skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would make more sense if the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wasn't also notorious for having extremely high turnover.
they render fine in Safari : maybe transient CDN glitch?
Building an Online Retail Dashboard in React
We don't have the full details but presumably this was on a single test at the beginning of the class.
Or, through selection, a type of people or culture will arise that remains fertile even in the modern world. I think there's some precedent to this in nature...
"The labour market is quite good," [for employers, terrible for employees] "and there is no shortage of qualified individuals for almost all positions (CFO, specialists included)."

I guess...
Though it's worth pointing out that the SE did beat out its contemporary iPhone 6s, with which it shares most of its innards. Differences are the smaller display, slightly smaller battery, 1st vs 2nd gen TouchID, and a lower res front-facing camera.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10285/the-iphone-se-review/3

24% longer on wifi web browsing. Worse on the graphics benchmark, but only because the framerate is higher (smaller screen resolution) which keeps the CPU from idling as much.

Makes you wonder what the performance of a modern small iPhone could be like.
Location: Winnipeg, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (to Europe)

Technologies:

Python: django, flask, scripting

Python ML: numpy, scipy, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Java: spring, springboot, spark

Databases: MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL

DevOps: Docker, AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS), Digital Ocean, Mesosphere, prometheus, Linux (awk, sed, binutils etc) and friends

Front-End: vue.js, React, Angular, jQuery

Resume/CV:

https://www.stolaconsulting.com

CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HWZiqE2LgWzdrrXJOkFUmZm_fG...

Email: danil (at) stolaconsulting.com or in the CV

Highlights:

I am a software engineer with 5 years of experience building distributed platforms with Python and Java using microservices and robust engineering methodologies. I am capable of learning new technologies on the fly and love to challenge myself technically and professionally and contribute to every stage of development, from design to production deployments and monitoring.
So does this include the OS as well, or is it just an emulated hardware box that paves the way to then install NEXTSTEP on?
Stanford Undergrads build AI-based drawing prediction system
I don't disagree, that is one of the interesting concepts in the book on scarcity[1]. If you're operating at the limits of your demand for a resource it affects the way to reason about that resource and can lead to counter productive choices.

That said, if you aren't constrained to only doing mechanical turk or figure 8 things, then you have the option of doing something different, or adding in other resource streams. You you trade off the time vs money aspects of different work situations to achieve longer term stability. That doesn't apply of course to people who have extenuating circumstances that cut them off from any other revenue stream and that makes them vulnerable to exploitation.

[1] "Scarcity: Why having so little means so much", Sendhil Mullainathan
Seems it’s pending review: https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview

Per here: https://video.fosdem.org/2019/README.txt

Someone should reach out to the speaker so he can review it and get it released.
I can give one tiny little bit of advice from several years about tutoring and teaching mathematics and physics...

Always start with examples.

If I am trying to teach the fundamental ideas of complex analysis, I want to show folks how to take derivatives of complex functions with several worked examples and then show them how to do line-integrals on the complex plane -- I want them to have a big repertoire of things that they have worked out. I want them to have done for themselves several "closed loop" integrals that have come out to zero, and some that have come out to one, before I ever imagine putting the residue theorem underneath their noses. When I explain that analytic functions are these conformal maps which preserve angles, I want them to understand that how we defined analytic functions requires them to locally look like scaled rotations, and to understand that neither scaling nor rotation can change an angle.

Same thing in computing. I wouldn't dream about explaining what a monad is until I've explained what a functor is, and I wouldn't dream about explaining what a functor is without thinking through how lists and maybes and functions and eithers and pairs are all "outputtish" in a certain hard-to-describe way, maybe even discussing how a `forall z. (a -> z) -> z` is actually outputtish in `a` too, before I could finally define some bad definitions ("can get an output out of it" -- well no, I can't do that with the function!) and then alight on "okay so here's a good definition of outputtish as mappable, you can take a function and map it over the output" and then the fact that this has a specific jargon name at that point is no longer of any consequence, "we call this a functor" -- great, some name to memorize, but the concept is "not hard."

In other words, abstractions are patterns in concrete topics. The Dewey Decimal System organizes a library. It is incredibly difficult to convince someone to use the Dewey Decimal System to organize a pile of five books: "What's the point in having this big abstract unifying theory about book contents? I only have five of them!". But what you do if you want to teach someone the Dewey Decimal System is to make sure that first they have a whole library that is in some mess of a state, they can't find what they need to find and they can't see where to file new "books" (examples, pieces of information) and then you come over the hill with this Dewey Decimal System and you look like a righteous force for justice, "aha! everything can be well-organized!"

