skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you provide a link or some resource to a recommended background check service?
> Functional industry requires a great deal of implicit knowledge that is not easily regained once traditions of manufacturing die out—like a master dying before they can find an apprentice to teach.

The masters aren't dead yet and neither are their apprentices. There are still quite a few old timers around that have retreated or retired to running small shops doing a greatly scaled down version of their trade. We could get a lot of them back in business if we made them competitive with overseas manufacturing. The word tariff is suspiciously absent from this discussion though.
Do you understand anything more yourself? The need for some of these steps for fraud control (vs your assume bad intentions initial approach).
Credentials are used as a lazy proxy for ability in any number of large organizations all over the world.
We chose silicon valley because we'd rather build than waste our time in tar pits that we are not very good at navigating and frankly find excruciating to navigate.

I think many of us would of loved to work in pure physics, mech eng spaceX type stuff too.
Interestingly they're also popularizing RAPIDS of Nvidia as part of it. Thanks for sharing. Never imagined SVM in such scenario!
Financial Times – Graphics
My thinking as well. I have some strong views myself, but I am extremely careful to leave those at the workplace door. When you work, your duty is to act on your employer's behalf. If you can't do that, quit. The workplace is absolutely no place for activism.
monkey writing shakespeare
All you have to do is click through to see all the samples and it becomes clear how incredibly cherry-picked the ones on the front page are. It is a cool project but it is very clear how much work this technology will need before it is useful in any application.
As long as it’s voluntary, I wouldn’t call it evil. I also have no idea why you’d want to participate in such a system, but you do you.

The idea that limited string length makes reddit a feudal system is not a believable argument. I’d let that one go.
On premise option?
The top-line rose by 1%. International sales accounted for 62% of the quarter’s revenue. Key highlights in four charts: https://news.alphastreet.com/apple-q2-2020-earnings-aapl-sto...
So in order to understand something, you need to a.) and then b.) have someone tell you how to think about what you read? While paying them? You can't wrestle with deep and complex topics unless someone tells you how to think?
There have been plenty of attempts to emulate what COM does.

All operating systems have some sort of object model and sharing API's, but neither macOS nor Linux have anywhere near the thriving ecosystem and actual cooperation model between applications that Windows has.
LOL!

Did the AI hire a patent attorney to file the application?

Maybe the AI would like to sue the patent office to overturn this decision?

What was that? Don't be absurd? My point exactly!
In my mind the problem is the system itself was designed for a world that doesn't exist. When the supply of college degrees was low 50 years ago, sure, it paid to have a degree. But now that it has become commoditized, it's not that valuable. There's no supply / demand pricing mechanism to influence a student's major. The cost of tuition is mainly based on an arbitrary credit hour. No matter how worthless a course is for your future, the price of the class is still the same.

I've read this about socialist countries that have free education. You'll have folks with law degrees driving taxi cabs. It's a waste of resources.
At the end of the day, what's the difference between restarting the app because you updated an environment variable, or restarting the repo?

In both cases you might have short service interruptions. So why not simply restart the app which is definitely more technology agnostic.
Beaker's going to finally release a new version in ~2 weeks. No solution to the mobile browser yet, but I hope somebody will pick up the mantle from Cliqz and Busnen.
They don't really need to, they are already making the most powerful RISC chips on the planet. They both were looking at arm for mobile devices but stopped/divested when qualcomm became dominant. It really makes no sense for them to license arm patents and designs when AMD already has stuff like their new 4xxx laptop chips.

I think rather than switching to arm, they will just continue making super efficient designs, er, amd will at least haha.
Find a lawyer.

A good place to start looking for recommendations is your lawyer friends, followed by the local board. Lawyers know who is a good lawyer.
That is exactly what happened to my Coworker. She interviewed for a public job and they gave her the thumbs up. She passed the background check, and gave her two weeks notice.

Then, some inconsistency came up. Apparently, on her application she checked the box for never having smoked weed. But on a second document she checked the "Yes" box. This is California 2015, they asked her to do a polygraph test. She failed.

Couple days later, she called the first job to see if she can come back. They were bitter that she left, but because of an extremely high turnover rate, they let her back in. It was never the same for her.

So yeah, have a guarantee at the new job before you quit the first one.
I just watched a video about seneca and time management:

https://youtu.be/41HYjV8IxiI
PacketShader – GPU-Accelerated Software Router (2011)
Historical note: first versions of .NET were called "COM+ 3.0".
Because now the internet exists. Back then, probably only a few students knew how to abuse bankruptcy laws.

If bankruptcy laws were abusable by students in the present day, EVERYONE would know how to do it
> You will only know if the business was a failure until you have done all of that and that takes at least 2 years in my humble opinion.

