skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only real issue I have is that the bank's exchange rates are criminal!

Exchange fees show up in a number of different places. I have a Capital One card that I got specifically for the advertised "no foreign exchange fees". In reality, it consistently charges me about 1% more than the official exchange rate at any given point. 1% doesn't seem like a terrible fee. I wish it would itemize it, though.

Many merchants will not bill the card in their local currency -- instead, because it's a US card, they refuse to bill it in anything other than USD. That means they end up making me pay extra to cover their exchange costs, which are always exorbitant, maybe 10 times as much. They appear to have something worked out with their local bank, where the bank accepts payment in USD and gives them payment in CNY or HKD. Here, the bank is teaming up with the merchant to screw the customer without even benefiting the merchant.

I recently ordered something from Amazon's Canada site, and they generously offered to let me have them bill me in USD -- they would cover currency exchange themselves. Left unstated was that they would charge, again, an order of magnitude more for the service than my card would. At least they gave me the option to say "no, bill me in CAD".

The best option I generally have for transacting in China is to pull cash from an ATM (paying Capital One's 1%ish fee), and pay cash even for very large purchases. It's quite possible that banks aren't where you're getting hit by exorbitant fees -- transact directly with a bank, and you should be able to get low fees.
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Interesting that blockchain is not mentioned at all. Is it past its hype cycle?
Author here! Not an ad at all (and Bolt isn't an investor). We just like to take apart new products and see what we can learn about them and the companies that build them.
I've worked at 2 companies that decided to do their 'own cloud' vs just use stuff like AWS, and they were not devops tool companies.

It slowed down both them.

Remember that staff cost money too!
Thanks for the feedback! We find that Searchlight is most helpful for hiring managers who are time-strapped and have high inbound applicants. We realize that this may lean more towards non-technical, early to mid-level roles more so than engineers.
Zigbee.dev redirects to Z-Wave wiki page
>Do it in the middle of the night //

Lol, because computers don't archive/crawl webpages and everyone in the World is asleep at 2am CET (or whatever your/their timezone is). /amused
> Do you email people who work there?

No. They'll rarely tell you anything useful because they'd risk their job.

Focus on former employees instead if you really must. (And only stick to recent ones if you do, because companies change.) But IMHO you don't actually need to do this nowadays.

> Do you just jump in and hope for the best?

Absolutely not.

At the very least check out their website, their execs, and your future boss. Google whoever you think is relevant and check their respective LinkedIn profiles, blogs, social media, etc.

Even more importantly, pay attention to any hints of company culture or technical red flags during interviews. Ask soft questions as you run into them to keep the interview process flowing; and dig deeper when you're in the negotiation phase.

> Are there apps or sites you like?

Glassdoor was interesting in the past. It still is, but there's a strong sampling bias and a lot of astroturfing. IMHO it's mostly useful to check for recurring, obvious red flags. YMMV.

CrunchBase is sort of useful to get funding data -- when it's accurate. (IMHO you're better off asking this type of data point blank during the interviews.) The important bit here is how they'll approach things like risk taking and technical debt, as already noted in an excellent sibling answer.

AngelList and LinkedIn are useful to get a feel of who the execs and your future boss are. Personally I wouldn't touch a company whose exec team is all 20-somethings with a 10-foot poll. Some youngsters are brilliant but I'd rather see a few adults in the room too. But that's just me...

Google is the most useful tool overall. You'll sometimes be surprised by what comes up when you google some exec's name and go through a few results pages or their social media accounts.

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Last point: don't underestimate the value of this research. If you're going to move to some new location and/or change jobs thinking you're going to stay there for more than a few months, take an afternoon to do this research to avoid getting ugly surprises.
>Openly disputing facts with elder relatives is considered bad behavior.

I was envisioning the opposite - like posting anything critical of the government's handling of Tiananmen Square would have your little uncle spybot posting "corrections" to the chat explaining the government sanctioned view.
Blockchain, literally just a merkle tree..
That's a good point. But why not provide a free way to gauge how much the service can save you, then charge appropriately? Why should I pay 10$ to see how much I can save? I'd rather know that for free, then pay a higher amount to actually have you tell me what those ways to save are.

