skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This very instant? I suspect not well. But conceptually? Yes. If we made a space based telescope that could do IR-visible-UV spectroscopy with decent resolution/sensitivity we would be able to get some information about the chemical make up of the gasses on planets transiting their stars.

Much like the kerfluffle about phosphine on Venus, there are some compounds you just wouldn't expect from strictly geologic processes. Molecular oxygen comes to mind, but also some complicated shortish life time compounds would imply industry maybe. If we had /really/ good sensors we might even be able to spot the isotopic differences, it's been awhile since I've looked into the capacity for spectroscopy, but since the masses are different, the vibrational modes should be different, resulting in different spectra. We could conceivably spot if weird isotope distributions were in their environment, if it differed wildly enough from their suns make up you might be able to make the case that weird non-geologic nuclear reactions were taking place.

The reason the astronomy community is excited about the James Web Space Telescope is that it can do a few of these investigations.
That's a good point, but again this only applies to some types of PhDs. Maybe a computer science PhD would be useful to you in a position like this. But a literary criticism PhD would not.

Fortunately, not too many of those folks are being graduated. http://statista.com/statistics/185353/number-of-doctoral-deg... Although still probably 10x+ the number that the economy can actually support in relevant roles.
Regarding mysql* i 'd guess it's probably easier to just replace it with mysqli_* calls. Only a few changes would be needed unless the app is doing something unconventional.
> Another example of such uninspired CEO that keeps making good quarters but tarnishes his company advantages is Tim Cook. I can't wait for him to be replaced.

Easy to say "making good quarters" is table stakes, much harder to come up with a vision that works. What do you see as possible visions Cook could pursue given Apple's positioning?
I've been able to avoid it entirely. Can you point to a good primer on qanon? Not an opinion piece or a takedown or anything, just an explainer.

The only thing I know is what I've heard from MSM, and that has been that there is a secret cabal of pedophiles, and many members occupy powerful positions.
This whole thread is just people complaining about the demand curves moving, and the supply curve lagging, because it takes time in real life for people to see and react to the moving demand curves.

There is a little bit of pain, initially, but if they step back and compare life in an economically prospering place (rich people coming in) versus an economically declining place (rich people and opportunities to earn money leaving), they would realize they are actually lucky.

One might say well those aren’t the only two options, and I would say, yes they are. The world moves faster and faster there is no “stasis” anymore. You’re on the up or down, volatility is higher, and you need to stay on the right side of it.
When I switched to Linux and started using FFmpeg, the idea of automating video production (this thing that was so time intensive in my mind) was so appealing. This is an awesome little example. What a damn good piece of software.
I'm not too informed about the South Korea market specifically either, but reading about it, what the news suggest is that the decrease in DUIs in SK are heavily correlated to progressively stricter DUI laws over the years.

I'm not sure to what extent we can infer a correlation between the app-based aspect and DUIs there.

Though to be clear, I do think the app-based aspect plays a role. It's just that when I say "rideshare", I assume we are talking about the whole package as it exists in reality, as opposed to dissecting what aspects of Uber affect what types of statistics.
I'm sure he is a very smart guy and he did a good job but the past 10 years of the economy have been essentially 100% about luck/timing. Most of these large corporations have become self-sustaining capital blackholes.
In our inflationary fiat monetary system, once enough capital gets dumped into something, it just keeps attracting capital no matter what. Just look at any major tech corporation, gold, silver, Bitcoin... They're mostly stores of value, the business utility is not a factor.
The only thing that counted over the past decade is perception. Improving the perception of Microsoft is Satya's main achievement. Anyone with a good trustworthy face and a good story to tell could have achieved that.
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Similar situation here, I am interpreting (or parsing) all of this as a test to see if I really do love the grind that much.
It's only "gentrification" if you don't like the people doing it. Otherwise it's just "a great deal" on a new place.
"Peaceful Piano" playlist on Spotify. Classical music is great at fading into the background.

Additionally, look into symptoms of adult ADHD. The problem may be larger than not having music, your brain may be constantly craving stimulation that can never be fully satiated.

Definitely not encouraging meds, but there is a world of coping mechanisms that you could put in place to help you focus.
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The problem is distinguishing "busywork" from "the work". Often times, they look very similar, especially to outside viewers.
This is very much a lost art and it is surprisingly difficult to google your way to success.

I’ve recently seen other people complain about receiving large xml and having to hack together a parser.

