skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally the more legacy/boomer an organization is,the more it requires higher ed. So the peace corps is out of the question, but americorps has some openings you'd qualify for. The lack of obligations and youth look very military... impossible to tell if the military would work for you; consider all the branches including the coast guard. Habitat for Humanity is a surprisingly efficient way to meet skilled trades workers, if you've never done the work before maybe you have an unknown skill for plumbing or electrician work; the pay can be better than programming, much more opportunity to move up in the field or start a company, and there's not as much ageism or weird political requirements as programming.
In some stores - not, but it still can be viewed that way in some situations. And that creates a problem.
One person getting the job of two people done is indeed a [giant] productivity boost. Compensation will surely change along with the industry, but there's not a reason to suspect drivers will be the winners in this.
can you explain why you don't consider medicare, food stamps, and section 8 housing to be social safety nets?
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What is the book?

My mother wrote a children's book called The Magic, about my brother & me. It wasn't pressured by death, but having something written for / about us by our parents is a very special treasure.
> Just when I thought there wasn’t anything worse than the open office plan.

Eh. A truck cabin sounds better. You can have music without needing to wear cans, you don't hear jim's mastication or janice's burping you don't get assaulted by emily's lack of hygiene or randy's mix of aggressive cologne and smelly feet, you decide what temperature you're most comfortable at, you can work without pants, …

The main issue would be 'net connectivity.
All of the code I write now, I release publicly under a permissive license.

I do not use any cloud services for storing data, and do not use any social media websites (other than perhaps HN, but all my actions are public here anyways). So that's a nop.

If there are things I think others will want when I'm gone (e.g. photos, documents), put them in a place where they can be physically accessed.

Everything else disappears when I do.
That problem was already solved by catalog and QVC.

The problems in rural areas stem from lack of new job growth since 2008 implosion, and jobs with poor wages (and not enough of these even). Not gonna help people buy much online.

Logistics around literal access aren't the issue. It's the same old tune: financial access.

Putting a website up in place of a catalog doesn't solve that problem.
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One nuance that is sorely needed is to change your risk profile as you age. Aggressive investment when you are 30 makes sense. Not when you are 60. The decision of when to start moving to more conservative portfolios is a personal choice... but you certainly don't stay in one bucket throughout your entire life.
Congress isn't going anywhere though, why would their impact on the ability of the USPS's money to make money banking be any different from mail?
Is your application ready? Would like to check it out, also any write-up on the tech details of it.
all my public stuff is on github and forkable. all my private stuff that i want people to have access to, they already have access to now. everything else can die with me for all i care.

"Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's going to die, come watch TV."
There are no practical implications. Some Linux Foundation/CNCF people need busywork to keep them busy.
> Hold up... when did Moore's law meet its demise?

Transistor count & speeds have stagnated since around 2012–2015, and it looks like we're close to some hard limits.
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The biggest problem is the precedent it sets. Once Julius Cesar made himself "first citizen" and took control over the senate, absolutely NONE of his successors relinquished power back to the Senate. ...and some of them were disastrous leaders.
> the sovereign can do whatever is necessary to keep the peace. In exchange, the individual agrees to go along with everything except the loss of their own life.

wow, how widely is this belief held? is there a name for it?
>I don't see how it could "damp", yet in such good condition after such a long time.

Can you provide other pieces of paper from the same time period so we can compare their state of conservation?
This is ridiculous that it was even introduced but the article itself (and many ars comments) note:

* Just because it was referred to a committee or even introduced doesn't mean it has any legitimate chance of being passed

* Even if it did get passed there seem to be a lot of low hanging fruit lawsuits that would be filed right away
I too have scanned all the photographs from my family and my wife's family. The oldest is a tintype of my father's paternal grandparents, circa 1868. The scans are on a RAID 1 NAS, backed up nightly to another RAID 1 NAS, with other periodic backups. But it seems unlikely any of these copies will last another 150 years.
>some 57% of drivers are 45 or older. Only 4.4% are 20-24 years old

For reference:

Assuming a driver starts working at age 18 and retires at age 65, and given equal distribution of workers over all ages, you would expect 42% of workers to be 45 or older, and 10% of workers to be 20-24 years old (if you assume 21-70, then 51% should be 45 or older).

