skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stride | Multiple Positions | San Francisco, Remote

At Stride we're working on a benefits suite for what we believe is an underserved community – freelance and gig economy workers. We want to create economic security for anyone who works for themselves. We offer an easy way for 1099 workers to apply for health/dental/vision coverage. We're also expanding to other spaces like tax, so as to make it financially accessible for anybody who juggles multiple gigs, or is just pursuing a dream on their own.

As a business, we sit on a unique position and have partnerships with a ton of giant companies who want to better serve their workforce. It's rare that a startup has a good mission and a good business, but here we are.

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This is true, but the relatively slave like cheap labor does still require robust social services, which the kingdom pays for with oil revenue.
The patty in the normal $1 White Castle slider is so thin, that the $2 Impossible Slider feels like an improvement already just because the patty is thicker.
Location: Chicago area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

* C# (.NET Core as well as .NET 3.5+), ASP.NET, WinForms, SQL Server, XML/XSLT, Javascript, Java, COBOL, VBScript (via Classic ASP)

* Learning: Rust, Elixir, React

Github: http://github.com/jhartwell/

Résumé/CV: By Request

Email: jon@dontbreakthebuild.com

I have spent my career (8 years) working with C#, mostly backend work. Healthcare experience as well as finance and have experience with x12 and FIX specs. I have done a fair bit of architecture in an object-oriented development paradigm. Finally, I have a professionally published book on C# and XML
(I sit on an SFUSD community board.)

There are many strong opinions (ITT and elsewhere) about how algebra should obviously be taught in middle school.

The data I've seen does not support those conclusions. Eg [1][2].

This is kind of an interesting article, but it really does not convey the essential facts at hand. Middle school alg harms student achievement. Many/most students end up retaking it anyway (!!!) and there is a simple and effective fix. SFUSD should be lauded for braving the political heat.

Maybe there is a kind of educational system where middle school alg is a good idea. But our system is not that kind of system. If you live/vote in SF please support evidence-based practices and common sense. <3

[1] https://www.edweek.org/media/2018/06/11/v37-35-algebra-chart...
[2] "But in a 2015 study, the University of North Carolina's Thurston Domina and colleagues tracked how California's uneven 8th grade algebra-for-all rollout played out across districts. In a surprise finding, they discovered that higher enrollments in early algebra were linked to a decline in students' scores on a state math test."

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/06/13/a-bold-effort-...
What Do 4.2M PSVRs Signal?
pg added this in 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97573

https://web.archive.org/web/20080115223854/http://ycombinato...

You probably noticed because your karma crossed the threshold not too long ago.
Nutrition per mass is irrelevant -- that depends on water content (meaningless) and starch content (minor). your choice of toppings and bun dominate the "per unit measure" analysis.

What matters is the ratios protein vs sat fat vs fat vs carbs, and what your view of health science tells you is optimal.

Per g of protein, impossible burgers are low fat, and Beyond Meat is reguar fat.
Can I pay you as if you only actually have been typing code for the length of time you have been using the framework I am building my current project with? Do you not feel that after learning 10 different frameworks over 10 years that you can pick up new ones faster and become more proficient than a truly noob who has only been coding professionally for 2 years? The value in a senior dev is the experience they have in quickly learning new concepts and the speed at which they apply those.
Can you talk about the details of Argo, in a blogpost or elsewhere?

I'm referring to the routing logic and optimisation algos.

Asked already several times in the past. I'm very curious as I've worked a lot on those specific issues. Thanks.
Maybe senior/junior tied to any specific language doesn't make a lot of sense. Not like an electrician goes back to apprentice when a new type of breaker or romex type comes out. The foundations of the profession are in something more general than language.
Will do! How did you find V2, compared to V1?
I've been fortunate enough to earn degrees in English (BA), Computer Science (minor), Law (JD), and Business (MBA). The one that serves me the most regularly in my role as CEO of Cloudflare is my English degree. Learning to communicate is so critical to success in your field, regardless of the field.
This must be ignorance speaking, but what is the issue with that?
I think the risk of this is widely exaggerated.

I have had many, many long and interesting conversations with women colleagues, and there's never been any risk of anything being misinterpreted, because I:

* don't joke about how I would like to date them (because I don't want to and it isn't a good joke),

* don't suggest that we should meet in places that would be appropriate for dating (romantic restaurant, one of our places, quiet bar, etc),

* don't joke about having sex with people (because those aren't good jokes and I wouldn't discuss having sex with people who aren't close friends),

* don't talk about or joke about pornography.

