skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year I was really stoked for an interview with this risk analysis company and pretty sure I had a good chance (I have a master's in international studies, which isn't much, but it's something).

After they reviewed my resume and gave me an initial phone screening, which went okay, I was given an assignment to perform. I had 24 hours to write a risk analysis on this Crimean wine company and use my Russian language skills to research the company's ownership, history, and risks. I thought I did an amazing job, having written about 5 pages on them, citing numerous sources from the Russian financial times and other sites.

Then, for the second interview, I talked to a member of their senior leadership (former US Treasury guy), and man, this guy was very much a jerk to me. He asked me, "What is the legislation that makes sanctions work?" I didn't know exactly, so I mentioned a recent UN Security Council resolution that added North Korean officials to US and UN sanctions lists. He interrupted me, saying that if I didn't know, I should just say so. I said I'm trying to tell you what I know. He said "Why didn't you prepare for this interview?" I said I read everything I could find on the company and did my best on the assignment, and did he see the assignment? He paused for a second, lowered his voice, and said "thanks, we'll be in touch" and that was the end of it. I'm still reeling from this, and this was over a year ago. I have every reason to believe that they used and profited from my research, because this company was recently in the news. I suppose this is a sort of crime that is nearly impossible to legislate against. Anyway, I am trying to improve my interview skills (and they did not reply to my request for feedback). Do you think I should have just said "I don't know"? I was always told _never_ to say this, but just to stick to your guns. But I got shot down by a snotty executive here, and it still hurts.
I'm Buddhist and I'm offended – Issue #87428 vscode
This was my question as well.

SmugMug presumably did their due diligence before making the acquisition, they should have had a decent idea of what it would cost them to operate Flickr even with the old unlimited-storage model. So I was surprised after they made the acquisition to see them abandon that model and delete tons of images users had uploaded to the service in good faith -- it seemed like the cost of hosting those images was something they should have factored into their planning. But if that's what it takes for them to keep the service up and running, I figured, maybe it's an acceptable sacrifice.

Now they come back a year later and say, whoops, we can't make the math work on this thing even after deleting all those photos. Which makes me wonder if the math ever really worked -- if they ever had a realistic plan for operating this service at all -- or if they just saw it was up for sale cheap one day, and bought it without really working out the business end of the equation. Statements like "[w]e didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was a cash cow" make me suspect it was the latter.

There's also a weird dissonance in this appeal that gives me pause. If you're writing a message about how you're struggling to break even, you probably shouldn't trumpet how you've moved the whole system onto AWS, a notoriously expensive hosting option for things like static images. And statements like "Unlike platforms like Facebook, we also didn’t buy it to invade your privacy and sell your data" come across as vaguely threatening: "nice community you've got here, it'd be shame if we had to monetize it."
If they're advocating for products that serve customers needs better then they're not just serving industry interests exclusively.
Really nice. Whenever I read a Jane Street OCaml blog article, I wish I had the same thing for Haskell. Oh well, life is not perfect.

I have used the Haskell TensorFlow bindings, but the OCaml examples look more straightforward.
I don't think it's the end of the internet just yet, there's going to be some appeals here
This is among the best concurrent programming advices I've ever been given and have given out. Use a queue and a pool of workers. It makes your synchronization so much easier and simpler.
Good to hear, I wish you success.

I understand on Windows/Mac you have to package the JRE, but I'd recommend considering using the distro for that functionality on linux - it's generally frowned upon to re-package stuff in the official repos.

I think an AppImage would generally be worse, I'd rather be able to use my system's JRE and libraries. I'm on Arch, so if you provide an archive of the application we can work with that. If you really want to go above and beyond for Arch users you could make and publish an AUR package.
I don't want to tweak things either, but find for both Android and Linux (Ubuntu and anything with a packaging system) they more "just work" the way I want, with pretty much out of the box settings. It really depends what you want to do, of course, but I find the Apple programs to be basic in ways that prevents them from being as helpful. The organizing features in Gmail alone; being able to easily manage and snooze mail, etc, make a huge difference.
Can people just drop "fear of being sued" as a catch-all reason for any behavior? It is incredibly expensive and time consuming to file a lawsuit. The average person doesn't go around suing other folks regularly.
In countries in Europe, salaries typically show less variance (in the Netherlands, 1.7k gross is minimum wage. Seniors usually make about 5-6k a month in jobs that are not super high-profile. After tax, figures are much closer).

The executives earn about 10 times what I make as a compiler engineer in a developed country. I wouldn't exactly call it modest, but it's not totally outrageous, I guess.
Just chatting up people in the streets. Or accidentally bumping into someone at a busy place. Or greeting a stranger who's walking by...
Nonlinearity Breeds Contempt (2013) [video]
Deporting people and building a wall doesn't have to cost any lives.
> storing your password hash

Not really. The goal is to safely store an extra random value that's mixed with the password hash to derive the master key for the account, because they don't want to fully trust the password hash, because some passwords are too weak.

