skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managers/VPs/Executives of techies...
Most professionally-produced content on the web is ad-fianced. Quality journalism, for example, is necessary for a functioning democracy. And no, bloggers and other hobbyist cannot replace The New York Times.

While (some) publishers may be able to survive behind a paywall, the average citizen is unlikely to subscribe to more than maybe one or two. Where currently they may get their news from dozens of independent outlets, they will inevitably be restricted to far less diverse set.

You can easily do the following experiment: try not visiting any websites that have advertising for a month or so. Almost by definition, this is will be a loss for you (because otherwise you would not visit any such sites now).

Now, some people will argue that all these creates should simply adopt some other business model. I think that's obviously foolish, considering the sizeable number of failed attempts. But if you believe that, say, half of all publishers can somehow pull it off, the question becomes: Is avoiding ads worth cutting the amount of professionally-produced content in half?

And, if you are wrong and 90%+ of newspapers, literary platforms, trade publications etc. actually die in the process: would we not lose something far more essential than what we gained?
That would explain why my school's international students have such nice, James Bond-esk, cars.
It's one of the greater "things" to emerge from tech and humanity. Love the approach and branding too.
>lower orbits (340km)

The original plan for 1000km orbits was a kinda red flag for anybody more space-competent. 1000km is the lower end of a lower radiation belt.

On 340km, they must have though of putting really big and expensive solar panels to provide enough thrust on ion engines. They will have to compensate for their own weight and, even more importantly, drag.
Warren Buffett's Playbook for a Stock Market Correction
See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378157
Mark Twain’s adventures in love
Offshore buyers sequestering (or hiding) money.
If you look at career earnings for those with just a high school degree compared to those with a 4 year degree, I think it is pretty clear that college does pay off if you pick a decent degree.
This is brilliant. Absolutely. Already sent on to my origami mad sister. The only thing I wish it did was tell you what example file you loaded, if you are forgetful and have to go hunting around for it again just because you forgot the name then that makes it harder to recommend what model example to open first.

Last time I made some origami was actually for a card for my Japanese neighbour, for this I used paper with a design on and made regular cranes. This project could be monetizable if you could buy paper designs and see how said paper would work in the finished model. Plus what happens if you rotate the design or flip it over? This would be nice to preview so less prototypes have to be physically folded.

Although my origami efforts were received gratefully, I did wonder afterwards whether this was some type of cultural appropriation going on, would I give a French person homemade smelly cheese?
> Half of our backers on Kickstarter so far have been men!

really makes you think
Your link literally ranks the Model S as "Worst" in terms of repair frequency.
Does wave animation has to be so slow on mobile
In terms of learning, there is a great podcast I can recommend called "Everyone Hates Marketers"

The host has some really fantastic guests and advice.
You make a good point, but how would all the meddling middle managers keep tabs on their employees and the work they're doing?
That could be said about any student who is a citizen of another country.
Medium Earth orbit vs Low Earth Orbit. I think it's worth considering them as different fields.

Telestar was actually first to launch in this field of broadband LEO satellites, though, not SpaceX. But like SpaceX's inaugural launch, they are engineering prototypes, not fully operational ones.

I'm not sure who is "first" matters too much, though.
I bet there is a huge market for this for something like cellular backhaul where LOS microwave is not an economically competitive option (which is a big part of the world).

Imagine, you are a big telco with a cellular brand. You will not go to a small and remote region where you both have no economic incentive to get to because you will have to pull your own (microwave/VSAT/fibre,) and will most likely have a local competitor who will decidedly beat you on the price that you base on big city demographic buyers.

Now, imagine you can simply put a single tower without any extra infrastructure to get a whole city population your captive customers?
Find a Slack or IRC channel and hang out there. Example: I spend a lot of time in #FoundationSites, #Symfony, #Aurelia and answers questions there.
Does that mean the countryside will now have a tax deficit since those taxes collected will now be (rightfully) counted for the city?
Recently launched my website on resume writing service, looking for feedback
I wasn't just reacting to the title, but the body too. If the whole article was just s/China/Russia/g I would react the same way. On a geopolitical scale China is probably a bigger threat to the United States than Russia these days anyway.
> We still have one unsolved issue with this deployment strategy: how to clean up the old deployments when they’re no longer serving (much) traffic.

