skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany (and Austria AFAIK) employers are legally obliged to write letters of recommendation for their employees. These letters must be true, complete and favorably. So we have a similar situation where employers want to express their opinion but are required to be benevolent.

Does this make letters of recommendation from German companies meaningless?

Some will say yes, but regardless of that, what is certain is that the whole situation developed a kind of flourish language that can express at lot about the employee without ever being obviously negative.
Some sentences can even be translated into school grades.

There are numerous books about this language and even more websites and they all more or less agree, so this language is pretty standardized since at least maybe 30 years. A last interesting point about this language is that some things are said by leaving out certain phrases or words, so you say something by not saying something.

Finally I'll give you few examples [+]. May they serve as an example for a future AirBnB language;-)

He has specialist knowledge and a healthy dose of self-confidence.

Meaning: This person is an arrogant jerk.

He's quickly become popular with clients.

Meaning: This person can't negotiate at all.

She had great empathy for the needs of the staff.

Meaning: This person flirted more than they worked.

His sociability helped to improve the atmosphere a work.

Meaning: This person is an alcoholic.

[+] Translated by me to the best of my knowledge. I'll spare you the German originals to avoid clutter. If you want sources shoot me a message, E-mail is in my profile.
It sounds exactly like that. "Someone else was already supposed to be taking care of that and when I asked what was going on, I was told that they were quitting the company and that it was on me to pick up where they left off, no ifs, ands, or buts."
It makes you a slave.
Yes, this is such an anti-pattern.

Once Uber started asking me a thousand questions about why I was leaving someone 4-stars, I stopped leaving reviews entirely.
Amazon have started to ask questions about specific aspects of the product.

It seems to be based on AI/ML, I think. I bought a Dyson vacuum cleaner which was terrible at picking up hair from the carpet, and when I went to add an Amazon review, it asked me an extra question which was something like "Good at picking up hair?". That must have involved either human interaction, or AI, or it's a question they ask about every vacuum cleaner and I'm showing a cognitive bias.
I had the same experience. I called AirBnB and they acted like it was a really strange occurrence and they would look into it. My review never appeared on the host's page. I have zero trust in AirBnB.
It seems like the bigger asshole tends to make more money, unfortunately for myself.
Use !sp for that
You are naive if you actually believe Facebook will actually stop associating the events with your profile just because you disable this setting.
Self-Isolate
i am happy to give a 5 star rating if all my expectations were met. That doesn’t mean my words will be flattering to the property or host. Actually i give 5 stars because it delivers on its promise but if there is feedback on the property i add it constructively. Uncomfortable beds, not safe for children are all things other people might find useful. No if all properties have 5 stars there is no value it forces us to read recent comments and be wary of properties that don’t have recent comments.
It may not be an exact fit for your needs, but Legend Keeper (https://www.patreon.com/legendkeeper) may work.

The ultimate writing and organization tool for game masters, writers, and worldbuilders. LegendKeeper is a cloud-based application for building and organizing fictional worlds for authors and RPG enthusiasts. Write articles, upload maps, drop pins, create secrets, and invite your friends to explore it all with a powerful access control system.

I haven't used it but did stumble upon it on Reddit some time ago. It seems to have a great community.
Since I’ve started fasting it’s hard for me to sleep past 4-5am, which is nice because at least in my culture, it’s supposed to be a good time to get up and meditate and think.. it’s not so intense but I don’t do intense physical activity, maybe 30 minutes of ashtanga yoga a day..
Which essentially showed the US would not only be unsuccessful attacking Iran but also lose in a humiliating fashion, making Gulf War 1/2 and Afghanistan look like child's play.
The argument from those in power against encryption is mind-bogglingly stupid, and I don't know if it is due to an extreme ignorance, or because of a lust for the power and leverage that mass surveillance grants a governing entity (I suppose it could be both?)

Regardless, using the argument of child pornography and sex trafficking is an emotional play, and it is solely designed to resonate with those who also do not understand the technology.

If this same argument took another form, e.g. if this were an attempt ban walls made out of non-transparent material because opaque walls allow child abuse to occur hidden from sight, the obvious violation of privacy would be evident to the average person.

What inevitably happens with laws that create such a drastic power imbalance between your average citizen and the governing entity is that those with power and status are exempt.
I like Jersey (and the standard API it implements: JAX-RS) a lot on its own (as compared to using a larger framework like Spring). However it can be difficult to program imperatively.

You'd expect in a compiled language like Java you'd figure out most of your bugs during the type-checker pass. But there's so much implicit structure, class loading, and annotations that make Jersey apps mostly dynamically typed. You've got to compile and then hit every API endpoint/middleware to know it's registered at all.

Even when you find the explicit APIs they are cumbersome to use, requiring many lines of code for something that should be simple like imperatively registering a route.

