skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no longer any science in computers. Going forward everything is going to be involving some combinations of Javascript, distributed systems and machine learning.
I know personally not one but some obese people that became fit only with diet (mainly long fasting) and exercises. I myself had an obese BMI (32) and now it is normal (24).

You can choose a better literature. It is all over the internet.
This is how we will make money.

https://blog.discordapp.com/the-discord-store-beta-9a35596fd...

Aside from the money we already make from https://discordapp.com/nitro :)
Ghost Plants: Reusing Huge Abandoned Sears Buildings Across Urban America
To avoid a whole new class of zoonotic diseases?
Clean clothes that fit well. This is non-negotiable and surprisingly overlooked.

Also, last year, I bought (discounted) brown/tan leather shoes that fit my feet perfectly. I feel that was a good move. Was my wife's idea to get it though :)
applied mathematics perhaps? That's what it used to be called in my area back in the 90's
these metrics are always pure garbage. Someone comes up with an equation like:

(start salary) + (median salary) + .5 * (job availablilty) + .75 * (growth) ... etc

then they rank everything, tweek it, make an article.

The scary part is people will read this and parrot this information for potentially years, "did you know actuary is the best job???"

This is actually how misinformation spreads.
curl yesterday announced a url parser api
Interesting. Do you have any articles about the oversupply of entry-level actuaries? Actuarial science was a career path I considered, but I ended up in systems/network/devops instead.
Show HN: A game that pits your sanity against JavaScript's == operator
We found the name is not an issue as growth continues at a rapid pace.

We are already multiple times larger than Slack :)
You don't need to speak Russian to understand the nomenklatura. It's a group of privileged people who are appointed to positions of power based on their personal loyalty to the leader or to the party.

Seems like a very familiar concept ripped from today's headlines, certainly not restricted to archaic economic systems.

I usually find that apples and oranges are quite easy to compare.
Yes they are rolling people with advanced degrees into their respective undergrad
Actual breakdown of all the majors they found

https://www.scribd.com/document/388081338/BANKRATE-Most-Valu...

Amazingly enough, Bankrate.com uploaded it to... scribd.
Most likely. I'd say half or more of the biochem and neuroscience students at my school were pre-med, and the rest planned to start a PhD. There's also good (and potentially lucrative) jobs in sales for someone with that background.
I'm confused. Taking Uber or a Lyft, that's like taking a taxi, right? Like someone driving their own car. People who use ride sharing apps are going to be in a car either way, why single out Uber and Lyft? That's like saying people going to work contribute to congestion.
because the continents with the least natural resources have dried them up and are now exploring the others still with resources.
How long did it take you to complete the exams? I think I read a lot of actuaries actually finish them while on the job

Think it's possible to self study the exams? Not a likely path for me, but interested in seeing if anyone has done that
>Implying any difference of political opinion is based on emotion, rather than logic or a simple difference of opinion.

No, it's implying that Trump's rhetoric has been primarily based on emotion rather than logic. If you can provide an argument that Trump's behavior has been primarily based on logic, I would like to read it. I have read his tweets and listened to his speeches though, and found plenty of evidence to the contrary.

>Why is globalists in quotes? In objective reality, is there not a fairly clear distinction between those who are more nationalist in their preferred approach to managing the world's affairs, and those who are more collective/globalist?

Because I find the term "globalist" to be invoked more often as a specter or bogeyman than to explicitly describe a particular and definite set of political principles - like "leftist" or "feminist", its use seems to have become so diluted and diffuse as to have lost any practical meaning.

>Must the motivation be returning to a "golden age"?

That is the primary motivation behind populism like Trump's, and what is "Make America Great Again" if not a hearkening back to some point in the past when America was "great", to which it must return? Otherwise, it would be "Make America Great," or "Make America Greater" or "Keep America Great."

>Isn't this precisely how one should negotiate?

