skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can stop robocallers by simply not using the archaic phone system. Set your phone to only accept calls from people in your contacts, or simply reject all calls. Educate everyone you know about doing so. Legacy telecom needs to die.
Even better, he's a software engineer, or in other words exactly the kind of person who likes to armchair quarterback real engineers.
> My experience in recruiting data scientists is that candidates that have formal degrees in data science generally have little experience outside of school. My assumption is that these degree programs are relatively new.

A friend (also a physicist, though harder-core) who is a now a data scientist opined to me that the current wave of cross-trained data scientists will be replaced by "kids with their new data science degrees from new data science programs". He didn't mean this ill, but simply thought there was a window of time to make a shift.

Your comment implies you are actually seeing relevant benefit from people with more diverse experience. Can you elaborate? Do you mean lots of hands-on data science per se, or simply a broader practical experience?

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Non paywall version [0]
Or just copy and paste the original link in your Facebook search and click it from there.
[0] https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
Man smart, woman smarter
Maybe not, but we've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The speed record for a car over a kilometer has not been broken since 1937 [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125_Rekordwagen
> The strong version is hilariously easy to destroy: if you're cognitively limited to your language, then you cannot create new words, let alone new concepts.

It depends on what's the thing you define a language. It might be that dictionary and grammar are only a kind of projection of a more blurry, hidden structure - a language "core". Think of how children sometimes invent new words and how these words immediately "click" with fluent speakers even if they mean shit.

IANAL(inguist) so take it with a grain of salt.
I know it's irrelevant to the discussion, but it really does irritate me when I get paywalled. I am 100% more likely to never purchase a subscription. I don't care if all journalism dies because of it.
I haven't personally found it to be the case, but I do know that people in much of the developing world simply don't have/use street addresses like are common in the "West".
> But can anyone name a Microsoft joke off the top of your head?

Clippy
That UTM/MGRS even exits seems to be lost on most pitching W3W.

For great circles the metric ratio is close to 40000km/360. A simple trick would be converting to 400gon first¹, but even using 111 Km per degree is a useful approximation.

So 0.01 decimal degree difference in latitude is always 1.11km or roughly 1km.
All you need to remember is your length of 1 degree longitude at given latitude which is the following basic trigonmetric relation:

0.01deg = cos(lat) * 1.11km

Cheap linear approximation will do well here too.
In South to North order: So usually factor down to 0.8 to 0.7 (38 to 48 Miles) if you live anywhere in the continental US. For Europe it's 84km in Rome, 72km in Paris, 69 in London, 67 in Berlin and 56km in Stockholm

And for approximating local distances it's simply those metric deltas with pythagoras, no need for Haversine or even non-spherical earth models here.

The most important relation for anyone who is into earth and the metric system, is that it's 10M meters or 10,000 km from pole to equator per original definition. You dont even need to remember the earth radius, since that's also defined by 4x10,000km/2π historically.

¹It's a shame that the metric revolution stopped short of Gradians, when it comes to full metric convenience here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Histor...
90% of the plastic in the ocean comes from Africa and Asia. First world countries put their garbage, generally speaking, into garbage dumps.

This EU rule will do nothing.
Compared to high margin low volume surgeries in the US, this is low margin high volume. Its ingenious how the highest skilled individuals only step in for the trickiest part of the surgery, but the simpler tasks like getting to a heart are performed by lesser doctors or nurses.

Some things make sense like having medical machines maintained in house. Other things, like sterilizing and reusing IV lines seem pretty risky. But perhaps the risk is approachable in this case since a patient is less likely to sue if complications arise from something that could somehow be twisted into a jackpot lawsuit?
Do you mean not reading the plagiarism checker’s output, or the paper itself? Because the latter isn’t sufficient; you’d have to have read anything the student might’ve (presumably found by googling), and pattern match the plagiarized text. If its not blatant/poorly inserted, there’s not really any tell.
"You are telling the airplane to go up or down, speed up or slow down, go left or right. And the computers figure out what’s the best way to do that, and they’re going to move the flight controls to do it. And the interesting thing is, they may not do it the same way twice. So let’s say the airplane gets damaged, and one of the flight controls is no longer available. A legacy airplane would still try to use that surface because it doesn’t know any better. The F-35 digital flight control systems will say, “That surface isn’t doing much for me anymore, so I’m going to have to compensate by using some other things. Maybe I’ll have to move them a little bit more to get the same effect because the pilot still wants to turn left.”"

Anyone have the details on how it does that?

