jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Flow Commerce | Hoboken, NJ and Dublin, Ireland | Senior Backend / Senior Frontend / Senior Machine Learning/ Senior Product Designer / Senior Product Manager / Solutions Engineer | flow.io/careers / Full-time Onsite (remote until things normalize)

Flow is a SaaS e-commerce platform that enables brands and retailers to become international and sell cross-border. Flow’s API driven platform enables merchants to sell & ship globally from their own sites, solving all cross-border pain points throughout the entire e-commerce supply chain, such as local payment methods, international shipping options, and all aspects of the upstream site localization such as duty/tax calculation, local pricing and product restrictions. These challenges create enormous friction to selling globally for merchants. The result is a next generation platform for cross-border commerce, focused on the customer experience and on maximizing conversion rates.

Flow has raised $55m+ in funding (most recently Series B) from NEA, Amex Venture, Bain Capital Ventures, Forerunner and Fung Capital and more.

We are growing rapidly and looking for some great leaders in the engineering, product, and design space to join us.

Apply directly on the job posting and note YCombintor in the source field or send me your resume directly @ jhano@flow.io

You can see our job board for all of our open positions @ https://www.flow.io/careers/

Or you can click the links below:

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Sr. Product Designer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/82aeb1c0-1e10-4b09-bef4-43171bdae...

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I don't think anyone is proposing actually removing all humans from the loop, so I think that's an argument against a strawman.

Even if they were proposing it, there's no realistic chance of it happening.

I don't want people blindly copying "standard" scientific procedures either, where we run high-stastistical-power studies for months with double-blind scenarios then carefully peer-review it and come up with some result somewhere in 2022.
I suppose how bad this is depends on who Witness A actually is. I feel sorry for the poor temp though - everyone makes mistakes in their first job(s).
Many times in that kind of a role, people don't tell you enough to enable you to make smart decisions. That is because supposedly you are just robitically doing a task, and also because managers underestimate how many edge cases there are in 'easy' admin jobs.
Way too early to tell what’s going on but worse than 2008. Everyone is too busy writing bullshit about covid to see the 2nd and 3rd order effects. Italian and Spanish banks have been near insolvent for a good part of a decade they are going to completely blow out. A lot of other Banking institutions will fail as well because levered bets got blown out and we had a 3 or 4 sigma event nobody headges for not to mention lack of payment that will show up on balance sheets 4-6 months from now.

I doubt anyone is going to be super keen on investment in that money loosing miracle startup now money will dry up soon it’s just been so sudden people haven’t really adjusted yet.
I don’t think it will be as bad as the depression of 29 though. There is plenty of food available and some limited safety nets will keep people from starving. The gears of forclosure are so slow many will stay in “free” houses for 2-3 years.
The real question is jobs, will Americans work the fields? Or Will they just sit on government benefits? Will manufacturing come back? How do we deal with global labor and ecological arbitrage. Honestly I don’t think trump or Biden are going to be capable of addressing these Structural issues so we’re gonna loose 4 more years and risk a second smarter and more dangerous Trump in 2024
I wonder if it would even make a difference? I used to be a landlord in Scotland, and now am in Finland.

For landlord insurance I'd pay about £300/year in Scotland, and €60/year in Finland. I'd be surprised if there were short-term policies, as distinct from long-term-tenant policies, that we significantly more expensive than that.
>the loss of accumulated wealth

If only. I but I think wealthy individuals and companies with huge cash war chests are going to be just fine.
Sigh. This post is what happens when someone with no background or knowledge of religion or Christianity writes a "gotcha!" blog post, thinking they've vanquished the stupid and their illogical opinions. And I say this as someone who isn't even a Christian. Where to even begin..

- The idea of taking the Bible literally is itself a modern phenomenon which arose out of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Protestant Reformation and specifically the American Second Great Awakening.

As with other texts, there are numerous ways of interpreting the Bible and the idea that a book itself should only be understood in a literal sense is a really anti-intellectual modern opinion. For example, in the Middle Ages, there was a four-fold method of interpretation. This is not a new topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_in_the_Middle_Ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretation_of_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exegesis

- Many of the "Nagging Questions" are ill-formed and deeply ignorant of most of Christian theology, philosophy, religious history, and basically everything else.

Needless to say, this is a topic which has been written upon and studied for thousands of years. Suggested reading:

- Christianity: The First 3,000 Years

- A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

- The Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche

- The New Oxford Annotated Bible (quite large, but full of footnotes that highlight the extreme complexity of the topic)
> The Black Death caused a truly massive number of fatalities. Afterwards, when the same total amount of natural resources were available, people had breathing room and the economy was able to expand.

