skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also arguable if not a bit pedantic: is it really DIY if you have tens of thousands of dollars worth of machine shop tools to help you do the work? It’s more just fabrication at that point.
Is everyone at Google fucking bored of the free massages so just makes stupid shit like this?
Benchmarking is always a hard problem - no such thing as spherical chickens in a vacuum. That said we'd love to at least standardize the setup for other people running the benchmarks; that is why we opened all the code and data, as a starting point.

For the study, measurements were run with one of our personal laptops (an X1 Carbon from 2016 with an i7 U6600 CPU and 16 GB of Ram, which is indeed a pretty powerful machine). We tried very hard to limit the impact of frequency throttling due to limited thermal dissipation of the device for the long-running benchmarks. In fact, for the measurements we put the laptop outside at 0 degrees Celsius, and we could observe that the CPU temperature did not go beyond 60 degrees (which is pretty low).

Do you have any suggestions on how we could improve this setup? We welcome all contributions.
How Does a SaaS Company Measure User Churn? Hint: It’s Not Statistics
What blatant advertising to kids, tho? The only time I ever see vape ads, it's in store promos for Juul and the only copy is along the lines of "Satisfying alternative for adult smokers"
Located Scots me South of Oxford. So not perfect.
It's been removed. Cache here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h7i1Ks...
But I thought the more a degree costs the more it magically increases lifetime earnings?
Education is important. Access to education is important. But our current system of giving out student loans with no regard to if the student will ever have a realistic ability to repay borders on predatory.

If we can't do anything to solve that portion of the problem, we should at least restrict the mandatory fees that are tacked on for non instructional purposes. No student should have to pay for decades to prop up with school's sports ambitions. For every Alabama that makes a profit off of sports, there are dozens of Georgia States that impose ridiculous mandatory fees on students to balance the budget of the athletics department.

Athletics are easy to pick on because they're the most visible but most schools have a whole list of these non instructional fees that students must pay, in most cases, go into debt to pay or be denied access to education.

After removing the mandatory fees, also limit how much of the tuition can be used for non instructional purposes. Every institution has overhead that must exist to keep things operational but there must be a limit to how much or we're once again either denying access to education or condemning students to an overwhelming debt burden.

Instruction of course isn't the only mission of most universities. Research is important. Extension is important. There are many worthwhile activities universities engage in that should continue but not at the expense of access to instruction.

edit: spacing
I buy them. I don't like paying for them, but I want a certificate I know will just work for years without having to run certbot or one of its clones on my server. Well, that and LE didn't yet allow wildcard certs when I bought mine. They've already dropped their maximum validity from three to two years though, so I'll probably throw in the towel when they further reduce their validity to less than six months.
cancel the debt, and move towards free colleges.
the only way i’d support that is if the government gets out of the loan game and if we get rid of the provisions that prevent people from filing bankruptcy on the loans.
Ask HN: Security job outlook for PhD chemist
I'm currently a chemistry postdoc (PhD from a large state school) and just passed the OSCP certification exam. Lots of experience writing bash and python scripts, but not too much beyond that. No prior employment outside of chemistry jobs...

I'm about to start applying to junior-level security analyst / security engineer jobs on the east coast.

What are my odds of getting any offers? What could I do to increase my odds?
Badger don't care!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
From the linked FAQ:

Oh we don't talk about upload filters, only: "The Commission proposal requires platforms which store and provide access to large amounts of copyright-protected content uploaded by their users to put in place effective and proportionate measures."

Oh and no we don't propose snippets tax except when it's understandable sentence: "The rules on snippets will not change. They can be used and shared under the same copyright rules as today i.e. without requiring an authorisation if the snippet is not considered a self-standing original work (in practice at least an understandable sentence)."
Yes, they are all 'AV' jobs now!

Even at the companies that used to be famous for just making tires.
Steve Ballmer Bleeds Microsoft, but Goes with Amazon
Who are be baling out? The middlemen?

Aren't these loans almost all government backed? Meaning if the loan defaults the government pays the creditor?
I don't know if I necessarily want Gopher back, but I often dream of returning to the days when "the Internet" was primarily Usenet, IRC, Telnet, and email.
There is so much waste in universities: bloated admin/it staff
, libraries filled with journals/magazines that no one reads, tenure system that doesn't allow you to downsize departments that have no students. Tuition can be reduced, however there is no incentive to do it since students can easily get loans.
Authorized.net was in decline in 2010. They never released a method to pass the card numbers on the front side which made customers servers in-scope for full PCI compliance.
Most terrorist groups have a humanitarian wing that was established to fill a vacuum of power left by the local government.

