skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortune 500 companies are always hiring data analysts, business analysts, ETL (extract-transform-load) developers, etc. Anyone who knows their way around SQL and Excel will be able to get one of these jobs.

If you don't have those skills, get them. Consider an associate degree at a community college or something, because those F500 companies don't give a crap about GitHub portfolios nearly as much as they do about a piece of paper that says you can show up on time enough to get the piece of paper.

These companies also use contracting and consulting firms to staff three- and six- month projects, often for data migration, decommissioning legacy systems, and other data-heavy tasks. Ask around in the tech community in your area about which firms treat people fairly, help professional development, etc. and make contact with some of them. Many sponsor "boot camps" or other training activities.

After you have that actual job under your belt (and the 40-hours-a-week of real-life experience with the systems) it will be much easier to pivot into something that adds up to more than just monkeying around with data loads and report generation.
Yeah but the developing countries do not have that much of a power requirement. In India most villages would be fine with just the fans and lighting. 5 units (kWh) should be sufficient for the whole day for a household. I am not sure how much of £1.66m was on solar.
Problems from Hell
Most people who I know use Telegram(me included) use it because it's frankly the nicest(fast, looks good) Messenger out there, not because of its security features. Personally I don't use the secret chat functionality; I would use Signal if I wanted to communicate securely.
> I get mail, I read mail, I can write mail.

That's exactly what the Gmail app does too. What other features does it offer that the Mail app doesn't? If none, then why does it need to be so huge?

I picked on Gmail because it's the most recent culprit that I have noticed creeping (sometimes jumping) up in app size but it isn't the only one guilty of this. Like I said in my original comment, the Reddit app is 13MB and does a bit more than the Gmail app. I can read/write posts and comments and view images; similar features to Gmail, but I can also watch gifs and videos. Can someone explain why there is an order of magnitude of discrepancy between the two apps sizes?
The article is discussing the runaway costs of healthcare -- its both a republican and a democrat issue. The current system is unsustainable.
The title is misleading - Darwin was pretty much always 'on the job', as we can see from his notes and correspondence.
It's actually very simple and let me be extremely clear here, this is NOT about picking someone's rights over others, this is about the magnitude of injustice. Here's a list of people incriminated for discrimination by month for violating fair housing rules. In February for example Oklahoma landlords were found discriminating against Veterans with disabilities. Laws are written to protect the most vulnerable FIRST, not the most protected first. It's absolutely unconscionable to protect for example landlords over our veterans.

https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fa...
The "wall of legalese" that is the Apache 2.0 license does not inspire confidence in me. I feel like I would need a law degree to understand it.

I like the MIT/BSD licenses. Short, clear, understandable.
IETF 98 Chicago: Homenet, and the hunt for a name
Probably the same incentive you have right now not to omit something: if they do an audit, and find that you never told them about your self-employed second job, or whatever, you'd have to pay up.
Make it also work in realtime over video and add VR capabilities. Win lots of money. Watch civilization crumble to dust.
That's an even better reason to do additional retirement savings where possible, though.
Thank you for your concern. I am well aware of the situation... I am actively considering options.
Niche subreddits tend to be of much better quality than the broad ones.

The most popular great subreddit is probably askhistorians.
The article talks about "no lanes, no separation, no stopping distances, and no signals, (except of course for pedestrians to cross)", though. How will no traffic signals work with manual traffic? For example, in an intersection with no stop signs and no "invisible traffic lights", how would a constant stream of automated traffic know that a bicycle is waiting to cross?
What about Zero-clause BSD? https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html (OSI approved, even)

I currently prefer Unlicense but 0BSD looks very nice…
At this point I am quite cynical about any claim that you can get healthier with a specific diet. I can guarantee you that my cyanide and toxic metal diet will make you less healthy but knowing that one thing is true does not automatically mean that you know that another thing is true.

Exercise will make most people healthier in general, particularly stuff associated with your cardiovascular system. We know that. That doesn't mean exercise will make you anything else associated with good health. It might not make you thinner, it might not change any sort of index based on medical tests normally done on inactive people. It might not even make you better looking or hotter in any way. We don't actually know any of that other stuff for sure.

This all simplifies things a lot. The advice should be: "get some exercise every once in a while. Don't worry so much about stuff that we don't actually know."
Thanks for the pointer to dnSpy. I'd been using Lutz's .NET Reflector, but since Red Gate took it over, and despite even paying for the Pro license (I needed to be able to debug and step through assemblies that I didn't have the source for, and there was nothing similar at the time), it's become a total pain in the arse to use. This looks like it'll comfortably replace it.
The zip code was intentionally not anonymized because it was seen as acceptable to release, and that is part of the issue of anonymized data.

