skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're highly skilled former Navy machinists.

In general, no. Professional welders who do well economically typically have a few things in common that have nothing to do with their origin or education:

* They work very hard (60+ hours a week or more), usually on an hourly wage and make overtime pay/holiday pay/hazard pay

* They work either for themselves or in a small shop rather than for a large business or manufacturer. Large businesses typically cap salaries for their workers at a number high enough to attract the skills they need, but low enough to protect profits for the shareholders.

* The welders have the needed certifications or specialty skill set to meet the demand in a particular niche of the market

* They live near or are able to commute or move to an area with significant demand for their particular specialty.

The most obvious example at the moment are the welders in the oil patch (Bakken shale) in North Dakota. Many of the welders working there are working nearly 24/7, making a lot of money because oil production requires pipeline welders and the oil companies are paying lots of labor overtime to avoid any interruptions in production.

For the most part, the only qualification needed is the welding certificate for the type of welding they'll be doing. The employers don't care that you didn't finish high school or that you are an ex-con, as long as you have the paper (you passed the welding tests) and can read basic instructions you're paid a decent hourly wage.

Since there's such demand, you can work as much as you want, and since you're hourly you get overtime and holiday pay.

Another example is nuclear welders... TIG welders who are certified for welding stainless, monel, or other piping types used in nuclear reactors do fairly well. They have to have certifications in the welding types used (TIG or specialized stick, mostly) and they have to pass the basic security checks needed to work on a reactor site. Reactors need maintenance, and they aren't going away soon, so there's a demand.

The myth of welders being rich is something pushed by the various politicians who benefit from being able to say that student loan debt isn't a problem. It's true that a welder CAN make a ton of cash, but those examples aren't the entire workforce and there's always a price to pay. An underwater welder can make over $1 million in take home pay over a 5 year career that usually ends due to chronic injuries from high pressure environments that last a lifetime.
The best way is to take a sampling of students who attended that school and ask them directly.

As someone who runs a school, all the review sites are so easily gamed it's not even a data point you should consider. I've literally seen schools ask, "Did you have a good experience?" If yes -> go leave a review, if no -> submit this feedback form. Like it's the app store.
I don't think it needs to "fool" them, just confuse them enough to want to slow down and have a second look..
In my hometown (Portland, OR), there have been several projects that increase the perceived danger of an area in an attempt to slow people down and increase their awareness. I don't know how effective they are, they sure are annoying :)
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Airbnb owns the peer to peer market rental. WeWork isn’t even close to the size of regus. Airbnb can expand by dropping money into marketing. We work needs to do huge outlays to buy/lease buildings and also drop money into marketing to grow.
She's a 16 year old who's chosen to make this her life cause I'd hardly say she's being used
Hit 500 Instagram followers on a blog I manage tech & marketing for. Started last year. Aiming for 1000 by EOY.
There's a software shop in my area that works the same way.
Recently, we understood some interesting mathematics and proved an interesting result. Also my running has picked up so I'm feeling really fit.
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It’s really not. The distinguishing feature of “tech company” in this context is extremely low marginal cost, often coupled with network and lock-in effects that create increasing returns to scale
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To "carom" a ball, in America, is to hit the cue ball into ball X, and then after that collision, the cue ball goes on to hit ball Y. In Britain this is known as a "cannon", as in you cannon the cue ball off of X into Y.

In the game of cowboy, which is sort of a novelty game that is intentionally quirky, you can score points merely by making a carom.

Here's an example I got by Google image searching: https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-30-2015/ODVWHH.gif
Linemen were some of the highest compensated employees at McMurdo Station, Antarctica when I was there a couple years ago.
Title should probably be `Huawei has started selling laptops with the Deepin Linux OS pre-installed` (no stray `a`)
> Where does the blog say anything about opinion being ranked down.

Every ranking boost for one result is a ranking decrease for all other results.
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Why does DoD care about illegal immigration? Mexico is not about to invade. This is useless to their mission.

If they are going to build it and hand it of to border patrol, then Congress should fund it with the border patrols budget. Which they won’t, because this is as useless as a physical wall. So funding it with the money taxpayers allocated for the DoD is the definition of corruption.
This just seems wrong? Welding varies a ton by state. The Bureau of Labor statistics also says that welders in Alaska earn an average of $65k a year. They aren't all expert welders, it just varies heavily by location.
I suspect a civilian contractor on site in places Afghanistan and other high risk countries make a lot more.

