one half of a 4k monitor)

I think the issue is that your hero section has a style of "width: 110vh", so it's 110% the height of the user's screen. On a browser that's set to fullscreen on a typical 16:9 aspect ratio monitor that will look fine, but when you've got a fancier set up that means you don't use fullscreen windows it breaks.
Gandhi already didn't meet the criteria for acceptable behavior during his lifetime though. It's just that people didn't know.
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