skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why do large companies work with IT work-force providers?
So I was contacted by a recruiter from an IT service provider firm about potential SWE position for a large public company (client). The terms of that employment would be - W2 with the recruiting company that then 'contracts' me out to the client.

I get the part where the recruiting company is interested in such relationship because they will get the delta between the $ client pays them and $ they pay me, but what is the benefit for the client? I never really understood that.

In this case the hourly rate would be ~$80/hr which is similar to what a client would pay their employees for a Sr SWE position.

So if I get paid $80/hr per contract that means the client has to pay more to the recruiting firm for them to justify employing me.

So the client may end up paying more for a contractor than a full-time employee?

Or is there a catch that Im missing?
I've also never been employed like that, so would like to know what are the pros/cons of such employment terms?
One of the best things is you really don't even have to convert to anything.
Itself discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271265 .
Well, that's only completely horrific. Cool idea, but should definitely be limited to a fixed list of commands or something. Even then, some stuff that might be handy like xargs could be quite dangerous...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18291302.
Ask HN: I need to make extra $20k for a mortgage balloon payment. Any advice?
I'm in a tight spot and need to figure out how I can make an extra $20,000 dollars for a balloon payment on my mortgage. It's been a rough year personally and this somehow slipped off my radar and it's become an urgent issue.

I'm very experienced web developer and I do mostly contract work and sell a few products. I have easily made $20k in a month several times before, but those months are unplanned, and I just happened to book a lot of work.

Does anyone have any advice about how I can book $20k in work this month? Or sell one of my existing products?

Some of my work:

https://duetapp.com

https://theanchorapp.com

http://getsoloapp.com

http://boulevardjs.com/examples

I also have lot's of client work, mostly startups and some enterprise customers, which I'm happy to share privately.
You could argue that it's been in debated use, but not common use. Otherwise there wouldn't be a debate...
My wife had a very stressful and painful delivery with our first. During her 3 day recovery at Kasier, our nurses provided a lavender treatment (oil on a cotton ball) to help reduce her stress and calm her heart-rate. Our nurses had provided us with a patient information sheet that Kaiser had prepared specifically for this situation.

The key here is this was a very targeted and prescribed treatment performed by trained professional staff with a lavender oil product intended for use in a hospital. Not some huckster MLM agent that selling good knows what.
The simplest target-independent fearless SIMD is autovectorization[1] . But taking maximum advantage of that probably means writing some code that feels a little unnatural. Also, IIRC bounds checks thwart some autovectorization.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/Vectorizers.html
Metaphors help understanding. A neuron is more on the order of an entire logic subsystem, than a transistor or a gate. That's a reasonable comparison-of-complexity statement.
This european PhD program aims to secure the IoT
But that's where the behavior analysis here would be key. Someone mentioned it in a previous post but imagine if Siri, by way of the FaceID sensors, detected that someone's face was closer to the screen or that they were squinting and recommended that she could increase the size of the text on whatever they're reading. Better yet, imagine if someone repeatedly hit a point on the screen followed by the back button and Siri suggested making the buttons on screen larger. At that point, people would view Siri as more of the personal assistant she's meant to be and ask her if she can do things rather than what she can do.
More like "we notice you cough and our home smart smoke detector also detected smoke we now have data points suggestion you are a smoker" let us sell this data to health insurance companies so they can adjust your monthly premium accordingly. Just like those who install devices in their car for insurance companies to reward good driving, those who let us monitor them will be rewarded with better credit(social score).
In python, everything is an object ;)
We have more than 20 different hardware models and Apple is struggling with 2?

iOS 12 officially supports the following devices, per Apple.

iPhones: XS, XS Max, XR, X, 8, 8 Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, 6, 6 Plus, SE, 5S

iPads: 12.9" Pro 2nd gen, 12.9" Pro 1st gen, 10.5" Pro, 9.7" Pro, 6th gen, 5th gen, Air 2, Air, mini 4, mini 3, mini 2

iPods: touch 6th gen

That's 26 different base models, of I don't care to count how many different physical form factors, each of which was/is offered in multiple configurations and has different onboard hardware and capabilities.

