jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK | Zürich, Switzerland | Remote OK

Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript, Node, React Native, Java - Android, Ruby
Résumé/CV: send me an email
Email: mail@simquat.com
Website: simquat.com

I can help you to design and develop a no-frill MVP. I have several years of experience mainly as a software engineer on client-side web and mobile apps.

Feel free to send me an email to ask more info or to setup a quick conversation and see if there’s potential for a collaboration.
At least C is a complete language and a solid building block which is possible to reason about, compared to C++ which is becoming more and more bloated in a modernization attempt, so C++ projects need to be constantly updated and rewritten to catch up, which rarely happens in practise. On the other end, C++ can hardly adopt things like memory model based on Rust's borrow checker, so in this regard C++ is a dead end.
Have you ever worked in one of these positions? I worked in a few and my base rate was $2.13 an hour. If my tips for the day didn't put me over minimum wage ($7.25/hr at the time) on average, the place would pay me more. The people that had that happen more than once a month were fired.
Because vaccines are never 100% effective, and there are plenty of people who legitly can't receive one due to other medical conditions.
Speculation (IANAL), but I would assume this isn't intended to dissuade Bob the Picker out in the warehouse from jumping ship, it's disincentive for a competitor opening a facility near an Amazon facility and attempting to recruit a large number of Amazon drones to do similar work.
You can also read The Economist as a report for middle class and above capitalists with disposal income to track where world events and trends are going in order to make good investments and business decisions. At the end of the newspaper is the stocks and stats, but the whole thing is a report.
Stemming from a plan to give people affordable housing and keep them where they won't be seen.
> French HS train lines are for passenger traffic only

Not 100% correct, the postal service have a pair of trainsets they use for mail.

But yes, mostly the french HST is for people, not freight.

> Btw. you are missing HS railways in Spain, where it is built in a similar manner to France, there are already complete operational routes, and the service seems to be very successful as well.

Correct, the AVE (which is built in a similar manner to France because Alstom got the contract for the first generation "Class 100" AVE in fact the class 100 is basically a Eurostar) and the two network should be linked (so you could take HST from Madrid to Paris) by 2013.
Plus "Less is More" is something I could picture Willy Wonka saying before giving out a mysterious piece of candy.
More realistically, how about a Constitutional amendment that designates the Vice President, in his role as President of the Senate, to be the titular Head of State for all functions ceremonial?
Does anyone know if they are going to post the videos for this?
Great thoughts. We're actively working on revamping the "logged-out" user experience - you should see some changes within a week - and we'll incorporate some of your feedback.
No, you missed the key, which is that if a company makes a killer iPad app, porting it to Android and whatever variant of Windows CE Microsoft finally decides is worth putting on tablets will be trivial, and the iPad will just be a fashionable tablet, with this hypothetical killer app something you can get on any device, fashion statement or commodity.
Mixlr looks great, seems like someone is finally taking live set broadcasting seriously. I co-founded Mugasha (http://mugasha.com) and we currently work with quite a few venues and DJs to broadcast their live events. Mostly video, sometimes audio only. We setup our own streaming infrastructure to handle stream but it's not our focus. Seems like we could definitely work together. Drop me a line at akshay at mugasha.com.
It's this kind of thinking that really irks me. "Well, my $100 still adds up to $100, so it's all there."

Yeah, you money is there. Maybe it holds the same value as yesterday, or tomorrow. But over time, your taxes will go up, prices of things you buy will go up, inflation will rise, and the spending power of your $100 will become less and less.

Every bank failure, financial meltdown, and economic downturn robs your money of value. When a meltdown happens, and the FED has to prints more money to cover it up, your dollar loses value. When the price of merchandise goes up, because fees go up, because bank insurance premiums rise, because they keep losing your money, your dollar loses value.

It may happen slowly and indirectly, but make no mistake, you are losing you money. The best way to cook a frog is to do it slowly, so the frog doesn't jump out of the pot.
And indeed the scenario of "terrorists sever the tether from its geostationary anchor" was part of the story in Red Mars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
Doesn't help much when there is a botnet spamming you with one mail per minute from 10000 ip-numbers.
Instagram has restrictions on the aspect ratio of pictures.

Sometimes I like to consider an analogy between social networks/apps and bars. Just like a bar has a certain decor or a unique beverage or some other quirk that gives it its charm, each popular social network has some different constraints that give it it's unique feel.
> If a $10 bill goes missing in a supermarket, the management will know at the end of the day, and will probably be able to figure out where it went. This is routine cash control. It's a solved problem.

