skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We're looking for folks that know distributed systems, data pipelines, machine learning, that enjoy GOlang; and folks that are proficient at practicing DevOps.

I run the TechOps team and we run the underlying environment, my colleagues run the other areas and we're very proud of what we do. We work hard and we are growing quickly and accomplishing very cool things.
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Full Stack and have worked on Backend, Frontend, Mobile apps, IoT.
Have contributions in several widely used open source projects (react-native-webview, lobste.rs to name a few) and have many widely used libraries of my own.
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Mobile apps: React Native, Flutter
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I'd bet on related, but not what you thought. If I had to guess, I'd put my money on the magnet pulling some tiny metal bits into the control board and shorting it.

But one thing is for sure. OnTrack are dicks. Can confirm.
I find that completely mind boggling, tbh. What gets people excited about AirBnB? Is this just about perks (salary and so on)?

Nothing against AirBnB, it might be a fine, solid company doing a good job. But what about them is inspiring?
The guy who runs Cerebas has history of quick selling companies that then went nowhere. He bets all on wow-effect, and sells to trend chasing suckers.

Less than stellar benchmarks will ruin the "magic"
Funny trivia about this:

>[...] They also wanted to replace all the music made by Jean-François. I had yielded for the extra songs, but I wanted to keep the music of the introduction, as it perfecly matched the atmosphere and the animation timing. This became a real struggle [...] So I took drastic measures. I thought of creating an endless fax. A huge fax of a meter long in which I wrote in big letters "keep the original intro music". I would insert it in the fax, enter the number, and when the transmission started, I would tape both ends of the letter together, which would create a circle that went on and on until there was no paper left in the offices of Interplay, at the other end.

http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/another_world.htm
If you quarreled with Adam, but got along well with Bob then management can keep you and Adam apart. Unless there are business reasons why the two of you have to cooperate, of course.
This is what happens to every tech company once they enter growth mode and bring in a ton of mercenary sales people from Oracle and the like.

The irony here is people point to social justice activity as the reason for decline but really all that social justice activity is a smokescreen for betraying other values. We'll do what we're bid by totalitarian regimes and then make ourselves feel better by putting rainbow colors on our logo during Pride Week.
Oh right, that's quite possible, thanks.
Perhaps that’s what they were saying. My memory of this idea is not great, but it’s the same here in Canada as the UK.
Yeah when I was looking at queues I was put off by Celery since somewhere in its docs or a tutorial high up in the Google results it was suggested to use both redis and RabbitMQ as some sort of brokers/results stores rather than just one of those to handle both. I'm sure there were good reasons for that, but I was looking for something simple and not to learn multiple new technologies so in terms of simplicity RQ (which uses redis for everything) is pretty hard to beat.
> our starting point was far less: 200 DAU.

Digg currently, or recently, was down to 200 daily active users? I knew they lost a lot of users but that sounds like they lost everybody.
I'm wondering, why buying a kindle if it's for going to such troubles avoiding using Amazon's services? I though the included store / library was one of the main selling point.

Are kindles that better than standalone competitors?
Show HN: How's It Like – Find Jobs and Companies by Culture and Benefits
The problem with behavioral questions is that the people you don't want to hire are precisely those who will answer those questions in self-serving and self-deceptive ways. To guard against this, hire and promote interesting, accomplished folks. Not necessarily "nerds" or "geeks", but people who have some achievement, something genuinely worthwhile to show off. If anyone can do this, Google can.
Does anybody know the origin of the term? The author links to [1], which says it "probably" comes from a Ren & Stimpy episode.

According to wiktionary [2], the episode is called "Yak Shaving Day", of which a song clip can be viewed on youtube [3] and some more googling can tell you that yak shaving day is introduced in episode 3 of season 1.

But nothing about that song or episode has any relevance to the expression of yak shaving. So why did the MIT lab choose that name for the expression?

