skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Service to hire a temporary pair programmer
I need the ability to hire people with specific expertise for an hour or two at a time.

Say I'm stuck on a problem with a specific tool or programming language. It would just be nice to pay $50-100 for 1-2 hours to hire someone who's an expert in a specific tool to help out.

Right now I'm stuck on a React but and have spent 2-3 days working on it. I think an expert could have resolved it in an hour or so.

Are there any services for this?

I've found code review services but this isn't really what I'm looking for.
A "huge number"? Rayiner offered a few anecdotes about a few people a few years out of college... he brought up AOC; I merely tried to highlight how silly it was to draw any kind of conclusion from (that) one person.

I know the uselessness of humanities degrees is an article of faith among developers, but the data do not support it.

> It’s also interesting that although it’s a popular target of those who insist that a college education should connect to a good job, majors in “Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies, and Humanities” left a scant 18,824 underemployed grads after five years. “English Language and Literature/Letters” had just 16,422 similarly underemployed. And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2018/05/31/its-not-...

AAAS found that humanities degree holders earn less on average than those holding engineering or computer science degrees but have nearly equal levels of employment and job satisfaction:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/02/07/study-finds-h...

Georgetown found that STEM jobs pay more, but that across all degrees, BA holders have almost twice the median earnings of those with only a high school degree. Some associates degrees beat some BA majors.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/5rules/?mod=article_i...

I haven't found any data I'd think of as "huge numbers"--especially if one looks at longer career durations.
I use RSS Bridge. You can host it yourself, which is probably better, or use a public instance.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README....
That sounds like Sonos can easily reactivate them, right? That's not a bricking, is it?
You forgot that Sonos is mostly a CIA spying device, so it needs to be destroyed remotely if the operation is in danger to be detected.
Podcast where I interview billion dollar founders before anyone's heard of them
Except Sonos doesn't actually want the old device back, they say that you should take it to a recycling center so they can take it apart or whatever they do with them [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/secresDoge/status/1210684264880189441
Sorry to hear 8tracks is shutting down, it was a cool app to hear new music back during their peak.
of course it’s more complicated than that - the end product is more features that can go in to all kinds of different trading strategies. For example as you said they are a big market maker - if they can more accurately predict earnings surprises with this data then they can price options more accurately in their MM strategies. Used properly it’s a lift to everything they do.
Thank you. That's exactly what I meant.
In my humble defense, the latter half of that example (from "'test is { ... }") is the "JSON" encoder being tested / used! But this example could definitely use some work if its going to be featured prominently.
Indeed. And while those financial numbers may show the truth if you squeeze it in a certain way, they're epically useless in the long run. 2 examples for my non financial friends:

Tesla has had negative cash flows for 5 full years until 2018. It posted a profit of any significance for the first time in a long long time last quarter. If you look deeper, you know that everything is wrong financially with the company despite Elon being celebrated as a genius engineer (debatable IMO, but not relevant). The stock just hit all time highs yesterday.

Apple started the year by lowering revenue guidance. And they also folded their fingers and flipped the entire financial analyst industry one massive bird when they said they wouldn't release iPhone sales numbers (their most important product and probably 99% of revenue / margin / income growth factor). Stock is up 104% this year.

So yeah, the entire edifice is made of shit and only the ones closer to the industry can see it. Even people working inside don't benefit from this shit moat for the most part and wish it gone.
>Citadel and Two Sigma both have had large teams working on this for years. They are making a lot of money doing it but barriers to entry are very high. You need to collect all the data in a way such that you can reconstruct how it looked at any point in time. The vendors can’t be trusted to not make retroactive corrections, so you have to collect it for years before it becomes useful. Doing that takes a lot of time and money.

As someone who works in this space I assure you the barriers to entry are not that high. If I were to sort the various lists of accounts alphabetically you'd see names like Citadel and Two Sigma flanked by hoards of tiny funds you've never heard of. Many of these funds you've never heard of are 5-10man businesses or teams within larger funds. Making money is much more of an algorithms problem than a resources problem.
In terms of most blogs still having RSS, I suspect that's primarily due to default software settings.
Checkout this YC company from the W19 batch https://www.thejuggernaut.com/newsletter
I think replies to this comment miss the point. The author is stating that the "YC model" -- which falls under capitalism -- is generally incapable of fostering the development of society in any meaningful way.
> allows writing code that works on very different hardware interfaces by abstracting away from what the particular machine is does

Looks at a 8/16bit in-order processor with synchronous, byte-at-a-time memory access and perhaps 1Kbit of on-chip registers total.

