skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes on luxury goods actually discourage economic activity more than income taxes, because the elasticity of luxury goods is very high. It's just that the average voter doesn't care that this economic activity is discouraged because they never partake in it anyway.
I disagree, as these companies already calculate how much they need to spend to prevent having to pay taxes.
There's also deterministic Guids ( .net) . Useful in some cases when you want to make them consistent.

Eg. https://github.com/Informatievlaanderen/deterministic-guid-g...
Raoul Pal's Introduction to the Exponential Age
Are you confusing 'users' with 'customers'?
Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
IMO they shouldn't, that's the whole point of a privacy focused service like this - no one should be able to view/inspect what you're sharing on it.
I was thinking this is the case, until I stumbled upon a stackoverflow question that explains how to recover the phase data from overlapping FFT frames. The key word here is "overlapping".
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These types of continuous monitoring systems, wrist mounted and also in smart toilets, will be required by insurance companies in the future.

I mean, the potential health benefits in terms of preventive care seem to be incredibly large to me.
Maybe because Bill started microsoft almost 20 years before they got married. So Melinda may have signed a prenup, and might not get as large a split as mckenzie even if she didn’t.
But sometimes, your line-of-business application does analytics queries. Which means you need your app developers to understand how to do OLAP, and you also need a schema design that can run arbtrary OLAP queries within a few orders of magnitude of OLTP speeds (e.g. <10s.)
The alternative is that they keep serving that controversial domain instead, which likely isn't a good position either.
I’ve been down this path multiple times. I bought a Blackberry running android, the tiny screen and super slow place made it the right amount of frustrating, but with the right functionality.

I’ve since shifted back to iPhone since, and my methods still aren’t perfect, but I’ve found a few dirty techniques that work.

1. Turn off notifications. By this time most of us are hardwired to check these things naturally. One day you’ll just forget the mindless stuff exists and it won’t have a way to suck you in.

2. Sitting on the potty, or waking up next to your phone is a time sink for endless browsing (and hemorrhoids), so just keep it far away from you. Forget it. You can even ignore charging your phone at night and wake up at 7%, soo you conserve battery.

3. Disrespect your phone. Don’t adorn it with flashy cases, and personalize it. Keep it stock. Don’t invest time in making it “homely”

4. Over over indulge really fast. Like eating too much chocolate cake in one sitting in 5 minutes. Like Twitter? Click every link and every corner till your head hurts and you feel exhausted.

5. Screen time limits aren’t helpful for me because different content requires different engagement at varying times. In this case, setting aside a time of day to research and read is good.

I’ve been doing more research in the space, but something I’ve been working on in the space for desktop work is Amna (https://www.getamna.com/blog/focus-on-a-task-with-amna/)
Kids of even really young ages are more capable than we give them credit for. A four year old is perfectly capable of helping prep dinner, provided you line up the right tasks. ("Tear up this lettuce, get 5 forks out, ...."). By six years old, a child should easily be comfortable handling more complex tasks like emptying/loading dishes, cutting up ingredients, kneading dough, or measuring out items from a recipe. (Provided they can be loosely measured.)

My parents kicked me out of the kitchen when I cooked, and I got really good at playing videogames to pass the time but today I have zero relationship with either parent. Cooking and doing chores with my kid is incredibly rewarding time, and we both seem to get a lot out of it.
Why does a wizard’s hat have to be floppy in your mind?
> Dr Fill was trained on a mass of data, including a giant database of crossword clues and answers scraped from the web.

I'm a bit curious what percentage of answers you can get through simple memorization. I assume everyone who authors these puzzles reuses questions quite a bit.
A context isn't necessarily "global state", it's "contextually shared state" hence the name. Of course, you could use it as a global state, but typically you shouldn't do that. Then again, the language locale (like a theme) is actually a compelling case for "application global" state.

From a testing perspective, you just wrap the component being tested in a context provider that provides the necessary fixtures for your test case. However, I'd also note that this is probably not an ideal function to test since all that you could possibly be testing is that react context and i8n are working as expected, which is almost certainly outside the scope of your application's testing surface.
If you have the network it's easy. The hard truth is VC is not a meritocracy -- it's privilege-based.

To elaborate a little further, investors of quality tend to network and pass deals around to each other. Getting enough money round the table in early stages requires these kinds of relationships and so if you meet a few VCs who like you it will turn into dozens of meetings in short order.
Thanks, added javascript to the title.
> there is a fundamental tradeoff between frequency resolution and time resolution

I've always found it interesting that while that's fundamentally true in terms of information, my understanding is that we perceive things with far more resolution than the uncertainty principle would allow. Specifically, we're able to judge frequencies with far more accuracy than a fuzzy spectrogram would suggest.

