skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to LinkedIn there are 573 people with the job title 'trader' at Goldman Sachs. I'm scanning through the list now- titles like Fixed Income Trader, Mortgage Trader, Rates Trader, Oil Trader, Equity Sales Trader, FX Trader, Emerging Markets Trader, Base Metals Trader, Interest Rates Trader, Investment Grade Bond Trader, Equity Derivatives Trader, Commodity Trader.... I found all of these on the first page of results (25 people)
Have we actually proved scientifically there's a force or physical matter acting on something and it's not just being obscured from our vantage point?

-- In the case of dark matter, the answer is yes. Dark matter has been indirectly observed from the gravitational lensing of the dark matter shrouds surrounding galaxies - notably in situations where the shrouds of two colliding galaxies separate from the galaxies themselves. It's a "picture" as exact as many things astronomers have observed.
> We started doing off-screen clean up,

Which makes it impossible to use Ctrl+F through a page.
> desoxyn

Plain old "m3th" in folk parlance.
Betting could very well be the killer feature for Ethereum.
Yikes. Dig the name btw.
> if you think only 10 posters are conservative in one of the largest cities in the US, you are mistaken

What I said was that there are 10 people who are the most prolific posters, and they insist on posting right-wing inflammatory garbage regardless of the actual topic.

Thread on the best restaurant? Guy 2 of 10 comes in and posts about the homeless. Guy 4 somehow ties it to gun rights.

Thread about transit? Better make it about Hillary's emails somehow! And hey, let's throw gun rights into the mix again.
Sigh. Here's the truth, everybody knows a guy at work who claims they make money "day trading."

If you know more than 1 person who beats the market consistently by trading, you should open a fund-of-funds and start investing institutional money, ASAP. The Harvard endowment would love to speak with you.
HN aggregates, it has no illusions of creating original works. Occasional high-quality reposts are a virtue of HN, and I don't think HN suffers from the same regurgitation issues as film sites. The film websites often come with analysis or reviews of films where the regurgitation lies, whereas Hacker News provides no editorialized comment on the articles, only discussion.

"Echo Chambers" etc... could be merely a distributed version regurgitated content, however I think the HN community tends to self-police groupthink
In my day, the rest of MIT called it the Remedial Lab
There's also the Wait Calculation to consider:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
Google Contributed $40K to AG Not Participating in Anti-Trust Investigation
Theoretically, you can. At 0.99c 111 light years take about 15 years of ship time to travel.
we call them TOTPagotchis these days
> I run a collection of websites that all use infinite scroll and serve ~90 million MAUs.

Please tell me which ones so I can be sure not to visit them. Infinite scrolling is high on my list of things I hate about the web.
+1 to give parent commenter some perspective someone is looking at ~$1200USD a month just to share a bedroom with someone else, closer to double that just to have a private room in a shared home. Approaching $4k to have a place to yourself.
It honestly makes me feel a bit queasy when I read posts like this. 22 and 23 year olds making $200k+ a year? For doing what, exactly? Contributing 0.001% of the codebase to an app that sells advertisements? Meanwhile teachers, researchers, nurses etc (of which many also live in SF, by the way) are making pennies and some literally starving to survive.

It makes it even worse to see the casualness that people in this thread are talking about $200-300k+ salaries, as if they have no appreciation for the fact that a $300k salary is unheard of even for most people in their 50s, let alone a kid in his early 20s. This is the type of attitude that I fear really makes Silicon Valley outsiders have a good amount of disdain for SVers.
But you must also look at how much space belongs to that one individual for the rent they pay, vs elsewhere; not to mention, California's very high taxes. It's common for those with seemingly high salaries to have very little space or actually share it with many people, and if you lived like that in other places you'd also end up with more leftover each month, even with a lower salary.
I wonder to what extent those average numbers for American out-of-pocket costs are skewed towards the overall majority health outcome (no serious, expensive chronic illness until around Medicare age), and whether the American health situation is drastically worse if you are sick, and Americans just don't price that possibility in.
Looks interesting; wish there were a transcript. Example code appears to be here: https://github.com/sasa1977/demo_system/tree/master/example_...
If you are renting you can expect to save exactly nothing because landlords simply raise rents to whatever level the market will bear. OTOH if you can control your housing cost inflation then you might be able to save.

Note also that "savings" are often strongly tied to share price performance. If you were a mid-career senior engineer who signed a standard $600k/4yr RSU deal at Nvidia in 2014 then by 2018 you were sitting on potentially $8 million.
I just think there's an important difference between "this activity is harmful in excess, so you may only do it for n minutes per day" and "I've decided I want to interact with you at this time every day, so you are not allowed to use your phone then".

