skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the sad thing is that people take this to mean, "block off more time to sleep" when much, much more common is the issue that we're in civilized society. Most of us have some level of reduced oxygen supply during sleep and exposure to allergens (especially in kids who go to public school). I suspect that most people who pass the fuck out at 12am, sleep like a brick, and wake up groggy at 6am will naturally want more sleep the next night. The real issue comes when people are hardly sleeping at all no matter how much or how little effort they devote to their new self improvement plan.
On top of what was already mentioned, this could also help with unexpected vulnerabilities. Like say a vulnerability is discovered where you can request someone else’s data - as long as they notice the vulnerability within 7 days, they can shut things down before there’s a data breach.
The same type of seal is used in securing physical ballot boxes (and in fact is used on these digital tabulators to secure their ballot receiver box), so this kind of issue is not unique to electronic voting systems. Paper-based voting also uses a system of seals to ensure integrity.
I agree with your suggestions, and I found "How to Become a Rainmaker" quite helpful as well.

Granted, the title is pretty cheesy. And some of the content is, too. And yet I found it super actionable and straightforward. You can usually find used copies on Amazon for a couple of dollars.
> The lack of defaults on loans also takes away much of the incentive for the lenders to due any due diligence on the viability of your decision.

Since private government-guaranteed loans were discontinued, most private student lending dried up, so “lenders” here basically refers to the federal government.
Ask HN: Career Transformation (Finance to Finance and CS?)
I've been thinking about this for a while. Questions and comments are appreciated. Foremost I'd like to find out:
(1) In terms of technical and job related strengths and weaknesses, what observations can be made about career changers vs predominantly/straight-out-of-school CS professionals? (2) I'd like to design AI, not just use or apply AI software. Would anyone happen to know any tips or pitfalls?

Reason for my idea:
Not saying that my current job is easy, but I'm not sweating it either. I feel ready and an itch for something more challenging, 'nerdy', and new. My primary reason for entering my current field was financial security.

Background:
(1) BSc in mathematics from a top 10 university in the US with some basic CS such as Java, Python, and Lisp; I didn't find it too difficult. (2) Approx. 8 yr of experience in the financial industry w/ specialized programming experiences, but nothing deep under the hood

Rough approach:
(1) Search for a part-time position (maybe government, sm/med business, or non-profits); nothing likely from my current employer unfortunately; I also have some passive income but not too much. (2) Pursue a Masters in CS, making up for any pre-reqs and supplementing with independent study. (3) Find finance-related AI work or even something unrelated if the market looks promising.

If I'm posting in the wrong section/manner, please let me know. Thanks!
Some prefer to be the PhDs.
The K street law firm would pull up the FCC’s application instructions: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-109A1.pdf.

Yes, it’s complex. But you’re talking about auctioning an important public resource for a highly complex purpose. It’s like a permit for drilling for oil on government land. But the process is transparent.
But I don't think any of these were valued by their rich uncles—they were primarily valued by professional venture capitalists putting money into the companies at said valuations. Venture capitalists may have flaws in their valuation methodologies, but who's valuation could you trust more than theirs, as they put their money where their mouth is?
I think tech people should stand up against this rhetoric. Gaming is a harmless activity and "ruining someone's fun" is no reason to employ laws that were designed to prevent serious physical, irrevocable harm to humans. What was the judge thinking here? The virtual world is not directly analogous to the real one, and the law should be applied differently.

Also , "breaking into" the game is a very GTAV thing to do
Could this be the genetic predisposition aspect at play? I'm a complete idiot musically but my perception of sounds seems to be better than most (I can tell facial expressions from voice only,or sometimes just the sounds of their saliva, when others can't). I can't hold a tune, or rather I have no idea if I am holding a tune. I have wondered if I had acquired the luck part without the training required for the skill part.

Interestingly I get asked about my musical background a lot, because of my daughter's ability, whose conversations with her teachers have been beyond my comprehension for years now. While she also lacks perfect pitch, there seems to certainly be something going on. Her Mandarin teacher asked if she was raised around Chinese speakers from an early age because her ability to hear and match tones is something you generally can't just pick up the way she did.
That's interesting. Do you know why pitch varied so much at those periods and why have we settled on A=440 being considered orchestral pitch these days? I'd think having to sing at these different pitches must be difficult since you can't tune your voice like a instrument can.
Clojure people seem to give really good talks; it's starting to make me think I should look into learning the language.
Why do digital health startups keep failing?
Yeah, I already looked through requirements.
It will take me some time to prepare all that stuff.
But I think it's gonna be fun
FYI, you misunderstand my point. I have no issue with cannabis or cannabis usage, and absolutely agree that the way the 'war on drugs' has been prosecuted is wrong. But this has nothing to do with the fact that cannabis is a plant. The same things would be true if it was an entirely artificial substance, manufactured in a lab, or if it was some kind of animal extract. Why should its plant-based origin have any bearing on anything?
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The difference of course is there are manual observers, usually independent and from the main parties, watching physical ballot boxes while they're "live". Making tampering harder even if the seals are defective.
Lots of professionals earn 1-2% raises their entire career. I'd say it's the norm, and also the reason that job-hopping is seen as the best way to increase your salary.
Why auction perpetual rights and not lease them? You could also add a use-it-or-lose-it to avoid dog-in-the-manger exclusion of rivals.

