skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, thanks for putting salary ranges up in your listings. That's something I _really_ wish more companies did, and, regardless of anything I say below, is really appreciated.

However, speaking of things I wish more companies did, your job listings would seem to preclude remotes? (even for the data scientist position?) Given the pay ranges specified and lack of equity, having to relocate to Oakland seems like a very hard sell to my eyes. I wonder if others could comment on whether I'm living in a bubble (could 100% believe that) or if this resonates.

In any case, feel free to ignore the above, congrats on the launch! It's a very compelling sector, or I wouldn't even be asking this.
I like the sentiment, but companies formed for any reason other than solving a customer problem and earning money tend to do poorly.
If I were single and straight out of college I would have jumped for something like that...for a little while until sleeping when the sun is out became untenable.
so...you touch the point of , well, its an ovious alusion, so, it is hard not to make the alusion to political historic processes in this topic you aboard, so, and I dont like to make alusions to soccer, religion, nor politics nor at the dinning table nor at the beach drinking beer, but

its like the old talk of reformism-or-revolution , I think is old talk at this point...but yeas

anyway reformism at first sight looks more conservative...and a conservatory approach is good...

thats my opinion

thanks...
A lot of the comments on HN art posts are people bitching about how they don't understand modern art or think a specific artist is undeserving of their fame, conflating "skillful execution" with artistic merit.
Just imagine a gazillion anonymous GPT-2 bots.
If that overhead cost was required the insurance company wouldn't have been able to negotiate it down
Lol. Venezuela made its own bed, its currency lost 99.99% of its value without any interference from foreign actors. Chavez's open friendship with Castro and harsh criticism of multiple US administrations was his own choice and set up the disastrous Maduro reign. However you interpret the actions in the past few months, it is in response to two decades of failed policies, resulting in unprecedented chaos, unemployment, scarcity and poverty.

>> By November 2015, a multi university study found that about 73% of households and 76% of Venezuelans were living in poverty.[213]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Nicol%C...

Would you, or 'smallnamespace,' like to provide counter-examples where high inflation and printing money led to prosperity?
The points I posted are a few examples of the government doing a poor job at dealing with the public's money. With medicare they past laws preventing their ability to negotiate. For schools in the US, the federal government has no limit on the amount of loans they can give it. I think these are relevant to the government's negotiation ability as in both cases they're allowing the counter party to abuse them to the detriment of the public. I don't trust that if the government is the single payer for healthcare that they won't let the pharmaceutical companies and hospitals take advantage of them.
America's healthcare system is what furthers the world's healthcare through research and development. Because it is for profit, the quality and advances are superior. Other countries that reap the benefits of drugs that America create while only paying generic prices when Americans have to pay for the inflated prices that pay for those expensive drug trials.
2 until 10? When you said night person I thought more like you start your day at 7-8PM.
In the book "Why We Sleep" the author writes about how some people are naturally night owls and it damages their health to be forced into a morning routine (e.g., waking up early for school).

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/style/sleep-problem-late-...

According to Dr. Walker, about 40 percent of the population are morning people, 30 percent are evening people, and the remainder land somewhere in between. “Night owls are not owls by choice,” he writes. “They are bound to a delayed schedule by unavoidable DNA hard wiring. It is not their conscious fault, but rather their genetic fate.”
- 65% of Americans don't save, despite most having the ability to do so. 1 in 3 have less than $5,000 saved for retirement! It's a massive cultural problem. [1]

- Most Americans live unhealthy lifestyles that contribute to $1.5 trillion in estimated healthcare costs from preventable disease. 1 in 3 Americans have pre-diabetes and 2 in 3 Americans are overweight. 1 in 3 Americans are obese. Again, a cultural problem. [2]

Our culture is toxic and unsustainable. Government can't fix this. It's a generational problem that's been growing with each generation.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/bankrate-65-percent-of-ameri...

[2]: https://blog.bcbsnc.com/2014/06/costly-habits-1-5-trillion-l...
[3]:
Given the current technological landscape, we are not ready for a cashless society. People don't have the knowledge nor the equipment required to make it a good system. Avoiding this cashless thing seems like the correct move, until we have good social infrastructure (in my opinion, not likely to happen before 2060). We need what Richard Stallman calls digital extraction:

>Projects with the goal of digital inclusion are making a big assumption. They are assuming that participating in a digital society is good, but that's not necessarily true. Being in a digital society can be good or bad, depending on whether that digital society is just or unjust. There are many ways in which our freedom is being attacked by digital technology. Digital technology can make things worse, and it will, unless we fight to prevent it.

