skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can apply directly through company websites, or online job postings. I would argue that recruiters short cut the process, by finding candidates that match with required qualifications or skills. I think you have a higher likelihood of getting a call back from a recruiter communicating your skills and resume to a hiring manager, than you do by being thrown into a massive online pool of candidates.
A human body is too complex to usefully model based on such low-level physical principles.

No one is going to track of how much mass they breathe in and out, how much mass they lose through sweat, excretion, urination, how much mass they eat and drink or how much energy they gain or lose through radiation. You would have to track all of those things to model weight loss based on laws of thermodynamics.

If you are trying to predict weight loss based on the calorie count on the back of your food boxes and based on your level of activity, the laws of thermodynamics aren't going to be very helpful. The calorie count on the box of food is only a very rough approximation of how much usable energy your body is able to extract from the food. That amount will not be consistent for every person or even for a single person in differing scenario.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful", so why be pedantic about one model being more right when it is also much less useful in the scenario and still is not a completely accurate model of reality?
I think the alleged performance improvements are only an illusion. The device still has to use data and electricity, in fact more because it is fetching a bunch of things you probably don't want.

Link prefetching is already a thing, so I don't see why we need another standard to resolve this.

Also the privacy argument is moot, I believe. In the questionable example of the AIDS patient, you are instead trusting Google with this info. That is not any better to me.

I'm a front-end developer and I see so many sites bogged down with many analytics and tracking providers, some multiple times. I can't help but feel like AMP is an attempt to maintain the tracking and analytics status quo, while giving the illusion of performance, instead of just chilling out on the multiple redundant client-side analytics.
> What’s the fizzbuzz test for data scientists anyway?

Here's 3 questions I was recently asked on a bunch of DS interviews in the Valley.

1. Probability of seeing a whale in the first hour is 80%. What's the probability you'll see one by the next hour ? Next two hours ?

2. In closely contested election with 2 parties, what's the chance only one person will swing the vote, if there are n=5 voters ? n = 10 ? n = 100 ?

3. Difference between Adam and SGD.
Sorry to prod further, but I feel a lot of us are thinking the same question. How do you plan to provide an active social life to your children where they can grow up to confidently socialize among friends and strangers in their daily lives?
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> but there are still some people in the world who like to know what's actually going on instead of believing what they're told to believe.

I'm confused, is that the people who listen to what is routinely reported in the newspaper, or other people?
* Sports: lifting, yoga, martial arts, rock climbing, hiking.
* Adult classes: dancing, cooking, painting.
* Hobbies: guns, diving, photography, fishing, boating.
* Lifestyle: all kinds of travel, alcohol and other substances.
* Professional: startups... eh... scratch that.
* Charity: pet shelters, soup kitchens, organizing.
* Politics: volunteering, door-to-door.

The trouble begins when you realize you don't actually care about any of these things.
Thank you for this comment! Gives me a lot to think about. Bookmarked.
Regular, serindipitous interactions with people with whom you share an interest is a great facilitator. Basically, "a place of congregation" for your activity
Out of interest, how do we know it's not a common but undocumented form of tinnitus? Perhaps one that is more likely to present in certain weather conditions, so people's complaints will correlate?

I live near Bristol, which also has a hum, and I may have heard it but my own presumption would be hearing damage, as I don't think I've looked after my ears as well as I should have. And that would go for a lot of Bristol residents too... good music scene there!
Could you elaborate on why that is necessarily a problem? Couldn't they have done it losslessly?
But it's slower to adopt change. We have USB-C now that is better than micro USB, gives all of the advantages of the lightning port. But now technology is being held back by the government. If the EU had just let the free market decide, the phone manufacturers would have eventually standardized on USB-C - except probably Apple - or the market would have decided it doesn't care.
That assumes the work stays the same- people can be repurposed to do something else or fired. Investing heavily in tech is a big risk and is something that slows this kind of unemployment significantly
My home is not an investment but since I'm now renting it out it is turning a very tidy profit.
80% of our leads come from Facebook Ads. Typically they view the ad, click the link, request a quote, and then at that point we setup a phone call to discuss the software. We have some automated emails around this process as well and a link to our pre-recorded demo. I would say besides name of the organizations and some info we collect about their operation they are not heavily personalized. We use HubSpot to track the process.
No, the real issue is that the iPhone is so widely used that Google should do a better job at making AMP work without breaking a bunch of things.

Or at least have the option to disable it.
I don't know about Instagram (haven't used that much), but I'm shooting for (long-term) a card-based, simplified replacement for tools like Confluence, which I find overwrought and difficult to use.

