skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... no, not all jobs are manufacturing. ‍️Was soapboxing necessary?
If the author really cared about the root problem of why someone would run a credit system, perhaps they could have looked at the once a month payment system that EBT uses and what ramifications that has. Take a quick look at places that accept EBT and notice what specials they have on the first of the month as opposed to the rest. Notice any police checkpoints that only seem to get setup on the first? Notice where they are? Go into a local Walmart on the morning of the first day of the month and observe. Look at EBT related signs especially in gas stations that accept EBT (check the microwave).
Fast.ai is close.

What is NAS?
Right. And the evacuation now in most of fukushima is based on old and likely very conservative dose-health relations (linear, no threshold). There is a lot of talk these days of getting a better understanding of the real risk of low dose radiation. Some people evacuated Fukushima and went to places with higher natural background and ironically got more dose
The landing page really needs some indication of what this is and how it works. The about link does not provide much context at all...
I was working in e-commerce when my company for acquired by a larger one. Since I was 100% remote and had zero face time with anyone I was one of the people to get canned. Actually, most of our company got canned.

At first I was furious and a bit depressed and that's when I said enough is enough, I will never let anyone else in a position over me, I'm done being an employee, I will never be let go ever again.

A year later I was working insane hours as a freelancer, just learning the ropes with enough pay to get by on. Fast forward to year 3 and I am a consultant making more than I did at the ecommerce company. I am my own boss. I can fire my clients instead of the other way around. Pay is great, hours are insanely good - I work just a couple of hours per week with occasional bursts of power sessions exceeding 3-4 hours. I get to spend most of my time with my kid.

The downside is having to always have business lined up but I have been fortunate to never really have any downtime. I'm slowly building out my marketing channels and once everything is in place I can pick and choose really carefully who I work with. Oh, and if I want a raise I just increase my weekly retainer.
I’m just another rube, i guess. Got me!
That sounds a little like an additional dimension or alternative something truly “out there”. Ie maybe gravity’s force relies on some process that reverses at the macro scale.
GM and Ford are one economic slowdown away from insolvency (due to the liabilities you mentioned, and most vehicle purchases having been pulled forward with easy credit).
I'm shuddering over the thought of porting and maintaining the scala and js code. Are you using Scala.js?
The big problem I have is that it’s rare to find a combination of strong leadership with fast stressful work in the corporate world. Historically either my work is slow and easy or my leadership is extremely weak.

The only times I have seen strong leadership and fast work is in agency/consultancy work and military.
Cool new site that sells Paranormal stuff
theres no disagreement .
moderate strength training preserves muscle mass as you age, consistent preservation of skeletal muscle mass is required to stave off acute muscle degeneration beyond some point in you late 60 to 70s.

heart muscle doesnt waste as easily, but moderate cardio, including moderate sprinting can be very useful for keeping a strong heart.

endurance cardio has no longevity/healthspan benefits beyond those wrought by virtue of stressing the heart and muscles in the initial moderate dose.

freqiency and consistency
of above average myscle useage are key to preserving muscle function. also range of motion helps all muscle get used and keeps loads balanced to prevent injury.

my grandma is 96. never did a day of cardio running in her life.
Discrimination against protected classes is still prohibited in private organizations.

Even if that weren't the case, though, we should still oppose this lawsuit, which is quite literally an attempt to put legal constraints on admission to Harvard.
Survey of users on a job search site shows high proportion of immediate job searchers... selection bias much?
vcs are idiots. but most people , are even stupider.
In the first case, if you think the person deserves the extra money and give it to them, you keep your best people. If other staff ask for the same, you can either give it to them if you think they deserve it, or risk losing them to elsewhere. The end result is you always keep your best staff, and potentially lose your worst staff.

The second scenario, you always keep your worst staff and you potentially lose your best staff.
> We need to figure out what form of excercise gives the most benefit for unit of time spent.

Retrospective observational studies like the one in the original post aren't going to to that though.

Although I agree with you in principle, the differences between types of exercise are likely to be small compared to the benefit of doing anything at all. Most of the population aren't that concerned with what type of exercise gives the biggest delta in VO2 max.
My physical advice runs as follows, with commentary below.

> Eat (non-processed) food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (Pollan)[0]

> Invest in strength and cardio training. Couple hours per week[1].

> Listen to qualified medical professionals, critically[2].

[0] tl;dr - make your own meals, high frequency of salads, don't overeat, and don't fuss too much.

[1] I recommend serious kettlebell work to achieve this; takes very little equipment and very little space.

