skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're describing a task which is more frustrating than technically challenging. Nothing you described requires a high degree of intelligence or training, only time. Of course some are better than others at it, but that's true of anything.

Think; designing the CV systems for self driving cars (since that's a hot topic at the moment) vs designing a UI which works seamlessly across browsers. One is a real, honest to God engineering challenge; the other is an exercise is patience and perseverance. There are many more people in this world who could pull off the latter than could the former.

If you truly, honestly believe that UI dev work is technically difficult when measured against the rest of the engineering world then I can't imagine you've been solving hard problems throughout your career. UI layout is not "hard" and it's certainly not engineering, nor is 'cleaning toilets'. of course creating UI's comes with its own set of challenges, but I'm specifically talking about technical difficulty.
How did you get LAN-Addresses and Internet Service Provider?

Is this on GitHub by chance?
> Because electrons flowing through MoS2 are heavier

Really?
No, it's shameful to coerce someone into having sex without their consent, not merely to coerce someone to "do something." The rest of your question is not relevant.
Plus the person who has him arrested is running for US Senate and sees a free way to get extra press coverage.
With transistors getting smaller and smaller, do we better methods to dissipate heat? It seems like this is a major bottleneck.
The two examples you gave have a significant mitigating factor -

They are not massively cross disciplinary.

Oil wells were a specific problem solved by finding a solution possible with current tech.

Same for y2k. The fear got us on the other side, and the damage was far less than expected.

But.

We have been harping on climate change forever, there are vested interests who have found it useful to cloud civic thought with FUD, there is a political movement which has evolved (implying that even the base debate was fraught), to openly mock science and research.

Working on climate change is further hampered by it being vague and imprecise, dependent on our improvements in science and tech.

It also severely curtails the options of growing economies who see it as the west robbing them blind, living like kinds and then denying them the same quality of life.

Global warming requires people around the world to feel and believe they are in the same boat, which is worth saving, with other people they share a lot in common with.

Since that is a pipe dream no one is working on, broad political solutions are out, leaving weird targets and alliances to move forward. Targets which most people don't want to meet because it means engines cost more, products become expensive, and margins thin.

This is not a problem solved the same way.
We work in a surreal field were knowing a bit of Node.js and nothing else is considered superior to knowing a bit of Node.js and alot of .NET

Obviously you may substitute any fashionable/unfashionable language pair in the above.
Another version of the story made it to the HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657576
Great comment, thank you (and thank your wife for the photos, fantastic to see some of the workings!)

Do you know how often the cardboard needs to be replaced?
Also Flickr --Flickr is like Y!'s YouTube but with less potential of being massively profitable. I think Y! still tries to figure out how to monetize it more. Unfortunately it's not like they can set-up a bunch of Photography Spaces/Studios and groom star photographers who would bring money in for them --but it has a pretty good (loyal) community.
If that's the fiction you need to tell yourself to avoid feeling shame at condoning the use of prostitutes, I guess I can't really stop you.
One of the biggest robot companies in the world, and its only worth $5 billion? Yes, it is a small market if that statement is true. Which is a shame. Kuka robots are amazing, and capable of welding together cars to being rides at Legoland. And yet, one of the premier robotics companies in the world is worth less than 10% of Uber.

Robots are still hard to use, hopefully soon this will change. Then the market will get big. The robot arms are already precise enough, they need volume manufacturing to get cheaper.
It reminds me of a Jack Reacher novel, minus the fistfights of course.

In answer to your question: HN has stories like this every day, maybe you haven't scrolled through the 2nd/3rd/4th pages enough?
So then they would be operating at only a $300,000,000 loss? ;P
Dude, Yahoo stopped being a "cool kid" a decade ago. That's really messed up if your company actually thinks it should emulate Yahoo because it's a cool company.
Because performance reviews are highly subjective to begin with, you can easily hide discrimination behind the guise of stack ranking. It's easy to prove liability, she is CEO she has all this performance data at her fingertips.
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Please...this 10000x
Can you provide information about this? I've seen reporting about restaurant and salon workers bussing around, but it was largely voluntary.
The threat of loss of home, food, or family due to insufficient means is indeed coercive.

If it were about freedom, you would see people of all economic conditions choosing to prostitute themselves. But you don't.
When there's a couple of rogue employees I can understand. When there are millions of fraudulent accounts it starts to look like a policy or at least criminal neglicence.

And there are also the companies that are convinced of fraud like Deutsche Bank, but it's the company that pays a huge fine when the executives who were overseeing all this go unscathed.

