skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another ForLoop Chapter: Call for Speakers
I bet Amazon is only using Stripe for a small slice of their payments to cover gaps in their own payments stack. I'm sure it's worth it for them to be able to take payments at a higher rate than not be able to take payments at all. That's just a back-end optimization they can handle later.

I don't know what slice that is, but there's plenty of reasons you might go with a more expensive provider. Maybe they support some piece of technology you don't (like Apple or Google pay in browsers), or can process for a card type you can't (like one of the country-specific debit card schemes like EFTPOS in AU or Interac in CA), or just are set up to process payments in some country that Amazon doesn't have infrastructure set up yet. A quick google shows Amazon launched in India and Japan in 2017, so maybe one of those markets had some quirk they didn't want to bother supporting on their own until payment volumes got up.

It looks like Amazon and Stripe both launched in India in 2017, https://stripe.com/blog/india-private-beta
Spacewar written in Apple Logo
Striped down and it still looks pretty complex. I really like containers, but I feel the orchestrations systems all leave something to be desired. I've heard there are some big changes in Racher and I've been meaning to look at it again.

I've setup DC/OS and played with Nomad and wrote this post about my frustration dealing with orchestration systems:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/my-love-hate-relationship-wit...
If you have a Wi-Fi router, the firmware is probably old, a new report says
Who is to say that you won't now have planes coming down on a surface which constantly changes conditions, going from tarmac to grass and back again?
The videos are realtime crawl using gource for visualizing the bots scraping the meta from files when they enter into directories. It pulls the crawl times/worker names from elasticsearch and visualizes it in gource. diskover has cli args for outputing to gource.
We use an internship program - the best indicators seem to be a lot of undergrad courses in digital design (like 4 or 5 of them), the ability to talk about a project you did that used digital design and what your process was and what you learned, and then some small coding or design problem everyone should have seen. "Build a block that outputs a 1 when it sees the pattern 1100100" - you should know what a finite state machine is, combinatorial logic is, denouncing switches (not because it's hard, but because it means you've been in a lab!), etc, and if you're from a good program you should have at least heard of some of the more fundamental elements behind synthesis, place and route, timing; you should know what a UART or SPI is, and have implemented it at least once.

What I try to do is give candidates a bit of a hand - don't remember UART? What about SPI or I2C? Don't remember either? Ok, how would you design a communication block that looks like this (SPI).

I ask fundamental questions- what's synthesis? What's place and route? Explain timing to me. What underlies the logic minimization at the heart of FPGAs? There are a lot of questions to ask - I try to keep moving if a candidate gets nervous so that I can focus in on something that they can answer. For a lot of young people, especially tech types, if you can get them "on a roll" with something they did or were excited by, their anxiety will drop away and they'll do better. Generally we want to see what you know, but also how you think.

For more senior candidates, I take a similar approach - but I'm trying to identify weaknesses. So instead of a glide path to another problem, I'll use your answer to identify a weakness. Gave a marginal answer about something? Ok, let's see how they handle a hypothetical about pipelining, clock domain crossings, timing violations, block level design, proper reset usage, etc. We have a few questions about math implementations, timing violations, etc that are in our stable as well that have proven to be real destroyers.

There is a fundamental understanding about space, memory, and time that a good candidate will be able to grapple with that a marginal one won't - "Design two versions of this block - a small one, and a higher performance one, in broad strokes. Discuss the difference between them". - Area, throughout, latency.

Also: Show up on time. Do your best. Stay positive. Admit what you don't know. Ask questions when you're stuck. Try to learn something while you're there.

If you can find someone in the industry that is willing to do interview prep with you, do it. When I just got started, somebody sat with me and did mock interviews. It helped me a lot, so I try to pay it forward by doing that for my interns to help them get into the industry.

It's a great time to be in the game. Learn all you can, develop your passion for it, and you'll do great.
> Lately though I don't have the energy to fight my gaming rig and I when I occasionally play now, I just ignore whatever issues crop up. I'm ready for a simpler solution at a good price.

you sound like you should be a console gamer. Cheap(er) and simple is what they do/market. And PS4 has PSVR too.
>What would be the quickest way to get a either a Pi-hole device or a router supporting that level of functionality (ad-blocking, and DNSCrypt) into the hands of normal consumers on a mass scale (e.g. completely non-technical users like my parents or grandparents)?

Sell it as a turn-key appliance in a box with three ports: Network in, router in, and power. Operate as a transparent proxy, automatically update, web interface on the inside port only, etc etc.