US Zip codes serve around 7,500 per code on average (US Census 2010) which is different than common wealth postal codes like in Canada where they serve an average of 19 households (25 - 75 people).

But, zip data can be interchanged with plenty of other unique identifiers on the web. Maybe it is browser language setting, or version of java etc.

Think of it like an Excel spread sheet, if in column A you can have options "1" or "2" then in a list of 100 people there will be at least 50 who share the same data footprint. If you keep adding columns from B onward with the same logic eventually you'll have pretty unique strings.

Things like searching history or web history are even worse. Ever done a search for a pizza place near your address, or Google map directions from your home to another location? That identifies you pretty easily. So does connecting to your works website, and the school your kid attends. Web browsing data is nearly impossible to anonymize by its nature unless it was compiled to something like "XX% of users in Zip XXXXXX visited website.com"

As for differential privacy, it is a nice emerging theory, but there are challenges with it as there is a significant trade off right now in terms of data accuracy when applying differential privacy. It is primarily effective at casting doubt on if variable "A" about user "B" in a data set is true or not, but if you don't have a specific target or specific metric then enough of the data is true that it could still in theory be deanonymized, and since most of the anonymity is based on incorrect variables in a data-set, all it would take to reverse engineer it is a large enough data-set and a few known variables.

I hope people like Apple continue to champion the advancement of differential privacy though - it is a major step in the right direction. But, being able to buy browsing history, even in aggregate does not protect individuals.
Doubtful. I would count on backwater parts of developing nations having operational fossil fuel plants for at least another century.
Thanks for sharing, and also for putting detailed information on the product page. I'm bookmarking this for the future for my home :).
Do they need help? Or a more rigorous test suite? Or pushing more errors to the compiler to trap these kind of things?
Detectify Crowdsource
There are always exceptions in tech, but in my experience companies don't care about the pedigree of the school once you've been out for a while. They do care that you have a degree. So much so that many companies don't even consider people without a degree, even for entry level positions.
Student loans are being paid off first and everything retirement related I've ever been offered vests after 3+ years. In my experience companies seem to be absolutely against giving raises that even match cost of living every year. That means that I am pretty much garunteed to be out before anything vests, just to keep my quality of life stable
This article does not elucidate anything about Quantum Mechanics, is quite confusing, and indeed is plain wrong in several aspects. Very disappointing.
Is this a comment about the article? The patient experienced her accident in 2013 after the ACA was in effect, which famously not a single republican voted for.

Patients are being screwed under the current system right now, regardless of politics.

Providers are having trouble remaining financially solvent bc most patients end up not paying their bills; providers rely on private insured or self pay patients to stay afloat because Medicare/Medicaid don't reimburse enough to cover costs. If we put everyone on Medicare the system would shut down, everything else remaining equal- unless we subsidized providers with even more money from taxpayers to replace the insurance companies.
In his early life he was a neglectful student, an underachiever. He was a late bloomer.
An Artisan Guide to Building Broken C Parsers
If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose
One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Is this issue exclusive to Georgia, or are there other states or nations with similar restrictions?
Unfortunately for you, that is not up to you to decide, but to society as a whole. And society has those pretty fun tools like police forces, etc.

But don't worry, there are much bigger fish to fry than you. You probably won't even be impacted, given the amount of wealth that can be recuperated from the leeches at the top, we can probably already make a much more egalitarian society.
Tested: Microsoft Edge is the only browser to run Netflix in 4K
Are you searching for stolen US University email credentials?Search on DarkWeb
tl;dw Even worse, they found stuff like links to a police detective's application for a search warrant in the "anonymized" data.

Oh, and of course they found and deanonymized some German politicians and their staff.

So while it might not be possible to deanonymize and "expose" all of Congress, if you really tried and got some money to actually buy the data, you will be able to at least deanonymize some of your targets, especially if the data originates from a man-in-the-middle like an ISP and not just some random ad network/tracker.
I was recently surprised by a Signal call and the quality was surprisingly good compared to my previous experiences. I would give it another try.
Yeah, the people the very people who will snigger at someone selling "quantum healing" defend economic theories which have no scientific rigor. And the worse part is the dominant theories operate in a manner that they are self fulfilling.

Capitalism promotes monetary profits as the incentive because humans are self interested.

is one among them, but is it the other way around? Is the system manufacturing behaviors that it takes for as a cause?