But why does that matter? The goal is not to conclusively prove that some particular business is beyond hope of success, the goal is to find the one which is successful.

I'm not necessarily saying that 3 weeks is just the right amount of time to spend on a single idea. But if you want to maximize your chances of achieving success in, say, 3 years, what is the right amount of time?
The calculation for ACA is based on a three year average of low MCR, so you wouldn't get rebate solely due to a year of decreased medical loss
Comcast rental used to be more than 10 bucks then it was slashed to 3 bucks to stop people figuring it was cheaper to buy their own. The price has crept back up.

At the turn of the century, you used to call about an internet outage and they'd give you a clueless response. Instead, you'd say your cable TV picture was fuzzy and they'd send a tech out next day. That was how you'd get it fixed 20 years ago.

The most recent time I called Comcast about a cable outage they insisted they couldn't do anything as it was my own modem. More serious was the fact it was an unapproved modem so they insisted they would need to FedEx a new modem first (costing $$$) and then they could fix my line. Fortunately it was an area outage so I didn't take them up on their kind offer.

The moral of that story is before calling when you own your own modem for an outage, check if it's an area outage first.
I think it's the bland sanitized global style that you see everywhere in in airport/mall combos around the world.
That upper bound seems way too high.

I think the Diamond Princess is the perfect case study to use as an upper bound, since we conducted extensive testing and the population is heavily skewed towards the elderly (and therefore higher risk than general population).

See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v...

> Adjusting for delay from confirmation-to-death, we estimated case and infection fatality ratios (CFR, IFR) for COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess ship as 2.3% (0.75%-5.3%) and 1.2% (0.38-2.7%).
Why do we need call options, put options, futures, ETFs, Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, debt, etc...?

They're just financial instruments which allow people to maximize the returns that they can get out of their own decisions. But unlike all these other financial instruments, cryptocurrency actually makes the system fairer, more open, more fluid and it helps to decentralize wealth as opposed to concentrating it. It also redefines the concept of wealth in a better, less black-and-white manner.
You can't read a book and understand it unless you pay someone to sit in a class and tell you how to think about what you read?
Nice, Thanks for sharing.
Because college was infinitely more affordable.
Fuel cost for a Cessna 172 is maybe 50 $/hr (10 gallons per hour times 5$ per gallon), while the plane rental (wet, including fuel) is about 180 $/hr. So, even if you’d get the fuel price to zero, you’d reduce the rental price by at most a third.
Rational does not need to be synonymous with "self interested to the detriment of all else." You can be both rational and realise that everyone can benefit greatly if you're willing to benefit slightly less. Why is it that sociopaths are the only rational beings in economic theory?
Lots of credit card debt is unsecured because the purchased goods are consumed, but that is dischargeable.
Yeah, I have a goatee, and ... my waifu ended up with no mouth or any other lower-face features.
Here are the 58 open source cloudflare projects written in Go:

https://github.com/cloudflare?q=&type=source&language=go

Compared to the 11 projects they have released in Rust:

https://github.com/cloudflare?q=&type=source&language=rust
Yeah, another huge factor for me was just how unhappy all of the service workers were.

But I don't blame them. There's no way they could afford to live within what you or I would call a reasonable commute. So they would trek daily to provide for people making orders of magnitude more money.

And the ones who were wiling to accept that kind of torture, were the ones who couldn't get jobs anywhere else more reasonable.
"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed."

-- Bruce Lee
Send them cryptocurrency.
I have this evolving metaphor of the US as a financially overextended household or business.

We've lived large since WWII. Bought new cars every few years, built the suburbs, provided quality education to a lot of people, etc. Is it all that surprising that people want to "go back" to this? For many people in the US, it was GREAT.

But it's all been at great cost. The '60s through the '90s were a time of huge debt accumulation at every level of society, from the US Treasury borrowing, to state and local governments underfunding their pensions, even down to households, with ballooning credit card balances and ever-greater levels of mortgage debt.

Now we get to pay for it. Partly that means higher taxes, so we can finally properly fund social security and medicare, and repay the literal trillions of dollars we just borrowed in the past few weeks. Partly taking better care of the environment, which let's be honest, is going to cost a ton of money.

It also means some hard choices about what we aren't going to pay for anymore. An entitlement that one should be able to study pretty much anything, for four years, with world-class experts, as a national birthright -- maybe something we can't afford? In my view, we need to start being a bit -- not a lot, just a little more -- economic and practical in how we think about education. Maybe night school or Khan Academy is a better place to study medieval history, or divinity, or any number of wholesome, life-enhancing subjects, than a four-year liberal arts college. Maybe more people should think a little harder about how their investments -- let's face it, that's what they are -- into education, will transform into marketable skills. And maybe the government should stop subsidizing all this, so that colleges will trim down what it costs so that it's actually affordable.