It uses cards, so I suppose it superficially resembles Trello and similar agile board-esque tools, but it definitely has a different feel to it.

I actually got the idea for the basic layout from Pintrest (I originally had a masonry-like layout to the cards, but switched to CSS grid -- makes sorting/searching/scanning for something specific easier, IMO).
Ah gotcha. Thank you for the explanation!
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Inverted for me, I have more friends than my partner (via tech meetups and chess club), she's a home bod by nature and only really seems to like going out with me.

I've suggested a few times (gently) that she take her work mates up on their offer of going for a meal (I gather one of the women at work is in a similar boat), I'm introverted by nature so I only socialize in settings where there is a distraction (tech and chess as mentioned) but it's enough social life for me.

I don't really need anyone to bare my soul too, I've always handled that stuff myself.
Build and live in an anechoic chamber. Don't make it too good though or you'll go crazy.

https://www.google.com/search?q=anechoic+chamber&tbm=isch
Home equity line of credit.
Some googling yields this: http://earthworksaudio.com/microphones/m-series/m50/
which should be sensitive enough to pick it up.

Next step would probably to get a few of these, see if you can record the hum on a few of them, and then start experimenting.

The theory behind triangulation is simple. But in practice, it's probably really hard to make sure all microphones have the same sensitivity. The standard approach depends on sounds being quieter when they are far away, but if one mic is naturally quieter (deeper inside the house, or more absorbant material, or just more obstacles in the way) that no longer works.

The best approach would be using a phase difference to measure. Exploiting the delay due to the speed of sound.
That means you need some way to synchronize the recordings. Presuming a 20hz signal, you'd need your synchronization to be better than 0.05 seconds.
This also requires the hum waveform to be easy to match. That is, you'd need to be able to tell the phase offset by matching parts of the sound.

You could also try a 'big data' approach, just cataloging all reported cases and looking for patterns. That requires dealing with very noisy data though, as reported cases will be inconsistent. This is due to people not always being home, not everyone hearing it, and no verification of reports.

edit:
Interesing idea: use the 'bit data' approach together with wind speed and direction. The sound should be easier to hear when the wind blows it towards you. With enough data and corresponding wind data, you might have something.
Does require compensating for correlation between time of day and the wind. If wind is west in the night, and less people hear things when the wind is west, that might just be because they are sleeping.
After experiencing daily commutes ranging from 0 to 4:30h, I would say that the commute time sweet spot is not zero (remote work) but 25-30 minutes of daily biking/walking.
I think you'll find in practice that one of two things happens

I think the existence of those practices (like Java dependency shading) proves that people are struggling towards this solution on their own, without support from the language or the community. With official support, if major versions work the same way for everybody, it won't need to be so janky.

In practice, I predict that people would start behaving better, doing what they should have been doing (and what many have been doing) all along: avoiding unnecessary breaking changes in non-0.x libraries, choosing function signatures carefully, and growing by accretion and living with their mistakes. Right now, I think some developers see major version bumps as a convenient way to erase their mistakes, without taking into account the cost imposed on users who end up juggling dependency conflicts.
Weird, here in Indianapolis it can be rude not to say hello to neighbors & strangers and acknowledgment is about 100%. Still can't wait to leave though.
Is it wrong to suggest this as an opportunity for a business?

Some acoustic expert and hospitality expert should team up to create a hotel and/or spa that can dampen or eliminate the hum in some significant way in order to provide an oasis of relief for those severely affected... either through inverse cancellation waves (as suggested in a comment) or by air/water buffers around the property.
I for some reason hate Pearson as much as I hate Comecast and the lot.
"Why does Nature prefer hexagons" also makes for a fantastic interview question ;)
This is realistic for the 'life narrative' ™, but I find it cynical and lacking in the free will department. If you want to make friends, truly, at any age, work at it and you'll figure it out!
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That's a great question. Let me go through my collection and see if I can find any that might provide guidance.

I found that it was like a fraternity, though. I only learned it by hanging out with them. Kind of like how doctors call bruises 'hematoma's. They all know what it means, but it wouldn't occur to us normies to call it that.

If that book doesn't exist, maybe somebody should write it!
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Appreciate the advice on how to message this. This is exactly what we are trying to convey, and we are working on conveying that.

Currently, I've only posted one medium article, but working on to expand into different topics.