Could've just made password requirements stronger, but that doesn't provide an excuse to play with SGX I guess :)
Five-year-olds don't need to understand BGP.
It is definitely concerning. 10 years ago I wasn't worried about putting my data in things like Dropbox because the general fear was "what if they go out of business?" to which I felt reasonably secure that I'd have time to get my data out of there before they shut down for good.

Now, it's much more likely that you'll get a "You have violated our Terms of Service and are banned from using <the service>", pointing you to a line that looks like: "The company may, at its sole discretion, decide what constitutes a violation of the Terms of Service, and terminate services as a result." It happens!
I've been working on a project along these lines recently. I've called it Dogsheep - the basic idea is to have scripts that export all manner of my personal data (from Google, Apple HealthKit, Twitter, LinkedIn etc) into SQLite database files, then use my Datasette web app to browse them and run interesting queries.

More about that here: https://dogsheep.github.io/

The tools I've built so far are under https://github.com/dogsheep
That's besides the point - I was just making a remark that how would they "feel". Not saying at all about whether they should looking around on the internet for feedback.
You're welcome! If you're interested in getting into GTD in Evernote (which I highly recommend), I wrote a blog post a while back about my setup: https://www.tempestblog.com/2017/08/16/how-i-stay-organized-...
A system based on AI will scan the retina for signs of Alzheimer’s
Those little Dell CS24's (apparently previously facebook machines?) are cute, I own a couple, but a good 5 years ago I dropped another $200 and picked up a more recent dual 6 core machine and its about 4x faster doing everything.

I'm surprised given that he was hosting on such an old/ebay machine he didn't just drop a few hundred and get another. There is a lot of good equipment out there for cheap if you know where/what to look for.
One of my favorite Bokeh lenses is the Nikon 500mm reflex telephoto lens. The "Mak" style with a rear primary mirror and a front secondary works a lot like common compact telescopes. The Bokeh is tricky to apply, it's a fixed zoom telephoto lens so your subject must be at least 10 meters or so a way and it's hard to handhold, but the "donut" aperture of the lens makes for some very cool (or weird depending on your tastes) effects. The article calls this a "bad" lens but I love the effect.
You're right, I don't know their discounts.

It's still more expensive unless they get paid for using the bandwidth though
Do we have any research prior to the 1970s?

Could there have been an upwards blip in civic participation caused by, say, the shared experience of WW2, with everything since then representing a reversion to ordinary behaviour?
As a published author, I love this so much. Local vs. global maximum's, simulated annealing. So terrific. It's all so true.
The Sokal Hoax/ Social Text Affair of 1996
Biggest Flops, Fails, and Dead Dreams of the Decade in Tech
> All of these things are complicated questions. I typically go with hourly based rates but I'm also transparent with my clients when it comes to implementing things I already have code for

How do you deal with the inevitable question about intellectual property here? If you already sold your old code along with new code to a previous client, did you not transfer any and all copyright to them, but maybe added a license for existing code?

Really curious how people do that, since I also entertained the idea of having prepacked code for common features that is always up-to-date to bootstrap new client projects.
what is the app? I've been doing keto and would be interested to check it out
Wonderful post!

> Why can't I search across watched youtube videos even though most of them have subtitles hence allow for full text search?

This blows my mind every time I'm on youtube... so much potential, and yet.

> Often, a friend recommends you a book so you want it to add to your reading list.

Yep. For a while I was collecting them in a spreadsheet. After about two years I've realized it's actually a lot more about the context of why/where/when I added a book rather than it simply existing in a long list. Even though I had "Source" and "Date Added" as columns, I (still) have no way of grouping them by topic cross-referenced with my notes.

Also, the conversation in which I received the recommendation likely has valuable context I haven't included, and good luck deep-linking to a message. (Telegram handles this OK, but Gmail? Or god forbid iMessage).

> Why can't I see what was my heart rate (i.e. excitement) and speed side by side with the video I recorded on GoPro while skiing?

Another angle I've considered: the past four (text/email/GPS) interactions with (some person) has resulted in higher stress levels ... this is an insight I typically extract from writing about my day. Would be interesting to have it suggested to me. Yes, lots of privacy implications here.

> It's just a matter of regularly fetching new stories/comments by a person and showing new items, right?

Not sure if you've seen fraidycat [0] and the discussion [1]. Basically, a fetch-and-consume model for blogs, Twitter, etc with frequency/priority levels.

> Why am I forced to manually copy transactions from different banking apps into a spreadsheet?

