skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’re underestimating how much trauma correlates with wealth in America.

It’s not just the trauma of being poor, it’s trauma of growing up in a dangerous area, or of your parents getting divorced, or of getting sexually assaulted, or of young friends or family members dying. All of which get far more likely the poorer you are.

Obviously I’m not saying that there aren’t wealthy, Ivy League educated people with trauma. But if we’re looking at the stats it’s not even close.
+1 for QGIS and PostGIS. Without being a GIS expert I was able to develop a solution for storing and querying invasive species abundance (and other ecological) data using these tools, and they worked _really_ well, and the researchers who were using that data were able to access it from their R environments without issues.
As usual from XKCD, an interesting an entertaining read.

And now I am reading the what-if's from 1... thanks!
> from exactly opposite sides and their force will cancel out

The gravitational force will only cancel out exactly in the center. Everywhere else, for example other planets, and when the Earth orbits, will easily detect the gravity.

> or consume the enemies host star.

It would take an infinite amount of time to do that, time dilation near black holes is intense.
For some businesses Facebook is great, bars that have events, getting a better feel for an apartment complex, a couple other things like that. I won't use it as a maps but to find a place hosting a trivia night it is really useful.
Shitty Microsoft
All other things being held equal, a company choosing a longer exercise window says that they are employee-friendly in at least one respect.

I know the conventional wisdom here is that options never matter, but the reality is that they sometimes do, especially for companies that are experiencing solid growth. I recently made several hundred thousand dollars off my options from a liquidity event, and I hadn't been at the company for a few years.

It's a great perk, even if it doesn't end up amounting to anything.
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Question for anyone that knows - have healthcare costs eaten away at what possible wage increases could have happened? It seems to me that for the average almost-minimum wage full time worker the insurance cost to their employer is probably a very large portion of their wages.
So this plane can run for 4700 minutes? ...
As a newer developer, what exactly is the bigger picture of available frameworks?

- Python/Django

- Ruby/Rails

- Elixir/Phoenix

- Node/Express

- PHP/Laravel

- Java/Spring?

- C#/ASP.NET

- Go/Gin

- Rust/Rocket

Am I missing anything big?
I always thought the physics on that one was a little shaky. We know how EM radiation of various frequencies and intensities affects biology but neutrinos are not EM radiation. The paper Munroe cites mentions that it ignores the expected supernova neutrino spectrum and its consequences with regards to biological interaction specifically because the dose is so low at the distance with which the paper is concerned, 1 parsec. In a scenario where one's objective is to calculate the lethal distance, that spectrum is important and may wildly change the results.

It's a fun read but it's bad science.
Intel (and similar fab companies as well) is famous for even treating it’s phds as menial process engineers. When I graduated the only Intel fab jobs I was qualified for were in Indonesia or some other SE Asian country, and descriptions were basically “you are the SEM person, you do SEM all day.”

I know a surprising amount of people who came out of CNSE (without following up with grad school) and are now landscapers, waiters, or similar. The skillset is so specialized as to be almost worthless unless you can find the right role imo.
Also the program there CNSE/SUNY Poly is absolute hot garbage, I advise active looking at this field to go into conventional EE, ChemE, or Materials.
I dunno, I was pretty skeptical of the comment at first along similar lines as your comment, but then as I went I felt that the comment ended up making some pretty compelling points.
> these were all policies that people wanted

What people wanted to send almost all labor intensive jobs like manufacturing overseas? Or sending almost all the production of semiconductors which are the primary building blocks of technology overseas? The corporate ownership? Yes. The vast population of citizens? No.

Do you realize that the United States mainly exports cardboard and oil plus a few car parts for BMW? While we import almost everything else.

Finance and tech remained because they are top-heavy industries that require only a few high paid people to execute the majority of those businesses. Bottom line is that this is not sustainable over the long haul. People will revolt as they fully realize that a basic task like buying their own property for their family is unachievable and other basic expenses like healthcare, rent, transportation, and food take up all or more of their income.
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IBM's a Boy and His Atom: The Smallest Movie (2013)
As long as it isn't too disadvantageous for female giraffes it highly likely that it is easier for evolution to end up with both sexes having long necks, for the same reason male mammals have nipples.

Sometimes the genes involved are so disconnected from sex-specific genes or the body plan/development process such that it would require very high selective pressure to make it a dimorphic trait. Or those tissues just don't have sex hormone receptors so they don't respond to them. Or it just so happens that certain structures are built in an earlier phase of development before sex hormones can be produced. Evolution is not directed; it is far easier to tinker with what already exists than make wholesale changes. Selective pressure for nipples exists but for whatever reason it was easier for evolution to just give all bodies nipples even though they don't do anything in males. The metabolic cost is a rounding error so there's little pressure to get rid of them.

