skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in basic, we were all given STP-21-1 and expected to read it. While waiting for other activities (haircuts, range, etc) often we were told to read it. I probably read the entire thing from cover to cover twice in those 9 weeks.

Edit: I was also not a college grad at the time. People can still read without a degree.
Vanguard prepares to launch German robo-advisor in 2021
Why not?

Let's see... the past year the was a big scandal because apparently multiple non-profits were selling the .ORG top level domain name for $1B. They got these top level domain for free from the US government (or some institution thereof).

I would certainly like the EU to regulate more of the Internet instead of it being an US territory.
And think of all the Linux user base on servers and the fact that macOS and iOS are somewhat like Linux. Unix is huge baby!
At different points in your life great stories can impact you in different ways. A simple example of one that could do this is The Road by Cormack McCarthy. I never had kids, but from what I've heard people who read it after becoming a parent are hit with far stronger emotions than those who don't have kids.
Publish books on Amazon. I've published 4 and make about $3k in profit per month, after paying for ads on amazon.

Don't write them yourself, that's a lot of work.

Instead, do key word research about what books sell in non-fiction categories (fiction is a whole different ballgame). Look for keywords that 1) auto complete in the amazon search bar, and 2) have less than 4,000 matching books, and 3) have an average Amazon BSR of less than 150k.

The above isn't easy, nor is it particularly difficult.

Once you've found a good keyword, create an outline on the subject. You'll have to do a bit of research here, but this can be done in a few hours to a few days. The more time you spend here, the better your result will be.

Then, hire a ghostwriter to produce a 30k-ish word long book. This will run you around $1000, and produce a book long enough to turn into a 3+ hour audiobook on Audible (audiobooks over 3hrs get significantly better royalties than less than 3 hours).

Get a cover made. This will run from $50ish on fiverr to several hundred on 99designs or upwork. Don't cheap out, good covers are important.

Publish on amazon. Run ads.

There's obviously more too it than this. If interested, look up the Mikkelsen twins or Dane McBeth on youtube.
I do this. It works. I have a stuffed parrot though. And everyone thinks I’m nuts but I don’t care :)
Microturbines for the radio control aircraft market. These are single stage centrifugal turbines with relatively low efficiency but high power to weight.

https://minijets.org/en/0-100
> What makes you think this document is aimed at an average soldier?

Literally the second sentence in the document, on p. ix:

> Included in the intended audience are Soldiers
Vanity presses have indeed existed for a long time, but 50 years ago they were widely seen as a scam, rather than a realistic route to a writing career.

Vanity publishers would tell every author their work had great sales potential, then charge them $2000 for $500 worth of editing, printing and marketing - so authors would not only fail to make money, they would actually make a large loss.
They are protection against a wrench attack. If I had valuables in my house somebody could point a gun at me and I'd probably hand them over, but they can't do that if they're in a guarded safe downtown.
Mirroring on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTzi24R524CKGQNNoDio7T1r6THhy3jYBcF2gW...
> I don't see how someone doing a public service should arbitrarily come under such scrutiny.

It doesn't seem arbitrary to me. The service provided exists in many EU countries, and therefore must eventually be harmonised. This is the prime directive of the project.
That manual is not meant as a pedagogical tool. It's meant as the source of truth to build those tools from.
Writing Software for Someone Else
Wouldn't counting savings as M1 allow the bank to create additional M2 due to fractional reserve?
Even in the video game development industry, the stars have to start somewhere. Notch himself started as a developer at King before moving on to Jalbum, then Wurm Online, before even starting Minecraft.

How else do you get the skills to create a masterpiece without starting on average titles for average pay?
He does break down technical stuff is average Joe language. But, one this that does tick me off is his lens analysis does not consider larger formats.
What map returns greatly depends on lambda inside. So yoir collection of beans is changing into collection of good knows what and you have to keep while chaining in mind - because it is nowhere visible.
Does it really have a higher learning curve than running ELK? ELK is a nightmare to manage at any kind of scale in my experience.

I guess I have been looking at Loki and is the issue in configuration or operation? If it’s harder to operate than ELK I’m not going to touch it though.
The data shows that, roughly speaking, real wages declined during 1970-1995 and increased during 1995-2020, so they have not been falling for the last 50 years. That was the point. Asset inflation is not an economic concept, but a concept made up by propagandists, as far as I know. For example, the stock market goes up and down randomly. It's actually impossible to predict. So what does the fact that the S&P500 has gone up, say, 20% tell us? Nothing, because it's random. Asset price inflation tells us absolutely nothing. Consumer price indexes do include housing, education and healthcare, so the argument that CPIs don't accurately reflect the actual cost of living because they don't account for these services is false. I can't tell you what my experience with prices in the US is, because I don't live in the US, and even if I did, my perception of prices would be unreliable compared actual price statistics that are collected by statisticians and economists that study prices for a living.
See this Stack Exchange question. The answers do link some papers.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/88/does-being-c...
Considering how many times Boba Fett or his ancestors got killed by one shot or hit to the jetpack ...
I for one hope that Humans might push back climate change.
Are the books any good? What are reviews like?
Sure, but then the property manager charges so much that it's probably not a profitable investment, or at least a much less profitable one. They typically charge a % of the rent, plus another fee for whatever activity they do- x number of dollars to visit the site, x dollars to show the property, x dollars to go to court, manage the contractors, and so on.

