skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Very open

Willing to relocate: Open based on company and benefits

Technologies: Python, JavaScript (Node.js), Electron, React, Redux, Unity3D (C#), Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D Modeling, Sensors, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision

Résumé/CV: https://jddunn.github.io/portfolio/data/Johnny-Dunn-Resume-2...

Email: johnnyddunn@gmail.com

Currently looking for full-time work or contracting opportunities. I've been coding for over five years and have about three years of experience in the industry professionally. I'm a full-stack developer with strong design skills, though I prefer to focus on the backend, and I have experience with machine learning. I've successfully built multiple complex projects involving natural language processing and computer vision.

See my portfolio here:
https://jddunn.github.io/portfolio/
Haha same. Disappointing.
You can sell your home though various portals without having to ever speak to a realtor. Walmart has innovated in a few different places but primarily logistics. Disney is not just an animation hub, they work on robotics, software, as well as psychology and other areas. I think it's easier to see when your company isn't already a behemoth. Amazon arguably has done innovation better than most, but a lot of that has been through investor money other people wouldn't have access to. Established companies have to balance the books and as they've shifted towards profitability and revenue innovation has necessarily slowed.

I think you're already seeing many of your problems getting closer to solutions. There is that natural tension though between capitalism and it's tendency towards monopoly and the government's responsibility to ensure that the market stays healthy and competitive.
How do you figure that?

They have much to lose from not applying these mitigations, especially if they're the people spending a fortune to find them.
This is a war every philanthropist should be waging.

Calling Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and all others : please make science Free, Forever, For Everybody.

There's no bigger creator of human development opportunities than free science (imho).

More than a decade? ago, Bill Gates freed the Feynman lectures, only to lock it in Microsoft's Adobe Flash-competing technology, silverlight.

Now do it properly : make it free as in beer and free as in freedom. Yes Bill, you pay everything, we nothing.
Author of the post here! Just wanted to say I really appreciate this comment. Why would anyone hire someone and not listen to them?
Without NDA?
>Desktop is far more productive than mobile ever will be or can be.

Really ?

Ask any non technical user to open an app that is not on the desktop, or to find a picture hidden in some random folder.
The critical flaw (for users) of Oauth is that there is no portability between providers. Unlike a domain name, You can't move your login ID to a different provider
Yeah, but that's a customer cost, not an Apple cost.

In any case, dedup just makes things more confusing to the customer— like, "you have X GB in files on your computer, but more than N-X GB free space because of magical deduplication." Or worse, "You deleted all those files, but didn't actually free up any space because they were dupes. So sad."
IMO hacking is getting into a system by any means. Ultimately they were going after the "memories" which were all stored on the cloud. They needed to get into that. They determined they didnt need to get into the phone in order to get into the cloud.
Care to share more?

I assume not wearing a helmet, going fast, downhill?

Interestingly, my first scooter experience was on one without brakes. I suppose I'm just athletic enough to jump off at ~10mph and keep running
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The actual DNS system is vulnerable to domain registrar takedown requests.
It's unfortunately a bleak reality. I like to think all people with their heads buried in their phones, even when walking down/crossing the street, are talking with a loved one but the constant swiping in all imaginable directions leads me to believe it's not the case.

I know technology isn't inherently good or bad. In most circumstances, it's a matter of how it's applied. However, I feel something that could be best described as disdain for it. For instance, I've been able to read several books on my phone but I feel that doing so might throw me in the same category of people who use their phones for what might be one of its most common uses, self-reinforced and mindless consumption. For instance, I honestly cannot think of something I hate but I truly despise those bite-sized videos with the loud music which are even auto-scrolling and it seems almost everyone watch/listen to them everywhere (subway, bus, etc.).

Regarding the conversation part, you hit the nail on the head. Notifications and phone engagement seem to be gaining a foothold and being prioritized over person-to-person communication. The following story is totally anecdotal but something I couldn't help but notice. In one of my college classes last semester, I estimate that roughly 80% students were immersed on their phones right from the start of the class up to the end with the occasional look to the whiteboard or writing something down. It went to the extent that even the professor remarked, ten minutes before the class starting, (and I'm paraphrasing here) that it was sad he didn't see the students sharing/talking with each other and I'm sure you might guess one of the reasons.

I don't know if this is only me but I for once don't like to grab the attention of people buried in their phones because I feel I'm being too intrusive and interrupting something intimate. And I understand this might not be at all true but that's the perception I get, which seems to be so different to other mediums. For instance, I might build up the courage and strike a conversation with someone reading a book because there might be a starting point of conversation but unless necessary, that's a no-no if the same person is using a smartphone.
“It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this instilled in Sparta, that made war inevitable.”
I think that quote is badly put, but still true.

