skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two weak points that I can see:

I live in Bay Area as a single person.

Even though the living cost is high, I still save more than $100,000 USD per year. Think about it. A $3,000 monthly apartment is only $36,000 a year

If Gitlab pays a local rate, and, say, I live in Vietnam (where I'm from), it's almost impossible to reach $100,000 USD in savings.

Bay Area's cost of living is high. But the salary is way way higher.

If I joined Gitlab, I'd just move to Bay Area for an instant increase in my saving performance.

Another one point is that Gitlab will be at a great disadvantage in hiring outliers (e.g. someone extraordinary). They're gonna demand the Bay Area's rate no matter where they live. But I suppose Gitlab will definitely make exceptions for these kinds of people.
> Why don't we use any software that comes out of east Asia?

I do, and you should too. For example, I evaluated mobile-focused neural net inference software and ncnn from Tencent came on top: https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn
Land value tax: https://www.interest.co.nz/news/44914/opinion-merits-land-va...
Scratch that - how do I message you? I don't see an email on your account
It looks like sales and marketing only includes driver incentive's due to driver referrals. Referrals are likely a low number compared to the 'guaranteed minimum' incentives used in new markets.

Looks like the other driver incentives may not be included in revenue?

>This four percentage point improvement in Revenue as a Percentage of Bookings was driven by greater efficiency and effectiveness of driver incentives, which contributed approximately two percentage points, increased service fees and commissions, which contributed approximately one percentage point and revenue from the Select Express Drive Partner program, which contributed approximately one percentage point.
TrendMicro which is Taiwanese/Japanese -well known and used.
Ask HN: Remote dev box, using vscode, who needs it?
Hey guys, I’ve developed a remote box using vscode live share and mosh so I can actually code on 3G, would people be interested in a product like this, it’s kind of neat, I’ll provide a cli to start a vscode session remotely and connect. Who would use this?
Yeah they are behind in some areas, and WAY ahead in others. If people go in with their eyes open, and their priorities straight, they'll be fine. But one point that seems to get lost is that the reported quality issues have gotten way better.

That car in the video is I'll admit quite ridiculous -- I'm guessing it is an anomaly though. My car had nothing like that and I did inspect it carefully on delivery (I guess this guy did not). I don't think anyone is forcing you to take delivery if you get an insanely scratched car like that, but certainly it's fair to expect that a car company would not try to deliver such a scratched car in the first place. I just don't think it represents the normal experience these days.
I live in Brooklyn.

In lower Manhattan they might be unnoticed, but that is not New York. Queens, is not Manhattan. You're talking about a major gentrification event. Can't handle is bad wording, but it would seriously exacerbate the wealth distribution problem here, which is already the worst in the country.
It took me perhaps an entire minute before I realized something was strange about the voiceover and that it was synthesized, which, in my view, is quite impressive. Once I realized it was generated, though, I became much more attuned to the pitch-shifting artifacts, slight cadence irregularities, and cultural misses (like emphasizing the second syllable of "recall" in the title of the movie Total Recall).

Still, a few more years of progress on neural nets (can GANs be applied to vocal cadence and intonation?) and I won't envy the position of mid-tier voiceover artists.
I have started telling people that I need to whitelist them in order for me to take a call from them. If I have to expect call from someone new (e.g. need to expect callback from some vendor, etc.) usually by asking "what number should I expect a call from?" -- usually they are fine answering that question, but if they won't or can't, I demand call back number that I can actually call, in response to voice mail.

I understand not everyone can do this (especially for business expecting inbound calls) but at least for personal numbers, I really want to see the social norm shifting to "have the caller on a whitelist or they are ignored."
Babylist | Oakland, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Babylist in an e-commerce platform that focuses on helping new parents and parents-to-be discover and purchase the gear they will need as they welcome a new addition to their family. In 2019 approximately $300M worth of baby products will be purchased through Babylist.

We are also one of the most robust/knowledgeable resources for new parents to make informed product decisions. Every month over a million new parents/parents-to-be read our product guides/watch our videos in order to make informed purchasing decisions.

Our users are incredibly passionate about our products, and we have a lot of interesting engineering challenges to work on:

- Using machine learning to build product recommendation/discovery experiences that are highly personalized.

- Scaling our direct to consumer e-commerce sales to > $20M in sales this year.

- Building a rich realtime database of all baby related products, where they are available for sale, and for how much.

- Building new apps and experiences that make an impact on the lives of our users as they navigate a time of uncertainty and new adventure.

