skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With only 3 people, anything that helps tick things of the checklist of tasks.

For reference, as a CTO at a startup of 5 my tasks included:

Most development work (1 other dev)
Product Manager
Project Manager
Managing at Tech budget
Negotiating Vendor Contracts
Office IT help desk
Network Administraton
System Administrator
Colo tech (racking servers and network equipment)
Office furniture Builder
Customer Support
Working with Patent Attorneys
Managing the other C levels daily tasks
Recruiting more people to reduce the list above

Sometimes it’s much more than you signed up for, but if it’s a business you believe in, you just keep checking things off the task list.
Poor Americans don't vote. That's why it's so easy to cut the safety nets since there are few political consequences.
University tracks freshmen usage of ID cards to intervene with likely dropouts
Is this Spectre/Meltdown related? The last microcode release for that wasn't good.
We know all the matter that the brain is made out of, and we know what interactions are possible with that matter, because we've done extensive experiments with particle accelerators. If there were something that affected baryonic matter besides the four fundamental forces, we would know about it.

In other words, we know with certainty that there is no physical mechanism by which some "external consciousness" could influence the brain. So the answer to that hypothesis is a definitive "nope, that's not how it works."

CalTech quantum physicist Sean Carrol explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x26a-ztpQs8&t=836
Only if you failed to read the article.
Former Spy Was Poisoned with “Military-Grade Nerve Agent Developed by Russia”
Presumably because first-party ticket sellers don't encourage resale. In the U.S., there's a legal test to determine whether something is a security: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co.
What is on the roadmap for this service? You have hotkeys and autocomplete which means I can write emails more quickly. You have access to my email / history of digital life (contacts, relationships, connections, brands I am willing to let get into my inbox, etc): what will you do with this data to further improve the email experience?
> That's one side of the story, according to the person who was denied future refunds.

Ah yes, because machine learning algorithms never falsly flagged anyone.

This is as evil as AI/ML gets: a human standing in front of a dumb ML algorithm saying "the robot says you're scum, so you're scum!".
> Fast food is the absolute worst job a person can possibly have in the United States

Having also worked in fast food, I disagree. Manual labor was a whole lot worse on my body and paid basically the same.
They have a pizza vending machine which makes and cooks a fresh pizza.

https://youtu.be/j7_lxiU8eLM

I heard years ago they were going to have these in a large theme park in Orlando, but the article didn't which mention one. Not sure if it ever happened.

Here's a video I just found of someone using one: https://youtu.be/tTLXzF5u13I
Re: ML - I think it might be possible to do some sort of generic popup-detection: a container that's initially invisible, containing a clickable that the mouse accelerates towards shortly after becoming visible. With opt-in, they could use those detections that aren't reported to identify good use-cases (though sending passive data like that might not be very Mozilla).

The tricky bit will be getting rid of the darkened full-screen overlay as well as the modal, but I guess you could track element visibility changes/removals around the same instant as the mouse click.
What shocks me is that most mainstream media report it. It's on top of techmeme, and all major names are linked. sigh.
Storage is actually really cheap for this, we don't store the message data in ES, it just builds the inverted indices. I explain this more in-depth on the blog post.

On GCP, 50TB of Persistent SSD is roughly $9000/month before any discounts.
How not to be rude on emails
Somewhat different use cases? Reactiflux is all about real-time discussion and helping answer questions (although admittedly there are times when the answers come in asynchronously several hours later). The React.js forums are... well, I guess for discussion, but really haven't ever gotten much attention.

Besides, Reactiflux is a totally independent group - started by the community, run by the community. We've had several Facebook employees come in for Q&A chats, but we're not an "official" part of React in that sense.

(Note: I'm a Reactiflux admin.)
SharedArrayBuffer was disabled exactly because vulnerabilities like this are easily exploitable (but there are POCs that don't depend on it).
Why are there ads all over the place for public mobile then?

It is weird that they were redirecting their customers to Koodo when they stopped offering a certain favorable plan.
The Marines are doctrinally committed to being expeditionary. The cultural mantra and statutory niche of the Marine Corps is to be able to project American military power anywhere in the world on very short notice.

You know what slows that down? Logistics.

The Marines have been at the forefront of trying to overcome logistics limitations. The MV-22 Osprey is the perfect example. If you want to deploy anywhere in the world without the lead time to build an airstrip, you need a bird that can fly long distances like an airplane and set down like a helicopter.

3D Printing is the JIT compilation version of materiel production. If we have to set up a base in a remote part of Korea tomorrow, we will not be able to build a logistics train in time to fix tanks and planes and MRAPs. But if we can 3D print whatever parts we need, our on-site logistical capabilities get a huge advantage.

