skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting offer by Hetzner that's available for some month now.

They provide a dedicated server with a GTX 1080 for ~99e/month (111$/month) with adequate CPU (i7-6700), 64G Memory, 500G disk space and 50TB Traffic - there are also on-demand offerings by GCP and AWS, but I do not think they can match the offer by Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex51ss.... Keep in mind that I am talking about R&D, in particular training of networks - which has lower expectations on availability than e.g. later inference.

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with Hetzner and did not test it yet, but I have a ~40e dedicated machine there for occasional number crunching and everything worked so far (no availability or hardware issues).

Furthermore I am not sure about the exact specifications (Memory-Size of GPU) or if there are different types of 1080s that differ significantly in Deep Learning Performance (see also: https://github.com/jcjohnson/cnn-benchmarks).
Or dagger 2. :)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensed_professional_counselo...

It's not called a 'licensed career coach' -- privilege, in this case, is a legal protection that is not afforded to the type of relationships you're talking about. You're putting yourself, and your clients, in a very legally tenuous position.
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Ask an endless series of questions about algorithms and/or expect extensive whiteboard coding -> developers complain about these not reflecting the real world.

Ask a developer to write some actual code to prove that they can do the job they're being hired to do -> developers complain about having to demonstrate that they can do the job they're about to be hired to do.

There's a legitimate question here about how extensive of a project is necessary to demonstrate that you can, in fact, write code effectively. But this is basically what we've been clamoring for for years, companies abandoning pressure cooker interview room gotcha-questions on whiteboards.

The work sample test is one of the most effective ways of evaluating a candidate's fitness. What do you expect an prospective employer to do to determine if you can do the job, if not write some code?
I think there's been enough rancor about whiteboard interviews that people are looking for a better way. I personally was never very good at on-the-spot whiteboarding even though I'm decent at building stuff, so my company's interview process incorporates a take-home coding challenge. It's not as in depth as deploying an app but it tends to take a couple hours.

I can't imagine paying someone to interview though. Both parties are spending time (and money) on the interview already and if you don't want the job enough to put in a day getting it, to me that's a signal that you wouldn't be very interested in the problems we're working on.

I do sympathize though and agree that interviews still suck (for both sides).
"If you don't like it, leave" has been used as a reply to accusations of rights violations since time immemorial.

Perhaps the black Americans sick of Police brutality should leave for Africa? Jews targeted by anti-semitism could always leave for Israel. I don't know what they stick around and complain for. /s

Leaving that part of your argument aside: the rest is a false dichotomy. You present two examples of rights violating societies - mixed-market socialism, and barbarism (feuding warlords) - while ignoring a solution that respects human rights:

https://mises.org/library/liberalism-classical-tradition
Ask HN: Too late for mining cryptocurrencies?
Mining BTC is out of the league of a individual, but I wonder among the good alternatives (That I don't know now which are, look like cryptocurrencies are create more faster than profits) if exist still a chance for mining them and generate some side profits.
It depends even more on whether there are any sources other than Anker Direct for those branded products. If they're the only source and Amazon is their only channel, then any other seller is either counterfeit or purchased through Amazon and is now trying to resell.
In Australia we have similar legislation, but there are some circumstances where a sender can "infer" that you "probably would consent" to spam. Though I think lots of companies are far too liberal with their interpretation of such provisions.

http://www.acma.gov.au/Industry/Marketers/Anti-Spam/Ensuring...
Again, there is plenty of opinion that programming is much more thinking than typing. Any programmer who says they code at even 20 wpm is probably BSing, or are caught doing a lot of transcription work.

You can write 11K lines of code without continuously typing a lot, especially over a few weeks.
Just as a sidenote, there is:

https://github.com/xyz32/boneIO

...and a while back I played too with:

https://github.com/gokr/ardunimo

Nim is quite perfect for these things since it compiles via C/C++ which makes it go anywhere.
For other reasons, a large % of trucking should be de-subsidized and replaced with rail http://cityobservatory.org/the-real-welfare-cadillacs-have-1...

What are working conditions of truckers relative to railroad workers?
Got it. It's a shame that Google has been moving Android in a more proprietary direction.

Are there any notable Android forks that are more progressive about supporting new languages? If so, is their market share consequential?
Anyone a bit more savvy on hardware able to shed a bit more light on this?

The following line tickles my fancy...