[2] They aren't always right, and you always have to self-advocate.
I will be 65 in a few months. I did my first ever dead hang strict pullup about a year ago. Lately I can do six. This time next year, probably twelve. It is fun slowing or reversing sarcopenia, which is mainly a societal result, not a genetic curse.
It sounds like a cross between a Bond and Bourne movie.
Last I looked into this (I think micron was looking into it also?) these were the major problems:

1. Orders of magnitude slower than normal memory.

2. Could be easily damaged relative to current technology.

3. Requires orders of magnitude more energy than standard storage media.

3. Is currently far more expensive than standard storage media as well.

And unfortunately, due to the fundamental nature of the storage media, I don't know if the orders of magnitudes jumps that we're used to with conventional storage/ memory technology will be possible here.

So the only real advantage is density, but if it's going to be used as cold storage anyways, does anyone really care compared to tape?

And is this ultimately more promising than atoms on a surface (e.g. like IBM millipede)?
No, no, that's not what he's saying. He's saying that in court, proving the provenance of a piece of physical evidence is more important than the technical factors of the thing itself. But what everyone is focused on with deep fake videos, is how technically good they are.

My daughter's birth certificate could be reproduced 100% indistinguishably by a Fedex Office print shop. But it is backed up by a chain of people who, if necessary, will testify that it is authentic.

People think that testimony requires physical evidence to back it up (look at the reaction to Dr. Ford's accusations). But the legal reality is the opposite... physical evidence is only useful at trial to the extent that credible testimony can establish its authenticity and relevance.

So a deep fake video that looks exactly like a real video will only be useful at trial if it can be established as credible, by the testimony of credible witnesses.

All that said... there is more to life than the justice system. Forgeries have always taken in the gullible, so deep fakes will undoubtedly have a social impact, especially in the early days before the public is generally aware of the capabilities. This is undoubtedly one reason the press is starting to cover this technology so aggressively.
> They actually were into digital fairly early on.

But they had fears it would cannibalize their existing business so they chose not to go that route; newcomers in the space were able to take over.

Sounds a lot like car manufactures, they stick to what they are doing and are good at despite being able to innovate. A lot of them may still do it the old way until nobody wants to buy that anymore, just like Kodak.
That's kinda the point of a heat exchanger. The water in your car's radiator doesn't make the engine bay wet either...
> You’re looking at inflows and outflows,

Which the generally accepted way of analyzing insurance programs is by looking at the inflow and outflows plus interest on reserves.

> which in the early stages of a ponzi scheme can also be similar

The Social Security Act passed in 1935.

> The way that social security in the US is a ponzi scheme is that the benefits paid out are not interest or earnings on the amounts paid in by the people receiving the benefits. They are paid for by new people paying in to the system. That is almost the definition of a Ponzi scheme. That is almost the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

No that is the exact definition of an insurance program. Insurance programs are not investments they are about spreading risk. Which the Social Security Program in the US does a perfectly fine job of.
How about a government enforced mandate that everyone gets a secure computer embedded into their skull in a way that removal will kill them, with a camera that continuously records video, sound and GPS positioning? This could then digitally signed and timestamped by the individual's computer.

Then, when a questionable event happens, the video of all participants and anyone nearby can be replayed. Then, all videos of participants can be replayed to make sure they match up, and the video of the time leading up to the event could be scrutinized. Furthermore any one who visited that area in the recent past could be checked to make sure they didn't create some sort of hologram or something that the participants watched rather than the real thing.
Halloweenmath [LaTeX package] [pdf]
I do fortnightly 1/1s with my team members (individually) for half an hour. The time is set but this can be in a room or a walk or over coffee. I had given them a choice of weekly or fortnightly and most chose the latter (those wanted it more frequent still get it). However my policy is that we do not wait till the 1/1 to discuss things that can be discussed sooner (especially things like feedback).

What worked for me (through experimentation and error) is I try hard to get folks to not talk about project status in the 1/1 (we have standups and planning for that). It is after all their time and unless I have direct feedback on behaviours I prefer to make it all about them. Their problems, Their goals, their dreams, their ambitions, interests and so on. After all if they are not most inspired being in my team I want to make sure I can find them work/projects/teams that they would be more aligned with (and knit that around timeframes).

At first the things that would not go well would be running out things to say. Either due to shyness or introversion or general fear of a new manager. The other side was me accepting it and moving on. While deciding when to dive deep and when not to is subtle, often zooming out on their future and then coming back to skillset often kicks off a good discussion (and some fine action items for both of us).
Show HN: SQL Viewer – UI for uber/queryparser, written in Haskell
Nope, loaded for me just fine on Chrome 70 and Firefox 62. Tested on a Win10 machine.
Yeah you need to move your files to tmpfs, but I still consider that easier than dealing with making it happen with malloc+read
The only place that I've ever seen this kind of honeypot regularly pick anything up is on college campuses.
In the past, giant stock grants could convince people to stay sans a raise/promotion, but with vesting periods increasing or being staggered and an understandable uncertainty in sustained stock growth (you could do really well or not, depending on when your shares are purchased), it’s totally understandable that someone would
leave for another company to get a pay raise or promotion.