Just in case anybody else was wondering what those numbers mean. As an aside, this projection from the same presenation looks slightly suspicious: http://www.truckinginfo.com/fc_images/news/l-driverturnover-...
OK, then we agree. :-)
It is not though. Python 3 is wayyyy easier to teach. And i should know since it's my job.
The movie Solar Crisis already covered this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i729rZWTmDo#t=30m22s
How is it humanly possible to ingest the daily feeds from a couple of thousand of people?

I know a few hundred people in real life but I don't feel a need to call them all up every single day. Ditto for Twitter. I can follow a wide range of people and dip in and out of it, enjoy the variety, and move on. I'd want to read everyone's every tweet as little as I'd want to know every one of my acquaintance's thoughts every day..
The ability to work hard is itself a talent, but I'd agree that it's more valuable than most.
It sounds like some of the jobs the poster had ended due to things outside his control. For the rest: Did he decide that he didn't like the line of work? Was he anxious to rebuild everything with the JS framework he saw last night, but couldn't?
Not really on topic but thought it interesting to see a resource from my alma mater linked here. Do you work with Dr. Patterson or did that randomly come up?
Looks like it has since been fixed.

Edit: ...or, at least, it works for me logged in and logged out. Weird.
Different concepts: yes. Different framework: no.
It sounds like you've just had bad jobs. Measuring by 15 minute increments is crazy. It's quite possible to work sane hours (I even wrote a book about it: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).

How about visiting https://www.keyvalues.com, seeing which things interest you, and see what companies meet your interests? As others have said, there's huge amount of variety in jobs and companies.
"Tech nerd hates on "normies" with cliche rant. Film@11."

And I'd heard the HN commentary was supposed to be better than those other social forums.
The default TV settings aren't necessarily the best
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Bear in mind that the fully-loaded cost for an employee in Lisbon will be ~2x take-home pay, meaning the low end of your range translates to a net salary of 1K euro/month. Which is absolutely in the ballpark for a new grad.

It doesn't go up much, either. An average senior engineer might cost 40K euro/year and the absolute cream of the crop can be had for 100-150 K euro/year.

This for engineers from a top school that you can expect to be fluent in english and 5 time zones away from the east coast. It's a great place to have a second office.
Because physical logistics are labor and capital intensive, whereas banking is not. USPS can deliver banking services in a financially sound manner without needing to generate a profit from it.
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In the past few months, the number of Allbirds' 'Woolrunners' I have seen at my university, in the midwestern US, has increased almost exponentially.

I think their brand shows the importance of pleasing early adopters; the people who wear these shoes are so pleased with them that they spontaneously recommend them to others.

Wondering if any other followers of the brand have witnessed the same thing.
Stupid Budweiser ads leading up to the Super Bowl
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Facebook has a "Legacy Contact" system in which you designate someone to be an "heir" to your account. FB Research published a great paper that ruminated about how complicated the situation could be, even compared to the traditional sense of inheritance of assets/brand that we have today:

https://research.fb.com/publications/legacy-contact-designin...

I recently saw an edge case of how complex it is to manage online identity after death, in this WaPo article titled, "She wore the weapon in a photo with a friend -- then killed her with it": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/01/18...

This story is notable, for starters, because instead of using a screenshot of the photo, the article embeds the FB image directly, which means it is clickable and you can go to the user profile. What's even more unusual is that this photo was a selfie taken by the murderer (the selfie features both women), who then sent it to the victim, who then posted it on her own profile before getting murdered that night. And apparently, as most people her age, the victim didn't think about suddenly dying, nevermind designating an "heir" for her FB account.

Anyway, you can see the comments in that photo and guess that the victim's friends were very pissed about something. Not just about how the murderer (whose faux-woe-is-me comment can still be seen) commented, but because apparently the victim uploaded this photo (taken by her murderer) and used it as her profile pic. So the victim's friends apparently had a dispute with FB to get the photo removed -- or at least changed to not be her profile pic -- and were apparently successful after an initial rejection.

tl;dr: FB doesn't have a policy for when you choose a photo with a friend as your profile pic, but then get murdered by that friend.
You worked in gaming? Was it for or under a large publisher? I heard those places are practically sweatshops.
> But it's not as simple as "well-meaning liberals". That seems like a re-writing of history when there are plenty of examples from the left protesting these deals.

