skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The debt load of veterinarians is pretty staggering. Going to vet school is as expensive as going to medical school, but the pay is considerably less than an MD makes. It is not at all unusual for a vet to graduate with $300k+ in student debt, and to still be paying that debt down well into their fifties or even sixties.

You also have to deal with pet owners who are... let's say irrational. People seem to be even more willing to believe in homeopathy or nutritional fads or essential oils when dealing with their pet's health than with their own. The bills for veterinary care are not as high as for human medicine, except that most people don't have pet insurance and so pay much higher out of pocket bills than for their own health care, which makes the emotional stakes even higher. And owners will not hesitate to trash you on social media. The issue here is that to a much greater extent than doctors, veterinarians gain new patients by word of mouth and recommendations. So reputation is even more important than it is to doctors. A few ugly, well-placed reviews in Yelp or Facebook can do considerable harm.

All of this leads to an extremely stressful job, especially for younger vets or vets with young children.
As an actuary, I can not recommend it to anyone with a technical background.

I have degrees in mathematics and actuarial science, and I consider my actuarial science degree completely worthless. A mathematics and/or computer science degree will teach you more in terms of how to think than anyone with an actuarial science degree. If you’d like to take a major where your professors literally teach to the exam/test, then you’re in luck, because that’s what your degree will get.

Having been in the workforce a handful of years now, there are a lot of intelligent actuaries and also a lot of arrogance about the work they have done.

I personally am frustrated with the career, but the salary in a low cost of living area makes it difficult to transition into something else.

Given all of this, the valuation of how majors are ranked is silly to me. The criteria almost automatically weight actuarial science as the favorite.
Of course you can't. You actually use public transport. This is a common complaint from a car driver unwilling to change their way, and scraping or excuses, when they are just being selfish and lazy.
i really wanted to like pinterest :( they were doing a lot of things right, but when they started the force-signup-to-view bit i abandoned my account.
While it doesn't count for much if you're outside of Australia, the BOM (Bureau of meteorology) is probably the best I use.

http://bom.gov.au
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I wouldn't be too cynical. "privacy was not a major concern" might just mean that she still thinks it's a privacy violation, but it's not such a big violation to warrant boycotting trips to the US. That is, she knows she's sacrificing privacy to visit the US and has already accepted it. Consider an alternative story:

headline: "china blocks all access to all foreign media websites"

> For John Smith of United States, censorship was not a major concern, as the practice doesn’t differ much from what she has come to expect from Chinese censorship.

Doesn't mean that the same John Smith isn't going to be up in arms if the FCC starts censoring news websites in the US.
Taking big risks is only laudable if you win.

https://assets.pershingsquareholdings.com/media/2014/09/1712...

Oof. Up 1% over a time period where the S&P is up 118%. Brutal.
You should use a key exchange protocol like Diffie Hellman
I find it extremely unsettling to see this type of headline over and over again in tech/science journalism and HN. Someone has come up with a new way to make a buck and are on the process of making it widely know. The silicon valley hype cycles has started. The problem is that there is no strong independent evidence.

When you're dealing with people's health Money making needs to take a backseat to strong well-defined science. Move fast and break things is not the mantra we need to follow here.
Taking your photo and having gate agents inspect your ID and appearance is an entirely, categorically different thing than having a facial recognition system that can be dynamically fine tuned on small numbers of photos to automatically detect your face in digital sources.

I could agree there are legitimate purposes to collect photo identification. I can’t see any useful reason that comes anywhere close to outweighing the risks for feeding photos into a recognition system like this.
As long as false flags get sent to a human gate agent standing right there who can make manual approvals, I fail to see why anyone traveling internationally would object to this. I sure as heck want everyone else on the plane with me to be compared against their photograph.

From a legal standpoint, domestic travel is different (and there should be open debate in Congress before they make a decision there). But I fully support facial recognition for international travel and other immigration benefits.
I am guessing it's easy to transition to machine learning / data analysis and make 20-40% over what senior devs make. At least that's what I see in my area.
Worries about Ghz radiation at probably less than 100 watts from a tower that follows inverse-square, then walks around outside under 1000 watt per meter at the ground terahertz radiation from the nuclear fireball in sky that actually is ionizing and can cause cancer...

Be careful that light-bulb in your room puts out 10-100x the radiation of your cell phone.
In NYC they cause woes because the public transit system has become a nightmare for those not in Manhattan, a la "The Outer Boroughs". Many Manhattan people barely register that there's an issue, and see more traffic than before. Oh gosh, the traffic is slow going uptown.

