skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Massung,

Thanks for the feedback!

On the security question, we use Plaid, which a bunch of popular fintech services use to connect to a user's financial institution. For example, if you use Venmo, you are using Plaid in the process. We went back and forth on mentioning Plaid, since most people don't know that company, but still worth mentioning. Going to add a call out and link on our "About" page. Thanks for the suggestion.

The goal for Retire is to do everything you referenced (although some of that isn't supported today - helping people with rollovers, optimizing within your existing 401(k), moving money into an IRA if you've already hit your match with your current employer. You are right that there are limitations with what your employer/plan provider allows, but there is a lot we are thinking about to get people to save more money (increasing their contribution amount to try and hit annual contribution limit).

Today, we built the dashboard to track your information and see everything in one place. Where we are going is to help employees take some of the actions you mentioned, but it will take time to build some of that functionality.

Thanks so much for the comments. Helpful to hear your thinking!
That sounds like a personal problem. :-) I hate droning along for 15 hours on an airplane and I look forward to WiFi being a ubiquitous offering. I can find things to do, or people to communicate with, to make the monotony more bearable.
a few people figured out how to change their workflow to deal with the change. turns out the same problem that exists between non-technical users and technical users exist between power-elite users and the non-PE users. when you try to show a non-technical user a different way to do things, they get really frustrated and give up easily because their entire mental model needs to change (they were used to clicking on an icon in a certain spot, goto a menu, select an option, get a dialog etc.). To them this represents a massive unknown if they do even one step wrong and so instead of accepting and using the new feature, regardless of the perceived benefit their anxiety takeover.

The correlations here is astounding. I'm the kind of person who will vocally speak out about emacs vs vi or the pronunciation of "c-out" vs "sow-t", but the WYSIWYG editor didn't fundamentally break my mental model of Slack. I just learned to adapt, but seeing the blowback.. holy cow.
I'm currently teaching a class on databases to 10 junior engineers at a medium size org (~130 engineers). It's a huge amount of work but wonderfully fun and rewarding. The class is an even mix of CS grads and engineers from nontraditional backgrounds (mostly bootcamps). I myself trained in applied math and am a self-taught engineer who had a few good mentors along the way.

Having a CS degree perhaps helps a little for general background, but not every CS major has taken a db class and even then, they won't have learned many useful practical skills, like analyzing and fixing a slow production query. And conversely the folks who have been through bootcamps (that we have hired!) are all very self-directed and highly motivated to learn. So I'm not sure that the difference is quite as clear cut as you make it out to be.

I do completely agree with you that this is important, and that it's very hard to get companies to devote resources to it. Taking 6-8 hours a week out of a senior engineer's time to prepare and teach an effective class is a big ask; I had a lot of support from management to do this but I think that might be a rare luxury at other companies.

It's just sad that the tech industry doesn't invest more in high-quality structured teaching, when it could so clearly deliver benefits in terms of growing skills for engineers from both CS and non CS backgrounds. Assuming that they'll somehow learn everything they need without structure or direction might work in a few cases, but in general it's a poor long term strategy for both companies and the industry as a whole.
Even if it is in the imagination of the interviewee, it's still evidence that the interview is failing at its job of assessing who could be successful in the job.
That assumes that there's no "padding" built in, and that to complete a 4-year CS degree you need to be focused on CS for every class that you take, every minute of the day.

Not a perfect analogy, but: due to my AP scores, I placed out of the first two semesters of the four-semester mathematics requirements. After two years, I didn't know more math than those who didn't place out, I just finished learning it a little earlier.

People with existing programming experience will start off at a slightly higher level than those without, but the latter group will end up in roughly the same place, by taking an elective or three fewer.

And even if they don't, so what? Maybe someone with more experience ends up diving deep into OS design, compiler writing, and database design, while someone with less experience only gets to dive deep into database design. The CS program has still prepared both groups for their first job after they graduate (or their masters/PhD program, if they choose that route), some people might just have less or more to learn later as they grow into the rest of their lives. This is true of pretty much any profession; programming is by no means unique here.
You might want to reduce your water bill
>Before AWS it took thousands of people and billions in capital investment to do so.

WhatsApp Stats (2014):

- 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history.

- 50 billion messages every day across seven platforms (inbound + outbound)

- 32 engineers, one developer supports 14 million active users

- $60 million investment from Sequoia Capital

Which they managed their own FreeBSD servers hosted on SoftLayer.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...

