skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent layoffs and smaller investment rounds a worrying sign
Should those working in or aiming to work in the tech industry be worried about the number of high profile companies reducing workforces?

Combined with a reduction in the number and size of investments in the sector, are we seeing a recline in the space?
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While I still consider Sketch's model leagues more customer-friendly than Adobe's, I'm not happy that they appear to have given up any attempt at meaningfully versioning the file format. I can completely understand something like an overhaul to the way symbols are handled breaking compatibility with older versions of the app, but when an update is adding things like a new color picker and tweaking vector snapping, it seems like a stretch that the previous version can no longer open files created by the latest one.
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Interesting take on it. For historical accuracy this was something that Sun talked about in the 90's, you sold someone some software, and that was the last bit of revenue you ever got from them. Except you still had the programmers who wrote the software to pay.

This then is the fundamental problem, when you finish the software do you fire the engineers that worked on it? If not, what do they do?

The fact is that software can actually be "done" and it happens every where. And it takes a special kind of engineer who will work on simply removing blemishes (bugs) and not write any new features.

And that fundamentally points at a really really deep problem, engineering software rather than just writing it.

If your software has very well specified and defined interfaces, and no 'escapes' then you can say it is engineered to be partitionable. And an engineer can be tasked with fixing one part, they can fix that part, and do the qualification tests for that part and then when they integrate it they can be assured the system as a whole continues to work as it always did, but now with a slightly different part. Not surprisingly this was a part of, if not the major part of, the notions in object oriented programming. Once the part (object) worked, you didn't have to think about it any more. An auto-mechanic doesn't have to know the physics of a an ignition system to replace a spark plug, a spark plug manufacturer doesn't have to know the geometry of every cylinder to make a spark plug.

Software as books. You don't go to the library and periodically buy updates to the books you own. Textbooks pull that off but even they know its really a scam. Pythagorean's principle hasn't actually changed and the last text book was just fine.

Open source kind of wins and kind of loses here. The poster child is gcc. Looking at the code base changes over time for a given architecture they start with a flurry of functionality changes, then smooth out to just bug fixes and the occasional optimizer tweak, and then when the noise floor of change frequency gets to a certain level you start seeing really sort of adhoc changes or perhaps changes that only help a very very small part of the user base. Its hard to capture both a gcc for ARM9 and gcc for ARM9 embedded in an FPGA fabric that can have optimized bespoke instructions. And yet they will try.

The author calls them psychopaths but they are the current generation of entrepreneurs which are building businesses based on rents rather than sales. Its all the rage, is not Uber a rent seeking business that simply takes a tax or rent for you using their app? The 'sale' was the car ride, the 'tax' is everything else. This works because collecting rent of $1 a month from a million people is "easy" they hardly miss it, and you're $12M/year richer for it. Selling them $12M worth of value is so much harder. Why push yourself? Everybody is doing it, the streaming company, the phone company, and even the maker of your coffee machine. If you haven't got an ARR you aren't a 21st century company these days.
> . Yet S. Korea, another SE Asian country

S. Korea is not a SE Asian country...
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One of my favorites also.
> any online resources you use for filtering the candidates?

Check out Melbourne based Vieple, video interviewing platform > https://vieple.com/employers/
Hi sonofgod,

On Datalogue's recruiting page (https://datalogue.github.io/recruiting/) there is a recruiting email address (recruiting [at] datalogue [dot] io) if you would like to get in contact directly.

The form with phone number field is just for demo sign-up.

Feel free to reach out directly
Currently, we support 2 "targets" a Pandas DataFrame and a file. Files can be any format. The Quilt build logic uses Pandas to read files into DataFrames so any format Pandas can read should work in Quilt to create a DataFrame node.
Residential too - http://www.monolithic.org/ - that site has some neat designs.
Digging through their blog post, it looks like they are using a model based on OpenFace (https://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/)
I don't know. On the one hand, I get that "work for free and maybe we'll hire you" is going to block quite a lot of otherwise qualified applicants.

On the other hand, I've seen plenty of worse ideas around hiring. At least this will result in some positive impact on the world.

