skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and I read the Two Income Trap early in our relationship. Then I went to grad school. Then she went to grad school. Then I went to grad school again.

After seven years, we had never really had two incomes, only one.

So when we had a kid, all of our expectations were built on one income. We maintained those - my wife has been a SAHM now for almost three years. She's going to go back when he starts pre-school one or two days a week, but she'll be choosing satisfaction over money, and only to keep skills relevant (she still gets job offers). If I ever lose my job, she can make a call, get a job (she's privileged in her field), and pick up 80% of my slack. We did this so that we never have to be too worried about my team scaling down.

It helps me sleep at night.
I don't know, I'm 20. Going to use this thread to get some good preparatory advice though.
Companies like Facebook, Amazon(/Apple), Netflix, and Google.
A couple notes:

"You live off a meager stipend for about a decade" is not true for all students, especially under-represented minorities. I had a fascinating discussion with a student once where her 'meager stipend' was the best job anyone in her family had ever had.

"Unless you're somehow in the top 0.1% of your field, you're probably going to be fighting for a tenure-track positions at any institution that will take you." A huge amount of my cohort ended up living where they wanted to live - I'm in a field with good representation in "non-academic" jobs in government and private industry, and plenty of people made the decision not to chase a job they wanted in exchange for quality of life decisions.

"Meanwhile your peers are well established in their careers, have families, making 2-3x as much as you." Knew plenty of people who started their families in graduate school. The opportunity cost is real though.
Yep. The plebs are onto us. Time for a crash ;)
Advice to my younger self: Get really fit. Like do upside-down-handstand-push-ups fit. Fitness is an easy way to get status that requires essentially no luck. Women are attracted to high status individuals. It shows you are a hard worker, a trait that people respect. It gives you energy and health, and is much more fun than being on a computer.

Family advice: life after 40 for most people is about family and the children (that they presumably had in their 20s and 30s)

Biz advice: People will happily pay you much much less than your worth if you put up with it.
Exactly. See also https://twitter.com/kopfnuss/status/1020575998205710336 and https://twitter.com/RaphaelWimmer/status/1020582873345163264
Fines are becoming a common expense, they should list them as a cost of doing business.

They aren't tax deductible for US purposes so you are taxed on pre-fine income.
Perhaps "purist" is a better word here?
I find his blog posts often insightful and generally well-reasoned even if I disagree with the conclusion. This is a _lot_ of projection for a 3-panel comic arc lightly touching on cultural relativism.

It’s interesting how between the traits of intelligence, rejecting conventional thinking, and self-confidence, anyone going beyond 2/3 faces this kind of dismissal.
My field of endeavor involves running non-free software. So which is it? Is it non-discrimatory or am I doing something against the creators wishes?
Huge public tech companies with strong revenue: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google
> Outlook is one of the best mail clients out there, not many can disagree about that.

> You aren’t going to out Office Microsoft that is just a fools errand.

Having used Outlook for a while, even on Windows, I'm shocked that people describe Outlook as good.

It may be the least worst, but Outlook is, being generous, a very mediocre piece of software. That's Microsoft's strategy in a nutshell: be Good Enough for a very large audience.

> Also by essentially building a client for Exchange you are putting your product at the mercy of Microsoft that can change their APIs and protocol on a whim and even block 3rd party clients with their EULA all together.

That used to be true, but they're far more constrained by their installed base these days.
Personally, my children provide more fulfillment for me than anything else ever has. It's mind boggling how the tiniest gesture from one of my kids can send me over the moon.

I relate to your comment; I've read a lot of books, put thousands of hours into hacking on side projects, played an obscene amount of video games. But nothing, nothing, has come close to filling my heart as much as spending time with my children. As far as I'm concerned, my career is a means to an end. The goal is to achieve financial security so that I can spend as much time as possible with my kids.

I'm not saying to go have kids willy-nilly, but this is my perspective.
This. One of my graduate students just bought a house here, because the housing market isn't utterly disconnected from reality. Could they afford to live in the Bay Area? No.

Can I afford to live in the Bay Area? Also no.
OK, you can't blame Juul. Can you blame its ads? Can you force it to warn about its products? Can you argue that Juul doesn't deserve all of the profits it makes from selling a risky product?
Depending on what you're doing, there's often a few different approaches to reducing compile times. First of all, if you're going to be running (small) tests, then it may be beneficial to enable incremental with `--incremental` or `-i` to x.py. This does make the resulting compiler slower, but does make the build itself faster.

If you're making type-level changes that aren't going to alter functionality, or want to just make sure the whole compiler will build, you can run `x.py check -i` to get the equivalent of `cargo check` outside of the compiler tree.

