skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually the opposite of what I'm trying to say. Lack of burnable things will never be a problem, because surviving the side effects of all the burning would be the limiting factor long before we have to scrounge for things to burn.
Just to add on to this advice: if you want to do an MBA (or really even if not), stay at Facebook for a few years. Otherwise, people will think you either can't hold down a job or just lack commitment. That's a bad image to have whether you're applying to graduate programs or starting a career.

I can tell you as someone in business school now, my resume has some similarities and it has definitely hurt me.
No industry is safe from disruption. Governments need robust training programs and social safety nets for late career individuals in all industries in transition.
The text on the website is misleadingly suggestive that all artists are in USA.
Development environment with emacs, xmonad and nixos
> I would find this article much more interesting if I didn't get the impression that its author would happily legislate away developer and consumer freedoms to make and/or play whatever games they'd like.

Why did you get that impression? I've seen nothing that would make me think of that. Is there something I don't know about the author? For example that they called for this kind of censorship in the past? That would put the article under another light, maybe.

ETA: I just remembered that the article even concedes that probably people who play the games could not have the same effects as those who worked on it, so I'm even more confused by the impression you got.
Is there any?
Okay I will take your advice!
>Most degrees only prove that you have some ability to memorize things, practical application is a very different skill.

My degree put very little focus on memorization. Individual and group projects certainly had nothing to do with memorization. My experience hiring and working people from other schools indicates that their degrees were similar. I'm not sure where this degree == memorization thing comes from.
Nuclear waste is like asbestos, it’s fine if you leave it alone. If the depth is sufficient that the water is fairly anoxic and the area is geologically stable it’s pretty safe.

However if the area is unstable or the ship can rust you can easily end up with a huge distributor of radioactive contamination. The effects depend on the substance and type of radiation.

Dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean has been banned since 1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactiv...
I have a Twitter bot that reads text from random Project Gutenberg books and spits out book passages: https://twitter.com/markovian_lit

In general, it’s a bit all over the place and convoluted, but sometimes it generates true gems. People find it via hashtags, and some folks even interact before realizing it’s a silly bot.
It's indeed a great song and video, and it is based on the Soviet anthem :)
Binance hack was 44 million (7000 * current btc price) not 400 million, right?

https://www.ccn.com/stolen-bitcoin-moved-spiders-web-binance...
What is unethical about working for the NSA as a dev?
I feel like the author has never used graphql. We're also just finally graduating past REST to something more meaningful. This advice feels 15 years late and now totally wrong. An API shouldn't be tied to a protocol like http, it should be able to move on to other things.

Ahh I was correct:

> I have never used GraphQL, so I can't endorse it, but you may want to evaluate it as an alternative to designing and implementing your own API query capability.

You really shouldn't write this giant article without having tried that.
Ms. Laucher on Twitter responding to a critique from the article:

"Retraining won't fix it. Give them UBI. Free training programs should only have viable candidates when it isnt for quick $"

Is the last sentence a little ironic given the article?

Source (perhaps will be deleted): https://twitter.com/pandamonial/status/1127627288676270081

Edit: To be fair, in other comments she claims many of the statements in the article are false and refused to comment for the article based on legal advice. I assume there are two sides to this story and the NY Times article does seem pretty one sided.
Researchers work to modify flatworms, understand their regenerative powers
The painting is also a derivative work.
Hollywood is already operating under this paradigm.
The talk starts at around 42:32 in the fourth video.
> After reeling in enough customers, lab-grown fish produced for profit will inevitably have to deteriorate in quality to maintain/increase revenue.

Maybe this post is just upvoted for the dad jokes, in which case, Fair Play...

But on the substance, all other food products have to compete on quality. Why this would be different needs to be explained.

Sure, it's always a balance of price and quality. But why would this particular food have a different balance than all other food products?
There’s no need to do anything about anything. I mean just look at the world. It’s obvious that there’s no reversing global warming. We just like our modern lives too much to make any significant sacrifices. There are also too many people as it is so we’re just going to keep ratcheting that number up by helping people live longer with this miracle anti-aging treatment?

I have 0 interest in living longer than is “natural.” Honestly I don’t even want to live that long! I mean what’s the point, live longer to just barely keep getting by and keep working as long as possible?
Don't paint all of art history with one brush.
Do you really want finance involved in operational chores as mundane as restoring backups?

Not as a day to day occurrence. But as a last line of defence, absolutely. No other department has better routines in place to keep papers safe and secure for years through rounds of layoffs, restructurings, buyouts and everything else a company might go through.
Like I said, I see why people ask for it. If the benefit to you of getting that information is worth the risk of potentially making a bad impression then go for it.
What Makes an Awkward Silence?
I guess that's a polite way of saying "You failed."

