skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the core of the whole debate, in my experience:

"When it comes to build versus buy, the frequently repeated but rarely followed wisdom is good advice: if you're a technology company, vendors usually generate significant value if they're outside your company's core competency; within your core competency, they generally slow you down."

Every startup I've ever worked with has had engineers who advocated "build" for tooling that fell both outside the eng team's workflow and our company's core competencies.

I think part of it is that things like marketing automation or customer support software—things that are vital for most teams past a certain scale—don't seem technically "hard" enough to justify the price-tags, particularly to engineers who've been isolated from other parts of the business.

Without fail, every time I've been part of a team building an internal tool that we/another engineering team won't use, it goes poorly. I've spent way too long learning about the ins and outs of email deliverability so that I could fix a bug in a hacky email platform, when we could have just bought a platform that works.
That rule is unfortunately in the minimum wage law of every US state that has a minimum wage, as well as in the federal minimum wage law.

Whether you believe this is fair or not (I do not) some restaurants engage in actual tip stealing by letting the managers or owners simply pocket all the tips. This was made illegal in 2012 but that rule was revoked in 2017
Hello, I am the sole developer, designer and founder of the project.

We are a two-person company that has bootstrapped the project so far.

I hope you like it. Do not hesitate to ask any questions.

Some technical nuggets:

- We spin up and down a K8s cluster based on load

- We use Tacotron and WaveGlow

- We use a "tweaked" version of Pix2Pix

- We use forced-aligners

- We have a speech-to-text DL model

- We have around ~30 discrete parts including microservices and cloud functions in an event-driven architecture

In broad terms, we manually select news from RSS feeds and then an automated system takes the text out from the news or blog post and generates a video.
It has to be incredibly stressful. I wonder what's going through workers heads every time I see them while I shop. As you said, many are between a rock and a hard place. The high school/ college kids still living at home not as much. But the adults, and the many retirement age people you see working at grocery stores don't have that luxury. Keep going into a risky work environment and scraping by, or quit and try to wait your turn in the infinite unemployment line. Depending on location, who knows how long it would be before benefits are paid. Very sad...
Revel (YC S19) | SF or Remote | Full Time, US work auth | VP of Engineering

I'm working with an extremely talented founding team at Revel (hellorevel.com; recent ~$3M seed) to hire for their first VP of Engineering. Revel is changing the way women of 50+ years find and build community -- they are strongly rooted in their mission to increase connectedness.

About the environment: Team Revel is particularly oriented towards growth in business and career. The role requires a high level of autonomy, curiosity, and a prototype-driven mentality. You'll be entrusted with architecting the technical direction of the product, while managing a small team of driven go-getters that look to you for structure while providing space for thoughtfulness. Plus, "Revel" is also descriptive of their approach to their work ("reveling in our own day to day experiences").

Stack: This is much less important than finding the right individual for the role. That said, they currently operate in: React, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, Node/Express. Big early wins will be leadership on developing best practices around testing as well as executing the migration from Heroku to AWS.

Please reach out to patty@managerie.io to get started on the application and referral process!

Full JD: https://www.notion.so/VP-of-Engineering-6ffef3f6b4084ce1896f...
The Strict Father Is at the Core of Conservative Ideology and Values (2014)
Yeah, seems like a bottleneck constricting in two dimensions: technical and social.
I’m doing around $2k/month with https://divjoy.com, a tool for a React developers. Not wildly successful, but it pays the bills and I’m optimistic I can grow that to $10k+.

If anything I’ve seen a slight bump from COVID. Lots of people with time on their hands who want to launch an MVP.
Ask HN: Saving HN Submissions to Internet Archive
I was wondering if there is an (easier) way to automatically save every HN submission to Internet Archive, or may be each submission that gets 10 upvotes.

Would come hand down the road.
It actually doesn't (except for the fact that PKI registration is handled on Ethereum).
I think it's a bit more nuanced than this -- even within the "name-brand" national parks, like Yosemite or Yellowstone, the sacrificed part has the hotels and other facilities that cater to humans, but there's still a ton of land that is actually preserved and is ecologically significant. E.g. 90% of Yosemite is preserved wilderness with much more limited access to humans than in the valley (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park#Nationa...).
So, on one hand, this seems very useful.

On the other hand: Speaking as a Windows network admin, such a laughably large number of Windows vulnerabilities start from "someone had port 3389 exposed to the Internet", I find it a little strange that Cloudflare would support RDP. Shouldn't RDP be used solely behind a VPN, much like other services Cloudflare already offers?

