skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a good university with an ok EE dept in a very bad location, and didn’t look for assistantship.

But based on what I have seen, look for universities / departments that are well funded for research (I don’t know how you can get that info), which often means more assistantship opportunities.

Getting an RA/TA can also be competitive but since you have some work experience, it depends on how well you market your experience to fit the RA/TA role.
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Not really. From TFA:

> The "subscriber link" mechanism, suggested by our readers, has become one of our most powerful marketing tools. All told, it is not a model that has made any of us rich, but working for LWN is not an exercise in poverty anymore either.
Linus "being an asshole" is what drew attention to this issue. His caustic nature is marketing of a sort.

It's clearly putting additional pressure on Intel. How you feel about that depends on how you feel about them furiously trying to sweep everything under the carpet and hoping nobody notices.

Personally I think his humiliation of Intel here is putting necessary pressure on them. If he couched his terms and tried to be "nice" about this they wouldn't feel nearly the same pressure.
Embrace it. Let's burn the world and rebuild. And replace it with our own unjust systems, ad infinitum.

It's worth doing. The big will screw the small just because they can. But this always happens, everywhere. How does it feel being a slave to a paycheck and a career? It's such an ingrained concept that few people question why businesses are allowed to extract 10 hours of your life five days a week. That's time you won't ever get back, and for what? Money? To do what? You won't reach that three million mark. And those who have three million can kick back and live off $125k/yr returns with no effort.

The whole system, everywhere, is fucked. And it's hard to restrain disgust for it.
Don't forget that 8h workday actually lasts 9h if you count in a lunch break. Sure, you don't work technically, but depending on a situation (which is the case more often than not from my personal experience), this hour still might be crossed out of your life.
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It says in the article

She knew the arrest was coming. She'd already lost her job, because traces of the app known as Bylock were found on her phone.
Would this be bad faith?

Assume no fix is available, at least for existing processors, that doesn't result in reduced performance. What should Intel do?

- Force users to take the performance hit?

- Let users decide whether to take the performance hit in exchange for security?
One can fail with or without a degree.
One can succeed with or without a degree.

It's almost as if success and failure can't be assured by anything. Color? Gender? Age? Upbringing? Education? Field? None of that guarantees success or failure.
Only listening to current users for feature requests is selection bias.

I'm not currently using rust, and lack of a repl is a big strike against it. Not as much of a strike as the lack of a good stable async story, but still.
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In that case it was a jobs program (to help construct roads) and the rationale against it was that they were extending beyond their purview of what the commission was meant to do.
> The article makes it sound like there's collusion or price-fixing between galleries, but there's no evidence of that.

I would say that a gallery bidding on an auction because they have an interest in increasing the transaction price of pieces being sold by an art dealer connected to them is a textbook example of collusion (as opposed to bidding because they want to own the piece).

As usual free market fundamentalists will disagree that this is wrong in any way.
Not necessarily. I don’t have an aesthetic fondness for Klimt’s Lady In Gold [1]. Its history, however, is fascinating.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Baue...
> If I trust the entity that put it into the blockchain, then I believe so. Wait, why did I need a blockchain for that?

99.9% of these "trust ledger" ideas have this problem.
Sure but this dynamic is always true for all markets for things. You're just loosely describing a Keynesian beauty contest.

At the core there's still someone or some group of people making some kind of fundamental aesthetic valuation. It's really more the severe lack of liquidity and impossibility of commoditizing of the market that creates the effect you're seeing.
Hi Adam,

Thanks for the point! In this case I meant more the situation that the same service (single service, single DB) might be running with more than one version concurrently (during a rolling deployment, or a canary deployment etc) which can lead to issues. The other case is that if services depend on an old contract there could be times where teams might run multiple versions of a service to allow different APIs to be used, rather than a single version of the service which exposes all current compatible APIs. Although to be honest, this is an issue with any service.
Well, declaring untraced references in Modula-3 or Active Oberon, or doing native heap allocations in Nim, D, Java and C# is relatively simple.

Using GC languages doesn't mean doing 100% memory allocation via GC.
I don't think so. I think the everyday experience for female academics still lags behind that of male academics. If you're an undergrad in an unfamiliar hard class it can be tricky to approach a male fellow student without risking misinterpretation of romantic interest; if you're applying to grad school, letter writers are conditioned to talk about women in different ways ("diligent", not "brilliant", maybe); if you're a grad student choosing an advisor, you never really know if the (probably guy) you're choosing has predatory instincts underneath (most don't but enough do); if you're presenting work at a conference, navigating after-conference social activities while being awkwardly hit on gets old fast.

