skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> also, get out while you can!

May I humbly suggest that this is not strong enough. You're staring down the barrel of HIPPA; get a lawyer and hand in your resignation NOW.

(Not a lawyer, not legal advice)
Ok, but I've never come close to working on healthcare software but I've run up against HIPAA numerous times because partners, customers, suppliers, customers of customers, are in that space. So the idea that your company can buy a full-on healthcare software business but you and your legal people have never heard of it is pretty hard to swallow.
Law Office of Stanley Shar in El Monte Ca California
Chicken wire in lathe & plaster?
You might not be able to enforce an age limit for the viewers, but you definitely could set an age limit for the youtubers creating this stuff.

But even regular ASMR embarasses me, so I guess these things just creep me out, regardless how old they are.
Here is 8 year old drumming prodigy Yoyoka Soma playing the Zeppelin's tune Good Times, Bad Times. Robert Plant was so impressed he said she could be their drummer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cozHT9QaFJo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYr6H2mGxk
Open CASCADE Technology 7.4.0 Screenshot Named in Russian Transliteration [img]
>>Teacher pay is not correlated to outcome. The US pays more for its teachers than Finland and other counties with much better outcomes.

I do want to point out that these two points aren't actually related. Just because the US pays more for lesser outcomes does not mean that teacher pay is anti-correlated or uncorrelated to outcome.
Why would business formation be so difficult if the cost of production will be so low (because there is close to zero speculation?)

Why would capital requirements for capital intensive businesses be so high when the equipment they are trying to buy will be cheap?

If they need to buy lots and lots of equipment right now, they could issue a bond, investors looking to make a dime will lend. Since inflation is low because of no speculation, interest rates would be low as well.

The one big caveat I see is slow growth but that's exactly what I'm looking for. Slow sustainable growth directly proportional to labor.
> working on non-version-controlled code, having been expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO

Version Control is a basic requirement of professional software development in this day and age.

You could try explaining to your CEO it would be like telling a carpenter they can't use a hammer to build your new house.

Or just take the initiative and use Version Control without telling them. In my mind it isn't something you need to ask permission for.
In a discussion about PhD's nobody has as yet mentioned Freeman Dyson?

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freem...

- https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/21h1xv/freeman_dys...

On the other hand, i myself feel that, if you have the mental inclination and can afford to do a PhD, one should do it. It gives you a greater probability of actually contributing to Humanity's collective knowledge base.
These results flew in the face of actual instrument data. They were never going to get more accuracy from second or third order effects than direct measurements.
An entire day goes by and I will have only struggled through 2 problems. TWO PROBLEMS in 1 day.

There's nothing bad about that, especially if you haven't spent half your life focusing on those leetcode type problems. Consider that a typical undergraduate "data structures and algorithms" course runs for a whole semester and doesn't actually (usually) cover that many individual algorithms. You might study one DS / algorithm in one lecture session and then have a few days to spend working on homework involving it.

I forget solutions within hours of learning them.

Fine. You don't really memorize the specific solutions to these things. You internalize the concepts to where you can recreate the solution when you need it. You don't have to remember all of the details, just enough. And that takes practice.

After 1 month of trying to solve problems on leetcode.com, while taking a coursera course ... I am NO BETTER at solving these problems.

A month really isn't that long to spend on this stuff. Give it six months, and if you don't see any improvement, then maybe that tells you something meaningful. But right now, this seems like the equivalent of going to the gym for a couple of weeks and then complaining that you aren't a world class power-lifter yet. It takes time to achieve results.

I need to see improvement, but it's just not happening.