From what I understand, our brain essentially performs a kind of "deconvolution" on the fuzzy frequency data to identify a far "sharper" and defined frequency, which is relatively straightforward since the frequency "spread" is a known quantity.

This works well most of the time because we correctly assume we're dealing with relatively isolated sound sources emanating a distinct fundamental with a distinct series of overtones.

Our perception can become innacurate when that assumption fails to hold, and so sounds merge or become indistinguishable, we hear beat tones that don't technically exist, our brain gives up trying to hear frequencies and classifies it all as noise, etc.

I've never come across audio spectrogram software that attempted to perform a frequency deconvolution in a way that roughly simulates what our own ears do, but I'd love to know if anyone else has and could point me to it.
Sorry, which national newspaper supports anti-car urbanism?
Huge assumption that someone has visitors just because they had kids.
Actually, it was mostly the Austin-San Jose Salt Lick Loop. :)

When we did some work for 3DO, the 3DO guys always had to come back to San Jose with something like 20 pounds of Salt Lick brisket that they would put in carry on.

I can't imagine what you had to do to clean that smell out of the overhead compartments.
Please don't use the akhawaja ksuid generator for Java unchanged. We used it at my last job until we realized 1. the Base62 code is not thread-safe (it uses a static StringBuilder) and more importantly 2. The epoch used is different from the standard, so the generated ksuid aren't portable.

Use https://github.com/ksuid/ksuid insteads
I don't know much about startups or how they are funded. Can you please elaborate it in simpler terms?
What a fantastic article. I can't help but think how SpaceX, for example, does everything they can. They don't outsource their engines. They don't outsource anything. Heck, they get involved in making new alloys even if they're not making the bulk alloy metal. Musk knows that to innovate, you must control your own destiny. We need more of this. Outsourcing is this management fad that all the business schools must have taught as de rigeur, and it's good for non-core competencies of a company sometimes, but never ever good for core competencies.
Every company is different, which is why I worded my comment as "happy to see if I can help".

I interpreted GP's case to mean he is a founder looking to find 20-30 investors, which would require a banker that probably already has at least half of those contacts.

I'm not suggesting that as a banker I'd be making cold calls into investors – although we might, depending on the opportunity. The more likely approach is to call those funds that I or my colleagues have relationships with from previous transactions.
> If you would be a good parent and want kids, then I believe the idea of delaying is harmful, especially if you are over say 25.

25?!?

None of the people I know who have kids started trying for them until their 30s.

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying your 20s and having kids when you’re ready.
Is there some way to look at $700,000 and not think, "Holy shit that's a life changing amount of money for nearly any American."?
That's why I have an alarm that clips to the disk brakes.

They're considered motorcycle alarms but work on anything with disk brakes.

It also stops the back wheel from turning.
This is the correct advice. I hate hearing it but its true :)
Reminds me of a college dorm.
National average is somewhere around a thousand dollars a month presently, that is very affordable for the area.
>Okay, this is your view, and we have a disagreement. We'll just have to agree to disagree :)

The number of phones wasted a year due to non-reparability is a fact, not an opinion like vanilla tasting better than chocolate.

US for example, spends around 80B annually for new phones, 3B annually for repairs, with 300M smartphone users. From this you can dig further or make reasonable estimates of a lot of behavior.

> That is not accurate, Apple for instance, chokes the supply chain by banning sale of components to repair shops.

I have family that both works at phone repair shops and that have iPhones, and they both repair them and get them repaired quite regularly. There is literally over a dozen iPhone repair shops in town, town size ~200k.

You can find more information here https://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+repair+shops

People generally don't throw out a phone because it's not repairable. They throw it out because there is a better, nicer, more featured one. And of those people I know that do get rid of them, they almost all sell to one of those places that pays you for scrap and then recycles the usable parts.
The goal is to democratically own ostensibly public infrastructure, do you have a better way instead of whining about communists?
That's a good way of putting it. A lot of really smart people are held back by their inability to be pleasant enough to work with that people want to work with them, which is needed for teamwork, which is needed for large-scale projects to succeed.
It's funny that this kind of overt sex discrimination is both legal and socially acceptable. I guess America is similar to my country where sex discrimination is banned except for flatmates, hiring domestic workers, safety, decency, private clubs, etc. In other words, it's quite acceptable.