A while back, I read a report about an experimental aircraft that would attempt to determine the effectiveness of its control surfaces by moving all of them in a short period of time. The impression I got was that it would have a few seconds of rough flight, after which it would return to flying normally even if it had lost the use of a major control surface.
Consuming Messages Out of Apache Kafka in a Browser
Running WebAssembly from Any Language: Wasmer
I was also surprised to learn that HN allowed this. Even more surprising is the fact that sometimes it doesn't allow to re-post posts that are months old. I wish it was more clearly documented in the FAQ.
If hiring foreigners is only about getting cheaper labor, why do all the best paying tech employers (FAANGs, unicorns, quant trading firms etc.) have so many foreign born workers on staff? America is only 5% of the world’s population, if you want to hire the most talented people possible, you will inevitably see substantial foreign representation. I work with plenty of non-citizens who get paid millions of dollars a year. I don’t think they were hired because they were cheap.
This can actually vary depending on where you are in the world. There are places, like Canada, where the term engineer has a specific definition under the law, and it includes things such as professional ethics and liability.
>You keep references armies of servants or other BS as if somehow that makes adopting stoicism more likely.

Err, TFA is about how rich and powerful adopt stoicism as a fashion (back to the times of Rome). So, yeah, I guess it does make it more likely. Seneca was a stoic. His slaves, not so much.

>Stoicism is there specifically for when life is difficult. Why do you not understand this?

Because what something is supposed to be for, and what people adopt it for are two different things. Christianity is also supposed to be a "religion of peace", but that's not what many of it adherents use it as...
I can donate to wikileaks when visa and the other credit issuers blocked them. Bitcoin isnt popular as a day to day currency but neither is gold or hairballs. But yes I agree it's time proponents to push it into mainstream.
Yeah but the pipe is all in one piece and is removed all in one go while these Garfield phones will keep showing up possibly forever
Now Playing in Your Headphones: Nothing (2015)
Nothing about Stoicism says anything about taking political action against others. That's a strawman here.

Just so we're clear, I'm currently one of those poor people living on the brink of potential Homelessness. I'm not saying anything I'm saying as some out of touch elite. I'm saying what I'm saying as someone who understands what I need to do to get out of my current circumstances isn't dwell on or wallow in my failures and blame others. There's nothing good that comes from that. There's nothing actionable that comes from that. I would be actively harmed by doing such things.

When I often hear people making excuses for us poor, they seem to be the types that haven't touched poverty or are stricken by a form of toxic empathy; an unconscious desire to be seen as compassionate. It's well meaning, but it helps nobody.

Assuming you're in the US, in nearly every context, you have the opportunities available to you to succeed (exceptions include contexts that are no fault of your own such as homelessness as a child).

Many of us have those opportunities and we squander them. Stop telling people that if they're poor, then failure is inevitable or likely due to society. Yes, it's hard. Yes, there are factors about society that make it more difficult. That does not mean we're not ultimately responsible for our own decisions. You're teaching people helplessness by not acknowledging that. I know everything I need to do to succeed. I know that me failing to do those things is my fault and mine alone. I don't dwell on this, because otherwise I would descend into depression and self-destruction. Is that what you want of the poor? Do you want to encourage them to self-destruct? Because that is the ultimate implication of what your position against Stoicism seems to be. It's either that or a complete ignorance of what Stoicism implies.
Any time I get a call from a human robocaller, I treat it as a game to get them to hang up by telling them I plan to waste their time, then dong so without remorse. Knowing many companies won't let them hang up so long as I'm on the line, it can be quite the game.
The amount of armchair engineering going on here on HN about this particular issue has been disappointing, but educational. I've seen a couple of very good technical write-ups about what's really going on with MCAS, and by my guesstimate probably 90% or more of what is said on HN about this issue is factually incorrect right from the start.
That link is still paywalled
Cool. My dad has been in the hospital a fair bit lately. I'll just tell them to Facetime me from now on if they need to reach me.
I think you should pay more attention to complaints about patent farming. Generating a patent isn't a matter of being exceedingly clever, here. It's being a little clever, having bosses that are obsessed with patent applications, and either not caring about it or not having enough power to say no.
I've done this and it's still a pain going through their voicemails all the time.
I am interviewing for jobs and I have my phone number on my resume so recruiters can contact me. This is not a good solution for many people or small businesses.
Some people use their cell phones for business. If I block unknown numbers, I risk losing customers to someone who will answer the phone.
A quick Google search yields people like these: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-anyone-that-cannot-get-drunk
Tesla's system is not only not "autopilot" (it will happily plow into stationary vehicles), it's not even the best adaptive cruise control on the market for dealing with stationary vehicles: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu....

