skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Location: Variable. Usually HK or East Asia, but currently in Macao due to that virus op

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Technologies (reverse-chronological order):

- AI / Deep Learning Research - previously work at national science institute and have IP. Mostly focused on NLP and RL, but I keep up with other subfields.
- Infra: Devops, golang, rust, k8s, microservices, large-scale systems, all kinds of databases. Have managed large real-time services.
- Briefly worked in algo development (crypto)
- Worked at multiple early-stage startups, so I can do other things like full-stack web or app development.

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Hi! 10+ years of engineering experience, have been through a lot of technologies and cycles. I'm in a decent place right now focusing on research and side projects and not actually looking for "work" work, but I'm slowly looking for something new to contribute to. Perhaps something around ML/RL, research, infra, or possibly trading. I don't have a lock on it yet :)
I think you misunderstood my point. I meant that it doesn’t matter if someone modified it by hand or if it was done using a neural network.
> switch to a plant based diet

It amazes how incendiary this is. People even on HN will frequently respond to such a thing by boasting with adolescent glee how much meat they eat.

It's easy to feel like we live in an advanced era with our internet and gadgets, but I often think about how far we still have to go as a species.

To our credit, it was only yesteryear that our tools were stone and fur and tribes. Not easy to evolve past that.
Microsoft: We used programming language Rust for WebAssembly on Kubernetes app
> lack of differentiation.

Exactly. The French Laundry can charge $325+ for dinner because it is arguably one of the 15 best restaurants in the country. It is incredibly differentiated.
Haha well they still work, but yeah not super active on it lately.
You sell everyday product which look cool and might also be available on Amazon or wallmart but people don't buy it.

Keep in mind the ones buying either don't have time (to look up on Amazon if it's selling for cheap there) or are impulsive buyers.
I’m not floating that much money to try a game, and I’m unaware of anyone in my social circles who owns any level of headset.

“Go spend a few hundred to prove the value” is a hard sell.
I didn't mean to imply that Nix itself did not, rather that when I have seen Nix mentioned in other contexts where I might have expected to see Gentoo mentioned as well, it was not. The thesis probably isn't the best thing to link because it was written before both ecosystems evolved into what they are today, e.g. at least one statement in the thesis about Gentoo is no longer true (Gentoo prefix allows regular users to install and manage packages using portage on a variety of systems [0]).

0. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/plain/scripts...
This is not the first time he has said this. When tesla stock was hovering around 300$ for the first time back in many years ago, he repeatedly said the same thing. The stock corrected some 9 months or more later.

If he believes the stock is high, he is trying to calm the hype behind it. And not look bad when the stock actually self corrects.
> Did Steve Jobs really dislike games?

'[Steve] claimed to have never read a comic book in his life (“I hate them more than I hate video games,” he told me)...' — https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/bob-iger-remembers-s...
Shepherd is probably a good alternative, and it can be used standalone or with Guix:

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
what popular distros have not adopted systemd by default?
Sales price is between $30-$80 max
Is anyone else getting a mandatory login page when trying using the SRTM tile downloader?
Delivery food tends to not taste as well as food that come straight out of the kitchen, and that dynamic is going to be hard to compete with without a much faster delivery pipeline (drone delivery)?
It's crazy how this reappeared on HN only hours after I went searching for awk on Hacker News. Fred Hebert is so well known in the Erlang and Elixir communities.

I have just coined this idea the "gateway drug" approach to learning new tools. We should strive to find those introductions that are small enough that someone can digest without a massive upfront time investment to get them past the front door :)
This seems to be another instance of the general situation where trying to "helpful" by introducing a special-case rule (comparison chaining) that is intended to make some uses more convenient, also introduces perplexing behaviour for other cases. I'm far more accustomed to the C-family languages, where parsing is usually quite uniform, so to me "these operators are binary and left-associative like all the others, except when more than one occur in an expression" seems like a trap. I wonder if the short-circuiting behaviour of the implicit && has also caused some surprises, even in the x < y < z() type of expressions that this feature was intended for.
This is very nearly useless because it doesn't give the range of dose rates they see in tobacco (am I missing them!?). Low radiation doses are normal and natural and have been part of life forever. High doses from concentrated stuff can cause trouble. So what range are we dealing with here!?

When you have detectors capable of seeing a single atom decaying, quantitative dose rates are always required to have a meaningful and useful conversation.
It's not hard to figure that out, make bunch of fake Facebook accounts in different age groups and disable ad blocker, you'll get bombarded from ads on store.

