skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Essentially crypto transmutes the problem domain, from a people problem to an application design problem."

The fact that nobody understands how human institutions work is an advantage, because it prevents malicious actors from subverting them. Whenever someone figures out how institutions work, they destroy them and civilizations fall, so they evolve to be incomprehensible. So "transmuting the problem domain" seems like a bad move to me.
This sounds like your ticket to making money then. Have a hosted option.
The article claims that RL is simplistic because it uses an unreasonable amount of data. However, recent advances are significant because it uses unreasonable amount of data. As an example, I don't expect to be as good as Michael Jordan no matter how much I play basketball, or beat Garry Kasparov no matter how much I play chess. There's a fundamental flaw to my learning algorithm that prevents me from becoming good at something even if I have infinite experience.

Recent RL research about Policy Gradients / On Policy vs Off Policy / Function approximation / Model-based vs model-free are all research about how to get good at something with a lot of practice. RL has been around for a long time, discussions about higher level learning / planning has been done over and over. One doesn't discount the other. One deals with how to structure the learning problem that you can continue to get better with more experience (RL problem), while the other is about how to use higher level learning to speed it up.
How was the headline not accurate?

Because outspoken HN readers assumed this was something to do with government?
bbc is re-posting lol (to the downvoter, see the above post pointing to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405375 quoting the exact same salary as the bbc)
This likely has copyright/trademark implications. :)
A few years ago I wrote a fast parser for OSM data. I know that using parsed data would soon become out of date, but I guess mvexel's server could handle it better. If you want me to export the whole world's contributors as CSV or SQLite, I'd be happy to help.

The tool is interesting for me because I'm looking for a job in NZ/Australia/Canada. I've had more success contacting people rather than sending job applications - most job listings require me to already have a visa. I think that collaborating on open-source projects is a good way to make industry contacts, demonstrate my skills, and also benefit the community.
Bombardier scores victory over Boeing in trade dispute involving Delta jets
One of the more depressing things to read, is how back in the early days of America, one could just reach into the river/sea and grab a fish.

E.g. lobsters were once so plentiful that native americans used them as fertilizer[0]. And there's photographic evidence of overfishing too. [1] is a nice NPR piece about how the largest catch of the year at a particular spot in Florida has been dwindling.

[0] - http://www.gma.org/lobsters/allaboutlobsters/lobsterhistory....

[1] -
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...
Do you have to turn your luggage on when you go through security?
No fallacies are valid methods of logic or argumentation. Ad hominem is a fallacy.
"1) cheaper financial services"

If a million people want to deal with each other without any trusted party to intermediate, then they have to keep a million ledgers and agree on a protocol for reconciliation. Once you've conceded over a million-fold factor of inefficiency, being cheaper doesn't seem plausibly within reach. I don't see the details as mattering much; it's the big picture that doesn't make sense.
Do you think so?
> we figured out that there's a way to run Neural Network inference and crypto-mining simultaneously without hurting mining hash rate

I understand that you figured out the technical side of things but curious about the human nature side of things. Let's say currently you can have both NN and mining running. From a cryptocurrency price point of view two things can happen:

a. Prices go up - Wont the incentive change towards mining? How do you guys plan to handle such situations?

b. Prices go down - In this case, the intuitive thing to happen is that GPU pricing to get cheaper. But then, will you guys passing on such benefits to your customers? Because the whole point is to be able to make a steady income from the GPUs, mining or not.
I've always wanted to be a student AND a social justice warrior.

Just like I'm sure my friend's father wants to be both a veteran and a WASP

/s of course
I always wonder about that feature.

It makes it so easy to apply... but then again I'm probabbly not the guy who they want to apply so do they really want to use that feature? The sheer volume of irrelevant applications would seem to potentially skyrocket.
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405375
It's not supposed to be. Your salary is a better indication of that. RPE is just a heuristic to compare companies in the same industry to see if one is more bloated or not - the thinking is if company A can do this with lower head count, company B with lower RPE may be more inefficient. It's not perfect, just one out of many things you would analyze. You would look at other indicators to give you more (or less) confidence.
In other words: your growth is so astonishing that it justifies paying >30% IRR to investors rather than growing from internal cash or borrowing what you can from a bank.
AFAIK it's not integrated yet. But anyway, I'm still wrong as lynx does support SNI: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/features.html#im...
In case this I flagged ...

