skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike when they say "universe" and really mean "visible universe" or when they say infinite but don't really mean it.

I'm not really good at physics at this level so it throws me off. It makes it very difficult to really understand what they are talking about.

You would think physicists would be very precise with their language, by I guess they mostly write for people who are know what they are talking about.
You keep making excuses.

Let's review:

> Just as we're wired up to consume fat and sugar whenever we come across it, we're basically wired up to start marauding our neighbors if they're way richer than we are.

This is an extraordinary claim. JBP is irrelevant. I'd be interested in any citations to any literature that supports this claim.

I suspect you have zero reputable sources which is why you've fixated on JBP and "agenda"s etc.

Historically, massive inequality has been the norm. There's likely never been a landed society that did not exhibit severe inequality. If humans were "wired up" to commit violence in the face of inequality history would be very different. Instead massively unequal societies like Pharaonic Egypt can be stable for thousands of years. Revolts have always been rare and they don't emerge until (1) things get really bad eg biblical revolutions driven by famine and (2) the formation of a counter-elite that organizes the poor eg most modern revolutions, American, French, Russian.

Regardless of whatever nonsense JBP spouts and regardless of his academic work (absolutely none of which, on cursory glance, involve economics or history or politics) I would hope that the historical record is plain to all and "facts" that contravene the historical record are rejected prima facie.

By the way there is a strong link between poverty and violence but I think most researchers accept that this is very much a modern phenomenon.
go to google drive and delete the wrongly uploaded directories. all changes will be propagated to photos.
That was just GS thinning out the competition.
Would love to get the books for my brother who studies CS. Could meet NYC downtown.
Text or email me from. Check my profile.
>It sounds like, once you finish the first several actuarial exams, you are pretty much set.

Typically you need ~3 exams to get a job in the field. Then it's a total of 7 exams for associateship and 10 for fellowship (for candidates starting today - it used to be fewer), plus various online courses throughout the process. You can stop at the associate level, but it limits your advancement opportunities at most companies.

If you're reasonably good at both math and memorization, the exams range from ~50-100 hours of studying each for the first few to ~300-400 each for the later ones. Usually about half of those hours are on company time once you're working in the field, though exam season is still pretty miserable.

>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.

This is still common, but it's getting rarer every year. At a minimum, every entry-level candidate my company hires nowadays has taken a couple of intro programming courses (usually in Python or Java) and knows a bit of VBA, SQL, and/or R on top of that. The field has been attracting lots of young people who might have otherwise become programmers, myself included.

>The work sounded less exciting than being a programmer working at a startup

Probably true in general, but some actuarial roles are more exciting than others. I was bored to death in my first actuarial job (financial reporting) but transitioned pretty early to a much more interesting role. It helps that I'm doing some ML-heavy modeling, meaning that I get to learn new frameworks in addition to the standard Excel + RDBMS stuff. Working half the hours of a programmer at a startup for the same pay and better benefits is also a plus.

With all of that being said, I'm still semi-actively looking to leave the field. While I love what I'm working on right now, I'm concerned about getting pidgenholed into the field (and into insurance more generally) in the long term, especially since I'd likely end up in a much less interesting role at some point.
Previously:

Hunger stones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17868498

Hidden henges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526492
Reminds me of that tower that was causing all sorts of ailments in the community, only to find out it hadn't been active for 6 weeks.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revela...
Building 80 inch wood wheels for a borax wagon
Doesn't radio have inverse cube falloff? That's the thing that somewhat worried me about mobile phones, it has inverse cube falloff and has to speak to a tower miles away, so putting it against your brain for hours on end (I don't like calling, so that's not an issue to me) seems like a bad idea.
I think the easy answer is that Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin, the ticker symbol BTC (Legacy Bitcoin "Core") with segwit added and block size not allowed to increase, Bitcoin (BTC) is stuck in pre-alpha version while Bitcoin (BCH) is moving on with Satoshi's vision of Peer-to-Peer Digital Cash and having great success not waiting for layer 2 non-solutions (like LN and Liquid).

You should try your trolling back on reddit, you'll have more success over there.
> I've seen both extremes when it comes to talent and ethics.

Extremes exist in every country but a bad average exists just in some. Brazilian average is bad.
I sure as heck want everyone else on the plane with me to be compared against their photograph.

Why? I'm sure there's nefarious activity that could be prevented, I'm just struggling to identify activities that would make be feel (let alone actually be) unsafe on an airplane as a practical matter, and without doning a screen writer's hat.

I'm assuming weapons are already adequately checked. And if not I'm not sure how facial recognition would appreciably help in this regard. Sure, maybe 12 bad guys enter the system though 12 airports with lax security, then all board the same flight at a major hub in a manner that circumvents analytics that searches for suspected bad guys flying together. But that already makes some dubious assumptions, such as the degree of efficacy in the system looking for suspected bad guys traveling together.

