skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison the median salary for dentists in Sweden is $51 500 [0]. The reason for the high salary in the US is not the expensive education ($100 000 extra per year buys a lot of education), it's the high income inequality [1]. The expensive health care with few incentives to lower the prices of course helps.

[0] http://www.lonestatistik.se/loner.asp/yrke/Tandlakare-1241

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
'Attention merchants' milking 'data cows' and reselling ...perfect...
How is that less safe then playing the car's stereo? I have one in my ear at a reasonable volume when driving with others so they don't have to listen to my Geeky podcast or music.
Comparing the 1/4"-20 tripod mount to the 1/8" TRRS jack isn't a great comparison.

The tripod mount has been a standard for decades and decades.

The phone headphone jack fractured into competing standards years ago. Works fine for listening, but once you want to use a microphone you're dealing with different pinouts for different manufacturers, balkanized auto detection and signaling, incompatible plugs sizing, grounding issues with the phone case, etc. It wasn't a pristine situation when Apple left it behind.
Mostly for the same reason a Swedish bus driver gets paid 50x an equivalent Indian one does. Protectionism. Most of the "free world" relies on this practice of immigration control to keep wages high. You really don't want a free market unless you're from a poor country.
The at-will clause in your employment contract is one of MANY terms with rather far-reaching legal implications.

But for example you almost certainly have a moonlighting clause with specific rules. You have invention disclosure and ownership with rules. These represent binding contracts between you and your employer, often with rules around conflict resolution that are also legally binding.
Erlang/OTP 20.1 is released
It's especially barbaric considering this policy leads to more sickness in the workplace by encouraging contagious people to come in and infect everyone else.

Now you must spend your own time recovering from illness that your employer was the primary cause of. That's brilliant right there. U-freakin-S-A.
Yes, they were extremely clear on the criteria they used: the CEOs emotional state.

“Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision.“

https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to...
It was the 6s which I mistakenly read as the 7s.

http://pricebaba.com/mobile/pricelist/apple-price-list

My bad.
Ask HN: With an MBA (Operations) what can I major in to be a data scientist?
I like programming and am interested in what I can do with Python and R.

What fields can I study in the university that best use these skills?

Given that I'm not a math major, so statistics is probably off the table. MIS (management information systems) seems interesting, but I'm not sure about that.

Any kind of help is kindly appreciated.
Beyond that, the organization they're in sets the priorities; how is it going to fix anything if the engineers are on the hook for Equifax leaks but they still have the same (presumably not very security-conscious) managers?
I’m not sure what threat model you’re proposing. If an attacker has control of your computer or the keybase app, then yes, it’s game over. But encryption removes the hosting entity as what would otherwise be a single point of failure. If you hack keybase the organization, you don’t immediately get access to everyone’s everything (in contrast with Equifax). An attacker would need to infiltrate the codebase and then release a malicious version to everyone that makes their apps decrypt/reroute/whatever the data.
I think you would make a stronger case if you actually provided any arguments. There's literally nothing complicated about using a hardware wallet. It is a well documented, well thought out procedure that shields people from 99% of the reasons people lose their money (lost keys, theft, exchange bankruptcy, hack etc.).

I'm really curious to hear what's the rationale behind your post. Please elaborate.
If you work full time you sign an agreement which contains contractual obligations. The fact that employment is 'at-will' doesn't really change this fact or characterization.
Was thinking about this the other day: in big companies SWE individual contributors are the new line workers. Large enterprise ends up trying to manage them with business metrics goals without much visibility into the process issues that hamper overall quality or the production efficiency. Has anybody thought to apply the Toyota Production System in Engineering management?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
I love that book, but just to warn people getting into it - it is very dense. Definitely worth it, but don't expect to zip through it.
Yes, this section hasn't previously been reported or commented on. I wonder if this is essentially an opt-in to add your face to the FaceID master dataset[0], or if it is to just allow the developers to see what issues users are having (and how frequently).

[0] - It's previously been reported (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/interview-apples-craig-fed...) that Apple collected this dataset at great expense. The ATP podcast has an account of someone who took part of that data collection here: https://overcast.fm/+CdQoBnmk/1:15:23
The industrial revolution began with the textile industry. Before the revolution,
we knew who made our underwear. Now we don't care.

Programming is going the same way. Today, most of it is just manual labor.
The changing profile of the work force reflects that.

Creativity and experience will still be needed, but the workforce providing
them will be a minority. (Just like fashion designers are a minority in the
textile industry today.)
As an additional note: I strongly recommend storing these keys securely offline. With these keys someone can replicate your 2FA generator, so you really want it not hackable.