I was reading Debt : The 5000 years, where the author, an anthropologists makes the case of how capitalism destroyed the communal behavior of tribes in different parts of the world.
11 reasons why Android is winning
Worthless for who? Millions of people use these engines every day.
Doesn't the probability basically follow from the uncertainty of your own eigenstate, ie. the system performing the measurement? This contextuality is why deterministic interpretations of QM also entail probabilistic measurements.
The reason male contraceptives don't get a lot of traction is that men don't get pregnant.
I did some work for the IRS several years ago to explore the same idea. There are many benefits, including simplicity and accuracy of filing (closing the $500B tax gap), as well as better fraud protection (another $25B).

Protectionism of the tax return industry is common, but not the primary reason. Instead, the biggest pushback is from taxpayer advocacy groups. The issue is this: for many Americans, particularly low income Americans, their tax refund is the largest check they receive all year. Delaying that refund in order to receive all tax information (e.g., from banks and employers) and pre-populate a tax return would push back initial refund checks by 1-2 months. This is tantamount to political suicide.
I agree that a 401k match is better than the equivalent salary. Match is often a company policy and non-negotiable. Salary is negotiated per individual and usually more than once over the lifetime of a job, so it's easier to get more salary than more retirement match.

It's the pingpong tables that kill me. Why does this make me want to work there?
> You'd be crazy to buy into a de luxe health plan by yourself if you're self-employed. I go for something minimal: no drugs or routine dental, just emergency dental and medical: for situations you pray won't actually happen.

+1 to this entire concept.

Insurance is for dealing with catastrophes. Not to cover an annual physical or dental cleaning.
Throw your ISP off-track with this widget that cycles random websites
>The reason we have so much C code powering the world is that (1) there wasn't anything better when that code was written...

Right, but the criticism he received for his first post was not primarily about choosing the wrong language or about refusing to rewrite in a different language now. It was primarily about downplaying the role of C in the security issues that were found.

The rest of the debate, at least as I read it, was not so much criticism as it was a generic debate about the pros and cons of various programming languages like we're having one every other day on here and on reddit.

Choosing C back then was clearly justified for a project like curl given all the constraints and considerations. And for a rewrite to be a net positive in terms of security probably takes years, not to mention the huge effort that someone would have to put into it.
* Tangent warning * I used to be very focused on what I could do.... learn how to code, how to write a report, stats, CFA, how to present etc.....

I've come to realise that it doesn't matter as much as I thought. You only need to be good enough and what is really important is your emotional intelligence and network. Being able to process and manage your own emotions and interact with others in a positive, constructive manner is the most important thing. Reading the book How to win friends and influence people opened my eyes
Why You Feel the Urge to Jump
Apache OpenWhisk is a serverless, open source cloud platform
The Era of Mass Blackmail
Cost is mostly convertible to energy. (And space I guess, for things like real estate)
I should finish by saying that if you want to future proof yourself.... you should focus on what I wrote above...
> But that is not what the Church-Turing thesis says. A Turing machine cannot mimic a truly random physical process, pretty much by definition.

It's not clear that a truly random process exists. There exist deterministic interpretations of QM, for instance. Certainly unpredictable processes exist, but that's an entirely different classification (whether a Turing machine halts is also unpredictable, but still deterministic).

Further, Turing machines can generate pseudo-random outputs that pass all known randomness tests.
Ask HN: What are the most efficient ways to invest in machine learning?
If one assumes that:

1. The prevalence of machine learning as a central business profit generator will grow
or
2. Machine learning know-how will become more and more valuable

What is the most efficient way to profit off this? Which US stocks should one buy and how should diversity come into play?

Particularly of interest are non-obvious companies (google and nvidia as obvious examples).
The funny thing is that Qt apps used to be derided for bloat (15MB of DLLs! 15MB!) but the rise of Electron has made Qt seem featherweight by comparison.
> I don't get why every copyleft licence get a minimum of two ?'s.

Probably because of the patent uncertainty. You can copy the code legally and still get in trouble for using another entity's IP. Practically speaking, that will probably be more costly than a battle over copyright.
This article fails to realize the true reason men would never use this product: You have to inject it into your testicles.
A New Yorker's Quest for the Perfect Amount of Noise
Patient billing advocates are a real service now. For let's say $500 they go to war with the billing dept of a hospital; the hospital will almost always knock 50% of the price off because they don't want to fight the battle.

So many patients default on their bills it's a financial crisis for most hospitals outside of the large major chains. That billing department is going to take what they can get, even if it's only 20% of the amount the patient owes. Pretty nuts.
All the next-generation large American commercial rockets will use methane.

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan (15-30 tons payload to low orbit, depending on if solid rocket boosters are added) will, using two of Blue Origin's BE-4 methane engines.

Blue Origin's reusable (initially partially, eventually fully reusable) New Glenn (40 tons payload to low orbit) will be using the same engines but 7 of them for the first stage and I think one of them for the second stage.