This comes from me talking to friends who are women in CS. It made me realize that as a dude in CS I have an interesting advantage of not being noticed when I walk into a room.

The field has made progress but there are still real frictions that make the everyday experience worse for women, even if the balance has shifted during the big decisions. So it may shake out as an advantage when applying for faculty positions or grad schools, but it's probably not an advantage the rest of the time. I don't think the former compensates very well for the latter.
In the old days you could have just made an empty file and renamed it with a .com extension, and it would have executed.
I've been working on a number of microservice projects and have found them to at times be wonderful, at times frustrating. All in all I think it's just a case of YMMV, that with or without can be fine, as long as the decision making is sane :)
Rust does want to have a big battery. There have been works about promoting some crates as "the" tool to handle certain tasks. See the rust cookbook[0].

Rust is against pulling it in the standard library because that forces them to make additional stability guarantees. When you do that, you end up like python's `urllib`/`urllib2` situation.

[0] https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/
Yes but whats the process? Were traces of the app found by her employer? Are employers searching employees phones?
STEM positions have a long pipeline with appreciable attrition along the way. Any losses upstream propagate down stream so it's somewhat obvious that we'd have less women in physics national lab positions if we have less women studying physics in general.

People need to address the issue at each stage of the pipeline. I would argue that early stage imbalances are even more important than late stage imbalances (post-graduate) because upstream imbalances necessarily propagate downstream but not vice versa.
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I did this as well for a bit. You get to the point when carrots, tomatoes and potatoes taste incredibly sweet and broccoli, if not murdered, tastes marvellous. I ended up growing a load of things.

Then there was a relapse :(
There are evidently few women in STEM and this data doesn't contradict that.

It's a consequence that hiring practices should favour women who are equally qualified on paper, because they have likely overcome more barriers in practice and, all other things being equal, are better hires.
But all stores don't have the data-storing and machine-learning capabilities of Amazon. Very possibly, a customer in an Amazon Go store will have images and distinct features of their physical likeness stored by Amazon and linked to their Amazon account. This is much different in spirit than Costco's security cameras, for example.
My point was that most of the comments focus on stuff that is already a "problem" with self-checkout (jobs, social interaction) and is not exclusive to Amazon Go.
There is indeed the impossibility to have a european silicon valley, as UK, France and Deutschland are basically competing to impose London, Paris or Berlin.

With Brexit impacting London, I think the fight will be more and more between Paris and Berlin. Paris being a true word capital, but Berlin being cheaper and more international, it's hard to predict which one will prevail.
Whats the English-speaking situation in these cities ?

Can you get by with just English for the first year and the first 10 employees ?
I wrote smaller programs with it for a Z80 home computer which originally didn't have C support. I didn't encounter bugs, but it's true that the code generation is less than optimal for Z80 when compared to manually written assembly (understandable because of the small register set), but the compiler supports mixing assembly and C very well, so no complains here :)
Ha, that bread, panis quadratus; the entire village where I grew up makes it like that, usually minus the string, but they cut it finely on the top, add the sun and all.

Who would have thought it's from Roman times.
Ask HN: Do you think MS from US univ will be made compulsory to get work permit?
Hello everyone,

2017 was full of news with Trump trying to curb immigration. Things escalated when he showed signs that he won't spare legal immigration as well. This was clear when he announced his intentions to curb legal immigration by 50%. More so when he targeted DREAMERs. Whether his bills pass through Congress or not, is next thing to consider. When Trump was campaigning, I took his promises with pinch of salt. Now, it looks like he's pretty serious about keeping his promises.

However, with his strict policies, I've a sinking filling that he might make a MS from US university a compulsory criteria for engineers to take up employment in US.

How many of HN readers think this is plausible & may happen? What are the chances that Congress may enact this proposal? Please back your educated guess with your thoughts & opinions.

Much grateful,
Concerned Engineer from India.
My understanding is that the primary use of antibiotics in farm animals is for more rapid animal growth, not to prevent visible symptoms of infection. (It's not clear why antibiotics promote growth, but it's possible they are suppressing minor asymptomatic infections that sap calories.)

In any case, the article is slightly misleading since the overlap between important human antibiotics and the widely used animal antibiotics is modest.

http://animalantibiotics.org/antibiotics-used-farm-animals/
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The article's tacit acknowledgment of the legitimacy of arresting people for having had the app installed at all is pretty off-colour as well.
Physics dominates, but it’s often too simple a model to be useful in diet planning. When you run things through the filter of the an incomprehensible machine like the Human brain and metabolic and hormonal pathways the system gets much more complicated and useful.

