skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Going by past leaps in science and technology, we will probably see something really cool and useful come out of thisn something that isn't AGI.
I'm fine with getting a superbike even if the funding was for an impossible FTL drive.
To be honest, Gitlab is paying way above the market rate in Bucharest, while the cost of living in Bucharest is significantly lower than that of SF. Oddly enough their pay rate is close to that of London for a Tech Lead, and that's a lot of money in a city like Bucharest. Even if pay is half of SF, Bucharest's cost of living if a few times less, so it really is great.
> The trouble is that if nobody has any particularly deep knowledge of the subject then it's a case of the blind leading the blind

I'm in bio/medtech and anytime there is an article about health, food, neuroscience, or any other 'bio-y' thing, the comments are just as you describe. Sometimes other 'bio-y' people will chime in and set the expectations correctly, but usually there are a lot of comments that are just nonsense (or at least it feels this way to me).

I also feel this way when any article about black holes comes up, however, I am not an expert in astro/particle physics. Still, you tend to see a lot of child-comments from physicists that try to set the parent-comments straight, though the wrong outweighs the correct most of the time.
Which is evidence that the government really does start to scared when armed citizens speak up for their rights.
I like the article of the Swedish lady who went to Nigeria to help her 419 scammer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37632259
From afar, it is unclear whether it was uncovered or planted. Both make logical sense.

In a place where weapons are banned, it can make sense to construct them. In a time of effective peaceful protest, it can make sense to an authoritarian government to attempt to justify a crackdown.

My heart is with those protesting in Hong Kong: 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...'
I agree. We've not gone back to having well funded research facilities like this one since Bell Labs. Those were amazing days where we saw a lot of amazing breakthroughs. I wish companies like Microsoft and the rest would invest in external research institutes more.
India isn't strong enough to take on China.
I'm not ok with the trend. I want information, not to have my time wasted. In this specific instance, though, the article is about a person, not actually about GitLab, and so I'm ok with it.
AI protein-folding algorithms solve structures faster than ever
I am interested in working at OpenAI and similar companies. What skill sets is the company looking for?

What areas of AI would you recommend graduate students focus in to be competitive for such positions?
Local law is the most common reasons although there is also non-local law such as US sanctions and other reasons.

For a complete list see https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/faq/#country-hiring-guidelines
Is the name inspired by Orange [1]?

[1] https://orange.biolab.si
There is nothing petty about it. Everyone does it, but GitLab is just more transparent about it. It is up to you whether you accept the compensation level or not, GitLab is far from a monopoly on labour demand
You better believe the infusion reactions can be serious, despite what any medical literature may be leading you to believe. My father went into anaphylaxis within minutes of his Taxol infusion. My family was kicked out of the treatment room while six medical workers stabilized him over the course of an afternoon.
We will release a user-defined function with Javascript in next release. Python is on the roadmap too.
General practice in embedded is to avoid writing to disk as much as possible. Data collection is mostly done by sending it to the cloud for storage there. However 'edge processing' and 'edge storage' are hot topics, so there will probably be more work in this area.
Some of the surveillance camera vendors are showing interest in this, since it would be beneficial to reduce data needed to be sent. Especially since vast majority of the data is never looked at, or only looked at once (human/machine event detection).
But one has the (fundamental?) problem that the sensor is often installed in an adversarial environment. Would be sad to try to pull data after a crime, only to realize the camera storage was destroyed.
I used Nextcloud/Owncloud in the past, but it's a mediocre product from an engineering perspective. I've found several bugs, the most ridiculous of which was to get a conflict on a file... while using only one client.
YES!! I've been trying to remember this for months. I remember seeing ORCA coming across HN a while ago, and I was interested in checking it out, but forgot what it was called. Thanks for jogging my memory, looking forward to playing with ORCA.
That's a little reductive, short form writings/storytellings do infact exist, and can also be wildly popular, Isaac Asimov's The Last Answer immediately comes to mind.
Actually a point of pride for me that I've never attempted to put more than a single ad, never allowed pop-unders, fly-outs, etc., and don't bother or block ad-blockers.
> Their sync is top-notch.

Which is exactly what prevented me from switching even though I run Linux. I've tried other file synchronization products and the speed was always significantly lower.
IRS Greenlights Tax Breaks for Buyers of 23andMe Genetic Tests
Jeez! I never knew submarining had gotten that bad! I always assumed it was “PR firm gives you a bunch of quotes and research, possibly a narrative, and you write it from there.” I never thought it was as transparent as “here’s some money to say you wrote it”.
The title is a bit misleading.
I get the sense that the data analysis is pretty biased toward proving a point. Having a single founder who is a second generation immigrant is not equal to having all founders being third generation + immigrants. Taking the total percentage of all founders of Fortune 500 companies might be more reasonable.
>But do you suspect the methodology, the results, or the conclusion were "faked" or inaccurate?