I have worked in a bank and I know a lot of people there have no clue what's going on, but the fact that it's true does not mean it's a valid excuse. If I kill a pedestrian with my car I can not claim it's not my fault because I had my eyes closed.
A deal team "pushing back hard" is only as good as the next best offer. (But they have to say that of course.)
How about

c) We're making products supporting an unprecedented amount of locales and there's no font family out that that covers them all and still looks consistent, we're going to have to make it ourselves. Hey, if we open it up then there will be even more international content out there to put AdSense on!
>What, in your mind, makes an engineering problem hard?

A problem which requires a high degree of creativity, intelligence, and technical ability, likely one which hasn't been solved before. You're right; it's a bit difficult (at least for me) to define, but we know it when we see it. Sending men to the moon was a hard engineering problem; implementing the UI for gmail was not.

You speak of using 'CS algorithms' in your UI's. I assume you're talking about things like optimizing a search of a list by using a better data structure or sorting algorithm. C'mon. You didn't solve these problems, other people did, you just did a little research, and this is basic stuff most of us can pull off fairly easily.

The vast majority of web development is not engineering. It is in fact just pasting together code other people wrote to solve a particular, relatively trivial problem.
> Can you link any examples

There are a couple in this very discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12648261

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12648932

A quick Google search I did just now came up with this one, by someone who knows better[1]: By writing programs in a total language like this, you can confidently answer questions that you can't with a Turing-complete language. You've overcome theoretical limitations by changing the problem parameters a little bit—a common approach in engineering.

The only question you can confidently answer is "does the program halt", to which the answer is always yes. You cannot confidently answer any other question any easier than in non-total languages.

You can find more examples in recent discussions about the Ethereum heist, with many suggestions to "just use a non-Turing complete language". Many seem to believe that there are languages that make verification easy, or that Turing completeness is the problem.

> It seems a really strange claim to make

I guess the reasoning goes like this: the impossibility of proving things in general about programs is a result of the halting theorem; we can get around the halting theorem by using languages that only admit programs that halt; assuming the language is still useful -- problem solved!

How many people know about bounded halting? I know I hadn't until rather recently, when I thought about it and somebody pointed out to me that it's at the very core of the time-hierarchy theorem. I think I actually thought about it because of total languages, when I realized that every program can be assumed to be total without loss of generality, and so totality cannot add actionable information.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Can-we-solve-the-halting-problem-by-de...
So it's not shameful to force someone to perform manual labor without their consent? Why not?
Your GeoIP response is bundled into a single array? That seems incredibly hard to parse and groc.

"geoip": [
0,
37.7957,
-122.4209,
"California",
"San Francisco",
"United States"
],
If you want to be local/in-office vs remote work:

- Ping Jon Lehr @ the VC work-bench
- Ping Kris Beevers at nsone, Zac Smith at packet, and other local CEOs who are hiring or know those who are

Happy to connect you if you like - avi at kentik dot com.

And -

Question for everyone - is there a resource like Old Geek Jobs (https://oldgeekjobs.com/) but for fresh grads / self-taught?
The article implies it suggests that the late employees are inconsiderate or can't "execute."
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IDK, I am with jonkee here. Femto seems like the smarmy one to anyone who has some knowledge of biology.

It's really weird to be on a HN thread where most of the people don't know much about the topic, you get really weird pedantic posts seemingly out of nowhere. Biology and space seem like the most common ones, where people who are very smart point out missing details, the kind of missing details that are handwaved by the actual professionals and the kind of details that would turn an article like this into a textbook chapter.
If somebody had found himself in Edinburgh in 1986 and bumped into a tall gentleman called Robin, who was a bit familiar with this new-fangled thing called computers, and had asked Robin, what kind of programming language should one learn to use these computer thingies, what would Robin have said? Not sure, but maybe something along the lines of "well ... there are many interesting languages, and different languages are suitable for different purposes. But if you are interested, I'm dabbling in programming language design myself. Together with my students I've been developing a language that we call ML, maybe you find it interesting. With my young colleagues Mads and Robert, I'm writting a little book on ML, do you want to have a look at the draft?"

Maybe such a person would have chosen to learn ML as first programming language. If this person had then gone on to work in programming for 3 decades, and if you'd asked this person 30 years later, i.e. today, what's new in programming languages since ML, what might have been his answer?

Maybe something along the lines of: "To a good first approximation, there are three core novelties in mainstream sequential languages that are not in ML:

- Higher kinded types (Scala, Haskell).

- Monadic control of effects (Haskell).

- Affine types for unique ownership (Rust).