Looks at a 64bit, out-of-order, speculative, multicore behemoth with 64(or 72)bit data bus accessed by a embarassingly complicated asynchronous protocol, and cached in multiple MB of on-die RAM, as well as dozens of general purpose registers and hundreds if not thousands of special-purpose or model-specific registers.

Looks at QEMU and other x86 interpreters.

So what you're saying is that x86 assembly is a very bad high-level language?
My answer was to never click a link that says "One Weird Trick..."

Haven't read the article, so it seems to be working!
I couldn’t disagree more. I think free healthcare, aides for rents, food, etc. when you can’t afford it should be a human right. Some people manage more than others, and we just blame this on mental illness.
Do you think it’s really permanent though? I would assume Sonos maintains a list of the blacklisted devices and they could restore a device if they really needed or wanted to.

Your comment also made me wonder whether there’s such a thing as green hat? It doesn’t seem like there’s much of an economic incentive for a hacking attempt but I’d imagine Sonos would take a very different approach to recycling if every active device was suddenly put into “recycle” mode and this program was in the headlines.
I wanted to make sure I clearly address these comments, one of the issues in reading a post like this in an online thread is the most upvoted post can also be the most incorrect, and misleading.

#1
> The "security" of this device is a joke, just look at how randomness is derived:

Unfortunately, this commenter posted this without reviewing any of the security documentation available for OnlyKey. Had they reviewed they would see that we specifically address how analog input alone is not sufficient entropy for a cryptographically secure number generator and one of the unique features used with OnlyKey is using capacitive touch input for our RNG. This random input is generated every time you touch a button on OnlyKey, it's different for every person, and its truly random.
https://docs.crp.to/security.html#cryptographically-secure-r...

#2
> Meaning that there is no hardware security whatsoever and it's trivial to extract all your keys from the device if you ever lose it. Whoops.

Again, had the commenter taken the time to read a bit they would see that this is completely false. As others have already mentioned, OnlyKey is not an Arduino, OnlyKey uses some of the great Arduino software libraries that are available open source and the Arduino IDE. This is completely unrelated to hardware. As for the OnlyKey hardware security we use Freescale Kinetis flash security to securely lock data on the key. As for side channel attack countermeasures we list several that are in use. For full details read this - https://docs.crp.to/security.html#hardware-security

When it comes to security questions, trust an expert, not the top post on a thread. For more information about CryptoTrust, the makers of OnlyKey you can find our team with internationally recognized security credentials here - https://crp.to/t/

For more info on OnlyKey:

Get started - https://onlykey.io/start

General documentation - https://docs.crp.to/

FAQs - https://docs.crp.to/faq.html

Compare to Yubikey - https://crp.to/p/

Setup and User's Guide - https://docs.crp.to/usersguide.html

Features - https://docs.crp.to/features.html

Support - https://forum.onlykey.io/

List of supported services - https://onlykey.io/pages/works-with-onlykey
"There's nothing more expensive than a free boat".
FWIW Y Combinator is starting to fund more biotech companies [1] (some of which are working on cancer treatments) and also funds non-profits [2].

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/biotech/

2. https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/
The industrial laundry industry is almost there on this. Here's Chicago Dryer's line.[1] They can take a huge clump of compressed sheets from a dryer and separate them out singly on a conveyor. But humans still grab them by an edge and start them into a slot for the ironing, folding and stacking process.

One last step to automate...

[1] https://www.chidry.com/products/cascade-automatic-linen-sepa...
This is cool, thanks! Yes, I think the Readme could do with more smaller examples early on.
It's likely due to being easier to deal with across various memory mapping modes. There's a Retro Game Mechanics Explained video about it that I can't seem to find right now.
Even worse - it's an encoder, not a parser. I really need to rethink these docs and basically start from scratch. What programming language docs do you really like?
> I find the wording of your last paragraph a little insulting.

And calling modern app development's probelms " due to arbitrary complexity and they are short term" isn't?

I do think that much of the aerospace technology industry uses dated methods. Same with much of the embedded field. There are certainly places that, for example apply modern best practices to embedded work, but most of those places are the exact same things that you're writing off: Google, Facebook, etc. Have embedded projects that follow best practices.

Focusing on aerospace specifically, I know of plenty of people who work in aerospace and don't use version control. That's plainly unacceptable. And I'd argue that the problems encountered there are much more self-imposed than at a Facebook.

Db engines again depend. There's a number of really cool modern relational database work, but the places where it happens (postgres, Google, cockroach labs) aren't places where someone who isn't interested in self growth are going to succeed.