I have tried so many times to lead with the "Here's how you want to think about this sort of problem!" theory for all of my tutees, and it always leaves them looking at me with that "what abyss of hell did this crazy tutor crawl out of?" face. By contrast if I am just encouraging about "okay, what do you know about this system?" and am very careful to snip the premature theory of "Uh, F = m a?" that they have been exposed to, we can often work through a problem in words and then work through it in numbers and then I can suggest that here is a different way to think about it in terms of, say, momentum conservation.
Simple guess/answer: in quantity upload time/bw (x2 for x264) is massively cheaper than encoding time (x100 for x265).

Also: if you’re doing 2160p 10bit HDR, there’s no chance those Rokus are going to play them anyway.

Disclaimer: not involved with the scene at all, so this is mostly educated speculation.
Ask HN: How do you get rid of “toxic” clients?
How do (or did) you get rid of "toxic" clients?

Toxic = low pay, speculative, too much changing requirements, constant chasing, etc.
How about not hiring women in the first place and letting them stay home with children?
480 days together. Of those, 90 days each are non-transferrable (between the parents).
Yeah Trump broke people's brains. Look at this anti-semite: http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170522092440-02-tru...
Then they really wouldn't own the site, and have an even better case for not paying you.
And then my comment would be false. But as it stands today, it's true.

I do think you overestimate how trivial it would be for "management" (who? a senior PM? Sergei? Zuck?) to decide to turn off all internal security controls so individual Googlers could send emails using someone else's identity--it would likely run afoul of multiple current laws and contracts, to speak nothing of the universal, strong internal objections there'd be to that change and the high engineering cost to migrate off those systems. And I can't imagine a business landscape that would encourage any company to let individual employees do that.

There are tons of things to worry about wrt BigTechCos, but preventing and auditing rogue employees are something where their incentives align pretty strongly with the public good.

FWIW I do support stronger legal and privacy requirements (with some caveats, mostly because compliance is very expensive and potentially harmful to smaller companies).
Yea I have zero desire to be off from work for that long.

I took a sabbatical/break between projects from May until around September this year. I put myself under no real pressure to do anything, and during the weekdays I was free to go mountain biking and do whatever else I felt like.

Yet still I worked on random projects for about 60% of the time the entire break. I just crave the deep flow state that comes from building things too much.
Yes, but the fact that he could creates a strong incentive for the company to identify such people and not hire them in the first place.
This varies state by state, and California is notorious as one of the states with stricter gun laws. In many parts of the country, person-to-person gun sales (without a firearms license) are common and police rarely investigate them.
pours drink into chess computer
This is how it's done w/o having the company in shambles after 2 employees take their parental leave.
Plan in advance, rely on a steady flow of workforce willing to work only for a year.
I can't see any other options a healthy child-mother relation could develop than this.
Of course, todays corporate design needs to be overhauled structurally for this to work, but we have to decide which benefits more for our society.
> In liberal society today many equate killing an animal to violent murder.

I kinda feel like it's seen as the opposite--a very controlled thing that has been industrialized to a huge scale.

> If you spend time around hunters or farmers, they have much more complex relationship with animals than most urban dwellers do.

I don't think it's these hunters and farmers who are running CAFOs.
You just tell them you’re too busy with other work. Eventually they get the message.
This is a fascinating case study in AI. What do you think is the most common thing a person would start to draw on this system? If you said a penis, it looks like you'd be correct. By the time I came across this site, anything I started to draw (a sun, star, basketball hoop) was magically transformed into a penis.
I read a few times the results at texpion (the first 4 results from that DDG query), and I must say that I'm confused. I was expecting to see some particularly good results in favor of AV1, but the "Conclusions" section in page 1 state that:

* both x264 and x265 take less time to encode and the produce smaller files (lossless compression)

* AV1 takes 160x-190x more time than x264 (lossless compression)

* AV1 can't take advantage of multi-threading the same way x264 and x265 can. Neither for encoding nor for decoding.

* AV1 requires 3.5x-6x more CPU power to decode than x264

I just fail to see how AV1 is "all around better". Can you share another link? Maybe this time more specific so I can read the data you used to get to that conclusion.
>>We hire interims or share responsibilities between other members of the team. It happens all the time and we rarely find an issue with this.

Sounds nice but in practice it means people who don't have children or have less children do more work.
As someone who doesn't want to have children I wouldn't want to work for a place where I am expected to do more work when others get pregnant.
There is real cost even if government pays for the leave. Either you eat the costs of hiring a new employee (in some businesses it's several months of salary and time to train them) or your other employees have to do more work for the same pay.
What happens if that person holds the company hostage and drags them in directions they don’t want to go?
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Rust doesn't just give you better guarantees. It gives you no runtime checking, and potentially even better performance than naive C, because it can automatically tell LLVM when there is no memory aliasing going on.[0] Also, it gives you more confidence, because you can, for example, give out an array to someone and be sure that it won't be modified. And usually that kind of confidence is enough to write safe, race-free parallel code.

