skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They blindsided us with a 300% increase. I'm very much looking forward to getting off the service. They may have done very well in the short term, but they destroyed to long term business.
Yes.

See https://ircv3.net/.

An example: https://blog.irccloud.com/slack-integration/
An h1b is for specialists for your business. If you need a specialist so badly you need an h1b, then you should be employing them directly.

Large outsourcing firms aren’t hiring a bunch uniquely talented specialists.
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Show HN: Elasticsearch Learning to Rank Plugin
For those who don't know, Learning to Rank, is a means of using a machine learning model to optimize relevance of search results. The Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin creates the infrastructure for feature storage (aka templated Elastic queries), feature logging, and then uploading models trained offline for ranking with those features.

This plugin is a few years old, but as one of the core maintainers, I'm eager to open the pool of contributors to this codebase used a lot by the Elastic community. I realize Elasticsearch plugins are a dark art. But if your team uses Elasticsearch for search, is considering or using Learning to Rank, we'd love to have you in the community of maintainers that includes Wikimedia, Yelp, and other big Elasticsearch deployments.

The Code: https://github.com/o19s/elasticsearch-learning-to-rank
The Docs: http://elasticsearch-learning-to-rank.readthedocs.io
We give people actionable feedback at work because we expect the team to benefit from the feedback.

What's the benefit of feedback to someone you already decided won't be on the team?
That’s what the AWS Business Support is for.

But at least three of the senior engineers (including me) I feel could hold our own against any “specialists”. My experience are too many of the “specialists” are old school netops people who got one certification and treat AWS like an overpriced colo.
The value of a treatment can be measured in lives saved. Causes (where no treatment is implied) can only be measured in ink on paper.

Which would you value in your medical care professional?

Measure what you value and optimize for it. Why do this devils advocate stuff?
Is it such a big blip? I didn't see that established either, but I may have missed it while skimming through.

The risk of having to support troops from a suboptimal spot further away could have a very real impact on casualty rate in a conflict. So I think you do really have to quantify the tradeoffs here to say if one is better than the other.
I don't have access to 2005 vs. 2019 versions to Google Maps to compare, but I really don't care about latency as much as I care about local performance. Google Maps is getting noticeably heavy over time.

What I have good memory about though is GMail. I've been using it for 10+ years now and that really keeps getting slower and heavier over time, while offering no extra functionality to compensate.

Google may track latency metrics for all their services, yet somehow, the stuff they do is one of the most bloated stuff out there. I guess they don't look at, or care, about those metrics.
Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It
Yes, people frequently request justification when they're rejected romantically.

This is also why people get ghosted while dating nowadays. Many of the same reasons at play.
The Eye might have these, they have a bunch of old Microsoft/msdn related stuff.
Virtual 8086 mode was gone, but they could have just emulated it. The real reason 16-bit apps don't run is Microsoft didn't think it was worth the effort.
All of Atari ST TOS is 192KB.

On a floppy that would take a while to load. Off a hard drive, sure, not too bad.
This has nothing to do with preventing the reveal of mass security violations and everything to do with laws put in place to disincentivize bad actors who are in a position of trust from profiting from the leaking of state secrets. However you try to spin things, this is exactly what happened. Snowden was in a position of trust, leaked all kinds of state secrets, and then tried to profit from that leak.
I agree. To think that those kind of actions were so mishandled on the most high profile FBI investigation in decades is completely horrifying. Not to even mention the falsifying of evidence. If they do that to someone as high profile as Trump how much chicanery happens with cases involving everyday people.

As an aside, Glen Greenwald is in my opinion one of the last remaining true journalists that hasn't been overcome with partisan slant.
I'm waiting for instant decisions about my service worthiness based on algorithmic analysis of my data points.

If the data know that I live in a nice neighborhood and commute every day to a office park job then Facebook will expend compute cycles on showing me things of interest to me. If an inner-city poor tries to get on Facebook, it can just show them a blank page. No money to be made there.
Looks like a typical modern research reactor, with Al cladded LEU silicide fuel.

BTW, considering plate fuel have been successfully used in research and naval reactors, why no interest in them for power reactors?
I don't see why the gaming problem you describe matters in anything but the absolute shortest term. If algorithms are gamed they'll have to be modified to be resistant to gaming in order to deliver effective results.

As the game of cat and mouse goes on it would result in us refining our algorithms to the point where they actually measure what we want rather than an approximation of what we want. Eventually "gaming the algorithms" would be the same as producing high quality content. Yes refining algorithms to that point would be hard work but it would get figured out.
But did esperanto start with the defacto position that English has: the dominant worldwide language (at least economically speaking and certainly technologically).