The non-caloric fibre content of food is vital to gut flora, whose importance we’re still discovering.

Different foods affect hunger differently. High fat foods are more satiating that sugar.

The body isn’t a bucket, it’s a donut which has the capacity to absorb some food through internal walls while the food slips through very slowly. If you drink a bottle of oil, you won’t get fat. You’ll just have very runny and uncomfortable stool for a while.
I am assuming data is shared by mobile operators to government. And then they fired everyone on that list and works at the government
And what do you want to tell us with your whataboutism?
Agreed - kind of - since even in Carcassonne (Original and South Seas edition) there are opportunities to 'steal' someone else's farming/fishing territory, which inevitably prompts my wife to call me a "meanie". But I still concur with the overall principle, that opportunities for attack/conflict in these games tend to be indirect and somewhat secondary.
I might be an optimist, but I still have hopes that humanity might free itself with from the grunt work with full robotic automation and AI, and switch to a universal basic income model to provide for the needs of the people.
Hello,

I am not a developer, but if I may share my humble knowledge here, I think the most common starting point is to reuse Ethereum standard. 50% of the new blockchain-based services being launched are using this standard... I advise you to read the white paper if you have not done it yet :)
I hope you’re not getting paid in BTC for your shill posts.
My whole attitude towards cryptocurrencies changed when I realized that intrinsic value literally didn't matter to the global rich, they're not interested in growth or value at all, only in security, and they'd be willing to pay a premium to store their wealth if it only means that they can control the risk.

Crypto can provide them with precisely that. The volatility of crypto is immaterial, what matters is that it's still around. The resilience of Bitcoin means that rich people can park wealth there. They can trust the protocol more than they can trust their nation's banks, their political institutions, and their social order.

Techies can make a nice side income arbitraging the scrambling of the global elite for a safe haven. It's the new Cayman Islands bank account, only now it's math keeping the filthy government's hands off your money, not the flimsy sham of sovereignty.
I also don't understand why the ticket machines don't use a QWERTY keyboard layout, makes it a real pain when you're trying to type in a station name in a rush.
Oh, I guarantee you that the Turkish government agrees wholeheartedly and would very much like to speak with the perpetrators.
> making a living as an artist is already hard enough!

Why should it be simpler? Why should anyone be able to "create" whatever he wants and decide that it be valuable for other people?
I would not get mad if Comcast didn't feel the need to transfer me 3-4 times before addressing my issue...
Yes, I did.

>For women without medical complications who can be served in either setting, the study concluded that midwife-directed prenatal and labor care results in equal or better outcomes for the mother and newborn.

Women with medical complications don't start at the birthing center to begin with. That's of course part of what I stated in the beginning that the data is corrected for at-risk patients. You compare the healthy people who choose birthing centers against the healthy people who go to hospitals. Unhealthy people only go to the hospitals, but they aren't counted against.
Ok sorry, initially I got the impression you were just repeating what you had read other people say about Mencken. And there was the unfortunate way you said it was a shame that comment was downvoted, the kind of crude, unsubstantiated, vitriolic one-liner always voted down on here, hate/poison in place of thought.

Addressing your first comment, I'm not sure what exactly it means by saying that Mencken's "personal interpretation was focused especially" on something, it's a vague expression. Perhaps it was, but claiming to be "pointing it out" is begging the question.

I don't think I've heard of the Weekly Standard, so that any particular thing is published in it or not isn't surprising to me. Why it isn't surprising to you, went without saying.

As did why my saying Nietzsche that was fond of Jesus was odd. I didn't say that anyway, I said he "seems" (i.e. seems to me) "very fond of Jesus". Like I said, one might expect the book to be filled with criticism of Jesus, but I don't recall a single thing against Jesus in the entire book. It's all about the perversion of Jesus' teachings by priests and the church. But it's been maybe 10 years since I last read it, I could be wrong about that.

Also where to read about racism in Nietzsche went without saying. There's people saying every possible thing about Nietzsche on the internet, perhaps you could have given a link or 2, instead of being so condescending.

I haven't read that Sheldon Wolin book, will have a look at it tomorrow, thanks. But I think claiming anything is a "balanced interpretation" of anything is odd, naïve rather; I don't know what that could mean except you agree with it.

Also I don't know what you mean exactly by saying Mencken's racism is complementary to/with his Nietzscheanism.

Less vague hinting and assuming, more spelling things out explicitly, would be great, thanks.
Your note about ADHD completely resonates with a close friend who has adhd is often open in ways that are to his detriment. Any chance you have a resource I could read more on this as it relates to ADHD
> Installing chat software shouldn’t be a crime.

I don't think you understand how repressive regimes work.

