skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So what are the alternatives for people who want to find contracting work without networking?

Not having your own network opens you up to exploitation and poor treatment, because you need the network owner more than she needs you.

So, if you want that, you're left looking for an usually ethical company, which will be hard with a high chance of failure.

I think people need to be founding more online cooperatives and mutuals.
Supply is increasing though through mining. Stolen coins are still coins. And there's no way that lost coins are out pasing newly mined coins. True loss/data destruction/inaccessibility is fairly rare.

Even in the Bitcoin community it's a huge misconception that Bitcoin is somehow inherently deflationary. The supply increases predictably through mining. It can be price deflationary when demand exceeds supply. But there is nothing inherent or guaranteed about that at all.

Bitcoin is inflationary, with a predictable inflation schedule.
"And since the 1960’s, we’ve seen a marked rise in stress-related mental health problems in children and adolescents, including anxiety, depression, and self-harm."

"this problem has been increasing since the 1960’s because our culture has increasingly valued extrinsic and self-centered goals such as money, status, and physical attractiveness, and devalued community, affiliation, and the pursuit of meaning in life"

A great deal about the 60s was culturally disastrous.
>secret safe browsing lists

Isn't there an open API for querying this information, as well as their webapp? It can't be all that secret.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search
Does this include something that flashes / moves (within its self-contained box) even though it doesn't take over the screen?

How is it that it's not outrageous to people that in the middle of a news article, a box with flashing colors and a picture of a woman in a bikini isn't something obviously extremely undesirable? The activity of reading requires concentration, if you're reading something that requires thought, that is. I'm baffled that our tolerance level for this didn't drop to the pitchfork level.
The ePubs from the bundle are quite okay. I just tried one of the books with FBReader on Ubuntu.
Russia Sees Midterm Elections as Chance to Sow Fresh Discord, Intel Chiefs Warn
Nope, there is no caching now, every run of the tool has a single instance and writes the output into separate file. I'm using it to test stability of cloud when multiple users are using it and to test proxies. It would not be much of a test if one user opened the demo page and then every other use would just get the results from a file. But when I'm happy with how it works I will add caching.
toptal.com seems like one of the better ones, but the best option is probably to join a collective.
I was self-driven by the book's description, enabled by unobtrusive parenting and a stable home life. But I also turned out really well by several objective metrics, and many of my peers in similar circumstances didn't.

As I think about how to parent, where you're supplying steady inputs into the system with many other inputs, I'm beginning to think we undervalue positive parenting contributions but overvalue its detrimental effects when the end result is unsatisfactory. We have vague ideas about what helps and what hurts, but every person is quite different, an any number of inputs, from genetics and inbuilt predispositions, to one random event or encounter or interaction can perturb one's mind and personality in complex ways. And all of these feed into the outcome: some judgmental, haphazard aggregate of metrics by which we -- and society -- judges new young adult's success.

This book seems to strike a tone of unobtrusive enablement much like what I received and avoids descending into the nihilistic spiral that I ponder a lot, but understandable most commercial works avoid.
Look at reward signals. Elementary through high school is a little sliver of what a collapsed marxist society looks like - no positive rewards signals just negative arbitrary ones. I was programming at 8 but apparently to be "well rounded" I had to do all this other stuff that non-coders deemed important. Meanwhile there was no "safe base" for me or anyone else who grew up poor.

But at least now I can also now see scams a mile away.

For instance, every company doesn't know the exact amount of money they will make this year, but every employee has a good idea. It's the same system only a little better implementation.

Forcing all the kids into assembly lines and scalping their autonomy is breaking people. It's taking away their ability to think. Which is nice for politics and propaganda, but it's bad if we want a free market with innovation.
I'd love to see this type of distribution on Windows Subsystem for Linux. The default Ubuntu is over 500MB!
Not that i can see from a surface view, i think documentation can be improved :). Personally like the idea of APIFY, saw it a few months ago. Are you guys hiring ? :D
We all know that having Google as gatekeeper has never pushed innocent, content-heavy, legitimate web sites into oblivion before.

Oh, wait...
Ask HN: What are your favorite “404 Page Not Found” responses?
For most children it's practice. A few are so intelligent that they teach themselves and a few are left behind.

But to most people and to any extent we can talk about education, in general, I think my point stands but i agree there are of course also other things.
Thank you, still lot's of things to improve (for example 404 handling) but it's great to see positive feedback.
> Mark Seidenberg is not the first researcher to reach the stunning conclusion that only a third of the nation's schoolchildren read at grade level. The reasons are numerous, but one that Seidenberg cites over and over again is this: The way kids are taught to read in school is disconnected from the latest research, namely how language and speech actually develop in a child's brain.

