skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profession: Software Engineer, full time working for a big company in a small office

Workday:
- Wake up, shower and walk to the office
- Arrive in the office and bake some breakfast
- Start doing actual work at ~ 9:30
- Work is usually predefined tasks + reacting to specific customer/management requests
- Team meetings happens 3 times a week
- Code review over the day
- Around 6pm start walking back home
We have documented cases over and over where the ISP monopolies prevent innovation and higher tiers of speeds and said ISPs are trying their hardest to clamp down on the specific regulations that make them less money.

If we dont depend on government for regulation we lose everything because no other system can arise within the confines of what we have.

Eliminating regulation will in no way eliminate local monopolies, only the opposite.
I made an account to post this. I come to HN often because I find it interesting and I thought I'd contribute, in amongst the software engineers:

Teacher (UK):

6:30 get up, eat, take child to nursery

8:15 arrive, plan lessons, mark work

9:20 teach

12:40 working lunch (meetings, helping students with work)

13:40 teach

15:40 plan lessons, mark, or attend meetings

16:30 gym

17:30 collect child from nursery and generally feed and entertain

20:00 feed self

20:30 planning lessons, marking

22:00 bed
I (and several thinkers, Nietzsche for one) find it was rather the inverse: while catholicism was more relativistic, open, and even carnal, protestantism brought a fundamentalist look at the Bible that was a regression to even stricter interpretation and zealotry.

Which is why modern protestant denominations in the US for example are even more Old Testament and wacko than catholics.

And of course the same strictness has been inherited by atheists that grew in a protestant culture, contrary to classical humanism.
There are 54 representatives from member countries that decide the funding allocation. This funding was directed at the Digital sectors in the Nordic countries; Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Going through a downward phase of this cycle myself for the last year, and have to point out that it can be very tough. In previous downward cycles (we've been together 25 years, so this is far from the first time) I've found that I almost have to forget the past to embrace the present. Having a good memory is not always a blessing
This makes no sense. Using just your skills and barely any money, you cannot acquire a corpus of decades of historical searches and click data nor can you employ the thousands of human raters, both of which Google uses to make the search algorithm work.

Please stop spreading this misleading idea.
There will be bias in the data, but that can be looked at in one place, and corrected once. At which point everyone gets the benefit. This means errors are found fixed and "released" broadly and quickly. This is much better than trying to disseminate training and information to judges who may or may not actually absorb it. For example new information on bias could be encoded in an algo but is possibly not teachable...because people are biased.
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You depend on the government to enforce privacy elsewhere, so why not? A man hanging around inside the women's toilets? Government deals with that. A stranger hanging around inside your house, or just peeping in your windows? Government deals with that. The whole point of government is to lay down the rules to keep society ticking along.
Allowing existing internet companies to make deals with service providers concerning the preference of their data streams over others is the surest way to RAISE the barrier to entry for small businesses.
Sure it does. They follow their friends and families and generally stick to friendly enclaves. Why do you think they buy homes in Vancouver and not Yellowknife?
- Raise the minimum wage

If we raise the minimum wage, that would surely increase unemployment. Even a minimum wage job is hard to get for an uneducated, unskilled person, so how would it be easier for them to get a job at a rate employers are even less willing to pay?
Profession: Firefighter - Full time <600 organization

Workday (kind of, nothing is typical at the firehouse):

- [06:00]: Wake up - get dressed covertly and slip out of the house

- [06:30] Arrive at the station - Get coffee! Find my "relief" which is the similarly ranked person on the off going shift.

- run 911 calls

- [07:30] Have "line up"; Where we discuss what drills we have planned, eat some breakfast... drink more coffee. Talk about the previous day off.

- run 911 calls

- [08:30] Workout. Generally we have a mix of runners, lifters and crossfitters. Sometimes we will do the workout "on air" with our SCBA packs on... sometimes we need to just walk a few miles. Everyone on my shift likes to workout.

- run 911 calls

- [10:00] Shower and checkout equipment or drill. Send someone to the grocery store for the meals of the day.

- run 911 calls

- [11:00] Cook lunch, check email, and do any CE/Online training

- run 911 calls

- [12:00] eat lunch (between 12 and 2pm we typically get to eat... based on calls) , then pick up

- [13:30] safety nap for the long night ahead

- run 911 calls

- [14:30] Afternoon coffee, plan drills for the next shift. Admin stuff.

- run 911 calls

- [15:00] Drill on some piece of equipment. Learn or relearn something. Generally Fire in the morning, EMS in the Afternoon.

