skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thelab | New York, NY (NYC) | Senior Frontend Developer and Technical Producer | http://thelabnyc.com | Full-Time | Onsite

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our growing development group. This candidate will have an opportunity to work on a large variety of projects for some of the world’s most recognizable brands, including websites, e-commerce, mobile/tablet/web hybrid apps, and online media.

This role will lead the front-end development effort for two e-commerce sites, doing much of the actual FE development while also refactoring and unifying the CSS codebases across several existing sister sites.

To apply, please email your resume, links, and cover letter to jobs.dev@thelabnyc.com

Sr. Frontend Developer: https://thelabnyc.com/careers/#senior-front-end-developer

- Strong experience with Sass.

- Experience with React component styling and/or building reusable styling frameworks.

- Experience with Typescript as well as being comfortable with building React components.

- Able to mentor less-experienced FE developers.

- Able to work with design team and provide insights on design implementation.

- 3+ years of relevant experience

We're also hiring a Technical Producer who will serve a key role between client requirements and implementation. We're open to junior or mid-level applicants with an interest in project management, client management, & technical writing. To apply, please email your resume, links, and cover letter to jobs.dev@thelabnyc.com with Technical Producer in the subject line.

https://thelabnyc.com/careers/#mid-level-project-manager-e-c...

- Engage with the Creative, Development, and QA teams, to track their progress and ensure any blockers are addressed in a timely manner

- Turn client strategy and goals into project briefs and requirements
> ...but they share a common parent company. :^ )

citation needed!
How does one "Filter for error and importance" without writing comments?

I have been peer reviewer multiple times, and always had to write comments either to author pointing out errors and asking for clarifications or to the journal explaining why the paper is hopeless. It was not much different from reviewing pull requests by email.

Did you have different experience reviewing papers for scientific journals?
This is cool stuff but I'm not sure what application this is targeted at. Primary lithium cells have a 15 to 20 years operating life, and contrary to those batteries you can draw more power on demand when you need it and stay asleep at low current the rest of the time. Energy density seems higher but not that much.
It doesn't matter if this is done by Facebook, Amazon, Google, or Joe's Basement Software Company, nor what the data is actually being used for. Doing this without obtaining the user's informed consent is unacceptable.
> Isn't this essentially nothing?

Essentially nothing: for an individual? Yes. For a population? No.

You or I may not care about a 0.62% increased CVD rate for ourselves over 30 years, but that does translate to 6,200 extra possibly-preventable cases of CVD per million people. That's about 76,000 diagnoses annually in the US alone.
I would be curious to know if you would expect these companies to be partisan too? And if not, why?
Allow people to submit their sites to the index. People who want to be found have an incentive to do the work.
It's just one more example, but one that is rather unexpected. It forces me to ask questions about why? and if we are so deep down that road that this level of monitoring/surveillance became the new normal and an expected outcome of production cycles? However, I think all the gaming companies have much more intrusive monitoring to prevent cheating, NVidia might need to do the same for their GeForce Experience and per-game customization, not forgetting creepy antivirus software like Avast etc.
I don't think we have to quit our day jobs to change the world. What we need to do is (1) change the expectations of the public via conversations, activism, migrating away from FB/Google/Microsoft products, etc. and (2) make it easier for people to prioritize privacy by building open-source apps and hardware.

Inspiring examples that I use daily include Linux, git, and Bitwarden.
safari gave me a seizure. Otherwise, fun!
AT&T is doing what it told Congress it wouldn’t do with Time Warner
I feel like there is either 2 possibilities:

Small number of indexes (like HotBot before google ruled the internet). I'm not sure an oligopoly is that much better than a monopoly

Or you have a lot of indexes. But then the system scales really poorly. All the indexes have to handle a large number of queries and be hugely powerful, and all the clients have to spend a ton of time querrying and aggregating them.
That alone doesn't make it "not a study"; it's a study of other studies, not a study with new data.
Worst Toilet in Middle Earth (Deepfake LoTR Trainspotting Mashup) [video]
On the bright side, as biotech advances eventually you’re gonna get rich powerful immortal bosses.
i know you're gonna get downvoted, but fwiw i lol'd.
>Not sure if this time period was honestly better.