Don't they know that women can have all the same bad traits they're apparently trying to avoid in men, such as abusing vulnerable people or not being able to make emotional connections? I'll bet there are some effeminate men who are more compatible with this group's ideals than some masculine women. It's like judging IQ by race. Kind of tells you something overall but there are so many exceptions that you still have to use some other measure anyway and it's unfair.

If they're concerned about sexual attraction, maybe they should allow gay men and exclude gay women?
laptop% date -d 'Sep 13 2020 12:26:40Z' +'%s'
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love this perspective! thank you for sharing your experience across the changing (or not-so-changing!) web landscape!
That's not unreasonable for a house with a few roommates in SF. A studio in the same neighborhood would be maybe $2k or a bit more, and a small, kinda-crappy 1-bedroom would start at $2.6k.
> Young women with an entrepraneurial (sic) drive of ALL backgrounds between the ages of 18-25 are welcome to apply!

[emphasis mine]

Do other "hacker house" arrangements typically ask for such a narrow age range (explicitly, even)? I'm a guy in my thirties, so clearly not the intended audience, but this sounds to me like: "If you ever tried going to grad school, we're not interested in you," which I find mildly distasteful.

Am I way off base here?
Wow, so this is very close to what we did in school. Us being the 'hackers'. By chance was this in Ohio?
Another great alternative: https://jitsi.org/projects/
How Spotify’s Shuffle Algorithm Works
In 1988 when I was at Purdue, one of my roommates had a Coleco Adam. Presto, instant printer!

Buying a combination computer/printer was a terrible idea for longevity, but it helped me out a lot that year.

(Edit: stupid typo getting old)
now i just need to live in EU and I'm set
How does this circumvent CA fair housing laws?

> No landlord, and no agent, contractor, subcontractor or employee of the landlord shall do any of the following in bad faith: violate any law which prohibits discrimination based on actual or perceived race, gender, ...

[0] https://www.sfaa.org/Public/Magazine/10_2016/Fair_Housing_Fa...
You might want to add that to the site, so people don't have to create a game to know how it works.
a) We have terrible transit even in places that approve ballot measures about transit, suggesting part of the problem is the administrative state's inability to deliver rather than the fundamental policy preference.

b) Small transit-connected apartments fetch much better prices than many sprawl houses, suggesting that the preferences people express with their wallets and they preferences they speak into the microphone at zoning board meetings are pretty different.
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One obvious question would be whether high-profile marital status changes have been consequential, and how.

The case of Warrent Buffett. It was the death of his wife, and a sense of his own mortality, which inspired his own philanthropic bent.

There's the question of whether or not oligarchic philanthropy itself is a net good. There's much criticism of this, not the least of which comes from within the NGO sector. (See the Tiny Sparks podcast for significant discussion.)

Events are a foil. Life transitions become an opportunity to focus on what has been and what may be. Divorce isn't obituary, though it functions similarly, with the notable distinction that the principles aren't dead yet, and may yet do more.

(Uninformed speculation on why and wherefore does tend to be tedious, I'll grant that. I'm tugging out of that particular wallow, if possible.)
I don't believe it's updated anymore, but there was an entire website dedicated to this.[1]

[1]: https://littlebigdetails.com
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Divorcing After 27 Years of Marriage
The "who can apply" - should be "entrepreneurial"
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I use firefox on iOS, it’s even set as my default browser. Curious what you mean by “safari is the only browser that works in iOS”? For in browser video chat? Genuinely curious, what are the limitations?
I always remembered this happening in Artemis Fowl :)

And also from a darkweb guide to burglary.
"Cut a hole in the door and the alarm won't go off"
Hi everyone, OP here. Let me offer some background. fuuids are designed to be sortable and collision-free (for most practical purposes, details below) IDs within a 16-byte footprint making them interpretable as UUIDs.

Lazare very helpfully detailed the internals of the two available formats but I'll summarize them here and I'm happy to answer any questions:

Format A (fuuid) consists of a 4-byte second timestamp concatenated with a 12-byte random tag.

Format B (fuuid_ns) consists of an 8-byte nanosecond timestamp concatenated with an 8-byte random tag.

As far as collision resistance is concerned, here's a list of probabilities at various production rates for Format A. Collisions for Format B are only relevant when the production rate begins to approach 10^9 IDs per second (assuming IDs are produced uniformly in time).