And I bet that on HN you'll find a lot of support for jailing people who install a let's say Nazi chat app on their phone.
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The introductory manual "The Rust Programming Language" is a good place to get started. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/
Does it mean that trying to make some cash doing automated trading in 1-2 people is nearly impossible?
Every time I've had to deal with the general public in any kind of scheduled gathering for policy discussion, with or without specialists present, someone inevitably says something (loudly and at length) which displays such an utter lack of understanding of what the meeting is for and what it can accomplish that it makes me scream inside. It makes me feel terrible for those who are facilitating. I got so furious the last time it happened that I walked out and left my favorite water bottle behind.

We should have great respect for anyone with even remotely good intentions who is willing to plow through this mess of misguided humanity to get something useful done. I'm pretty sure I can't do it, so if I want to see change happen I have to support those who can.
Also, what's wrong with cursing? Are our sensibilities really that delicate?
How much attention would this have gotten it if was a polite note somewhere?

Maybe less. Probably not more ....
All museums do this; it's an understandable inability to relinquish control. If they actually just wanted people to have access to the images, they could just make a torrent. They would spring up on 100 different sites in at least 4 different ways (modern internet, you know), and people with a deeper interest could download the lot and examine them in their viewers of choice at their leisure.

People would also completely forget the source, and the museum would get very little credit for the effort put into digitizing them. Sharing this data is not naturally profitable and can't be made profitable without some form of DRM, and a terrible interface is de facto DRM. This is a typical place where the state should intervene, where huge value for the many (the sum of small value for hundreds of millions of people) is sadly outweighed by infinitesimal costs to a few (the sum of the massive labor of half a dozen people.)
Worse yet, many times the prosecutors find evidence that the accused is innocent, but they will still fight a appeals just to save face that they wrongly imprisoned someone.
This story is about learning blockchain by building one, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372940
Off-topic, but:

> If an owner sells a gallery's art, then the gallery will often cut her off from future purchases

I don't understand why some authors default to female pronouns in such cases, given English has a gender-neutral one ("them").

Is this a political statement? It just appears childish to me and makes the article look less professional.
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It's down from 47 to 45, and it's almost impossible to attribute this to these bugs with any reliability. Yes, there was some initial panic in the first days after the bug. You can see this in the volume the day after it was announced. But things have largely recovered since the low midway through this month.

Of course, the stock market by no means knows everything. But the aggregate prediction of traders is that this doesn't matter very much to the bottom line, and I tend to agree.
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This is idiotic. For one it uses marijuana as a straw-person argument for stupidity. Then it cites a bunch of crappy social science to support the idea that multitasking is bad.

I suspect the author has never been anywhere near marijuana, or has very limited experience with its effects.
No, I’m not saying it was a Russian plot at all. It’s a real thing.

I’m saying they seized on it as something they could use to push division between people.
I've taken a brief look at Ada several times, but gave up on it because it seemed difficult to get a cohesive set of documentation and examples (and ideally a good book) that were all in sync. Since Ada has been around for so long, there's an awful lot of outdated material. Do you have any suggestions on materials one should use while learning Ada for hobbyist purposes? I'd like to give it another go.
True, I don't mean to say it's a bad idea to study it. I just mean "watch out" with theories that are general, but studied mostly within the confines of these market where the dataset is (as you say) orders of magnitude bigger/better than anywhere else. .. searching under a streelamp
People talk about building monoliths like it’s some simpler alternative. On the JVM it’s not.

When I first started with Java one of the coolest things was that I could embed anything. I could embed Elasticsearch in my web service. Wow! Forget services calling each other! I’ll prototype real quick with everything in one JVM!

But that proved impossible! :( It turned out that until Java 9, the JVM has a single namespace for all loaded classes. For me this was the greatest driving force for building out smaller services. You had to be very careful about dependencies and couldn’t just include Elasticsearch—or even much of anything—in your web service even if you wanted to. You’d be in immediate unresolvable dependency hell. I can imagine the insane artifacts people produce when they try to build monoliths on the JVM. Even with JavaScript now you have one huge flat dependency namespace. Good luck building a monolith.

I can only conclude that the all the people on this thread who are painting “monoliths” as some easy alternative developers are ignoring due to some inexplicable desire to make things complicated have no idea what they’re talking about.
It's a stylistic choice. It's a bit weird to get caught by this arbitrary choice and ignore all the others they make.
I have this on my Android phone, it's called "Ultra STAMINA mode". Only GSM calls are allowed, no WLan, no data, selected apps only and a limited user interface.
Did somebody measure the lifetime it adds to a phone with 5% battery left ?