skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However fast you make it, the same effort would have made it that much faster again in a performant language.

If you're trying to make something go 'really fast' these days, that means either (a) some kind of vectorization, or (b) pushing work onto a GPU. In either case Python is unlikely to perform meaningfully worse than any other language, since the host language isn't doing much anyway.
The core of your argument here seems to be that paying for things that explicitly aren't necessary for an education (like sports) are simultaneously a necessity for education. I don't see how you'd get that past a logician.

$2.5k/year is very low but it is within the realm of the possible. An above commentor pointed out that elementary school students cost ~$10k/year and they require constant supervision and more contact hours than a university student.
Yes it is? Yes it is!
50 startups in 2-4 words https://www.indiehackers.com/post/say-what-your-startup-does...
this comment wins the thread. so apropos.
All the world is a stage

Everything you do in work is a performance for an audience. Know your audience (it's probably not your actual customers), and know what they are looking for
Exibitionist445 likes that.

Seriously it is probably not restricted to dating sites, but information about sexual orientation and preference is especially worth it to marketeers. Not just products but also media companies that might like to know how to cater to specific audiences and their needs.
Sadly the developer will play dumb and Apple will do nothing about it. Seen that, been there, nothing has changed ever. The only recourse is to disable notifications for that particular app.
‘Living robot’ developed by scientists using frog embryos
How to create an instant API with your spreadsheet
Ask HN: Why are Americans always the good guys in video games?
In some European countries, it's quite common for senior developers to be contractors, while managers to be full time employees. The contractors tend to make more than the people who manage them.

Also, in many professional sports, coaches make less than the members of the team they coach.
This is painfully on point where I currently am.
The school probably already has a fat internet pipe, too. Maybe this is the kind of thing a town would want to finance for a short period of time. Maybe you set it up as a co-op with the town? What a fun idea, lol.
Donation to the sum of 15,600 US dollars. From the article:
"Backblaze was started in my living room on Jan 15, 2007 (13 years ago tomorrow) and that represents $100/month for every month Backblaze has depended on libcurl back to the beginning." -- Brian Wilson, CTO of Backblaze

Very good solution.
Perhaps I’m naive, but given Grindr’s very vulnerable user population I expected more...
TL;DR:

- 80% of iOS 13 users disabled background location tracking
- vendors still report having collected more location-based data than a year before, but
- the quality of data has decreased (vendors are ofsetting GPS data with geo ip lookups)

I didn't find the UX and the initial permission/notification spam that annoying, as I've learned more about what's happening on my phone. Wondering if this is a shared sentiment or just my bias.
With their multiple-choice questions, OkCupid has a lot of in-depth personality data that is a total privacy nightmare if leaked to anyone. And therefore very valuable. Things like diet, sleeping habits, sexual preferences, religious and political alignment, addictions, everything really.
But are they being detonated? /s
I've read plenty of comments about this article the last few days, it has made the rounds in popular sites, and the verdict is the same as the author's.

What's surprising is that no one sees the elephant in the room: the problem with coding is that the abstractions available in coding are the same one offered by operating systems: files, processes, threads, mutexes, sockets etc. These are the wrong types of abstractions for the majority of cases!!!

What we should have instead is data, functions, events and channels.

If we had that, then we wouldn't need to have articles about 'no code', we wouldn't need visual programming tools.

The abstractions we have now only get in the way of programming. They make development really slow. If we had the set of abstractions mentioned above, it would have been a lot easier to create solutions!

I am not saying that the abstractions we have now are totally useless; they are not, of course, because they allow us to make things, but they aren't what we need in most cases.
In the case of Debian, the Debian official policy was for a long time to explicitly unbundle everything, which for many things amounted to sabotage. Things like rvm were born of distributions unusable packages.
> Regarding the family conundrum I would say that the four children should get an equal amount unless there is a very severe reason not to do so.

There's also evidence from the Talent vs luck model that doing so must be the most beneficial strategy to maximize the potential benefits of their talent. It shows that giving opportunities among all players is a superior strategy to giving more resources to those who have performed better so far.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-...
Clients only care about getting their job done.

Past work portfolio, companies you've worked with, your qualifications - give it 2mins max, then spend the rest of the time talking about their project.
That old software is full bugs, they've just figured out to work with them.
> Google has the same thing, and with apple if you care you can opt out.

I'm not on Android any more, but (afair) you could reset the advertising ID, which in practice is not that different from only being able to disable it temporarily.
Thats the point you're arguing?
But wouldn't it help the non technical user more if Magento, Shopify etc supported the much more widely used standard of xlsx? Then people don't have to find out what UTF-8 even is. Library support for reading Excel docs is pretty good now, isn't it?