Can you write a how-to? Something deeper than “you can do this with XSLT” - it would be very valuable to a lot of people.
What about existing products like Exchange? It’s basically useless.
In many animal species, males attract female mating partners by displaying their material resource accumulation.

Hypothetically, if human males attract females through resource accumulation then it goes to reason that the impetus to build resources are predicated on their application of skills and work in the material economy.

Therefore, if females are not those attracting males through resource accumulation, but rather males attracting females through resource accumulation, then it goes to reason that males have a stronger impetus to work in the material economy when compares to females.
ye I noticed they swap them sometimes as well. which i hate. i'm really picky about that. Even slightest difference to the version I like can make me hate any other version. so getting one slightly faster from another album is no good for me.
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> going after Youtube

So... actual government-mandated suppression of free speech?
Gotcha, didn't realize it was standardized. I feel like I heard about CommonMark when it first was announced and I more or less wrote it off as another markup format, but thanks for the clarification.

My poor little internet points <\3 sorry HN for the unforgivable offense of asking a benign question
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I'm thankful to have started programming in PHP when I first started doing web work for this reason. Shared mutable state is (almost always) bad and virtually everything I've built after that (on any stack) follows similar rules around per-request isolation because of the patterns PHP instilled in me.

Not only does this reduce (1) the likelihood of correctness issues, but it also dramatically reduces (2) deployment complexity because you don't need to migrate a bunch of in-memory state distributed across web backends. Your servers should all be considered dispensable.

In 2020, I tend to bias towards things like AWS lambda for this reason (for low volume applications). By default, there's no guarantee on the lifetime of the serving process and any unhandled exception recycles the process so you're never in an unknown (bad) state. There are of course performance downsides to this (particularly when it comes to pooling connections for things like Postgres), but once you figure that out things are generally smooth sailing.
no one really needs a truck. even construction workers don't really need a truck, or at least not more than one per job site, as the supply company will deliver what you need. for some reason of identity people in the US like trucks. I think we enjoy feeling capable and strong, and hatchbacks for some reason make us feel weak. I drive a hatchback now and people ask me a lot of questions about it, mildly incredulous that I am willing to take the image hit.
Oxford coronavirus vaccine ‘works perfectly’ and triggers ‘strong immunity’
Classifying Radio Signals from Space Using Keras in Python
Classifying Radio Signals from Space using Keras in Python
I really liked the default PDF viewer that came with Win10. But then they killed that.
I got a wake up call this week in just how much my company spends on “email signature marketing platforms” and it nearly made my hair go white, along with causing a strange series of emotions, none of them very positive-given some of the battles I’m fighting as a manager strapped for funding, and watching my team and other teams go through “covid related pay cuts”.
I went for a big company, put all my salary into investment, and retired at 35 as it turned out well. I was lucky, but I would choose big money and making sure that I put my money in tech investments that I believe in over working on something I believe in. If you don't believe in Microsoft, excercise your options early, and put your money working for you.
They made the generator change speeds too quickly, which destroyed it. I'm not sure how the size of the code is supposed to matter.
Disabling JavaScript works and doesn't break anything.
I think skype is good and important, it just isn't trending, but who cares. The problems are in the frontend unfortunately. It seems to be a Javascript app, and that s just bad choice for a real-time video app. Split mode doesnt work, scrollback fails on long conversations, can't control the placement of windows, designed for maximized windows, private mode disconnects randomly. And please do not ring all the devices in the house when there's a call, let me select only the one i m using its ridiculous, like a band playing the skype ringtone in the house.
From that Wikipedia article:

In a detailed profile published in The New Yorker magazine in February 2015, Alec Wilkinson wrote Zhang "parted unhappily" with Moh, and that Zhang "left Purdue without Moh’s support, and, having published no papers, was unable to find an academic job".

I don't think it was being "born in the wrong pool" that caused him not to get a academic job immediately... hmm
Sort of. (See my last sentence in the above sentence, about how “confluence is close”).

Wikis are limited to rendering information in a webpage format. The benefit of pandoc is that you can render it in any format you like, with arbitrary filters and styling.

So you can display the content in a webpage, but you can also render it into PDFs with full legal headers and footers, and footnotes with links, to be physically printed and mailed to people.

It’s a level of abstraction once removed from a wiki.
> Ok so then Uber would just be paying taxes from the sale of the rides. I'm kind of confused as to why that would be an issue. But happy to hear more about it.

Odds are good that if health insurance benefits are pushed out of employers, you're going to see it funded by a tax on top of wages, not a corporate income tax, because the former is directly tied to the number of people the org is supporting in the United States and the latter is not. The classification of employee vs. contractor is still salient. It's still a good idea nonetheless.