Selective definitions were used. They weren't hidden for anyone willing to look into the details, but if this was a political move (I'm not saying it was, but if it was) then the people who did it would know full well that the headline would have far more penetration than any statistical critique with how terms were defined. Another poster here used the term 'slight of hand'. One could describe it, if it was a political move, as a form of deceit without being an outright lie.
The title of the article is "He Built...". The article is about Sijbrandij, not about GitLab.

The HN title has editorialized away from the main subject of the article, which it isn't supposed to do. You landed on the article with a false expectation set up by the HN submitter. Forbes isn't responsible for that.
This has always bothered me about GitLab and has prevented me from applying for a job there. I want to work remotely so I can move around a lot, both for long-term travel and to check out different places to live. I don't have a home. If I'm hired from NYC and then I move to rural Montana, that's none of their business. So long as I have reliable Internet wherever I am, and can work the hours I need (I'm happy to adjust my work schedule to Eastern Time from anywhere in the world, for example), then I should be paid based on my work. Is GitLab going to pay for my rental homes and airfare as I wander around the world? Are they going to adjust my pay every time I move? Are they going to pay me more because I spend a year in an RV and fuel is expensive? Are they going to adjust my pay for rent in the Cayman Islands even though food and electricity are the primary expenses there, rather than rent?

The whole thing smacks of socialism as well, and reminds me of the line from some Ayn Rand novel (not endorsing her): "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Do they also plan to pay their employees based on their medical expenses and how many kids they have?
A big corporation is usually seen as an inanimate monolith that you can't "blame". It's not a person and it has no morals. Just like a soldier's morality is mostly obscured by the "morality" of the whole army. But in small companies you can "see" the people behind them. You can suddenly directly assign blame for what they do. It's no longer a giant doing what giants do, it's no longer a blame split between 10.000 anonymous employees, it's a handful of people being scummy.

It's easier to assign blame and judge morals the smaller the group is, all the way down to an individual. You can put a face to the crime.
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What is never factored in is the feeling of resentment people get for doing the same or better work for less pay. While companies can rationalize these pay scales and maybe even require them to be sustainable, loyalty and engagement suffers noticeably.
We tend to remake performance sensitive parts in Go.

GitLab consists of more than 30 services in multiple programming languages https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html#com...
I know what the deal was and I now who the Iranians are. I'm not defending them. The point is that was the deal that could be done and it had Iran voluntarily not building a bomb or enriching uranium. That was verified by an independent authority.

Now they have started enriching uranium again, so they are theoretically moving closer to building a bomb. To stop that without Iran's co-operation would require force, so if the West finds a bomb unacceptable the West is on a path to war.

For all your criticism of the deal, you haven't addressed the fundamental question of how this situation is better than the deal. Interpreting Iran's provocations as signs of progress towards negotiations is not convincing.
Admittedly I left HK 20 years ago, but even then Yuen Long had not been "a village of people from several big family" long before I left. They do have stronger mainland tie, but I see that as mainly because the cost of living is lower in that region and so attract more immigrants (just like Chinatown in Western countries).

I don't doubt that the situation is complex, but lets get the facts straight.
Write as a leisure pursuit as the sibling comment says, but also consider writing short <10k short episodic stuff and put it on Kindle. As an experiment I published something under a pseudonym (no, not telling you) that was thrown together a few years back largely to see how quickly I could do it, and a single work will only make you money if you're a fantastic writer and do a lot of work to market it (or get someone, like a publisher, to do it for you)

But multiple shorter pieces gives more visibility and cross promotion opportunities, as if you're lucky your readers like one to go on to buy more, and the more you have on sale, the bigger the average payoff per converted fan becomes. It also lets you place it at a price point that is very low risk for people, and as you build up a back catalog you can further expand it by selling collections.

My experiment didn't exactly pay great, but it did pay, and importantly it keeps selling in small numbers several years later. At this rate, in a few years my hourly pay for writing it will actually be decent... See that both as encouragement and a warning that this is not a "get rich quick" approach.

