skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel I've just been rickrolled but I did enjoy it.

Before this, was grey. Grey was good. I kinda miss ncsa mosaic.
I tried freelance and realized I hate it more than any other type of programming work.

I can tolerate being an employee where I do what I'm told. After a month I get a feel for the environment so it becomes low stress and then I can keep my head down programming. Or I can tolerate selling software or having a SaaS. If I'm CEO I decide the direction of the product and then just have to handle customer support.

But the BS and stress of dealing with clients, contracts, undefined specs and getting paid... I have no f-ing idea how people tolerate it. So good luck with that. It took me way too long to figure out that I absolutely hate working as a contractor.
Our company doesn't have laptops to give out to employees. Intel has really dropped the ball. I suspect, as the article suggests, that Intel will be using these chips to supply niche applications like kiosks giving them a little more breathing room to supply current ven chips to desktops and laptops.

We're changing providers. Hopefully we will move to a company that is more AMD friendly than our current supplier.
Yeah I ended up owing 95k in taxes last year oops. Luckily I can do a payment plan now. If I had gotten unlucky and started earning less I'd be bankrupt.
TLS should be required, but it seems likely to me that the Chinese government can issue TLS certificates for MITM purposes that their browsers will trust.

As for the DoS aspect, maybe it's time to do a CORS preflight on ALL cross-origin requests, including images. (Webfonts, for whatever reason, already require a CORS preflight. Probably because Adobe is on the W3C and they sell a service where certain origins can legally use certain fonts from their servers.
I hate it when user security features get turned into subsidies for large corporations, but here we are.)

Of course, if you have broken TLS I guess you can just forge the CORS response.

Edit to add: I have read more comments and better understand the attack now. China is modifying the Javascript on Chinese websites that are being viewed from outside China. Making TLS mandatory would be a big help here. China could say "all Chinese companies must buy certificates from the Great Chinese CA" and they could still do the MITM. But with evidence of the CA issuing fake certificates to DoS websites, browsers would probably stop trusting that CA entirely. I imagine China would like to avoid that, so I feel like this would have stopped the attack.
Make no mistake, [IIRC] this was changed only after the backlash.
This is a great point. I've slowly started to believe in the planning fallacy [1] and that humans just aren't that good at estimating the time that it takes to do a given task.

The freakonomics podcast had a good episode on the topic this year [2]. There's an amusing quote by Daniel Kahneman in the episode that brings me some comfort:
"If you realistically present to people what can be achieved in solving a problem, they will find that completely uninteresting. You can’t get anywhere without some degree of over-promising."

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy

[2]: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/project-management-rebroadca...
I would be surprised if rentech's profits are based purely on algorithmic advantages. More likely, IMO, is they've curated some really good sources of alternative data and combined it with otherwise standard mathematical and technical trading techniques. They’ve probably also got a well-engineered pipeline for identifying that data, systematically evaluating it, and bringing it to production.

This is of course pure speculation. But I doubt all that alpha would come from mathematical differences alone. The market isn’t magic... it’s just a question of having access to the right information and the ability to capitalize on it.
I think you are jumping on his words and not taking his statement to their true meaning. Are you telling on the opposite side that someone publicly announcing false information that could harm someone should not be responsible for it?

You are the one who's making me afraid.
Nuclear power plant capacity factor on average is around 90%. Wind varies between 25% and 45% depending on geography. Flywheels don't change that much, they just help between short gusts.
But English is a tonal language; that hypothetical problem can't be a source of extreme difficulty for English-speaking learners.

(I do have problems with English tones interfering with my attempts to speak Chinese, but that's really not the same problem as "My language doesn't use tones, so I don't know how to produce them". I do know how; I just don't have good control over them.)
Are they willing to sit down, be kind & patient & hear you out?

Do they seem like they care about your best interest?

Are they explaining things or making it sound over complicated?

Are they trying to sell you on services or nickel & dime you.

Remember, you can always fire them & go somewhere else. It's why I also suggested going to two different people. They're fairly cheap for small businesses.
Poetic,

> "who am i?"

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow_core/python/client/session.py", line 1365, in _do_call
return fn(*args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow_core/python/client/session.py", line 1350, in _run_fn
target_list, run_metadata)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow_core/python/client/session.py", line 1443, in _call_tf_sessionrun
run_metadata)

tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.ResourceExhaustedError: 2 root error(s) found.

(0) Resource exhausted: OOM when allocating tensor with shape[1,48,2,25,465,64] and type float on /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0 by allocator GPU_0_bfc
[[{{node sample_sequence/while/concat}}]]

Hint: If you want to see a list of allocated tensors when OOM happens, add report_tensor_allocations_upon_oom to RunOptions for current allocation info.