Could I be that somebody?
Vigenère cipher with sha512 and a little foresight turn into a safe one-time pad?
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I build what I believe is currently the most popular (mostly for being free and solid: Cydia Impactor) simple tool for this, and will point out that apps sideboards in this fashion are extremely limited as you don't have access to basic iOS functionality that requires special profiles, such as push notifications, and you can only have up to three such apps installed on an iOS 10 device at a time, each of which will have a certificate that expires after only 7 days. (Apple has been slowly clamping down on these limits; it used to be such apps expired after 30 days, then they rate limited free app identifiers to 10 per week, then they made the apps expire after 7 days, and, most recently, you are limited to 3 total installed apps.)
How does one become an OVH VIP?
Email is the crown jewel - by far their most lucrative property. Verizon may be waiting to see if there's any measurable user churn due to the recent news, although that takes some time to shake out.
They do present it quite ostensibly as a programming project tho i.e: the steps mentioned here http://debugproject.com/how/
I never said my company emulates Yahoo. But "cool kid" or not their influence cannot be understated. Right after the Yahoo/WFH hoopla companies like Best Buy and HP followed suit. Remember this was back when she first took over CEO and everyone believed she was the "one" to turnaround the company.
Thank you very much for telling this story. I love HN for being filled with intelligent and interrested people from around the world. It feels very cool to be part of this community every time I read an insider story like yours!
There's a bizarre amount of negative Yahoo news lately, and a lot of it references Mayer directly.

I wonder if Verizon isn't trying to shed her and her departure bonus.
I said "As I see it, there is nothing in your comment that is worthy of a reply. So not bothering.". I guess that had too little sugar coating for HN's taste...
It's right in the article: this design uses a gate that's 1 nm thick. (1 ÷ .1) = 10.
I actually don't get much of the Marissa-hate around here. I've worked with her - she was the executive sponsor of a couple projects I worked on when I first got to Google. She has her flaws, but in general she's both smart and very hardworking. CEO of Yahoo is a tough job for anyone - as evidenced by the 5 (!) CEOs in the 5 years before her - but the real mistakes made in Yahoo's history were made in the late 90s and early 2000s.

It's pretty likely Twitter will follow the same path, but the real mistakes made in Twitter's lifetime were made between 2010-2016.
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So you mean make it more Slack-y ?
A lot of old guys(40 is old eh!) I meet are into managerial/advisory roles and even though they wont know the underlying details of the framework it does not take them much time to understand it, because there is always something similar they had during their time.

The time I spent mastering, adobe flex, javas struts framework, GWT and the likes. Could seem like wasted time. But in the larger scheme of things it just made me smarter. I know what worked for them and what didn't and that helps me understand the future frameworks better.
Yes I remember a Wikipedia post explaining that Helvetica was the only suitable choice as a font because of this. good job Google.
So by saying this, you're actually saying that we're living in some sort of state machine / cellular automata universe, and in order to understand it, we just have to find the rules of interaction/propagation of the states ?
Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. (Community service is an alternative to jail, for example.)

Coerced sex is rape, however. It is qualitatively different from coerced labor. As Dworkin wrote a long time ago, "in prostitution, no woman stays whole. It is impossible to use a human body in the way women's bodies are used in prostitution and to have a whole human being at the end of it, or in the middle of it, or close to the beginning of it. It's impossible. And no woman gets whole again later, after."
It's not that these charges are average, it's that trafficking charges are a distinct group from prostitution; prostitution charges are the far more standard group, and hence are run-of-the-mill, even though the specific charges within that group are not typical of that group.
This sounds more like a moral judgement. Labor is labor, you don't get to redefine labor just because it involves an action which is very controversial.

What really matters is the safety of the person(s) involved. And yet, there are plenty of occupations where safety is in question.
While somewhat arbitrary, it does make for a nice dividing line. Hardware based businesses require a lot more capital investment upfront and don't offer the economies of scale that software does.

More importantly, it's easier to convince the judges and politicians to strike down software patents.
while the 3rd generation nn sounds interesting, the spike nn Spaun mentioned in the article doesn't seem to have any progress since 2012.
She laid out a good reason for doing it. I think the decision was justified.
I think two major things social VR and this demo highlight:

1) The amount of things you can do in VR is more expansive than any medium before. Video conferences for the most part is used to catch up or transfer information faster (or at least that's how I use it, to catch up with friends/business who are far away). However, it's tougher to use video chats to build NEW experiences, and I can only really think of Google Hangouts and playing something like WarLight/editing a doc that does that. Humans for the most part build better relationships when both parties have shared experiences, and in VR you can actually do a lot of things that you could in real life. This is why it's so different from just "videoconferencing"

2) It finds a balance in anonymity and not having to commit 100% to a conversation. For example, when you video conference you have to pay more attention/be more aware of how you're acting, which explains why many times we choose to have text convos rather than just calling the other person. In social VR you're just an avatar so you don't have to care as much about your appearance/interaction/subtle facial expressions etc. The outward behavioral bar is lower so you can relax and enjoy the environment even more.