Arbitrarily sizing all four edges of windows and having them overlap (partially visible, partially hidden) is a waste of time.

Almost always, you either want to look at a window completely or not at all. And you either want to look at 1 window, or maybe 2 or 3 or 4 and so have them either full-screen or tiled.

You generally don't need them overlapping and don't need to show desktop space behind them either.

Modern productivity interfaces are mostly all full-sized windows with tabs and sidebars now, not child windows and floating palettes like in 1995 or 2000. (Modal dialog boxes are still needed of course, but I don't think the author means those.)
I feel like this would actually be one of the strengths of using a framework. I can abstract away my own styling to the framework, and the framework can upgrade from flexbox to grid without requiring me to change any of my own code.
How many branding exercises does Mozilla do? Because I swear I keep seeing it an awful a lot.
It's a Let's Encrypt Authority X3 certificate for blog.mozilla.org.

The Certificate is valid from‎ August ‎31, ‎2019 2:31:34 PM to
‎June ‎2, ‎2019 2:31:34 PM.

Potential issues with your system:

-- MITM attack?

-- Your antivirus is intercepting your browser traffic but doesn't have a valid certificate?

-- Invalid System time?

You could give us the error message you get instead of a generic comment on HN.
Our gnome-shell plugin https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM implements a similar tiling mechanism. Although we allow mixing tiled and floating windows.

Things like "minimize" and "pin" are on the road map.
I find jokes are rare on HN, but I'll always upvote one that makes me chuckle
I've seen many distros provide a unicode-data package, containing the human-readable text files from the Unicode Character Database. These are sometimes handy to have around, but I'd be surprised if much software used them directly.
My question goes more like this: “why the hell do you want to re-approach the idea of a filesystem if the new approach can’t even accommodate something as simple as storing log files?”.

It may be time for something completely different. Just stop calling it a filesystem.
A commercial building with a sign on it might not be a store. They didn't ask for officefronts or warehousefronts. What about a bank or brokerage? A dental office or urgent-care center? Those can look a lot like storefronts, but whether they're considered such is pretty arbitrary.
Hey.

What's really funny -- and why I posted the link -- is that TFA doesn't actually point to the Sky News article. The Sky News link in this sentence ...

> The effort to discover its location began in 2011, undertaken by a group of amateur U.K. astronomers led by Nick Howes — the same who now claim they’re “98 percent convinced” they’ve discovered where it ended up, according to Sky News.

... actually points to https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-snoopy-lunar-module-space-1443... . Some editor wasn't paying attention, I guess. If they still have editors, anyway.
I love that that's still an 8-bit palette-based image. And that that's immediately recognizable by noticing the banding and dithering in the colors.
lol the limit approaching nation state
Thanks nkurz!

I will look at installing a spell checker in the IDE where I wrote this. I recently removed it because it was too frustrating for code and technical documentation due to the large number of false positives, but I'll take another shot.

> My main suggestion for improvement would be to flesh out the details of determining which limit you are hitting.

Yeah. For the few limits I wrote about (which isn't in the order of the document) I included perf counters you can use to check if you are hitting the limit.

The basic idea though is that you go though the limits one by one, calculate the limit as it applies to your code, then compare that against the observed performance. Ideally, one limit will match the performance you are getting and then that's the limit (it could be tied of course, but it's still the limit in the sense that you can't go faster w/o solving that).

Of course, this is often difficult to do: not everyone wants to read assembly and go through the list of limits. That's where say llvm-mca comes into play, although I could write more about that.

I can also write more about peformance counters which can detect the problems, but then it starts to overlap a lot with Intel's top-down methodology, on which a lot has already been written (BTW, topdown is good, I recommend it).

> Factually, I wasn't sure that "One operation per port, per cycle" was quite true, especially since you later talk about address calculations.