Could probably solve this with a readiness probe / health check of sorts that is smart enough to know what low usage means.
The EU already got rid of roaming charges no?
Search Tool Accesses Firms’ Documents in the Cloud
I guess we're approaching a sort of Atwood's law for GraphQL. Here's the GraphQL version of PostgREST: https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql
So, your medical plan evaporates the moment you stop working for most federal agencies? Just like my private employer's medical plan?

And guaranteed pensions are no longer a thing? What is left as a justification for below-market salaries? Employment opportunities in government-dominated towns (which do not have healthy private-sector economies), and more job security?
Supply contracts are very different than a bid to build something to specifications.
If it gets to the point of digital assistants being on the level of Samantha in Her, who would easily pass the Turing Test and more, then we might consider seriously what happened at the end of the movie. Which was basically singularity, but for AIs only.
I’ve always been suspicious of services that use SMS as the primary 2FA mechanism. TOTP is more secure and convenient, but it doesn’t allow the service to collect and extra datapoint. Using a communication channel intended for security as a method to boost falling engagement is as shady as it gets.

Matthew Green’s twitter thread[0] on this is an interesting read.

0: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/96376666146678784...
Quantum Computers ‘One Step Closer’
The majority of money spend on ads ends up with content creators, who, in turn, use it to produce the information their visitors value. It is therefore not "rent seeking" under any definition of the term.
This is true, but there are still incentives to fake your residency. For example, you only have to pay the Rundfunkbeitrag (17,50 € per month for the public media) once per household, so students can save money by pretending to live at their parents' place. For car taxes it's usually better to be registered outside of urban areas. The government even changed the law to make faking your residency harder, now you have to register with some form that has to be signed by your landlord.
Great article!

Bringing financial inclusion to the billions of unbaked it's the biggest unfulfilled promise of cryptocurrencies.

For it to work it must be engineered on the protocol level for this use case, I think Cardano is trying to solve this problem.

The store of value and savings part it's more or less easy to solve, the big problem is the lending without a stable coin it will be very difficult to implement, big Fiat currencies like the Dollar and the Euro have the powerful backing of a central bank and ultimately the collateralization of all the taxpayers as a protection against high volatility and black swan events, this will be very difficult to implement in crypto, MakerDAO is tring to do it but I don't see it working on a big scale.
Clothing design in the copyright context means the pattern of the clothing, not images or text, and copyright for clothing generally applies to non-functional flourishes or design elements. In this case, the logos are derivative works of presumably copyrighted logos of open source projects.
That's a pattern, isn't it?

Musk was also laughed at by Russians when he tried to buy a cheap launch from them for his little Mars greenhouse project before he founded SpaceX. Jokes on them as SpaceX now is outlaunching just about everyone else and has taken almost the whole market away from Proton...
Mercer Family Foundation Grants $1M to MAPS for PTSD Research in Veterans
Are you speaking of the 50 Cent Army? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Look. Aren't you spending time thinking? Do you imagine you think faster than everybody aged 23?

Could you do an MSc at a top-level US university (in your primary domain of expertise) in a week? Because plenty of people (juniors by definition, almost all of them) can do it in 2 years, so if you're "100x" in the sense that you say you are, you should be able to do all that work in 1 week. At least that much should be plainly obvious to you, that you can't possibly be "100x" in the sense that you claim to be. Or well, if you are... you're rather unique, I definitely haven't seen anybody that can even come close to you, and I know some top-notch engineers. So you're definitely the exception, not the rule.
It's not entirely Google's decision on what to block.

The group seems to be made of plenty of third parties.

https://www.betterads.org/members/
> You're definitely the product there: they're selling you to employers, who are their customers. I've dealt with recruiters both as the product (prospective employee) and the customer (employer). In general, I prefer to be the product, though neither is entirely comfortable.

But there is a huge difference between recruiting for a factory employing 100'000 people (or in Googles case billions) or recruiting a more important person. I guess you were the latter.
Of course we do and of course they do. What's interesting is why the sudden "expose" and the media blitz. It's like how we knew the russians and everyone has been taking steroids for decades, but all of a sudden there was a media blitz against russia.

Is it just the elites trying to put pressure on china or are we at the beginning stages of a fundamental shift in our relations with china?

Have the elites decided on a more antagonistic position against china?
I've been looking for an approachable read on waves and so I like this very much. A nice touch is the retro visitor counter at the bottom of the page. Made me nostalgic. When I got to it it said ~1600. I reloaded the page and it was almost at 3000. The power of HN I guess.
That’s a good point, and probably good advice regardless of the latest statement from the FBI. Of course if the data is sensitive or controlled, hopefully people are already on that guard.
Yap, agree, that's more appropriate perhaps. This whole "everything I don't agree with is racist" and anyone I don't agree with is a "nazi" is very easy to take too far.

