skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TECHNOLOGY ANALYST

We're looking for an analyst with an interest technology platforms. The work involves researching technologies, editing our knowledge base, and helping us build industry reports to inform technology executives and guide their sales and marketing strategies. The ideal candidate is a power user of productivity tools: spreadsheets, browser extensions, task managers, note taking systems, etc. Data literacy is expected. You'll be expected to keep up on technology trends, reading HN, Crunchbase, Wired, etc.

This is an entry-level role with no prior experience required. It's suitable for a variety of backgrounds, including journalists, computer science students, financial analysts, data analysts, etc. Full-time or part-time OK.

DATA ANALYST

We're looking for an analyst with an interest in researching companies. The work involves collecting data about companies from the web, editing our knowledge base, and helping us build industry reports to inform sales, marketing, and finance leaders. The ideal candidate is a power user of productivity tools: spreadsheets, browser extensions, task managers, note taking systems, etc. Data literacy is expected.

This is an entry-level role with no prior experience required, suitable for any background. Full-time or part-time OK. Flexible hours and work schedule.

SECURITY ANALYST / RESEARCHER (ANDROID / IOS)

We're looking for remote engineers to help us reverse engineer iOS and Android apps to understand what APIs they're using, security issues, privacy leaks, malware, etc. Your work will help detect issues so developers can patch their apps, help detect apps using deprecated libraries so that they can be encouraged to upgrade, and guide executives with industry reports across the mobile app ecosystem.

Experience reverse-engineering APIs and binary executables on any platform is relevant, iOS and Android especially so. Full-time desired, but part-time may be acceptable for the right candidate.
Your point #1 sounds similar to the method outlined in Profit First[0]. Theirs is a bit more complex and has more accounts (Income, Profit, Owner's Pay, Tax, and Operating Expenses), but the theory sounds the same.

It's been a big help for my own business, especially for knowing that I always have enough for taxes. Money comes in to Income and it gets split up percentage-wise into the other accounts. I pay myself every couple weeks out of Owner's Pay, pay taxes out of the Tax account, pay my credit card out of OpEx, and cover shortfalls and/or pay myself quarterly from the Profit account.

0: https://profitfirstbook.com/
To be clear, I mean that my guess is that it was auto-removed because it got flagged by users for that reason.
Please, that's disingenuous.

I've switched to Linux 12 years ago, it requires sacrifices. I had to switch profession from Symbian Developer to Web Developer, desktop experience was not great, Wine has not helped. I've ended with light DM, shell, browser and vim.

And it was worth it.

There are so many wonderful aspects, the most relevant here is "for open source community I am not a product". It is blessing and curse - a lot of applications are not that polished, but they are sincere, they do what their authors want for themselves.
I'd like to have a farm in the middle of downtown too. It isn't possible. You get more choices in the same amount of time with a car, and get more space as well. Without a car you better like the doctor withing waking distance (my family considered them quacks and has heard plenty of stories about people almost dieing because obvious things were not caught in regular visits, instead the ER had to figure them out when it was almost too late). Ymmv, I like choices.

Of course cars do take up a lot of space, but even factoring that in you have more choices in a reasonable time with a car than without.

Don't read this as me approving of cars. I understand the appeal and drive, but I hate it.
First I foolishly gave the "Weather Channel" app a try. Don't know what I was thinking there, ruled it out after a day. I am now using Climacell. I like it so far, though it is noticeably slowly than dark sky.

Probably going to try out all the other apps in this thread, so thanks for asking.
I guess USA citizens tend to have higher incomes than Western Europeans which could maybe explain why Americans pay higher prices. But I’m not sure we do.

It’s weird though that 3x as many Western Europeans move to the USA than the other way around.
The desktop apps from the 90s were better because they could actually show more information on a 600 by 800 pixel screen than a modern app can do on a full HD screen, because it puts too much whitespace.

Not to mention flat design, which is without exception bad design. Buttons have borders, show them.
OpenVSP Webinar Feat. Prof. Rob McDonald [video]
AWS products and services naming nomenclature starting with Amazon vs. AWS
About Poweroutage.us
I have my doubts that any human-memorizable password can be strong enough to withstand a concerted offline attack. If what you're encrypting has to stay secret for 10, 20, 30 years (probably not the case for a password database), then it's a complete non-starter.
Do note "readily available to consumers". XMPP never reached a level of polish outside being embedded in part-proprietary solutions that it'd be available to your average user, not to even talk about OTR.
6MB of JS without ads? What are you loading into the browser, an entire operating system?
Flickr: initially an image management/sharing tool for a 2d online game. Cut the game, kept the image sharing.

Slack: initially an internal communication tool for another incarnation of the same game. Cut the game, kept the chat.

(An incarnation of this game did briefly exist between these two, but only lasted about a year.)
I wonder how much content there would be if they hadn't licensed music for people to dance / lipsync to.

