skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they don’t. Assuming you ‘shop smart’. A PS4 slim 1TB on Amazon sale set me back ~€200. PS+ goes for ~€40-50 a year, and gives you a few free games a month. If you’re willing to buy secondhand physical and/or be patient, most console AAA games can be had for €20-40 after a month or two. Hell, I bought God of War 2018 on a PS store sale for €35 three months after release, and that’s a premiere Playstion exclusive.
Let’s say you put together a gaming PC for €650 and buy AAA games for €10 a pop. We get the following situation after 3 years of ownership:

PS4
* €200 for the system
* €135 for 3 x €45 for PS+
* €360 for 12 secondhand AAA games
€0 for ~7 good PS+ games (36 months x 4 PS+ games x 5% average chance its a decent game)
* €695 total cost to experience 19 games

PC
* €650 for the system
* €180 for 18 AAA games via Steam / Kinguin / whatever
* €0 for 1 AAA game free with your GPU
* €830 total cost to experience 19 games

Now at this point avid PC gamers will huff and puff that their games will pretty much be eternally compatible, console gamers will gleefully point out how you need to constantly fidget with your PC for optimal graphic / driver settings on the PC, etc etc; Those are for yourself to decide. But purely on price, a PC can’t compete with a console.
>Huh? Why? Zero context and zero explanation given.

To not appear too numerous every day at 5pm right outside the office entrance and draw suspicions as to what is in there?
It looks like you edited this comment, but I'm serious. I'm trying to understand your proof, but I'm having trouble seeing what the steps are for higher powers than 3 or 4. I already know the proofs for then cases n=3 and n=4, but I can't see how what you say works in the case, say, n=5, or n=13.

Seriously, can you walk us through the steps of why x^5+y^5=z^5 has no (non-trivial) solutions?

And to be fair, there are cases where, say, undergrads have proven significant results that had been outstanding for a long time. Proving that prime recognition is in P is one such case. but in that case they published a complete, clear paper. In this case I can't really see what you're saying you've done, or why it's true, which is why a walk-through of the case n=5 would be so helpful.

Thanks.

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For anyone interested, this is what the comment used to say ...

The series of odd numbers must be consecutive and they simply are not when you add two different series together for all powers greater than two. It's okay. You'll get it.

1) a whole number, n, taken
to a power greater than two
2) can be represented as a
consecutive series of odd
numbers
3) where there will always be
a gap in the series between
consecutive base numbers,
for all p and p+1
4) therefore there will be
a gap for all p and p+n,
n>=1 combinations
Ask HN: Going freelance as a data scientist
I'm a financial data scientist living in the Netherlands and I'd like to go freelance.

Should I use an agency, or avoid them? Are agencies like UpWork or Toptal particularly good?

How do you find your first clients?
Building a Decentralized Reddit Using Embark – Part 2
This is basically visualization 101. 'Turning data into images' isn't exactly a new concept. Sometimes I think the next generation of programmers has gotten too good at thinking up fancy names for reinventing the wheel and hasn't spent enough time looking at what has been done in the past 50 years so they can build off of it.

Also there are links to 'visualizing big data' and 'visualizing billions of points'. These too have been problems solved a long time ago with a lot less resources. The book advanced renderman are is a good place to start, and of course, opengl uses basic z-buffer rendering.

Unless you need sorted transparency (and accumulating points for brightness definitely does not), then you can rasterize as much as you want in any order, without holding anything in memory except for the image buffer. It doesn't matter how many point/particles you have, you don't have to do anything to make it scale.
I'd put the golden age at 1969-1984 or so, but that's just me.
Doesn't work for me in Firefox, only in Chrome (both on desktop, Win7 x64).
While the conditions weren't nearly as bad as those in this article, I experienced some of this as a contractor for Walmart at their Sunnyvale office.

On Thanksgiving, they had a special lunch prepared for everyone that had to come into the office (mostly just to monitor and be ready if anything went down). There were emails and signs, everyone was excited about it. When I went down with my team, they stopped me and a couple of other contractors at the door and said we couldn't go in unless we were full-time employees. There was no mention of that anywhere. We had to go get lunch somewhere else.

A couple of times a year they would buy movie tickets for everyone at a nearby theater. At lunch, the full-time staff would leave to go watch a movie for a few hours while the contractors stayed in the office.

Both of these weren't really a big deal, but they definitely made you feel like you were a second class employee.
How do protect for situations like boxes of paper ballots that showing up in random places in Broward County this last election?
As you say I think that perception is largely due to lack of experience with statically typed languages in general, and also maybe lack of experience with projects of non-trivial complexity and/or managing production code.