People have to be pretty desperate to strap bombs to themselves, and they usually start with more immediately productive actions, like smuggling medical supplies and food past (sadly, often western) blockades.
No concrete plans yet, but that's a direction we want to go in.
How about reviving the “blogosphere” instead? Does it even need reviving? Most of the personal or tech blogs I visit do not have heavy ads or tracking on them, still offer full RSS articles and so on. People who care still have a lot of nice web sites to go to.

Maybe what we need is a search engine that penalises JS and tracker use.
Someone could certainly sue to try to get support, but I doubt they’d be successful.
I just spent the last month caring for my dying father. It was obvious from interactions with everyone, from friends and acquaintances to medical professionals, that people in the US are incredibly uncomfortable with the topic of death.

Granted, I only have experience with the US, and I'm sure it doesn't extrapolate.

I would have expected medical professionals (who I understand witness death daily, despite my hilarious narrow mindedness) to be far more candid about my father's impending death. They were not. The way they talked about physical therapy and treatment just days before he died approached ridiculousness.

The oncologist didn't once mention hospice, even though it seemed obvious from looking at my father that he was, at most, weeks from death.

When we talked about the shape my father was in to friends and acquaintances, they offered facile encouragement, "Hopefully he'll start feeling better soon."

As people find out about his death, even people who knew the state he was in are shocked.

We're not shocked, we're apparently the only people who understood how bad it was, besides a few doctors who went to great lengths to avoid having a conversation about death with us.

What conclusion am I supposed to draw from this other than that our (US) society contains a lot of people who have no idea how to deal with death. They just pretend it doesn't exist or that it won't happen. They relegate it to hospital rooms and in the hospitals they try not to talk about it. They don't think about what it means to die well or what it means to have a good quality of life, especially at the end.

In any case, I don't think I was wrong that the the average person in the average developed country witnesses far less death than they would have 100 years ago. Fewer babies dying in cribs, fewer mothers dying in childbirth. Fewer grandparents dying at home in bed.

A few months ago, I would have been chastened by your statement that a large percentage of the population encounters death on a regular basis, but I interacted with lots of those people in the hospital while my father was dying, and I can't say it was impressed upon me that they deal with death any better than the patients they treat who certainly have much less experience.
The short answer is that yes, this domain is administered by Google through a holding entity. See https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/dev.html
Yeah, Security Keys definitely illustrate that "more convenient" isn't "less secure". Signing in with a Security Key is so painless, it's just a shame I can't do it in more places.

Use the clipboard as interprocess communications for secrets does seem dangerous. The 'pass' password manager I use has an option to do that if you want that, but I've rarely used it. However it may be less dangerous than you realise - by default pass will destroy clipboard items it added after 45 seconds. This is easy on X and, as far as I know, any modern graphical desktop, because the "clipboard" isn't (usually) really a static buffer, it's a live negotiated relationship between desktop clients, so "pasting" is an operation in which the copying software is itself actively involved, so if it were to crash, the content is gone, not left on the clipboard.
Lots of opinions here! Would love to know what people think about:

1: Size of company — does it matter if the company engaging with a random tweet is big or small? If it’s the founder/creator who is doing the outreach, versus some member of the marketing team?

2: Is it OK for a company’s twitter account to “like” a tweet that complains about a competitor or voiced a problem that the company’s products are aimed to solve?
That makes sense... Though after reading the article, I thought Google wasn't using a system that supported arbitrary join depths?
And the corollary: we destroyed the value of a high school diploma by lowering the standards and just shoving everyone through, so you need that magic degree more than ever now.
> The reason it's not the same is that all you guys left.

+1.

Usenet is still there, and a few groups are still being used for academic discussions. But many other groups have almost no "legitimate" users anymore, and have been filled with spam messages.

But the real show stopper today is that, since a community does not exist in these groups anymore, one or two crazy people can completely control and dominate a group. Recently I tried to explore the present day Usenet, and I found a conspiracy theorist can keep yelling at everyone in a historically reputable infosec newsgroup. Or you can have two college professors debating about creationism in a boring way for half a month. My conclusion is, Usenet still has some good uses, but is generally worthless today for most discussions.
If we are being honest, sports and minor non-instructional costs are minor vs the cost of small classrooms and professors.

We need to vastly cut costs and sports and non-instructional costs wont move the needle.
I wonder if the increase in serious delinquency is being disproportionately driven by loans to for-profit institutions.

This article addresses the issue directly:

"Student debt a harsh math lesson for US graduates as wages lag" - https://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2018/03/student_deb...