> Ok so then is the cap 8 hours? 10? Is it 7? It seems to me that you're inventing more problems to solve a different problem than is worthwhile. You can have more drivers doing less hours, if the economics of it work (and neither of us know whether or not it does, and ironically enough I doubt the State of California does either).

I don't think there's any philosophical merit to claiming someone working 7+ hours a day is not a full time worker. We may not know the exact economics, but we do know they're not great. Uber loses billions per year, and pays substantial money to deal with high driver turnover. A mixed system makes it worse.
Wish he would turn Excel around. Such an important product, but so buggy. Very bug ridden. Why doesn't it get better?
> Women will be underrepresented in these categories mainly because women (on average, as a population – not individually) don't want to do this type of work.

That's actually also sexist. What is the type of work that women do want to do then? And what is it about being a founder that is not appealing to women, in your view?
"A rails app" could be a rails default build, or Github.

You should get significantly better results the more one pays - because of the human element.

For example, $1k gets you a basic Nessus/Nmap (basic vulnerability/mapping) scans, maybe SQL vuln, with automated reporting. More gets you architecture, infrastructure, penetration, white/black scenarios, risk assessment, external organization liability, code repo, data, compliance, and regulatory footing. Those can surpass $100k easily.
if SF is the best, i REALLY don't wanna see the worst. i've been to SF a bunch of times and every single time i have issues with the public transportation system.
The markup that it uses for comments should use one though - and apparently it does! Others have mentioned that it uses a subset of CommonMark as mentioned in your post's sibling comments.

Thanks
I don't think On/Off was in the Beyond zone.

The actual On/Off star was presumably powering a zone changing device of some kind - antigravity technology had remained working for millions of years which made me think it was in a bubble of High Beyond or Transcendent zone levels (like the ending of AFUTD).
> For the people who are busy working on something they find important, most often 'status' is not even a thing.

I'd slightly modify that to say that what they were doing was more important to them than status - which isn't the same as saying they didn't care about status at all.

I read a number of biographies of great US presidents in the last year, and found it fascinating to see that pretty much all of them were intensely ambitious. What made the difference is that they ultimately cared more about the people they served than about serving their own ego.
The Age of Scurvy (2017)
... which Forbes India had a piece on a fortnight ago.

* https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th...
Working towards perpetual motion would probably lead to advancements in low-friction materials, which might make cars more efficient, for example. I think you're right that it's not an entirely pointless endeavor, although the actual goal will probably never happen.
Thank you for giving all these gifts out for free in the world. You could easily have made a paywalled site or sold everything in an expensive course, but you decided to share. Thank you very much, keep it up and ignore the chronic complainers, no amount of good will and effort is ever enough to keep them from typing away (instead of doing).

Cheers!
The title reflects the content. He hired 7 pentesters and shows the results. Why comment if you don't even want to read the article?
I dunno man, maybe there's something wrong with your rig. My machine doesn't have lag like that. The start menu always opens immediately. As for finding programs, I never have trouble. I just press the windows key (brings up start menu) and start typing the name of the program I want. It shows up at the top of the search.
What is Microsoft doing with all that data?

The thing is, when you're talking about an operating system with access to everything you do on your own equipment, it doesn't necessarily matter what they do with the data. The fact that any data is uploaded involuntarily is already a big problem.

I've been a Windows desktop user for most of my professional life, because in most fields, that's where you'd find the best quality and range of software and the best hardware support. But since the shift to 10, and the attempted abuse of 7 upwards via updates, I've become very cautious about Microsoft and its user-hostile actions. In my own businesses, we run many different platforms now and each computer or device we buy is configured individually according to the needs of its user. The major exception is Windows 10, which we don't use at all as a primary desktop OS. How can you ever trust a system that will update itself against your will and upload your data against your will, run by a business that is apparently building its whole strategy around continuing to do those things and overpowering any user resistance?

What amazes me is that lawyers and compliance officers working in smaller businesses aren't blowing the roof off over this stuff, which seems to all but guarantee that you can't comply with privacy regulations like the GDPR or typical corporate non-disclosure agreements. It seems that several European privacy regulators do have similar concerns and may be investigating various aspects of modern Microsoft systems. Is this just a case of everyone keeping their head down and hoping for the best because they don't see any better options than continuing to use Windows anyway?
>The reason Utah was so good at dealing with homelessness was a strong coupling between the Mormon church providing social services, the police departments being lenient with the homeless, and the local governments helping to redirect the homeless to the church (social) services.

