skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in the past where these professional degrees guaranteed highly compensated positions, but that's not the case now that these fields are saturated. A medical school grad still has a painful and overworked road to travel before they start making serious money and overcome their medical school debt. Similarly, if you are in a law school that isn't in the top 10, or you are not in the top 10 of your class, drop out while you can because you are looking at a career of terrible pay and insurmountable debt.

These sorts of gauntlets are much more life or death than a CSE program, where you are guaranteed at least a decent paying job if you make ok grades. On the other hand, pressure of not even knowing how many years before you can pay down your 300k+ professional school debt and start your life hanging over your head humbles you fast, compared to someone who turns in their capstone project and walks into 200k/yr.
That depends on the environment. In many countries, when you ban legal child labor, the children have to turn to illegal jobs such as prostitution.

Most people dont work for uber because it is fun. They are doing it because their other options are worse.
The best sonar operators have perfect pitch, except instead of saying "that is an A-flat but there is a ghost harmonic because the slot in the bridge for that string is too wide" they would say "that is a 415 Hz sound with up doppler. sounds like a 3 bladed prop with a notch on the second blade". It was pretty amazing to watch the really good ones in action.
Why Your SaaS Business Is Losing Sales and 10 Ways a Chatbot Can Help
Okay, but it's reasonable to at least attempt it before bashing or stabbing someone, right?

The same thing could be said about many circumstances.

Just because a non-violent attempt to defuse the situation doesn't work in 100% of cases doesn't mean it is okay to skip attempting it, and jump straight to stabbing or bashing someone.
To answer the post's final question: Yes. It is quite common to design instrumentation to cancel systematic uncertainties or nonlinearities to leading order. Fancier arrangements go to higher orders.

In the particular case of the differential capacitor, that form of differential measurement is particularly common -- if one non-linear system can paired with a symmetric partner with equal and opposite nonlinearity, the leading-order non-linearities are suppressed (to the extent that the matched pair are actually matched).

An easy-to-understand example of the compensation of linear effects is the temperature-compensated pendulum clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_pendulum
Saw this on my Twitter, good article. I liked this line:

> The spread of “highly forwarded” messages then dropped 70%. Though we can’t see exactly what happened inside, the change forced people to be more thoughtful about what they pass along.

It seems like devs have been getting lazy (or, worse, incentivized to turn the other cheek) when it comes to thinking about the impact of features that have been fundamental to the social networking experience in the past.

Moving forward, it’s vital that those who create the internet we know today build thoughtfully and responsibly. When constructing a building, there’s a reason we have rules for how the building is made; fire exits, electrical code, etc.

We need a similar rule book when it comes to building online platforms, and it needs to be just as enforceable as the real world equivalents.

Good share.
Small correction: MongoDB is not an open-source product; it's a source-available product.
> What if you just gave each person a way to censor the content they don't want to see?

That works to a degree, but it isn't foolproof because it still requires people to see that content to begin with. It isn't proactive.
You are arguing against yourself. You made up this idea that if you buy extra detergent (because you keep running out of it) you also need to buy more of everything else.
Engineering manager Kadi Kraman's React Native course, and how she works
China doesn't have social media polarization.
I once met a chap who told me he used his dishwasher without any powder or soap at all, and it still worked.

Now, maybe he was making it up. But i suspect that there is a common class of dish dirt where prolonged steaming and jetting with hot water is adequate in practice - i'd expect anything water-soluble to dissolve in hot water! So, residues from tea or coffee, water-based pasta sauce, fruit juice, jam, etc. It won't work for everything, of course, but it might work for a surprising range of things.
Sure, I'm sure they have some actual contractors who are truly contractors under the law. Maybe some consultants, builders, painters, whatever. But not their drivers.

The correct term for a "side hustle" person is "part-time employee."
Interesting - let's take a look:

Absence of social class structure. Absence of currency. Public ownership of the means of production. Absence of state.

Which of those values are compatible with what you appear to fear? We know that the traditional conservative Monsters such as China and the Soviet Union weren't Communist - they had social classes, currency, and a state, after all, so that's obvious. Are you operating on the Bad Faith interpretation? In that case, let's be lucid: You fear Authoritarianism and Fascism, not Communism. It doesn't make sense to use the wrong words to describe things.

> I already lost all hope of career evolution at work because of my sharp tongue

This brings us back to liberty. Right now the USA is capitalist. Therefore companies have rights and liberties, just like people. If you have a relationship with a person, and they call you a subhuman, do you believe it's ethical to use law to enforce that the insulted person must remain in that relationship? No? Then clearly there's no issue with companies firing people for, say, dropping n-word bombs and the like. There's some differences, in that we at least don't legally allow companies to be racist or sexist in their policy anymore.