Compile-time errors feel like an unnecessary hindrance when you're not familiar with them, but when you understand that they are replacing much more vexing and difficult runtime errors, you never want to go back.
> feint

Incorrect - it's not damning with fake praise - it's damning with super-light praise; the implication being the subject of 'praise' is not that great.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/damn_with_faint_praise
Are you running your own CouchDB instance?
Close is hiring a Director of Marketing (remote)
Russian here, I say "ouch" because it sounds way cooler than Russian "ay-ay-ay" and contrary to popular belief it's possible to say whatever you want unless the pain is truly unbearable.
I am not sure I understand why would a VC be suspicious of self-funding?
>frozen shoulder

As someone who suffered through that on _both_ shoulders I can sympathize. For me, the doctor missed it. The chiropractor I was sent to, took one look and said it was 'frozen shoulder'. I have never even heard of such a thing before. It took nearly two years to get full movement on my right shoulder. Then the left froze :-(
Well you're kind of insulated from actually pushing anything interesting out from within Google. You've got shareholders and constant growth to deal with after all.

It's just that by contrast 4chan was this wildly weird often terrible thing. It was a cornerstone of the weird internet for some time. Google is not even remotely weird, if anything Google is responsible for making the internet _less_ weird.
That’s just not how it works at all though. It’s not causing any damage, it’s heating your tissue such a small amount that it doesn’t get anywhere near hot enough to ‘cook’ any of it.

You would need a lot more power, or an antenna pattern much more focused, and for it to be continuously emitting for a long time while very close to your skin to actually get hot enough to cause burns or denature proteins (which is about the only thing non-ionising radiation can do).

But phones don’t transmit all the time, but in bursts, and the antenna pattern spreads the radiation out.

Our company builds satellite antennas that focus 25-100W of RF power (in various bands from L band at 1-2GHz up to Ka at 29-31GHz) into about a 1 degree or so beam (big parabolic dish reflector), and at that point you need to take some precautions. I don’t have a single worry about phones.
Keeping bastion servers secure while deploying at scale
Amazon at one point was required to install more bathrooms in their buildings because it was so bad. It still is, but is was then too.
So try and avoid it, like Scala - you have now found yourselves trapped in an incomprehensible maze of GenTraversable and the like.
If you're interested in state-of-the-art approaches, there is work around learned similarity functions.

First method is using autoencoders, which are networks that try to reconstruct their input, but going through a constricted, smaller space. This smaller space is hypothethised to be a good representation of your inputs. The first half of the autoencoder is the function that goes input -> restricted space which is similar to a hash function and can be used as such for similarity measures.
Examples of papers from this method: "Using very deep autoencoders for content-based image retrieval"

Another, conceptually simpler approach is to just train a learned similarity function directly using triplet loss.
Have samples of each input, labelled with a similar input and a dissimilar input. This will force the learned function to output similar hashes for the similar inputs and dissimilar hashes for the dissimilar outputs. This works surprisingly well. See for example: "Loc2Vec: Learning location embeddings with triplet-loss networks" For image inputs, it's best for the learned function to have some convolutional layers.
Apple Sued Over Time Consuming Two-Factor Authentication Process: Report
An Introduction to React Native Testing with Cavy
That’s a reasonable interpretation, thanks. I’m not sure that it tells us much given that Apple and Hermès are in fairly different markets, unfortunately.
This needs some syd mead
> the blindspot life particularly life threatening.

Err, I meant the blindspot is not particularly life threatening.
Google completely terminated our new business via Google Play Developer Account
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU, Pt 2: Bias and Activation Function
Read it as 1.5-5% of lines contain bugs.

In the original post AirBnB said 38% of their bugs could be prevented by static typing. This would bring this to 0.9-3%. Not insignificant, but LoC is still more important.
I am a "freelancer". I have discovered that billing by the hour is the worst idea. It creates the inherent conflict. Clients start resenting how much time it took you, etc. Instead always bill per job, unless impossible to estimate. Determine value acceptable to you and the client. Agree on lump sum and let chip fall where they may. Sometimes client wins, sometimes you win, in the end it all events out. More importantly you build a base for the next job where everyone agrees to acceptable fixed fee parameters and you can correct the fee estimate. Hourly billing is really wrong in my opinion.
I think the vast majority of people would find it incredibly difficult to save ~7.5k per month for 10 years (assuming an annually compound savings interest of 2.2%), to hit 1M.

That type of savings goes beyond "no Ferraris/Great-Gatsby-parties".
There's "felfogni", which means "to understand" as well. Cf. English "to grasp" and German "auffassen". Confounder: the Hungarian word is quite likely to be a direct translation of the German version!

