skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great thing about the right to modify is that it's a natural right. I can use uBlock Origin and no one can stop me unless they engineer a tyrannical system. Users reverse engineer programs and subvert restrictions because internet companies are notorious for breaking the law or crossing ethical boundaries without paying for it. EULAs often contain illegal clauses, so it's unreasonable to ask people to follow the EULA. At the end of the day users will (barring some Orwellian software restrictions imposed on everyone) do what they want and take whatever liberties they can to browse the internet without restrictions and without tracking if that's what they want. If internet companies didn't want this to happen, they shouldn't have fucked over consumers at every possible opportunity.
Well, then we're fucked... because lots of things that are more convenient in the short term (energy-sucking appliances, plastic packaging, industrial agriculture, fossil fuels, you name it) will contribute to destroying the environment in the (not-so-)long term.
The same reason every show ends. Ratings have dropped off a cliff.
That's a nice meme from LinkedIn but I'm sure there a few other reasons including a better paycheck, flexibility, or even benefits.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra[1]

1. Well, maybe said by him: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/
They recently added splash screens to Instagram and WhatsApp apps which I presume was a step towards smoothly introducing the Facebook company logo to their app brandings with updates soon.
If you don't want people to examine your software then don't give them your software.
You must not be familiar with the drug Onasemnogene abeparvovec. This is administered for spinal muscular atrophy patients. Patiens with SMA have a mutation in their SMN1 gene which causes decreased SMN protein.

Onasemnogene abeparvovec is a biologic drug consisting of AAV9 virus capsids that contains a SMN1 transgene along with synthetic promoters. Upon administration, the AAV9 viral vector delivers the SMN1 transgene to the affected motor neuron, where it leads to an increase in SMN protein.

The point is, while research innovation regarding gene therapy, CRISPR CAS9, etc takes time and money, it IS indeed possible. Your post suggests a type of thinking that stems from an abundance of ignorance.
Is the argument here that Lightning, or Bitcoin, is useless because everyone on earth can not use it at the same time? Isn't that moving the goalposts, even a little?

Even if only a couple of thousand people could use it, as long as it is useful to them it has a niche. It might not be enough to justify insane valuations, of course, but that's another discussion entirely.
This is why I didn't invest in solar yet. Even with subsidies, it looked to me like they would take far more than double the time to pay for themselves than it would for the price to cut itself in half based on current trends. Might as well wait a few years.
does microsoft still match user donations?
External forces (spouse moving, money, other life changes) would be the other big factors. It's going to come down on one side of that fence or the other.
that's indeed not reasonable. who can spend 10k in a year???
Well sure, but it can emulate just about everything else. And if you're depending on the UID not being spoofable, well...

https://www.aliexpress.com/popular/nfc-card-writable-uid.htm...
The Three F's of Open Source Development
In any meeting with more than 2 people, you should have someone take notes and email the group with the notes afterwards. It's extremely helpful in the frequent case when you don't remember what exactly you agreed to.
You might see people rallying for forgiving debt, but not for increasing enrollment, which is what caused high debts in the first place. It s impossible not to call this hypocritical
Thats selective there are fast growing tech hubs with sane cost of living. Austin TX, parts of NC, parts of CO, NoVA.
It's also worth keeping in mind that counties with highest median income are all around DC.
Get married.

Seriously your description of your lifestyle is very similar to how I used to live. I used to spend money on food and going out regularly. I did buy a few expensive items like DSLR camera, PS3, TV, laptop, etc. But it was well below my income.

When I traveled, I went to visit my friends and crashed on their couches.

I think all my expenses added up to less than a 1/3rd of my income.

And it wasn't that I won't get excited about new products, I would read reviews, watch YouTube videos, visit stores for hands on experience but then in the end, I would decide it wasn't worth the hype.

I did spend on experiences like sky diving, but mostly less intense experiences like kayaking, massages, etc. Still there were few and would not make significant dent in my savings.

I just didn't know how to spend money nor I had desire to spend money.

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After getting married, we learned that we had very different view of money. She bought stuff without research. She was totally okay to throw stuff in the back of closet and never touch it again.

I was naturally minimalist without realizing it. Every time I bought something, I not only considered how much it cost, but how space it takes, where it will go, etc.

Initially it was tough but we worked through it and found a compromise. This taught me how to spend money without feeling like that I am wasting it.

I am joking about getting married but here are a few things about spending money I have learned from my wife:

* Go on a nice vacation and stay in a luxury hotel. There is a huge difference in quality of service. They make you feel like a king or queen and that feeling is worth having every once in a while.