To be frank, whenever I get in conversations with people that bemoan their loss of freedom of speech, talk about having a "sharp tongue" and losing hopes about career progression because of it, I find myself talking to a person that wants to be allowed to demean and bully at work. I find myself talking to a Linus Torvalds type at best, and at worst a sexist, racist, or homophobe (or all 3 combined! :D). So it's very, very hard to engage in good faith, because I can't imagine what you could be saying at a US company that's preventing your career progression, that isn't despicable and causing you to get exactly what you deserve.
> I just don't find it credible that "the results are identical". Either the author isn't paying enough attention, or else they're doing extensive "pre-washing" of their dishes before loading them, or they're washing so incredibly quickly after eating that food never has the time to dry/harden in the first place.

They run the washer many times per day... al the food is probably still fresh and not dried up and hard to remove. Same is true for professional/restaurant dishwasher, where dishes are put inside immediately and washed in a few minutes.
Armistice Day my bad, either way Germany lost
> Why the only alternatives to capitalism that come to mind are always China and Gulags? Is there absolutely nothing else we can imagine?

The answer is that it's effective propaganda. Starvation and gulags are terrible evils. If you can plant the idea in someone's mind that they are what you get when a society questions capitalism, then you've created a zealous foot-soldier for capitalism who feels he's fighting for good against evil.

Someone who zealously fights starvation and gulags is fighting for good against evil, but those were mainly the result of particular alternatives to capitalism: radical Soviet-style central planning and dictatorship. That's not the only alternative: there are others, including many that haven't been thought of yet. Also, it's not like capitalism is over and we know how it ends. Maybe it too will find its way to starvation and gulags.
They would go to a bar and comment that the ceiling fan was spinning at 23 rpm, and the compressor motor on the cooler had a bad bearing.
The fact that we prevent children from consenting to something that may be harmful to them doesn't mean we need a nanny state to protect everyone.
People keep repeating this, but it's not true. The interface has so many "this flag in this case" but "this other flag in that case" and "that command doesn't support this flag like that" etc. There's no composability or orthoganality or suggestiveness. It's nonsensical and capricious and unmemorable, even though I understand the "simple" underlying model and have for years.
I think stabbing someone has a very high chance of making the situation far more dangerous than just asking the person to stop.

Also, it has been true for centuries that a woman screaming "help!" would draw the attention of all the men in the area (for example the carriage driver in this case) who would be eager to beat the other man to a pulp if he didn't stop harassing her.

Women and children first into the lifeboats, remember? Most men do care about women as a class and even elevate their care for them above their concern for themselves.

Also, although people might give a 5'1" man some leeway regarding using a stick against a 6'2" man if the 6'2" man attacked him first, I don't think anyone would find it acceptable for the 5'1" man to INITIATE the violence using a weapon merely because of the POSSIBILITY that the larger man might attack him.

If you're in a bar and a large man says something insulting to you, do you just skip to attacking him because, if you say something insulting back he might attack you? If you do, I'm pretty sure you're the one who will be charged with a crime.

You know, sometimes people who ask for directions then demand your wallet. Should I just attack everyone who approaches me for directions, because they might be a thief?
Although I made the comment based on the quote about a particular woman, I was thinking more generally in my comment. The kind of feeling she had about staying home is echoed many times over by other women I'm sure.

Thank you for concern at my level of outrage but I'll be fine.
Big discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132722
SQLite4 (2014)
I don't feel there is a significant time investment with using the builtin way.

Timescale has some neat features for handling time series data, but for just sharding out data for scalability I can't see it offering anything substantial. And in that vein, I feel the marketing is somewhat disingenuous in the performance claims. When comparing to vanilla PostgreSQL it is comparing against a very naive usage pattern. People have been getting the same kinds of performance increases from partitioning out time series data for a loooong time.
The core of it stands that 'urban populations have become mainly passive'. Perhaps I'd consider revising to replace passive with consumers. So, we've been taught and continually urged to spend our idle hours consuming. So, it isn't a surprise to me that most folks don't know any other way to spend their time.
> it's reasonable to at least attempt it

Now consider having to do that twice a day, every day or every other day, where in some X% of the cases the man involved may themselves turn violent immediately after being rejected.
The author was born and raised in the Soviet Union and lived in Moscow from 1991 to 2013. Perhaps it is you who needs to work on their research?
That's nice!

For first time i've seen huge resource about R.
> Everything I know about dishwasher detergent is that it is formulated to clean chemically, i.e. with enzymes etc. that actually break food down over the course of tens of minutes or hours.

