skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burnout and the Brain (2016)
The issue isnt that it has to understand HTTP, the issue is HTTP is now a baked in configuration method that must be supported forever. Using UCSPI one could just spit out text, template with awk, chain to tcp server and to whatever your heart desires.
Rereading your initial comment, that's strongly implied.

I think this horse is now dead, and or has come to enjoy the beating.
Relating Simple Sentence Representations in Deep Neural Networks and the Brain
Thank you! I felt like my description wasn't far off so I'm going to adjust a little. I'm not opposed to juniors but that's all I have received thus far after 6/7 months of using the thread.
The Democratic Party Just Committed Suicide on National Television
Most cryptocurrencies are too price volatile to be a store of value / transaction method, and most crypto currencies aren't directly supported by an app with 2.3b users (FB/Whatsapp).
I have ended up in neighbourhoods in cities I'm not familiar with, which all have "clearly marked roads", but knowing I'm on the corner of Smith St and 22nd Avenue isn't the same as knowing how to get back to somewhere I know where I am.

Having a very coarse idea of compass directions lets you do things like "I just need to keep heading east until I hit the railway line, then follow it to a station", or "I can head to the coast then turn right and I'll eventually end up at Cliff House, and I know how to get home from there".

It is still a useful skill, especially if you ride a motorcycle, where those strategies are often "good enough" that it's not worth stopping to pull out your phone (even if you do have coverage and battery...)

Even just being at a large event like a festival, and being able to look at a map with north indicated and then go, "yeah, so we need to go _that way_ to get to the stage we need next" is better than trying to match landmarks from the map to choose which direction to go (in my opinion...)
It’s definitely a team effort, and management has to be remote first for (imho) any remote success.

Too many places dip their toes in the water, but as a remote employee, I can sniff out immediately if a team is ‘backchanneling’ in the office, starting or ending meetings before/after the remote call is over, etc.

If the team is not remote-first, living and breathing with the sense that nothing should be isolated in a single physical location, it’s not going to be fun, especially for the remote workers.

It can sort of work in a sense where everyone gets together for some time, then everyone breaks off and does something, then they get back together.

But more often I see a team where 3 people are in the office, and 2 or 3 are remote—I’ve never seen this model be successful in the long run.
I hired someone from one of these threads a few months ago. I chose them over other candidates based on a strong “portfolio” web site, showing me the person understood their code existed to serve business values (not the other way around).
Will you support deploy to ZEIT Now 2.0?
should have used erlang?
you dream of google wave?

I was at google when wave was released, I tried to use it for a number of collaborative projects (what would otherwise have been large email threads). it just didn't work.
I posted twice in the past. Only received one email from a recruiter at Cryptokitties. The message was a complete mismatch with my profile. Stopped posting.
> I happen to like the side-effect on work-life balance.

There's no problem with work-life balance while working remote. You can even have better work-life balance as you don't need to take half a day off from work to attend to a 10-minute chore that can't be rescheduled. It needs maturity and trust on the part of the employers and the employees. You're almost boasting about calling a bug a feature.
My point has not been to dissuade you from what you prefer to use, merely to highlight the alternatives. And with how you're describing Termux it sounds like it doesn't need a package manager (app store), anything more advanced to describe files than ascii/binary pipes (share sheets), doesn't need to natively interact with the cloud (fopen vs Files app APIs), definitely doesn't need a GUI outside of ascii art or whatever random xwindowing GUI is supported...

I will say there's innovation in a platform that's completely untethered and allows processes to run as root. Jailbreaking on iOS early on provided much innovation. Similarly diverse hardware gives you lots of options too.

But let me know how other apps -- native Android ones -- interact with that app. Can Google interact with it? See, that's the difference an OS standard makes. The app you're describing, Termux, builds on top of existing Linux standards, including GNU utilities and distributions building and packaging apps. If you jailbreak on iOS, you can install deb packages too. It's not like the kernel doesn't support these features. All we need, obviously, is a virtual machine or emulator powerful enough, and you've got your Termux on iOS.