During IRAQ II I saw a local add (Uk) offering £40K tax free for a basic car mechanic going out to Iraq to presumably work for the Military or PMC
For fun, look up "vampire taps" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap
Cloudflare stock pops 22% in first day of trading
Yes, they do have a team that uses "AI" and/or "ML" to identify properties. How effective that team has been or the extent to which that team's existence makes them a tech company are entirely different questions.
I would agree with the "enabled by tech" part for companies like Uber, but not at all for WeWork. There's no special tech they have that every other company in their space hasn't already for years.

Motel 6 has a fully functional website and app where you can look up all their properties and reserve rooms/spaces. No one is calling it a tech company.
Climate change: Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming
Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits

It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals.

As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I made a while back. Makes navigating life so much easier when you know where you want to go and can deconstruct the goals into actions.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing

Aside from all that I feel like the time I spent optimizing my workflow by learning great tools immensely valuable. I am now at the stage where I build my own tools to solve my own problems. And it feels great.

There is still like 2 people out 7 billion that abuse Karabiner to the extent that I do. In some ways it's sad how so many people are missing out on its power. On the other it gives me great leverage. Just need to use it wisely.

Another success has been writing in my journal openly for the last 2 years, every month. Been a huge mind cleanser. Here is most recent entry.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/looking-back/2019/2019-augus...
Sounds wholesome, I think if you have good self motivation you can always do interesting things in your own time. Sometimes I feel like you have to make it a bit of a routine, but it pays off.
>For example, what is the speed of a bullet? It depends on the observer (as does velocity, but velocity is a more accurate thing to measure for this reason).

That sentence doesn't make sense to me, velocity is even more sensitive to coordinate change than speed. If you rotate your coordinate system, all the velocities will change but speeds will stay the same. The phrase used in the article was "the velocity of light," which was known to be wrong even back then because light has a different velocity depending on which way it is going.
I can't help but consider the wider background of this story.

Across the country, high schools have been cutting shop classes. Administrators push 4-year college as the only viable option. Anything else is increasingly viewed as irresponsible advice.

At the same time, 4-year college costs have been skyrocketing. Students are taking on levels of debt that the previous generation would have thought obscene.

Meanwhile, the breadth of degrees that can reasonably be expected to service the debt of a 4-year college stint, let alone earn a living afterwards, appears to be shrinking.

Just because some degrees are currently in high demand doesn't mean that will be the case in 1, 2, or 5 years. Tech recessions can be brutal given how leveraged the booms are.

At the center of all of this is automation in numerous forms. The changes we've seen so far will only accelerate. There's little evidence to suggest that today's economies will be up to the challenge of providing economically viable pathways for young people starting out.

The myth of higher education as the pathway to a middle class lifestyle has all the hallmarks of an idea that will die a slow, agonizing death. We're utterly unprepared for what comes next.
I was hearing this back around 2004-2005 that welders could make $150k if they take this remote oil pipeline jobs and "all your expenses are paid for while you're out in the field".

I heard a lot of people talk about taking these jobs but they never seemed to exist.
Well, now that you’ve agreed with everything I wrote, you’re stuck with arguing trivialities: landlords are failing en masse because of maintenance, water, roommates, etc.

Math lesson: If my mortgage is $X (which I more than cover with my rents, since to do otherwise would indicate that I am a phenomenally stupid real estate investor), and I pay .05X per year in maintenance, the total annual increase in costs is currently CPI x .05 x X.

I don’t know if you noticed this while you were becoming an expert on SF landlord tenant laws, but 0.6 x CPI x X is bigger than that number. The annual increase in rent is literally 12x larger than the thing you’re complaining about. Room left over for taxes and evil, deadbeat babies, even.

In other words: as long as maintenance, water, taxes remain a small percentage of the mortgage+principal, the allowable rent increases more than cover the inflated costs. It’s almost like they designed the law that way!

Again: you’re just trying to find reasons to justify your opinion, and you’ve done a bang-up job of demonstrating what I originally wrote: people irrationally demonize rent control in SF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO
"OpenIPO is a modified Dutch auction"
"number of companies public including Morningstar, Interactive Brokers Group, Overstock.com, Ravenswood Winery, Clean Energy Fuels, Boston Beer Company"

WeWork is experiencing this type of auction but strangely in the media instead of in communications between actual investors
Yes. It's about programming education. Low stress job.
First, to quote the Drive By Truckers:

"If you want to feel old after 42 years, keep dropping the hammer and grinding the gears"

My dad did blue collar labor his whole life and his body hurt. He would take something like 6 ibuprofen every morning with breakfast. To do that kind of work requires you putting your family above yourself, which is a noble thing. I think what people miss in the old "you could support a family doing this" was that it was very much you actively harming yourself so that your family could be better off.