>Therefore, if we have an unjust digital society, we should cancel these projects for digital inclusion and launch projects for digital extraction. We have to extract people from digital society if it doesn't respect their freedom, or we have to make it respect their freedom.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-digital-society.en.html
If you want to read the HN comments on this from 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4331855
Yeah, I'm curious in the way that the author defines these terms. Did they take into account fluidity of situations as you relate to? Because I'm sure there are many groups out there just like this. And what are the boundaries to these definitions?
Right, that's what I meant - thx for expanding/explaining my post :)
Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame
It has been like that for at least five years, it's nice that there's finally an article about it.
Is there any tool to count toil?
How long do you think their signalling value would last if they selected the same group of students, sent them to Aruba for four years, and then handed them diplomas?
Haha, of course. "We're awake at night" would not be the point of the company, just an aspect of the culture. It'd probably have to be adjacent to other "night" industries though, or something with a good tolerance for asynchronousness, or have clients in appropriate timezones.
iPad Pro as Development Machine
Point 2 rings true to me. The idea that you could model reality in a layman manner is borderline madness for engineering. You want to encode invariants and properties that are far from the superficial taxonomies you get fed in school.

Object orientation can provide a cute encoding of abstraction layers ala SICP to avoid dealing with a bunch of dangling functions:
Naked Brands: The Future of Basketball
Most Americans have good healthcare through their employer. The premiums are reasonable, and the quality is great. Only if you're self employed or part time do you pay out of pocket, something you need to factor in when you make life decisions.
It needs to be billed and itemized then because that's racketeering language.
The biggest difference between you and the author is that the author did not say anything pejorative about those who do things differently.
This strikes me an unhealthy and unethical, if even legal.
Modafinil has basically as safe as caffeine, isn't it? The big difference with caffeine is that many governments permit caffeine in food/drink but control modafinil, but trusting governments to have good opinions on drug safety seems a little unsubstantiated. I think modafinil is less addictive than caffeine and has fewer withdrawal problems. And it's not a drug like cocaine or alcohol that has serious long-term side effects. So I think the only serious reason to avoid it, if it doesn't cause you side effects, is a morality that says certain drugs are bad. (Which isn't even consistent - there are plenty of moralities in the world that say that caffeine and alcohol are bad too, and that at least makes sense.)

It's not unusual to feel gut-uncomfortable with technology enhancing the lives of humans beyond where nature left us, but at the end of the day, I have trouble seeing how you can say using modafinil to get your job done is bad but using eyeglasses to get your job done is good.
Does he break down signalling and ability?

Those two seem to me to be vastly different things.
What makes you work in 4 different languages?
Is there some place I can learn about this project? The website isn't very illuminating.
Have you tried lowering your dose? I only need 50 mg of moda in the morning to wake up and be productive.
I talk to FactSet.net customer support probably at least once a week through their online chat widget

Amex chat support is amazing too
We consider working on alerts as a toil and measure it in amixr.io
Depending on the brand, it's equivalent to a half of cup of coffee. Although green tea contains l-theanine which helps offset the jitters from caffeine. Personally I try to limit caffeine to the most bare minimum as I personally find that it causes a reduction in my emotional spectrum.
I think that you're kind of right - I feel that some part of my brain treats the 2 colors as 2 different chapters.
I’ve found melatonin effective for resetting my sleep schedule.
>>I'm surprised that you're commenting about the caffeine and not the modafinil!

I know nothing about modafinil.

>>Caffeine has lots of wonderful effects on the mind and the body

It allows you to be productive even after not enough sleep. Unfortunately you can only keep this up for so long. In my case I now only use caffeine when I really need it. I'll gulp down three or four cups of coffee if I need to do all nighters. And because I have virtually no tolerance to it anymore the caffeine will work like a charm and I will not feel tired at all.
Yea I'm with you here.

The world definitely favors the naturally early riser - and if you're not you're seen as lazy or eccentric.
I still use jQuery and won't be ditching it anytime soon.

End users don't know or care if an app uses it or React/Angular/Vue.

I've built SPAs with it and don't see why that's a problem for others who've mentioned it, but that's because I don't know what specific problems they ran into. I've not run into any.

But, I also use CouchDB as a backend, almost all my app code is JS running in the browser, and I don't use Node.js at all. I still do my server side work in Perl. So I'm not building apps like most are right now.

React/Angular/Vue, etc, might work better for some apps, and/or apps with a zillion users hitting the server a zillion times, but my apps don't have either of those issues to deal with. They barely touch my web server or the CouchDB. All the heavy lifting is done in the user's web browser.

The only real downside to that design approach, if we choose to call it that, is that we don't track every click a user makes, but as a user I really like knowing that.

The best thing about going with jQuery is I didn't really have to learn how to use it. I do that on a need to know basis and generally go to Stackoverflow where I almost always find the best way along with a few other ways to do something.

I'll offer that using a "much smaller, lighter weight library" offers a kind of a false sense of gain. You can use Service Workers to cache jQuery on the client side, or a CDN to deliver it, so it's not really costing you much (or any) bandwidth to deliver it to users, and modern web browsers are not choking on the size of it. I test my apps on a old Raspberry Pi running their latest OS and Chrome and they're plenty fast (very fast).