I wish Excel did support csv better, but we are in the .001% of Excel users who even know that it doesn't do a good job.
Modern physics assumes symmetry and then searches for models which fit observations under the constraint of symmetry. However, we are starting to wonder whether the symmetries truly exist. Time, charge, parity, position, momentum; we hope that they have symmetries.
There's plenty of space in the UK for housing. Just go up in a plane to look. The greenbelt curtails sprawl, and inflates housing value.

I don't think low-density has to even be that bad. Dumping the inner/town city road network would be a huge boon, freeing that space for green leafy walk/cycle/scooter/ways and parks.
Coincidentally, I've just heard Milton Friedman talk about "Health Care in a Free Market". Fascinating and eloquent.

He argues that the FDA did more harm than good, and that society would be better off without a governmental supervision for health care in general.

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6t-R3pWrRw

btw, in the end he makes a strong argument for negative income tax. This surprised me, as my model of his world-view was apparently more simplistic that it ought to be.
When I had my pickup truck, friends would ask me for help in moving fridges when moving between rentals. Typical payment was beer and pizza so not too bad.
> Lightning cables are more popular than USB-C cables at this point. If I'm at a party or something usually someone has an iPhone cable, USB-C, not so much.

Of all the people in the local LGBT center, zero had a lightning cable available, one had a microUSB cable (with USB-C adapter), and everyone else (> 2 dozen) only had USB-C cables, when a person with iPhone asked if anyone had a charging cable.

So maybe in the US, where due to higher wages (even if the percentage of income that's disposable is the same) people have higher disposable income, people buy iPhones. But from what I've seen in Germany, almost everyone has Android.
Not the parent, but the fragment in question explains how the so-called mundane pleasures give no permanent satisfaction and that one should instead focus on the true meaning of life, which the text defines as the deepest level of consciousness that is present in the three modes of being (being awake, dream, and deep dreamless sleep).
Pragmatic Solution: Implement a federal tax on data use.
>The members of Away’s board say they feel as if they fell victim to management by Twitter mob.

Interesting times. Social media is dictating countries, and companies governance. Of course, before internet there was media (newspaper etc) which used to do that.

But in these times people or rather mobs have got that power - for better or worse.
I'd assume it's essentially through the supply of "eurodollars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
does Plaid actually "screen scrape" though? I thought they did the same thing (use the banks API's)
Eurodollar
My Google Pixel 1 stopped getting even security updates recently, and it's the last flagship Google phone with headphone port.
ASCII art TCP/IP diagrams as code (2008)
And wolves howl. My childhood friend played the trumpet and their dog always started howling with him.
The Mexican short film "La Graduacion" is about a newly graduated doctor shaken down on his drive to his first position:

https://www.pbs.org/video/la-graduacion-pzk2mf/
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I find the programming part Ok. It's the meetings and constantly being interrupted by managers that sends me batty.
It's often about time instead labor for those not self-employed though.

Time has a universal ceiling for us humans and is the ultimate boundary
You are not alone - nobody can. I'm struggling to find just anybody to talk about these problems.

How photons are formed? IMHO, FTL speed is required to form a photon.

How photons are consumed? Can we make a macro model for this?

Can we cool/condensate/warm up vacuum? How this will affect speed of light?

What will see if we will zoom in to zoom level below Planck scale?

How long photon can travel? 100B years? 100T years? What will happen at EOL? Where lost energy is going?
With end-to-end encryption in GUN, what role does the server play? I assume the merging type activity happens in the clients?

BTW, the name makes it almost impossible to search for info about GUN.
True! I'm glad too they decided not to implement web notifications, and keep to their word about it.
> the prospect of peer-to-peer editing with end-to-end encryption is an exciting one

Have you heard of CryptPad ? Not exactly peer-to-peer but has encryption so that the server sees nothing.
This post may also help those who are looking to get their Product Manager job at Google: Preparing for the Product Management Interview at Google : https://www.productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/inte...
The NYT’s headline literally contains the conditional used by Lessig: “If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret”
I think a dating app (especially the ones which have vulnerable groups like Grindr in this case) should never be ad supported. OkCupid also has a lot of detailed data about users and that getting leaked to third parties is absolutely horrible.
That is the reason the world is burning. Instead of running from where you don't see it, run to attack where you do see it.

It's better to fail as a good person than to succeed as a charlatan, and a bit of money can't plaster over the faculties of the mind drying up, among that the ability to resist charlatans in other contexts, including the political. "Business sophistry" is simply sophistry, brownnosing your boss is just brownnosing, and either you feed sophistry and naked emperors, or you don't. Everybody has "reasons", but more importantly, every day new people come into the world, and they deserve a clean shot at life more than crooked people deserve respect and comfort. Save your soul, you just have the one.

> Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

-- Kant
My grandmother was killed by an FDA approved drug, so my experience is that sometimes the current system is not conservative enough.

What's worse, the company reportedly knew about the danger of the drug, and didn't tell anyone.

Eventually the drug was removed from the market, but not before hurting thousands of people.

This particular story is about Baycol (1), but perhaps, while reading this, you may have been thinking about another similar story. It's happened many times.

If "medical conservatives" can help prevent this from happening even one time, they are creating something of value. I think it's ridiculous to claim, as GP did, that protecting people from harm does not "generate anything of actual value".

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/business/papers-indicate-...
Scientists Have Built the First-Ever Robots Constructed Out of Only Living Cells
I think it's an expansion on Matrix's blue pill red pill analogy, except black seems an even more forceful and grim color than red.
This thread is bleak.
I have a wallet attached to the back of my phone and it's the only thing I carry. Makes it tough to forget / not realize it missing since I need it so frequently.
Combined with the enormous levels of NIMBYism in the UK, it's amazing anything gets built at all.
3DBuzz was an educational subscription service website, launched in 2002 or thereabout; it offered what they at the time called Video Training Modules, mainly on DCC software (Autodesk products, etc.) and content creation for games. They had a lot of free content, too. In the beginning, if I remember correctly, videos were available for download and shipping (CD). Later, they implemented a video player; I cannot remember if they removed the option to download at that point. The site evolved and a community formed. They started offering programming tutorials. At its height, it was the best site for learning UDK (back when Unreal Engine had a hefty license fee UDK was the free version). The community was in decline for a long time before the death of its founder. One of their most prolific instructors now works at Epic Games. Over the years, many community members have credited 3DBuzz for their current employment.
generally speaking, if you quit or were fired you would not be eligible for any unemployment assistance. it's different state to state, but quit is your decision, and 'fired' is usually for something negative/bad. I've been 'laid off' - terminated but it was reported as no fault of mine - and received unemployment assistance - this has happened to me twice.

the 'ejector seat savings' the GP was referring to just means 'have enough savings that you can walk away from any situation if you want to'. GP probably wasn't meaning 'walk away from all work forever'. I can say in my case even when I qualified for unemployment assistance, it was pretty small, and took a couple weeks for me to even get a check, then another few days for the check to clear. Mind you this was 15 years ago - the situation might be 'faster' now, but... having savings now means I wouldn't care one way or another, but at the time, I had very little, and it panicked the heck out of me not having a 'regular check' coming in.

25 years ago, I was earning... about $700/week. The upper cap on unemployment assistance paid out around... $300/week (and I didn't even qualify for the full amount, IIRC). I had been earning $700/week, but then had to wait close to 3 more weeks to get a check from the state for around $200. It wasn't close to a sustainable situation.
I disagree. FDA have set guidelines for clinical trials and moral standards to it. For an example you cannot experiment on a person without their consent and you have to state out what your trials is doing. It all lay out. It's because of Tuskegee syphilis experiment that we have IRB and FDA.

FDA also love stating that they prevented a drug that causes birth defect a while back unlike Britain.

Another example of government regulation working is cars. Death relating to car crashes have fallen every year with safety regulations.

It's not perfect but there are many cases that it works and there are laws and rules set in place.

The free market is not the panacea for everything.
In the case of Openreach in the UK, the majority of subscriber lines carry PPPoE traffic over VLAN 101 which is bridged on the modem to the consumer equipment.

There's also an additional VLAN 301 for TR069 management traffic, which is used by the HG612 modems (and possibly others) that Openreach used to enjoy flinging at all VDSL subscribers. The modem itself claims an IP address in this VLAN.

Although usually hidden from the end-user, it's actually surprisingly easy to drop yourself onto VLAN 301 even with the HG612 and get an IP address on that management network. I imagine that this is the kind of way that modem exploits become dangerous if they are indeed routable on networks like this.
This is actually frustratingly common with off-the-shelf ERP 'integrations'. Things like courier labelling software come to mind as culprits. And you are stuck between trying to get UPS to fix a system that they give away free, or training sales operators to write addresses properly.

I love the ones that present a REST api but still can't handle commas, because they have wrapped some ancient importer in a front end that simply writes the request data to a csv! I had to write one once, but I double quoted all fields and had to translate UTF-8 back to some other standard the old ERP used! It was junk, but I believe is still chugging away years later...
> Say the model outputs 90% chance of nothing, 10% chance of a deadly condition that needs to be investigated ASAP. Doctors are often overworked and tired and can miss it. Knowing where the certainties and uncertainties of the model lies would allow the doctor to compare that to its own training "Ah but it didn't at all judge based on X and Y" and limit decision machine based on "trusting the algorithms".