If you know ahead of time that you're not changing the code generation/ABI of the compiler (metadata, mangling, that sort of thing) then you can also do something like `x.py --keep-stage 0` and work entirely in stage 2 (you wouldn't pass --stage 1 with this option). Alternatively, you can pass `--keep-stage 1` and run the stage 1 tests; this will save you a rebuild of std and test which is often unnecessary after a compiler change.

However, even with these suggestions/hints, building the Rust compiler can be rather slow.
You're right, I was going off the parent. They made an error somewhere, 1 million tons is 240 million gallons, not 2.4 millions.
Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth [pdf]
Can't agree with this enough.

Over 15 years professional experience here, master's degree in CS, and I often struggle with whiteboarding. Looking for a new job now and some of the questions I've been asked:

1. Overlapping maximal interval sets (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-the-point-where-maximum-i...)

2. Print a matrix in a spiral form (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/print-a-given-matrix-in-spiral...)

3. Implement setInterval using setTimeout (recursion)

4. Shorten a string of repeated letters (dddbbbaa) into numerical format (3d3b2a). also write function to reverse this process

5. Given this JSON input, write an API in NodeJS

6. Write an algorithm to convert decimals to Roman numerals (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/converting-decimal-number-lyin...)

7. Convert from prefix to postfix notation (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/prefix-postfix-conversion/)

I could go on and on. So stupid. How does answering any of these on the fly signal ability as a programmer?

The take-home tests are the least offensive to me, because at least they simulate what it's like to work on a real project (somewhat).

The HackerRank.com tests aren't any better than live whiteboarding -- why can't I look stuff up (they disable copying and pasting)? Are you not allowed to look stuff up at a real job?

All these stupid questions implicitly assume the same thing: the most important developer skill is memorizing a large corpus of algorithms to obscure problems.

Trust me, it's not.

It'll probably take one of the FANG companies to start de-emphasizing this nonsense before everyone else stops mimicking them.
People won't expect you to pick up on visual cues like the person you responded to, though.
It's pretty rare that PhD programs let you truly explore what you want to do. PIs (generally profs) get the vast majority of outside funding so you pretty much have to find a way to align yourself with a prof from day one.
Exactly. We're just a blip. To say we've figured out how to survive ling term is unbounded ego.

I wonder if a small number of our species will come to terms with the fact that we're basically a virus cursed with short term thinking and come up with some means of actual long term survival before we're wiped out. I'm optimistic.
I find GitLab's upgrade tiers oddly chosen and quirkily implemented:

* The features don't seem to follow the costs of running them. I.e., they're economically inefficient. This makes GitLab less competitive. E.g., Some features held back for higher paying customers feel arbitrary in the sense that it's a marketing decision, not an ops/cost decision.

* Permanent nag text and nag links - annoying.
I'm not sure it's the surveillance that makes Google earn so much. I would think the main reason is that search traffic is so valuable to advertisers.
"basically using a gui for git is not a good practice. "

That is absolutely silly and completely false. I use SourceTree every day and have no issues whatsoever. I'm just as productive as anyone on the CLI, as 95% of actions are the basic pull/commit/push type stuff.
Sure. Let's look at the top article on Reuters as I write this, which happens to be https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-germany/new-for...

Second paragraph opens "With just over eight months left until Britain is due to leave the EU, there is little clarity about how trade will flow" - sounds like unfounded opinion to me. Third paragraph talks about "a step that could spook financial markets and dislocate trade flows across Europe and beyond." which is either vacuously true (anything "could" anything else - but then why say so?) or baseless speculation. "few diplomats expect the deal to be struck until months later." is unsubstantiated opinion - even if it were possible to verify who these "diplomats" were, having a news article report an opinion second-hand doesn't make it any less an opinion. Likewise "some investors have said such a chaotic scenario would seriously damage both the economies of Britain and the EU over the short term.", and "they cast as a failing German-dominated experiment in European integration.". I doubt the second half (below "DISORDERLY BREXIT?") will be much different.

I'm not trying to attack Reuters here - they do better than many news sources - but any kind of substantive reporting requires making judgements on questions that are politicised or, often, inherently political. Even the most skilled journalist will make calls that eventually turn out to be laughable in hindsight. I want committed, engaged journalism - reducing reporting to a bloodless "A said this, B said that, readers at home must make up their own minds" would not be an improvement - but the price of that is that journalists must have the freedom to make honest mistakes. And that in turn means tolerating the dishonest kind, unless and until we can come up with some clear bright lines that separate the one from the other.
Anyone else notice that both the operating margin was down 2 points and other bets capex was down 10x?
Probably many people know this, but since it's important to know the owners of our media and information sources:

Reason is published by the Reason Foundation which is funded by several right-wing donors, including the Koch Family Foundations. The Reason Foundation is a member of the State Policy Network whose goal (as measured by their past history) is to advance the interests of right-wing wealthy donors. And leaders at the Reason Foundation have strong ties to ALEC, an organization that coordinates and advances bills across states that benefit right-wing wealthy donors.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reason_Foundation

So keep Reason's editorial bent in mind when you read its articles. Some are good, but Reason leadership has an agenda.
I didn't make the argument that it was or was not creepy, the parent made that. I just said "creepy" isn't an interesting argument. If it's a violation of rights, call it that. Getting my arm chopped off might be icky, but a doctor's not going to treat "icky arm", they're going to treat a dismemberment.
At 25 I was employed as a programmer in a French service company, and they sent me abroad for this specific project.

Here’s the advice for my 25-self:

- Change jobs as soon as you can be paid more (I’d probably have gained 50%-100% more over time, with BOTH pay and skills, and be much less frustrated with working hard for little recognition),

- Don’t hesitate to do hard things. Like international jobs. Travelling jobs. Etc. You’ve got plenty of time for family after 32, when you’re a male in the current world. Earning skills is the main factor of your future life.

- I wish I had known more about the dating sociology. So much lost time and frustration trying to search for love based on friends advice, girls advicr or common knowledge, they’re all incredibly dead ends: I was sold the dream that my wife would be competent in business and equal to me, but those girls are extremely rare and when they exist, they pursue higher-class people. As a middleclass good-looking man (well, with a million dollars now at 35, ironically), I should have settled with any correct-looking girl that is psychologically stable. That would have saved me years of searching for an equality girl with interesting conversation. After all, the #1 criteria is that she has the magic belly that creates little humans.
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. It's a shorthand for high growth tech stocks. It is also sometimes abbreviated FAANG to include Apple, and sometimes it will include Microsoft.

It's best, IMO, to think of it as the BIG10 NCAA division, the name only represents a subset of its membership.
I remember reading one of Bill Gates’ ideas to reduce spam. Charge a nominal fee for each e-mail sent, from memory, it was something like $0.000001 USD per e-mail.

It never took off, of course, but it’s important for us as a society to come up with better solutions than “Trust Zuck” or let company lawyers win with their horribly user-antagonistic end-user licence agreements (EULA).

As an aside, I find it fascinating how lawyers aren’t getting much of the blame in all of this debate around data. Who actually writes and/or approves most of these policies? The legal eagles, that’s who.

Let’s at least debate the alternatives to the current adtech dominance of the most popular online platforms (Facebook, Google search, Android OS, Apple’s App Store ads, etc.).

edit: fixed spelling mistakes, added the ‘as an aside’ para.
I don't think they care as much about the fine as they do about potential changes to their business models being imposed on them going forward.
Companies will argue, either rightly or wrongly, that people are already getting paid... Just not in cash. Google Maps is free for me to use, so long as I relinquish location data necessary for it to function, which Google can then use as they please to analyze what businesses I frequent, where I live, what type of transportation I use, etc.
I can't help but think the law is silly in proscribing jail sentences to /unknown overseas people/ for being unknown. For misrepresentation sure - that is pretty much another form of fraud but otherwise a seizure by default on the grounds of no valid registered root owner makes more sense personally.
A lot of big warnings on tobacco products are about health risks caused by substances other than nicotine. The nicotine itself isn't causing cancer and other diseases, which is why nicotine gum lacks the warnings.
Their whole business model is a targeting advertisement, and targeting comes from the snooping: what you do, what you eat, what you read, where you are.
I have found thousands of studies on nih.gov (pubmed) that suggest there are many benefits to omega-3. I have also found a few studies that suggest over-use can increase risk of a stroke.

Beyond that, I don't know why these terse articles with no scientific data keep getting submitted to HN recently.
I disagree with the other responses. It's a simple question of practicality. If we entrusted attorneys with both criminal defense and prosecution on some kind of ad-hoc contract basis, there'd be way too much temptation to mix things up in an illegal and unethical way. You'd have the ability to discern the prosecution's case on a case you're defending, and to a lesser extent the reverse. You'd be able to make all kinds of deals through horse-trading that make the current plea-bargaining system look half-respectable.

It's not a yin-and-yang sort of situation with representation either. All government attorneys should be on the same team, but defendants often have conflicting interests (which one of you had the murder weapon?) that can often make the most contentious parts of the case take place between defendants.

Prosecutors enjoy unfettered power to the point of being above the law, and defense attorneys do not. Until that changes, it doesn't matter who shuffles between the job titles.