I guess what I'm saying is maybe they should take a swing at making something similar to esperanto, but with a focus on making it as understandable by an english speaker as possible.
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At a technical level, the Mozilla homeserver will be as decentralised as any other server in Matrix: i.e. entirely independent, and federating with the rest of the Matrix as normal.

At a legal level, it's true that the server will be admined by New Vector via Modular.im - but this is basically Mozilla just outsourcing their sysadmin to Modular, while also helping fund Matrix development (given that Modular subscriptions are used to fund development on Synapse and Matrix in general).
> Unless you code with commit messages always visible

I do this when tracking down bugs or trying to figure out the design of a particular component.
Google app Crashers upon searching *What is the Message
Yes, that’s the trade off. Like all trade offs, it makes sense sometimes, but you’re right that it’s not to be used in most cases.
The way I see it humans are the stupidest possible animal that can form planet-spanning civilization (in a sense that other homo primates failed to do so despite being very close to us in mental capability). There is absolutely no reason to think that the scale of intelligence does not extend further beyond humans. One problem is that since we are stupid and we don't know anyone qualitatively smarter we do not have the tools to reason about super-intelligent behavior.

Even the smartest chimp performs incomparably worse in most mental tasks than a median human, even the smartest human will perform incomparably worse than median super-intelligent being in most mental tasks. At least chimps can learn to avoid poachers since they have experience with humans, despite not being able to reason about reasons why poachers do what they do.
The problem is you want a coding job, which requires lots of preparation and perhaps talent. Getting a job flipping burgers is much easier - you just have to show up. but everyone wants the coding jobs ;-)
How would you even know, though? When running personal bridges I just have them auth as my normal user account like a bouncer. Or are you looking at CTCP versions?
Software in the 80s was: extremely low throughput but excellent latency.

We could really do better on the latter category here in the 21st century.
On-Device Machine Learning: Text Generation on Android
Show HN: Danger Crew – retro style RPG about being a programmer
I wasn't precise, I am sorry: I get it that it was/is used for the support of US forces.

I am interested in how the US can put a military base on a piece of land that in not so distant past (ten years prior to 9/11) was part of its arch enemy - the USSR? It may be completely natural to some, but to me that's awkward.
From the article:

61 people were diagnosed with cancer

7005 people were stationed there

5 brain cancers in 7,005

the US base rate is 1 in 16,000 for brain cancer

(And this might undercount special forces etc etc)
When 9/11 happened, the predominant reaction worldwide was sympathy. Do you think that after all the subsequent actions of US government another similar event would elicit a similar level of sympathy if it happened now?
Both things can be true:

* There are some rotten things at the FBI that should be fixed.

* Russians interfered with our elections in 2016, and will keep attempting to do so.

I don't get why he's so in the tank for Russia.
IBM Research announces heavy-metal-free battery design
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When I followed up an email rejection from Google asking if they had feedback, I got email back saying "yes", and setting up a phone appointment specifically to provide it.

So... I'd say they have something like that in mind.
As someone else pointed out, tax laws are public (like all laws) and we don't specifically think it's worthwhile keeping them secret to avoid gaming the system.

So I don't buy that argument off hand.

Plus people are already gaming the system, it's just the knowledge to do so is imperfect and unfairly distributed. Leveling the playing field there puts more focus on making the algorithm less vulnerable in the first place instead of effectively relying on security through obscurity.
> It's nearly impossible to get certain points across in 50 characters.

Usually that kind of stuff goes in the body of the commit message.
short answer is: you cant. You don´t even have a way of benchmarking it against deterministic models. All this AI heuristics stuff, while useful in some domains, have become more dystopian than utopian.
The cover doesn’t say ‘cure’. It says ‘get well’.

Below it says ‘Reversing Autism’

A google search for ‘reversing autism’ gave me this first result: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322274.php

Further: [...] She cites famous people with autism including climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has Asperger syndrome (a form of autism), as proof that autism is not a barrier to success. [..]

Is Greta considered a ‘success’ by this woman because Greta has autism?

To me, this quote was the one that stood out. Greta is morphing into a snake oil salesman of ideas. She has made statements that imply that her autism makes her different. And that it’s her ‘superpower’.

1. I wonder if people would be less tolerant of her if she didn’t proclaim her autism diagnosis?

2. How many people who support Greta Thunberg have children or relatives or people they know who are or are connected to someone with autism diagnosis?
But, presumably, you might end up with a maze that you can't get from the left edge to the right edge because the joining hole in the middle hasn't been generated. Which would be less than fun to play.