The tl;dr here is that the impression I get from your comment is that you're describing a developer who let their skills stagnate because they learning things one way and don't want to keep up with changing processes. The fields you mentioned are fields that have such a stigma attached to them, and not unjustly. It doesn't apply to every person or project in those fields, but the people it doesn't apply to would succeed anywhere anyway.
This is ad hominem at it best. Please check the Turkey's economic statistics before and after Erdogan is in charged of Istanbul and Turkey, before you slander the person.
Sonos EOLed their hardware controllers, since they'd moved over to their phone-based controllers almost exclusively several years before (it had been a while since you could buy the hardware controllers).

AFAIK they've never EOLed any speakers. Older speakers sometimes don't get newer features (like AirPlay 2), but they still work and can even play back AirPlay 2 audio if grouped with a newer speaker.
This is why, when possible, it's best to push the cost and timing of commuting onto the person or company requiring the commute. Some professions classify commuting time as working time, but not all (nor is there a legal requirement for it).

For a lot of companies, there's really no need for long-term fixed colocation, but the economy allows for it since they don't have to account for most of the externalities and 3rd+ degree costs associated with new buildings in ecosystems, construction long-term impacts, or even something as simple for the carbon output of making concrete, all the while reaping the rewards of employees working extra for free in a tightly-controlled environment. And when they inevitably move, there's no legal requirement to pay employees for relocation either. Additional corporate costs anywhere in this ecosystem would probably result in dramatic changes and even more work-from-home opportunities.

Innovative remote-first companies are using the savings to only temporarily colocate their employees in interesting and rewarding ways for all (like all-hands meetups), plus reaping the benefits of naturally-increased written communications, creating a win-win situation for all from what I can tell.

Put another way... the logistics/efficiencies/costs of everything is very different for those involved when individuals have to transport groceries to home (via cars, public transit, assistants, etc) vs a company like Amazon that connects warehousing, grocers, and delivery. Big box stores full of employees without a shred of product knowledge make less sense if people are no longer commuting by personal transport for basic goods because it's cheaper and easier to tap into a delivery network for the same thing. The years when oil was super expensive, economists noted how much less people were shopping (before online shopping was ubiquitous).

It's already been uneconomical for a while now for most businesses to host the same bits their employees flip and/or related software in the same place as the employees (doesn't matter if you're writing software or ticking order-completed boxes after attaching printed shipping labels). The world is inherently more decentralized today than decades prior.
Thank you! I'm very glad to hear that, because that was the intention.
I hate reading comments like this. They’re intellectually lazy and overly cynical. The industry is not a fraud. Yes, shady things happen. But there’s a lot of legitimate research done by capable people.

I used to do research in this industry and I can tell you that, actually, there are a lot of opportunities for novel research based on huge financial details which haven’t been noticed.

What is your experience, that you write off my own experience as well as entire industry, as being illegitimate? Based on another comment you made in this thread it looks like you’ve also worked in the industry, so did you seriously never come across legitimate research efforts or are you just not mentioning those?
I don't know where you live, but in New York City there are several services that come pick up your laundry and drop it off when it's done. No matter how you slice it, it's probably a lot less than $5k per year.
Extensive discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892492
> You buy a product, but still don't own it, and have to keep your subscription going so the seller don't remotely brick your device.

That’s absolutely not what’s happening here. I paid £169 for my Play:1 five years ago, and it’s still working as well as the day I bought it. I haven’t paid them a penny since.

This eco trade in may be a bit sketchy but absolutely no one’s device is being bricked without their consent.
The concept of file extensions on windows is equally unintuitive (why is the type 9f.file dictated by what comes after a dot). It's just a question of what you're used to.
Shopify started off selling snowboards on the internet, Elon took on one of the most powerful, politically connected, and entrenched industries head-on.

There’s always going to be significant differences in the business dynamics and the public pressure on Tesla and their crew was insane. Unfortunately that shit rolls downhill sometimes and it’s hard to control.

Shopify also never faced the massive and constant vitriol and naysayers from day one. It was a massive play out of the gate, not a hockey stick growth but a massive capital investment covering multiple very difficult verticles all at once from design to operations to production and managing a very expensive and risky customer lifespan and regulatory risk for every car sold. Not to downplay how hard it is to do what Shopify accomplished, which was significant and very admirable. But ultimately it’s comparing apples to oranges at a high level like that.
I'm not an American so couldn't care less about the quality of their manufacturers. On the other hand, I do know that Beko,owned by Arcelik, manufacture pretty poor quality products.
The article isn't talking about "huge financial details", whatever that might mean. It is about projecting information from alternative sources before the official numbers are released.
Customers can’t use this mode when the product is not repairable in most cases as the SOC which is the only irreparable component needs to be fully functional.

If your device cannot boot you can’t put it into recycle mode.

This mode is designed for one thing only and that is to disable perfectly working devices.