Paper in a fireproof safe is excellent for these sorts of things, or a safety deposit box.
Yes, I was guessing they meant to say it had dedicated bass AND tweeter (which is presumably only noteworthy given the smaller size, as the old Echo has both[1] - and the Dot doesn't [2]).

1: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Echo+Teardown/33953

2: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Echo+Dot+Teardown/613...
Flash memory, wow.

I'm almost certain my first digital camera wrote to floppies.
> Your solution is certainly better than nothing, but it relies on people having actually used Signal to talk to each other in the past.

Well, it is trying to incentivise Signal² usage:-)

> It also appears to involve a lot of P2P coordination.

Not necessarily a huge amount, I think — folks could SMS/email stuff as well as trade contacts face to face, depending on their risk preferences.

> it does leak your address book to all of your friends

Only where there are overlaps: since it's private set intersection, Alice & Bob only see their mutual acquaintances, not other folks. But yes, the mutual-thereapist issue exists. Presumably an expert mode might enable folks to whitelist/blacklist particular contacts when they're added.

Certainly, there are ways in which this approach is worse & more complex than the current Signal approach, but it is better in another way: it preserves privacy from Signal (and its hosting provider, and Intel, and any government which can coërce Signal, its hosting provider and/or Intel into subverting security).
How to Pitch and Get Your App Reviewed – Advice from an Ex-TNW Writer
I'd say that safety certainly has a price point where people will change their minds, even if they don't want to admit it.
Context (too busy getting physics done today to expound further, except to state that I presently agree with LIGO):

https://www.wired.com/story/strange-noise-in-gravitational-w...
EDIT: I just realized you were talking about a hypothetical wave, and not the particular one here, so my comment below doesn't actually address your question :)

I am not an astrophysicist, but was also wondering the same thing.

Gravitational waves move at the speed of light. Here is a graph showing the wavelength of gravitational waves from various sources

http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~teviet/Waves/gwave_spectrum.ht...

The Ligo sensitivity range is about 10^6 meters. The speed of light is about 3*10^8 m/s. So peak to trough a few hundred per second. Much higher frequency than earthquake.
You are being facetious. Problematic is subjective.

Here is a simple comparison. Jews are problematic to nazis. Nazis are problematic to jews.

Feminism is problematic to chauvanists. Chauvanists are problematic to feminist.

You see the problem with problematic right?
As a user, internal or not, I strongly wish that your app WOULD lose its identity. I don't want your app to have a separate identity; I want it to look and feel exactly like everything else I already know how to use, so I don't have to waste any additional time getting familiar with it. I don't want "something interesting", I want "a tool to get my job done", and the more you try to push a brand and make your app distinctive, the harder it is for me to plow past all that and get to what I really want to do.
It's a competitive move; it gives Apple and their users a bragging point, causing competition an expensive countermove. Competition has to move to depth sensor cameras and more on their phones, while Apple is reducing the expense and improving the quality of theirs. The Face ID tech is immature today, but a quarter or three? The quarter after that once support issues have had a few cycles, and the Face ID team has iterated, refactored and refreshed... This is a basic tech deployment they'll only improve.

The real question to me, a person in the FR industry, will Apple iterate their camera hardware and extend the perception depth range to be competitive in the larger FR surveillance industry? The general FR industry has to recognize multiple people at a distance, and then IoT-like control other hardware, a game Apple is not touching with Face ID - yet.
The state is data either way... either an explicit variable or the program counter. With goto, the compiler is more likely to be able to see across state change boundaries (e.g. phi() will work correctly without doing anything fancy). So you can, e.g., have the compiler help you out by giving you warnings for uninitialized variables, when the variables are initialized in one state and used in another.
> If the workers in a factory are paid 5x as much as 15 years ago, the lorry driver taking the goods to the shop is paid 5x as much, the shop assistants are paid 5x as much, etc, etc then the goods sold in the shop are pretty much going to have to cost 5x more than they used to.

I think that is not necessarily true in all cases: Not every cost scales the same way. If the operation depends on human labor, such as in the food industry, then that would be true. The human cost in many operations going up up 5x, yet the iPhone and the xray machine cost the same pretty much everywhere in this world. It is cheaper to obtain and use an iPhone in the US than it is in, say China.

How much does the machine is factored in as part of the bill in the US?
TigerGraph benchmarks: 4x-100x faster than Neo4J, Titan [pdf]
It'll just encourage companies to rewrite all their software as one line of Perl.
Not at all noteable, but the company I work for (Cego) has in house staff for the company cafeteria. I don't know their salary, but they basically have the same perks we do, if slightly less flexible hours.