I presume that at some point in the past most kids could read at grade level, because presumably when it was initially decided what grade level was it was based on how kids actually performed at the time.

So how was reading taught then? They certainly did not know today's latest research on language and speech development in a child's brain.

Did they just stumble into the right approach, and so a reading program based on the latest research would end up being similar to how reading was taught in, say, the 1920s?

Or was the 1920s (or whenever kids were at grade level) approach also flawed, and it is just that today's approach is even more flawed, and so if we based reading programs on the latest research most kids would end up above grade level?
California’s renewable energy revolution
Winter is comming.
South Africans remember the British concentration camps.
I'll try to find some remote work soon and I'm interested in upwork alternatives. I've heard a lot of bad things about them and it's risky to depend on that service. But I didn't hear about any big competitors. I'm talking specifically about some small pieces of work, not just remote work, without automatic screenshots and all that nonsense.
IBM sues Microsoft’s new chief diversity officer over non-compete agreement
Kids don't learn if they start early enough they absorb (just like with your mother language) the problem is that the later we start the harder it becomes.
Fiat Chrysler sent an over-the-air update that is causing Uconnect to reboot
I liked this book - somewhat directed to using Suave (webserver), but provides the general purpose grounding and design while building towards a bigger project.

http://products.tamizhvendan.in/fsharp-applied/
Google is bringing AMP to Gmail, promising interactive, dynamic emails
> The state of affairs, is that Silicon Valley along with companies that are willing to sell out to automation for everything - have become the new ruling class.

Capitalists being the ruling class in capitalism is not new (it's rather the effect that the system is named for), neither is capital being drawn to new technologies that improve the return on capital and reduce the relative power of labor.
"automatically stop listening" is of course what young people always do to their elders but once the shoe is on the other foot you'll realize the wisdom of all that outdated advice.

The details change but the basic patterns are eternally the same.
My job as a consultant is to tell you "your data fits in RAM" and charge you $20k. While it may seem expensive, the ROI is about 14 days, because now you don't need to hire that data scientist.
I am still confused, can't the restaurant personnel take care of this? In my life wait stuff is capable of parsing following requests:

- bring me my check, pls

- bring me the check, pls. And I pay for these two bozos (out of a bigger group)

- I'll cover everyone today.

- split it x-ways, pls.

Why do I need to add an extra step to consolidate the bill afterwards?
If Tesla is any indication, then EVs are going to keep service departments quite busy. Building reliable EVs continues to elude the entire auto industry.
New reviewer.
Not trying to be sarcastic, but I'd suggest the solution to finding work without networking is finding a way to network that works for you.

E.g. you have a difficulty that means you can't leave the house. Okay, so participate in open source or specialist online communities. Write blog posts. Post yourself on the seeking freelancer thread.
Spam put centralised commercial e-mail ( ISPs and web-mail ) into critical condition until the web-mail hosts reacted to save themselves.

But as for the little folk who are less of a target: I have run my own mail server for 18 years and can't imagine I've received more than 100 spams in total. And that is without any defences other than SPF.

ISP e-mail, well that is certainly spammed to death but probably for the best as it was only ever a hook to keep people trapped in sub-par services.
Is a Ph.D necessary for competing for those high salaries? It hasn't been for other CS jobs, and from my experience with ML and NLP - it seems wildly unnecessary. I'd pick experience over a degree every time.
I think that certainly hurt it. Also, when Oracle bought Sun, they started restricting Solaris use to Sun hardware only. Previously, we were happily using Solaris 10_x86 + ZFS on SuperMicro boxes.

We still have north of 7PB of ZFS-based storage at $DAYJOB (NexentaStor based and Dell hardware) after introducing it nearly eight years ago. ZFS itself has been awesome.
Intel-For-Hire Undermines U.S. Intelligence (Part 2)
There's never enough time or resources to do everything you want to do. Believe me; I've gone from one extreme to the other in company and team size. For any but the most mechanical of development tasks (e.g. CRUD apps), it's very common for a developer to make an estimate, realize that it was too optimistic, and then have to reduce the scope. So it's valuable for a developer to spend some time up front thinking about the design, break it down into tasks, prioritize them, and then implement the highest-priority part first. Then, even if they have to cut tasks, they can deliver something of value without having to do shoddy work.

I do think an interviewer should be completely up-front about what they want out of a candidate if they give a coding challenge that's too ambitious to implement perfectly within the time limit.
Self-Driving Cars Will Kill Things You Love (And a Few You Hate)
I am amazed that rather than see this as opportunity for racking up top $$$ for at least the next 3-10 years by learning Calculus, Probability/Statistics, and Linear Algebra on the way to whatever degree one seeks, there is so much criticism of this.

