skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you're suggesting that the employer should be paying for the remaining 3.75 years of experience. I'm certainly not going to hire someone who's going to require that sort of investment in comparison to a fresh college grad. You may as well just grab seemingly clever people off of the street.
The plan is to get it up and running together with Berlin's new airport.. :P
The only point I was trying to make is that these general median statistics across the entire state or even Boston aren't controlling for enough factors. Programmers are generally well educated and the work is technical in nature. This does not describe a very significant portion of the individual workers rolled up in the general median statistics. I was trying to suggest you should be comparing to similar professions, such as engineering in general.

Programmers don't look like nearly such an outlier then. Would you say most engineering disciplines are experiencing shortages? I don't think that's true. O&G is one potential counterexample. Chemical engineers are still very highly paid, the big oil companies don't struggle to hire the best students from the best engineering schools, and yet there are also lots of layoffs going on. The layoffs and hiring freezes seem inconsistent with the notion of a shortage.

Law is another interesting example. There's no shortage of students graduating with law degrees. In fact, there's a vast excess, and a good chunk of them are unemployed or underemployed and will never work as an attorney. And yet many big law firms are still paying new associates big six figure salaries, and partners at major firms are still earning $250k-$700k.

I find this especially interesting and even counterintuitive because it suggests that if there is a shortage, throwing an endless supply of entry level talent at the industry won't necessarily solve anything.
> it's their duty

Not at all. No more than a car manufacturer has a 'duty' to explain how a car or a car engine works.
Using AOF you have better durability, you can read about it in the link you provided.
Page doesn't seem to work. I only see 2 paragraphs and the second one fades out at the bottom.

I have not disabled javascript.
Most people (esp non-HNers) don't, they just let Comcast set it up. To make matters worse, they set the SSID to my last name, and the password was my address. Maybe that's one-off, but if standard, seems problematic.
This was the first overview I read, and it's pretty good (but incomplete):

https://github.com/reactjs/react-basic
That doesn't say much without knowing what the site is about.

2200 concurrent users reading a static HTML page is not the same as 2200 concurrent users trying to make a plane reservation.
Now I get it. You have curated groups and promoters join them.

None of the groups interest me for now, maybe you could list them in the landing page? I don't think this would drag people out (perhaps only people who wouldn't make an ad anyway), and it could even drag more people in.
Yeah, can we please stop with the content marketing? This is like the third post just on the front page today. Between these posts and the paywall spam I'm just about finished with this site.
Is this still active? I had the impression they (the project's creators) had left this in favor of Viking Code School [1].

Apparently Viking Code School has both Ruby and JS separate tracks (I may be misremembering, though)

[1] https://www.vikingcodeschool.com
Red Robin has little tablets at the table you can use to select your items and pay your portion of the bill (among other things, like signal a waiter or play silly games). I thought it was clever.

That said, the situation where someone ordered a $12 entree while someone else ordered a $36 one was solved when everyone paid in cash -- you just throw in your portion. It was only when everyone was trying to pay by card that this became an issue (which Venmo and ilk addressed).

People claiming that paying different amounts is some kind of "modern" problem are just ignorant of history -- everyone paying by card and splitting a bill being difficult is the modern problem.
OFDM is orthogonal to PSK (hah). PSK is a modulation--a way of representing bits on a carrier wave. Another type of modulation is QAM. OFDM is a way of combining multiple sub-carriers (each modulated with PSK or QAM) into one signal in order to deal with multi-path distortion: https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hsinmu/courses/_media/wn_11fall....
The only time I hear about it is when people on HN say everyone uses it.
Yes. Crash-course complexity theory:

This is easy to understand with integer factorization: It is very hard to factor large integers. Yet, if I where to give you two numbers, it is very easy to verify that their product is the integer you where looking at. So factorization is easy to verify, but hard to do (side-note: This is an intentional illustrative simplification. Integer factorization is not known to actually be "hard" and it is not known whether "hard" is even a thing. See below).

And that's the definition of an NP problem: It has a polynomial time deterministic algorithm to verify a solution.

An NP-complete problem is a problem that is at least as hard as any NP problem. That is, if you have an algorithm for an NP-complete problem, you can take any NP problem, transform it efficiently into that problem, use your algorithm and transform the solution efficiently back. Thus, if you've solved an NP-complete problem efficiently, you can solve all NP problems efficiently. TSP is NP-complete. Whether or not Integer Factorization is NP-complete is unknown.