I was being imprecise. He's arrogant, narcissistic and belligerent, insulting his allies and goading his enemies, and he works against his own purposes because the dominance he's trying to assert is one that doesn't exist. The world is not scared of him, nor does it appear to be intimidated by him.

>Again, is an informed, logical, difference of opinion impossible?

I did say some. You're talking about one camp, and I'm talking about another.

I would have loved for this last election to have been an intellectual debate about capitalism vs. collectivism, and the
benefits and costs of progressivism and globalism. Unfortunately, it wasn't. We got "Crooked Hillary" and "Crazy Bernie" and "Build the Wall" and lots and lots of heat but very little light.

I can only assume that people who voted for Trump on some intellectual or rational political basis can only have done so because he was the only option afforded to them... but I do assert that the reason that became the case was his appeal to emotion, almost in spite of intellect. Those people should be more disappointed in him than anyone.
And for some it is a very stressful job. They have a very high suicide rate:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266064/

"The rate of suicide in the veterinary profession has been pegged as close to twice that of the dental profession, more than twice that of the medical profession (2), and 4 times the rate in the general population (3)."
It was super smooth at first but really slowed down after moving the map, to the point where I had to force close the tab.
6502 was an amazing assembly language. I wrote a VT-100 terminal emulator from scratch in a week or so way back then. Thankfully I had an Apple III with an assembler to build it in. The syntax was so simple to learn, but you could build interesting and sophisticated code by taking advantage of the quirks and tricks in the design. Of course I remember none of it any more. I am still in awe of Woz building the Apple I ROM without any tools at all.
Don't rely on DNS for security.

DNS is a reverse phone book. It doesn't matter if the phone book is über-secure. Even if the number you get is really your friend Gary's number, the person who picks up on the other end might not be Gary. Maybe Fred knocked Gary out with a lead pipe and answered the phone. You can't be sure it's Gary talking to you just because the phone number was right.
When we started Atrium, we thought the main tools would be web software applied to the legal business: CRM, project management, workflow tools, document generation.

What we've learned is that there is a more interesting/difficult technical challenge to what we want to build. I think of Atrium's technology as a platform comprised of several layers: a document storage system (stores legal docs -- think PDFs and Word documents), an ML layer that parses those legal docs and turns them into structured data, an API / web platform layer that exposes that data to applications, and then a bundle of applications that sit on top of that data.

That may be a little complex, so I'll give you one example of this in action, which we currently use in production:

When a startup does a Series A financing, the first step is a VC hands the founder a term sheet. The founder then gives this term sheet to their attorney, who will take it and read all the company's previous SAFEs and convertible notes line by line. They then will create a pro forma cap table (basically, an excel model that shows who gets what at the end of the financing). This process can take a lot of human effort (i.e. the lawyer will spend hours reading the notes and creating the model), and it can often be error prone (because someone is doing it manually).

Of course, any programmer who looks at this process is going to realize it can largely be automated. We ingest those documents into our platform before the founder gets the term sheet. Our models then turn those SAFEs and convertible notes into structured data by mapping them to a schema of what we expect to be in those documents (this is verified after the fact by humans). Then another application just renders the pro forma cap table, taking a process that took hours and reducing it to a matter of minutes. This spits out an XLS, so the attorney can take it and use it to advise the founders (or send to the VC's counsel) just like they would a cap table they built themselves (i.e. we aren't prescriptive on how they advise).

My goal is that eventually we understand every kind of corporate legal document, and make that data accessible to a universe of client / lawyer applications that can streamline workflows and the delivery of service.
Please consider listening to Bryan Cantrill's thoughts[1] on using Rust to, as you say, "get things done." -- In the presentation he explicitly calls out how learning Rust by trying to bang out a "trivial" data structure is very much the wrong approach. He posits that to understand the value(s) of Rust you must be willing to approach it from first principles. Let that sink in: a kernel & distributed systems programmer w/ decades of experience had to resist the urge to just bang out a linked list & instead opt to learn the language from first principles. That being said he seems to be quite[2] happy[3] with the language.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbGPMxs0AM

[2]:https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1035335403186806784

[3]: https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1038495464692146176
It's unfortunate to see people commenting on this article mischaracterizing it as an attempt to create a "future of programming." You would think that reading the first line of the article, "Futurism is an Italian fine arts movement that was founded in 1909," would prevent such comments.