I think if you want to commit to it but don't feel like being a starving writer on an elusive quest for a best seller, start writing short stuff (be it manuals, DIY guides, novellas, collections of poems are whatever you want) as a sideline and build up a back catalog and income stream from it. See every new thing you write as another tiny little sales vehicle for your full back catalog, rather than expect to get a sudden payday from every one thing. It keeps the commitment low - you can write as little or as much as you like - and it lets you build up an income stream until it seems realistic to make it your job as opposed to a side income.
Have you used the banks mobile applications, and are they fast? I suspect you're right to say there's a cultural issue, but it's not with the language, but with the organization building on the platform. If they don't care about the user experience on the web, they wouldn't care about it on a native desktop or mobile application either.
Scientists discovered a new species of tiny sharks that glow in the dark
Southwest Airlines early check in is $35 at ticket purchase time or $40 at the gate. When flying with my family that’s an extra $200. I like southwest but this is one thing I really dislike about them.
Solder the microSD and use the solder-points for thermal connection to the board, like for most other medium-power ICs. It is also cheaper than a socket.
It's not speculation, it's economics. If you have to pay a higher wage the number of available jobs decrease. It's supply and demand. There's not an infinite amount of money in a company's budget.

It's also not a company's job to incentivize where it's employees live.

I understand where you're coming from but there's nothing inherently wrong with paying different wages for the same work if it's a consensual agreement. If one worker is satisfied with his salary, and is being paid well for his area, the only reason to complain about a worker in a costlier area being paid more is envy/jealousy.
Please see https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/frontend-e...

We're hiring for role and many others https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/apply/
Probably since desktop Linux users are a tiny fraction of their user base, but create the most headaches and internet outrage.
There are a couple of very strange usability problems with the overlay, it seems to fade out while dragging the edges and clicking on the things inside the iframe leave you floating in a wikipedia page that you can't go back to the original content from easily. Also dragging the overlay in circle maximises it which was a surprise!

Good luck redoing this in CSS!
I see what you did here, you In the Pipeline reader.
Can we actually expect OpenAI to remain "open" with investments like this getting dumped into the project?

I'm still waiting for the 1.5G GPT-2 set to get released, but they're still going with that "too dangerous for society" BS that they're using to get journalists' attention...
Emacs vim bindings are really, really good, and there is widespread support for them in popular emacs packages (org, mode, magit, etc). Look for evil-* in the emacs package manager.
The problem isn't going to be that it's on DO; the problem is going to be that whatever they're using isn't proxied or optimized to handle the kind of load you get when you're on the HN front page.
Most schemes of this kind are just more complicated cookies that people hope will avoid the GDPR provisions by dint of being obfuscated.

What the article is discussing looks (at first brush) to be a sensible way of aggregating users up-front before it hits the database, rather than later. So no personal data is stored.

Does this meet the requirements for a site to avoid notifying users under the GDPR? I have no idea.

Even with the best of intentions, if you use a service like this then you are relying on them a) doing what they claim, and b) not screwing up (by leaving logs around, etc).

If I use this service and data from my users gets leaked by Fathom, who gets blamed? The users were on my site, so I guess it is I that gets fined. Maybe the risk is worth it, maybe it isn't.
This housing crisis is going on for long time. I was wondering why don't these tech giants build housing complex for their employees.

It would definitely solve a lot of issues, including controlled and balanced housing cost for the employees, group/public transport, and above all a vibrant community.

Is it a permit issue? Or something else?
> Looking into it, it mostly turns out they were either sentenced for other crimes or, as this article claims was the case here, that it was most likely a political move masquerading as being motivated by theology.

Despite having been a believer until age ~14 or so (raised that way) I've been having real trouble lately getting into the heads of adults who really, actually believe all the stuff their religions teach. I don't mean the vaguely spiritual Unitarian Universalist sorts or the new-age Buddhists who figure all the weird stuff in Buddhist teachings & writings is purely allegorical, I mean the ones who truly think all the stuff in their books happened and maybe even that the supernatural has a real influence on their lives today.

I have even more trouble modeling the mind of functioning, even intelligent adults who run religious institutions and are true believers, not just pragmatists following along because that's What One Does, doing it all with a bit of a wink and a nod. Like, your average priest: how many actually believe? Is it really most of them? An abbott? Really, they do, for the most part? How about back in, say, the middle ages, the cardinals and such really believed? Nobles and heads of state did? I just can't wrap my head around it.

Or, ancient folks. How real was religion in their lives? To what degree were the gods of Greece a vehicle for conveying (this part clearly real and important, to the Greeks!) common norms and lessons via (essentially) folk tales, and how much did they actually think Zeus—actually Zeus, a supernatural being who for-real did all the batshit crazy stuff in the stories—truly might show up at their door dressed as a beggar? Did most people believe it? Did the elites? It's hard for me to imagine.

All this seems incredibly dumb, I know, but that's where I'm at.

