skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter initially ran everything in the cloud. I should know, I was employee 13. It was much cheaper to build our own server hardware and move to our own server and network agreements. Peering and transit is cheaper at scale, as is commodity hardware.
I sell potatoes on an .onion site.

They are high quality potatoes.

You want some?

One for two - special price for you!
Automated Forex Trading
Instacart | San Francisco, Toronto, Remote | Senior engineering roles

I'm a dev at Instacart, where we're building the world's largest market for groceries.

Lots of interesting problems for senior people in various technologies, frontend and backend engineers, iOS/Android, infra/devops specialists, security, etc. It's wild to deal with the scale we're reaching these days, and online grocery is still a tiny market in 2019 compared to what it will be.

We were also frontpaging HN a lot last week for some appearances in the news, which wasn't fun. It was pretty excellent to see how company leadership listened and changed policy within a few days. That doesn't happen everywhere.

If you're interested, reach out to me - email in my profile. Full job listings at https://boards.greenhouse.io/instacart
Basic economics: you're mostly competing with other people who apply for the same jobs as you. There is not one labor market, there are many, and they are often pretty specialized. You can't substitute a plumber for a lawyer or vice-versa. This is why different jobs pay different wages.

This means it's never going to be all that useful to approach controversial issues like immigration at a high level of abstraction. It affects people differently. The details matter, and yet, here we are, talking in abstractions instead of from experience.

There are few facts here, lost in a sea of stylized summaries and witty exaggeration. Maybe we shouldn't take it too seriously?
Lexer generators seem like a useful algorithm wrapped up in heaps of framework bullshit. Wouldn't it be better to have a simple program that inputs regex and outputs a DFA than one that handles the entire lexing process?
WW2 was an existential struggle for all parties involved. No stone was left unturned in the pursuit of victory. Most wacky ideas never lead to anything. A lot of wacky ideas seem like sure bets in hindsight. In 1939 things like constructing fully welded ships was futuristic delivering meaningful bombs with rockets was science fiction and making bombs by splitting atoms was pure fantasy. By 1945 we had liberty ships, ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads.
Good god no! One of the reasons Facebook won imho is simply because you didn't have to go hunting for core navigation features for every single user's profile page. I do emphatically NOT want that with Github... write a website for your project on ghpages if you want it customized.
Location: Denver Colorado, United States

Remote: Yes, but would prefer local.

Willing to relocate: No

Currently a Physics & Math major at CU Boulder. I've picked up quite a bit of experience building prototypes. Looking for some type of internship building prototypes or an analytical work in fintech.

Technologies:

Languages: C (some C++), Python. Have used the STM32F103, ATmega, and ESP8266 families extensively.

Software: Fusion360, KiCAD/Eagle, Mathematica, Photoshop, some SPICE circuit simulation experience

Hard Skills: machining(manual mill + lathe), PCB design and layout, Some DFM experience

I built a failed attempt at helping marijuana growers optimize the local conditions of their grow rooms (CO2, temperature, humidity, light levels etc). Used an ESP8266 optimized for low power consumption and a WiFi mesh protocol to network an array of sensors with MQTT and Graphana. Data was centralized and processed on a Raspberry Pi.

Resume/CV: https://ethan.id/pdf/CV_US.pdf

Email: ethan.myers@colorado.edu
>Are any security researchers actively researching this topic?

What's the point? If you're using Windows you already lost. Use a FOSS OS if you care about your data, it's really the only answer.
I'm not sure how Amazon was mediocre by any measure in 2008 but your second statement is incorrect - AWS only accounts for ~10% of Amazon's revenue. https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/31/amazon-earnings-q4-2018/
One surprise for me, as a European, is that in America people seem to regard bank account numbers as secret - I dwell on forums for landlords, etc, and people expect to collect cash/cheques from their tenants, rather than sharing bank details.

Unrelated to your alleged speed, but another odd perception of the American banking systems.

