skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s your estimate of the percent of the population that could move in with their parents? And then additionally what’s your estimate of the percent of the population that can program that this is true for?

40% of young adults in the USA do live with family, and it’s a good bet that a large fraction of the rest could. It’s certainly not universal by any means, but it’s also far from some great rarity.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/percentage-of-young-americans-l...

I’ll grant that the original comment talked of having “his own bathroom” and that is reasonably rare, but it’s the least important part of the package compared to a room and shared meals.
I’m surprised you find the gender unnecessary, but continue to include the species. “Rich individuals” would be all that’s required.
> That's more than we can say for US/China. They keep up the appearance of being "the best".

That appearance is long gone in the US. Last week Trump complained to the press that the US isn't doing as bad as we think because Mexico and Brazil are also doing poorly.

So there's a long way between "we are the best" and "hey, maybe just maybe we don't suck as much as other countries that are doing awfully bad".
Obviously VC exists because the founders don't have enough capital, but not because the founders have zero capital.
If taking a year off is a worthwhile thing to do in life, then right at the beginning of your working life is the best time to do it. That's when your value to employers is the lowest, as you don't have any experience yet. Each year that passes makes this sort of thing more expensive to the point where the idea of a 45 year old taking a year to go backpacking or whatever is considered to be very impractical.
Similar for me - there was a real sense of accomplishment on my first win in Slay the Spire on the easiest difficulty setting. To think that players have >90% win rates on that setting, much less on Ascension 20 is remarkable.

I've learned a lot from Jorbs - a twitch streamer. It's surprising how much statistics and planning can go into any given fight. It's possible to puzzle out how much of the fight will go ahead of time, with knowledge of one's deck and the enemies moves.
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Yeah, if nothing else, those games pretty much hammer into your head that all your starting cards are garbage and you should get rid of them, at the very least, at the soonest opportunity.

There's a couple of reasons you might want to hang on to them in Slay the Spire, depending on what events come up, but getting rid of them is pretty important in this game as well.
I am Korean American, and have worked for some of the huge Korean conglomerates. The work culture leaves a lot to be desired.

There is also "reverse racism" prevalent. i.e. if you are Korean (or Kor-Am) and are working for a Korean corporation, you might be judged on different standards than a coworker who is not Korean, or not East Asian. You're expected to work harder and more "passionately" for no extra compensation just because some vague notion of nationalistic/ethnistic Korean Pride.

I've interviewed at some of the big Japanese conglomerates too, and I got exactly the same feeling as I did with Korean companies.

I've come to the conclusion that I will never work for an East Asian company again barring some earth shattering changes to their corporate culture. Many of my ex-colleagues say the same.
AIUI, the creators of Slay the Spire are very active in the Netrunner community, and play-tested it thoroughly with top Netrunner players. I haven't played it before but I think it plays closer to MtG than to deck builder board games.
> This month, an Air Force sergeant, who prosecutors claim has ties to boogaloo

This is just so weird to me. People will claim to be radically anti-government, etc. but also act incredibly nationalist or in the case, join a branch of the state military. Although, I understand a lot of people change their views during their service (I know a ton of anarchists who were former military).
Pirates is a label that they don't identify with, they prefer socio-economic liberators. Can't you see, Pirates with guns aren't violent, they represent the repressed standing up against the imperialistic military industrial complex of Legomen!

/s
The author here almost seems like a parody of un-self-aware white male tech arrogance. From the Twitter bio:

"On a 100 year mission to escape earth,
become immortal 🧬,
create artificial life,
and discover the fundamental secrets of the universe."

This kind of absolutely wacky egoism and Dunning-Krugerism really makes sense, given that he thinks founders all have safety nets to go into huge debt and poverty.
The Internet is no more than 50 years old, and Twitter less than 15. There are no 'natives' here; the "land" Twitter occupied (to absolutely torture an analogy) didn't exist until the twitter.com domain was registered and the service was set up.

There may be people who helped Twitter gain widespread adoption by their fame who are now feeling taken advantage of by Twitter changing its rules to kick them off their service. Maybe we can bend the analogy far enough to call them 'displaced natives?'

Do such people exist though? I'm pretty sure the Venn diagram of QAnon supporters and long-lived Twitter luminaries is two circles. Even if we accept the notion of "Twitter natives," we seem to raise the question of who the "displaced natives" are when regular Twitter users have to put up with this novel conspiracy nonsense.
Cool your outrage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome#At_multiple_scales
Interestingly, there was some doubt within NASA as to whether the 747 piggyback was a good idea. One of the proponents of the idea was a scale model builder, and made a model to demonstrate it; the model's success was persuasive enough that they continued to study the idea.

In the end, the 747-Space Shuttle combo actually has better crosswind landing characteristics than a normal 747, but it has atrocious fuel economy.
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I moved around a lot as a child, and in my admittedly anecdotal experience... this is not the case for most people in urban / suburban areas.

In most places in the United States, extra space is a premium that requires consistent stable work at or above the median household income in a single field of work over extended periods of time.

From this alone we can rule out those who work minimum wage jobs, most of those who do not have an established field other than "Service Industry" and many of those who specialize in an "unskilled" trade, e.g. forklift operators.

Those who do manage to purchase a home with the requisite space often don't live in posh neighbourhoods with comfortable amenities, and generally are not swimming in excess income.

Additionally modern society, with its' inundation of appealing marketing campaigns and easy credit, has rendered even your "middle class" families cash-poor, stretching their budgets thinner and thinner with each additional monthly payment.

When you culminate all of these things together with a fundamental breakdown in nuclear families and rising divorce rates, "going home after a rough patch" is not an outcome most are able to, much less willing to, consider.
Does anyone have experience with Hidary's Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach? How is it?
LeetCode looks like a bootcamp/school for software development. I don't feel like that's where my weakness lies. I am a productive software developer and am up to date on most of the latest tech. Teaching for something like that would probably be more my speed. Also, where I live there are no FAANG companies and relocation is not an option. I work from home and unless there is a local software company that is hiring, I am out of luck.

What do you mean by TC and what is Blind? The rat race is pretty much what I'm trying to escape.
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I've been thinking about that a lot, about these games that uses procedural generation. I've been playing a game on Xbox where "random" events occurs and you have to act accordingly. I've noticed the game wasn't fair or even winnable. That random event striking me that moment of the game, there's no way I could be prepared to deal with the situation (frostpunk, I think is the name of the game). When I released Qubes, my game, I made sure every level was winnable. So when people write me emails telling the level doesn't have a solution, I know for a fact that it has, the player just couldn't find yet. That's a nice article and I appreciate you sharing.
This is actually really easy to prove to yourself. Just try to do something that you historically find hard to do, like making a habit of going to the gym or something that you "know" should be good for you. If you're anything like me, you'll mysteriously find yourself unable to do it consistently, even though you know that it's a good idea. The only conclusion to make is that there must be more to yourself than just your conscious mind, because if there wasn't, there'd be nothing to stop you.
I'm with the other poster. You don't seem to be reading (or even acknowledging) the provided sources.

>That requirement is the exact same as private sector pension plans.

This is where you are confused. The bill has to do with pre-funding of health (and similar) benefits and not pensions.

Which brings us back to your original claim:

>This is a common talking point, but is factually incorrect. (1) The USPS hasn't made any of those payments since 2013. Their current financial woes aren't caused by the requirement since their not making the payments. (2) Pensions are required to be fully funded. In practice that's a bit more theoretical than actual, but the USPS isn't being treated any different.

Point (2) is incorrect since we aren't talking about pensions. Point (1) is incorrect as per the numerous sources I provided already (including a direct quote from the Postmaster General). But here's one more:

>the 2006 law requiring the pre-funding of health benefits for future retirees — not pensions — has put a financial strain on the Postal Service and hurt its ability to turn a profit in some recent years.

From https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/wi...

Conclusion: The current financial woes of the USPS are can be attributed in large part to the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.
But contrast this story:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/stunning-texas-coro...

"Stunning! Texas Coronavirus Numbers Show COVID-19 Less Lethal than Last Two Flu Seasons"

FTFA:

>"The coronavirus was actually less lethal than the flu in the state!
The flu had a mortality rate of 0.03% and 0.04%.
The coronavirus has a mortality rate of 0.01% in Texas.

This won’t make any headlines."<
Index fund for most. “Rule #1 investing” for a smaller portion. Also consider rental properties depending on your total portfolio.
> Having parents with an extra bedroom, once used by kids, is perfectly ordinary.

Do you mean an extra bedroom with two or more beds for your kids or an extra bedroom per kid? That makes the difference and it is more uncommon.
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Imagine that, knowing there's intelligent life out there, but knowing we will never meaningfully interact with them because it's impossible to travel any useful distance or communicate in any real way. Even if we could travel vast distances, It seems likely if we discover any life out there it may be long dead by the time we get there.
We use Heroku Review Apps as well. We are considering moving to AWS, and one thing that was holding us up was that setting up review apps in AWS would require some extra work (it's not impossible but definitely not as easy as Review Apps). So I can definitely see how a tool like this can have value if you're _not_ on Heroku.
It isn't just notation, though. It's a different way of operating. For example, the following adaptation of your code:

c = 0
for i in range(u.size):
if u[i] < u[i + 1]:
c = c + u[i] * v[i]
else:
c = 0

cannot be vectorised (ignoring the off-by-one error for simplicity's sake).

Saying that the Python interpreter should reinterpret the iterative code as if it were vectorised isn't increasing the expressivity, it's reducing it, by overriding the user's intentions.
> Sorry, which countries ditched their constitutions during COVID?

It really depends on your personal definition of "ditched their constitution".

For example, Spain "declared state of alarm" which suspends temporarily some constitutional rights.
The osprey is used by the Coast Guard. It's hardly weaponized by other services. It's used much like other helicopters, for transport. I would get it if this was an Apache with guns designed for one thing only, but it's not.
But Google and Apple do exactly the same thing? Why no competition complain for them?
I think they're actually jilted by Microsoft kicking the tires, then deciding not to buy them. By expanding Teams and integrating it into Office... well, when I work in that way the experience really is way, way, way, way (did I say way) better. Slack doesn't fit in nearly the same way, within that ecosystem.

At the same time, I think Slack has an exit problem. As you've said, they're selling chat. They have to hope to be acquired - but by whom? Google already has 12 platforms. Facebook has 2, and famously doesn't compete on this part of the business side. Similarly, many of my friends companies have left Slack for things like RocketChat, Chanty, or Mattermost.
Just want to point out that many of the complaints in the comments here are US specific. At many PhD programs in Europe for example you are considered an employee of the university and not a student, this often comes with full benefits: salary, bonuses, vacation time, pension, etc. Academia in the US in particular is falling into disrepair.
It’s not really possible to live in $1k a month as a single adult in the Bay Area unless you are somehow living rent free. Even if you rent a room in a terrible area out in the boonies, the cost of getting to/from the parts of the Bay Area with the tech industry will push you over.

I agree nobody needs a cushy lifestyle when starting a company but as a single adult in the Bay Area you need at least $2k/month after taxes to live. And somehow you need to get someone to rent to you with an income that low. Not everybody is lucky in having a nearby relative they can live with for free.
That's a good point, what's the difference between cancel culture and boycotts? Does anyone know whether there is one?
Funnily enough I usually experience the opposite. I've worked with very heavy systems and very light systems, and I always find more stability with the really light weight stuff. Obviously there are more bugs at first, but once you go through your first wave of code fixes I'm usually sitting pretty for awhile until I change more stuff.
A room and a meal, possibly not.

A room and a meal indefinitely with absolutely no pressure to leave or contribute? With the freedom to find the next job or opportunity that fits, not just desperately throw out their resume and accept the first offer? Not so much.
MSN Messenger. AIM. Yahoo Messenger. Skype. GChat. iChat. etc. There was a whole list of extremely popular chat products that were used by people who wouldn’t even have been able to log into Slack with the level of computer literacy they had at the time.

Personally, I think what happened was that GChat became popular, and killed all the alternatives, and then basically stagnated and confused the shit out of its users through hangouts etc.

Slack was one of the first products that realized that since GChat had gone, there was a huge gap in the market.

I’m hard pressed to think of any area where they were beyond predecessors in either ease of use or features (I can’t remember if persistent chat rooms were available in all the other messengers) beyond those little custom emoji things.
The more people start using this service, the better the AI will learn the differences between real and cloaked images. So eventually anybody can run an unaltered photo of yours through the cloak and it will match up.
I think the multi-planet system part is what makes it a first.
The first hit when googling “events that preceded the Gujarat riots” (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/world/asia/mo...)

Get your timeline right.

People being killed because of the religion they were born into is about as stupid as it gets. Nobody wins when people senselessly die. My point is the world wants to do business with India so Modi becomes no longer a criminal. That’s capitalism for you.
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Depends on if the money saved on marketing and gained by white label sales (if the bottle cost more than $19.99 to make they probably wouldn't do so) minus the money from lost sales to the white label. The site below lists most 5ths (750ml) at under 3 pounds or under US$4, even for top shelf. Say that is doubled by transit costs or tripled after marketing/etc to about $12, it's still about half the white label cost so I'd argue they don't lose money making bottles for Costco.

For marketing, let's assume that cost of maintaining the relationship and dealmaking is written off and 0. If you consider Costco/Kirkland marketing at least in terms of buyer awareness it may be a net gain as for $0 they get that Kirkland trust.

