skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an interview with a company working in the ML space. There is a semi-difficult problem that their particular industry needs a solution for so I spent a couple hours in the hotel the night before writing up a solution for it.

I was doing an interview with their head of ML and brought this subject up in general without mentioning that I had already solved it. His immediate response was: "that's impossible." And it was totally concrete, not some sort of challenge. He had no interest in discussing the topic at all.

Those kinds of people are out there. Best to detect them early and move on.
DNS-over-TLS is only intended for stub resolver - recursive resolver traffic (check the introduction sections of the relevant RFCs). We're still lacking a protocol to provide confidentiality between the recursive resolver and authoritative servers. DNSCurve would offer that.
So long Joe, and thanks for coming here and doing your thing.

Erlang changed my way of thinking in several ways, a quick glance at some of my own creations [0] makes that pretty obvious.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu#tasks
Waiting for tptacek...
I was also hired because I also have an affinity (affinity, not expertise) with data engineering and am familiar with development good practices. The idea is not to spend 100% of my time doing this, more like 30%.

Business value comes first, and with a better infrastructure we could deliver a lot more value with the same head count.
Oh wow, that's egregious, thanks.
1) Look at 3rd party solutions (Stitch, Fivetran, Segment, etc.) to ingest your raw data into a data warehouse (strong preference for Snowflake).

2) Use dbt (https://www.getdbt.com) to clean, transform and model the raw data into analytic tables.

3) Add a BI layer (Mode, Looker, etc.) on top of the analytic tables for reporting.
I lost my 2009 MBP to a smaller water spill than that on the keyboard, so I don’t think there was any special design reason yours survived. Additionally, I don’t remember any special claims about those models and liquids.
This is cool! It reminds me of that material the protagonist creates in Big Hero 6.

At such a small size though, would it be possible to breathe it in?
A threat model where the attacker is assumed to be stupid is a very weak threat model. Better to assume that the attacker is at least as knowledgeable as you are.
If you get access to the same level of health care even during periods of unemployment - meaning, you might be paying no taxes at all - I wouldn't mind a bit.
I thought lying about such functionality to consumers would be illegal. I feel that if you sell me a device with the explicit promise that “off means off”, then bypassing that would be.. false advertising?

Is that true? Assuming they’d market it that way, originally?
I've found through personal experience that diet and general health are most important for teeth. I used to get a cavity a year. Once I cut sugar out 100%, reduced carbs, and started eating healthy, I've had no cavities for 10 years. I don't even use a fluoride toothpaste, and sometimes forget to brush. The dentist always compliments me on my teeth.
Building AI systems that work is still hard (2018)
An sysadmin can be critical in so many aspects of a project. I think its best you appreciate this and avoid this vicious cycle at all costs.
It’s more than just mortgage payments — taxes, maintenance, management fees, empty losses, etc. all make it easy to have negative carrying costs.

There are _lots_ of people owning to rent that don’t cover their actual carrying costs. They just justify it by thinking about the equity growth.

In fact, even the default example has negative carry costs. The initial interest on $480k plus $6k isn’t covered by $2k monthly rent, let alone principle payments and a more realistic maintenance amount.
Thanks for the link; will read.
+1. I'm at the same noob stage and appreciate easy-to-digest courses. I, for one, am appreciative of the work.
So, "Medical professionals should spend more time helping their patients."

That's great. I fully endorse that. That's an improvement over them spending less time helping their patients.

How does this help someone who refuses to be treated? What do you do until they are willing to be treated? Keep them on the streets?
I don't really blame either the engineers or the small companies. There's just a market situation right now where engineers who can get an offer from one of the big tech firms, are willing to live where they're located, and mostly just care about salary (which there's absolutely nothing wrong with) should probably just take that offer. No one else, except maybe big fintech, is probably going to be able to compete on salary. That's just the way the market is right now.
Aren't most startup founders straight out of school and never worked anywhere full time in software? Maybe that's why they behave like they do with only small guidance from their VCs that could well be detached from reality too.
When I switched to a low/no carb diet my gums were much less inflamed and stopped experiencing bleeding in my gums (w/ regular flossing). I also stopped getting that "filmy" feeling in my mouth when I'd occasionally sleep/take a nap before brushing after a carb-heavy meal.
Nana: A modern C++ GUI library
I've always assumed that the so-called "talent shortage" was an excuse to get cheap labor from abroad. They make job ads such that it's improbable that a local will meet the highly specific requirements, after which they complain of a skills shortage, and then they have their excuse to import cheap labor.
Accuracy is not certainty. The one that's most informative is the one that's demonstrating greater intelligence.
Many of these "gig economy" companies have grossly misrepresented the earning potential[1]. That bit is scammy. As is stealing tips, which Instacart was caught doing.