Now it's 'passive', sure, but no longer an 'investment'
DragonflyBSD 6.0
Some interesting reading on Irish-American immigration over 250 years to America: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jskg

Irish-Americans survived ultra-racist NINA job discrimination and drunken-simian political cartoon libel (https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-...) in the late 19th and early 20th century, to joining the contemporary American "white monolith". It's an interesting and silenced American immigrant story.
Other say how landlord ON USA are not that passive, but maybe do it in other countries? Here in Colombia being landlord is very good, because most use an agency that manage the property (collect the money and do some basic fixes). I probably have called the actual owner 1 or 2 times in a decade for approval for some fixes.
There's a harm reduction argument to be made: kids are using digital devices already (probably too much) so one way to improve the whole situation is to make using them safer for kids.

I'm not a parent, but I imagine controlling your kids electronic device use is a difficult task. The jump to them having a smartphone must be like a dam being blown apart with dynamite.
On health tracking stuff, rugby was some years ahead of any other sport - is that still the case?
How would Steve Jobs read this without a college degree?
Yeah, Ericsson employs about 13,000 people in Sweden and I personally know they develop a lot of telco software.
Agriculture isn’t just one thing, but the earliest kind of agricultural innovation was wheat and it developed around the fertile crescent. The idea spread via migration and cultural exchange. Other agricultural innovations were developed elsewhere (cattle, horses, etc) and they spread via trade networks, conquest, etc. As an example, horse domestication (specifically for riding and traction as opposed to food) developed in the steppe region of eastern Europe and gave its discoverers an ability to manage bigger herds of sheep and cattle as well as to be more effective raiders and warriors. They were so much more effective at herding and warfare that they were able to spread their language over the Eurasian continent from the british isles to parts of China. Their language was proto indoeuropean and we’re pretty sure they are the same group archeologists identified as the Yamnaya or Pit Grave culture.

It’s also worth noting that agriculture likely developed independently in China and certainly in the Americas. People crab about it a lot, but Guns, Germs, and Steel covers the development and spread of agriculture and other technologies pretty well, and the controversy seems to be more about alleged subtext than the actual facts presented.
> particularly those tasked with integrating ASA concepts into training

They mean soldiers who need to develop training to deliver to other soldiers.
Ask HN: Is Turing.com Legit?
Hi HN, I have recently passed Turing's PHP and Laravel MCQ test. Wanted to test out the platform out of curiosity. They are inviting me to a live coding challenge next which I think is centered around DS and Algo challenge. I'm not very comfortable with DS&Algo questions (it's been a while since school that I haven't practiced them). I'm planning to spend some time reviewing the interview material but I'm a bit worried whether the effort will be wasted. Is it a legit site? I'm from Nepal and opportunity to work in a U.S. based company would be great to aim for.

Any suggestions?

Thank you for reading my post.
Several considerations to what other commenters have already said:

* Rental properties, vending machines, etc have poor liquidity. What if you need to get your cash back out in an emergency? This poor liquidity is particularly correlated to poor economic conditions (ie. it takes longer to sell a condo in a bad economy which is also when you might really need cash).

* Many non-traditional investments are not actually passive. Even with a property manager, you still have to manage that person. Also, many investments can have quarters with negative cashflow. What might happen to your cashflows in a given period if a tree falls on your rental property breaking the roof and the tenants move out as a result? What if your property manager also quits on you because that situation isn't worth dealing with?

* There are a variety of ETFs focused on non-debt income (Eg. high dividend equity funds). Vanguard's trades under the ticker VYM. If you come from a background purchasing equities, these kinds of investments might be more comfortable for you.
I completely disagree with that.
The reason why his jokes fail is because he doesn't work on his material enough.
This is a whole lot more than "a bit of paperwork" including granting EU representatives the ability to do on-site audits.
Have you actually driven new comparably priced cars by "traditional automakers"? There's not many things where Tesla is actually significantly ahead Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
Agriculture enabled the centralization of human populations, allowing for specializations and advances in crafting more durable goods (clothing, weapons, metal working etc.) which could then be traded, increasing the wealth of your settlement. Obviously you need to grow food to feed your populace before you can expand... and agriculture was the best way to do that.

