skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. Correct. Incorrect.

DarwinMail is a mobile responsive web app :)

I have tested DarwinMail with many browsers and found many differences in the way it behaves as many browsers tend to support various types of web functionalities in different ways.

For example, clicking a button in Chrome does not behave the same way as clicking a button in Firefox or Safari.

I have tested so many different behaviours on many different browsers.

I am in the process of cataloguing every specific web functionality I require in DarwinMail and making a chart of those functionalities across several browsers to ensure I know exactly what needs to be tested, what is working and what needs to be fixed.
> I live in Eastern Europe

Well, a number of people use Eastern Europe location as a filter for 'cheap labor'. And SV startups tend to have crap wages to begin with, but offer equity to compensate. I could imagine a few startups seeking to crimp further.

> Meanwhile no developer in my country even responds to offers if the salary is not given ... before the interview

Posting salaries is rare in the US. It's becoming the law in California, but this is hardly universal. There's an expectation that you'll negotiate, but they're really hoping you won't. And plenty of US engineers assume if you don't post a salary, it's because the budget for the position is low.
Article seems to think that it's actually 0.04%:

>half the country belongs to just 25,000 landowners, some of them corporations.
This make a ton of sense on the surface.

It explains why we're warm blooded (keep warm).

It explains why we have fur (keep warm).

Plus there were a lot of reptiles about during the day and the night would have given us an advantage.

"us" lol.. team mammal FTW!
Here I am hoping anyone still cares about federated, democratized powers and people having the right to control their own money supply.

The Fed can print 4 trillion dollars for Wall St and people don't care. That's getting pretty close to half of GDP for one year (at the time). Hundreds of millions of people's work product...

If they're going to print money like that at least inject it into the economy by buying stuff like free healthcare or education.
Asana because it's just slow as hell and can easily eat upto 2GB memory whenever it's running.
You mean William the Bastard?
Profit before people / product / planet.

It’s been the downfall of many companies, and in this case, has resulted in the unnecessary death of many individuals.

Boeing is currently in the spotlight, but there are so many other companies - ranging from pharma to agriculture to tech, that also adhere to the above mantra and have been the cause of much death and destruction.

You can’t blame individuals, nor the companies here. The system they operate in requires them to report quarterly; with a priority on short term performance over a longer term outlook (it exists, but not overtly so). When you don’t meet those short term goals, both individuals (employee reviews, getting laid off etc) and the company (value on the public or private market) suffers.

I don’t know if there is a “fix”, or if it needs fixing at all, as our rapid progress is also down to this competitive and unforgiving environment.
It’s not a clear cut never do. If you know you’re expecting the higher end of a salary range then it’s absolutely in your interest to signal that from the outset. Telling them your current salary is doing just that.

But otherwise I agree. The company always has such a strong hand that it’s in your best interest to play every one of your cards as strategically, carefully as possible.
I guess, you have to answer the question as to how the 1% earned it. If they started on a level playing field and just worked harder or were smarter than everyone else, I would say keep it. More likely though it was passed down for generations and they did nothing to deserve it, I find that situation absolutely insane. We found out in the great depression having an insanely wealthy class of people (Rockafellers,Gatsbys, Vanderbilts... )is not good for society.
and yet the exact opposite is happening to software engineer salaries, their growth is outpacing tons of other fields.
I happen to think there are good social, and perhaps most importantly, ecological reasons why the current land ownership situation in Scotland isn't ideal.

And that's without looking at the rather nasty and complicated history of land ownership here - but I can recommend Andy Wightman excellent book The Poor Had No Lawyers to explain that.
Boeing South Carolina teammates are producing the highest levels of quality in our history,” Kevin McAllister, Boeing’s head of commercial airplanes, said in a statement. “I am proud of our teams’ exceptional commitment to quality and stand behind the work they do each and every day.

Whoever is sitting down to write Boeing's PR response quotes needs to be fired, along with whichever c-suite exec is approving them. It's not acceptable to totally ignore actual safely issues being brought to light and respond universally with panglossian emptiness.

The quote about not needing to ground the Max, before being ordered to do so, was especially egregious.
It had a big plastic plane below the keyboard. Not the watertight with a drain hole type of Thinkpads, but still good enough if you're quick with turning the thing upside down.
There are a few basic tutorials here: https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page that can definitely give you some insight into how kernel development works. It's an incredibly disciplined and broad field, but very interesting too.
I’d like to hear more about that project. Can you share a URL if it’s public? I’ve imagined making something like that for showing a version of a super-8 film at 18 frames per second.
Of course not, but my point is, there's no new monetary policy: this isn't some kind of fancy new currency.

It's just monopoly money backed 1:1 with Euros, or rather 'pretty chits that are just Euros'.