* Buy things at full retail price and then if you don't like them, donate instead of selling. Less stress and you feel good about giving. Applies to clothes too.

* Go to your local museums, zoos, art shows.
I remember asking my manager to stop talking over me in a con-call. I was gone within a month
> imagine a term of service that only grants access to a website in exchange for viewing ads

Lets first imagine that the term of service is fully understood by the users. The tracking is explained and understood, the trading of personal data, the auction of targeting advertisement to anyone, the lack of liability in case of malware. In that world it make sense that websites enforce the trade of access in return for all the above.

Until then we have the wild wild west that is online advertisement without regulation, liability or contract between the user and the publisher.
You can now use Azure to manage resources anywhere, including on AWS and GCP
> I don't think the a company should be able to use them to avoid the reputational consequences of their actions.

An interesting point, especially given the notion of their “personhood” in the United States.
> The prices in USA look exorbitant. If a worker works full year for minimum wage, they earn $7.25 * 8 * 253 = $14674. Such worker will have to work for 6 years and 9 months to pay tuition costs for 1 year,

Someone earning minimum wage does not pay the full cost of tuition. In fact, few people ever pay full tuition due to scholarships, grants, aid, and various discounts. Only very affluent families pay the full tuition costs.

Families with low incomes pay well under $10K per year, all included, for even the top colleges.

Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/05/opinion/colum...

Of course, it's all still more expensive than it should be. I don't pretend this system is good, but it's absolutely not true that minimum wage earners are paying $60K+ per year to get college degrees in the USA.
I quit my job because of my manager. There was a policy of instilling fear to gain control. There was also a push to reduce remote work in the company despite the said remote teams performing well.

I quit because the manager was incompetent, but also because the policy was one of instilling fear into employees.
They actually do Apple is investing a billion into Austin campus expansion.
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Guide Informatics is a small, remote-first software consultancy that builds applications primarily for Biotech/Genomics companies. All of our current clients are in the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing space, and our software helps them organize and make sense of their data.

We're looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer with experience building web applications using Python and a modern front-end javascript framework. We use Django and Vue, but for the right candidate specific experience isn't important to us.

This would be a client-facing role with minimal travel requirements (5-10%) and multiple status calls per week with the client(s).

Domain-specific knowledge is not a requirement, but certainly helps. Be prepared to ask a lot of questions and be challenged to understand how the biological entities relate to one another.

Other nice to have skills:

* DevOps (AWS)

* Data Analysis/Visualization

* R

This is a full-time, remote position. If you are a US Resident and can fulfill the client-facing requirements, you can work from wherever you like. Competitive salary with benefits included (Insurance, 401k, PTO, etc).

To apply, please send an introductory email to jordan _at_ guideinformatics dot com.
>Most people will point to the rather absurd salaries that employees of these companies get.

Labor is finally being compensated (somewhat) fairly is what you mean, I think.
Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now
GPS clocks respect local timezone and DST rules?
As the article notes, it's weird Silicon Valley went with a Chilean VC instead of a more direct Saudi VC/Softbank analogue. Would that have been too on the nose?
Why shouldn't a professor make 150k? I mean, from a societal point of view.
If you work for FAANG your kids have to pay full tuition because scholarships vanish when you have $250K or more in annual income.
A lot of it is more valuable to young adults, who are still developing future social, professional, and romantic connections. Once you already have those connections, it's a fundamentally different problem--especially if one of the romantic connections works out and you end up married, maybe even having kids.

And frankly any environment where you put together large numbers of young adults will probably result in "partying" if they have enough time and space to do so. There's a reason that drunken sailors staggering back from shore leave are a centuries-old cliche.
If that's the case, it's a privilege afforded to about 50% of each year's students (Germany, presumably it's not much different for our neighbours). For people who don't qualify due to their high school education, there are opportunities to gain access later in life, and people who did that make up about 30% of each year's university students.

Obviously, nothing is perfect.

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiturientenquote_und_Studiena...
Glassdoor is less reliable than the actual data the state provides in transparent california.

Also Glassdoor doesn't count benefits which are almost half the salary.
As much as I agree with you, the harsh reality is that the people who do choose the money end up having disproportionate influence over how the world operates. Money buys power.

It's sort of like finding honesty in politics. The reason politicians are dishonest is because it works.

It's just a bug in society, I guess.
like myself and most people on this site, you're probably a hyper-rational engineering type.