0 successful operations.
0 derived errors ignored.
By the way, it's just "ad", short for advertisement.
1) Setting my rates too low

2) Not saying 'no'

3) Not making contracts and accepting changes mid project
Ask HN: Lesser known programming languages for data science?
I have recently started a blog where I write about data science topics but only use lesser known "esoteric" programming languages.

I've had a blast writing in J, Hylang, and am looking into others.

What other languages would be fun to write about for data analysis?

What are some interesting scientific computing languages?
What Successful People Do to Increase Work Productivity?
That accusation is difficult to justify. There are plenty of characteristics of nuclear heat that warrant a look.

* They are not intermittent

* They can directly produce a continuous stream of high-grade heat for industrial processes

* They have very high energy density and don't take up much space or use much raw materials

* Their lifecycle energy return on investment is huge, over 50. Compare with ~8 for wind and ~4 for solar. This matters.

The SMR being dangerous claim is unsubstantiated. Being smaller means they have smaller radiological source terms and are easier to cool. SMRs have been prowling around in our seas for decades with very few radiological accidents. Nuclear in general is orders of magnitude safer than combustion-based energy sources. This sounds wrong but is largely uncontested.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

Furthermore, you should check into the sector-size pricing model used in coal, nuclear, and hydro. It shows that as a sector grows, regulations and NIMBY associated with it grows, increasing costs. There are now some indications that costs will increase around wind and solar not for safety or air quality reasons, but due to how much land and raw materials they require.
I hope so, medical field is in a major need for innovation.
Making an Endpoint 50x Faster
The extra money is supposed to make up for the BS, or at least give you the possibility to pay someone else to take care of it.
Many (still do some) -

- Not booking myself in advance.
- Taking rush jobs.
- Not limit myself to a set no. of hours
- Absolutely no systems in place other than a Calendly meeting link that I set up very recently.
- Not able to estimate the time I need to complete a task.
- Not producing enough content so that I could get pre-sold, inbound leads.

e.g. I'm a direct response email copywriter and I've been told by many gurus & coaches to write emails on a daily basis and publish on the web. Yet, I've been slacking off.

Result? I've to reach out to prospects and try to sell them on myself. Not an easy thing to do.
Haha, congrats!

I’m loving the web design, feels...comfortable? Idk, I like it.
Galaxy has the biggest black hole ever measured
Wait, why should brave get to throw its own ads on example.com? If the little fish and big fish were swapped, would you say the same if Chrome had an [opt-in] box for replacing all non-google ads with doubleclick ones?
Given the paywall I assume this in no way addresses the congressional loopholes for insider trading?
Almost no schools, even great ones, teach informal (professional) proofs, even in CS and pure math. They expect you to learn by osmosis.
I believe that from several times I've read through freelance-related discussion on this site that the recommendation is explicitly not to charge per project. The reason being that it can be very hard to estimate the total time required for the project. Additionally, once a customer has payed they might say "oh, we though you knew that this (previously unmentioned) feature was required when we paid you." Scope creep, tweaks, rewrites, and any change in customer expectation hits your pocket, not theirs, when you charge per project.

When you charge per hour you make sure you are getting payed for all the work you are performing. However, I often see it recommended that you charge per week (best) or per day (next best). I believe the rationale behind the per week (or per day) pricing model is that it weeds out the customers that are just looking for the cheapest labor they can find, leaving only those that are serious about a project and can commit to paying reasonably for the work.
Magic Leap’s next-generation headset is reportedly ‘years away from launch
I followed that episode closely.

To claim it demonstrated intentional fraud rather than poor UX and rewards architecture in an early beta (which was immediately fixed) is simply not credible.

The only funds flowing through the system at that stage were from Brave's own marketing budget through the form of user grants.

The concerns were about theoretical, future issues if Brave ever broke out as a mainstream browser and rewards / payment solution.

Even now, a year after the issue was fixed, it remains to be seen whether Brave's payment system draws in anything more than Brave's own distribution of tokens (through grants and ad rewards to users).

As an early adopter I'm aware of honest, thoughtful criticisms (browser monoculture with Chromium) and... this is not one of them.
I used to believe this too. Talking to industrials, I learned that many industrial processes require major capital investments that demand continuous supply of power. For instance, a big water desalination plant can cost $4B. You better believe they want to run that sucker 24/7 to make a good return on investment.
Don't know the ideal scenario in the tech industry but in the advertising/marketing industry, it's useful to charge by a project.