Two things:

1. I'd encourage you to give yourself more time (but keep working hard)

2. Your entire premise might be wrong. Not all jobs require doing leetcode/hackerrank style problems. Now if you're in the SV area, and you're focused on working for trendy startups it might seem that way. But jobs in other areas (the East Coast of the US is where I'm most familiar) don't always, especially if you're willing to work for a company doing something a bit mundane, like retailing auto parts, or life insurance, or something.
Normalisation of guns is part of the problem.
Tesla has over 14,000 cars in inventory. They are not production constrained, which is exactly why they keep dropping prices.
You may find this article helpful in some way: “How to Improve a Legacy Codebase” [0]

[0] https://jacquesmattheij.com/improving-a-legacy-codebase
Microcell for cellular coverage, wifi shouldn’t be a problem since the transmitter is inside and you wouldn’t need to shield interior walls
The most incredible night sky I've seen is on the top of Mt John (there's a small observatory) on the southern island of New Zealand. Mauna Kea wasn't close.

You could see the band of the milky away across the sky. It was like something from Hubble.

There's nothing like looking up in the sky and getting some perspective.
Intuition was that I am ingesting plastic or chemicals that leech out of the plastic when using plastic containers. I don't need evidence as to whether that actually causes harm. I need evidence that it doesn't cause harm. I prefer not to ingest artificial substances unintentionally.
Our Obligation to Add Beings to the World
You are hitting my limits but I'll try.

Payment for order flow means that whoever is getting your orders (schwab/robinhood) is getting paid to send them to a specific market maker: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/

The Market maker is holding lots of securities that they want to sell. They also buy securities (to then sell.) They are trying to make money on the spread, meaning "buy low sell high". Market makers provide liquidity in that their whole goal is to not "invest" but to enable trading by being willing to buy and sell.

As for the actual execution of those trades, that's out of my depth, but someone else may be able to fill in the gap.

> Does that make me uninformed?

I don't think so, I think if you are trading on a strategy that competes with HFT approaches then you would be "uninformed" but to the "average" buy and hold or buy and sell in a few days, all of this shouldn't have a large impact on your bottom line, it should actually enable it.
HIPAA is absolutely to be trifled with. Look up who is actually fined and face actual consequences from HIPAA violations. It is 99.99% big universities, hospitals, and insurance companies. Everyone else gets (at most) a slap on the wrist and has to promise not to do it again. Once in a while they’ll fine a small family practitioner $25k for not shredding papers properly but it’s a total joke.

HIPAA Compliance Services are something for consultants to sell so business owners can sleep at night. It’s like Lisa’s magic rock on the Simpsons that keeps tigers away. Does it work? I don’t see any tigers around here do you?
Have you tried the Pomodoro technique[1] by any chance? If not, it might be worth a shot.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
I'm a Schwab customer and concur w/ positive comments here about high-quality retail customer service, eg for relatively "normal" investors / account holders (ie, 6 figures AUM, not 7+).

But.

It's worth reading Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt" [for several reasons] before nurturing too many warm-n-fuzzies for Schwab or Fidelity or any other mainstream big bank. Maybe you fellow HN readers are more aware than I was, but I'd guess when most of you hear "high-speed trading" you think about performance optimization and interesting technical challenges. It's mind-boggling how blatantly and comprehensively / systematically the financial "markets" have been captured by the interests of a tiny few, who literally steal from pension funds. To say it's rigged is an understatement. Must-read for anyone who thinks they know how Wall St works -- or cares to.
Fuck my job. I make more money than ever but a bunch of chodes want to meet all day. I do NOT like meetings. Pairing is a NIGHTMARE. I’m a hardcore sysadmin, let’s debug some drivers. Instead we run php web apps where I can’t grep.
On Open CASCADE Technology 7.4.0 release page[0] placed screenshot file[1] has name in Russian Transliteration:

rus. `картинки_для_релиза-02_0.png` -> `kartinki_dlya_reliza-02_0.png`

[0] https://www.opencascade.com/content/open-cascade-technology-...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20191003021516/https://www.openca...
Do you have a website that shows what your company is about?
Thank you for sharing this. This is, by far, one of the best comments I have read in a while. I am wondering though. What made you stick around ? Money doesn't necessarily seem to be the motivation here to me.
It's the tech equivalent of seeing a people magazine cover where you recognize none of the celebrity names featured..
Then cat your data to /dev/null because it will blow both Redis and PostgreSQL out of the water when it comes to benchmarks.