YouTube (2008):

"YouTube grew incredibly fast, to over 100 million video views per day, with only a handful of people responsible for scaling the site"

- 2 sysadmins, 2 scalability software architects

- 2 feature developers, 2 network engineers, 1 DBA

"They went to a colocation arrangement. Now they can customize everything and negotiate their own contracts."

"Sequoia invested a total of $11.5 million in two separate rounds and was the only venture firm to invest in the company." [3]

[2] http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/business/09cnd-deal.html
Recently started a FT WFH job with a semi-flexible schedule. Prior I was self-employed (consultant / freelance) and made my own schedule, etc.

The adjustment to the new schedule wasn't too bad per se. That said, at the first opportunity possible I'm going to ask for some budget to get a day (or two) per week at a co-working space. For me and how I'm wired that would make a massive difference.
I am a bit afraid they might be supplying it for just a limited while for them to fix it up and re-enable it for everyone.
It is known that 100+ IBU is no longer perceptible as 100 is the max bitterness we can discern. Even regular IPAs weigh in at 50-60 IBU so they are also extremely bitter in the scheme of beers. Most styles of beer are 10-30 IBU. In general IPAs turn the hops component up to 11 in beers. And I do think IPA drinkers enjoy it. It isn't just flexing I think (although I am sure there are some that do), because I see in beer distributors that other styles I enjoy like Belgians and stouts are cleared out for more IPA space. And I think due to the intensity of the taste, that they get more and more conditioned to find other beers not bitter enough and not floral enough in notes. It is market demand now but I think it is self limiting because once people are in the category of "IPA drinker" I find many of them drink nothing but IPAs and then eventually get sick of them.

I personally will drink an IPA from time to time, but will gladly drink any style really and particularly like stouts, German/Belgian beers. I also agree with the other child comment and will crack open a Budweiser gladly on a summer day on the beach. It is actually a very well executed beer, it is designed to be smooth and mild. I think the aversion to lagers is some amount of snobbery. I don't drink beers for image so don't care!
That's not true. Harvey Mudd made changes to their CS program to remove bias and now more than half of its computer science majors are women. There is some very insidious bias in the pipeline that isn't explained away with "but different interests".

https://qz.com/730290/harvey-mudd-college-took-on-gender-bia...
I am not quite sure what you mean by debt-fueled bubble?

Your perception might be coloured by the miscategorization of the time before the Great Recession as a bubble. It wasn't. (See eg Kevin Erdmann's detective work on this at https://economicsdetective.com/2019/03/re-thinking-the-so-ca... )

Btw, loans going sour is a problem for the creditor, but ain't a problem for the economy, as long as total nominal spending is kept stable. See eg https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/springsummer-2019/financia...

In any case, I'm glad that my central bank doesn't mess with interest rates. So no funny business going on around 0% interest. See https://www.mas.gov.sg/monetary-policy/Singapores-Monetary-P...
What about databricks made you abandon sklearn?
This is the same for almost all candidates of all races and genders.

https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/interview/#interviews...
Landing up on an inhabited island thousands of kilometers from here is a huge shot in the dark, but you know you got air and fish, and you can survive even if your seeds don't grow, and you know you can leave if the island is not ideal for survival.

But on Mars, you don't have proper air and you don't have wild life for food. And you cannot easily leave for other better places.
In particular their ``` code block support is super frustrating, especially since copying a code block produces invalid markdown even if it was originally written properly, they like to pull new lines out of it.
Key Developments in Court Case to End Opt for Foreign Students
> I've seen more production outages caused by poorly coded or configured HA setups than due to any single-host level hardware failure.

Me to! HA is fiendishly difficult and often dramatically underestimated - until things go sideways and fail in unanticipated ways, of course :)
Voice interviews are biased against non-native speakers of the company's language.
Reasonable people differ on all these projects. It's not "abundantly clear" at all. What you feel strongly about might be another's subtle trafeoff. You don't get to decide which disagreements you'll allow and which you'll prohibit. That's the privilege of the people who own the company. The main problem with Google over the past few years is this idea among a small but vocal group of employees that they have the right to run the company merely because they feel strongly about certain issues.
> The fact that the company is willing to dock your pay by 50% for a on min late arrival signals a god-awful culture

I brought that up to the CEO/founder and he responded that he's open to proposals. I said that my proposal was to eliminate that policy, but he mentioned that "you cannot replace an idea with a non-idea". Then I mentioned that they should at least reduce it, but he responded that if they reduced it, people would start getting in late (which they rarely did before that policy, and if they did, it was for very justifiable reasons).
Starlink receivers will use solid-state phased array beamforming antennae, so nothing has to physically "swing" to a new satellite. With a reasonably accurate accelerometer and inertial sensor, it's easy to compensate for aircraft movement.
Can you compare and contrast with tools such as dask, dask-kubernetes, perfect[1]?