This may have changed recently, but dish soap used to have enzymes too.
Ironically, even Intel is now planning to use TSMC. Makes you wonder if hell is freezing over...

http://fortune.com/2020/07/28/intel-7nm-delay-tsmc-stock-sha...
Nope no changes on our end. Very weird / makes me trust github pages a little less.
Many poor people don't even have dishwashers! Perhaps this whole topic we should refrain from discussing.
that might seem contradictory, but not necessarily. the article doesn't provide enough information to draw a definitive conclusion, but it seems to imply the same order of things later in the article. so distancing as the primary mitigation, masks when you can't, as with trains, concerts, and cinemas (work depends on the office plan).
Which is why the first Hyperloop will probably be built outside the USA.

Melbourne to Sydney always seemed like a good choice to me. It's one of the busiest air routes in the world[1], there is obviously tons of solar, lots of open land beside the existing road, no seismic activity to speak of and it's a good long distance to get up to speed (~1000km).

[1] (actually #3 in the world by number of passengers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_...
An AutoML framework for audio files (50 featurizers and 15 model trainers)
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Agreed.

> She says the pipes could come up on state-owned land beside motorways or (where they exist) railways.

No time or planning should go into surface hyperloops. These things belong underground. 100x better.
Also, buy in bulk and when it's on sale. Those things usually last a long time, and there is a very very low chance you'll end up not needing those items anymore in your household, and even then you'll have bigger problems than 5 tubes of toothpaste left over in your drawer.
This whole thing reeks of nepotism and this comment reinforces that.
Oh, please. Just because my opinion does not reflect western geopolitical interests it must be "Russian propaganda" according to you? Way to shut down dissenting opinions by labeling it propaganda.
Snopes routinely picks up on unsavory truths regarding the left and then proceed on a campaign of disinformation warfare by distorting the truths into their own fabricated strawman that can be "debunked" while simultaneously spending a princely sum on SEO to insure searches for said unsavory truths are redirected to their fever dream. It's a DNC digital mercenary site and routinely muddies the waters at best.

Do a little reading up on the guy who started that site. While I generally prefer to criticize arguments instead of their presenters, the fact that this guy is an actual lying fraud says everything about his credibility - and also the leftist/progressive tribal cult that relish in his church
I'd genuinely like to see a reference. I don't know of any concrete-heavy building styles before the development of reinforced concrete in the late 19th century. It would have also been pretty cutting edge until maybe halfway through the 20th century.
Exactly, even friction with hot water will definitely do some level of washing. You can't really estimate the effect of dishwasher detergent until you actually try with and without (which is akin to using placebo for drugs).

The same is true for washing machines in laundry, running them without detergent will still remove some stains.
Nobody was ever "forced to waste their time" on this stuff. I have a simple rule - I don't comment on other people's style, and if people comment on my style, I just go with their suggestions. Problem solved.
Loving Dgraph for the amazing GraphQL-like language. I believe their latest version(s) are now fully compliant.

I also used ArangoDB, back then it was a lot more stable for bulk loading than Dgraph but today I believe they're on par — Arango is multi-model which can be at times easier to reason about whilst Dgraph is a more graph-native database.

I never liked Neo4J as — back then — the horizontal scaling was impossible or extremely difficult to achieve.
Nope, I didn't. Your first sentence says:

>but this is triggering one of my pet peeves about common misunderstandings of Morse code.

and my post is about how there is no misunderstanding.
Not really, there’s a fourth factor not listed here, which is government vs. private. A government project will, for political reasons, need to support universal access, and a public transit system will have a hard time telling a person “you smell too bad to get on the bus.” A private company won’t have any such problems and can build only for the rich and middle class. The problem that Hyperloop solves is creating 1/20th the throughput at 1/20th the cost, which brings the project feasibility into the private sector domain and allows a product to be sold to the richest and/or cheapest-to-serve 1/20th of the market.
Uber would set hours because they would only hire people to work at times when there is demand. You would not be able to "clock in" at will, because there might not be any rides for you to take, and thus no reason for you to get paid.
Somewhat related. I went to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland last fall and did a tour of their submarine, the USS Blueback. Our tour guide was a retired Cold War-era submariner and he was fantastic. He gave us tons and tons of details about what life and working on an active sub was actually like. It felt like being there, and you could tell he delighted in being able to share his past with people.
Yeah, it's primarily software projects where I developed my risk heuristic of "will backer updates and development logs be amusing enough, whether or not anything is delivered" and for videogames the subheuristic of "is the value of the soundtrack worth whatever state the game is in at release". A lot of KS games I have backed for their soundtracks and anything about playing the game itself has been a welcome surprise, usually. Most games on KS you have a good idea of who the composer will be and the likelihood of delivery of a strong product from that composer, no matter whatever else with the game.