Point being they serve very different purposes, it's not about benchmarks.
Wetware autocorrect typo: s/lathe/lath/
Someone I know is a manager at a really large government contractor. They once had a poor engineer sit in another building for 6 months waiting to get his clearance. Poor guy finally quit after sitting at an empty desk reading books.
For it's time (circa 2013/4) it was an absolutely amazing prototyping tool.
You may be describing a support developer role. Reactive to support tickets (internal or otherwise) rather than planned uninterrupted work. Some people enjoy being a support developer, it's not for me and it sounds like it's not for you.
A write is really fast if you don't do it.
There are no long term advantages to closed networks. They either become dead infrastructure or they get converted to the common standard.
Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?
When Microsoft acquired GitHub, there was speculation (and fear on my behalf) that GitHub would end up axing Atom in favor of Visual Studio Code.

Taking a look at the commit activity for Atom on github.com [1] shows that since the end of June 2019, development has basically stopped completely. Does anyone have any insight as to what is happening here? Has GitHub abandoned Atom development?

Before you angrily shout that "Visual Studio Code" is better, or "just use VS code", please recall the current situation with Google Chrome mono-culture. Say what you will about Atom, but (especially in the last twelve months) the product had become very fast and in my opinion, provided a much better user experience that VS code.

[1] https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/commit-activity
Yes, Schwab does allow fractional shares.
Microsoft sells ads, too. They're integrating them into Windows. Microsoft sells everything that Google sells and more.

If Microsoft could have grown Bing as big as Google by doing everything Google did that you distrust, they absolutely would have done so. They would have done it with Windows Phone, too. And they still will, if they can, eventually.

I'm not here to start an argument, just to suggest you re-examine your loyalties if you think Microsoft isn't going to screw you if it makes them $5.
There's more to the story though. In my partner's school district it takes an average of 7 years of supply teaching before you land a full time position. You are making about half as much and get little benefits during that time. So after schooling that's 13 years of preparation for a 64k job.

She also works a lot more than 40 hour weeks and has to deal with some pretty intense stuff.
I am not bitl but my guesses, in order of probability would be:
* using filesystem that is not natively supported on one or both drives, like fuse ntfs on Linux or ext3 on Mac.
* copying over slower network like wifi
* lots and lots of small files especially in a single directory
* usb 2.0
If you believe the movies Spartans were wearing protective hats almost 3000 years ago.
My experience with US Bank is similar. Horrible service.

I’ve been a USAA customer for a while. I get all the benefits OP stated. Would recommend them anytime.
I find software development both emotionally and mentally exhausting. And frankly, quite boring most of the time. I would love to be able to make the same money slinging pizza like I did back in college. The job was trivial enough in complexity that it freed my mind to think about and do other interesting things.
Sure, I get that, but you're not gonna replace all the incompetent people in education with competent ones just by making the relevant degree programs tougher. That's a lot of people. Pay would have to go up, probably quite a bit.
Well there is a statistically (very) significant difference in the (diagnosed) rate of autism between men and women, so it's not so audacious a claim.
And less interference from neighbours' Wi-Fi.
I still don't understand where the money exchanges hands, here. To my understanding, GraphQL is just a query specification. If the money is in hosting, and it becomes moderately successful, they risk becoming Amazon'd.
No doubt stolen by the untrustworthy Andromedites!
I love meteor for small scale project - personal / utility apps and such. I haven't found anything that compares to the efficiency of spinning up a POC app; that being said, in its current form it is horrible for making anything other than that. Real-world products need a more robust solution, and it's my experience that anything written with meteor will likely need to be re-written when it picks up traction
How about if there was a Jeep Wrangler that's actually a motorcycle but still referred to as a Wrangler, and the 4-wheeled Jeep Wrangler gets rebadged as the WranglerQuadro but only for 2 years, then they have a ATV just called "Quadro by Jeep" (not to be confused with the Jeep 4Quadro California Emissions Comploant Edition) that's more like a Microsoft branding exercise.
What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh for heaven sake mankind it’s only four light years away! I’m sorry but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that’s your own regard.
Is this argument equivalent to "You can't say you support single-payer healthcare unless you run a hospital from your garage" or "You can't say you support NASA unless you have an orbital rocket launch pad in your garden"?
I expect it goes through Greenwich, as always!
Day trading stocks is silly. Futures are much better instruments for frequent trading from cost, tax, ease, liquidity, etc.
You could try Google Photos, it can now search text in images: https://9to5google.com/2019/08/22/google-photos-text-search/.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, though not on this product.
If you stick to standards, it should work on Firefox. How nice it would be if some other browsers also played by the rules coughchromecough
> I need to pad my resume a little more to make the work I do more attractive