I'll also give them credit for requesting contributions to other companies Open Source products rather than just their own. There was one company who I had actually done some free Open Source work for in the past. When I contacted them about an open position, they essentially told me "that past work doesn't count and you need to do more free work on our newer platform we'll consider hiring you". That was a serious let down.
No new markets where to expand. Since Russia got re-grouped with Putin, the Russian (and former USSR) markets started to close for US exports. Chinese had their own dynamics. The labor participation rate is at the 70-ties rate again. Go for the maiximal time period here to see the dynamics. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-parti...
Also check who's getting all the gold recently
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gold-reserves
Possibly - but COBOL was actually very new when some of these tapes were made according to the date range in the article, so there's a high chance (I'd bet on it) that the tapes are not in COBOL record format. BCD was implemented in the machine language in the IBM machines and so it was widely used prior to COBOL, the CDC machine involved here does not have BCD in its instructions but still provided some support for BCD operations because like many smaller computers of the era these CDCs were often used to pre/postprocess tapes also used with larger IBM machines - in an analogy to more modern architecture, it was not uncommon at the time to 'map' on an IBM mainframe (collect data from other sources, often) and then take the tapes to smaller machines to 'reduce' (totalize, etc). This allowed for using time on the very expensive IBM machines more efficiently.
I loved A Wrinkle in Time and my other favorite was A Wizard of Earthsea, which I remember randomly finding in a dusty attic in a summer school when I was 11 years old. Talk about magic.
Certainly not tech related, but Sara Blakely started Spanx with $5000 when she was 27. Her company makes women's underwear. She's worth $1 billion. Pretty good result for someone who used to be a door-to-door salesperson.
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Trade secrets have value.

There is a big difference between emulating or being inspired by another's idea versus actively collaborating with them and then simply stop working with them once you feel you don't need them anymore.

Without people like TJ and myself, Zeit wouldn't exist. Buyer beware to whoever decides to acquire Zeit.
Machine learning does allow you to find patterns in data. Some of these models are getting very good with image recognition.
The effort to eat a bushel of kale dwarfs the effort to drink 1.5 juiced bushels of kale.
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Thanks! Will consider. With that comment on pricing, we just want to deter people who think this can be done cheaply.
While I definitely have my issues with David Rose, I am floored that you think this business had a "clear path" to a large business.

They are essentially trying to become a web portal for every service imaginable, but need $2M to build a website to do this? There are just too many red flags. I don't understand what you see here.
Are there repercussions to just walking over and asking them then forwarding the middleman a summary / recap?
take a look : http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/06/29/curiosity-mars-rov...
I agree. Globalization is what happens when, thanks to technological progress, you can no longer ignore entities on the other end of the planet. Technology is an enabler - once you make a new thing possible, people will do it. You can try and oppose this process, but it's expensive and probably always doomed to failure anyway. China is a case in point - all that government effort and they still ended up pretty westernized today.

To stop globalization, one would have to revert the entire planet to before industrial revolution. Which is entirely possible with e.g. nuclear weapons, but I don't think anyone sane would want that to happen.
For that level of experience, and a great interview performance, big-5 easily cross $225k/yr in total comp. Often much more.
Hard to say, but i recall seeing multiple local social networks that flamed out massively once Facebook started accepting international users.
Yeah i did it last November when the courses were structured to be done as a full-time program. They've restructured to make it compatible with having a full-time job simultaneously. I think they've still had students take all courses concurrently though, even with the new model. Worth sending @oz a note!
Dietary restrictions and preferences 100% welcome! Grew up with a celiac sibling and one of our team members is vegetarian. Similarly to design, in food, restrictions lead to creativity! (Founder of the company)
This is one of two completely unrelated Js projects called moon, both of which have been posted to Show HN in the last three hours

At time of writing, they are next to each other.

I got really confused for a few minutes trying to figure out what they had to do with each other
insightful. care to explain what was the expected return on this investment?
The cray did this, iirc, and the result was that char pointers were extra fat because they needed to include the word address and the byte address within the word. That's not an efficiency improvement.
This was one of my favorite books growing up, but the linked article is iffy at best. Author doesn't understand the difference between quantum mechanics and general relativity, which should be a nonstarter on HN. Would love to have a better article as a starting point for discussion of this book here.
This is transparently self-serving.

1. The US remains one of the least bureaucratic, least regulated countries in the west to do business. We have at-will employment, low unionization, relatively minimal mandatory benefits, trivial incorporation, and reliable and well-understood corporate and civil law. The idea that Jamie Dimon wanders the Earth and finds every other country more congenial to to business is laughable.

2. Dimon, a Trump ally, would sorely like the US tax code tilted further in the favor of corporate ownership and financialization. He's happy to leave out the part about how his industry nearly blew up the world economy, and was supported for years during the Obama administration by bailouts.