The massage therapist is a contractor, but she runs her own business.
Who is making 3/4 million? ((polishing resume))
That's if they're interested in looking at your phone for a particular reason, rather than randomly being nosy in a traffic stop.
32-64gb RAM. That alone is why I haven't upgraded my now 5+ yr old MacBook Pro.
Funnily enough, the past two XKCD comics are both relevant here:
https://xkcd.com/1894/
https://xkcd.com/1895/
So we need to write more code to make fancy Photoshop-like editors for the average-Joe programmer who can't see the big picture? That just adds more to the code issue - even Photoshop has bugs you know.

The fact that "Few programmers write even a rough sketch of what their programs will do before they start coding" is a soft-skills/experience issue that isn't specific to software. I too can use Photoshop to draw logos, maps, and diagrams, but I'm pretty sure someone out there who uses Photoshop professionally knows a lot more tricks within Photoshop and sees the bigger picture of what they want to create before starting. I generally free-hand my drawings, as opposed to the structured outlining most professional artists do.
There are so many explanations on blockchains out there and the only one that made really sense to me was: https://anders.com/blockchain/

Watch the video, play with the examples and suddenly everything will make sense.
Immigration control is not only about the job market.
There is a real "ahistorical turn" where people do not read about the past. And if there is a lesson of history, it is that people do not learn from history.

Unfortunately there is an "event horizon" in that text after 1970-something was born digital (most newspapers starting using word processors in that decade) but earlier text has to be digitized at great cost.

For instance I roll my eyes at the A.I. safety discussions today that are ignorant of the similar discussions circa 1970, especially the inane "double-exponential" idea.

Also, Enron was preceeded by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_Funding

in which somebody programmed a 360 to generate hundreds of thousands of fake life insurance policies.
Your lavish perk apparently, is that you get to get milked for free.
It doesn't have to stick out - think two ridges on the underside, but the whole bottom is still flat.
"No, it doesn't."

Yes, it tangibly and demonstrably does. It means that the process of establishing/asserting your identity is much harder, since now there's someone else running around with the credentials normally used to assert said identity. You now need to spend time and money invalidating whatever credentials you can and hoping that the ones you can't invalidate aren't actually compromised.

If someone manages to get your Gmail password and use it to send spam, you're still a victim of cybercrime, even though you weren't necessarily a victim of the spamming.

Same thing here. Someone is using your credentials (like SSN and other identifiers) to defraud someone else. Even though you're not the direct victim of that fraud, you're still a victim of identity theft, since your credentials were compromised and used by someone else.
I am mainly trying to point out a common and dangerous philosophical error.

Arguing for creating a cult because it is beneficial on its own is reasonable (although I'd argue it's wrongheaded). Arguing for it on the basis of it being natural is wrong. All sorts of terrible things have been justified this way. Slavery, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech

And when you say "vices" I'm not sure who you're quoting, but it's not me. Those are just natural features of the human organism. My point is exactly that they're not intrinsically good or bad. It's in how we structure our society to use them.
I have been considering medical tourism for this reason. But moreover, I see doctors responding to the strangulation of the sector by insurance companies by offering less care for more money. I can go to Costa Rica and get a lot of things sorted for a fraction of the costs and many of the doctors are trained in the US anyway.
As someone who frequents many tech sites I can't remember hearing the name "Essential" in relation to phones before today. I don't know what sites you frequent, but they're apparently different than Hacker News, Ars, or even Slashdot.
Can't you radiate potential gravitational energy as gravitational waves without any sort of particle changes, because potential gravitational energy is stored in the configuration of the system?

If I drop my bowling ball, it has lower potential energy, but can't some of that be compensated for by the Earth-ball system radiating a gravitational wave (rather than all being converted into kinetic energy)?

Similarly, don't orbiting bodies emit gravitational waves? I forget the exact dynamics, but the way that they drag just a little bit as they orbit creates waves that radiate power out of the system -- I think the Sun and Jupiter radiate something like 55 watts of gravitational waves.

If you take two things that are each tens of times larger than the Sun and set them spinning an appreciable amount of the speed of light very nearby -- to the point they eventually collide -- it's not surprising they emit quite a bit more than our solar system.

Think of it this way:

Two large objects start orbiting slowly far apart. But because they're large and the system is big, they have a lot of orbital momentum.

They pull each other close, but as they get closer, that orbital momentum has nowhere to dissipate, so they orbit faster and faster!...

...Except that because they're so massive, they slightly tug space around with them as they orbit. And because they're orbiting so fast, space doesn't have a good way to smooth itself out. So some of the momentum from the heavy things spinning far apart gets stored in wrinkles in space as they come together.