> This is the only time in my entire programming life that I've debugged a problem caused by quantum mechanics.
Ultra-fast Serialization of C++ Objects
We live in a time of dissonance between the two attitudes of "university is for learning how to learn first principles; if you want practical industry-relevant knowledge then go to a community college, you vocational student" and "businesses need to be fast and agile so we're not going to provide training; schools should be pumping out employees ready to be interviewed."
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I would add that another reason to develop your own deep learning Hardware if you are a big like Google is in order to prevent Nvidia from completely owning and dominating this segment.

Failing math, let's hope AMD'em Vega GPUs don't completely suck.
When I interviewed with Toptal, once I made it through the preliminary screenings, the final test was to build a simple web application over the course of 2-3 days in a language of my choice, and commit the code to their git repository, and demo it live.

I finished it in a day and a half; decided to use Meteor since I never used it before and figured it'd be a good time to dabble in it.

It was by far the most enjoyable part of the application process. And I think its the best indication of a developer's ability. Real-word application of the knowledge that you will probably be using 90% of the time (as opposed to theory and logic puzzles).
How is trucking subsidized?
What email service do you use? I've been trying to figure out where to switch to from "the big G" and it's not clear to me what host is good.

Personally a host that has a mail client which is free software would be the best deal. :P
I designed two of those challenges. We're successfully using it for international hires for quite some time now.
We hand those out after you made it through two telephone interviews, which should assure mutual interest in actually making hiring happen. We base our hiring decision on the outcome of the challenge. If you do good, we relocate you and your family, care for everything you need. Our success rate is around 30%. So I wouldn't say we ask you to work for free.
We designed the challenge to be without example on github by giving extreme amounts of individual freedom in the task.
Also, you're allowed to share the solution - but without mentioning the company name, so that other candidates cannot just google and find your stuff.

Not everyone has a "significant" github profile. Actually the minority of people has such a thing. So many reasons for not having one. Current employer's policy, having a family, having non-IT hobbies, etc pp.
Also just having such a profile doesn't necessary proof that you can solve the company's problems, because just looking at solutions of arbitrary problems doesn't give you any information about the constraints of the problem, how you solved them and it also doesn't put your solution to this problem next to solution of the guy sitting one desk away that solved the same problem in the same amount of time under the same conditions.

(removed a stupid passive aggressive statement here, sorry folks)
For the US: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/

The numbers are a bit out of date. All I could find other than that is a reference to a study in 2015 on Wikipedia, but it links to a page that's missing the data the reference was pointing to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies
Maybe James Gosling would have a few ideas on what that "much more" should be?

He has worked on Java for nearly a quarter of a century. He's not young, but might still want to do something else.
I wonder if that's because of the "small business" scale, or because you are in the B2B space, that expects higher prices? I'd be very curious to hear stories from people trying to build B2C products with a one/two person team charging $5-$10/mo, and how that worked out.
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I recently bought an Alienware 13 R3 for deep learning (okay, and gaming...) and I'm quite satisfied so far. In addition to the built-in Titan 1060 with 6 GB of DDR5 it's possible to get an external graphics accelerator for additional performance as well (I haven't tried this yet though).
Been using HN regularly for about two years now, and have just figured out two of the features from this topic: /bestcomments and /favorites?id=<USERNAME>.
I'd like a programming language that kicks the programmer in the nuts if he over engineers things and writes unreadable code.
My next-door neighbor’s entire career was this kind of stuff! He did a bunch of recognizable animations for HBO, CNN, MTV… now he's in his sixties and trying to retrain himself in digital 3D.
Highway funding for one. Instead of improving highway infrastructure with tax money, improve rail lines.
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I know many technical people who understand the technology side of things, but they don't fully understand the political and societal implications.

That may not be true in your case, and you may have some new arguments that I haven't heard, but I've never found a convincing argument for being careless about privacy, and I've been following and debating the issue fairly closely for about 15 years.

It's a very complex and difficult problem. The answer isn't "we absolutely must have 100% privacy" or "they already have all of my data so it doesn't matter." But arguments along the lines of, "I don't mind if they have my data if it helps me find products that I like", tend to arise from "consumer" mentality rather than "architect" mentality. So I would revise my above comment to say, "Consumers tolerate it partially because they don't understand [the full implications]."
Thank you, I was getting Error 500 - Hug Of Death
"something custom for TPU" is what seems interesting here. Researchers working on the TF research cloud probably wouldn't learn much about the sorts of workloads this architecture is suited to, if all they have access to is the high-level API. Would whatever iteration of the TPU API they have internally be something they'd release soon, at least to partners?
There are even better independent open-source equivalents for some of those, but that is not the point. Good luck compiling some of AMD's clMath libraries without issues. Then, you're "just" left with packaging them properly. Performance is also not stellar compared to Nvidia. Meanwhile, when you install Nvidia's toolkit, you're set with everything.
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And then the CIA allied again with alQaeda when fighting Assad.