Biggest issue is ensuring it's got enough performance on both Ethernet ports to not bog down traffic.
I thought Gen Y was renamed to Millennials as time went on. So they're one and the same. Wikipedia seems to agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
Right, and there are some scheduling systems like Maraton/mesos that can be used to control jobs or VMs as well (although they're more often used with containers than anything else these days). Can K8s run VMs or is its only abstraction containers/pods?
I have several of these emails (when ordering to Australia):

Hello,

Your recent SparkFun order contains 1x KIT-13233: FLiR Dev Kit. This item is export controlled by the United States government. By law, we are required to gather the following information from you as the importer:

1)	Do you intend to sell or send this item to anyone in any of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria?

2)	Will this be used in any military applications?

3)	Will you be the ultimate end user of this item? If no, please go to 3.a.

3.a) If you are not the end user, who will this item be sold or transferred to? Please include full name, physical address, end use and confirmation that they will not sell or transfer this item to any party in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria.

4)	What is the end use of this item?

5)	Where is the location where the item will be used?

Response to all five questions is necessary before we are able to ship your order. If we don’t hear back from you within one week, your order will need to be canceled.Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you have a great day!
Here are my favourites:

Digital Analytics Power Hour

The Indie Hackers Podcast

Startups for the Rest of Us

The Side Hustle Project

Empire Flippers Podcast

Double your Freelancing

Ditching Hourly

Side Hustle School (great byte sized audio content)

The Consulting Pipeline Podcast
Ask HN: What's going on with the angst on Hacker News?
Possibly going to word this wrong, or blow my small amount of karma, or whatever. Right at the beginning I want to say this isn't meant as an attack on the HN community. The discussions on this site are some of the best on the web and I read it every day, probably too much :)

Yet something is off lately. It seems as if there's a very deep angst building in this community and it feels like it's starting to self-reinforce, to 'go off the rails' a bit.

Someone suspicious might say there's a concerted anti-Google campaign going on, if you were to look at the stories making the front page lately. I don't think it's quite that simple - assuming there is no campaign being driven by any group of people in particular, I think this is a symptom of some deep-seated frustrations. Frustrations about being early-adopters who aren't in the mainstream market; frustrations about not having privacy-respecting options; frustrations about the metrics-driven, impersonal way that products are developed by big Silicon Valley tech companies; frustrations about simply not being able to vote with your wallet when it comes to vendor lock-in, privacy, etc.

Do other people feel the same?

Some of the discussions lately, while really engaging, make me feel drained, frustrated and like I've just finished reading a mainstream news site.

For my own part, it's probably time to step away from Hacker News for awhile. Right now, it doesn't feel like a healthy place to spend a lot of time.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, be careful of falling too far into an echo-chamber. Be suspicious in a good way. Step away and broaden your perspective when it all starts getting a bit too much.
I wish I had this when I was a kid. I basically had a ZX-Spectrum from Sinclair and all I learnt was by reverse engineering things. I'd load a tape or whatever and try figure out how it does what it does.

Although it taught me from an early age to dig to find things, you can't beat having learning material...
I wasn’t aware of that - thanks. I think I’ll be safe as there will be no peripherals plugged in, but that’s something that needs considering it seems.
Containers in pods only. In practice we run all of our Mesos tasks and Marathon services in containers anyway, as you mentioned.
Fair point, but it's kinda hard to make full use of PC's graphical capabilities when the hardware caps you to a resolution of 640 x 800 per eye and 60 fps.

If the Oculus Go is anything to go by, I suspect most games built for the Quest will match up fairly well graphically against experiences originally built for the DK1.
Do you know if it’s possible to deploy it on a virtual AP? E.g. have “MyNetwork” and “MyNetworkWithAds” - so that it is easier for nontechnical users to switch, and also doesn’t deactivate for everyone when just one user needs to (even if only for 5 mins)?
>For example, search advertising in search engines. That is known as intent driven ads, where user is clearly mentioning their intent.

Your example is still a "Push" ad. You're pushing your stuff without being asked. Looking for information on a topic is not a request for ads on that topic.

A pull ad would be an ad catalogue, or a website built purely for ads where people would go to explore for new things/services/whatever if, and only if, they wanted to.
If you aren't automatically rolling instances frequently, you will inevitably have some machines that were theoretically cattle but in practice are pets. (This is much easier today with k8s/mesos)

More generally, when you claim in system design that you have invariants, if you aren't using automation to enforce your invariants, they will inevitably be bypassed to your detriment by eager and/or lazy engineers. You will find this out at the worst possible time.
Ask HN: First month at a FANG job–feeling useless?
A month ago, I started a job at a large, FANG-type company, I guess on the low end of Google T5 or high end of T4? (Salary is around $175k, not including stock options.) Things seem to be going well, but I've been feeling rather useless. I just don't have a lot to do at the moment, and I'm not sure if I should be actively seeking out tasks, proposing new features, or what. (Naturally, I've been spending a lot of time delving into our codebase, but this isn't something with visible results that I could point to, for myself or the rest of the team.) I haven't worked at a big company like this in a long time, so I have no context for how things are supposed to work. Is it expected that tasks take longer than in the solo/startup world? Are engineers on my level supposed to be more proactive with this kind of stuff? I know what's in the pipeline for the next few months—the sorts of tasks that are more my specialty—but we're still scheduling meetings to work out the details. (Mostly it's my manager doing this.) In the meantime, I feel like I'm just idling.