For most of air travel hijackings and bombings were incredibly common. We all but solved that by the 1980s by physically screening for weapons and suspect material, not by pretending we could predict people's behavior.
My hate for walled gardens exceeds my annoyance at non-optimized mobile sites ;)
Why should Uber/Lyft be treated differently than FedEx, Walmart, and the hundreds of other companies with vehicles "clogging our streets"?
If it makes you feel better, the discussion of 5G on Nextdoor in Oakland was and remains bonkers. It’s not Marin, it’s people of a certain age. There just happens to be more of them in Marin.
I like this one, to be honest: https://i.imgur.com/j6ZnWkH.png

That gray background is not great.

(Though it looks different to me on amp. Weird.)
I'm sorry but this seems patently wrong to me. There's only so much working stack space in your brain. If you're constantly having to think through multiple steps to multiply single digits then you're going to be at a serious disadvantage when you need to solve a bigger problem that involves more work than just single-digit multiplication.
Identity checks are handled by TSA, not airline employees, so this scan has nothing to do with security. They check your boarding pass to make sure you have paid for the flight you are getting on.

Also "99% accuracy" can mean it has a 1% false-negative rate rather than false-positive, in which case they will just defer to scanning the boarding pass like normal.
How long since you last used Windows?
In develop mode, hot module reload (HMR) changes the text immediately on the screen as you edit. But yes, HMR and caching has some glitching once in a while.
The idea that only in "the West" are insect not consumed is misleading. I've been living in "the East" for a decade now, and had to pull some connections to get crickets in Thailand, or water cockroaches in China. Those are consumed, but not staples (just like French people don't feed on a snails and frog diet).
False. Try again, without the sexism.
Meanwhile in Canada..

The situation is exactly the opposite. The taxi licensed taxi cartel have no fear of blocking traffic, speeding, making illegal turns, parking in bus stops or anything else because they are a licensed taxi. They refuse to take any rides that don't suit their plans because there is more demand than taxi licensed so if you need a taxi from downtown to suburban neighborhoods you might wait 2-3 hours until you get a willing driver or just end up taking the bus.

Uber/Lyft drivers on the other hand are very respectfully following the rules of the road because if they cause undue attention someone will report them and they'll be fined, and they don't have the money of the taxi cartel behind them to pay the fine for them.
I guess I’m an “older coder”, though my knees are doing OK, but never in my life would I have wanted to work at a place where there’s mandatory attendance at ski trips and zip-lining. That sounds utterly awful. Maybe you’re attributing something to age that is just a matter of taste? And maybe that’s not a good way to limit your hiring?
The speed of boarding pass checks is rarely the limiting factor for loading a plane. Perhaps the A380 is different? Are they comparing a single human boarding pass checker vs multiple facial scanner lanes?
Maybe the country has the largest ecosystem because there are a lot of people in there. That doesn't imply in high quality, positive ROIs etc. Lots of people are just trying.
Voice activation on teamspeak was much more reasonable and accurate. Discord's is always either trigger happy or drops quiet speech.

Also voice activation is a boon for competitive games where you can't spare a hotkey and finger during play.
From that article:

Editors normally invite more than one reviewer to evaluate a scientific manuscript.
Taxi service regulation in the US are why those systems are unusable. I can't get a taxi if there aren't enough medallions issued.

There's no regulatory body preventing me from getting into the car I purchased. It makes no sense whatsoever to suggest that suddenly we need regulation simply because I rented the car in a particular way instead of driving it myself.

The regulations that matter with respect to taxi services are those that protect consumers -- there is no basis for using regulation to limit a consumer's access to the service.
I'm very surprised that economics and finance are higher than computer science. I would have expected that corporate finance jobs would have brought the average below that of CS.
Red tape is bad, but obiquious cellphones helps a lot. The US still uses checks and signed credit card receipts. Compared to that Brazil’s banking system is state of the art.

>To do online banking in your computer with Banco do Brasil you need to ask permission to your branch manager and install a virus on your computer

Yes, but most people use the phone app, which is ok. Banking on a computer is bad everywhere.
>Our survival depends on local farms and businesses that are able to produce real value for people.

"real value" - that's a vague term. can you expand on that more? how does $6/lb (random guess at the price) bananas from california , provide more "real value" than $0.4/lb bananas from central america?