Spot on. Personally, I always enjoy Alex Kendall and Yarin Gal's writing on the topic, for example:

https://alexgkendall.com/computer_vision/bayesian_deep_learn...
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How would this work? E.g. how do you audit whether such a tax is properly paid? What precisely would be taxed?
Many of those who probably should know or who give the impression that they know, dont actually know or even want to know how the sausage is made. This can be both a good and a bad thing.

"Ignorance is a bliss."
CSVlint: A Ruby gem to validate CSV files and check their syntax and contents
I remember reading that people used to believe that your whole dream happened in the few seconds before you woke up. Would be interesting if that was actually close to the truth.
Yeah, selling TO law firms is very lucrative, I know a story (second-hand) where some lawyers had learned word / excel macro programming to organize their own case work (esp. with regard to appeals, deadlines and reference management etc.) and then started to sell it to their peers.
Testing Service Worker with the Performance API
Why not? But do your research first on why there is only one big player and why it's expensive. Especially if the problem looks somehow simple.
Check if there are legal requirements, uptime or support promises and so on.
Just an example; you may need to compensate a client couple of millions every so often because of some wrong calculation or a 15 mins downtime in some industries.
I don't think most people particularly care about this to be honest
Excel is slow?

which other mainstream spreadsheet software is capable of handling hundred of thousands rows as fast as excel?
I believe you have to be involuntarially let go (i.e., fired or downsized) in order to collect unemployment. If you depart of your own decision, including them talking you into doing so, you do not get to collect unemployment.
OMG. Until now I didn't realize Cobol is more popular than Haskell and Delphi. I had just read there are ~2.5 Cobol programmers left in the world, who are old like Gandalf, enjoy ridiculously high salaries and can't retire because nobody learns Cobol any more while the world needs somebody to maintain those legacy systems that still run its economy. While Delphi used to be the PHP of the desktop world until very recently (and could hardly be expected to decline so fast) and Haskell seems to be the computer science lingua franca.
US actor Mark Hamill deletes Facebook account over ad policy
And unfortunately it's difficult to scale your work. You get paid for the hours you put in, and there's only so many hours. Of course, if you're lightning fast you could increase volume, but that's about it.

I know lots of people in trade jobs that make a good salary, not too far away from what their company engineers make - but the downside is that they work 12 hour days, 6 days a week to earn that kind of money. While the engineer has a cushy 8 hr workday, 5 days a week.

Work and overtime culture completely depends on the owner. I've been at shops where you were expected to work OT every single day. Start 7, 30 mins lunch 12, 45 min dinner around 3-4, then back to work and keep working until 7-8-9 in the evening. repeat. 6 days a week, sometimes 7.

It's one of the few places where people have pissing matches over who's worked the most. Guys would come in and brag about only getting 3 hours of sleep, or working 16 hr days the whole week. Weird culture.
Thanks for the blog post, for the thoughts yes, but also for teaching me the word “spruik”!

PS I hope you’ve found or are finding a new and rewarding area to work in.
I'm at a loss as to how to respond to a comment that basically says "It's better to let someone die than do something for them that might have a less than optimal outcome."

This flies in the face of every moral rubric I have ever heard. When faced with a choice between certain death and possible death, possible death is the better bet.

The entire world seems to know this if you are in imminent danger of dying. It seems to forget it when you are dying more slowly.

It's actually amazingly horrifying to have such a condition and listen to other people justify doing (essentially) nothing for you because they imagine there is some better answer around the corner or something when you are going through absolute hell every single day of your life right here, right now.

For the record, I have a diagnosis of atypical cystic fibrosis. I am speaking from first-hand experience. This isn't remotely hypothetical for me.
> Consultants are paid to be a straw man parrot. You tell their coworkers what your contact wants them to hear, so that they can blame it on you if their idea goes wrong.

I'm not sure I follow. Is "you" the consultant in the above scenario? A consultant is hired to pitch the idea of someone who's hired them, to the person's who's hired you colleagues. If the idea ultimately falls through, the person who's idea it was originally gets to shift blame on you. Oh, ok. While writing this I figured out what you meant by straw man parrot.
Because, as an English speaker, most video games you play are of American origin.
Of course, I could have just checked myself. Highly appreciated!
Very cool, thank you. I will try it out.
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Hah, coincidence or inspiration? We'll never know (perhaps we'll know if we ask). Anyways, thank you!