skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is NO adequate IDE support ... so good luck with working out how the library works underneath

LOL, WUT? Why do you need IDE support to figure out how the library works underneath? You have the code, you have the docs, what else do you need to figure it out?
Location: Slovenia, Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Android, Java, Mobile advertisement, iOS basics (willing to learn), Architectural design/patterns

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miha-novak-498738b8/

Email: miha.novak1024@gmail.com (resume can be send via mail)

I'm an Android developer working for Outfit7 (Talking Tom) and I'm responsible for ad library/ad mediation which is treated as one of the best in the world sphere.

As Android developer I've been working for the last 5 years, 4 of those were in the Mobile advertisement sphere in Outfit7.

I have hands on experience boosting ad revenue for Mobile apps for both Android and iOS and working with the top leading advertisers (Facebook, Google, Superawesome, ...).

I'm willing to join Mobile companies that monetise their apps through ads or are willing to add ads to their apps.
If you don't mind watching a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqfmXiZTlM
Just because the risk is there doesn't mean we should be forced to accept it. There is currently a battle waging for our privacy.
Maybe the founders are fans of fictional depictions of evil megacorporations such as Evil Corp, Massive Dynamic Inc, Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, etc.
It’s the same in the US states with paid parental leave. If you want wealth redistribution, then use marginal tax rates, but don’t complicate the benefits by making people qualify for them.
> It should have been enough to fund a business analyst and an app developer for a few months. Plus Shadow Inc's overhead + profit.

No. The median software developer makes ~$50/hr. Overhead is 2-3x (usually higher for a smaller company but we'll be generous). So company is charging $100/hr. At 60k that's a single developer working 15 weeks (10 if we're being realistic). But we know that it is at least two developers so that's 7 weeks (2 on our realistic scale).

> A kid can throw together an app in a few days,

Sure, but it doesn't matter if flappy bird crashes occasionally. Flappy bird doesn't need to communicate with other users. I know this app they built wasn't that complicated, but the kids that are pumping out apps in a few days are above average talent and probably working more than 8hrs in a day. You're comparing above average to what is already suspected to be below average (considering they are recent bootcamp graduates and have little experience).
First, a little nitpicking: one of the parents can take at most 12 months off, so there is no "14 month contract".

Second, the whole thing can be way more complex. In Germany a mother has her job secured for the moment she announces to be pregnant to until the child is 3 years old. So one could decide that will take the Elterngeld for 12 months but actually just go back to work 18 months, and the employer has no way of stopping it.

Third and final point: NONE OF THIS MATTERS! Trying to find the "fairness" in this is nothing but some incredibly naive exercise. Like most things in life, salaries are not determined by the amount of value produced but rather by market value of labor. Risks when dealing with labor force should be already priced in.
I would expect a clone to also have comments and voting. This looks more like an RSS feed w/ HN layout.
It's A H1N1 (Swine Flu).

https://wz.lviv.ua/news/404392-likarni-ternopolia-perepovnen...
Could they maybe be repurposed as transmission towers? They're long but are they strong enough for that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_tower
It was too difficult to get decent performance from Xeon Phi for general use cases. A few apps could make it work e.g. PGS bought up all the old stock for a big geophysics system.
Great, but this reads like a particularly blunt Amazon ad. Is there a way to achieve "high scalability" without selling my soul to Amazon?
> We are just apes, ffs.

> every last human stands more to gain from defecting than cooperating.

Is it human nature, or is it the design of money? [1][2]

[1] The Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer

[2] http://ceptr.org
Lorin/resilience-engineering: Resilience engineering papers
create-react-app only does setup. And react router is by no means intuitive.
As I commented elsewhere an idea of a throwaway email to sign in is not new and Blix didn’t come up with it - rather they just iterated on that idea.
So they shouldn’t complain that someone iterated on theirs.
And an anonymous login is not enough of a moat to build a whole business upon.
Horrible example considering how many planes have had fatal wrecks because of this exact problem recently...
This is relevant only for multimedia apps.

I have fintech systems in production with 100k+ users with complex Gov app for entire country that runs on commodity hardware (majority of work done by 1 backend server , 1 database server and all reporting by 1 reporting backend server using the same db). Based on our grafana metrics it can survive x10 number of users without upgrade of any kind. It runs on linux and dot net core and Sql Server.

Most of the software is not multimedia in nature and those numbers are off the charts for such systems.
Spritesheet generator in C++17 using rectangle bin packing
Not to downplay the importance of your fathering and nurturing your child's passions at all-

My understanding of the research around personality development is that something like 80% (BS statistic I know) of the personality is formed in the first 5 years of development. The early few years are when we get conditioned with the core emotional programming: "I am safe" vs. "I am at risk" - "I am lovable" vs. "I am unlovable." etc. which plays a huge role down the line in lifestyle, relationships, and life in general.

