skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could offer you some advice, but I don't have much first hand experience with data science roles.

However, I can shine some light on the below:

> I would love to make myself useful for free

When I was trying to get my foot in the door, I made this offer and was always shot down. I couldn't understand why (free work is free -- is everyone insane?).

After a bit of experience (and receiving this offer regularly) I realized why my offer was always declined. The process of onboarding a dev is long and takes a toll on the existing teams productivity (it's often a worthwhile toll). The process to onboard an intern/free worker is roughly the same as a "normal" employed dev (unless the dev you're employing has identical past experience, which is very rare).

From the employer's perspective, it's often not beneficial to onboard someone that's explicitly looking for a full-time role elsewhere.
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I have been working for Google (YouTube team) for 2.2 years as software engineer and now looking to join a new excited project or startup.
Is it not already legal?
I knew multiple people who failed out of MIT because they were suddenly forced to focus and work hard for the first time in their lives and didn't adjust quickly enough. Finally learning to work hard is really valuable for those who adjust, though.
All else being equal, isn't attractiveness also a marketable asset in most if not all industries?
I kinda meant a link to information about the proper posture and exercises you mention.
In April 2004, China reported a case of SARS in a nurse who had cared for a researcher at the Chinese National Institute of Virology (NIV). While ill, the researcher had traveled twice by train from Beijing to Anhui province, where she was nursed by her mother, a physician, who fell ill and died. The nurse in turn infected five third-generation cases, causing no deaths.

Subsequent investigation uncovered three unrelated laboratory infections in different researchers at the NIV. At least of two primary patients had never worked with live SARS virus. Many shortcomings in biosecurity were found at the NIV, and the specific cause of the outbreak was traced to an inadequately inactivated preparation of SARS virus that was used in general (that is, not biosecure) laboratory areas, including one where the primary cases worked. It had not been tested to confirm its safety after inactivation, as it should have been.
Creating a new recipe doesn’t involve billions of dollars in research as is the case in pharma.

A company that spends billions of dollars in research assumes they will be able to recoup the cost by having a monopoly on the drug they developed. If however competitors can flood the market with the same drug, they cannot recoup the cost and will subsequently go bankrupt.

Without the proper incentives you can’t expect companies to pursue strategies that will lead to bankruptcy.
True. It is sad that market forces may and likely will have the opposite of the intended effect. Personally, I like the idea of having more options to have healthier competition in the market.

It is also true that the issue is very similar to the one you describe in the e-commerce world. However, I would argue that food delivery is specifically very different from most other products/services. Food is a need; not a want, and poor experience usually produces a stronger-than-usual emotional response... we have all been "hangry" at some point in time. IMO, that specific emotional response is the key differentiator. Hangry customers that are usually unaware of the nuances of the food delivery industry and its practices, usually end up blaming the restaurants. It also doesn't help that feedback mechanisms built into most delivery apps are limited (although I've seen improvements in that area in more recent times).
> When she told them about the proposed legislation, they insisted on knowing what it would say, whether it would be formally introduced, and when.

Is that really necessary?
A side note: one of the reasons I don't subscribe to more online news sites is that I can't handle changing my credit card number with more vendors than I already do today. I've had 3 card replacements in the past year due to data breaches. This is truly annoying.
California voters seem happy to keep voting themselves destructive legislation regardless of long term consequences. Vote with your feet.
Telegram publishes users' locations online
So Disney can steal the work of amateur animators and not pay them a dime. Great.
Previous^2 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25252543
And search would tank until it spun up a new advertising division.
> And yet you can identify no real alternative.

Qubes/Whonix/Tails or any hardened linux distros is a practical and widely accepted alternative in the security field.

To my knowledge I don't think I recall anybody using a comprehensive "pen test" framework on a Mac.

> has refused to turn over user data even after legal challenges from the federal government

While this is true, it never stopped the agencies from getting their data through other means.

There is a company in Israel that specializes in unlocking iPhone data. It recently lead to the arrest of a child sex cult ring in South Korea.

> doesn’t generate revenues from advertising and selling user data.

neither does Microsoft if you consider the metrics are used internally and using it to optimize their product to maximize revenues.