Boomerang employment is super common too (you don’t get your promotion/level bump so you go to competitor X who hires you at s higher level and salary. You do your 2 years and then return to company Y at a higher level/better salary, in less time than it would take to earn a promotion using the system.).

I don’t know if this is sustainable — but I don’t fault anyone who does this or thinks about it. And because it’s so common, it’s not like it looks bad on a resume, because loyalty isn’t valued the same way anyway.
The best way to get a Promo is to get another job.

My theory is that in the last couple of years, the market is booming however for most people, salaries haven’t kept up with it. At Microsoft my rate of raise was lower than inflation (so in essence I was getting paid less every year). Jumping ship was a huge jump. I interviewed at a bunch of places and got an idea what the market would pay for me. I negotiated slightly above and been happy.
It's likely the combination of the two. If you have an x% quota for URMs, and you have another y% effectively earmarked for legacies, that sets an implicit (100-x-y)% cap for Asian-Americans and low-SES whites.

Also, you have to factor in that legacy admissions are part of the benefit conferred by Harvard and other elite institutions. It transforms Harvard admission from a one-time personal benefit to a durable and heritable asset that can be passed down from generation to generation.
That's because those are still antialiased. But that can be fixed.
If you became supreme leader of your country, you'll get power drunk in no time. And it's not just you. It's everyone. Power corrupts people. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

Remember how developers shunned Windows Phone and paid lip service to firefox os, and everything else apart from IOS and android?

Well, you can see how the power is surely corrupting Google. If you don't see it now, give it time. But it's even too late right now.

No amount of bitching will make Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and other "big bullies" play nice. What will? Strong, credible competitive threats.

You think Intel processors are expensive? Without AMD Intel processors would cost 4x as much. How much battery life would Intel PCs have without ARM? In fact, I assure you that without AMD, ARM would also be dead because Intel would have simply forbidden their partners from using ARM - the same way Google discourages top android manufacturers from using android forks.

About ur catholic reference - there's only one reason why Catholic churches are "pretty chill these days." And that's competition. New protestant churches are sprouting like grasses everywhere - competition has diluted the power of the church.

Competition is the key to niceness. Just look at the behavior of US ISPs.
Mod Function and Negative Numbers (2000)
What could transpire within a week _outside of_ weekly work or tasks that could influence your reports' career trajectory or force them to re-evaluate it? To put this in context, I'm attending such meetings but really see them as a noblesse oblige type of ritual that serves to reinforce our rapport (we don't see each other much otherwise), but otherwise a waste of my time from my standpoint.
If neither Windows nor Android, the two most widely-distributed operating systems in the world, do not support CalDAV or CardDAV, then who is using these standards? :) I guess Microsoft and Google want to promote their own calendaring solutions, Outlook/Exchange and Gmail.
Absolutely. Even if you love where you work, the corporation is always going to look out for itself first and foremost. It’s a lesson that can be especially hard to learn if you’re an early employee that grows or at a startup that claims to be different, but as cynical as it may be, the sooner workers realize that they are expendable, the better.
Thanks - out of all the replies to my comment, I think this is one of the most plausible hypotheses. I indeed think the Konigsberg and benzene stories are as commonly trotted out as the Hamilton one.
I have a completely new algorithm construction I have been using for a while that I am releasing any day now -- I was literally working on the documentation this weekend. It is a substantial improvement on the original algorithms in almost every regard and also easier to customize.
Can't read the left half of any code examples on Android chrome.
It's true if you get a windfall, you don't have the skills and experience to go with it. You're like a trust-fund baby, even if you worked for it.

I notice that people who get rich often end up continuing with what they were doing. Warren Buffett, YC partners. Of course, it's an important credential to be successful, in order to be an advisor, else no one would listen to you.

But it seems to me that these people are happy with what they are doing (which is why they got rich from it). So... why not just do what you are happy doing in the first place?

There's a catch though: it needs to be something valuable and meaningful - at least, to you. Watching day-time tv and cat videos don't really count (unless you're like a critic, or curator, or creator of http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/).
Were you born yesterday?
I’m pretty sure if a privately owned bar refused to allow Asian-Americans or any other person based on their appearance in the public would rightly have an issue.

Why should Harvard, or any other organisation play by different rules?
A book on barbell work for older (> 50y/o) adults defines a particular symptom set as "Sick Aging Phenotype". Diabetic, overweight, and physical inability are hallmarks of that symptom set.