One one hand they have to be suspicious, because counterintelligence it's one of their duties. Especially after the OPM breach.

On the other hand, there is a danger of them going overboard. This is a great example of that:

http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-muslim-fbi-2...

They send an undercover informant to a mosque in Irvine, CA. Undercover informant instead of listening and observing, starts spewing radical crap and recruiting people. The mosque reports him to the FBI. That was an awkward Monday morning meeting I bet. Or maybe business as usual, who knows...
I think it's a nice start to see "Open Source" term used not only for developing purposes, but also for things we use every day. Nice job!
I really, _really_ love this kind of visual guide. Do you guys know of anything similar for other (unrelated) learning subjects?

Edit: just saw this one in the footer of the Waveforms page. http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
Would be nice to domain/product experts to some tweaking and host this at a third party a la "The benchmark game"[1]. A nice little graph-oriented benchmark would be great, especially avoiding things like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378157

[ed: and:

"For comparison, we used three leading single-model database systems:... and PostgreSQL for relational database."

Jsonb with indexes doesn't rate as "document db", how about postgis for domain specific graph db?]

Some agreement on hw (virtual or otherwise), dataset and queries might make this actually rather useful.

[1] https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
Really depends on the city! In some my ticket was checked twice a year, in others more like twice a week.
I was hoping the future of event-driven architecture is that we would call it "event-driven" and not serverless; alas.
The IRS is based in D.C., which also has a high COL. Additionally, that's for the GS-15 paygrade, which requires a PhD and is the highest possible level -- so you can't be paid more than that. The corresponding paygrade for someone with a masters, or with a few years of experience, is $43-$56k[0]. It's definitely below market IMO.

[0] https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2017/GS-9
The author's photo is 3 megabytes, and the two even more tiny images attached to the articles at the bottom of the page are each about 3 megs. The next billion users, especially of they're on mobile, shouldn't have to use that kind of bandwidth for non-informational embellishments on a static blog.
Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameter Sharing
As a developer in that area, its not super competitive. It is not even close to what a good senior dev is making. They also don't hire people at this level often because you are talking about a director level position. There is huge political push back. This is why its common for the contractors on the project to be paid twice as much as the employees.
Eh... I worked at a community college whose bread and butter was international students. Lots of them had really expensive cars. Not sure why China would send hundreds of operatives to infiltrate a community college and then pay to put them in flashy cars. It's more likely just rich parents.
I assume essentially anything that isn't a school assignment.

Something built for a need--whether profitable business, or personal need--tends to provide more meaningful experience than a "write this contrived program to learn how [specific programming functionality] works" project.
Other, similar organizations from other countries often at least try to maintain the illusion of some degree of objectivity. If you take advanced French classes at the French Institute, there is a good chance that contemporary issues affecting France will be discussed in class.
How is advertising different from anything else in the market? The product can have hidden flaws, short lifespan, etc.
I still find it hard to believe that people still struggle to grasp the concept of Agile.

It is not a solution to Project Management, it is an alternative.

I see a lot of other comments that struggle to see the concept put into practice building a new product from scratch. Sure it doesn't make sense to go straight into development. Use other "agile" practices like design thinking and lean to build up to that point. Incremental can mean a lot of things, not just a horizontal or vertical slice, but an iteration on an idea, on architecture, on design or on planning. And there is no reason for a development team to be absent from any of this process.
Could someone please explain how this compares to the TensorFlow approach? I can only assume that it's omitted from the article due to marketing reasons.
Is there any data comparing those with a 4 year degree vs those with a 2 year degree? I'd be interested in seeing that comparison.
That's just the initial system. And there will be, say, 30 satellites in view at any one time, giving an aggregate of 600 Gbps. At a typical 100:1 over-subscription ratio, they should be capable of serving almost a million customers per region (~500km diameter) at that speed. At more reasonable 10 or 100Mbps, it's on the order of tens of millions of customers in a region.

But that's just the initial constellation. SpaceX plans to put 12,000 total satellites up, with the VLEO ones having much higher throughput. Idea is to replace them every 4-6 years with faster throughput.
What if they were israelis? China, russia, britain and israel run the largest espionage rings in the US. If the FBI called out israel, I bet the media would call it racist.
Nuclear physics is not my forte, but if spin is to be conserved, wouldn't there need to be a spin-isomer transition: one photon in, two photons out --> spin quantum number of nucleus must change to balance?

