skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or in other words, Facebook is going to push left wing propaganda. It is not going to change anything, everybody know s that most of those tech companies are lefties and will ignore it and just find alternative ways to spread right wing news.
Wall Street Quietly Warns That 5G Wireless Is Being Aggressively Over-Hyped
it is the first link in the gp post.
Also see this Lawful Masses video about the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjRQapb7DLs
> Using telemetry Mozilla was able to precisely measure how many connections are actually established with TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Without numbers, they'd have been flying blind, making decisions with no rational basis. That's why I personally choose to leave telemetry on in applications that I trust. It helps the dev makes sensible, data-driven decisions.

Some unrelated advice: what would you do if business brings up Google analytics data showing Google Chrome, IE, and Safari are three main browsers people use and the usage share of Mozilla Firefox is under 5% for a particular website? I tried to show my own use case with uBlock Origin which means when I go to the website it doesn't show up on Google Analytics.

How do we make decisions based on self-reported data?

You'd think institutions funded by public monies would be more sensitive on issues like this but my pleas fall on deaf ears.
The fact that people are actively talking about court packing, much less saying a "very good case can be made for" it blows my mind. I would not be surprised to see a civil war within my lifetime if that happens.
I don't know if this will help, but when my uncle Scotty was diagnosed with NHL, he founded an online support group that's still going strong long after he passed away (from what I understand, he died of something else and the NHL was still in remission at the time, but I'm still not sure what he died of so I could be wrong). I hope you find some resources there that can help you

https://nhlcyberfamily.org
Good. And if they happen to more consistently filter conservative sources this time around [1], then maybe the conservative ecosystem should fix that instead of opting to jerk off about a dystopian future (sourced from a book they read in middle school) because someone has the intellectual fortitude to appropriately label and filter fud.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-facebook-censoring-cons...
Must have been a slow day at the HBR.

What evidence is there that a startup's founders age is a determinate of success? What does it mean to be successful in this context? in general? What other properties of a startup founder might contribute to the startup's success? How are those properties related to her/his age.
At a previous company I worked at we used to manage our own email infrastructure before finally switching over to a dedicated service. There are a few problems if you are sending over bulk email that is customized per user when running your own SMTP service.

1. IP address reputation -
Keeping your IP addresses reputable is not a simple task. It requires balancing your emails for popular destination domains (gmail.com, aol.com, yahoo.com, etc.) across multiple external IP address. It requires you to deal with many different conflict resolution departments, who don't care about email, when a dispute comes up. It's practically a requirement to use a service like ReturnPath to maintain your reputation.

2. Throttling -
When doing it yourself you need to throttle yourself. This is problematic on "big" days, especially when your marketing department wants to send many millions of emails for a big product push, promotion, or on days like black friday/cyber monday.

3. Hiring -
A lot of people think sending email is easy. When you get up to the multiple million per day mark things start to fall apart. Do you have someone(s) on staff who really know sendmail/postfix/qmail inside and out?

4. Monitoring -
sendmail/postfix/qmail are often times hard to monitor. You have to put together all of your stats. You have to put together all of your alerts. If you aren't really experienced with bulk email, you won't know what to look for and that can impact your reputation. Also consider your logging infrastructure. sendmail/postfix/qmail are noisy.

5. Cost -
All of the points above play into the cost aspect of it. Is it cheaper to run it yourself, pay for all of the services and salaries, etc. Or is it actually cheaper to just use sendgrid/mailgun/etc. IP address reputation services are not cheap. Infrastructure cost is also something to consider. AWS IPs all have pretty terrible reputations so running this in AWS (and maybe other cloud providers) is a non-starter since no one will accept your email.

If you've got the expertise and you are sending a massive amount of emails then it might be worth it to run your own infrastructure, but at the end of the day, a single developer consuming an API is often easier and less problematic.
Thanks!

That helped but I don't see the relation to Paul Allen.
The opt-in information would be skewed to the point of uselessness though right, thanks to extreme correlation? In fact, the non-opt out is probably pretty skewed itself so some wrong data driven decisions are inevitable.
Or you could use your critical thinking skills and keep in mind that they're not going to catch everything. This falls in line with the mentality of "don't let perfectionism get in the way of progress".

We need to focus more on teaching critical thinking in schools, it will lead to people who can call out bullshit way more reliably.
Great piece, needs about 100 upvotes.
nytimes is as far from independent and unbiased as you can get.
are we living in the fallout 4 timeline?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Institute
This site confirms it: https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/insect-color...

I knew because ultraviolet light is used by entomologists to attract insects to traps during the night, e.g. moths: https://mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu/colle...