There are official monthly threads for jobs offers and freelance work. There are more details in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

For the latest posts, see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Trump Supreme Court nominee opposes net neutrality, supports NSA bulk collection
Researchers Unmask Anonymous Twitter Accounts With 97% Accuracy Using ML
Ha, that's a very long story. The gist though is that some custom CSS forces a given webpage into a strict, monospaced, mono-sized grid. Then JS queries DOM text nodes for their contents and precise positions. Then using the standard rules of text flow the exact position of every character can be fairly reliably derived.
> For example, a fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the San Francisco area is considered to be $3,121

I think they're off by a couple thousand dollars...
I think Steemit has some traction as a Reddit-like blockchain company. Wikileaks has been funded with Bitcoin donations.
A huge amount of the plastic in the ocean is discarded fishing gear as well. [0]

[0] - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-ga...
Good for you. But for most of people in the world. 9-5 is a dream come true.

Farming technology has advanced so much that you don't need much manpower to grow food. Yet most of humanity doesn't have access to these technology nor the lands to use. Yet there's so many idle lands and idle factories. So many wasted food and unoccupied houses. Yet many are dying from hunger and homeless. One must wonder why.
There must be more than one, because I've never heard of Beaglerush.

I've used this handle for a long time though (20 years or so), so it's all over the internet.
Ask HN: Is there any open source self hosted e-sign alternative to docusign?
Ew. Friends don't let friends use low-entropy passwords.

"Password Strength" https://www.xkcd.com/936/

Diceware: http://world.std.com/%7Ereinhold/diceware.html "This page offers a better way to create a strong, yet easy to remember passphrase for use with encryption and security programs. Weak passwords and passphrases are one of the most common flaws in computer security. Take a few minutes and learn how to do it right."
Most of them, but CLion is an exception.
Wow yeah thats not even close. Numbeo says $3500
Current ELinks does support SNI. That bug might have been RHEL being on an old version.
That is an alarming situation.

However, it sounds like their relationship has become confrontational. And it might help to empathize with her. Perhaps she does have cause to feel held against her will.

Some years ago, we realized that an uncle, who was ~85 years old and living alone, wasn't taking good care of himself. He wasn't eating enough, wasn't keeping himself clean, and just dozed on the couch, watching TV. And one of his feet was gangrenous.

So we invited him to live with us, and he agreed. And we saved the foot. However, my wife is very kind and caring. But she has high standards. So there was much conflict. She argued that, because he had Alzheimer's, and because he was living in our home, he didn't get to choose when to get up, when to eat, when to wash, when to shave, etc, etc.

It got to the point that we hired a big guy who basically forced him to do what she wanted him to. It was horrible. But finally, I convinced my wife to cut him some slack. We let him grow a beard. We let him wash at the sink, rather than showering. We let him watch TV all day, if he wanted, and got him a cat to keep him company. And we made sure that he ate enough, and had proper medical care. We retained the big guy, but he became our uncle's closest friend.

So anyway, whenever I hear horror stories from caregivers, about people with dementia or Alzheimer's, I wonder how it looks from the other side. If for no other reason, because that's the side I'm approaching.
The algorithm used in chafa for img→unicode would improve the image quality: https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
You must remember that most of these Soy are not for us, but for beef.

> Soybean meal is the largest source of protein feed in the world, and is generally used in animal feed. Therefore, most of the world's soybeans are consumed indirectly by humans through products like meat (chicken, pork and beef), dairy, eggs and farmed fish.

http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/food/agriculture/soy/consumers...
thanks for the financial insight

stay savvy hacker news!
GitLab (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Database Engineer and More (Remote)
If a phrase is generally used by specialists it's not generally used.
Most of the field work energy companies do is subcontracted out, and wouldnt be covered in these numbers.
No, citywide this is a good number. Richmond district or south of Cesar Chavez things are a lot cheaper
Thanks - here is another one that I have discovered. I have no idea who these people are but they seem to bring good insight from China. https://kr-asia.com/

https://technode.com/ also useful sometimes

Another one - mostly shallow grapevine with SE Asia view https://thelowdown.momentum.asia/ - probably many such exist

I have no affiliation with any of above. Thanks to google - I keep hitting these more than others.
If it only took 1/2-hour to travel from Stockton; Fairfield; Davis; or Santa Rosa, CA; San Francisco would not have a housing crisis for people would have more housing options.
The point I was trying to make is actually entirely unrelated to the issues you've raised. My goal was not to turn the tables so much as to illustrate that the use of the word "deserve" in this context makes the question inane because it's moralistic.

In any event, the fact that beggars can't be choosers does not obviate the importance or utility of posing some form of the question to the prospective investor.
I'd be wary to use a hosted option because a browser in a remote server will then contain my credentials and browsing history.

So if OP goes down this road then I think he should allow users to access machines.
My new brutalist hero. Check out the abcweb program
I don't think anyone is really meant to apply to something with such a friction-less application process. Seems like a vacuum to suck in resumes and pad pipeline. I'm either jaded or more experienced than I was before but I almost avoid those 'ez-apply' buttons now with as much fervor as I do the applications that ask for a resume and then make you fill out a bunch of text fields duplicating the data that's already on a nicely formatted PDF document you uploaded two steps ago.