Plaid [2] looks promising, but I haven't built anything noteworthy with it yet.

> Why can't I easily share my web or book highlights with a friend?

This is ridiculously hard. I think my favorite solution to date is to copy-paste the whole article into a Google Drive doc and annotate it. Not a good solution, I know.

> I wonder what computing pioneers like Douglas Engelbart (e.g. see Augmenting Human Intellect) or Alan Kay thought/think about it and if they'd share my disappointment.

I imagine they would be/are very upset.

0 - https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802952

2 - https://plaid.com/
J.B. Rainsberger – Integrated Tests Are a Scam
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I feel like what it really misses is a slice or two of bacon, to make it nice and rounded.
Don’t forget payments, which are arguably the most critical part of any software that costs money.
>All of this is directly due to government regulations.

>These regulations have caused an infuriating and devastating degradation of the quality of appliances and the quality of life in our homes. Trump is a smart politician.

Of course the source of all ills is the gubmint. It has absolutely nothing to do with maximizing shareholder value by selling products that are cheaper to produce that don't last as long.

I also have a GE oscillating fan from the 1940s that still works well today, though the fan blade cage isn't safe for kids that might try to touch them. I've also gone through 3 plastic Vornado desk fans in about 5 years. Is this a direct result of government intervention too?

This is a poorly written article with a political agenda masquerading as an essay in the durability and quality of consumer electronics.
> With all this talk about legalizing prostitution, I think it appropriate to point out that lots of women are engaged in legal prostitution already, it's usually just called "acting". Some women pretend they're interested in a man, but they're more interested in their wallet ('trophy girlfriend/wife').

Haha, as I've gotten older, this seems more and more accurate. I'm not saying it's all about money, but more like women are interested in one set of benefits a man provides, and men are interested in another set, and they're not necessarily inclusive.

I've traveled and lived in several different countries. Some of them seem less interested in pretending it's all about Disney, partners forever, and are more relaxed about relationships being mutually beneficial without all the pretense (i.e. women that are essentially offering sex and companionship in exchange for financial support, and the amounts wanted are openly negotiated. I almost prefer that to the courtship rituals we use in the West.
New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed
Nebula mesh: a peer-to-peer VPN by Slack
>An Israeli/American-owned telecommunications company tries to oust the dominant Liberian-owned company in Liberia, using unsavory tactics meant to shame and humiliate the latter and its users, eventually hoping to sell out to a French telecommunications giant. Oh, and then they just straight-up hack/DDOS them.

I'd like to introduce the term "neo-colonialism" to the discussion.
I remote in to my machine running BBG on the trading desk from my office all the time with no difficulties. Also remote into my office desktop from home and log into BBG that way as well.
As a photographer I really don't ever want to use the camera software. Even when it's perfect for my application, I want RAW photographs because you have to fix so many other things before you ever get to special effects.

You need to crop, color correct, distortion correct, noise correct, exposure correct. Only after that would you ever really want to apply some kind of bokeh filter.

The entire reason to use a high end camera is to do it right. Camera software is never going to do it right until they start putting photoshop on cameras.
As if Boeing of all companies doesn't have any experience whatsoever working on crewed capsules?
That is why we are creating PrivicyPal -- to set a schedule to download and merge data from many sources and monitor over time. Will be adding beta testers soon.

See https://www.privicy.com/privicypal/about
That's an interesting idea.

Perhaps we should hope for the emergence of "be self-sufficient" as a separately motivating idea from "be an individual"?

Then maybe the instincts driving unhappy individualism would subside a bit.

Because the instinct towards sufficiency is presumably a strong one, underlying much of life, whether conscious or not. So I imagine that when the two concepts are blurred together, the instinct towards sufficiency causes people to be driven to differentiate themselves as individuals. For example, by leaving the places where they were raised, in the hope of becoming "different" from the people they grew up with.
Yeah, but it's always been like that. Comcast has never had a presence in Iowa that I'm aware of. It's been Mediacom since cable internet was available.
Are you saying that that is something that an individual cannot personally change, or something that is impossible to change as a general rule?
"I'd love to see an extreeeemely minimal tool which lets you drop some files in a folder and then create an index page that links to those."

I use the tree command on BSD to do just that. It has the option of creating html output with a number of additional options.

An example: tree -P *.txt -FC -H http://baseHREF -T 'Your Title' -o index.html
As a user, I have zero interest in PWAs. They bring risk and a degraded user experience, in exchange for no actual benefit.

As a dev, I also have zero interest in them, but solely because I try hard not to work on projects that I am not willing to use myself.

I understand the appeal of PWAs for software producers, but I don't see how they bring any substantial benefit to users.
I second emacs-org mode. It is extremely powerful though I don't know if it addresses GPs concerns. You could just execute the compiler etc against the actual program from within the code block and then "+CALL" in other sections to avoid the copypasta'ing I guess. I don't do very advanced stuff so I haven't run into problems with just using code in the blocks.