I've actually think I had more projects not deliver that weren't software, though, than software projects. At some I should review the statistics. Under the "did the backer updates entertain" heuristic though, I don't count any real losses.
Uber drivers can't take bathroom breaks?
FYI the official talent directory is now online at https://talentdirectory.mozilla.org/ and I expect people will be adding themselves to it over the coming days.
> or one of the four non-related-to-protest shootings in a neighborhood that had been suddenly abandoned by police and already had a high violent crime rate compared to the rest of the city?

I was thinking specifically of the "two black teenagers shot, one killed" incident that made the news everywhere. The fact that there were others is itself a great reason for Uber drivers to not want to drive there. (Protester's fault or something else, it's still dangerous)

> That's an inevitable result of somebody trying to push through a crowd that won't move. If you sit there, nobody moves out of the way, and you hit the gas anyway, people will inevitably try to damage the car to make you stop again, because you could kill somebody doing that.

It's an inevitable consequence on both sides. The driver sitting still who gets spooked by people banging on their windows and floors it is also a predictable outcome. (There's reasons that protests normally have streets closed off, and it's not just for the protesters containment) Personally I'd put both driving up to a crowd AND surrounding a car on foot as "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" - for exactly this reason.
>...though your site would need a reasonable amount of traffic

Any insight on what a reasonable amount of traffic amounts to based on your experience?
Right - most people just want to feed their kids first and worry about other things later.

I think the idea that most Mozilla employees were working there for morals rather than being able to buy their children shoes is doubtful.
Academic Freedom in the UK
With any new technology, the likelihood of failure is high but the expected value is positive. As Nat Friedman (CEO of GitHub) said: "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."
Taken to its furthest extent, AB5 makes Airbnb hosts Airbnb employees, Amazon marketplace sellers Amazon employees, eBay sellers eBay employees, Twitch streamers Twitch employees, etc.

Airbnb: no, because hosts aren't being paid for providing services, they're being paid for providing access to their accommodations. Its a subtle distinction but one that matters legally since it means there isn't a compensation-for-work arrangement. (A host can choose to voluntarily go above and beyond, but that's not required or expected.)

Amazon Marketplace and eBay: No. The Amazon marketplace acts like a real marketplace, so sellers transact with the buyers for AM purchases and Amazon acts as an agent of the seller in that transaction. Sellers determine what they sell on Amazon, how much they charge for the products they sell, and are largely responsible for acquiring sales traffic on their own. Sellers independently acquire and own the inventory they sell on Amazon, and can sell on their own websites or on competitors' websites. Crucially, Amazon isn't paying AM sellers for their labors in selling products. They only receive payment for goods actually sold, meaning again, there is no compensation-for-work arrangement.

Also, for Amazon and eBay: AB5 carves out exceptions for direct sales, in this context defined as any sales not made through a retail store, so direct sales salespersons may continue to be treated as contractors or employees as the business so chooses.

Twitch: Possibly! Twitch and streamers are in the business of streaming live video. Streamers are usually exclusive to a particular streaming service. And generally, except for the biggest streamers, they are unable to set or negotiate their own rates for streaming.

BUT...Twitch doesn't actually pay streamers for streaming; most of them do it for free. When it does pay streamers, it pays them commissions and marketing fees for any ad revenue, sales of digital products, or subscriptions tied to their channels (even if not actually arising from streaming), and marketing services and commission-based arrangements are largely excluded from AB5. And generally, for the bigger streamers, it pays them through personal companies so that AB5 does not apply (since AB5 does not apply to contracts between two legal entities).
Hey!

Our models indicate if we can get market rate mortgage debt on our portfolio (likely) to fund 80%, and prime plus low to average mezzanine debt rates on 15% to fund the rest all holders can make returns - including equity - so long as we minimize fees and keep occupancy high.

In the long run, there are many ways being the gateway to financing a home / a person's largest monthly expense allows many methods for expansion.

Real estate is a fairly efficient market but the strange dichotomy between rent and mortgages mean there are two starkly different return structures. There's a lot of margin in between the two to create a hybrid that satisfies everyone.
Another solution is to stock up on such commodities - most people have enough space to store toilet paper, detergents and the like since you are anyway going to use them sooner or later. You might as well stock them up, just in case, as you never stop needing them.
I speculate that bio laundry powder would be better than dish soap, as that has similar enzymes in. No idea if it's similar enough, or if there are other things in laundry powder that would be a problem.

Oh no, hack trouble:

https://www.idealhome.co.uk/news/washing-machine-hack-242903
I'm genuinely sorry if it comes off that way way, and I'd love to make any changes you feel would make it more inclusive.

My goal was to create a public site trying to help newly-displaced former coworkers connect, not exclude anyone. Many of these people worked on making the web a better place for a decade. Mozilla's network is intentionally inclusive – the code is open source and can be contributed to by anyone who wants to get involved.

None of these companies are hiring exclusively Mozillians, so feel free to apply either way!