Honestly, most folks say that stuff as a compliment, and I'm honestly happy folks give honest feedback about what tips them off. Especially in the US, many folks can't imagine learning enough of a foreign language to work. Using awkward phrasing could be an indicator of being foreign, sure, but occasionally it is just some dude that writes awkwardly.
I don't envy people on the receiving end of this.

That said, it sounds like it's part of the trend to begin to put pressure on the universities by making student loans less attractive. If there are consequences for racking up large student loans that you can't pay people may think twice about taking them on.

For years Universities have been increasing tuition on well beyond the rate of inflation, often for degrees that have no real market value, with the money going mostly to administrators not the ones actually creating and teaching the material. Unless you start to put pressure on the funding source etc. there is no way to begin to reign this in.
You mean genetic algorithms at work?
You claim that one can wire 10 million dollars from Nigeria in two seconds. If you’re not even going to answer the most obvious question about how someone could do this, it’s hardly a real world use case.

I’m not sure if you understand how the boring old SWIFT-addressed wire competes here. I haven’t sent 10 million, but hundreds of thousands anyway. It costs no more than $25, is settled within hours, and has all sorts of safeguards that don’t exist in crypto. The funds are immediately available for use rather than USDC which AFAIK isn’t accepted for payment on anything, anywhere.
Smart Workout Diets: It’s Time to Cut Out the Wheat
Ah yeah, they were riffing the same trope and that’s why I phrased it like that initially heh.

But I certainly hope Ned doesn’t meet his demise in Far From Home. He’s such a loveable character, though the “Missing Mission Control” trope is well manifested in the superhero genre
It doesn't 'change every decade' since it's a style rather than just a function of technology. Doom was never 'photorealistic'. The original 90s MK is, Smash Bros Ultimate isn't.
I don’t really follow what’s going on with larger Google. AMP team specifically has a collection of older phones that we test on to remember that we’re making decisions for low end devices common in other parts of the world.
>At the same time, just because not everyone is chef de cuisine material, doesn't mean there's no point in their learning to cook.

Cooking and coding aren't amalgamous. Cooking is necessary life skill, unless your only sources of sustenance are prepackaged foods or food from restaurants (which would include fast food).

The same cannot be said for coding. You needn't know or even understand technology or software to use a cell phone or browse the internet or what-have-you.

A more apt comparison would've probably been driving but even that is limited in scope, dependent on the public services available (which is, in and of itself, a byproduct of urban life versus rural life - at least in the states).

Also, I think Hanlon's Razor applies here.

The idea that everyone can make a stellar income from being a developer is oft touted as one of the points of these boot-camps. In other words, the argument is that those people can do it, it's just that they've never been afforded the opportunity.

Whilst this might be true for a small percentage of the group, as a whole, it isn't - implicitly - true that all of them will find jobs being programmers the day after they graduate these camps.

So, it isn't pointless for them to learn it, by far (and I'm only speaking for me, here), but it shouldn't be touted as the get-rich-quick-scheme that it's being pushed as because, then, yes, it's pointless for people to think it's possible to become a rockstar overnight; which I would like to point out is precisely what this business has capitalised on...

To continue with the analogy of music, even rockstars had to play gigs and sell records/tapes as up & comers (negating the pop genre) before they became big. People only hear the songs on the radio, they don't want to hear about the years it took before those stars were even given spins on the radio (see: Jewel living out of her van).
Cheap and Organic: Using Household Items and Waste for Better Gardening
They just hint at it, but the solution to the problem is already there for such people. Keep your job, go to a community college, and if you have the aptitude and build up the credits, transfer to WVU (or whatever) for the completion. Even failing that last part, an associates degree is still better than a phony cert.
Curated List of Top LeetCode Questions
> It would be disingenuous to say this is going to save the oceans.

Because it's only for niche expensive fish?

That's where they have to start when the technology is expensive. If and when it becomes cheaper, we might reach ocean saving levels. Or we might not.
The article is leaving out the detail that America has city, county, state and federal governments. Insurance is regulated at both state and federal levels. European countries tend to have the equivalent of city, county and state or federal (not both -- one or the other). From what I gather, they tend to have one regulatory system for medical insurance: The national system.

It would be a little like if the EU were another layer on top and you could live in France but buy insurance from a German company. It introduces a whole host of complications.

Source: I worked for 5+ years at an American insurance company.
I worked on Mortal Kombat X as a programmer late in the game. While I did not suffer from PTSD, I did find the game's graphic violence initially shocking and then later mundane. I work in a different industry now so it's sort of funny to think back to eating lunch at my desk while the game was doing a soak test and heads and limbs were flying. But watching video game violence daily made me desensitized to it. I had to keep that in mind when showing the game to family and friends.

