skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True story:
One day, an assistant professor (and a first time teacher) came to class and announced that there would be a "surprise test" on so-and-so day. Not just that, the questions asked would be 5 out of 8 possible pre-announced questions.

On the day of the test, the professor wrote the questions on the board and then left the room. Almost every student in the class cheated. Some came with chits to copy from. Some copied from others. Legends though, they came with pre-written answer sheets for each of the 8 questions and attached answers for the 5 questions which were asked.
It's about establishing a monopsony for contract drivers. Uber and Lyft are duking it out for those monopoly dollars.
No, Quanta is fine -- you're making a subtle error, which is in fact common even in graduate textbooks.

There are two distinct things going on here: formally "swapping" the arguments in the wavefunction, and physically moving the particles around. A priori, there is no reason the phase shifts from these two actions should be related.

You're focusing on the swap, but it's not interesting: your argument that the swap phase squares to 1 applies to both 2D and 3D equally well. When people talk about anyons, they're talking about the phase from moving the particles. That has more options in 2D because the paths one can take when moving particles around can have a greater range of topologies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_group).

The reason that textbooks mix these things up is because in relativistic quantum field theories these two phases are always the same, by virtue of the spin-statistics theorem. But the anyons of condensed matter are nonrelativistic.
I think it’s gonna get really weird. If a company pays the same in seattle as SF (or near), and A person lives in SF, I’d rather pay a friend in WA state a few hundred a month to “rent a room” than 10% of my income to California.

That said there’s probably a bunch of laws around faking residency for tax purposes which id imagine has some hefty consequences.
Yeah. This does seem to be a quite dated move.

I wonder how long it took them to get into clamshells when they were a thing.
Grades are useless in the face of cheating, so just tell everyone they'll get to choose their own grade at the end, then they'll focus on learning and even if everyone chooses an A, who cares? Does the A mean anything today? I've met 4.0 students in hard college courses that were terrible in the workplace and I've met 2.1 students who had a political science degree be awesome software developers, so the only reason that number exists is to make people feel good.
Why are you a long time Telegran fan considering that their end-to-end encryption sucks in comparison to WhatsApp, Signal, et al
My first reaction was that if we need protection from pieces of software we ship because nobody knows what we ship, something must be deeply wrong.

But npm-snark aside, maybe some lack of trust must come from a highly modular open source ecosystem.

If a library I ship could abstain from unneeded platform capabilities, that would certainly reduce catastrophic bug/attack surface, and I'd sleep better.
I'm only a couple of years down the road from where you are, currently looking for my third dev job, having started with a 5 month stint in testing, now doing full-stack web stuff.

If you're having trouble getting your foot in the door, like I did, I'd recommend looking at software developer in test jobs. Depending on the company, you'll get a chance to touch a few different codebases (in my case, I got to learn Swift and Objective-C, and sharpen my Java), and you'll get to work on a team, using common tools you might not have been exposed to yet (e.g. Jira). It's a great, relatively low-stakes way to get into the industry.
Europe is pretty welcoming. There is a huge shortage of software engineers (of acceptable quality) here.
Nope that's it. The bat file here is just a clickable shortcut so you don't have to remember the whole command. The interesting stuff is happening in ImageMagick, which has to be installed already.
Why not all across the world? At least those that can communicate in the same language
I think the narrative has changed quite a bit since the initial austerity policies of the 2009 crisis. Arguably some of the enforced changes were long overdue, while others went far beyond the reasonable. But it's also how they were implemented that mattered.

Portugal was under the troika but efficiently implemented things and quickly got out of it. Greek and Cypriot governments tried to game the system again and again, e.g. the troika imposed on Greece (or rather agreed with Greece, there's some nuance) an obligation to reduce it's overblown public sector by reducing the number of public servants. They did make a mistake though as they did not specify which public servants.

What does the Greek government do? They massively reduce the number of teachers, then turn around and ask the European social fund for money to cover annual replacement teacher contracts.

But the overblown administration has not shrunk much (and each time the government changes they do as before and rehire their allies...). Instead everyone curses the EU/troika/Germany/... for 'imposing' these cuts when the cuts per se are often not the issue, but rather the implementation.

You can also see why countries like Germany are scared of mutualised debt: Since the introduction of the euro, Italian debt has increased massively because it was so cheap. Easier to loan money and serve a few favors when the government will anyway change in 2 years and the current one doesn't have to bear responsibility for the long-term damage. It's of course a much more complex story, but there's no denying that irresponsible government spending is part of it. Italy is desperately hoping for inflation to shrink the debt:GDP ratio as it's become pretty impossible to pay it back anyway...
If living in a nicer house caused engineers to have more job opportunities at higher salaries, then Google probably would pay you more for living in a nicer house.
I never found Prometheus that difficult. I would say I've spent a moderate amount of time over the past few years reading and using it (almost exclusively just reading the docs and blog). I haven't used Datadog. The places I've used Prometheus tended not to use Saas, which meant trying to get the wallet opened or approval for sending data offsite were basically non-starters. I know that's not an issue for most here. I set it up as a side project because we were basically blind and reactive to issues. The other options I was looking at was Nagios and Cacti.