Which then radiates away from there to us, ...and slightly stretches one direction of reality as it passes by. Which we detect by measuring how long two perpendicular lines are very accurately a few different places on a nearly spherical object.

...So you can model it as just the way that mass interacts with spacetime if you remember to include things like the distribution of your mass as a source of potential energy that can itself be used to generate gravitational waves. However, this does not make the whole situation any less weird to explain.

Reports just tend to convert the amount of energy released through mechanisms like that in terms of mass, because it's the only thing vaguely comprehensible. (eg, 3 suns)
To save people a few clicks:

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pingali/CS378/2008sp/papers/...
An excellent framing I saw recently was "I can tell the people who write these articles don't actually want secure code, because they aren't paying me to write it."

There's plenty of carefully-written, rigorously-tested code out there. Want to write software for air travel, drug manufacturing, or space flight? You'll have no choice but to write safe, first-rate code.

Want a smartphone weather app written to those standards? Well, for $50 and a feature set five years behind the state of the art, you can have it.
Not even just that - depends on how the training data was gathered
Does this bad boy have any chance of working when viewing from China? For what I understand content behind Cloudflare CDN doesn't work from there.
After seeing the results of US politics in the last year, the AI would be foolish to keep us around it should be pretty apparent that we cannot be trusted especially en masse.
US Intelligence Unit Was Blocked from Tracking Terrorists
How we built a managed full mesh and transit VPC VPN for AWS
If they can.

See "Verified by Visa", where if used you (the CC holder) are liable for fraud that occurs within that transaction.
There Was One Arrest for Drug Possession Every 25 Seconds in 2016
I can't help but think of the irony of mentioning IBM in your comparison to Microsoft considering Microsoft indirectly bankrolled, via BayStar, the SCO lawsuit against IBM for the alleged violations of IBM's Unix licenses in the development of Linux code at IBM.
You've also described the foundation of the modern video game industry.
Definitely, rocket.chat. It's a proper opensource company and their mobile app could use a lot of love.
Nicely (back of) napkinned!
Pattern matching is so much sexier than switch statements.

Writing state machines is one of the moments when the 1d top-down method of programming really hurts. I feel like I can easily understand an FSM drawing, but splay it out in code and it's difficult to track.
Ah I see thanks!
That isn't taking into account how frequent relative to all such target objects an attack occurs. If a (much?) smaller percentage of houses get burglarized vs. number of phones broken into, then security requirements are not really comparable. (Note that I have zero idea of or even guess for the sizes of either, though.)
Yes, it does. Docker abstracts away the network and the filesystem.

There are many way to write logs, to files, to syslog, to unix socket, to stdout, to UDP sockets. Docker screws with most of them.
Trust me, it's worse when you do get paged a lot. I was on call last week, away from my family, in a different time zone, shackled to my $#@! laptop 24/7 like you say. I'm not going to put varnish on this turd. It bites. You should be doing everything you can to make it better, such as fixing alerts that fire too often or developing tools that make it easier to diagnose and fix problems quickly even when you're half asleep (or the next person is half trained).

That said, here's my one SUPER IMPORTANT piece of advice: trust your team. Trust the people on other teams when you're working on a problem. They all know the pain just like you do. They're all trying to get through it just like you are. Ask for help early and often. Even if you are imposing on someone else, trust that they won't hate you forever and you'll get a chance to pay it back.

Even for an introvert like me, those are calming thoughts. Even if some it's not really true, believing it while you're in the moment will help remove one huge source of stress and let you focus on the problem at hand. You can always come back later and evaluate whether the teamwork was as good as it should be. Usually it does turn out to be.

P.S. Also, a little humor goes a long way.
Sounds like an OSHA issue. Open office plans plus stingy or non-existent sick leave policies now provably cause hazardous work places.
Durable goods (especially from the same manufacturer) cost about the same across the world.
That 10^74 should have been 10^47, shouldn't it?

So it's "only" a million billions (10^15) tsar bombas (10^15) every second (10^17, 15+15+17=47).
better for who.. or what?
Uber will shut down US car-leasing business
Yeah, that's bullshit, sorry.
i think it goes beyond notable companies. almost all companies in California that hire cafeteria workers, security guards, cleaning staff, building maintenance, and/or landscape staff hire from the same underclass.

the article could just as accurately call it "California's underclass"
I wonder how much of this is just money?

Do you really need a team full of 40-50 year old people making big money, or is a couple of them plus a bunch of junior people good enough? It saves you money, the expensive people train the young ones to do the job well and make sure nothing gets screwed up badly.

Seems like the nature of the job somewhat dictates that competition will increase drastically as you move up in experience.