skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like all a pre-nup is, is an amendment to the "standard marriage contract" (using that as a short hand for all the facets of marriage/divorce). If you don't know what the "standard marriage contract" is in your state then that's on you - but if you do learn what it is, my guess is there are a number of those items that don't/apply or you [both] may desire to amend/change them.
And it was from 2018, which may be different in today's climate.
Maybe one is harder to solve?
You might be right to a certain extent, but keep in mind just how expensive trials are. Many millions sometimes even into the 10s of millions of dollars for a single trial depending on the indication. That's a ton of money. For reference, an RO1 grant from the NIH (the bread and butter grant for biology research in the US) is about $250-$500K a year for one lab. That means for the price of one phase 3 trial you could fund 20 labs looking into how diseases work.

There are plenty of private sector actors that will fund the phase 3 trial, very few that will fund the basic science. So your choices are:

1.) Cut funding for basic research, move the money to clinical development

2.) Increase funding for research overall, but then where does the money come from?

In the case of 2, you'd probably have to boost funding a lot to match the private sector spending. Pfizer spends $8B/year or so on R&D. The NIH budget is $40B. So to match a single pharma's total R&D budget (granted much of that isn't strictly clinical trials, but the entire drug development process), you'd have to increase NIH's budget by 20-25%.

There are always trade-offs, and these are hard ones to make. Perhaps they should be tilted more toward the government, but the numbers are really large, so it's good to understand them before making a conclusion.
I love to build flying things, it has been a passion for decades. No greater nerdjoy can be found than to see a pile of nicely refined junk launch itself into the sky, fly around, and land again. I say that as an RC hobbyist - real pilots know it from a different angle.

Personally, I think there is a big opportunity for inflatable/dynamic/pressurized airfoils. I'd love to have a blow-up glider that would stay aloft for days, just to have a way to communicate with the home base .. Until then, I remain convinced that the real shit is the Klein-Fogelmann realm, i.e. rigid planforms, adjustable.

Plus, gargantuan power systems of course .. which is something the Inflatoplane also exploited, it has to be said ..
I am sorry - I can not agree with this. A LOT of people think that they want to be developers, but find out it can be very frustrating.

I suggest taking a few courses first to see if you like development.
By the way, we don't actually run our CI on AWS. We use S3 to store caches and build artifacts, but all the builds run on Azure Pipelines at the moment.
For 2019 I see the following:

Less than 5 years 41%
5-10 years 27%
10-15 years 14%

As you can see, there has been a massive supply increase of junior engineers (probably entering the industry). And this massive increase will in a few years result in a massive increase in senior engineers. Right now being a senior engineer is still a huge advantage but that will diminish quickly over time.
I agree with how engineering was disorganized at Uber but it makes sense to me to not trust your competitors with your infrastructure. Some projects worked well, Schemaless is still going strong and I'd take it any day over DynamoDB or Cassandra.
Cool New Features in Python 3.8
KV store as a concept seems to be a particularly Attractive Nuisance. It sucks people in like a pool without a fence around it.

The Dunning-Kruger quotient is especially high.

What I've always wondered is, why do people get so excited about working on ideas that they themselves characterize as 'simple'? The level of excitement around these sorts of projects does not match the level of rhetoric. You put the second rate people on the 'simple' stuff. You save some of the meaty bits for yourself.

Which means that in your head, you know that KV stores are actually pretty complicated to get right. You either aren't admitting that to yourself or to the org or both. It just screams cognitive dissonance.

Because if you were brutally honest and up front about it being complicated, you'd select a good one and have your fun elsewhere, say in using or scaling the KV system instead of building it.
No, because the part the government funds is the exploration and initial testing of compounds. As someone else pointed out, it takes quite a bit of work to get those compounds from "works in a lab" to "available at CVS". Many compounds work in a lab, or work in animals, but fail in humans for various reasons.
Can we please save the alt-reich propaganda for Reddit or Voat?
If you want to take all the romance out of it, you can look at marriage as a well-understood standard contract for forming a legal partnership with oodles of case law and precedent.

It's like how nearly everything is a Delaware corporation, or how nearly every lease you sign is one of three or four templates downloaded off the internet with the names and addresses filled in.
Restoring the Salvator Mundi
Ah right, like all other companies do ? At least Google engineers have the technical chops to master the tech side of a product. Everything else is mostly upto the individual anyway. Many Xooglers are quite successful at startups.
Learning great tools that aren’t under the GPL may leak to lock-in and pain in the future.
Unless you want to have (or end up having) kids. That’s a whole different ballgame of long term shared responsibility, financially or otherwise, and it absolutely makes sense to have a legal commitment. If there is no plan for offspring, I 100% agree with your sentiment.
What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters
Just try and recognize you're not the only person on the internet. Do right by them, and if you fuck up, apologize and move on.