Carving out that handful of broad exceptions of things I don't discuss with colleagues (men or women) leaves a huge amount of things to discuss -- and places to discuss them -- that aren't really open to misinterpretation.

I also don't think most women want to call out their coworkers, because of the intense social scrutiny turned back on them when they do so, even when their initial calling-out was warranted.
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Our open positions:

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Reach out to NickLS, SethP, or VincentF on LinkedIn if you have questions.

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The question is, on a 5" screen will you really notice the difference between a 1080p stream and a 720p stream for video? Especially considering the 720p may be higher bits per pixel than the 1080p stream. I'd rather have a 720p stream at 3/4 the bitrate of a 1080p stream, which is often the case as there are multiple levels for a given resolution.

Then again, I don't always notice even on a larger screen from a better 720p stream and a poorer (relatively) 1080p stream. I often notice the difference from 1080p to 4K though, which is a slightly bigger bump on a much larger screen.
Low friction JavaScript benchmarks you can share via URL
If you're paying everyone the same, you're implicitly saying you will not produce anything as valueless as pinwheel trinkets (at least not via a dedicated employee.) If your company needs pinwheel trinkets that badly, then it's probably worth paying someone a comparable rate to provide such a necessary service.
Not a data engineer / scientist here.

What am I missing with data-frames?

I've written products that utilized them before (years ago), but it's been long enough that I don't know what I would even use them for in daily programming.
The base salary portion would not be too different
Location: Central Texas
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AI/ML, hardware-software co-development, networking
Résumé/CV: Email if needed.
Email: nbp@fynestro.com
Note: Not looking for full time positions, looking for project work.
Below are a few random items from what I have done in the past.
And, yes I admit I have been very fortunate to work on such diverse topics.

AI/ML: Image analysis with custom Deep NNets - application specific,
NLP, data analytics, Google computer vision API, AWS Rekognition etc.

Hardware: FPGA / ASIC (SoC) bring-up, hw/sw co-development, help with
ASIC/SoC design/architecture.

Embedded: RTOS, custom bare metal system, ultra-low-power memory and
resource constrained system design. Interfaces such as PCIe, UART,
SPI, I2C etc. Many microcontrollers (e.g. Cypress PSoC, Atmel AVR,
Microchip, r-pi / arduino, ...)

Networking: RF and wired protocol stack development from scratch
(built from Mbps to 100 +Gbps on custom hw platform), feature adds.
Many wireless MAC protocols, custom protocol design ...

Cloud: AWS infrastructure and ecosystem components for large
scale system solutions

Languages: C, Python, Golang, Elm, Verilog etc.

This short list hopefully provides an overview, please reach out
if you have any questions.
Articles like this are always popular. I think the rest of us know though that code isn't really the important part, its the way that developers think. After all... Most of us use IDEs or Code editors that do a lot of the coding for us, and yet you never hear "IDEs are replacing programming jobs"
> Not taking the risk, especially given how expensive it is to repair macs.
Same for me - I won't be purchasing one of these new macbooks even though I'm in need of an upgrade.

I have one for work and the keyboard's terrible. Keys will sporadically get stuck or stop working properly. Never had this problem with the old-style keyboards.
At first I said the keyboard issues were what kept me hanging on to my mid-2012 MBP. Hey, I'm still otherwise buying Apple stuff, though, right? And supporting devs who make macOS software, too, huh?

But here's the thing: that seven year old laptop is getting long in the tooth, and in the increasingly likely scenario where it dies tomorrow, I look at my Linux options. At first there was a solid chance of keeping me on an Apple laptop, even if I'm just holding on to the one I've got. Now? Umm, best ship something that the has a better track record fast, because that cooling fan on the '12 is getting more noisy by the day.

EDIT: you know, it just occurred to me how my wife and I got started on buying Apple kit. Somewhere around 2002-2003, I got tired of dicking with the music players of the era. Worked at Microsoft at the time, and bought into the "Plays for Sure" fiasco, with predictable results (it didn't "play for sure" even back then). Alright, g-ddamnit, get in the car, we're buying iPods. Long story, short, I was so impressed it began our downhill slide into Apple Fanboi-ism.

Now I wonder what will happen if I replace my personal daily driver MBP with a Linux box? 'cuz I'm not doing iOS dev right now and don't have to have a MBP. Just one little change because of dissatisfaction with status quo, and it might go either way.
SchooLinks | Austin | Full-time | Onsite or Remote | schoolinks.com

Quickly growing ed tech SaaS company that is changing the way students plan out their futures. We build student-friendly college and career readiness tools. Think college search, course planning, career videos, etc. We've got 25 + different modules.