[1] https://www.prefect.io/products/core
What's more ridiculous is that this WYSIWYG editor is not only a front-end change, it changes the backend. And broke our bot. I have no idea why anything else should care. Their changelog didn't make the problem obvious.

Took me a bunch of time to track down the issue, as it worked for a few people, but the bot would completely ignore other people – including my boss.

https://github.com/nlopes/slack/issues/630
WhatsApp? Similar story, no AWS.
Away after botnets (and later dogecoin) figured out its a free decentralized comms platform and caused every major enterprise to block all IRC ports out of fear of being owned. At least this was my experience in the early 2000s, which is why I gave up on IRC circa 2006-ish. The death kneel was the lack of a google/apple cloud-backed IRC app, so any mobile use of IRC was pretty much a death wish for your battery (this may have changed but meh damage has already been done). Also all of dividebyzero's reasons listed above

Otherwise, all the major networks are still around and two or three of the really really really hardcore old school users from the 90s may still be around. I still ask random geeks I meet if they used to hang in #FreeBSD back in the day, hoping to reunite with old peoples.
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I love Vimium too! (using on chrome) Took me a while to learn all the shortcuts (thanks Anki!), but that was worth it. Wish it was more integrated to the browser though (having to wait for a page to finish loading before I can use a shortcut is sometimes annoying).

You're not mentioning my favorite Vimium command! m<key> to save a mark, and `<key> to load it. lowercase chars marks are in-page marks, and uppercase chars are global marks (like bookmarks).
Does this host any actual services, or is it just a quick way to get on the AWS backbone from LA? So it becomes a kind of "Region Endpoint"?
An $1B acquisition may have nothing to do with any colossal infrastructure. Was it indeed colossal?
I don’t have a google mini so I can’t compare specifically apart from the iOS app.
Well, I'm quite happy they had to shamefully walk that statement back - seems like it might have been a feature pushed arbitrarily by a C-level fiat rather than user research.

Having the WYSIWYG thing as an option is nice - forcing everyone into it less so.
What is the "Zuck" personality type? Zuck is famous for being a supposed Aspie robot in front of Congress, quite an "anxious, pale-skinned, Jewish guy" as you write

Or are we talking about the personality type of a movie character pretending to be Zuck?
Not everything is about money. And moral lapses don't (or shouldn't) disappear just because you pay for them with money. Regulation should protect people from everyone.
Yes. But people make up teams :) And it's important to realize different people will react differently at different times. You can't optimize your team without first embracing a people-first mentality.
Yup. They get stolen incredibly frequently as well.

I get my stuff delivered to work most of the time because of this.
Salt of the Earth, if you ask me. BTW, outside of undergrad legacy and big name donor admits, there's a lot of "normal" people who work and study at Stanford. (I worked there for 5 years in a 3% acceptance program with CS/MD IITians and other lesser Ivy Leagues like Haáàrvard ;).) 98% are normal, only 1 in many is a talent jerk because it's very socially selective rather than talent only. To be honest, it's the popped collar folks who need to prove that they didn't land their job from their pedigree alone and didn't skate through life on other people doing their homework and their parents teaching them laws/rules don't apply to them because they're an aristocrat because M O N E Y.
I was told that they covered the cost for all patients at the center who were still classified as unknown. This was several years after the first test.
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When Slack first showed up, their development process seemed pretty fast and loose. There were tons of bugs and everyone who endured their initial forays into 2FA will probably remember the discussions of "Is Slack (the company) responsible enough for people to use the product in a mission critical application?" To be completely fair, they've tightened up their development process significantly and I'm actually pretty impressed that this is the first major gaff I've seen from them in a long time. I'm hoping its an aberration. I'm pretty public in saying that I don't really like SaaS offerings unless I get source code, but I have to use Slack at work, so I'm hoping they are successful ;-)
That situation sucks, but it’s possible do anything the wrong way, including diversity.
Oh it absolutely applies - excellent reminder and post!
Reinforcement learning is almost exclusively researched in video game like environments. Being able to create a variety of game like environments that all have the same interface will make it easier to test a single algorithm in many different situations.
I was grimly amused by a thought along the lines of Asimov's "Nightfall." Researchers started to piece together evidence of a million years of rain driven by CO2 emissions, just as the really big storms started...
IRC hasn't gone anywhere, if you want to host a server for internal company use (or public use if you don't mind the bots) feel free to spin one up - or use freenode or whatever, they're still around.

