skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The economist Ha Joon Chang has written extensivly how a somewhat higher target interest rate, like 5-7%, is actually better overall than the super-low targets the fed has.

Better for what circumstances? The Fed doesn't start with interest rate targets, they start with a dual mandate on employment and inflation control and set interest rates based on expected results based on that mandate, which can at times be high and are now low (which is mostly, currently, a sign of monetary policy compensating for an extended period of defective fiscal policy.)
This seems excessive if it’s going to hurt content creators. Content creation is not easy and some YouTubers need the sponsor money to continue creating work for the channel as ad money pays very little. Most channels I have visited tell you they are sponsored by so and so, which was making it easy to know which videos were sponsored and I’m assuming those are the ones this NN will pick up. Now the sponsors could potentially ask creators to become more creative and more deceptive.

On the other hand something like this inevitable and I will check out the project.
I believe it's more due to the fact that sorting, and less/greater than operators come up way more often in databases and using an ordered index makes a much better use case.

And the other reason is MVCC. It's easy to maintain multiple snapshots of a b-tree index and swap a root's ptr to point to a new sub-tree.
Link to the report: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000050...
The easiest way to do this is to, first, stash all the changes (by pressing "zz" in a magit-status buffer). Then expand the view of that stash's hunks, and press "a" on the hunks or lines you want to apply to the working tree (which does not pop the stash; the stash remains untouched). Run your tests, and when you're ready, stage them to the index and commit them. Then proceed to the next part of the stash that you want to test and apply. It's only a few keystrokes in Magit.
Highlights and comments:

> These results are not comprehensive, however. Nor are they representative. EF’s index is based on the results of a free online test taken by 2.3m volunteers in 100 countries. Only people with an internet connection and time and willingness to take a test are included in the sample...

I almost stopped reading at this point.

> Such biases aside, the EF’s index produces results that are interesting...

I was taught that in scientific research one should never claim that her/his own research is interesting, not least because it's something that's up to the audience to decide.

> ... interesting, if not entirely scientific.

At least they are honest about it not being entirely scientific.

> This correlates with another factor: EF repeatedly finds that English skills are highly correlated with connections and openness to the rest of the world.

Openness...? By what measure?

Edit: typo.
The proper term is "flamer". Political Twitter is mostly flamers, not trolls.
Cookie Monster was not a Carroll Spinney character. Frank Oz, who also voiced/puppeted Yoda in Star Wars, originated Cookie Monster.
There's an Australian chain that does vegetables in the "fast food" format (they have a presence at highway service centres, that sort of thing). So I think you might be right about there being an unserved market for this. ( https://www.oliversrealfood.com.au/pages/our-menu )
Relations Between Nazi Germany and the Arab World
Gmail can add emails as attachments to cut down on forwarding
Two small corrections: Signal-Android's backup works with a passphrase only (no QR codes involved) and does not cause safety number changes on restore.
Yes. The upper bound of some function. That function is not necessarily the worst-case runtime.

Best-case, average-case, and worst-case can all have upper bounds.

If the best case runtime as a function of data size is n/2, average case is n^2 + 5x, and worst case is e^n + 5n^2, these functions are asymptotically upper bounded by n, 2n^2, and 2e^n respectively, so they are big-O (incidentally they are also big-Omega and big-Theta) of n, n^2, and e^n respectively.

Big-O means the same thing in CS as it does in mathematics; this is not an issue of different domains using terms in different ways.

See for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42144251/why-is-big-oh-o... , https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3905355/meaning-of-avera...

A famous example is Quicksort which is O(n*log(n)) average case, but not worst case where the tightest big-O bound is O(n^2). Any reputable reference you look up will agree with this. From Wikipedia, for example: “Mathematical analysis of quicksort shows that, on average, the algorithm takes O(n log n) comparisons to sort n items. In the worst case, it makes O(n2) comparisons, though this behavior is rare.”
> Anyhow, as my payment for these past years, I get to sell whatever we have created, code wise, and get the dough for it.

Yikes, it sounds like you are walking away here with virtually nothing.

If I were you, I would fight for ownership in whatever is next for your cofounder. If that means it is a Shopify store, that is fine, but you should get X% of revenue, profit sharing, something out of this.

The code you have now is ultimately worthless and is not a good 'payment' for the time and energy you invested into this company.

I do not think the current arrangement you have outlined is in any way fair.
I couldn't disagree more. College teaches people to learn independently, to communicate their problems and their progress effectively, to write emails professionally, to manage their time and deal with more work than can be handled, to mentor more junior people, etc. Sure, someone straight from high school could have some of these skills, but doing well at a university practically guarantees it.
Shop your code around; that you didn't find use for it doesn't mean somebody else isn't in need your code solves and could pay for it.
To explain how this happens will take several pages of notes on the complexities of ad serving that are the exact opposite of "not clever enough".