I think it's okay to set reasonable limits on screentime. I don't think you should force your child to interact with you; that seems kind of unhealthy.
Why is it sad at all? What would it do for you? It would be about as relevant as being able to communicate in some way with people in the past. Would be interesting and entertaining but a leap to imagine it would yield some kind of better quality of life in the current day.
. Stream all NFL games live directly on your PC or Mobile
https://medium.com/@zohorul211/match-thread-buccaneers-vs-panthers-live-streams-reddit-255f557e842e

https://medium.com/@zohorul211/official-live-tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-carolina-panthers-live-streams-reddit-50b56e6f668f
https://medium.com/@zohorul210/tv-nfl-buccaneers-vs-panthers-game-live-free-nfl-football-game-live-streaming-free-online-2019-2342cddfa12d

https://medium.com/@zohorul210/live-free-air-carolina-panthers-vs-tampa-bay-buccaneers-nfl-week-2-streaming-tv-ddf1e245e77e

https://medium.com/@zohorul210/live-broadcast-air-tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-carolina-panthers-nfl-week-2-streaming-tv-d07a11fe74a5

https://medium.com/@zohorul210/live-broadcast-air-tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-carolina-panthers-nfl-week-2-streaming-tv-d07a11fe74a5

https://medium.com/@zohorul210/live-hd-buccaneers-vs-panthers-live-game-free-50593fef18b8

https://medium.com/@zohorul210/live-hd-izile-buccaneers-vs-panthers-live-game-free-d4681ca05ee
> What the parent is saying is that the field is a continuum

Yes, I know that. I am simply giving a link to more detailed information about what lisper was describing.
about 99.7%?

I've always hated the argument of this book: yes the markets are chaotic and short term movements appear random, but the appearance of being random is not equivalent to being caused by a random process. The book makes a big deal about how technical analysts saw patterns in random data so it must be bunk, but this doesn't really say anything about the predictive power of technical analysis when the data is generated by the aggregate actions of thousands of traders instead of a coin toss.

Price action is not the result of investors literally buying or selling at random. Each action is undertaken in response to external conditions and it is far from absurd to believe that patterns can exist in the price.
> The article says Labour doesn't have an anti-semitism problem and therefore it doesn't?

One of the charges against Corbyn is that he co-hosted a talk in 2010 in which a Jewish holocaust survivor compared Israel's practices with those of Nazi Germany. I mean, can it get more ridiculous than that? You're accused of being an anti-semite because you allowed a Jewish holocaust survivor to criticise Israel?
Observation causes collapse, so perhaps because the effect it has is negligible to the system of the universe there's simply no point 'rendering'/wave collapsing. Perhaps there is some other collapse mechanism to explain life before conscious observers, or perhaps quantum behavior emerged as time went on after the big bang, or perhaps there exists some kind of proto-conciousness.
You can make the trip arbitrarily small from your perspective (in theory at least :) ). The issue is that by the time you've made it back home, it's 222 years later. Hence "you can't go home anymore". :)
Yes, and the "Woke" movement of today.
The fastest spacecraft humans have produced is the Parker Solar Probe which when it zips around the sun will reach 430,000 mph. At that speed it would take 173,000 years to reach this planet.
If there are MULTIPLE views for a type of data, an infinite scroll consumer is a valid 'secondary' view.

In the case of Twitter I think I'd find it WAY more useful to have a view that breaks things down by month or week, with the old items gaining permanent addresses on such pages, and actions that break out of the infinite scroll re-directing to those permanent places.
Yea, I'm baffled by this. By that standard, Starbucks is the world's most innovative coffee company.
How does this work on a technical level with regards to contactless/chip payments? Who owns (and who has a copy of) the secret data inside the chip?

It also seems to me that if Visa/MC were smart they would write (or have written) into their TOS provisions disallowing this. Both refusing to allow stripe to issue cards which would bypass them as well as refusing to allow stripe to process cards without going through them. I'm sure there could be some justification for that (security or privacy or some other nonsense), but, it seems like this is a slippery slope to cannibalizing Visa/MC out of existence, not that I'm objecting to that per-se, but I assume Visa/MC would want to avoid it.
Amazon page blurb aside, I don't understand why this question comes up so often.

Even during the initial revelations, people who wanted to downplay the topic regularly pointed out that Snowden was "just a system administrator, not an intelligence agent" and attempted to debate whether he worked directly for the government or only for a contractor. It baffled me, because that doesn't even seem relevant to his claims.

