skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it's even more complicated; it's hard to tell if this person is lying or not. It seems like most likely, he's trolling and making people think his life was a lie. Pretty hilarious either way. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnethicalLifeProTips/comments/7xcou...
When using IB, you can trade on your own machine/vps/whatever. I suggest you do this, and set it up such that you trade on an IB paper account, make sure everything is running correctly and in line with your backtests, and then start trading with some real money. Good luck!
>Projects should be made up of decoupled modules (units ?) with well-defined interfaces.

That goes without saying.

Nonetheless, if it's a very decoupled module with a very well defined, relatively unchanging interface which you could surround with tests with the bare minimum of mocking - to me that says that it probably makes sense to put it in a project by itself.

>The larger your project the more important this is.

The larger a project gets the more I want to break it up.
Because somebody wrote the code for it?
I would agree that the US tech exam is easier than manually programming those radios by far. Chirp makes them easier. But I'd say maybe getting the tech license is just about as easy as messing with Chirp.
Thanks. I keep meaning to get around to Black Mirror where there's an Expect script. And I spent forever getting accepted into the WordPerfect Macro community to look at an old episode of The Outer Limits.

One day I'll have time...
I've been doing the Amazon drop shipping thing for ~6 months, and I am honestly shocked how little these "quirks" in the AMZ ecosystem are discussed.

Aside from the product review issues listed here, Amazon seems to enforce almost nothing related to their core rules.

Do a search of your choice and look at the picture thumbnails. Amazon claims you need to put your picture on a white background with no text or other content other than the product. Maybe 50% of vendors are violating this for most searches, and nothing happens.

A more nefarious example that I haven't experienced but have friends who have: overseas manufacturers replicating your product, using the same SKU, and then allowing it to be listed as a variant of your original product. You can email Amazon all you want, but it's unlikely you will get Amazon to fix it.

tl;dr becoming a vendor on Amazon isn't as much of a walk in the park as some say it used to be, and there are a lot of headaches you have to deal with -- all while seller fees are increasing YOY.
The next billion users are the future of the internet
Yes, but you would need a crawler that does so in every region, or at least know the IPs of the edge nodes on that CDN. You would probably also hit some rate limit / DDoS protection with the CDN itself.
Citizens are paying taxes anyways - in the city/province of their residency. So for the citizen - changing the residency doesn't cost anything and you get free public transport.

So this is a net positive for the city (but not for the country as a whole I guess).
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A large portion of the SAT is knowledge of English vocabulary which obviously has nothing to do with IQ.

The mathematics questions nearly all use the same basic rules and are presented in the same format, and can easily be learned and trained.

SAT prep courses are ubiquitous and expensive because they work. Do people without training do well? Sure. Do people with training still do poorly? Sure. But a good SAT question would be "does this mean that training doesn't help or that there isn't a correlation between training and success?" because the obvious answer is no.
Though not as entertaining as 7.200 MHz.
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I never thought about it, but "IT / development is crap in legacy industries" follows as a tautology from your perspective.

If the only way to effectively perform the job (in the broader, department sense) is with political cover.

And if political cover is only apportioned in a zero-sum game of high level positions.

And if there are legacy industries in which those positions are, and have been for decades, apportioned to predefined departments (notably standardized before the information revolution).

Then those legacy industries are going to have insufficient political cover over IT/development. And therefore terrible performance.

My current employer recently had a security epiphany, and they definitely empowered a reorganized security department to make necessary changes. But I'm sure there were many points where "VP of X" could have squashed a necessary security change, had security not been of equal seniority.
In white collar jobs like software people don't usually have private health insurance (in the US). Employers cover that cost on top of your salary - 90%-100% of cost is typical in the industry, though it depends a biton whether it's just for you / your family.
God no.

I don't want to be mandated to strike and pout over not getting enough money. As long as I am treated fairly (I am) and paid fairly (I am), I am not paying any percentage to some company to tell me to screw over my employer.