Babylist is profitable and growing quickly. We're hiring for a number of roles across the engineering and design teams including:

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Fullstack Engineers

* UX Designer

* Product/Brand Designer

For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs

If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
Is glyphosate not found in other foods and drinks? Are beers and wines special in some way?
Google Working on Bringing Fuchsia to AMD Chromebooks
"Unfortunately, this is not something that we experience ourselves because we run React Native from master."

What does this mean? Does this mean they're always on the very latest RN version? If so, wouldn't this constantly break like many layers of dependencies?

I kind of like the idea though.
Is 486 the quantity or the type of CPU used?
I used AMAX II with my Amiga 500 to run Mac programs while at College. That was an example of how brilliant it was given the native speed of the Mac under emulation.

The Amiga platform is an era which I wouldn't trade for anything. I feel sad for people who didn't have the opportunity to experience and live it first hand.
Did they offer services like RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, Autoscaling, Route 53, load balancing... because those are what make AWS so valuable.
Does a sledgehammer increase the amount of e-waste and make recycling it / safely disposing of it harder?
Linear television continues to decline, content-on-demand is reshaping video
Can I ask what you were making?
..oh, der.
Tim cook has illustrated that he is the antithesis of Jobs. He is not looking for innovation, just ways to optimize cash flow from existing products.

Look at the state of mac hardware and especially mac os. Look at the new iPad pro that bends out of the box.

Or the new iPhones with giants unnecessary notches and abhorrent price tags.

Apple is running off of brand loyalty and marketing from the jobs era, and they are losing customers with every new underwhelming generation of their product lines.

Its pathetic, honestly. Apple is on track to be back where they were before they had to buy NEXT.

Tim cook has been a terrible CEO for apple. Maybe good for shareholders for the time being, but he is not what apple needs to survive, and is going to put them in a terrible position when he retires soon.

I dont even like apple, but I want them to succeed. Apple's success has never been about pumping out the same products over and over.

It's pretty bad when the devs using your products are looking for 2015 macs because the new ones are worse in every way and with bigger price tags.

I really want apple to switch their macs to ARM like all the rumors say. That would be an industry changing move and would help start the death spiral of x86. But do you really see "dont rock the boat" Tim Cook spearheading that?

Apple needs a visionary that can connect with users again. Tim cook is the furthest thing from that.
I find myself kind of scratching my head at some of the news stories about gender differences these days, and how there always seems to be a spin that casts males in a negative light.

Fewer male students study abroad? It’s that are lazy.

Or this one from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19275394

Girls are much harder working and get better grades in school, but lose out in the office because they don’t know how to skate through with minimal effort the ways boys are taught to do.

I mean, can we seriously discuss gender outcomes that don’t reduce to:

- when males are on the losing end, it’s because they are inferior in some way

- when women are on the losing end, it’s because they have been set up to fail.

Sadly, any real discussion of the narrative bias gets you branded a “men’s rights” activist and dismissed as a crank.
Haha I appreciate that! I told a few of my co-workers and even after "showing them the money" they had the same response as you. Just too damn busy to invest the time into the calls.
I love your handle, I immediately recognized it, 30 years later, C64 kernel and i/o addresses still burnt into my memory.
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Dwelo is the operating system for apartment communities. Our IoT platform is the infrastructure enables the owners and managers of multifamily properties (think, apartment buildings) to improve the efficiency of their operations while offering smart homes as an amenity to their residents. We're live in several thousand apartment units, in well over one hundred communities, coast to coast in the United States.

More about what we are building and what we value: We process an absurd amount of sensor readings and device commands every day. We want to put this information to good use to help building owners make sound ecological decisions about saving water, energy, heat, and more. Our entire engineering team cares deeply about privacy and personal security, and we want to ensure our product is built with those fundamental principles. We know that our customers rely on our systems working all the time, every time, and our motto is, 'Move fast and build secure, verified, fault-tolerant systems.'

We are looking for people with 4 or more years of industry experience to work with us building our cloud APIs and data services supporting our IoT platform. We are especially interested in talking to engineers who build with Python, Rust, and Scala.

If this sounds exciting to you (and I hope it does) please go ahead and shoot me an email with a CV / resume to scott at dwelo.com ... Or you can check out our careers page: dwelo.com/careers
Isn't that just a matter of having parents that respect your privacy (in other words: good parents)?
No, no, no: you can't have the skyscraper without the wheat field. Agriculture and city are part and parcel of each other since Ur.

(I often wonder how dense you could get and still be ecologically harmonious using e.g. Permaculture; you might be able to reach the density of a town.)
> is available to watch for free on Amazon Prime

In my country it isn't possible to watch any show on Amazon for free. You have to at the very least pay to be part of a club called Amazon Prime before you can watch shows. Is it different where you are?
> In Dark, making an API call is as simple as a function call. Our tools for building connectors to 3rd party services handle rate limiting, authentication, error handling, and retries, with great default behaviour. Visibility around costs and failures are built into the editor, as is support for secret keys and Personally Identifying Information.