- 2^-90.51 at 10 IDs/second

- 2^-83.73 at 100 IDs/second

- 2^-77.07 at 1,000 IDs/second

- 2^-70.42 at 10,000 IDs/second

- 2^-63.78 at 100,000 IDs/second

- 2^-57.14 at 1,000,000 IDs/second

Hope this helps!
I have some good native Indian aromatherapy products... what category do you think it would fall under?
land value tax is not assessed on the basis of who is presumed able to afford it. it's assessed against the use of a public good --- the ability of more people to live and work in the city that perhaps makes the land more valuable than when the owner bought it.

also observe that the purpose of the tax is not strictly to raise revenue, but to address what would otherwise be an externalized cost and make the housing market more efficient.
Depends.

If you won big on a gold/oil/internet strike you were much, much better off buying as many shovels you could at any price and mining for all you were worth.

Selling shovels is a reliable, lower risk business for a while. But Sun/SGI/Cray/Dell/Nortel/etc show the risks that come with relying on shovel income.
Land value tax doesn't punish development the way that property tax does.

>From the perspective of the retired person on a fixed income who's lived on the same plot for 50 years while a city sprang up around them, the result is functionally the same.

They can sell the land and move
For the last example, could they train on "images + white noise" instead ?
Hot Take: A purse/bag is superior to pockets in most situations, stays organized and can handle the array of items needed for life much more gracefully then pockets. I don't need to completely unpack my purse at the end of the day and it's ready to go for the next. Hell if I want to change bags everything is in an organizer that can slip out and into a different one. Can't do that with pockets!

Also form fitting clothing is a pain with bulky devices. Nothing says fun like keys being jammed into your leg or trying to wiggle a phone in and out. Looser fits are almost needed.

But I agree with your final statement, let's not give people crap for choosing practical pockets. Wear what you will!
Anyone else's muscles still remember these keystrokes from the early 90's?

sm fa700 a9f4
pc fa700
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> They really avoided a huge disaster by walking away from Yahoo, so I applaud them.

That offer included Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, which was split off after Microsoft's bid fell through. Yahoo owned 30% of Alibaba at the time. Alibaba's current market cap is north of $600 billion.
That's great, so the most important data point was missing from the article: that it was worth it, as lots of lives were saved. It's just the opposite of the 2nd world war tracking where it caused deaths.
Yeah that does seem very narrow. If you want to focus on women that’s great but that narrow age band is kind of weird. Why wouldn’t they want age and experience diversity? That seems odd.
Will India’s Covid-19 surge provide data that clear up its death ‘paradox’?
Hey, don't be angry and just sit back and observe when the first bitch fight will start and how the project is failing...

If you ever worked with a group of priviledged women you know that this will happen.

Have fun!
Would you buy AOL and Yahoo for $5? What is the thesis? Just how is Myspace doing these days? What do we think the opportunity is?

One idea is the opportunity of @yahoo and @aol email addresses that people have maintained and DAUs.
Come on! Come on now. Come on!
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Gonna stick my neck out here to say that I think that that comment got to the heart of the matter, and your enumerated cliches are in fact apropos, in that TFA is actually positing a conspiracy, and if it were true, then there is an untapped related market opportunity, as well as a better means of confirming its truth (namely by selling pants with bigger pockets).
I'm sorry to hear about Peter Stafford's passing. What a loss.

I also loved those spiderweb photos. It's fascinating that even tiny little critters like that could be profoundly affected by these substances, and that such striking visual evidence of this could be found.

It reminds me of an article I read about octopi who were given MDMA. Usually, according to the article, octopi are very solitary creatures who avoid contact with others of their kind and if two are placed in the same tank they'd move as far away from each other as possible, but when MDMA was put in the water they tentatively extended their tentacles towards one another and touched.
Search for voice coding.

That's how many voice coding algorithms work, you try to find a digital filter that generates a sound that is as close as the original according to a perception based metric, then transmit the filter coefficients.

I don't remember the exact details, but if I'm not mistaken generating this sort of metric is really time consuming.
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Neural mechanism of autonomous learning uncovered
Largely because the flagging consumed the oxygen in the room. But there are still comments talking about potential outcomes.

My main concern is around whether the foundation ends up splitting from its current areas of focus (climate change and disease research). There's been a wealth of innovation around both as a consequence of GF's investment and I worry that less focus might mean less funding at a critical time for both.
I mean, Amazon was an e-commerce company. There's a credible argument to be made that better tech won customers first.
> Had they done that instead they would have been worth multiple trillions now.

They’re very close to being worth multiple trillions right now, their market cap is 5.44% shy of $2T