If some company wants to unionize, have fun but I am not joining that party.
Says my browser is not supported (Chrome Android) though I can see the app working behind the message (and interact with it).
First, reflection and emission are not the same. But more importantly, the only sensible definition of "seeing an object" is that the angular distribution of the light entering your eyeball carries some information about the geometric shape of the object. Otherwise, we could just as correctly say that when we look at dog we are seeing the sun or the overhead florescent bulbs; that's where the photons came from. Likewise, if I put a piece of strongly frosted glass between me and the dog, it would be misleading to say I can "see the dog" even if the photons that come from the dog reach my eye. The key reason this is wrong is that strongly frosted glass scrambles the information.
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Figma can open .sketch files and runs on Linux.
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I am not saying that Dr. King or Gandhi were puppets in any way, on the contrary they were very important to galvanize support for their movements. But they were not the full movement. The power of the movement was in the subversion of the existing order, and these figures were the peaceful face of the whole movement. Without a fierce underlying movement they would be just swept aside like any other peaceful protestor has ever been.
I'm assuming bitrot of your backups is also a concern. Or do you have a suggestion on automating integrity checks of your data?
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I don't blame them, but it's reasonable for me to share my experience as a customer on review sites. So they shouldn't blame me for the one-star Yelp review they're getting, either.
With regards to what consciousness is, Peter Watts opened an interesting rabbit hole that I have yet to dive into. His discussion about his own real-world inquiries into consciousness is appended at the end of his fiction work "Blindsight" [1]. Search for the heading "Sentience/Intelligence", and read the first couple paragraphs there.

Watts suspects from his readings that sentience makes up the majority of our day-to-day physical and sensorium activities and sapience (consciousness) is a very thin self-aware layer on top of that. If his sources that he's reading are correct, then we can go a long way implementing practical and profitable applications with "just" ML, but with less focus on trying to reach AGI. There are more radical suggestions within the decidedly philosophical side of the cognitive science community that seem to wonder if consciousness isn't simply a very sophisticated, highly complex ML'ish pattern-matching illusion, and we're all reductively representable as deterministic entities somehow.

All this postulating is too far away from the testable engineering/tinkering/science'ing I prefer to inform myself about, so I'm not quite sure what to make of it, other than to observe that ML hasn't made much of a dent in the sentience side, as we're nowhere near a general-purpose robot that cleans floors, does the laundry, and simultaneously avoids squishing the house cat, none of which requires sapience.

[1] http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
"God-shaped hole" is a bit silly, the primary purpose of spirituality is to allay fears of uncertainty.

Sorry, I agree with much of what you write above, but this in particular strikes me as a non-sequitur. There is a nihilism which can come from the certainty that a human is but an insignificant blip and from the certainty that the sun will burn the Earth into a dried out rock, if not de-orbit the planet completely. The "God shaped hole" is often deemed silly by the materialist tribes. Why, in particular? I think it's because it's so often used in silly bumper-sticker rhetoric. The existence of such needs -- which can go beyond even the question of life, death, and a (fictional) life after death -- is something which human beings, materialist or otherwise, should acknowledge and examine, or ignore at their peril.

Religion deals with far, far, far more than just the stuff of belief.

Indeed. And so does the "God-shaped hole." I think belief is where many of both the religious and the materialists get themselves stuck, unproductively. I'm confident that there is no afterlife. However, given the arc of history, and the utter unpredictability of today's world to our ancestors of a thousand years ago, even someone who understands Thermodynamics has reason for unspecified hope.
The main practicality is how many of the commercial users are just going to ignore the niceties of the license and use it regardless.

Getting people to understand that "No Copyright Intended" [0] doesn't absolve them of copyright infringement is tough enough. You'll never get some nontrivial number of people to understand that free download doesn't mean free for every potential conceivable purpose ever in perpetuity.

[0] https://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
>I don't see why senior dev salaries should go any higher

Because they're vastly underpaid compared to the value they produce.

>At that point it would be easier to open office overseas even for smaller shops.

Which means you're getting junior devs, at best. The entire concept of outsourcing hangs on the idea that the people being outsourced to will behave exactly the opposite of those doing the outsourcing, i.e. not really caring about money. Well they do care: when they get senior they leave and go somewhere they can earn western money.
I've come to terms that I want to be a developer for as long as possible.

This thread can also help:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372997
Off-topic: the PS4's PSVR box is a bit reminiscent of the old Voodoo cards with their passthrough video.
If you have to prompt affection, the resulting act is not truly affectionate.
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Yeah, I know in some markets it's like '7 points of differentiation' that have to be proven at court to be considered an original design.
Can't wait to try a sat QSO this year.
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Very cool, I couldn't find in the text what is the scale of the picture ?
I would love to move back to RSS for the sites I read regularly, but no one seems to offer RSS anymore...
What a POS. I've known him online for years.
Austerity and letting the markets get on with it is far from always successful. Look at the UK's economy since '08. It didn't get us out of the Great Depression either.

