skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were truly as good, word would spread (word-of-mouth) and the market would re-align. Blog posts would be written about how we're all naive for spending $2,000 instead of $150.
It changes over time with new hires and attrition, but by my last count somewhere between 30 and 40 in the SF regional office. There are more in other regions, but I'm unsure as to the total number.
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Maybe this is an American perspective (the American financial system is horribly outdated) but in the developing world, "digital currency" is mostly a solved problem. Your bank account integrates so seamlessly with digital payment systems that creating a separate currency seems entirely superfluous.

Here in India, we have a system called UPI. Connect it to your bank account once and you get a username like 'YourName@OkAxis'. Anyone can send money to this username and it goes straight to your bank account. You can pay establishments - online as well as offline - by simply verifying a one time password on your mobile. It's so seamless and cheap (essentially free) that I can't ever imagine needing a digital currency.
Agreed. Life is only worth living if I am "me". A mere collection of cells undergoing biological processes is not "me", and the idea of being trapped inside a broken body is genuine nightmare material.
Digital scarcity is why Bitcoin is so valuable (and why other cryptocurrencies not so much).

Read the Bitcoin Standard book, or Plan B's article if you honestly want to understand why Bitcoin is so crucial in the current financial climate.
SCOTUS begs to differ, in Griswold v. Connecticut. So do various state laws.
> How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"?

Aside from all stories we tell being biased there are many ways a story I tell about my experience can be especially biased. Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. There’s also the possibility that what I believe is real is not [0].

I don’t like assuming the worst or accusing people, but I certainly don’t think that all personal accounts are completely neutral. People usually tell stories with some motive and I think it’s valuable to be politely cynical, a bit.

[0] https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-A...
I think you have misread or misunderstood this.

Under the old system, it was possible to take a job, and then have less actual income than you did before.

Under the new system, _every_ extra hour of work you do causes you to have more money in your pocket, and you are always incentivized to do more work, or start a job that pays less now but might pay more as your experience grows.

I'm not sure how else you'd want this to be designed.
Ok, great, that sounds like the start of a valid argument.

Having bad citations or mispresenting what they say is completely different from being citationless. When some throwaway claims one and means the other I (quite reasonably in my opinion) assume they are simply mistaken rather than being more informed than me.
> Not everyone dying is an ongoing expensive burden

An increasing amount are. Dementia is increasing. People live longer and wind up with strokes or extreme feebleness.

Having had a parent with Alzheimer's, if I go that direction I will make sure to end my life. Why would I ever want to subject my family to taking care of me with something that cannot even hope to be slowed down let alone cured?
Is that even a possible option for many people in this situation?

The overlap between "unable to care for oneself and a burden on caretaker" and "unable to consent" is probably pretty large.
It depends on the condition in question. Some conditions have a life expectancy lower than age 53 and someone that age is deemed elderly for that subpopulation and can be suffering horribly.
NOPE.

You are defending this BS as well.
I did not know about paper.js.

Holy crap! Looks amazing!
Not to belittle the lives that depend on this stuff, but these issues go back to flippin Rome. The Grain Dole was a huge part of Roman politics and it's history is fascinating reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae#Politics_and_the_...

These issues are not very complicated: give people free stuff and they support you, let the next consuls/emperor worry about the revolts in Sicily (or whatever) that the Dole causes.

We keep saying that these problems will come back to haunt us, but that's all history has ever been.
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Ok, so your saying this article is misusing it's source list, not that the underlying source list is an absolute joke like the original throwaway I replied to is?
That's right the Hobby splines are a strict subset of the polynomial cubic Béziers.

The polynomial cubic Béziers are defined by 4 control points. In 2D that's 4 x 2 = 8 degrees of freedom. In the terminology of HN raphlinus's PhD thesis, we fix the 2 endpoints, which removes 4 degrees of freedom, and they're referred to as a 4-parameter family.

In addition to the 2 endpoints, Hobby splines are defined by the start and end tangent angles Θ0 and Θ1, plus a tension parameter τ.

If we fix the 2 endpoints and the tension parameter τ, and allow Θ0 and Θ1 to vary, then we have a 2-parameter subspace of the 4-parameter space of polynomial cubic Béziers for 2 fixed endpoints.

If we allow the tension parameter τ to vary we have a 3-parameter subspace.

So we have lost 1 degree of freedom, but in terms of aesthetics we haven't lost so much because the majority of the splines that we've thrown away are likely uglier than the splines we retained.

One TL/DR from HN raphlinus's thesis: Euler spiral splines are about the best you can do for a 2-parameter family that cover all reasonable possibilities for Θ0 and Θ1 with good aesthetics.
You might be interested in this evidence of the incompleteness of FIPS validation as a talisman of security.