If only the trains weren't breaking down, signals weren't needing repair, there wasn't a mid 60 percent on-time rating at present. If only the train service wasn't cut so viciously weekends. If only subways themselves weren't filled with miscreants, behaving rudely by playing music on their phones, bringing bikes, etc. If the subway platforms weren't 100 degrees F during the summer, when the next train is 10 minutes away. If only the buses were an alternative, instead of being beset by slow traffic thanks to bicycle lanes, double parking that's not ticketed, construction vehicles, and parking on both sides of the street.

Then I'd be open to being concerned about the fact that I'm contributing to "traffic congestion" by taking Lyft and Uber (mostly Lyft) about 5x or more a week.
Not on the cups, but the sign is there on the bar where you pick up.
Most likely because he is a brogrammer. Brogrammers like to work with other brogrammers.
Looking through the documentation, this can be concerning:

> Photo storage and quality

> 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.

It would be nice to specify a photo to be stored as "high resolution" like you may as a gphotos user. Every photo uploaded via the API counting towards a user's storage might deter them from using the integration.
Brazil has and continues to perform poorly on measures of cognitive competence. It makes Mexico look like academic achievers.
I've been a part of the program committees for a couple scholarly journal editions over the past two decades and in none of them were individual reviewers given the ability to accept or decline papers. At Usenix a few years ago, the practice was that everybody reviewed everything, and the program chairs (I was one) essentially counted votes and managed discussions. That was also the impression I got doing this for an ACM/IEEE journal in the early 2000s.

(It is, for whatever it's worth to you, also essentially the practice at Black Hat USA, which gets thousands of submissions every year --- albeit the review board is separated out into tracks with their own covering reviewers. But BH Cryptography, for instance, has 10 cryptographer reviewers, and they reviewed everything on the track).

Can I ask, from where did you get the impression that it was typical for an individual member of a review board to get assigned a paper and pass/fail it, or for any one review board member to have the authority to accept a paper?
> I'm not qualified to answer your question, but the observation of Oumuamua alone doesn't give a large enough sample size to estimate how often large interstellar comets or asteroids pass through our solar system.

It's an observation, so it sets some level of constraints on the rate. Though it's true that an estimate of that rate would have large uncertainties.
not quite that, but kachelmannwetter.com/weather.us has a mode where they'll show you the results from different models:

https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/vorhersage/2950159-berlin/xl...

https://weather.us/forecast/5128581-new-york/xltrend
I actually disagree and I'm highly optimistic for the future of my country. But I'm aware that I'm a minority when it comes to this opinion.
I can't imagine finding a decent job in Finance without connections, I say this as a CFA.
Functional programming: Making you feel clever by allowing you to solve problems that nobody else even knew existed, in order to let you do what everyone else could do from the start.
Non-AMP link; https://www.pcmag.com/news/363619/protonvpn-and-nordvpn-bugs...
> Hackers could have used the bugs to execute code via an OpenVPN exploit

That seems to imply it's not specific to ProtonVPN and NordVPN, but any VPN service (including self-hosted) using OpenVPN...
Beware, actuarial science will be replaced by AI and the incentives of insurance is high to replace this workforce with AI. Believe me, I have been doing an AI startup in exactly this space
Australia is kind of an entire continent, with big territorial national security concerns, so they might be a bit more independently interested than Canada.
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I live in Mill Valley, and I must admit, sadly, I was passively following the controversy on Nextdoor merely for entertainment value. (It was absolutely bonkers. 375 posts on the thread last time I looked.)

I did not think the city council would actually act on this. Putting on my big-boy pants to go fight this.

Help please! I need ammunition -- if you have links to peer-reviewed research refuting the nonsense, please share.
Bullish+Entertainment
Doesn't help one iota. The relay attack uses a two way amplifier to effectively increase the reach of the frob. This way the evildoers can steal the car while you are sleeping.

As tropo suggests above, it would have to measure the distance (signal propagation), but I suspect that would drive the cost of the frob up significantly.

EDIT: to be clear, this isn't the attack discussed in the article, but a more serious problem that is already in use today.
I can see how being a vet could be a sad job, but my real question is why dentists are more suicidal than doctors. I would imagine the latter to be exposed to a lot more stressful/tragic situations.
FYI many people double park on Golden Gate around Fillmore on Sundays because of church. I don’t think it’s technically legal but it’s not really enforced.
That’s an intetsting aspect i had not been aware of, altho i recall hers was not the only case involving outsized verdicts. But illuminating for sure. Thank you.
That's amazingly cheap, but would each puppeteer instance have its own IP address? They're being rate limited on each IP.
No, I'm speaking more about hiding voice-activation mode somewhere into accessibility settings page, as opposed to getting big shiny button "activate voice-activation" after first login or even enabling it by default with an option to switch to PTT afterwards.
Well, this is largely speculative, but I think Atrium can be a multi-tens of billions of dollars in value company, mostly based on the industry / market-need and the potential adjacent expansions. But obviously that depends a lot on actually executing well!
I hear a lot of failed vets become doctors.

