skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left the tech "workforce" (although I use a lot of technology on my own in my own business) a couple of downturns ago, after I got fed up with having several positions in a row offshored and eliminated.

I started my own unrelated business (sort of fell into it, applying my observations about certain marketplaces) with the immediate goal of having more hands-on control of my fate -- I could live with the impacts of my own stupid mistakes, but I wanted to insulate myself from others' stupid mistakes.

So, I stayed above water even through the 2008+ downturn, even while a lot of my colleagues who had stayed in the industry were out of the conventional full-time workforce as well.

But now, my industry segment is going away (ironically, due to the stupid mistakes of the industry superpower), so I've folded up the worst-performing 60% of my business. Now, I have to decide whether to just sell my SV house and "retire" or somehow find an appropriate role for my "out of date" (in terms of modern stacks) technical skillset.

I think at this point, my most marketable skill is writing and breaking stuff, and writing about breaking stuff, but the trick is finding the right company with those needs.
FYI your home page refers to "DadJokeJunkie.com promises not to spam you or share your number and you can opt out at any time." but that is not your site :P
I found a whole shelf of binders detailing the research conducted for a nuclear power plant proposal in the area. It went down to things like how many of each kind of wild animal and fish have been spotted and detailed weather instrument data. Binders upon binders of the stuff.
Especially when you then go to maintain a Flask project where they have re-implemented Django, except you don't know where anything is or how it works.
It always amused me that the thing that dated Die Hard so much was this line

“When they touch down, we'll blow up the roof, they'll spend a month sifting through rubble, and by the time they work out what went wrong, we'll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.

Of all of the crazy things in the film, Twenty percent seems the most unimaginable to people who have only experienced recent times.
It's my go-to prototype framework/server, but I think it's going to complicate things unnecessarily down the road if you want to scale. You can make it work for prod if need be, though.

But you can go from 0-59 with ease and easily translatable templates, etc.
Tom Lee – BCH is now in an overbought state. I prefer to buy BTC
If the officer submitted the DNA as if they were a customer of the site, I wonder how they complied with the company's sample collection process. You usually have to submit a generous amount of saliva or cheek swabs.
Every time I think about writing a book, I question whether I could write anything that I didn't learn from better books already. Looks unlikely.
> On the Sunday Feynman was up at his usual hour (nine a.m.), and we went down to the physics building, where he gave me another two-hour lecture of miscellaneous discoveries of his. One of these was a deduction of Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field from the basic principles of quantum theory, a thing which baffles everybody including Feynman, because it ought not to be possible.

Physics stackexchange discussion of this [1].

That includes a link to a 2001 paper, "Feynman's derivation of Maxwell equations and extra dimensions" [2].

Here's a paper Dyson wrote about it in 1989 [3].

That was discussed here on HN [4].

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/391744/does-feyn...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0106235

[3] http://fermatslibrary.com/s/feynmans-proof-of-the-maxwell-eq...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067435
I can hardly imagine how can StackOverflow be specifically hostile to women or racial minorities. I have never witnessed anybody being rude to another person for just their gender or skin colour there. Do anybody even care about who the author of a question or an answer is? A question is either interesting or nonsensical or normal, an answer is either useful or not. I don't think many people care to explore the author profile to write a gender/racially-specific answer/comment, also nobody is forced to disclose their race, sex or real name on StackOverflow AFAIK.

At the same time all the "question quality" stuff seems a purist loon crazy well beyond reason. There are many highly-upvoted and much-bookmarked questions that are reasonable and interesting and have useful, highly-upvoted answers but get closed and deleted for stupid reasons so only high-rank users can see them.

As for me I use to upvote (and hurry to answer if I can) reasonable and valid questions that others vote to close out of pure protest.
Alcohol leaves the body in a few hours. If an employer screening is picking up alchohol, that’s by definition abuse.

With respect to marijuana, it’s well known that it is detectable for some period of time. If you’re smoking with full knowledge that you can be randomly screened, you’re demonstrating poor judgment and risk tolerance.

I don’t want someone dumb enough to do these things in a position where my health and safety is at risk.
Yeah, I second the preference for the latter approach. It encourages more reusable components - you get to use `format_user_data` in situations which don't require data validation, for example.

