skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty solid description of the situation. I take adderall at the moment and I've been on adhd meds since a little before highschool. College was funny when I went to parties because I'd see people taking stimulants (prescription and otherwise) for fun and all I could think was "Why would anyone want to party on this stuff?"
Ask HN: Thoughts on relocating from SF to Sydney?
Hi HN,

I currently work in SF at a startup in a semi-technical role (think: Analytics/UX/Product). I've been looking to move on from my current company and am considering an offer to move to a startup in Sydney (they would handle all the visa stuff and help with relocation).

The offer is extremely attractive for a few reasons:

1 - The startup is doing cool stuff, has great leadership, and seems poised for big things

2 - Improved title (ie: Senior XX) with interesting scope of work

3 - I've been in the Bay Area most of my life, so I'm really excited about the potential opportunity to live overseas for a few years while still developing my career. Sydney is great and I have no kids or real obligations to speak of, so now would be the best time to do something like this.

My main concerns are:

1 - My S/O. She has similar overseas aspirations would love to move out shortly after I get settled in. She's great and has no trouble getting job offers in the US, but I'm unclear on the visa situation - is it easy for companies to sponsor foreign workers or did I get really lucky?

2 - Comp/Standard of living. In raw #s, the offer is about equivalent to my current wage, but the AUD <> USD exchange rate results in close to a 25% pay cut for me in USD terms. I'm not sure if that's "normal" for tech salaries in Sydney vs SF, and if so - is Sydney really that much cheaper??

3 - Career Development. I'm assuming I'll be able to hop back to SF after 2-3 years relatively easily, but I could be way off base.

4 - I don't know what I don't know.

I have a couple of contacts in Sydney and Australia through family and grad school, but I know nobody working in Tech there outside of the folks I've been interviewing with so I'm still quite a bit in the dark. I'd love any thoughts or input you may have!
Hopefully these firms haven't yet their shares listed on stock exchanges, otherwise all the ignorant sheeps would have all shorted, only to see their money gone into expert investors pocket a few days later.
Not really a household name, but Level Eleven (https://leveleleven.com/) seems to be having great success.
Not so thinly veiled Zillow product placement article.
The most frustrating thing about this subject (to me) is that it is all about doing education to children.

If children weren't forced to sit in classrooms 7 hours a day, 5 days a week (or similar), ADHD, ADD, etc. would not get the negative focus it does.

Just because education is A Good Thing™ does not mean we should ignore the detrimental effects of its implementation
Your best bet is likely http://www.scheme-reports.org/

This is the main page that the RnRS committee uses to post publications.
Any particular reasons why you chose to do this? I'm just curious on what the shortcomings of both these SSGs are that was off-putting to you.

I'll check it out. Seems to be mature enough to give it a try. Thank you!
EU citizens outside the EU.

Where is this specified? It's not what I understood from Recital 23†; as far as I can tell, it applies if the business is established in the EU or if the user is in the EU, but not to EU citizens outside the EU (if the business is foreign).

† https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/
Yeah, I'll have to do that since I'm rarely happy with a default theme. Will need to modify it to suit my taste. Thank you!
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I adblock then disable extension updates. The only extension I add.
He mentions it a bit, but openbsd is really a good place to start for multiplatform code. Their focus on security and posix helps a ton.
Silicon Valley success is Midwestern success. I would wager that the majority of engineering talent working in the Bay Area was born and raised in the Midwest.
> There's a technical reason for choosing R6RS as well though. To me the defining characteristic of R6RS is the library system. In my mind, this has a pretty clear mapping to WebAssembly modules.

Well, this is a clear win for R6RS over R5RS, but R7RS has a much more flexible and well-agreed upon module system. One of the things about R6RS against its favour is that the module system never caught on with the major Scheme implementations (Gauche, Gambit, CHICKEN, Racket), and everyone kind of rolled their own. It's only in recent times that I've notice a lot more activity converging around R7RS.

Nonetheless, thanks for responding. Familiarity is a reasonable enough reason for choosing a standard.
> European regulators are very strict with European companies in a variety of ways. Just because it doesn't make international news every week is not proof that it doesn't happen (I work for SUSE remotely and my impression is that the German government is very meticulous about verifying that companies aren't breaking the law.)

The obvious counterpoint here is the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Europe generally went "oh, maybe we should make it harder to cheat on emissions" whereas the US went "here's the fine for not meeting emissions, here's the fine for cheating, oh by the way, you can't sell these cars anymore since they don't meet emissions, and mind the class action lawyers on your way out." That said, it could well be the cause that the EU would have been equally nonplussed had GM been the heart of the scandal instead of VW, but there is room to argue that Germany isn't treating domestic companies with the same vigor that it does foreign ones.
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Define "Happiness" as your success criteria. Don't tie happiness with anything materialistic, like "Learning ML", Spinning up a Bot in AWS, Doing that cool BlockChain crashcourse, demos.