I do agree with the points that there should be policies around working with violent material and having the chance to step back or work on other projects. That was not something I saw at the time, and while Mortal Kombat stands out in terms of violence, I think it would be a useful consideration with most video games.
Sort of an inverse James Bond story. In this case, a reclusive billionaire was helping the spies.
Chris Chen, can you explain your posting history of anti-US and pro-China stance?
Pressure on student loan repayments isn't going to change anything if the loans still have the same availability in the first place.
Two on Kaggle right now:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-for-good-city-of-los-a...

https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-...
Aside: does anyone else get a "something went wrong" error when clicking on a link to a tweet like this one? If I reload it will usually work correctly. Only happens to me on mobile but it's plain old chrome on Android, flagship phone. No adblockers or plugins. Probably happens to me about half the time I click on a link to a tweet like this. Seems like it triggers a (defective?) ratelimiting feature maybe.
>I have absolutely never once in my life seen someone cry over an opinion being published.

Well, I've seen then cry, demand it's unpublished, demand the person writing it is fired, and so on.

>I have, however, seen hundreds of people complain about others 'crying', or 'literally shaking' but I have never seen it once happen and I have been looking.

Well, perhaps not looking unbiased enough.

>Something happening in the past does not make it okay to happen today.

Which I didn't say in the first place. My point is that as an old thing this is not related to the recent touchy-feely behavior I spoke against. (Nor of course are the people kept in cages, or the people who complain about them, are complaining about touchy feely issues).

>Are you suggesting nobody should speak out against these atrocities or try to avoid them happening in the first place, simply because they have happened before? I don't get it.

No, there are two threads here: 1) tons of younger people today complain about touchy feely issues, and 2) most younger people complain about these serious issues only when it becomes fashionable (e.g. now under Trump or previously under Bush, not before under Obama or Clinton).

I argue that (1) the touchy feely issues should be dropped, and (2) the important issues should be complained all the time, not when it's in vogue.

>That sounds awful. Everyone should be protesting this everywhere. Everyone should aim to avoid the circumstances that allow this to happen: chief among them is trolling.

Trolling is nowhere in the list of things that "allow this to happen".

Capitalism, EU immigration policies, hypocrisy, exploitation, and other things are.
I wonder how long until there's a "millenials are killing the student loan deferment industry" article.
There are plenty of anonymous truths. Euclid probably didn't actually invent geometry, he probably compiled many sources to compose the Elements. Depending which scholars you ask, half or more of The Bible is either totally anonymous (e.g. the Book of Hebrews) or attributed to authors who didn't actually write it (e.g. Deuteronomy, which Moses would have to have predicted his own death in order to finish). More recently there's the Bitcoin Whitepaper published under a pseudonym.

"Objective" doesn't imply "simple", the fact that so-called AI can't produce great literature is an indictment against the marketers calling it AI, not against great literature.
hahah, I came here to say that!!

I was thinking the same thing, I wonder if it's a combination. Like maybe they do have people hand drawing things and they are using that to train a NN of some kind so eventually it's all CG images.
I don't use maven archetypes too often, the rest of maven seems pretty good to me, but maybe I'm just used to it.

I have done a lot more Java than Javascript, so I feel the same about npm error messages.
I'm not impressed with academics who think all physical labor is torture.

NOT EVERYONE IS LIKE YOU OR WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!

Sorry for the shouting...
What they need is a stable electric grid and local miners selling to local exchanges - that way they can transact directly in Bolivar or barter if the currency ends up becoming completely worthless.

I'm not necessarily saying any of that is practical, but a stable electric grid and internet access is key - perhaps renewable energy and access to the blockstream satellite would be the solution
You're willingly assisting an organization with very unethical goals. It doesn't matter whether you're a cryptographer, janitor, developer, or whatever.
I'm not sure why you felt the need to respond with such a wall of text. It barely has a coherent point and condescends to explain details that are a given to anyone who works with FPGAs.

FPGAs are a dead end, but your comment didn't even address for what goal they are a dead end. If you'd take a look a look at a context of this thread, you'd realized we're talking about general applications.

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> To dislike hard macros which are fast and common is to not grok FPGAs. To say you work with FPGAs professionally but you consider them a dead end, when they're built out of the same logic and blocks that underlies everything that's ever been done with a digital computer is...confused, at best.

Or maybe it's understanding the limitations of the technology you work with. I also never mentioned or implied disliking hard IP.

> What's the difference between a state machine and a counter?

> So what's the difference between a CPU and a state machine?

What's the difference between the universe and a state machine? What can be encoded as a state machine is largely irrelevant. I can make a CPU inside of minecraft but that's not very useful.