This situation is a pure win for smart people who put their minds to the task at hand. Buzzwordy or not, AI/ML/Newfangled Regression has more than enough wins with speech recognition, game-playing, image recognition, and recommendations to have a strong future.

Or, if you insist on negativity and you prefer to expend your time kvetching about whether Famous CS Person X or Famous CS Person Y should make the most money (Fantasy Data Science?), then more for me getting $h!+ done whilst you bicker. I mean I scratch my head that Mark Wahlberg is the highest paid actor in Hollywood, but hey, good for him in my book. Too bad his burger shop is crap.
Only one site at a time. I want to see them all. Other ad blockers let me do this with their lists. Google is no stranger to supporting big list downloads. They are choosing not to and should not be defended. Sure they can say they don't want the offenders to know they are offending, but they can find that out anyways. I think in reality, they want to maintain the keys to the lists which means not giving it away and keeping it secret.
This is not only meant for commerce like iDEAL is. If anything it is supposed to work like the 'send to phone number' services offered by ING or ABN, for instance.

This is more like Swish in Sweden.
You have your reasons, but I'll walk from a time limited take-home, just as I'll walk from a screen captured one.

Both methods are ways to tilt the control and convenience back in the favour of the company - defeating the whole purpose of doing the work at home.

With all due respect, but attempts to optimize the interview process invariably end up doing this, due to the priorities of the paying parties (ie - the companies) - and always at the cost of the interviewers. No thanks.
...arguably...

Has anyone other than you argued that chlorine gas is not poisonous?
I think Linkedin has the long tail advantage here in that since it was setup as a professional network, it tends to stay that way in regards to typical interactions and people will continue to build their network on Linkedin over their career. Additionally, Linkedin has the benefit that younger people will signup to CONNECT WITH OLDER PEOPLE as networking with those senior people might help them in their career. Facebook suffers from people assuming "hidden landmines" could exist from something they posted or wrote when they were in college, which disincentives someone to maintain and enhance new social or professional connections. So it is interesting to think about what happens when you lose young users, while simultaneously you have mature users no longer keeping their social network up-to-date on Facebook? A long time ago (in tech years), it seemed like part of Facebook's moat was that the switching costs would be high on a social network. Is this still the case? Would a reasonable analogy be what if Netflix stopped creating new content and expected continued viewership relying on only existing content? How long of a lead/lad would there be until a large drop in viewership? Facebook does owns Whatsapp and Instagram though, which provides an argument that the company is well positioned from the prospective of offering the platform for targeting group chats, and still being the epicenter of most people's social experience.
It's tough in the transition age where some kids are still leading very restriced lives and others have more freedom. Once they are in their later teens things get a little easier when most kids get themselves around unsupervised.
In some cases, yes, but take a look at your local supermarket and see how many new brands not owned by the large ones popped up in the past few years.

You can also look at how much the large ones are buying local new brands (such as Blue Bottle). Tastes change, and small local companies are a great way for the big ones to figure out which new products work.
Galaxy S9 with Exynos9810 arrives on Geekbench with staggering single-core score
In my technical university, physics is (or at least used to be a while ago) required for everyone (except for some "informatics(?)" degree program which in some way had managed to weasel out of the requirement).

Of course, as a physicist myself I fervently believe this is good and well, and the path towards enlightenment for all mankind etc.
One of the major issues I'm coming up against at the minute is the view through window though. When combined with a multi-channel strategy, and retargeting, view throughs can just inflate numbers, masking true effectiveness.

I've lived my life doing digital advertising work, but if I turned off 3/4s of ours tomorrow, I'd be loathed to pin my cap and predict volume would drop by that.

Interestingly, I've seen a lot more focus on different attribution models recently, I think people are finally asking the questions now it's been ingrained in a lot of teams for a few years.
This looks like an an evolution of the action buttons Gmail has supported for years: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/05/take-action-right-from-...
This actually makes a lot of sense. I have a lot of friends employed as Data Scientist or Data Engineers who don't seem to be able to explain exactly what they do, or describe what "research" they are doing. From what I understand, it seems like they are designing pipelines that ingest data, run an off the shelf AI algorithm and display nice graphs. There is a lot of pipelines you can design for different kinds of data so I imagine they always have something to do.
How do I make a 12 weeks old the next chloe kim/barack obama?
Can someone explain me why one would need a container orchestration system to train ml models? Why wouldn't one just stick with containers?
Yea, I don't disagree. It is clearly much more difficult to estimate certain things compared to an entertainer and how many audience members they can attract. That's part of the reason myself and another poster used it as an example. I think the point you're making is also what the article was trying to get at, that there are an unknown number of AI experts and it's hard to estimate what they should be paid which is why many of them are getting these crazy high salaries.
I don't use gmail but I have an email address from Microsoft (which is not m'y main one) : outlook.live.com does a good job filtering newsletters or promotionnal emails, or other terrible marketing practices, from individual ones, but it's not espacially performant when it comes to dealing with spam or scams. On this address I have a «please log in to your PayPal account for safety reasons blah blah blah» or «come buy our absolutely legal drugs to boost your performances» every three or four legit emails.
Well then look busy!
Would I be able to unsubscribe directly from whatever marketing email I received instead of marking it as spam and have Gmail AI suggesting me to unsubscribe or me having to go to the unsubscribe web-page of the marketing campaign?
Pilot have contacted me last month and I really like their policy. They only do long-term full-time contracts with reliable companies, and have a flat fee of 30% - you can set whatever rate you like. I am happily employed but I feel it's a far cry from services like Toptal who have opaque, allegedly much larger commissions.