Probably not a big deal whether it's the father or mother at the young age, but having adults around to be available to the emotional needs of the young child seems to be extremely important. Maybe easier to split the "full time job" of parenting in this critical period?

If you want to nerd out, check out "Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self - The Neurobiology of Emotional Development" by Allan Schore
The CIA’s Infamous, Unsolved Kryptos Cryptographic Puzzle Gets a ‘Final Clue’
> If it's not implemented for income to the council then why

analytics? To better serve you? to think-of-the-children?
Dang, didn't expect the downvotes for sharing my bash coding style. :(
Interesting exchange in the comments:

Gaurav Mukherjee:

Well argued! Yes, it is true that we don’t have causal relationships for a number of phenomena. But the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So corner cases of failure may exist in all these phenomena which can cost lives. Does this mean that we halt the fast paced progress of AI research or any other scientific pursuit? No! But leveraging empirical evidence that can’t be fully explained in situations where lives are at stake, should require a very high bar of regulation. Responsible scientists and engineers agree that causality is important to understand and they do all they can to understand how systems work. However there are likely many among us who do not employ similar standards to the application of ill understood techniques. When it comes to regulation, we must pay heed to the worst in us.

Yann LeCun:

Actually, there is no clear definition of causality in classical and quantum physics, simply because the elementary equations of motions are time reversible (if you also reverse charge and parity). For every phenomenon that can occur, the same phenomenon can occur backwards in time (with corresponding anti-particles).

Take a Feynman diagram where an electron and a positron annihilate to produce a gamma ray photon. It can be interpreted as a gamma ray photon spontaneously creating an electron-positron pair. It's the same diagram where time goes right to left instead of left to right.

How can one possibly say that A causes B, when B could very have caused A in a time-reversed view point?

Even worse, most physical phenomena have loopy causal graphs. Motion "causes" friction. But friction limits the velocity of motion. Most differential equations have coupled terms with loopy interactions in which quantity x affects quantity y and vice versa. You rarely have y(t+dt)=f(x(t)) in physics. More often than not, you have coupled equations y(t+dt)=f(x(t)) and x(t+dt)=g(y(t)).

In these (frequent) cases, x cause y, but y also causes x.
There is something like that going on in fluid dynamics, which is why it's difficult to come up with "simple" causal explanations.

Only when collective phenomena are considered does the "arrow of time" appear to have a definite direction (with the 2nd law of thermodynamics).

Edit: para spacing
SML modules are a classic example of a "shadow language" ( https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-domain-of-shadows.htm... ). I'd like to see an ML-like language where modules/interfaces are normal values, functors are just normal functions, etc.

Modeling such a system at the value level is easy enough, but having it run at compile-time introduces some tricky issues (especially around IO).
Discover Python and Patterns (14): Collisions – Design Patterns and Video Games
At least as of 10 or 15 years ago, it was all that and more.

I kind of stopped paying attention after the "Dear Muslima" affair, which could be interpreted, among other things, as an attempt to move the moral goalpost. Sounds like perhaps the attempt was successful.
Monoid is a set $X$ with a mapping $X \times X \mapsto X$ that is associative and has an unit element. @curryhoward's answer contains some examples that might help you understand this better.
1. No, you aren't "virtually assured". Past performance indicates that's the case over enough time (25+ years), but that isn't an assurance.

2. I'm not sure how this supports your argument, as an index fund investor is even more removed from the decision making process that leads to some sort of disaster.
Wow... that's.... nope.

ERP software and in particular SAP is awful, has some major limitations, and is a pain to use, but the alternatives are much worse. Only a company like IBM might manage to develop an in-house ERP based on open source technology... but more likely they'd fail.

Some "enterprise grade" software is literally that. SAP works. It sucks and it's expensive, but it works.
Doesn't FreeBSD run the very site you're on? Distrowatch recently switched to it (which IMO is a bit ironic, although they list BSDs as distros too).

There's bunch of companies that use and regularly contribute to the code:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/n...

Also: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/
(I would imagine that company that donate have interest too keep it alive because they use it)

Apple doesn't disclose much about their infrastructure, but they did post jobs looking for FreeBSD admins so I would imagine they don't have a negligible number of them.

WhatsApp was running primarily on FreeBSD (not sure how it is now)
I am not normally a conspiracy theorist.. but I have come to suspect the same.

One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her whereabouts. Unless we think she is some Jason Bourne level expert that can just make herself disappear, I can think of only three explanations -

1) The law enforcement agencies are choosing not to find her and track her
down for some reason.
2) She is being kept hidden (willingly or unwillingly) by someone else who has the means and ability to do so.
3) She is already dead and her body will turn up at some point.