Machine metrics are basically plug-and-play. The only real downside with Prometheus is that you have to install the pieces yourself (and know enough to do it). After you understand how the pieces fit together and get basic knowledge of each piece the time suck is writing and grokking new metrics and noodling with a dashboard--which I figure any solution would have.

This is probably home-hobby geekery, but I'm running Prometheus at home. My Synology has Prometheus and Grafana running in docker containers. The only gnarly part was getting dd-wrt's SNMP data and creating a dashboard of router metrics.
I wonder what communication channels are most important. Maybe facial expression, body language, and breathing.
There is a huge amount of these $20 bills lying around in fact. The thing is they're not that easy to pick up. These ERP systems are often fairly bespoke, designed for the workflow and needs of specific industries, or even specific niches in industries.

I work for one of these bespoke ERP companies, our niche is CNC machine shops (huge industy you don't hear much about). Our software was grown organically out of tools we made to manage our own CNC shop, spun out into its own company. That deep domain knowledge is what allows us to make a competitive product.

If this kind of stuff interests you we're hiring: https://www.proshoperp.com/company/careers/
I don't think it's a fair comparison.

There's a difference between someone crashing their own Volvo, and someone sitting in the backseat of a Waymo that misinterprets the lane markers and crashes into a barrier. One is not news, one is front page news.

I guarantee the first Waymo death is going to be publicized everywhere. It doesn't need to be a trend, and as I said, it doesn't mean the cars are more dangerous than human drivers. However, it's going to be news. There are going to be all sorts of moral debates when an algorithm decides to drive over a child instead of turning into an oncoming car. People will want answers. How does Waymo rank the value of different lives? I imagine it'll be news for the next decade until there are thousands of deaths and it becomes normal.

It's an industry that's going to be full of "firsts" and that's going to be the news. Waymo drives over dog while auto-piloting to a parking lot. Waymo mistakes grocery cart for stroller and swerves into elderly man. Waymo kills cyclist when poor weather disrupts censors. It doesn't matter if they ship something safe. Get enough cars on the road and these things will happen and people will be talking about it.
Yeah. In this case it's fine, but in general it can lead to confusion.

For some weird reason, condensed matter physicists keep giving their quasiparticles the same names particle physicists give their particle particles, even though the mathematics are quite different. If you hear someone proclaiming the discovery of Majorana fermions, axions, or monopoles, it's essentially guaranteed to be a quasiparticle in a lump of metal or something. Sometimes even the articles themselves get confused about this.
A friend of mine worked for Sun in the late 90's and mentioned SAP to me.

He told me companies would buy top-of-the-line (overpriced) hardware and pay a premium to get SAP up and running, because they would plug their company into it and recoup their costs almost overnight. It would just do say currency conversions or other super-boring non-core-business things better and save a pile of cash.

You can't save yourself rich, but sometimes the difference between a profitable quarter and a horrendous loss might be your accounting software or your tax software...
QNX has been around for a long time. Back in the mid-90s I did some consulting work porting some Unix utilities to QNX, and if there were patents back then, they have now expired.
Can you clarify the difference between developing "with" vs "on" react-native?
Yes. All the time. Its standard practice to pay more at high cost of living areas. I've not worked at a company with offices in different cost of living areas that did not do this.
Fascinating. Who would expect that if parents are together they both feel under supervision of the other one and behave more similar according agreed rules vs alone without supervision of spouse.

Are all these researchers singles?

I have idea for another study, compare behavior of people supervised by CCTV in room vs unsupervised, results will be truly shocking (for some)!
Deploy a Hyperledger Fabric v2 Web App Using the Node.js SDK
What's a chrome shortcut?
> p.s. I should probably mention that I have severed all ties with this person.

This might not be what you hoped for but after reading this I will ask you if you have done some introspection.

Since this is my sockpuppet account I'll feel free to point out that I'm a person who have stood up for the less privileged against dumb practices and I'm really proud of actually getting my boss to hire the girl who cleaned the floor but had an it degree from another country.

But severing ties with a person over this doesn't make sense to me at all. Also, since this is a sockpuppet account and since I can't cash in my Karma points here (and wouldn't anyway to prevent self-doxxing), let me steel man your former friend:

- are you sure he wasn't exaggerating?

- are you sure you didn't provoke him into saying this?