For instance:

> Compared to their peers at other colleges, students attending for-profit institutions -- mostly those classified as inclusive, part-time or two-year -- are falling behind in their debt repayments. Twenty-two percent at for-profit schools were behind on their academic loan payments compared with six percent of students at public institutions, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve.
The British have skin in the game via the NHS. In the USA, adverse health affects due to smoking are masked via higher insurance premiums while states reap sin taxes; in the UK reduced smoking is a public cost savings measure. It makes sense that the views would differ due to different self interests.
Yes, I would agree with this, along with government providing for free community college as well as subsidizing trade schools.

Fresh slate and we start over as a country on the right foot for education delivery.
It would be easier to get the public to agree to this once the root cause is corrected. Getting loan forgiveness while continuing to issue loans that too often end up in default status is going to be a difficult sell. Writing off as a policy mistake might be possible but only if the policy mistake is corrected first or simultaneously.
I'm not the GP, but "more" and "even more" do not have the same connotation. Having zero of some attribute does not preclude trying to get more (than zero) of it.
This is really cool and the associated tech https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp...

I’m curious does anyone know of any open source alternatives for this type of solution?
This is the real national emergency.
There was this one guy who lost a valuable Twitter handle due to him using his custom domain email (via GoDaddy) as a login email.[0] I'd like to think imagine Google is better than GoDaddy when it comes to security and fighting social-engineering attacks but who knows. But if Google is a weak link wouldn't that also mean all our gmails are not as safe as we think?

[0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
I am willing to bet that the majority of Americans believe everyone should pay their fair share of taxes including corporations.
... in mice.

So if you're a mouse of old age and fear alzheimers you can be happy, it's as good as cured. If you're a human however this likely has little meaning for you.
People have been fine with Medicade/Medicare spelling out costs for services and such they should be willing to accept the same in higher education to obtain a Federally backed loan.

Schools will trip over themselves to offer degree programs to meet Federal Assistance requirements. Each degree, each course credit leading to that degree, should all be subject to review on a periodic basis to insure that the needs of the country as a whole are being supported. Colleges which fall outside the loan guarantees will obviously find methods to insure students can attend, by steering endowment funds and sponsorships.
Do people understand it’s nutritional value is not equivalent to what it’s replacing (when mimicking meat)? Looking at the “pulled pork” bun on the webpage made me think, would you still feel like this is just fine for lunch if it was slices of pineapple instead inside?
I think the fact that you tried to blame my peripheral devices says a lot about the state of web dev today.
I distinctly remember having a book about nature-related experiments back in the 1980s, which talked about using a magnet to collect metallic dust particles, some of which could be micro-meteorites. I think it was a translation of "Simple nature projects" by Hans Jürgen Press. Perhaps Jon Larsen had the same book...
When in doubt, racketeer.

I've been annoyed by how Google uses Adwords for a while; suppose you're company in a competitive, undifferentiated space. I just searched for "enterprise rental cars," and the first thing below the search box, an ad, was for getaround.com. The second was an ad for Enterprise, the third was the organic result for Enterprise. Google is effectively telling these companies "You wouldn't want someone to happen to see a competitor first and click them when they search for them, would you? Then pay up." That's a racket.

Same with this. They're inventing the demand for this TLD, then telling developers to pay up if they don't want someone to take their name.
Stuff like this is one of the reasons I like the idea of a basic income...because you could easily just divert the BI to pay for long term services in a situation like this.

Can’t pay student loans, your BI gets automatically directed to paying it off with no interest until the balance is clear.

Need to pay for school in the first place? Direct the monthly BI to the university to cover tuition/housing/meal plan (or a significant portion of it).

Commit a violent crime that will put you in jail, let your BI go to the prison to cover your stay.

Have a baby? The baby gets a basic income that can pay for daycare, baby supplies.
I feel that the culture that builds up around things like vaping, marijauna, etc. are far more overreaching than the health effects itself on the individual. Because a culture has built up around it, easily influenced people, especially those who are younger, willingly take part in something that can/will worsen their health just because it is trending and 'everyone else' is doing it and it's 'safe'. Yes, marijuana and vaping are not as bad as cigarettes and other things. But I find using that as a justification is concerning since they can still bad right? Weed may have not ever killed anyone, but have you seen stoner culture? Let's say marijuana itself doesn't make you dumber or lazy, but stoner culture certainly will.

You can justify anything if you have something worse to compare it to. Now it's weed or vaping, in the future it may be something else.
I can see two distinct groups of people who would take issue with this, not that they'll necessarily have their way:

- people who were realistic about their finances and did not take on debt to "drag for a lifetime" in the first place. Why should the "rich" and/or reckless kids who lived in overpriced dorms with unnecessary amenities get bailed out when "I was smart and didn't screw myself from the start"?