Then go to that advertisers profile and checkout their all running ads on their page, you can easily Google how.
Will China Compensate the World with Trillions of Dollars?
Operational Amplifier
So dont use it all? I dont, and would have to go out of my way to use some of it. It's like saying you don't like GNOME because you don't like it's PDF viewer.

The best thing about Linux is that you are free to pick and choose even low level components of the system as much as you'd like.
I don’t think acting like a crazy person screaming on the street corner is the best way to persuade people that your ideas are smart and rational. It’s not like he needs to draw attention to the cause, there is literally no other issue besides virus occupying the public imagination right now. You seem very desperate to find any excuse, no matter how preposterous, to justify Musk’s behavior. Why is that the case?
Okay never more irritated to not have the contact details! Did I miss them somewhere in the article?
> quantize

Do yo mean "discretize"?
John Elon Musk McAfee Jr.
Very cool and I'm grateful for Awk to be presented in such a friendly way.

However, at some point, it makes more sense to write your Awk script in something like Python, and my intuition says that that time is shortly after starting a basic Awk script. Using a real programming language is almost always the way to go with code that will become more complex over time (almost all code) and code you have to share with a team (learning curve).
Actually many times I sell products which are available elsewhere for 1/2 the price like on Amazon or wallmart but it doesn't stop people from US buying those products. Not everyone has time or smartness to acquire perfect price info of the market.
This is very cool, thank you :). I was trying to keep the script lightweight so only wanted articles that I'd already read used for the NLP. In hindsight that may not have been necessary.
We are all living through this in real-time. A few of us even know people who have died from COVID-19 [1]. For the first time in a long time, on a large scale, many people are experiencing the effects of normalcy bias, even if they don't it is called that particular term. [2] Good or bad, we are all seeing the results of having a global supply chain. For the first time in a long time, most of us know people who are unemployed for reasons that are beyond their control. We are seeing acutely the benefits of a social safety net. [3] For the first time in a very long time, with few exceptions, people are not experiencing FOMO as it relates to the innocent but probing "what are you doing this weekend?" or "what did you do this weekend?", as people simply cannot "go out on a Friday" like they did just a couple months ago. The whole casual Tinder hookup culture is undergoing a sea change in the temporary era of social distancing, as kissing is a known probable vector for virus transmission. Let alone, having a date in a restaurant is a vaguer memory every passing day.

The Internet, broadly speaking, is fueling a return to creativity not seen widely since the days of MySpace. Creativity almost always thrives under constraint. For example, Russian isolation art [4].

Finally, for those who are saying we'll forget about this in two years... (normalcy bias) what if there is ultimately no successful vaccine and just a set of treatments that are fairly to moderately successful once you are infected?

[1] > The CDC's Pandemic Flu Storybook provides readers with a look at the impact pandemic flu events have had on both survivors and the families and friends of non-survivors. These stories are not folklore, but personal recollections.

https://www.cdc.gov/publications/panflu/stories/survived.htm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/business/europe-coronavir...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/world/europe/russia-Faceb...
> but I would much prefer if my CPU stopped chewing after web pages were loaded and rendered.

this happens when it's programmed with performance as an afterthought, which is sadly how things work when the prerogative is to just ship more features and continually ingest dependencies with the most features, with little vetting.
I think this can all be collapsed into a very simple explanation. Almost everyone has a kitchen in their home and practices being an amateur chef every day.

What else does everyone practice almost every day at home that has higher margins?

Restaurants are competing with a baseline price of homemade meals. Most other businesses aren't competing like this.
Landlords, like any other business, are out to maximize their profits. Their goal is to capture 100% of the profit of businesses that rent from them. Given that the mechanisms for doing this are very crude, there's a chance that they could be getting 101% or more and that spells death for your business.
You imply that people dismiss vegan diets out of habits and not because of the shoddy science, bad health outcomes, and all of the lies coming from this cult.
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The Mac mini amazingly has user expandable RAM. Crucial sells kits for up to 64GB. It is still too expensive a machine got what you get.
a great support person is not that technical to debug a tricky API issue

A great support person is, and can, assuming s/he has access to source and, ideally, a build and test environment.

When in Support, I used to diagnose issues as far down the rabbit hole as I could within reasonable time constraints. If I could diagnose right down to the offending code, I would end up with a much better understanding of the code base (and, often, platform), plus I could win much faster response on rolling out a fix.
Yes that's why you need to keep spying on competitors using fake fb accounts and establish a protocol of quickly testing and dropping the duds without investing feelings into it and scaling only the winner.