Do something to the person you care about, (or) the persons who care about you. Like, go for a walk with them. Speak about all the moments that you missed to recognise/understand/been insensitive to them.

After all "Succesful" is like a user story that your product manager promised to fill the "acceptance criteria" for. That will never have an end. Succesful is a state of mind like depression and you have the choice to choose between being succesful or depressed in whatever you do.

All the best.
"This is a national security issue that must be treated with the utmost care. Can you analyze and decode this message we received from Alpha Centauri 4?"

[Time passes]

"By Jove, I think we've cracked it, Sir. It's essentially Huffman encoded and contains a mechanism for repeating redundant strings. Let me see if I can decode the entire message."

[Time passes]

"Shit, my computer crashed."
You've just got to shake your head and wonder if the "management" who thought this might be a good idea have ever met any actual human beings.
You Should Take a Codecation (2014)
Every time Pythagoras is brought up, I can't help but think of the cult of Pythagoras as well.

One of the tenants is the refutation of beans. For what reason, I have no idea. I've always found it strange that a mind so capable was also equally capable of such folly.
You’re just in denial now, you’ve clearly had plenty of the Valley’s koolaid. It’s hilarious that you don’t think the worlds largest market maker isn’t doing “algo/prop work that could fall under the umbrella of tech.” Don’t be afraid to leave your bubble.
Extensions can specify if they want read/change access to only one domain (or more). This extension could have specified medium.com alone.
Good writeup -- and one of the main reminders for me is this:

People throw around words like "revolution" for the current deep-learning push. But it's worth remembering that the fundamental concepts of neural networks have been around for decades. The current explosion is due to breakthroughs in scalability and implementation through GPUs and the like, not any sort of fundamental algorithmic paradigm shift.

This is similar to how the integrated circuit enabled the personal computing "revolution" but down at the transistor level, it's still using the same principles of digital logic since the 1940s.
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MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)
Where there's no will, there's no way...
That doesn't make you a worse programmer on current job. That's important, because side projects help me discover and master other domains, not those from my job.
It seems tailored for social media. "look at me I won". A lot of things are going this route. dumb.
How to persuade a robot that you should get the job
Dilbert IRL.
That's the best ! (y)
So, I'm sure that some people here are still unclear on how I can come to the
values I referenced above. Let's do a little thought experiment, and I'll
show you my thinking on the subject.

Let's say that someone in the military decides to use the word PANDA as a classified
military code word to cover a certain type of activity -- for
example, all signals intelligence (see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals_intelligence>). We will
abbreviate PANDA as "PX", and if you have a TS (Top Secret, see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_secret>) SCI (Sensitive
Compartemented Information, see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...)
clearance and you have been read onto this compartment, then you
can be said to have a "TS/SCI/PX" clearance.

Now, PANDA (or PX) covers all signals intelligence. All satellite
surveillance of any type. All "bugging" technologies. All interception of
digital communications, human or otherwise. Basically, pretty much everything
that the NSA does. And a good part of what the CIA does. A TS/SCI/PX
clearance is the minimum necessary to work at the NSA, CIA, White
House Communications Agency, or pretty much any of the other dozens
and dozens of intelligence agencies in the country.

Any compromise of PANDA would mean that hundreds or thousands of classified
military projects would be impacted, some of which might be so sensitive that
they have to be shut down entirely rather than be associated with a
now-compromised keyword. Each of these projects might have to spend thousands
or millions of dollars to reclassify their work, and to do what they can to
mitigate the damage done. Each project might have hundreds or thousands of
personnel who might no longer have jobs, either for the short term or the long
term, because of the compromise.

Now, let's assume that some silly person decides to write an article
about PANDA, using it as an example of how an SCI code word is used
and what it covers, and publishes that in Wikipedia (or Hacker
News). And maybe that also gets published on the front page of the
Wall Street Journal.

Any time you get a single intelligence agency to run around like a chicken
with their head cut off because of some minor compromise, that event probably
costs hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. Now imagine what it
would cost if the code word for the largest SCI compartment was exposed, and
all of the intelligence agencies in the country were running around like
chickens with their heads cut off. And all of DoD, for that matter.

Do the math.

Frankly, I think just "billions of dollars" might actually be
low-balling the numbers somewhat with regards to the upper boundary,
but then I'm just guessing -- I have no first hand knowledge of
that kind of activity or cost.

But I do know which compartment was affected by the book I saw.
Should we master replicating that, we also must gain a much better understanding of AI and human intelligence along the way.