SpaceX's fully reusable ITS (300 tons payload to orbit reusable, 500 tons expendable) will use 42 Raptor engines, full-flow staged combustion engines at ridiculously high chamber pressure. On just the first stage. 9 more Raptor engines on the spaceship portion (which is like a spacecraft/second-stage combination).

Additionally, Masten Space Systems is developing a small-sat (1 ton or maybe 300kg, depending on if they're picked under DARPA's XS-1 program) launcher that would be highly reusable called Xepthyr that will use their Broadsword methane engine.

BTW, Masten Space Systems actually inspired SpaceX to pursue vertical landing recovery years ago (SpaceX had previously tried using parachutes on Falcon 1 and the Falcon 9 first stages, without success) with this video that Elon Musk reportedly emailed to the whole company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqm48D5WZ6A

(And Masten also has been pursuing using a launch cradle instead of legs for landing, similar to what SpaceX pursued for ITS. And I think SpaceX got that idea from Masten, too.)
They have a beautiful native macOS app as well. Also, excellent support for groups, including group URLs you can stick on a github page. Great program all around.
From a quick Google.

Path tracing doesn't trace towards light sources for shadow rays and instead just sends several rays in different directions and accumelates the resulting colors of those rays.
> Ahah nice example! "I can't code, but if I were, I would like to be productive in something that doesn't require me to make any effort in understanding the problem, please advise"

Except that's not what the commenter said, and what the commenter did say is, although glib, not inconsistent with the motivation behind Bernstein's entreaty to just create a boringcc already.[1]

Also, generally, just don't make up fake quotes to attribute to people. It's poor form.

> I spent the better part of last week studying

Telling.

1. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/boring-crypto/48qa1k...
Hmm, easy to confuse IETF 98 with "IETF '98" (apparently that was IETF 42/43).
Using Cabin with Kubernetes on IBM's Cloud
Figures that a lawyer would give a single question mark to some licenses which say "you can use the patents in this code (well, those that are ours, that is), and this license terminates if you litigate us for any reason" but two question marks to the BSD 2 Clause.

A tactical position in the legal arms race is of course clearer than some implicit assurances of peace.
People often lump different subreddits together too much. /r/gaming and /r/games are both ostensibly about video games but their content and culture are very different from each other.
There are similar arguments that have been made by tech professionals in favour of closed source software. I'm not clear as to why you disregard the potential bias here, and why you think that subject matter expertise should disqualify an arguer. Frankly, this reads as ad hominem and conspiratorial thinking to me.
There are many faults in this article.

For one thing, it is not true that relational databases always use b-tree indexes and that key-value stores always use hash indexes. You can find examples of both that let you choose.

Also there are many key-value stores that support transactions.
Note that as gratuitous licenses are, irrespective of their language, revocable at will (in US law), basically everything you say applies to any license that is not a contract, it's not special to the WTFPL.
Intersecting with an infinite plane is also pretty easy so you can build a Cornell box just using planes. However the massive sphere trick is neat, never thought of that before
> For some reason, our generation (GEN Y / Millennials) don't seem to care much for...

I see a version of this statement all the time from us old people, sometimes it ends with "purchasing homes" or "full time long term careers at one company" say, or "retirement saving" as in your example.

I'm starting to suspect the reason just might be that the new generation doesn't actually have any fucking money or stable jobs. Just a theory.
This list just screams "corruption". How can it be legal for companies such as Facebook, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Cisco, Apple, etc. etc. to donate directly to a politician? Isn't it obvious that these corporations think they have something to gain from it? That's bribery in plain sight.
Fission was also supposed to produce energy "too cheap to meter" and in theory it should be able to. Reality didn't work out that way.
> Open Source [...] it's free work

I've heard this again and again, and yet every time I see open source used by a company, there are patches being applied, compliance concerns and audits, and integration efforts.

Sometimes this effort costs less than writing the code yourself (such as integrating with a database), but not always.
In theory she's mandated to have insurance to prevent this type of thing from happening. If she couldn't afford it the government would subsidize her on the exchanges.

In practice, she paid the ACA penalty to have the privilege of not buying insurance and then she got screwed for not having it.
Sadly nothing about patents.
That's just another way of saying people shouldn't be allowed to give their shares freely. You give your shares to Wilt, the government gives them back to you (assuming the government has no overhead).

So the original argument stands: forced wealth redistribution is incompatible with free will and liberty. The word "force" itself means the removal of freedom.
And Qt is what?
Google Opens Up on Open Source
Stupid question but why would a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) prevent cysts from forming on the ovaries? The ovaries are the hormone producing organs.