"selling" the rights seems short sighted, no matter how you set the price.
Any pointers or info or starting points on where to learn about this & how to develop that kind of style?
It doesn't really matter who or where these things are invented. US, GB, AU, NZ ,CA, SA int al. will all claim "prima" err thingie - the Latin term for ... ok "primogeniture"

It is seriously cool that Mr ObsoleteNerd is taking his kids to see what people can do, despite politicians.

I'm a Brit, and I have a pic on a wall in my house of a bloody great rocket launching from Woomera, down south.
I was able to initiate the request - I'm in Australia
You do know that those rappitenderos were stopping the engineers from solving the bug, right?
> US tipping is not complicated

Ehmm, yeah it is. Other than the very well established rules for dinning in a restaurant, where one is expected to leave a tip of around 20%, all other situations are fuzzy.

Look at the replies in this thread. Everybody has their own rules about when, where and how much to tip.

I get your point, and agree, that it not really about rewarding exceptional service, but this doesn't make it less complicated.
> You not liking it, or having a knee jerk reaction is not the same as an actual moral judgement.

Yes, it's exactly a moral judgement.
Interesting:

"Optimality, no garbage-collection, EVM and GPU compatibility are all possible due to compilation to the symmetric interaction calculus, a lightweight computing model that combines good aspects of the Turing Machine and the Lambda Calculus. In order for this to work, Formality enforces some compile-time restrictions based on Elementary Affine Logic."
Go read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. Things changed greatly from when I got out of grad school in 1982 and when I was laid off from my job at the end of 2017. I worked for a company that had 65,000 employees in our city when I started and about 2000 when I left.

Many called Ross Perot a nutjob when he coined the phrase "The great sucking sound of jobs leaving the country." I watched it happen.

We also watched the ratio of the highest paid employee/ lowest paid full time employee skyrocket. I understand that there are high performing employees, but economies need a large middle class who have income to buy products (without running up debt) for the economy to prosper.

Now we see people trying to support families on what were after school jobs for high school students... Times changed when offshoring became easy...
Tangentially related, the other day I learned that Carl Sassenrath [1], 60+, according to wikipedia [2], has been working in Roku for the last 10 years. Maybe it is a good company to get in touch with?

Also, I don't have hard numbers or anything but I've worked or meet people in Google and YouTube that are north of 50. There's even a nickname for them [3] ... I guess depending on your personality you can take the nickname the good or the bad way. I wanna think, good :-)

1: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-sassenrath-02699b84/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sassenrath

3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Greygler#English
Is that report actually referring to homeless? Looks like just "high users of multiple systems", which could include someone who has accommodation (e.g. family member's house) but is bankrupted by healthcare costs.
Excuse me, I'm going to go launch SyncTerm now and browse some Mystic and SynchroNet boards.
from a technical perspective gtav hacks are so easy to create and use, and so powerful (godmode, really?) because rockstar decided to make the networking model peer-to-peer so they can skimp on the server infrastructure. it has nothing to do with technical limitations (gtav game sessions are limited to 30 players anyways). in most modern games there's actually a server that receives the player actions and computes the consequences. this is why in games like counter-strike godmode isn't a thing. also valve really dedicates infrastructure to catching cheaters, even using machine learning to detect them, as opposed to feeding a bunch of teenagers to the 'dogs' for doing a lousy job of protecting their games from abuse.
From the evolutionary perspective, what advantage does having perfect pitch "built-in" give a person or society? Being able to identify the pitch of some game you might be hunting wouldn't seem to make you a better hunter thus being able to survive hard times so you're able to pass your genes along better than one without it.
To anybody who's interested in these blog posts, I highly recommend checking out the Rainway Github: https://github.com/RainwayApp
I'm not sure that this is a useful difference. Physical ballot boxes often sit unattended overnight in the case of early voting centers (and in some cases even in regular voting locations depending on local procedure), and digital tabulators are usually observed at all times that they are unlocked. If anything digital tabulators may be somewhat more secure from this perspective, because they typically require authentication with a cryptographic token (which is held by the presiding judge of the polling location or a similar person) before they will count any ballots. This is a second measure preventing ballot stuffing when unattended as compared to a ballot box without on-site tabulator.