I think you're both engaging in and are affected by mythologizing and branding right in your comment so perhaps neither you nor the people you're referring to are as 'hyper-rational' as you imagine. I doubt anyone is particularly emotionally engaged by Slack's inoffensive hipster-corporatist design language and for a work tool, that's probably both intentional and about right. Vim, on the other hand, is one of the closest things programmers have to a full-on impractical fashion trend, a sort of aspirational zoot suit. There are even special ribbons for the pork pie hat:

https://github.com/powerline/powerline
The practice that this student engaged in is called “arbitrage” - taking a thing that is undervalued and finding its true value.

Kristy Kreme undervalued their product, which made it ripe for arbitrage. If not this student, it would have been Uber Eats or some other delivery service.
Sweden needs to be more tolerant of different cultures and ways of expressing your feelings. Not everyone is as calm and collected as the Nords.
Grazie: Spelling, grammar, and style checker for IntelliJ IDEA
People saying you just need a high school diploma and their are no standardized tests are misleading the issue.

There are STRICT entrance requirement - basically tied to your Abitur or similar. This means big waitlists if you are not a top scoring (on Abitur). European systems DO have exams and they can be pretty high stakes for classes. There are lots of quotas - as should be obvious given the education is free.

"The remaining places not reserved for the aforementioned advanced quota groups are filled following the Abiturbestenquote, i.e. applicants with the best higher education entrance qualification grades, and Wartezeitquote, applicants with the highest amount of accumulated wait semesters. The admission criteria within the selection process of institutions of higher education (Auswahlverfahren der Hochschulen, AdH) are set by the universities and institutions themselves according to the respective state law and their own requirements. Therefore, the AdH is not an additional application and admission procedure, but only one of several quotas."
The alternative to zoning isn’t to let anyone do whatever they want, it’s a planning permission process. Where I am, if you own a building that has permission to be a cafe, you can convert it to a shop easily but you can’t convert it to a pub without getting further planning permission.

The trick is there’s nothing in particular stopping someone obtaining planning permission to open a cafe or shop or pub or barber or gambling establishment near people’s homes, as long as there’s an argument it’s good for the community.

The result of this is that I live within 10 minutes’ walk of nearly everything I need, from a supermarket to my doctor.
How does this differ from filepizza?
Yes, fwiw your high school level is determined at the end of primary school based on your teachers' recommendations and a standardized test. But there is quite some mobility possible between high school levels.
Trump Serves Notice to Quit Climate Accord, as Diplomats Plot to Save It
Were you fired or did you quit?
Which state schools have out-of-state tuition rates north of 100k a year? Not all of them, that's for sure. U of Chicago is notable for how expensive it is, meaning that virtually any other option is a cheaper option, almost certainly including out of state tuition in another state.

> "particularly if you'd like to stay in one geographical region."

A luxury I can scarcely comprehend...
Stop deflecting from the problems with your posts using a persecution claim, which is orthogonal to the objection by dang. Puffing up your chest with self-righteousness about the "right-libertarian" bias of the news guidelines doesn't fix your bad commenting.
The perception I had was that it wasn't just the lots-of-small-files use case, but the worst case combination of the impedance mismatch in NTFS versus Posix-expected (and thus emulated on top of NTFS) file ACLs, locking strategies, and cache flushing.

Using Git for Windows directly versus git inside a WSL space has night and day performance differences, but the number of small files is consistent between the two.
Great question -- all of the hashes we included in the package have been public for years (except for PDQ, which was open-sourced this year). So this package doesn't reveal anything new with respect to the algorithms themselves. What we add is an easy path to using at least one of them for the CSAM hashing / matching use case. Non-public perceptual hashes for this use case exist and, naturally, are not available in the package.
There are a whole set of disciplines which are effectively systems-management knowledge or training (or to use older terms: science and arts or technology). Business administration, government administration, clerical studies (in the sense of religion), military science. These are domains of large, complex, and idiosyncratic systems -- both amongst disciplines and within them -- in which there are both general and specific sets of knowledge.

There are elements of business administration which are fairly generalised, and those which are specific to given organisations. Keep in mind that in business management as with technology, there's an advantage for large incumbents (think, early 20th century, railroads, chemical industry (especially DuPont), oil, steelmaking, automobile manufacturing, and a few major retail ventures) of stamping a business school with your own process, methods, and models, such that graduates are prepared to enter your own rather than competitors' workforces. An early form of the mindshare battle.
If you are working a lot with databases, and would like to automate some of the workflow in python, I'd highly recommend Pony ORM, which really feels like LINQ for python, and feels very close to the original SQL.
Alternatively, earning as much money as possible and donating most of it will probably leave a greater positive impact than using your skills directly to impact the greater good, unless your skills are correctly aligned.
I found a calculator online, but it did not like my values.