Not necessarily, differences are a daily part of working as a supermarket cashier. Most supermarkets have agreements with their employees (sometimes mandated by law), varying from full employee liability to full coverage by employer. It's actually quite common to have differences in your register, e.g. because customers let you keep small-ish returns or give "real" tips or you as cashier in a high-frequency environment make a mistake in sorting in a bill into the right compartment - or fraudsters trick you (http://www.weser-kurier.de/region/delmenhorster-kurier_artik...).
Responsive, fonts load quickly, tab ordering is sane - A+ Tim!
I prefer that bugs get fixed when found.

In my experience the Java way is 'oh, a bug, well, that's a bug defined in the spec so we can't fix it now, we'll make a note for the next version'...5 years pass.

The 'I don't want to touch working code' argument is another strange Javaism. If you expect your code to not rot your going to have to constantly maintain it anyway.
Wow this data is not easy to compare. In 1991 the death rate from Cancer was 514,657 out of 2,169,518 deaths (23.7%). In 2011 it was 575,313 out of 2,512,873 deaths (22.9%). This does not look like a 22% drop to me any way you dice the numbers.

Over the same time heart disease dropped from 720,862 in 1991 to 596,339 in 2011. This is much more impressive.
> You make a fair point, I said that just from an empirical standpoint.

Usually when people use the word "empirically" it means they have some actual empirical evidence to bring to the table, not just random anecdotes.

If 40% of any segment of Facebook customers had substantially reduced their usage in the past year, that would indeed be unprecedented. I don't see a shred of evidence to support that supposition though.
What if someone agrees to basically be your roommate for 30-90 days? And you are traveling and not around, and they move out when you come back?
Fair enough.

Why do you think some other individuals embrace those behaviours?
_quasimodo: this!
You're not missunderstanding. The problem is that to go that fast, even assuming perfect conversion of mass to energy with zero losses, you'd need to reach a speed of 0.999987 lighspeed. That gives a 200x time dilation factor so the 10,000 year journay appears to take you only 50 years.

You'd need to convert approximately 100,000x the mass of your capsule to energy to reach that kind of velocity, and the same again to slow back down at the other end. So for a one way trip, the payload would be on the order of 1/1,000,000,000,000th of the mass of the ship.

For comparrison, that means a starship the size of a Saturn V would be able to deliver a 3 milligram payload. If you assume even very slight efficiency losses, the possible payload size collapses quickly. Remember, some of that payload would need to be taken up by the propulsion system.
Filler. There's more in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

And there's...

http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-a...
But that's exactly the point: if it's not most people, then network effects are already greatly limited. And if those laptops aren't their personal laptops, then the odds of them having a personal messaging client open are even lower. Consider that most people do have their personal phone on them at all times.

My point was exactly that pressuring people to have the client on their phone makes them check the messages more often, because that makes the service more attractive to other users. That, I think, is the reason most popular service are phone-first, even when typing messages is easier on desktop.

(And no, I didn't downvote.)
I doubt you'll find anything as comprehensive and well-presented as the TechEmpower benchmarks, because their particular scenario is one that a lot of frameworks care about competing on (partly because it's difficult enough to be interesting). But I'd expect any benchmark for batch-style processing of large volumes of data would show that.
Exactly, allegory: TNG and DS9 in particular have episodes about some pretty hot-button topics. Political terrorism; assisted suicide; gender identity and relations; religious rights; capital punishment, and the justice system in general; mental health; environmentalism...

The veneer of the transporter and the rubber foreheads provide just enough distance for these things to be portray-able without everyone having an immediate hot take reaction and turning their brains off. They wouldn't work if they were put in an Earthbound setting: they'd be too real, too inflammatory.

I agree that the technobabble can be annoying, and there's certainly fluff in there. But Roddenberry wanted to tell stories about us as we are, and as we could be, just as much as Stross: he just approached it from a different angle.
A lot of things come full circle in tech it seems. People don't have incentive or time to look up or to record a previously invented wheel and need to reinvent it. Anyways, this looks cool. Thank you.
Nothing. Sabbath hard and go home: http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/

Chag Pesach samech.

Ramadan mubarak.

Happy Easter.

What I’m interested in seeing you do is:
sharing your food with the hungry,
inviting the homeless poor into your homes,
putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,
being available to your own families.
Do this and the lights will turn on,
and your lives will turn around at once.
Your righteousness will pave your way.
70% restocking fee too.

Rererences 3G radios, but do any providers even support that anymore? No 5G mentioned. Of course. :p
One technique i use is to accidentally break features i want to get rid of. Then when nobody complains, i can just delete the old broken feature that nobody uses anyway.
the only thing youbgot right in that comment ia the right to repair.
reform the patent system, revamp the irs but letting the givernment print the moneybit wants to spemd is the era we live in now. when that increase in the money supply grows faster than the economy its called inflation...