I would like to connect to you, if possible. I'll reach out to you via twitter. Let me know if there is a better way.

https://medium.com/@mynutrigene/vitamins-help-fight-diseases...
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You probably will regret it much earlier than that but from the sound of it you made up your mind for now. Many friends fell into such a deep pit when their kids moved out or something else disturbed their life. Old friends aint coming back and new real friends are hard to make for most after 30. Then again, everyone is different so maybe you will not have that issue.
I don't have very accurate data on how many xkcd fans in Canada are trying to recreate what-if articles.
I feel like everyone I meet nowadays is too self-centered and competitive to be friends with.

Does anyone else feel this way? I hope I’m not just projecting.
Thank you for sharing. The “Adult Principles” is worth its own submission here.
Hmm, so the client says "I want X", and you say "okay, I'll build X, and sell it to A, B, C, and to you of course". I'm not sure if the client would be too happy with that (it's their idea after all).

Also, why work as a contractor if you already know what SaaS the company wants? And if you don't know what SaaS they want, how do you know you want to work for them to find out?
I don't know how good my headphones are, but the crickets are more annoying than the hum.
Lol, let's see what the 50yr olds think.
Sounds like you need a 'third place' - I had one for a while, then it closed down (and I moved). But when you find one, they're great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Are the free licences perpetual or time limited?

Is Darth Vader going to alter the deal further?
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> Women outnumber men in college by 50%

56% to 44% as of this past fall, and projected to reach 57% to 43% by 2026. [0] That's a little over 25%, not 50%.

> almost nobody sees a problem with that.

Lots of people see it as a symptom of a major problem.[0, again]

> Men vastly outnumber women among the homeless

This is, IIRC, basically entirely because virtually the entire set of homeless veterans is male, and homeless veterans are a full third of the homeless. Again, homeless among veterans (which, again, is basically the entire source of the overrepresentation of men among the homeless) is widely perceived as a serious problem.

> prisoners

Well, white people might not care about this; but the imprisonment of black men and what it has done to the black community has been an intense concern of that community.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/why-me...
As someone petering towards the end of their 20s with no friends or people in their life at all...

Y'all are scaring me.
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I like you. I'm halfway there already and will soon have the rest. I'm 28.

I drink coffee I got from Colombia or Guatemala in the morning. While the coffee is brewing, I go through everything I'm grateful for and brush my teeth.

I drink my coffee while I check my email, reddit, HackerNews. I make a list of everything I need to do or continue the list from the previous day. I don't have Facebook, rarely check Twitter or Snapchat, save Instagram for later in the day or bathroom breaks. I turn on some good music that isn't overwhelming too sometimes.

I'm a consultant/creative director, I work remotely. I wear a comfy tee (band, Star Wars, plain) and sweat pants or basketball shorts.

I'm scaling my agency/consultancy at the moment by adding bigger and more interesting clients. I have gotten out of debt and started saving money to reinvest into some side projects that can become income streams.

The end goal: to own a camper van and travel all of North America with my camera while running this company from coffee shops and BnB's. It would be nice to share this with a dog and a woman, but the latter is optional. I can save money from my income streams to travel the world and eventually buy a cabin/farm out West somewhere, live a quiet and peaceful life away from the hustle and bustle of the city but still have good wi-fi and good shipping times from Amazon.

In the last year, I've quit drinking, smoking, and meat. I've added meditation, yoga, and grown closer to my family. I don't feel the need to 'change the world' or 'be the best' anymore. I just want to be a nice person, enjoy my day, create value for others.

I'm so glad I asked this question, I don't feel weird for not wanting the 'SV dream' anymore.
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Extensive discussion 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16402439
What witchcraft is this?
I find myself in this boat as we speak, and I'm not even 30. I certainly have plenty of acquaintances at work and at the hobbies and activities I participate in, and we do some group things every few months. I also have several close friends who I chat with every day online who don't live near me anymore. However, I have 0 real friends who I interact with IRL. If you asked me who I would call if I was having an emergency and needed help, who I could share sensitive things with IRL, or who I could call up and ask randomly to grab a beer with me, I would have no names to give you. That includes the person I'm in "a relationship" with who also feels more like an acquaintance to me as we hang out once every few weeks for a few hours and otherwise barely talk. As a result, I spend most of my weekends just sitting alone working or trying to entertain myself with content.

I'm not really sure how to proceed, as every time I expend a bunch of effort and push myself out of the acquaintance stage, that person leaves town for work and I am stuck right back where I was. It's a large enough problem as to where I've considered moving to places less advantageous career wise just because they are less transient.
I can agree with you on that. Every time I've taken an SAT or some other state test online I've ended up with Pearson. Their software in general is pretty janky.
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I'll be emigrating back to New Zealand shortly (NZ citizen, living and working in the US) and have an opportunity to work remote for the US-based company I'm currently at.

