skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done my BS in Match and CS at a school with a parallel Actuarial program, I got a good look at what being an actuary is about. If you're good at math, and really good at standardized math exams you can advance through the various levels and work your way up the pay-scale ladder. I think this really appeals to people who are good at math, but maybe don't want to go into academia.

That said of all the actuaries I went to school with, none liked their jobs and all eventually moved on to do something else.
The IBM Vault Challenge
> What exactly does this mean? The only thing that ever changes, as I mentioned, is the src of the image tags in these kinds of tiled maps.

What about markers?
I'm fine with metrics, as long as when people say "best", they'll quote an interpretable formula -- you have to start somewhere. The issue with this metric, however, is that there seems to be no given weight towards the population size. What is the point of a metric if it isn't generalizable?

I have the same grip with college rankings. When you look at the top 20, and then at the total student population, you'd realize these rankings are useless for the majority of Americans since only a small fraction will attend these schools.
Didn't mention explicitly Beethoven's influence on Reicha, but I'd say the sonata movement he played at the end of the video (Grande Sonata in C Major) is inhabiting the same sonic world created in the third movement of the Waldstein sonata. IMO, influence was stronger in the Reicha --> Beethoven direction, since he simply adopted many of the same lifelong concerns of Reicha's into his own work around the same time Reicha left Vienna, and becoming even more pronounced in his "3rd period", while Reicha continued steadfastly on his own path.

Could it be that the Hammerklavier fugue, marked "con alcune licenze" is a kind of rejoinder to Reicha's Op. 36, about which he is said to have remarked, "daß die Fuge keine Fuge mehr ist"? What about the fugue in the D Major cello sonata, with its displaced accents and unusual structure? Could it be a riff on the compound and irregular metres seen the same Op. 36? What about the overall structure of the Diabelli Variations (a long series of different perspectives on one idea, which could potentially go on forever--not counting the penultimate section and coda)? Essentially the same fundamental structure as L'art de varier (which deserves a similar stature in the piano repertoire). Possibly the final variation, no. 33, a minuet is a reference to no. 39 in Reicha's set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks1jAMN7XTw&index=40&list=OL...
In addition to DoH, there's already a direct-to-domain-registrar protocol in the works for the CA problem.

DNSSEC is, I think, pretty much dead.
You seem to have a habit of dramatically changing your comments after you’ve posted them, without noting that you’ve done so. In this case, you originally posted only what now seems to be your final sentence, the one about apples and oranges, then added everything that now precedes it. I have the sense that you are hoping for a political argument.
6502 was the first assembly language I learned and still my favorite. Nowadays we see “programmers” who can’t even read assembly, let alone write it :(
Phone books also have non-phone information on some entries, but their primary purpose is to get phone numbers. The analogy is fine.
I am pretty sure I am not, as I received the message that onboarding is disabled.

If you have user requests in the logs, you should queue them up.
As a foreigner in US, I have observed some interesting lifestyle choices at play.

Most popular media propagates "impulsive", "care-free" choices as the way to "live your life". Add an abundance of options to spend money you don't have (credit cards, personal loans, financing options, Lease Vs. Buy, subscription models, etc.) and you have yourself an ecosystem that is highly likely to overspend, run out of money and fall straight into debt.

Throw in social media into the mix and you have cheap, scalable, autonomous marketing campaign that pulls in the masses.
> Secondly, and this is anecdotal, SG produces workerbees who are content to follow orders and processes rather than make their own.

imo This is true for most of East and SE Asia due to culture. Confucianism has greatly influenced most if not all of them, specifically with the importance for respecting hierarchy i.e. your parents, your bosses, or any other authority figure.

While western societies attempt to espouse this philosophy as well, imo the fundamental focus on the individual as well the tendency for constant rebellion tends to balance things out better
Go for Information Displays
This got me thinking about my time as a teenager teaching myself assembly on my C64 (which of course used the 6502 instruction set). I was trying to recall the assembler I used and I finally dredged it out of my memory: Develop-64 by French Silk Software, a now-forgotten program that I used a lot. My mom ordered it for me (her credit card) and she mentioned that the person on the phone wondered how in the hell some kid in northern Canada had ever heard of them. Good times.
https://weather.gov - Primary source

https://windy.com - Neat visualizations

https://darksky.net - Secondary/Quick-glance source
But have you seen this sort of thing at a company that wasn't dysfunctional or unsuccessful?
Despite being one of my favourite parts, I have yet to have the courage to implement the exercise in the notes:

"Remove all system files that haven't been accessed in the last 6 months. Ours works fine!"
Skype adds white noise to calls
SETI neural networks spot dozens of new mysterious signals from distant galaxy
Not only are you not answering the parents genuine questions, you are trying to distract attention by attempting to be clever. You are not making an argument in good faith. Please stop.
> I had some paperwork come back from a fundraise that was riddled with errors. I lost a lot of faith in my lawyers and I had to double check all their work. Not what you expect when you're paying $600/hr.