I don't think Swift's runtime exclusivity checks give you any of that.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/50744
"A colher na boca" from Herberto Helder. A poetry book that challenged my perception of the world and our place in it.
This might interest you but it's in the context of Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-27/asian-food-fine-dinin...
https://github.com/zaygozi/lazlodb
I'm not going to repeat what others have commented. They're right. Another issue for me is culture. While I love US northwestern culture, I need to live in a culture that values science and scientific thinking based on data. This is one thing that is non-negotiable for me.
The other blood testing machine companies also knew that there was no way they solved all the problems Theranos claimed to solve all at once.
19th c Russian literature is awesome. It might be personal, but Russian literature has a very special place in my heart. I recommend reading other works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. I also strongly recommend Gogol and Chekhov.
Since this is parental leave we're discussing, would you make the same judgements when considering hiring a young man and only hire contractors that don't get the protection of labour laws?
I have an S8 and generally have to charge it half way through the day. Going on a 1 1/2 walk while just listening to spotify will drain the battery between 18-24%. Been trying to decide between the Pixel, XR, or S9 since its been so bad recently. If the S9 really has that amount of improvement I wouldn't mind doing the straight upgrade since video/picture quality isn't a big deal for me.
This is actually exactly the response I was hoping for. Any community that responds in a black-or-white manner on a cultural issue like this one would be completely incapable of supplanting a global site like Reddit.
> GP’s comment should be taken into context: the CEO is not just a cool dude, he does stupid stuff like rewriting in DB user comments making fun of him.

Huffman has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgement. Using your admin privileges to edit comments for personal reasons is the kind of thing one would expect from some power tripping admin on some small, privately run forum, but not from the CEO of a multibillion Dollar company that operates one of the largest sites on the Internet. That incident alone should have been reason enough for him to either step down or get fired. In fact, his predecessor as CEO Ellen Pao even commented that she would have fired him for this.
> It's surely doable in big organizations but small businesses it's an overwhelming cost

And yet, there they are ... still having small businesses, and consulting shops, and all manner of people continuing operations in the face of such start conditions ;)

edit: Holy crap, I hadn't even finished reading your comment

> If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman as getting a new employee to the stage where they contribute value is a huge cost.

wat ... this is just ... this is a terrible thought process and ideology.
Here's an architecture student who build his own small trailer home to have a place to live while studying:
https://www.tu.no/artikler/na-har-sigurd-19-fatt-smart-strom...

(In Norwegian, but there are pictures and a diagram.)

In short: 130 sq.ft. trailer home, built with structural insulated panels on a boat trailer for around €30k in total. Bathroom, kitchen, sleeping area, room for four people. Google Sketch as design program. "Smart" control unit for electricity, e.g. it turns off the water heater when the electric stove is turned on, so the total power draw never exceeds the current limit where he's plugged in. And remote control from a smartphone app.

He built his own rather than buying a caravan because he wanted e.g. better insulation for winter use and full-size kitchen appliances.
Love your list, but wanted second Imagined Communities. I don't see it as much as the other's (frequent HN recommendations). Drags a bit, but is short and impactful. I especially thought its exploration of how _language_ influenced nation's was particularly enlightening. If you find the Selfish Gene to have powerful explanatory effect, I bet you will feel similarly about Imagined Communities.
That usually means you have to take it to the insurers specified repairer which is usually the lowest bidder. No thanks!
Your argument is so convoluted that you were probably better off not saying anything at all.

It seems like you're starting from a conclusion and providing all of the things that support your conclusion. Instead, consider all the data and see what conclusions are revealed.

You haven't conceded a single merit to the counterargument.
My inspiration when it came to me learning/building/programming computers and most everything else I undertook in my 20's. It made me strive to be a know-er of things, not just a user.
I’ve made progress informing people quite plainly that, over time, the data of an irregular period is an early indicator of a number of life-changing health conditions. But I agree that people are most geared towards seeing that if something has monetary worth than it’s undeniable it has innate worth. Empathy doesn’t have to be engaged then.
It'd be great...if it hadn't been fairly thoroughly discredited, especially the strong form he seems to be suggesting.
Are these traded on an exchange?
I don't think the problem is too many options. This is one of the great benefits of the free market.