The one downside is the second style of code is a little uglier in languages without a good function composition operator, like Python. I enjoy writing stuff like

user = data
|> format_user_data
|> validate_user_data

in languages that support the pipeline operator.
Rethinking social business models
And intellect is more easily widely monetized today: e.g. high frequency trading, data mining, DL applications, ad algorithms.
> On the third day of the journey a remarkable thing happened; going into a sort of semistupor as one does after forty-eight hours of bus riding, I began to think very hard about physics, and particularly about the rival radiation theories of Schwinger and Feynman. Gradually my thoughts grew more coherent, and before I knew where I was, I had solved the problem that had been in the back of my mind all this year, which was to prove the equivalence of the two theories. Moreover, since each of the two theories is superior in certain features, the proof of equivalence furnished a new form of the Schwinger theory which combines the advantages of both. This piece of work is neither difficult nor particularly clever, but it is undeniably important if nobody else has done it in the meantime. I became quite excited over it when I reached Chicago and sent off a letter to Bethe announcing the triumph. I have not had time yet to write it down properly, but I am intending as soon as possible to write a formal paper and get it published. This is a tremendous piece of luck for me, coming at the time it does. I shall now encounter Oppenheimer with something to say which will interest him, and so I shall hope to gain at once some share of his attention. It is strange the way ideas come when they are needed. I remember it was the same with the idea for my Trinity Fellowship thesis.

> My tremendous luck was to be the only person who had spent six months listening to Feynman expounding his new ideas at Cornell and then spent six weeks listening to Schwinger expounding his new ideas in Ann Arbor. They were both explaining the same experiments, which measure radiation interacting with atoms and electrons. But the two ways of explaining the experiments looked totally different, Feynman drawing little pictures and Schwinger writing down complicated equations. The flash of illumination on the Greyhound bus gave me the connection between the two explanations, allowing me to translate one into the other.

Dyson is obviously brilliant, and I'm sure he's being humble to a fault here, but it's amazing how valuable being in the right place at the right time is. This piece of work brought Dyson to fame:

> Oppenheimer rewarded Dyson with a lifetime appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study, "for proving me wrong", in Oppenheimer's words.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
Depends on where you live. California state law requires all lenders to except early payments, so a fixed loan holder in California really gets the best of both worlds.
invalidation of license sharing with Intel would mean no more 64bit x86 Intel processors - not going to happen
it's like that scene from the movie Hurt Locker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1OOI6m4b7c where he's trying to decide which cereal from so many choices. Old fashion family arranged marriages make so much sense to me now. JUST PICK SOMEONE!
Well yeah, both the US and the EU conveniently ignore antitrust concerns when it's their golden geese on the line.

Simply put, to each respective party, having the domestic aircraft company have a leg up over the other is paramount, while they waffle over the other's grocery stores [1] or delivery companies [2].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/151-0175/k... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/business/dealbook/ups-tnt...
Is this really true? I find in my own experience that men want sex more than women is a stereotype of sorts. That women are more selective than men is a distinct observation but I'm not so sure how true that is either and how much of it is merely due to traditional gender roles.
No, SO has not retained quality. It’s a wasteland of promising questions that moderators turned into dead ends, to the point that finding an SO link relevant to your issue in a Google searches is practically guaranteed to leave you more frustrated than before. It pollutes the troubleshooting process with false hope.
Here's some context: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...

Some benefits vs Python are static types (catching more errors at compile-time vs hours into a training run), no GIL, don't have to drop to C++ for higher performance.

Some benefits vs some other (non-Python) languages are a shallow learning curve, small boilerplate, safety-by-default, and a growing community.

Obviously there are places where Python and others have advantages over Swift too, and several of those are called out in the paper.
The British hacker who became the Islamic State's 'cybercoach'
Given the fallibility of DNA testing they may as well be using a divining rod to declare someone a witch. This will be abused to falsely accuse innocent people. Lives will be ruined and the authorities will act like their hands are clean. 23andMe is not a forensics lab. Their techs have no incentive to avoid mistakes with cross contamination. This is just plain dumb.
The LEDs you linked are also about twice as bright at 1/5th the power consumption.

Say you have one light bulb running three hours per day (living room, kitchen or office in the evening seems realistic). It uses 20 W more than the LED and using $0.15 per kWh (average rate in California) this gives

20 W* 3h * $0.15/(1000 Wh) * 365 = $3.29 every year

If you regularly use two incandescent bulbs the "more expensive package" paid for itself within a year and gives you brighter light at the same time.
Discord?
There are also risks. Recessions hit trades much harder than anyone else, as they tend to be affected first and recover last from them. Construct unemployment is a leading indicator of recessions.
Great idea in general. Software dev has an unnecessary amount of politics, and this could reduce it.
> As of a year ago, in total around 39% of all outstanding Australian residential loan balances were interest only. [1] For those that recall the US real-estate bubble, that's a terrifying figure; the US interest-only share of the market during the crazy years of the real-estate bubble was single digits (5-8%). Australia is currently taking action to try to counter this, which is rocking their market presently. [2]

At least for myself, I have an interest only loan; but it comes with an offset account. In a day-to-day sense it's not very different to a normal mortgage with free redraws.
I think this gets confused when comparing stats across countries, as offset accounts in the USA don't seem to really exist (while they are common in Australia).
> So the working scenario is UBI followed by health insurance mandate?