It would be interesting to know though, if trade networks enabled the easy transfer of know-how and technology, so a settlement might make use of that to increase their productivity and such.
There's an interesting book [1] that talks about how media changes over time. In short, new media forms replace older forms, pushing the older forms into niches. An obvious example is TV replacing radio, where radio used to be full of story-based content, but when that content moved to TV, radio became largely a niche form of media, focusing on music (and talk shows and weather etc).

This paints a picture of media forms along some continuum, which describes what you're looking for.

[1] Media Literacy, W. James Potter
Royalty and Artists. NFT and the Future
Lots of m43 cameras do some of the corrections in software, which does keep lens sizes and prices down.
If you put only 20% down to buy it, that's 100k. So 20k/year is 20% returns, right?
I think a lot of this must be psychological. Anyone can generate an extremely high res image nowadays by using a longer focal length and stitching four images together with a consumer grade SLR. Expensive bits of gear can be superior to that method in terms of the workflow (and sometimes results, given the limitations of stitching) but they aren’t magical.

I know some will vociferously disagree with this statement, but I’d like to see that backed up by proper side by side comparisons.

We know for sure that people do rationalize the purchase of expensive gear with reference to spurious properties (such as the mythical “medium format look”).
> I'm not sure why exactly subsistence farming households would have to manufacture everything -- farmer can sell produce on the market and buy stuff

That doesn't lower the total amount of labor required. Someone still has to make the garments. Garments were also very expensive, and most farmers wouldn't have had enough surplus crops to purchase them.

> more modern (Middle ages) estimate would give you 3 hours per day whole year by one person

That's after the invention of the spinning wheel, which didn't exist for ~90% of the Middle Ages. The second estimate from just before the invention of the spinning wheel (1300s) is close to the ancient estimate.

> Also keep in mind that those farmer households would not change their clothes every year (and that's an understatement)

One garment per year. That doesn't mean they throw away the old garment. They might keep it as a spare or repurpose it for other uses. He also justifies this estimate based on historical data for people who were issued garments by their employers (slaves and soldiers). Cato the Elder recommended issuing slaves one garment every two years, and was infamous for being cruel and parsimonious towards his slaves, so that is probably about the bare minimum for subsistence. Soldiers in the Roman Republic were issued two garments per year.

Assuming that subsistence farmers aimed for a standard of living above that of the most poorly treated slaves seems like a reasonable assumption.
Those are 8 errors, all from 1 language change, which can be fixed by inserting 8 characters.
A friend of mine is a genre fiction writer and he makes good money the hard way: by getting his books optioned for film & tv.

He has no kids, is married to someone whose family has a lot of money, and spent twenty years achieving very little while writing a lot.

But he worked like a dog on his fiction and currently has multiple books in various levels of 'development' and a film set to be shot this year with a known leading actress (not known to me, but certainly to fans of the genre).

Ultimately I think some success can only be achieved by grinding, and not everyone is in a position to do that mentally or financially.
This is so much correct. Modern lenses feels very clinical to me. It is like showing someone a passport photograph and asking if it is a good portrait.
Fuzzing for Layout Invalidation Bugs
Meh. The "exploit" seems to rely on passing input that contains cells with values that are valid for the universal machine's tape alphabet, but not the simulated machine's.

It's as if you could pass a "null terminator" in a Unicode string that didn't match the "normal" null character.
Average photographers can certainly benefit from better gear to a degree. But for many people (myself included) a $300 lens will work as well (or even better) than a $3000 one. Which I think is the point the original commenter was making.

The sneering is pretty typical for any hobby that lumps practitioners and collectors under the same heading. The former group tends to see the gear as mere tools, to be used as needed to achieve some other end. For the latter group the gear is the whole thing - or perhaps talking about the gear.

Neither is bad, but it would probably work better to call the hobbies by different names. Perhaps "photographers" and "camera collectors" or something. But then, being a collector doesn't have quite the same cachet as being an artist.
It would be, but unfortunately it seems usage of the personal pronoun "we" is an invitation for general sloppiness.
To be clear, I'm not talking about putting the gun from the Apache on the jetpack, just the helmet and a small arm (e.g., something with a caliber like a handgun). You could be right that that would weigh too much, but that's not at all clear to me.
Back to under the mattresses folks.
I like to think my books are good. One has over 900 reviews with an average of 4.8 stars. Two others have over 100 reviews with about a 4.6. The 4th one has about 20 reviews with 4.4 stars-ish (I didn't follow the formula on this one, my own fault).

I'm not the only one doing this, of course. Most of the books I see my competitors make are of lower quality, but they probably paid a lot less for them. In general, books made by people like me read like really long blog posts - because that's where most of the information comes from.
I knew - and still know - the data guys from CFG who were there in 2016-ish. It's no doubt undergone a lot of changes, but it's definitely not really been built over the last year.
If it were Python, I could probably write something like:

sum(key.price * val for (key, val) in cart.items())

But the Java example makes me think "Wait, what?"