Lastly, there is the question of whether there are problems that are in NP (that is, have a polynomial algorithm to verify a solution) but not in P (that is, have a polynomial algorithm to find a solution). That's the famous P vs. NP question, which is currently undecided.
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Are you really comparing brain surgery with "let's write another CRUD app"? Every field you mentioned is licensed for a reason. Your Angular app isn't going to kill anyone, and 99% of devs will never touch anything safety critical.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829956
Thanks for adding detail! I haven't delved as much as I'd like into the field, so I appreciate any info I can get. However, I'd love if you could throw some references for some of these points.

Personally, I'd love to have to have natural regrowth as a more viable option (though I also like the idea of cybernetic enhancement). For example, I have soft teeth and have had an issue maintaining their health without dental work my whole life. If anybody could ever make that such a non-issue as I might be able to have my dentin and enamel regrown, I'd be soooo happy.
>none of the frameworks allows you to get up and running as quickly as Rails

Nearly every single PHP framework is faster and more intuitive to deploy than Ruby on Rails.
>> Look around the economy, and it’s striking how much high-talent manpower is devoted to activities that cannot possibly increase human welfare, but entail competition for the available economic pie. Such activities have become ubiquitous: [...] [such as] real-estate services that facilitate the exchange of already-existing assets

It would be nice if top financial regulators didn't believe that trade was a zero-sum activity. The belief is many thousands of years old, but it's never been, you know, true. The vast majority of all value is created through the exchange of already-existing assets.
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame once suggested this intriguing theory of Bitcoing being the work of a benevolent post-singularity AI: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/103051092096/how-the-robots-wil...

While perhaps not particularly likely I think he does have point. What better way to slowly but steadily as well as clandestinely introduce beneficial changes to human society than to create a decentralised currency in order to influence financial markets and the flow of capital?
I don't think any of my friends use snapchat...and yet...
Interac e-Transfers took 10+ min and cost me $1.50 every time I've used them. They're absolute garbage compared to Venmo.

I actually use Venmo in Canada with friends that have US bank accounts because it's still more convenient even having to calculate the exchange rate.
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>Look, writing software is a trade. If you're not getting satisfaction from the act of creating something and doing a good job of it, even if that something is less "amazing" than you were hoping it would be, you probably need a different career.

Maybe. I've been doing this for about 12 years now and, if I were writing typical IT/web dev stuff, I'd move to a different field. Most software is just boring and unrewarding, the money wouldn't keep me if the interest fell away (though I have a family to consider at this point, but that's beside the point.)
Changing my lifestyle on my own won't accomplish anything. We need governments to stop subsidizing fossil fuels and start pushing renewables.

Since most governments are at least somewhat responsive to the thoughts and desires of their people, convincing people that climate change is real and man made is actually a pretty good way to do something about the problem.

Right now, the single largest obstacle to combating climate change is the US government's refusal to join with the rest of the world in doing so. That in turn is a direct consequence of the fact that a big chunk of the American electorate either thinks climate change is a hoax or is a natural phenomenon.
I agree with you and I'm not saying "delete your fucking project" is constructive criticism.

But, if an internet stranger says "delete your fucking project" and you take that personally there's no one to blame for your suffering than yourself.

Also, _Marak_'s paternalistic comment would make sense with a group of 10 year olds, but we are all adults here.
And this is still quite questionable, we should not be enabling it.
People might be less inclined to change it. And they should change it, because some firm knowing your password isn't safe either.
I asked a question because I want to start a debate, which is quite different.
Down to the cent and quite often those that are picky are just cheap not poor.
> Yes, clearly Adair Turner hasn't thought about this much.

The staggering assertion that "facilitat[ing] the exchange of already-existing assets" is an activity "that cannot possibly increase human welfare" suggests that you're right about this, however much you may have thought you were being sarcastic.
I'm looking at this table of applications, but one application is mysteriously missing: Search. What kind of ML is Google using in its engine?
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I've heard there's a West Coast/East Coast divide when it comes to Venmo with it being much more popular on the east coast.
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I dunno, quant is taking over short term trading and reducing volatility. Computers are automating fintech and rote legal work. It took awhile, but the free market is working things out. No need for government interference.

If government wants to get involved, they should replace wealth generating income taxes with taxes on planet destroying consumption.
Metal detectors don't (typically) detect body jewelery so I don't think they are very useful in a clinical setting since they'd have to detect that sort of thing.

Source: I have a bunch of body jewelery and been through a bunch of metal detectors and never set any off.
Very interesting, I was thinking just an hour ago that IPFS would be perfect for references in academic literature, as it's immutable and always available.
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You should add them to IPFS, it sounds ideal for your use case.
Yes, there's an echo of Marx and Veblen here, but this becoming a big part of the economy is a recent phenomenon. It's a result of having vast manufacturing capacity.