Obviously there are consequences ... but nobody is printing money, issuing credit/new debt.

As someone mentioned above, with a 5% trade cost ... that's a lot.

This is a very interesting experiment worth possibly repeating.
Hmmm. I don't have a ton of data points, but we:

* don't care if you have a CS degree (we have hired plenty of bootcamp grads)

* are 100% remote which is super valuable to some folks

* aren't looking for super specialized skills--we build websites and web applications on some common open source stacks.

* explicitly don't pay top dollar. As the CEO says in the typical hiring conversation, every so often we'll be talking to folks who are also talking to Microsoft and Facebook, and we'll quietly back away--we choose to compete on different axes than dollars.

But maybe we're on the lower end. We definitely pay above that band for folks with 1-2 years of experience.
That's quite fascinating! Thank you for the interesting perspective :)

I will mock up some minimal interface designs. Perhaps a mail distraction free mode (we currently support a distraction-free mode for typing emails). This could be very cool :D

Thank you so much! They're not (I don't think ha!). Could you tell me more about how a custom domain would work with DarwinMail?
What amazes me most, is that they still have a queen/king thing going. I am completely unable to wrap my head around how that can happen, in a developed country, in 2019.
Really? Do any compliance standards specifically require this? Or is the specific control defined in the organization itself that requires this?

I've found many compliance standards to be pretty open-ended and function-driven, rather than prescribing specific standards. Client contracts.... they may be a different beast, and often require specific promises by vendors.
True, but in this case the information the newspaper got from the "expert in the field" source is also flawed. So I guess it's different than the normal case where the journalists get it wrong, but the end result is the same and the rule of thumb remains: whether the topic is dentistry, politics, or something else, don't be too sure that the "facts" you're reading in the paper are actually facts.
There is that.

And also what I learned in school which is doing linear regression using a function with more degrees of freedom than the data tends to generate garbage. It can match the data points exactly and then be wildly off between them.
As a nocturnal mammal, I enjoy this connection to my genetic ancestors.
It could be related to this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brhow4/124-the-magic...

Basically, amazon sellers will send actual items to legitimate addresses to mask fake amazon reviews.
I'm already planning a simpler UI for the pricing!

Thank you for your feedback :)
Hello! Cool to see my framework here on HN frontpage.

I’ve been using this for some time now for all my production work — including generative art (prints, laser cuts, 3D printed models, plotter art, etc) and client work (interactive Canvas and WebGL productions). I’ve run a couple workshops with it and smoothed out most of the kinks, but it’s still fairly experimental so please open an issue if you run into any problems. :)
Hint, your business isn’t important. The business I’m working for makes lives a lot easier, but if it disappeared tomorrow it wouldn’t hurt anyone overly much.
Although this requirement has been in effect for 3 years, foreign services ingore it. For example, recently, Facebook was fined for an amount equivalent to about 50 dollars for not providing information about users' data localization and now has 9 more months to solve this problem [1]. In Facebook's case it is easier to pay the fine than transfer the data into Russia.

LinkedIn is blocked under the same law though.

Telegram is officially blocked in Russia (for not providing access to users' messages), but it works without any special setup.

> That way the data can be retrieved by the government and used to de-anonymize users.

That was probably the intention of lawmakers but there is no requirement to keep the data unencrypted.

[1] https://www.apnews.com/5db72dfa04e401ffec784c8a18ce9b7a
Homo sapiens started emigrating out of Africa 50k years ago. There is a small incertitude on their emigration pattern (one wave or several), but it doesn't matter here. If they had cities in Africa, it is very surprising we found no trace of it, given the numerous archaeological expeditions everywhere in Africa. There was no glaciation or sea change to destroy the evidences.

So according to your hypothesis, civilizations would have emerged from hominids other than the homo sapiens, contrary to what we know about them. And their cities would all be in the North of Europe, where the later glaciation could hide some archaeological proofs. And we could not detect anything, though an Ice age doesn't destroy anything.

I believe there is no fact to sustain that hypothesis, and many facts against it.
Our story inevitably ends with the Earth roasting and then freezing as the Sun ages. There’s still lots of good stuff to tell in the meantime.
> the Republicans typically cheer free trade

These affinities have shifted many times in American political history. For example, Lincoln was a Republican.
I remember a friend telling me when looking at maps of canada, this one person HMQ seemed to own an awful lot of land.
Sample size of 1, but I've done several A/B tests to see what works better for me.

Works:

Xylitol. Been trying this recently, and it is amazing. Using the Xlear sinus mist has massively reduced snoring and sleep apnea issues. Using Xylitol as a mouth wash - my teeth feel much smoother now. Go do the research and check it out for yourself.

