skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I classify those as interesting and constructive ;>

Especially compared to the hyperpartisan uberpolarized shit-tier level insults that people try to hurl at "them".
Ask HN: My career is over before it started, what next?
Greetings HN, I am a math researcher and programmer who is not able to get a job or funding in my area of expertise. I was ostracized from university and given a "respect violation" because I asked a woman on a date in an email. Now I'm not able to find any way to get funding for continuing my research and career.

My current plan is to just keep learning and working on my math research and software frameworks, but I have no idea how to actually move my career forward.

Github: https://github.com/chakravala

In today's society, it's impossible for a math interested person like me to make money or have a career it seems. The only thing that matters to the outside world is not having a degree, so I'm worthless to everybody who funds research or pays people for mathematical software.

My only plan is to keep working on my research independently, until I am able to find some funding or career options related to math and programming.
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GCC 7.4.0 sadly misses certain C++ features (filesystems) and does not correctly support others (template argument deduction). I'm waiting for 20.04 to hopefully bump GCC to something newer…
Technological interdependencies predict innovation dynamics
Pretty happy I've detached a bit. I completely quit news a year ago. Actively change the radio station when any mention of politics comes up. To the point that I didn't know there was an impeachment trial until a couple months in. I don't know or even want to know at this point whether that is over or what the outcome was. Same for brexit, the muller investigation, etc. And I feel much better about life now.

Finally unblocked some news sites to follow the covid story, and a year away really worked. It's so nice to see all the political headlines and not be interested any more than if they were Hollywood or whatever else I'm not into.
Afaik all they've done is barred non-students/staff from the dining halls. There might be other precautions being taken that I'm not aware of, however.
Because (as is argued elsewhere in this thread), large airlines could buy up all slots and then not operate flights on them, starving their would-be competitors of opportunity to create a basis for themselves.
Looks like there are a lot of companies deploying clinical trials to test existing antivirals already.

The NIH and all are likely already researching this strain, and importantly they're also funding labs in universities nationwide (since there's no reason to expect that a team of scientists who come up with the insights needed to find a cure would happen to already work for the government).

The government tends to be really good at getting things with clearly defined goals done, and they're good at rapidly scaling any work that needs massive funding an institutional support. But finding a cure for a viral infection is more of a creative task (and not a task that is important enough to be worth it likely - vaccination and preventative measures are probably more important and more feasible to implement since they don't necessarily require a scientific breakthrough).
Archiving data to LTO Tape for long term storage and backups
Try 700 years.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...

Betting against rate decreases in the long term is likely a terrible financial decision.
The 2008 GFC was a good opportunity invest in hindsight because for a period of time stock prices were low and the economy recovered within a few years.

However today stock prices only 12%~ off all time highs and some are predicting prolonged stagflation.
I see, there was a similar drop in 2018. So not really that great of a fall.
Yes but not many of those are not updated regularly, and the content is sometimes very thin and not written well and doesn't have sources for various claims.
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Chris Lattner is now at SiFive, FWIW.
Also same age. I was big into Quantum Link in the 80s. Remember Mosaic and Gopher. Very late to Facebook and ended up deleting. Never joined Instagram or Twitter. Or MySpace. Who is Casey Niestat?
It's hard to objectively calculate how large the impact from corona virus will be and how it has affected the supply chain. Additionally, this could be a black swan event that could become a catalyst, this is not an isolated event and it will send a shockwave across the markets.

The losses in earnings as well as the reduction of consumption are hard to estimate, they need to be priced in into the stock's price which might be currently undervalued or overvalued. The idea is that no one knows exactly what the prices should look like. You might go for the S&P yield and end up losing 20% in the short term because of the price tanking.

The point is that investors like certainty, that's why some are holding cash or even a mix of bonds, cash and gold. They might prefer lower yields than S&P and more certainty.
The dividend yield doesn't matter (alone). The more common way to return cash to shareholder's is via buybacks.

The actual 'yield' of the market should thus be calculated as div yield + buyback yield, giving the investor yield, which is what intellectually honest people should compare to treasury yields.
What about discouraging people from buying more than they need? If masks are 3x the regular price, I’ll probably try to buy just enough rather than buying twice as many as I need.
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The op addressed this issue with their comment about selling 1-5 year leases.
Is this article being slightly over-dramatic? I would've thought most of these planes carry a significant amount of cargo, which likely has increased since there are fewer passengers and more room, and there might also be more remote/online purchasing as of recent.