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060
Differentiated market.
Steam Hardware and Software Survey: December 2019
What do you mean by 1 and 2? I'm guessing you're referring to the kafka-clients API? The defaults for producer and consumer conf are quite sensible these days.
Interesting. I've never heard it in conversations about global proteins. I understand it's growing, but how big is the market currently in tons p.a.? Does it compete with the other proteins? Who are the major (public) players in the space?
I mean, if the story is about an Ughyur dissident escaping the Chinese police, the response in many people's minds would probably be quite different. Obviously it also depends how someone views the FBI vs Chinese police (personally I think the FBI still has good souls in them, but the Chinese police is probably mostly an oppresing arm of the communist party)
We are also taxed on goods, property, transactions, consumption, death, inheritance..even gifting.. etc. we pay a lot of taxes.

Imagine you make 2.5 million/year. Why should you pay 1.25 million as taxes? Are you being taxed for being wealthy? Isn’t it punitive? What services do you receive that is worth 1.25 million?

But imagine you make 60k/year. Roads, infrastructure, essential services, public schools for a family of 4 with 2 kids does make sense. A larger family benefits more as they get more than they contribute.

Our tax system incentivizes larger families and redistributes wealth. It works if there is a healthy middle class. In CA the very rich is thin but they also support a larger proportion than other states.

When we are looking to hit 9 billion soon, it’s probably not best to incentivize rampant population growth and large families.
>Simplified Chinese 37.87% +14.43%

>Windows 7 64 bit 33.04% +14.57%

Crazy how visible is the Chinese launch in the stats
To each their own. Clearly I have a higher risk tolerance than you, and over the last decade it’s paid off handsomely.

If it’s gambling so be it. I guess I gambled and won.
> I'm a skeptic that 1. CBD+THC offers any additional medical† benefits over CBD used alone

You shouldn't be, because empirical evidence shows that there are.

CBD's most overt therapeutic effect is mediated through action at 5HT1A autoreceptors and allosteric modulation of mu and delta-opioid receptors, whereas THC's MoA is mediated through CB1 agonism, to a lesser extent CB2 agonism, and to a lesser extent than CBD, allosteric modulation of mu and delta-opioid receptors.

THC has anxiogenic (and paradoxical anxiolytic) and psychotomimetic properties, and has the side-effect of inducing schizophrenia-related disorders in some people. CBD's action at 5HT1A receptors both induces an anxiolytic effect, and reduces the symptoms of psychotic disorders.

A combination of CBD+THC can reduce the negative side-effects of THC used alone, and CBD alone does not have the same effects as THC or CBD+THC. There are studies that document the synergic effects of combined cannabinoids versus isolated cannabinoids.
Lol, not quite what I meant.
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Technologies: JS/HTML/CSS, React (Native) and ecosystem,
nodejs, Docker, Linux, Python, SQL (particularly Postgres), REST, GraphQL.

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5 years of full-stack web and mobile application development. Educated in design and user experience. Assisted in successful exits for two SaaS companies and have been contracting since July.

Contract experience has been broad: Product MVPs, early-stage consulting, mobile development, robotics, SaaS integrations.

Comfortable designing and building web and mobile products from scratch as well as helping with development of existing ones.
That's pretty impressive.
Sure thing, will do later. FYI I transitioned back to software engineering so I'm no longer doing this professionally, but happy to answer any questions I can. Talk soon.
Bitcoin bet for charity turns ugly
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There was. I think the host was sharing how things work in Korea (or Taiwan)? Where everybody brings their trash/recycling out when the trucks come by.

So no public bins and no private bins.

The host concluded that this would never work in USA.

I mean, maybe it could be implemented over time, but merely proposing it would guarantee election losses.
The situation with other countries is irrelevant to the matter of California income evading federal taxes.

If I'm in Texas, my state income tax is $0. My federal tax rate will be higher without having state taxes to deduct. Part of this money goes to you, in California.

If you're in California, you get a reduced federal rate if you can deduct California taxes. The money from California taxes stays in California to benefit you. I do not benefit from your California taxes.

California would be getting money from you without paying federal taxes on it. The money then goes to you, via services provided by California. You're getting that money back in the form of superior services like better schools, homeless services, and roads. You're getting to spend that money in your state, free of federal taxes.

The deduction is thus a massive subsidy to states with high local taxes. It places a greater burden on states that are less wasteful, since nobody there gets to deduct state taxes. Such a deduction thus encourages wasteful local government.