The "government employee" issue would only matter if the authenticity of the leaks was disputed; the various PRISM and XKEYSCORE slideshows were never even challenged, so who cares? And "only a system administrator" sounds backwards to anyone who actually knows what sysadmins do. Dismissing him as a maintainer instead of an architect is a weird sideshow, since his role was mostly important as an answer to the question "how did he get undetected access to so many different files?"
The Mercedes EQS Concept Is Svelte, Sensuous and Sustainable
Collatz Conjecture is one of those frustrating conjectures that a middle schooler can understand, but no one has proved, despite some of the best minds in math taking a crack at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFpVDpKX70
BEAM is such an awesome and beautiful VM. Not only is concurrency at a scale unimaginable in other languages the norm for BEAM, but the isolation of running processes didn't hit me until I asked an Elixir dev about running BEAM in Docker. The confused look told me I was asking an odd question: processes in BEAM are as isolated from each other as console apps running in different VMs in VMWare server. These processes can send messages to each other but they cannot access each other's memory. It was truly a mind-blowing revelation!
They are providing a service, not a product.
>The problem becomes if you need to hire a freelance programmer to do some work for your software development company.

In that case, C is irrelevant because you've already failed B AFAICT. This law makes it so that it's simply not possible for a software company to contract out software jobs to individuals. It has to either contract the software to another company, or do the job in house with W2 employees.

C, if my reading is correct, means that (ignoring licensing issues) you can't contract a carpenter to fix your plumbing.
Yes, they do. 2FA is via SMS or TOTP.

Frustratingly, you can't enable TOTP without a phone number, and if you remove your phone number, you disable 2FA.
I once lost my phone (with a SIM card in it). So I went to a store that served my operator, asked to give me a new SIM. They promptly gave me a new SIM and activated it on the spot. The only piece of information I gave them was my phone number. No other verification such as name, ID or SSN was required. This is how easy it is to hijack your cell phone number. It's basically trivial and there is absolutely no risk to it.
One question. Does the back button work flawlessly? E.g. do I return to exactly the same place, immediately, without any stutter or reflow?

Because 100% of infinite scroll sites/apps that I have seen can't get this right.
It may very well be bad in absolute terms but compared to a single weak password it’s a huge improvement.

I would bet on “log in with phone number” being better than “log in with password” across a population any day.
So you can survive the trip but even if you come back home, it’s not home anymore? Imagine leaving 222 years ago and coming back now ...
> some places work great with infinite scrolling (twitter, serial comic strip viewers).

I would contend that Twitter does not work great with infinite scrolling. In fact, I kept envisioning Twitter as I read the article. One of my biggest grievances with Twitter (shared with much of modern computing because multi-device computing doesn't have something like PAO [1], which would keep all my devices' views the same) is that I can't easily resume reading my Twitter stream between devices. I can't even easily navigate to "show me the stream at 11am today," which would be a viable workaround for multi-device views. If I want to find a last-read point, I just need to sit with my finger on the page down key until I see something familiar.

Ultimately, my user experience with infinite scrolling is simple: I give up and stop bothering to try to be thorough in my consumption of Twitter content. I wonder if Twitter has the necessary metrics to realize that infinite scroll can hurt engagement. I doubt it.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
When I was looking they had no software engineering to speak of in Austin. It was all sales and ops.
Nope, that disables 2FA.
Perfect way to eliminate the competition via regulatory lock out
Water found in habitable super-Earth's atmosphere for first time
I think the proper classification of drivers is likely an existential threat to Uber, and they are responding as such. I find it highly unlikely that a court would find transportation to be outside the scope of Uber's business. Although you have to almost admire the sheer brazenness in their admission that they will not adhere to the law.
I never encountered the term alien planet but exoplanets are planets outside our solar system. In a way all planets are alien to one another. Alien to us is anything extraterrestrial in this context.
I often loose things I saw a minute ago by a misclick on a group page or something like that, and when I come back to the feed it’s just gone.

Like, I follow some newspapers on fb, an often they only show up once per day, reload the feed and it’s vanished.
You have made a choice to not work at companies that make money off of proprietary software, then you exclude the vast majority of the market of commercial software engineering, but that also means you have no idea of or don't care market rates are. So, you really shouldn't comment on that unless you figure that out, and it's a little disingenuous to do so this way.
The quantum states only have discrete frequencies because they are bound states contained within a trap. If you consider H = p^2/2m, a free particle, the frequencies are continuous. The universe isn't a trap.
Having kicked this around I think two problems.

One: Compiler development is driven by the C++ standards committee. And they all hate C and wish it would die already. More to the point things you would do to make C a better more powerful language are orthogonal to the direction C++ is being pushed.

Two: Being tied to C++ also means being tied to the same ABI as C++. And improvements to the C language probably would need some extensions to the ABI.

Three: I can't wrap my head around this but a lot of people are extremely hostile to attempts to extend and improve C.
Farming kinda relies on exploiting under-payed workers. Historically those were sharecroppers (who created the myth of family farms), but lately they are undocumented immigrants.