>Our culture has too much of a dependence on global supply chains that will become increasingly expensive and scarce in the coming years.

so globalized stuff is going to get more and more expensive, relative to more local stuff. isn't that supposed to be good, given how much you like local goods?
what's your site, how do you apply ? I googled your company name and sent an email to the email on your homepage - Admin@Motortradedelivery.Com
Technically the lie really only extends to the "soon" part, since it is coming. And software regularly has a list of future features that often don't ship. Would love to chat if you were ever interested!
Maybe I misinterpreted this line, but it seems like even a resized photo will count against the storage quota.
I had a friend who was trying to make partner. Working 9am-3am and sleeping at the office wasnt uncommon. So not surprised if this is whats expected then the quality of work would drop.
http://mizage.com/shush/ for anyone on a Mac is a godsend. Emulates a hardware PTT (can be toggled to push to silence) before audio ever gets to applications. Best $5 I've ever spent.
have you looked into GitCoin? You get paid for contributing to open source projects. no interviews needed
Making DNSSEC more attractive will help all the people that the workarounds won't.

Two reasons for a better DNSSEC:

1) People will continue to [erroneously] assume their DNS transactions are secure. They won't be, and then they'll get screwed.

For users, this means being smart enough to know if their application is resistant to DNS attack, and if not, smart enough to implement a workaround. For organizations, this means waiting until they are attacked, then adding the workarounds. Organizations and users who make this assumption - which will be most of them - will continue to be more vulnerable than is necessary.

2) There are many applications and protocols on the internet other than HTTP[S], and assuming the above point, these apps/protocols would eventually need to implement the workarounds that web clients/servers have.

Many of these are legacy, and many of them are also critical, including uses by the financial industry, medical industry, public utilities, government/military, web businesses, etc. The public sector is already implementing DNSSEC because they see that not doing so is unnecessarily risky (and they don't have to pay for it). But for all the private orgs that either don't see the need or don't want to bear the cost, a less odorous solution that doesn't require "workarounds" would net them significant benefits, even if it's at the fringes of today's real world security problems.

Basically, we will all at some point be involved (at the least, indirectly) in something that isn't an HTTPS transaction, and so we will all at some point have a need to trust DNS to some extent. The workarounds aren't going to work by default for everyone everywhere, and so there will be people left in the lurch.
Once facial recognition becomes commonplace, the impact will be huge.

“What were your whereabouts on the night of June 5th?”

“I was at home all night.”

“You’re lying. We have confirmation your face was recognized at the gas station, grocery store and bank between the hours of 7 and 9pm.”

That sends a shiver down my spine.
Some of the agricultural vets have a stressful gig.
Arching wings ( usually exaggerated in renderings ) are an interesting point of difference between Aitbus and Boeing.

The higher the wings flex, the less efficient they become since the lift vectors aren't perpendicular. So, a more rigid wing is more efficient but also heavier. And you need some flex to ride turbulence, though active control surfaces can help.

Boeing has moved back to very flexy wings like it started in the jet era with the B-47 but Airbus tends towards more rigid.

A few years ago I took a trip in a DC-10 and those wings were like planks of aluminium, they didn't flex at all.
Completely true. Brazilian here
I absolutely love it.
Having lived in both the US and Brazil I agree that Brazilian Banking is years ahead than the US. I'm specifically thinking about Nubank (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nubank) and Banco Inter ( https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Inter)
I imagine it's because they aren't authorised to speak for the company on topics like what government policies the company is against (and I imagine this is why you got down-voted).

But yes, I also would have expected Atlassian and other Australian-based technology companies to vocally oppose this bill because it will actually result in their customers moving away in the long run (this bill will only affect companies incorporated in Australia or other 5-Eyes countries) -- because this bill explicitly requires companies to architect security systems to be insecure. Unfortunately this doesn't appear to be the case, which is incredibly disappointing.
Roughly what geographic region are you in? Bay Area / US Southeast / Europe all behave very differently for hiring.
> No restrictions/requirements at all.

It’s been tried. Unix vendors would take publically available code (MIT’s X Windows), close it off, and prevent system administrators from touching it, or only release it under NDA.

Freedom for the vendors, not for the users.
Well, Mexico did produce that one guy that created GNOME. So maybe he just got lucky?
What a haunting short film. (I understand that it's adapted from a short story.)

Tangent: It's ironic that the dialogue between the two aliens is spoken by humans. After all, the actors are rendering the dialog with meat sounds. I think it would have been better to use a speech synthesizer that's not based on actual recordings of meat sounds -- like eSpeak, DECtalk, or ETI-Eloquence. DECtalk, at least, is flexible enough to speak with whatever intonation you want, so the dialogue wouldn't necessarily come out sounding flat.
Most numbers I've seen put the average salary for a biology professor around $95k, $150 would be on the higher end.
Very interesting indeed, have you written about this anywhere I can read more?
> What do you mean by adding images?

For me, lack of nice (ie. controllable, but 'automagic') image handling is a huge bug bear in nearly every cms out there, static or otherwise. Perhaps I didn't find the right platform/plugin...