The biggest problem with Linux distros, IMHO, is that nobody has really created a packaged install that's simple for users to get running. Ubuntu is ahead of the pack but there are still many issues... creating a USB boot stick, using Ubuntu under Windows, accessing your network with a VPN -- those a just a few I've experienced.

Until a Linux distro gets to the level of packaged, simple installation like users enjoy with Windows and Macs, the operating system won't take off on the desktop. And that's a real shame. We need open source software more than ever.

Perhaps there's room in the market for just one more distro that can solve this!
Nice article, covers a lot of ground
For a game that - in principle - should be no fun at all, The Mind is terrific.
I've not dealt with the NGC directly -- only other gaming commissions and some NGC partners -- but everyone I've dealt with in gambling has cared deeply about security. They often get it wrong, but they take this stuff very seriously.
Why is this a gender issue? Both the Gates Foundation program and the Canada law are gender-neutral.
To play devil's advocate: such dismissals are common to hear for all kinds of ideas/products. People are often not familiar or dismissive towards problems facing people other than them.
The Ophiuchi Hotline, by John Varley (and all the books that followed in the Eight Worlds Saga). Cloning, brain transfers, photosynthetic humans floating for millenia around saturn. I dedicated a significant fraction of my work career to implementing this (unsuccessfully, as you might imagine).
>If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman

Men can get parental leave in European countries, so in this case your strategy is not working.
Yup, I felt similar just 6 months ago. I quit my job and changed what I did and love it. I went from being an engineering manager to being an engineering consultant working in entirely different lines of business.

The skills are the same, the pay is slightly better, but the work is more rewarding for me right now.

When I had my last job it didn't seem that bad while I was there. I didn't enjoy it, I felt useless, but I kept going. I kept expecting things to change or to get better. They didn't.

It turned out the job just wasn't for me. I also work remote now as I had in the past for several years running my own business.

Maybe it's not you, maybe it's where you work or what you work on.
If you haven't yet, be sure to check out Hofstadter's other two works in the same mould (it's kinda a series) as GEB:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I

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

Also - you might enjoy Kevin Kelly's book, "Out of Control":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Control_(Kevin_Kelly_bo...

Oh - and in a similar vein, Marvin Minsky's book "Society of Mind":

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

The problem with so many of these books is that there's been a lot of criticism and praise for all of them, tear downs, rebuttals, critiques, etc; not to mention various kinds of "evidence" both in support and against the various theories involved. The history of the ideas is long and convoluted, and is almost impossible to sort out today without a long and concerted effort on the part of the reader.

I prefer to take the information as more a "tour de force" - information to inspire my thinking, and where it seems to be relevant (or has supporting evidence of efficacy), application of it to problems at hand.

I hope that makes sense...
Sketches show the artist, and for that reason alone I would love to read such works.

Great point, though, on the potential chilling effect.
Reddit provides a pretty large amount of features (once you include advertising, moderator features, subreddit customization, image hosting, etc.) while WhatsApp provided a very small number of features. As a note, Reddit is already running their own in house ad platform and have been for a while.
For contrast: why containers are a poor choice for small, function-based workloads on the edge: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...
I'm not sure if this is practical advice, but the Vi editor has lived on since 1976 in Vim (1991), NeoVim (2014), and even emacs (via Spacemacs, 2015).

I doubt anywhere would hire someone based on their Vi/Vim competency, but it's undeniable that it's a tool which has only grown in influence over time.
> Jessie suddenly lunged at the researcher and violently grabbed him by his clothes on his chest before then tearing his attendee badge away from him, telling the researcher that he didn't need it anymore and that he would keep hold of it.

That seems to meet the legal criteria for assault and possibly even battery. Quoting from https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/assault-battery-aggr... :

"Assault is sometimes defined as any intentional act that causes another person to fear that she is about to suffer physical harm. This definition recognizes that placing another person in fear of imminent bodily harm is itself an act deserving of punishment, even if the victim of the assault is not physically harmed."

"Historically, battery and assault were considered separate crimes, with battery requiring that the aggressor physically strike or offensively touch the victim. In that way, a battery was a “completed” assault. Many modern statutes don't bother to distinguish between the two crimes, as evidenced by the fact that the phrase "assault and battery" has become as common as "salt and pepper." These days, statutes often refer to crimes of actual physical violence as assaults."
Yes, this has always been a focus obviously, but now I feel you're getting fewer of the people who can tell you exactly what's wrong with your Mac/iPhone and instead getting people who tell customers that they should close all their iOS apps when they're done with them to "clear the RAM" (this was the Genius helping the person next to me last time I went there). I'm not a retail employee, but from my conversations with them there's less technical training.
To be fair to the journalists, those are actually open research questions.