But slack's strength for me comes from decent unfurling of links, threading and history searching - I could live without threading, but link unfurling is a hill I'll die on.
I thought even the current GEO orbit antenna were phased array. If not, there might also be the point that the aerodynamics for a phased array shell may be less expensive on fuel burden (less air resistance, less turbulence) and lighter, so cheaper overall. (at a refit cost)
as far as like this fic?
The proof of this pudding will be in the living.

Seems like the structure does well in mild climates like that Santa Monica. How would it do in rainy places like Seattle, or Cold continental places like Minneapolis?

Perhaps it'll do well. People will need to know it does well and appreciates as much as co-located traditional homes.

It does have nice aesthetic design cues, but except for people who can afford to tear down and rebuild when bored, homes have to last. I guess we'll find out.
Async video conversations. Putting the nuance back in to team communication. :)

I love the format of the above tool, the only contention is that it should be extended to all communication, not just standups.

You should be able to asynchronously discuss something with short videos. And record your desktop if necessary.

And they should provide transcriptions to make the chats searchable.
Imagine if absolutely nothing changed about the BBB except that I forced you to fund them against your will.
I believe the "digits" above refers to decimal digits, not binary digits. RSA-240 has 240 decimal digits. A 1024-bit number should have 309 digits. So:

2^((309 - 240) / 5.5) = 5978
A company like amazon could trivially improve this too, but think of how much money it would cost them
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You deserve better and I wish you as speedy a recovery as possible. It's going to be quite difficult for interviewers and coworkers to work around an injury that you and the professionals you work with have been yet unable to heal.
Yes that's one way. Many roles in some companies are relatively light on tech and rely a lot more on domain specific knowledge, so those are ideal stepping stones too.
You would love https://zulipchat.com/ (I have no association with them, their threading model is amazing though)
Am I correct in interpreting this as that among 15-year-olds, girls and boys are about equally skilled at doing math, but girls are even more skilled at doing reading than boys are, so it's relatively inefficient for girls to do math-oriented tasks instead of reading-oriented tasks.

With the relative inefficiency might come relative unprofitability, and if the girls perceive and/or anticipate that doing reading-oriented tasks would be more profitable for them, they choose to participate in the market for reading-oriented labor (self-select into that market).
Didn't see that before. Still a poor implementation compared to what's available. And I mentioned Instaclustr, so if you're fine with them offering Cassandra then AWS is no different.
Also, people of color are often racist, and white people often have anxieties.
Plant-based burgers are “ultra-processed” like dog food, meat-backed ads say
New RSA factoring challenge solved
Bjarne Stroustrup: How can you be so certain? [pdf]
Lock-in is unavoidable with the cloud and cloud vendors - but I think the issue here is the degree of lock-in and the way people get there. This sort of stuff by AWS is very clearly seen as luring people in with OSS, industry standard, vendor-neutral technologies and then pulling a fast one on them. Whether or not that's the _actual_ goal I can't say, but I can see how it looks that way.
do you have tmobile? I think the service provider is related. on a side note, I've always gotten iMessage to work on southwest flights without paying. and on united you can get to certain google hosts without a paywall. I think that's all I'll share on here for now
Mupdf is listed in the Configurations part.

I used mupdf for years. Then I discovered llpp (a wrapper on top of mupdf). I never went back since, this is my favorite pdf reader by far :)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Llpp
How many engineers at these companies? The only place I had to extend my range a bit to find women engineers in my part of the organization was at Amazon.
Does ARM specify speculative execution? I would have guessed that's an implementation detail of Qualcomm or Marvell or Nvidia's implementation of ARM.