[1] One example: https://www.recode.net/2017/1/19/14330042/uber-20-million-se...
Huh, I missed that it was yearly, just saw a way bigger number and assumed it was basically a donation tear.
I want to hear more of these experiences, and to learn how to manage my career this way. I care about my client's satisfaction and get tired of corporate mentality. I hope someday you can share your experiences without fear of anonymity.
Great visualizations and simple clean presentation. I tried to use a number of these simple tools to evaluate investment properties but they were usually too high level. I ended up building my own very detailed spreadsheet where the inputs can be tailored very specifically. I know it's not "software" in the HN since, but I made the Google Sheet available online [0] here if any one wants to use it. Note that this is a shared demo so your data will be overwritten by other users.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i6xNZiNVn53_bnibfEvK...
Thanks for the super detailed feedback!

* Yeah the "scrubbing" interface is a little experimental. We originally had it for the mean values too, but that was a bit too crazy so we got rid of it. May well get rid of it altogether.

* It's a 2 standard deviation range, so a little more than 95%, but you're right - we should be clear about this!

* The entire model runs via simulation, so we're not analytically calculating products of distributions etc. I don't think we're reporting the distribution of compounded returns after N years anywhere, but there may well be something misleading somewhere — what specifically are you referring to?

* Thanks for raising the invisible line issue!

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* Yup

* Yup

* I believe we are just taking the sum of historical earnings! What suggests otherwise?

* Yeah including interest and principal. And fair point! In the UK I think it's a reasonable assumption but probably not so in other places.

Thanks again — really appreciate your feedback. Happy to chat more here or via email: hi@causal.app :)
I've been to another dentist and they said
things completely different. I don't
understand how two professionals can draw
polar opposite conclusions.

Isn't there some kind of solution for these sort of diagnostic aberrations or difference in medical opinions?

I know they have tumor boards for cancers and such where they try to arrive at a consensus plan of treatment for an individual patient.[1]

Surely there are such solutions for dental / other medical issues, right?

Somewhat tangential from all this, I'm amazed that in this day and age we still have such a hit or miss approach to treating patients. Its mind blowing how little our medicine has advanced in some aspects despite cutting edge innovations.

[1]

What Is a Tumor Board? An Expert Q&A

https://www.cancer.net/blog/2017-07/what-tumor-board-expert-...
Warning: site has modal sign up dialog box without close button - the close button is in the far top right of the screen instead
The main factors keeping cost high is low supply of doctors, hospitals, and medicines. I’m not aware of any insurance industry effort to keep those supplies down. If anything, seeing a doctor who charges $200 for a 5 minute visit to prescribe antibiotics for a fever or a hospital that charges $7.5k for a no complications birth is what keeps prices high.

If people had doctors and hospitals competing to offer standard procedures like births, broken bones, fevers, etc at lower costs, then that’s what will bring prices down.
If no equity was available, but profit sharing was? i.e if you brought in X million you get a % of that. Would you have taken the position?

I'm starting a company, but want to retain 100% ownership. I don't want to give equity as I don't want to lose control. Been there, done that. I'd much rather go down the road of profit sharing based on the results.
Just came off the job market recently and totally agree. The number of only-a-genuinely-dumb-person-would-take-this offers is staggering.
Accelerating Growth of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Emerging Markets
Box+swarm plots are ok if you only have a few data points. if you have more there are better visualization options that don't obscure the PDF.

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-63/v1
If you want to be further creeped out, check out the photos in https://www.gwern.net/docs/biology/2018-banziger.pdf
Ive heard there is too much oxygen in the air now for the original oil forming processes
Sure thing.

Until the last paragraph.

There comes a point in every amateur programmer's evolution when learning which way is up and picking more powerful tools is the right thing to do.
Yeah actually I should have added that. I speak two languages fluently (as in could do a literature degree, you wouldn't know I wasn't native if you heard me on the phone), another as mother tongue, another as 2nd mother tongue due to weird family history, and one from school. In addition lived in yet another language zone, and learning Mandarin as well.

Which is pretty interesting but I wish I had more time to explore it.
This shouldn't be surprising. If you're on an employer-based healthcare plan, a HDHP only makes sense if you're young, healthy, have no dependents, don't take expensive medication, and your employer pays most of the annual cap into your linked HSA.

I fit most of those checkboxes, but I take PrEP (preventative HIV med) that is something like $1500/month before deductible, and the math for HDHP vs traditional plan does not check out in that case at all.
> everything compiles to the same assembler code so lets not pretend these languages are doing magical things.