(Lots of other people in this thread seem to suggest you're an outlier; I don't know enough to guess either way.)
Yeah, but it is an opinion column after all, and labeled as such.

Some (many?) "news" outlets have opinion makers speaking off the cuff all the time and don't bother to label it as such.
I'm working on my first electronics project, it's using Adafruit's Feather M0 Express and a SSD1306 oled screen.

The Feather is a a ATSAMD21 microcontroller with circuitpython - Adafruit's versoin of Micropython (?).
The oled screen is controlled by spi, but can be controlled with i2c, and I think a non-serial protocol.

I've noticed that refreshing the display is very slow, a loop like this flashing the screen is very slow.

while True:
oled.fill(0)
oled.show()
oled.fill(1)
oled.show()

Even writing a line of text is slow

oled.text("Hello", 1, 1)

And the old text is not cleared from the screen so I have to write over the previous display to clear it.

oled.text("0", 1, 1, 0)
oled.show()
oled.text("1", 1, 1, 1)
oled.show()
// at this point the screen shows a 0 and 1 overlaid.

// this is a foolproof way to clear the screen, but it's very slow
oled.fill(0)
oled.text("1", 1, 1, 1)
oled.show();

// This is a little faster than the previous example, but will become harder to maintain as the display becomes more complicated.
oled.text(lastText, 1, 1, 0)
oled.text(newText, 1, 1, 1)
oled.show()
lastText = newText

I'm not expecting a 60hz display, but I don't think I'm getting 12hz.

- Why is this so slow? The microcontroller, the display, the spi protocol, circuitpython?
- Would a display library like LittlevGL speed up rendering?
- Would switching from micropython to c or rust improve performance?
- Could it be as simple as increasing the spi clock (I'm using defaults from the SSD1306 library)?
I posted once in the looking and received a couple of calls from that post. Didn't latch on to anyone, but was good conversations.
Twine | San Francisco, CA | FULL TIME | ON-SITE https://twine.com/jobs/

This is an exciting time to join Twine. Our product is new to market and we are iterating fast.

Twine for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twine-easy-saving-investing/...

Our current open roles:

Senior iOS Engineer, Senior Android Engineer, QA Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Backend Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Senior Product Manager, Senior Product Designer, Partnerships Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Recruiter

Twine empowers people to save more, save better, and save together. We use dynamic technology, design and cutting-edge automated money management to change the way people make financial decisions.

We operate as an independent startup group – backed by the resources and stability of a Fortune Global 500 powerhouse. Our culture is driven by sharing, learning and iterating together.

Feel free to directly get in touch with Nahyun (Team Ops) at nahyun@twine.com. Let's chat!
You can (sometimes) use GitHub to figure out if the company has bad work/life balance, e.g. if you see lots of employees committing code on the weekend on the same dates: https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/01/31/does-company-have-wo...
You can do all of those things and more - easily - with $90m.
The lower rates are, the less room the fed has to maneuver. What if a terrible recession happened? The fed would have their hands tied behind their back at the current rates.
This caught my eye in their exec compensation section:

> For Mr. Green, the 2018 amount reflects $935,105 in personal security services and $1,787 in ride credits for use on the Lyft platform.

Nearly a million dollars for the CEO's security services (presumably also including private air travel)? I can understand Facebook or even Twitter doing this for their high-profile CEOs, but most people would not recognize Logan Green if they seem him on the street.
The damage is already done though. This update will be seen by fewer people than saw the original story and facebook will face no meaningful consequences for deceiving people yet again. It's no wonder they lie so often; it pays off for them to lie.

Another lie that doesn't even get the signal boost of being in the headline:

> Facebook had also told reporters on January 29th regarding teens’ participation, “All of them with signed parental consent forms.” Yet in its response to Senator Warner, Facebook admitted that “Potential participants were required to confirm that they were over 18 or provide other evidence of parental consent, though the vendors did not require a signed parental consent form for teen users.” In some cases, underage users merely had to check a box to claim they had parental consent, and there was no verification of users’ ages or that their parents actually approved.
* This large deficit happened because of large tax cuts in the first place.*

Tax cuts can't directly cause deficits, only spending can. Spending money you don't have offsetting revenue for causes the deficit. Cutting taxes without cutting spending is a problem. Tax revenue is not down, even with the tax cuts, but spending is growing much more quickly.
I've done this a number of times, last time 9 months.