Most newbies fall for sunk cost fallacy.
They have not in fact said that. And fwiw, I think Trump is a monster and an idiot. I do think it’s plausible that they were researching corona viruses for perfectly good reasons and accidentally released it, though.

Even if not, there are risks associated with continuing to research new viruses. I live five minutes away from where the lab was that nearly released Ebola into the us 30 years ago.
On the other hand, Apple is a top dog in mobile gaming. Maybe it should not be generalized as "Apple doesn't like games".
Sure there is: Design your game for the systems the majority of the users who will want to play it—after you’ve marketed it to them to them—will have.

Don’t start with system requirements first and make a game targeting that because you want to show everyone how elite a hacker you are.

If Sony didn’t require games achieve 60FPS at 1080p on PlayStation 4 before they’d allow them on the platform, most of the developers would be targeting PS 4 Pro because they want to show off. I expect that’s mostly the case anyway, and these developers have to be dragged by their corporate masters kicking and screaming back to baseline PS 4 support.
No it couldn't have been prevented under the current system of global capitalism. No market forces means no research done by private companies. This kind of forward thinking project requires billions of dollars of funding by the government into large-scale public programs - something the US public has been allergic to since the 80s.

Preventing another pandemic means rethinking how the incentives in this current system are structured.
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The most likely outcome, i'm afraid
As someone who has some background from farming :

The blanket statement that horses have high safety ratings makes me smile :-)
I know I'm being pedantic, but the best restaurants in the biggest food cities have pricing power because they effectively become Veblen goods. Benu, Coi, Quince, and so on can pretty much charge what they want to. They will continue to be booked out a month in advance, and the exclusivity itself becomes a draw. The line a restaurant needs to cross to achieve that differentiation is apparently a second Michelin star.
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Person A has motivation A and says thing A, person B has motivation B and says thing B, and the truth sits off in the corner like a kid at the prom with no date.
Many states in the US are at will employment. Meaning you can be fired at any time for basically any reason. Protected classes (race, gender, etc) and acts are the exemption to that. But they can use any excuse they want, fire you, and hire someone else to the same position right away.
Agreed. I don't think it makes sense to order food from a place that's a 30 minute drive away, but unfortunately in bigger cities with traffic this is the norm as of today. By the time the food makes it to you, it's lukewarm and has lost some of its appeal. A first world problem, but also one of the simple joys of food.

Maybe with cloud kitchens we'll be able to improve kitchen proximity, and we'll improve the containers that the food is delivered in.

Not to mention that most of the containers used for delivery are not biodegradable and, I imagine, generate a ton of extra trash.
I don't think so, because the simulation uses vortex particles with continuous positions. Sure, time is discretized, but space is not, like how grid-based methods are.
To be clear I do not believe it was engineered or designed or otherwise was part of biological weapons research. I think that it’s possible that it was a tragic accident, though. In terms of culpability, I don’t see how it’s any worse for China than the wet market theory. Either way, it’s a lapse in public health safety protocols.
I've had pay withheld for months, sudden massive pay cuts, rent spikes (residential jobs), in fact well over half of my previous bosses still owe me salary that I will never see. One job I had to quit because my boss refused to give me time to heal from work-inflicted RSI and I ended up getting carpal tunnel. I still deal with it today. The BBB has never followed up and lawyers are expensive for a young adult living on their own. This is America!
Most restaurants aren’t just selling food. They’re selling the experience.
> the Unix way

This gets pulled out far too often. Systemd is a family of projects thast are largely modular and independent, not a single binary that takes over everything. Each part's goal is to do one thing, and you're free to take or leave each piece.

By this logic, Bell Labs should have never worked on UNIX or C - they were a telephone company!
My favorite is the landlords that refuse to lower their rents to attract tenants. They got a loan to buy the property, and the loan is backed by the revenue potential of the property. If rents decrease, the revenue potential also decreases and the lenders require the property owners to make up the difference. It produces a huge incentive for a property to go unrented at a high price rather than rented at a low price.
No, no, no.

These "improvements" are anything but.

If we value the integrity of our elections, we need to minimize the amount of metadata generated.

You need:

- a small pollbook of legal voters

- a location for those voters to obtain and secretly mark a paper ballot

- a means to cast that ballot and tally that polling place's numbers

- a chain of custody for all ballots that protects the election's legitimacy

Elections, and the political power that they grant, demand that we curb our natural tendency to over-engineer systems.