It could be that I'm weird, but 10$ for me triggers some bias in my mind that makes me think the service is not legit, is fragile, won't realy do all it claims, etc. Strange.
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I also quit to start a consulting company and mine is $150/hr.
Depending on the scale and predicted growth of the business, I would probably use one of the commercially supported on-prem solutions that deploys image builds, manages ILO's, etc.. e.g. rackN, foreman, etc... to guide future employees down a consistent path. I would probably also complement that with Ansible AWX or Ansible Tower for orchestration and run-time configuration changes.

I would keep the images really small, simple, up to date and use Ansible to add any service specific packages. Image builds of each service can turn into a massive amount of storage really quick.
Like scrum masters, or nonworking spouses?
Validating the references are a top priority for us. By anchoring the reference to a job context and verifying the referencer through work emails or Linkedin profiles, we hope to address most of the fake review problems. This is a feature that we will develop further as we grow.
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We're looking for another senior front-end dev skilled in AngularJS (1.x) to help us build an internal tool for oil drilling engineers. I'm one of two front-end devs on the project. 2/3rds of the current team is full-time remote.

Shoot me a personal email for more information. mikeymco @ gmail
Class is more than just individual earning potential. I think a lot of people here (myself included) know that the scientist is more educated than the romance novel degree holder. The part we don't talk about though is that the people with degrees of "negative market value" often have those degrees because their families are rich enough that they don't have to work for a living and can do things like pay to study romcoms.

This is one of the arguments people make against unpaid internships in media and fashion industries. Only rich kids can live in NY for peanuts so these internships effectively filter out poor people (as they were designed to do).
Lyft's load varies wildly, with significantly higher traffic on Friday and Saturday nights than e.g. 4 AM on a Tuesday, plus spikes on certain evenings like Halloween and New Year's Eve. Having cloud hosting where we can dynamically grow and shrink based on load saves us a lot compared to having fixed infrastructure that is always provisioned for the NYE peak.

Source: I work at Lyft.
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If you're an engineer looking to flex your marketing muscles, or a growth hacker wanting to work with some very technical partners, you could be a good fit for this role.

About you:

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As someone who has no idea what media professionals require or why Photoshop/etc are so good, what makes programs like that so much better? I have occasionally watched videos of people using Blender or Krita or Gimp or ... Ink(spot?scape?), and they seem to be fine. Though, again, I don't use them professionally in the least bit.
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We are hiring for a full stack developer (python, go and JavaScript are our go to languages)

Females find it far too difficult and time consuming to find the clothing they want to buy online.

We value speed and simplicity over features or animations.

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www.theurge.com
Why we killed our Kubernetes stack
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Instana is revolutionizing the application performance management space, where we compete with the likes of AppDynamics and Dynatrace. Financed by Merritech and Accel, we are growing very rapidly and need help! We have teams all over the world, but most of the engineering is in Germany and Serbia.

Our stack is good'ol Java on Dropwizard with Reactive Streams, using ClickHouse, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka and CockroachDB as data stores. The product is both SaaS on AWS and on-prem.

You should have a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience with Java 8, lambdas and streams and be fluent in english. Familiarity with Reactor, K8S and AWS are a plus. We are processing > 40k events/sec per datacenter, so if you want to work on something more interesting than a SpringBoot CRUD app, by all means drop us a line.

We offer competitive pay, stock options and all the usual perks.
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Please email fabian.staeber@instana.com directly.
How to Estimate a Project Timeline?
Gotcha. Yeah, we're planning on allowing users to tweak their performance by providing this sort of constraint to the system, and allowing the system optimize it. We are far from that, but that's where we're aiming for.
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It would be phenomenal if:

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> Such a demonstration should have come in the form of at least a prototype comparable to a Lisp machine

There were a few. See for example the Melcom PSI:

http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/other/0009.html

Mitsubishi planned in 1986 to sell 500 of them for a price of $199000 each.
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Nothing a society does is in every individual's best interest.

The question tends to end up - are the costs and benefits diffuse or focused. Focused costs tend to be negatives (loud complaints from small groups), and diffuse benefits aren't perceived.