> The word understand would be "érteni", and I'm not sure it has any interesting roots other than "ér" meaning vein or stream (potentially, did you get its meaning / source?)

It's worth noting that "érint" (the verb "touch") appears to have the same root as "ért".
There are limits of what they are allowed to provide to contractors before the Department of Labor says, “I don’t care if you call them contractors, you’re treating them like employees so you need to give them all the same benefits”. Companies using contractors are doing so specifically so they don’t have to provide those benefits, so they need to be very careful not to cross that line.
Yes, I think she's being sexist. But like you, I think gathering data is a great idea, or at least rarely hurts.

The basic statement that white men make more money even after correcting for the legitimate reasons that that might be so appears to be false, or at least true only to a rather minor extent.

That said, suppose white men really do get paid more just for being white and male. Unless you're willing to cross-dress or dye your skin, that info isn't really actionable.

There's a much better payoff to be had for sharpening your skills, putting your head down, and doing good work.
Isn't this just the same as saying bad code acts badly though?

People can, and have written bad websites using every technology. I can think of plenty of badly written, hard to use MVC websites from my past.

It should come as no surprise, that bad developers have found ways to make badly written SPAs as well today.

I don't think we should judge a technology by its worst implementations.
Except the costs of using types are usually in the form of a learning curve: i.e. when you are learning the type system it's relatively expensive, but once you've mastered it it's just part of your coding practice. When you do run into the rare issue, it's usually east to solve it.

By contrast, dynamic typing problems never go away. They're usually because of a faulty assumption, or due to a typo, or they're the cumulative hours you spend trying to figure out what exactly has to be passed into a function since it's not explicitly part of the signature, and the maintainer of the library you're using didn't document it well.

In the long term, static typing is much less expensive, and it's not accident that people tend to prefer more types over the course of their career rather than less types.
The move towards gender-neutral bathrooms has been the most effective salve to this particular problem.

(Hiring approximately equal numbers of male and female employees would also fix it, but that's a difficult hiring and pipeline problem, and gender-neutral bathrooms are created by new signage.)
So what is your definition of an agreed upon method that an organization uses to produce results....
Yes, each of us can. We know this :) My point is, it makes __a lot__ more sense if those essential details are in the article itself. The article becomes more complete and there's less wasted collective time.
That's only if you buy 1

https://www.microcenter.com/product/486575/zero-w

>1 at $5.00 each

>2-5 at $14.99 each

>6+ at $19.99 each
That ls change is absolutely bizarre!

One of the aspects of, ahem, bazaar-style development that we don't talk about much is that decisions get made by whoever can be bothered to turn up. If it so happens that the only people maintaining ls are the three people crazy enough to care about maintaining ls, then ls gets crazy decisions.
Fully agree. This is less about the act of trying to sell more pi and make enough profit to run the store but to have a branded edu-zone promoting the scene. And Cambridge is pretty much the only place in the UK where this will work. I don't see them opening any others around the country. well maybe ONE other, possibly in the north (Manchester/Liverpool way) or Edinburgh maybe
Which was not a clever idea, because Apple already owned the tech-as-fashion brand just by being themselves.

In fact the fashion market is all about ridiculous virtue signalling at absolutely ridiculous prices - like the Vertu range, which takes an average phone and wraps it in some leather and chrome bling, dresses up the marketing copy with "craftsmanship" "exclusive" etc etc etc and charges five figures for it.

The key point is ridiculous pricing. Not just the very high end of affordable, like Apple. But the kind of ridiculous that only works for the 0.1%.

So Apple was never going to be Gucci-of-tech, or LV, or H. Or even Vertu. Because Apple is never going to charge $20k for its main iPhone range. And unless it does, it can't be a serious fashion brand.

In fact Apple's strong point was always its appeal to the exclusivity of the creative market - talent, intelligence, inventiveness, and art. It's a completely different exclusivity - more accessible but also sexier - than the mass market appeal of the expensive-but-trying-too-hard mid-market brands that Apple has ended up in.

Cook has done an excellent job of destroying that creative entrepreneurial foundation. This has made a lot of money for Apple in the medium term, but at the cost of the good will and loyalty of its core fans.