- maybe he tried to be funny and you have just discriminated against someone who just had a bad sense of humour, - or just as likely, you didn't catch the joke?

- working with people from other cultures often has significant issues. If someone has been burned a few times, can you see why they might be careful going forward?

- does he come from a very homogeneous background? Something HN really struggles to grasp is that there are people like me who grew up in places where we didn't meet anyone who had a different skin colour, spoke another language, had another religion (there were only the official religion or atheism). Should we judge people coming from such a background equally harshly?

Finally and most importantly: do you think you will have any chance of changing your friends ideas going forward or is there a chance that you have instead made him distrust all of us who could have tried to nudge him/her?
I'm opinionated and if I can get something to change my mind I try to keep an open mind.

But I've seen higher death rates in public threads as a common theme.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-death-rate...

"In Italy, the death rate stands at about 13 percent, and in the United States, around 4.3 percent, according to the latest figures on known cases and deaths. Even in South Korea, where widespread testing helped contain the outbreak, 2 percent of people who tested positive for the virus have died, recent data shows."

Granted... those death rates are "known" cases which gets cut when you add no/low symptoms to the "unknown infected".

We are still gathering data and the numbers vary greatly depending on country and testing methods.

Which is my biggest point... it goes from 4%+ down to .5% or lower depending on how you spin the numbers.

Hard to take "projections" seriously with THAT much unknown data.

edit: For the 2.2 million dead projection:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trump-and-the-coronavirus-...

"The CDC modeled four scenarios and estimated that 200,000 to 1.7 million U.S. residents could die, the Times reported."

"Think of the number: 2.2 — potentially 2.2 million people if we did nothing. If we didn’t do the distancing, if we didn’t do all of the things that we’re doing." -Trump
Again though, this is in ideal conditions and that video is of course hyper-produced advertising masquerading as news.
Can you refer books/other material about this?
"Those who previously can't afford or don't want to live in big cities like NYC/Seattle/SF because they are older, have families, or various other reasons now are included in the candidate pool."

Yeah this exactly. Yet another giant step towards a borderless world. Next up is a passport granting universal access to live and work anywhere and a decentralised currency.
Remember before uber, yellow cabs had their own app. The experience was shitty. Nonprofits are not known for great software products and operational skills.
I had a professor that printed in like 3 colors, and each exam had a different code on it, like 'X3-67' so we thought he made several versions (of course it was graduate math and he told us we would all get an A in we showed up and participated so we wouldn't have cheated anyways). Later we compared our exams after the course ended (because he kept them until then and would just review the problems we missed with each of us in office hours) and they were all the same problems :)
Herd Immunity: A Viable Solution to Covid-19
What's the alternative? Everything stays the same? How would that help their economy?
Banking is highly regulated industry so they had to be careful
I think you just change your address if you move within the state. I don’t think companies track your address as long as you’re the same for taxation. That’s why people do insane 2 hour commutes.
> It also turns out that when tech companies start to hire people in a new city, the cost of living in that city rises substantially -- again, Austin in particular comes to mind.

That is inevitable if more housing is not built. If demand rises and supply doesn’t, or rises slower than demand rents and house prices rise. Or you could be like Tokyo with population growing 50% over the last twenty years and flat housing costs.
We have an "internal systems" team at my current company to solve this problem. The product manager for the team knows everyone and keeps tabs on what's being done that could be automated. It's not used to replace people (at least it hasn't been yet) rather it's used to allow the team to stay the same size and scale up their operations to meeting the growing business demands.

I think many companies could benefit from a team like this.
Oh yeah, I remember seeing logic in several videos.

Maybe Trance music is the killer app for Logic or vice-versa. ;-)
If you had kids of the right age, into Phineas and Ferb, you'd know those little plastic bits are called aglets ;_)
Sounds like what the T2 chip does on MacOS, which I also found interesting:

https://duo.com/labs/research/secure-boot-in-the-era-of-the-...
i just tell people the dropbox app will scan docs for you. comes out looking like a photocopy. perfect for the bankers.
Wow! Very cool. They are a fantastic company.
I got the impression that it runs "Script" instead of js. So porting web apps is not a goal (?)

Looks like something you'd use for UI in a native app.
Try this, which should bring you to MetaArray stuff:

https://www.sdf.org/

(It's what was originally linked to.)
Maybe that analogy would be accurate if you could make new and pleasing music out of hundreds of small samples of other music, and also 90% of the musicians were used to either getting their samples via torrent or picking one album and playing it in an orchestra of 5,000 for the next 40 years
(ISC)2 CISSP certification now recognised as equivalent to Master’s
They'll pay more to people living in SF because those people have better alternatives and can negotiate harder, and the factors that cause that are the same factors that make housing in SF expensive.
I’m wondering where the GL is, for when we outgrow Xero (which was about six months ago).
I can't think of any awesome software that only runs on Linux. I can think of a couple examples of not-awesome software (systemd and wayland come to mind). What do you have in mind?