I think one good way to narrow your search would be to identify a single candidate element (or a few) that has such a "forbidden transition" where, despite being forbidden, the time constant is still quite short (so you can get a lot of light out of repeated excitation of a single nucleus) and the energy gap that gives rise to one of the photons is a mere 1.5~3.5 eV (visible).

With a good searchable database of nuclear isomer energy levels, it should be possible to identify transitions like these, and if only a few elements have them, you can start including those names in the search and maybe get results that point more in the right direction. Or do you already have the names of some of those oddball nuclei you mentioned?

I haven't found a good searchable database, just an ugly scanned PDF of Kocher's "Radioactive Decay Data Tables" (1981). Maybe someone has published a more computer-searchable version of the data since then.
Thank you. You are right data comes from SLF :)
I see AMP as a stepping stone towards building a walled garden for the web. There's a lot of benefits, but definitely a loss of control and leverage for marketers in some ways.

My concern is that as Gmail diverges away from the rest of the email world, if a significant percentage of a business's users still use Gmail, they lose direct ownership of that relationship. The tabs were just the first step. I see AMP as potentially the second.
(creator here)

Sorry it bugged you! I learned when showing this to people that not everyone focuses their eyes on the same part of the screen, and so the focusing thing might not align to where you like to read.

I needed some way to make it clear which "step" the user is on, since the stuff the waveform does changes from step to step.

Open to suggestions for future audio things I do if you have ideas for how to align them without faded text!
In practice, it's punished as a criminal offense only if you are a serial offender.
I think OP is a bit overly jaded by the output vs input of his ideals and work. Anyone with an idea and some passion have their own chance to produce an impact in our society and government. No one should be directed to the door because a problem is "hard" or "complicated", keep trying. Not every solution solves a problem, but I know for a fact that without a solution no problem will get solved. keep trying, keep pushing and don't wallow in OP's laments.

that said, OP does have plenty of good points and advice, just don't let it discourage you from your passion. Rather let it drive you to prove them wrong and make a difference.
Here's a ML one (linked to by the above site):

http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

Distill has some great ML articles that are kind of similar:

https://distill.pub/
It's not as anecdotal as you may think.

Here is an article about it from 2015 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/02/19/...
Even then, measurements can never be 100% accurate, and we can never have enough measurements.
It's getting embarrassing at this point. It was a good PR campaign, but it has run its course by now it seems.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/washpost-is-richly-rewar...
Hold your horses. The thread is a response to a comment suggesting the ability to speak to someone in Australia over the internet as reason to get into HAM. Nobody is "invalidating" anything.
The Chinese government has been very aggressive when it comes to media in foreign countries. Via Foreign Policy (http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/21/one-of-americas-biggest-...):

In recent years, and especially since Xi became president in 2012, the Chinese government has sought various ways to increase its influence over China’s 40 million-strong diaspora. The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, a ministry specifically dedicated to the task, works to extend the party’s reach, and the push has seen increasing success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, where local ethnic Chinese organizations have begun to vocally push for pro-Beijing policies.

For years The Washington Post ran a paid supplement from the China Daily supplement, which was basically propaganda aimed at English speakers (https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/of...):

For instance, the item above: "Stop Telling Us What We Should Do," with "we" being China and the object of the imperative sentence being the nagging United States. Or this one and this, clarifying how unfair it was for foreigners to criticize China's "rare earths" exports policy. As a matter of fact, China's "actions taken in the past few months, and those to be taken in the months to come, are totally legitimate."

In Canada, the CCP pushed Canadian officials to ban English-language reporters from certain events featuring a Chinese official, and kick out a reporter from a local Chinese newspaper that criticized China's human rights record (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/wynne-agrees-t...).

In Hong Kong, the situation for media companies is much worse - agents kidnapped book publishers and booksellers off the street in Hong Kong and Thailand and shipped them to China for trial. Their crimes? Publishing or selling unauthorized books about government officials (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/17/china-behaving... ).

Lam, the 61-year-old manager of the Causeway Bay bookstore, claimed he had spent months in solitary confinement in a cramped cell after being snatched by a group of men as he entered mainland China in October 2015.

“They blindfolded me and put a cap on my head and basically bundled me up,” Lam told reporters.

Lam claimed Chinese agents had forced him to confess to crimes he had not committed during his detention. He said he had decided to speak out after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest the booksellers’ disappearances.