Our current computers are certainly not able to simulate a human brain. No computer in the world has currently the computing power to run decent, biochemistry based models for each neuron in a human brain. This basically calls for specialized hardware, which may or may not extend the limits of computable problems beyond Turing completeness.

If we manage to get to that point, we will have to face more important ethical challenges anyway, like how do we deal with tools that allow us to assess what a person is thinking and planning with near certainty? At that point, the key argument of the paper might actually fall apart because there is a chance that we end up understanding the inner workings of the alien AI.

But at that point we have heaped up so much speculation that decent science fiction authors are about to get jealous.
Compare:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

> Many fertility doctors say that girls are the goal for 80 percent of gender selection patients. A study published in 2009 by the online journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online found Caucasian-Americans preferentially select females through PGD 70 percent of the time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/well/family/the-fear-of-h...

> a 2010 study [] discovered, among other things, that adoptive American parents preferred girls to boys by nearly a third. [] Adoptive parents are even willing to pay an average of $16,000 more in finalization costs for a girl than a boy.
> * all parents want more easy control*

Refuted. I am a parent. I do not want 'more easy control'.
Interesting to hear that C++ isn’t that well supported on OpenBSD. The story is quite the opposite with FreeBSD, where it’s really easy to use either clang or gcc. I usually spin up new jails to keep different installations sandboxed. CLion works quite nicely with most window managers on FreeBSD, but I rarely boot Xwindows these days and usually prefer to work with emacs inside tmux from the console.
I’m a big fan of NameSilo too.

That they only do domains is another big factor for me.

I just wish they supported .au domains
If you have only done greenfield development and source-based extension (instead of having to either provide 3rd party extension points or use them), your opinion on modularity is invalid.
Would you ask your Literature professor what the real world applications of reading Joseph Conrad are? I think asking for a 'real world application' of something you are learning in the course of a liberal education is missing the point.

Trade schools are a different sort of thing.
That is a great demo. Why isn't it a proof? In a sense, isn't a concrete fact of reality better than an abstract proof?
I think part of the problem probably starts way before college.
I guess now that they have used up all the social capital in SF, they need to broaden their horizons and look for more people to make their slaves. I wonder what terms they’ll offer to some naive kid in Ohio? They could probably get away with a lot more and do exponentially more damage than what they have done here.
A collection of interesting research directions around transfer learning and NLP
I think the point was that it's not a phenomenon exclusive to San Francisco.
The 2001 Honda Insight was built with NiMH cells -- not quite NiCd, but still doable.
> JWT is great until you get to the point where you want to have things like token revocation.

What a flawed argument, there are techniques that allows for session revocation, even in an async stateless jwt context, i.e. By blacklisting, which will work great, and give you some nice properties, depending on your infrastructure and design.

Sadly, some appear to assume jwt is some special solution that does X right and y wrong.. but its really nothing other than a structured format in the end. But surely a lot of people do a lot of wrong stuff when deploying their stuff on top of jwt.
Definitely can be true, although I think that there are a lot of potential paths.

My advice would be to determine what is driving you to want to shift from Engineer => PM. If it's purely money, there are alternatives that don't require leaving coding (job hopping wisely, moving into certain types of management tracks, consulting on the side, switching into industries that pay SWEs ludicrous salaries such as quant finance if you can). Similarly if you're looking for more influence/reputation – all of that can be had as an engineer if you're somewhat thoughtful about your path. However – if you're looking to transition out of coding because you're more interested in the business / sales / working with people (which was my story) then it's a great switch.

Good luck!
Can sndio replace Jack?
loads fine for me
It's funny, the doctor brought that up after my diagnosis. If you've tried stimulants recreationally and they just didn't work, or if you just wanted to sit and chill, he saw that as a very strong indicator.
The trouble with bass is you get the product of two factors both working against you.

First of all, to produce a sound that is identically loud to the human ear, the sound wave pressure amplitude has to increase tremendously as you go down in frequency. At 40 Hz, which is not very deep bass, you're talking a 40 dB SPL increase necessary over 1000 Hz.

Furthermore, as the frequency drops, the sound waves become longer, meaning that with constructive interference, the volume of space in which you have to produce significant sound pressure increases with the inverse of frequency.

Taken together, this means that at 40 Hz, this type of speaker must output 16*25 = 400 times as much sound energy as at 1000 Hz. To reach deep bass territory of 20 Hz, you're looking at a 1600 times increase in the energy required.
Does anyone on HN pay for medium? What content on the site encouraged you to do so?
That could work if:

- it was on by default. You shouldn't have to 'opt-out' of invasive surveillance.