If you're getting angry that you (might) upset someone else you need to take a hard look in the mirror. Not only because you're immediately acting like their feelings don't matter because you didn't MEAN to offend them. But also, why don't you have a hobby? If you do, apologize to the person you upset and move on and reclaim that time to do something productive.
plenty of people have children without being married and plenty of married couples don't have children. assuming both parties actually wanted to have a child at the time, the child should be entitled to support from both parents and the primary caregiver should probably get something from the other parent. whether the parents are married seems like it should be pretty much orthogonal.
wow, really interesting
Oh the memories...

I remember how stoked I was when I finally found out I didn't have to edit each of my "HTML" pages by hand, or use some shitty templating object built into Frontpage or Dreamweaver, just to change my header or those wicked sweet affiliates.
Does this new scheduler require a dedicated thread pool for CPU intensive futures, as the current scheduler does?

(Thank you for your hard work on Tokio!)
This is essentially how a wingsuit works, although inflation happens in flight through inlets. That is in general how nylon wings (e.g. paragliders) work as well.
I help run a discussion group that meets twice a month and gets about 30 people each time. We have no problem with no-shows (partly because some people turn up without RSVPing!).

Charging attendees a fee will keep people away in droves, not because they can't afford it, but because who can be bothered to go through a payment flow just to go to a meetup?

If we choose the "cover members’ fees" option, that's an extra $120 a month in fees. Which makes the "you'll be saving at least 80% annually on subscription fees" particularly insulting.

Probably what we'll do is keep the Meetup page, and just tell people not to bother RSVPing. We can always run a Google form for that if numbers are a problem.
> Legal marriage is a lifetime obligation where the terms aren't decided until after you sign.

That's part of the point - customary marriage vows are usually something like "to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, to love you and honour you until death do us part". There's a recognition there that life is uncertain and you can't predict exactly what the terms will be for the remainder of your life. But like most contracts, marriage is an exercise in giving up freedom to build trust - it's a way of aligning incentives so that two people can each know that the other has their back, even when they don't know exactly what that means.

If you're not interested in making that contract or don't feel you could possibly be ready for it, then by all means, don't get married. It's not for everyone. But there's stuff you miss out on with that choice too.
Teams kind of do this already. The Spurs were especially famous for “DNP - Old” (DNP = Did not play) at the end of the Duncan/Manu/Parker era. They would leave those guys at home for short road trips and/or back to backs. This all hit a tipping point when ABC was scheduled to air the Heat v Spurs and the Spurs left all their stars in San Antonio. IIRC the Spurs won or came close to doing so anyway. The league has then encouraged teams to sit players for rest at home (road fans, especially in the opposite conference only get one chance to see a guy play) and not for nationally televised games, but it is hard to make that a policy. In addition, due to conference imbalance, it is easier to rest stars in the East (see Raps and Kawhi last year) than it is in the West.
Great insight and a great app you’ve written! I am enjoying it on my Macs and iPad Pro. And I’m glad to support your work, as I benefit from it ;-)
If only he could have waited until the 31st he'd have been able to sell his electric cars reaping all the benefits of the Brexit he's so in favour of (prior to leaving the country he shafted). Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
Ask HN: YC W2020 Invites/Rejections
Has anyone gotten a response? I checked apply.combinator.com/interviews and I see a "sorry" message which from old posts here seem to imply I got rejected :(.
The ultimate problem here with all these startups like this is the financial strategy.

That strategy is precisely: Get big fast. That means hire a bunch of engineers, build out an expensive infrastructure, consume a lot of office space. Sell.

Nowhere in that strategy is: Earn a lot of money. Do it cheaply.

The VC world doesn't care about earnings. They don't care about profit. The value of a business to VC only comes when it is sold to someone else. You don't need something really good to sell it to someone else. You just need someone to believe it is worth the amount of money you want to sell it for.

The problem with that strategy now is that the public is wising up to them. We ain't your fool anymore VC. Go home.
I think what you say makes sense.

I do think good lower management helps, though I do wonder if there are certain processes or practices that a company can adopt to maximize the chances of 'right' information making its way to the relevant parties.

These days, it seems that people's terms of choice are OKRs, though I think these are useful if clearly defined and updated regularly. However, if they aren't defined well, they have the potential of getting people to focus on the wrong thing.
Isn't it possible to have kids outside of wedlock?
Thanks! But that only talks about rebellion, not sedition. Someone else has pointed out that this is akin to treason, and requires violence. The only place the word “sedition” is mentioned is in a literal quote from Puigdemont’s defense lawyer.
No? What part of the ACA was intended to upend the pharma industry? The ACA was specifically designed to work within the system as it existed in 2008/9.
Direct link to Lex’s Blog:

https://lexfridman.com/tesla-autopilot-miles-and-vehicles/

Tesla will reach 2 billion autopilot miles this year c
The work has become monotonous and not much challenging. I don't see myself doing repetitive things using a simulation software in future.