Edit: more importantly, the FIPS version of OpenSSL was vulnerable to HeartBleed.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/13/yubico-recalls-governmen...
A case about access to contraception has nothing to do with free speech at all, nor is it even the same kind of "privacy." They're two different concepts, with the same word.
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I'm afraid it's not that simple. The key is the Effective Marginal Tax Rate, which is the compounded effect of withdrawal of benefits and moving up to a different tax bracket. Depending on the prevailing settings it's not uncommon to find points at which the EMTR is more than 100%.

I ran for the Federal Parliament for a libertarian party in 2007 largely because I supported their policy plan to reform taxation and welfare jointly. The concept was called "30/30": a 30% flat income tax, with negative income tax at 30% below $30,000 income. Capital gains and company tax would also be set at a flat 30%. The gist was to remove all distortions from different tax and welfare settings, so that any taxpayer was always facing the same deal: each additional dollar earned is taxed at 30%.

There were a lot of policies I didn't agree with, and naturally, those were the ones I got the most questions about. Running for a microparty that grabs anyone who puts their hand up is an ... interesting ... experience.

(I came second last with a whopping 0.7% of the primary vote, for those who were wondering)
Mattresses could be frozen for 72 hours and kept in a very hot environment for a while too, that’s kill both fungus and bedbugs. If laws allowed it there would be such a business. I wonder if the mattress business lobbies to keep these laws in place. Or whether they’re at the source of some bedbugs infestations. I wouldnt be surprised, in the mattress business it’s a cut throat in all directions type of world
Why Does It Cost $750k to Build Affordable Housing in San Francisco?
I'm very familiar with the concept of in-home hospice, and personally it resulted in one of the most horrifying experiences in my entire life. I would not wish it on anyone.
The post answers "what is a PEO", but not "what is your PEO". The second is what's meant by "who is the PEO?"
They are. I'm pretty sure the "$2000 mattresses are a scam" story pops up every few months here. I have even tried to tell people that my $300 mattress is great but people don't listen. The marketing is too strong and its a product they want to spend a lot on since it lasts ages and gets constant use.
True, with time you get good and fast at doing interop, but I can see newcomers getting frustrated with the chore and quitting prematurely because of that.
Where can I get the bulk foam that mattress companies use? I'd happily cut my own mattress.
I don't agree with you. However;

My opinion is that you are a dick.
> As the parent comment says, this is fundamentally a biological thing.

Disagree. Wikipedia quote "in the old indigenous religions, women married between 12 and 15 years of age". The most generous read of this (and the one I'm inclined to agree with) is that men genuinely factor emotional maturity and morality and so on into their sexual selection and preferences, where the least generous read is that men hide their ephebophilia when answering surveys.
Interesting to hear this perspective as one of the main arguments people used to make was that people in rural India or wherever could now access banking products that traditional banks refused to give due to cost. I'm assuming that's no longer the case?
Griswold v. Connecticut established that the Constitution has some inherent rights to privacy. I cite it as you claim those rights don’t exist.
It's a pretty big stretch to say that location and financial data is protected by a right to marital privacy.
The same is true for brands like West Elm (and it's sister brands). If you find something you like on West Elm, and you have the time to dig long enough online, you can sometimes find the exact same product for a price much closer to the cost of materials.

Even more so on Wayfair, where you can find identical products on the same site that come from the same factory sold by different sellers for different prices, although the quality of Wayfair is more hit or miss than West Elm.
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The 4th amendment established inherent rights to privacy!
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It would be odd to think marital privacy the only right to privacy the Constitution establishes.
The 4th amendment restricts the ability of the government to infringe on your privacy. It does not restrict telecom companies in any way whatsoever.
Then why are you saying:

> There isn't a similar existence of privacy rights.

upthread?!
So not Eli5
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> Do not think I am suicidal or depressed

I respect your view (and share your fear of decay), but please don't rule out depression; you might not be able to accurately diagnose yourself. A clergyman friend once said, after someone committed suicide, that depression is a disease that can be fatal.
I think there's a related product out there.

Think of the traditional baby boomer era story-- "Dad brings home the paycheque, Mom does the budget."

Give me Mom as a service. Don't let me touch my full salary, just what's left after a responsible adult has done with it.

Let me plug in every account I have, and set up rules like

* Pay the rent on the first cheque of the month and the electric company on the second

* Pay credit cards in full up to a total of $1200/month; if beyond that pay towards the highest rates first while still covering minimum balances

* If there's a break in of cash flow, draw down from savings to $500 to retain the current pay rates, then drop payments on all accounts to minimum.

* Leave $150 per week from cash flow where I can withdraw it for petty cash.