Going on vacation for a week and starting a new job is very difficult to time. You come back give two weeks and have to work really hard transfering knowledge just when you need to be learning everything new job related.
Doing email on a phone[1] is the first example that comes to mind. Wasn't really possible with AMPS but they patented it anyway.

The problem of course is that even after pulling all of the tricks to extend the life of your patent (extensions during filing, submarine patents, etc...), there is a hard time limit that you run into. If you're too ambitious the patents expire before the technology catches up and you get nothing.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/the-s...
I have found both Stoicism and secular Buddhism to be right up my alley.

I'm closing in on 60 years of age, and have had both major wins and major losses in my life. Today, I am generally at peace with whatever happens and my different moods; they come and go like the weather. I usually meditate for 15 - 30 minutes a day. The Buddhist concept of "no self" is something I'm reflecting on as well.
Everything you say could be true, but it doesn't address the comment you responded to. The Constitution requires a declaration of war by Congress. The War Powers Act gives the president the authority to respond to a military emergency for 90 days, giving the Congress time to make such a declaration. Neither of those things have triggered in this case.
I mean if I went all in on crypto from the start and sold around end of 2017/beginning 2018 I would have been a multi billionaire. But that's not the point. Similarly, if I "only" bought far OTM option on FANG between 2010 and 2017 but not march 2014-2015 I would have also been a multibillionaire. Heck, I could have went long volatility at high leverage in February 2018 and be a good way to a billionaire. The point is, of course, if you make "good choices" one can be a multibillionaire in many ways. Alas, I am not a multibillionaire because "good choices" are good mostly in retrospect.
Intersection | https://www.intersection.com | Manhattan, New York City (NYC) | Multiple Roles | Full-time | ONSITE

At Intersection, we are at the forefront of the smart cities revolution. Our mission is to improve daily life in cities and public spaces, with products that bridge the digital and physical worlds by delivering connectivity, information and content to enrich our everyday journeys and elevate the urban experience. Our products include Link (such as LinkNYC), Transit, and programmatic advertising.

Our stack includes modern JavaScript, Python, Scala, Swift, Ansible, AWS Services, Docker, React, Android, iOS, and a little bit of plain grit.

Here are some of the roles we have open:

* Software Engineer
* Senior Software Engineer
* Senior Python Developer
* Senior Engineering Manager, Link Mobile

See and apply to roles here: https://rebrand.ly/ixnjobs

If you have questions about our smart cities engineering work, feel free to reach out to me at matt.joseph [ at ] intersection.com
That is called capitalism. By the way there are plenty of people that are making money off of what the government funded which of course was the arpanet and the internet.
Would you please work on commenting more substantively? We're aiming for the kinds of discussion in which we stand to learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It probably does have a larger margin, you'd be shocked at how little it costs automakers to add some features / content. IIRC, an Escalade's interior costs ~$1,000 more to manufacturer than a Suburban's interior. The rule of thumb in trucks is that interior upgrades usually carry a 75%-90% margin for the manufacturer - in some cases, the lower trims actually cost more to build because they're such low volume configurations that the complexity in the supply chain / manufacturing process costs more than the savings of cheaper goods.
2008 was more a consequence of lowering lending qualification standards (or just ignoring them altogether) than it was low rates. Doesn't matter so much what the interest rate is, if you are lending money to people who can't pay it back.
Good luck with that. I live within walking distance of 3 groceries and I can just walk a block further to the store that accepts my card.

Edit: the ban only applies to two of their lower market aka discount grocery chains, do this actually makes sense. Most of those customers don't use credit cards in the first place.
It's been 20ish years since local grocery-stores, supermarkets, and most shops stopped accepting cheques in the UK.