Veterinary school is harder to get into and their is a lot of overlap in background materials. Med school has a lot of overlap so if somone desideds to swap carriers it’s an easy transition into a high paying job.
Not sure if relevant, but my workplace put that notice all over the building last week. Not sure if a law changed.
Don't do it on earth, do it somewhere else in the solar system.
I think that people need to look at the world around them.

Right now, there are tons of goods that are effectively post scarcity.

The amount of free information and entertainment (available online) is insanely higher than anything that existed even 20 years ago.

The post scarcity Utopia is being created right now, by capitalism.

Post scarcity is something that applies on a per good basis. For example nobody has ever had to pay for the air that they breath, because air isnt a scarce good. And post scarcity is being quickly applied to more and more goods.
I know folks around here hate AMP stuff, but tell me which one of these is more readable than the other: https://imgtc.com/a/XyS61Ej
I live downtown. Let's coordinate on getting this nonsense overturned. There's enough geeks in the community to get this done!
Not sure how these ignorant memes get started. Some memes refuse to die after thousands of years and evidence contrary. Like Flat Earth hypothesis.
Unlikely. Fields Medal, perhaps. Nobel, probably not.
Oh, absolutely. It is in no way bad, I'm just wondering how one gets this far down the retro rabbit hole (An Apple I is a pretty obscure piece of hardware) and misses a thing it was well-known for. Obviously, it happens.
Isn't it sort of a truism that high-paying jobs are not fun?

Know who gets paid a lot (relative to education)? Sanitation workers.

You know who doesn't? Pilots
>Literally everyone.

and

>Imagine the tax income down the line...

are contradictory.

A better argument would be: "Increased education and welfare spending leads to more productivity and the added cost is offset by the increase in taxes due to the productivity gain". Or more simply: "Education and welfare are good investments".

Now we can have a serious conversation about the economic impacts of this kind of investment. But to market it as free is irresponsible. It it not free. At best we get more out than we put in, but by definition we must put in something.

That was the point of my original comment. Everything has a cost. Even an investment with a nearly guaranteed return comes at a cost and has a certain amount of risk associated with it.
It would be cool to have a phone that could be assembled 100% by a robot. You load all the parts and assemblies into the machine and out pops the finished product.

There is still a TON of opportunity to improve automation in modern manufacturing factories. Tesla is obviously trying to do this in a disruptive manner, and learning that in the short term it's not as easy as you might think.

However, I suspect with the model Y, they will focus on design-for-manufacturing-automation so that they don't run into the same problems as they have with the 3.
I’ve used it in a semi professional way (internal tooling in clojure). I’ve also written about it here (Practical applications of the ycombinator in clojure) [1].

[1] http://www.viksit.com/tags/clojure/practical-applications-y-...
I can't really comment on the user side of Pinterest, but on the financial side.

* It's a walled garden, closed source, forced signup, the UX is bad (dominating Google Image Search taking you to pictures you can't click), lots of dark patterns. As a result, users can't leave. This leads to more money.

* It heavily suggests signing up with Facebook or Google, who help Pinterest make a lot of money through tracking.

* It has all the features for the mob-mentality, abuse and so on (Like system, sharing, popularity based rankings). This keeps users on the site, which makes Pinterest more money.

Pinterest is just following common, tried and true strategies. Good for them.

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It doesn't look like there is a viable way to fix this.

Honestly the best solution I can think of would be to have a well-funded benevolent organization that fights for user privacy and makes products good/easy enough to be popular. Unfortunately, no such organization exists.
They should just post the catch-all "Warning: living might prove fatal."
> I can’t imagine where you got this from.

Perhaps from daily life?

There are long lines on most bank branches I go to, unless you're wealthy enough for the manager to pamper you. Red tape in this country is so bad that there is a whole industry to avoid it ("despachantes").

BTW, the trick this industry uses to avoid banking lines is to hire old retired people to buck the line for them (there's a law here giving to old people that privilege). They basically screw everyone else by buying privileges. Some call it the "Brazilian touch" (jeitinho brasileiro), I call it corrupted morals.

> Brazilian baking is years ahead of the US

Really? To do online banking in your computer with Banco do Brasil you need to ask permission to your branch manager and install a specific virus on your computer. I believe the same goes for Bradesco and Itaú. Many ATMs and branches in small towns are being closed and leaving those places without financial services because mobs moved from big cities to rob those places without good police. And, guess what, people there can't do online banking.
Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product... until we deprecate the API in a couple years time and leave you up shit creek.
Doubt it, most women in Mill Valley go no further than the yoga studio at 11am. Commuting, and even working is for plebians.