And round and round it goes. Too bad the public is made a to be a sucker every time.
You don't need an argument against absurd nonsense.
This fastcodesign article from 5/19 is just a re-hash of the original article from This Is Colossal published on 5/15: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/when-tv-logos-were-phy...
The review I shared contains many ideas along these lines. Basically the AA sequences seem to be selected to disfavor aggregation, so most mutations should increase formation:

>"Many of the characteristics of proteins that enable the
avoidance of aggregation, and amyloid formation in particular,
are encoded by their amino acid sequences116. The
elucidation of this code has enabled the identification of
factors that determine the intrinsic aggregation propensity
of these molecules117–119. Hence, it has been realized
that globular proteins fold into structures that sequester
aggregation-prone regions in their interior; in addition,
typical features of the folding process, such as very high
cooperativity, generate considerable kinetic barriers to the
conversion of folded proteins into aggregation-prone species50,120.
Furthermore, specific patterns of residues, such
as alternating hydrophobic–hydrophilic stretches50,121, that
tend to favour the amyloid state are commonly selected
against during evolution119,121,122 or are otherwise neutralized
by the insertion of highly aggregation-resistant
residues, which are known as ‘gatekeepers’
(REFS 50,123)."

Really I doubt in the end there will be any disease not associated with amyloid/aggregate formation.
There's a whole series of (long) comments by arcfide [0] about APL, and code in general, in the "Smaller Code, Better Code" thread [1] that I thought were great.

In particular this one [2].

"I'm pushing the other direction. If you can see your entire compiler at one go on a standard computer screen, what sort of possibilities does that open up? You can start thinking at the macro level, and simply avoid a whole host of problems because they are obviously wrong at that level. When you aren't afraid to delete you entire compiler and start from scratch? What sort of possibilities does that open up to you?"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arcfide

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571160
Easily, the single most vocal group about piece work payments are the medical doctors I've talked to.

To be fair, there are unusual incentives in place here -- depending on the specific circumstances, each individual task or procedure a doctor performs may end up being coded differently for insurance reimbursement purposes. The focus of doctors on piece work is incentivized by the way insurance works.
I had the same feeling seeing the article publisher. The Washington Post is doing a better job: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
> This is not a contradiction. Someone with privacy has the right to decide what they do and don't want to share publicly. Like you, I am concerned by how Facebook is used, and some of its societal implications, but this sort of extremist attitude helps nothing.

What you call an "extremist attitude" I call "info security common sense". Companies like Facebook are well known to lull their users into a false sense of being in a "safe, governed social utopia" all while profiting from vast amounts of data both explicitly provided by users and implicitly
provided through data analysis. Anyone even remotely close to fields like infosec, cyber security, or data engineering know that Facebook is quickly becoming a giant spider web for its users. While I agree with you that an extremist attitude is not helpful, it's come to a point where I just know too much about the background of companies like Facebook to simply ignore these issues.
Local vs. Remote matters because the remote guys give zero fucks about the state of the fishery, or any other resource.

For example, as a consumer, we in aggregate give zero shits about the oppressed seamstress in Bangladesh who is essentially a slave making our t-shirts for pennies. But if somebody kicks a dog, it will generate a massive outcry. We relate to the dog, who could be our own dog, but don't relate to the seamstress.
What sort of company do you work at that this sort of crude blocking attempt would actually work?
Beware of cargo cults.

Edit: Pointing out that you might not actually need to muck about with all this stuff when you're just starting out is not unreasonable.
Companies use these to save time. Interviews take hours of time for multiple people. They are also soul-crushing for the interviewers to be forced to sit while watching people flounder at the whiteboard. At several companies I have been with, they had a basic 20 question skills test. It was enough to cut the number of time-wasting interviews massively. I assume that the "Full application" process is there for a similar reason. It shows them up front that you know the basics, or know how to Google the basics. At every company I have worked at that had a pre-test or code submission application, people who submitted the test/sample would have an enormous leg up. With interviews it was like 10-20:1 interview:hire ratio. With the test/sample it was more like 3:1. It is a massive time/effort saving filter on the company's part.

Companies are NOT trying to get free work out of you. If they wanted to hook to a third-party API, it would be easier to use the API sample code. They are trying to save themselves hundreds of dollars in staff salaries and lost productivity, to interview a person who can't function in a realistic programming environment.