I know that Ask HN is no substitute for expert advice, and I have already talked to an accountant who suggested that either filing as an IR-56 person, or setting up a company, were probably the right ways to go.

I wanted to see if anyone was in the same boat, and if there were any gotchas or things I should know?
I've been investing 20+ years, through the dot-bomb bubble, great recession, etc. Losing half of your money over a long term period (10+ years) is basically impossible if you are diversified. It's pretty simple: mostly buy index funds, invest regularly, avoid putting too much in a single stock, and , most importantly, don't panic. Sure, if you invested everything in Pets.com back in 2000, you'd be screwed, but that is easy to avoid if you never put more than x% in a single stock.
I an 43 and met my current best friend circle after 30 and 2 of them after 40. My highschool friends just did not click anymore and I do like long conversations about tech, so I find people that like that as well and make quite deep friendships that last a long time.
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Not the greatest analogy, as there are very very few circumstances where leasing would put you financially ahead of buying a car and driving it for a long time. Even better if you buy a car that’s 2-3 years old and drive it into the ground!
This whole thread I've been arguing that Alice Dreger isn't the point, the point is that a lot of people are willing to protest and tar the reputations of others based on flimsy (and in this case completely fabricated) pretenses. I wish you would be willing to see that this is a problem, but instead you spent the whole thread redirecting.

I addressed you because you incorrectly accused me of forming an opinion of your beliefs based on one data point.
Ditto. Too little, too late.
Really cool stuff. Here's some initial feedback:

"Avoid internal link redirects" -> All the errors I'm getting on my site are due to the login-wall on some of the pages because it's detecting /account/login/?next=... links as internal redirects.

"Use unique titles" / "Set page descriptions" / "Avoid URL parameters" / "Avoid thin content pages" / etc -> Same problem as above with login walls ("Sign in to ..."). I get why, but it's adding a ton of noise. I added /account/login to URLs to ignore but it didn't achieve anything, I'm guessing I must have misunderstood the syntax or it has to be an exact match or some such?

"Avoid inline JavaScript" -> I'm making quite a bit of use of the <script type="application/json" id="foo"/> pattern, which allows me to declare json objects in the body I can later parse in my scripts. This pattern doesn't have all the issues carried with inline js. Can you ignore script tags where the type= is unknown or application/json\?

hsts preload: This is picking up individual pages on the checked site as errors, even though hsts preload really is a domain-wide thing.

"Hide server version data" -> This is picking up "server: cloudflare" as an error. Means no site behind cloudflare will ever pass this which seems overkill.

"Use lowercase URLs" -> So, on my site you can access objects with IDs like youtube's (/id/vZEz7JoNnfgVo...). It's picking up all those as errors. Feels wrong?

UI: Not a fan of the "x inlinks / y outlinks / headers / recrawl / html / copy" links below the URLs on the results page. Low contrast, unclear what I'm clicking and where it's gonna take me. The "copy" button: What am I copying? (Clearly the URL as I tried it, but that'd be more useful as a clipboard button next to the URL for example)

Finally, I ran it on my company's blog and it ended up crawling a ton of the company's various exosites on different domains which wasn't super useful, especially since none of it showed up in the final results.

Hey, this is a really great tool. Fast, slick UI and very clear what it does. I'll keep an eye on it and would love to see what else it can do in the future.

Pricing: It's hard to see myself pay for this; not because it's not worth it (I think it is easily worth a dozen USD / site checked), but because it's so easy to look at what it does and think "Yeah, but, I can probably do all that myself, and if I don't, it's not so important that I need to pay for a tool to tell me what to fix". I think this is the curse of developing products targeted at developers: Devs will tend to think "I can do this myself // I don't need this". In fact, if you hook me up with a free account, I'll use it a bunch ;)

Shoot me an email (see profile) if you want to talk through some more feedback (especially UX feedback). You just provided me with a pretty cool service for free so I feel I have to give back :)
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Would that be legal? Does the FCC offer such an exemption to laws prohibiting signal interference? And in what capacity? We've seen law enforcement jam cellular networks, but firefighters and EMTs? Helicopters? Should civilian helicopters also be able to jam signals? Would all this signal jamming (mostly of Wi-Fi bands) interfere with emergency services equipment or the ability of victims to call for help?
American here:

I've had the problem at a few different times in my life that, whenever I actually suggested to guy friends that we hang out, they interpreted it as a pass and thought I was gay. I'm not making this up at all. I think part of the problem is not just the way that priorities change as we get older but the fact that the US seems to have an extremely closed-off and anxiety-ridden culture to begin with. Maybe, in a sense, people here have too much personal space and just aren't good at being around each other?