(I had the same thought and wondered if e.g. PacMan256 etc. were using this.)
Isn’t NW.js way better than Electron?

And they have a robust ecosystem

https://hackernoon.com/why-i-prefer-nw-js-over-electron-2018...

https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js
Cost: ~$250k. For this price you can build 12 quad GPU or 6 eight GPU machines (RTX 6000). Would not scale quite as well for multi-node jobs, but 48 distributed GPUs are still a lot faster than 16 local GPUs for most scenarios. Not to mention flexibility and convenience 48 GPUs provide for larger research teams.
It's not meant to be a benefit for the company, other than good PR I suppose.

It's meant to be a gesture of good faith towards the candidate that invested their time and energy to interviewing with you, i.e. at least the candidate didn't walk away with nothing from the process.
No point in buying it, now. You're better off just downloading it now.
Worth noting that Snowden requests donations to the families in Hong Kong who sheltered him while he was fleeing U.S. authorities: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1207629293230137344
> I'm saying they have a litany of other tools (I've spoken at length with engineers at Facebook about how they do this) that really make those unnecessary.

That's not how identity works on the web. Cookies are how every site tracks logged-in identity, including Facebook. To test this, clear your facebook.com cookies and observe that you're logged out.
And I know there are at least a few companies using rust to some extend in the capital region, there have been some talks about it at the monthly hacknight https://cph.rs
Repeatedly searching and dropping pins in Google Maps is like eating your dinner by pulping it and drinking through a straw.

Studying a map ahead of time and marking it up (on the map itself, as we did with paper maps and dry-erase or permanent markers) is a more efficient interface. There's this forgotten principle in UI that users can mentally filter out noise and focus on relevant parts very good; that's what our sense of sight is optimized for. Having to actively search whenever you need to know something is an inferior experience, both in terms of efficiency and because of missing context.

(Also, dropping permanent pins is AFAIK impossible in the Google Maps proper; it's a feature of "my maps", which is hidden somewhere and has weird interactions with Google Maps.)
"That would hurt society more than help because once the algorithms are public, the code's inner workings can then be gamed and abused."

This happens without it being public knowledge and is commonly referred to as SEO. Keeping the black box a block box hurts more than helps because the privileged few that do have it figured out completely control the narrative. In addition a publicly published algo helps re-introduce competition. I see it as no different than food products being required to list ingredients.
Sure, I'd love if people in power gave me more money. Why don't they?
EOs shouldn't be able affect that.
The UI looks great.

I couldn't find a standalone test page though, so I created one: https://raxo.dev/pdf/
Ironically, this rant is posted in chunks on Twitter, making it hard to actually read it in a fluid manner. How about a blog post with paragraphs instead?
I posted this in another thread, but it didn't get much traction. It's a serious question.

Isn't Snowden's book an auto-biographical memoir? Given this, is there really classified information contained in the book? Can someone who has read it give an example?

I've watched Snowden's Rogan interview, where he covers the material in the book, and I don't remember anything that was classified.
As far as I know, rural and suburban dwellers do have lightbulbs, computers, televisions, cell phones, and this time of year, brightly lit christmas trees. Is your position that there are more light bulbs in cities than the countryside? Do you have any evidence that that's meaningful? Seems like a bit of a stretch to me, that the external lights—easily blocked by window curtains—have any meaningful impact on health beyond the artificial light sources we all deliberately use.
What conclusions can we make about the fact that Japan (an industrialized country) has a longer life span the US (also an industrialized country)?

There is more than one variable in play. We can optimize wealth AND health.

(An aside: Your argument is a form of learned helplessness. I expect more from you. I am certain that in matters of business and your families well-being you are not so reductionist.)

What kinds of solutions would you like to see?
Nobody reads anything on HN, guidelines included.
I doubt it. Physics doesn’t seem to have much which is clearly connected to proof systems.

And, besides, from any (consistent) axiom system for which a given statement is undecidable, there is another axiom system which is the same except it adds that statement as an additional axiom, and the statement is therefore (trivially) provable in that system.

And, it doesn’t seem like physics is constrained to use only some specific axiom system.

It seems to me that the relevant thing to physics would be, rather than an axiom system, instead, a model (in the math sense, not the physics sense).
I'm using a CalDAV add-in to Outlook and it gets stopped every now and then. It seems pretty lightweight, and my guess is that Outlook is so borked that it causes the problem itself and then mistakenly attributes it to the add-in.
Does it count if a new company gets bought by then?
I used to know a computer music academic who used to attempt to run FFT convolution and other DSP processes on an Atari ST.