Basically, I have this intense fear that I'm not living up to the expectations of my high salary and that nobody's going to say anything until things get really awkward. I take this home with me every day. My manager hasn't mentioned anything negative in our 1 on 1's, but I don't know if he's expected to.

How are first months supposed to generally go for someone at a big company in my salary range? And if I happened to do things wrong, will I still be able to fix my mistakes?

I'm not lazy; I just have no idea how things work in the corporate world!
> Probability of success in such an endeavour is already vanishingly small without adding further constraints.

Wouldn't only choosing North American startups (along with having a largely white and male leadership ) be a constraint in itself? Either way, the next part states it will be more international when the companies go public over time.

Now, that's not to say they've specifically gone out and chose startups with a white male leadership but I've seen places try to explain this away by saying they "chose the best person for the job" which sounds awfully familiar to "companies with most promise".
I have a phone ringtone set to silence and I am thinking about abandoning phone number altogether. Whoever needs to call me, can just use one of many IMs with VoIP or send me an email.
I built a high frequency cryptocurrency forecasting system https://bitbank.nz and few games in my spare time http://www.wordsmashing.com http://bigmultiplayerchess.com http://multiplicationmaster.com

hasn't made that much money but allowed me to get paid more at work and tipped our income over the edge so we could get a mortgage on our first house which was nice :) great decision and learning experience building products from the ground up and exciting/grounding interacting with customers who always like to push the limits of your product :)

I have noticed others who have a lot of job experience coding but not the business/product experience can find it difficult to prioritise things from a users point of view and or build reusable/extendable systems by anticipating how things are going to change in future.

Even if it fails terribly i think its a good learning experience and can work out in your favour... Word Smashing made some money from ads but $0 from listing on the android app store :D -$20 on app store ads actually...
Nope. People _say_ they want to pay an equitable price for content rather than viewing ads because that's exactly what they prefer and would do.

The problems are:

- Your definition of 'equitable price' when we live in a time where no single human can digest across their lifetime even a single year's worth of the glut created.

- The quality is universally garbage and as an information consumer you'd still have to spend your resources in thinking critically whether to accept and update your assessment of the information. If you're consuming 'content' as escapism well then you still might consider a more cost-effective route such as heroin or even direct neural stimulation.

- Consumers rightfully work out the long game plan of content creators. They'd like to not view ads but know that once you've climbed above the threshold of starving artist you'll get greedy and the ads will come right back. Always. No exception.
To be honest, no matter how much money I had, I'd still buy my Odyssey again. I looked at the Tesla X. They even let me drive one for a day. It was great for me, the driver. It was terrible for my passengers. It's uncomfortable and has no amenities.

I checked with Mercedes and BMW and Lexus too. All nice cars, but none as nice as the Honda.

If you regularly haul around 2 kids and 4 adults like I do, honestly, the Odyssey is the best thing you can get.
I never said K8s wasn't about orchestration, I said why push containers in their current horribly broken form
They're still on the deeds in many areas of Marin county, including older sections of Mill Valley. I presume some Marin towns like Ross have almost nothing but restrictive covenants, as it used to be a "sundown town": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
Daniel Ellsberg's confessions of a nuclear war planner
JIT pizza delivery - will probably be a thing some day
How do you get the watch API's without etcd? or does k3s doesn't have watch API support.
If you’re interested in the history of stuff like this be sure to look into Beaver and Krause (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_%26_Krause). If you recognize the THX sound then you’ll also probably recognize the last 30 seconds of Spaced (https://youtu.be/2xKO3KAtDZ0). They started off as early Moog salesmen showing off equipment and ended up introducing many famous musicians like George Harrison, the Doors, and the Byrds to electronic music. They also scored for movies such as The Graduate, In Cold Blood, Point Blank and Rosemary's Baby. True pioneers in the space and good music to boot.
If he was so principled, he shouldn't have sold his business to a company who's principles are exact opposite of those of his own. And then be sour when they provide liquidity of said business, unable to prove his ideas, and then attacking the company afterwards.

It's obviously good he found a place where his own principles are more inline with the company.
They would need to be electrically connected (like the leads on a multimeter).
I regret working a job as a programmer, I dont regret programming as an activity
How much replication do you need? 10x? 20x? If these are text messages that's probably less than 10KB per person per week of being offline. Delete the messages if the recipient hasn't come online in a week.

