skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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China warns students: Be careful if studying in the US
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>Your focus on consumer gadgets is incredibly narrow and overlooks so many other things where innovation happens and brings true progress to the world.

I find the world worse than 30 years ago, so I'm doubtful about this "true progress". Our progress is just moving along without a clear goal.

>Also, you can't stop human curiosity and the drive to improve and compete.

You can cut off the economic motives for those things, which turn them from a human thing into an inhuman cut-throat compulsion.
The non-aggression principle means that you shouldn't start the aggression, it doesn't mean that you can't defend yourself.
Lenses on Microsoft Azure HDInsight
The one who kept VLC free
Maybe it's cheaper to transport raisins than grapes? They are smaller so you could fit more of them on a truck. Also they are already dried out, so they may be less sensitive to shipping conditions.
I don't think so. It's more that in many cases, knowing that a behaviour is bad for you is woefully insufficient to make you actually stop doing it.
>It's impressive for exactly the same reasons. It's hard to foster an intellectual elite in a dictatorship, to maintain motivation and cooperation across a gigantic country and 1.7B of people.

On the contrary you could argue that the brutal competition in the country encourages people to be razor sharp in some fields.

A more controversial and touchy point is that they have a strong sense of national and ethnic unity, which many democracies lack. This has many disadvantages of course,[0] but can be extremely helpful for maintaining cooperation and motivation at a large scale whereas the West arguably has trouble dealing with ennui and lack of purpose. To some extent the form of functional ethno-nationalism China has is hard to reproduce elsewhere, and is the result of very specific historical and geographical factors. Japan and Turkey for instance have similar traits but nowhere near the same results. So China is tautologically highly suited to doing what it is currently doing.

[0] https://www.economist.com/briefing/2016/11/19/the-upper-han
So... easy to get a visa if you're a highly-skilled migrant.

That's not everybody.

That's not most people.
Citizens United decided that companies are in fact people, as dumb as it may be.

Still, a company is made up of people and people make the decisions behind it.

Don't deflect. It's not helpful.
More precisely the effective topos is a kind of realizability topos with a nno where every function is computable. Such a (non trivial) topos cannot be classical, otherwise the halting problem would be decidable. However the effective topos can only deal with calculability, not complexity. For complexity linear logic (without exponentials) and symmetric monoidal categories are better suited (but I don't know if there exists a model where every function is in P for instance).
I wonder if the author misread the poll referenced in this article. When people choose remote work, often they are referring to the ability to work 1 or 2 days remotely in a week. Most companies in the Bay Area allow that and are quite flexible on where you work from if you are traveling. I don't think that can extrapolated to being fully remote
Google Teachable Machine is fun for kids of that age. You can for example have the kids train Google to learn what pictures of dabbing are.

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/
AuptiX Inc. | Senior Software Engineers | San Diego, CA | Onsite | Full-time

AuptiX is a thriving, Silicon Valley VC-backed startup based in San Diego (Solana Beach). We're building a transformative technology platform for SMBs that ship LTL freight — a $40B market! Our vision is to create a platform and marketplace that efficiently combines freight from multiple customers into multi-stop full truckloads, and matches them with the most efficient carriers, thereby avoiding terminals and hubs, and the damage and delays inherent to them.

Our team is made up of a small group of engineers who are passionate about creating innovative solutions built with modern technology. As a member of this team, your talent and expertise will influence the best practices, design patterns, and technologies that we use to deliver the best experience for our customers.

We are hiring across our Engineering organization:

* Senior Research Scientist

* Senior Software Engineer, Algorithms

* Senior Software Engineer, Back End

* Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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Am I alone in fundamentally not believing in the power of individual action when it comes to stuff like climate change, recycling, voting? People always say that if everyone thought that way then nothing would get done, but that doesn’t change the fact that my individual contribution is worthless.