VR is a powerful medium because it addresses the above two points - you don't have to be as concerned about your appearance/interaction when you're an avatar AND you can actually do more tangible things in VR to actually BUILD better relationships.
This should definitely be tried in the UAE!
This is also often referred to as the "realtor problem", for those who've run into that one.
While that's generally been true since the late 90s, when Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo did have quite the honeymoon period. Yahoo genuinely became "cool" for at least a year or 2, and everyone was glowing about Mayer being one of the best CEOs in the tech world.
It seems that it lasts a long time, at least several years. But, no, I don't really know.
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The CEO gets credit and a lot of money when things go right so he should take blame when things go wrong.

Personally I think they could find out about a lot of wrongdoing if they wanted to.
There are plenty of economically unproductive coastal deserts in the world where this could be used.
New stuff: Machine learning that works. Rust's borrow checker. 3D SLAM that works. Voice input that works. Lots of image processing stuff. Machines with large numbers of non-shared-memory CPUs that are actually useful. Doing non-graphics things in GPUs.

The webcrap world is mostly churn, not improvement. Each "framework" puts developers on a treadmill keeping up with the changes. This provides steady employment for many people, but hasn't improved web sites much.

An incredible amount of effort seems to go into packaging, build, and container systems, yet most of them suck. They're complex because they contain so many parts, but what they do isn't that interesting.

Stuff we should have had by now but don't: a secure microkernel OS in wide use. Program verification that's usable by non-PhDs. An end to buffer overflows.
Or instead of wasting energy trying to remove the salt, you could just use diluted seawater.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/201...
Email me. I nuked my Twitter account and you only have a Twitter handle in your profile.

I am an international tax lawyer and familiar with the tax rules facing micromultinationals -- like your budding company.

The real problem you will face is cost. The tax rules were meant to tax Google-sized enterprises but they so happen to apply to you, too. Unfortunately you don't have a Google-sized budget. :-/
I think they're talking about one-schema-per-tenant, not one-database-per-tenant like e1g.

Still, we'll never hit anything close to 1000 customers per server, we distribute them over more servers instead. In fact, that's an advantage of this model over the single-database one: since every tenant is isolated, the model is perfectly horizontally scalable. You can simply fill up servers without worrying about massively distributed databases or datacenter-wide load balancing. Hell, we just migrated across hosting providers with barely breaking a sweat: we simply moved machine by machine without ever worrying about latency between DCs and all that.
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One of the reasons why the massive OVH datacenter is in its particular location in Quebec is the extremely cheap power from Quebec Hydro. At one time I checked and the large customer rate was 5.6 cents (Canadian!) per kWh. I am curious how much they are going to pay in VA and why they didn't choose to build a datacenter somewhere in OR or WA near the Columbia River hydroelectric systems instead.
This is all explained in the video. The process has nothing to do with genetics; the good bugs don't bite because they're all male (the females are weeded out by the scientists), and male mosquitoes never bite. And they can't breed because of a bacteria related to healthy egg development. The good bugs still mate (with bad bugs, since there are no good female bugs), they still fertilize the eggs, but the eggs don't work.
HP, do you mean Apotheker? Fair enough. But you do not get to mention HP without Carly Fiorina.
not really, no, a large scale datacenter operator does as much as possible to reduce the number of people involved. Ideally the only staff you need on site are relatively low wage, low skilled persons who know how to rack a server, connect a power cable, connect some network cables according to a master plan. Everything else happens through automated provisioning software and neteng/sysadmin staff who work off site, could be anywhere in the world.

I am actually surprised it is as high as 54, if you visit some of the really huge datacenters in Quincy, WA or The Dalles, OR you might walk through the entire facility and see 3 people working on a "busy" day.
It is precisely a moral judgement. Moral judgements are a human responsibility.

The question is whether or not we want to be a society that views people's bodies and sexual access to them as a commodity to be bought and sold. I find it baffling that anyone would laud this condition after giving it a few moments of compassionate reflection.
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I haven't used this yet but will say that lego (which this uses) is a joy to use.
Literally two seconds on Github will prove out that, yes, I can write code. That means we should be talking about something substantiative rather than wasting my time. So turn it around: why should I respect an interviewer who isn't respecting me?

(I should note that, as a consultant, nobody ever asks me to whiteboard some code for them, despite often committing into their own repos and doing work that is no less important to them as a company. Almost like the hoop jumping is just some power-move crap on the part of the interviewer.)