- people who were able to afford a university education out the gate and were not burdened by any or much debt in the first place (and their parents!). Why should the "poor" and/or reckless kids who reached for something they couldn't & shouldn't have been able to afford get bailed out when "I worked hard to provide for myself / my family from the start"?
It’s only useful for dirty bomb style weapons that a terrorist might make. You can’t make weapons grade plutonium from it. All plutonium used in US weapons was made in special purpose reactors at Hanford, WA. We made so much of it and have enough stockpiled to build all the bombs we’d ever need that we shut down the production there in 1987.

It may be a useful resource for other types of nuclear plants though.

Ideally we could bury this really deep (as you propose) and forget about it. Or buy out Nevada’s opposition and reopen Yucca.
Setting aside the ethical/political implications of a universal identifier for everyone, your description makes me wonder about the technical implementation of the ID itself.

My first thought was whether it's possible to design the syntax of the IDs, so that they're not just sequential or random, but have some inherent properties that make them easier to organize, i.e., for sorting/categorizing. Kind of like Open Location Code [0], but for people. Since they should be immutable (same ID for lifetime), I suppose it could encode birth date/location, or maybe genetic "markers".. (Edit: On the other hand, that would by itself be a leak of private data..)

Once that's globally practiced (easier said than done!), there could be a searchable database of all registered individuals on the planet. I could see the practical advantages of having such a system, but it sure does have a hint of dystopian future.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
In states that adopted Uniform Parentage Act, yes. In others, not necessarily.
A 147 char XSS polyglot which can break out of 20 plus contexts
This is dumb because I vape thc or cbd but never nicotine. I still want to know if it's harmful.
Not to be too cynical, but I seriously doubt that the individual borrowers will be bailed out. The government will instead provide liquidity to the servicing companies so they can repackage and resell the loans. Nobody really cares about the borrowers; it's all about keeping the companies in business.
Free or cheap mobile app in 2019
Dear All,

what is your opinion about topic of the title? We are developing a small game to Android and iOS, but we cannot decide that we sell it for 1$ or make a free version with ads and a pro vers. without ads. I think, in the second scenario can make significant income loss, because of free vers. (but unfortunately I don't have information about the possible income by ads). Could you link a calculator or method to make this decision easier? :) Thank you for your help!!
Now sure why you are downvoted. This is by far the best option.
Jeremy Kun, who writes the "Math ∩ Programming" blog,[1] recently published a book, "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics,"[2] that seems to leverage the conceptual knowledge programmers already have to help them learn serious math. There also are sections in the book on math culture which seems interesting, something I haven't seen elsewhere.

[1] https://jeremykun.com/

[2] https://pimbook.org/
It is OffScreenCanvas, the variant that works in web workers, that has poor browser support.
The Devil Drives Tesla
No creditor would give a loan to someone who doesn't have a chance of paying it back. There are kids going to school for music therapy that are taking $100K in debt. It's time to end government subsidized loans, at least in the current form. The private market does a great job of evaluating risk, the only thing that needs to be done is ensure there is ample competition so it self-regulates.
I'm a data scientist in Seattle and there was a very strong possibility I was going to go over to NYC. now thats not going to happen. Instead, (for example NYU data science grads) are going to be moving to the west coast, being much more unavailable to other companies in the NY area.
Thanks for asking a serious question.

Getting a PhD in nutrition is the same as another other PhD -- you study at a graduate program under an existing tenured professor in that field, do original research and successfully defend your dissertation.

My wife happens to have gotten her undergrad degree at a great school, did her dietetic internship at an excellent hospital and worked as a dietitian for a decade before returning to do her graduate work at an even better school.

But one can call themselves a "nutritionist" with no training whatsoever; the term isn't legally protected like "doctor" is.

Nutrition is a field where the underlying science is difficult as, say, cryptography, but is far more obviously relevant to the average person's life. So popular books are easy to get published and there's no guarantee that the author has much actual nutrition training at all.

And again unlike crypto there are several large, entrenched, deep-pocketed interests in America that aggressively promote low-quality science to increase consumption of their products.

When you make tens of billions of dollars per year, it's not too hard to fund a hundred studies that year and use p-hacking and other tricks to get at least a couple to come out with some result that shows your industry in a good light. Then you make sure that those get covered with a headline in some newspaper or magazine.

> Are there experts with a track record of scientific rigor?

I'm not the one with the PhD but I know that my wife is a big fan of both Walter Willett and Marion Nestle.