[EDIT] incredibly dumb that I'm struggling so much to comprehend this, I mean.
The cat will teach you rather than else. If you do it wrong, you'll get scratched or bitten.
So also known in English as Hakka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people#Hong_Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_Chinese#Etymology

Historic genocidal wars are probably still remembered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punti-Hakka_Clan_Wars
I have had my own sites be featured on the homepage, and it's never been more than 400 active people on at a time.

Hardly a hug of death by my standards.
On what authority do you make this statement? To make such a blanket statement about the team and the prescribe "treatment?"
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As a former writer, the only market with real cash to spend for writing is commercial b2b/b2c. Everything else is a pittance unless you're the next twilight that hits critical mass and sells off the movie rights. if you're writing for the creative thrill, b2b works a good way to kill the soul.

creative writing basically has no real market, and even the best are going to be scrounging mid 5 figure incomes.
Can you provide a reference for such a statement? It is, as stated, counter to my recollection.
I am interested in working at OpenAI and similar companies. What background would you recommend?

What skills should graduate students focus in to be competitive?
I'm not sure there's a great canonical and generalized source of this information.

Anecdotally, 7 years ago, remote, at a bootstrapped 15 person company, I made ~10% more than the absolute max Gitlab would pay me right now. The difference is wildly worse now.
I think the name and logo are nice (pineapple database right?) but agree that it's both difficult to spell and pronounce (particularly for people who refer to them as "pineapples").

If you want to be cheeky, CONCAT(SUBSTR('analyst', 1, 4), 'desktop') is available for a .com domain.
Right? Totally nonintuitive! But easy enough to remember and type. I figured I wasn't the only one who found it a bit surprising ^_^
Embrace extend extinguish.
>When I mention that I have a wife and kids, I don't know if that's good or bad in the company's eyes.

You have two options: either don't mention the wife and kids and take the chance of getting a job that doesn't respect what you want from your work/life balance because they didn't know, or mention you have a wife/kids and not get hired for a job you would have hated anyway.

I don't want to speak on your behalf, but I would rather get passed over for a job that was a bad fit than take a job that's going to have a negative impact on my family life.
>If you're not impressed with this, you likely haven't ever gotten quotes from a quick turn plastics manufacturing shop.

Who on earth would want to make a computer case from plastic? Cutting, folding, drilling and riveting sheet metal is fast and economical, even with basic hand tools. You can buy a dizzying array of fixtures and fittings from McMaster-Carr or your local equivalent.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to 3D printing, but I do have a bone to pick with the "maker community", which seems to have a pathological aversion to basic shop class skills. If you want to make a custom PC case, then by all means do so, just don't stink out your house with ABS fumes in the process - buy a copy of Basic Benchwork by Les Oldridge and Sheet Metal Work by R.E. Wakeford, scrounge up some tools and have at it.
syncthing is a great choice, I've been happily using it for 2 or 3 years across Linux, Android, and Windows. I've never had to do anything special to use an SD card on Android.
Is there a place to read the playbook, if documented?
Disclaimer: I work at Discourse, so I'm totally biased :p

We use a Discourse for:

- Support, feature proposals/discussion, bug tracking at https://meta.discourse.org/

- Commit reviews https://review.discourse.org/

- Shared inbox for email support

- Company planning at an internal instance

And we see a growing need for better tools for company collaboration. It's even greater if you work on a distributed, remote team that spans dozens of timezones like us. Chat doesn't cut a discussion that can span months, years. Or when you want to actually put tough into an argument, bringing paragraphs, links, multimedia content, etc.

We have a few blog posts about it:

https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-u...

https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discour...

And a new one coming soon about teamwork.
>After starting and selling app store Appappeal, Sid turned open-source software GitLab into a fast-growing venture that is on its way to an IPO in 2020.

Open source software?
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I could be wrong on this. I think the AI/AGI problem isn’t so much about money and more about not having discovered the unique insight that will make it happen. In other words, someone in a garage might be far more likely to find how to trigger the proverbial inflection point.

Throwing money at a problem doesn’t always produce solutions. It can sure accelerate a project down the path it is on...but, if the path is wrong...

In some ways it reminds me of the battle against cancer.

Not being critical of this project or donation, just stating a point of view on the general problem of solving AI, a subject I have been involved with to one degree or another since the early 80’s.
(I work at OpenAI.)

> It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more.

The NYT article is misleading here. We'll definitely spend the $1B within 5 years, and maybe much faster.

We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!
TheProperPeople do a really good job with their videos. Some of the best no thrills UrbEx.
There is an incredibly strong link between having children and alternative employment prospects. People with kids in school have complicated scheduling needs and can't easily relocate, unless they homeschool all their kids.
Have you ever had to deal with employees that "work remotely" but don't get a lot done (perhaps because they're spending all day on HN)? How do you detect that & deal with it?