Agree more fully on your den of vipers topic - but that rather reinforces that markets are not fully free or fair. Homo Economicus is, after all, very different from Homo Sapiens. :)
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This person pretended to be a millionaire mobile app developer on the internet (specifically on Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" community) by creating fake social media accounts, doing interviews with online news companies, and living out this persona of a rich tech mogul. He played the long con by amassing his followers organically and getting verified by major social media platforms (Twitter and Facebook specifically mentioned). He has apparently written a book about his app development ventures (which were not confirmed to be real or fake), been invited to speak at Harvard, and produces believable content that his followers consume despite it being a hoax.

He has used his stolen fame for good, however, by instructing his followers to donate to a charity concerned with clean water initiatives. He has motivated and inspired many people to make changes in their lives (including, but not limited to, becoming successful app developers themselves). Meanwhile, he's just an average joe who faked his way to the top.

My $0.02: if it's true that he is indeed a phony confessing to the world (which has yet to be confirmed), good on him. He has become what he originally faked. Maybe he isn't a successful app developer like he pretended to be, but he is a successful community figure no matter how small his circle may be. He has motivated, inspired, and helped the people he duped into believing his story. If this is all true, I've never seen a better use of being a conman (and probably never will). He's happy for the people he's inspired to become successful which seems to have made him genuinely happy himself. But, who knows, maybe the hoax is a hoax and we're the ones being duped.
All of those things comprise "entry level" to me. Maybe we have differnent concepts of what an "entry level" job is. To me, entry level == first job. The candidate has been a student but never a professional. They won't have practical skills or much knowledge of industry practices.

I'm not an accountant but I did do a business minor and I don't see this being much different for new accountant hires vs. new developer hires.
People using them that way probably don't care about performance very much, though.
Disclaimer: I'm part of the ArangoDB team. As written in the post the whole benchmark is open source, and you are welcome to add other DBs. That is appreciated. It is just important that there is an official node.js driver and a GA version will be used.
There's a YouTube channel with 60k subs and dozens of supercar videos, those would be pretty hard to fake
It's not about using the 20 years of data to fit your model, it's about using the 20 years of data to test your strategy on (a process called backtesting). Once you know how it performs historically, you can develop an intuition for where it breaks down, and try to alleviate the problem (keeping in mind overfitting and all those types of issues).
Why do you consider the police:population ratio in the US "very low"? It seems it's pretty much middle of the pack, and arguably on the high side for Western Democracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
philosophical part:
* tone down all your expectations. really
* find friends to be your senses - other places need other "senses" which u dont have yet.

technical part:
* moving alone needs only a backpack. Moving with a family needs a bit more, but not that much; only take important unfindable-over-there things. i.e. memories and uniques. i moved alone forward 20kg, and back (with a kid), 300kg - 30% of which were audio-stuff.. could have been sold/given-away/left. Important but: once u go over some weight-or-volume threshold, it might be near-same-price to take half the house and even the car :/
It's quite amazing to me how people seem to be incapable of understanding what a grave danger and risk not just Google, but also Facebook, Amazon, et al., are to the whole economy they cannibalize in the short run and all of humanity in the long rung.

They are all run and organized and structured like cults and they operate just like it. They are manipulative, abusive, liars that are shrouding and masquerading their true nature in throngs of brainwashed cult followers who not only are recruited to infiltrate and disseminate supporting propaganda, but also operate to undermine and subvert competition and threats. It's not really all that ironic that all these tech companies all exhibit similar behaviors and do so all from Silicon Valley, the epicenter of Indian cults and which is also overrun by Indians that bring that cult or sects or "devotional community" mentality to the USA and have infiltrated the tech companies with that mentality as they have risen in the ranks and even taken over many of the tech companies.
I trust him even less because I cannot tell when he is telling the truth. This is great.
Ably Realtime is now on Facebook
that quote is insane. i guess its probably a little out of context and is meant only to be referring to 'product links'. but i'm not sure how any sane legal rule is going to differentiate between different types of ad links on the search page.

ultimately google has to make money. if they purely only showed search results and no placed links then their only way of making money would be from the flow of data. i'm not sure if you could run a search engine off of that. it is also basically saying you can only run a search engine if you either are running an ad platform for third party sites that exploits the data you collect from your search engine or you are selling data to a third party ad platform.
> Things would be much easier if every author would surrender their copyright to OpenZFS project, but some people might have problem with it since then you surrender all claims to the code.

