skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of interesting things to note here:

1) Jobs created is not a "net new" job creation. I'm still waiting for someone to do research on how many jobs get displaced by tech based companies. I think tech based companies are amazing vehicles for wealth creation, but not so great for global job creation.

1a) I find it interesting that they still have a RFS for "one million jobs" https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#million given that their highest number of touted jobs is 4k max. For comparison, Amazon has 500k jobs. Maybe 50k or 100k is more of an admirable goal?

2) Interesting to see YC - in some ways admitting I guess - that technology itself is not a sector, but that technology is enabling certain sectors. I think this is the right way to look at it. Yet we still often refer to many of these companies simply as "tech companies".

3) This really should be split between acquired and not acquired companies. For example, Cruise being valued at $14B after being bought by GM seems weird. Or Dropbox, who is now publicly traded and their value changes every second. YC will never do this, but I'd love to see realized vs unrealized gains.
If I understand what you are asking correctly, then you are not wrong, and there's definitely an option to do this, but you are not the customer they are looking for.

If you have the chops to get a Rpi running, then you probably know how to run a mail server or you are definitely able to read an EXIM book and get it going on EC2 in a day... with all the consequences.

On the other hand, if you are a business professional, or a crypto holder, or a privacy concerned mom, you don't have the time and chops to go through the setup. What you want is an "iPhone for email", and this is what Helm will provide.

One device, simple setup, no hassle, all updates and management are taken care for you. It's beautiful, and $99/y isn't going to sway you. I pay $100/m for Comcast and get subpar internet in return, but I am not going to go and setup an ISP to save money.

That said, if you think this is a good idea but could be done at $100/y sub on a Pi, perhaps is a great time to start a competing service ;)
Everything is over-engineered and at the same time duct taped and zip tied together.
That just sounds like a direct result of not memorizing the prefix orders; not of anything related to actual understanding (or failing thereof).

What happens if you give him a reference sheet? (I have little experience teaching kids but I’m a firm believer in that the only good test is one where all the puzzle pieces are provided; its the composition thats worth testing, knowing the pieces by heart is just to speed things up)
Yes, it is indistinguishable. But it seems that actual black hole is more like a hollow crust in this setting and not a point of mass.
The history and future of OpenJDK
My pitch recognition isn't bad but not particularly good either. When I play my mandolin, though, I can pick up small pitch differences on certain frets because I'm so used to associating finger position with frequency.

Not sure if you can reach AP (which is not clearly defined anyway) but you can dramatically improve pitch recognition in general by practice.
Our profession consistently ignores operation and maintenance in favor of building a new thing, despite the former being at least as important.

How many people post negatively about Java in terms of productivity and cite boilerplate as a productivity-killer, despite the massive advantages a JVM stack brings?
I view money if ever graced with an abundance of it would allow me to fulfill creative dreams.. like write a few hits songs by hiring for a ton well known songwriters to write with or run/own a music publishing company.

We all have dreams yet not all will be fulfilled but it’s a lot and more fun (happiness) to pursue them either way!
People should be voting selfishly, who else is going to look out for your self interest? If most people do NOT think like him, then the library will stay. If most people do not want it , why keep it?
I'm curious—would there be a way to comparatively analyze Canadian and American election results, to figure out whether prisoners' disenfranchisement has an impact on policy?
Length of ring and index fingers 'linked to sexuality'
I read yesterday that Uber will be valued at $120bn during its IPO. That will mean (1) will be met pretty easily.
Really cool, this is the first problem that popped into my head upon reading the headline. Currently the discovery of planets is biased so drawing conclusions seems flawed.
This starts to get very shaky as soon as it gets to the "Happiness" heading.

> Happiness is the psychological condition that results from the achievement of one’s [values](sic).

I'd say that's meaning. Puppy videos give you happiness. They don't give you meaning.

> Values are ends that a person acts to gain and/or
keep. They are those things that a person cares about having or doing.

That... what? My values are not my ends or my activities.

These two definitions end with a footnote:

> Both characterizations are from Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics,” The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Signet, 1964) 31, 16.

Without taking a stance on Rand, is that really the foremost place to find a definition of happiness and value? This strikes me as intellectually dishonest to the point of silliness.
I'd separate out health care from student loans as they're completely different. Health care is a human right and America lags the civilized world still in that area.
If you can't explain your idead to your janitor, you don't really grasp them yourself.
How's that libertarian (anarchist) utopia working out?
Spoilers: Tips are taxed. It's just that loose cash without a paper trail is extremely hard to track for the IRS and most waiters aren't committing enough fraud to warrant the manpower.