We can fix this, it's just going to take a while, and a lot of long, slow, not particularly newsworthy or sexy, adjustments.
Sorry, I should clarify. My point is that even a candidate who would typically be a viable hire or interviewee is now struggling in the job market. The implication being that other STEM students, including CS students, are severely struggling to find jobs, right now.

My friends in earth sciences are essentially at 0% callback. Friends with identical experience to me from different schools are getting a <5-10% callback rate unless they have referrals.

I'm in 100% agreement with you and the other poster. There's no real silver bullet for quickly finding employment right now except the small niche of math/CS majors with good GPAs from T10 institutions applying to work in finance.
Do nothing and let it play out.

If you’re capable of getting one FAANG offer, you’re capable of getting another.

If this one falls through you know to say something next time. If you say anything this time and it doesn’t work out, then next time you’ll have to decide between saying something different or saying nothing at all. Staying quiet now is the smart move.
> "companies and people have strong economic/competitive incentives NOT TO INVEST"

This is true in traditional for-profit companies where money is the only motive. However, I'd like to add that we're seeing a rise in or organization structures that promote social impact over simple profit. On the more for-profit side there are B-Corps, which have been gaining ground in the past decade or so (at least based on google trends and branding on products).

Right next to B-corps are social enterprises (which have many definitions but we can broadly can think of as basically, social impact as primary goal and at least partially self funded). I don't know if they're really gaining popularity but it brings me hope to see organizations pop up that are trying to fit this bill of doing good first and making money second.

Shameless self plug for those interested in social enterprises. I've recently started collecting resources related to social enterprises (as an org structure, distinct from social entrepreneurship which tends to focus on the individual): https://github.com/RayBB/awesome-social-enterprise/
Uh, I'd take BTC from 2009-2012 over Uber's seed round any day. Bitcoin is the best-performing asset class of all time.

See: https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrat...
You get a really, really big dopamine hit by writing about something you imagine yourself doing (or, I expect, challenging others to do and thus feel like you made it happen).

Just showing up is a smaller dopamine hit, but more sustainable. On your worst day you can think, well, at least I did X. A rising tide lifts all boats. Chasing dopamine hits just gives you bigger mood swings, not better moods over all. It's a trap. Get out.

We have DIY groups, repair culture. We have craftsman trying to start a renaissance in various professions and quite a few hobbies. We have environmental groups, permaculture, people cleaning public spaces and parks. It's all 'out there' figuratively, and sometimes also literally. Just gotta go look for it.

And I think if you want it for other people, that you get far more traction working with an existing group to succeed, be it getting more things done, or making it more accommodating to newcomers. I worked with an amazing group that got 100 volunteers every month, probably a dozen new faces every time. Most of the work of the regulars was making sure that everyone else had something to do to feel included.

Basically what is at stake here is trying to get people to have more authentic, real world experiences, and that's not going to happen by using marketing tricks. By trying to sell to people who don't know they're buying. It's going to happen by doing things and helping other people explore doing things themselves.

Who is this Isaac Wilks guy? This appears to be his first post on Palladium. The twitter account that appears to be him is just some kid. What's he doing? What's he built? It looks like he might be into architecture. I hope there's some building going on, but I don't see it.
> Student loans would dry up overnight if they could be discharged at bankruptcy.

So? That's the marketing evaluating what the loan is actually worth.

Bankruptcy isn't a magic "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

Your credit is trashed at a point when you might want to get married, buy a house, start a family, etc.
> on the other hand, only UWP CoreWindows can make use of UWP shell integration features like fullscreen and picture-in-picture

What are the practical advantages of fullscreening / PIP'ing thanks to UWP as compared to what you can achieve without?
What about Facebook's API? It is basically at the same level of malware as the apps mentioned in the article
> Yeah, but they don't stay really good if they have to go through a mandatory new edition every couple of years to keep students from buying used textbooks.

Buy an older edition on eBay and get problem sets from classmates or the library. This works well unless the publisher has some skeezy online component.

> So generally the textbooks you have to pay more for are the worse ones.

Not generally true. Maybe true for some subjects. My experience is that in upper-level STEM classes, there might be only one or two good books that you’d want to use.

For example, take algorithms. There are a couple good algorithms textbooks, one of them is The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena. I can see that it costs $33 on amazon.com for a digital copy, but if I go to amazon.in it’s available for ₹866, about $11.50 at current exchange rate.

That isn’t even a specialized subject. If you’re in an advanced subject in an engineering field or one of the sciences there might be even fewer choices available.
Yarvin being pushed out probably has something to do with that.
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.