I will agree that it is less pervasive than Google or Facebook.
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> What does a moderately northern place with a big city look like when the Church of Shutdown is worshipped and the Ritual of the Mask is observed? The Maskachusetts COVID-19 death rate per 100,000 people is 182 (CDC). Sweden’s rate is 86

I don't know about Sweden, but I do know about MA, and the deaths here primarily predate the adoption of masks.
> You're arguing that we should outlaw something that's vital to human life. Social interaction.

You’re being a bit dramatic about this. People can still use zoom, have socially-distanced meetups on their lawn etc. That’s a big difference from isolation.
Wouldn't it be way easier and more logical to start the infection on a foreign soil? All the previous similar epidemics were successfully contained before reaching Europe, and if there was not for quite serious fuck ups in the beginning (Italian dude not even showing up on the meetings, etc.) perhaps even this one could have been stopped early on. So if it was China wanting to hurt US, then they'd have to be seriously stupid to first infect themselves and hope it will somehow reach US over Europe. It'd be like a terrorist who sends a bomb to their own address in hope that it will somehow eventually reach their enemies. It makes zero sense.
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Recovery email, SMS, TOTP, other 2FA. Now there are 4 ways to compromise your account. Awesome! And the solution, according to Google, is to pair those methods with some other arbitrary factors to make it really secure.

Just ignore the fact that almost every option is vulnerable to real time MitM via phishing if a user doesn't understand they're at the wrong URL. So what does Google do? They deemphasize the URL and train users to randomly enter their 2FA codes everywhere a million times per day. Brilliant!
What genome profiling companies will do is assay a finite number of specific locations on your DNA (SNPs)

Companies such as 23andMe will read about 900 000 single letter locations for about $100. But other companies will sequence your whole genome for about $1000, maybe under.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_genomics#Cost_of_sequ...
> because they caught ppl doing it like that American spy in the 80s.
>
Are you referring to Robert Hanssen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
> So why would Covid-19 even need to come from a lab? We (humans) had wet markets filled with animals, including the very bats that carry the base virus. It's the perfect breeding ground to create a pandemic-level virus and probably a few thousand more viruses of lesser impact.

The question of how it got to Wuhan all the way from Southern China remains unanswered. There weren't any bats sold on the wet markets, nor has any other host animal been identified.

The virologists working in Wuhan did travel all the way to Southern China to collect bat coronavirus samples and they did perform gain-of-function experiments. Viruses - even highly pathogenic ones - have escaped labs on numerous occasions. There is a plausible scenario here.

There is another plausible scenario, which is that "ground zero" for Sars-CoV-2 is actually Southern China, just like Sars-CoV-1. However, the virus wasn't discovered there first, because it didn't cause enough illness. The outbreak in Wuhan, the 9th largest city in China, would've been discovered by chance.
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The problem is that when the rocket shuts off, they usually haven't quite landed right. If they are still moving, the legs have to catch the rocket. If they are still a bit in the air, you'll fall down and have to catch the rocket.

The legs on a Falcon have built in shock absorbers. Here is why. The energy with which you hit the ground is 0.5 m v^2. This has to match force times distance while the legs catch it. If it is perfectly rigid, the force is insane, even when rigid. But if the legs can flex, you can make this work out.

But if we've got a structure that catches you, then the rocket doesn't need to have those shock absorbers. The structure does. And if the longer the distance over which the shock is absorbed, the smoother the landing.

Now in Elon's plans, Starship needs to be able to land on Mars unassisted. So it actually needs legs with shock absorbers. But SuperHeavy only needs to take off from and land on Earth at pre-arranged locations. So he can make it more efficient by not building in any unnecessary shock absorbers.

Side note. This is why seatbelts matter. With a seatbelt your crash is spread over all of the time that the car is crashing. Without it your crash is spread over the time it takes your head to hit the car. When your head stops in 1/10 the distance you have to have 10x the force. It is not hard for this to be the difference between being shaken up and having your brains scrambled.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/

All "episodes of Galaxy Quest are true historical documentaries".

Classic.
I smashed myself in the bridge of the nose with a Macbook Pro doing this. The edges of the open lid are surprisingly sharp.
There are thousands of wet markets in China, but very few virus labs. Out of all the wet markets in China, the virus just happened to originate at the one right next to the virus lab? That alone is enough evidence to make the lab escape theory the most likely origin. Though it's far from certain.
Show HN: Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser
It is a very good training/shaping tool, like mathematical analysis or modern logic. You'll benefit even if you never see an integral in the "real world". I think it should be taught in all respectable universities.
From the comments:

> They also convince themselves that it is the interest of young Black Americans living with young kids in apartments. So they’re not only saving themselves, but saving others. It doesn’t strike them as unlikely that a policy designed and imposed by rich white people would be beneficial to low-income Black Americans.