One other aspect of the original article- like many defense attorneys, this one was a former prosecutor. One major reason for the change is an increase in income. Even if no such ties actually exist between the newly transitioned defense attorney and their former chums at the state attorney's office, they trade on such ties and judges will treat their clients colored by such ties. It's a corruption in the system, one among many.

DISCLAIMER: I've been represented by both an ex-prosecutor and non-ex-prosecutors.
If security keys are so great, why do I still have to process two to five reCAPTCHAs every single time I log into almost any website?

reCAPTCHAs are ubiquitous and becoming increasingly time consuming. I probably have to spend 4 minutes every day filling them out. Google is getting 20-25 hours of free labour from me this year.

The class action suit that was questionably dismissed by the judge in 2016 should be revisited.
“Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.”

― Jaron Lanier
“Youth is the most beautiful thing in this world—and what a pity that it has to be wasted on children!” - G. B. Shaw[0]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/09/07/young/
All this will do is encourage the proliferation of innumerable bespoke blockchains, created by parties interested in stamping legitimacy on illegitimate content. Each of these blockchains will be presented as equivalent to "the blockchain" with respect to being trustworthy proofs of original untampered content timestamps.
There doesn't seem to be a safe lower limit for alcohol, its a well-known very potent carcinogen.

Its not obsessive at all to completely avoid such a cancer inducing substance, especially if there is a family history of problems linked to it.
Sounds like Spring ConfigurationProperties https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/ht...
Yes, deep learning is what web-development was twenty years ago (and now everybody and their mother can build a website).
There are a bunch of apps and websites that do this already. Google Play Rewards is probably the most reputable, but they're easy to find and advertise themselves aggressively.
Are there any libraries for this available yet?

What are the solutions we will use to verify authenticity?

Will live speaking events become more valuable as a result?

Many different angles of video will probably not be of much use alone, but useful for public events. I can imagine events in which the audience is surrounding the speaker, creating difficult-to-replicate-from-multiple-angles background noise. But this is just delaying the inevitable.
You can just take connection and activation weights and write a simple neural network equivalent in an evening. And it would work about as good as a hardware simulation.

Isn't this currently an unsettled question? We don't know if simple approximations of easily observable brain features (like connections) works as well for imitating brains as emulating NES instructions works for imitating the NES. Among other obstacles, we haven't had complete connection maps of large, interesting brains to experiment with. It seems like this fruit fly work may be a stepping stone toward more sophisticated "emulation" experiments.
I think it's very normal to have a boring, low-responsibility job at 23.

You probably can't make your main job tasks better, but you could hopefully find a company with better mentorship or some experimental products that you could work on.
I spent the bulk of this year fundraising, something which I was previously unfamiliar with (I've been in startups a few times, but there was always another "fundraising guy" who took that role. This time I rolled up my sleeve and helped with it.). We managed to get $12M+ and still going.

The big surprise was that I loved it. Pretty much every bit of it.

Everyone says it, but it'll never sink in until you experience it for yourself: fundraising is always an absurdly slow process where you get nowhere for months, until suddenly everything comes together last minute. For us, it took 4 months of mostly nos, until we got a big name to say yes and suddenly we went from 10% subscribed to 3x oversubscribed with investors calling us with a raging case of FOMO. This is always the process, in any deal I've ever been involved in, as investor or on the other side.
It's jail time and an unlimited fine. This guarantees that people who remain anonymous despite this law will have their property seized.
Too bad ML as a service is already largely cornered by $FANG
Revenue up 26% YOY (good but expected). Big one for me is advertising segment revenue as % of total segment revenue, down to 86.3% from 87.4%, which is good, they have got to diversify away from ads eventually.

Disappointing to see the "other bets" still at a paltry $145M and losses are growing faster. Also no mentioned whatsoever of cloud performance. Employee count up 15% but < NI growth. (does anyone know if this includes temporary staffing for things like streetview drivers?)

Wow, that was a big fine though.
I wonder if they're like vaguely aware that most people would need a year of relentless networking and work to even get 1/3 of the meetings they seem to have gotten in a matter of days.

I mean they raised an average of over $200k a week. Maybe they could have written something with a headline more like "Here's how to get yourself into this privileged class of people who VC's will meet with and fund".

That's not snark, an article like that could lend some genuine insight to this topic.
working on being intentional with your time is so important!

i find if i don't actively try to be intentional, i become too reactive and time melts away -- i'll do some things i want to do, but also a decent number of things i never did.
8 weeks is extremely fast for a seed round.
...in which case the removed port could come in handy.
WhatsApp balks at India’s demand to break encryption
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Most of those studies you mention are not great quality. I've seen them, too.

This article is about an analysis of 79 gold-standard studies.

I have a close friend in public health who studies supplements and says the same thing: fish oil isn't likely to have much value to prevent or treat any illness.