Expeditionary Force 21 [PDF]: http://www.mccdc.marines.mil/Portals/172/Docs/MCCDC/Document...
If this trend continues e.g. more turnover plus longer waits, it seems to me the wage necessary to attract and keep employees will necessarily rise, putting pressure on owners to automate more. Or owners will want to automate more to keep customers coming back, and shortcut more of the employee headaches. No matter how I look at this, more automation is coming.
14 years for software copyright? thats way too long especially since patents tend to be super broad these days.
You can use Let's Encrypt certificates for non-publicly reachable hosts by using the dns-01 challenge type. That, of course, means that you need some way of properly automating your DNS infrastructure to add the necessary TXT records which, admittely, is sadly not the case in many organizations. It's a solvable problem, though.

I don't understand your last point. Where do you see the problem with letting a reverse proxy talk to a TLS backend?
You get the requested server name from the SNI extension and can use that to multiplex multiple names onto a single IP address. The big bunch of NATty failure cases apply to plaintext HTTP just as well, no?
How many vulnerabilities are you capable of finding in software that everyone in your family uses, and can't find for themselves? I'm sure the number is not zero. Is it unethical for you not to go look for them?
How do we know this guy's not a conspirator?
I think you are correct, but in the nearish future I don’t think it’s unlikely that the costs come down to the point where cheaper to use these machines than to pay for the labor of 4ish chefs.

I think a big part of it comes down to handling maintance and repair for the machines. Maybe they’ll move to having one technician on call to service a large area. Or maybe they will try to make the devices simple enough that they can train normal employees to do maintaince and fix problems.
It seems an interesting project. Don't you think you ditched it too early? There weren't many functionalities, but the premise I think was pretty cool. BTW, I am about to launch a website builder myself and your post is a nice read. Thanks
You have a strange definition of spam on a startup tech community forum, and a very strange definition of non-related for a thread half-heartedly crystal-balling the future of tech-based food distribution. I rarely post about my company.
Has there been a device before that worked as well as Alexa? Remember, user is not a programmer.
That seems to be a definition specific to North America (so it would apply here). The definition I get for poky is:

"(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped"
Good observation. If true, this story is a complete waste of time. Apples/Oranges.
Seems like they don't.

A quick Google search (ha) seems to indicate that Alphabet's growing by about 10,000 people per year or so. Let's be fairly conservative and say 20% of those folks are programmers. That's still much more than 1,147 people.

Besides that, the sentence "Amazon is hiring 1,147 people for its Alexa business unit alone" is very different than the headline, which is "Amazon Is Hiring More Developers." Not everyone working on Alexa is going to be a developer.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as stated, this whole article fails the sniff test to me.
Ask HN: Do you get extra pay for going on-call?
> "The xenophobia of rural whites is vastly oversold"

I look vaguely non-white in a way that gets interpreted differently by different viewers, and my personal experience has been that I struggle to convince others just how real the xenophobia / racism of rural whites is, unless they have a chance to witness a specific incident/episode. And I still pass as "kinda white" depending on the viewer / situation, so I can only assume that people with darker or more "ethnic other" complexions than I have experiences that pale in comparison to my own.
Some of the same "hey you're not _really_ white, are you?" still happens everyplace else I've lived, but it's friendlier and less threatening in places that I'd describe as "more urban" or "having more economic opportunities."

Just my personal experience, but I fled the small rural white town where I grew up as quickly as I could, and every time I return to such a setting I'm quickly reminded why I left.
I'm a Reactiflux admin. We are VERY happy with Discord!

I had this discussion with Max Stoiber (founder of Spectrum.chat) on Twitter a couple months ago [0] . I agree that threadedness and searchability are nice features of Spectrum, but I'd say that both a forum-like searchable model and a real-time chatroom model have a place, and that the use cases only partially overlap.

[0] https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/953804604046749696
this increases regulations and favors the big players who have no issue footing the bills.
Maybe in your area, but the rest of the country hasn't jumped on the $14 minimum wage bandwagon. $14/hr is management money in the southeast.
Did you file a bug report on the Mozilla site about forcing HTTPS?
I think there is a balance between something that looks like Apple Music and an excel spreadsheet full of information.

Apple Music is way out of the normal density expected from a quality app. Apple has a phenomenal understanding of UI and they're one of the best - just look at the UI of the settings menu on your iPhone. Everything is cleanly laid out - just the right amount of information density. Apple Music seems like it was designed by someone like Will-I-Am (sorry :-) ) with absolutely zero understanding of basic functional UI principles.

If I were to design UI, I'd design it like how aviation does cockpits. Functional, not "trendy". Everything has a reason - if you can't explain "WHY", you shouldn't be designing UI. Personal taste, subjective opinions, "I kinda like it that way" doesn't work in aviation industry. Please don't take it as I mean Apple to follow the same principles, I am just mentioning the other end of the spectrum in UI design to provide contrast.
No, I am considering the problems of the impoverished. One major cause of their problems is that wealthy newcomers are forced by lack of supply to compete with the impoverished for housing.