What does 5000 hours at 125% rated DC voltage translate to in normal use?
This was on NPR today, and they glanced at it, but really, the elephant in the room, sitting on top of the housing issue, is fucking transportation.

I have turned down no less than FOUR positions in the last few years for one reason: they were in Sunnyvale, and there was no way I would move back to Sunnyvale, and there is no way to commute to Sunnyvale on any semblance of efficient public transportation.

Fuck Sunnyvale.

But more largely; fuck the state of transportation in silicon valley as a whole. BART is a joke, cal-train is a joke, Amtrak is a joke, buses are a joke.

Not everyone is a Tesla driving google employee who could give a shit about how people actually need to move about to make the whole economy work here.

If tech companies actually had the best interests of the long term viability of silicon valley in mind, housing is nothing without the ability to get around efficiently. And cars ain't it.
>The government has announced a 34-point plan to combat the violence, including measures making it easier for police to search homes and read encrypted phone messages.

Of course they did. Couldn't let a tragedy go to waste.
You got it already! Imagine if most of that first payment went to the buyer's equity instead of interest.
Do you mean that the website is not available outside of the U.S.? "The Farthest" is also on Netflix, but I don't know about non-US availability. It's also available for rent/purchase on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu3kuUB1sOQ. If all else fails, it's available on DVD -- I bought two copies myself so I can loan it to friends without worrying about it being lost.
I had a problem where there was some fixed width data in a sql database - basically someone put mainframe data in a database.

There were 3 fields that had multiple entries in them, fixed width delimited. I had to split the fields by width and re-combine them, then also recombine them with another set of data with weird delimiters and rules.

It took a day and half (not full time) to figure it out in python. I can't even imagine tackling the problem in a non-repl language.
Who said anything about affording it? You can just pay interest on it for the rest of your life. /s
That's cool because it means you can actually do that if your manager is bad. In some countries there are no jobs so all you can do about having a bad manager is... nothing.
IMO this is not really about hiring, the hiring aspect is just a temporary workaround for a broader policy/technical challenge.

Namely, how to maintain your overall organization and software-stack while internally isolating data-flows and rules which are unique to different jurisdictions.

Even if today it's some potential client expressing general concern, tomorrow it might be something you can't simply ignore, like an EU privacy law that must be complied with to avoid dropping a bunch of customers. (Or a demand by Elbonian officials for an account that lets their secret police snoop on Elbonian business, but hopefully that one would be resisted.)
If this is a government created and continuously maintained issue then it would seem that they should be as far away from any relief effort as possible.

They don't want affordable housing. If they do start wanting it then relief funding won't be necessary.
> a.map(g).map(f) ≣ a.map(x => f(g(x)))

> But the one on the left will be slower and use a lot more memory.

Is it really true?
I mean, GC will clean the intermediate array, won't it?
And the speed won't be significantly slower.
It's still linear complexity anyway.
I don't think anyone implied that Facebook et al. tried in earnest to sway the election. Facebook execs endorsed candidates and donated money to campaigns or PACs but that's the routine for any company that has a stake in politics. If Facebook wanted to, they could invisibly change the content recommendation algorithm on facebook dot com to only show negative news about the wrong candidate (or 90% negative) and only show positive news about the right candidate. They could have also made up excuses to ban right or left wing figures from facebook dot com. Stuff like that is possible to accomplish and get away with, but Zuckerberg was merciful to us this time.
There are a lot of people over 40 in tech and some of them are ignorant. They try to manage something they don't know or can't fully understand. I think that's one of the reasons.
Billionaires have plenty of ways to fight with other billionaires. Disinformation gives them an advantage over the very large number of non-billionaires.
Sweden here, we have different quotas. They need to be balanced but for specialty more art based programs like architecture they might involve auditions or similar.

All programs have requirements, to take a STEM program you need to have calculus, physics and similar from high school. If you don't have it there's generally a system to study for a year to pass those courses, allowing you to change track.

The entrance is then essentially. (Checked my program)

1. 66% based on high school grades

2. 34% on a SAT/ACT like test.

The test is different though, no essays or other subjective stuff. It essentially has two parts both multiple choice, one testing language and one testing logic. Score is assigned by bell curve of all takers. Generally not as good predictor of student suitability as grades but allows people who just barely passed high school due to lack of motivation, issues at home and similar to still have a chance getting into their dream career if they are smart enough.

You can generally with really high motivation study for the test and raise your score a bit, not hugely though, and having that motivation is another predictor for success studying so works itself out.