If I had to guess the hox genes or whichever genes that encode the repeat division sequences to make the neck bones be any size at all have no pathway to differentiate by hormones because it happens far too early... so it is simpler to have all giraffe body plans build the same basic neck structure in the fetal stage. If you compare to humans boys and girls are born with the same hip structure and probably for the same reason - it is only during puberty that they diverge. And even then they don't undergo a complete remodeling.
What could be AGI and consciousness
The game actually streams in much of its contents also. They still stream in the satellite ground textures, but they don't use these to texture models in the same way as Google/Apple maps.
MMT is far from fact, and I would go as far to say this little issue we're having disproves a good portion of it.
I don't think there's a meaningful difference between high and low latency segments of reverb algorithms except for some exotic hybrid models that use a mix of convolution for early reflections and FDNs for the longer tail, but the synchronization would absolutely suck to write and test
Again. I'm not contesting that these arguments exist and were in the report from back in 1968. (I'm going to ignore for a second that we don't actually do anything to rehearse a draft, standby or not, so yes we actually would have to build everything from scratch again.) I'm stating that there is no way the political direction from the White House to end the draft didn't influence what ended up happening, who got to write it, and what was in it. That does not detract from the arguments that you may find compelling, and that's fine. To your example, that we can just boost compensation to make up for not having conscription. How exactly do you do that if, say, you need an army of engineers to staff cyber warfare operations? Pay them $500k to put on a uniform, hoping that $500k is the "market clearing price" where someone decides "okay fine I'll quit my FANG job and go to war"? At some point the AVF starts looking like a contract Army, and not a functioning part of a republic, let alone an actual state military. The AVF is a libertarian dream, I'll grant you that, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's longer term effects haven't been bad and it couldn't use a rethink.
Rust wasm frameworks are red herrings. Wasm-bindgen is the real deal here when used in an immediate-ish way, ie render your page and leave handlers hooked up only for what you need and clear whatever div affected before updating them.
Well you could get lucky and be on the other side of the world from the source. It's just then that you have to figure out how to shelter yourself from years of acid rain.

In that sense an asteroid strike is worse, apparently it sends up shards of glass that hit at a density of more than one per square meter, all around the world.
You can't both want crypto to have a real, material future and also simply blame the user for everything they get wrong or don't bother to educate themselves on.

If it's harder and riskier then the user isn't going to care if it's their fault or not.

Do you want a world where crypto is common and useful, or do you want it where it's the web equivalent of casinos, with some sharks making money off suckers but most people not taking it seriously as a "real" or useful business?
Is mounting cloud storage (Dropbox, Backblaze B2, S3 compatible targets) on the roadmap?
Ask HN: Linux command to find a dynamic library file
What/How is the Linux utility/command to find the file name of a dynamic library when a header file name is given?
Cryptocurrencies are secure and dependable in the way that I need them to be and they solve problems that I have with the banking and credit system.

I mean, really. The security of the banking/credit system is not even based on public/private key cryptography. There is no notion of a separate spend address vs a sending address. Anyone with access to your (usually open source or easily findable) information can make a transaction on your behalf. Identity theft is a massive problem which is enabled by the current state of the industry.
In the study reported on in the article you cite, they do no such thing. Rather, they fail to find a statistical correlation between display size and mating success.

The people doing the study, incidentally, are also 'evolutionists'.
*decrease
https://web.archive.org/web/20220615174927/https://jacco.omp...
You described me perfectly back before I deleted Facebook, follow me and you too can savor every moment you get back by never going there again!
Whatever happened to the class of W11? – YC a decade+ later
Jet Blue is doing narrowbody JFK to London and I have to say the seat isn't the problem. One aisle is.

It was fine but even as a JetBlue fan, I'm not in a rush to get back on the narrrow body for transatlantic.
Australia and New Zealand only use L/100km, so it's not a language thing.
Er botched the formula you’re correct
Honestly I think the person he was having this conversation with - Tyler Cowen - is a pretty good example. His insights are typically more novel and more interesting than the kinds of things Andreessen was saying.
Imagine your friend is running their own social media website, a workalike of MySpace or Facebook, and you're an active user. This is a small community space with a few dozen or a few thousand users. Everyone is having a great time, the application is customized to your liking, and you have access to the operator, meaning if your account gets accidentally locked, you have someone to contact.

Now, imagine your data on this community space is freely available for you to download and back up -- for the entire public data store of this social network, in a format which would allow you to spin up an exact clone of the existing space, including content, votes, threaded conversations, timestamps. Yes, even user accounts, because they are backed by PKI.

This type of setup gives everyone involved an enormous amount of agency, consent, transparency-visibility -- something no one today comes even close to offering. Imagine if you could download a zip file of your entire Reddit account, the full threads of each discussion you've participated in, all your submissions, and start your own Reddit, and everyone already has an account on it.