In a world where Cloudflare is pushing DoH into people's browsers against the wishes of lots of orgs because it's best practice, isn't supporting direct RDP access from the Internet a bit backwards? Shouldn't Cloudflare be, if anything, blocking RDP access by default as a safety feature?
I visited Yosemite, while beautiful, it is so commercialized. It feels like disney world for nature. It did not seem wild at all in the valley. More like a hippy tent city, with a pioneer village. I saw some deer, wanted to take a photo from maybe 200 feet away. And I literally could take photo with two other photographers in my line sight with the deer. It was a little ridiculous. 3 in one head shot. And a little moment of self reflection later, I realized I'm part of the problem by being there.
does anyone still use telephone for important decisions?

its all f2f or video isnt it?

Expect more not less
Threat Hunting with only Windows Security Event Logs
"React Engineer". Cringe!
I don’t understand how that could work (unless you decrypted the data). The point of this encryption is that you can’t see what’s in the underlying data so two identical values will be encrypted to different values, no?
I'm curious what you mean by "inherently insulting". Do you think there are words that are insulting "inherently" whereas there are other words that are only contingently insulting?

I ask because it seems to me there's nothing inherent at all about the use of any word, so whether or not "normie" is insulting comes down to the degree to which people tend to use it insultingly. And I believe common use is overwhelmingly derogatory.

There may be exceptions, of course, and you personally may even be more familiar with the exceptions than the typical usage.
My guess is there's a lot of companies that would do very very well, if we opened up software & made it flexible.

The entire era we live in/just left, the PC era, happened because of Adversarial Interoperability. Massive economic activity was created because "real economic activity" had "reduce[d] its power and influence", as PC-compatible systems emerged & created a robust, fast growing, competitive market place.

Did IBM want to? No. But enough legal space was still there to allow companies to create. While IBM could patent inventions, they could not own the idea of an addition ops code to add two numbers.

I'd content that the lack of Adversarial Interoperability, this low standard we've sunk to in software world, is holding back vast seas of economic activity. We cannot effectively build new better more interesting, systems, when each piece of software is a closed, inflexible box. We've got to open up to possibility again, just as PC-Compatible opened the doors of possibility that brought Very Large Scale Integrated circuits & systems to us all.

Support Adversarial Interoparability. Support Malleable Systems. Support an open future where people can have meaningful interactions with machines & build meaningfully better ones. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
People don't have perfect information, advertising is crucial to inform your customers that you exist and have something of potential use to them.
> in my opinion this is the same thing

It definitely isn't the same thing. I kinda understand why you think that way, but it's pretty much completely illogical (see avoiding ever skim reading anything written by someone, or never fast forwarding any filmed media where a person is speaking).
If you click the X on the YouTube Premium bar on the homepage, it goes away forever. Or at least, it did for me.
No, that’s GNU with the “not UNIX” recursive acronym. Linux was named by the guy who first hosted Linus’ OS and was an amalgamation of “Linus” and “UNIX” (“nix” was a popular suffix for platforms of that type back in those days so “Linux” was a play on the authors name in the style of that naming convention).

If I recall correctly, Linus originally wanted his OS to be called “Freenix” because he thought naming it after himself was a little vein.
Corona is small potatoes compared to climate change related changes.
Interesting. My family is pressuring me I should help out. I’m a retired expert with Cobol68, Cobol74 and Cobol85 (w/embedded SQL). Entire 42+ years career was on Burroughs/Unisys (early years) and Tandem Nonstop. I was on a Y2K project for a very large telecommunications company and had to change A LOT of COBOL code. In later years I managed software development teams. But at 64 years old, I ask myself do I want to work in any Covid-19 epicenters.
A Synology system for local backups.

Backblaze for the cloud.
> I think part of it is that things like marketing automation or customer support software, don't seem technically "hard" enough to justify the price-tags

As someone who's built far too many of those because "Buying is just too expensive" ... good god do I never want to do that ever again. Ever. It's so fucking hard. You will shoot yourself in the foot. You will suffer. And 3 years later you still won't have something half as good as the purpose-built SaaS.

If you do that and enjoy it, just spin it off into its own product. Who knows, you might even get more customers with more expensive problems than the original startup.
PVCS, a versioning system so weird and inconsistent that developers actively tried to hide source code from the repository managers. When we announced a migration to subversion, project managers were literally standing in line begging to be the guinea pig for testing the migration procedure.

Some of its many random crimes againt humanity:

* Delete irrecoverably obliterates a file from history.

* The function that you should use instead of delete is almost impossible to find.

* If you do use that function, it is so buggy it causes corruption in your database, effectively obliterating the whole project.

* Acces rights management is insane. Never seen anything like it. It took 20 minutes of calculating effects from interfering rules to give someone access to a file without removing some other random person's access rights.

* Gui looks like the win31 era, and is so bad people prefer to manually update the database. Which was more trustworthy anyway.

* Multiple tree structures representing data blobs. Only one represents files. It is possible for the later part of a checkout to accidentally overwrite the early part.

* I've witnessed a team spending 6 months merging 2 weeks of development. 100 hours doesnt come close to the time wasted.