In my case, I wanted to have 1 source image that was resized at various (author controllable) sizes and then saved them, while also generating supporting HTML (eg. 'srcset' to automatically swap between them). I ended up with a couple of ways to template it in [0]:

For a thumbnail:

<img src="{{image #thumb{w:50} }}">

For srcset:

<img src="{{image}}" srcset="{{image #srcset{w:'256,512,800',orig:'1152'} }}" sizes=...>

[0] https://github.com/ergo-cms/plugin-thumbnail. (Note the entire project itself stalled some time ago, and wouldn't recommend it here -- even though I do dogfood it)

EDIT: reorder wording
If a resized photo is stored in "original quality" mode, that's still counting as quota. "Lossy quality" mode photos straight up don't count.
How can so many people be complaining about keyboard sounds?! I assume they ain't using a mechanical keyboard, and/or they ain't using a laptop with built-in mic, but a headset.
Probably not since agents don't check ID at all, but if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent, I'd like to think that I'm getting something out of the deal.
I can see the number of scanning lanes (which is usually 1) being a bottleneck on large aircrafts with lots of doors, like the A380 example they have given.
> 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.

To me that sounds like the team was pretty immature and ended up failing the team.

You can still do all of those things and work with people who don't.
This may well be true. While there are hundreds of medical schools in the United States, there is only one vet school per state. And some, like Virginia and Maryland, combine - so there are in fact only about 30.
> According to the city, it received 145 pieces of correspondence from citizens voicing opposition to the technology, compared to just five letters in support of it — a ratio of 29 to 1

There’s a joke in New York political circles about the technological ineptitude of our elected governments being virtually guaranteed by the correlation between technological domain knowledge and political disengagement.
Wait, how does "targetcorp.com<space>etc" even DNS resolve? Trying to wrap my head around this one.
this is fucking ridiculous
https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/api-limi...

> All media items uploaded to Google Photos using the API are stored in full resolution at original quality. They count toward the user’s storage.

Are there some commercial decision behind this?

Currently the Google uploader is worse than the previous backup tool, and you can't make third party uploader with this API.
Piedmont Nextdoor is similar. Bunch of people with no background in RF health effects or non-ionizing radiation tissue interaction arguing pointlessly with conspiracy theory website as supporting evidence. Seeing a few scientists (in other fields) try to respond is exasperating. I don't bother.
There are fewer and fewer non-HTTPS protocols every year, a fact underscored by the fact that DNS itself is moving towards a preferred realization in HTTPS. Not only that, but simply adding DNSSEC to an insecure legacy protocol obviously doesn't make it secure; all it does is give you a better chance of looking up its genuine IP address.

These do not seem like compelling reasons to push a forklift upgrade of DNS infrastructure. And the market agrees: DNSSEC has more or less failed, even though you can now enable it pretty straightforwardly at a number of cloud providers. Nobody cares. And they're right: DNSSEC was a terrible solution to something that has always been kind of a non-problem. Even in the eras where DNS spoofing was straightforward (2007, the late 1990s), it never really mattered much operationally.
I would be really impressed if someone with an actuarial science degree has any experience with machine learning. That is not a skill that is taught outside of self learning or an absolute need. It may be more applicable in a property casualty company where there are things like telematics.
How about googly eyes?
I mean, from a security and safety standpoint it fails. From a financial standpoint it makes perfect sense, especially if CBP is picking up the tab.

Not having to dedicate an employee to each gate that is currently boarding is a huge labor saver for airlines. From CBP's standpoint, they get to use fancy new technology while also furthering mission creep. It's win-win.
Tried that, Backup-N-Sync just puts them up again.
Normal OpenVPN puts the configs inside Program Files.
This is a tired meme given that the number of Google services closed has been mostly going down since 2013. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...

2006 3
2007 4
2008 5
2009 7
2010 4
2011 16
2012 19
2013 11
2014 7
2015 6
2016 11 (actually 8 if you don't count things that got merged into other things)
2017 4
2018 2
You'll be hard-pressed to get business people to use AI for actuarial work.

If the intent is to codify rules in an AI that performs actuarial work, then it is far less error-prone to simply write a program that uses the rules directly. AI is not the proper solution, if I understand from your post what you are trying to solve.
Don't forget that an AI codenamed "Mozart" output some string quartets trained on Haydn's Opus 33, and Haydn then wrote his Op. 76 string quartets which equaled/exceeded the quality of the AI's output.

A real John Henry, that one. :)
> Doesn't radio have inverse cube falloff?

No, inverse square.

> has to speak to a tower miles away

But the tower has a very sensitive antenna, so your phone doesn't need to put much power into transmitting. The effect of the phone on your brain and body is small compared to ordinary thermal noise at your body's temperature.

> putting it against your brain for hours on end

If you're going to be talking that much and are worried about this (which I don't think you need to be, but everyone has to make their own judgments), you can use a bluetooth headset. Bluetooth transmit power is an order of magnitude smaller, at least, than cell phone transmit power.
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