- [16:00] start preparing dinner

- [17:00] Flag down and eat (depending on calls). We can watch TV or do personal stuff after this time.

- run 911 calls for the night, try to sleep

- [06:00] awake and get ready to go home.
Ask HN: How to get ML/AI/Deep learning job being an Embedded systems engineer?
I am an Embedded systems engineer from past 10 year and very good at both C and Python programming. Having a good mathematics background and recent exposure to deep-learning and modelling, I want to explore the possibility of changing career from Embedded engineer to deep-learning engineer or something alike.

But looking at the Indeed job listing, looks like the employers need people with at least 2-3 yrs of experience to even consider for interview. Apart from getting started on some side projects or hobby projects, how to enter this job area?

PS: searched the HN, but didn't see similar question. Sorry if its duplicate and appreciate if you can point me to old URL if its already discussed.
That may be true, but it's also true that the house isn't much of an asset. Houses in the US are a capital investment. In Japan, they are more like durable goods.
Net neutrality has little to nothing to do with privacy. Better tech and competition can definitely help with keeping data locked down.

What alternatives to government regulation do you see in regards to data selling and paid preferential QoS? Other than "voting with your wallet" (which is largely impossible since most markets only have 1-2 ISPs) what can the average consumer do to prevent this? How will they even gain visibility? Do you know what information your ISP has sold about you over the last few years? It's definitely more than you think.
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> If the account does not already exist, an account activation link/code is sent.

That's not great for all use cases, though - if I'm just trying to check out of a store, I don't want to have to bounce to my email to confirm stuff.
>If you strongly believe this is unlikely, name a neighborhood and I'll show you three apartment listings.

I don't believe it is unlikely but I'd like to take you up on your services. ;)

Got anything for the Harajuku or Akihabara districts? You seem to be more knowledgeable on how/where to search for this info and I'm a bit lost. (Still have over a year to properly research this stuff on my own, but I really want to move to near one of those two districts next year.)
No, nobody is going to object to feeling like a 25-year-old for their entire life. It's not about vanity. I would be totally fine with appearing to age, if I could run and jump, and recover the same at 70 as I did at 25.

Is there any more universal dream than eternal youth, or even youth for a lifetime?
People don't mean "watching shows is dead" when they say "TV is dead". They mean TV networks as we know them, with their programming of shows, news, sports, movies, etc.

A few millions watch Game of Thrones on the TV.

A few hundred million watch it on demand, from the internet.

Whether GoT is originally created by a cable network is irrelevant (and mostly the result of a broken business model continuing on).

A good system to monetize those hundred millions would totally obliterate TV networks in the distribution of shows like Game Of Thrones.

Heck, Netflix is going strong with its own shows, and it's far from global or perfect.
If you're busy then wait until you have a few seconds. If not then respond.

I wouldn't put too much thought into this.

Just be empathetic to the sender. If I would send an invite, I'd love a quick response. But would be forgiving if it's delayed.
> In a data pipeline, that is not the case.

You misunderstand my point or you misunderstand QoS.

The capacity of a data pipeline can be significantly increased by QoS. Not its absolute, theoretical maximum, but its ability to achieve high throughput amid disparate traffic types. Ultimately it's all buffers and queues.

> And we have already qualified our communications pipelines as neutral infrastructure

Right, but POTS has a latency requirement. If you keep reading my comment, my point is simply that without making a claim for what the QoS rules should be, advocates of net neutrality are just handwaving and spreading FUD.
Tendon stretches a couple times a day [0] Whenever I start feeling pain in my hands/wrists, it's because I've been slacking on doing these stretches.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD8BGa3p1Ms
9 PM average - normal in the industry?
> 1) happens naturally in most markets. Without net-neutrality I believe that it would be harder for these companies to be dethroned if something better came along.

In what way would it be harder for them to be dethroned exactly?
Competition is not the solution to all problems.

That's like suggesting that we don't need laws against fraud in functional healthy markets. Removing monopolies would not fix the privacy issue either.

However, it would probably eliminate the need for net neutrality. In the meantime, we need it.

And we need to keep privacy laws in place until such time that technology makes it impossible for ISPs to discover any details about what you are doing. Don't hold your breath.
> Your chances at winning are pretty low, but eventually someone will do it.

That's a 'lottery', not a 'barrier-lowering device'.
Even his history of train coupling was lopsided. I know nothing about the subject, but this:

> Still, the railroads stuck with them because link-and-pin couplers were cheap. You could imagine excuses being made about the people who died...