A summary is that your adblocking may have an impact on syncing stats, your purchases are not unique enough to matter for that category, serving some ad is better than serving no ad, and it maybe better to show you that impression however worthless than to bother with something else considering the auction dynamics at that point in time.
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There’s a very dramatic “I’m right and your wrong” narcissism on the left, that feels stronger than the narcisismo on the right or center - led by stronger emotions for their beliefs than the others. I’m not entirely sure why but it almost seems tautologically explained by the left more strongly following their emotions.

Left people feel emotionally obligated to spread their “correct” opinions that “help people” as far as possible. Nationally > state.
Sorry, should say does NOT require any cloud.
Different solutions are certainly needed in different countries. We can comment on governance, finances, etc but there are whole books written about them. I focused on some potential solutions I know a bit about.

Would telemedicine plus AI-enabled UI, such as voice interface, help at all? For example, it could remind patients of chronic diseases to take medicine regularly or take better care of their diet. Obviously, technologies alone would not solve such a major problem, but they are enablers and accelerators.

Technologies are some of the more easily scalable and lower-cost solutions available. I have written more about that in other comments as well as provided links to some very recent advances in NLP. I would also enjoy hearing some of your proposed solutions that are practical, plausible, and scalable. I think we are all ears for constructive comments. :)
I don't think you are either. But it's a risk you're taking buying a product from a fledgling internet-based startup. Shall we make it easier to start an internet-based business over a brick and mortar shop with laws that benefit the former with the latter's inherent advantage?
Article is based off https://www.ef.com/__/~/media/centralefcom/epi/downloads/ful...
All good advice. I'm especially a fan of:

> If it was good, don't let the team relationship go to waste. Talk with whoever's left / worked-with previously about doing something else.

Some of my best times at work have come from the relationships left after the company crashed and burned. Companies disappear, people don't have to.
We had our kid in the infant class at a chain daycare in Central, $3400/mo. His older sibling was $2900/mo. And the care wasn't even that great...We moved them to a daycare closer to our house, a little further out. The costs went down 25% and the quality went up dramatically. It's really amazing how hit or miss the quality of the day care options are in the area, and how obscenely expensive it all is. But it's an easy equation for them--you simply look at the after-tax income of a biopharm mid-career professional and you make it cost that. The families are willing to pay that amount of money for 3-4 years because leaving a parent out of the workforce causes a loss of career trajectory and a subsequent loss of future income. Basically you sacrifice a few years of current earning to not lose out on the time in role.
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Austinite here... your hypothetical BBQ trip sounds exactly like the type of thing some super-rich outsider would do. Personally, I don’t buy into the hype. The BBQ is good but not “wait in line for hours” good. I’d rather smoke my own meats if it’s going to take all day.
My thought experiment of a chain wouldn't directly compete with people choose McDonald's every single time. It'd be for people who've seen the light, and know you can't eat McDonald's, sustainably, indefinitely. That population isn't everyone, but there's a sizable number of consumers who are diet conscious. That's the target market. While McDonald's food is designed to have a certain effect on your palette, you haven't appreciated a skilled cook's entrees if you think there's no realistic competition. Deep, rich, meaningful flavor could absolutely compete against the engineered taste of McDonalds.
Job growth without commensurate growth in housing stock is a recipe for misery. The NIMBYs did it to themselves.
> Am I the 2019 version of the guy who hates PCs

I've been wondering this same thing lot. Last few years it's been seeming to me that technology is only getting worse, not better. Only anti-features are being added, and what useful features already exist are being removed.

Sometimes I think it must be just me, and this is what getting old is like. Like the grotesquely oversized phones and screens these days. I can't stand not being able to use the phone with one hand, personally. And for what? So I can watch a Hollywood movie on my phone, or something? Who the fuck does that?

But maybe lots of people do watch movies on their phones, and many seem to have both hands glued to the phone 100% of the time anyway, so using it with one hand is wholly irrelevant. I can admit that, I guess, as much as I hate it. Maybe it's just me.

But then you have garbage like infinite scroll. As far as I can tell, it's just objectively stupid. Worse than the alternative in every single possible way. To go back to the phones for a second, wireless charging. Is there anyone on the planet actually excited about this, except for phone maker execs? Wow, let me not only take 5 times as long to charge the phone , and use 5 times as much power while doing it, but also not be able to use the damn thing because it has to stay on the charging pad! Like, what the actual fuck. All this so I can save myself the trouble of sticking the plug into the port every other day?