Tipping won't go away until restaurant owners stop being dorks about the whole matter. They also benefit because the unaccounted for tips don't count as income to them, and thus they benefit as well.

The bottom line is, patrons get sticker shock when they see the real price of a meal. This happens when restaurants change prices after a few years because the cost of product goes up, or if they switch to paying a living wage to their employees. If the culture as a whole doesn't switch, then people are just going to keep supporting poor labor practices by the industry because they typically have their own issues to focus on.

>>That is why most restaurants that have tried no-tipping have gone back to it.
Citation absolutely needed. Many restaurants have never tried it, and many of the restaurants that have tried it kept it.
I had a co-worker who served on a rural school board. He would get death threats from the more radically anti-tax constituents of his school district. They were opposed to the whole "socialist" enterprise of educating the community's children. More than once he woke up to find a dead groundhog on his front step.
so it was kind of implied, but i want to ask explicitly - those 2.5 extra hours of sleep had a noticeable impact in your days? If you had to qualify the experience beyond 'just being more alert,' how would you do so?

Thanks!
I was detained for about an hour when entering at the Canadian border from the US. I'm a Canadian citizen, and was in the US for a conference for about a week. Canadian CBP is... something.
While my experience in Europe has been just fine, in Italy, Germany, and the UK. Though in the UK I was confused about the lack of service, until I realized that I needed to order at the bar.

There is a stereotype that blacks are worse tippers than whites. As https://www.ebony.com/news-views/are-black-people-really-bad... comments, it might be because blacks have "Insufficient education about tipping", or "a loop of circular behavior where Blacks have been traditionally discriminated against, Blacks expect to be treated poorly and treat servers with disdain, servers treat Black patrons with less care because they “know” Blacks tip poorly, and Blacks continue to tip poorly because they continue to get substandard service." (there are a couple of other proposed reasons).

See for example http://www.tippingresearch.com/uploads/JFSBR_race_revision_a... which includes the quote “I will not take Black tables unless I have no other option; call me racist, but I also walk out with more money than the people who end up with them.”

Yes, if you are a black American, you might get rudeness and lack of service in service in your own country - because wait staff think you won't tip well.
I agree. I only avoided student debt because I originally thought that I was going to get a doctorate, so it didn't matter if I went to a no-name state school with a good scholarship. I chose my path arbitrarily based on classes that were reasonably interesting in high school (which means I didn't even consider a large percentage of majors), and kind of expected things to "work out". I got one degree (econ) after 3 years and ditched, and then couldn't get a job and realized that a doctorate wasn't for me.

The second time around, I made way better choices, I was far more proactive about my education and internships, I chose a degree that fit me much better and was more financially appealing, and switched to another state school to maintain lower costs.

I lucked into my situation, too. If someone tried to tell me at 18 the lessons I'd later learn, I'm not sure I'd have listened.
No thanks? I'm buying coffee, not donating to charity.
I've screened thousands of resumes and I've never searched for gaps in employment. Some companies may do this but I haven't witnessed it. The things I search for all things obviously within a person's control: consistent formatting, sane file format & filename, and flawless grammar.
The big underlying factor is population increase, both permanent increases of the local population and temporary increases from visitors. Though I imagine there are also other factors even beyond that one that also increase traffic. It's probably safe to say that increased income results in more activity involving transport, for instance. I'd agree there's definitely some theoretic cutoff where it becomes practically physically impossible to squeeze any more people into an area, but I'm not sure how practical it is to consider that since you're hitting major dystopia long before you get to that point.
It has a significant impact on my emotional enjoyment. I feel happier, less grumpy, less anxious, when I sleep my full 8
I use AT&T and they removed the port 25 block on request. In my experience, they do not enforce any policies regarding self-hosting. I think they have boilerplate that they would use if one were to continuously saturate their upstream, but I've never seen them doing anything to affect my personal services.
You are the reason why everyone and their mother has a tipping jar!
Are they not? As I stated in my OP, false sexual assault allegations are extraordinarily rare. This includes ones made against public figures. And, when they are made, they are found out and dismissed.
How could this possibly be faster than a linear classifier? In "Implementation" near Section 2 they claim that their implementation is better than a linear classifier but that seems like it couldn't possibly be true could it? A single floating point operation per parameter has gotta be faster than multiple branches, right?
It'd be nice to see it on the actual building providing a service. I know that a lot of governments (national, state/provincial, local/municipal) publish this information, but having a currency value next to school or a library is powerful thing. Imagine a political candidate advocating for tax cuts in a local debate, and a member of the audience asks, "Candidate, after your tax cut, where will the $X for my child's school come from?"
Thank you for the straight forward and honest opinion. You are right, I don't suffer from any misunderstanding. I simply don't want to pay more than advertised and I think tipping is just the wrong way to pay for services - that should just be included in the price. And then I guess I'm simply not a very empathetic person and I have no problem with other people considering me a jerk - I simply don't care. And as long as others pay something that keeps prices low for me, I benefit, so although I don't like the system it pays off nicely and I'm not ashamed to exploit that.
This is incorrect; acquisition details were never made public.
It's not really obscured. Actual costs and taxes are stated separately on every receipt or invoice. It's just that the advertised price has to include taxes.
But what if tipping is a big part of the reason people are underpaid? What if by tipping you are just moving the issue along.
> I can turn an object with very little effort (literally without doing work) and it’s the same size from our perspective.