Apagard toothpaste. Its pricey, but switching to this dramatically reduced the drama during dental visits.
All of these gig economy companies seem pretty fragile, they are all risky investments. Most of them are only one court decision or legislation from being put into a difficult position.
Hey there, thank you very much for helping out :)
In fact it's extremely effective. Just look at what the French have been able to do in Quebec with all their various laws. This appeal to liberty and choice never actually works, it's just a rhetorical technique to quell dissent. People can't buy themselves out of bad corporate behavior. People can't choose their preferred language. People are lazy and do what is convenient. If you make anything less convenient they will prefer the convenient. For instance take K-cups, marginal benefit and marginal convenience... massive adoption.
I'm reminded of the comment linked here on reddit from a former Boeing employee employed 2008-2009 (allegedly).

>To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how badly they rushed that initial production.

Honestly, I already feel guilty flying due to the crazy amount of pollution these planes put out. Now I've got a slight fear that my plane might randomly fuck up due to software and now I feel like I should just stay grounded.
Huawei Matebook X (dubbed the 'chin cam')
You have to look at the brain-to-body mass ratio, but even that is not accurate by itself, you have to look at the encephalization quotient for a more accurate measure.

As per the wikipedia's page on brain-to-body mass ratio.
That’s clearly not illegal but should be.
Am I the only one who has far more sensitive content visible on the screen and filesystem of my computer than through its camera? I feel like, at least for the threat models that I consider likely, if someone manages to hack my laptop and get (for example) microphone access, the thing I am most worried about is that they will use acoustic analysis of keystrokes to recover my banking password, not that they will hear me... singing in the shower, I guess? Based on my understanding of current laptop OS's, just directly making a key-logger the straightforward way is easier anyway, so I'm not that concerned.

I fear that the sense of security people feel from putting tape over their webcam might be hiding much more realistic threats.
My Comfort Zone Isn't Comforting
Yes, it's called Medicare.
I've seen very-underpaid people go through the realization that they've been taken advantage of.

Sometimes it's worked out; the company gives them a big raise, a lump sum in the key of "Sorry!" and the person remains a happy and productive -- and wiser -- member of the team.

Usually they're gone within months, though. And often other people follow ("You got /how/ much at OtherCorp?").
It can represent any arbitrary function.

If you are using gradient descent, then you'll need the desired loss function to be differentiable with respect to the parameters, but that's a totally different matter.
Doesn't all of that apply to equity too?

I'm only saying that profit sharing sounds better than equity, of an unknown unproven startup; not that it'sa guaranteed key to making you rich.
not a shill but I have great things to say about Yubikey. I'm a longtime linux enthusiast, but never a dojo master. Buying the yubikey and seeing the words "PAM module" made me expect a rodeo, but it was surprisingly easy. just from memory, but it was basically (on arch) 1) install the yubikey package, including a GUI utility to set up the Yubikey and PAM libraries (just .so files). 2) mess around with setting up the keys on the yubi. there are 2 slots that can be set up a variety of ways. 3) configure pam. it was basically one text file, and maybe copying a .so, way easier than I imagined. 4) set up ssh to only accept PAM authentication (delete 2-3 lines, add one line). 5) set up display manager to accept the yubikey OR password.

so this way, my always-on router can ONLY be accessed by a yubikey. That uses "slot 1", which requires me to insert the yubi and long-touch it(it only has one button). and my desktop can be accessed without a password if the yubi is inserted (without pressing it or anything, this is slot0) or I can type my password if I want.

what I thought was going to be a wild rodeo with bucking broncos and PAM module errors, turned out to be riding the coin-operated horse in front of the grocery store.
I'd like to see a neural network that can compute a hash function.
Brush up on Cracking the Coding Interview, interview at the top N companies wherever you can face living, research salaries for that area (levels.fyi is good if you're in the bay area, I'm told)
Did that come first or did Doctor Who do it first?
A lot of the major tech companies are just barely ten years old themselves.
"I also wonder why async/await became the dominant paradigm"

Having only followed the discussion about concurrency on the swift language, it seems async/await is clearly more straightforward to implement starting from a regular C-stack like compiled language, than an erlang-like system with its VM looking a lot like an OS of its own.

Abour Rust, i've seen a few actor-based frameworks, and i'm really putting a lot of hope in this language, since it seems to have both the taste for high-level & hard to implement features, and the community that goes with it. Unfortunately, here too i think the core language team needs to be heavily involved for this pattern to succeed.

In the meantime, i think i've got no other choice than to start using elixir+OTP or erlang+OTP.
Same thing happened to me. Exciting company, leadership opportunities, etc.

The asked how much I was looking for, I told them X, which was 25% more than I was getting now and on the high-end for a similar role. They say ok.