* Storage is an oracle db for metadata, and a file system for data. No deltas, changing 1 byte in a 1gb file writes out the whole gb.

* Commits over multiple files are not atomic, but the gui tries to pretend otherwise.

Now the weird thing was, it was so bad, management did not actually believe a product could be this big of a waste. Even when multiple developers gave it as a reason for leaving the company, they were brandished as whiners and no attempt to even validate the truth of the statement was made. Software stockholm syndrome is actually a thing.
Alan Kay: It was kind of like what we have today, but better. It was a completely integrated system that was not made up of applications, but "objects'' that you could mix and match anywhere. You've got a work area and you can bring every object in the system and you just start: You've got every tool, you've got every object, and you can make new objects. It was programmable by end user, and it had the famous GUI.

Larry Tesler: It was the first one that was graphically based–overlapped windows, a mouse, stuff like that.

Adele Goldberg: It was very much a GUI demo.

Dan Ingalls: I was scrolling up some text and Steve said, "I really like this display."

Alan Kay: At that time, when text scrolled, it did so discreetly: So jump, jump, jump–like that.

Dan Ingalls: And Jobs said, "Would it be possible to scroll that up smoothly?"

Alan Kay: "Can you do it continuously?" Steve liked to pull people's chains.

Dan Ingalls: Because it did look a little bit jerky, you know?

Alan Kay: So Dan or maybe Larry just opened up a Smalltalk window and–
Bruce Horn: –changed a few lines of code in Smalltalk, and in the blink of an eye it could do a smooth scroll.

Alan Kay: And so it was like, "Bingo!" And so Steve was impressed but he didn't know enough to be _really_ impressed. The other Apple people just shit in their pants when they saw this. It was just the best, best thing I've seen.

Dan Ingalls: I think that sort of blew Steve's mind. Certainly, just about anybody who worked on development systems responded really well to that particular demonstration. It really showed how the Smalltalk system could be changed on the fly and be extremely malleable in terms of stuff you could try out in the user interface.

Alan Kay: On Smalltalk you could change any part of the system in a quarter of a second. These days it's called live coding, but most of the stuff today–and virtually everything back then–used compiled code, so your programming and editing and stuff like that was a completely separate thing. You had to stop the system and rebuild.

Dan Ingalls: So you had a regular sort of programming environment sitting there in front of you with windows and menus and the ability to look at code and stuff. But the neat thing about it was that if you edited the code, it would actually change the code that you were running at that very moment. The object-oriented architecture made it really, really quick to make changes.

Bruce Horn: Even today if you wanted to change something at the level of the operating system in MacOS or Windows, it's simply impossible unless they have decided to give you that option to smooth-scroll or not. It's simply impossible to get to the source code to do that unless you're an employee–and even then it would probably take six months to get that feature in. Whereas within Smalltalk, you pop up the menus, accept the change, and it's working right now. You can't even do that today.

(from Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley)
On Android 10 here, no such message on my Xiaomi Mi 8
I think it's all about focus. There is a limit to how many goals/projects you can focus on at once. Every new thing you build distracts your focus. You should minimize what you build in-house to just the things that make you unique. I like Unsplash' blogpost about this: https://medium.com/unsplash/scaling-unsplash-with-a-small-te...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849747
Urbit sounded interesting but I dug into the source code a bit and found that the core of the whole system (the Nock language) has "loobeans" instead of booleans in which 1 represents false and 0 represents true at which point I nope'd out pretty hard.
How hard would it be to use Yosys (http://www.clifford.at/yosys/documentation.html) for logical gate synthesis to run arbitrary Verilog on TFHE?
https://xkcd.com/2044/
omg I'm still missing freehand.. :/
Anyway inkscape it's a nice tool. (I had used freehand, illustrator, flash.. ) and inkscape it's fine (When I need to do some vector work I know it's there) but I mostly work on Ubuntu.
The Last Person on Earth Just Bought a Computer
> Post Office hasn't contributed to the fund in a decade

To be clear, there are two funds: pension and health benefits. AFAIU the USPS has been making progress on fully funding the pension plan.

The health benefits fund is a lost cause because health costs are rising far too fast. Also, unlike with pensions most organizations (public and private) are permitted to decrease health benefits for existing retirees as they're not considered vested benefits, but under Federal law the USPS specifically is not permitted to lower health benefits for retirees. The USPS is really over a barrel in that regard, and that's why they don't bother--that and the hope that healthcare reform will have shifted the costs enough that some day the USPS-specific restriction will be lifted. Given their situation what they're doing does make sense--retirees have Obamacare, but nothing exists to replace lost pension income--it's just quasi-illegal. I say quasi because satisfying the health fund mandate is clearly impossible.