I suppose I should have said modern "liberals", the word almost has no meaning anymore.

Bernie Sanders and Noam Chomsky are both historically very philosophically aligned with Trump on many of these topics, but many on the modern left, if you take them at their literal word, would have you believe they are some sort of alt-right hyper-capitalists.

I am of the opinion that some very powerful people have discovered a number of psychological tricks that the human mind, particularly under current Western moral beliefs, is almost completely defenseless against.
I wouldn't argue it has changed hugely in that time frame, but there have been some developments - notably Amazon now have a development center in the city.

> me and my fellow students had to find jobs in the London area

This is arguably still true of most any career path you care to choose in the UK - the UK economy in geographic terms is so heavily slanted to the South East/London, especially for "professional" type careers.
> A very sudden decline in Chinese manufacturing, that's what. With such a bold action, many if not most US and EU businesses will pull out of China, this would be no joking matter.

Could that be a policy plus for China? IIRC, they have wanted to reduce their export-dependence for some time, though I'm sure that they'd prefer to accomplish it is a more gradual and controlled way.
The value isn't in the items themselves, but in their perceived value.

Especially valuable is the optionality. How would you feel if you could not have reviewed your father's files? What if you couldn't access critical financial accounts or didn't know they exist?
Some "soft-Marketing" goals that allow the foundation to create more press-releases.

Absolutely no difference at all with before on the project itself AFAIK.

Yep, that's partially what foundations do. They hire full time administrative people that need to keep producing stuff.
what's pisses me off about these calculators is they completely ignore deduction limits[-1] and considering the audience here, there's plenty of people who do not benefit at all from contributing to an ira, or even a 401(k) if you plan on retiring earlier than 65

in fact, it's detrimental, compared to the fund flexibility of a standard brokerage

i wish people would talk about this more; perhaps there's something i'm missing, but after a certain income threshold, iras and 401(k)s seem like foolish investment decisions

[-1] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
Maybe the bottle had been sterilized the interior of the bottle with arsenic or something of that sort? In spite of the ingress of moisture, no mould or bacterium took hold.
Not even remotely close. Let's examine the countries in question anyway.

Liberal economies: US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Portugal, Switzerland, Israel, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Iceland, Taiwan, Austria

Planned or otherwise heavily state controlled: China, North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Sudan, Angola, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Egypt, Burma, Cambodia, Pakistan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Laos, Sierra Leone, Liberia

Who doesn't love self-explanatory lists?

And speaking of giving money to the rich. China has the highest real inequality of any nation that has ever existed in world history. They have half a billion people living on less than $10 per day, and a quarter of a billion people living on less than $3 per day, while they have over 600 billionaires, including 100 billionaires in their parliament:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/chinas-parliament-has-about-...
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Exactly. In the same way that a user coming to read the page on hamburgers should not see a discussion of McDonalds’ production policies, if a user views the Wikipedia article on AR-15s, he should see information about the gun, not the politics of gun control. That topic has its own dedicated page, and it should stay there.
I wouldn't be surprised if countries like Russia and China are surreptitiously inciting partisanship in the west.
Rewrite history in India? Isn't that what Christian and Muslim invaders did for the last 500 years? They are not Hindu nationalists, they are just normal Indians taking back the narrative in their country.
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> the free market

'the free market' here is actually more like an oligopoly than a free market, yet is being legislated as if it is a free market.. that's the problem..
>if a designated person requests access to your account, and you don't respond within [x] days, then they are granted access

isn't this wildly insecure? at the very least it means lastpass can read all your passwords at any time.
> rising disposable income is supposed to be a good thing

That's the lifestyle inflation I'm alluding to. If one can be happy spending X/year 5 years ago, why can't one be happy spending inflation-adjusted X/year today?

Agree about kids and healthcare but those aren't "lifestyle" costs.
Still failing for me:

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> What's the point of having nuclear weapons and not telling everyone? The entire point of nuclear weapons is to deter attacks.

The ambiguity is still a valuable deterrent, and avoids the diplomatic cost of violating the NPT in peacetime, etc. That cost would doubtlessly be less if the violator was presently facing an existential threat.

IIRC, Israel follows this strategy. Everyone knows they have nukes but they've never confirmed it.
Not ones that were left outside in a bottle that allowed them to become damp (without being soaked in a solution of arsenic or something).