The issue is different for direct-recording electronic (DRE) or "paperless" machines, but this article pertains to digital tabulators that are actually a voting machine and ballot box in one: they scan the ballot and then retain it in a box for later audit. The seals pictured are actually used to secure the ballot box, not on the machine itself which sits on top of the box.
Type variables are in the same syntax as normal variables?
Pairing with someone you get along with is a great experience. But with a lot of people I find it pretty miserable. I have paired with people who I just almost never agreed with. I am not saying they were bad but I just didn't like their style. There is also the risk of having one very dominant partner and the other one just watching passively (or having checked out already).
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I guess you could say that about absolutely any bug though? This isn’t particularly underhanded, and it’s more of a broad design flaw than a subtle change. If you wanted a “backdoor” you could absolutely do 10x better than this.
Those are almost certainly all using the client functionality. I'm not sure what uses libssh as an ssh server. (Edit: it may be that there is no open source code in existence anywhere which uses libssh in this way, except maybe some sample code. See https://twitter.com/cryptomilk/status/1052286350379114496 )
An interesting position here: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...

Not sure how applicable this is to SF, but the estimate there was that $30-50k/year was being spent on service usage for homeless people, which is the same ballpark as here (assuming the current budget actually includes e.g. medical costs).
> Other than the very well established rules for dinning in a restaurant, where one is expected to leave a tip of around 20%,

And not many years ago that was 15%, and very recently it had settled around 18%, but, yeah, people are starting to throw around 20% as the baseline now. So, to call the rules even there “well-established” is...less than accurate.
So "niche" it was used by github, albeit in a configuration that protected them from this
Because i don't think you are going to just not count people's votes if the entire voting district is believed to have been compromised.

I don't know what the procedure/ or law would be but being that they know who voted i would think there would be some sort of attempt to allow them to revote.
I’ve had a few, but I don’t always hear how they did after we work together so I couldn’t provide a metric.
Pragmatic rules of web accessibility that will stick to your mind
The "How to pair with a junior developer" section is extremely considerate, and highlights some behaviours that I know I've subconsciously engaged in that may have negatively impacted a junior dev. Expanding this section would be great.
A refresher on web accessibility (ADA, WCAG, WAI-ARIA, impairment types and exclusions) and 3 practical rules that will stick to your mind and give you guidance on implementing a11y in your project.
This isn't the post you were referencing, but a similar one on reddit regarding extreme wealth.

https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_insan...
It’s not news in general but many people liked to pretend it wasn’t true of Silicon Valley or at least favorite companies like Google: sure, there are sharks in most places but we’re a strict meritocracy where only results matter!

That’s been cracking over time as e.g. people noticed that all of the cool stuff Google does is a sideline for selling ads, Uber is a gypsy cab company which would fail the instant they had to comply with the law or pay for externalities, etc. Rather than letting SV redesign the world we’re hope the world will rein it in enough before more people are hurt.

Given how strong that self-image has been in tech culture for decades, a lot of people are going to have strong emotions when it’s no longer possible to maintain cognitive dissonance.
As far as I can tell, the rights are not perpetual. For example, I arbitrarily picked a recent auction for "FM Broadcast" rights (https://www.fcc.gov/auction/98/factsheet), and the description states that the rights being auctioned are for an eight-year license period.
Please note: if you purchase any products from Rockstar you are supporting this action.
Makes me wonder how what the definition of a computer is. There were calculation machines before so what makes this a computer? Is it because it's programmable?
Bottom line, clean energy is getting cheaper so it cuts emissions of bigger emitters. Purely economical side-effect.

I think the bigger picture would be to look at solar panel installments and their overall contribution in the energy package of the US.

Hints:
"Solar accounts for 55% of all US electricity added so far in 2018."
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/more-solar-power-than-any-ty...

And in the same article: Solar cost lower than coal in North America since 2013:
https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5af0a65e19ee8624008b4...
Wow, so after it took them years to get U2F, you can only enroll one device? Is it still setup to require that you activate SMS 2FA too (thereby backdooring your entire 2FA process). I swear, I don't understand how Twitter is so utterly useless at things like this.
Re: "it seems unlikely that humans have no influence on the environment. It equally seems improbable that we can predict sea levels half a century from now with any accuracy"

Shouldn't there be evidence about how past climate predictions fared? Climate change has been a hot topic (pun somewhat intended) for decades. Since Carter's presidency at least. There should have been at least a few environmental predictions that we can verify in retrospect.
> Have you considered that your life is boring and that you're actually participating in a rat race and sleep is allowing you to identify that?