This site gives the visual spectrum response of a species of beetle: http://cronodon.com/BioTech/Insect_Vision.html
Not really. There is a whole host of information that you'd never be able to operate on, mainly because you as a person do not have the time or expertise to discern what's true and what's not on every subject that comes up.
Care to explain it to us? There's nothing obvious I can see as to why they're using coins, and based on the recent stories about the SEC investigating ICOs, skepticism seems warranted.
It's funny; I wanted to upload a bunch of music from KeygenMusic.net into iTunes Match; but it wouldn't take them, because iTunes Match thinks that anything with a bitrate below, I think, 128kbps, is speech from a voice-recorder rather than professionally-mastered music.

In the end, I re-rendered all the music myself using a tracker program to FLAC, and from there to Q=256 constrained AAC. Each file was probably four times the size for no noticeable gain in sound quality, but at least they upload now. :)
Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs?
I'm curious - what are engineering managers seeing on my resume that makes them apparently routinely reject my resume? My summary: 35 years in Silicon Valley; 3 STEM undergrad degrees, MS in AI from Stanford, PhD in AI from a top-10 program; ICPC champion; always considered to be an elite programmer; very current knowledge; constant employment; wide variety of skills; management experience with small teams; very stable life; no vices; very healthy and energetic; I get along with everyone and like working in teams.

I've been applying for everything from senior engineer to VP of engineering. Ever since I turned 60 last year, I'm getting no hits on my resume. And yes, I still code (the first and most common question I get) and I still love it. If you were hiring, can you tell me why you might not even do a phone interview? I need to know what (mis)perceptions I apparently need to overcome.

Thanks!
Eagles can see 4-8x further than humans can and many varieties of birds can see in additional spectrums to ours. And of course SONAR exists in whales, dolphins etc which is a corollary.
Herbert Marcuse picked up on this idea that mass media broadcasts any opinion no matter how stupid and misinformed in 1965, and it's only gotten worse:

>Within the affluent democracy, the affluent discussion prevails, and within the established framework, it is tolerant to a large extent. All points of view can be heard: the Communist and the Fascist, the Left and the Right, the white and the Negro, the crusaders for armament and for disarmament. Moreover, in endlessly dragging debates over the media, the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed, and propaganda rides along with education, truth with falsehood. This pure toleration of sense and nonsense is justified by the democratic argument that nobody, neither group nor individual, is in possession of the truth and capable of defining what is right and wrong, good and bad. Therefore, all contesting opinions must be submitted to 'the people' for its deliberation and choice. But I have already suggested that the democratic argument implies a necessary condition, namely, that the people must be capable of deliberating and choosing on the basis of knowledge, that they must have access to authentic information, and that, on this. basis, their evaluation must be the result of autonomous thought.

(From Repressive Tolerance, 1965)
It depends on whose perspective you're taking. For example, diversity matters because a college like Harvard is attempting to prepare its student body to be leaders of society. Being in a diverse environment that more closely mirrors society plausibly is more conducive to leadership growth than being in a homogeneous environment.
Wait, where are those narratives coming from the same person?
Ever wondered why with millions of years of evolution, human drivers with depth perception-enabled HDR cameras in their heads still get into accidents all the time? If that's your bar for "good enough" then we're in big trouble with autonomous vehicles.
Interactive Brokers does not sell your order flow
ProTip: use LIMIT/STOP orders when buying and selling. Sending MARKET orders to Robinhood guarantees you going to get a "worse" price compared to the spot price.
I went to the ER complaining of stomach pains. They heard my description and immediately put me into a room. A few hours later, I had a CT scan confirming that I had appendicitis. I had surgery that same that and was out of the hospital 2 days later.

Had they sent me home, medicine or no, things could have gone a lot worse.

I'm glad they do the CT scan here and not just send people away until they get worse.
> Trivial example: a = a+b is slightly easier to say (and think) in English than a += b

Native English speaker here.

"+=" is pronounced "plus equals", meaning that you've got it backwards, with the margin being by the number of mental syllables taken by a - though if a really is "a", then that's only 1.

However, the above considerations only cover recitation.

Comprehension, especially in real-world scenarios, is another matter entirely. "a" might be some other, longer name (and probably amongst a set of long names with a common prefix/accessor). When I read "a = a + b", it takes me some amount of effort to verify whether the lvalue is in fact the same word as the lhs of the operator. When I read "a += b", that effort is not needed. The difference again is proportional to the length of a.
To be fair, so do the untethered watches.
Do you think affirmative action is something like pay back or reparations for all the stuff people who were white did?

AA is supposed to be about raising groups who have been systemically disadvantaged to raise them to a fair playing field. This isn't supposed to be everybody except whites get help. Its supposed to be help for those whose racial identity is the reason why they are doing so poorly. Asian Americans are doing well in the U.S. [1].