Of course we have books and documents form that period that are in good shape.
I had a Pixel XL and now have a Pixel XL 2; both get monthly security patches (including the XL, although it isn't hooked up to any carrier), generally on the 5th of each month.
> I wouldn't recommend other Chinese brands like Doogee, Leagoo

Those names sound like Dodgy and Leakgoo, easy to remember, don't get those. Thanks.
problem is that a powerful adversary can "beat" your intended recipient by years or even decades. think whatever computing power a desktop has vs NSA, or even a guy with a lot of aws credits to burn.
Programmers should create value while reducing risk
Small towns rely on B&O tax revenue from small businesses though. So for the sake of streamlined access to cheap goods now there's no money to provide police protection, roads, parks, libraries, etc. that are paramounts of small-town life.
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Sounds to me like you need a better working environment. My personal suggestion is a move to Europe, where salaries are lower, but overtime is frowned upon.
In order to really get good at it you have to work in a mission critical environment that has a real requirement of 100% uptime (Defense Contractor, Military, National Security, Infrastructure, Aerospace, etc.). These types of high profile, cannot fail environments normally have enough funding and range of equipment to run you through the basics to expert (knowing everything connected and not connected on the network in depth, the details of most applications and their quirks, be able to tell what app is doing what by how they talk on the network, keep mission critical stuff up even when multiple racks or data-centers have failed, how to scale without downtime or latency to meet demands and more, creating your own software, os and kernel patches for performance, stability and security reasons, your own network and server gear for special use cases and more).

The good side to working in these environments is that it is normally a mix between AWS, and private highly secure non-public internet connected data-centers around the world and internet connected data-centers.

With time you could go from not knowing a thing to being able to effectively work at an expert level with other top DevOps Engineers in the field around the world in the most demanding of environments. You would be an expert at all the operating systems versions, databases, and modern technology stacks because you would be required to have in depth and broad knowledge to help the broad set of customers that you would be able to encounter. Wonderful thing is they will always have something new to learn that you may have never heard of before.
Isn't it nowadays down to: who's spyware do you prefer?
PM for Cloud Firestore here -> thanks for the feedback, we're working on getting to GA.

Feel free to email(dan + mcg at google), Twitter DM, etc more details about your cost concerns.

The quota change issue is complex, but yes we'd like to make it faster :)
Sandy Lake. In the 6 years between the 2500K and the 7600K they've managed to increase performance by about 20% (total, not annually). Same # of cores, same price.
datatables are pretty much how regular SQL behaves, there are no magic behind them, right?

I would have prefered using DataReader, most often.
It is a good exercise to simple open the new Google Search Console Index Coverage[1] report on any new modern website. You will often find important pages that don't get indexed for one reason or another.

Proper SEO indexing is a huge opportunity for most big sites. It doesn't happen magically on its own.

1. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en
Europe’s population is ~750m.
Type-safety is a blessing.
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Still yielding an error for me. I'd actually love to see a post-mortem/blog post on why this happened. I like quirky little bugs.
I wrote the inference step of XGBoost in Go. It will make predictions after loading in an XGBoost JSON model. Writing the training portion of XGBoost would be much harder.
Linux Mint with Cinnamon. I like the UI very much. It's based on Ubuntu LTS so there are a lot of packages and troubleshooting guides.
Laspass is massively insecure in all aspects of its design & history - including many facepalm-worthy breaches... It's terrible.
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Passenger rail is supposed to have priority by law, but in practice they don't always get it. Freight carriers don't always yield, enough so that there are ongoing legal battles. You can check Amtrak's historical On-Time Performance and causes of delay here:
https://www.amtrak.com/about-amtrak/on-time-performance/

My quick sampling of ~10 trains came up with an average around 65% on-time during the last year. The only one I've ridden, the California Zephyr, is less than 50%.

http://blog.amtrak.com/2015/02/message-amtrak-regarding-time...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/03/24-judge-sides-...

http://www.jconline.com/story/money/2017/08/24/csx-digs-its-...
You start by saying how a personal care assistant is rather unspecialized work and then go on to ruminate on the peculiarities of the job that most people wouldn't want to deal with.

Why isn't trucking an unskilled job just with negative features (long hours alone, danger to health given the erratic hours) too?
A TV (beer) ad here in the US.