skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to grow from co-founders to team of developers?
We are a bootstrapped company in year four, offering a supply chain product to business customers. We make >€1M annually and grow about 10% per month.

Everything we do is backed by a carefully designed Rails app covering a whole lot of complex business logic. The software was built by me and one other person. We became very good at understanding and weighing up business requirements, implementation cost, performance, usability and maintainability. We would figure out the best trade-offs and ship features within days. There were very few bugs and zero overhead. It was exhausting at times but success made up for it.

Then we realized our situation was not sustainable. On one hand the company was depending heavily on two individuals (bus factor). On the other hand we started to feel exhausted and wanted a plan B (exit strategy).

So we set out to hire a team. Soon we realized, few people even apply for the job. I guess mostly because we are competing with glamorous household names and miss the PR of well-funded competitors. People who do apply all consider themselves "senior" and ask for heavy paychecks, despite deficits in basic bread-and-butter topics like database indexes and most common Rails idioms.

Lacking better alternatives we ended up hiring a bunch, spending a shit-ton and investing heavily in onboarding. Yet after months, I'm still baffled by the lack of output, quality of work and overall knowledge. This situation is draining energy even faster than before we started hiring. I feel stuck. What can I do?

Using a throwaway account for obvious reasons.
People will ask a question like "How long does it take to plow a field?" and get useless responses like "How long is a piece of string?", the implication being that no satisfactory answer could be given because a specific answer is dependent on factors not known in the question. This is done in lieu of providing a useful order-of-magnitude answer.

How long is a piece of string? To be useful, at least a few inches. A common task, sewing a button, needs about 12". Most string in a store is 200 yards long, but this is enough to do many things. String longer than that is very rare.
> Realistically how much statistical threat is there from birds?

From wikipedia:

"The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reported 65,139 bird strikes for 2011–14, and the Federal Aviation Authority counted 177,269 wildlife strike reports on civil aircraft between 1990 and 2015, growing 38% in 7 years from 2009 to 2015. Birds accounted for 97%"
>Note that the article is pretty clear: this is only for those people overseas, mostly troops stationed abroad. Still a terrible idea, but somewhat less terrible than statewide voting via mobile phone.

^Tweet in sub...chain (how the fuck do we describe twitter comments?)

It's horrible, but I almost hope somebody hack these votes in the most disruptive, obvious way. I think the country could use a good slap in the face when it comes to both infosec and voting security.
> Automation seems to be truly a boogie monster you can put blame on.

This is just blatant ignorance. Anyone remotely conversant in technology understands that the impending wave of automation bc of AI (not AGI or deep-whatever; just improving what we’ve already got) and robotics is going to make the world look very different than in previous technological epochs.

This is not Luddite fallacy. There is no limit to the intelligence that can be exhibited by machines and they continue to improve at a nonlinear pace. Meanwhile humans are not. There is a red zone that will be crossed into at some point that will disenfranchise the vast majority of human beings. Personally, I think we already crossed it, and it’s just things like poor BLS reporting standards and jobs programs that are masking the carnage.
Hair Loss Treatment for Women – Fortes Medical
An Interview with Kayti Sullivan, Senior VP at Yelp – “Lead More and Do Less”
looks like it can be an effective crowd [of humans] control tool.
4 Strategies for Integrating Voice Technology into Your Business
Now I understand why the augments are so unruly.
Alex Jones got banned for telling the truth. Crazy people are allowed everywhere, because their arguments can easily be refuted. Jones was shut down because he is speaking uncomfortable truths that cannot be easily waived away.
Sucking a bird into a jet engine, obviously. Was this a rhetorical question?

The jet engine is mounted to a plane. It's designed to withstand bird strikes without exploding - they literally blast frozen turkeys into it with an air cannon - but they can still cause engine out situations that result in crashes or emergency landings and risk the lives of the hundreds of people on board. Not to mention the huge repair costs all that incurs.

I value the safety of the people aboard that plane far above the comfort of the birds that would like to live at the airport, to the extent that scaring millions of birds is worth doing if it's likely to save the lives of a couple hundred people. Though that's getting pretty close to the threshold at which it ceases to be worthwhile.

Also, if I was in the bird's shoes, I would much prefer to be scared by a drone than ingested into the jet engine...
But that would also mean that much more sunlight would hit the surface of the earth and not be reflected by those clouds.
The examples shown are all quite traditional and conservative.