Here's the thing. I spent about two months looking for the "Best" way to build apps. Most of that time was going over frameworks at TodoMVC.com. When I was finished I didn't have any better idea of what was best than when I'd started, but I did have a clue about what I'd have invest to get up to speed with them, and in most cases it was lot.

So, I decided to instead explore what was the easiest way, and not just for me really, though I don't expect anyone should agree, but just generally speaking I tried to consider that.

I use the Apache web server and CouchDB, PouchDB.js, jQuery, and Bootstrap. It's a pretty amazing feature set those tools provide, and how easy they are to use together.

Almost no one I know does it this way.
simply this: when any function returns a result, you never need to worry about anything else in the universe changing too. It's a self-contained operation with totally predictable results and no side effects.
It's true, but it also includes benefits and not only taxes. An American-level software engineering salary in Sweden is also probably twice that of the average software engineer, so you are going to pay a lot more in taxes than the average software engineer. That is because wealth transfers and income equality is Sweden's way to create a nice society. The problem is however that today an average salary, even as a software engineer, doesn't go very far in Sweden. And especially not in the housing market. You need wealth, which isn't taxed much by comparison. So in that sense your outrage is correct.
I currently work with a largely European dev team and started getting up and 5am to have more work day overlap. The hardest thing for me was getting to sleep at 9pm because I’ve always struggled to get to sleep. Usually I have too much on my mind.

Turns out that necessity actually forced me to figure it out. I discovered that I can get to sleep if I turn on a movie that I’ve seen many times before because it basically keeps my mind from wandering.

Not kidding at all, for the last 4 months I’ve turned on Avengers Infinity War every night + the sleep timer on the TV. I’m usually out cold before “Launch 17-A” and I never make it past the Guardians scene that comes right after. Also have to sleep on my side.

I’m sure it sounds crazy but it’s the only thing I’ve found that consistently works.
One alternative solution is to schedule all of your emails so they are sent at 7 or 8am. That way you'll be annoyingly productive early in the morning, while sleeping.

Best of two worlds.
RZA should use the poem that repeats

The Emperor Wu (the great Wu)

As a hook and claim the first hip-hop song by a major artist co-written with AI.
No! Micro services are value-over-network, hopefully with idempotent semantics. CORBA is object-over-network, with clients holding references to server objects and a protocol that passes around object references over the network. It is true that one can do value-over-network within a CORBA environment by throwing away 95% of the features, but that is not idiomatic CORBA and was sneered upon as not object-oriented enough. This is a case of too many misguided features misleading users down unproductive paths, possibly even worse than selling [a-z0-9_ ]* as the ultimate programming language on account that there are subsets of this language that are actually useful.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~dbfaria/quals/summaries...
There is a miriad less mortal deseases then cancer, that can broke anyone, especially if its Your kids are suffering...
Really sounds like it's declaring it's real and asking why it has come into being alone in all the world
Ruby and Swift (and other languages I'm pretty sure) allow you to have named functions nested in functions
This was what I was going to say. I'm not sure society itself has internalized Hollywood's glamorization of hackers, and the glamorization is more a product of trying to make something mundane seem more interesting in the context of a film.
I too find caffeine delicious, but then I realized that I have to have coffee every morning, the same amount, and can't have more coffee during the rest of the day, and am not even awake enough to enjoy the coffee I do have in the morning.

So I've been cutting down and drinking lower-strength of coffee, and more recently tea and lower-strength tea (which is also delicious). There are other delicious things I can eat and drink the rest of the day that don't have drugs in them.
I'm probably inviting a modification, but I'm pleased to say this has no effect on the simple help desk I made for React and Node: https://github.com/unleashit/React-Help-Desk

Not sure why anyone would have a big issue with help desks (unless they take over your screen in an annoying way). Next will someone come up with a contact form blocker?
Make Spectrum Great Again
That book actually put me on the track to taking this idea seriously. I'm absolutely a natural night owl and I felt like my whole life I've been considered lazy by other people because I'm not bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning, even though I think I have far more productive output that most of my peers - I just do it all in the hours while they're sleeping. Finding out that there's an actual cause besides thinking that I'm just a lazy person was a real revelation for me.

Is it too much to ask for to wake up naturally, exercise a bit, have a solid meal, then get down to business when I'm ready for it rather than having a stressed out mad scramble every single morning?
>>I'm not sure the government can do a good job negotiating on behalf of its citizens.

Of course it can. For examples, please see: Medicare, Veterans Affairs, etc.
No that's bogus. I have three kids and am very much a night person.