Interview goes great, everyone loves me, offer time. They offer me X-20%. WTF? That’s basically what I’m making now and they didn’t offer big company perks like 401k match, stock grants, etc. So in fact, the offer was less than I was currently getting. They were willing to go up to X-15%, but no higher.

Why say ok when someone says they want X, then make an offer way lower than X?
I spent the last year looking for a new job and it was extremely demotivating at times.

The company that I ended up accepting an offer for started off with a recruiter who talked to me about my background and then asked a few technical questions to screen whether or not I knew the technologies that they were hiring for. Passed the recruiter screen.

Interviewed with a hiring manager and then interviewed with the team with some technical challenges that were more to see how it would be like to work together. Talking to the team made me feel excited to work with them and the technical challenges were straight forward. I was able to look up and use some code that I had written previously to solve part of the challenge.

I ended up with an offer higher than what I asked for. Part of me feels as though this is almost too good to be true but I don't know if I am just really jaded by the entire hiring process.

I faced so much rejection that landing the position that I am starting soon makes me feel like I am either extremely lucky or maybe I'm just another sucker; however, this company definitely set the standard for me as far as interviewing/hiring process.
Let's say you work hard and own a house. Assuming you have a family and they have a family that bit of land will be passed as well. At what point does the insanity occur and people start saying your offspring don't deserve it?

I think the Marxists would say that it would occur when you for the land. Property is theft.
Crows and parrots seem to have roughly as many neurons as some of the bigger-brained primates, despite being a small fraction of the volume; that's how crows can, for example, make and use tools.

If you were a waterworld hyper-squid making this comment, you might be arguing that no life form with neurons measuring only microns in diameter could possibly respond fast enough to environmental stimuli to behave intelligently. We, with our myelinated neurons, know better; squid neurons aren't myelinated and do in fact need to be humongous to transmit signals quickly, but our myelinated neurons don't.

If there was some kind of apparatus capable of signal-processing, control, homeostatic feedback, language and visual processing, and at times seemingly intelligent behavior, while using switching and storage elements only tens of nanometers in diameter, which operate a million times faster than the switching and storage elements in your head (assuming you're a human), you might see the flaw in your inference. That's about twelve orders of magnitude denser processing power per unit volume: six orders of magnitude higher speed and six orders of magnitude lower volume. Of course, a hypothetical alien signal processing device that small (call it an "omvindnojm") might only be capable of very simple operations compared to a neuron, but maybe several of them together could be a feasible substitute?

Naw, who am I kidding? Such a thing is probably impossible. Your mammalian neurons are as good as it gets, kid.
I would like some evidence that balanced teams are good.

Given that in higher dimensional finite spaces all the points are close to the edges of the space you would expect the most unbalanced teams to be the most successful ones because they can explore the parts of the solution space where you have the highest chance of finding a profitable solution.

Unix was not build by well rounded people. Xanadu was.
Can neural networks solve the halting problem?
> This - we really need a law requiring companies post what the jobs pays. It would solve so many problems - including ones like this, gender discrimination, etc.

A much simpler solution: if lots of programmers would strongly avoid to take jobs at companies that do not tell the salary upfront, the problem would disappear by itself.
Did your vet recommend to floss your dog's teeth?
This is relative.

5000€ is $5623. You can maintain a "normal" life standard around here for about $800 (renting a studio / two room flat in the city centre + all the expenses, no car but I never needed one - the subway takes me to the furthest parts of town in 25 minutes, walking to work is not unusual). So you're saving more or less 5000$ every month.

How much do you have to earn in SV to rent a place for your own next to your office and still save 5 grand a month? :)

Anyway I get your point and in general yeah, US salaries are of course on a whole new level and I won't even argue with that.

I'm not trying to say Warsaw is better for programmers than SV because it never was and never will be - yet we still managed, within last 5 years or so, managed to do something you somehow can't do - we trained HRs, agencies, recruiters etc. And they willingly act as we please. Because there's an incredibly high demand for programmers and no one has time for games like US companies play. And I still can't wrap my mind around this - if company Y or X is so desperately seeking for employees and pays them bazillions of dollars - why they even consider burning so much time on the process of hiring? Hiring is hard, I get that, but it's much easier if you disclose the salary. And in Poland right now hiring is impossible if the salary is unknown. And it's not even required by law (though it is supposed to be).
Not to mention revenue sharing should count as an additional cost in the profit calculation. So they should be doing that regardless.
'Crown Land' in Canada is not owned directly by the Queen as some of the other properties. It's de-facto federal land. Whereas in the UK it's a different structure for her land.

Fun fact: 89% of Canada is 'Crown Land', so about the size of the continental US.