This is super-dangerous. There's a reason that copyright assignment agreements are rare. In a lot of jurisdictions, it's not even possible.

Most copyright license agreements instead force unlimited sublicensing grants, which provides de facto ownership of the copyrighted code, rather than de jure ownership.
I think SNI is fine, all modern browsers seem to support it: https://caniuse.com/#search=sni
> No database platform is tuned by default.

Not really true any more. Many of the newer databases (e.g. Mongo) and database-like systems (e.g. Elasticsearch) try to give a good default experience.
That's, errr, a very high bar you got there.

People got it working, showing they can code just fine, and you fail them because they got some details wrong?
Your nr 2 isn't a real argument. A lot of people drive because it's not _much_ cheaper than taking public transportation. If a monthly pass costs 100€, that's ~70l of gasoline, or 40km of driving 20 days a month in a car that does 8l/100km. If you're carpooling with someone, that doubles.
Agreed. Not a fan of most reddit communities (hivemind) but this one is far better than the cesspool found on other ham radio sites. It's what ham radio should be about, helping others in a fun hobby.
That's the joke he referenced. Although there is a difference between knowing something and memorizing answers.
>Otherwise, we could just as correctly say that when we look at dog we are seeing the sun or the overhead florescent bulbs; that's where the photons came from

No, they didn't. The energy came from the sun, however the photons which are collected in your retina to form the image of a dog were emitted from the dog itself. "Reflection" is just the stimulation of photon emission via radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect
FT8 is a popular low power digital modeling these days for HF. I highly recommend reading the specification!
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Linear programming is in P.

Perhaps you are talking about Integer Linear Programming?
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Honestly I think this is something that will become less and less important as time goes on. The JDK, for example, has 4 separate garbage collectors that can be selected via configuration. But with runtime information (whether via JIT or PGO), couldn't they be better selected automatically for a given runtime profile? I think as compilers continue to build better optimization capabilities, that the gap between GC and manual memory management will shrink to the same significance as the gap between C and assembly today.
I had a similar experience. 15 years ago, with less than 1 year of experience I couldn't get a job to save my life. I had to work for companies for free! 5-10 years later, I was getting up to 5 offers for a job while interviewing.

And yet, it's not like junior developers suck. I've seen plenty of junior developers who can build up an application, no problem. There might be some mistakes along the way, but they're able to get the job done.
Disclaimer: I'm part of the ArangoDB team. As written in the post the whole benchmark is open source. the idea is that you can run it on your own. Take the chance and get your own impression.
Andy was warm, generous, authentic, hilarious as fuck, and an absolute killer engineer. He will be badly missed.
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Brazil 1980-1994.
The supply problem only started when the government decided to price control everything, before that you could easily buy all you needed, only you'd need spend all your wages the day they paid you, or you'd lose 30% of it every month. Inflation got to above 5000% a year, but there was never mass starvation like in other places. For a few months people couldn't buy any kind of meat or eggs, but things went back to "normal" when the government lifted price control.
Source: I lived there, never skipped a meal. But I was quite shocked the first time I saw something costing the same as it had the previous week, it was in 1994.

The same happened in Venezuela, only they weren't able to control it. Inflation preceded the scarcity, and then scarcity made inflation even worse. And now they have mass starvation, no medicines etc.

That's fairly typical. Government prints money, there's hyper-inflation, government tries to fix things by banning marking prices up, people stop selling and manufacturing stuff; scarcity and having to go the black-market to get food makes inflation even worse.
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Be careful. EODdata has a lot of data issues. Seriously...a lot. I would recommend checking out Alpha Vantage. It's free and I didn't see any of the issues with their data that I saw with EODdata.
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>- you don't understand the difference between a junior and a senior developer

I think it is this. The title Sr Engineer is handed out constantly to people with little to no experience. You are basically Junior for a year then you get the title change. It is a bit absurd.

So yes, there is a shortage of Jr engineers... but there are plenty of not very good Sr Engineers who should be Jr Engineers.
As a woman currently applying/interviewing for a new grad role, I think you're definitely right about most companies caring only about current knowledge/skill.
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They also ban people who talk about video game cheats.