That won't seem like a problem if you're a bean counter, but it's a huge vulnerability for the brand. It means Apple has shaved off more and more of its USP, and now it's vulnerable to imitators in some of its key territories.
So what your saying is... We should ignore letters from patent clerks?
I agree - it seems like a LiveView equivalent for Rails should be doable in principle. Check out these two projects, they're sorta heading in that direction:
Fie: https://fie.eranpeer.co/
AnyCable: https://anycable.io/
Thanks! I was just reading up on system design!
Automatic photo curation: Storytelling using deep learning
In fairness, often “laugh tracks” are actually live studio audiences (eg Big Bang Theory) and much like how live concert recordings (where you can hear the crowd) are sometimes great when it’s a good concert, hearing the studio audience can improve you’re experience of a genuinely funny TV show. The problem is when it’s artificially added or you hear it on a show you don’t find funny; then it goes from being a subtle improvement to a massively jarring distraction.

However given how jarring it is when you don’t find something funny compared with how little it adds to the overall comedy, I can totally understand why people often hate hearing laughter in shows.
There is no doubt that ParaSail syntax is verbose, mainly because it was designed more with readability than writeability in mind. But knowing how strong are the feelings about syntax, we actually designed four different parsers (all of which are included in the downloadable release). The one we use normally is the one we wrote about, and is the most oriented toward readability. The other three have somewhat winsome names and presumably obvious connections to Python, Java, and SPARK: Parython, Javallel, and Sparkel. In fact, the ParaSail parser permits the use of Python-like syntax, with ":" instead of keywords like "then" or "loop" and no "end blah" (so long as the indentation is all copacetic), and "def" instead of "func" -- hence:

def Sum_Of_Squares(N : Int) -> Int:

return (for I in 1 .. N => <0> + I ** 2)

is legal ParaSail syntax. Parython uses a syntax similar to this, but with the "for loop" syntax re-arranged a bit to better match existing Python syntax.

So the hope is for folks to look a bit beyond the surface syntax, and consider the underlying semantic model, which is hopefully where the more interesting issues reside in any case.

-Tuck
You know, unless you're VERY careful about your shopping, you're also using sweatshop labor (to manufacture your clothes, electronics etc.).

Also, I don't think that Apple is especially covert about them being a (heartless) business like everybody else. Steve Jobs even said, in response to a question about bringing manufacturing back to USA: "We're in the business of making phones, not in the business of employing people". It was clear that people were mainly just means to an end for him.
Is the implication that today’s warming surfaces of the seas will not be expressed in the deaths of the seas for centuries to come?
Fixed fee is great as long as the scope is limited.

Whenever I've hired companies to do stuff on a fixed fee basis, they typically lose due to unforseen circumstances.
hai! developer here. uploaded it this weekend during a hackathon. the permissions are absurd, but my sleepy head couldn't figure out how limit the permissions yo youtube only.
It seems that this could be pretty easily mitigated by using a low power bluetooth headset to connect to the nearby cell phone to avoid putting the higher powered signal near your head.
I honestly stopped reading at this:

> The restrictions were just one of many reminders of the contractors’ inferior status, right down to the apple design on their ID badges. For direct employees, the apples were multi-colored; contractors got what one described as “sad grey.”

Really? Really? Even Bloomberg knows how much of BS this is:

> It’s common for companies to distribute different badges to contractors
Hey all of these are great points and thanks for the book tip, I just bought it. Looks amazing!!!
> The apps are tools, it's up to the humans to do or not do stuff.

Technology changes what it's possible for humans to do or not do (or more often, make it qualitatively more/less feasible). Tool-makers should not take it as axiomatic that they have no responsibility or involvement for the ways that their tools impact other people's lives.
"Ask HN: How to get first clients for Data Science consultancy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155861 might still have relevant pointers.

UpWorks isn't an agency but marketplace. Most opinions I've read are negative, it's a race/competition to the bottom (lowest price). Being a specialist in a niche field you can probably get your rates, just compete with others on price. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19081694
If you aren't opposed to using your own enclosure search the term 'cable gland'. I keep a variety on hand and they work well, if a little chunky. Just be mindful of the sensor end of the wire, capillary action via the insulation can be a problem.
Indeed, as the article describes, it's not so much the stress of freelancing as the particular stress of billing by the hour.

While I/my shop nominally have billable hour rates, some time ago it evolved into projects that are estimated as the rate of billable hours plus materials, but billed on a per-project basis. The project is due for the agreed amount, whether I spend the planned number of hours, twice that, or half that.

This is decidedly less stressful for both me and the client.

I still have the stress of meeting the schedule deadlines, but I no longer feel that stress described in the article of 'wasting' minutes I'm not productive. If I take a break, it may feel that the schedule is slipping, but it doesn't feel like losing an irreplaceable opportunity cost to earn $x in that 0.2 hours.
MathJax works an absolute treat.
Computers and internet are privatized military technologies. Military technology transfer is the backbone of American industrial development.

Does it enrich the selected few? Yes it does. But enriches the country as a whole as well.