Or is that not really a factor here?
Yes. Privacy reasons. Sometimes privacy is about consent, and I do not consent to sharing the blogs that I follow.
Airlines (and other businesses with very high fixed costs) can be profitable if there’s enough consolidation in the industry. Otherwise they get into price war death spirals with no way out.
And there was many people putting food on the table by hauling ice, but neither of those things should impair progress.
Nice! Seems to be a good way to find text-heavy news sources on any given topic. Thanks!
The people downvoting you actually have never paid any attention to airline profits. In USA the deals with pilots' unions are set up to transfer all profits to senior pilots. In many other nations it's more important that the "flagship" airline appear impressive than that taxpayers not be fleeced.
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It's also lead to unprecedented investment and development of drugs for rare diseases. Some 45% of drugs approved last year are for rare diseases.

The key with those is that high pricing let's those rare disease drugs be blockbusters - you can still make enough money in a disease with only a few thousand patients in the US if you're able to charge whatever you want.

We've seen less interest in drugs that can't be blockbusters because the costs have gone up, yes, but we also haven't had another thalidomide yet
Looks like Kevin James' youtube channel will blow up to at least 1 million subscribers soon. Get in before it hits 100K subscribers now:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9k23HZ1xMiqxf4gFfmxr5w

I also think there's a vacuum that needs to be filled when it comes to Youtube and the creator community. There is way too much frustration from creators about demonetizing, and having to walk on eggshells so they don't trigger warnings and red flags. I don't know what it will be, but I wouldn't be surprised if something blows up in this space.
It's because our justice system is an instrument of the wealthy. It works for them with little friction, and it doesn't work for most people without disrupting our lives, or even ruining them (e.g. bails and bonds that most people can't afford to pay).
Entirely agreed. But the previous study was a self-reported observational analysis, with appproximately 300 (German) participants.

I'm not defending the study in general, but the context of the research is somewhat important.
Firefox/Brave are not 'private' when you compare them to something like ungoogled chromium(With UB origin &umatrix) or other firefox variants.

We're talking about privacy as the primary concern and not usability/features.
Maybe they made a cost/benefit analysis along the lines of "If we mess with 10 potential partners we may lose one or two, but the gains of completely fucking one over make it completely worth it".

It's something I probably wouldn't do because the risk is too high, but I wouldn't be quick to assume the contract manager decides on his behavior based on feelings towards new companies.
The included textbook is _really_ good introduction to systems programming. I highly recommend taking a look if you are interested in kernel programming or interaction between OS.
So, cutting through your negativity, it's worth money? Whether or not you like it is one thing, but it inarguably has a monetary value.
Bonds are a commited fixed return, which means the value of bond goes up if the going rate for new bonds goes down.

Thus bonds can be much more profitable than stocks when the marketing is going down. The central bank will drop rates, and thus any holder of existing bonds gets to sell their old bonds for more, maybe much more.

Of course this is not the big driver for bond demand. Rather bonds are demanded by money managers who are not allowed to take any risk. Think banks, and especially central banks.

Said money managers want to never-ever lose so much as a dollar of principle. They are not paid to maximize total return, but rather to manage this pile of money in such a way to never let it shrink.

You'll see this set of incentives all over the world if you know where to look: money which is not expected to be invested.

Think of mega-corp's payroll. Every month they need to pay X large number of dollars by the end of the month. Missing payroll by 1% would be such an incredible disaster it would lead to lawsuits. So big-corp does the sensible thing, and keeps the money in a money-market fund. Said money-market fund in-turn holds various short-term bonds (1 year or less).

Who borrows money for only 1 year or less? People who have a little bit of their own money with which to take risk and want to turn around and borrow longer term.

Bit by bit money which needs to be 100% safe, gets lent its way up the value chain until you reach end users.

My favorite example of this is how the large Japanese REITs finance themselves. These REITs will have a relationship with a single major bank. One might expect that since they have a special relationship said bank will provide all financing: but they do not. Instead the REIT borrows floating-rate loans from 10+ banks, including their special bank. Then the REIT turns around and offers these loans to the special relationship bank. Said special bank takes the 10+ float rate loans and provides the REIT a single (let same size) 30year fixed rate loan.

In this way everyone gets what they want. The REIT gets to tell investors their loans are not due for refinance until 2050. All the banks get to lend out money at 0.5% interest, and the special bank gets to take the other bank's money and earn an extra 0.5% interest on top of it all in exchange for taking the interest rate risk.

So if you are wondering why bonds are weird: it is because you are not the customer.
I use twitter (too much), rather than IG or facebook, because I prefer the emphasis on short bites of written text (mainly jokes). Ultimately, I'm still getting sucked into this infinite-scroll-timeline thing. I just don't like pictures that much, so Twitter is the poison I've picked.
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You can just fine the companies rather than incentivising them to run empty planes.