> FPGAs use the fundamentals of all computing directly

This is simply not true. FPGAs emulate the "fundamentals of all computing". The emulation is not efficient, hence why hard logic is so important.
Crysis remains one of the best imho.
The ban is not on encryption per se (which, as you point out, could be confused with cryptography in general), but on attempting to obscure the content of messages. Obscuring message content is by no means a function of digital signatures.
This is a Show HN. I’m sure the poster would greatly appreciate feedback from someone with experience like yours, not an advertisement for your own service.
I just assumed that was what it was and only realised it wasn’t from this comment.
You can wring a dry towel and all you want but never get a drop of water.

These people are by and large broke. It’s likely to cost more in enforcement than they’ll get back.

At least the IRS will continue to lack funding so the rich don’t have to pay .
yes, people often have a hard time tempering their irrational instincts with a rational understanding of risks and probabilities. life is all risk (along with lots of reward). most risks are tiny, part of a very long tail in the risk distribution, and it's literally impossible to plan for all of them.

since many mitigations also have tiny costs (like wearing seatbelts), it's reasonable to do them. planning for a car crash is reasonable (30-40K deaths/year in the US, over a million worldwide). planning for a plane crash is not (less than 1000 deaths/year worldwide, usually much less). i share an irrational fear of flying, but i keep my irrational fear in check with this kind of information.

we should individually spend very little time worrying about and planning for plane crashes, terrorism (in the US particularly), child abductions, school shootings, and the like. the calculus can be different on a population level, so that doesn't absolve governments from worry about some of these things.

we should spend way more time worrying about heart disease (exercise & diet), cancer (food & chemicals, sunscreen), respiratory disease (smoking, air pollution/filtration), and accidental deaths (distracted driving, drug abuse) [0]. with guns, worry about suicides and accidental shootings (safe storage/access) more than self-defense.

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php
From a bit of research on Internet, the satellites will re-enter into atmosphere after end of operation, because they are sent to relatively low orbits. There is no garbage involved here.
> 1) tons of younger people today complain about touchy feely issues

Citation needed. And anyway, if it were true, why would that be bad?

> 2) most younger people complain about these serious issues only when it becomes fashionable (e.g. now under Trump or previously under Bush, not before under Obama or Clinton).

Oh wow that is so wrong and so offensive to boot. These are straight up lies. You have no backing to this. You are just making it up. I know this isn't true and it's extremely insulting.

> I argue that (1) the touchy feely issues should be dropped,

Wait. You are arguing that young people should be banned from discussing topics of their interest?! A total ban on free speech for the youth? what do you mean by this?

Do you really mean to say that you would be in total control of the topics discussed by the youth of today? What kind of snowflake-led dictatorship would that be? Where the youth cannot even be allowed to discuss what they see fit? I'm stunned by this line of reasoning here.
This is stupid. All the demos are on public roads. George Hortz needs to chill before he ends up in jail.
It’s not that you are training people. It is that your company is taking advantage of you to get public funds. You did not state it but I bet so.

This is so EU...

Happens in Spain all the time.
My 13 year old often has issues putting himself in the position of those with less knowledge than him. He somehow thinks young children should know as much about things they should and shouldn't do as he does.

Or that animals have a cognitive ability similar to humans "I don't know why the dog wants the cookie, he knows chocolate is bad for him"

I don't know what to make of it. I hope it's just the age, but since it seems to be a wide-spread problem....maybe it's something in the water.

I don't remember having those kind of gaps in understanding at that age.
Oh please, Apple is a hardware company and that's why their profits don't require the exploitation of user data, otherwise they would be doing it.
I mean, they exploit the natural resources of the planet and 3rd world slaves to make completely unserviceable devices ridden with planned obsolescence, so why wouldn't they exploit your user data if they needed to?

I'm not saying that other tech companies are any better, I'm saying that Apple, being the richest and most successful, should be pioneering change in the tech sector on all fronts, but most importantly social and environmental.
Become a plumber or carpenter without going to college. Work for a large city and work a lot of overtime. Retire at 50 with 1.5x pay and full benefits.
>I thought "synthetic data" it's something that rarely shows in training image recognition

On the contrary, it is used to train models but it cannot adequately capture the long tail of weird events in the real world. Hence, it cannot be relied upon, as alluded to by the parent commenter. With reference to using data collected from a simulated environment vs real world ─ this subject was discussed at some length by Elon Musk and Andrej Karpathy, at the Tesla Autonomy Day event a few weeks ago.
I wouldn't assume that 'orthoxerox' is asking in bad faith. Are you aware that many countries do allow young children to join their mothers in prison? https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2018/0313/Serving-t...

The question of how to handle children who lose their sole caretaker to prison is a real issue without easy answers: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/12/03/how-incarcerat...