The number of fatalities appears to have increased the bargaining power, wealth and social mobility of the remaining agricultural workers [0], amongst other things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_the_Black_Deat...
If this happens it will happen service by service as it's most definitely not been a design criteria.

I've worked on account leasing systems for temporary accounts and talked to the internal team for AWS event engine. And they don't have much more than the official tools.

Edit: not been..
Sorry, just a nit pick but I think the grammar for this should be:

* Don't give companies that do this money
Because it's less about engineering and more about knowing all the laws and regulations. You'd either need developers with both expertise or have these people working together finding a workable software interpretation of all those legal documents.
This is an interesting argument. So the existence of bad faith actors means that one should never address one's own harms?
We've known this for like a year, right? All the spraying and stuff is performative, like the brown M&Ms of COVID sécurité.
It's never too late. 21 years after being reported, Firefox finally has native macOS context menus in the nightly version.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
That’s a reasonable question.

I bought The Economist Style Guide shortly after university and I’ve used its recommendations regularly over many years. It’s had a massively positive payback for me. It’s surprisingly versatile advice, whether crafting emails, reports, proposals, or proofing the work of others.

The Economist Guides are all excellent.
The real question is why every single major company in America is vigorously enforcing social norms that significant portions of the population, often a majority, don’t even agree with. This is very different than other eras.
Yeah, good point. Here are the explicit guidelines:
3.1.3(d) Person-to-Person Services: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person services between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments. One-to-few and one-to-many realtime services must use in-app purchase.
> Unfortunately it doesn't build under GCC on linux right now, so use clang if you want to try it out.

Can you file a bug? I know another user ran into some problems with this too, but I thought we'd flushed them all out.
I agree. I tossed up a terrible drunk Python PoC on /r/netsec. https://github.com/Pilfer/iDictPy
Sorry but this is wrong. Statistics and probability theory underpin most of AI and machine vision.
After one had gained fame working for an infamously monopolistic blight on the american economy, "sold out" might be sorta relative.
If nobody ever hears from the server again, then who cares what it has stored on it's forever offline disk?
It uses a theory called Operational Transformation [1] which is roughly the base for most collaborative tools like google docs.

My first attempt was using a library called ot.js [2], I changed it to support an async db since it only supported a in-memory store and I adapted to use mongodb. The experiment is in [3] and it has some bugs still.

Then I found out the guys at firebase adapted ot.js client side to work with their own db, and created something called Firepad [4]. So, I used that instead which was more stable and I added auth and authn.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

[2]: https://github.com/Operational-Transformation/ot.js/

[3]: http://github.com/auth0/mdocs and http://mdocs.io

[4]: http://www.firepad.io/
> Now, people are complaining that they have to get through so many birthday wishes on their wall and write a semi-personalized "thanks" response to each one.

Noooooo you just made that up in your head.

> People are getting married later in life so they can focus on their career.

Noooo, they are just no longer ignorant and don't think a god will smite them if the have a relationship before marriage.

> kids moving out early, trying to impress each other with great apartments etc.

Noooo, they are more childish than ever and are now still living with the parents past their mid teens. Here the reality might actually make you point.

The world is what you believe it to be, you're far from reality but it will become that for you if you keep believing this stuff.
I'm guessing that depends on contextual clues. If someone says "this winter" during August 2015, you can expect it to be the one about to start.

Of course, in some scenarios it's just impossible to disambiguate.
Isn't Stalin rumored to have said, "There's a certain quality in quantity" in response to criticism that quality beats quantity? I think the quote is one of those unproven maybe-it-happened-but-we-have-no-solid-evidence things, but it seems to sum up the Russian approach to tanks and troops in WWII well enough, and from stories I've read, seems to be reflect their approach in the spy world as well. They are immensely practical.
Who is going to get banned for the BLM protestor that shot and killed a Trump supporter?
When did the Ayatollah advocate for the abolition of his own government?
How did the existence of his account on Twitter lead you and your friends to suffer? Can't you just block that account?

> If they then use that platform to plan something dangerous and illegal, a competent law enforcement should be able to stop it and arrest them on grounds of conspiracy or hate speech.