Anything specific language/topic to focus on for developer job?
The policy assumes that everyone will act in good faith, or will be explicit about acting in bad faith. That's a terrible assumption.

For example: if I put an unfamiliar pronoun in my profile, and someone sees it, are they obligated to refer to me that way? What if I'm just trolling? Should people be required to google my preferred pronoun and then make a value judgment on whether I'm acting in good or bad faith?

If they err on the side of assuming good faith, and I'm really just trolling, then we get an answer for all to see that includes someone falling for a troll, which reduces the value of that answer. It also normalizes trollish behavior, which is bad.

If they believe I'm acting in bad faith, and they're wrong, they could get banned from the site, which is an overreaction to what I'd expect will be a common, innocent mistake.

And that's just one example; there are plenty more in the comments.
Related to this, one of the most interesting podcast episodes I had listened to was Howard Beck talking to the NBA schedule makers and all the factors they have to account for when making the schedule. Part of the podcast talks about rest and how rest is accounted for when scheduling. Well worth a listen.

https://player.fm/series/the-full-48/nba-scheduling-czars-to...
They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print
I can type the solutions in blind, the GUI fucks me up.
Seems like a solution to me.
I told my wife about this. Her response: Isn’t that just a balloon?

Yes, babe. Yes, I guess it is.
TLDR - Best layoff ever.

During the .com boom I was with a start-up with a good idea but the realities of the internet at the time where just not there, and they whole concept relied on the start-up getting enough capital to burn and build until broadband had saturated the market.

At one point they are trying to sell another round to investors, and it's not looking good, so the CEO walks in with another gentlemen that none of us know, he was from another company who needed development talent and the CEO basically told us, that as of today we need to reduce our burn by 20%. That leadership had went over, and over who they could cut but really could not put together a plan, so he invited other tech leaders from the area to pitch their companies and what they where doing to recruit from his.

So this guys pitches his company and says I know what you guys are doing here, and I know you are all good developers, you can walk out the door with me today and into a new job. Some of you have to go, so I am offering you a path out. A handful took the deal, I stuck around and got to see first hand a company die for the first time.

When we where about to shutter the doors the CEO did the same thing, brought in another exec to recruit us, I left and took that deal that time.

Each time the CEO said to us, that he did not want to loose us but he also wanted to be remember as the CEO that you would quit your job and come work for him again, if he ever called. That us landing on our feet was important to him and therefor he wants what is best for us and him. He said companies come and go, but honor and integrity are very hard to get back once you loose them. It may have helped that he was former special forces Delta Force. To this day I would work for that gentlemen in a heart beat if the phone rang.
I'll need to read those in more detail, but at this point I'm convinced by your summary of the arguments and points made.
I'm not in computational work as a dev, but I would argue that coursework and the how things work in the professional world are two different ballgames. Jumping into the deep-end isn't always bad advice =)

I also agree with you at the same time. Just playing devil's advocate!
MS buying aQuantive for 6.3Bil and then doing nothing with their products and resources always bogged me on how un-resourceful corporations can be.

6.2Bil of this acquisition was written off in 2012, 5 years after the purchase.
> there is no “terrorist” score that comes up based on posting tweets about how much you hate the US government when you go to apply for a job

Indeed. The closest you get is the No Fly List.
Why are there not generics for this drug considering that any patents are certainly expired at this point?
It's all well and good to understand why this is, but if the answer is "because, on average, women prefer a different distribution of work", then we should let that be. There's this creepy urge to pressure women to share exactly the same preference distributions as men. This restriction of women's choice for the sake of some neat gender parity is antithetical to human rights and equal opportunity.
What Kardashev Said
It sounds like the new rules will force a new market equilibrium. When you didn’t have to pay taxes and the money was fast, cheap and untraceable there was probably excess supply of labor. Now that you do have to pay taxes, supply may go down increasing prices to attract a smaller pool of labor. But what I suspect will happen is that supply will remain mostly constant, prices will stay about the same, and the dancers just won’t make as much money. Many of them may not have lots of other career options, so they will be stuck at a new lower rate of pay. While that is probably a bummer for them, I would also be a lot richer if I didn’t have to pay taxes either.
> catalan-speaking people is, well, a people, and it has the right to decide, alone, about its future

What about spanish-speaking people? Are they not also catalans? Is “your country” not theirs?

Paraphrasing what you said, somehow, the spanish language is "less catalan" than the catalan language. I find this idea illogical, and the fact that you seriously espouse it is deeply outraging.
The Bingo Paradox (2017) [pdf]
Just curious, are surgeons actually changing masks during long surgeries?
Very well put. I resemble this comment.
I don't believe gender matters. Alimony (which is called "maintenance" in some states) flows from high-income spouse to lower-income spouse, in order to maintain a standard of living. It's possible for a female to pay a male maintenance/alimony.
The problem is the scale, as the article pointed out VW is putting $50bn into it, and still needs to partner with another manufacturer because that’s not enough.