Nope. Some languages get compiled into binaries that are more performant with a smaller footprint. Some have a runtime that provides features like garbage collection and runtime evaluation. Others let you define macros that run at compile time, extending the syntax of the language. Some are graphical live environments. Others offer full high-level concurrency.

Languages have different syntaxes to support the features that their interpreters or compilers can convert into the code that can run on the target environment. This is not going to be the same across all languages, and there are tradeoffs.
College Admissions Is a Regressive Tax on Low-Income Students
Does this do much else than exposing the canvas context to you with some extra element options?
This site is somewhat annoying on mobile, the sign up pop up, the nominated banner that you have to close, the large vote for us icon in the corner, the blue box that cuts into the content as you scroll up and down.
Ah, perhaps I should give that a shot. I'm in the Bay Area, so I assume most of the options are on the table, and I'm happy enough with Amazon's other prime services...
Why I was 25 I hardly ever got sick. Now I'm double that age, and I'm in good shape but eventually something will happen. When I was 25, I could have had a hdhp then, but I was a super poor grad student and got whatever my university offered, a regular plan. Eventually I got a real job, there was no hdhp offered and I had regular insurance. The thing was, by being part of a larger pool, I was helping make insurance reasonable for everyone. That's as it should be. I do think ubiquitous health insurance that everyone has will save money in the end, and it's a humane necessity.
You do realize Amazon does the same thing?
Jack of all trades, master of none

but often better than master of one
On the flip side, I had the pleasure of working with a fantastic HR recruiter at my previous company. He would do a ton of legwork to ensure applicants had the basic level of skills and, frankly, common sense. For one position we were hiring, every single applicant he forwarded to us we interviewed and wanted to hire. There is a common thread here that great tech skills are under appreciated or often missed by HR, but I think great HR skills are also under appreciated by tech sometimes. If you find someone in HR recruiting who really is a “partner”, they are worth every penny.
That's because programming in python is fun so we aren't as stressed! I'm only kidding but there might be some truth in this worth exploring.
I AM essentially saying that I screwed up and need a little help. I thought it was obvious that I screwed up, made mistakes and took bad decisions. The reason I don't want to stop is because its not a failed startup, revenue started dripping in https://imgur.com/JiGD5dx and I've put a lot of work to get to this point. It pains me a hell lot to stop this and start over, when I finally started to see some positive traction and more importantly paying users. The above screenshot is with zero marketing $. $10k isn't a lot to support me forever and live off community money / donations :)
You can build a dome out of regolith using drones before arriving and deploying your habitat.
People aren’t that stupid, they just don’t want to work for a boss or have to be somewhere on time and deal with customers and whatnot, at least with the meager additional wages they would get.

Actually, because of Instacart and uber and amazon delivery, those retail/hotel/restaurants have to offer decent wages to attract people that are actually willing to do the work.
yes, this early style MacBook Pro keyboard was my favorite, as well! I could never understand the preference for the newer ("chiclet") keyboards.
I was wondering how they funded it, in this case with upfront fees.

See the "miracle of Wor"gl" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl for a different way they addressed the problem.
I might have been interested, depending on the startup.

One way to solve for both preferences, in tech, is to create an option pool. I broached this with an executive. He said they were looking into it, but it wouldn't be available until next year at the earliest. My interest in working full-time for them declined to 0 at that point.
There's a possibility that someone agreeing to work for less than market, in software, given everything else about them is stellar, is a phenomenally positive signal.
I suspect most of those cash buyers are retirees downsizing or moving away from London.
Apple loses legal battle with Swatch, this time over ‘one more thing’ trademark
You are right, there are few services out there. I think what we makes us different is that we make the letter top quality.
The problem with this is defining what profits are when you're reinvesting them or take VC and burning. At the end of the day you can't control how the CEO intends to spend the profits.
I am not going to compare medieval continental technology to medieval Japan because that would be against the spirit of comparison. Japan was pretty closed society even when they traded with the continent. While it is true that the continent saw cutting edge tech in terms of unbalanced battle situations, we can surely appreciate the Japanese stuff for it's aesthetic vibe.

If Japan was suddenly in the continent, I am sure they would have to compete and modify their war society like the rest did. But the root aesthetics would be the same.
Have you ever had to sift through 300 resumes for an open position? Did you ever have to do it multiple times in a quarter?

If you have time to do that, and do it well, and still hit your numbers, congrats.
Nailed it :)
Well, that is some feedback I will have to incorporate into the design of a new pricing table :L
Orthogonal to the point of your anecdote, but this:

> They're aren't many expects in my field with my background and skill set

contradicts the title of the submitted post.
Or, as the title of the post suggests, the VC guidance is to look for suckers.
If someone is a danger to themselves or others you can detain them and force them to take medication against their will.