I believe you could build a highly reliable P2P offline texting app without any centralized services. I'm not sure anyone would want it and it seems difficult to monetize, but it is doable.
Is the Mikrotik any better in this regard? Has anyone taken them up on the offer of a GPL source code CD?
Searching for Talent and Making Big Life Decisions
Really? It does 2k+ pixel 90 FPS renders for more than a minute? I think your 'proving me wrong' is just not understanding, or ignoring, what I said about heat dissipation and frame reuse.
I disagree. Just because someone got rich doesn’t mean they created value for society. It’s just means that they were able to capture some meaningful % of the money that flows around and take some for themselves. It also ignores the massive externalities of the destruction of the natural world. Yes, an oil tycoon can get rich, but only at the expense of an externality we all pay for (pollution, climate change) that is not factored into the price of the product they sell.

This is the central fallacy of capitalism and is the “greed is good” methodology. Greed is not good. Good is good. Helping people is good. Valuing people’s lives is good.

I read a great definition of evil: anything that values systems over people.

People and their well-being is the most important value in the world. Not money. Not wealth. Not shareholder value. You can create enormous shareholder value and still ruin people’s lives. That’s called evil.
Ask HN: How to go back to classic Gmail?
So, it appears Google has decided that everyone now has to use their new "better" version of Gmail.

I personally can't stand it, it's way too much, animations all over the place, it feels cluttered and over the top.

Any suggestions for going back? If it's not possible, I am seriously considering jumping off to another provider so suggestions there would also be appreciated as a second option.

Thanks!
Don't you find it difficult to maintain a consistent format/schema between many authors?

I thought about using Google Docs for a publishing project, but the lack of an enforced schema made me pick a JS rich text editor instead.

Also, how do you deal with images?
>"Don’t be passive-aggressive about it. And by the way the paid messaging that WhatsApp is rolling out now sounds pretty similar to metered messaging from my point of view..."

Takes a certain type of person to add a passive aggressive dig after telling someone not to be passive aggressive.
Yes, that's what I mean but I'm not sure from the theoretical point of view. I used to believe a truly pure function isn't mean to access anything but what is passed to it as an argument so it makes me wonder what a particular implementation may expect. Whether or not this is Ok can also depend on a particular language runtime or library (and I'm far from an expert in the Python VM internals so far) - it can be impossible or quirky for a function executed asynchronously to access something that belongs to outside of it.
I can't wait for someone to come out with a product called
`k8OS`
I wish I did.
Google has a specific division, Jigsaw, previously Google Ideas, dedicated to advancing the interests of a group more or less synecdochic with the US State Department. They paradropped in a company of engineers to save the signature Obama administration policy proposal, at massive effective subsidy. We have just seen video and documentary evidence of them attempting to rig US elections to their favored result by massive, illegal, in-kind contributions to the Democratic party.

They are as much of a de facto agent of the deep state at this point as Lockheed, and probably more pernicious due to their attempts to cultivate self-reinforcing political power to manipulate policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Cohen

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/emails-show-google-e...
Yes. i wish i'd gone into finance or accounting or something. i believe i would be in a much better place financially today, and the career path would have been much easier to navigate: ever met someone in finance who studied for months to get ready for an interview? me neither.

the software profession is very two-tiered: you either get a job at a FAANG or FAANG-equiv firm whre the pay is good and there are the opportunities for growth ... and then there's everything else.

in many places it goes like this: you're very much treated like a cog, managers -- and "project managers" especially -- won't have any real understanding of what engineers do, there is disorganization, lack of planning, and/or engineers have never been challenged to grow, and over time you end up dealing with lots of tirefires.

if i knew of a way to do something different while maintaining my current income, i would do it.
Too bad you did away with the API. We were going to use it for https://securityjourney.com/ but found no way to seamlessly create/update a user from our app.
I wish I knew... Anyway, ditto: The new Gmail looks awful to me. So does the new Chrome actually. I wish there was an option to roll back to 2015 in terms of design for everything.
Seen by what percentage of users who just download the binaries?
Yes, they do. They also tend to be just as true as broad sweeping generalizations about how corrupt politicians are, and how wet water is.
Thanks! Yes, my ultimate goal is to build a network of brains with this kind of gadget from MIT Media Lab:

(https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/alterego/overview/)

AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machines, artificial intelligence assistants, services, and other people without any voice—without opening their mouth, and without externally observable movements.

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Love to connect! Here is my email: allenleein@gmail.com
Crypto's Open Secret: Its Multibillion-Dollar Volume Is Suspect
Flower Vine Grows “thorns” After Growing into a Rose Vine
We'll reintroduce an API to create projects/repls and to manage them. The old API was too low-level anyways (you could only evaluate code).