The proper path is to reduce rhe size and scope of governwmnt so that it needs toboukl less of the existing money supply out of the economy though taxes.
The standard way to solve this nowadays is to report error measurements, which introductory university physics textbooks teach.

>"(And yet once told of that scientist who added 1 metre to his measurement of a mountain, because he feared that the too round number resulting from the computation could have been confused with a rough measurement.)"

The best way to report the precision is with an error measurement (e.g. ±2 feet). This isn't an academic source, but a news article supports this:

From LiveScience [0]:

"Legend has it that when the team took the average of all of those measurements, they found the mountain was exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m) tall, Molnar said.

"They didn't expect anybody to believe it, so the story is they added 2 feet [0.6 m], just to make it look more believable," Molnar said.

[...]

"Despite sophisticated gravimeters, complicated equations and fancy tools like global positioning systems, the elevation of Mount Everest is only precise to within a foot or two.

"All of our elevations have an error," Molnar said."

[0] https://www.livescience.com/50691-how-to-measure-mount-evere...
We're investigating this. We'll update asap.
He is right. Something he described as AI will be impossible to be created by human being.. But I really doubt "real AI" will be something everyone currently imagine..
Deeper than that, everything hinges on defining intelligence as what is solvable/not solvable in theory given infinite resources (time etc). So any process that can blindly enumerate all solutions to a problem (no matter how often some wrong solutions might be repeated) is just as "intelligent" as if it could solve the problem in constant or log* or whatever time. This has the interesting result of us being by definition intelligently designed, since the random mutation / natural selection process is maximally intelligent (can result in solutions (possibly through an unbounded number of intermediates such as humans) to any problem that has a solution).
How's it easier to make 12 million carefully crafted scams without raising anyone's suspicion that the posts aren't legitimate? I could see the scam working on a Viagra blog, but how is it useful to anyone to have copies of what clearly look like a fishy post all over the place, possibly followed up by the real authors calling you out and telling people NOT to buy from you?

Besides, if you're scamming, why not just create a free blog? There are tons of get-rich-quick schemes out there doing just that...
Since human motivations and preferences are caused by evolutionary forces, I don't see how an AI would acquire such things, aside from what we build into it. And if we wanted to build motivation into it, it shouldn't be difficult, once we have an artificial mind capable of understanding the necessary concepts.
Stupid question: why does the Linux Kernel handle the networking in the first place? Why not implement everything in userspace from the start?
I said "similar", I use plan9 so my shell script would have been slight different and my interface cleaner.

Using a 1970s TTY in the 21st century is dumb.
N=1?
Digital tv signals can have "blocky" artifacts when the reception is poor. I've see them myself.
Yea, this actually seems to fall pretty specifically into the Microsoft case.

AFAIK, Google does not require third parties working with Google to use GCP
It's been pointed out to me that one should check with local facilities before setting off on this project, to verify that they in fact want any. My partner is a clothing designer and gets this forwarded to her a couple of times a day, and she did some research and found that local facilities were not requesting or accepting homemade masks and the nearest ones that were were many hours drive away and required for some reason in-person dropoffs, in addition to having "enough for now."
That's exactly how it works on my Linux laptop (which is GNOME on Arch). I also use a Macbook Pro regularly and I don't think there's a substantive difference in ease-of-use around WiFi configuration.
>concurrency still requires the same underlying ideas to be understood whether C++ or Rust

But Rust will catch data race mistakes at compile time, which is very nice. That is a common mistake, and a mistake that can keep happening without you being aware for a long time.
Just want to say that I always see you post on ad-tech related stuff and your comments belong to the infinitesimal fraction of ad-tech stuff on this site that is informed and not just the result of pure speculation.
The current climate feels a lot different than the 2000 era. For starters, what was 'valued' in 2000 was:

* The number of employees you had. I had the opportunity to be at a number of Idealab parties in 2000-2001, the only thing one company bragged to another was their head count. A company that had $500 in daily sales, bragged they at 36 employees. Oh, Goto.com has over 200 people now, they moved out of the Lab!

* Your marketing spend. A company I knew 'rebranded' themselves. No one heard of them before, but they nearly bought two full page ads in the WSJ (for $110k a pop), to announce the new 'name'. They did spend around $100k in advertising and probably another $100k on a renaming party. This company had collected no revenue their entire 2 year existence up to this point.