To be clear, was this with Atrium or a different law firm?
That doesn't really apply in this situation though, since the crypto can be defeated without taking a wrench to the owner's face.
Another vote for https://darksky.net
Am I incorrect that the same thing happens when you let your domain registration or TLS certificate expire? Perhaps with a slightly worse outcome, but still.

If the current iteration of DNSSEC is intolerable, why not propose a new version with less warts? A sort of DNSSEC-lite? Almost everyone will adopt it as long as it's not as difficult to use as the original, but USG can continue rolling out the original in the public sector the same as they do now.
According to analysis performed by bank actuaries.
I declared bankruptcy 9 years ago and literally none of that happened. I even hired a cheap shyster lawyer. I never got so much as a phone call.
I actually prefer your art to the art shown in the article. But, I would not call your artwork generative. However, it is programatic and animated. And could be easily created by the ideas of op art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_art
Op art, like your art, is created out of a fascination for illusory space and patterns. It's a footnote to modernist and geometric abstract painting.

The background you provide on the piece informs it well. And a viewer could deduce the piece was made by a fascination with simple formal relationships. This to me is the backstory, and the meta-narrative.
That's a pretty unfair moral judgment to throw out; considering that every use of resources involves at least an implicit tradeoff, I'll go ahead and risk damnatio by wondering aloud how many people in poor countries could be saved by the use of a fraction of this resource expenditure.
If someone comes and robs you in and anarco-* society what remedy do you have. Not doing business with them in the future seems mild. Getting others to ostracize them will basically become a game of who has better social connections or the larger family. If I go and steal back my property am I subject to his retaliation. Can I murder his relative in retaliation.

The reason I ask these questions is we have a lot of evidence of what happens in societies with out 3rd party enforcement and it usually doesn't tend toward individual safety or security.
We're all in the cloud trades now.
RxJS Operators for Dummies: ForkJoin, Zip, CombineLatest, WithLatestFrom
Google: <place> weather
Can't agree with this one enough! If this book existed before I started college, I'd have read this and skipped the business major!
Most people get started before their first actuarial job, get a “student” position two to four exams in, and then finish up on the job. I had a math degree and three exams coming out of college and it took me about five years to finish the whole exam sequence. Self study is a viable option, but it helps to have the math and business background.
My mind is still puzzled by this discussion and I will think deeply about it. But regarding your question: Yes, why not? I learned it the hard way that sometimes some kind of sentiment is good. :-)
Ivan Ilic? I thought he was dead. (SCNR)
It’s just ignorance to do this. It’s definitely possible to run an open mic on discord without any of these sounds. Opening your audio settings where you can set the threshold very clearly for what makes it in and what does not.

This falls apart for people that speak very quietly though. If there is no volume difference between your chewing sounds and your speaking sounds you __need__ push to to talk.
We do, we let them use their own laptop (or supply one), and also allow them to finish at home.
For me this was happening on a mid-range android phone using Firefox. It's fine in chrome.
> Why do you think limited-supply medallion systems existed in the first place?

Why do you think Uber and Lyft exist in the first place?
If you want another, more benign, example, look at American military bases. You've got base housing, base grocery store, base furniture, base movie theater, base bookstore, base clothing store, base restaurants, base barber shop.

You are issued things like housing.

There's a pecking order based on rank. If ranks are equal, there is an alternative barter economy based on who owes who favors (instead of money).

Although all your needs are provided for (at massive cost to the taxpayer), it isn't a happy way to live.
From a few posts up:

>"This is backwards. Inflation destroys the value of debt. Poor tend to be borrowers and rich tend to be lenders, so inflation is an equalizer."

chimeracoder seemed to be agreeing with this "equalizer" position by saying:

>"Ceteris paribus, inflation hurts debtholders (who, incidentally, tend to be wealthy), and it helps debtors (who, incidentally, tend to be poorer)."
Over time, I've realize that this view of work/team dynamics is overly unsophisticated. People are all really unique and viewing them as simply work-accomplishing units misses a ton of the nuance in creating a successful team.