It's the same thing with coal miners. They get all sorts of terrible health consequences from the work, but it is a noble sacrifice to them.

My dad was adamant that we were going to college and living a more comfortable life than he did. So here I am, a software engineer with plenty of worries in the world, but at least a job that won't leave me broken and in pain after I do it for twenty years.

I didn't read this article word for word, but it seemed to have a bit of an agenda to it. The number one determining factor of how far you will make it if you're working class is how driven you are. If you are lazy, you'll struggle your whole life. There isn't any family safety net to keep you ignorant of that.

It's important to give people access to opportunity, but it's up to the individual to be self-motivated enough to take it. Education isn't some magical panacea.
”Here’s a program roughly 0% of programmers know how to write: generate a list of random tweets, without duplication.

[…]

Stated more formally: given non-negative integers k and n with k <= n, generate a list of k distinct random numbers, each less than n.“

I think that knowing k beforehand makes it a different, easier problem. I don’t see how, if you don’t know k beforehand, you can do without enough memory to store a number of magnitude n!, and even that would be extremely slow, the more items you have to produce (uniformly pick a permutation of n items, and produce as many of them as requested)
Haven’t read anything about it but the usual outcome in situations like this is that entrenched players (who secretly backed the politicians responsible) come up with a clever legal structure that allows them to evade the laws. Small players can’t compete and are forced out by barriers to entry. Politicians collect fat checks. Citizens are either oblivious or confused why life got worse. But it goes on.
Completely shameless plug:

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Once you're hired you pay 17% of salary for two years, capped at a maximum of $30k.

If you don't get a job in the field after five years the agreement disappears and you don't owe anything.

We not only have a team of a dozen full-time career coaches, but another team of 12+ people whose only job it is to reach out to companies and actually line up interviews for you. A real enterprise sales team working in your behalf.

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Renewables are still prone to centralisation. A large solar farm connected to a wide area grid is just more valuable than a lot of little schemes. And the same will be true of battery storage. If it is economic to I stall 1MW locally, it will be even more profitable to install 1GW next to a large substation.
EDGAR's own search facilities are fairly poor. I mirror and index it in Lucene for my own purposes.
If you can store 2^64 data points, why cant you store 2^63 indexes? That's a very small increase in memory requirements.
She is parroting ideas that the scientifically-inclined minds fed her. I am not sure if she understands everything she talked about (given her age). Using kids to sell ideas is "being used".
You are approaching a discussion of one of my favorite topics "adaptation vs adaptability"[1]. Basically, there is a spectrum between perfect efficiency and being completely flexible. we see this over and over again, from software (where flexibility might show as generality or abstraction) to organisms/ecosystems to statistical methods.

https://people.clas.ufl.edu/ulan/files/Conrad.pdf
If you define a polynomial by its coefficients, and then take its derivatives at a point and forget the coefficients, it would be reasonable to wonder whether you had lost some information. The miracle is that you haven't (if you also remember that the original function is a polynomial).
"Fun fact: The speed of light is only constant by convention."

Well, the speed of light through a non-vacuum isn't the same as any medium will slow it to some extent, but the speed of light in a vacuum is the definition of "c" and as such, that IS a constant and invariant.
>To earn an associate’s degree, Orry would need to pass 12 separate welding courses, plus basic courses in math and English, as well as more conceptual courses in welding metallurgy.

>His first year at CVCC went well, mostly. It wasn’t completely smooth—he failed his required English course, which was offered only online. But in his welding classes, he earned nothing but A’s and B’s. After that first year ended, he ran into some bureaucratic trouble with his financial aid, he told me, and he took both the summer and the fall of 2017 off from school. For a while, I wondered whether he might just be finished with college. But then he started up again as a full-time student in January 2018.

Why would anyone pay to go to college for welding? Unless it is some specialized area (Underwater welding), you can join the Iron Worker's 4 year apprenticeship program.

4 years of work/classes once a month. Start at 60% scale (16-18$ depending on state) in year one. 10% pump in pay each year so by the end of your program when you have your journeyman's card you get (26-32$) depending on the state.

You have to pay like a $400 sign up fee to get in the union (way cheaper than college) and continue to pay your union dues, however that gets you the benefit of getting on a list to be called when contractors need to man a job.

A lot of times it just takes one job with a contractor where you do well, and they will call you direct anytime they need a job.

There are lots of Iron Workers in my area at least who only work 9 months out of the year and make $100,000 + by working shutdowns (emergency repair jobs) through the union hall.

You can get all your welding certificates without going to college which is what any job requires. Experience and certs proving your welds are up to par.