Incidentally:

I don't understand why they can't write their OS updates to work properly on a few generations of older models

They support 8 generations of iPhones, 11 generations of iPads, and one generation of iPod, with the oldest supported devices dating to 2013.
No, quantum information, but I always thought Tony Zee had the best whimsical name to use as an example in these situations :)
I second this. Been using the free plan of UptimeRobot for years without a problem. It pings your website every 5 minutes and you get an email alert when it’s down.
But that's the problem - Agile is a list of suggestions, not a recipe or a system. So there isn't a fake or true Scotsman, there are only an outline of behaviors, which each adopting team should use as the beginning of the conversation about what to do for themselves. Think about it perhaps like - you have the Magna Carta, the Constitution, and the Grundgesetz in front of you and get to make your own country, but there's nothing that says you must adopt all or even any of the provisions of those charters if they don't fit your needs.
It looks like 4chan had us all beat according to Robin Houston

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1054637891085918209.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061
my Uncle got bit by a spider. Don't know if it was a recluse.

He was getting dressed in the morning. Put his work pants on that were draped over a chair, felt a sting on his thigh and a spider fell on the floor when he ripped off the pant and shook them out. He had a hands width depression that was about an inch deep. This was after it was healed and completely scarred over. I don't know how big it was while healing.

This was in Arkansas though so smack dab in the middle of the territory on that map[0]

Helping some friends on a farm in West Virginia, their greenhouses would fill up with black widows in the early spring before they got around to cleaning them out for the first planting. 1000s of them in each greenhouse. Quickly learned that they are entirely harmless.

[0]http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif
If you are a video game enthusiast, particularly of a niche genre, /vg/ can be a good place. I'm really into roguelikes, so I visit the '/rlg/' thread around once a week to see what's going on and potentially get some advice if I'm at a tricky part in a run or need to make a decision about where to take my character.

Standard disclaimer applies about 4chan. If you're thin-skinned, you may find it not worth the trouble. Just don't engage with the trolls and you'll be fine.
That's how bash works by default. This tool would be of no use if that's how it worked.
It depends on the field. In fast moving fields like machine learning it is common to cite unreviewed stuff on arXiv. In slower fields it is less common/accepted.
>It turns out that "high demand" scenarios that cause the phone to crash can be triggered by mundane actions like taking photos. If you disallow throttling by law, old devices will just crash all the time.

This was what Apple apologists said when this issue first came to light, but hasn't Apple already shot its own excuse in the foot? iOS 11.3/12.0 came out, removing the throttles, and I haven't seen anything about a rash of phones all constantly shutting off now.
Are you worried about that endpoint being used for DoS or is it light enough?
> I didn't say that either of those defines "rich". I said that a significant portion of the US doesn't pay taxes

Well, I didn't say you said that, so we're good. I'd say I more implied that you implied it.

> Most people would disagree with your definition as well, that's normal middle class, not rich.

Yes, that does sound more like a middle class lifestyle than a "rich" one, doesn't it?

> And most of them don't pay much in taxes either.

Most of who? A hypothetical middle class that meets my (possibly flawed) criteria for richness, or an actual middle class as defined by some percentile spread about the median household income?

What rate of taxation is "much in taxes"?
Once every few months, I go to the website.
Stupid is too harsh, and I don't want to discourage anyone from contributing to open source, but I'm not sure this is all that useful either (at least not to me). Is the utility in not having to press Enter because this'll do it for me between every character? I can only think that the reason people like it so much is because it looks cool or most people don't know how to use command line editing keybindings effectively and like that they won't have to hit up arrow and move slowly across the command to edit. The fact that it doesn't have readline support, timestamped history support, or output the output of the last command to stdout at the end already seem like feature losses when compared to using a shell normally.
HN is fairly random in that, since a lot fewer people upvote things from /new than look at the front page.

It appears the mods just moved all comments over from this.
Check out WNYC's long-running show New Sounds. Its archives are a treasure trove and there's also an online station now at newsounds.org.
As a native Portuguese speaker, I just replace the pronoun with, say, "the group" or some more specific description.

We have an advantage here, because you can translate "belongs to" as just "é do/a", so you can write "it belongs to the group" as "é do grupo".
I live in the Santa Barbara area, and bugs are way less, probably because of how dry it is compared to the midwest. In mid MO I've seen ticks large enough to keep as pets!

However, we do have a lot of black widows. They aren't super aggressive towards humans, but they tend to go in places that you only sometimes visit (the back of that one drawer in your toolchest you don't use very often, woodpiles, Christmas decorations in attic or garage, etc.) I put on gloves before going to any of those locations because I'm told even though it's non-fatal to healthy adults, it's supposed to be excruciatingly painful.
There is risk for some men, but at least here, you go in regularlynfor checkups to ensure there are no problems. Only a small number have the side effects, and these discontinue treatment.
Another Rust project with similar goals, different approach:

https://github.com/jackmott/simdeez

full disclosure, that's mine.
A Harvard business school professor who doesn't want borders as a way to unlock that final piece of mythical economic gain? What a shocker.
Error Messages in AOL Mail
Why is a child having a fever different from an adult having a fever? This isn't pornography or gambling.
The first thing I would do is seek legal and financial advice before telling anyone or deciding anything. I might also temporarily relocate to an undisclosed location with being on vacation as my excuse.
Uh, not a great article.