If you go to a lot of college towns you can get a pizza topped with taco ingredients, or fried chicken and bleu cheese, or even pesto sauce and cheese-filled tortellini.
EU taking another look at phone chargers because they’re still not standardized
They're giving a million dollars to companies and asking for no equity in return and you're giving them crap for it? Unbelievable.
Because he's a bird?
> Facebook disagreed and escalated the conversation to their head of policy for Facebook’s Platform, who said they didn’t want users entering their Facebook credentials anywhere that wasn’t an official Facebook site—because anything else is bad security hygiene and could open users up to phishing attacks. She said we needed to take our tool off Github within a week.

I mean, this is a fair point. It wouldn’t be the first time that a Github tool was forked to surreptitiously send information to a 3rd party.

So they updated the tool to let users login to Facebook.com through the browser and just hijacked the session cookie to gain access to the pages.

Since this is a program which runs on the users machine, and downloads standard Facebook pages over their standard HTTP interface, I don’t see how Terms of Service can differentiate between accessing Facebook services through this program versus Chrome.exe or Edge.exe.

What makes one thing a user agent and another thing not a user agent?
Ask HN: How does Instagram or Twitter feed work engineering architecture wise?
Was just curious.
I remember reading a nice post on Instagram feed queues and sharding architecture, and the S3 issues they faced. But can't find it anywhere on Google now.
Would be great if anyone could point to engineering architecture explanations of these at that scale.
Tesla stock jumps on Musk's tweet that he is considering taking company private
With some regularity, I encounter people who work either around pilots or on planes and consistently attempt to disqualify pilots from praise, no matter how insignificant that is to the context of the conversation. As if I would need to comment on any of Elon Musk's success to mention that his success would not have been had without the countless engineers and layers of automative tech that he's building upon. These being implicit details, and the people in those positions more than likely choosing them with no expectation that they'd be a figurehead.

Now, I only get a little of that from your comment, just enough to remind me of this impression. Where does the tacit resentment come from? Anyone else experience this?
I wasn't aware of this , thanks for the info.

Nonetheless , the API seem to be behind the original.
Hence interop with JavaScript seems incredibly messy and time consuming.
Please.

The Scary, Scary Russians spending $100,000 on Facebook ads and having a couple of meetings with people in the Trump campaign is illegal, but not the reason for why 48% of the country voted for that clown, or why he even made the ballot, or why Hillary Clinton made the ballot, or why Congress isn't doing a damned thing to reign in this[1] insanity.

There's a much simpler explanation - the system, by design, serves the oligrachs. And if they can make half a dollar selling you asbestos, by god, they will find a way to sell you asbestos.

[1] By which, I mean, an administration that is, quite literally, poisoning us.
You bring up important issues, but there doesn't seem to be an reason to think they are the result of automation. There have been periods in the past with higher levels of productivity growth that have corresponded with a decrease in inequality. Now we're in a period of low productivity growth corresponding with an increase in inequality.

As for self driving trucks, I remember people telling me a decade ago that they would have lead to mass unemployment by now. The predictions of an impending automation crisis haven't had a great track record.
I'm on the same side and pretty much agree with all of your points, but that really came out as condescending. I'm a huge fan of the new wave of Dems coming through (mainly the Democratic Socialist part) but we can't act like the main Democratic Party hasn't been fucking up for a WHILE. They're still trying to fight the DemSoc movement even though it's getting huge grassroot support. I don't trust the main party, but I believe in some select parts of the machine and don't think it's unreasonable for people to call out the Dems on their shit.
You do realize that 420 is the police code for Marijuana, right?

Its a joke. The only alternative is that Elon Musk is manipulating the price of his shares by tweeting private and sensitive information and therefore needs to be fined by the SEC and possibly jailed for stock manipulation.

Therefore, its a joke. Because as stupid as Mr. Musk has been this past year, I am sure he's well aware of the illegality of stock manipulation on American markets.
Intel has no chance in servers and they know it
That's not what I meant. Greece and Turkey doesn't have any military conflicts currently, and are unlikely to get any in the near future. What Greece does have are dumb and immature gripes with Macedonia and Turkey. Cyprus should be a solved problem by now. There's no reason to have it hanging around as this diplomatic pain point. The Macedonia conflict is stranger than parody, and is about to be solved because Macedonia is showing itself to be slightly less stubborn than Greece.
Is that something you are willing to bet a major architectural decision on and/or your career?

I’ve been a Microsoft developer for over 20 years and a .Net developer for over 10. Even though I don’t see .Net “dying”, it’s also not a major growth opportunity.

Java is definitely not doing well compared to .Net even though it is open source - because of the mismanagement of Oracle. I see dart going down the same road.

As much as I prefer .Net to the JavaScript ecosystem, I am tying my horse to it. I’m focusing my attention on everything JavaScript over the next year (yes it makes me sad).