> When a new mayor was elected and a new person became police chief this balance was shaken up and the whole system came apart, so now our homelessness problem is about as bad as everywhere else.

You listed 3 reasons, 2 of which has to do with the church, the third reason changed with new mayor, so now it all fell apart?

What happeneded to the mormon social services? Were they not successful without the local government redirecting people to the church services (which should be illegal?, separation of church and state)
She is not a scientist active in this area. At this point she is for the most part paid to be a science communicator. A lot of money is spend on curing all these other things. Particle accelerators have been instrumental in developing the technology for hadron radiation therapy (there are now special purpose one just for cancer treatment) and superconducting magnets (useful for MRT medical devices). If you examine it closely a lot of advances in biology and medicine were thanks to technical advances made by physics. They have been a really solid bet so far and have created trillions of dollars in value. Why not let them have some fun and let them chase their McGuffin, which btw. might be totally real and interesting fundamental physics. The high energy particle physics community is doing ground breaking research on radiation hard imaging sensors, large scale super conducting power distribution (which might be useful for connecting solar power in a lossless manner to consumers).

These projects are a way to train high skilled STEM people (competition to stay at CERN is brutal, but most go on to industry) in a structured way that then work on a lot of other societally relevant problems.
But laws about minimum wage and employee rights are not optional. A company can't decide to offer a job below minimum wage and argue that the arrangement is clear upfront, and therefore ok.
I honestly have no idea where all the Windows settings are anymore so I just search instead.

I wonder if this is a way to boost bing usage.
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You are making this out to be a political argument which it is not. The point is when all levels of government align under one party, which has leaders, it becomes more like a dictatorship. I don’t care how bad you personally consider the Republican party, there are those who consider Democrats the same way. That polar mindset is the problem. It’s not as black and white as you make it out to be and many people often agree with various positions on both sides, but when one side becomes to strong you are forced to essentially agree with all positions of that dominant side.
It may be even worse, that different continent is on a different planet.

Space(time) is absolutely, mind-boggling massive. Everyone knows it's big but it hard to comprehend how big and why there could be many alien civilizations out there capable of broadcasting or detecting but never intersect in any way because the detection windows of any 2 civilizations don't line up.

The Milky Way alone is ~150000-200000 light years across. Humans have been civilized for only some tens of thousands of years, and capable of sending and receiving signals for a mere century. Imagine that even at the speed of light the entire history of civilized life on Earth might come and go many times before something reaches us, or before the probe comes back.

There's no Earth-bound or common sense analogy that can convey this kind of vastness and emptiness.
Now a real interesting article would be what appsec service would have the highest impact for $100? Obviously not pentest. Code review? Architecture analysis? At $100 none of it would be deep of course. I could find a lot more stuff of interest in 2 hours of code review compared to pentesting.
I just need to comment that this is alarmist and ridiculous. I have had no issues running old applications on modern versions of windows whatsoever.

If anything, I think it's particularly impressive that Windows has as much backwards compatibility as possible going back to some of the earliest popular versions of windows.

At most, you could argue that BASIC and DOS are the biggest examples of us losing compatibility but realistically noone cares because they can be emulated at speeds a thousandfold the hardware they once existed on.

The most terrifying part about steam is them banning you arbitrarily or your account being hacked.

That's the real concern not some kind of compatibility nonsense.
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Ethereum set to become first blockchain to settle $1T in one year
No kidding. Did op forget that it's actual people who are voting on these referendums?

California allows any coalition to initiate referendums and bring the vote to the people, if that's not democratic, I don't know what is.

Edit: And it's a bit insulting to say California voters don't have the wherewithal to digest political advertisements and make their own decisions.
With office 365, you basically pay for a Dropbox subscription and get all of their office software on multiple computers. Seems like good value
Are we though?

Universe is huge. Wars on earth are waged over scares resources. If we are capable of reaching aliens would we really be incentivized to fight them while there are so many resources available elsewhere?
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Depending on your living situation, leave it outside the bedroom.

It helps you wake up because you have to walk to grab it and you can't look at it in bed.

I still sometimes will grab my phone and go back to bed, when I need the sleep but otherwise it is a great trick most days.
What are your specs?

I upgraded my Core 2 Duo machine from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and it definitely struggled.

But my Core i7 machine has no trouble with Windows 10.
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Open start menu, search for x. Can't find it. Close start menu, open start menu, search for x, instant result. Sigh
About last night’s fracking comments in the debate