You have to think that every train coupling on every train at the same time is a pretty big and very real excuse. No single operator could change first, unless they were a near monopoly. I'd guess that railroad companies weren't big fans of their trained employees getting crushed.

So tired of the trope that big evil corporations put zero value on the lives of their employees. Fact is, they value them as much as the replacement cost + cleanup cost + downtime + bad PR, which in many cases is pretty high. Also, sometimes the owners actually aren't evil monsters.
> If you are a school and want to hire kindergarten teacher, you will put an ad and get lot of response

Given that there is a massive teacher shortage[1][2][3], and there is no shortage of aspiring hedge fund managers, can you come up with a model that reflects more accurately reality?

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/america-has-a...

[2]:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/teacher-shortage/

[3]:https://edsource.org/2016/states-teacher-shortage-hitting-al...
Re: incandescent light bulbs...

http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bul...
> 1. Massive monopolies which essentially control 95% of all tech (google, facebook, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc)

Many years ago your list wouldn't have included facebook, it would have included myspace. If FB was required to make a deal with every ISP in the US, do you think they would have been able to grow? Ditto for Google and Amazon.

> 2. An internet where every consumer assumes everything should be free.

I don't see how this is the fault of net neutrality. In fact, it's completely unrelated. We can have net neutrality and pay for content, many people do, viz Hulu, Netflix, iTunes Store, &c.

> 3. An internet where there's only enough room for a handfull of players in each market globally i.e. if you have a "project-management app" there will not be a successfull one for each country much less hundreds for each country.

I have no idea what you mean or how this is related.

> 4. Huge barriers of entry for any new player into many of the markets (no one can even begin competing with google search for less than 20 million).

It's easier to do that than it is to make a deal with every ISP in the US. I really have no idea how this isn't doublethink.
That looks interesting - as long as you stay in JS land. Once you move into typescript this kind of system will be impossible to typecheck. Promises and their compositions will typecheck just naturally compared to that.
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I question whether or not it is a relevant question. I haven't seen any evidence that there's anything particularly unique about being 30 or older. Certainly nothing changed for me when I turned 30, or 40 for that matter. And I have plenty of colleagues who are the same age, or older. As far as I can see, programming is programming and age is pretty much irrelevant.
That's a good observation. A lot of guys ask how to meet women (well everyone asks how to meet everyone). The key is to engage in social activities where you expand your social circle.

Here's the thing - most activities that expand your social circle are not actually focused on finding a date, because most people are paired up and.or otherwise aren't looking for a date. As a result, you need to engage sincerely in the activity itself, and not try to romanticize (which is the mildest form of what you shouldn't do) every encounter.

Ballroom dancing, tennis leagues (such as mixed doubles), and other activities that mix men and women are good choices. But yes, in most of these cases, the people involved not only won't be looking for a date, and it's extremely important not to treat them as events where people are looking for a date. They aren't, and people involved in them may in fact resent the implication that this is the primary purpose for their participation.

Ironically, that's why they work so well for expanding your social circle. If they were about dating, 90% of the people involved in them wouldn't be involved, and the network effect would collapse.

Also - once people know and like you, of course they don't mind that you are single and would are interested in meeting single people in the same spot. There is a time honored tradition of introducing people to each other under exactly these circumstances.
> the forks have a place so that you can feel confident in what you're doing no matter whose house you sit down in

Once I learned (some of) the actual rules around dinner settings, that sort of etiquette made far more sense to me. Using dinner forks isn't hard, even in high class settings: you start from the furthest-out fork and move in. But setting them requires knowing what you're doing so that your guests don't need to know - the goal of politeness being that you ensure no one else is ill at ease.
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ISPs regularly break the internet, see blank domain redirecting to advertising, various MITM attacks, working with advertisers to sell your data, ignoring best practices to enable DDOSing, the list goes on.

There is little to no choice, so there is little to no market force occurring so arguing that "any ISP that does X" when you might have 1 other choice who might just as bad doesn't really work.
I'm a bit confused by the context. There's nothing wrong with the mindset of expecting free healthcare, but I think it's how you get there that is problematic.

In western countries, those things are "free" because we collectively pay for them. I can't imagine having to pay for child birth. It's just something we are collectively responsible for, because we try to provide basic human rights to everyone.