I don't need sleep to identify that ;)
Honestly, I'm not. I like to build things, software, hobby electronics, a bit of cooking and baking, but all of that stuff is best learned through experience, not rote memoization.

Other than that though I find it far more enjoyable to do something other than blindly consume knowledge for no purpose, I'd much rather engage in social activities or play games - even making numbers go up is more satisfying to me than memorizing factoids of limited practical use to me.
The hidden key to software engineering success
Thank you. That first video is just mesmerizing.
Ubisoft Massive COO: “We don't want to take a stance in current politics”
The YouTube channel Casually Explained has a video on levels of wealth which is pretty enjoyable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANApS0P4z8
Steve Ballmer Aims to Reinvent Watching Sports on TV with Machine Learning
Thanks for making these posts, open sourcing spitfire, and supporting multiple browsers.

This is really interesting. I am very eager for browsers to improve their real-time audio/video potential.
Apple is one of the only major email providers that does not encrypt user email data at rest.
Assessments just got faster: introducing quizzes in Microsoft Teams
Do others on HN not quite see the harm here? I think ultimately I don't know why (morally/legally/etc.) one is entitled to have absolute privacy over one's DNA. If you leave your DNA somewhere I don't see why others couldn't take it. Similarly, people have a right to ID others by people's face. This is just slightly more nuanced.

I see huge upside (as mentioned in the article it is becoming harder and harder to get away with vicious crimes) with limited downside.

I know it sounds/seems unnatural to be identified by your DNA, but what is the actual worst case scenario of this?
I don't think there's much room for another player. Not at this stage. Even Google with the Pixel is a drop in the ocean in terms of hardware sales.

Truth is, Essential simply had no chance. The segment of users caring about build materials and craftsmanship is also the one who care about stuff like camera quality, software quality and features and when the PH-1 launched, its camera sucked, it had less features than other flagships and it was riddled with cellular reception issues. Price wasn't cheap either.

If it wasn't for Andy Rubin, there's no way this startup would have received the investment they did.
I'm fully aware of these programs, and a few more (I very recently left the space industry). I'm more concerned that these initiatives are not being pushed forward faster. As well as these things seem to focus on "We can provide the world with internet" and not "We can provide America with 5G and continually scale to include substantially larger markets". I think that's why they aren't getting funded. Because they are stating the benefits of the grand design when companies like Verizon and AT&T are just focused on the next step.
The new UI that Github implemented for it's actions is really slick!

As far as implementation I'm starting to wonder if anyone actually uses BPMN[0]...It might be nice if we had a standardizable way to do these orchestrations, and I thought BPMN was it.

[0]: https://www.bpmnquickguide.com/view-bpmn-quick-guide
I would imagine they have it in tax shelters worldwide because they can hire the best tax lawyers and accountants, those who work in firms that actively lobby to keep arcane loopholes open so their client fees keep flowing in.

If the company is publicly traded, executives' acquisition or disposal of stock is publicly disclosed through SEC Form 4:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1512673/000120919118...

In October 2018 (so far), Jack Dorsey redeemed 103,035 shares @ a rough average of $80, bringing in $8,242,800 cash (pre-tax).
Don't forget the optic fiber NBN was killed in favour of using existing copper / HFC infrastructure.

And in regards to Nauru, two of the higher-qualified doctors have been arrested and deported in the last couple of months, and the mental-health program was cut.

Australia doesn't just suppress journalists writing about it, in conjunction with the Nauru government they actively prevent journalists from travelling to Nauru.
I used to be a zealot. I had found the religion of XP, and I enforced pairing on teams I was hired to coach. Many people were happy to be exposed to it, but many weren’t. Of those, some were better for the experience, some weren’t. In either case, it was massively disrespectful of me to force it on people. Certain kinds of people are drawn to programming. Asking some of those people to pair all day every day is tantamount to asking them to switch careers. I for one don’t have the emotional energy for it any more. Having said all that, I would encourage any skeptics to give it a try, in the right environment with the right teammates. It can really teach you a lot in a short period of time.
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Same logic applies. The money is being put to productive use, not sitting there doing nothing. Whether it’s capital invested in a specific company or capital lent to a bank which acts as an abstraction layer for lending capital to many companies doesn’t change the fact that the money is being put to use.
"Eat, Move, Sleep" is another worthwhile book reinforcing a similar message.
I think in this case they mean stored program computer.

But you're right the definition is somewhat fungible. Even more so when you consider analog computers. Two analog computers of note are Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Ames in Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_Plan_Wind_Tunnel_(Moun...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...
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I'd rather purchase their software and run this on my own FreeNAS box. The features sound awesome, but I don't need their fancy custom hardware.