IIRC the device also needs to be within its warranty period for you to use recycle mode.
Right. That's why the title should say "K language" rather than just "K". To provide the context needed here.
Good thing those can be added after the fact.
I generally assume most charities are bogus until and unless I specifically research it and discover otherwise.

For example, the Seattle Marathon has long claimed to help UW medicine, and then it turned out that less than 1% of their money (and none of the entry fees) were going there.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/just-1-of-seattle-...
Except that customers who accidentally trigger recycle mode are shit out of luck.
> Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.

This isn't quite true. What's true is people with degrees earn way more than people without them. But people /w degrees don't equal people without degrees.
Building an nm and Objective-C and Swift class-dump in 2020
The same millenials who are buying Bluetooth speakers at unprecedented rates?
Strongly disagree. Sell-side research and models, which are what's discussed in this article, are strictly monitored for material non-public information (MNPI). Further, most institutional investors now are closely monitoring the information flow in and out of their firm and what they can discuss when in meetings with corporate clients so that they don't have the SEC breathing down their necks for potential inside trading issues. The narrative you're describing pretty much existed 10+ years ago, but post financial crisis it's a different game (which likely has hit hedge fund returns imo).
A car with good 360 visibilty is even better, although the virtual top-down is getting close, it lacks the subconsious intergration with the motion perception and people still hit things more. Tldr: please turn your head, and use your mirrors.
I'm an "Apocalyptic": I literally believe that these are the "End Times" and that our global civilization is about to tank (in ~10-50 years.)

Why do you think that?

Despite the pessimism in the US and some other parts of the developed world, global civilisation has never been healthier.

It's true that nuclear war is a possible civilisation destroying event (as it has been for ~70 years) but beyond that there are no threats that haven't been there for millennia (eg, large asteroid strikes).

Things like global warming will cause huge destruction in some parts of the world, disrupt and perhaps kill millions of people (eg, Bangladesh isn't in a great way), and probably lead to wars that kill many more.

But even this is far from a global civilisation killer.
It's a shame that microkernels and containers came to prominence around the same time. IMO, containers were easier to understand and start working with and seem to have "won out" as a result.

Microkernels are really interesting, though! I'm glad people are still working on and talking about them.
lippman also wrote a fake dialogue between socrates, thomas jefferson and william jennings byran after the latter died -- worth a read and also it dramatizes his views on elitism in public thought

https://artsone-test.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2013/08/lippman_...
Can also confirm this - the research team I used to work on was just three people. We worked directly with some 30 or so funds, successfully, including Citadel and Two Sigma.
The first time I read this write-up I found it to be such a great resource because of the range of topics it touches on, with each one an entry point to some new subfield I didn't know about (coming from a non-EE background).

DSSS? Time to go on a wikipedia dive into modulation schemes

Numerically-controlled oscillators? There's something I haven't encountered, and let's read about FPGAs while we're at it.

1-bit ADC? Crazy that that even works, but it uses a bunch of interesting DSP math that I never even knew I was missing!

Plus the entire GPS signal chain, from the atomic clocks to the demodulated bits and inverse trig problem... incredible to see it all compiled into one (so well documented) project. I still go back and read this sometimes when I've forgotten part of it because it's fun to rediscover all the gems that went into building this receiver.
The only thing you need to understand about R data structures is that everything is a vector, including scalars. You have atomic vectors and lists, which are a special kind of vector. Everything else is built on top of those.
They've refused to remove people from the blacklist who have accidentally put the devices into recycle mode
Apple was going to make the peer-to-peer video call technology they were using for FaceTime public. Then they got sued by VirnetX over a patent related to that technology, so they had to rework the service to run through a central server. With that change, there was no longer anything worth open-sourcing.
> The first verst of the book said that the 1994 Internet was not the Internet of the future, and he was right about that.

He was totally wrong. The future Gates was planning at the time did not include HTML, WWW or internet standards.

It was the Blackbird project and the first version of MSN, a closed subscription-based dial-up online service with Microsoft designed and owned content authoring tools.
Effects of HTML
AFAIU on iOS there are two types of deep linking. 1) Universal Links, which allow owners of domains to launch an app instead of Safari. For example, you might own the domain myawesomeapp.com, and therefore can redirect urls to e.g. myawesomeapp.com/do_things to launch your app. 2) Protocol links, these are completely locked down by iOS and there is no way to subvert them. For example, mailto links always open the mail app.
Tesla trades on expectations of future profitability, just like any other company analyzed intrinsically with e.g. a DCF model or Gordon Growth Model.

It's Finance 101.
Unix (eunuchs), the castrated Multics.

No, really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix