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The advice is endless. There are so many traps out there to keep poor people poor it's insane. Mostly targeted at racial minorities but a lot target lower income people in general.

1. Avoid lotteries and gambling

2. Avoid fast food and expensive prepared convenience foods.

3. Focus on cheap or zero cost recreation like hiking, running, or cycling. Avoid expensive stuff like Movies, Restaurants, Bars, and Gyms

4. Minimize costs in your life as much as possible.

5. Spend spare time accruing valuable skills (Plumbing, Electrical, Software, Engineering)

6. Invest in index funds

7. Avoid cell phone plans

8. Avoid car ownership

9. Learn to cook low cost meals

10. Balance a budget and keep track of every transaction.

Even then there are tons of traps like addiction, depression, ignorance, and peer pressure.
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> I see modelling is almost always only open to phds/masters.

I think this varies pretty widely based on employer, e.g. if you are at a smaller company (and you show interest and have the necessary skills) then you're much more likely to be able to contribute on the modeling side. It's easier to get there if you have an advanced degree, but definitely not necessary.

That being said, IMHO book lists like this aren't very useful because there's no incentive to keep them short and realistic. Reading seminal papers and implementing them is a different learning philosophy, maybe, but lists like this are probably more feasible to complete: https://dennybritz.com/blog/deep-learning-most-important-ide...
I’m not sure better coding exercises is the solution here. What you want to do is bring people in for a week and let them work with the team. But unless you’re the hottest thing in town, no one is going to spend a week with you, at least most likely not the people you want to hire.
The stack is Node.js with Express and React. We use Sequelize to handle database connections.

As others mentioned, our current pricing is in line with higher tiers of other internal tools, mostly geared towards startups with revenue or funding. We're hoping to add cheaper (and free!) plans moving forward once we validate that we can make money from SMBs.

Early customers are using the product for customer support, order management, basic analytics dashboards, data entry. Good mix of technical and non-technical users within teams.
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You’re thinking of the median (the value that ends up in the middle after sorting), which is indeed more useful in such cases.

(Of course, boiling a wide distribution of values down to a single value, no matter by which process, is fraught with problems.)
As someone living in Sweden I somewhat agree. Our state-sponsored media is not too bad. But I also subscribe to two independent news papers and those are the ones I prefer.
Ah good catch. A little more reasonable for a 1-person project then.
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The difference is that you get paid at a restaurant for chopping onions, even if it is for three days only. A highly valued IC wouldn't have time to spend three days coding for free. On the other hand someone can outsource this to a skilled developer in India or a friend who is good at coding.
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I gave up on the tor network a year ago. It’s not the complete anonymous network it claimed to be anymore. Adapt or die, right?
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The article text claims that they "roost on trees or cliffs at night".
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Would open publishing on the web solve this?

After all, the journal system was invented to solve distribution of papers. We have the internet now, so is there any need for the journal system any more?

Independent reviewers would/could easily step up to pick up the interesting papers and present a "feed" of the good stuff.
Having it as a 'yarn add/npm install Moufette' with no other steps would be lovely!
Not the person you're responding to, but my perspective is that there is often a false equivalency between academic understanding (solving hard/clever problems) and productive development (meeting deadlines, building/fixing projects). Many of the stereotypical developer interviews assume "good developers" who are good at one are good at the other. My anecdotal experience is that most are not, they excel in one or the other.
Note that since we are talking about averages, it could be true both that music training on average doesn't have a visible effect, but that some specific ways of doing music training are helpful and others are harmful. There are a wide variety of ways to teach music and a broad study won't figure out which ones are better or worse.

Or it could be the musical training is effective for a certain people but detrimental for others, and the average would be near zero.

However, there's a limit to how much research you can do. Chasing after effects on subsets of the population has problems too. https://xkcd.com/882/
Anyone interested in the topic should learn about the Buteyko technique and the work of Konstantin Buteyko. He was a Russian scientist who studied the negative effects of chronic hyperventillation, the positive effects of healthy breathing, and developed a technique to restore healthy breathing.

For example, he developed a way to measure the health of someone's respiration through a simple test called the "control pause." To measure your control pause, bring your attention to your breath and without changing your breath, stop breathing at the end of your next natural exhalation. Start a timer, and see how long it takes before your body generates any minor uncomfortable signal in an urge to breathe (an urge to swallow, any kind of muscle contraction, anything subtle expressing a demand to breathe). As soon as you reach such a signal, stop the timer. People who breath healthily (according to Buteyko's research) have at least 40 seconds on the timer. (This is NOT a breath holding test, and if your regular respiration gets faster or deeper after you complete it, you did it wrong.) Most people certainly are not even close to 40 sec. And that, according to Buteyko, is because most people severely overbreathe. The consequence of this dysfunction, of being in a constant state of chronic hyperventillation, is that the blood vessels contract, and surprisingly, less oxygen is transferred to the cells because CO2 is a necessary catalyst for the transfer of oxygen to the cells, and hyperventillation drains the blood of CO2. Healthy breathing, according to Buteyko, is minute and nearly visually imperceptible.
wrong yesterday, wrong today too.
On this subject, a few months ago I had Ubuntu servers suddenly failing due to a bizarre automatic snap update that basically took most of our Docker containers down. Did anyone experience this with production systems?
It's crazy to think that 40 years worth of video can be uploaded daily, and yet that only captures a minuscule amount of everything that goes on in the world in a given day.
If retailer is just a retailer , aggregate sales data is theirs to do as pleased . If they are also sellers it is problem, if we cannot stop them collecting or using , then all sellers must have access to the same information.
It is a very direct advertisement.
We use the same approach and specifically use a "...withdeleted" suffix for the table - you got a table of containing widget objects there? how about a "widgetwithdeleted" table.
> I like the simple argument made here about UBI enabling efficient consumption.

If you mean this...

"Instead of continually trying to optimize supply, with diminishing returns, we need to optimize demand by giving consumers more money to spend on things they desire."

...then unfortunately it has a critical flaw: redistribution does not create wealth. If the problem is that growth is stagnating, you can't fix it by redistribution. You can only fix it by increasing wealth creation.

That's not to say that there might not be a decent argument in favor of UBI helping to increase wealth creation, by enabling more people to pursue innovations because they don't have to spend as much time and effort on basic subsistence. Such an argument might be worth discussing. But that is not the argument this article is making.
And it still actually works, the algorithms are sophisticated, but the heavy reliance on them leads to some serious blind spots.
Dunno if it was a genuine question, but I found one that you might be interested in: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28789992/
A company isn’t a community. You don’t belong to it and the togetherness only lasts as long as your boss says it will. Ultimately it’s in the company‘s best interest to try and get more value out of you than they pay you for, if they think they can do that by fostering a feeling of togetherness then they will, but it’s not, you know... real.

e: and the parent of this chain is a CEO. Three guesses as to why he finds it a negative that an employee doesn’t really care who they work for.
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I've been curious about the demographics of people who oppose remote work vs those who are for it. At least from my industry (Software), my guess is that those who are for it are developers and those that are against it are going to be more of the managerial type. My manager is late in her career and has opposed the concept of allowing full-remote work after post-covid in a very strong way. I think now that all of the workers are not physically in the office, she feels like she has less purpose.

I was curious what the OP's job role was to see if this thought lines up at all. I click on his profile and he is a CEO.
The obfuscation techniques are getting more and more intrusive. Google hasn't won, but they seem to be gaining ground against an enormous number of clever and lively human adversaries. That's impressive.
I felt a similar calm after walking to a convenience store in NYC and passing the refrigerated semi-trailers parked outside Mt. Sinai West. I'd forgotten to take my route that avoided passing the hospital.

It's chilling (no pun intended) but also seemed like a wake-up call to what really matters in life.

To think that one day, I might just end up as a pile of human flesh in a semi-trailer.

My state of balance is having worked hard enough to feel somewhat accomplished and looking back on my life and thinking "heck, I've done some things many haven't or that I thought I'd never do. Sucks to die, but hey it's been an interesting ride so far."

My biggest fear is regretting that I didn't try hard enough. I disagree with many of Anthony Bourdain's opinions and life decisions, but this kind of fear is something I deeply connect with.
I love if I can share jokes with coworkers, but making that a prerequisite for hiring is kind of brain-dead.
As a regular contributor to OpenStreetMap, I did not realize how poor the bike lanes mapping was around me (surroundings of Versailles, France). There's a lot to fix :)
That doesn't work for everyone. We print a lot of kid photos for albums and what not. And then grandma visits, and we hand her the phone, and say "press here if you like the picture" and minutes later she has the prints. The short latency and not having the hassle of a 20 minute trip is worth the investment in our case.
The cmd version with the modifier directly next to the spacebar involves no wrist rotation at all. I tried it to check before making my last post, and my hand feels way more tense doing ctrl+z/x/c than cmd+z/x/c, using a desktop PC keyboard for the former to make it fair. I can also move back into homerow position faster. If you’ve got super directly next to the spacebar, it’s both faster and causes less strain, as far as I can tell. Granted it’s a roughly neutral or very slightly worse change if super is between alt and ctrl.