If they're not a danger to themselves or others you can't do either of this because they're both significant interferences with human rights. But it's important to recogise that forced hospitalisation doesn't always work, and that keeping someone banged up in hospital for two years is an expensive injustice.

So you provide assertive outreach - teams that maintain contact with people who deny their illness, and who aim to work with the patient until they're ready to engage with services.

https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/views-from-th...
PDF: https://people.csail.mit.edu/poantsai/papers/2019.zippads.as...
how can we take your word for it? not sure who you are. there is no about page.
More or less this. I am a person who exceeds not just the deductible but the out of pocket max more years than not. The out of pocket max on the bronze plan is something like $7k and the out of pocket max on the platinum was still $5k, but the premium difference is $900/mo. There are certainly cases where you come out ahead on the platinum but I think they are unlikely for most people.
Right, but how do you decrypt the vendor's encryption? That's why I think you'd need to be able to provide a second key, because if vendors give out their decrypt key they may as well send it all in plaintext.
The author treats requirements as necessary - but they never are. I think that at most positions I applied to and got offer for, I haven't checked at least half of those "ticks". In the end, nobody treats them as if they're really required.
1990 is calling and wants you back... But seriously, many of us simply don't remember that sort of book learning.

If it comes to you naturally, fine, just realise that people are different and have different skills, memorization techniques and care about different things.

Some programmers are like you (a tiny minority afaik) and can read a dry spec or a book and remember all the intricacies and gotchas. It takes a certain type of mind to do that. And I would note that none of the people I knew who could do that were particularly good programmers.

Others, most as far as I've seen in my more than a decade career, learn by making, experimenting and adapting examples.

This is made worse now in some ways because back in the day many editors used to have fantastically well written and edited help, and that has generally disappeared.

Press F1 on a type or function and you'd get reams of well written examples and explanations.

Now most programming languages don't, the documentation is sparse and they simply rely on Stack Overflow and Google to provide all the examples for them.

However, that means that old ways of writing things can stick around as often no-one edits a SO answer to correct it.
The glut of Uber drivers belies the title.
Books that every engineering manager should read
Are there business use cases for canvas other than drawing? Just curious if there are companies actually using canvas to do something...
I think the greatest legacy of D&D are the syndication of its game mechanics into other arenas. Fantasy sports, for example, is nothing but D&D for sports fans.
There’s a huge difference between losing control and giving equity. Namely, 50% (and that’s assuming equal voting eight per share). Why do you not want to give equity at all then?
If the difference between the premiums for a non HDHP and the HDHP deductible is not too big, I can very well see it being worth it to go HDHP just to take advantage of the triple tax advantage of HSA.

Pay for medical care/medicine with after tax, save the receipts, and let the HSA contribution with pre tax money grow tax free in a Fidelity HSA (since it’s free) and then withdraw it whenever you want, and just pay yourself whenever you need the money.
As an employee, it is valuable to me that my company will not hire someone who doesn't think our business does something important ("get over yourselves, you're not curing cancer"), or who thinks the right way to ask business decision questions is to ask if "you're morons", or who has a problem with the company asking very basic probing questions, such as confirming you've thought through the challenge of changing from remote work to a commute.

In short, if this post is representative of the way workers are thinking and communicating, then we do have a talent shortage, it's just not the talents you're thinking of.
"There are easily several thousand people in the town who are capable of building that business"

I agree with most of the sentiment, but not this one.

Someone with the right experience, skills, maturity, 'get go' and initiative ... there are not 'thousands' of people like that in a mid tier city. More likely only a handful.
I'm not sure about major complaint(s) of people, but I can see why city planners would be upset. City planners use height restrictions or FARs (floor area ratio) as a bargaining chip to get what they want: usually things like more affordable housing or plazas the public can use. Real estate developers going after bonus height or FARs is evidence that there is more demand to build upward than what zoning laws allow. Loopholes such as large vacant mechanical spaces, make bonus height restrictions or FARs less valuable, and hence city planners are less likely to get the things they want out of real estate developers.

That the city is willing to provide bonus height or FARs is also showing how these height restrictions aren't based on any pressing concrete objective; the only one I know of is by the FAA: "the Federal Aviation Administration sets a building height of 2,000 feet in most U.S. cities to make commercial flights safer"[0]. In addition, while extracting more affordable housing out of "greedy" real estate developers is politically popular, it is questionable whether this is the most cost effective way to provide more affordable housing.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2019/04/08/worlds-tal...
You just get consumed for nutrients and become part of the mark-mind.
Personally I'd see that as much more attractive for any not already pretty much 'made it' startup. It's a nearer term reward, and a more direct incentive (not just because it's nearer, but because `profit => reward` vs. `profit => ceteris paribus 'worth more' => might IPO/sell => reward`).