Usually in bed around 2.
Are you happy when you're more focused and productive? (I am, fwiw, this isn't an "are you really happy" question.)
Anyone, who can paint or sketch manually - does know it worthy enough. This is the human consciousness agency, which no machine and AI going to replace. Every piece of expression, message, visualising, concept, idea transfer and style is different. And that makes an unique and unequal to any- a genre.
I picture 1PM-6PM followed by 10PM-3AM for someone pulling 10 hour days at a startup.
AFAICT Ubuntu uses a big hack that maintains a list of known U2F tokens rather than detecting whether the device speaks the U2F protocol. u2f-hidraw-policy does the latter, so it’s forward compatible.

I should get it into upstream systemd.
as a family obligated person, i think there is a demand. And i think it could help parents, one parent could work early or half a day, then come home take over child care, and then the other parent can do a full 2 - 10, 8 hour day without the need for day care or some.

i know people that dont do the math, and actually work to pay for the daycare...
Yes, and Dropbox is still trivial for Linux users to build. But somehow, they're doing okay post IPO. If you think slack is a viable alternative and are complaining about sticker price on the enterprise plan, perhaps you are not in their target market.
Next week, on an all new episode of Data Hoarders...

#A&EruListening?
Kenyans chase down and catch goat-killing cheetahs
> First two lines are perfect rhyme and rhythm, next four have no rhyme but are close to the right meter, next few have almost random length, and by the last one we’ve abandoned grammar and are making up nonsense words like “wholubil”

Is that an intrinsic issue of the NN or with how information is extracted from it?
I subscribed and am excited about it.

I have a little gripe about the name, the name Juggernaut.
Juggernaut is already an Indian company that sells books written by home authors to people to read on their phones.

https://www.juggernaut.in/

They are fairly successful. Naming two things Indian the juggernaut
Same here. There's nothing quite as satisfying as everyone else being asleep and away from work, leaving me alone to focus on whatever I'm doing.
Ditto. We each have our own JOINT account. We can use each other's accounts (including the associated credit cards) but it's easier to manage if we (generally) don't.

After all, if you are married you are jointly and separately liable for all assets and debts so why doesn't your banking arrangements reflect that fact?
How about society gave you nothing then, and left you to live like an animal?

Not in a city -- because cities are established and built collectively, with infrastructure, and roads, and so on. Not allowed to use and own money, because that's a public good. Not allowed to have a citizenship (because a country is about people working together). No protection from thugs (because the police is a social good), and so on?

Does it sound enticing?
At the heyday of the madness people were busy building object-over-network abominations like CORBA.

There was even an unpleasant period of time in the 90's when people tried to make some of the Linux OS distro end-user apps run off of CORBA to bring about the interconnected "sea of objects" vision, slowing things down a lot.

No wonder OO style is widely overused.

It's overused in part, because it's easily sold. It's easy to make sound-bites out of the doctrine. At the same time, it's a bit nebulous and it's easy to describe all of reality this way at first glance. (That said, in the right hands, it can make for some dandy, clean software. The tricky part is the "right hands.")

Basically, software is organizational politics. Software methodologies are dogma, with nothing to back them up, except maybe some savvy design and at times some mathematics. However, these aren't sufficient to deal with the complexities brought in by business needs, the real world, and the complications of developer communities.

We're back in the alchemy days of the programming discipline. This is perhaps why minimalism often rules the day. Do as little as possible. Make do with as little as possible. Make apps and modules as small as possible. As much as possible, do no harm.
Ignoring that (in the UK) the Guardian is probably influential newspaper of the last few years (Breaking large stories), most do.

Newspapers can't just sell news anymore, it's not profitable.

Besides, do you not try and expose yourself to opposing views? Maybe not applicable here, but opinion pieces are important.
In fact, they recently removed loadable kernel support. OpenBSD 5.6 is the last release to support this.

Of course, you don't need loadable kernel module support to extend the OpenBSD kernel.
It is true for all practical purposes. Nobody is going to resign and reinstall their apps weekly.
holding a learning agent responsible is the moral feedback needed to correct that error in judgement.

That's exactly where the trouble is. In case of strict logical determinism we correct nothing because everything is predestined. However, choosing limited definitions, and restricting ourselves in comfortable contexts we can certainly avoid discomfort of the thought. Not that I have better idea, but I see clearly why non-compatibilists say "word juggling" towards compatibilists.
Isn't the best idea to make healthcare affordable/free at point of use for everyone (rich or poor) with the rich contributing more (through taxes) to subsidise the poor.

That way no-one gets into medical bankruptcy :)
This is a good example of the "capability trap" dynamic[0][1]: there is always short-term pressure that crowds out long-term capability building. The longer you neglect the capability-building, the worse your capability gets, the higher the pressure.

The only way out is to acknowledge that you will take the hit in a "worse before better" phase.

[0] http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.p...

[1] https://www.systemdynamics.org/assets/conferences/2017/proce...
That would put me to sleep. :)