Don't we already have a health insurance mandate?

> What happens if the remainder is $0, or worse, healthcare prices (and consequently health insurance prices) outpace UBI growth?

Presumably the same thing that happens if healthcare prices outpace the Medicare budget.
I was about to post something similar, but this nicely summarizes my feelings. Even with DRF (for REST APIs) the extreme coupling at all layers makes things painful, though it's possible to reduce that pain a little with some carefully enforced rules.

(I would like to see a way of disabling QuerySet traversing, so that if you try to access something that you didn't already prefetch_related/select_related then you just hit an error (and therefore fix it before you go live). The behaviour of just happily issuing hundreds of DB queries in a single request really hides a bunch of architectural and performance issues.)

That said, as the sibling comment says, if you need a simple- to moderate-complexity, mostly CRUD API, and particularly if you need it fast, then Django is a great tool.
This is not like courtship or arranged marriages. In what you call "much of history" it was done openly and it was clear that you were arranging a marriage for you son or daughter or what have you. This is more covert and deceitful.
A former cop, who was fired in 1979. Please try to be somewhat familiar with the facts before posting inflammatory speculation.
Sure, you would hope so.

The problem is all in communication:

1. Communicating the requirements with enough clarity to enable the designer to translate those requirements into creative.

2. Communicating constructive feedback to adjust the creative.

The most productive exchanges are when the client understands the creative process.
It's ok if it's interesting.

Edit: I took a closer look and see the point now. It gives a more generic answer to a specific question. Such comments tend to be how discussions get less interesting, more because of the upvotes they attract than because the comment itself is bad.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even when rules are put in place for a reason, you should still be able to break them as long as there is value in doing so and you pay sufficient attention to the underlying reasons for the rule. Reasons are more important than rules, after all. You won't be able to do anything exceptional if you're not allowed to be an exception in any meaningful way.
Don't know about others, but for me the answer is:
A little bit. Not a huge amount, not because someone on the internet got it wrong. But because it is a reminder that I basically have to try and hide my gender on a huge part of the internet to not be harassed.
I already have to stay away from LinkedIn unless I am applying for a job due to guys thinking it is a dating site.
I have to pick ambiguous usernames that don't hint at gender.
I occasionally have to throw an account away on a site.

It bothers me that I basically have to pretend to be a dude on most of the internet because of assholes.
That is true, but has no bearing on the "creating superbugs" sense.
You crossed into personal attack in this subthread. We ban accounts that do that, so could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not do that again?
Same! I'm definitely qualified to answer some of the questions and for some reason actually willing to do so but totally gave up investing my time in doing so after a couple of similar experiences.
Using DUIs as an example, these cover things besides alcohol, can be prescription drugs, probably other things that impair motor function (IANAL).

Roadside DUI test is a general test for motor impairment. BAC tests are a nice proxy for that in the case of alcohol, and a legally convenient one as they are precise and objective, but the police care (morally speaking) about your motor impairment not your BAC.

tl;dr, we can already answer the question "is this person too stoned to drive?", roadside DUI test.
Eh, sort of. I kind of got mixed up between the point of saying "I think people in general are more likely to attempt a language with less obvious initial hurdles given a relatively equal set of benefits from learning them (to their understanding)" and a statement about those languages in particular that follows along those lines.

So, for your proposed equivalence, I think my original statement is true, and I also think the more general statement above is likely true in a wider sense.
For this benchmark, NVLink and gradient reduction isn't the bottleneck. The performance scales almost perfectly linearly from one GPU to four.
Could they make a fake saliva sample that has the same consistency as real saliva and whatever other characteristics that the analysis equipment depends on, but contains no DNA (or take a real saliva sample from someone and strip out the DNA), and then but the DNA they want to test into this fake saliva and submit that?
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Are we from the same planet? I've met more than a few people that went to top 10 CS schools and couldn't get a girl's number to save their life. Barring disfigurement, if you can't manage something as basic as getting a girl's number, you simply don't have the requisite social skills needed toget survive in that type of business world.