I think the way to get society-wide change is for the government to either mandate or incentivize it at a systemic level. This “what can I do as an individual to make change” stuff seems like either virtue signalling or irrationally directed anxiety.
People can trivially estimate it by looking at the curve without knowing the equations. And all kinds of animals do it to catch things we throw.
For every ride like that, you could get a teenaged school class flying in your plane.
Genospace (http://careers.genospace.com/) | Software Engineer, Precision Medicine Platform | Boston, MA | ONSITE, VISA

At Genospace, our mission is to deliver the software platform that makes biomedical data useful and usable by everyone. Your work as a Software Engineer at Genospace will impact patients at the most critical junctures in their lives, researchers seeking to make advances based on a sea of high-dimensional data, physicians deploying personalized medicine in everyday practice, and laboratories conducting some of the most advanced analyses in the world.

What We’re Looking For:

- Experience building and deploying full stack web applications

- Demonstrated understanding of foundational computer science topics

- Capacity to work through tasks at any level of the stack and deliver correct and well-tested code with some oversight

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- Ability to determine accurate and dependable delivery estimates

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- A self-starter that uses good judgment in how best to apply their time effectively Strong commitment to teamwork

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The article recommends LastPass but ironically LastPass still asks you to change the master passphrase every 180 days. I've complained about this a long time ago and they didn't seem to take my request seriously despite my sending them links to the NIST recommendations.
I don't like such brute-force approach. Even if you have low cost of computing the number of possible combinations of hyperparameters is huge! Google Cloud AutoML Tables solution cost is 20 USD per 1 hour of computing (I guess that's because of inefficient Neural Architecture Search algorithm). Running few ML experiment can easily end with huge bill.
Why did the software engineering community become so toxic?
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Join one of the fastest growing start-ups in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
We are currently looking for both a Haskell Software Engineer [1] and Python Software Engineer [2] to join our infrastructure team and our product team respectively.
We are a young company with a strong engineering culture and some unique data problems that we are solving for our customers. You can read more about the kind of work we do on our blog: https://tech.channable.com/

Our Stack includes: Python, Haskell, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, Terraform, Ember.js

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I work from libraries a lot, when I'm at home and when I'm on the road. My biggest disappointment is usually in university libraries because their internet tends to be more locked down then a community library, but hey it's their network.
Cleary | Founding Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, REMOTE | https://www.gocleary.com/
Cleary is building an ‘operating system of the office’ based on the kind of internal tools that companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Google, Uber, etc build for their own employees. We're seeing great traction - we're working with companies like Square, Flexport and LendingHome, and just raised a large seed round from top tier investors.

We're assembling an A+ team - currently just 7 with backgrounds from Twitter, Microsoft, Cornell, Carnegie Melon, YC, etc.

You’ll get to work directly with our experienced entrepreneurial team, which includes three second-time founders with two prior exits. In this role you will wear multiple hats, reporting directly to the CTO, and will have an opportunity to take on a leadership position (if desired) as we scale.

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Tech Stack: Ruby/Rails, React, Redux, Postgresql, ElasticSearch, AWS
iGOTHAM Eyewear: Beautiful computer glasses for better focus
Amazon says over 10M items are now available for one-day shipping
Let’s Hear It for the Average Child
Startups hardly bother with licensing excel/365 these days, and just pop into sheets. From my experience, you don't usually start bringing excel into the equation until you hire that one sales manager that insists on it, or the "Microsoft guy/gal" that just keeps asking "why aren't we using excel?" over and over again.
Location: NYC Area
Remote: Preferable
Willing to relocate: To UK
Technologies: ASP.Net/C# (core and framework), MSSQL, Xamarin, and various other Microsoft-stack systems
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But this only concerns the first usage. Once a public key has been acknowledged there is never further need for a password. It is only you who has the private key.
So, .4% fee for $10,000 in sales amounts to $40. And losing one chargeback dispute costs you $15, plus time and effort to fill it in and submit it. Not to sound cynical, but odds are you will probably lose it anyways because the customer didn't feel like paying anymore.

Am I missing something? The chargeback protection fee doesn't sound terrible
Don’t try to impress them. Involve them. Make a banana piano.

https://tinkerlab.com/makey-makey-review/
Legal OS | Data Engineer, Senior Backend, All-level Frontend or Senior Fullstack | Berlin, DE | ONSITE, VISA | Fulltime

Legal OS is building the world’s first code-based library of legal knowledge. At Legal OS you will work in a small cross-functional delivery team responsible for the theoretical foundation of the legal knowledge library.

