jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They could easily create a better simulation with a moving block bootstrap method. That is by sampling consecutive returns (for example for a whole week) and create a new time series with them.
My point is the insane supply chain costs that permeate the insurance, hospital and medical manufacturing industry. I used the saline solution as an example based on an LA Times investigation that found out saline solution is charged 1000$+.

Again a very hard problem as it involves innovating across the board in boring ways.
This is ridiculous. One merely need to read two sentences to understand exactly what Musk is saying. Trying to be pedantic about the meaning of immunity isn't helping.

The error that Musk is making (and the one which BBC pointed out) was to downplay the fact that children can become seriously ill from this infection.

The fact that severe disease is much less prevalent in younger patients does not mean it is entirely absent.
>clear water doesn't necessarily mean clean water

I agree, hence my "clean water" in quotes. However, a lot of people do think that opaque water is inherently dirty and clear water is inherently clean, even if the opaqueness is simply due to suspended organic particles that will settle over time.
I was introduced to Werther too early in my German literature studies, which turned me off to Goethe.

Big mistake. Foreign students of German literature should read all the Goethe they can get their hands on.
I don't like assumptions based on very early Hans did or not did 10.000 years ago.
My employer uses DataFrames.jl in production.
It's fine, nothing wrong with it.
Used to be a bit unsafe to unwarey uses, now it's safe by default and you need to do a bit extra to get all the performance.

It's worth knowing it is more like R's DataFrames than like Pandas.

It is getting pretty close to a 1.0 release.
Probably a few months out
(One more minor, then if all goes well 1.0 a month or so later)

Further one should know that there are many tabular data packages in Julia and they all use the interface defined by Tables.jl, and all interop very well.

Query.jl (which is something like Linq or TidyR) works with all of them, and do packages for loadingand saving (CSV.jl, LibPQ.jl etc)
You haven't owned software for a while, long before anyone every thought of AWS.

Remember XP having to be re-authorized if you changed too much hardware? It was before then too.
Doesn't "free" in a context like this mean "free at the point of delivery" - not "doesn't cost anything".

[NB "free at the point of delivery" is how the UK NHS (all 4 of them) have always described their services]
Exactly. The difference is a platform that controls 0.001% of the market and a platform which controls 90% of the market.
Lamenting that the state isn't killing people fast enough is the most DA thing I've ever heard.
That assumes all thumbnails or pictures hash to the same value. Why would that be? There can be different algorithms, resolutions, crops... And there can be millions of thumbnails to check.
Yes, right, that claim is that made in a video by Dr. Elaine Ingham, called The Roots of Your Profits, which I mentioned in this same thread, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718277

and which links to a comment by me (in a previous HN thread on no-till) about her work and revolutionary conclusions. And her company, Soil Food Web, is set up to consult on implementing the findings of her work.

And some major reasons both the number and diversity of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi (and also other organisms such as archea, nematodes, arthropods) are low, is because tilling fields, not keeping the soil covered at all times as happens in nature (see Gabe Brown [1] videos where he keeps stressing how key this is and why), use of tractors, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides depletes the soil of parameters needed for survival by those creatures, such as right moisture and temperature ranges, and organic matter levels. Not to mention the soil erosion and water body eutrophication
( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrophication ) and desertification that occurs over the years due to all these wrong practices.

All in all, it's a deadly cocktail, and the exact opposite of how nature works.

[1] Google Gabe Brown videos. He has videos, charts, stats, etc. for almost all claims he makes, claims about his neighbors' poor results compared to his, and about his performance vs. state and US averages. He has a standing invitation for any one to visit his ranch and roam around and verify his claims.
"Facebook, which has long been under scrutiny over how it handles user privacy, in 2019 reached a landmark settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its investigation into allegations the company misused user data. [...]

The July 2019 FTC settlement requires Facebook to report details about unauthorized access to data on 500 or more users within 30 days of confirming an incident."

Seems like it.
But if muons are inanimate, why would they be affected by this hypothesised “subtle matter” which makes up the soul of living things?
n.b. "aught" means "anything at all", as in the opposite of "naught" (nothing at all). you are looking for "ought".
The only way you get to truly sit back and coast is if you put in the time. No company is hiring a drag off the streets. Your ass will be out the door before long at even dysfunctional companies.

I would suggest finding a large Fortune 500, putting in some time, building some nice relationships and setting the tone that you came to not do too much. :)

Good luck brother!
Depends on performance. Corey Quinn's article is on point (linked a few comments below)
Assuming that the data is just your phone number and name/email, is it not possible that this is just from friends who have allowed Facebook and/or Messenger to share contact info? Your original account data almost certainly would have been deleted/purged due to various regulatory requirements, but that doesn't necessarily stop your contact info from being shared again and making its way back into the system.
I love all you guys' work. Keep it up.
As much as we love to hate targeted advertising here on HN, it's a godsend to small businesses.