Until four months ago, I had never touched Python. But the more I got into AWS, the more I realized that the ecosystem around AWS and Python seemed to be the strongest. So Python it was.
These large tech companies hate people who tell the truth and expose their evil intentions. Alex Jones got kicked for telling the truth. Richie Allen got blacklisted to speaking truth.
Please remember there's a genuine human on the other end, trying to have a respectful conversation with you.
I’ve never bought into the Fermi thesis. We’re still burning petroleum instead of using it for its other amazing uses and blowing each other up over myths - but we think we know the fundamental nature of all life in the universe enough to say we should see it.
There's yet a further subdivision to be made too, as there's getting a murder off the street (justice), punishing the murderer (vengeance/retribution) and stopping more murders (prevention).

After the Rwandan genocide and even in reaction to the residential school system in Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions were set up to focus on the justice and prevention elements of the triangle and explicitly pass on retribution. [1]

The US system focuses, IMO, almost solely on vengeance to the detriment of prevention. The US has one of the highest recidivism rates in the entirely world at 75%, so if your goal is to stop people from doing it again, the US system is an abject failure. If you want to enslave and torture, it works great. Norway focuses on justice and prevention, and as a result, has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, at 20% [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is...
You can do that if you change it to &Any and then downcast. See the docs for examples. If the issue is that you have to downcast, then your initial claim that Rust lacks void pointers was irrelevant even if true, since you also have to downcast a void pointer in C before you can perform operations on the type that it's actually pointing to.
A tiny (0.5kb) state management library inspired by Vuex
How is this different than Michael Dell saying the same thing about his company?
> I'm always confused by this argument. Practically every day on HN there are articles about problems that it would be great if more people were working on. Replication crisis? Aging infrastructure? Global warming? Cancer research? Environmental destruction? Food scarcity? Documentation and bug hunting in software? Taking care of frameworks? Early childhood education? Heck, even beyond all the problems on Earth, there are plenty of people who want to work on things like sending people to Mars.

Almost everything you listed there requires high skill/education levels. What about service workers/low-skill jobs (y'know, the things that would be replaced by automaton)? I'm pretty sure they're the people GP was talking about.
Is 3deg C or 10deg F until 2100 that massive of a transition event?
Confirmed apparently : https://twitter.com/GerberKawasaki/status/102688724109468876...
Picking which items to show you in your newsfeed; making recommendations for places based on your friends; automatically generating blind-friendly captions for uploaded photos (read the hover text for some of your friends’ photos); suggesting events you might be interested in; friend suggestions; ads.
A few years ago I might have agreed with you.

The fact that the electoral college allowed a person with absolutely no political experience who's primary accomplishments were several failed businesses and some TV spotlights to be president of the United States is an absolute fucking glowing failure.

Donald Trump IS the person the electoral college was put in place to stop.

They did not do their job. The electoral college needs to be abolished, and while we're at it, we really need some form of ranked-choice voting for president. FPTP is a pathetic voting system, and while you can argue about which alternative is the best one until you're blue in the face, I have never seen an argument that favors FPTP when the main metric is fair representation.
There are several types of sheepdog, and some do nip at livestock to keep them motivated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding_dog#Herding_behavior
Chasing the birds in circles
The funky scrolling makes this site is unreadable to me.
Don't give your family the wifi password. Type it in for them. You should be doing the same thing with administrative account passwords. Guests can use guest wifi or plug into the guest switch.
There's still the same dispute about miscalibrated touchscreens on electronic voting machines - the difference is that paper provides an audit trail, such that it can actually be disputed.

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/26/499450796/some-machines-are-f...
The problem the article reported is almost entirely about network requests, though. Relative to the speed the data was coming in, they had CPU and GPU coming out the ears. Switching the JS to WASM won't make that world particularly worse, nor better. It's the stuff generating fresh network requests that needs to change, and the size of the responses.
The DMCA provides a mechanism for the government to define some activities that do not violate the DMCA--essentially, a whitelist of activities. It's done by the Librarian of Congress and the exceptions last 3 years. This is how jailbreaking became clearly legal.

It provides certainty for activities that, under the law, are arguably legal--but making the argument in court would be very expensive and time-consuming.

What if a similar process was instituted for the CFAA? This would take some of the reins out of the hands of self-interested parties like Facebook, and provide certainty for people who are operating in good faith in the public interest.

An example of this would be to say that it is legal for a person to use automated tools to observe their own authentic interactions with hosted software, and it is legal for other people to make such tools available to the public. That would cover Gizmodo's tool, I think.
Except cost of living in major tech cities is usually skewed higher because of housing in particular, things like groceries are generally only a small impact.