One may try to calculate (in their mind) how much time they will take to complete the project and then quote a fixed amount based on the no. of hours that came up.
A Billion Pixels and the Search for India’s Crashed Moon Lander
Bill Gross of Idealab has identified timing as the most crucial factor in venture success:

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=bNpx7gpSqbY

(How he measures "timing" I'm not so certain.)
I doubt it. China gets a lot of business from overseas via the Internet. Think about all those fabs where you upload a PCB design and for $2, they manufacture it and mail them to you. If Americans could not visit the Chinese Internet, those companies would be out of business overnight. When nobody has a job or money, people start questioning the government, which the government would probably like to avoid.

The reality of China is that they need the global economy as much as the global economy needs them. No one entity can really pick up their ball and go home, as much as China would probably love to.
Shopify: The Future of Retail “Arming the Rebels ”
Two Sigma has an entire team devoted to alternative data collection, with much worse results. Alternative data isn't as useful as you think- short term truth is only one variable in market prices.
I was three tweets in before I realized what their username was.

I don't care if these tweets are real or just someone trolling. This is true art.
But is Cliqz a search engine, or is it a web browser with a search bar set to a default search engine (or a Firefox extension that accomplishes the same thing).

Cliqz bought Ghostery to acquire a pool of privacy-conscious users. The goal is to show them ads. Not sure how excited they will be about that.

If Cliqz really is a search engine, can a user submit a query to the database using her own choice of tcp/http client. It looks like submitting requires first downloading and installing software from Cliqz.
I lived 6 miles from an operating nuclear power plant for decades. It was fine. Interestingly, the most pro-nuclear people are often those who live in the emergency planning zone. It's thought that this is due to the local outreach that the plants do with boy scouts and whatnot.
Two Types of Software Companies
Ask HN: Career Advice for a Senior Dev
(using a throwaway account as I know people in my reporting chain read HN ;) )

I am working in a field that regularly trends on HN once a week at least(It is within the top 10 trending stories right now). I have been working on this for the past 3 years and have been rated in the highest band for my work consistently all these years.

Of late I am feeling a little bored of this and need advice as too how to get out of this. I am confused as to; if this is a temporary feeling, or is it because I am the smartest person in the room.

Have you ever felt the same and how did you tackle this?
I feel like the Elementary folks have a lot of the right ideas about how to build a desktop OS and a third-party software ecosystem around it. (In particular: They have a HIG, and seem to make an effort to make their platform appealing for developers.) But it sounds like they struggle with execution in some ways:

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/elementary-0-4-loki-agai...

I haven't tried Elementary, but I've tried a lot of distros, and I always come back to Ubuntu because it comes the closest to just working. (It doesn't do as well as MacOS or Windows in the 'just working' department, in my experience (let the flames begin!), but it does pretty well, and better than any other Linux-based OS I've tried.)

And although reliable statistics seem to be hard to come by, my impression is that Ubuntu is the most popular Linux-based desktop OS by a pretty wide margin.
Indeed, I don’t like it, but it was clear how the collective conscious and their representatives were perceiving this concept over decades

In the new bill I do like the automatic trading exemption, and ability for the SEC to exempt whole securities and transactions from being subject to any insider trading prohibition

Overall I think this can add confidence in the markets

It doesn’t address existing 10b5 violations, so its almost like the SEC can use both now
Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution: File Systems Unfit as Storage Back Ends
Did you know that the US Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission spent $1B 1950s dollars on nuclear-powered airplanes before we perfected intercontinental ballistic missiles? It's true! In fact, the much loved Molten Salt nuclear reactor design is a direct descendant of this program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion
Certainly it can be done. Cuil did it with about 30 people a decade ago. No business model, they ran out of funding, and no one wanted to acquire them, but they did get the crawler and search engine running and publicly available.

It might be worthwhile to do the search part in-house and outsource the question-answering functions. Wolfram Alpha and IBM Watson could be used for answering common questions.
Could the excess energy be fed into the local grid during non productive times, help balance out the cost of keeping it running?
There is a browser extension called personal blocklist for this purpose.
This is something I work hard to mitigate. For systems I'm trying to improve I keep records of every decision and outcome in an effort to get a better picture of which ones helped and which ones didn't. For many I also write down what I'm thinking and why I'm making that decision that way. This allows 'future me' to reconstruct the mental model of 'past me' and more clearly see what I missed but could have seen, and what I missed and I could not have seen.