Also FTA

> It was hard work, loud and dirty and repetitive, but it paid $13.90 an hour, more than Snappy Lube. After a year and a half, Orry was fired for missing too many days of work, but he soon managed to land a job at another steel-wire factory. Then he got fired from that job as well.

> It was by that point the spring of 2016, and Orry was 24, separated, and unemployed. He was raising two children with his ex-wife, Katie, and he was living with a new girlfriend named Crystal. Orry had been working hard for five years, and yet he was broke, with nothing saved.

It doesn't explain why he was fired other than 'missed too many days' - and doesn't say any reason for the 2nd. This sounds to me like it's more about the personal work ethic of Orry and budgeting skills vs being a welder you will be poor.

Anecdotal I know, but a friend of mine right out of high school got into the trades with the above mentioned path. By 24 (2 years into his journeyman work), he had a modest two bedroom house, wife, two kids and had no issues with money or bankruptcy. He also only worked shutdowns where he may work 28 days in a row, 12 hours a day, and then have an entire month off until the next job. This life isn't for everyone but hey for some it works some it doesn't.
It's quite frustrating that even hackernews cannot have a reasonable conversation the moment Greta Thunberg is involved. Surely it's not so hard to avoid that at least the initial comments on a submission are ad hominem.
It's hard to have smartdumb plays like that in poker in quite the same way. I guess it would be closer to AK suited in hand with a Q 10 suited and off suit Q and 3 people raising on each round. Then on the turn and river you get an off suit K and a meaningless card.

Your hand is good, with the former possibility of being the nuts, but there's also a chance that someone out there is holding Q (or possibly QQ) of a straight and you're dead already.
There could be and they should be. There are better (more just, more enforceable, less hostile to businesses) and worse taxes (basically unenforceable easy to game ones which only honest people fully pay).
The problem is that increasing taxes in exchange of getting rid of bad ones is way more politically difficult than just introducing new ones or very slightly increasing existing ones.
For example land value tax is widely considered a very good tax: it's just (the more valuable land you have the more you need the government), it's easy to enforce (hard to hide the land), it doesn't hinder business (you pay it no matter what you decide to build there), it discourages hoarding on valuable resource. Still, if you try to increase it enough to get rid of some very bad taxes you still get an uproar an be voted out even if the change is revenue neutral. That's because you will hurt one entranched group a lot and everyone else will benefit on average less (at least at the beginning).
No, but there are like 7 billion people, and until very recently polygyny was widespread around the globe. A male usually needs to be wealthy to have multiple wives, but those are precisely the sorts of males that are likely to have above average lifespans. And, of course, serial monogamy has similar causes and effects.

My spouse had two maternal grandmothers. When the elder one could no longer have children (or perhaps didn't wish to have any more), not yet having borne a son, she arranged for a second wife. My spouse's grandfather was in his 70s when his last child, a son, was a born. And this man was simply a middle-class shopkeeper.[1]

People don't talk much about polygyny because it's awkward in modern culture, even in places like Africa and Asia where it's often only one generation removed, if that.

[1] AFAIU, polygyny is still legal in that country, Malaysia, though now permitted of Muslims only. Whereas previously polygyny was practiced by Muslims, Chinese, possibly Indians (not sure), and presumably the indigenous population as well.
Why so many pixel4 leaks and no effective countermeasures?it's just their game?
To be fair, if you clicked through, it wasn't Vox's phrasing but the original poster's.
Ingmar rentzhog is. See https://uvell.se/2018/12/11/pr-spinnet-bakom-greta-thunberg/
I think what's crazier about this is that it's entirely possible then that there are two people today such that one man's father was the other man's father's slave.
It's a safe assumption nowadays. People using children for propaganda is extremely common.

If she was a 45 year old accountant trying to take a stand on climate change I don't think she would be trotted out like this.
WeWork's valuation so far has been decided by a single company - Softbank. The $50 billion number was always pulled out of thin air, and they are now hitting reality.
I completely disagree with this statement.

I mean, I get where he's coming from (reach is reduced by imposing barriers to the article).

But on the other hand, news costs money. You can argue about how much it should cost, but journalism isn't free. Personally, I pay for 4-5 newspapers (which is too much), but after the sh*tstorm of the past three years (Brexit, elections etc), I felt that it was worth the money.

It's also a little ironic for someone as rich as Paul Graham to be arguing against paywalls (like he could pay for every news-subscription and never notice the cost).

In summation, Carthego delenda est! (or news is worth paying for, at least).
I meant BKS to be BLS and taw to be raw. Stupid phone.
Can you share a link to the visualizations?

Edit: Also, congrats!