I didn't catch the issue, can you elaborate?
I have the same experience in a "matrix management" organization. It seems like the managers figured out how to delegate the act of management to their reports.
That doesn't work, because of hunter2 is in the PW database but hunter3 isn't, your system will think hunter3 is secure even though it's not.
Nazi secret base. :)
This is essentially in line what the article linked and the post to which you responded claims: inventions related to your assigned field of work are claimable.
It is a real bummer that there are still no content checksums available. One can work around this by doing sums and scrubs in userspace by storing mtime+hash in an xattr and periodically verifying and updating them. There is a utility to do this but I forgot the name.
Worth noting that when you see EPA charts that show agriculture’s impact on greenhouse gases, the manufacturing of fertilizer is not included. The application of fertilizer and any evaporation into the atmosphere is what’s counted as “agriculture”. I get why the EPA separates things into categories, but one effect of that is that agriculture’s true impact on climate change is greatly misunderstood. In fact, so much of our society is shaped by how we farm, and how food gets delivered to your plate — it’s why I believe changing our agriculture is fundamental to solving climate change (practically speaking through a price on carbon).
That is an interesting point. The reason I don't subscribe to NYT and WSP is that they don't have a 1-click cancel option.
You can't point to criminals in order to prove yourself good by comparison.

You can't dismiss the mountain of mozilla's untrustworthy sketch bs without offering alternative suggestions unless your intention is simply advertising to use mozilla because it's the least worst.

fanboys set the bar soooo low nowadays. I find your comment needlessly dismissive of the relevant facts, perspective and any meaningful contribution to the discussion.

You haven't even begun to see the beginnings of inflammatory so please adjust your sensitivity meter, this is the internet.
We're going to suffocate under a blanket of plastic long before the effects of CO2 kills us. Single-use plastics are essentially a slow-motion, global oil spill.

The goal of these bans is to force use of better materials. The huge majority of plastic pollution comes from the economic fringes in Asia, but demanding goods come in better packaging to be sold in large western markets will hopefully tip the financial scales enough to force manufacturers' hands resulting in less plastic waste globally. I can get behind that.
NoScript debloats sites very effectively. It's like the entire web is running on AMP.
The comments here have completely derailed. Remove "flat organization" from the post title, and the article is still valid. It's talking about consensus making which applies to any org structure.
I don't think being suspicious of a country that has its citizens in literal concentration camps is "vicious hate". It's not a bad thing to turn a critical eye towards authoritarian states and questions their money and motives. Likewise, people should be critical of the US and its role in human rights violations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

https://www.france24.com/en/20190510-reporters-plus-survivin...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-...
> Is that only true in France?

To the extent that anything not obviously / actually a bicycle and not covered by EN15194 (mandating that pedelecs be legally considered bicycles) is left entirely to each country's devices, yes: the stuff above is french law (current as of now, a law passed early this year to make e-scooters legal under various constraints from September).

Other jurisdiction could have other laws / criteria yielding different results e.g. I think in Switzerland s-pedelec (faster and throttle-activated) can and must use bike lanes, but are limited to pure pedalling in pedestrian zone. Apparently your jurisdiction is based around speed capabilities, IIRC Belgium is similar, if devices can't go above a certain speed they're treated the same as bicycles.
All they do is rebrand, I don't think any programmers work at Mozilla anymore.
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He refers himself as “the leader of Doist’s back-end team” so there is indeed some sort of structure.
In Atlanta and I've come to a similar conclusion; Bikes for anything > 1 mile away. Scooters handle 5 blocks pretty well.
Just thought I'd mention that PayPal recently quietly added TOTP second factor support. It's not u2f but it's better than SMS. Perhaps u2f is in the cards now since they're listening to customer feedback on the issue.
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Do you think Uber Eats is profitable ? Does the driver just gets paid a buck or two ? Recent order https://imgur.com/a/GGiPqzN
Thanks, fixed and credited.
Don't they need it, though? People are already using layers over the filesystem, like "media libraries" and "document managers", which undoubtedly trade performance for "administrivia". Maybe it'd be better if this was provided by a common layer, much like the FS already provides a layer over disk blocks.
This kind of lifestyle seems amazing, but also incredibly risky. Any kind of financial volatility could leave you in the position of having your kitchen table or the clothes on your back repossessed.

Fundamentally, this is a sign of the times: creative schemes in order to make it possible for people to over-leverage themselves into living an amazing life well beyond their means. It's not going to pan out well for the people who do this, I fear, but there will be no articles on them, no warning to people on the behalf of the New York Times, because fundamentally few people have pity for someone who spends lavishly and then finds themselves a pauper.
If that's what the voters want, then yes.
Does this mean people will have to refill their prescription medications into the same bottle?
Amtrak is already proceeding on a new tunnel project under the Hudson[0] independent of the Gateway project, (edit: and has funding independent of the federal government). The real question is if elected officials can get on the same page with the interstate Gateway project.

[0]: https://nec.amtrak.com/project/the-hudson-tunnel-project/
I took the NE Regional last weekend and I was honestly really impressed. The WiFi was fast enough, seat was comfortable and it was remarkably on time.