In a recent Car & Driver test, Subaru beat Tesla in every single scenario involving fast approach to a stationary/slow-moving target (although all collided with the target at closing speeds >= 50 mph).
Plagiarism detectors are more akin to linters than code reviewers. Arguably helpful but not sufficient.
Seems like a good time for the various OSes to have a blacklist of programs who shouldn't be able to access this info - chrome being the first program to add to list.
So, block calls from banks, government agencies, schools, emergency rooms, offices, prospective employers, ...
> They can feel free to experiment/innovate with the MacBook and MacBook Air lines of laptops. But the MacBook Pro should utilize tried and true technology that has been successful on a different MacBook line for a few years.

This is what gets me. Yes I get Apple wants to make a super sleek ultra-thin machine. But that's what the "Air" brand is for! In a Pro line you can sacrifice some weight and thickness. It's not as if the Apple of today even cares about SKU bloat anymore.

My pet peeve with the MacBook Pros is the thermal throttling. I run into this ALL THE TIME, and I'm not even that heavy of a user. Start doing anything slightly taxing when charging the battery from zero in a room that's over 25 C ("summer") and the heat from the charging will kick it into throttle-o-rama.

Second pet peeve is battery life. They cut down the battery life from the FAA maximum on the recent generations because hey, "safari web browsing and Pages productivity hits our 10 hour goal". That doesn't help me compiling shit in Xcode! I recently bought an old PowerBook G3 to play with MacOS 9 and that thing almost gets the same 4 hour battery life my MBP 2017 does on a 20 year old New Old Stock battery.
I actually agree. I don’t want to be pranked/fooled by companies I rely on — in my opinion, companies who don’t understand that are the only ones who fall flat on their faces on April 1st and need to apologize for a PR disaster on April 2nd [0][1][2][3][4][5][and on and on...].

Big brands who want to participate should really think of it as April Dumb Tangential Jokes Day, perhaps!

[0] https://blog.google/products/gmail/introducing-gmail-mic-dro...

[1] https://lineageos.org/An-April-Apology/

[2] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-02-ea-apologises-f...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-01/elon-musk...

[4] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/taco_liberty_bell

[5] http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/happy-endings-reboot...
This is an excellent analysis, thanks! Wish I could upvote more than once.
Ask HN: People who work 12+ hour days. What do you do for all that time?
Companies used to invest in their workers, there was an assumption (reasonably accurate for many employers and employees) that people would remain with a company for decades. It was to their benefit to train and improve the employees (NB: Layoffs and other things still happened, not claiming this was a golden age, just different).

At some point (1980s and 1990s in particular) things like retirement benefits started disappearing, replaced by 401k contributions and the like. Employees started moving more between companies so that long-term investment in employees became a problem. If I'm an employer and I spend 3 years getting you the equivalent of a graduate degree in software engineering (training on best practices, training in languages and design, attending conferences) and then you move, I have nothing to show for my effort.

You could add clauses requiring people to work for some period of time after receiving specific kind of training (like if you pay them for a degree) or requiring them to reimburse you if they leave early. But you can't do that for everything.

So companies have assumed that employees are mercenaries, and employees have become mercenaries. In the end, we still work 40+ hour weeks, but get worse compensation and companies refuse to invest in us.
I'm disappointed and concerned by this. The Wikimedia Foundation has long had a policy of ensuring that their projects use free and DRM-unencumbered formats to make their content available to the broadest possible audience, whereas W3C is now supporting the notion that DRM-encumbered media (in other words, media that is, by design, made permanently inaccessible outside of some proprietary and easily-monopolized HW/SW combination) can somehow be part of the "open" Web.
Perhaps that's a clue to its actual significance?

Perhaps you remember the feeling and perhaps that you had fun buzzy conversations? That would mean those were the important parts, not the actual substance of the essay. Nothing wrong with that.

Perhaps you changed a bit as a result, even if you can't remember precisely what spurred the change. Nothing wrong with that either.

And I bet there are books you read back then chunks of which you remember (and other parts that are gone). Probably you remember the good parts.

I don't think your memory has necessarily gotten any worse -- if anything (given you're in your 40s by inference) it's probably gotten functionally better.
>>The goal of Stack Overflow is to produce posts that are useful for others who stumble across them.

That's one of the goals. I wouldn't say it's the goal.

I would argue that the goal of any software should be to help the immediate user. If it is not, then why should the user continue using it?

Stackoverflow is successful because helping the immediate user has secondary benefits, namely that it also helps others. But that doesn't mean this secondary benefit should override the primary goal.
There are things in both contracts that are likely not enforceable. If you litigate them you become "non friends" :-) So there is always a cost. My employment attorney felt that Google's employment contract over steps the protections provided by California in terms of outside work [1].

The way this works out in practice is you read the terms before you sign, if you find any that you can't live with you ask them to change, and if they won't change them then you don't sign and don't get what ever benefit they were offering in exchange for signing like employment, severance, etc.