These are EXACTLY the sort of companies you should apply to if you really want a job.
I've done several of those. I think there is a luck factor involved. One company asked to pick a language I didn't know before end, it was just okay - because I truly didn't know the language before. Another picked a maze puzzle that I thought was fun, and I did it well. Anyway 4-6 hours is still a lot of time, specially when you have a resume + github that is showing you should already know your shit. You can false positives and false negatives very easily with a test like this. I think the best approach is to select 3 candidates based on feeling/resume/github/etc, give them a true piece of code to wrote that will be used for real. Give them a week, but pay them real money. Hire the best.
"They" = people who design superpacs and that money is speech.

Ownership = as a nation and a democracy we steward many tangible values of the country

You couldn't buy these services without NAFTA etc.

Oldfashioned as in I romantically want to believe in "we the people" and not "we the global elite"
If the lawsuits have to be started in the appropriate jurisdiction, then why has the Supreme Court recently allowed the FBI to hack anyone in the country by modifying Rule 41? Why couldn't it follow the same jurisdiction-based logic?
I've been looking forward to this one basically since the Lee Sedol matches. Excited it's finally here!

I started the Lee Sedol matches knowing nothing about Go but the commentators really helped me understand what was so special about the game, and to come to appreciate the poetry in the language that's grown around the game. I still don't know how to play Go well, but now I understand the basics enough to appreciate all that has been done to get AI to the point where I no longer expect any human will ever defeat the top AI in this game again. But only time (and matches!) will tell, and that's what tonight finally brings!

I'll be watching live hoping for moments like this: https://youtu.be/l-GsfyVCBu0?t=4692
I read this as "some devices don't correctly signal what amperage they want, so the anker pack ramps up until it detects some change that indicates the device is charging at full speed."
I love that. Sometimes the lack of whimsy on HN wrecks my head.
I understand what you're getting at here - the request/requirement to jump through hoops. But I don't think it's unreasonable for a potential employer to want to gauge technical ability, especially given the amount of people who graduate from degree factories without any ability to actually code or do any sort of technical work.

Usually these positions, and this field in general, pay well so I would think that people would want to go the extra mile to get the job. Also, you need to remember that employers take a risk with every hire. The cost of hiring and onboarding (and firing, too) are not insignificant.

If I was involved in the hiring process and someone expected to get paid as a contractor for their time spent as part of the interview process, I would not be calling that person back. If, however, a person expressed their displeasure at the amount of time it would take to complete the request given their current workload and schedule, I would probably be willing to work with them and try to figure out some middle ground that would serve both sides reasonably well. Of course, you also always have the ability to tell them that you think it's too much to request as part of the interview process and do not wish to continue the interview process as it would be a waste of everyone's time.

Given the hiring risk(s) and costs associated with it, I think it's extremely distasteful to seek to be paid as part of that process.
Switzerland's pretty nice, actually. Sweden's economy grew by 3.3% last year, which is not bad at all.
I've got a PhD in physics and I have no idea what he's talking about here. Seems like the mainboard layout had issues at higher frequencies which is easily a 100% classical electromagnetism problem. Inductance, impedance and what have you. As another commenter alluded, its only 'quantum' in the sense that all semiconductor behavior is.

I think this is another case where 'quantum' is confused with 'apparently spooky.'
Angle-shifting units make this harder, but the obvious blindspot is the conveyor belt entrance/exit holes (they cannot have imaging equipment in them).
As someone with truckers in the family, and who discusses it frequently with them, their biggest problems with the 14 hour rules are twofold.

(1) It's immutable, and squeezes them between their dispatchers (who schedule them for 11 hour drives) and remaining legal. If you're running a day load (far better quality of life), then if you hit traffic you're spending the night on the road in your truck, parked wherever you happened to hit the time limit. There's no individual flexibility in terms of "I'll drive less tomorrow to make up for it."

(2) Removal of individual agency. Imagine if someone showed up at your desk and told you that you couldn't write any more code because you'd already been coding X hours. Doesn't matter you were on a roll. Doesn't matter that the past 4 hours were lightweight commenting and code formatting. Doesn't matter you were in the middle of writing a solution that finally occurred to you. Just is. Oh, and here's a $500 DOT ticket for trying to jot down some code notes to yourself to salvage your work.

I hear and agree that some people feel entitled to bill counter to market. But IMHO the combination of a per-mile-rate, dispatcher-driven scheduling, and absolute regulation is pretty sadistic to truckers.

There's a lot more friendly ways the legislation could have been written: work hour cap per week, different classes of CDL / experience levels mean different caps, etc.
If you're running a rackmount server, you need the Tesla series.

We found that the GeForces tend to burn out when under heavy load, whereas we've not had a single Tesla series ever burn out.