That said, I'm not a big fan of Futurism, although like anyone else, I've felt the urge to "burn our disk packs," and I think that might be healthy.
Not only is the term problematic, in many usages it’s not even really right! In the IDE example the master/slave terminology is used just for coordination of a communication pipeline, and has very little to do with the master determining what the slave is doing. Primary/secondary would actually be better semantically
Useless commit created by a virtue-signaling cuck. Creating controversy where there is none. Going to stop using python because of this.
What about something/webserver that will just parse/interpret/serve markdown files themselves? I think Harp.js can do this?
It comes down to using a framework or using libraries, but ultimately they both have the same goal: do a lot of the work for you so you can focus on code specific to your business domain.
If any wasn't comfortable in the community, they probably have a mental illness, and instead of changing the language to meet their needs, we need to re-educate these cucks.
Don't forget their inevitable spreadsheet errors.
Option to remove it will be available in the next version. Thanks for the feedback.
You want a good haircut and good grooming. If you know a fashionable friend, ask if they would be willing to let you tag along when they shop or if they would be willing to go shopping with you. Fashionable people are often socially oriented. They may enjoy the company and you may learn a lot.

Quality: Most high quality clothing is made of natural fibers, like cotton, silk, linen, wool or leather. Learn what those feel like and skip all the polyester crap.

Cotton-poly blends are wrinkle resistant and hold color better than 100 percent cotton. So 80-20 blends can be practical and sometimes are decent quality. But 100 percent polyester is usually terrible stuff.

Nylon is an exception to that general rule. Some, for example, nylon windbreakers are good.

When I met my ex, he looked like something out of Revenge of the Nerds. I got him a decent haircut and took him clothes shopping because it bothered him and causer him social problems. I don't think he ever read fashion advice, but by the time we divorced, he had developed an eye for what worked for him. My eye was better than his, but he was no longer trapped in Revenge of the Nerds-land. My sons also have developed an eye for decent clothes, though either actually cares about fashion. They were just raised by me.

Best.
I had a friend from college who became an actuary (he was a business major in college). It sounds like, once you finish the first several actuarial exams, you are pretty much set. You don't even need a degree in actuarial science, but it probably makes the exams easier.

His job was pretty easy, and since he knew some basic programming, was able to build some Excel macros and wow the people he worked with. The work sounded less exciting than being a programmer working at a startup, but pays well and he has lived in Bermuda and London.
Yeah, I was more referring to the dexterity of the bots than anything else.
Pixel Resolution of Pen and Paper
I really wanted them to work.

I've tried to get their attention before and it winds up being a constant loop with Support. The B11s work good enough that it's not worth my time to chase the last couple hundred Mb/s. I just gave up on the B5.

10 We need you to connect these to the cloud so we can monitor them.

20 Okay we see your monitoring data, we will circle back in a month

30 Hey try this latest firmware update.

40 Are you sure the antennas are aimed right?

50 Try replacing the cables

60 Oh, your chains are unbalanced by 3db, that's the problem.

70 GOTO 20

By about the 3rd iteration we replaced the B5s with Airfiber using the same antenna and haven't touched it since. I've just accepted that the B11 link won't hit its advertised speed and quit spending time/money on it since we are putting in fiber soon.

I pulled the B5s back off the shelf a few months ago just to see if maybe newer firmware would fix, and once again a tiny bit of interference dropped a link that was doing 1.2Gb/s to 7mb/s or less.