Why do "consumers" have a right to underpay for somebody's labor?
We have a <major us carrier> rep (as a business customer) and he will port our lines and change SIMs for me based on an email. However I noticed the last time I initiated one of these requests there was a confirmation step that involved an email sent to me with a URL I had to click to approve. From memory I don't believe that URL needed authentication so the email was a bearer instrument. An attacker would need to both fake my outgoing email (easy) and also intercept incoming email (not so easy). There was also a confirmation email sent advising that the request had been approved and processed.

I can imagine however that an admin at a reasonably large business would receive several of these emails per day and may just reflexively click on them all. Note these emails are sent to the business account admin, not the end-user. I happen to be both so can see both sides of the process.

Edit: I should also add that I have never met this rep and so he has definitely not looked at my government ID. The process is secured only by receipt of email.
Can you point out exactly where you think this is exempted? Particularly, my reading is that a software company cannot contract out software development tasks under this bill.
You cannot escape it completely but you can certainly reduce your exposure. I don't think the parent was talking in binary terms.
OYO is baffling. They entered the vacation rental (Airbnb) market out of the blue in a massive way via acquisitions and partnerships and it's not clear how they plan to execute.

I'm looking at them and I'm completely at loss.

It certainly feels like the decisions are driven by finance and not value creation.
Still, I'm trying to keep an open mind.
I guess that's only for lost SIM cards?

I've got my number transferred to new SIM card, about 30 times over last 10 years, without any police report. Had to produce ID proof which is quite convenient.
Website could use a description of how this works.
You Might Not Need GraphQL, Serverless or RESTful
>mentally freeing not having one extra device's battery to monitor throughout the day

I don't have to do that, though. That's my point. It wouldn't free me from anything because I currently don't think about it ever.
Greetings friend! I have some experience that may be useful to you. I worked in the field of project management in the field of healthcare. We had a paid windows server 2012 installed, but a self-written CRM-for project management. It is written in MySQL, supplemented by a shell for the user. In general, such a bunch works stably, but you need to periodically clean up the database of projects in MySQL, otherwise it starts to lag strongly. Regarding your situation, you need to choose a system based on the software that you plan to use; there is some highly specialized software that is not available on Linux. I wish you success!
Imagine what drug prohibition has done...
It's not really sharing anyway.
Yes, very true. I think it's a shame that some people just declare victory and ignore the discrepancy in these modern experiments. At the same time, a similar split seems to happen using the scattering method, but the data are not published yet.

The results from Hessels were announced as preliminary results more than a year ago -- it's great that they are finally out peer-reviewed. But the community at large didn't stop back then when the results came out, with more experiments planned all over the world, especially but not only in the scattering sector. We made progress, but the puzzle isn't dead yet. There is actually a conference starting next week on this topic: http://ecsac.ictp.it/ecsac19/

It's a rare occasion where nuclear physics and AMO overlap. Another one is the Zemach radius, which also requires knowledge of the proton magnetic form factor.
Handmaid's Tale Sequel Published
okay, maybe sad wasn't the right word either. How about disappointing?
Hilarious seeing all the Juul shills in here already, saying we need vapes to quit regular cigarettes and that, "this is a shakedown"
https://www.indiehackers.com/

They have useful info in the footer. But it's impossible to get to the footer.
> drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business

What... how... I don't even know where to begin with this.
Here is a blog about assembling 6502 code in Haskell: http://www.wall.org/~lewis/2013/10/15/asm-monad.html
Salaries at FAANGs are hard. I received an offer (New England based) for an L6 position from one this week and was shocked at the package. After getting off the phone and doing more research, I realized there's a chance I'm being lowballed, and I should negotiate for more if I choose to go to said company. I've done pretty well in my career so far, but even taking the initial offer would almost double my salary.
"Wrong", "bad", "abhorent", etc.

Sickening is not a moral judgement, it is an observation about what emotions get invoked.
> Our proposal avoids the potential harm of forcing drivers to be employees, whether or not they want to—and the vast majority tell us they don’t want to be.

> Contrary to some of the rhetoric we’ve heard, AB5 does not automatically reclassify any rideshare drivers from independent contractors to employees.

This may seem like an immediate contradiction, but I guess they've reframed it so their proposal is actually in line with AB5?

great pr-speak

> But just because the test is hard does not mean we will not be able to pass it. In fact, several previous rulings have found that drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business, which is serving as a technology platform for several different types of digital marketplaces.

Also seems like they will continue to thwart where they can (which I can't blame them for really) but seems aggressive to note. This reads more like a shareholder update, which makes sense.
> Most websites no longer render the offscreen content to improve performance

Which may now be obsolete. Over the last year firefox has implemented some amazing flexbox layout computation improvements that make appending to a flexbox with many elements (>5k) stay fast. It only re-computes the changed ones.

Of course you need to do some profiling to check that you don't accidentally deviate from the happy path by introducing changes that touch all elements.