It's worth repeating that the USPS doesn't control their rates, which are set by the Postal Regulatory Commission. The politics of the PRC are complicated[1] and they can't be expected to mitigate the funding dilemma created by Congress. Only Congress can fix things. But that won't happen anytime soon as the fundamental issue implicates national healthcare policy.
Actually that's true, I wish I could take back my original comment at this point or modify it (too late).

"Assuming all goods are subject to a VAT and the entire VAT is passed on to consumers, an individual would have to buy $120,000 worth of items before the extra costs associated with a VAT “use up” their UBI."

That is...true, yes. Everyone's still getting the extra $1,000 a month.

Using all of that up by spending on a 10% VAT puts you at spending $120,000 a year.

So, while a VAT is not progressive, funneling it into UBI turns it into being progressive. That makes sense. You don't even need a goods exemption for that to work as intended.

I am also not convinced on the idea of UBI. There needs to be more studies including large scale studies if possible. I am not convinced that the largest rent-seekers with limited competition and supply alternatives wouldn't just suck those income gains away - jobs with labor supply surplus might pay closer to the minimum wage, landlords might simply all agree to raise rent, Comcast will raise bills across the country, colleges raise tuition, etc. UBI sometimes feels like an oversimplification, one of those "easy solutions" that doesn't take a long time to write down and fits in a campaign slogan.
I find iOS devices get surprisingly close to this.

If you have iCloud backups, do a final sync, then restore to the device you just bought. This has been the process for the last several iPhones I've bought for my family. At the Apple Store, they walk you through this process so everything is set up before you leave.

It's hard to tell the difference between your old and new device, in terms of software and data, for the most part.
3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Diseases
as a fairly well off white dude i resent this attempt to make things less fair for me!

I like how fair it is atm. I fare pretty good thanks.
(this is a joke before some muppet gets triggered)
That is really great to know and will likely result in me re activating my YouTube red (premium? Whatever it’s called now) account.
Ok, but:

1) how accurate is it?

2) how fast is it?

3) what equipment is needed to run it?

4) how robust is it to mis-handling?
Geometric Deep Learning for Dense Correspondence
I agree :-)

The user should have the power. Also the interface should be as powerful as possible. One such browser that embraces this philosophy is Next https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next. Source: biased author
Those are real concerns that I have no insight on if they are accounted for. I know that they can be accounted for and have been. TV and newspaper ads have been doing it for years where for obvious reasons they can't track where or when you saw the ad. McDonald's runs ads on those platforms anyway.
An overview of the Julia language for non-technical users [video]
Good news: Today's actual death is much lower than my prediction
Sustainability is good business. These brands are demonstrating how
> And how will our lives look if we continue this quarantine for a decade

Probably look at Iraq and Afghanistan has dealt with post 9/11.

Speaking strictly in terms of the US, we'd be able to weather a 10-year lockdown.
America is rich in natural resources, and has a large agricultural base.

Our government can handle the basics:

Drinking water

Food

Shelter

The rest would be economic shifts, such as reduction in costs of living to account for a new economy that has shifted away from the ability to get together.

I would speculate we're better off with the entirety of the economy being in shambles, than we would be by having rather high mortality rates, and overwhelming our health services.

Let me post another question:

What if you did not need to work to have your any of needs met?
And, I'd add, gives to them specifically to be dismissive and to imply that the out group is failing to (or maybe isn't able to) understand things with the special insight the in-group has.
> Is it something that will actually give you a competitive advantage if you do it better than everyone else?

I think you also need to evaluate if it can even be done better than everyone else, and the effort required to do so.
Not to mention the video to remove it, hilarious but completely useless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
I worked in the space, tested in the space, and can say returns for non-strategic models for brand aware entities is not meaningful.
Not if you use something like Bisq to exchange BTC for fiat.
One thing that's commonly overlooked is the risk/vendor lock in associated with building things in-house. Sure external vendors sometimes raise prices or shutdown their product. Those events are pretty rare though and you can typically move to a competing solution. The real risk is building in-house and having the people that create the in-house solution leaving.
Four secret herbs and few simple at home workouts to burn up to 13 pounds of fat
Your right, It's been a while and I got the two mixed up. Funny how time can play tricks on memory. It was the AT&T lawsuit. SCO was Linux. Sorry for the misinformation. IIRC Linux had come out a few years before the BSD lawsuit, but I do recall a time when they where neck and neck and BSD started dealing with the legal issues and it just seemed like Linux keep on gaining traction after that.
For Word documents I had some luck storing the unzipped contents of the file (since a DOCX is mostly XML files in a ZIP container). My approach was automating the zip/unzip process (and some cleanup steps) pre-commit and post-checkout. https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex

Though also specifically for Word files your best bet might be to launch Word's own compare-files GUI tools as a merge engine, but I had several reasons at the time to explore a "container destructuring tool" for source control.
A new machine can translate brain activity directly into written sentences
Scooby-Doo and the Case of the Missing Landlords