> Those with type 2 diabetes are not producing enough insulin.

No, that's type 1. Type 2 is characterized by the body's resistance to insulin. So the pancreas produces enough insulin, but the body can't use it. It's true that this can lead to pancreatic damage because of overwork and shift closer to type 1, where not enough insulin is produced, but that's not the main cause of the illness.

This treatment is only for Type 2, of which only a minority needs insulin injections. Most type 2 is treated by a healthier diet and pills.

Type 1, on the other hand, is the one that absolutely requires insulin injections, and there is no cure in sight for that.
If only the courts showed half as much willingness to regulate Apple as Google. Remember when steam was banned from Apple's app store, and Apple retroactively modified it's ToS to justify the ban?
Ask HN: What can we do to corral digital advertising?
After reading this story[1] I'm basically sick to my stomach of digital advertising. It's a topic that's often discussed on HN (i.e., digital advertising) in the context of "I hate it" or "I wish they'd stop tracking me", etc. But what are some actionable steps to take (e.g., software to build, educational materials) that I/we can create/make to help fight the digital advertising beast? Because I don't imagine this is going to stop anytime soon - if anything, I imagine it'll just get worse.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/media/fever-advertisements-medicine-clorox.html
If they are that immoral to you, you can just choose not to visit that country.

Edit: Would you go and visit North Korea on a vacation with your family?
Same. Lived in Japan, rarely saw anyone outside of tourists buying them. Combinis and grocery stores hardly ever feature them (unless those stores get tourist traffic).
AI Aids Eyes:A computer vision system to remind operators to wear safety glasses
The comment you're replying to contains:

> Someone this year made a bot that did it in about 5 minutes.

It's also the case that it's plausible one can interrupt & resume the sequence (at the cost of 4 extra button presses per interruption).
Just to be clear: In the case described in the article, the justification was preservation for historical notability, not merely as a way to maintain architectural style (even if that was a non-official motivation for some people).
Doesn't help of course, but high quality cannot be tested into a product.

I'd place more blame on inexperienced developers that don't know you should never delete user files unless completely sure they aren't needed. Even then they should be put in a backlog to be deleted later.
I think you're responding to the point you want me to be making instead of the one I am. I'm saying they're both very capable, switched-off spy devices, without assigning a trust metric to any provider.

Personally, I wouldn't put it past either company to massively violate my trust if the incentive stars aligned just right, and I think it's silly to pretend otherwise.

The problems of putting a surveillance device in your home and carrying one in your pocket are roughly equivalent, and the rest is a debate about which huge collection of people with a wide array of beliefs and ethics is gooder
No, just observing the hypocrisy in their pro-privacy statements. Or is it that privacy of Chinese users is not worth the same as that of wester users?
I live in Texas. There are brown recluse here. I don't really fear a spider since it doesn't seem like they are all that aggressive to people. The worst part of spiders to me are when I walk through a web. Ive had a bad spider bite that caused great swelling and some necrosis, but I don't know it was a brown recluse. I personally have a nasty fear of wasps, which I cannot rationally explain other than I think they look mean and evil and can fly at you. Here in Houston, we have 2 types that are especially aggressive. The worst is the yellow jacket, since they are great at building a hive in the ground and their small size means you don't see them until its too late in many cases. The other is the Mahogany/Red paper wasp. These guys are usually ok most of the year, but as summer turns to fall, they get a bit aggressive and start wanting your food. They are also relatively large and make pretty big nests.

Even through they are great mosquito killers, I won't let a nest live near a place I frequent. We also have cicada killer wasps, which are very large and very inquisitive. That combination usually has me spazing out at least once a year as they dive bomb me...
Or perhaps use filesystem snapshots as an undo option ... if your fs supports them, of course.
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"The basic advice regarding response times has been about the same for thirty years :

0.1 second is about the limit for having the user feel that the system is reacting instantaneously, meaning that no special feedback is necessary except to display the result."

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
Magnum engine 2018.10 released with animation and Vulkan interop
Show HN: Brownies – cookies and local/session storage Javascript library
4 Ways to Optimize Video Content for Maximum Conversions
Club Mate and Cheez Crunchers
I believe that HN readers also have a special place in their heart for Japanese snacks after those articles got trending:

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/algorithmic-fit...

https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-many-lines-...
We have been fairly happy with Runscope [0] for fairly simplistic monitoring of api response codes and body payloads. My biggest complaint is probably the lack of individualized response data after >= 24 hours.