For white label, they may split production/sipping costs with Costco or just provide the final bottle with split profit. Either way, each bottle may return 50-60% as profit or about $12. I can't find anything in detail on how brands split profits or if Costco takes a flat cut though so let's say 50% cut to Costco

I also didn't find anything quick on if white label sales cut into private label but as the white label is only Costco I'd guess the impact is not severe and if the private label is known might even be a boost at outside liquor stores. Even with

For their own sales, take a bottle cost of $30 - $12 to produce for a net of $18. For white label, $12/2 or $6 in profit. So perhaps their private label is 3x the profit ($18 vs $6) so as long as the white label sales don't eat more than 1/3 of the private label sales (and I'd say across the nation it won't) then they come out ahead. But either way they make money and have a huge partner with massive sales to produce for which I'd take as a win for long term revenue stability.

https://www.lovebrewing.co.uk/guides/still-spirits-liqueurs/...
Again, the charge time is non-linear. You can get from 0 to 50% in just 20 mins. And also, if you are doing a long drive, won't you be stopping for 20-30 mins at least every 200-300 miles (roughly every 3 hours)? Just for bathroom breaks, to get some food, to stand up and stretch, etc.? Imo, this doesn't seem that bad at all.

I had the same kind of anxiety over charging too, but since getting an EV and doing multiple cross-state road trips in it and with just tons of daily usage, I found that worry to be unfounded.
The problem with "rich people" as a phrase is that most rich people don't think of themselves as rich - for example, only 13% of millionaires do [1]. As "white dudes" are disproportionately represented within this demographic, I think the inclusion of these qualifiers helps to illustrate the point.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/most-millionaires-dont-think...
Just defeated it on a dataset of 10k face images. Accuracy drops 7 +- 2%. Had to tweak some params, but that's it.
Yes, but not focusing on money is how you end up building a business that sells dollar bills for $0.90. A few "for fun" startups have blown up in the past (Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube), but the reason majority fail is lack of business plan for how to actually monetize what they are working on. I don't consider focus on sustainability for a business to be a bad thing, though if a VC handed me $10m to spend trying to buy users I won't say no.
I address the first part of your question in another comment on this post [1] (disclaimer, I'm a D-Wave employee and only talk about our offerings).

As for what types of problems: D-Wave's quantum computers (and adiabatic quantum computers in general) are best suited for optimization problems. Some examples are scheduling, graph coloring, and other NP-hard problems.

AFAIK quantum computing, as a whole, is very far from breaking any kind of interesting crypto.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23918899
> And if try to attach the infrastructure construction to the housing construction, it complicates the process.

That's how you end up with public transport overwhelmed, electric grid strained, local schools and kindergartens overflown. Because instead of "attaching infrastructure construction to the housing construction" you just build housing. Lots of it.
No non-essential travel for Americans to Canada.
> If we detect life close to us, it makes it more likely that there is tons of life around the galaxy, which makes it more likely that the filter is ahead of us.

Isn't is the other way around? I though that the main argument for the filter ahead of us is that we haven't found any civilization, which means civilizations cannot develop past some level at which they can be detected by us. But if we'll have found one, this means that such level of civilization can be passed, and therefore reduces the chances that there is a filter.
I don't think it's the demand side that is the issue, it's more the supply side. A lot of people don't live a life where they can afford to spend a year volunteering. They need some kind of income. What happens when there are no stimulus checks and no increased access to unemployment? Or will they extend those programs so that they last another 12 months at least?

We have to be cognizant of the fact that, by all indications, October will be a very stressful time for a lot of people.
... just put some laser cannons on it and give the pilot a lightsaber and it’s perfectly within their regular branding.
This would be a reasonable analogy if proceeds from the sales of these sets funded ongoing piracy.
No it isn't a rumour.
There were a bunch of options in different countries. I think they were just listing some so that anyone could choose their local.
His argument is that B2C is underrepresented and laughed at in YC, despite it being a vital and huge market. He isn't saying one is better than the other.

Ebay, AirBNB, Apple, Uber, Github, heard of any? It's too bad you were never able to enjoy B2C products, because these products are worth trying.
I suppose we can never truly know what motivates anyone to do anything. I'm not committed to that stance, but even if he had the most pure of motivations it wouldn't materially change the consequences (both ethical and practical) of his actions.
Unlikely.

We're going to have a hard time dumping enough anything into the atmosphere (or causing some other kind of pollution) to kill ourselves entirely. We'd osculate around an equilibrium where we dump some pollutant into our environment to the point where our population decreases, natural processes remove it and our population increases, wash, rinse, repeat. You can see similar population and resource usage patterns in many ecosystems.

And before anyone tries to twist my words to saying global warming isn't a bad thing, that's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that humans as a species will likely survive it.
They are trying the sco business model, look how that turned out for them!
It's not and it's a Transport vehicle. That's why this is nonsense. An apache would make sense because it has one function, this is a utilitarian vehicle. It's just stupid all around. The fact that a large company like lego bows to this ridiculousness is stupid. I'm an AFOL and probably spend around 5k a year on Lego. I've been a pretty consistent purist with exception of some Moc Cars (mould king). All this does is push me away from the brand.