Same for daycare. As a parent, finding a daycare centre that met basic health standards was one of the most stressful parts of becoming a parent. When the government started subsidizing non-profit daycare, it solved so many problems and made me much more productive at work.
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I got bored over lunch and made this a node module:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-gmail-account-valid

const isGmailAccountValid = require('is-gmail-account-valid')

isGmailAccountValid('some.username', function(err, result){
console.log(err, result)
})
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Just to be clear - I'm comparing two billionaires who started off as millionaires, and suggesting that Gates is of above average intelligence whereas Trump is not.
"Free" childcare, tuition etc in Europe is a myth.
There's no such thing as free.

on a salary of $150,000 you pay more than $75,000 in income tax in many EU countries, then add to that various other taxes like real estate tax etc.

For that you get poor public schools, poor healthcare etc.

Last time I scheduled an appointment at the FREE doctor
I had to wait 4 weeks for him to see me.

So I had to go to a private one and pay cash, after already paying huge sums of money for this supposedly cheap and awesome european healthcare.
If you're running a SaaS, presumably it's cloud based. Why the 50 min commute?
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> And of course, their votes count the same as my vote.

But your political influence is much greater with money

The popular vote is for welfare clones
The chart type is known as Sankey:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/
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https://suclass.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:Engineering+C...

Free videos/slides for Stanford's introductory networking class (linked the Reed-Solomon video)
> ISPs and utility companies are natural monopolies. When you move to a new location, you're stuck with the ISPs that service that location; often just 1 ISP.

This is simply not true. With the wide availability of cellular service that provides broadband speeds pretty much everyone in the country has multiple choices of ISP.
Your device has private data on it. Who has final say on whether someone can access it?

- Option 1: you
- Option 2: somebody else

Those are the only two options.

Option 1 protects people from criminals and tyrants, but impedes law enforcement.

Option 2 enables law enforcement but makes people vulnerable to criminals and tyrants.

Any suggestion that we can get the best of both worlds is confused or disingenuous. We have to choose.

Do you get final say on who can access your device's data, or does somebody else?
Or "Only worry about solving problems you actually have".

Spending your own money provides good discipline in pragmatism, I've found.
> a talking point

It's a question. There isn't any statements or manipulation in it.

> Why don't you just honestly say: "stop downvoting"

I effectively did. I said it "shouldn't be downvoted"

> There were 7 top level replies to the comment before you came along, hardly lacking discussion even with the downvotes.

That's my point. Hopefully others get to read those comments if this question isn't already pinned to the bottom.

For the record, I'm not against net neutrality.
Ask HN: Migrating to United States as a permanent resident, guide me HN?
I have been working in early stage e-commerce and SAAS start-ups in India for three years, in growth and product roles. I'm moving to the states in June. I'm looking for product management roles in consumer tech start-ups, what advice do you have for me? in general and specific to start-ups in USA
Net neutrality is fundamental to free speech. Without net neutrality, big companies could censor your voice and make it harder to speak up online. Net neutrality has been called the “First Amendment of the Internet.”

Not just harder. Infinitely more dangerous. Probably the scariest implications for NN being gutted are those around loss of anonymity through the Internet. ISPs who are allowed to sell users' browsing history, data packets, personal info with zero legal implications --> that anonymity suddenly comes with a price. And anything that comes with a price can be sold.

A reporter's sources must be able to be anonymous in many instances where release of information about corruption creates political instability, endangers the reporter, endangers the source, endangers the truth from being revealed. These "rollbacks" of regulations make it orders of magnitude easier for any entity in a corporation or organization to track down people who attempt to expose their illegal actions / skirting of laws. Corporations have every incentive to suppress information that hurts their stock price. Corrupt local officials governments have every incentive to suppress individuals who threaten their "job security". Corrupt PACs have every incentive to drown out that one tiny voice that speaks the truth.

A government that endorses suppression cannot promote safety, stability, or prosperity of its people.

EDIT: Yes, I am also referring to the loss of Broadband Privacy rules as they have implications in the rollback of net neutrality: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp...

Loss of broadband privacy: Yes, your data can and will be sold

Loss of net neutrality: How much of it and for how much?
> I've never seen anyone else acknowledge "confirmation of email address existence" as a security issue

Every guide to setting up an email server starts with "turn SMTP verify off if your server has insecure defaults"
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Where do you live that gives you more than one choice of a decent ISP?

Do you really think even if you had half a dozen good providers, they wouldn't play ball and snatch up premium data deals?

Who do you think is lobbying for this change in policy to begin with? All of our ISPs, uniting against a common enemy: the savvy consumer.

When you hear and agree with things like "but free market competition will save us!" you are buying directly into their propaganda campaign.
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Nothing. Anki is great. But I prefer to have general notes in a text only format that I manage via NValt or simply desktop search. Anki gives me an own file format and forces me to manage my knowledge just within Anki.