I'm testing some B24s in a real-world link in a couple of weeks. I hope they do what they're supposed to.

Feel free to contact me via email -- my username at gmail
FYIs - Redis does not use the name "master" for its main branch. This was changed years ago to "unstable".

As a bona fide lunatic, I find this offensive and is that a pink flying elephant?
Self-study is entirely possible. I worked through about half of the P1 material as a way to strengthen my probability/stats background. It's a lot of hours of work to be able to pass it if you don't have good knowledge of it already though.
You say, "A ventilator has a far better success rate." I am skeptical of this statement; what are your sources? I would expect this setup to have the same success rate as any other bubble CPAP machine.
Are there any serious attempts about taking precautions against global catastrophic mass extinction events? How would a startup like this function? We know quite a few reasons why humanity can be wiped out tomorrow -- even though extremely unlikely. Are we doing anything about it?
That's simply because they are some of the biggest companies in the world. It's really the other way around, big tech is dragging the indexes up, not the indexes dragging up big tech.
It's not an aesthetic curiosity at all! 10 is equal to 1 mod 9... So suppose X is written in base 10 (a0 * 10^0 + a1 * 10^1 + a2 * 10^3 +...) and you want to find X mod 9. Then all of the 10^k's are just 1 (mod 9), so you just get the sum of the digits.

So if X is divisible by 9, then the sum of the digits (mod 9) is zero.

Same works for 3 (x is div by 3 iff the sum of the digits id divisible by 3). And 11 gets an /alternating/ sum of the digits, since 10 is -1 mod 11...
Given that the observing satellite was traveling at around 17,000 MPH, one wonders how they managed to get such stable footage of the liftoff.
Actually, a very good excuse was provided precisely in 2009 - https://xkcd.com/538/
Yes, this is extremely misleading. You can download the data set and do the analysis for yourself. I have--the average income for science majors (biology & chemistry) with BS only is more like $55k as I recall.
Entering the world of IPFS
Bingo. They've been saying this about actuarial science for a very long time. But they fail to mention that (1) there aren't that many positions available, (2) for students smart enough to qualify for the positions (passing the CAS etc) you are far better off going into finance or economics as an undergraduate, and (3) most importantly, actuarial science sets you up for a very specialized and narrow career path.
> but don't keep up maintenance of it

Not sure about this phrasing. It's not on the domain owner to maintain anything, you just need to not forget you have DNSSEC enabled if you move your zone to different NS.

It's up to your DNS host to handle things like key rollovers and most people aren't writing and running their own authoritative DNS servers.

Regardless, the risk vs reward is still heavily in favor of not signing. It is so sparsely deployed that it can't be relied upon for anything (like DANE) and it seems like DoH (both for clients and between resolvers) may end up being the better way forward.
correlation or causation?

I could easily imagine that more depressed people pursue veterinary jobs because being around animals makes them less depressed.
Ask HN: Will you pay me to use and review your project?
I was running out of money to pay server bills so I was wondering if anyone would pay me to use what they've built.

I'll use and review your project for $2.
Your payment will help me pay for my servers, thanks.

What do you think of this?
It's not a phone book. It's a distributed key/value store.
What do you consider equal weighting? Amazon is the second most highly valued public company in the world, should it be counted the same in the index as Fossil Group (one of the smallest S&P 500 companies with a market cap of $1.15b)? To me that would make no sense and would make you hugely underweight AMZN and hugely overweight FOSL.
Iirc there is a captcha on sign up. Same as discord.
It was posted before [1] and thus I know the paper isn't from 2018. Should it be added to title?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879488
To that regard, there's the Serenity prayer that starts with "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, ...", and one such thing certainly is "... seeds of destruction are on our insides. It is us ..."