A word of caution: One of my objectives as an interviewer is to drill into a candiate's resume to see if they actually did what they said they did. Its OK to talk up your accomplishments. But don't claim expertise in language X or technology Y unless you are prepared to answer some questions about it.
All I can say is every time I've been fired it was a huge relief.
Unsupervised Doodling and Painting with Improved Spiral
Yo, git can be used locally. I highly recommend it.
Can we use Brex bank as a bank for Stripe?
You do know that HIPAA violations can land you in jail, right? Run. Don't walk. Vacate immediately. Leave.

I'm finding myself hoping that this is a fake, because I wouldn't wish this situation on anyone at all.
Coalesced Hashing
While you are technically correct, I don't think you should be so dismissive... a majority of Americans are using banks that DONT offer those things, so pointing them out is a good thing for people to hear, and to demand of the bank they use.
Another article on hash table collision resolution from Programming.Guide.
Those still tie up request handlers and connections on the backend side, whereas short request/response requests do not.

Those things can in some cases operationally introduce a lot more pain (e.g. in terms of resource exhaustion) than the additional short lived requests.
Petersonian here:

Testosterone known to raise competitiveness. Perhaps those with higher testosterone that are higher up in the dominance hierarchy just seem like they lack empathy because they have less males to seek approval from.
Quote:

"SIPC protects cash that is deposited with a brokerage firm for one limited purpose….the purpose of purchasing securities,” says Harbeck. “Cash deposited for other reasons would not be protected. SIPC does not protect checking and savings accounts since the money has not been deposited for a protected purpose."

It sounds to me like this would apply to you just as to Robin Hood's ill-fated product. Just saying "we're a broker and cash sweep into a money market fund is what brokers do" doesn't seem like a meaningful argument. Why are you different?
Why would you want to get fired at the limits? Why not talk to your managers or you know resign.. I mean if you get fired you don't get unemployment benefits.. I think you mean you'd rather as to be laid off. Getting fired in the best case means taking a moral position against the company that is righteous... Does being laid off mean you were lazy?
Re: Marquez, if he is merely a poor man with money, why, given the options, should someone want a man who identifies as poor, and still again in spite of having money?

Further, why make the long bet on a guy who got what he wanted and is still unhappy. The "gold digging," accusation seems like sour grapes to me.

If you are newly wealthy but are preoccupied with ideas like this, get thee to a wealth manager who will tie up your money, either in a trust and a directed giving fund, or a some hedge funds with a lock in period, or get you participation in VC funds with people whose judgment you respect.

Seriously, what really smart thing were you planning on doing with it?

If you didn't have a plan, let me introduce you to some yacht brokers, because so long as the boat costs you less than half your net worth, I assure you it's a better financial plan than finding true love.
No kidding! It was mind-blowing to me to be able to create realtime webapp demos w/ so little effort. Inspiring and exciting stuff. Frameworks come and go, but for many, meteor heralded the reactive paradigm in a jaw-droppingly impressive way.
Same experience for me, with some additional positive experiences when we bought our house. Had to go into a branch to wire money for escrow. Was pretty empty, and the person there was super helpful, walking me through everything and making sure I triple checked I was wiring the money to the correct place.