Better yet, institute a proper carbon tax and either a carefully thought-out market for slots and/or fines.
[citation needed] there is no official word from Google saying that disabling location history disables sensorvault.

As far as I know, sensorvault is originally sourced from "improve location accuracy" events sent by the phone (hence the original name: sensorvault and not userlocation-vault), and kept "anonymized" until request for de-anonymization by law enforcement.
I wish there was an easy solution that would allow me to plug an S3 or a virtual drive or whatever and mount it as a partition in my cheap 20gb VPS.

The price for additional “drive”, like 5 bucks per month for 50gb or sthg, is insane. Especially when comparing with Dropbox or Onedrive pricing (or even physical drives sold over the counter).
Another reason springs to mind: if airports are congested - as they probably are - if an airline continually wastes allocated take-off/landing slots by not actually using them, the whole airport becomes less efficient and those precious slots could have been better used by someone else. This disincentivizes doing that. I'll leave why someone would hog slots they have no intention of using as an open question.
Thank you! I was not able to dig this up.
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How come most of these are tube sites? I want to see various studios instead of a bunch of low quality tube sites that don't even offer high quality videos/streams (and are heavily clipped and edited pornospam).
It's scary how convincing this is, kind of like an SNL skit which is too real...
How much did you call them out? Did you escalate, as in "We really want to partner with you, but your legal guy is super hard to work with, can you have a talk with him"?
PintOS is also a nice learning OS that's been used in classes. It is initially incomplete and there are 4 projects to implement process schedulling, paging, files. It simplifies the learning process since the hardware related initialization code is already implemented and is readable enough to be understood, while allowing you to focus on implementing the main ideas in OSs.
Currently I'm doing project 1 on my own. It would have been really nice if my university offered me something like this, to have instructor feedback.
I was sexcotes to cancel all my storage subscriptions, but for some reason this article didn’t convince me that that was an option yet.
If you just give fines to companies that don't run flights on routes then you can impose a penalty without incentivising empty or near-empty flights.
The user api:
https://people.redhat.com/mingo/syslet-patches/patches/async...

User space memory mapping (naturally left to the user) seems to be the error prone bit here.

search for "sys_umem" here:
https://people.redhat.com/mingo/syslet-patches/patches/async...

I understand that this is low level stuff for experienced developers, but this approach basically asks the programmer to play linker. Entirely doable but I wonder what it looks like at scale (LOC).
Railways are also often unprofitable, even when a monopoly (because of inflexible ticket pricing and high amortisation, depreciation, and maintenance costs).
The market does not solve everything, but it does create everything. Therefore we are evolving into pure consumerism.
I can’t speak to the reason for you being kicked out of your position. There might be more to why you’re telling but nevertheless have you considered applying your math skills as a developer? Dev shops, if you don’t have any predilection to further let-me-go-get-HR activities while at work, these companies will clamor for your talent. Someone with your math skills will likely pick up the more complicated bits — there’s even theoretical computer scientists making a really good living at places like Microsoft Research.

If you wanted to stay in research though perhaps there’s some penance you can do and someone who would give you a chance at a new place? People make mistakes doesn’t mean we need to ruin someone’s career over it.
sure there could be an incentive to overhype risk, however when was the last time you listened to a mask maker's analysis of risk? People barely listen to WHO, the CDC, and their local physician, it's really quite a bit much to suppose that they would listen to the mask maker.
Joke's on them they're getting Biden anyway.
Depending on the seriousness of the "respect violation", I believe there are plenty of local colleges where one can get a degree in computer science or some other related major, and from there get a job in programming. If what you did is actually just ask a woman out in an email, this would not be a dealbreaker for most colleges.

Not sure what country you're in, but there are also definitely in the U.S. employers who will hire a programmer that does not have a degree (although some won't), as long as you can demonstrate that you can program.
Until they pay a negative (edit) coupon.
Really? Hopefully this makes people think more critically about the drivel they hear on TV. This goes for both sides!
Oh yeah, Facebook I knew about super early, couldn't join because it was only allowing Harvard students. I thought Mark Zuckerberg was super arrogant because he was known to meet with investors wearing sandals and he had a business card that said "I'm CEO, bitch"

Casey Niestat is the father of modern daily vlogging. Many of today's vloggers copy his style. He's got over 10 million subscribers now, he's not a HUGE youtuber, but like I said, very influential.
I'm curious, why encrypt Netflix video traffic at all?
So good you don't know what to do with it
Alaska Airlines have a reputation for being assholes from top to bottom, or United have a reputation for destroying musical instruments