Being smart at one thing doesn't mean you can be smart at anything you apply your mind to; there are cultural and biochemical reasons that can be preventing you from being good at something. Because I dont have the time right now, I'll leave an excerpt that might help to elucidate what I'm saying:

When the animals decided to establish schools they selected a school board consisting of Mr. Elephant, Mr. Kangaroo and Mr. Monkey, and these fellows held a meeting to agree upon their plans.
“What shall the animals’ children be taught in the animal school? That is the question,” declared Mr. Monkey.
“Yes, that is the question,” exclaimed Mr. Kangaroo and Mr. Elephant together.

“They should be taught to climb trees,” said the monkey, positively. “All my relatives will serve as teachers.”
“No, indeed!” shouted the other two, in chorus. “That would never do.”
“They should he taught to jump,” cried the kangaroo, with emphasis. “All of my relatives will be glad to teach them.”
“No, indeed!” yelled the other two, in unison. “That would never do.”
“They should be taught to look wise,” said the elephant. “And all of my relatives will act as teachers.”
“No, indeed!” howled the other two together. “That will never do.”

“Well, what will do?” they asked, as they looked at each other in perplexity.
“Teach them to climb,” said Mr. Monkey.
“Teach them to jump,” said Mr. Kangaroo.
“Teach them to look wise,” said Mr. Elephant.
A lot of them move past the poop-stage mid career. They do the clinical stuff for a bit, get tired of it, and go into admin work.
What about the ecosystem around it?
The two instances that are equal rank of the most fulfilling work I've ever done have three key things in common - a small cross-functional team, emotional investment in the outcome, writing software that makes hardware do something interesting. The next closest instance missed that emotional investment (it was _just_ work) and even though everything else was great, it wasn't fulfilling enough.

The first was my Ph.D. writing path planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. We drove robots autonomously across an entire farm. We ran trials combining data from ground and aerial vehicles in real-time. I flew in a helicopter telling the pilot where to go based on instructions from a GUI I wrote that was receiving data from the ground vehicle running my path planning code, sending its data back up to me via a datagram I specified and a threading and networking library I designed. It was a great team of people, and the core group of five of us is still in touch and sporadically working together a decade later.

The second was the early years of my company, Cubescape, which makes Escape Rooms that run without a human game-master. I spent my thirtieth birthday crouched in a pile of dust debugging why a DMX controlled light wasn't properly flashing out a morse-code sequence, and why one particular Raspberry Pi would reboot after our strobe light kicked in. (Nope, not current draw - turns out if you hit the right chip with the right frequency of light, the photoelectric effect can cause a voltage drop. We covered it up with duct tape...) These days I've mostly automated myself out of a job so even though it's my baby, it's still less fulfilling than those early periods.

Everything else I've ever done in (work) life has been less fulfilling than these journeys, and it's really only through a recent period of deep introspection that I've managed to connect the dots and nail down those three key requirements. I'm now looking for what might be next, and using those as a filter on the opportunities - if you think your company fits, please reach out!
Awesome news. Time to update my project templates.
I found it intriguing that the EU GDPR explicitly recognizes genetic data as something that it covers under PII - and thus you a have "right to request deletion" of your genomic data, I assume?

"GDPR, in contrast, explicitly recognizes the sensitive nature of genetic data collected in a variety of settings. In Article 9, an adjusted definition of special categories of personal data has been provided that includes genetic data and biometric data, among others." [1]

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-017-0045-7
Please don't attack others or use HN for political battle, no matter how wrong another comment is, and regardless of which side you favor. All that is what we're trying to avoid here, so we'd appreciate it if you'd read the site rules and follow them when posting to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Embraer has potential to destabilize this duopoly with the E-Jet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_E2_family) before China. Last month they just delivered the first units to a Norway airline.

Boeing made an strategic offer to acquire Embraer this year, before Embraer makes a dent on their market, but since it's a government controlled company there's a good chance it won't take the offer.
You can also pay monthly. It's more expensive per month, but you may save over the course of the year if you bulk purchase on months you need amazon prime.
If DNA tests are so unreliable, how come they are still accepted in court?
Author here.

Yes, thanks for mentioning that! That's what the article is alluding to at the end. There's also something like a "cost-to-model" and that's influenced by how easy it is to make efficient use of the performance and how much tweaking it needs. It's also influenced by the framework you use... However, that's difficult to compare and almost impossible to measure.