Again, I did the standard Linux/windows thing for like 15 years before switching to Mac, so I don’t think I prefer it just due to familiarity.

[edit] the key to their layout being so good for writing is how Option/Alt is used. Option plus a character will often get you a common modified version of that character that’s very useful (so you can type, say, façade, or a —, quickly and easily). Holding option changes practically every key on the keyboard, and shift+option does it again to a different set of chars. They’re not perfectly discoverable and some are compose keys (but visible on the screen, not hidden as a key that seems to do nothing!), but if you forget where the cent sign or euro or or pound are it’s easy to remember they’re in the numbers somewhere near dollar and find them again in a second or two.

[edit edit] the international layout can be better for some people but is basically obsoleted by Mac’s “hold a key and see accented versions to choose from” functionality, and alt-gr is similar to what Mac’s standard English layout does, except worse.
In a system where money is power, and the economy encourages its concentration, you always end up with such unbalances.

The invisible hand cannot help here: demand will ask for cheaper prices (the 99% have a big stack of cash as a group, but a small one individually, so they seek savings), which the economy of scale will only make happen for the bigger players.

At some point, fair competition is not possible anymore.

Not to mention the ability to negotiate is driven by who you can afford to hire, who you know, how sustainable you are, etc.
That is my primary fear too, although I'm optimistic. I wish there were more, larger and longer term studies to check this.

What if you get 1000$, but you are allowed to use them only for food, health and shelter? Any kind of luxury would require you to work, or educate yourself to work better. I feel kinda bad for suggesting it, but can't articulate why.
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The last few years have made it very clear that worldwide the medicine regulation sector sucks at cost-benefit analysis.
No doubt but targeted surveillance is very different from mass surveillance.
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> In what city is an emergency appendectomy an elective procedure? That doesn't make any sense.

All of them. We got the same results everywhere we tried. And of course, it doesn't make any sense. What about shutting down the hospitals to everything except for one sort of ICU procedure, then under-staffing those ICUs makes any sense?

> you should be leaving your house to get emergency medical care. Why does that mean you shouldn't stay home for routine stuff where practical?

I stayed home after I was denied emergency medical care. I had to stay barely alive through an at-home visiting nurses service where I had terrible antibiotics fed into my veins multiple times per day. It was a traumatic experience for everyone involved and it was totally, completely unnecessary. I was denied this treatment, why? Because I might catch COVID-19, or give it to somebody else. But oh, don't worry about the fact that you have sepsis! Just sleep it off, we have old folks we need to kill with more intubations.

The authorities have no idea what is practical, what is routine, or what is appropriate. If they did, I would have had my surgery and not be dealing with the ongoing consequences of waiting as long as they made me wait.
The ancient rule of "them that gots is them that gets".
Yes, if you install the updates that Microsoft made available over a year ago, that enable SHA-2 support.
I've had problems with the chips themselves. I had a card whose chip worked perfectly for maybe a year or more before I lost it. The replacement chip worked for about a week then I'd get a chip error every time and everywhere. So I got another replacement which didn't work out of the envelope. So I got a third replacement and it worked exactly one time before breaking.

At this point I've just given up and insert the card three times before being forced to use the mag strip. I don't even know what else to do...
This is the classic argument, "we need our big guy to fight their big guy", it's not true. Nimble smaller companies can work, and it's not like we don't have a government to negotiate how we address large foreign companies. What this is arguing is ceding national power to a private corporation because we have given up on the govt. It's a weak smokescreen.....

Besides. They. Dont. Pay. Taxes. In. The. Country. They. Claim. To. Be. Protecting.
I don't know how these estimates are made or if they are even close to being true, but it always surprises me that there is claimed to be 50x daily emails than daily google searches. I've seen these numbers several times before (never sourced, ironically), and this one always seems weird. People don't even open any websites other way than googling the name, and most people don't send dozens of emails daily. I think the only way you can get 300B daily emails is if you multiply every automatically sent email by the number of recipients.
"Cultural parameters" can be used to cover over all kinds of discriminatory practices.

"Yes, it is true our company has only hired young white heterosexual males, but it is just a complete coincidence that none of the candidates not matching that description were a good cultural fit."
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It is back online, mostly:

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I see this time and again from observation over 20 years. Also many great engineers don't have cs backgrounds and don't do well on whiteboard/leetcode
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I believe Buddhism talks a lot about death and that we're all dying every moment to put things in perspective.
Growth where? If you "pay out" returns from the nation's wealth to its own citizens, the wealth still stays inside the nation and wealth growth still happens.
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I would argue that studying music (especially music theory) at a young age has helped me tremendously as a programmer in my old age.