The benefits of this type of setup are too many to list in this one comment. It's a true revolution. Imagine your social network changing something without your consent, and you having the option to pack up and go!

Not only that, but at any point you can re-validate or inspect everything that's happening, run your own data analysis on the social graph, do retroactive bot detection, etc.
Yes, but you get the benefit of .7x exercising with the cost of never exercising.

Exercise, no successful IPO: lose $x exercise cost

Exercise, successful IPO: lose $x exercise cost, gain $y share sale benefit

No exercise, no successful IPO: gain/lose nothing

No exercise, successful IPO: gain/lose nothing

Service exercise, no successful IPO: lose nothing, maybe gain some AMT credits or capital loss carryovers

Service exercise, successful IPO: lose $x exercise cost plus interest, gain 0.7*$y share sale benefit

Your best best case is exercising yourself and getting the IPO, but you have to weigh that against the likelihood of it occurring and your personal risk tolerance for the $x cost to exercise.

I would never buy a lottery ticket, but I will always accept even .01% of a free lottery ticket.
Given enough users, people will ask for any feature. The question was whether it was a priority for most.
For a lot of people, both!

There are lots of people with zero shares and a simple dream to own their home. This is looking hopeful for many.
Yeah, it’s tough to say. Company wasn’t distressed, but it “only” 2x’d over 8+ years. Pretty much a classic flat/no growth situation with modest profitability.
Cool topic! This project is really interesting. (From the title I thought it was a sort of generic cheminformatics article, but the fingerprints in question are x-ray absorption spectra, which are the targets of the model)

The really tough problem in x-ray absorption spectroscopy (and many other analytical techniques I guess) is model inversion, where you have some measured spectrum and you want to infer some unknown aspect of the structure and/or chemistry. Lots of interesting work to be done!
I've invested a lot of time in VST3 lately and honestly, it's got problems.

The actual API isn't terrible, if you can find it under the huge pile of abstractions and classes and toolkits built overtop of it and shipped in the SDK. Steinberg's SDK has too many normative lifestyle assumptions. From VSTGUI to their own COM-like component model to the huge mile high pile of macros they've thrown onto CMake, it's just ... pushy, its own universe. Doesn't play well with others.

I built for it because I wanted what I was working on to be workable in the majority of DAWs. But as the thing I was working on went from "maybe a $$ project" to "I'll open source this", I'm not sure I want to invest anymore time in VST3.

I could see porting to CLAP instead.
do Americans commonly use "m" for "miles"? I thought "mi" was more common.
In addition to other concerns, processors usually treat xor specially since it was the best way to zero things for so long that it became ubiquitous. Often its performance impacts are equivalent to a noop.
Many folks were using Perl CGI scripts, or ASP (VBScript.)
Is it a gross or a net amount?

In Europe when being contacted to work as a freelancer or contractor, they ask for a gross rate per hour.

The company aren't going to pay anything else and you are responsible for taxes, health insurance, social services, pension funds and so on.

The highest rate I was offered in Romania is 50 EUR / hour and I refused. I am not going to work with a B2B contract for less than 65 per EUR per hour.

For working contracts, with all taxes payed, contributions to social services, unemployment funds, health insurance and pension funds, as a SWE you can reach a 4000 to 5000 EUR in Romania and about 7000 to 8000 in Germany. These are net, not gross.

If you are employed as an architect instead of SWE, you can make a bit more, so now I am waiting to find a good SW architect position.
The literature is actually quite robust on the benefits of probiotics. Take a look at the different peer-reviewed studies just on this list of products sold in the U.S. [1]. The quality of these studies is quite high, and highly scrutinized.

[1]: http://usprobioticguide.com/PBCAdultHealth.html?utm_source=a...
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Yeah, except in six months you’d be thinking of waiting until you could buy 300 shares, and might miss the buying window entirely
This is zero sum thinking -- however many people this helps, it will take just that many getting hurt in order for it to happen. Doesn't solve the root of the problem in the least, it's just a wealth transfer.
.... and by the time any reactor design I'd be interested in seeing built (aka not old solid fuel rod plants susceptible to meltdowns), it would be ... 10 years? 20 years?

wind/solar/storage are on actively improving cost curves that even gas turbine is losing to. No one knows the price target of wind/solar/battery in 10-20 years, but I'd guess it is at least half the cost in real dollars of today.

Nuclear proponents are pushing all the media outlets because they are in the same boat as coal: LCOE is so much lower for wind/solar that electric companies lose money on them relative to alt energy. Only base load is a viable role onthe grid, and gas turbines beat them at that handily (although with a carbon tax who knows).

I'm not opposed to keeping existing nuclear plants online with some subsidies, but new nuclear plants? Come on. And I am a huge fan of those LFTR presentations and strongly believe next gen nuclear will be viable once a stable price point can be targeted.
Cloudflare and Backblaze B2 - nothing else will even come close for the price point.

Either put the static files in the bucket or use Cloudflare Pages.

Will be around $5/mo and you get ddos protection, edge caching, etc, etc.

If you want to experiment Cloudflare is free and the first 10GB on B2 are free.
Why Svelte Is Easy to Learn as a React Developer
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The LFTR presentations (lots of youtubes) showed how their isotope chains were proliferation resistant.
I've been wondering if it makes sense for databases to start offering CRDTs natively, so that you can perform merges that are algorithmically conflict-free.
>when people post their salaries like in the US and other places and I just don't know what is reasonable to ask for.

When people are posting US salaries, they are usually quoting the gross amount. In Europe people are usually quoting the net amount because people care what they can spend, not some sum written on the paper.
This is a fine article. It covers a lot of the decisions one must consider when considering stock options. I just think it's a little abstract for folks who haven't lived the experience.

I actually tried to enumerate the scenarios. When I hit five variables I realized the advice would be mostly worthless. That's 32 separate outcomes, some of which are pretty subjective, e.g. do I think this is a viable company?

Nevertheless, I've been down this road a few times. I have some wins and losses. I think this article misses an important point: Exercising is not an all or nothing proposition.

For example: If I join a startup and leave after a year, the difference between my strike price and the 409a price might be non-zero. I can still exercise a percentage of my options to avoid AMT. Maybe I can't exercise all of them without triggering AMT, but chances are I can exercise a fair amount.

If I'm offered an early exercise, I don't have to do 100%. I can do a number that fits my budget. I just have to make sure I file my 83b election form.
I think billionaires should exist.. but to answer anyway:

the most fair approach is probably starting with "how little money should people be allowed to have" (UBI) and then what ever is leftover is fair game.
I imagine settlement would be difficult.
You can claim the AMT credit in the future tax years.
Typically the shit hits the fan in the fall. You’ll have a crash/correction than a deeper one. That’s when you buy.

Personally, I went mostly cash and TIPS last year. You should too.
I don't know what kind of growth you have seen in the stock market but it's nowhere close to BTC. Orders of magnitude off.

I mean yes, you go back in time 30 years and put all your savings into the right companies and you would be rich. But it's hard to be bitter about it.

It easy to be bitter you saw BTC trading for cents 10 years ago.
>You can't both want crypto to have a real, material future and also simply blame the user for everything they get wrong or don't bother to educate themselves on.

I can and I will. People know not to give out their credit card numbers to fishy businesses or install untrustworthy software on their computer. Why does that personal responsibility suddenly disappear when we talk about cryptocurrency?

>Do you want a world where crypto is common and useful, or do you want it where it's the web equivalent of casinos, with some sharks making money off suckers but most people not taking it seriously as a "real" or useful business?

The path to the world where crypto is a common and useful tool starts with these speculators and gamblers losing all their monopoly money and leaving. It's no surprise to me that the "scams" and "exploits" mentioned in the article are enabled by bloated "smart contract" cryptocurrencies like etherium that serve little real purpose.
Many already pointed out that your writing is good. I will just add, read about "imposter syndrome". That will clear some of your doubts and you might start thinking in a different direction (at-least for writing capabilities if not anything else).

p.s. I totally understand your feeling. I am also a non native English speaker.
Imagine missing a notification from this device! haha
>Physics is based on metaphor not math. We take common experiences like space, distance, speed, temperature, "energy", quantify them with other stable experiences we can use as reference units, then select the operations on them which happen to have predictive value.

If you experience pushing this object that feels to weigh 1kg with a force that feels like 1 N, you are going to experience seeing it accelerate at 1m/s^2.
How would you undo a crypto transfer, and is that a feature that fits in that system?
He’s being anything but mission focused, though. A 31 page manifesto that includes advice on gun ownership? That’s distraction, not mission. Worse, it’s distraction he’s involving the entire company in.
None of those things shared the following qualities with the invasion of Ukraine:

- sovereign, functioning democracy

- recent

- motivated by a desire to rebuild an empire (i.e. colonize a sovereign nation)

Whatever you want to say about those situations, you can't say that it was a dictator trying to conquer a sovereign democracy.
This just in, all murders are also racists, and all racists are murders. It's just that simple.

/s
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Non-competes are entirely different to non-disclosure agreements. Someone can be covered by an NDA in California or Washington, the non-compete conversation is about whether an employee can go work for a competitor. Even if they move to a competitor they can’t disclose details from the prior work which is covered by an NDA.
Mender is a nice solution for the A/B partition updates as well.

https://mender.io/
> Are we into some new geopolitical situation where we play chicken with Russia and hope the don't mess with something we care about

This has been the geopolitical situation between the US and Russia since 1919. The geopolitics of the 20th century were dominated by this exact pattern.