[1] I got to test this by participating as an expert witness (independent contractor) at a patent hearing and having the opposing counsel ask Google's counsel to make me available for deposition (my day job). That was an interesting conversation at work.
This is what I've seen happen here in Seattle. Every place just gives out bulkier multiple use containers when anyone gets takeout salad or MealPal, and people just throw them away as per usual. There's a Korean Deli all you can fit in a box type restaurant that gives a $1 discount if you bring back your own box, but that's the only place and they were doing it before the regulations anyways.

Regulations can have unintended consequences.

No joke -- McDonalds is the most environmentally friendly takeout in Seattle. The whole thing has been compostable recycled paper for a long time.
"Unfortunately, stats intro courses are usually taught as if each test is an independent tool, needlessly making life more complicated for students and teachers alike."

Sadly enough this was true for so many other parts of my education.
I think that image shows plenty of room. Remember that the tires don't count, because those would be farther away from the wing.

There are other height issues with ground support equipment for luggage, fuel, passengers, maid service, sewage, etc.
I've declared phone call bankruptcy yesterday and decided to do exactly that. But at least on the iPhone, I couldn't find a way without affecting notifications (by putting it on Do Not Disturb).

I believe a call from anyone worth answering will probably result in a voicemail, and I know that robocalls leave voicemail, so I know it's not a perfect plan. But I am at a point where I would rather just ignore "phone" functionality on my iPhone than to put up with the huge daily distraction of robocalls.
> and it inserts its own headers to route away from intended(and blocked) servers and to benign local China servers(such as baidu)

I was never aware that GFW would route traffic to local China servers such as Baidu's, can you kindly provide some links?
Can someone explain me what is the business model for WSJ of acquiring new readers. If new readers can’t even read the article to know if it’s worth subscribing or not. It looks like they only rely on older people who used to read WSJ when it wasn’t behind a paywall
If anything that makes robocalls more lucrative. The scammers would love to exclude people with enough awareness to opt out of their potential call pool, allowing them to focus all of their time on the more gullible.

It's the exact same as the Nigerian Prince spam scam
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
Do (almost) nothing directly. But it may facilitate similar things in other countries/regions. It may stimulate, and the experience can also help executing policies. New technologies or methods can also be developed first. So I could be more meaningful than it looks like.
I don't need a study to understand the benefit of what I can observe with my own eyes. I have lived in places in the U.S. where trash accumulates on and around the streets. The plastic trash just sits there. It doesn't degrade under heavy rainfall or years of neglect, it just continues to accumulate. Not every place in the West (or even the U.S.) has ideal sanitation services.
Onion head hat. I need one for work.
I wouldn’t be against carve outs for a relatively small proportion of the pop like the homeless. Also instead of takeout they can do cafeteria style feeding (I believe this was his if was done in the past, aka soup kitchens from the depression era).
While sulfuric or nitric acid is the best way to do this, you can also decap using a box cutter and some patience. I recently did this to figure out if an opamp I bought was fake:

http://41j.com/blog/2019/03/various-op177-die-images/

I’ve posted some better images here:

https://twitter.com/new299/status/1111301269988106245?s=21

I’m going to try and get setup to decap properly. But the for those more concerned about using the required acids, a box cutter can give some insight into what’s going on in many devices...
He's selling snake oil. For being "open" he has no examples. No previous talk of this in his profile.
Which is easier to do?

A) Figuring out how to deal with the external effects of single-use plastic for 500+ million people

or

B) Asking a very small fraction of those 500+ million people with motor control issues who also use single use plastic to use alternatives, of which there are many - including paper, bamboo, and regular cutlery
Some time ago Google demonstrated a robocaller, and iirc most people on HN thought it was cool ...
Wow, that sounds really bad... until you read why. Have you tried to see if "pay for performance" schemes are weasel words by conservative politicians to institute damaging policies?

The brainwashing runs deep in this country, a couple generations was taught to fight against their own interests in support of oligarchs and corporations and was sold as "democracy". We're witnessing the terminal phase of that, where it goes from here is up to us but you're killing all faith I have that we will have better lives in my lifetime.

Some are born to be willing slaves and some are born to break the chains.
At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why
In our quest to increase recycling we seem to have forgotten that the original phrase was 'reduce, reuse, recycle'.

For example, the manufacturer doesn't have to waste the energy to recycle the case if the case can be reused by making the battery user-serviceable.
Many of these 'change the world' efforts by non-profits do not scale if there is not a profit motive associated with them. The profit motive would naturally keep these programs running and people happy to make a good living while actually helping others when going to work. Instead what you have is non-profits totally relying on the government and rich people feeling pitty to keep their doors open. Generating a profit can eliminate that and can actually empower these companies to help in the ways they want to without middle men.