https://pilot.co/

Some more alternatives:

https://github.com/andreis/interview/issues/23

https://github.com/wfhio/awesome-job-boards
Such a simple website and yet still crushed by the hackernews rush.
The UK will block online porn (for u18) from April
I graduated this December with a BS in CS. Our curriculum requires stats, and while you're not directly required, the requirements tend to force you to take Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis as well for the BS. I'm now working as a Data Scientist for a very large bank in New York, mostly for my experience with AI.
Also, EFF is on option for smile.amazon.com. I've generated $9 for them so far, would have been more if I had remembered to use smile more often. Amazon is nice enough to remind me once in a while to use it, I wish it would just be automatic when I'm logged in, I refuse to install a plug in for that feature.
For some reason I seriously doubt Google is going to take a hit on their #1 source of revenue so that users have a better 'experience'
On Writing Software (well?): DHH
The barrier to entry in comedy isn't being funny, it's in gaining an audience that trusts your work.

It takes mental energy to watch stand-up comedy. If it's not funny, I've wasted mental energy in watching them and trying to get the jokes, so I generally only watch the names I know.

While many stand-ups may be funny, it takes a lot of work for them to get the name-recognition required to actually draw a large crowd.

Agreed RE Colbert - it almost feels like wathing a totally different comic (it kinda is - he's playing a whole different bit now and his fake-pundit style had years to grow and develop).

Struggling to bring this back to AI...agreed we're off-topic here :)
ARM's latest processors are designed for mobile AI
When people generally have less income disparity, their lifestyles will be more or less the same, and over time a culture of "well we spend about the same amount so let's just split it" can arise.

In other places (like the US), some people can be very conscious about how much they're spending because it's a significant portion of their income. You wouldn't want to split the check when you had a $10 salad to save money and a tablemate had the $50 filet and 2 $10 glasses of wine.
For those who are frustrated by this, if you can, please show others that there are other options (just like you have done with DuckDuckGo) and switch to any of these (listing only those that are cheap enough to have multiple mailboxes without spending several hundred dollars a year):

1. Posteo.de

2. Mailbox.org

3. Tutanota.com

4. Protonmail.ch

I know some people can run their own setup. The above are for people who cannot or do not want to do it.
Ask HN: Which chapters of “AI-a modern approach” are relevant today?
Which chapter(s) of "artificial intelligence - a modern approach" are relevant for today's AI practitioners? Or, which chapters do you recommend to someone who just want to apply A.I in practice?
Exactly, and winner takes all is extremely common for markets competing for rather limited markets. In sports, consumers really don’t pay much attention to high school athletes, car designs are becoming more and more homogeneous, and in pop music there’s increasingly more convergence in terms of style (although the irony is that the entertainment industry is entirely driven forward by trying to “discover” a new trend that appeals). My point is mostly that our collective attention spans are very limited and any business that depends upon attention from mass consumers will be constrained by the simple fact that we all only have 24 hours a day and that we can only support / raise so many children that then also only have so much time. This, it is a mass war for attention with primarily superpowers around (celebrities).
Thanks for your generosity in sharing this, I can see this being incredibly useful for creating user onboarding, walkthroughs and demos. The timing of this is perfect for me - thanks again!
They're not going to withdraw. Best-case scenario, they stay in the EU but stop abusing users' data there so much, but still make a profic. Worst-case scenario, they're able to weasle their way out of having to change anything.
Will adblockers be able to prevent the AMP version being displayed, at least? Or does it look like gmail web interface will only serve that version?
It was very much a nothingburger. I am disappointed I read the whole article.
It's not a non-sequitur; you just hadn't claimed that we needed to overstate the credit.

I'm skeptical. What leads you to conclude that we need to pretend that people did more than what they did, or otherwise we wouldn't have computers and governments? I'd say we have plenty of inventions more important than computers whose authors were never really recognized, at least in their lifetimes. Were the inventors of the toilet really hailed for their accomplishment?