Engineering team currently of 2. Venture-funded and scaling up to around 8. You will be working in close proximity of tech strategy, product strategy and business strategy with founders.

Stack currently React.js, Node.js and MongoDB. Experimenting with Clojure, Neo4j and more. Loads of tech decisions still open. Using TypeScript variant of JS.

Looking for

Data Engineer: https://angel.co/company/legal-os-1/jobs/561407-data-enginee...

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Also feel free to email beer@legalos.io (Beer is my real name, it's Dutch)
I've had some brief breaks recently, and abstaining leads to actually feeling tired around bedtime, falling asleep in a few minutes and waking up feeling very refreshed. I'd recommend every regular caffeine user give it a try.
Arbitrary Style Transfer with Style-Attentional Networks
I would have assumed the opposite, with enough trees you are guaranteed to overfit your data? Boosting increases the VC dimension of the aggregate model, which makes it more prone to overfitting.
Random thought: a VR app that gave you "hands on" guidance and experience tieing knots would be an interesting way to learn them.
I sometimes go on 8 hour car rides and don't require entertainment. Maybe it's just my personality, but the key is to foster interests that can live in your head. It's possible to spend 8 hours thinking about musical temperament, or lapsteel tunings, or word etymology, or writing song lyrics. Boredom just means you are used to low-effort stimuli being readily available.
The problem wasn't really at the iTunes end, that's just a symptom. It was at the iPod end. You'd go to a friends house and want to copy a few songs over from a Windows box and couldn't do it without installing a hundred gig monstrosity.
Celerity | Sr Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time

Stack: JS, node.js, FE (React, Redux)

We are looking for a JS focused engineer.

Fully remote.

Salary does not vary per location or any of that nonsense. You need to live in the US.

No silly interviews.

Email me at privera@celerity.com
Im an engineer there. Not a recruiter.
True. Running your own server probably costs more than 5$/month on electricity alone. No brainer if you do it yourself vs some other dude.
The Tyndall Travel Tracker has a fairly simple carbon calculator (https://travel.tyndall.ac.uk/); with respect to offsetting there is an ongoing debate currently about how best to achieve this. It is thought that offsetting carbon alone is quite a grey area at present (e.g., trees planted today will offset over 25 years but the damage is done in the now, also many offsetting schemes are...scammy) - we are currently discussing strategies to offset with more than carbon, including development activities as well as biodiversity protection; the problems can be quite linked.

My personal hope is to liaise with some of the best researchers in the world regarding offsetting and have an approved offsetting scheme, which can be applied anywhere, that updates based on the current best understanding; we would then bring this capability into a newly built travel tracker (it's closer to a prototype atm).

Please let me know if this is something you'd find interesting.
> enabling that is not the purpose of maritime treaties.

Neither is preventing it. So why is it a 'loophole'. (leaving aside the issue that it would be very hard to justify the legitimacy of such a law)
This article does not mention "mg", "milligram", or even just the word "caffeine", not links out to the actual research. So whoever upvoted this to the front page: shame on you. We can be more judicial than that.
I wouldn't recommend it - Hari is a notorious bullshitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Plagiarism

https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/...
> Norway is not in the EU, but it participates in many of the economic agreements, so things are probably smoother for EU residents / citizens

Norway is in the EEA (European Economic Area), which has the same right of freedom of movement as the European Union.

Any EU or EEA citizen can move to any other EU or EEA country, find a job within X months (6 in the case of Norway), or meet the requirement some other way (be a student, be a partner or child of a worker/student, or have enough money) and then stay.

For the ordinary case of an EU/EEA person moving to Norway to start a job, they simply need to register as resident (fill in a short form and show the job contract and their passport) at the local police station.
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Google Resolves Major Outage Caused by Network Congestion
How much time do you have?

I did a peanut butter jelly robot - where I had the kids call out how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They had 10 minutes to write out the instructions. I took each instruction as literally as possible. Then I talked about algorithm design. It took about 30 minutes.
It's safe for the heart because the stomach will kill us first?
Ask HN: Should URL's be case insensitive?
I frequently visit https://news.ycombinator.com/active and sometimes I accidentally type https://news.ycombinator.com/ACTIVE which provides me with a nice

Unknown.

message...