The thought there could be such types of 'cover ups' in the western democratic world is very scary. I was always certain this stuff only happened in the movies, now I am not as sure about that.
Even simpler: planes, private islands, and lawyers are expensive. Someone came looking for a lot of money they were owed.
Same biz model.
Ten Problems for Arts in the 2020s
Could do: drop me a mail; in profile.
4x increase of viral pneumonia cases over previous year is worth to investigate. It looks like it caused by H1N1 (Swine Flu), which is much less worse than Corona-virus, but still worse than regular flu.
Indeed, I’d correct to "such casual things are rare here on HN."
Production only tells half the story. To figure out how much surplus you have for social engineering you need:

surplus = production - consumption

The US was a net importer of oil up until September 2019. There's almost no surplus.
I thought that was self explanatory.

But lozaning has done a perfectly eloquent job of explaining above.
Show HN: General Route Planner
New ransomware encrypts data, and also meddles with critical infrastructure
Handheld 3D skin printer demonstrates accelerated healing of large, severe burns
> Are they assuming that the general public are so interested in mattresses that they'll go on the website to check it out, instead of just picking something up at Ikea, or their local discount mattress provider?

Going to a website to check pricing is more effort than the other two options you stated?
> I know this is the popular conclusion - but from a developer perspective, data such as what software your product is used with is INCREDIBLY valuable for project planning and prioritization. People hate web tracking, but knowing what browsers or devices are visiting your website can be enormously helpful.

What happened to actually communicating with users to learn more about how they use the product?
I love seeing vanilla JS projects getting some love. I started one last year (https://github.com/CarlMungazi/aprender-js) and I feel it has made me a better programmer.

If anyone wants to learn more vanilla JS stuff, you should check out https://gomakethings.com by Chris Ferdinandi.
The essential factors [1] are:

* There are types of software that are politics-specific, and therefore do not exist until a party pays for it to be made.

* Politics is a zero-sum game: if you're funding software (either institutionally, or by being a tech worker who works below market wage For The Cause), you don't want it to be used by your political opponents.

So commodity stuff that already exists is bipartisan. Any application that is specific to political campaigning is highly partisan.

[1] There's also a secondary issue of data security for cloud products; parties maintain extensive voter files with things like past voting history, up-to-date contact information, and past contacts [1a]. They do not want this information falling into the hands of the opposing party, and so don't want their data touching any organization that might potentially have cross-partisan ties, or godforbid might have cotenancy for D and R data.

[1a] This is basically the king of all CRMs, and these days they might be able to reimplement it as a bunch of plugins on top of a commercial provider like Salesforce, but those only became available relatively recently, data migration would be nontrivial, and there's a substantial amount of politics-specific functionality that would need to be rewritten as plugins.
Erlang supports gradual typing with type specs and dialyzer. It's not as strong of a type system as ML, but it's pretty handy and not particularly cumbersome.
Microsoft Azure Will Be a Leader in Edge Computing and IoT
Who Owns a Viral Dance?
Google has paid Android developers about half of what Apple has
You can see this on Reddit. Notice how many submissions are just an image + caption (no source) with thousands of people reacting to it at face value.

I always chuckled at the idea that deepfakes are going to be the problem which a simple jpg already works today and is more effective than video because people will actually click it.
It's hard to be enthusiastic about American labor practices hearing anecdotes like this. I think my quality of life would improve by immigrating to a country that provides the benefits like healthcare and childcare as a right. This is because even though I would likely take a salary cut of over 50%, I would have access to the sorts of intangible life experiences that are difficult or impossible to price. For example, raising my child for the first year of their life, living for another decade.
Are you interpreting this op-ed to say that investors who have no active hand in the operations of a business should have criminal liability for any actions people in the corporation take? I discounted that possibility out of hand since it seems patently absurd when I think about it a bit more.
>How does anything get done?

What about the case where the guy leaves because is cool in software engineering to change jobs very often? or because now language X is cool and the guy wants to add that on the CV and not your old boring language Y.

In any case your employee can leave so make sure you are not dead because most of the value is in this person head. Though you might as always make a counter offer and pay him much more if he is so valuable.
It also matters that life only lowers entropy locally for an infinitesimal interval. In a way it's a kind of noise in almost monotonic march of entropy.
Sorry. I was unclear.

When I wrote "small sites" I wasn't thinking about single person blogs but rather about smaller newspapers and similar.

As far as I know there was a golden age for technical blogging but today I personally wouldn't even try to earn money that way.
> so you're saying you don't think the mass influx of new workers drove down wages? It seems like a pretty straight forward argument.

It seems straightforward but it actually isn't. It's not self-evident that women entering the workforce must automatically drive down wages. Maybe other interconnected factors enter into play and cancel it out. Maybe they drive wages slightly lower, but other major factors dwarf this (as someone mentioned in another comment). Maybe... there is no data to support it; like you said, you'd "love" to see the data.