(Every nation gets the government it deserves.)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre
He is roughly equivalent to Lebron James in basketball. The team that he is on "mysteriously" seems to win, and win big, while he's there.
I cant wait till we inevitably see a #1 hit that is NN generated. Interesting question is who will get paid?
A Modern Architecture for FP (2015)
So you’re saying you wouldn’t hire yourself?

There’s nothing in OP’s post that says they weren’t extremely careful to leave their views at the workplace door.
This is so cool. I should brush up on my rust maybe I should make a python extension or something...
If patient died at Feb 6th, then it contracted covid about 1 month before that from somebody else, so Jan 1st, maybe.
Very cool! Reading the "Why" section resonated with me, as I think creating one's own language is something every programmer should do for the experience.

The syntax flows well, in fact it feels very intuitive for my taste. I like the type inference and no semicolons. I wonder if the latter posed any trickiness, for example, with the next line starting with an expression "(" or operator like "+".

I'm also curious about use cases, what is possible with this language. I guess anything assembly can do - which is..everything? :) Would it be suitable to run on microcomputers like Raspberry Pi?

EDIT: The Pi and Arduino are typically ARM, it seems, with a different instruction set. Well, that shows how little I know.
What are some good books on the topic of VM implementation? If no books, then papers also welcome.

(Not necessarily related to Erlang)
Epidemiologists are not equipped to understand the economic ramifications that occur when large portions of society are forced to halt their business operations. This seems self-evident.

Public policy wrt Covid basically occurs at the intersection of epidemiology and economics. The epidemiologists can help tell you what will happen under different scenarios, and the economists can tell you what will happen economically speaking in those same scenarios.

We're basically balancing the economic impact directly attributable to sick days and to COVID-19 deaths, with the impact of the shutdown itself.

As you already know, my conclusion is that the latter is far more severe. But that balancing act is of course precisely what all the debate is about.
Yea, this is so true. It would be amazing if some standard similar to COM could unify the Linux community.
You seem to have two basic arguments:

1. That the lock downs were unnecessary/ineffective.

And since the evidence and experts disagree with you, it seems incredibly dubious that you're right. As with climate change denial, there is always some minority taking the contrarian view, but the scientific consensus should still rule the day.

And even if it does turn out to be true, it was still the scientific consensus during an emergency, so it made sense to do it as the best available option. We can't undo the lock downs and we're already working to phase them out. So there's really no cogent argument here.

Also, the comparisons to the flu are a sign you don't have your facts straight. Expert models predicted the potential for millions of dead Americans without intervention. And it seems entirely backed up by the actual data we got from New York.

You also don't seem to understand that flattening the curve reduces death, it doesn't just spread it out over time.

2. That the lock downs are bad for freedom.

This is entirely based on the slippery slope argument. You can't actually point to any governmental abuse, at all. Every government official seems to be acting entirely in good faith across a massive country. Which is why no reasonable person is worried about this. The people protesting the lock downs are a tiny minority of extremists and contrarians.

You have to ask yourself "am I being too extreme in my views, or is every educated/informed person blind to the danger?" and it's pretty obvious which of these is the case.

There is simply no justified cause for concern that lock downs are going to become a tool of oppression. The lock downs are happening with the consent of the people and the courts.

And it's extremely time-limited, not open-ended. There is absolutely no way the lock downs will go on indefinitely. And there is no way they will happen again without the consent of the people. There is simply no reasonable cause for alarm.

P.S.

I would expect your position on allowing people to poison their fellow citizens with radioactive material might be similar to your position on poisoning people with a deadly virus. That would be consistent with the extremist views you're espousing.
Ask HN: What's your home office workstation setup?
I think we should invest in public colleges (increasing supply) and stop subsidizing loans with special bankruptcy protections and federal money (reducing demand at higher price points).
> dual-monitor, dual NVidia GPU

Not exactly thanks to Microsoft.
Not at all, but having someone who can provide context sure helps with a lot of works - often these works are building on centuries or millennia of thought that they may assume you're aware of and that help place the arguments.

Again I ask, given that textbooks exist, can you make the argument that STEM is any different?
That Facebook has worked at least one employee literally to death.
If the entire argument boils down to "crypto means cryptography", then (1) it's not a very interesting argument and (2) it's pretty much already lost. In 2020, cryptography means cryptography.
That's not at all a point I'm making. OP praised Microsoft for embracing Rust and making it work well on Windows and thanked them for not doing their own thing and instead supporting an existing project. So I'm just pointing out to a very recent endeavour that goes against all of that. I just enjoyed the irony of it all, that's it.

Not saying anything about anything else.
Colleges were counting on foreign students to fill the gap. Now with massive unemployment, immigration may slow to a trickle for a while, and with it the allure of American colleges for students elsewhere.