The same could be said if the account remained on Twitter. In fact, one could argue that's better platform for law enforcement to take action.
BTW, after seeing some "spiritual" comments on Facebook inspired by the news, I posted this:

It changes all the time, the variations are small, the real long term trend is actually for the rotation to slow down, we are not now at a historic extreme. The talks about the leap second are due to cumulative deviations over a few decades, which are normal. The reporting is not factually wrong, but it's limited. Check the LOD (length of day) graphs on the Lick Observatory site:

https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html
I wish there was a website that lists which big tech companies have support departments that are known to exist AND are contactable via email.

You might even be able to offer a service that notifies people when a support department disappears.

Such a site could help avoid a lot of heart ache.

Finding out that a site you rely on has had its support department gutted, right when you really need a support department, is the worste.
I'm not sure I get the point in relation to the article. They have a huge amount of data, so they need to handle it in a "big tech" way & it's not like they're doing this stuff just because they can.

The Spotify end of year wrap is amazing marketing for them that people absolutely love and share widely.
I'm old and changes in technology have baffled me for years. So here's a hypothetical: if RSS was still popular, would we be having this conversation? I assume that the next phase in this saga will be a plethora of products suddenly pop into the app store that have some childish implementation of a recommendation algorithm built into what is effectively an RSS reader: add news sites, "like" a link once in a while, and Boom! the recommendation algorithm will filter your subscriptions for "related" articles. Every few months or so, you'll have to dump the algorithm data and "reset" because the implementation is too clunky and ends up building odd combinations. "Why am I seeing only links about Arianna Grande now? Why am I not seeing 'new artist' articles?" And then people will start to bitch about XML and then the whole system will halt and catch fire (again).
Ironically, I've been trying to get that data and cannot. I got a 400KiB zip file with like 10 JSONs inside, only relevant ones being listening history (ts and ms played per song). Support suggested there might be more data, they even re-did the export, but nothing.
"Critical US Cyber-infrastructure under attack"
I was going to say this exactly. They are both totally different.
That wouldn't work here, from what I understand. This attack is only using hosts outside of China, not within.
If the item you're ordering is out of stock or unavailable to ship immediately, the shipping method time starts when the item ships. For example, it will take two business days after an item ships to reach you with Two-Day Shipping.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Amazon could easily make the case that even though the item you ordered was "in stock," it was still unavailable to ship immediately due to warehouse backlog or other operational reasons.
Follow up:
Looking over the old SIMILE site I couldn't find the original project. Also David Huynh didn't mention it in his own website, but some searching yielded the original project, "Parallax"

https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_FZPtpgntwC&pg=PA36

More from the era: https://blog.jonudell.net/2008/08/25/motivating-people-to-wr...
It's not either or. They could make it easy do disable all various background activity, document users prefs and respect provided settings (perhaps with different branding), accept targeted donations etc.

Firefox is already providing automatic updates. Would it be so bad to release a point version (do they even to that anymore) instead of a remote preference change?

Still, it's not exclusive - they could do both, while providing a clear power user mode, where you may need to update, because they don't do such shenanigans.

It's not an idle offer - I'm offering 1k€ to properly document user prefs and not second guess their setting (could be a compile time switch, possibly with altered branding, but on a supported/LTS versions). Anyone want to set up a gofund me or something?
I use a combination of Ansible and Docker. I use it for deploying to embedded platforms where sometimes you just want to reflash the board, or you have to upload a new kernel image for some reason. Or of course when a new board turns up! The goal is so that a new user can install everything from scratch with one command (which could be wrapped into a pretty GUI). I didn't want to go with storing a flash image because it's a lot of space and not portable. This setup will work on basically any dev board with minimal changes (the docker image is platform agnostic and can also be tested on amd64 as well as arm7 and aarch64). It took a while to set up, but I like using an approach which is very ephemeral - means you're forced to document exactly what you did to get the system to be in that state. And you don't worry that if you fry a board that it'll take days to set up again.

Ansible makes it easy to do mundane things like delete the default user and set up a new account, copy over ssh keys for easy access, add services and set up the docker container. Docker has the meaty stuff that takes ages to build and install, so I make sure it works and then save the image for easy download later.

What I've currently got going is everything in one repository, it has the playbooks, docker files, tests, service files, etc. I clone that using ansible on the target machine. Ansible then pulls the repo to get new changes and rebuilds the container. The container also adds that repo as a volume so that tests and other things are accessible. I don't store containers, I just spin up a new vm on boot.