- it was enforceable and backed by a vigilant regulator and credibly enforced legal deterrents. We're far beyond a 'pinky-promise' being enough.
C++ support is pretty good with base Clang 5, OpenBSD is using the libc++ standard library and libc++abi (FreeBSD uses PathScale's libcxxrt). The situation with debuggers is another story, the base version of gdb is outdated (GPLv2 version). The ports/packages version (egdb) has better support for things like C++, threads, but may lack other features. There is currently no support for the LLVM debugger, sadly.
This is why RMS calls auto-updates "universal backdoors".
It doesn't show that it's true in all cases, just that one.
I like his insight that a lot of base neural network implementation code is conceptually simple in the same way as writing a raytracer.
I'll be giving both Lektor and Pelican a shot since they both use Python and Jinja and I'm familiar with them coming from Django. Thank you!
Oh geez, you're right. It's really the only way I use postgres so I kind of equated the names, but yeah, different tools.
More information on the policy:

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/united-airlines-employees...

TLDR:

> A new report says [United Airlines] plans to do away with quarterly employee performance bonuses--and replace them instead with random drawings for prizes like like cash, automobiles, and vacations.

---

How will this encourage employees to perform admirably? After David Dao's beating and forced removal from a flight, this seems like quite a poor decision.
Ah! Right. That's on the todo list as well. Thank you very much!
You could use it as a starting point to a proof by induction maybe, but it currently only proves one case of the theorem.
Looks great but sadly, they don't have Linux support (yet). Will check them once they start supporting Linux. Thank you :)
The execs probably hope to leverage irrationality around games of chance. This will provide net morale at a lower program cost. It's good that this innovation will be nipped in the bus before it spreads across corporate America.
Looking at simple percentage deltas is rather misleading. It's important to understand the context and the causes behind those numbers. In Kansas, for example, education funding has been deeply cut in non-obvious ways. It's so bad that the State Supreme Court has been forced to intervene and declare the current funding of the schools to be unconstitutional! [1][2] (Think about that for a second -- these are highly conservative judges, not "activist judges," deploying the logic of civil rights on behalf of school children.)

The same problem pervades the Midwest -- except Minnesota. (Minnesota is very unique in the Midwest for actually investing in education and producing high levels of educational attainment [3][4].) The end result is that no matter how cheap the land or low the taxes operating and growing a knowledge-driven business in much of the Midwest is a really a non-starter.

[1] http://kcur.org/post/5-reasons-kansas-supreme-court-found-st...

[2] http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article17...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/right-vs-le...

[4] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-03-02/...
This was done to try and boost morale and make United a more caring airline? It looks like an attendance and compliance program in disguise.

How could people at the top be so inept at such basic principles of human psychology? The only explanation is that Oscar Munoz is a complete sociopath and cares nothing about his employees, or company for that matter. Makes absolutely no sense at any level and will only lead to long term damage to the company.

The net effect is that those people who actually tried harder in their job because of the bonus will feel no such desire after the first few times they don’t “win”. Those that do win will know it was pure luck and nothing in their actions or performance contributed to the winning, so it won’t change their performance either.
>> I’m not a Unix geek. I get around ok, but I am most comfortable developing in Visual Studio on Windows.

This is a lesson for me and probably many others. Don't get hung up on tools, ship!!!
In more concrete terms, how much was the total cost of the SR-71 and associated A-12 program? Or the F-117 program? Or the B-2 program?

What if they had to cancel or mothball multiple programs of that size?

What would it have cost if they had to cancel or mothball all stealth programs?

I’m not saying that is what actually happened, but that would give us a reasonable top end for the potential costs involved.
Interesting! Will check it out. Thank you!
Anti-trafficking training that helped rescue 341 children to go nationwide
Why would it make sense to kill senescent cells when we know it could kill the patient? [0]

IMO it makes more sense to apply the Paget's "seed and soil theory" of cancer research to aging, and work on biological mechanisms than on a crude approach like "killing cells".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_lysis_syndrome
Fun factoid. Have you ever noticed how absurdly tacky casino carpet is? This is intentional. The idea is to keep people's eyes up and looking at the casino games.

There's also that characteristic smell many casinos have, and I'm struggling to avoid the really tempting jokes there. That derives from quite expensive fragrances and oils filtered through the air circulation. Once again, they're designed to incentivize gaming with a bit of metascience - musk is a popular component in the scents, for instance.

The games begin when you walk through the door, whether or not you realize you're participating.
How's your fiction writing? I think you have the basis of a dystopia where AI replaces management and nobody notices they're robots until it's too late.
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Hands up for everyone who expected John to announce the first self-aware AI at the end.
Yeah, I'm curious about the GAE aspect as well. Why have you chosen that over something like Netlify? Any particular shortcomings I'm missing?
There's no such thing as human races.

http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?It...
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