We're hiring for an experienced full stack engineer and looking for someone with:
- Django Experience
- React Experience
- Strong interest in the education space-- basically someone who is passionate about the product and would want to shape the long term direction of what we're building.

Raised seed funding and healthy revenue coming in, Pre-series A, so lots of growth potential for this hire.

Job post: https://angel.co/schoolinks/jobs/514197-full-stack-developer...

I'll be managing the hiring for this role. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions: mike[at]schoolinks.com
I think it's more about double dipping and getting extra money for network agreements and near-side content servers from Netflix.
I encountered similar in Wyoming in 2014 when driving through. I was on motorcycle and needed a place for the night. The one city (name I can't recall) where I was ending up at sunset looked ok; but I was shocked that I could barely find a hotel room under $200/night. Apparently that had become the normal (I got one for $130/night eventually after calling literally everywhere in town), due to the oil business there. The people at the desk told me fast food places were starting people at $15/hr, because there was just so much demand for absolutely anyone to work there.

For context, in other equally rural places such as South Dakota, I think I was spending a princely $30/night at cheap motels, but there were none to be found there.
Google Analytics Spam
Google Analytics launched a spam campaign with the theme: "The right ad for the right audience". I've gotten over a dozen emails in the last 8 hours. What are your thoughts?
USCIS is delaying every immigration application--not just H1b stuff. Even though there is no explicit policy to delay applications, I heard officers are told to delay. Since there is no backlash, it is going to be like that for a while.
> It is almost so good that I almost have to ask the classic 1st of April question, this isn't a joke right? I really hope not.

Yeah, I got that feeling too. If it is, it is a lovely satire.
Whoops, brain fart: that should have been 45%. But yes, I work in finance.

It's definitely not unheard of for bonuses of top engineers to reach multiples of their base salary. I'm not aware of compensation being that lopsided where I work, but it purportedly happens at places like Two Sigma.
Could you name some of these private companies? I can’t think of any private (i.e. neither public or government owned) company comparable to Apple, Walmart, or large oil companies.
I'm 10+ years as a game developer working largely in UI and I'm just learning JS now to make use of a new framework built by Coherent Labs. Previously the main tool set was Scaleform, which makes use of Flash scripting. I don't feel game dev has changed that much. Only very, very recently has it started to change at all.

In game dev land it's just C++ or C# if you're a unity shop, and things haven't changed too much. For a long, long time things weren't different at all, but with the new C++11, and C++14 things are getting a bit different. Right now I'm working in a fairly modern codebase, and it's been a learning experience for many of my coworkers to get up to speed on some of the new features introduced with C++14.

Probably the biggest change is occurring with the way that games are developed, with Object Oriented development practices kinda going away and games being developed in a more Data Oriented way using Entity Component Systems (ECS). Unity for example currently has an ECS system in preview release.

It's been pretty interesting to start learning more of the JS ecosystem. Even though I've only been working at it for a few months I've already had the tea table upended on me by our partners deciding to redo some stuff in typescript, so there's another new thing for me to learn.
Regular burgers are heavily processed. They don't grow on burger trees or in burger coops.
Honestly the best part of working in the tech industry trends change so quickly that everyone is jr unless you "keep up." If you are motivated to "keep up", whether you're 40 or 20, you'll find work.
Headlamps can be dangerous because the shadows are in the same plane as your vision. I gave up using them for hiking because they didn't help me see drop-offs. You're better off with a light in your hand or on your waist.
Where do things like written rights come in to play?

What is the difference between dostributism and federalism?
I really disliked that example. The Pakistanis knew where he was for years and the CIA sent teams of "vaccinators" to conduct a hunt for him, making many people in need of vaccinations distrust modern medicine, a crime that no one will answer for that could easily cost more lives than bin Laden ever did.

This is OT, but if you're interested in understanding this epochal event in American media narrative, there's no one better than Sy Hersh to listen to:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of...

In a way, I guess it is on topic because it shows how "metric fixation" leads to unjust and dangerous outcomes for the people of the world.
Typed Functional Programming in TypeScript
I've been thinking about this comment a lot the last few days.

It could be specific to the University I went to, or some aspect of the fact that I went to a Jesuit University that made the quality of the philosophy coursework I took so high.

Regardless, I'm sorry you had that experience.
Scholarship applications at DFINITY are still open, until 1 May
I think the churn rate is higher with front-end stuff, but I don't think it's really due to any special property of the technology. Honestly, I suspect that the rate of change in a given ecosystem is roughly correlated with the number of programmers actively working in it.