As a frequent flyer on both airlines, I'm not sure that either of those reputations exist, at least I've never heard them. I vaguely remember some incident with a broken guitar (?) But I couldn't tell you which airline.
I'm not clear on whether you're arguing that the FDA should not be requiring efficacy? The FDA makes exceptions on cases of urgent need, and not having efficacy as a bar would reduce the reward for innovation - why would you spend all the time and effort to development a treatment for a disease if vitamins with no efficacy are already filling the market? False hope is dangerous, and healthcare is uniquely suited to attracting snake oil salesmen with cure-alls because of how serious health needs are - these regulations are written in blood
I suspect both of these things are nearly impossible in the US. At some point you will have to talk to police, if only to identify yourself. At some point you will be tracked, if only by your license plate, or soon your face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_daemon

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/99043/hacking/linux-rce...

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/fecy6f/pppd_vulnera...
Tax fuel. Airlines don't create it.
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Lowering interest rates during a supply shock is shockingly irresponsible.
> Just like bouncing off ideas, brainstorms etc. works best in-person.

You seem set on this notion, but I very much disagree. Bouncing ideas and brainstorming can be just as productive remotely. In fact creativity can be stronger when your can more freely choose when to isolate yourself from other noise and when to socialize.

> Everyone has experienced the difference between webconferencing and real person meeting and can tell that one has more weight than the other.

You sure about everyone? I can tell you I personally think most in person meetings are unnecessary and distracting, and would've been better conferenced or even better not had at all. Even meetings that need to take place, I actually value in person less than conference, as it comes with various baggage of posturing and appearances.

This sounds like you just have a preference for in person, likely because it's just more comfortable for you from an interpersonal standpoint. And that's fine, but don't mistake that preference for blanket effectiveness measures for the rest of your team, company, or industry.
This is GDPR bomb.
As a casual uBlock user, what does uMatrix give you that uBlock Origin doesn’t?
It happens to the best of us. Alcohol is no respecter of Kings or Queens. This is something judgemental people don't seem to realize.
Just want to add that I'm 28 and have never figured out snapchat/stories. Personally, I'm not sure how to use them, and from other people, I find them SUPER boring.
True, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the incentives are a bad thing. The incentives do promote activity in the "green tech" space, much of which is waste, or even fraud, but maybe some of it will turn out to be useful.

It would be great if the structure of the incentives could be adjusted to reduce waste and fraud, but accepting that there will be some level of abuse may be the price of encouraging progress.
FWIW I looked at this a week or so ago and the NHS (England I think), recommend the Alpha Solway 3030v (https://www.nhsggc.org.uk/media/251465/nhsggc-hs-guidance-on...) for FFP3 masks. But the mask users have to have training, and there are testing kits to check for correct fit. So, it seems there's a degree of skill needed to use them properly. They're also a single use product, up to 8 hours AFAICT.

At the time, last week, there were no masks available in the UK except one or two non-mainstream suppliers [and no 3M FFP3 masks that weren't at gouge prices] - the sale price on ebay/Amazon was about 5 times the retail purchase price I could get. For IPA70 the sale price was about 10 times what I found.

[I didn't purchase.]
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> Just because you saw the problem first doesn’t buy you the right to providing the only solution.

Of course. But if you're going to provide a new solution to a problem, you'd better be able to compare and contrast your solution to the old one. If you can't do that, there's no reason to take your solution seriously because you haven't done your homework.

For example let's say you come up with an ingenious solution to tracking a moving object in the presence of uncertainty. Here's what you can say and be taken seriously:

"My solution uses an improved version of a Type X Kalman filter that works as follows."

Or

"My solution does not use a Kalman filter because Kalman filters won't work for this problem for the following reasons."

Here's what you should not say if you want to be taken seriously:

"What's a Kalman filter?"
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I'm in an interesting position related to this.

In Canada, most people lock into their mortgage rate for 3-5 years. After that, you've got to renegotiate a rate but you're also free to switch banks. It's like starting over again at whatever you currently owe. I locked into mine 4 and a half years ago, so renewal is coming up this summer. Meanwhile, my home's value has skyrocketed (thanks to an insane Toronto housing market).

What this all means is that in a few months, at my renewal date, the mortgage interests rates may be incredibly low (they're already at 2.7% today), my home's value is much higher than what I owe, and the stock market looks like it's going to be hitting the bottom around that time too.

So the question is... do I gamble on this? I could easily access hundreds of thousands of dollars in a low interest mortgage and drop it all on index funds. If it worked, 10 years later I could retire early. If it doesn't, I'm another god-knows-how-many years away from paying off the mortgage.

Mind you, my (sane, rational, smart-than-me) wife would never agree to any of this so it's only nice to think about.