Free trade (at the start) is a diffuse benefit, and a focused injury. It's like arguing for action on climate change.
That I get. I have no desire to keep my parents crap but I also don't want my kids destroying my stuff while I can still enjoy it. There is no expectation for them to "inherit" it just respect that I want to keep it. If they actually want any of it great but I'm not forcing anything on them
As a multimodal platform/TaaS, is Lyft going to enter the urban air mobility space? Uber is already looking into eVTOL and air mobility with their Uber Elevate team. I saw Blade just launched scheduled helicopter flights in the Bay Area. Use my invite code, SF-4DAN98, for early access. Going to try a flight next week to see if it reduces my commute time.
I think you're right. It's much less political, but I used to upload stuff to facebook that I thought might shock my friends. I eventually realized that this content of mine was showing up in almost no one's feed.

[edit]

It wasn't political or graphic material, just more "internet meme-y" than many of them were used to.
It isn't particularly helpful that economics as a discipline seems to have the same predictive value as soothsayers and court jesters(). Mostly economic theory in the western world is used as a cudgel to justify particular policies that benefit a few at the expense of many.

() eg: all the following were justified by "economists": trickle down economics were promised to increase middle class (nope), prediction of inflation caused by quantitative easement (hasn't happened yet), devaluation of dollar due to trade deficit (hasn't happened yet), gains in tax revenues by unlocking growth through tax cuts (nope), etc ...
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The parent did not specifically talk about NNs. As I understand it AutoML could apply to all statistical endeavours that involve estimation (classical or bayesian).
That makes sense if you are paying for cachet (conspicuous consumption)... And the majority of Rolex and LV buyers are.

But most brands do not carry that cachet.
Sorry, that's not true at all. There's often A LOT of wiggle room.

Insider Tip: The internet desk is usually separate from the floor desk at your average dealership. When you know exactly which car you want to buy, negotiate through the internet desk only at several dealerships. But be prepared to walk if they try to pull a bait & switch when you show up to purchase.
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Airbnb does this too. They give all of their employees an annual stipend to travel via Airbnb, so that they can regularly experience the app from the perspective of a guest. I think they also provide benefits for employees who host guests, for the same reasons.

When you think about it, it seems so obvious that companies should do things like these, yet it still seems so rare. It's easy to fall out of touch with your users and product.
The link I referenced is here:

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/interest-rate-r...

Doing more research I found this which states it has jumped to 17.64%:

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/rate-report.php
Wish I could read this, but the site owner is using cloudflare to force visitors to solve Google's captchas.

Nota bene HNers claiming that one can simply "not use Google".
California Is Stuck Fighting Climate Change with a Bankrupt, Distrusted Company
>Conservatives like to pin the blame in forest management just as a desperate attempt to take the heat off climate change.

Im pretty sure the primary appeal would be failure of widereaching goverment policy, versus climate change.
Xixit!

If only for the music tracks.
Small groups are for sure becoming popular. I’m surprised that your daughter is doing that through Discord vs a messenger app. Is she a gamer?
Jesus Christ. Enough with the paternalism. I look at the way I slowly worked my way to America, taking on odd jobs on the Internet, making a dollar here and there and now I'm here making lots of money. And I wouldn't have had the bloody chance if you guys had had your way.

All you guys want is to be able to say you did something nice. "Oh their privacy is protected. Of course I'm blocking off opportunities for them but that's really a failure of their government". Man, maybe I want to take the damned risk because by the time you get around to fixing my life (which, let's be clear, is never) I'm gone.

Why don't you go talk to these people and see if they'd rather have the buck or their data? I know which I would have chosen, because I chose it in the past. The buck. And that's why I'm here and to hell with all those new-age internet hippies who would have tried to stop me "for my own good".
Mithril Capital’s Ajay Royan Talks About Working with Peter Thiel and Investment
> Google, facebook, and amazon are ALL networks that connect users to info. Not a single one of those is a product or is even capable of 'herding' attention.

They connect users to info by herding them.

Google has, what, 25 billion indexed pages? I don’t get those at random when I search. Likewise, I don’t see a random subset of Facebook’s 2.2 billion users or Amazon’s >12 million products. I don’t even see a complete list of my friends’ posts on Facebook; it thinks it knows better and herds me (and everyone else).

I don’t even see the same thing as other users searching for the same keywords: Googling “mouse” in a normal window gives me the computer peripheral, doing the same in an incognito window gives me the animal. Herding people based on what it thinks you want, but easily corruptible if desired.

On Google, some keywords bring up an alert saying some results were hidden because of copyright claims, giving me links to (IIRC) chillingEffect.org, which is a fairly on-the-nose kind of herding.