I've written less than 50 in my life, mostly for mail-order stuff back 15 years. In the past 15 years I've never even owned a cheque-book, the banks just don't give them out.
" "idea guys". In meetings, they made lots of suggestions, and they held up conversations with their ideas, but they were not in charge of anything so they never really had to take responsibility when things went wrong"

Reminds me of a whole layer of people at corporate headquarters of my company. They send out beautiful newsletters, hold seminars and meetings about all kinds of stuff but as soon as it has been published it fizzles out and nothing comes out of it.
This explains why I have seen such an increase in the number of cars with Lyft lights in their windshield driving around town.
How is the analogy helpful? Am I supposed to be afraid of the bathtub emptying or overflowing?
Inequality Through Dog Parks
Sweden.10Gbps for 30$ / month. It's kind of a long-running launch campaign, but still. https://www.bahnhof.se/villafiber/
That’s great to hear. It’s a very good organization and one I’ve been thinking of volunteering with myself. Also congratulations on your business. That’s something I’m trying to figure out if I want to strive for.
California already has some of the lowest per capita energy consumption in the US [1]. A good part of this is due to the mild climate where most Californians live, but some part of it choices people have made, like the widespread adoption of residential PV in cooling load dominated inland areas.

EVs are also taking hold faster in CA due to their better economics and broader cultural appeal in CA.

All these trends will lower the per capita energy consumption further without negatively affecting lifestyles.

1. https://www.eia.gov/state/seds/data.php?incfile=/state/seds/...
It’s both. The impression I’ve gotten over the years is that PG&E has been negligent. In this situation you have a line they knew was faulty, for quite some time, in a tinderbox, and they sat on their hands.
How is this news?

An app changed their icon..
For sure.

I think people can spend a lot of energy trying to protect their idea, and almost no energy in establishing if there is any prior work. I think this comes from two main places:

1) A desire to believe we are special in our insight into the problem.

2) (lesser) A lack of general awareness that knowing the prior work in a domain is insanely useful.

3) A lack of search knowhow when it comes to finding similar ideas to one's own. This of course is aided when you have a good general understanding of the domains your idea touches, because you have the power of a search vocabulary.

If you can stand on someone else's failures and efforts, and reap the benefits of their (explicit or just effectively) research, why would you not spend the short amount of time digesting that, before reinventing the wheel?

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders [sic] of Giants." - Isaac Newton
How do you feel about attacks on cargo ships by a foreign Navy?

Protecting citizens and companies from foreign governments is one of the explicit purposes of the military.
"It can take up to 2x-3x times longer to make an Android app" . Is this still true? Was it ever really true? I've seen android features tend to take a bit longer, but we're talking like 20% longer, 7 years ago. Now, in the age of kotlin/swift, better android tooling, numerous iPhone sizes/DPIs, the Notch™, etc, etc I think I think the playing field is pretty level.
Location: Poland, Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends on the city

Technologies: Javascript, React, Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Phoenix

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-zapa%C5%9Bnik-410091b0/

Email: adam at wrestlerman dot me

Hi, I'm looking for a position that involves Ruby/Elixir. I can additionally do Javascript, so I can be your fullstack developr :) At the moment, I'm building my own products, so I'm learning a lot about the business side, which is cool and useful, imo.
>Men at work are not harassing every female employee.

Ever work a shitty job in the food industry? Not all men are harassers, but anecdotally it seems like maybe 10-25% of men at these jobs will systematically harass every female employee below the age of 30. Unsolicited back-rubs, ass-grabs, the whole shebang. It's, like, really bad, and when the owner/manager is involved there's not much you can do. I do feel like the "always believe the accuser" narrative goes too far, but I don't think this behavior is really an edge case. It seems like a significant minority of males in unprofessional work environments.
Well there are a lot of technology-oriented rich people who want to be able to say to themselves and others that x% of their wealth is in Bitcoin (even if it's just a hedge bet) and this shared desire to own Bitcoin is reliable enough that it can be quantified; and that shared desire determines the market cap of Bitcoin.