The more shiny, spiffy gadgets and doo-dads we apply to this process, the greater the harm its legitimacy.

If you want, I can flog this dead horse all the way down to glue.
I eat out every meal in thailand, but I eat at small mom'n'pop shops, fresh cooked meals for $1 each.

It would be nice if we moved away from the big restaurants and moved towards smaller shops that are more kitchen than restaurant.

Restaurants should stop wasting money on signage, interior design, and fancy tables or dishes. Let's go back to simple, plain, and cheap.
I don’t understand why are you dragging India into this
Sadly, this is not new. Even in the Bible it warns:

"There is one who pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;" - Pr 13:7

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dx/r1/lp-e/1001070124/16870
Well it's certainly part of the reason.

More philosophically, when one's voting agency is shared with another person, as is the case in ballot harvesting, the opportunity for abuse multiplies. This is why most states have outlawed ballot harvesting.

Consider: I come to your door with a ballot. You had not thought about voting because you didn't particularly care about the candidates, but I am an agent for candidate A and because I got to you before the agent for candidate B, I convince you - good salesman that I am - to vote for someone you wouldn't have otherwise.

Thus the voting process become less about what the voters themselves think or care about and more about which candidate has the most resources to send agents out to ballot harvest.

The corruption that such practices invite completely undermine the voting process and it is only with a blatant disregard for the voting process - a fixation on power above principle - that a state would allow such practices.
That's true ;), I had to compromise and only show the abstract for now. It does work for me just in terms of skimming through the articles to find what I want to read. I'm looking into adding another layer of menus to show the actual text though.
Location: Argentina.

Remote: Yes, exclusively.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: NodeJs, PHP, Symfony, AngularJs, VbScript, SqlServer.

Languages: Spanish native speaker, English (intermediate).

I'm a 34 years old father living in a smal but beautiful town. Thirteen yeas of experience as an administrative clerk and three as professional developer in the same org. Attended three years of Systems Engineering. First time writing a CV.
Love to work as the wildcard guy, and focus in solving the problem, regardles the size of the project, the sponsor, or the tool. I find making people happy easing his daily work very rewarding. Bonus if I can learn new things.

Some of my work:

- Setup an openvpn server and several clients. Finding out with the user how to do homeoffice with high latency network.

- Optimize dozens of SQL query written over 15 years.

- Make an arduino based scale, with auto logging capabilities and powered/managed from an Android app.

- Working in a web based invoice system (AngularJS, Symfony 2.8, Postgresql) as a solo dev, but teaming with several accountants to interpret our complicated tax system and translate legal text to programs and business rules.

- Improve a wifi network installing APs, setting up vlans and configuring routers monitoring/filter capabilities.

- User support for a 80 employee company, helping with Excel, Outlook, printers, loose wires, bad internet connections, and people's bad days. Always (well, usually) trying to make them smile (maybe the next time they will make the same for me).

- Maintain web and mail servers (Apache, NGINX, Postfix).

- Improve an 20 years old, no support, web based vbscript ERP. Adding features and fixing administrative circuits (meaning talking/convincing people of a wide age range).

- Contributing in an open source Gps-tracking Andoid app.

- Experience with integrations (webservice and txts -I know, not exciting at all- of government agencies and banks).

- Various automations scripts (bat, bash, powershell) and web scrappers (php, puppeteer, regex).

- University or side projects to taste some tech in: QuickBasic, Pascal, Smalltalk, wxPHP, Java/TS (Play! framework, Jhipster) and C#.

I’m eager to work in a remote team as a part time Jr. dev. Not experience at all, but willing/wanting to learn new things and work hard to earn my place.

Email: franole@gmail.com

Thank you for reading,

Francisco
Throw in a cold Lagerbier (€2) to wash it down with and the contrast is even more sobering.
Landlords are a whole other problem to be sorted separately.
Games eventually stop getting updates. They're proprietaty software so they're always in danger of becoming incompatible with newer systems. This is true even on Windows: older games regularly fail to work on Windows 10 in my experience and many didn't recover after hunting down the missing DirectX stuff. It's gonna be ironic if Wine becomes the best way to play these games one day.

In a way, this is the whole point of the emulation community. Proprietary software was developed for really old systems and they don't work on modern computers. The old systems had to be emulated as virtual machines on top of which the old software could run.
Anti-Dark-Patterns is certainly an interesting way to put it... why not trust building patterns?
And that's why I have commits that are named things like "reformatting code" so that it's clear that I didn't write it.