I haven't seen that many TikTok videos, but I haven't seen many that didn't have music in them, and I don't think any of it was original.

Licensing music has never been easy, and I don't get how two guys (even from silicon Valley) were able to do it from launch.
I don't know that they're doing this to create content - it seems more like they're creating content out of what they're doing in an effort to fund what they want to do anyway, and maybe get some social status as well, since they're draining their bank accounts anyway.
With some few exceptions, in my experience, bars are awful investments. Did a tech company which sold tech solutions to this space and got to see the books and behind the scenes at many dozen bars (and restaurants / coffee shops / frozen yogurt stores / etc).

Even before pandemic few of them netted any real significant profit after all expenses, and those that did managed to pull it off largely because if highly, highly engaged owners constantly on-site day in and out.

There is a huge number of people who think they can invest $20K (or $200K) in one of these businesses and hire a GM and sit back and take profits. I can think of maybe one example of that I encountered in 5 years.

Is it technically possible? Sure. Is it even remotely likely? No way. Especially if you didn't cut your teeth "In The Industry" and know all the things you need to know about shrinkage, vendor fraud, the politics of liquor licenses, et al. Nightmare fuel.
> Edit: On second thought, how long before they just start hard coding IP addresses?

I think it’ll eventually go to DoH with hard to block IPs (ex: Cloudflare IPs are tough to block because you break too much stuff).

I’ve always believed a large part of the push for TLS, DoH, eSNI, etc. is to eliminate our ability to filter network traffic. It’s sold as a freedom thing, but I’m sceptical.
When you control your own server you kinda don't really need end to end encryption. It only enhances security when you don't trust the entity delivering your messages. It also degrades UX considerably: if the server does not know the contents of your message, it can't do server side archive search, you can't sync devices easily, etc.
I don't have experience with SIMD on platform other than x86/amd64, but a few of data-shuffling type functions [0] have SIMD version that is not that faster than scalar C implementation, and the overhead of translation might make then slower.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140807014206/http://x264dev.mul...
question: Is it just me or is it a little bit bloated?
yeah, not trying to do sentiment analysis, that's out of scope lol
Also recommended: https://natureofcode.com/book/
The issue is the US has no cushion for the current crisis let alone the next one. Expecting people to predict COVID is unrealistic, but they very much should expect issues eventually.

Treading water in good years only to fall deeper in bad ones means collapse is unavoidable.
if a user has uploaded a file in the past and their desktop client can prove they have access, then they can avoid uploading it again
The problem I have with "professionals" in Seattle area is that you pay a lot, and then you have to either have them come back every day to fix all the little things, or just give up and fix them yourself. It is emotionally draining that it's so costly and yet still done in a half-assed way. I may have been unlucky with the contractors, but on the other hand, it's not in their incentive to spend more time on something if they can get away with doing the job less meticulously...
Plenty of land for cheap if you don't mind the neighboring houses smelling strongly of cat urine and occasionally getting into gunfights.

Or if you're willing to live somewhere with no access to fresh water, which is what these guys did.
There is conflicting report about the cause of the explosion. Some say the warehouse that caught fire was storing fireworks, others state the warehouse was storage for confiscated highly explosive materials.

The Footage of the explosion looks like what a layman like me would expect a low yield nuclear explosion to look like.

In any case, sad to see this happen.
Thanks mate!

Partners Oppo digitiser is on the fritz. Probably get it fixed and keep as back up device and get a Pixel A4.
I really don't think this is an optimal solution. This makes every page load slowly, instead of just the first page. Waiting to do work doesn't make the work any quicker.
If you are missing, then authorities usually like to have a recent photo of you to aid in the search.

I don't see an explicit reference to "recent image of me" in your "First step" list of data - photos in legal docs/credentials may not accurately represent your current physical appearance.
The set of "mental models" here isn't very well curated. They seem more like clever quotes than mental models, and it's curation seems less organized/thoughtful compared to the list of laws described above it.
Thanks!

Meta question: I had submitted this link[1] before posting the link here. IIRC this had a score of ~27 at the time; I don't need the karma, but what's best practice for changed-link submissions? Does it make your life easier if I delete my submission, or is there no real difference?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052643
The image took some time to stabilise (and was black at first), but the things turned on instantly, with the light indicator visible without delay (and the sound of the CRT turning on).

Now, quite often I have to wait 5s to see whether the button push was registered, push again because the TV still does nothing, and then watch as the thing turned on just as I was pressing and interprets the second push as a signal to go on standby (5 more seconds with an obnoxious message about it going to sleep, and yet 5 more to wake it up). It’s like the USB-A that needs to be rotated twice every time you want to plug something.
He did at least have access to electricity. No fresh water is a dealbreaker for a lot of people though.
Great resource if one is wanting to learn R.
Well, I'm of course emphasizing empirical fields. Maybe you're in one of those heavily theoretical fields.
Based on my own experience with C/C++ projects are built with the assumption that you are on Linux. You have to do quite a bit of fangling to get it working with Windows, that it isn't worth the time. I don't want to setup mingw or cygwin to get things working for one weird library that's included.