As viewed from outside California, money owed to the federal government is staying in California to be spent for the benefit of people in California. That simply isn't fair.

If you are unhappy with the resulting high tax rate, you can leave the state or you can try to get the state to eliminate taxes.
Show HN: I Self Published a Book on “Data Science in Production”
Hi HN,

Over the past 6 months I've been working on a technical book focused on helping aspiring data scientists to get hands-on experience with cloud computing environments using the Python ecosystem. The book is targeted at readers already familiar with libraries such as Pandas and scikit-learn that are looking to build out a portfolio of applied projects.

To author the book, I used the Leanpub platform to provide drafts of the text as I completed each chapter. To typeset the book, I used the R bookdown package by Yihui Xie to translate my markdown into a PDF format. I also used Google docs to edit drafts and check for typos. One of the reasons that I wanted to self publish the book was to explore the different marketing platforms available for promoting texts and to get hands on with some of the user acquisition tools that are commonly used in the mobile gaming industry.

Here's links to the book, with sample chapters and code listings:

- Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/165206463X
- Digital (PDF): https://leanpub.com/ProductionDataScience
- Notebooks and Code: https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production
- Sample Chapters: https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production/raw/master/book_sample.pdf
- Chapter Excerpts: https://medium.com/@bgweber/book-launch-data-science-in-production-54b325c03818

Please feel free to ask any questions or provide feedback.
Well, XMPP had working e2e encryption a decade before Signal. That's not really a reason to consider something done. Axolotl and OMEMO improved on OTR, and it seems OTRv4 will improve on it further.
2019 in Review
I agree it's probably not very helpful in this case, though there are some general lessons you could take from it that would be helpful. Considering the likelihood that it would have already been found or could never be found if it were in a particular location can help you prune your search.

e.g.

> "It's likely it may have ended up on my kitchen counter, but if that were the case I probably wouldn't think it lost. So I should deprioritize looking on counters."

or

> "There's a good chance it's in my attic, but my attic is cluttered and I'd probably fail to find it even if I looked there, so I should deprioritize searching the attic until other possibilities have been exhausted."
That 1984 year doesn't seem to be entirely accurate; at a minimum, the article has had additions since 1984 (including the 1998 death of John Lions).

The abstract notes that it was published in DaemonNews in 1999.

I tracked down the DaemonNews publication: https://web.archive.org/web/20000819035036/http://www.daemon...

The copy in DaemonNews includes citations that were elided from the copies on cat-v.org and darwinsys.com. Notably, we see that line change from

> (More recently, much of this work has been consolidated into an operating system called Plan 9 From Bell Laboratories.)

to

> (More recently, much of this work has been consolidated into an operating system called Plan 9 From Bell Laboratories.)[Pike1990a, Pike1995a]
>As those growth rates slowed it started flailing around trying to kickstart them in other ways
>unicorns can't slow down gracefully

Their revenue keeps growing 20% every single year, which is absurdly impressive. Google is one of the most staggeringly successful companies of the last 100 years, I don't see how they're 'flailing'
This post from Alex Danco contains a similar but much more opinionated and falsifiable set of predictions: https://alexdanco.com/2019/12/17/ten-predictions-for-the-202...
I don't understand what you mean with 'amortize'. Doesn't it mean writing off the value of something? Why would you write off the value of an index fund investment? And how does that mitigate risk?

I guess you mean that they spread their investment among all companies that belong to an index. But that doesn't solve the problem of too much liquidity.
Unethical is to use software from others, wanting to be paid for work, while not giving back a cent to those developers.
https://twitter.com/drhughharvey/status/1212646954477539328
Yes, sales getting ahead of production has caused a lot of burnout. Growing production teams as fast as sales can grow is hard.
> However, we can’t use Kafka as a queuing system because the maximum number of workers you can have is limited by the number of partitions, and because there is no way to acknowledge messages at the individual message level. You would need to manually commit offsets in Kafka by maintaining a record of individual message acknowledgments in your own data store, which adds a lot of extra overhead — too much overhead in my opinion.