The problem with this take is that it's the opposite: Black and Hispanic Americans support lockdown measures more than Whites[1]. They are also more worried about being hospitalized due to COVID. This makes sense, as it's supported by the CDC's data[2]. It's unfortunate this has become a common misconception.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/04/14/health-conce...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-e...
1 and 2. If you read that post, and still think warrantless mass-surveillance via KYC mandates is good, then you must view the author as necessary collateral damage, "for the greater good". This is a cold, inhumane way to treat matters of justice. Anyway, to address your utiliarian logic: poverty is the biggest predictor of being trafficked, and KYC controls, as well as the various punitive and indiscriminate government measures they help enforce, contribute massively to poverty. They do relatively little meanwhile to stop crime, stopping less than 1% of it: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/anti-money-laundering-has-les...

3. That is also the argument the Chinese Communist Party makes for its various totalitarian surveillance/control measures in Xinxiang. Anyone with a basic respect for liberal democratic principles like privacy and presumption-of-innocence/due-process will reject warrantless mass-surveillance of financial transactions and the presumption of guilt inherent to disallowing individuals who haven't proven their innocence, by disclosing private information, from conducting certain classes of financial transactions.

>>So yes, it's really inconvient to have to deal with KYC and miss out on that sweet stock growth on foreign markets

That is incredibly daft. Individuals being able to generate/accumulate wealth has massive knock-on effects for the people around them and the countries they live in.

But here is a story about poor women of color who you seem more concerned about:

https://www.coindesk.com/money-reimagined-ugly-side-kyc-aml-...

>>At a 2015 blockchain event, Nairobi-based bitcoin pioneer Elizabeth Rossiello answered an audience question about the impact on Somalians of a recent shutdown in remittance inflows after the U.S. government had labeled the country a “high-risk jurisdiction.” The AZA Group CEO’s answer was blunt: “They starve.”

I guess just more collateral damage according to the insiders in the AML/KYC compliance sector.

>>I encourage your example to work with his local government to pass the appropriate laws to join the world economy.

Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state.

And until he can transform Uzbekistan into, first, a democratic state, and second, a compliant organ of the global AML mass-surveillance regime, it's okay for insiders like you that he is a global third class citizen. All of the poverty alleviation that being presumed innocent, instead treated like a suspect/criminal by your discriminatory policies, would bring about, will be conveniently dismissed by you.
But remember when you “vote with your feet” that you are a refugee not a missionary.

Dont vote for the same things that made you left on your new place!
Thank you, I tried the rope, and I ran a benchmark that creates a rope of length 1G by repeatedly inserting 1023 bytes at random positions. Some notes:

When I changed the hardcoded node size from 136 to 1024 bytes, time went down from 3.6 secs to 2.6 secs on my laptop. It kind of plateaued at 1024 bytes. I didn't do more extensive testing.

What's the rationale for the choice of 136? A cache line is usually 64, so the CPU will always end up loading a multiple of that in any case.

When I did a rope implementation myself (I don't know how it compares in terms of performance) I think I ended up with nodes of 4096 or 8192 bytes size. That was based on a Red-black tree. When I load ~1Gig of data, even with a node size of 4096, there will still be 2^18 nodes, meaning each access requires sth. like 17 child traversals, which seems a lot to me. So I can't see myself going down to 200 bytes or less.
As others have mentioned it could have something to do with cheap being in the domain name.

At this point since you don't have much to lose, it might be worth buying a new domain and 301'ing everything from goodcheapandfast.com to the new one.

You'd pass on most the link juice but lose the bad name.
How to make experience letter... I have been fired without experience letter...??
It's hard for me to understand what you're saying. I can't tell whether you're saying the FTC has investigated facebook a ton and that means facebook is bad, or that the FTC hasn't investigated facebook enough and that means the FTC is bad.
>And yet their search product is littered with crap and exploits users like only a monopolist would.