On one team I worked in, we hired an older coder with bad knees and a couple of kids at home. Everyone in the team got along with him and generally liked him and he got his work done without too much fuss. But it was obvious that he didn't fit in with everyone else. We'd all hang out with each other socially (bars, clubs, weekend activities) and he opted out of those activities entirely and went home to his family every day at 5pm. And we saw other teams doing all these cool team activities (canyoneering, zip-lining, ski trips, etc) while we were limited to activities that were less physical and involved less alcohol. Over time, almost everyone in the team looked for opportunities to transfer to other teams (and sometimes companies) that looked like they were having more fun. Eventually, the team's output suffered as turnover increased, until eventually, he ended up leaving. The net effect was hugely disruptive to the company.

I can absolutely appreciate the argument that these culture fit tests become a way to discriminate against minorities, genders and people of a different age...and that's absolutely wrong. But we also need to accept that employees don't view work as a 9-5 working sentence that's completely separate from their life outside of work. To the extent that employees want work to be part of their overall lives, you need to hire a cohesive group. It's a hard problem to solve simply because humans are social animals, there's no universally correct answer and so much of our psychology isn't well understood by so many of us.
No, just a general sense. I think the career got publicized at a time when a lot of people were struggling to figure out what to do.
If we use social media to make the privilege networks more transparent, maybe we can avoid the Tyranny of Structurelessness results you describe.
> Swogbyksjylf

Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue..
The Wisdom of the Aging Brain (2016)
I can go to nearly any house and pick up a phone book and get the equivalent of A records (name to address).
I don't disagree with the premise of that cartoon, but it's more about the concept of putting full disk encryption on your laptop, crossing the border into Uzbekistan, and then refusing to give up the password.

By that logic, anything that is protected by crypto, if you threaten the owner with violence, it can be stolen from them. Which is just about everything on earth, if you're willing to apply sufficient violence.
Show HN: Gradefinity, Online Bubble Sheet Grader, Exam Builder and LMS
Hey HN,

I built this because I was shocked at how inefficient the process of grading and entering grades was during my time as a teacher's assistant in college. If you've ever taken a multiple-choice test at a high school or university in the U.S., you've likely used Scantron forms before. These are handy for automatically grading multiple choice questions, but once they're graded the task of getting these grades into the school's LMS (i.e. BlackBoard, Canvas, Moodle) remains. As a TA, I would spend hours looking at grades printed on Scantron forms, then manually hand-keying these grades into the school's learning management system for dozens, if not hundreds of students a night. If you've ever entered grades before, you know that entering grades is a long, tedious, process.

Gradefinity makes grading easier in several ways:

1. It can be used with a regular office printer and scanner, so no specialized equipment (i.e. Scantron grading machine) is needed.

2. Each bubble sheet is pre-printed with a student ID number. When bubble sheets are uploaded, Gradefinity uses OCR to match the students' bubble sheet answers to their identity in the database, then enters the grades for the appropriate students.

3. Gradefinity also captures open-ended responses from students and displays this in an Assignment Review page for instructors to review, along with multiple choice answers. Instructors can leave feedback on these open-ended responses for the student to review later using their student log in credentials.

It also supports online testing and has quiz building tools as well. Grades can also be exported to .CSV from the online gradebook for further editing in the instructor's spreadsheet program of choice.

Here's a quick demo that runs through the grading process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3vbDtFZeNM&t

I'd be super grateful if any teachers or professors on HN were to make an account and provide some feedback. The site is still pretty new at the moment, so despite relentless testing I apologize in advance for any bugs that you might run into.

- Brad
Like this? https://www.flickr.com/photos/abstractusinterruptus/
Buses partially overlap with the Uber/Lyft use-cases, but not entirely. Late night rides back from the pub, and I-just-need-to-get-from-point-A-to-point-B-in-an-unfamiliar-city being two largely non-overlapping cases.
Dead simple. I set it up six years ago, with maybe a full day of work. Never really had to do anything since then, except write my entries in markdown file, and run a script that generates the website and uploads to my nearlyfreespeech hosting server.
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In most places in the US, a good first step would be:

make public transit
New research shows how we turn on and off languages
The linked article goes through a list of qualitative factors which could be linked (though it does not seem to attempt to quantify their correlation).
I got the job I have now while, for lack of a better term, being "visibly trans", the only person of my race on the team, and also well into my 30s. I don't think it'd be possible for me to look more different than I do from my teammates (especially how the team looked when I started - it's grown and become somewhat more diverse since)

That said, I do worry about how my presentation will be perceived elsewhere, it comes time to move on.
> Which is very close to how I feel about Haydn.

Well, the melody from one of his string quartets was used as a national anthem.

In terms of inventiveness, he did things like writing a menuet where the first half is a mirror of the second half. Also, his "The Joke" string quartet screws around with the audience with multiple false endings, then a final ending that makes it sounds like the music will continue.