Should a URL string be case insensitive or does it actually matter?
I wish MS open model all the best, but I think MS started seriously pursuing those efforts after it lost a lot of power during and after the dotcom boom. In the PC era, MS supported Windows developers (kind of) as they were seen contributing to Windows ecosystem and viewing others in a not to friendly way. Google for "Linux is a cancer", "GPL is a virus", etc.

Power corrupts. The transition of MS to the good side roughly coincided with Google's divergence from its earlier "Do not be evil" side as it got a chance to influence people on a worldwide scale. My 2c.
Though that seems to have been built on the back of a massively expensive advertising blitz:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-18/tiktok-br...:

> ...[Bytedance] is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise on Facebook in the hope of luring away more users. Over the past three months, for instance, 13 percent of all the ads seen by users of Facebook’s Android app were for TikTok, says app-analytics firm Apptopia.

That's been their MO in China as well. IIRC, the mainland Chinese version, Douyin, was being heavily and repeatedly promoted with the Chinese equivalent of ads during the Superbowl.
I would do something like this too!
MOOC-Based iMBA to Replace On-Campus MBA
The point of the rule was to prevent "dynasties."
Absolutely, it is simply fighting the adversary's propaganda with your own.

Plus ca change...
I don't agree. I've not read the new one yet, but So Good They Can't Ignore You was brilliant.

The 'fluff' was all the examples, and unlike many other writers (Ryan Holiday and Robert Greene are particularly bad for this) he goes in-depth in his examples and references them going forward too. They're well thought out examples and not throw away anecdotes. Sure you could get the basic content from his blog but I genuinely think the books are better as they highlight the theory through good use cases. I also enjoy his deliberately provocative style, it's like a toned down MMM. That might not be for everyone but I find it entertaining.
is anyone interested in an hn meetup in taipei? found it hard to like-minded tech focused people, talking English, that dont mind a beer from time to time, and would like to talk about the last google cloud downtime or it's current side project
Because of excel's swiss-army-knife powers, it will always be present somewhere in most organisations, I agree.

But if you start your business with your stock and order tracking in excel, your customer list in excel, and your accounts in excel, it's not unusual to outgrow excel in some of those areas fairly quickly.
Agreed. Embrace, extend, extinguish isn't a warning against Microsoft, it's a warning against a pattern of behavior that any corporation may attempt at any time it seems beneficial and likely to succeed. And it's a warning not about the first step (embracing a technology or standard is purely beneficial), but the second (extending it in proprietary ways for lock in).

So keep an eye on every embraced technology of Microsoft and everyone else, and when you see someone extending it in incompatible ways, make sure you have an escape plan. The obvious example these days? Google Chrome.
> "building web applications for over 20 years"

You built a "web application" in 1999? Would love to hear more.
To add my own two favourites:

* cargo-outdated which shows you which crates can be updated with a major update

* cargo-tree which shows your entire dependency tree (actually it's a DAG) nicely rendered in the terminal.
Oh I am with you 100% about Google, trust me there. But, they aren't the topic of this article. I stopped caring for Google when they dropped the moniker "do no evil" and went into censored search in China at about the same time. I think this was like 2006/7?

What I more dislike is how people seem to think that corporations are inherently moral, just, good, or "on our side". I mean, come on with a title like '"Great Satan" no more', this is clearly a moral conversation.
Where did you find a single-core machine? Even a raspberry pi is quad core these days.
>Each of our ministries now has a team that is charged to say if we detect that there is a disinformation campaign going on, but before it reaches the masses, they're in charge to make within 60 minutes an equally or more convincing narrative.

a very interesting approach that seems to be working for taiwan. i think that European countries may be able to implement something similar with good results. of course, it relies on the government ministries being uniformly oriented against disinformation -- something that we in the US cannot manage, as many elements in our government benefit from certain kinds of disinformation.

notably, for all its merits, the taiwanese system still positions the government in an information vetting capacity, which may lead some to think that it is merely another system of propaganda or quasi-censorship. i don't have enough context to tell whether this is the case or not, but at the core the entire taiwanese plan relies on the ministries as being able to tell the difference between disinformation and facts. in other words, it's fundamentally a critical-thinking based system.