This screws over everyone. The poor don't want to compete with the rich for housing. The rich don't want to live in housing that is below their quality standards.

Also, how do you think new housing stock gets built? It takes capital to build housing. You attract that by luring investors with the promise of returns on their investment. Who can pay for that? Wealthy newcomers who can afford to pay high rents. The way to get housing built is to tap into the gigantic piles of cash available.
Autism can't be described along a single dimension like temperature can be. Some people with autism are sensory-seeking, some are sensory-avoiding, some are a mix of both. Some act almost immune to pain, while others definitely aren't. Some have no sense of danger, while others are overly cautious and afraid. Some are violent, but most aren't. Some never speak, but most do. Some run wild, while others are rule-followers almost to a fault. My son is newly-diagnosed, and I am constantly surprised by how little he has in common with other kids who share his diagnosis. Do all of these kids actually have the same condition? I don't think we really know the answer to that question yet.
Ask HN: Is on-call outside of work hours is a form of exploitation of labor?
I don’t think that teaching people to be skeptical would align with the business model of the world’s largest advertisement company.
Yeah, you're still automatically part of all channels all the time. The current workaround is to go to all channels you don't care about, and mute them.

Annoying, but it's a one-time thing.
My favorite online REPL for Clojure.

It would be great if Parinfer [0] were integrated into the Clojure (and Scheme?) REPL.

[0] https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Qt vs. JavaFX by Sequality {Showcase}
The audacity of YouTube to go after conspiracy theories while actively engaged in a conspiracy:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-hiring-for-some-positio...
A major global platform announces it will link out-of-platform to a community edited resource. That should be seen as major win to the open web and pretty much everyone else. But somehow YouTube manages to frame it in a way that no one feels comfortable about it.

It's all a conspiracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet
This would be difficult with the current legal system in most of the United States because of the rule against perpetuities[0]. Of course, jurisdiction shopping makes this easier in certain locales.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
No patents go into the category of crony capitalism. Lets not pretend they are the same thing as pure capitalism since patents prevent free market mechanisms.
I would guess that Alexa, Google Home, etc are eating into their growth. For casual users, those provide enough that you might abandon iTunes.

At least for me, I listen to music at home and not much anywhere else. My car radio is on NPR, and I don't use portable players, including my phone.
> Microsoft has 125 employees world wide

That’s missing a “thousand” before “employees”, right?
Had to wordsmith the title to fit the character limit (:
Altered Carbon explores virtual torture pretty extensively in its first season. Acting is sub-par, but concepts are intriguing as all hell.
Why does any software need to send commands back through home base? Embedded systems are powerful these days and storage costs are tiny. I’m so tired of these “smart” devices that needlessly require an internet connection.

In order to watch video from my Dropcam over in the next room, that video stream gets uploaded through my internet connection to some backend, then downloaded back through that same connection to my viewer. Madness.
That's like saying a sexual harassment case is about whether or not it's legal to ask someone out. Context is important.
Hmm ... I was more tempted to dig into connections between the Israeli firm and Intel but your analysis is way better!
Zulip's threads are linkable and searchable.

https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source has more detail on Zulip for open source projects.
* very well planned *

Too late to edit haha.
I don't think you would have been able to find any information on Wikipedia about proofs that "the NSA spies on everyone" is false. Anti-vaxers conspiracies, though, to pick an example, has plenty of public info on why they're wrong.
Ask HN: Do you use and love C#?
I'm particularly frustrated with it right now, and I would love to know how others who do not absolutely hate the .NET/C# ecosystem feel so I can have a balanced view.
Your reply was interesting to read.
Early stage CTO is more of a business process architect. From a technology perspective you have to do everything while at the same time think about the role that will be responsible for that task when the company has 100 people.

As you do the work, document the work as a manual and processes that will be given to the employee that will eventually be hired to be solely responsible for the task.

Lots of benefits to this, the primary one is hiring new people will be easier, even jr people with less experience will be more effective with documentation. The second benefit is it makes it easier to be acquired. The buyer will be able to quickly understand the key technical components of your business and what it takes keep operations running smoothly.
I completely agree that leaving out the gut-brain connection may be a huge error in our quest for General AI simulation. I'm not sure that I agree that simulating neurons in silicon form is equivalent to restoring the antenna though. There may be a quantum link that only neurons have functionally.

They are already finding quantum effects in plants:

https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/vibrating-molecules-help...

And that our brain contains micro-tubules that exhibit quantum effects:

https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-m...