I put together my own notes on using Jersey, JOOQ (an ORM), and PostgreSQL a month ago. My aim was to be as explicit as possible (though I did still have to fall back on class loading a few times). [0]

[0] http://notes.eatonphil.com/a-minimal-rest-api-in-java.html
Which Are the Important Digital Marketing Strategies That Startups Should Know
So many questions..

There is the part where you wonder if the patient even remembered they stashed the lighter in the tummy flap.

There is the part where you wonder if there was enough butane that if it had been pulled out, it could have been a fire risk (oxygen source+butane+speed/hit...)

There is the part where you want to deep dive into a reddit subpage all about 'things diagnostic radiographers find in patents after asking them to remove all the things'
Comical. A budgeting app that can't get basic math correct.
The GDPR is not enforced, so there's plenty to gain by breaching people's privacy and nothing to lose.
Just think about the larger situation of EULAs and no-competes and arbitration clauses. Everything is hoping you don't read the fine-print, or have no energy to fight it, even to say you haven't read or were mislead and therefore it shouldn't apply.
I kinda lucked out and learned my lesson about this stuff early on

I was trash-talking one group of internet people with another group, and the trash talk ended up getting indexed by Lycos or AltaVista. They called me out for being a dick, and I realized that I need to be really careful about what ends up attached to me online. (Also not to trash talk people behind their back..)
What can software developers learn from the Soviet Moon Landing Program?
Maybe Norton - Design of Machinery will help you?
Also, the slides for a lecture I had some years ago:
https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/3163786/mod_resou...
I have been a computer nerd (now a neuroscience scientist nerd) for decades. I didn't know SAML.
Great so now I feel bad for all those less than 5 star reviews I left.
TBH demodays are very hard time because of this buzz, i can see how going online only will improve things a little to save more resources to fundraising itself.
Liveramp has been particularly irritating me of late, because they seem to be trying to position themselves as if they were defenders of customer privacy -- when they are, in fact, doing the opposite of that.

If you're going to be bad, at least don't try to pretend that you're good.
Nowhere is this more evident than when you want to do comparison shopping on an expensive product like a camera or a car. I am actually in the market for a new car right now. I know pretty much what I want. But trying to figure out which product is the best fit for what I want is a nightmare. I go on a manufacturer's web site and it's all marketing. Trying to extract technical details is a chore, and trying to figure out the actual differences between different models and trim lines can range from a nightmare to downright impossible.
Or a certain "activist" who bought a $10mil house in Martha's Vineyards from his supposed book deals.
Please won't someone think of the children?
Even if Twilio did leak the fact that the author signed up to Facebook it is still a lot better than leaking every single merchant to where the user has been.
Thanks.

Generally, it is advised to provide the definition the first time you use an acronym.
Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
Almost every city and state DOT already has this data, because they create it when they place the signs. If your business revolves around having unique data, this is the wrong path. But if the business model is about what you do with the data, I'd skip all efforts to gather it yourself and just get it from your local jurisdictions.
The ability to record (and edit?) the pitch before sending it to investors seems like a great way of leveling the field between natural public speakers and terrible ones.

Obviously public speaking is a great skill to have, but having so much money and time hinge on a 10 minute speech you can simply flub (through nervousness, poor sleep, etc) can't possibly be the most efficient way of allocating startup capital.
Flybe has collapsed, saying coronavirus was the last straw. And at least one analyst says there will be more in 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51748139
Coronavirus: Facebook tells most Bay Area employees to work from home

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Coronavirus-Fac...
Saying something is ‘laughable’ is not an argument.
The joke's on you! ;)

https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt
How about both supply and demand shock?
We are sharing our trip to self-publishing a book. Want to get involved?
Stream the current largest item id in Hacker News
My current job has a lot more video calls than prior. It took some getting used to. I find the biggest challenge to be the urge to do some low-quality work simultaneously. What's helped me on that is:

- Use a good monitor or TV. Ideally not the main one you use to work.
- Move, physically, from my desk to a place I take the calls in. Enter 'meeting mode' not 'desk mode'
- Close all other applications. Full screen video.
- Turn off other monitors
- Take notes via notebook

I bet building a room would help, but these things worked for me in an apartment where that wasn't an option. Still takes energy to focus on it though.
There are basically two ways to make money:

1. Add value so there is more pie to go around and get your cut of it.

2. Extract value from what already exists. You get yours, but other people tend to get screwed over.

If you aren't doing the first, you are probably doing the second. This is not really a good long term strategy.
Perhaps you’ve tried this already but taking notes with pen and paper might help you to focus. I like doing that during meetings at work, in order to help me keep focus and prevent my mind from wandering away.
> You yourself are only a tiny and statistically irrelevant piece.