Personally, the lesson I'm drawing is that your library shouldn't actively fight the native syntax of the language you are using - just use what your language provides, that's the cleanest and easiest way to do it.

But I guess people's tastes are different.
VAT in Italy: 22%

Income Up to €15,000: 23%

€28,000 – €55,000: 38%

Employer payroll tax: 35%

Employee payroll tax: 10%

VAT in Australia: 10%

Income up to €12,000: 0%

€24,000 – €58,000: 32.5%

Employee payroll tax: 5.5%

Employee payroll tax: 9.5%

This is why people are moving to Australia. Where does this money go in Italy? To pensions (17% of GDP) and a corrupt bureaucracy.

If Italy is serious about climbing out of its demographic death spiral, it needs to raise the pension age to 70 pronto, record all welfare payments against assets owned and reclaim them at death, and adopt English as an official second language.

With the savings they should dramatically cut taxes, especially VAT and payroll taxes which distort the economy and drive businesses towards unofficial hiring and cash transactions.
Much of 'overengineering' is refusing to make a choice.

I think I would classify that act as making a different choice, but not everybody sees it that way.

What works better is to identify reversible decisions and just make them, clearing the deck for those that do have serious opportunity costs associated with them.
As I understand it, the services are run by non-profits. A "bit of paperwork" (and truthfully, it's laughable to call any government mandate a "bit" of paperwork) can quickly turn into something that require legal hours which isn't free.
Most states have eviction moratoriums until 6/30 right now due to the pandemic.
Do you think handgun recoil would be hard to control? Not clear to me.
It is human nature to want to converse with others. The internet itself makes it extremely convenient to be in a 24/7 chat with your crew, so it’s addictive with or without Facebook.
you might want to check MicroAcquire
That seems to be your own connotative reading, not what is actually written in the text.

Had the actual written meaning been exclusively those tasked with integrating training, then the wording would have said so. As it is currently written, the intended audience is all soldiers.
True - in order to do this analysis properly you need some idea of the distribution of royalties, and publication intervals, etc.
"and therefore must eventually be harmonised. This is the prime directive of the project"

That's not a very good prime directive.

Don't regulate things that don't need to be regulated, i.e. unless there is a very material benefit from it.

If the EU is concerned about WW3 level resiliency for these services, they can accomplish that themselves with a few cord, 'hardened' services that meet their criteria. For 'regular operations' it seems we're going quite well right now.

Unless there is a threat posed by these heretofore independent operators ... then I'm don't see any obvious material benefit here.

I'm wondering if somehow these entities could be compromised in a way that makes them a problem, more so than just 'going offline', in which case, maybe there are some benefits.
He stated 5% without accounting for the 100% price appreciation in the actual real estate. So the real rate of return is actually much better!
They are poor quality and clearly written by ghost writers.

I don't blame people for going for the easy money, but it's like paying "writers" to write thousands of articles about "best pool equipment 2021" to target keywords on Google just so you can soak up Amazon affiliate revenue. Sure you make money, but how many people are reading your "blog" as fact?
By creating an under-13 product and making active attempts to remove them from the 13+ product, they can push to raise the bar on COPPA and other regulations.

Imagine if governments cracked down on Snapchat and TikTok for not doing enough to keep under-13 users off their apps.

"Instagram and Messenger are setting such great examples for child safety and data protection, while these other apps are endangering our youth and capturing personal data from underage users. Won't somebody think of the children?"
Wouldn't the author have to be knowledgeable about the subject? 30k words for $1000 sounds pretty low for an expert.
Where do you get that intelligent life is inevitable from a sample size of one?
A lot of teams still get their points inside the perimeter. Look at Zion Williamson for example. Injured now, but most of the Pelican's points come through him, and it's only going to become more worthwhile to do it, and build a team around the fact that he almost guarantees two points every other possession.

The strategic trends always go in and out of fashion.

One thing that I see in Basketball that needs fixing though, is that the rules make the defender's job incredibly hard. Especially with the rules around fouls. They need to look into fixing that. I think a solution to that class of issues, will inadvertently fix the 3 pointer issues you cite too.
If nagging people to death with notifications doesn't help, what does? Maybe goal setting writing exercises:

Using Future Authoring to Improve Student Outcomes - https://heqco.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HEQCO-Formatted_... - https://www.selfauthoring.com/research
This document is the foundation for a month-long training course for the Army [https://www.benning.army.mil/Armor/316thCav/ASA/index.html], and likely others in other branches. If you look at it as a textbook, it seems quite a reasonable document.

You seem to be making assumptions about how this is intended to be consumed.
Bert Hubert has quite a bit of DNS credibility.
So are the the wealthier middle class in the third world.

Normal people.