Edit: Maybe WireGuard? But that's kind of niche.
I would rather banks not spy for the government, and to be able to fly my own airplane without broadcasting my position in a government directory. If that means empowering rich people, so be it - they are gonna get empowered either way.
Bitwig isn’t bad. I know a couple people using it on Linux that have good things to say.

It seems with live loops a change in workflow is coming to you
depends on parenting style

if you have typical good cop, bad cop parents there will be obviously differences when each of them is alone and now when suddenly these styles get mixed,

I don't see that much reason for changes, if both parents are good cops or bad cops, of course they are never exactly same,

anyway the child will obviously try to push boundaries towards relaxed good cop standards when mixed since it gives child clearly more opportunities to play and child thinks it's under good cop protection and does things which would never do alone with bad cop

sadly I'm the bad cop mostly
Their product was (and still is) superior in its user-facing features.
Yes I've heard that often businesses mould themselves to the software, rather than the other way around. The argument is that decades of exposure means that, if not entirely optimal, it at least represents competent processes for running a very large and complicated business. Rolling your own multinational tax compliance in SQL would be madness.
And of course all of this assumes a traditional W2 employment agreement.

If the person in Oklahoma pays $1k per month for a 3,000 sq ft home with a 1Gbps fiber connection.... why work full-time at all, or exclusively for one employer?
He raises prices to support higher pay, dog grooming now costs $500, none of his former customers can afford it, the company goes bankrupt and the employees are back on unemployment again.

You can't just pretend that every business can magically afford to raise wages. This isn't Apple paying kids in China 50 cents to build an iPhone they sell for $1,000, this is a local business that's probably barely able to pay the founder a middle-class salary in the best of times.
This is a big deal for the crypto industry. If you've ever transacted between your bank and a Bitcoin exchange you may have seen the boutique banks they've been dealing with labelled on your transactions. It's been hard for these companies to get a big name-brand bank onboard. This really helps lubricate the money-go-round.
Surprisingly enough most developers are both....
True, but dark kitchens/ghost restaurants aren't really a thing around here.
Because the ERP solution comes with a gaggle of sales people, sales eng, and bizdev folks to convince your co's decision makers that it is best thing since butter.

SQL doesn't.
It's the "caste" system, not the "cast" system. Your friend does seem to have a pretty conservative circle of movement. He's probably talking about arranged marriages, not "dates".

(Am Indian, have gone on plenty of dates without ever meeting anyone's father.)
There are commercial OCR software packages that can do it. FineReader is one example (and it's been around for ages).
People's opinions can change. Good on him for not being stubborn about it
So, whom will you exactly call an engineer?

A person with degree or a person with a specific set of skills? If skills, then can you enumerate few of them?
I hope more companies allow this WFH rule to some of its employees. I've seen some employees gets better performance when working from home
Yes, I know that they know the precise location and imaging capabilities of the classified USA 224 reconnaissance satellite, thanks to this boneheaded security leak by the President of the United States of America.
Wait really?

That's 4 orders of magnitude difference.

7 miles in an inch cubed... That's insane.
They can just change the policy back at anytime.
- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

- Mubadala Investment Company: United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund

Couldn't these also be considered strategic in the regional/political/regulatory sense? Access to people with strong connections having skin in the game.
It is actually other way round. I was more often without other person, so the only me situation was easier to execute and "plan". Other person presence inference sometimes requires more thinking or complications due to acting unpredictably.

Other person makes it easier in a sense that there are two hands and you can split kids. So you don't change diapers while watching other kid. But in terms of how usual situation is, how much cooperation and negotiation it requires, it requires more.
No way around using windows as a private medical practice. Too much bespoke software.
#2 bothered me so much in school. The system gauges success via tests that check short term learning. It really, really isn't good at measuring learning.
String vs str in Rust
not that sure about it, if they trust the partner he is less likely to report them for negligence, so I'd assume it's exactly opposite with long time partner vs strange new coworker, obviously with stranger you will more likely play it by the rules than with someone who won't snitch on you unless it happened before with long time partner

i think this applies to pretty much any line of work with internal control and repercussions
When you're doing eCommerce.
The Bay Area can mean Pacific Heights, or Concord. Probably half or 2/3 the cost of living in the latter.
I was surprised to see ASLR was not enabled by default on Windows. Is enabling ASLR by default a common thing on Windows?
Google maps has "takeout" as a search term, with filter by cuisine, open now, price range, distance. Plus you can usually see the menu and contact info and reviews not manipulated by Yelp sales people.