Perhaps, but they engage in so much effort to spy on me and defeat my protection against them that this distinction doesn't actually matter.
Prozac and its metabolites have a long half-life in the body (weeks); relative to other SSRIs Prozac is a rough ride but the natural tapering makes discontinuation easy. Other SSRI drugs (e.g. Sertraline, Lexapro, ...) are also off-patent and are pretty good.

Successful treatment with antidepressants will involve waiting a week or two, probably increasing the dose and trying other medications if the one you are using doesn't work or has side effects.

Effexor is also available in generic and it is an SNRI that hits receptors and overall is more effective, but it is harder to quit.

The big negative for some people is that SSRIs suppress the sexual response. This could be anything from "My girlfriend thinks it's great because now I can for two hours" to "I took one tab of Lexapro and I didn't have sex, think about sex, look at porn, anything for a week"

Some people won't care, some people will get into trouble with their partner, some people might get along better with their partner. The effect is dose dependent.

You are living in the 21st century and can partake of it's advances. But also try these other things:

* exercise (if you could two hours of cardio most days that would be ideal)
* psychotherapy

also things that work for some people:

* pets (raising chickens is a common southeast asian treatment for depression)
* going to church (if you get something out of it and it may or may not be Christian)
* volunteer activities: (Most of the Christian churches in my area run a soup kitchen; the lady who used to run it is scheduled for sentencing by a federal court because of what she did at an anti-war protest; it is a mellow scene where nobody will trouble you about religion but will recognize that "good works" can be meaningful to people)
* audit use of alcohol and other drugs: many people have problems
Are you sure it said confidential? As far as I know Airbnb has always had a field for “A private note for the owner”. This is “confidential” between you and the owner, as in “not public”, but not between you and Airbnb.
Ethash mining is not memory bound. It has, if I remember correctly, a precomputed buffer used by many operations.

To quote Wikipedia: "Ethash uses an initial 1 GB dataset known as the Ethash DAG and a 16 MB cache for light clients to hold. These are regenerated every 30,000 blocks, known as an epoch."

You generate it once, access many times.

If each memory access is 32-bytes, then one need not more than 32*2^20 computations to get completely sequential access. To very probably not miss a prefetched DRAM block (main throughput bottleneck), which is 4K..8K in typical size, one need about 128 times as less computation threads. And this number (~250 thousands threads) is well within reach for current GPU models.

State of the NN weights will change after each batch, on the other hand.
Right - this is anti-icing; not deicing.
Can you elaborate? I'm skeptical that better/more efficient investment decisions can be made by looking at the pitch decks first and then watching the pitches as opposed to the other way around.
Restaurants routinely run specials and sales when commodity prices fall. Red Lobster competes with a bunch of other chains, why wouldn't they advertise "2 for 1 lobster!" to drag people away from Carraba's or TGI Friday's?
didnt downvote you but your link is broken (lost 'g' at the end)
As a side note. If you are considering raising money through convertible debt:

1) Make sure the contract protects you personally if the company cannot pay the note. For example, make it so the note automatically converts to equity instead, or so a certain % of note holders can force the conversion.

2) Make sure there is nothing in there saying that you or your company have to pay the legal fees of the investor.

3) Get legal services / liability insurance for the founders of the company. This will help ease the financial burden in case of legal issues.

Usually, investors that lend you money have a lot more (legal) ways to go after you than equity investors (shareholders). With good actors this is usually not a problem, but when assholes are involved, you never know.

Also, bankruptcy is expensive. There are 2 types of corporate bankruptcy, Chapter 7 and Chapter 11. Ch 7 will cost you about $20-50k in legal fees, depending on the complexity of the case - bear in mind that after the company files for Ch 7, you have to pay for your own legal fees. Ch 11 is about $100k+ - most lawyers will advise against it unless you have pretty deep pockets.

You can also unwind a company outside of court, but it is a bit risky legally and something you definitely not want to do when there's a potential conflict or a bad actor involved.
Tropical forests could switch from carbon sink to carbon source by the mid-2030s
Couldn't homomorphic encryption be part of a possible solution to enable end-to-end encryption and server-side scanning aswell?
Ironic that the service that's supposed to protect my privacy redirects me to a tracker (adjust.io) when trying to download their app. I'm also willing to bet good money the app itself will have creepy tracking built-in.
IMO the article's conclusion is wrong. We should indeed use `const`, and we should indeed use it to communicate. But the thing we should use it to communicate is different than what the article proposes.

We should use `const` to communicate that we don't intend to reassign or mutate the variable. And we should do that by default unless there's a compelling reason to do otherwise.