* Anything unspoken for is sent to an automatic purchase of (broad index fund|treasury debt|Pokemon cards) on a weekly basis

After a few years of using the account with $150 per week on it, you check the statement and see that the money that Mom-as-a-service has withheld from you is enough to buy the entirety of Alberta.
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Right? There are so many means to quick and painless suicide. Everyone talking about a "right to die" demanding government legislation makes no sense to me.
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I do get that. But many of these stories we hear have to do with consistent customers with a stable payment history and a good relationship. Something goes terribly wrong, helpdesk bombs it, and then what? Well, twitter, HN, reddit.

All I know is the current situation, well, stinks.
I feel like kids are (probably) hard on fabrics and textile coverings, teenagers are hard on everything, and adults are hard on foam supports (if only because weight and body size). Just some assumptions!
Had an uncle that died at home and the family suffered a lot more than if he went to the hospital. Changed my mind about this topic.

My plan if I get a terminal illness is to put the paperwork in order and disappear into the forest or sail into the sea :)
Like I said - innocent until proven guilty.

What exactly is secret service lodging? not paying city security bills for police? Are you being serious? A President and even ex presidents get secret service. How exactly is he lodging? These are absolutely absurd claims.

Have you looked into what the Bidens were up to? Where was everyone when Obama came out of office being worth over 120 million and Nancy Pelosi worth 140 million?

Like I said, I think your disdain for him is clouding your judgement.
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The guy I replied to spent 3 years thinking downvotes didn’t exist on this site simply because he wasn’t enough of a windbag to earn 500 karma. That’s not fun, it’s a tragedy. What would be fun is a discussion that leads to them changing this lame rule. Quiet people shouldn’t be punished for being quiet.
Hang on, Arn't we talking about High School students? Surely they are capable of getting themselves to the bus stop without mum or dad holding their hands?
The constitution can't be used in this case to support a right to privacy. The argument for privacy here is that Maine's law doesn't infringe on the 1st amendment.
I don't think Constitutionally-bound legislatures count as 'Parliamentary Sovereignty' moreover, the alternative, 'separation of powers' - is simply not that, it's just 'Judicial Supremacy'.

It's ridiculous that Europe's top lawyers make a treaty, and then some of Europe's other top lawyers say that it's illegal, whilst all reading the same, plain document. If the constitutionality of a law is 'not apparent' to Europe's top lawyers, then it's definitely not apparent to the other lawyers at the ECJ either; there should be a different process for determining the constitutionality of laws, that is separate from more common judicial rulings. And definitely the ECJ should not be able to rule on its own jurisdiction, this is crazy.

Love this bit from Wikipedia:

"The court ruled that the Community constitutes a new legal order, the subjects of which consist of not only the Member States but also their nationals. The principle of direct effect would have had little impact if Union law did not supersede national law. Without supremacy the Member States could simply ignore EU rules. In Costa v ENEL (1964), the court ruled that member states had definitively transferred sovereign rights to the Community and Union law could not be overridden by domestic law."

These are revolutionary proclamations.

"Oh, by the way, that treaty you signed that you thought meant that thing, well, we're going to rule that we have all the power. So, guess what, it meant something you didn't understand, and what you didn't know is that you were literally handing over sovereignty to us. Thanks, we own you now"
We've made custom cushions from foam we got from https://www.thefoamfactory.com/ (no affiliation). They apparently do have "mattresses", but also just stock a bunch of foam that they can ship to you and you can cut to dimension.
You walk home and get 10 candles going, and in places you can't reach.

I think the use case is incredibly obvious.

Exactly the same as lighting! And smells too if you want.

Being IoT it is also safer than candles once you solve the lighting it safely without being able to see it issue. If a cat physically knocks it over it can warn you, normal candles don't.

You could argue it'll make candles more common and cause more fires, but that's a different issue.
I imagine it’s one of those things that’s only cheap when you have committed to ordering a ton of the product, frankly.
Sounds like you have bigger problems than school starting times. I'd be working on the local municipaility to get the facilities in place. Being able to walk anywhere you need to go should be one of those human rights. It's basic to our physology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

"Historically, the plea of superior orders has been used both before and after the Nuremberg Trials, with a notable lack of consistency in various rulings."
> Edit: Also debt and equity are not always that straightforward, they are shades of grey. Convertible notes are debt that look like equity.

Right, but that just reinforces my point. Debt is different from equity, which is different from a note. Legally and commercially, outside investors (or acquirers) are going to treat them all differently. It's not as simple as "raising $X means you have to repay $X+Y, no matter whether its debt, equity or note".
UE4 has a really nice balance here; you can create your own C++ classes, either by inheriting from UObject (lowest common denominator class), or higher level classes like UActor, UPawn, UCharacter, UTexture etc. There are component classes that can then be attached to these to give you a composition based approach, rather than just pure inheritance.