I just want to clarify this - you're limited to N concurrent consumers for N partitions per consumer group.
A principal designer like Costa would almost surely be considered a supervisor, and thus not be protected by or allowed to join the union.
Let me look around, but I remember it being hard to find good price series for pork in China. Don't think the LH1 ticker is the one to look at, but maybe it's a reasonable proxy directionally...I'm not sure it's been a while since I charted the series against each other.
Didn't they tell the guy who invented homebrew to take a hike a few years back, even though like 90% of the company used it at the time?
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You can definitely just send the trucks in. Whether anyone will be actually alive a few minutes later is a very different proposition. I'd advise against it. People underestimate just how hot fire can get and what it actually means to operate next to and within an environment that is essentially a furnace. A furnace that stretches all around you and up into the sky and is moving all the time. The air is hot and thick. Your protective gear is hot. Embers are flying around and if they touch something flammable they become a fresh new fire.

A few "trees across the road" means many minutes to clear that road. Which is surrounded by fire. Or soon will be. That wind could change any minute. Or the logs are still smouldering or on fire. So you clear the road and then a few hundred metres later you reach more fallen trees and massive ditch you can't pass. Now the fire has crossed the road behind you.

Sure, why not drive through all that?
>I think people pushing their political agenda within a company tend to harm the company and it should therefore be ok to fire them.

>That said, I haven't wanted to work for Google for years. But I am from the opposite side from these veterans.

>I felt it was very unjust when James Damore was fired

Well, it can be argued that he was fired for similar reasons.. Are you saying that it's okay depending on which 'side' (a whole other story) someone is on?
These defenses of the status quo are quite weak and are mostly naturalistic fallacy that seems to stem from an ignorance of history. You'd expect better from HN.
Oh, right.

It's a problem because of filter bubbles. That doesn't mean government intervention is appropriate though.
It would be welcomed if those ethics would be used to pay for the tooling as well.

Instead we keep getting posts on HN from companies that either go dual licenses, or completely proprietary to stay on business, or just switch business altogether.
Certainly, the creation of novel molecular compounds is risky, and you can only mitigate the risks you know about. But that's not the comparison we're talking about here. We're not talking about smoking marijuana plant-matter vs. taking new GSK LessCancerPainIum™️. We're talking about smoking marijuana plant-matter vs. taking a pill that was created by processing grown marijuana plant-matter, or with an active ingredient synthesized to be identical to the ingredient-under-test of marijuana plant-matter.

Personally, I've never heard of a case where Big Pharma has ever created a delivery vehicle for a well-known, Generally-Recognized-As-Safe active ingredient (like e.g. aspirin) that then kills, or even harms, people.

Like, the Tylenol murders? Those were big news. It'd be even bigger news if the manufacturer themselves were responsible instead of some random MITM. But there has never been that kind of big news. They don't screw up when making pills. Pills are pills. Novel active ingredients can kill you. But—presuming the active ingredient is safe—the pills themselves killing you? When has that ever happened?

> Unfortunately, I have lost track of how many people I have seen die that were the direct result of alcohol ingestion.

Well, yeah; people are consuming arbitrary amounts of alcohol. That's what's bad about recreational alcohol use.

Same goes for opioids, in a different sense; addiction drives you to consume arbitrary amounts of opioids. That's what's bad about drugs of abuse.

And yet, as an EMT, you still stick car-crash victims with fentanyl, no? Even though it's an opioid, and potentially a vector for chemical dependence. But you're not likely to kill them with it. Why? Because it's a measured dose.

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Note that I'm not arguing that the active ingredients in medical cannabis could kill anyone. It's been pretty well shown that they don't really have an LD50.

It's not the active ingredients I'm worried about. It's the rest. It's the reason that hospitals don't get food for patients catered from arbitrary restaurants. You want to control all the variables you can. A CBD+THC tincture is going to have strictly fewer non-controlled variables than smoking the raw plant. A crystallized distillate suspended in a PEG gel pill is going to have fewer non-controlled variables still.

It's not about not-killing people. It's about treating people, successfully, with the highest ROI per treatment-hour possible and the least time spent flailing around trying to diagnose unknown brokenness while the patient continues to suffer.