I know it can't be fully enforced, because JavaScript is designed for mutability of objects by default. But it is an implementation style that is almost always achievable in plain ES6 without too much trouble, and it makes more reliable software that's easier to reason about.
Gas - which is typical for a UK household. In fact most of the calculator is based implicitly on UK norms.
This looks wonderful, will definitely try it out. We ran into the labeling issue when doing NER a couple years ago on Reddit books dataset. If only this existed then.
If you're willing to add a build step to the project, Babel will let you use all the new features and compile down to whatever version you need.
Ok, we've got:

Jeff Bezos

Bill Gates

Warren Buffett

Mark Zuckerberg

Larry Ellison

Larry Page

Sergey Brin

Michael Bloomberg

Steve Ballmer

Jim Walton

I'll start: Here's my list of the "self-made":

Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg (although I don't know how he made partner at Bloomberg at 30). Maybe Steve Ballmer. Page and Brin are special cases; they're the children of university professors.
How do you define productivity? Why can’t you define it? Why can’t you quantify it? If you can’t quantify it, why do you believe it? Maybe it’s not quantifiable because it’s not true?

If you define educational productivity as GDP or income, or in financial terms, then the evidence is pretty clear and very strong that education doesn’t hurt. For education to not improve “productivity”, then you must be defining productivity some other way that you’re expecting me to intuit. I’m only hearing some rationalizing for why you’re ignoring the data we actually have.

The Fed study I posted does attempt to quantify the causal effect of education, and so do quite a few other studies. I recommend doing some research about what has been done to find out how this issue has been quantified already. I have looked into quite a few of these studies and their methodologies, and I haven’t seen a single one claim that education has zero or negative causal effect, even when their summary leans toward the income premium being more correlation than causation. All of them conclude it’s a mix, and there’s a positive contribution from the act of attending school, learning history and skills, gaining independence, etc. I don’t think education is by any means 100% efficient, whatever that would even mean, but claiming it’s zero or negative is really extreme, especially if you can’t produce any evidence.
You’re right in having no trust in them. Recently I complained about my price increasing by a couple % once I signed up. Nobody could tell me what the problem was. It took them several messages to finally spill up that they were charging me more due to my country’s taxes.

Why is this not clear? Airbnb is so opaque. It would be really easy to list this extra tax but they don’t, so I end up creating a new account.
If I delete my account I stop using it, hence I stop giving tracking data to them and their partners.
Why do you think that cutting that heartbeat signal, even a single login once a month, has no impact? Over time all of the relationships weaken in the data graph. Think of it as bad credit history. After a while, they only use the last set of info; using stale information biases the models and is just expensive.

Also deleting profiles excludes them from tons of data model recalculations since they cannot deliver impressions, it is a waste. Sorry I thought that was clear.
The risk of backdoors in encryption has changed since the last crypto wars.

With Huawei entering the 5G market, all ostensible law enforcement encryption backdoors now become de-facto Chinese communist party backdoors because of the pervasiveness of their equipment, and that nations interception capabilities.

The UK and Canada have approved Huawei to supply critical networks, and now end-to-end encryption on our personal devices is the only thing preventing interception by Beijing.

It also explains why the US president was so angry with Bojo over approving Huawei, because it means if the U.S. allows Huawei, it must also allow end to end encryption for citizens to protect themselves. The national security priority of mitigating that aggressive foreign interception capability for every business in the country should outweigh the special interest of law enforcement using victims groups as human shields.
How about stop spying on people, and only collect data from those who have given informed consent?
Yeah I am finding more often when I add !g I don't get significantly better results anymore. I often still do it just to check, but don't often find it was worth it.
Yes, though solar furnaces are possible. If we are talking about windows that would be manufactured with or without quantum dots, then likely the added energy needed for the quantum dots will still be recouped in their operating lifetime.
Another way put this is that he lent you money to build your company and then paid you money every month as a customer. When the note came due, you couldn't pay.

One possibility that they cancelled their contract not to screw you, but because they felt you were not getting the job done and the future wasn't there for your company. Given that, it would make little sense to extend the note or continue the contract.

As both customer and investor, your vision is not their problem.

Lest you think I'm being to hard on you, I've worked at one startup which went bankrupt in a similar situation (most of the engineering team ended up at working for our biggest customer) and another in which the board fired the CEO, liquidated the bad bits and sold the good bits to one of our customers. In both those cases the founders saw themselves as victims of unscrupulous sharp players, but the reality was that they took other peoples money and were seemingly oblivious to the obligations that entailed.
There's a bunch of things you need to test SAML implementations for, from comment handling to audience checking to SSRF. It's not an easy feature to get right and there's no one good source on all the issues.

My best advice for safely using SAML is: use a library that everyone uses and that is well tested. This is a place where I might stand up a separate service in a different language to get a popular SAML library rather than the shady one that is most convenient for your preferred platform.
A fucking rant about fucking const vs. fucking let