I can't reproduce your experiment... I tried turning a piece of paper. At first it looked, say, about as large as a cantaloupe, but when I turned it got smaller and smaller until it practically disappeared, and it becomes very tiny... basically nothing more than a thin line in space. At certain angles I can barely see it at all. What is going on?
"It's true that money can't buy happiness, but somehow it's much more comfortable crying in a Porsche than on a bicycle." - George Carlin

"Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories." - Ronald Reagan

"Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty." - Leo Rosten

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you a jetski. Have you ever seen anyone sad on a jetski?" - The Internet
Visit Australia. Tips are not expected and the service is excellent.
If you're getting audited when you're working at or near the poverty line, the world's fucking broken. There are billionaires out there running around paying next to no taxes because they just don't feel like it and the IRS hardly ever shows up at their doors. They only like to stick it to the millionaires - especially celebrities and other "rags to riches" stories - since that "sends a message" to us work-a-day salaried folk not to get too shifty with the IRS.

If the IRS went on a crusade against underreported tips, there would be an absolute bloodbath in the poorer parts of this country, as tips easily represent more of their income than wages. Fortunately untaxed tips have dropped dramatically now that fewer and fewer people are using cash for transactions, so the IRS has had to take no such corrective actions.
I remembered this episode of Frontline from 2010. It covers for-profit colleges quite well.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/collegeinc/
If everyone behaved as you did, then you would get either substantially worse service or substantially more expensive restaurants. Right now you're arbitraging the good will of other people to pay for the service that you're not willing to pay, i.e., freeloading; because you're still benefiting from the current system and not the experiencing other system you'd consider to be "fair".
> For example, packing as many security features into Titan M's 64 Kbytes of RAM required all firmware to execute exclusively off the stack.

Do what now?

Edit: seriously what does that sentence mean? Executing off the stack is super dangerous. Even on an M3 you can (and should) setup the MPU to have a non executable stack.
> They will probably share huge swaths of the basic chemistry and machinery: proteins,
> So basically, it is very likely we'll be able to eat aliens

Their proteins may be folded in the opposite direction though. That would make things difficult.
That is surprising, but I'm willing to believe that it is also the exception and not the norm.
It's illegal to force waiters to split tips with non-tipped workers unless the restaurant gives up the "tip credit" (referring to the portion of the minimum wage that they get to treat as paid out of tips) for the split tips.
Boston Dynamics' door opening robot dog can now moonwalk to 'Uptown Funk'
I agree with your points entirely, but "culture fit" is a very ugly thing when used to exclude people that cannot be legally discriminated against. There's a reason these employment laws exist; people have a right to a job they are qualified to do regardless of whether they share the hobbies or opinions of the interview team.
Meanwhile, in the united states, people are sued for copyright infringement for publishing publicly available information such as "laws".

I wish our local and state governments were as transparent as yours; sometimes they are, but it's not universal, and it's a sad disgrace that our country's (US's) governing bodies are so enthralled with secrecy in most public matters.
/shrug

Nearly all of my Japanese coworkers, in several industries, went out for lunch. I guess it's not the case in school? That makes sense.
So what you're really doing is (in parallel) finding the decoherence points... These branching/decision points are much more easily found by instrumenting the code as in AFL.

No need to parallelise at all, the compiler gives you that information.

What you have seems like a neat trick, but not an efficient way of actually fuzzing.
> As the father of a current bartender/waitress and the husband of a former I'd like to say: please don't use the servers as a lever to change this thing, because if they couldn't rely on tips they couldn't do the job.

In purely effectiveness terms, that's why they are the perfect lever—in the current pay regime, they can't afford to do the job without tips, so a sufficiently broad practice of withholding tips that renders them unreliable for even the workers that would previously thrive under tipping will force labor pressure on businesses to end the current tip-expected pay regime and collapse the tipping system.

Now, the interim state might be near-apocalyptic for servers, but it there is probably no more effective way to bring the tipping system down.
Also on that page:

>If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate
Because Bloomberg articles are for Apple investors, not Apple customers.