Great experience so far!
I'm totally in agreement with you, and yet I'm still saddened that people fall prey to this trick which they have in their power to fix, by learning to forgive and live together in harmony and piece. The tragedy is how hard it is for people to come together and collaborate in good faith. And when that truth is exploited it's even more sad.
Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
Tell that to Facebook and Apple.
Lots of smaller regional banks pay ATM fees, as they don’t want to run their own fleet of ATMs. And they have local branches when you need it, like for a cashiers check.
You don't want to live within 5 miles of a freeway or major road really..
An antique audiotape was a dispatch from D-Day
Based on what I read, the problem was not which magic words were used, but the nature of the product.
Lovely evening reading, I consumed each word, thank you for the writeup! Third act redemption for you, I believe it.
True. You just get white crust.

When I'm in a hurry, I touch edges of a joint with a slightly damp piece of cotton. A polymerization wave then sweeps through the joint. As I vaguely recall, that's how we used to set polyamide resin for boat repairs.
Schwab is great. Been their customer for more than a decade. I use them for checking, retirement and regular investment. Highly recommend them.
i'm going to be honest with you - if you wrote an app that has never crashed or had a single downtime yet is infinitely/auto scalable based on load, it is either extremely simple, you are a legitimate genius, or you exaggerated. there is just so much that can go wrong there that i'm skeptical, ergo i'm skeptical of other things you wrote.

however, if what you said is generally true, then it's obvious you have some skills gluing stuff together. news flash: this is what a large fraction of people in this industry do on the day to day, it's just that nobody wants to admit it. 90% of my previous software engineering jobs was just figuring out how to get things to talk to each other.

key for you i think will be spinning your skills in a way that makes you attractive.

you'd seem like a good fit as a consultant. clients generally don't care about how you'd write a string matching algorithm from scratch and what the theoretical runtime is in theta notation - they typically appreciate contributions, on deadlines, and clear communication. they pay you to figure out how to make stuff work on a schedule you mutually agree to, and you either give them that and get paid, or don't and don't. put up or shut up, so to speak.

so i'd start there. you have a large pool of knowledge, so just pick whatever interests you the most. then what you think you should get paid per hour, and triple it.

expect 80% to not follow up on leads and 80% to reject your schedule/hourly rate/etc. sort of like interviewing, but at least you're not stooping down to a level of desperation. keep your head up: your skills are worth a large amount of $, so don't take it personally, and don't reduce it just to get scrub-tier work/wages - unless you're legitimately broke, but hopefully after so much working you've got some sort of cushion.
Damn. I meant "buds".
We are not "destroying the environment" and you are not going to "save the environment".

This is childish. Nations which don't have good sanitation systems are dumping garbage into the oceans, as are ships. Your attempt to self-flagellate, or more accurately flagellate others by abstaining from straws does not help or hurt the environment. It does annoy people and cause resentment and blowback that might stop useful engineering solutions, though. It's a type of modern religious ritual meant to absolve yourself of invented sins because you think you have something to do with plastic in the oceans when the real culprits are thousands of miles away.

If you want to clean up the oceans, try to find a way to provide asian and african nations with secure sanitation systems, and to improve the sanitation handling on ships. Container ships are quite dirty also because of the sulfur being burned. Lots of potential solutions that don't have anything to do with personal abnegation -- it may not feel as good, but for that you should go to church or synagogue rather than trying to invent your own eco-shamanism. The environment is improved by engineering solutions and development in the third world, not by acts of personal purity in the wealthy west.
Or just use LibGen like a true Internet patriot.
Schwab got rid of sweeps. Really makes Fidelity a lot more appealing if you keep a lot of cash in there.