Inb4 a recruiter comes in and tells me how their job is "hard" and the inherent necessity of treating job applicants like annoying buzzing little flies and how it's everyone elses fault that tech hiring is more broken than a dirigible that hit the ground at warp 10.
>A huge reply after being so damningly called out?

Serious question: what the hell are you talking about?

>It's like the flip-side of foobar...

WTF does that even mean?

>avoid like the plague any place where all the tech questions are gotchas or obscure language features. The lead developer is probably someone you do not want to work with.

If you consider those questions "gotchas" or "obscure language features" you don't stand a chance of working with those lead developers. Their process is designed to weed people like you out.

I think, for the book I'm writing, I can build an entire chapter around this subthread. Can I quote you by name, mattmanser?
... who resisted adding a kernel debugger for the explicit purpose of keeping casuals out of his zen garden, per your link below.

For people who don't have a hoard of elite developers banging down their gates to contribute code for free, I suspect the economics of being such a Prima Donna are not as attractive.
And how do you buy things with your usb stick?
To an outsider that has spent nearly 80% of his time in SF on business travel for the last couple years: the cost of living in SF is unjustifiable. I was offered a position with one of my clients in SF for roughly double my current income in Houston, TX. After running the numbers with an attempt to maintain similar standards of living and leisure, it was simply impossible to make the math work out in my favor without significant sacrifices on either count. In Houston, I live quite comfortably in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods with money to blow on a luxury car, 2+ extravagant international vacations a year, and decent amount of savings and investments. But in SF, I'd be uncomfortably close (relative to my Texan standards, anyway) to the 'low income' line. So I might as well keep on racking up the frequent flier miles, eh?

Something's gotta give. NIMBYism when it comes to affordable housing, the income disparity between 'techies' and everyone else in SF, and lack of sufficient investment in effective mass transit are all clearly driving the city into the ground. My teams in SF are constantly bleeding our best talent to places like Denver, Austin, Seattle, etc. because the youngest and brightest employees are realizing that SF is an unsustainable drain on their finances. It's not going to stop me from doing business there, but it's certainly going to mean that my firm just continues to feed the vicious cycle of wage inflation by attracting talent with higher and higher base salaries.
This sounds really good on the face of it but something in me is suspicious that this approach won't lead to even worse confusion in a real project. Maybe I've just been working in a certain way for too long and have gotten stuck in my ways..
Same feeling here. I wonder if it's more expensive to load data into the GPU than to simply process it "more" sequentially in the CPU locally.
The title is misleading. The figure refers to:

- household income (i.e. the sum of income of all members of the household, not just that of a single individual, which is implied by the singular term 'salary')

- a family of four (two adults and two children)

So if you're a single, twenty-something software engineer earning six figures, and have no kids, you're probably not eligible for this.
Ironically the page layout is broken on my iPhone using safari. One can debug this with desktop safari by going into responsive design mode (forget what it’s called)
I could see this being part of a lightweight browser UI testing framework.

There's already ways to drive a headless UI (Selenium, puppeteer), but they require automation testers to interact with page elements via the "normal" DOM which can be quite painful in terms of creating automation tests - DSLs to drive DOM automation are necessarily huge.

I could envision browser automation via browsh using a very small DSL e.g. browsh.url() to navigate to a URL, browsh.click() to click on an element, browsh.text_exists?() to check whether text exists, browsh.link_exists?() to check whether a clickable link exists
Right, so now it's not just "remote jet", but more of an "AI jet", and we have a whole set of challenges to go with that...
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2018 China Internet Report
The title is misleading. The “six figure salary” actually refers to FAMILIES OF FOUR where their household income is ~100k.
If only half the password is written down, anyone who obtains that paper without knowing the algorithm only knows half the password!
Someone will make fake "gears" for you to play with, like those modern CVTs
If you're single, have no kids, and "ok" with roommates and you're part of the 70% of renters who live in a rent-controlled unit the combination of making a Bay Area tech salary + having rent control is hard to beat.

I have a friend at Google who pays $900/mo for a large room in a very central spot in Lower Haight.
> Patients can securely share access to their prescription records with interested parties and be compensated with MDX.

So patients are encouraged to sell their prescription records to "interested parties" in exchange for chits they can use to buy prescription drugs. Sounds altruistic to me!
Reddit CEO tells user, “we are not the thought police,” then suspends that user
There is a cache setting you can put in your slot that will fix it, but the app has to be restarted to clear the cache. It's not selective on what gets cached...and it doesn't work well with most apps. If you could selectively add directories that cache it would work so much better, or if it worked in some asynchronous way if a file changed in the cache (for apps that auto-update.) I don't know the solution, but it's an annoying problem.