Canter and Siegel was in 1994.
Non-paywall source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00537

The article title is somewhat misleading. The authors have only investigated "the properties of surfactant and polymer solutions commonly used to make giant bubbles with surface areas approaching 100 m^2", and they don't provide any insights as to why giant bubbles are stable. In fact, they don't investigate giant bubbles at all! A clearer title would have been "Shear rheology of soap solutions used for making giant bubbles." But that wouldn't sound half as interesting.
> if you can't afford your staff going on parental leave / long term sick, you don't have a sustainable business

You've never run a startup or small business. At the beginning margins can be razor thin, and unplanned or extended leave can have a huge impact.
I remember an article on video encoding where Netflix had approached some people basically with the question "what if we didn't care about encoding times?" Netflix doesn't want to was money, but encoding cost might not be something that they want to optimize against other things. For example, let's say that you have an episode of a TV show. Netflix is going to transfer that file 10M times. If that file is 2GB, that's 19PB by my math. I know that they aren't paying AWS's exorbitant transfer fees, but it can still add up to a lot of money. $200,000 at a cent per GB, $20,000 at a tenth of a cent per GB. On top of that, more CDN storage, more servers needed to transfer additional data, etc. There are certainly costs. How much would it cost to encode things? Let's say that AV1 can be encoded at 1/10th real-time on a 16-v-core box (which seems reasonable given https://medium.com/@ewoutterhoeven/av1-is-ready-for-prime-ti...). That's $7.60 on Google Cloud for an hour-long show (I know they use AWS, but this is just representative pricing).

Let's say that AV1 reduces file sizes by 40% (compared to H.264), saving them 0.8GB per stream. Let's say that only 10% of users have AV1 capability. And let's say that they only pay a tenth of a cent per GB for bandwidth. They're still saving 800,000 GB of bandwidth or $800. Of course, there are also going to be other savings like electricity since transferring smaller files means needing fewer servers (servers have network cards that get saturated whether in their data center or CDN).

At Google, encoding costs can be big since a lot of YouTube videos aren't watched a lot. With Netflix, the library is a lot smaller and more popular. Netflix is up to around 170M customers. Each of those customers might have a few household members watching something popular (and maybe re-watching those things). Even encoding something very slowly ends up not costing that much money.

But it's also about the customer experience. Mobile companies throttle video services. I believe Google started using VP8 so that T-Mobile customers could see 720p video without paying extra for HD video. When downloading files for offline usage on a plane, the size is going to matter both in terms of the time it takes to download and the storage used on your device which is limited.

Even if bandwidth only costs Netflix a hundredth of a cent per GB, the compute needed for AV1 just doesn't seem to matter given the way Netflix's business works.
in those instances I'm almost always glad I went afterwards even if I wasn't feeling "hot to trot" before.
This is exactly Prisoner's Dilemma and all relevant literature applies. Iterate a few times with a large population and the optimal strategy goes to all sorts of weird places.
Most English names are already taken on PyPI. Using another language is one way to get around it.
Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees
There was no native userland. You picked an userland and it ran in a container along with /etc and other mounts. The idea being that the OS itself should be separate, developed as a whole and immutable like an appliance OS like FreeNAS, XenServer or VMware ESXi. For ops lifecycle supportability (installs, upgrades, downgrades, etc.), keeping the OS immutable has a lot of advantages in the "system entropy" department because users and admins can't corrupt the OS itself as easily, can replace it more easily and it's far easier for itself to run HIDS against. If it I were developing an immutable OS, there would be a hidden volume containing signed squashfs volumes and updates would be delta overlays that could be merged when the older base volume is no longer needed.

Another interesting Linux distro that uses virtualization rather merely containers to isolate system components for security is Qubes OS.

Really, I think any new Linux distros should:

1. be developed as an immutable whole

2. run most system and user-added services in containers

3. have package collections like nix or habitat that don't have dependency hells

4. make service and configuration management easy

5. not reinvent the wheel without specific goals and niche/s to occupy that are better than what came before

6. do damn good jobs of smoothing package rough edges,
upstreaming patches and rapidly releasing security fixes (including ksplice/kpatch)

7. least surprise everywhere

8. think carefully about whether to go systemd or s6/runit/daemontools

9. manage logs better, preferably without local text files, streamed across a distributed system that scales like flume or kafka
I was thinking the same. It's inviting a world of hurt when your assets get frozen across the platform because someone else used it as part of their fraud scheme.
> no one can force you away from your laptop and colleagues

But they can! The article talks about 2 months the father must take off.
For digital files, ideally, the file only contains active pixels so that the file is the frame size of the image. However, for video formats with a clearly defined standard (TV/Broadcast/DVD/Blu-ray/etc), the video frame size must be what is defined in the spec. This is why the mattes exist to fill in the space to make the content fit the space required.
I see a question mark next to the 660 on the Wikipedia page. Is there some indication of that date from elsewhere?
15 to 20 years operating life on a single charge? Or 15 to 20 years operating life if you recharge them occasionally?
Original URL (bypassing Reddit):

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/mfiPCtJ1BGU/qtCrq...

Relevant quote:

> The teams working on the proxy and on pkg.go.dev have spent a lot of
time talking to Google's lawyers about what we can and can't do with
Go source code downloaded from the internet. The rule we've been given
to follow is that serving a pretty HTML version of the docs is
displaying a modified version of the original, and we can only do that
if there's a recognized known-good license that gives us that
permission.