It's become more of an extortion scheme. Ask a small business about Yelp.
And they follow the "deny, deny, lie" aspect of their government as well. Wish they would have some honesty. You can't call a project named after your company not involved with your company.
I also struggle with this issue, but I've never heard the term "the curse of knowledge." I'm happy I have a name for it now. When you try to explain to people that it's difficult to understand that other people don't know something that you know, you sound a little crazy.
As a sysadmin, I actually keep a log, but I'm under no illusions that anyone will ever see it but me.

I used to track my tasks in Jira with the thought that maybe my boss would look at it and see what I was doing. Of course he wasn't looking at it so I stopped doing it.

My log is mostly for me to provide a list of achievements to my boss whenever there's a review, or if I'm questioned about what I spend my time on.
There are tons of well documented cases of China straight up mass MITMing their citizen's traffic. And this is legally authorized under their law.

In 2014 they MITM'd iCloud. In 2018 they simply required Apple to hand over iCloud to a local state-owned company. Apple no longer controls iCloud in China, the Guizhou government does.

I don't think the surveillance in China is even remotely comparable to anything that has ever happened in the US.
Check out gather.town
These are very basic/generalist things, not a specific mould. Refreshing your skills here and making sure you're comfortable with everything on this list will help you be confident that you can pretty much do the kinds of work available to you as a senior engineer. And if you are lacking in any of these, it almost certainly will show up when you're trying to function in the role. I run into this every day with entry level engineers - they have to rely heavily on others and also have to spend a lot of time ramping up on exactly these kinds of things.

Put another way: if you did get hired for this role and managed to keep it, you'll be a master at this stuff within a couple of years. This is because these skills are generally useful no matter what specifically you are doing.
It makes sense when you consider that patents nowadays are more like ammo to start/settle potential lawsuits with, rather than about actual protection of IP.
There are specialty board exams that you take once you're done with residency. Some are written exams. Surgical specialties do oral board exams where they present cases to you and question you on management. Pass rates for those are not as high. Many specialty boards make you take recertification exams every x number of years.
Tiger Lake laptops such as the XPS 13.
> Are there people who are actually paying for their PhDs?

Yes, there are. I know Cornell(USA) has had such positions. But yes, it is definitely not a norm.
Java dev who loves Go here.

Go takes what I consider 'best practices' in Java, things like delegation-rather-than-inheritance, and manage-concurrency-through-BlockingQueues-and-ExecutorServices, and makes them the 'idiomatic' way to do things.

It's not so much huge wins as a bunch of small wins, a much tighter stdlib, and making it much harder to do some common java antipatterns like implementation inheritance and overdone design patterns. Oh, and the C interop is amazing.

The error handling, having to explicitly check return codes, seems like a huge burden at first but pays off later when you realize you can't have random exceptions bubbling all the way up the stack from anyplace in the code.
> Killing a payments product that racked up $1bn+ in payments boggles my mind. That is a level of profit to /keep/ a product, come what may.

Processing $1 billion in payments doesn't tell you anything about what the profits were. If the fees on those billion in payments weren't enough to cover the costs, it could still have been a loss, and even if it was profitable, it may have been only just barely so.
They have a few. I've owned the 515 (fell from the fourth story and kept working for a solid year), and I currently own the 208. Both have HSPA or something, 3.5G anyway.

No wifi though, you'll have to either use bluetooth or USB (USB works better).
Very cool idea. Would be nice if there was some way to see a summary. Maybe it gets like a little mini-dashboard somewhere on the screen, and then I can click it to hide/show all notes, edit existing ones, or maybe even see all notes across pages on the domain.
Even moreso here in the States, where we have less of a pre-1900 literary history. When public schools were becoming more common late in the 19th century in America, schoolteachers needed material. They wanted to highlight American authors. As we didn't have many, they stretched their selections to include books that might not be as high quality as if we made the list nowadays. (Indeed, most good American literature was produced after 1900 -- Hemingway through Thompson through Wallace).

Now we teach Hawthorne and mediocre literature because they were part of the American canon. However, they were included because we didn't have a lot of other options.
Sure, but isn't the comment obviously a demonstration of formal parameter syntax rather than functionality? Surely the more idiomatic Python would be not to write the function at all if it does nothing (and then there's no example code to illustrate with).
I am already registered for the free ginzametrics plan. I just plonked down $17 and got my code, but it says to use the code when I registered. How do I use the code to Upgrade my existing plan?