I'm planning a trip to NYC in a few weeks and I realized that LGA to midtown Manhattan costs about $50 via UberX each way the Acela ends up being as expensive or cheaper while still being faster!
but then you have to test for this behavior, which was the counterpoint to the article.
I wonder how long (if ever) it will be until we have really good mechanisms for handling digital affairs after death. 1Password has the emergency kit [0] which I really should fill out and store alongside a will but I would need to write one of those first. It's just something that seems so.... antiquated? That's not the right word but writing a will feels like it will involve talking to a lawyer and not be cheap/easy. Does anyone have any good resources for setting up a will (also a living will if possible) through some software/service? I don't really want to trust my will to some startup but I'd use a product that put all the legalese together and I could just hand a binder to a lawyer or shove it in a security deposit box or something like that.

[0] https://support.1password.com/emergency-kit/
> I think having persistent access is the file system equivalent of logging in and working entirely from root.

Except that those system files are already protected behind root privileges, so they're only read-write if I have root. And, one reason the root privilege system works is because temporarily gaining root when necessary isn't painful.

I indeed don't change root files on a daily basis, but when I do, I don't want to have to go through an extended rigamarole every single time. Typing in my password should be enough.

I totally respect that Apple wants to keep normal users out of this stuff. I just want a way to remove the safety wheels one time, instead of again and again.
There's also the thing where seemingly 90% of ads for luxury brands feature white people. If you're outside of SH/BJ, white, and over 5'10, you're a pretty interesting novelty. Definitely +2/10 at least.
If they have it , then yes would love to use it, else thinking of setting up one, not just for personally hosted, a "one place get all kind of information " kind of portal for aws services, uptime etc..
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I tend to not like it when companies transform the meaning of a popular brand into a more general, "parent" brand. Why would you intentionally make the meaning of a well-understood brand ambiguous?

In the Java ecosystem, Eclipse and Hibernate are examples. Do you want to download "Hibernate"? Which Hibernate project? https://hibernate.org/. Same question for Eclipse (https://projects.eclipse.org/). They used to be well-understood words.
Macs are really nice.
There's something magical about writing code in C for these old 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs. You really feel like you're in control. You can inspect the assembly output and actually understand it. You can do inline assembler to optimize critical sections. 32-bit CPUs lose some of that magic, because the instructions sets are usually much more complex. However, RISC ISAs like RISC-V are still plenty of fun...
It's not just Chinese investors, even having large Chinese customers raises red flags during BD work for us.

We provide a SaaS for data analytics and often we hold a copy of the client database to provide rapid answers to queries.

We were recently finalizing a deal with a US based retailer when it came out that we worked operated in China and the tone of the conversation shifted immediately. They literally sought all manners of guarantees on data security and storage that were unnecessary, but due to the current climate, seems to make everyone paranoid.

Now we have to specificlly mention in our integration docs that when we do multi-zone backups, none of those backups are in China. They never were, but now we have to be explicit because it's coming up in so many of our conversations.

Our pilot with the Chinese company ends in November. We are seriously considering terminating the deal because it's trending towards the case where we can either have China, or Non-China markets. Not both.
It's a good list. Generally pretty reasonable but they threw in some Austrians at the end for "balance" or something. People usually get more then enough Austrian economics from radio and online ranting, and they get a fair amount of behavioral from pop media.

Honestly, what most people need to get basically educated in econ is 1. Some basic national-accounting type Keynesian macro, 2. Basic forex and bond pricing, 3. Enough education in marginalism to understand comparative advantage and enough education in game theory to genuinely understand the concept of a Nash equilibrium, and 4. A smattering of folks like Adam Smith and Douglass North to understand the human or sociological side of things.
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AFAIK, despite your work contract, CA protects personal projects even done on a company laptop. It just can’t be done on work hours or with a novel tool provided by work.

I’m paraphrasing an attorney’s explanations so I can’t cite the code.
Sad, but people don't like paying taxes..
Most larger mainstream news with political objectives can also be defined as fake news with a major political bias due to the profits they need to create to stay afloat. Business comes before accuracy in reporting. WSJ and BBC are probably great & accurate for stories about plants and polar bears, but anything of any major significance will be extremely biased in the favor of profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Maybe something got garbled somewhere... Comparing ICE detention centers to concentration camps is clearly absurd, but comparing them to US internment camps [0] doesn't seem so far-fetched to me. Note that the Wikipedia article calls these "concentration camps" in the opening paragraph, so I'm not even sure it's fair to automatically assume "concentration camp" implies "Nazi death camp".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
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so basically a smartphone streaming to a TV?