Also, listen to the last movement of the "Lark" quartet. It's a extremely fast rondo that chugs along, unexpectedly turns into a 4-part fugue for about 45 seconds then switches back into the rondo themes as quickly as it began.
The wind quintets were written on commission, for public consumption, rather than being "written for the drawer", as many of the works in this recording series were. Nonetheless, they are still first rate compositions and full to the brim with truly unusual features.

The fact that those innovations are able to go by without being perceived while listening to or even performing them is a testament to Reicha's skill in making unusual ideas "work" musically, despite their strangeness.

Mr. Ilić is, in my view, 100% correct in his assessments regarding the undeservedness of Reicha's relative obscurity.
What do actuaries do from day to day? Are they old-school original data scientists, or something else?
Being totally ignorant of the site myself, the use case you mentioned was roughly how I had it described to me by my wife and her friends a few years ago: They use it as a 'scrapbook' for fashion/craft etc. ideas. -- not necessarily even sharing them.
Hello,
I am still searching for links to the new file system architecture that differentiates GNU OS from the earlier Linux OS.
I don't really want to study the code, and only use that as a last resort.
At that level I dunno if what's more important is the technicity you have or your connections. And being paid for having former connections in regulatory bodies seems bad. (Edit: typo)
Honestly, if I saw that message I wouldn't trust it.

Immediately I assumed they would be doing this, but used it anyway. If the message was there, I would not have.
It's ranked at 30th
One thing missing from this discussion is the effect of the well-established exam-based credentialing system on the profession as a barrier to entry.

Does it counterbalance at all the kind of ageism that folks working as 45+ software engineers sometimes encounter?

This is a sincere question, as I can also would not be surprised if insurance companies' CFOs would be the _first_ people to recognize the additional costs associated with insuring older workers with families, especially in the post-demutualization era.
I am not following, why are you concerned about Australian law as a n European isp. Why would you block Australia?
From what I have heard Rama is not a god in the original ramayana by valmiki. He is only a maryada purshottam - a man of best dignity and character. He became a god several thousand years later.
https://weather.gov

I live in a coastal area with highly localized weather, and weather.gov gives me by far the best forecast. Sites which only have city-level granularity don't work well when the temperature can be 5-10F different less than a mile away.
TLDR;

The article is bit of a link bait. It's not about drinking blood but obtaining some of the blood factors via medical process.

After being given plasma — the main component of blood — from volunteers ages 16 to 25, researchers noted improvements in biomarkers for various diseases.

The study was done in mice funded by Peter Thiel. However people doing study have commercial interest. They are in business of selling teenage blood plasma to customers at a cost of $8,000 for 2½ liters.

Original Nature article link here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0457-8

Silicon Valley episode was very much inspired from this :).
Every uber trip also frees up a parking spot compared to driving yourself.
> A lot of revolutions started as tax revolts by the wealthy

‘No taxation without representation!’
While not very well supported the arguments do make sense logically and it is enough to get people thinking about the problem.

Sure, more rigor is nice but it's not necessary to get people to start looking at a problem.

I don't think someone needs to be an authority to raise legitimate concerns. That shouldn't be a requirement because otherwise we run into "appeal to authority" types of fallacies.

It does make an interesting argument that ride sharing makes transportation by car available to a wider audience (walking, bike, public transportation) and that is why it is causing congestion. Those people would have just suffered through it or not moved to a city that required them to do those things in the first place before ride sharing.

I found this statement funny though:

> There’s no way that ride hailing could move people around as efficiently as mass transit.

Efficiency is subjective to the actual metric. Clearly the metrics people actually care about (time and convenience most likely) are not being addressed; otherwise, they would be using public transportation more.

I personally drive to work despite being walking distance to Caltrain on both ends because it takes me 25 minutes door to door. If I take public transportation it is 60-90 minutes. Plus my time options are extremely limited. No train options past 7:30 AM. Plus it's more expensive than the gas, wear, and tear.
The birds are opportunistically eating the insects that cluster in the bright light beam. Warblers, like many species of birds, are insectivores.

Luxor Palace in Las Vegas has a similar sky beam, which has huge numbers of bats and birds feasting every night:
https://youtu.be/5_lGN6rrU1E?t=16 https://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Las-Vegas-Luxor-s-shini...
Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding
Aren't these two things mutually incompatible? How do you have universal healthcare that doesn't let anyone be bankrupted by their illness, where participation is also voluntary?

And isn't voluntary collective healthcare just another way to describe private insurance companies, especially HMO's?
Disrupting the Car: How Shared Cars, Bikes, and Scooters Reshape Transportation
since others have the Chrome|ium extension linked already; a Firefox extension that re-adds that functionality:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-google-i...