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, to even do that we'll first have to make your phone out of glass, so it'll slide out of your pocket, off your desk, and off of anything it's not Krazy Glued to. What's that? Your phone doesn't even support wireless charging? No problem, we'll make your case back out of glass anyway. Because fuck you, that's why.

Fuck, even thinking about the state of tech today is now like talking about politics: do it for 5 minutes and now I need a shower and a stiff drink.

tl;dr- it's not just you.
>"Taxes are high so I won't try to make more money" - No one ever.

No, but the Swiss banking system, Panama Papers, Canadian shadow company situation et al. can attest to the fact that when income / wealth rises to a certain level and those who've earned / attained it feel the level of tax being levied at them is of an unfair level, a vast amount of money that could be taxed will be off-shored.

Everyone, particularly those in areas with a low sense of shared identity and the mutual obligations that comes with it, will try to minimize their tax bill some way or another and once one attains a certain level they will unlock mechanisms to avoid tax at a level that will be detrimental to the rest of the players in their given system.
I did not mean he took that list, and transformed it. But the result is the same. The categorization offered is pretty arbitrary.
The JVM is shipping with two low latency collectors (currently in experimental stage): ZGC and Shenandoah.
That's the 'taxi' version, which one might 'Uber for' by appifying and raising several million dollars.

Since there aren't wash-and-fold medallions, and travelers can generally go without or get concierge service, this meets no actual need.

Thus, these startups have failed.
The real tripper-upper with isupper (and siblings) is that the argument is of type int and must have values in the range 0 to UCHAR_MAX (those of unsigned char) or else EOF. Anything else is undefined behavior.
>It's extremely difficult to correlate this to long-term happiness or well-being.

Sure, as with any social science there are huge numbers of complicating factors, which makes it difficult to really study anything conclusively. No double blind studies, obviously.

>If parents can accelerate their time to retirement they get to spend more time with children as teenagers or young adults. Is that better or worse?

Studies would be great, but probably far worse. Teenagers and young adults are developing independence from their parents and would probably feel overly constricted.

>Do we really know that having stay-at-home parents during that time alters a lot?

No, we can't know it without running trials.

>Does having the extra money for "better" college outweigh time in "formative" years?

Maybe in some cases. The overwhelming majority of people aren't going to go to any college "better" than a state university and wouldn't benefit from it.

>"minimum wage daycare workers"

Why put that in quotes?

>who in my experience are actually often highly qualified

Qualified for what? To show children the love and care that their parents would show them? I don't think so, because I don't think you can fake that, and I don't think their love for the children can be genuine because any loving parent would be emotionally destroyed if they couldn't see their child any more because the child graduated from daycare and moved on to kindergarden.
My guess is that the code/app will not be as valuable as you hope (unless there are existing customers that you get to inherit with this transition).

Take a loss on this startup and move forward to something new.
You can always assert on insertion that n <= c. Or track the max size and assert on destruction.
Green Arrays suffer from the issue of low compute power. They target the extreme low power market using a proprietary Forth dialect. It is difficult to benchmark how it performs against existing general purpose ARM/x86-64/RISC-V or even NVIDIA chips other than their claims of efficiency gains due to a parallel architecture. Most of their existing press (especially on HN) is because their founder is the inventor of Forth and that everything is allegedly built on a single bootstrapped end-to-end Forth system with its own EDA toolkit. Would be interesting if somebody can do a rigorous test against e.g. Parallela chips.
Agreed on this, on both points, actually. Releasing it open source could be great marketing for your startup, or selling/licensing it could work out great.
There has been some study that shows the school itself correlated with post school achievement with a large caveat: those who were accepted to “higher” quality schools but ended up attending a lower regarded institution did just as well. The implication being it has less to do with the school and more to do with the students who can get accepted to those schools.[1] There was a comparatively larger impact on those coming from lower level income families.

There’s also been some follow on studies that look for differences in the effect depending on race and gender

[1]https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C32&q=Kru...
affiliate sites are created purposefully with persuasive text specifically to rank high on google and cause sales. in the generic case, a website would have to specify its own advertising-keywords, because contextual mismatching the audience.