I don't have a requirement to build for Windows, so I will always just avoid it. I think Microsoft is making strides in developer experience, but I think it also sees the signs that Linux/Containerization is the way forward thus why they built WSL. Azure itself is over 50% Linux now too.

Source: https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-a...
Gtalk was polished enough. It didn't have OTR built in, but majority of users don't really need end to end encryption anyway, it only makes their life not good.

Also, iMessage never reached a level of polish to work on anything not produced by Apple. If we're taking proprietary vendor specific secure services, Blackberry did it before Apple, too. So, definitely not the first and not the only.
The author of the blogpost didn't mention publishing anything, just sending their parents a link to download credentials and instructions in case they're needed, and how to get to their documents. FWIW, their setup reads like it may well just randomly get hacked, anyway.

Apart from that, emergency contacts usually do get notified where I live, police take care of that, and they have to be involved with any major accident. Phones are sturdy things in
practice, and if not there's my identity card and a card with important phone numbers in my wallet.

And if they didn't, my partner would hardly sit around doing nothing if I randomly disappeared.
Compare the thickness of the lid of your laptop to that of your phone.

There is your answer - Physics is a harsh mistress!
Thanks for the suggestion. This is about $5/dose too - which is the Costco price for Heartgard.
Similar in size to the Halifax explosion, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
> or TikTok succeeded because Chinese corporations are happy to discriminate against groups that western corporations would obviously protect out of the goodness of their hearts.

No one believes western companies do it out of the goodness of their heart.

They do it in part because of fear of backlash and in part because their CEO's (especially Twitter's, Youtube's and Reddit's) want to project a philantropist image without actually doing good things.
Not to steer the conversation, but perhaps what you are interested in, considering the friend story, is if people have wealth (invested or created) that provides them with some steady cash flow on a daily or monthly period while not requiring full time (or near full time) commitment.
(in my case is an apartment that I don't get much rent out of, but is a very safe way to keep wealth)
Exactly, feedback was immediate, which helps a lot with UX.
I'm seeing reports of it being recorded as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake which would be around 200 tons of TNT equivalent.
I'd like something like this in reverse.

Downvote if you will, all the same, I find most HN discussions to be of relatively low-value, and also it's not easy to vet whether or not someone's credentials align with what they're writing. I come across interesting links on HN all the time, and I wish I could have something to tell me "Oh, there's a LtU user with hundreds of posts discussing this with links to papers and proofs."

My personal perspective is just that way, I don't see myself coming across anything and thinking "Gee, I wonder what HN thinks about this."

I love the idea though. I wish browsers didn't suck so much. I wish Opera had won more, and maybe we'd have lots of different browsers, infinitely configurable like emacs/vim, with my whole little customized universal browsing tool. Extensions are an adequate compromise, it's just that the kind of person who thinks this stuff up, could so much MORE if browsers weren't so limited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation when reading the thing about people not related to their work anymore, I heard Marx.
Have you watched https://www.youtube.com/c/Rizpol ?
how do you populate/maintain the synonym/stemming database? is this something that “standard” datasets exist for? asking because this problem will fall on my plate at work sometimes in the next few months :-)
I would absolutely not trust my life in an emergency situation based on my parents seeing an e-mail within 6 hours of receiving it, let alone filling out a rate-limited survey correctly and then figuring out how to SSH into a remote server and download some documents.
I think they're supposed to be called grandparents.
The good news is that you are very good at keeping secrets. :)
So ready access to roads is preventing the creation of an urban nightmare a la Bladerunner? We better protect our road networks.
That depends entirely on how you freelance. I join teams. My current project, for a major Dutch bank, started with me developing the prototype, and later interviewing a bunch of people (internal and external) to join the team that I'm still part of.

At other projects, I was hired to add some external expertise to an existing team. But it's mostly long projects in teams.

But before I ended up in these sort of big projects, I went to a lot of local meetups to keep in touch with other freelancers. That can also be a great source of a network, although that never amounted to much for me.

> "Lots of other small startups contacting me all the time trying to convince me to do a lateral move, but what's the point, I will just be the only in-house dev, stuck and stagnant again."