Net land values are absolutely higher than they once were, farm/ranching fields now have housing on them. And while prices are higher than before the population grew, the prices have remained affordable for those earning the median income the entire time since the agglomeration effects of this growth has caused wages to rise.
Each point of drop off ya substantial costs, so you would get dinged fuel for the delivery of paper towels even if they had other deliveries in the truck. In China, it only works because there are no trucks, heck, it could just be a kid from the corner store with a hand truck.

When you go to the store and buy stuff, you are usually getting a lot of things together going point to point with other things that need getting done, or you are walking to the corner grocery store with a shopping cart if you are lucky enough to be urban. Personally, the fuel cost for having paper towels delivered is substantially more vs me going to get them by myself (since I’m walking to the store with a stroller/cart anyways).
By morals, do you mean your specific brand of self-righteous extremism?
First they came for the Landlines. I was not a landline, so I did not speak up...
Thanks for the link. I'll be sure to look into it. It is impressive.

A disclaimer is that we use the valid train portion of CV as part of our training set. But it is less than 10% of the train set (in terms of hours). Also, we do not employ an LM mainly because the systems we are targeting do not have enough storage for a strong LM (usually the storage on them maxes out at 64 MB). Cheetah is an end-to-end acoustic model. For later versions, we might be able to add a well-pruned LM for specific domains with limited vocabulary to boost the accuracy with limited storage available.

I fully agree with your points. I am taking notes here as I think we should follow up on a couple of your suggestions. Scaling up to DeepSpeech model size can be a bit tricky as it would require much more compute resources (GPU). But should be quite doable with time and budget.

Thanks again for your comments and suggestions. As you correctly pointed out our main focus is the very low resource (CPU/Memory) embedded systems.
It's the exact same thing that is going to occur with the human population. The current popular calculations for global population growth and the reduction of that growth, are wildly wrong. The reduction in growth and eventual decline is going to happen sooner and will be far more aggressive. The horses were replaced, the humans will be replaced.
Google RCS makes less sense than ever
What do you mean 'way higher than the Saudi's were planning on'? I'm confused about the logistics of taking a company private, or how the Saudis would be negatively affected by Musk tweeting out that he effectively wants the stock to go up in price.
There is undeniably a fetishization of other cultures in the media which creates the 'other' especially for those who are only casually interested and whose exposure is via the media - ie most people unless you are a researcher or professional paid to take an interest.

But this taking a small isolated thing and presenting it as some kind of general thing is typical of most media. They do these human interest or trend related stories and try to present the singular instance as something bigger than it is.

Most fashion media 'manufacture' and push trends in the same manner usually funded by product or service providers. For instance guys using manbags or guys grooming beyond basics, this usually applies to a small minority but its presented as something larger, and sometimes it even becomes one.
IoT UV Index Monitor with Mobile Push Notifications
I've been using a Samsung TV for the last 3 years and never seen an ad on YouTube. Which model are you using?
It seems like they could fix this by removing or graying out verified status when they change names.
Like they do for cars?
Here you go: http://archive.is/kY2pl
A single solar farm of 1km sq can provide enough power for several ten thousand homes, and we have several million square miles of unusuable land lying around in the countries that receive the most sunlight, so land isn't the issue.

That doesn't include solar panels that could actually be installed on the homes. A single roof entirely covered by solar panels can power a LEED-certified home when used in conjunction with battery storage. (Most solar panel setups do not cover the entire rough but still provide sufficient power for all but the most intensive uses, like refrigerators and A/C.)

Farmland, by and large, isn't the best land for solar panels anyway, so the two would generally not come into conflict.
"No, you have to be highly conspiratorial to wrap up hospitals, Facebook, the banking system all working together to concoct an illegal, real-time price discrimination scenario."

If you go read the comments on the original WSJ story you'll notice a pattern, not a single comment echoing your sentiments, in fact, most of them fear almost exactly what I described. so basically the whole world has become conspiratorial.

Given the casualness of your response to something so serious, it makes me think you are a Fb shill or somebody who has invested a lot in FB stock. BTW since the announcement FB stock is up 5pc+, that makes me think market is pricing in such predatory scenarios.
Great! What are the lessons learned? :-)
420 enough said, seem some people are lacking sense of humor
> Though it's worth noting that even if, for some reason, you wanted to look at everyone over 16, the participation rate is still well above anywhere it was in the 50's, 60's, and most of the 70's. If you're looking at prime age, we're only a couple of percents below the highs in the 90's (and much higher than other periods).

Because women entered the work force. Compare your linked chart to the same chart for women [0] and men [1]. It's an important dimension to the discussion, I think, since non-working women are generally socially respected, while non-working men are not.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LRAC25FEUSM156S
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LRAC25MAUSM156S