[edit: After discussion with Ray, click on the Starter Plan on the Accounts screen. Enter your code on the checkout form. The price will change from $17/mo to $0. Enter your CC info (not charged), and submit.]
Agreed, but blocks are going to solve a lot of this. (In a really nice, clean way, to boot.)
delegates do make it a ton easier to write performant non-blocking code. It's almost like writing code for nodejs in a way, except without the deeply, deeply nested function calls.
I notice there's a question about patentability, but some of your essays say to ignore software patents. What changed your mind?
(I submitted this)

I have zero connection with this site, except it made me very happy when I found about it today. I can't believe I haven't heard of this before (searchyc didn't turn anything up).

Granted you may not be as excited if you don't use LaTeX :-)
I'm online now to walk through any questions.

In order to use the upgrade, you can click on your plan name, choose the starter plan and then enter the discount code on the order form. It will show $0 for 12 months before you finalize the upgrade.
The tilde-escape offers significantly more than just termination, actually. Hit '~?' for the available escape sequences:

Supported escape sequences:
~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
~B - send a BREAK to the remote system
~C - open a command line
~R - Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
~^Z - suspend ssh
~# - list forwarded connections
~& - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate)
~? - this message
~~ - send the escape character by typing it twice
(Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.)

If you open the command line (~C), another '?' shows its available commands:

ssh> ?
Commands:
-L[bind_address:]port:host:hostport Request local forward
-R[bind_address:]port:host:hostport Request remote forward
-KR[bind_address:]port Cancel remote forward
Sure. As long as they become legally co-responsible for the speech they are choosing to amplify, i.e. as long as they accept they are no longer just a platform.
I got rid of a Samsung fridge freezer recently because the front door rusts. The integrated water/ice dispenser sits atop a piece of door metal folded over, and the edge must not be protected as any spills not IMMEDIATELY cleaned up caused creeping rust.
I think it comes down to two points: Unity has much better (real world) mobile support, , and there are many more people trained on Unity. IMHO chasing the elusive AAA carrot is Unity's biggest strategic blunder right now.
Right, that's kinda nasty. Titles of papers refer deep learning, but I don't think fully connected networks might be considered a as deep learning.
Japan is a small country for the discussion at hand, which is threatening the US's dominance.

> And that's only because of their gargantuan populations

All things being equal the relative economic and industrial power of countries is proportional to their population.

Unless a catastrophe befalls the US it's the countries with comparable or larger population that are threats.
These includes the EU, actually, which is why the US are always wary of further EU integration.

With the likes of the EU, China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the US will pretty much inevitably lose their dominance and become one of the "big guys", key words being 'one of', not 'the' and not the biggest of the big guys, either.
Thanks, the list advice is promising. I used to have list in my side project, mostly to help me remember what to do. I stopped having them when I becoem full-time, believing that I know what to do, which is only half true.
I shall log in my trello again. :)
True, maybe i should have mentioned that im a average college student and thats != $$$
Note that egregious has negative connotations.
I was in a similar situation, except I had an American co-founder to create the company and do the paperwork to transfer my H-1B. It took much, much longer than we hoped, but you can get there in the end.

So that would be my advice -- don't wait for the H-1B; find an American co-founder who can bring you on-board.
I can hear the naysayers now: "100% of all start-ups fail in the first 1500 years."
Good idea. To heighten the perceived tension even more, make it the second assignment: make both it and the first have obvious scoring boxes on the front, with a regular total for the first (e.g. "_/6"), but a ridiculously large total (that will get normalized away) for the plagairized one (e.g. "_____/392".)
As a native French speaker, I'm quite amused that several of these words are either French or have a basis in French. Seems that English has appropriated many words from other languages.
I've been in front of a class... and I must say this is brilliant.
Yeah, but these aren't software platforms.
Neat.

I think it perhaps requires a unique sense of personal style to enjoy, say one that involves lots of flannel and skinny jeans.
I don't think it's reason to turn somebody down, but it can be fairly annoying using a library that doesn't follow standard naming conventions. If your code brings together four different libraries and they all use drastically different conventions (case, wording, parameter style, etc) it can quickly lead to a messy and difficult to maintain codebase.
Perhaps most people do not, but one would expect that those making assumptions about the legality, or lack of, of the content would have a look
In my view, there are no "nuclear engineers" in education, i.e., no person who can tell you exactly how to design a system or solve a problem with practically total command of the inputs and a good assurance that it will be successful. There is no Hamiltonian. I'm not sure that there is any such thing as a reliable body of expertise in education, that is preferable to a democratic process.

Anecdote: My friend is a high school math teacher. We both have kids of similar ages, going through the same schools. When the kids were toddlers, he voiced the same opinion about letting the professionals do their job. Today, with his kids in middle school, he is no longer of that opinion.
Yeah, Bing and Windows Phone are still going but Bing is losing $3 billion a year, and Windows phone is losing market share despite sales increasing. It's only a matter of time before their plugs are pulled.
Downvotes because I insulted pg or because I argued remote was bad??
So your position is that what that person did is OK because you personally don't trust the government?