I am writing an algo trading bot right now and I make a habit of reading the entire codebase fairly regularly to make sure I understand exactly what is going on at all times while the bot is running.

Which seems similar to reading and understanding a sheet (or a book) of music before you play it.

There must be some correlation there although I have no hard evidence.
> A highly valued IC wouldn't have time to spend three days coding for free.

So pay them, even if it's just a token amount. At least shows some appreciation for the candidate sacrificing their time.
Many people force their children to learn an instrument with the expectation that it will make them more intelligent, and lead to better life outcomes.
It's like memorizing the answers to an IQ test. A relative of mind knows all the answers, as he conducted the test on many occasions, but he doesn't have the max IQ.
We get time travel by 2034 so no issues - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
> I said there is one advantage MOND has in terms of parsimony.

It's not an advantage at all. Parsimony would mean not having to postulate as many new entities. MOND postulates one new entity; so does dark matter.
Yeah it was a bit of a rollercoaster :-) I feel the same way with NFL, it's impressive and I like to see it but really I don't know what's going on tactically
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I wonder if this person sleeps much
I constantly have trouble trying to find "that one tweet" from yesterday, a much less intimidating problem.
The entire article is an advertisement of their service, and it is a pretty well executed advertisement.

By the time I got to the end, I realized it was an advertisement, but still felt I had learned something useful.
The site guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of doing this. Had anyone done so, we might have seen it and been able to do something in time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Dark matter (at least any of the non cold baryonic matter and standard model WIMP candidates) adds new physics too

I never said it didn't. The point is that both MOND and dark matter add new physics.
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Most of the time your users will become your contributors. That's mostly true for libraries targeted at developers, but even if you build software for non-technical users some of them will be developers and will eventually contribute.

Don't expect your community to build large features for you, even though that happens from time to time my experience is more that most people contribute small patches and improvements. That's great too because the small things can be quite time-consuming, so if your community has your back on things like documentation or translations it can help a lot.

One of our latest open-source projects is Klaro (https://github.com/kiprotect/klaro), an open-source consent manager for websites. We already got some really great contributions from our community, most people that contributed did so to solve a problem they had with the software (e.g. missing translations) or to build something they wanted for themselves. We don't accept all PRs but if they are in line with our development goals we're happy to merge them.
The worse case of this is with medical billing in the US. Health insurance companies get discounts while individuals do not...
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your two sentences led to some cognitive dissonance...

yes, institutions like governments can be amoral/immoral on longer timescales (in fact, i'd posit institutions are employed specifically for this purpose), but people rarely exhibit such attributes statically, as your dad's quote alludes. it's at best "believe them in the moment".

rare is the "bad" person; more common is the "bad" institution. expect the best of people (which is not the same as "be naïve").
I was looking at the payed options and it shows a one-time upgrade key, but it requires me to enter payment information before providing any info on it such as the price or defining what the one-time upgrade entails.
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> hard work does not seem to be "enough" if the system is against you

"Student Success Comes Down to Zip Code"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/too-often-student-success_b_1...
The question is, what do you bring to the table? Maybe the App Store runs on AWS and Amazon gives Apple a discount on AWS so Apple reciprocates for Amazon’s apps.

I don’t think their working relationship is all roses or anything—they were feuding a few years back—but agreements like this are negotiated because they leave everyone who agrees to them better off in some way. It could even be as simple as your app being so important that people won’t buy the phone if it can’t run it. Ultimately it doesn’t matter because for a new startup, you’re more focused on creating value from scratch than on optimizing your margins.
> "Staying home" is not what caused the situation you describe

Yes, it is. I had to stay home instead of receiving emergency surgery for a routine medical issue because the hospital did not want to pull the surgeon away from the ICU. They pawned me off onto "essential worker" nurses who visited my home as part of a visiting nurse service, exposing me to far more COVID-19 than had I just received the damn surgery in the first place. And that's what caused me to develop sepsis - having heavy IV medications thrown at me instead of just doing the proper thing. Lawsuit is forthcoming.

> You have to know that that characterization isn't accurate.

That's the only characterization that we KNOW is accurate. That's what happened in NYC. Cuomo's response was hailed as the gold standard of COVID-19 responses. And those results were the celebrated ones, the ones to recreate across the country.
> MOND has a much more homogeneous behavior, that requires many less variables added to your theory.

How so?
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