It's possible that there's good policy behind lowering the corporate tax, which is distortive and inefficient. On the other hand: DC is "dysfunctional" for a reason. The system was designed specifically to keep public policy from whipsawing between extremes every time a new party took office. If he's embarrassed to be a citizen of a country like that, he has more than enough means to secure citizenship somewhere else. Don't hold your breath on that happening.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14719106
Good article. I have to say, after reading it, I still don't understand the difference between chronos and kairos
Yeah, I'm curious how it works out as well.

I'm not longer willing to regularly give up sleep. For me, it's more important than just about anything I would replace it with.

So, if I wanted to add 30 minutes of exercise into my day, I would have to subtract 30 mins of something else and there just aren't many things that I want to give up anymore.

I wish I could afford to be retired. I could retire and easily replace my working hours with making things and learning things and writing and reading and playing music, watching movies and travel and other hobbies. Maybe I'll buy a lottery ticket on the way home from work.
I have read many articles across different blogs all highlighting Foster's amazing career. I studied Latin in high school and regret that I was not more engaged at the time. I am thrilled to learn of the publishing of 'Ossa Latinitatis Sola' and will take it as an opportunity to give Latin another, more purposeful, go in the near future.
What's not clear from the front page. Is it its own Web server? Is it a framework which uses another Web server? I think that would be useful to clarify from the start.
I think most people probably start by looking up rude ones, then feel a bit embarrassed and move on to non-rude.
> Also to mention, the biggest bottleneck to US economic growth during the Ford era was was the lack of workers which is why opening our doors to crowded Europe gave us a boost.

Actually during the Ford era, we went on an anti-immigration phase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
Yes, but you don't blame the canary for methane being in the mine. Similarly, you can't blame Trump for things that were well under way before anyone suspected he'll go into politics.
It's problematic when data publisher != data user/paper writer. I'm not familiar enough with DOI minting and therefore don't know what issues DOI generation on large scales for miniscule changes in the data might bring. Ultimately, if I make data openly available the worst case is that every change to the data requires a new DOI as I don't know how many people have downloaded earlier versions and not published on those yet / don't care about my added cleaning (or think it's wrong). I haven't done it in a while, but github's collaboration with Zenodo results in a zip file hosted there. Obviously, that reduces the amount of DOIs created but it's not great. As soon as my code changes, and someone uses that version in a paper, they'll use the old DOI. Potentially resulting in not reproducible results. The same is true for data. On the researcher side, you may end up with 100s of DOIs, each with zero-few citations. Also not great. A happy medium might be to leave it to the data generator to create DOIs for set versions, and drop anyone trying to resolve the DOI on a landing page that provides links to that original version and any updates since (maybe indicating later releases that have DOIs attached separately). Certainly would make me as data user / supplier happy.
There's a very good chance you're correct, of course. I suppose my comment was just my general hopeful optimism coming out.

Really, though, how does one actually "deprogram" someone with opinions like this? Can it actually be done?

Casual racists are a toxic population whose opinions and behaviors in favor of said racism bring no value to society. How on earth do we eliminate it?

I used to think that the steamroller of progress and information would gradually eliminate racism and sexism and denial of science and logic as older generations died out, but the rise of the next generation of racists and MRAs and flat earthers seems to be a fairly strong counterpoint to that.

I fear for the future of humanity.
Pachyderm was the first thing I thought of. In fact there should be opportunities for collaboration here.

Pachyderm looks brilliant for high-scalability parallel data processing, and the versioned data part is a way to not just maintain the history of the data, but also avoid reprocessing of data that hasn't changed since the previous run.
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App is short for Application, not Apple.
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Assuming artificial gravity generators, who needs planets?
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You're as likely to get mugged in Chicago as you are in any big city. You saw the bet I offered downthread. If you think I'm wrong, take it.

What I won't let you do is move the goalposts. You invoked "south Chicago" as a symbol of urban violence so great that a person like yourself couldn't function in it unarmed. That was bogus on several different levels, only a few of which we've described so far.
PayPal are notorious for semi-randomly closing accounts, especially when the usage deviates a little bit from the norm.
I wouldn't go the route described in the article if I depended on this income, even if it seems innocent.
Perhaps, I'm just comparing the cost to other games. If you buy a normal game you own it forever. If you wanted to go into debt and pay for a $60 game in unending monthly installments, you'd only need to pay 25 cents a month.
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With regards to better algorithms than the OS -- jemalloc is not quite there yet.

Here is an illuminating discussion between Redis and Jemalloc devs regarding this:

https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/566

Redis will perform its own housekeeping, hence the usage of the term 'active.' AFAIK, rather than metadata being stored for this, there is a periodic active scan and manual measurement.