The history of RPC is...checkered. It's possible that every attempt to make remote process calls as simple as local function calls has resulted in terrible abstractions that leak like a sieve.

My suggestion (for what it's worth) is to bake the notion of message passing into the language, and make it as simple as possible.
Taxes the United States are progressive. The more you make, the more you pay. The beneficiaries are the "little guy" who makes the least, the burden falls on those most able to pay, the "big guy". This reverses the model. Not saying one way or the other if it's a good or bad thing, just explaining why it's different than the car sales.
We had been using Slack at a job and that was plain horrible. Say something, it drowns quickly pushed away by newly arriving messages and nobody ever remembers the problem you've mentioned unless you repeat times and times again. I've quit the job because of this. If there was a tree everybody would see an outline of problems and comments that have not been answered would be hard to ignore. IMHO chats are handy for casual personal communication and absolutely unsuitable for a meaningful conversation involving more than 2 people.
I work at google, and we run everything at head. The code is expected to be working state including all the dependencies, and there are precommit/presubmit hooks to help that.
Shared hardware from the big cloud players adds attack vectors, but it also comes with some of the best security minds trying to keep the entire platform secure.

For example, they'll typically be on secret mailing lists and aware of security vulnerabilities weeks before you know about them.
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Development – Onfido Tech – Medium
Trump campaign pushes government intervention on 5G
True to some extent, but it also was crippled by low RAM, a tiny screen, bad performance. The Amiga lacked coherence, but Amiga applications and games could do so much more with the exception of perhaps DTP (but a LaserWriter was out of the price range of most people)

Far more people learned to hack and code and be creative on platforms like the Apple 2 or C64 and Amiga (or Atari ST) than they did on the 1984 Mac, it was way too limited and on-rails (and expensive!)

I did DTP on the Amiga, for example, by using LaTeX to do all of my work in college, produce postscript files with dvi2ps and then taking the files to my college lab and printing them on expensive printers. A $500 Amiga was producing reports with AMSTeX or LaTeX that looked like they were professionally typeset by a $5000 Mac setup (in 2018 dollars)
The fact alone that are 87 different banks makes it difficult. Which one do you use? Is there a difference?
Having one single, well-branded bank is easier to use than 87 random no-name apps.
> why don't we use any software that comes out of east Asia?

I hear Ruby is pretty popular.
While I like react Native, in my opinion Flutter from Google is proving to be far more superior as a cross platform app development technology. The apps are incredibly fast, feel far more native, and are actually fairly easy to build.

I went down this path of trying both and ultimately ended up building my side project with flutter. My project is a cross platform App that reads articles to you using some great sounding open source AI/ML models by converting any article to audio so you can maximize that dead time on your commute.

This is a little self promotional but if you want to see what’s possible with Flutter, you can check it out here:

https://articulu.com

Edit: while I get folks may be upset with my comment and are down voting me, I’ve geniunely worked with both technologies so I’m not just making this up.
It literally has 950 GitHub issues. How is that possible?
It's not a social network lock in, its a marketplace lock in.

If the majority of riders are on one app, that's where the drivers will go. If the majority of drivers are one app, that's where the riders will go.

Think Craigslist not Facebook.
Yes, the board could have absolutely done that. And Bezos could have asked the board to do that as well, but chose no to. If the company did that, I argue it would have been just as successful (if not more) and many of their low wage workers would be more loyal and would have more wealth. The primary difference would be Jeff Bezos having a smaller fortune.

For profit companies can pay their workers better and still prosper. No one is suggesting Amazon should have been a non-profit. The suggestion is just that their CEO could have shared the wealth more with his workers. Workers who helped him build his fortune.
Ask HN: What are some of the biggest challenges that you face as entrepreneurs?
Lots of feature/change requests.
Isn't that what he said? If you have Amazon Prime you can watch it for free as part of your membership.
You would probably start by co-locating in multiple data centers, if you rent large amounts of space you can get quite decent deals. You'd have to do this with the best DCs you could find, however.

Once you had enough demand to merit your own data centers, then would go ahead and build them. Thats what most VPSs do.
You have to get them to cough it up. Obviously you can't start the call with "Who are you?!?" They'll just hang up on you - and call again some other time. There are different strategies to accomplish this. My personal strategy is to act interested. The Ebook goes into further detail and most importantly includes the template letter that was drafted with the help of a lawyer I assume. It's a small investment.
The Facebook People Don’t Understand Facebook, or People
What are some examples of the old conservationists? Theodore Roosevelt?
Fun.... ok...