The only way you can sell AA is if you say its to help people by race. Its not to sell it as a program to disadvantage whites...

The whole issue is that AA for race really generalizes advantages and disadvantages for a race and trades advancement of the race in exchange for some merit and fair consideration for the individual. Maybe there is a balance, maybe its gone to far, maybe it hasnt gone far enough. But the point is that it pisses people off because they are no longer treated like an individual and a person unfairly carries the history of people who had the same skin color as themselves.

If a white person struggles to get somewhere they can now blame AA. If a black person gets in they can have an internal struggle wondering if they really earned it, as well as the judgment that they might've only made it due to their race.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
If you go this route, I would recommend a separate domain for any emails that are are bulk in nature.

Keep the one off transactional ones on a different domain. Then, if your bulk emails cause a false positive, you haven't burned essential things like receipts, password resets, shipping notices, etc.
> In this lawsuit, Harvard is accused of directly discriminating against Asians, not just indirectly harming them by giving a boost to black or hispanic applicants.

But that's the exact same thing.

If you have a system where there are 1000 slots and the 1000 applicants with the highest scores get in, and you give Asian applicants +0, white applicants +5, Hispanic applicants +10 and black applicants +20, the outcome is entirely identical to giving Asian applicants -10, white applicants -5, Hispanic applicants +0 and black applicants +10. There is no meaningful difference, the people who consequently get in are exactly the same in both cases.
It's been there for years and they've been steadily improving it. If anything, it will keep getting better, not go away.
The title of this post is FUD.

Look for the comment here that says

https://imgur.com/a/wii2zVT is what everybody gets when starting VSCode for the first time.

(It’s the 2nd highest top level comment at the moment.)
Only people who don't share that bias would leave.
GM/Honda are partnering with Cruise. Fiat are partnering with Waymo.

Everyone is partnering with someone or organising supply deals. And everyone other than Tesla uses LIDAR.

Also I never said these cars were being sold today.
> From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete

Is that true, or are doctors incredibly risk averse since they have seen what can happen when something goes wrong, and that is death.
This logic would also have us stop prosecuting pickpockets on subways, for fear that people might stop being careful with their belongings.

Private social media platforms should both take steps to remove obviously false material and educate users as to how to recognize misinformation.
From the comment on commit which removed 50,000 lines of code: `The only supported platform is now Linux/x86-64 with JIT+FFI+GC64.`

And the readme:
`Reduced code maintenance footprint ~50% by removing #ifdef features that are not required for Linux/x86-64 e.g. Windows support, 32-bit heap support, and non-x86 backends. This is a necessary short-term expedient to make the code maintainable while we bootstrap the project.`

I wonder how that 50,000 lines was broken down by feature...
> it guarantees that the other party would just put more justices on the bench when they have a chance.

This seems like a better situation for Democrats than it is currently (not having a majority at all for 30+ years).
It's not actually a complement though. They're basically saying "I value your presence here because of your appearance, not because of your ideas".

Let's give another example of a complement that really isn't:

"Wow, it's nice to see some black people at this event for once". It's a positive statement, sure, but it's not an appropriate comment to make.

Can you understand how this belittles people?
Assuming scores are randomly distributed, your hypothetical gives different results if you give asians -5 than if you give black and hispanic applicants +5.

Harvard is accused of excluding more than half the asian applicants who otherwise would have made the cut. Harvard does not admit anywhere near enough disadvantaged minorities where giving those folks a boost would lead to that many asians not getting a spot.
Anyone think that SoftBank seems to be investing a dangerously large amount of money in these startups, which could be a big risk if there's multiple failures? Or is it all good if it's private money?
Interesting! I wasn't aware that Ubiquiti even made cameras. I'll check them out. Thanks!
The advice, and any specific allegations, should have been given much more discretely. Even in the best of times, Canadians don't like American politicians infringing on our sovereignty.

American politicians calling the Chinese security threats just means they are in the same club as ourselves as well as our Mexican and European friends. Senators Rubio and Warner will accomplish little by insulting our guests.

Huawei's bid deserves to be considered and evaluated... By Canadians, on our terms, rather than foreigners with their own agenda.
> Is there some back magic that these services perform to avoid getting blacklisted?

Yes. No matter what your project is, unless your secret sauce has to do with email delivery or your business model requires email delivery to be free, do not attempt to roll your own email delivery service. No one has ever looked back and wished they had.
Their entire business model seems to be extremely transparent[1], and they treat their users as customers, not products. I don't know what they are doing now, but I think that farming retail orders out is not something they would be focused on in the long run. It's more like "mobile-first Interactive Brokers for equity trading".

[1] https://freetrade.io/pricing/
> intersection of GUI programmer, competent engineer, and medical domain knowledge is either a null set or a single person

Ah interesting.