He went after the wrong end of the market. Tesla did it right. Start with a premium, high margin low volume sports car. Everything about that strategy plays to the advantage of a new entrant. Starting at the low price end means you have to go to massive scale from day one. Getting everything about that right, the first time, at huge scale is just not viable for a new entrant.
The receipt has the last four digits on the card. Localizing that specific card number to the store and you are going to get pretty complete profiles on people. There will obviously be some duplicates but some smart algorithms could match up the common purchases. If I always buy the same boxed tea and the same deli meat, patterns can arise. The guy who buys a 1/2lb of swiss and 1/2lb of roast beef every week is probably a different person than the one that buys 1lb of cheddar and 1lb of turkey each week. Associate my other purchases with my deli meat choices and they can track when I came in for some special dinner ingredients I've never bought and a box of my usual tea bags. Even purchases that look unremarkable at first glance, like bread, eggs, and milk, have trends (bread brand, egg size/brand, 1%/2%/whole/skim/brand of milk). Having the last four digits makes it a lot easier to track customers but even without that, there are probably unique customer trends you can pull out of the seemingly anonymous data. At minimum the store could print out some coupons that it thinks you would be interested based on your latest purchase and what other people buy with the things you buy. A mom buying capri-suns and lunch snacks would probably be interested in similar kid lunch items.
> i3’s config files let you bind i3’s config. That’s not the same thing at all.

That's why bspwm uses a WM independent tool for all keybindings:

https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
So with this announcement, I assume you’ll be switching to running your CI AWS soon (since it’d be free)?
And if they can't get away with it, I suppose they'll have to raise wages to attract entertainers.

Oh look, a free market!
I don't think they've gone out yet. Last I saw everyone was hard at work reviewing applications still.
I've witnessed a couple cases where a startup founder's spouse divorced them and it nearly destroyed the company. Having a hostile party who doesn't care about the startup suddenly become a major shareholder is a recipe for unpleasantness.

The blast radius and destruction of value of treating a startup as community property affects many people not in the marriage.
I'm responding to (really, refuting) a specific argument you made upthread. You can now make a different argument, if you like, but I won't necessarily have much to say about it.
It's really strange to me that a trans (or whatever) person would be offended at being called a standard pronoun. Seems like an easy mistake to make.

I feel like the idea of choosing your own pronoun is fine and happy within an insular LGBTQ+ forum or venue. When it tries to take over the language everyone else uses, it's gonna do more harm than good. People that push it just seem to be selfish to me.
If the grueling travel schedule is what really wears them out, I wonder what my daily 3 hour commute is doing to me.
> But there's no real evidence of why we should expect to hit level 5 driving in a given time frame.

Not that level 5 is necessary. A good level 3 would make a huge difference. If it can self-park too then it's basically everything I want.
I've seen strippers refuse to give black guys lap dances. The black guys got pissed and left.
Ok time for a stupid question: if machines trade 90% who is on the other side of buying , or if a machine (or algo or whatever) sells to another machine, cant it be manipulated?
The investments they've done for something that is their resposibility in the first place.

If I go to a restaurant and the food is rancid, I wouldn't be appeased when the owner tells me "we've made investments to stop the food from going bad, we even bought a refrigerator!".
Microsoft is providing Azure pipelines to the Rust project free of charge. Switching CI is not trivial, in all cases.
Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions in sudo
Lost my last account's login. I'd watch this, you only need to know solar noon in Greenwich and compare it to your own solar noon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7yoXhbOQ3Y
And the half dozen that do pay, make the news.
The End of Oz
1 hour YouTube episodes for books.
That's not at all uncommon for jobs that make a lot of money in tips. The minimum wage for servers is $2-something, for example.

Even more so than servers, strippers are a tip-based job.
Even though I don't use Rust myself, I still admire the Rust community for the awesome technical blog posts they produce all the time.
> I am thinking of something on the lines of computational science

I would consider doing some Python projects then! Start tinkering every day and treat it as an educational experience. Python is a very popular and ubiquitous tool that has a great fit in many industries.

The above is akin to my own learning-style where I don't jump into a course, I just start building something and solve real-world problems with code. Along the way I start to find the good books, blogs, communities, etc. that exist around the technical solution that I am learning and naturally start digesting that in parallel to the "hands-on" work I am doing. Structured coursework just doesn't do it for me but that's a personal thing =)
CI is not run on EC2, MSFT is covering that on Azure.
On Lying
Most states do not recognize common law marriage.

And you can play it safe by regularly declaring you are not married in front of witnesses as a couple.