> When we adopted godoc.org from Gary Burd back in 2014, it did not
occur to any of us to put it through that kind of review. If we had,
maybe the community would have gone through this licensing pain
earlier. For now we are focusing on making changes to pkg.go.dev
rather than correcting past mistakes on godoc.org. (At this point,
more scrutiny of what godoc.org does is not likely to have an outcome
that anyone likes.)
Yup. Run it during off peak with extra hardware. EZ.
I'd use the word liberated when referring to the peoples of Western Europe. But I'd be much more hesitant say Eastern European nations were liberated... Especially considering most would be Soviet puppet states for decades to come.

Does your comment about "treating them well" mean objectively well, or merely in comparison to the Nazis?
Self-hosted apps/DApps come to mind however they are still alpha-quality. It might take some time (~5 years) to replace 90% of expected FAANG functionality.
Off topic, but OP if you need a guide to help you get off netlify and host your service through a remote server (e.g. a DO Droplet) check out this guide I recently wrote

https://medium.com/@reid.sherman/deploying-and-configuring-a...
Being perfectly honest, that sentence was so wrong I didn't feel the need to read anything further.
My account was locked, I never sent a single tweet or even followed anyone, just refused to provide them more information about myself.
Were you selling a B2C or B2B product?

B2B telemarketing will almost always be better because the purchase decision makers are few, well known, and easier to get a hold of. Non-branded keywords for B2B products are also saturated by the competition, meaning you'd need to be on top of your game to the search ads on them to work.
Oh yes, the best/worst case scenario all at once.
You mean Knative (https://github.com/knative) ? ;-)
So you want to replace the current peer review system with one you don’t really understand? Have you tried looking into why the system was changed in the first place?

The fact that it worked for Einstein doesn’t make it a better system. Do you think Einstein wouldn’t have gotten his revolutionary work published with the current system?
It's electronic voting. "Votes in transit" (Scott 2019):

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

It's also a standard incrementalism tatic.
Hydrogen diffuses very quickly. I would imagine no issue. There could be an issue if it were to burn, then the inhaled water could linger in your system for a while (although water is constantly excreted too). But then the dosage is so small, and it's alpha radiation (readily absorbed by nearby water molecules). Sure you would get a better estimate by running some calculations, but I suspect the dosage even of a handful of those totally inhaled as water vapor would be sub-background.

Compare it to mercury (which some years back was still in batteries), which evaporates easily when heated, stays in your body for very long times (and is cumulative), and has clear neurological impact.

I wouldn't worry about even a large number of those breaking.
> Can I just not be paired with him?

Stronger: Can he never be allowed to interview ever again?

He's going to cost your company qualified candidates. He's going to hurt your reputation as an employer.
You're saying this group of "most people" knows what's being sent, that they're exercising informed consent? Surely you aren't hanging this argument on "common sense."
Considering what other kind of particulate matter would be coming out of a machine grinding electronics up, tritium (which would simply float away) should be among the least of this individual's worries.
Also in what way is this a world first?
Void Linux for PowerPC/Power ISA (Unofficial)
They did explicitly say "cold calling".
Thanks. This comment from 2015 by `ooOOoo` is also worth highlighting.

> The post is quite poor and suffer a lot from hindsight bias.
> Following article is so much better
> https://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/10/29/counterfactuals-knight-capital/
I think a lot of people here are missing the point.

Let me tell you a story.

Wednesdays, my friends and I go to the bar to hang out. We grab some beers and some wings, and we have a bit of a chat about, y'know, whatever. Sometimes we're around because someone just wants some company. Sometimes we're around because someone just wants to gripe about something going on. Sometimes we're there because... well, some Wednesdays we're there just because.

And, y'know, it makes me happy to be around when people want to hang out, for whatever reason, because we're friends and that's what friends do.

But sometimes, maybe, I could just as well go home. Like, I'm not opposed to the idea of going: If someone wants to get something off their chest or just really feels like hanging around having a laugh, I'm more than happy to be there with them. But nor, particularly, do I care about being there this particular Wednesday, except for the other guys.

Don't get me wrong: Some Wednesdays I really don't want to go, I've had a shit day at work, I didn't sleep well, and I just want to go home and lay in bed with a book until I crash. Those days, I'll just send a message saying that I'm not up for coming out tonight, sorry.

On the other hand, those nights where I could take it or leave it, I don't really want to send a text saying "hey guys do you want to, maybe, cancel this evening? like, I don't wanna not go, but y'know, I don't want to go either?", because that sounds like some tedious bullshit. And if anyone who didn't particularly give a shit had to announce to the world every time they did not, in fact, give a shit, we'd all get over that really quickly.