If you Google/Bing for "Azure Website slow" this issue is the cause is 99% of all the complaints. The current solution "Local Cache" is lacking. It does work, but not in my use cases.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-servi...
It comes down to why you like manuals. If it's for the pleasure of working through the gears, then you're out of luck. If it's for the instant throttle response, no slushyness from the torque converter, or being able to chose the gear based on what your going to do in a second, then electric cars are significantly better.
I’m one of the contributors to VScode chrome debug.

If someone used vscode to debug chrome in an interview and explained how the debugger itself is a dumb extension that translates JSON RPC based vscode debug protocol to JSON rpc based chrome remote protocol under the hood, I would be super duper impressed.

Although console.log isn’t a terrible debugging strategy.

My first thing to learn in any language is how to do a printf
Isn't Docusign et al acting as a defacto independent notary? How would one be able to host and control something like that themself?
Stockton and Santa Rosa could be doable in ~30mins given _significant_ investment in rail services, but Fairfield or Davis are really pushing the boundary of what seems reasonable. You're talking about covering 70-85 miles to Civic Center for these latter two cities, which would require high speed rail in an environment that probably couldn't sustain it profitably for a decade or more.
How about "Nissan Admits Internal Emissions-Test Results were Falsified"
After speding a few years in the middle east, this is how things go over there.
Things only moves if it's senior management priority. Now that MBS has found
enough cash through his corruption probe, the IPO is not his main focus
anymore, and things wont go forward until he personally pushes for it.

Right now, his main focus is to make sure the Iran does not develop it's
O&G infrastructure, that could challenge KSA's position. One part the the
article does not explore, is "what did the US gave in exchange of the OPEP
increasing their production?". Could it have something to do with the WH
ending the Iran deal?

One part that is extremely true is that investing in the GCC is extremely
risky, due to the way regulation can change within weeks. Most people that I
know over there thinks that without a good, personal relationship to the royal
family (or equivalent), having high stake investments is probably a mistake.

Also, i'm highly skeptical with the 20% marginal rate this article talks about.
I remember reading that the cost of production of a barrel in KSA what about 3$.
This long FB post [1] provides some additional details, as well as a counterpoint to most of the press coverage I've seen (which has been critical of the US's position/behavior).

I don't know enough about the subject to know whether the author of this post (who is much more politically connected than I) is correct, but at least he lays out more facts about what happened.

Most of the articles I'd previously read had one sentence of facts and the remainder was outrage. The outrage may be deserved, but one sentence of facts doesn't justify it.

1: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156620358017...
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I absolutely agree, I'm not a JS developer. One day I'll fix it...
Is Golem actually cheaper than just renting servers from AWS?

MakerDAO and DigixDAO are just cryptocurrencies, they don't actually do anything as far as I can tell.
Grab opens platform to third-party developers, goes grocery shopping
Almost all successful ICOs in the past 6 months have working prototypes. Only in the very early stages, June 2017 - November 2017 was this not the case.
So what? It's still outrageous.
I also worried about the same. But after 15 years of experience, I said to myself:
"just grab a copy of Rob Conery's Imposter's Handbook and move on"
It’s a metaphor. Nobody was forced to adopt it with any kind of governmental or economic coercion, just a vocal minority that thought it was a good idea to elevate the standards and do more than just buy the cheapest product in the market.
The data all these articles are based on simply defining 'low income' as the bottom 20% of income earners. It has no ties to cost of living.

Unless you're the sole earner for a big family with bad benefits, it is not hard at all to live anywhere in the Bay Area at $117K a year. Yes, it might be prudent to make some basic sanity checks on your spending, especially when it comes to housing (IE don't rent a 1BR in the most desirable part of one of the most competitive cities in the world unless you're making bank).

I would argue that the data in this article should actually be used to realize what a good financial decision the Bay Area is for many people. 80% of people are making more than $117K. As someone in tech you should not have a problem climbing well above that.
I believe that Frank Abagnale has pretty much said it would probably get easier.
I think it was on the special features section of the Catch Me If You Can DVD, but I also found an interview with him saying essentially the same thing [0]

"What I did almost 50 years ago is now 4,000 times easier to do than when I did it. Technology breeds crime, always has and always will."

All of our technology encodes our own biases and weaknesses, and chances are, it's the area we are most blind too. And we tend to trust our technology as we grow dependent on it.

The genius of people like Frank Abagnale, or the people behind Stuxtnet as a different example is an ability to see these weak spots, and the blatant moxie it takes to exploit it.

It's kinda scary to think about the power people like that have, honestly.

[0] http://www.futureofbusinessandtech.com/education-and-careers...
You don't mention your income, but presuming you're in tech, you may well find that the bay area offers not quite the discretionary percentage, but far more in left over after rent etc. in total. There is a reason people move here.
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