As others have pointed out this site is nearly indistinguishable from crap to a human much less a crawler. Thus Google trying to clean up the crap get's yelled at by you for hitting other sites (which is unavoidable). And if they didn't try to clean up the crap you'd yell at them for that.
Without knowing the details of your use case, Cassandra. (Well, in reality Kafka, but that's a bigger leap). Consistent driver availability, easy horizontal scaling (not for performance to start with but for reliability), basic things like collection-valued columns can just work in a common-sense way, harder to shoot yourself in the foot with the consistency model, separate interfaces for fast key lookups and slow table scans so you don't mix them up.
I have 10 setups running now I think, may have missed some too.

1-
Homeassistant on ODroidC4
2-
Raspberry Pi controlling my chicken coop in barn
3-
Docker 1, not sure what it does anymore
4-
Docker 2, used to run chicken coop, has a bunch of legacy stuff I don't want to move, like my discord firewall connection to block/allow kids Internet and kids pi-hole
5-
Docker 3, fresh setup to standardize my data collection via MQTT to influxDB and Ignition Maker Edition
6-
Raspberrypi at cousins restaurant, monitors temps, send alerts to discord and POS printers, runs the door dingers out speakers, different per door and volume changes by time of day/day of week
7-
Docker on resturant camera server, don't think it does anything really
8-
RaspberryPi at resturant in the shed, watches the freezer temp and building temp, was going to watch power and the door also, never got around to it
9-
Raspberrypi at Buddies shop, watches his boiler temps
10-
Docker at buddies house, collects the shop boiler data and pushes to influxdb for Grafana, I think, I may have bypassed that part of it
Did someone downvoting me because I disagree with you that bitcoin will go down to 1000 USD? Alright, if you’re bearish and you think it will go down, put your money on it! Buy put options, sell bitcoin futures, or short bitcoin. Any of it works. Many cryptocurrency exchanges let you short against a USD stablecoin, many brokerages let you sell futures, and half a dozen brokerages let you buy put options (or sell call options). But don’t put any more money on your bet than you’re willing to lose!

Heck I’ll even give you an offer, if you want to let me know what your position is, I’ll take the other side!

Put your money where your mouth is.
I don’t actually know. And I was about to joke, but on second thought bet it is actually true, that at the end of the chain, all the money is in actually selling ED pills, hair-loss treatments, and porn.
> "Out of a total of ten fiction books, he also wrote three erotic novels."

I recently listened to the 99% Invisible mini stories episode, and one was on novel adaptations of films. One of the points about the authors who write them is they often take the work to pay the bills.
Some Eastern EU states do it.
What is the real honest use case for affiliate links?

It basically seems like a way for Amazon and other affiliate program operators to deniably outsource black hat SEO.

Not that this particular site is using black hat SEO (as far as I can tell), but many affiliate link farms are. This particular site seems like it is less offensive, but still something that would be annoying to get in search results.
Sorry, I apparently can't format very well on n my phone
I agree with this.

Also, if you have some experience and side projects already, I think it's mostly a credential issue. You're probably being screened out on criteria like work history, or degree, etc. I think if you can get an interview with someone who will listen, then you probably have a shot at entry level. I honestly don't see many entry level jobs out there though - everyone wants seniors.
Remote access to virtual machines in a seamless way with video, audio, USB
> You’re being a bit dramatic about this.

This is how an abuser talks. "Why do you care so much?"

Say that to the working class person whose livelihood depends on the continuity of public life.

The person months behind on rent and jobless.

Anyone contemplating suicide.

Millions of children deprived of close to a year and counting of in-person education at a crucial point of their development that will never come back.

People horrified to enter a hospital despite needing medical care.
I don't think it's a search engine at all, the site just happens to have a search box.

It looks more like a (manually?) curated list of products that fulfill the criteria of "good, fast & cheap", within various categories.
Those two items do take a prominent place in the dem platform [0]

Several large-ish departments [1] have been persuaded to make budgetary changes in regards to the lite version of defund the police, i.e. transfer certain operations to medical specialists such as mental illness, etc.

don't have time to dig as deep into dem support of taxpayer-funded healthcare, but here is one group to pay attention to because they seem to be very realistic, even pragmatic about it. Some interesting podcast interviews coming out of their media:
https://pnhp.org/news-category/members-in-the-news/
https://pnhp.org/kitchen-table-campaign/

[3]
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/new-york-city-police-fundi...

[2]
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944938471/minneapolis-shifts-...

[1]
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/civilians-could-repl...

[0] https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
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PWM signals are dithered by definition, and are probably the most common interface, no?