Issues like this only flare up in communities of rich, bored liberals, of which Mill Valley is the standard bearer.
I'm a private tutor so obviously I agree it's the best ;-) thanks

However, I wanted to pick up a couple of your examples - "parent touching math for the first time in 20 years" can also often be a great way for students to learn!

Adults are usually able to figure their way around a subject and this is a great learning point for kids - that you don't have to know everything, if you know how to find out about it.

Any parent has got through undergraduate education in any subject (and many who haven't) - who have learned how to learn - can find out what they need to know by looking it up and finding resources that help their comprehension. Being stressed about it is a different situation, and of course I agree with you there.

I also do sometimes say "This is stupid shit you have to know for the course" - because many courses contain bad content - but I will follow it up with "if we have time, it will be more practical to think about..." That also isn't a bad thing necessarily.

It's important for students' development to critically analyse why they are doing a particular course - if they're doing it to pass, then they should first pass.
This is even worse than a relay attack, since AFAIK those require being near the fob and there are other mitigations (even simple things like timing how long it takes to get a response). This attack essentially lets you clone key fobs permanently, not just start a car while the owner is on the other side of a parking lot. And the encryption would work a heckuva lot better if the attacker had to precalculate every challenge and response with, for example 256 bit AES keys instead of 40 bit keys with 24 bit responses.
And Sal Khan made videos on YouTube before founding Khan Academy. I find the inversion interesting for some reason :)
There's a difference between cheating and preparation. Taking an SAT study course is cheating in college admissions as much as hiring a personal trainer is cheating in sports or shooting hoops with your friends constitutes cheating in basketball. At a fundamental level, cheating means breaking the rules of the activity to gain an advantage. Preparation means taking steps outside of the activity to improve one's ability to perform well in the activity.

In my opinion (granted, I took the SAT for college admissions about 8 years ago), the test taking strategy is taught by the course isn't very useful - the real value just lies in taking practice exam after practice exam. If there was a just a repository of sample SAT tests that people could print out, I think 80% of the value of an SAT prep course could be achieved by just replicating the exam once a month for all of Junior year of high school. Do this enough and taking the SAT becomes second nature. This can be done effectively nearly for free - just the cost to print a few dozen sheets of paper - at your local library.
What you're describing is the 'visible universe'. There may well be other parts of the cosmos outside of our light cone. Einstein's equations allow it, and we have no way of knowing.
Yea it's definitely dismissive of criticism.
Uber/Lyft are taxi services. They need to be regulated. The cars need to be marked, have numbers, drivers accountable to the community (not just the passenger), for bad driving.

As a driver who's lived in SF for a long time I've seen first hand the terrible impact these services have had to the city. They clog streets and disregard any and all traffic laws. Just yesterday an Uber driver made a left turn from the middle lane on Hyde street. He backed up traffic as he refused to move until someone let him make his illegal turn. He was the recipient of a lot of honks.

His response? Gave everyone the finger after he finally made his left hand turn. Lovely. He should lose his license, period. In the days before these services existed cab drivers were petrified of getting in trouble. Many Uber/Lyft drivers are modern day lawless pirates.

A modern medallion system driven by traffic/ridership data with as little chance for corruption as possible would be the best answer to these problems. Uber/Lyft as they exist today cannot be allowed to continue if we value quality of life/safety.
That's fair, keep the positivity alive! :)

But most Brazilians I've talked paint the picture as a dire situation, unfortunately. Best of luck.
Huh. I reserve "culture fit" to mean "did the candidate make racist, sexist, or ageist remarks (or other such similar remarks about something absolutely unrelated to actual engineering)?"

I've yet to not hire someone under this. (Though I have one person who I would not hire today, but I still do not know how I would have screened for them in the interview.)

Seems like I'm the only one, though. The rest of the comments seem to indicate looking for something deeper.
If I understand your comment, correctly, then grading facility in Jupyter allows something like that I believe. My question related more to any symbolic/computer algebra capabilities Ximera may have, or does it just allow for interactive documents without computational tools?
I guess you could just do the same type of resizing they do before uploading although I agree it should be built into thr API.
> if a terrorist group has a pool of 1000 stolen passports, with a system that's only 99% effective at maching a random photo, I think they could do much better at finding a person (perhaps with some surgical alterations) that fits in that 1%

Is this worse than the current security measures in place while boarding?
Marin Country?
See for example https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2016.131
Tiles are generally just static PNG images. I serve a bunch using nginx and also on CloudFlare CDN. It's as easy as making the folder containing the tiles available on a webserver. I use QGIS/gdal to generate the tiles.
Sorry, I mistook your point.

The critical issue for rf keys is the lack of a button to lock/unlock the door.