My neighbor's son is a doctor who needed better software. He trained himself to become a GUI programmer. The resulting company is very succesful. (As reported by his mother, so I'm allowing for some parental bias.)
My understanding is that you can't really compare processing powers between brains and computers. They work differently and are better at different things.

Nobody is going to be better at raw number crunching than a computer, but there's also no computer that can recognise patterns as well as your brain can. At this point in time, the computer vs brains argument is very situational.
> Also I never said these cars were being sold today.

Then you're moving the goal posts. Tesla is selling cars today to people that they are (EDIT) targeting support of full autonomy, or have their hardware swapped to do so. Everything else is an experiment in a lab or on a track.
Whatever you think of MSFT at x time, Paul Allen was certainly a genius. 65...and worth untold billions. But then, maybe, he reached 65 because of better treatment the first time. RIP.
humans also didn't evolve wheels and the ability to run at 200 km / h.
I’m addressing OP’s anxiety. These threads can leave the average tech employee thinking his average salary is hopelessly low, where, in reality they are reading top examples from people at outlier companies. It’s like comparing yourself to the highlight-reel best moments of your social media friends.

EDIT: For what it’s worth, I’d like to point out you’re attacking me personally in your message, and not even addressing what I said, which is that people tend to take a bunch of exaggeration and extrapolate.
What most people dont realize, depending on the country, those press for emergency buttons for the elderly are not considered an emergency call. Including the advertisement you see on buses targeting people fearing a heart attack. Meaning, it is not guaranteed that the message will go through. It is an app like any else with the same reliability. That was fortunately the point where my former boss declined a contract.
Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians
I think they might literally be the only one? Here's a quote I found (this time on Marginal Revolution):

It should be shocking, but it probably is not, that according to the Rule 606 reports mandated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, no major online broker, with the sole exception of Interactive Brokers, sent more than 5% of its orders to an organized exchange. More than 95% of their orders go to internalizers!

Later: Like, a minute later I read their Rule 606 report, and they do in fact get rebated for sending order flow to dark pools. They also get paid to take institutional orders and trade them against their customers.
Paul Allen was a good man but...

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"

Some think wealthy people should be held to a higher moral standard for a number of reasons
Sorry I typed hastily, I’d only had first hand experience of it in Tokyo; my mistake; agree this is an more generic urban phenomenon.
Therac-25 was thirty years ago, and still is the go to example. That made me wonder. If you compare, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000–p... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_structural_failures_an... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs, software doesn’t look that deadly.
Sears, the store that changed America, declares bankruptcy
Move over LinkedIn, here comes Sendlio+!
Typical internalizer trade is:

1. RH user wants to buy 1000 shares of XYZ. Offer price is $10.00

2. RH forwards the full order to their execution venue partner. They get paid (assuming SeekingAlpha story is true) $260/$1mm traded, or $2.60.

3. Executor takes the order and immediately sends 900 shares to the market, lifting the offers. Now best offer is $10.10

4. Executor facilitates the tail of the order, 100 shares, at $10.10. So they are short -100 shares here - or they can give a de minimis price improvement (like 10.0985) to meet their contractual obligations.

5. Temporary market impact attenuates and offer mean reverts to $10.05

6. Executor still has risk on their books - but their paper mark-to-market profit is $5.00.

7. Risk can be mitigated by waiting for crossing order or waiting for more favorable offers to close out the short.

So roughly speaking they paid $2.60 to get the order, but made $5 on it...
Not sure which point you were referring to by "they", but we must have different definitions of "isolation".

If one system absolutely requires communication with the other to function, I would never call them isolated.
I wonder if they could structure this as a real debt, by making some legs cost negative money, e.g. on a trip from A->B->C, A->B costs $100, B->C costs -$10, for a total cost of $90. If you book A->B->C and prepay the $90, but get off at B, then you owe the airline $10 because you didn't receive the $10 credit from flying B->C
But only after they elect their nazi-candidate in Brazil, after that, zuck will remove the fakenews factory, soooo timely!
This really gets to the heart of the matter. Harvard wants to increase its prestige, and it does so by having future CEOs, Senators, and Presidents go to Harvard. But the distribution of potential leaders of society is not equal to the distribution of top GPA/test scores. Should Obama have been passed over from Harvard Law for someone with a higher GPA (or GW Bush for Yale)? If you want to argue that Harvard should only use the grades/test scores metric, you have to argue for it, as it is not self-evident.
That advice applies no matter which brokerage you're going to
SaaS companies trade on revenue or free cash flow multiples for the most part:

https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/how-much-is-your-saas-compa...
https://www.bvp.com/strategy/cloud-computing/index