With C++ you have a very fine grained control over everything, however the compile/link/dynamic reloading cycle can be quite slow and you don't get much in the way of instant visual feedback.

This is where Blueprint classes come in; they can inherit from both C++/Blueprint classes, and can be extended very quickly in the editor using a node editor similar to what you'd find in the UE4 Material Editor and Animation Graphs, Blender, Substance Designer, Nuke etc. The feedback loop is much tighter and you can see the results on screen much more quickly. Downside is that not all API's are exposed to Blueprint, and they are a little slower than C++ classes. This can be mitigated somewhat by compiling Blueprint classes to C++ in recent versions.
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I learned more than I expected about maps. So so you think it was a style decision in the late 1800's to make a map with the top facing east? Or was it still common?
Thank goodness it was "aided by machine learning". Otherwise, would anybody be reading this article ;)?
Please define "right"
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Why no Tree<K,V>? It would be very nice to say up front one wants fixed-sized keys and values and get the benefits.

This whole hurr drrr arbitrary data k v thing never made sense to me. Truly Unstructured data is meaningless--that's information theory for you---so why not leverage some types?
Shogun raises $10M to help e-commerce brands build faster websites
could you explain "analytics are the dual of forms" a bit? sounds intriguing!
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Did you save a copy of the noticias repo? It's gone now.
...in mice.

It would be nice if we spent as much time, money and attention on figuring out prevention. Inadequate hygiene infrastructure (like toilets) in developing areas is part of the problem here.

But addressing that isn't as exciting to people as finding a cure for a super bug. If we really want to fix this, that needs to change.
That's straight from their S-1, page 6: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1598674/000104746920...
Some country interpolate insurance between different tires instead.

So, if $0 at $20000 income, and $5000 at $40000 income.

A person with $21000 income will need to pay $0 + ($21000 - $20000) / ($40000 - $20000) * $5000, a.k.a $250
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if this supports for ssm parameter store rhen it will be a killer feature.
I'd love to see someone go for a "exo-db" architecture, where the layers are broken out into distinct crates. Expressiveness making this possible should be a main benefit of Rust on par with safety.

c.f. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.435...
9 miles in LA...

I remember when I moved to LA in March of 2008. I remember telling my girlfriend how awesome it was that I was 6 miles from work. How exciting. Back in Ohio, I lived over 30 miles from work! SGV to Pasadena? No sweat. She giggled. I didn't understand. Then I started spending an hour one way and 45 minutes back. Now I get it.
Which makes a lot of sense, especially when it comes to compensation where not capitalizing end would lead to incentives to not invest in it even if it is profitable. It doesn't make sense to expense it right away when it's something that, like capex, is meant to essentially purchase assets that can pay off later. If those revenues fail to materialize, then the bottom line takes a hit then, just as a company would take a hit if expenditure on a factory proves to be worthless. The goal of this sort of accounting is to reflect economics better, we have statements of cash flows to keep a track of cash and you're more than free to use that in valuing a company (and many analysts do ignore everything but cash)
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I absolutely support this. I use iOS Firefox, Google maps, etc. It’s really hard to break away from Safari and Apple Maps when automatically following links.
The best re-solution is to cut and use them as soil for indoor growing. I’m sure you can find tutorials around...
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iirc they project small green region around the actors and real props, so that ambient light and reflections are still mostly correct but they can also get clean matte out.
Not just in drug discovery but in most interesting industries. Using ML as either a human/cyborg aid or ML+real world ground truth is a secret superpower that I'm surprised more people don't know about. I'm glad they don't.
The problem is that it deputizes your loved ones as stand-ins for professional medical staff. End of life care is hard for the professionals, don't put it on your loved ones.
Thanks - I’ll check them out.

Plan B: https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/modeling-bitcoins-value-w...

Bitcoin Standard: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Altern...
I see "Laszlo Bock" is one of the founding members. He was industry veteran an exec at GM and Google (as a head of HR, as far as I know). He then started an HR company Humu (https://humu.com).
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Oh, Jesus Christ—so let's force kids into another Procrustes Bed, eh? Let a different tail wag the dog?

There are those of us who naturally wake up early (I'm one, and I know plenty of others), and there are those of use who naturally sleep until noon.

Obviously, later start times would be awesome for late sleepers. They would also suck hard for those of us who have already been up for hours before school even starts.

A German friend of mine told me her school started at 07:00 every day and finished at noon. She said she preferred it that way, and so would I have.

What's wrong with having staggered start times for high schools? Some students could choose to start at 07:00, others as late as the afternoon. We'd fit more classes into the same school buildings, making potentially more efficient use of public resources.