It's not different from any other currency. The main difference is that a government cannot use the tax system to force people to use Bitcoin - But then again, the government cannot force rich people to pay tax at all.
I never really had real interviews (often I had connections so it was quick).

Is it possible to have training interviews ?
Kiron Open Higher Education for Refugees | Frontend JS Engineers, Backend Engineers, UX/UI/Product Designers, IT Support Staff | Onsite | Full-time | Berlin, Germany | https://kiron.ngo/tech-jobs

Kiron enables access to higher education and successful learning for refugees through digital solutions. We are expanding our growing tech-team and looking for more people to join us in our central Berlin office to deliver fantastic new tools and products to refugees worldwide. We have an exciting new focus and lots of new opportunities to hack on our React / GraphQL applications.

Read the job descriptions, find out more about Kiron and fill in a short application form here: https://kiron.ngo/tech-jobs
Engineering Lessons from High Output Management
> Whoops, apparently we misestimated before. We're sorry.

This is Facebooks MO. Is anyone surprised at this point?
The market protects those who produce value. Unions are only of use to people who fail to produce increasing value and want to be paid for their stagnation.
> made around 40% profits year-over-year. Those margins are on the high end for luxury brands like Apple. However, when we're publicly funding science, we're not funding it as a luxury product - quite the opposite, in fact: we want the results to be a commodity.

The number 40% is not relevant. My guess is that if the number was 25% there would be the same issue and outrage. The thing is everybody wants to decide what is fair for someone else and especially when it impacts the directly in some way.

> It's just that Elsevier and its kind have been put in a position where they've been able to obtain something resembling a monopoly
There was actually a different article a while ago about this topic. There are a ton of corner cases, for example, you can't recycle cardboard pizza boxes, or plastic envelope windows.

The rules for what is recyclable and how to sort it are complicated. They can change when the recycling technology / provider changes, and there's no feedback to tell people when they're doing it wrong.

That's one of the practical factors that makes education difficult.

I personally think they could make progress by adding a feedback loop: Bring in 2% or so of the bins and check them by hand, after labeling each bin with its source. Then send a letter to tell people what they're doing wrong. If 2% of bins are checked, then on average, a poorly educated consumer who's regularly polluting the bin with non-recyclable materials should be informed of the error of his ways within a year.

Here's the previous article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359807
> Painful amount of dilution

Lyft had a modern secondaries policy. Many early people sold shares.
the government shouldn't be itching to get itself in the business of retaliating against foreign attacks on non-government entities.

At the end of the day, the reason the government exists is to protect the people and their property.

I agree that it's alarming that the US is doing this. But my alarm is because there's no Constitutional declaration of war, or even any apparent invocation of the War Powers Act.
Even apart from the large infrastructure cost for a geographically distributed and reliable network, a lot of the value of AWS/GC/Azure comes from the many built in services that completely change the ops workload.

Building out those services is a monumental task requiring loads of experts in their respective fields (databases, storage, networking, etc). I see this as at least as much of a hurdle as the capital expenditure.
Are you seriously suggesting that disabling comments on a certain type of video content is more damaging to society than losing a global engine of content creation and community?

YouTube benefits society immensely by sustaining a very expensive 21st century public square. If we as a society want to have that - and I at least very much do - we can deal with not making comments on all the videos we could theoretically comment upon.
Protecting privately owned power plants at all costs is just another manifestation of the "too big to fail" mentality. If the comparison doesn't seem immediately relevant to you, see if you can find similarities between financial firms that failed to stay solvent and power plants that failed to adopt a security posture commensurate with the function they perform in modern society.

I'd much rather see the country face its problems and fix them, than hope Uncle Sam can paper over security vulnerabilities or the casino mentality on Wall St.
Congrats. I really like the concept.

Don’t have much time to test now but do you track response/action on feedback in any way?