Yes, there are many human behaviors that hamper creating ideal kingdoms. However, these drives and motivations and everything else related is fundamentally a part of how we're built, part of what we are. An individual can change, but humanity at its core can not, there are some aspects dominated by culture but the major factors (including many of the "seeds of desctruction") are innate to almost all humans or even to almost all mammals. We can imagine many societies that would function great if humans were different; but we aren't. Perhaps we'll be able to design creatures with different minds that lack these defects, using some advanced genetic engineering or cybernetic enhancements or something else - but those creatures would not be entirely humans, homo sapiens, it wouldn't be us, they'd be something different.

Heaven or some other Utopia involving people 'changed on the inside' doesn't work for people. It works for some beings that are not people any more, even if they were once, because their core, their essence, their motivations and feelings has been substantially, fundamentally changed. Heaven is for angels; I'm not one, and I can't be one - if I'd become one, that wouldn't be me anymore.
Similar nonsense came up not too long ago so I'm just going to borrow my previous post:

If you want to make progress in tech, don't let "progress" (in quotations) live rent free in your mind. Focus on actually building stuff.

I hate to use oppression Olympics as an argumentative avenue but I'm a Slav, the word slavery comes from the enSLAVement of Slavic people.

It's often an accurate description of the relationship and even if it's just slightly inefficient, still works great. Why pollute your mind and thought stream with such trivial qualms. Build. Learn. Don't sweat dumb crap.

Same with whitelist / blacklist. From an English perspective these and master/slave have been archetypes for as long as the language has existed. Don't make problems where there are none, and don't TRY to pollute my mind by making me think there are problems, where again there are none. Enough people outside of tech are doing that to the populace.
Do any DNS resolvers monitor for huge spikes of spoofed results? Is falling back to TCP for those queries likely to break much?
Missing Continents: A Study Using Accepted NIPS Papers (2017)
long ago when I was considering majors (1991) molecular biologists made $70K. This makes sense to me- a scientist at a major pharma is going to make over $100K if they are an expert in their field and have 5-10 years experience ($100K in the bay area is a starting salary for many software engineers).

Mol Bio has several job outcomes- the worst is lab tech, which alone in the bay area can be $60K, the best is CEO/Founder ($1+M/year), with professor ($150K) in the middle.
An explanation of a really simple data structure
No, you feel inherently revolted. It's just not a big deal to other people. Understanding this won't undermine your preferences in any meaningful way but it will make the rest of the world much easier to deal with.
A distributed IP book then?
Especially with a local image cache!
Sounds like valid criticism of a particular review process or reviewer, not reviews as a general gate to pushing code. I’ve worked at places without mandatory code review and the code in those places is consistently awful.
Peterson advocates an all beef diet. Not a low carb diet, literally only. beef.

Your call whether he's a crank.
Forecast.io
> An SMPS, in a nutshell, uses pulses of current to "charge" an inductor, which continues to source current during the off periods

That's exactly what happens in this power supply. The tubes charge up a giant (grapefruit-sized, if grapefruit were cubes) inductor, which supplies the current when the thyratrons aren't.

I don't see a good reason not to consider this a switching power supply. Phase angle is just PWM at a lower frequency.
DNSSEC is probably the way forward. However it is bloody awful to implement, OK it isn't really but it is hard (not the same thing). I suggest that DNSSEC evangelists look at how Let's Encrypt are doing things for TLS certs and learn a few lessons.

Just in case I've put a nose out of joint: on a brand new Ubuntu Bionic minimal install with a NAT port forward to 80/tcp from WAN, I can get a LE cert with:

# apt install certbot

# certbot -d systemname.example.co.uk

Fill in a few questions as required and off we go. There is a systemd timer unit that automatically renews certs or you can use cron. Naively using both by accident does not matter. In general the LE system just works because clients have been designed to work like that (my general experience here is only Linux - Windows and Apples may have a different experience)

Now, DNSSEC has not been handled like LE. Window's DNS daemon seems to have DNSSEC built into the GUI (mmc) from at least 2012R2. The options on Linux and others are not quite so easy.