It takes time and it can be boring but it can also be amazingly insightful too.
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Anecdotally I did the same before a trip to Brazil and I found it very useful.
This is great to see! This framework will allow defining functions that then can be run on many machines, gathering the output in fault-tolerant scale-out way. However, only AWS example is very limiting. I hope Azure and GCP gets added soon. Better docs on how infrastructure works underneath (Ray/Kubernetes?) would also be appreciated. I'd love to see an example that allows training ImageNet in just few minutes if cheap spot instances were available in cloud of your choice.
> A restaurant actually seems like the worst place to prepare food meant for delivery.

A restaurant... which already has all the equipment and overhead for making food... and which has excess capacity that's already paid for... and even someone whose job it is to answer the phone...

I can't even imagine how you think this is the worst place. It's literally the best, most efficient place in terms of taking advantage of excess capacity.

So your local taco place has delivery people waiting around. Doesn't exactly seem like a major life inconvenience, does it? And taco places have had delivery people hanging around long before the apps. You just used a thing called a phone. Delivery has been around for decades. It's not new.
So... just like Upwork is providing an opportunity to 'developer entrepreneurs' who want to code but not handle the other aspects of contract work?

Usually platforms like this are rigged so nobody comes out on top except the company providing the platform. Maybe there are awesome chefs working in Doordash food factories but it's probably because they just don't have any better options.
Will it look like this?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Building...
Christmas dinner with the family is gonna be awkward this year.
It's interesting that Senators do better than people in the House of Representatives[1]. It's exactly what you would expect if they were trading on inside knowledge. In my opinion, everyone in Congress should be required to invest in a blind trust, if they want to invest at all. They should not be allowed to pick individual stocks. The temptation to enrich themselves is too great.

[1] https://investmentu.com/why-congressional-insider-trading-le...
In a few years if this takes off we can get all our meals from cloud kitchens. I like that I don't have to drive to the grocery store or restaurant, and instead, they drive to me.

If delivery gets optimized enough that it's no cheaper than making food at home then we can start doing nutrition trials like never before.

We forget that food is fuel. We know how to make it taste good, but it's an important aspect of our health. A lot of restaurants already allow selecting vegam, or gluten-free. Ideally, we would be able to try all sorts of things:

1) Select an elimination diet plan and since all meals are delivered you're more likely to stick to it. Different foods will get cut out and you can figure out if there's an allergy you're not aware of

2) If you're eating healthy, it's more trackable. It'll be possible to get a monthly email that tells you what nutrients you got. You can get blood tests to see if the nutrients are actually being absorbed.

3) Trackable food means I can pay less for insurance if I'm eating healthy. Right now nutrition is a very messy field. Some some vegan is better, some argue the paleo thing is best. How about we solve this with insurance? These companies will effectively make bets on your health outcomes based on what you're eating. Insurance companies that make bad bets will go out of business. We can get the preventative medicine we've always wanted because the cost of bad decisions will be reflected in your finances right away.

4) It might be easier to start a restaurant that serves a niche group since you get some benefits that come from economies of scale.
I hope so! That would be amazing
I would recommend staying away from OVH for anything important (e.g., a mail server). While the service is fairly reliable, when things do go wrong (like an IP network that you share with others get blacklisted because one of the IPs is part of a botnet), their support is useless. They do respond and are very polite, but nothing actually gets fixed and you eventually realize they are just wearing you down hoping that you give up.
Yeah that is definitely more accurate.
As far as I understand it depends on the kind of projects and how repeatable they are. If you automate large parts of the labor that go into them you could have an advantage by keeping the same price tag.
Same here.

I started at a little more than that, and maxed out at less before I retired. I increased rates for new clients, and did my best to encourage more work from ones that paid more, and more promptly.

What was mind-blowing was eventually discovering what one of my first clients had been charging its clients for my work. It was over five times what they had paid me!
Does it include members of Congress?
Unfortunately Facebook’s approach sidesteps this complexity by ensuring each player uses the same random seed and searches policy based on information they can all see. It’s not really solving the problem as intended in my opinion.
Might put a link to actual search engine on the article.
Good article though !
+1 for Flutter. Fast iteration, few gotchyas, decent documentation, a growing community, very fine control, but forgiving to those learning the framework.
When many people copy media (not take it away from someone), they do it because it is not worth 100x-1000x the amount the creator receives to them. Many, if not most or virtually all those people would be willing to pay a more reasonable price without the draconian war enacted by "publishers", who now, in the age of the internet, bring little more than a gate rather than actual distribution. It is certainly more complex than "pay any price, accept any consequence, or you are evil". A strong correlate to this is the fact that many content creators, despite entering into agreements with publishing houses, really could not care less about piracy. The modern history of piracy, legislative creep, and enforcement has been a battle between consumers and publishers, not artists.