The main problem with emacs org-mode is that users probably need to use emacs, and lots of people have their own editor preferences, and while some have org-mode-alike's, they aren't as fully capable as emacs org-mode. Which is what Jupyter addresses by making the interface more accessible/editable to all.

That said, I think one of the most important factors that the linear notebook flow encourages is a focus on reproducibility, whether it's Jupyter or Org-Mode. I feel like overcomplicating the dev environment would make the much harder and would at least need to be planned for.
The source and tracing sides will definitely get fully integrated. This is only the second beta that even has the source side at all, so it's just "early days".

The line/statement level traditional debugging is possible to implement with currently captured information, but the implementation is seriously hard, likely in 2021+ timeframe.

About the specific issue: I'd really like to get that fixed, do you think you could shoot me an email so that I can followup in case that i cannot repro the bug (my email is in the contact page)?

Many thanks for the feedback & apologies that the initial experience wasn't so great
You could simply pipe an area screenshot to tesseract, discard the input image and get the tesseract output, am I wrong?
>When I was young, everyone in our town read the <Town Name> Times.

Speedway Town Press, delivered free to every house in town. Me and several friends started delivering it around 12 for 3 cents a paper and every kid would always read it because they wanted to see the honor roll announcements, school event photos etc.

Our principal retired when we were in 2nd or 3rd grade then in 6th grade we read about it in the town press, some of us wrote a letter to the editor that was then in the next addition and got us all letters from his widow.

We knew our neighbors by name (adults knew each other by first name, kids knew adults by Mr surname/Mrs surname). If you were going out of town for vacation you told the neighbor and they'd take your mail in, with they key they already had, and even feed/water your dog for you.

Neighbors would drop by to visit each other, often being invited in if it wasn't nice out.

I don't even know what my neighbors look like now. If you lined 5 people up I couldn't tell you if any of them were my neighbors or just random people.

My neighbor across the hall leaves their keys in their deadbolt at least once a week (Seriously, at least once a week. Twice just this week I've come home to see their keys in the deadbolt. Flat out will not answer the door because "oh my god a stranger"). Car key, apartment key etc. They've been doing this since they moved in in July. I have no idea what they look like despite the fact that I've stood there knocking on their door more than a dozen different days for multiple minutes each time trying to tell them they've left their key in the deadbolt. The first time I actually walked around to their windows and knocked on the window in a room that was lit "hey you left your keys in the door", nothing. Knocked on the door some more, nothing.

I truly miss a time when we were more interested in the people around us than strangers online.
If I was to write something like this, would putting the content in an iframe help?
No VCS post without paid gitlab commentators... Propaganda department is working very hard!!
If you are really good at the circumference of the flow at the boundary layer, you should be able to interface with it and have control all up and down the line.

Instead of pressurizing an entire water network at 15 psi, just detect when a home faucet is turn on, and hit a tank or pipe at the right spot with a hammer.

Take that concept to the human circulatory system, and start pinpoint drug treatments at just the right place.

If you can say what's inside that little mass cube, either matter or empty space, throw EM out the window. Just acoustics and matter waves, and to some degree everything is just the Sun.

No more little tiny cans brought to us by Boltzmann.
No more dimples on a golf ball stretching and squeezing with everything inside having all paths as the fastest path.
No more film strips at the speed of light, looking for symmetry between two frames that we can flip around with nothing knowing the difference.
No more thermodynamic engine with an infinite thermal reservoir and the smallest interface to it resulting in something mechanical.

You would give incredible confidence to humans and effect directly our collective knowledge, likely close any future empirical pursuit.

As big as the universe is now, you will shrink it and close it down, effectively saying we are equally inside a singularity as we living in sunshine. You will fix the Planck constant from all future debate and even fix the natural units, closing down science. New technologies and medical treatments would be hasten with no ethical question.

All efforts on thought and discovery would end and would only focus on human comfort and decency.
New york gets much of their water supply from aqueducts outside of the city. It's extensively engineered and an interesting read.
It sounds vaguely as though your definition of risk analysis and their definition might not have matched. In other words, you may have done homework for or interviewing for a different nature of job than they expected.
The point of follow the math is that on this specific case, the only valid interpretation is the trivial ones that map your numbers into your observations.

The possible explanations for the weirdness are all speculation about how to solve a very important problem. But they neither valid interpretations (because they don't explain anything anybody can see) nor about Quantum Mechanics (they are about an open problem of physics, not about the theory the teacher is explaining).

It is important to speculate on how one can solve problems. That's where solutions come from. But this is not the same thing as interpreting results.