The fact that I don't care for sending that message (or receiving a bunch of them either) doesn't really mean a whole lot, in and of itself: It just means that I end up going out more frequently than is, I guess, 'optimal'. And this isn't a problem that needs solving, because eating a couple of wings when I otherwise wouldn't once every two months is hardly a herculean struggle for me, but solving that minor coordination problem isn't exactly an act that devalues my friendships in any way.

Maybe it would make Wednesdays at the pub a little bit more special, because you never have the nights when no one is particularly excited about being there.
It's remarkable how much of the criticism aimed at SV can be summed up as:

# they're 20-something.

# they're white.

# they're male.

# and this is low status.
> A lot of working with an ERP is developing middleware or custom modules that implement business-specific logic

Indeed. It does, however, seem that these are developed on a system that isn't designed to intuitively express the degree of logic required - or even trivial logic. There are poor souls slogging through whichever level of hell uses SAP for customer relations, purely because that's the way it's done. That attitude worked out poorly for taxis, who's shitty UX was replaced by Uber.

I predict that millennials, who increasingly refuse to interact with anything below "app quality," won't bother with this horseshit. There will be fewer and fewer willing to subject themselves to that awful software, as developers, and everyone will build their own faulty but usable ERP systems.

ERP will be a unicorn in the next decade. The industry is ridden with complacent dinosaurs.
The only reason the review process is politicized is because academic institutions compete for research money. Preventing your peer institutions from publishing helps you get money for your own. You need to change how research is funded. Follow the money.
That's not the only way Twitter uses to collect phone numbers. It can arbitrarily block your account and require to confirm a phone number to unblock it (under excuse of "better security"). How disclosing your phone number helps being safer I don't understand.

Now those collected and leaked phone numbers will be available not only to Twitter and US government but to anyone wishing to buy them from hackers.
The general public are too disinterested to make it possible to convince the majority to change the way they make decisions about software and hardware.

Legislation is the only effective course.
Thanks for pointing out the typo, it has been fixed. I guess it is a phrase I heard more than I read/wrote.
They did not use gene drives. Also, no one uses gene drives in applications, except to study gene drives explicitly.
Roswell. Just admit it.
Exactly, and the Australians and other colonials died gloriously for the empire.
What a waste. I’m a sarcastic New Zealander.
Eh? The figures given are clear (and yes, I've read the article by now) - the risk associated with processed meat is much greater than that with red meat.
Several exchanges operate under the assumption that if they don't deal with USD then KYC is not necessary.
> Being behind a nat, without any firewall, is more than enough to protect against this. In other words, you need to work hard to be affected by this "backdoor".

So long as the device does not utilize UPnP and get the gateway to forward traffic to it.
‘We feel really terrible,’ says chief executive whose app roiled the Iowa caucus
I have seen such customizations go badly soooo many times..
If you're bootstrapping a side project that you aren't confident will make a profit and you have more time than money, I think it's perfectly reasonable to prioritize low operating costs. In all other instances, though, I think you are correct.
> To the developer: kudos. Ignore the naysayers. Why build this — why the f* not? It's not like there are apps out there that do the same. And adding another way to interact with people is fun.

Because some people have the moral compass to think about the consequences of the applications they build.

The world doesn't need more crutches for people who can't communicate in such a basic way.

Think about it; if you don't want to do something with someone or are unable, you owe it to both yourself and the other person to speak your opinion. Waiting for the other person to bail first is a lack of communication. This isn't going to help people who have communication problems. It can only make their disability worse, or cause them to resort to being friends with others with the same disability, which can prevent them from overcoming it.

Personally, I'd lose respect for someone who tried to use this "feature".
Yes!

And of course a big 'enough' publisher like Medium would be incentivised to provide its own crawler implementing the standard interface, for SEO.
Start with your own attitude. "Pig"? That's not OK. He's a human being, even if he is a jerk.
There’s also the Archive Repository feature, which can help: https://help.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...
This is the conventional wisdom but the more I think about it the less I agree. I think we have a duty to minimize resource usage and waste in general. The part of energy used by IT infrastructure is constantly increasing and has a significant impact on the environment.

Let's put your statement on another perspective : it is worth investing a few days/weeks of work of a low power machine (a human) to reduce significantly the long-term power usage of a high-powered machine (a computer or cluster thereof).
Ask HN: What domain registrar and DNS provider do you use? (February 2020)
Previous discussion (Nov 2018):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541159
AI finds drug that could fight the novel coronavirus
I like this argument. At a less lethal level it works for guns as well. WW2 taught that you can’t drive countries to the point of having nothing to lose. A potentially positive spin is that we advancing to societies that prevent this from happening to individuals. Though the cost...
Nothing like the feeling of seeing some terrible old code in a shared repository, looking at git blame and seeing it was written by you.
You should really include that this was under the assumption of only 2 servings a week, where a serving is about 3.5 ounces. I wonder how the rates change when you assume 2 servings per meal, which seems more in line with peoples actual diets.