I do have a "backup" playbook which installs everything inside the container when I want to test outside docker. This has happened a few times when using custom libraries that are specific to the embedded platform that don't come with the docker images (eg hardware accelerated gstreamer plugins come to mind). On the Pi life is a bit better because there are raspbian docker images anyway.
The phrase is "top of mind"
Any comments on the following? Serious? useful? Garbage?
https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/03/19/china-owns-natur...
I'm really suffering from Covid on the brain lately. I have had to just stop reading about global news beyond a skim. Stay safe out there!
Makes no difference. You have to work with what you have. It's not like the programmer can do anything about it.
Kaibeezy linked to Greg Egan, who's one of my favorites in this area.

To my mind the latter is logically impossible. Subjective self-continuity is not intrinsic to the experience of consciousness , it is a conclusion we draw upon introspection, based on circumstantial evidence. Subjectively, all we ever have is a sequence of fleeting moments. We only have the "word" of our memory to trust that the Now Me is a descendant of Past Me. As soon as perfect replication is possible, the replicant and the original have exactly equivalent claims to identity in every sense that matters, just one will have a better claim to physical continuity. But physical continuity is not the most important aspect of identity, it's just our intuitions favor it so heavily because it has historically perfectly coincided with conscious identity.
hey progrium they do disclosures around here, stop coding and update your profile =)
That's an old article. Gemesis still just makes orange-yellows. Apollo makes white around .5ct. D.NEA has yellows, blue to 1.3ct and white to 1ct.
Right — it's impossible to perfectly simulate something we don't even understand in physical terms (we can only simulate what we think it's doing). Though it's debatable whether artificial consciousness is needed for human-level artificial intelligence. Intelligence is just one aspect of the brain.
I am not sure if you are Portuguese or Brazilian, and this is probably way too obvious but... if you haven't: do read Guimarães Rosa.

Like Saramago, his writing takes a while to sink in, but once it does, you're hooked. To me he's the best Portuguese language writer in the 20th century.

Cheers
That's not necessarily true. The difference between a brilliant postdoc working in a hot field who never made it and a tenured PI is the willingness to play the game. So if the game is filled with scammers exaggerating the value of their models, or overfitting to dubious metrics, then these PIs will go right along with it. In this case the con is at the systemic level, so that depresses the "honesty" of each individual across the board, regardless of their personal conduct. The other thing to consider is that in academia your PI is your boss, your principle source of professional reputation, and your HR. So there is no barrier between you and his/her human nature. Therefore pick wisely.
The attacks against attempts to outlaw gas stoves do not come from some corporate plot (as suggested by the article) but from consumers of the products involved who know that electric ranges suck, induction is adequate for some things but has slow response and does not work for certain pans; gas is superior for the range/hob. For the actual oven electric is better, but if you are getting a unit with range/oven combined it is better to go for gas on both than electric on both.
Far far more were killed by other native groups, groups either hired or who saw the coming of europeans as an opportunity to topple the dominant group.
Can you share any relevant evidence regarding inflation being a policy position?
It's a survey paper.
I wonder if there's something in Firefox code that could be easily repurposed for your project.
I have yet to see anyone define middle class in a way that is useful and people agree on its definition. Therefore, any discussion about middle class that starts without a rigorous definition always ends with a disagreement about what is middle class.

I am especially entertained when “upper” and “lower” middle class come into play.
This situation is pretty unbelievable. Almost any halfway decent web developer could build a fix for this in a day.
Limiting punctuation to inside or outside of the quotation marks always struck me as exceptionally archaic as it frequently overcomplicates a sentence.

You should punctuate the quotation as if the quote were independent. If the quotation is a question it should contain the question mark, it's only logical. A question without a question mark is punctuated incorrectly - that's just plain simple logic.

If I tell you that my wife just asked me, "Can you grab a drink?" The question mark has to be inside the quotes otherwise it becomes my question. I didn't ask myself the question, so why is my punctuation asking it? Plus an unpunctuated quotation looks ugly to me.
For sure, the origin of creative work is always murky and collaborative, but there are lines and this theft flagrantly crosses them. Copying someone else's hard work and selling it as your own is bullshit and deserves to be called such. I don't think there is any defense for this kind of blatant copying. (Not to mention bad copying. It's amazing how, even with a good design to crib from they managed to mess up all sorts of important details.)
That and most new-python converts initially don't think in a very functional way. After the "aha" moment of lambda love, the Java ways can be unlearned.
I guess I was trying to express the following: I believe that Sun's patents really were intended defensively, but upon their acquisition by oracle this got turned on its head.
And that feature alone makes for readability in large projects :-)
I'd be interested in an example or two of what MobileRSS messed up. Just curious - I don't use either of these apps.