Regardless, i think an ad service with only contextual ads will either fail, or end up implementing the wheel (targeted ads) to survive. tracking adtech does lead to more effective, less intrusive ads in the average case. The tech that will dethrone google will be a service that matches buyers and sellers better than google.
Look how Europe corresponds with this map of which countries dub foreign language TV shows and Movies versus which ones use subtitles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/59zyal/map_of_europ...
Majority of Americans believe online and offline activities tracked andmonitored
I'm pretty sure criminals pay no taxes on their ill gotten gains in Russia. Heck, most "legal" businessmen there are forced by the extreme oil-oriented taxation regime to maintain "gray" books and only pay taxes on revenues that aren't under the table. Normal businesses can't really survive the kinds of taxes levied on oil/gas monopolies. It is far easier to pay off your local friendly government tax agent who would then miraculously buy a Maybach and a villa in Switzerland on $20K/yr government salary.
That's absolutely my ideal dinner. I enjoy cooking but I don't want to spend a ton of time on it. Season a piece of chicken or maybe a steak if it's a treat night, sautee some veggies, warm up some pre-cooked rice, and eat. Whole process generally takes less time than running out for a takeout, and is of course WAY cheaper.

That's not say I NEVER eat out of course, just, I save a ton of money cooking at home.
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The logic is both parents have to work to afford kids. Why do people think this is true?
No, they'll either put up a paywall

That would be a great alternative. I buy Apple stuff because the business model is simple. I give them money and they give me stuff.
I'm making some assumptions here but I'm guessing you meant "Customers" not "Costumers" and also you have been putting in a bunch of work for the past two years on your project with little to no income from it or any other source.

Unless this IP or "Code" was written by someone else let it die on the vine with the rest of the company, write new code for your own project, use your experience to make improvements to the new code and start fresh, it sounds like you were using pieces of gpl code anyways.

Why would you bother taking the risk of creating a unicorn only to have your pokects picked by your "cofounder" that quit, then sues once it becomes profitable?

No matter what agreement you made, even if you get it notarized, your risking much more than if you just knuckle down and do the work again yourself.

Besides it's always easier and faster to do it a second time.
> Only about 9% of Safari users on an iPhone allow outside companies to track where they go on the web

> In comparison, 79% of people who use Google’s Chrome browser allow advertisers to track their browsing habits on mobile devices through cookies.

Something to keep in mind the next time you see someone from Google complaining about how Apple won’t allow Google Chrome to run natively on the iPhone.
The nuance, if you want to call it that, is that you can't do controlled experiments with the actual world economy, so we don't know what caused stagflation or what caused it to end. We can't go back and re-run the experiment and do something different (don't raise interest rates, or keep OPEC from collapsing) to see if it changes the outcome.

It's notable that you use the word "story": that is exactly the right word. These are stories we tell ourselves to try to make sense of what happened. But we should not mistake them for actual knowledge that would allow us to predict what will happen in the future. It isn't.
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They were both started by the same person, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientis...

The XMOS processors share many of the same architectural properties as Transputers.
There is much more to life than a corporate career. I would love to be the stay at home dad with zero corporate skills myself. Again this perspective is due to our own weird societal perspective.
As someone who worked in ad tech for half a decade, I fail to understand the fuss about cookie based targeting. We're speaking of databases mapping data to random numbers stored in a file that can easily be deleted. The real issue is ad targeting by a handful of large companies that have personally identifiable information.

It's not like cookie based targeting is very effective either. It's very difficult to get cookie based ad targeting right – you have to make significant investments into product, technical integrations and data buys. Given the fact that the cookies to which you are tying these investments can vanish at any time (and a large % do so regularly), it rarely makes business sense to make the right sort of investments. Instead most companies do the bare minimum and try to make a guess that is slightly better than a coin flip. I actually remember seeing a deck from a data company boasting how their gender data was ~ 60% accurate.

Why are we worried about this? Contextual targeting is far more effective. As an example, targeting an ad on Elle.com is more than 60% likely to reach women than an ad targeted based on cookie data.

Genuinely curious so would appreciate calm, non-aggressive responses. I'm wondering whether this is due to a generally poor understanding of cookie targeting effectiveness or if I'm missing something.
(Proven) collusion between employers to keep wages down would be one reason.
The most realistic part of that show was how all the time saving robots and gizmos would always have a ton of end user issues and George would not want to use them.
I haven't bought a new car since 1987 :-)
Go processes do not typically have 1M or 10M active goroutines at once. The initial stack size for goroutines is 2kB, so 10M goroutines would mean 20GB just for stacks, even assuming that the goroutines never grow their stack (which cannot be assumed for anything nontrivial). The 2kB minimum stack size is on the same order of magnitude as the 10kB POSIX thread stack size.
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Good name
I propose Boltzmann sort: wait around until the heat death of the universe, and a Boltzmann brain will emerge from the cosmos, and sort your values while contemplating infinity.
The problem is the two concepts are symbiotic.

You start out a conspiracy with trolling and people doing it for the lulz and the reactions, and eventually you end up drawing in the unstable and mentally ill as true believers.

Which can lead to unpleasant outcomes, like pizzagate or Qanon.