I'm absolutely not arguing against it, I'm just saying, "it's an app!" And the platform features on iOS are more widely distributed, adopted and often more innovative, than the equivalent on Android, and that's where the power comes from. Sure, one app, like iSH or Termux, will give you superpowers, and rooting or jailbreaking can give you even more control over your phone. But if the platform's not innovating, 90-95% of users won't benefit. And if you haven't found advantages to touch screens, cellphone form factors, music subscription services, and other forms of interaction beyond terminal, well ... I'm sorry we haven't made much progress technologically since Unix time sharing that you find useful...
I imagine wolves may disagree with your characterization of dogs
I have hired an excellent junior engineer from one of those threads.
Punch cards. Scantrons. Stone Age shit for elections.
Well, you also get what you pay for; many companies are not willing to put in serious HR groundwork and hiring efforts in India, and it shows. There are plenty of great devs and employees I’ve met and am friends with in India... but many companies I’ve worked for/with are not willing to spend the money or time investment in consistently getting this level of employee.
Man to Mars
>having a kid or two and staying in NYC or SF is the ultimate status symbol

I understand it's expensive but it reads like you're tied to the city, I'm missing the status symbol portion, likely because I'm nowhere near either location.

I've seen some of this, people move out because of schools or sports/events for kids specifically. To your point there are definitely more staying put than I would have initially assumed, I like a bit of each. Many suburban homes are massively oversized and have sprawling neighborhoods. Again, personal anecdote, I am seeing a lot of action in suburban governments focusing on connecting neighborhoods and rectifying some of the massive sprawl issues of the 90s by filling in differently and adding connecting trails/sidewalks.
> Its tennis-court-sized helium balloons have demonstrated utility. Over the last three years, Loon successfully let wireless carriers in Peru and Puerto Rico use balloons for free to supplant cell phone towers downed by natural disasters.

Disc: Googler.
or we could do it like the way physicists design their experiments-smash two iPhones together at tremendous velocities and see what pops out. Can you imagine early anatomists taking the same approach because the Catholic church forbade cutting open the body.
I like to fantasize sometimes about having a giant house in Raleigh for the price of my one bedroom in SF. I just don’t know anyone moving from SF to Raleigh. The people I know are moving to Berkeley or the peninsula after they have kids.

It’d be nice if they had done data to back up their demographic trend other than just claiming it based on anecdotal stories.
Your comment was pejorative, and then you made it personal by saying "you". That's crossing into personal attack by HN standards.

If one takes out the personal pronoun, the comment is still snarky, which breaks the site guideline "Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quite right! We took several years to get to this point and two different local HR/leadership "regimes", so it's not all peaches and cream to be sure.

If you go in and just want "lots of bodies, cheap", you're going to light money on fire, waste your time, and pull your hair out.
I didn’t know some of these names so I looked all of them up. Cribbed from Wikipedia and their web pages:

[Zharkova is] a Professor in Mathematics at Northumbria University. [She has a] BSc/MSc in Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, a Ph.D. in Astrophysics, certificate in project management.

Henrik Svensmark (born 1958) is a physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen. He is known for his theory on the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation as an indirect cause of global warming.

Casey received his B.S in physics and math from Jacksonville State University and his MA in Management from Webster University.

Freeman John Dyson FRS (born 15 December 1923) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.
Go has a concurrent GC not a stop the world GC.
Maybe people have never heard of Lucid motors and want to know if it’s worth clicking.
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I think you are underestimating the effort people will go through to go viral on LiveLeak.
> Seriously, no one I know my age (35) willingly moves to the suburbs. Curious if this is my bubble or consistent.

My anecdata is the total opposite. Every newly married couple I know that’s looking to have kids has either already left city living or the migration is in progress. The well off ones keep their old spots as a pied-a-terre for a distant future but there’s a universal distain for city life.
Ask HN: Proven ways to run on-page SEO experiments at scale
What techniques do you use to run on-page SEO experiments at scale?

Apart from the content on the page, there are a few things on the page that can add SEO value.
Getting the right title, meta tags and enough links pointing to a page.

But how do we measure the significance of each of the factors?

In most cases, we'll have more than 1 experiment running on a page. Some experiments are meant for the users and bots alike whereas some are solely for the bots. Isn't it becoming harder and harder to attribute a lift/drop in SEO indicators to one particular change.

The author describes reverse engineering Google's Algorithm in this podcast -

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seo-testing-how-to-run-measurable-seo-test-kyle-roof/id1038415449?i=1000440616308

How feasible is this ?

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
No, most older millenials with kids that I know are moving to less expensive cities or the suburbs. I think it's mostly because in the US we have this idea that middle class+ kids need to be raised in detached SFH with front and back yards.