TechCrunch, for example, not only has links to the privacy pages, but has a screen shot of what the page looks like. That page also links to another separate page that shows exactly how to download your data.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/apple-privacy-pages-data-a...
The way I do it is I keep a memory of a song with a known reference frequency in my head. Usually it's the Super Mario Bros. theme, whose root is middle C. I know how the other notes on the scale sound relative to middle C. Sharps and flats are trickier, but if they sound unusual I can go half a step up or down and see if they match some other note. Usually I can identify a tone within half a step or so. Or at least I could, using this method, when I was a kid. Haven't tried it much lately.
Https://oobah.com from the guy who pulled off “The Shed at Dulwich”
How late are you working out? I try to avoid exercise after 2 hours before bed time otherwise I have too my energy to fall asleep on time.
Others have hit the main reasons. One additional I'd guess is that you have "too much" on your resume making it hard to follow.

Start with a one-pager with a medium-size font and plenty of whitespace. Expand to two pages if you are still getting no hits.
I too started w/ web dev (PHP and HTML (so funny to think about those first days starting out)), but ended up moving to the backend (Apache Suite) for my current job, and took up lower level programming from there, so here's my 2 cents.

#1 - throw out the "systems engineer" title. It's ambiguous, can't really be achieved, and I've seen guys out there who are actually Systems Engineers (in job title) who are so good that it's almost sickening - makes me want to quit. So first, get rid of the title.

#2 - Learn a low-level language. You seem to be already doing this (I'm a RUST guy myself). Here you'll probably see (if you haven't already), that there's a focus/efficiency that isn't necessary for CRUD apps (e.g., passing references, using as little memory/cpu as possible, etc). But that's kind of what I like about lower languages, you get almost intimately close to the machine and understand on a completely different level that a web dev.

#3 - And this is something I'm still dealing with: switch your dev mind from higher-level web work, to lower level work. What do I mean? Well a lot of times in web dev, you're building at the application level (e.g., CRUD apps). However, I'm noticing for a lot of lower-level programming, you're building beneath the application level. I'm working on a load balancer at the moment, which isn't really a part of the application, but kinda sits underneath it. The thing about lower-level dev work is that it's not really the show-boaty type of thing that a React can be (oh look at my shiny UI). And in my opinion, it doesn't get celebrated like it should have. I have SO much more respect for lower-level guys, after jumping into that world.

TLDR; systems engineer title is ambiguous, learn a solid low-level language and stick with it, reframe your thinking when it comes to designing/planning what you build
The way my supermarket did it is mail an archive by email and the decryption key as signature required in snail mail to my stored physical address.
Looking for dark matter using quantum technology
I think people are just getting tripped on the fact that it's called a conference or how can you possibly get value from 12 people having fun and talking on what looks like a vacation trip.

The problem is that on HN I would gather most people are tech workers or startup folks and have gone to "real" conferences which are big with tons of people, where Brian Casel fits more into the content marketing, consultant, life-style business sphere, which is usually for self-employed consultants, or 1-2 person bootstrapped SaaS or service businesses. In that sphere, there is so much value to be had talking to another successful person doing something similar to you and how they manage a solo 6 figure business and/or 100k+ mailing list empire.

As mentioned in the article, it's probably more akin to a mastermind group (again which seems like it only fits into that latter sphere, unless you are a high level operating exec), but with some variability into who gets in and who stays.

As someone who went from startup world into consulting world, reading and listening to the folks in that sphere, this kind of stuff is pretty common and is actually super valuable, perhaps 1000x more value then I've ever seen in another conference I've attended, especially since I'm more shy and dislike talking to rando's and going to strange parties knowing no one after hours, but this is a small group of people in an intimate setting where everyone can meet each other and get a chance to talk, like forced networking.

I don't think a group of friends or colleagues going skiing to discuss dev-ops or NodeJS would be that relevant or worthwhile in this type of case, but perhaps a group of founders running companies with 5-10 employees facing the same challenges might be.
> it's disgusting that the person who spends may 30 seconds providing service gets X% of the bill

Yikes,wait till you find out how much the ACH and CC networks get for providing a fully automated service.
Tips are taxable.

You could probably get away with shortchanging the IRS where tips were all cash but with cash declining on a value + volume perspective I think those days will be behind us soon enough.
The tech industry idolizes and encourages terrible behavior, and it ends up being self-reinforcing. Efforts to counteract that get pushback. How many people will get upset if you suggest that Steve Jobs was not a good person and probably shouldn't be idolized? Or that Linus's email habits are not a good thing to emulate?

We will tell ourselves fun stories about how people being jerks just means they are no bullshit people who care about getting things done.