Basic fact: for thousands of years, the big problem was making (or growing, catching, or mining) enough stuff. In the 20th century, that problem started to be solved. By the second half of the 20th century, the leading industrial nations had it solved. Then Asia caught up - Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, and finally China. China was the big one, being a huge country. Suddenly there was overcapacity in almost everything.

Now, as I write occasionally, it just doesn't take that many people to make all the stuff. It's now possible to have a successful economy with a huge non-productive underclass. Economics and politics haven't caught up with this yet.
Like the saying that to make money on Forex one should give lectures how to make money on Forex.
Scarce rain, leaky pipes combining to dry up much of Italy
Those boxes are a screening violation of the stated TLS aims and should not be pandered to.
I was also thinking that the connection terminator would only let legacy clients use the legacy endpoint, at at least known-non-legacy clients would be forced to communicate with the TLS 1.3 endpoint.
Inflation is one of those issues that nobody ever seems to see eye to eye on. The best example IMO, is that if those policies were actually effective then you wouldn't see this nationwide desire to increase the minimum wage. That happens because the wage people were previously earning buys less...which creates a cycle of more policy, more inflation, etc.
How do they achieve reproducibility with python and some other languages which include timestamps and such?
Tldr
ISP's like spectrum discourage dispatching techs and opt for customer setup. And every model they give you has an 'admin/admin' or 'admin/password' setup.
I think the difference here is that someone buying Ubiquiti is knowingly getting a slightly more in depth initial setup.

Your grandma is getting a Comcast router and probably doesn't know it can be logged into and configured or how to do it.
I commend and salute the author for having the courage to express this internal conflict for the world to see.

That being said, many others here have said that the enterprises have plenty of alternatives to circumvent TLS 1.3 without it being backdoored in the first place, but they don't want to expend dollars and man-hours to do so, thus they exaggerate the issue and try to hijack the discussion to another area.

I am sincerely hopeful it won't work.
You old? (=

I am.

My neighbor's kid introduced me to it. Now I can't live without it. Being able to pay my maid or gardener when I'm not home... priceless. I never carry cash or a wallet any more. Slip an ID card in my phone case... good to go.
Isn't this game solved by game theory?
It was intended as an innocent tongue-in-cheek joke, not to insult or vandalise. In that, I've failed completely. I can see that now.

I'm closing the pull request with an apology.
The idea of "zero-sum" economic activity sounds sort of plausible. And it feels like there's a lot of truth to it, but when I think about it harder I find it really difficult to nail down what that actually means.

Most of the examples given in the article are of things that you could argue provide a sort of "infrastructure" service: Legal services allow businesses to have confidence in their contracts, financial trading serves to allocate resources efficiently, advertising solves the problem of discovering new goods and services.

Yes, I know that sounds like a crazy optimistic view of these industries, but how do you know which parts are useful and which aren't? Do we know it's even possible to remove the useless parts and keep the important ones?

It seems to me that one interesting definition of "value of this activity" would be: How many other activities depend on it? By that particular definition, any activity that provides some sort of "infrastructure" would be particularly valuable.
I've recently been enjoying a series of word-history videos on the YouTube "alliterative" channel. They're very detailed: https://www.youtube.com/user/Alliterative so if you like this kind of article check those videos out. Although, I have to admit to a certain sadness that comes with being reminded that there's no "correct English," and given enough years the language I speak will be considered archaic or worse.
Our irrational prioritization of public spending is seriously disheartening.

On one hand we have ITER, an international ~$20B R&D investment that pays dividends even if it fails - and America's 10% commitment is rightly seen as politically uncertain.

On the other hand, American's almost take for granted that we must spend $300B every year on war in the Middle East - for inarticulable and unquestionable reasons.

Imagine where we would stand if we turned just 10% of that fraction of our total military budget towards advanced R&D... commercialized fusion would literally revolutionize the world, and the technology would be an irresistibly compelling diplomatic carrot (esp. in the Middle East, in the form of cheap desalination)
Well, crap. It was a 4am post, and too late to edit now.
These solutions can literally all be programmed. There is almost no way Bitcoin maintains the 21 million static cap by the time the mining reward is gone
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I use Venmo without a Facebook account. Works fine.
Agreed, but even modest fungibility of wealth and power (which happens almost by definition) makes any such solution fragile.

The technological approach is more interesting to me. If you can make distributed manufacturing efficient enough that a single person or group of people can own the capital needed to sustain themselves, you place a lower limit on the extent to which market-based social contract regression can harm a population. Alternatively, from the capitalist angle: companies that directly trade goods for labor are in a unique position to profit from a glut of labor that is not competitive on the global market.