* You are measured on how big of a pop your IPO did. That is, how much money you left on the table. So, your company had an IPO price of $30 a share, when at the end of trading of the first day, it went for $300. Thus you collected $70 million, out of a possible $700. There was an ad for the WSJ about how much better your child would be if you subscribed, it mentioned that the child of a subscriber would start a company with a 'Record first day pop'. My god if you only doubled your price on the first day you were a complete failure, even though you might have had more cash to help your company grow.

If Über, AirBNB and the rest, have real revenue, and they realistically don't need more funding to stay 'afloat' longer than a few months, then the bubble "isn't as bad" as 2000.
> My email address is in my profile.

Which is, of course not visible to the rest of the world.

You have to put it in the 'about' section.
Take it this is Rhino under the hood somewhere, or has someone written a new js engine?
How complex can we make the scam eh!
Today I learned about Manara. I'd never heard of it before, but I look forward to using it the next time I need to hire someone! Sounds like an awesome platform.
Github sees to be staying reasonably nimble (maybe an exception that proves the rule. . . ).
As documented in Repo Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9k09WPpNeo
In some years ago this happened:

https://adisagroblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/milchkrise1-di...
Stop using [Stopgap solution born out of the past's limitations] and instead use [Cutting edge new thing that isn't fully supported everywhere yet]!
I would happily set my browser to only accept cookies for a few sites but if you do that, those cookie popups are even worse.
https://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2020/12/icaros-desktop-23-now-a...
Eh. It’s similar in AWS-land.

Basic business hours support is $29/month or 3% of your service spend, whichever is greater. 24/7 is $100/mo or 10%, which also includes outage assistance.

I’ve also worked for places with enterprise support ($15,000/mo or 10%) but of you’re bringing in millions per month it’s definitely worth it.

The AWS personal health dashboard is also pretty reliable. The public status page is the source of many jokes.
When I talked with Tim, I had three ideas for monetization. His/Alex's may indeed be even better.

#1 - Sponsorships/promotions on topically-specific "top" pages. Advertisers (like my company) pay top dollar for highly focused branding to specific audiences. If Trunkly created subject-specific pages like "Top Startup Links," "Top Travel Links," "Top Gadgets Links," etc. and earned decent traffic to them (which I think is very possible given how useful/interesting/powerful and SEO+social-sharing-likely those pages could be - think HN/Techmeme/Alltop/etc.) , that's a big advertiser revenue stream.

#2 - Tools for management/analysis/tracking/enhanced data for specific users. I'd personally pay $10-$50 a month and my company would pay $100-$500 a month to have all our links not just tracked and indexed, but show data, signals and analyses of what predicts more clicks/shares/etc. I've always wanted something that could tell me which features (length, use of words, time of day, when I shared vs. others, etc.) predicted higher CTR/engagement/RTs/FB shares/etc. and Trunk.ly's well poised to build that.

#3 - Social graph data ala Twitter + Facebook. Dozens of companies, in particular Bing + Google, are really interested in and paying top dollar for access to social sharing data about URLs. Trunk.ly knows not only what I share on Twitter/FB, but via my personal blog, LinkedIn, Quora, and anything with a feed that I add.
No comment about that?! We need faster DRAM!!
It definitely spoke to the writer in me and also the entrepreneur. Sometimes I get this ache inside and when I'm unable to express myself. Even now I can't say it right.

Finally after a lot of hard work people finally understand what took me a long time to translate. I always imagine how the creator of Mad Men or any site that works beautifully must have really beaten themselves up to get that good.
I sort of value well-roundedness even into adult life. Sure, I didn't morph into a programming genius that spits out code in his sleep, but I do think time spent playing sports and hanging around with friends sort of saved me from being less introverted and shy than I could have been.

There are times that I envy young, successful founders running companies worth millions, laser-focused on their goals from childhood to adulthood, but then again I sort of do a double-take and think: They couldn't have been this awesome without missing some important aspects (to me anyway) of life. Aspects like falling in love, winning a girl's heart, getting into trouble, exploring new places, learning a musical instrument and hanging out with people with different interests and intelligence (street smart or artsy types). I mean, you can only be young once (and of course, your hormones would only be THIS active once).

Most of this will be considered a massive waste of time for some people (I certainly considered all my years spent playing games a waste. Damnit.). Still moderation is key.

Oh, I didn't start seriously programming until I went to college, and life didn't turn out so bad. (Still, no million-dollar company under my name though =()
It's downright adorable when people compare a half-baked language like Go to Erlang/OTP
> they said the same thing when WordPress started

That does not make it wrong.
Every single time I hear a story of a banker leaving the industry, they never wind up being destitute...

Say what you want about the industry, most people who leave it leave it with cash in their bank account.
They're actually videos of the Nike iOS native implementation.