See more here:

https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/3720
And also, NYC and Montreal offices :)
Unfortunately this comes with tradeoffs—relatively high throughput compared to synchronous computation at higher latency.

Of course that's fine for many workloads.
I don't think we should care what Youtube commenters find pathetic. Or even what reasonable people find pathetic. The individual dignity of police officers is not a top-tier policy concern.
Understood. We can do something very close to that. Right now we give the registry source to our on prem users as part of the license. Email sales at quiltdata dot io and we can discuss.
Maybe a mention of how hard it is to get a tenure track job in physics would also be a good idea.
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Can+Time+Go+Backwards?
> I think that's a false equivalence - the TLAs might have access to your data, but are unlikely to look at it/act upon it except when your company/users run afoul of the law.

The same could be argued for china. You are just splitting hairs.

> It seems China is much more proactive in this regard - actively policing speech, etc.

Policing speech? It happens on american social media. Even on hackernews.
"Whine"? You realize these people are losing their livelihoods?
Improving the education system seems like a pretty obvious solution. It's a controversial subject and there are many strong opinions about which approach is right. I'm not sure what exactly the right course is but I do know that it involves more resources, smarter teachers, and higher teacher to student ratios.
Rust would also work well here with added memory safety bonuses (if rust is used well).
It's very similar to nodejs web frameworks. If you start it you have a working webserver with your application in it.
I'm not objecting to the existence of geographic boundaries. I'm objecting to the idea that those geographic boundaries say anything meaningful about the people born on either side of said boundaries.

> Is real estate comprised of nothing more than imaginary lines? No, it isn't.

I agree. But I think that a real estate sale is a voluntary contract between two consenting adults, and it's none of your business if I want to sell some of mine to someone who happened to be born slightly too may miles away to end up on the "right" side of some border.

Nativists like to pretend to be defenders of human liberty, when they're just nanny staters with different preferences.

> Even tree roots are constantly fighting and competing for finite resources and territory on time-lapse.

Yes, but why does it matter if the other organism you're competing with was born in El Paso vs half a mile away in Juarez? The nativist position is that one is vigorous, dynamic market competition and the other is a foreign invasion. When really they are exactly the same.

Sure, all living things compete (in addition to cooperating -- all ecosystems and markets feature a network of both). But that does not explain the fetish for treating certain people as OK to compete and others as not.

> What do you think an invasive species is? Are those imaginary?

Obviously we are only discussing human immigrants here, so unless you're making an underhanded comment about the inhumanity of foreigners, where are you going with this analogy?

Realize that's not just snark -- the whole argument rests on the idea that there's a bright line between two sets of people. That line is completely imaginary. I guarantee you couldn't find it in an experiment, if I got to pick 50 American citizens and 50 non-citizens and you had to tell who was who just by talking to them.
A great throwback to the nicer and simpler web of the 90s that so many of us grew up loving. Informative, no-nonsense content, fast loading even on a 28kbps modem, no BS tracking and analytics and ads and popups.
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Am I missing something here?

None of the examples they've cited at the bottom of that post are actual contributions to a popular open-source project, but seems more like stuff that's been built as a standalone project.
adventured has a point and a very valid one monetary-wise
FUD, long running NIFs won't crash your VM, just block scheduler cores and mess up the real-time-y-ness of your application.
I don't even think quantum mechanics come into play at the mitochondrial level in Wind In The Door.
> Private Cookies #

> To encrypt private cookies, Rocket uses the 256-bit key specified in the secret_key configuration parameter. If one is not specified, Rocket automatically generates a fresh key at launch.

Seems like a pretty clever idea. Do other servers/middlewares offer a similar feature? Seems like it would complicate deployment/scaling a bit if the secret has to be sent to all the nodes. Especially if they could silently ignore it if you accidentally don't configure the key for some nodes.
I have not noticed that, no. What I have noticed is both fear and hope about the potential of automation for decades.
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I mean, why not tell everyone our password hashes?
That has to be one of the weirdest things I've ever heard in my life. You don't need a PhD to do data science. Hell, most companies would be taking a huge step forward if they got somebody who knows how to do linear regression.
OK, that makes it clear, because for example Rails require existing Web server in contrast.
Well, it's been an incredible journey. Blowing through millions of VC money, to create the ultimate in over engineered nonsense.
You should check out jpro (https://www.jpro.io/).

Their demos are more impressive than CheerpJ.
...at a useful enough wattage to replace existing charging systems, while be small and convenient enough to attach to a cell phone.

The actual technology works...just not well enough, and scaling it to be an order of magnitude more useful is probably physically impossible.