One of my aims as someone who spends his work hours sitting is to avoid that fate. This is largely within my capability. I can choose to invest regularly in my enjoyment of life down the road. I can't control all sorts of things in life; but I can control if I can find time to swing a kettlebell.
Fair point, but hadn’t complex numbers been around for a while by the time quaternions were discovered?
> Also, it's not a 'race' to have money so it's not racist.

Wealth and race are highly correlated. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/09/14/racial...

> A new study by Prosperity Now and the Institute for Policy Studies has found that white households in the middle-income quintile own nearly eight times as much wealth as middle-income black earners and ten times as much as middle-income latino earners.
For one thing Social security’s structure is transparent, so no it’s not a Ponzi scheme at all in that a Ponzi scheme is by definition a subset of fraud and requires investors to be unaware of the fact the money coming to them is from new investors and not profits from investing in a product or portfolio of companies.

For another, it’s still not a Ponzi scheme. It makes no promises for returns, and simply requires working age people to set aside money for retired people. If the ratio changes, there is no requirement for the retired people to be paid the same money they were a year ago.

It’s not a Ponzi scheme in any fashion. It’s pretty much a direct, transparent transfer of wealth from the young to the elderly.
It was so satisfying to read about somebody's extremely specific passion which I can never understand but totally relate to. I genuinely feel happy for the author and wish that he go on to do greater things in pursuit of his passion.
The Iron Mathematics of Day Care
Were your feelers all in Denver? Denver seems to have surprisingly low salaries, especially when accounting for the housing boom of the past 5-6 years.
Really, this sounds like a porn title.
I threw this together a while back. I've been meaning to clean up the code a bit before sharing but that keeps not happening so I figure I'll try the other way 'round.

Big thanks to Matt Halverson for getting queryparser freed at Uber and to Heli Wang for more recent maintainership, as well as for their contributions to that project in the first place!
As far as I know they are also only doing SLERP for attitude control.
What I still don't understand is why the pressure regulators and over pressure valves on the house gas meters didn't kick in? Were the homes involved so old that the meter protections failed or weren't there in the first place? It seems that ultimately you've got to have failsafes at the homes themselves. Without such failsafes, what would stop a bad actor from purposely over pressurizing a residential branch?
This. 100 times this.
"I admit to a morbid fascination with stories of technological disaster. I read NTSB accident reports the way some people consume murder mysteries. The narratives belong to the genre of tragedy."

The author is not alone. Over a decade ago, there was a theater piece called "Charlie Victor Romeo" that consisted solely of actors re-enacting cockpit voice recordings of aircraft that crashed. http://charlievictorromeo.com/
It is not clear though that the OP is from SV, or indeed what % of people reading this are from SV.

I am not, and although I have hopped a few jobs recently (not due to chasing salary) and it has been 'forgiven' by the market, the usual is still >2yr where I am based.
Managers need to evaluate the strength of the claim of the experienced person - are they really underpaid? Has the person done their homework?

I've had those conversations and they've worked out positively for me, but I've spent time building rappour with management, along with very carefully gathering data sources, cost of living shifts, and current income.

If I just rolled up and asked for money, I expect I'd be shot down, and laughed at after I left the room...
Salesforce CEO accuses Stripe billionaires of not helping homeless
I would also add that it’s not just corporations. A startup that goes from 9 to 300 people in your tenure doesn’t have your best interest at heart either. Before going to corporate America, I put my health, relationships, and personal life aside in place of the places I worked. For whatever reason, I thought I needed to do that and I thought it would pay off.

Narrator: it didn’t.

Now, that’s on me. My employers didn’t force that on me and my inability to say “no” is my fault, not theirs. But it taught me that I’m never not taking vacation ever again. I’m never making two connections to save the company $200 on a flight ever again (when others don’t and I’d still be in budget). I’m never staying late to do a job that isn’t mine because I’m afraid it won’t get done otherwise (it will. And if it doesn’t, it’s above my paygrade).

That doesn’t mean I don’t work my ass off or give 100% (if not more), but it took me until my early 30s to realize that the company wont reciprocate my loyalty.
CryptoJacking by Clickjacking: Bypassing Coinhive OPT-IN Feature
how is that an example of using quaternion for something else than rotations?
Salary caps but stock does not. FAANG companies give massive RSU grants to senior people. There is no ceiling at companies that can afford to do that, which gives them a big advantage over startups.
Perhaps he had gone a little mad?
Nothing's wrong with Erlang per se. I personally found Erlang's syntax hard to follow, especially considering I'm working with multiple, more traditional languages on a regular basis. For instance in Erlang, variables are capitalized, whereas in other languages that's how you name a class. But hey, others swear by its syntax, so there's that.
Roslyn is also where a some of the tv show "Northern Exposure" was filmed. It's reasonable close to Seattle.
Does that make every consumer product vendor in existence racially discriminatory? You have to draw the line somewhere.