It can be a great way to prove to the companies you actually want to get hired by, that you can work in a company as part of a team.
Why Steve Wozniak Is Suing YouTube
All the time, and unless the images are next to each other you don't really notice unless you're looking for it. Not because there isn't a big difference, but because you just don't really care that much unless it is called to your attention.
Yup, I love tabletop gaming so I wrote a tabletop game. It ruined tabletop for me for a good couple of years.
Design.dev – Free design resources for creative people
apologies for my misleading title, I changed it with good intention (to make it clearer than the PR headline) but I misread the content (clouded by my assumptions) and screwed up. sorry!
A license is not a pact with a demon, known as the original developer.
A license is a legal document to be enforced by many different courts across the world.
The default 80/20 example everyone uses for Pareto misleads you about the nature of the insight. You can observe any combo, and they need not add up to 100%. It could just as well be “12% of the effort gets you 100% of your results, and the other 88% gets you nothing.”
You know what? I’d like a world where people don’t decide that software licensing is an ideal place to wage ideological war and inflict harm on their enemies. I want collaboration and communication between people not in perfect agreement. I understand this is an overtly political stance; I am willing to commit to it as a positive and trust that it will benefit communities and the world at large, and that fragmentation into polarized ideological splinters will harm communities and the world at large (and enable our well resourced enemies to strike us in our weakness).

Because this is a linter, that will help coders code well, and not a facial recognition suite that will facilitate totalitarian regimes as they crack down on dissidents.
Beirut Explosion
They give the "feeling of learning", which is worth only a little. They also give the motivation to learn, which is invaluable.
Definitely appeals to my sense of adventure and independence, but these days I can't help it: my fantasies run more toward writing the companion piece: "We Saved Our Money And Bought This Totally Sweet Cabin From These Dudes"
Here is a similar web extension for reddit discussions https://thredd.io/
Upgrade fading offices or convert them to residential in the age of Covid / WFH?
Bayes Theorem: A Framework for Critical Thinking
> the still-unfolding economic consequences of Covid19 may lead to an excellent entry point

This kind of thing is what puts me off real estate investing. The idea that I would be a beneficiary of an enormous crisis leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not stupid, I know that someone is going to make that profit, but it doesn't have to be me. Similarly, the idea of putting myself in the position of one day needing to deprive someone of their housing if they're unable to pay is something I'd strongly prefer to avoid.
It'll be much easier to do this on host machine. And much more reliable. However, in my home network raspberry pi with pihole handles filtering among many other things.

For single-player gaming it's OK to disable network on guest windows completely. ISO images with games can be just mounted via virt-manager GUI.
Instead of being amazed that TikTok beat juggernauts, maybe it should be reframed that they beat companies that have terrible products.

Sine we're talking about niches and customized feeds, let's look at reddit. My god is the reddit app absolutely horrendous. It's so bad I use the web app in desktop mode because other forms have terrible UX. They just don't care.

Or let's talk about another site that was mentioned: youtube. It's like Google with all their money, doesn't really care to spend real money on trying to solve problems. If they dumped something like 100-200 million into better community outreach, and actual going in and tagging videos, and dealing with content, the service would be so much better. Instead, they made their money on search, and now it's spinning it's wheels trying to find clever algorithms to solve problems.

We knew there was a market for an app that lets you easily create, edit and upload videos. Vine proved the formula worked. TikTok stepped in and filled the void.
Usually it comes down to either not being socketed or as with the cheese grater mac Pro's the CPUs lacked the integrated heat spreader. Sometimes it's cache or clock variations, but usually it's more along the lines of the chip packaging that differs.
Very interested on how you used Zola. The moment I wanted to customize title bars and side bars and I was basically on my own. Back then I didn't have the desire (or expertise) to reverse-engineer it.

Have you found it easy to customize, or you went with the flow without getting too fancy?
AFAICT, it's akin to 'Emeritus' professor: an honorary designation that allows you to keep some mild affiliation, out of convenience rather than obligation.
thanks for the feedback.

yes, I understand such simple tool can't show the complete picture. But that wasn't my intention, it's only supposed to estimate loss of life, which is based on user input, although the defaults are set to actual data.

It's just a simple calculation, probably helpful for uninitiated, for those who don't trust the actual infection/mortality rate, and those that are rooting for herd-immunity.

I'll try to add more parameters, and calculations.
> I admire a meaningful and quick fix more than a professionalistscwork, adhering to piles of regulations for no appearing reason but let many others profit from my money.

I have little experience with handiwork but I'm imagining if an amateur developer said this in regards to building a maintainable and scalable application (as I imagine a house to be) from scratch, and scoffing at tedious time-wasters like writing tests and hiring QAs.

As an experienced developer I know the tradeoffs of cutting corners and various quick fixes and so can apply them judiciously, but I know if I ended up working on or taking over that codebase, I'd most likely end up having to tear out a lot of that developer's work and redo it, or else have a headache trying to build and improve around it.
You realize where you're posting, right?
No worries mate!
I've never heard of it before, but the Alphaville Herald and all of its archives are still online: http://alphavilleherald.com/archives