Still waiting to see if the CA Technologies acquisition [1] makes things worse or not.

[0] https://www.runscope.com/
[1] https://blog.runscope.com/posts/301
This is great. Thanks for sharing.

For something a lot dumber: here's a tiny thing to print out pipe contents to allow for cancelation before continuing the pipe.

https://gist.github.com/jasisk/be34ae93b74a3d3e8f0a4daac1237...
This particular news platform is notorious for publishing fake news and goes out of its way to push its leftist ideology.One can read the litany of lies published by this platform in the link below.

[1]https://www.opindia.com/page/2/?s=wire
So, maybe don't say hypocritical statements like this? Google's and Fb's core business is ad-tech. Do they have a choice when it comes to data-collection? (I say this as someone who has uninstalled both Messenger and Fb app)
Same observation here, before my first trip I expected Kit Kat to be huge there
This sounds interesting. Can you pull up some history and make a gist/pastie?
Just wondering, did you use Scheduled Events or what did you use to implement firing on an interval?
The "some" reads like condescension, may be a regional thing, sorry!
Have we tried something radical? Increasing salaries and training homegrown talent. It is we weird we need foreign programmers, but not foreign managers and vc-s...
Thanks! We've added that to our list of strippy things (AMP is up next) and removed it in this case.
Definitely not true. Transfer learning a model trained on a corpus then fine tuned on labeled classes is current SotA approach [1].

[1] http://nlp.fast.ai/category/classification.html
Since you offered no alternative, where should economic and business research happen?
That's not quite true, the 3 major monotheist religions of the world insist that they are the only true one, and if you don't believe that very bad things will happen to you.
In Virginia? I never saw one in 17 years. Now that was all in Piedmont and Tidewater; perhaps the valley has them, but I doubt it.
I have a quite very crude implementation of form fields on my side, which annotates the type of formfield (as a string) along with several other useful things, like id_for_formfield, html_name etc.

--

In your https://github.com/silviogutierrez/reactivated/blob/master/c...

import {Form} from '../components/Form';

I can't find `../components/Form`. Where is the source for that?

---

Here are the fields I was able to extract, meaningfully.

https://github.com/pycampers/react-pages/blob/417ec24129b80b...

It still doesn't seem enough for building anything serious though.
But it's just very disingenuous, take the politics out of it.

He includes a statement that he prefers chicken soup, which people have very strong views about. You write a comment saying "it's very petty to write about chicken soup we should have higher values than this and not get sidetracked into arguments on nonsense". But where do you post the comment? On a public forum which you're inciting to have that argument.

It's not honest. If you don't like chicken soup and you think that's important, then have the guts to say that. It's actually the oldest meaning of trolling - starting a big fight whilst pretending not to.
Apple Shortcuts: The Bicycle for the Mind Is Back, but It’s Electric
My top 7 user interviews tips
To give you a counterpoint, I've read plenty of computer science and mathematics papers where someone cited an arXiv paper by an obscure or unknown researcher. I've even seen blog posts and email correspondence cited. In fact, in one of my own papers I cited an unpublished manuscript which you can't even find on the internet - you have to personally contact the author, who hasn't touched the thing in the last 25 years. For all intents and purposes, this manuscript - while valuable - only exists in the tribal folklore of the research community. But it's still cited and most active people in the field probably have a personal copy of it on their hard drive.
I disagree there. Chaos occurs naturally. Agile takes real work and discipline.

Cowboy coding isn't agile.
Just having suppressed a giant rant myself, let me ask you: how you would deal with people that don't seem all that interested in personal growth?

I'd wager someone eager to improve their skills will often happily share their progress and code and be open for input. I don't think that's the kind of dev that triggered GP's rant :-)
And how would this announcement have looked if Apple's iAd platform actually succeeded?

While the weaponization of data is a legitimate cause for concern, Apple - the company that maintains a score on you - is hardly the one to be believed as a defender of your data or privacy
You can use unshare to create a read-only view of the file system, without going all the way to containers.[0]

[0]: https://gist.github.com/cocagne/4088467
Along with all our other services, they're monitored by our off-prem Icinga instance.
Ask HN: Are you using GPU databases, what has your experience been?
eg: Mapd, brytlyt , blazingdb, Kinetica ect
> Real java projects …

Can take much longer, and are engineered so that users don't experience a delay.

The users interact with a system that is already launched and up-to-speed. So much for Hello world!