This isn't a new idea. We call them communes. They have a well deserved reputation for being a shitshow. Probably because what they're trying to do -- boil a globe-spanning sprawl of infrastructure and trade down to an acceptable MVP -- is really, really hard. Unlike the world economy, though, that difficulty is a function of technology, rather than politics. Technology improves over time. Politics does not. Which means there's probably going to be a crossing point. I haven't the faintest clue when. I do my (tiny) part by contributing to "industrial" open source projects (mechanical and electrical modeling and simulation), which sorely need any attention they can get, regardless the underlying philosophy.
https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
Sometimes by eliminating the timestamps (don't put __DATE__ and __TIME__ in C code, for instance), but when that isn't possible:

https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
The girls on tinder jokingly ask for it in their profiles.
However:

* the "multiply p value by ten" rule would exclude the main results (but not some well known findings)

* paper does not have much discussion of context or past results

* paper does not have any scatter plots or show individual data at all for the primary results; there are scatter plots under additional files for oxidation vs. lean body mass and vs. fat mass and 24 hour energy expenditure vs fat mass

* there is no discussion of the possibility that the small additional calories could have had the same effect even if not sugar

* there is no discussion of the possibility that gut microbial response to the non-sugar drink might cause the differences they see

* a conflicting study used a different artificial sweetener

* the study did not test if the same SSB vs NNSB given at non-meal times would have a similar or different effect

* also all the limitations mentioned in the study

* this is a basic research study, not something directly applicable to real life; if you aren't doing extensive research in the area then drawing any conclusions from this one paper is unlikely to be helpful

Of course, considering the study in connection with the rest of the literature is likely to address some of these considerations and it may be a valuable contribution. Saying "very likely to be correct" does not sound accurate to me.

Since fructose is suspect, comparing trehalose vs. sucrose would be interesting.
Yes, plus a network namespace with its own IP and limits to memory/CPU/IO.
How liquid/easy to trade are these bonds compared to Bitcoin, which I can spend and exchange for USD in minutes?
It was. Just not Silicon Valley the show.
As interesting as I find the current state of deep learning to be, there is something about random forests that I can't help but find much more cool. Probably the amazing out-of-box performance.
Click on 'recent' to see the others. The 'trending' view is sorted by number of stars (likes?) so most well knows products seem to win. (Or everybody just submits their own and doesn't bother liking any others.)
Let it load all the way. Was happening to me, but once the page fully loads the article becomes full size.
I wasn't talking about games at all. I was talking about input lag, which for TVs as displays manifests in some negative effects, most notably mouse lag.

Many TVs have a mode to reduce this lag and turn off other processing effects that are undesirable when playing games, and that tends to map well to the settings that make for a good computer display experience.
I have had regular dinner with friends who liked to eat and drink a lot. Much more than I do. So I always ended up paying $50 while I myself consumed for maybe $20. Not once did any of the people who ate a lot notice that there were several people on the table who consumed only a fraction of what they consumed. Sharing is fine but I think it needs to be approximately even. You can't have people constantly taking advantage of this system and then accusing others of being cheap.
Just another data point, everyone in my group of friends and even friends of friends uses Venmo. We're in our early 30s, many in tech and live in California.
Sorry, I don't believe your statement to be correct.

When using an algorithm with perfect forward secrecy, you negotiate an encryption key for the session with the remote endpoint. The CA's are used just to authenticate the endpoints in the key exchange.

This is the reason for the complaint, with forward secrecy, even if you compromise a CA key, you still can't decrypt any traffic.
Totally agree. From my experience the people who get offended are the ones that eat and drink the most.
ER-XG is quite far from home WiFi router though :)

UBNT's new-ish home router series (AmpliFi) doesn't have default username/password- it needs to be set-up before using. I do think it's possible to have an open-network default configuration, but the LCD will nag you to set-up the device, and the first step of the setup is choosing a password (both for management and WiFi).

Disclaimer: I work at UBNT.
It doesn't has as high an effect as saturated fat, no, but it still has a negative effect, and fact of the matter is that we need to consume zero dietary cholesterol, so every time we do, that is a negative action towards the goal of health.

Another thing to note is that often the case is that food that is high in cholesterol is also high in saturated fat, both things that affect ldl cholesterol levels in a negative way.
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Not sure where that number came from. I eat about 25/week. And of course it has other things. Veggies, meat, ...
in many places I have worked this petty attitude would get you marked as not a culture fit