The number of front end web developers has been skyrocketing since the late 90s - a lot of people who've been in the industry for a while don't realize how many more of them there are compared to 5, 10 or 15 years ago. There's been growth elsewhere too, but just in the past few years the number of new bootcamp front-end developers I've seen seems to sort of swamp most other sectors.

I suspect that since much of the innovation in that space has been driven by open source efforts, the amount of change is in part driven by the number of eyes on problems and the number of people interested in trying new things. There are a jillion new JS projects on github every month, and some of them catch on, so there are always new options.
For this reason it's critically important to push back when this administration claims to only care about illegality.

They are slow walking all immigrants, focusing the brunt of their enforcement activity on black and brown folks, up to and including turning people away from self-deportation processes if they present as white.

It is a coordinated effort to delay demographic shifts.
Quora | {ML, ML infrastructure} {Engineer, Engineering Manager} | Mountain View, CA | Full-time, ONSITE

Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge. We are a web-scale Library of Alexandria, a place where people go to learn about anything and share everything they know.

At Quora, we use Machine Learning in almost every part of the product - feed ranking, answer ranking, search, topic and user recommendations, spam detection, etc. Within the past year we released a large question sincerity dataset [1], improved our statistical tests for ratio metrics [2], and introduced a new feature that allows people to curate collections and form communities around shared interests and tastes [3].

As a Machine Learning expert, you will have a unique opportunity to have high impact by advancing these systems, as well as uncovering new opportunities to apply Machine Learning to the Quora product. As a ML Infrastructure Expert, you will play a key role in developing tools and abstractions that our other developers would build on top of.

ML engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/quora/4ea5b0e2-b570-439f-a3a1-1f301042...

ML infrastructure engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/quora/5ae871e6-12a7-40d2-829a-64041e24...

ML eng manager: https://jobs.lever.co/quora/447265db-74b3-4970-bb46-11083af8...

ML infrastructure eng manager: https://jobs.lever.co/quora/6be9efa2-49db-4fe1-bf42-fe45e5ae...

You can apply online at one of the links above and mention my HN user name. Or email my HN username, with the underscore removed, at quora.com.

[1] https://engineering.quora.com/Dataset-release-and-Kaggle-com...

[2] https://data.quora.com/A-Robust-Statistical-Test-for-Ratio-M...

[3] https://blog.quora.com/Introducing-Spaces
Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds
Canonical Reportedly Not Planning to Enable Wayland-by-Default for Ubuntu 20.04
Stigma isn't all bad. It's a motivating factor. Decades ago, the norm was to post grades on the wall for all to see. We lost a lot of motivation when we got rid of that.
1. It will exit close to you, unless you have Warp+ in which case we might route it to a different PoP closer to your destination if that makes it faster. It is not designed to bypass censors.

2. No

3. Exactly what an actually nefarious person WOULD say!
The amount of spam I get from recruiters looking for junior devs would lead me to believe otherwise. And as a dev that used to work as a dev at a staffing agency, hiring managers often scrutinize the skills of juniors less than a senior or lead dev.
A tiny bit misleading: yes it was a teardown, but I was hoping we'd see a discussion of the circuits, like the guy that built the analog video game console a few weeks ago. Still cool tho.
Big bank is not the same as a small/mid sized trading firm. Banks have regulations they need to meet, and typically do things by the book.

I'm not an expert here. Part of what I said is based on the 6 different people I've met who have worked in the industry. I'm just saying if you have $400+ million to lose and you rely on the IT infrastructure allows you to make that money then you can spend a few million on top notch people and processes to prevent this kind of thing. I worked at a relatively large media company, and every deployment has a go/no-go meeting where knowledgable professionals asked probing questions, you defended your decisions. I've love to know what they did in Knight Capital. The idea of re-using an existing variable for code that was out of use strikes me as a terrible idea.
That article is correct that WER has some problems, but it also correctly concludes that "Even WER’s critics begrudgingly admit its supremacy."

Yes, Switchboard has problems (I've mentioned many of them here) but it was something that 1990s systems could be tuned for. You would see even more dramatic improvements when using newer test sets. A speech recognition system from the 1990s will fall flat on its face when transcribing (say) a set of modern YouTube searches. Most systems in those days also didn't even make a real attempt at speaker-independence, which makes the the problem vastly easier.

Executives don't dictate as much any more because most of them learned to touch type.
I encourage you to talk to your doctor or a physiatrist but always keep in mind, it is YOUR body and YOUR decision to take a medication. I've been to psychiatrists that will be pushy with medication, gloss over side effects and ignore your concerns and you should feel like you always have the power to say, "No. I'm not interest in taking that" or even just taking their script and never filling it.