The thing about SF and NYC (and Seattle and Chicago) is that most of the nicer, semi-affordable areas with SFH are actually in suburbs: the peninsula, Long Island/Westchester/gold coast, Bel-Red, North shore. There are definitely cities where affordable, nice SFH areas are not in suburbs, but usually they are the smaller ones that don't have/need the same degree of density
I doubt it's a net loss for cities and compliments the swing a decade ago now that people have families and the suburbs offer more of the amenities they're looking for, similarly to downtown offering more amenities for the childless or single. Of course downtown's have things for families but they have a lot of other bosses, business, tourists, industrial...suburbs tend to serve families and retirees and businesses related to those demographics.
I'm sure I've told this story here before but when I was in high school in 1992, we were allowed to go off-campus for lunch. Me and a buddy would each go home to our respective houses and hop on a local multi-line BBS and chat with each other just for the novelty of it. It's hard to explain just how amazing real-time chat was in 1992.
Rapid prototyping. I'm not talking entirely out of my behind here; I've done ruby before. It's a joy to write, especially compared to something like Java. Unfortunately, that convenience and syntactic sugar comes at a price - performance.

Ruby is like a back-of-the-napking sketch, almost: it takes nothing to get started, you can just jump in and start writing. Other languages are closer to gradations of a proper engineering diagram, the sort of thing you draw up once you've fleshed out your idea a little and want to scale.

As much as I hate bothering with a proper diagram, it's very hard to scale based on napkin sketches.
Universities show their true colours in court
This might be a good time to mention a documentary called The End of Suburbia[1], which lays out the case for the existence of the suburbs being fueled and sustained by the easy availability of cheap oil and then goes on to forecast the death of the suburbs as cheap oil stops being so easily available.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug
I tried out the last thread not expecting much to come from it and some surprisingly well-matched opportunities came my way. In fact, someone contacted me just yesterday from the same thread and that was over a month ago now!

What seems to happen with hiring is good companies very quickly get overwhelmed by bad applicants. Consequently, they have to instate barriers to try filter out the hundreds of unqualified people who apply. Unfortunately, the same filters also affect the people you want to hire and make it less likely you'll be introduced to a good engineer.

If you've already been in the industry a while you'll probably suffer from the same problem: A hell of a lot of low quality recruiter spam; Bad companies wasting your time with sub-minimum wage offers, and so on. Sometimes you just need 10 minutes to speak to a real person and you can both tell straight away if it's a good fit or not.

Good luck to people looking for their next opportunity. There are some great companies out there.

Edit: I find it amusing hacker news works so well for this compared to traditional career websites. It probably works so well precisely because it doesn't market itself as such, and on a dice roll the signal to noise ratio is far higher. Hopefully this doesn't change any time soon as having a high-quality service like this is very, very useful for people!
This.

As someone responsible for the IT systems reliability of a grid operator I have to wonder if this really is a backhanded attempt to limit to the growth of renewables.

We run load frequency control on the grid every 4 seconds to keep the grid in balance. Hard to see how that'd work with manual controls on today's complex grid.
Where do you live? I can imagine that the suburban exodus is more true for Midwest and southern cities and less true for west coast and northeastern ones.
Storing configuration as plaintext files is definitely a big positive, as it allows you to use standard and battle-tested file apis to manipulate them instead of an opaque blob that then requires an additional platform specific API.

The only benefit I can see of a monolithic registry is that it's technically all organized in one central place, compared to say the Linux practice of scattering app settings in home directories (although XDG does help standardize this). But in practice the Windows approach seem to provide an unnecessarily tight coupling.
Having a separate room dedicated to only work really helps. When I’m done I go downstairs and “leave the office”.
How fast players can move is one of the core aspects of game design. So, it does break gameplay balance.

Compared to building even a 2d side scroller let alone 3D worlds it’s not meaningfully more complex or slower.

PS: For a spaceship to move like that it would need equally huge engines on all sides. A design like the space shuttle with big engines on one sides and little ones for rotation seems much more logical outside of possibility low speed zero g docking.
Curious, would you not prefer a modest house and early retirement or options to a giant house in another area? Maybe you can grab both right now, I don't know, but 3-400k can buy a house in extremely nice areas in flyover states, why not find a nice one, buy that and live relaxed?
12 months ago in Sihanouk(ville) in Cambodia I was astounded by the amount of Chinese development. Rent had increased 10 fold, with something like 30 Chinese Casino's being built as well as heaps of accomodation. Unfortunately this doesn't help the local economy much, forcing the locals out due to price increases, and Chinese development companies bringing over their own Chinese workers.
Do balloons use a significant portion of the total helium production? I cannot find the number but I believe the vast majority is used in industrial processes, not these large balloons...
Investing in Google Infrastructure, Investing in Nevada
If you’re gonna use math to show how unimpressed you are, I’d be more impressed if you factored in the increased rate of clearing over time.
> "Can someone explain why a monolithic Registry is a good idea, compared to something like macOS's .plists?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry#Rationale

The Registry has been around since Windows 3.1. While it's not required to use the Registry, I can imagine there's a large installed base of applications that do use it, and migrating off of something like this can take concerted effort if they decide it's worth the effort.