Maybe they ARE the antenna.
Just because ARPA could buy in whole hog doesn't mean they weren't interested.

https://federalnewsradio.com/defense-main/2018/01/how-the-co...
I wasn't trying to be pedantic, but if you want to go there, feel free to consult the chart[1]. There's plenty that's become more expensive in real dollars, and there exists a strange cohort of people that believe real wage gains are a form of inflation. My worry is that these same people frequently sit at the helm of our monetary system.

My point remains:

> We want a future where human time is valued and basic resources are plentiful enough to be cheap for everyone.

1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-chart-shows-the-moder...
please oblige and expand on this “easy attribution”.
To be clear, it bothers me when we wave away the really hard problems - while we become too enchanted with solutions that barely build on current technology.
This company injects chemicals near your brain stem and lets your heart pump it into all minuscule parts of your brain. The apparent allure comes from the potential development of a technology some time in the future that will allow a reanimation of the person seated in that saved brain.

the money they’ve raised so far is due to the possible improvements this proposed technology will bring to neuro research.
Thanks! Ooooh TIL re parinfer. I'll look into it. Will check it out. Also, look forward to on-the-fly package installation for Clojure!
Hypnotic suggestibility scales
patents are a complete mess. Useful invention is a problematic term to begin with since there is a clear lack of prior art check, and improper definitions for what should be considered obvious vs non obvious. It just only works in favor of whoever has the largest team of IP lawyers in the end which is the antithesis of promoting inventions from every actor in the first place.
Vorinostat was amazing to me as well in a similar way. I seemed to quickly develop a tolerance for it though, and I'm scared of increasing the amount beyond that. I heard that you couldn't build a tolerance for but that didn't seem to be true in my case.
Brain activity continues during sleep and general anaesthesia (even in the absence of sufficient electrical energy to show up on an EEG scan, chemical reactions are taking place). I see no reason whatsoever to believe that this continued brain activity bears no relation to our perception of continuity in consciousness.
Discord uses a freemium model. We have a subscription service called Nitro[0] which adds some cool non-essential perks that is very popular with our user-base.

Additionally, we run a very slim and optimized infrastructure relative to other chat apps (elixir/BEAM makes this very effective; our current VM footprint for our real time services is ~4 thousand CPUs over a hundred or so VMs). We realized early on we needed to write efficient code that is cheap to run in order to be viable as a business.

I read a blog-post back in 2016 from Slack which mentioned their footprint was in the 5k+ VMs [1]. In 2016, Slack was roughly at 1/8th the scale we are at now.

[0]: https://discordapp.com/nitro
[1]: https://slack.engineering/syscall-auditing-at-scale-e6a3ca8a...
Throw in a couple jet ski style tow ropes and you're golden.
They mentioned the coffee lawsuit. I heard about that one many times while working at Dunkin Donuts some 22 years ago. The customers were always (jokingly) threatening to burn themselves and sue the company for millions.

I thought that lady was greedy until learning the truth much later. An Adam Ruins Everything clip explains:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNWh6Kw3ejQ
Wanted: Software Engineer. Various levels, focuses and locations needed.
Why is AMD 1.04% up today then (while technology index is -1.16%)?

https://finance.google.com/finance?q=amd

AMD	$11.64
Any chance of Swift 4 support?
thats one of the best ways to go about it. delegate that design task to someone or something that is good enough so that you dpnt have to worry about it.
Something like this could actually save lives. Take a photo of what bit you, then the app could provide an answer (with a confidence level) of "do I need to go to the hospital" and provide a few example apps for various matches with level of danger.

Thanks for sharing!
Wow, that was a lightning-fast response!

Thank you very much!
Parents don't prescribe drugs, doctors do. No system is perfect but I trust doctors and parents to do a better job than politicians and social workers when it comes to deciding what's best for each unique child.
I heard they were going to start doing that. Haven't happened here where I am. I wonder if you can tell it you don't want onions or pickles like you can tell a worker on your burgers, since I'm a bit of a picky eater.

I also wonder if touch screens spread more germs, but I guess you could argue the same for door knobs anyways.
Agree with everything here. I’ve never been a CTO but have been the only other dev working alongside a CTO and you will wind up doing many non-technical as needed for the business. Laying a good groundwork for future employees and making a best effort in every task is the best thing to do.
I already did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16580722
> So little research is done on Autism from the perspective of adults living on the spectrum - almost all the funding and research seems to go towards childhood and to give parents coping mechanisms.

Well, being able to take a child who is severely autistic with no chance of independent life and moving them to a self-sufficient, if slightly odd, adult is probably more useful to society than helping adults or children who already can function acceptably, more or less.

In addition, I don't always like the whole "autism spectrum" because it's a symptom-based classification that, much like cancer, we're almost certainly going to learn is actually multiple independent diseases.
Then do it! I’d be super interested to see what you come up with. Even if it’s drawn on paper.