One time he started a process, went away on holiday for two weeks, and it was still running when he got back.

These days it would be much faster than real time - not just native, but in a web browser.
Multi-Factor Authentication Sucks
Which model shop-vac did you buy?

I have been warned against the metal drum units b/c they may rust easily unless dried after every wet use. Did not realize that they also had an advantage (better seal).
$200k revenue per employee are dismal numbers for a high-end US based consulting company of any sort. Is it just the problem with competing with India and Uzbekistan (where my developer is from)? My own consultancy of one does $500K/per employee and I have available time to get to $1 million. The Chasm Group told me a decade ago that it was easy for one of their consultants to bill $2 million.

I just can't imagine employing 100 developers who must get at least $150k in salary + $30k in benefits and charging so little for their time. Remind me not to get into softwre development.
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Before ist was possible to Share Images. BTW they used s3 dir that
These have always been magical devices to me. I still use and maintain an old Heathkit capacitor tester that uses one as its indicator.
Weird, I write in Go, and based on the number of posts about Rust, i'd assumed that it was gaining traction
firefox is notoriously bad at this - type a bookmark name into the url bar, move mouse onto the bookmark, search results come in and you click something you didn't want. gets me all the time.
Fixed costs vs variable costs. That fixed cost of Electron does come with some sizable benefits, so if you don't take advantage of them ofc Electron will just be bloat.
Somebody owns the bottom of the stack, but that is a smaller and smaller number of people.
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If your host machine is a real server (eg poweredge), itll do a selftest. This already takes tens of seconds. If you want fast bootup times, you need to be the BIOS. The example in the top post is stuff that either loads data off a flash chip (like a bios works) or a disk (requires some bootstrapping).
You are already a distributed team
> Ideally it should have nothing to do with Atlassian.

I'm curious, what do you have against Atlassian?
Many explosives are carcinogens
I think his point is that the law is being applied consistently.

If Snowden received a pardon (and he absolutely unarguably should) this would not be problem.
A membership in the car sharing company Car2Go. It was amazing being able to be my own taxi driver and then drop off the car. Too bad it'll be leaving my home area soon.
Might be naiv, but why not just run a docker container? Or am i missing something?
To ensure a ring of bases around Russia (like a potential base in Crimea before the war in Ukraine) so that any military activity of the latter can be interpreted as aggression (e.g., "Russia tries to re-establish its evil Empire"). [Here we skip intermediate steps]. To make sure people fight "left vs right", "West vs East" instead of the only really important battle of "poor vs rich".

p.s. this particular base is of importance because it is relatively close to future super-powers like China and India.
> I know when I develop in React there's no magic.

That's the biggest misstatement of the day. ️ We understand that you prefer React, but this is utter...
Oh, I believe I've seen similar devices on the little boxes next to railways in Canada. Is this the case?
I just went through this process looking for a job in a VP of Engineering role after spending the last 15 years running my own startups and doing my own hiring. And man it really made me rethink how I will do hiring going forward.
Feedback as a candidate would be great, but based on my own experience hiring it’s difficult to have that conversation go well. Maybe 1 in 10 people would say “hey thanks, I appreciate the feedback” and the rest wanted to debate their worthiness. So there is no ROI for this effort.
But having just been looking for a job I can confirm that almost all of the companies I talked to sucked at communication. They were just awful.
My view probably sounds even more conspiracy-like. I think that since national currencies abandoned the gold standard, people lost the incentive to save money and they forgot the importance of lowering their consumption of goods and services.

New money enters the economy through arbitrary financial channels and is backed by nothing so this distorts our collective sense of what is valuable and worthwhile.

These days nobody tries to cut back on consumption. The current fiat-based economy rewards production but doesn't punish consumption. The reason is that everybody feels that cash is worthless because it's not backed by anything. The focus therefore is on amassing assets; any assets, even if you're dirt poor and can't afford anything of value, you're better off buying junk that you don't need than to hold on to your paper fiat which is always losing value.
So for brain cancer anyway we're in the neighborhood of an order of magnitude increase in risk over the general population.

This is significant and seems reasonable to say it may be higher than the number of lives that could have been saved in combat by using this base.
Is there any reason whatsoever to think Russia interfered? I mean outside the bull of "Russian person or company bought ads on Facebook", because if that counts I think half the world interfered in the election.
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This is one reason I prefer simple guitar pedals to VSTs and such. With their instant response and tight controls, pedals feel like solid tools you can build muscle memory on. When unzipping plugins and awkwardly dragging sliders with a touchpad, it feels like it's myself who's the tool.
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