Make an asmjs implementation of https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/projects/13-4-bit-processor/134-v...

Complete with an old skool disasambler to code up the typed array in.

Also think up some method to populate the webpage with text using canvas and some way to call the mothership using Victors amazing.
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Hello, my name is Sergey and I'm a Senior Software Engineer. I work as web applications developer more than 10 years.
This is about art, not farming and it is great!
You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure
Lyft to Spend $300M on Amazon Web Services by 2022
Here's a bunch of other interesting subsequent designs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_periodic_tables
React native is pretty cool, but I do wish they would add support for desktop apps, not just ios and android. Proton native exists and seems stable-ish, but the underlying cross platform UI library (libui) still says it's only at an alpha level.
Definitely. That's why I'd say that the power of modern technology amplifies the issues that you'd normally see in the 90s/00s
Oh thank god hackaday redesigned
Come now,this is silly.

There are people in their 60s that are so physically fit they can win a fair fist fight against a 20 something year old who ever so rarely works on his/her muscles.

Why is there a presumption that intellectual capacity is any different? A person that trains their mind will do better than those that don't,that's obvious.but how many people reach anywhere near their intellectual maximum capacity?

My theory is that as people get older the items of life take up much more of their time than in their earlier years which steals their potential to maintain or exceed their earlier intellectual capacity. Those that manage to make time for a mental workout in latter years would likely feel as competent as when they were young if not more.

Just a theory based on observation.
In my (limited) experience, prolog is amazing for a subset of what a useful program might want to do, but it can be really difficult for the remainder, which is why I’m personally a big fan or the miniKanren-based logic libraries for Scheme, or Clojure’s core.logic — you can use logic programming as a library for the subsets of your code where it makes sense and you can use a more traditional language for everything else, seamlessly in the same codebase.
Middle school is the age when social hierarchies start to form

For millennia, teenagers were included in complex parts of society, with kids of different ages, and some adults around. They could learn, they could teach, the could choose authority figures to imitate.

In a modern school, though, they are isolated for most of their day in a group of 20-30 kids of same age. They can't build a natural hierarchy around experience and abilities, for a wide enough gamut is not available. So they end up building a hierarchy based mostly on aggression and persuasion. It of course ends up pretty toxic.
I saw the headline and for a second thought it was about running Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu) on the GPU.
> but freelancers on the platform could almost certainly make more money if they weren't on the platform because then they wouldn't be competing with as many others for a given opportunity.

Why don't they do that then?
I'm talking about using 3rdparty APIs, like Twilio or Stripe or something, that we don't have control over and that we need to handle. So we want it to feel like calling functions, though in practice it needs to be able to handle all the stuff that goes wrong.

Can you link to something about message passing? I'm familiar with a concept with this name, but I don't quite see what you mean.
I guess the simplest way to say it is the following: Yes, there truly are new ideas that no one has thought of. But for any new idea to truly be valuable, it has to be “worked”.

This is true (IMHO) of anything, whether it is a way of viewing our would (physics), an insight into a new market (startup idea), or even a brand new way of doing something (pure invention).

In every case, unless you put work in, at best it is effectively a hypothesis. It is the energy to ‘validate’ that idea that makes the idea ‘real’.

In general, this is what I believe most stealth startups/labs are really trying to protect, the validation of a specific idea, and the specific method of executing that idea.

All that said, I would argue that truly novel insights are exceptionally rare. If you indeed manage to get one, you should question yourself extensively to validate it truly is new, and if it is, double check that perhaps the reason it isn’t done is because it is not feasible to execute. Even if you pass all those gates, I would argue that unless you can do the necessary execution, the idea, no matter how spectacular, is only marginally valuable.
I dunno, they’re just as expensive to get to JFK from Manhattan as a yellow cab. Maybe they’re loss leading in small markets
PSA: Being determined is a superior predictor of success than intelligence. With age, you have a better idea of what you feel is worth doing, and why, than the easy enthusiasms of youth.

Of course, those with wisdom, intelligence and youth will beat you. It's rare.
No. There's a distinct difference between rural and urban, which has only grown since industrial revolution.
This is awesome. Does you guys look at credit card statements? We've moved all the business expenses to a separate credit card to make sure we don't miss anything. How about Paypal?
Ask HN: friend is being sexually harassed over SMS. How to identify the sender?
This morning the inappropriate messages started arriving from a 619 area code phone number.

The number isn’t callable. The harasser types in fluent English. They know her first name. They used it. There hasn’t been anything to indicate they know her last name.

I’d like to understand what’s technically possible with respect to phone number metadata.