When there's something I initially find incredulous, I try to take step back and recognize that very likely the people involved in making those decisions have a better perspective on the situation than I do. I've found Chesterton's Fence to be a useful metaphor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

Taking that into account, even my explanation is likely wrong. And even given everything you've said is true, there are any number of additional issues known to those involved than the ones you've put forth.
It's going to be a disaster in R&D or when you want to land them down for some maintenance...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321085

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316869
> Digital ads with analytics work 1000 times better.

In what way could they possibly work 1000 times (or, ignoring the hyperbole) 10x or even 2x better?

They don’t magically grant consumers more money to spend on goods and services.

It’s a zero-sum game in which companies compete in advertising budgets, instead of producing better cheaper products.
That might just make the comparison more accurate, of course - who says the AI wouldn't change us to be better adapted to our new, AI-ruled environment?
the principle of backprop can be accomplished in structural changes to the synapse. Although that would be analogous to changing the activation function in each 'neuron' of a layer in a convnet-we have just 'factored it out' into a sequence of weights used in the conv layers. Up regulating and down regulating the number of receptors can change how each synapse contributes to a biological net.
Uniting China has been the core political ideology for all major China dynasties across history, the same for CPC too. Let alone overthrowing the colonialism and getting independence is widely regarded as one of the greatest achievement and gives the legality of its governance.The resource deployed is chicken feed compared to the political crisis losing SARs.
Same here. Almost every single one of my peers who moved to cities in their early 20s have moved back to the suburbs after having kids. Across many cities and states as well.
Sounds like the US Navy destroyer that collided [0] with a cargo ship.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crys...
I’ve seen it work great. At Autodesk our team was half remote. People would come in at varying frequencies. Mostly for release planning.
Location: UT, Greater SLC area
Remote: Yes! On-site works, too, though.
Willing to relocate: Depends.
Technologies: (Data engineering & architecture + Cloud) GCP, AWS, Python, SQL, Talend
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdeaver/
Email: mattrdeaver at (g mail) dot com
Firefox finally fixes the problems with antivirus apps crashing HTTPS websites
I’m not tied to “the city”. In fact, I rather loathe SF and NYC (just finished a 3 year stint in SF).

I’m just anti-suburbs.

I’m pro-livable smaller cities like Philly, Austin, Denver, Nashville, Portland, Pittsburgh, etc.

I’m extremely bullish on even smaller cities as the next wave, but that’s a separate story.
Kevin Drum's rebuttal, citing census data and Brookings estimates:

"there never really was much of a back-to-the-city trend in the first place... With only tiny variances, the suburbs have been gaining population for 70 years relative to cities (and rural areas)..."

Millenials' preferences appear roughly similar to the preferences of other generations.

It's almost as if millenials don't love avocado toast so much as they love defying sweeping stereotypes about cohorts divided by arbitrary birth years.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/07/millennials-l...

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Ruining careers? Not always. Mona Ramamurthy, former head of Theranos HR and Sunny Balwani's right hand woman, was one of the most egregious offenders and later got a job as senior HR at google. Google was probably most impressed by her treatment of the H1Bs at Theranos, since they have the same needs.
Awesome+Night+Sleep+Chill+Mattress+Savings
Studied applied math and distributed computing.

Into various tech applications, computational modeling, or AI related ventures.

Willing to do both research and infrastructure work, willing to work solo or in teams, and generally able to bring projects to life from the ground up.

Location: NYC / Tri-state area.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C/C++, python, MPI, SQL, linux
Résumé/CV: https://bboutkov.github.io/cv.html
Email: boris.boutkov@gmail.com
So the HN candidate had a website that a business was based on? Or the candidate just had a good "fake" website that has a lot of good business code in it?
X25519 is the mechanism for using Curve25519. Software that uses OpenSSL all uses “X25519” and so it would be needlessly confusing to use other verbiage despite being more technically correct.
> The single biggest reason to fell trees, according to official figures, is to create new pastures for cattle...

I doubt there's going to be much regrowth. It's still a huge and increasing number, regardless of whether it's a small fraction.

It's how we go "Oh that's not so bad, we can allow more of it." And more and more of it. Let's say 10x that number is where you draw the line and don't allow any faster. In a lifetime (80 years) 60% of it is gone, but it never happened quickly. Pretending large numbers don't matter because they're small fractions only counts when they're really small fractions and there are other forces at play to fix it.