> I didn't see this in the comment you responded to.

I can be mistaken, and the original poster can clarify what they meant, but unfortunately I do see it.
What's wrong with the RAND model? Why should platforms be forced to provide free access? What pays for building the platforms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
Really? How can it run a web server container, for example, without root permissions? You need root to listen on port 80.
If using the application for its intended purpose makes your account seem not-human, just who or what did they design the application for?
It's really hard not to jump down the rabbit hole, but how else to explain the lax "investigation". There's millions of dollars moving around and nobody cares? Of course they could track this down. But the Virgin Islands isn't going to implicate themselves in this. They consider themselves a victim too (metoo!). I'll just leave my comments there.
3% doesn't sound that bad compared to the others. It's cool that the spokesperson was so forthcoming about the reason as well. And if they have 10,000 clients, then they definitely seem like the least bubbly and softbank-y of the softbank companies - that's some real business activity in a competitive market.
She didn't realize any profit if she still holds the stock. But that technicality aside, we already do hold her liable, but only to the amount of her investment. The point of my comment is, why would increasing her liability (from the amount of her investment, to everything she owns) decrease inequality?
Twitter to Introduce Manipulated Media Warning
Absolutely recommend following gps advice on starting with sml - ocaml has some... Bumps. But the other option would be to just start with the reasonml dialect of ocaml:

https://reasonml.github.io/

And just FYI, reasonml "is-a" ocaml, so you can also build binaries with the regular compiler back-end - you're not "locked" to targeting js.
My favorite part about CRA is none of those things ever being an issue for me or my users, so I can prototype feature-rich apps in like a couple hours.
Thank you.
It looks like we have H1N1 again, but it better to be safe.
Honestly, there is a world of difference between having an API to do things in bulk and only allowing rate-limited clients to do something.

Both require authentication (although new court rulings may technically be outlawing all charging and quotas for APIs!)

But the API has far more permissive bulk actions. Of course, with a botnet and enough time and effort one could execute a sybil attack to circumvent any per-account quotas, and use per-resource quotas to launch a DDOS attack on some resource to any non-authenticated parties.

I wish there was - service to prevent sybil attacks somehow. Just make it exponentially more expensive to create multiple identities / accounts on networks. Has anyone got links to papers or projects or anything in that direction? It would be hugely valuable.

PS: Twitter and other startups don’t particularly care about sybil attacks and fake users when they are growing, it helps them “innocently” report great user numbers to VCs. So they don’t spend much effort preventing sleeper bots from joining in the network’s growth phase.
I’ll bite. What’s a “fintech system” with “complex Gov app”?
Nice "joke".

You could get in real trouble for this, though.
I grew up "outside of my filter bubble". I was raised on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the very mouthpieces of political-incorrectness. And I bought into it for a long time, until I gained some perspective on the world and came to understand that brashness is not a virtue. We live in a society.

Something that offends someone else may not comprise a universal moral truth, but making an effort to consider how your words affect others, including others whose backgrounds you may not understand at all, does. And certainly, going out of your way to rail against others' sensitivities (political incorrectness) helps nobody.

It's possible that your personal definition of "anti-political-correctness" is different from mine, but I venture to say that the public at large, presented with the term, interprets it the way I do.
Oh, well, I mean that if you have a 3×3 matrix and a 4×4 matrix, you can't even multiply them. So 4×4 matrices form a monoid under multiplication, as do 3×3 matrices, but matrices in general do not.

It turns out that they actually form a much richer structure called a ring when you add in their addition operator as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_ring
The really good ones are the ones who respond with memes on an internal Slack, not to someone outside of the org.
So why isn't it illegal and jailable for AT&T to testify that they wouldn't restrict content this way, in order to get government approval for their merger, and then do exactly what they swore they would not do?

This is exactly why no one should ever feel bad about torrenting.
> Since you didn't understand that, I gave you an allegory. If that doesn't help, and this doesn't help, well, don't know where we can go from here.

It was a metaphor, not allegory. And literally no one understood it. I only saw your comment because I was briefly reminded of this discourse after some other community sites found your attempt at metaphor and mocked it in front of a wide audience.

Not the outcome I was hoping for, but I hope that the exposure helps you get your message of "I do what I want and don't have to prove anything to anyone" when writing code. I look forward to seeing how that helps your professional reputation.
For those who have reached vertical database write scaling limits and had to start sharding, I'm curious what kind of load that entails? Looking at RDS instances, the biggest one is db.r5.24xlarge with 48 cores and 768 gb ram. I imagine that can take you quite a long way--perhaps even into millions of users territory for a well-designed crud app that's read-heavy and doesn't do anything too fancy?