What other crimes would you then permit because you don't trust the government? Would it be OK to stab soldiers then? They work the government. How about robbing postal workers? Which crimes no longer are crimes when the government is the victim, and which rules do you use to determine that?

And then take the same question and apply it to corporations. You may not trust Google, for instance; would you say that it's OK then for a Google employee to leak 700,000 random emails from GMail because that would embarrass Google? If not, why is your logic different here?
You're right, it's not. I don't really care about open source. I don't trust Google and I don't like their intrusive tactics. I'd actually feel more comfortable with Microsoft, as they probably have more layers of management preventing stuff getting done. I can't believe the part of the company that mismanaged the largest IM network into nothingness is competent enough to really invade my privacy to a disturbing degree.

More what I care about is making sure I can run software I'm interested in, and have my device do what I want it to do. Tethering (on a phone) regardless of carrier policy, for instance. Apps that might violate store policy -- I simply don't have the potential worry with Android.
Yeah, but if you live there it's actually awesome. It's midnight and you're drunk after seeing your friends and you need to go home ? No issue, no cost to get home. It's Sunday and you want to go to the museum ? No issue, no cost to get home.
Exactly. Teehan+Lax tested that theory, and while I'd probably disagree with some of their choices, the results are pretty impressive.

http://teehanlax.com/uxfund/
Its a dynamic function. At the beginning, infections go down but only because there was a pool of uninfected people. As time goes by, this pool diminishes (they are having more sex, right?) Eventually everyone is infected (markov chain). How is that better? Its just bad math.
People often say things like "This culture doesn't have a word for that color, how strange is that?", but isn't it stranger that basically every culture has so many similarities, like words for the same very abstract things like love, marriage, colors, emotions and so on? Especially if you look at the typical persons of societies instead of the upper classes. I believe many greatly underestimate how much our culture is rooted in our genes, I see no other reason why human societies has so much in common.
Do you have a smart phone? If so I have bad news for you.....
The company is still incompetent if they're not forcing that HTTP request to HTTPS.
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuvia-tech-idUSKBN1XP19V. Thanks!
What our brains do is curve fitting plus experiments. Causality is learned through experiments - and as children we do a lot of experiments (with moving our limbs etc). With just observations you can have only correlations. For example you can correlate smoke with fire, but only through experiment you can learn that it is fire that causes smoke not the other way around.
If you hit a paywall, archived link: https://archive.is/zytG7
This tweets says it all:

https://twitter.com/onetrunna/status/1198329720896516096?s=2...
Oh boy this again.

Everybody has heard about all these things on the telly, on online newspapers, etc. The media launched a massive campaign against Facebook. It didn't work. People find value in Facebook and they don't care about your predicament. Let people enjoy things!
You’re right, I’m in the gold / silver / Bitcoin believer minority, I don’t see any other safe place for my money long term, as I believe that those are the only things that can’t be manipulated easily long term.
I am convinced that this idea of people who are just too smart for society is way overblown and quite damaging.

I see it so often in tech — the “10x” engineer who is just too smart for social norms like polite communication or hygiene. They are not held to them same social standards as others because they are “just different.” In reality, these folks just use the fact that no one else knows how their code works as an excuse for antisocial behavior.

Here’s the thing. If you’re so brilliant, you should be able to learn basic social skills, manners, and hygiene. It’s not that hard. And if you do find it hard, maybe it’s not because you’re a savant who is above these things, but because you have simply neglected to develop that skill set.
Don't forget that Simon Peyton Jones 2nd book on compiling functional languages written with PJ Lester is also out of print but available from him directly on the web and includes source code from the book. Way fun, if slightly dated stuff.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
> If you do it wrong, you are heavily penalized by law.

For U.S. works created after the Berne Convention went into effect in 1989, that won't be the case. Consider the possibilities under 17 U.S.C. 406(b):

1. If you use too-early a date in the copyright notice, you lose that many years of protection. If it's just a year or two, or even 10 years, that's almost literally rounding error compared to the term of copyright.

2. If you use a year that's one year too late (e.g., 2016 for a 2015-published work), you're fine.

3. If you use a date that's more than one year too late (e.g., 2018 for a 2015-published work), it's the same as publishing with no notice. But because it's a post-Berne work, you don't need a copyright notice. So you don't care.

So for post-Berne works, there seems to be almost literally zero downside to including a copyright notice of some kind. Even just the word "Copyright XYZ Inc." with no date would give you some deterrent effect, even if it turned out to have no legal significance. Am I missing something here?