skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Fastmail and could not be happier. The product is great, excellent customer service (you talk with a person right away), affordable, easy to setup, out of the box aliases. I strongly recommend them.
I came across https://worknotes.co.uk/freelance-guide recently. Covers a lot of freelancing pain points & has nice advice.
better performance only if your desired software runs on the new processor. if not then what do you have?

I am a light weight user in the Mac world, browsing and some games. However the few games left after the Catalina change to drop 32 bit support are still important to me. One of the publishers has preemptively dropped support for Mac and its near impossible to tell if others will continue support into AS.

I know, there is a crowd out there that loves to declare "you should not use your Mac for games" along with "Buy a system for games then". Well let me be blunt, if it cannot serve both purposes then it serves none which means leaving the platform behind.

So I look at AS with excitement and trepidation all at the same time with the realization my current Mac may well be my last.
> Are there really many qualified tunneling engineers coming in from Eastern Europe?

Yes, why wouldn't be there? Speaking strictly for Romania (from where I'm from) the Bucharest underground in the 1980s and almost all of the big hydro-dams projects (which also require extensive tunneling work) were carried with Romanian engineers only (we received the help of the Soviets in the early 1960s for the hydro works, though). And to be honest that question in itself is a little "orientalist", but I'll just pass over that part of the post.

> If there are then good for them, but I still don't get why qualified people would accept so little

Because wages are still pretty low in countries like Romania (and I guess in Poland and Bulgaria too, to give just a few examples), $30 per hour is more than enough. Plus the engineers themselves alone are no good, the project is based on the people who actually have to dig the stuff out, for them $30 per hour is double more than enough.
I've been using Zoho for personal-domain email, it's been a low-maintenance and cheap ($12/year) solution. That said I can't speak for the quality of their mail client, I use a native app (Mail.app/Spark).
Amplitude (YC W12) | Product Engineer | https://amplitude.com/

Amplitude is a product intelligence platform, helping companies use self-serve analytics to make better product decisions. We're one of YC's Top 50 startups, already surpassing $100M in revenue this year serving customers like Twitter, Paypal, Atlassian, & Instacart.

We're now building a new team in our company to build the next $100M product, and looking for our first product engineer. This is an opportunity to work on a startup within a startup, building the foundation for a new frontend app and design system from scratch.

Tech: JavaScript, React, CSS, Python, Node, Postgres, GraphQL

Apply @ https://boards.greenhouse.io/amplitude/jobs/4551252002
Is it really "refusing to learn" or is it that things are always far more complicated than you would like?

In the UK, planning rules are often blamed for large project delays but you can't easily just throw the rules out of the window without causing concern that you will end up with a different problem.

The Shinkansen was/is a successful project but it had certain "costs" involving not just the demolition of lots of property but also the "eyesore" of above-ground railways. If you want to import that success, you import all of the problems at the same time.

I think perhaps governments would spend better quality time really asking and answering "what do we want this country to be about", then maybe they could start knocking the old walls down.
I don’t think you read the code carefully
Google Photos alternatives?
Americans love labor unions it's just that you can get fired for supporting them so people have to remain silent.
I assume it should have been "per hour" but autocorrect got creative
Life-saving start-up | Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Scientist | Senior Software Engineer (Python) | Always remote (in EU) | https://watcherr.com

Brief overview video: https://youtu.be/ANSosPGSuEU

Company: watcherr.com is a healthcare tech start-up that is currently developing an ecosystem around a medically certified smartwatch that can provide a much sought-after solution for the market, providing features like indoor and outdoor location tracking, voice communication and advanced daily activity insights to save lives by proactively trying to prevent cardiac arrests and helping a person in distress more quickly.

Location: always remote (located in EU), main timezone is CEST

Type: can be either contractor or on payroll for a long term cooperation

Looking for:

- Medior/senior Python (Flask) engineers with cloud experience (preferably AWS)

- Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Scientist: set up the data pipeline, train models on medical data to detect diseases and heart rate anomalies, gesture recognition with data from our smartwatch and more.

Bonus: worked in a start-up before

Why us?

- contrarily to most start-ups, customers are already waiting for us to launch the product in the next weeks

- the company is founded by people with proven experience in this industry

- we have our hardware, firmware and software under one roof, which gives us full control over the ecosystem that we are building

- we value everyone who helps to build this story and reward that with stock options. If the company does well, so will you.

If you’re interested, send me your resume/LinkedIn via the website or to jonathan.stevens@watcherr.com
This looks interesting. Don't you guys think OpenAI GPT3 is a threat to your startup?
It should be noted that the data in question here may be personal in the sense that they belong to the user but not in the sense of the GDPR.

Whether the GDPR apply to data stored on that service can only be judged on a case by case basis after having looked at the data in question.

In any case, I'm not sure that they prevent their customers from deleting data. It seems that that content is public unless deleted if a customer cancels their paid subscription.
Ask HN: I wrote a small addition compiler in OCaml, tips on cleaning up my code?
I've posted once on HN and I loved the feedback, so here I am again. Do you guys have any pointers on cleaning up my OCaml code? https://floofylang.org. I appreciate any/all support.
>Anyone who travels to Europe is shocked at home, food, and car sizes. Sure there is beauty and history, but the standard of living seems significantly worse off

It's not the first time I've talked about it on HN, but from an EU point of view making a connection between house/car/food size and standards of living is baffling.
>IANAD, immunity is complicated, and long term immunity after having recovered from CoVID-19 infection is not likely

Replicated studies have already found that prior exposure to other coronavirus infections (common cold, animal viruses) leaves behind t-cells that are activates for covid-19, as long as 17 years. And that a large percentage of the population has these t-cells. [0]

Does this change your opinion on herd immunity?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2598-9
Neither do we in Canada. It's a US-only service.
> Here is a simple specification: write a program that, given a positive even integer, returns two prime integers, whose some is the input, and never fails to do so.

I'm not going to solve Goldbach's conjecture on hackernews or anywhere else. I wish I could, I really do, but my incapability there doesn't invalidate my arguments. I'm not even annoyed though, that was a cute trick and I appreciate your cleverness. Fortunately Fields Medal tier mathematical problems have never come up in my professional programming career.

> It most certainly does. That is the literal meaning of "formal" in formal logic/method/synthesis/verification. A formal logic has a proof theory made of inference rules. It means that conclusions are reached by manipulation of the syntactic form -- hence formal -- without use of any mathematical intuition.

Once again, I completely agree with this. Let the symbols do the work. But we keep coming back to the same misunderstanding. A program can feasibly be derived that can't feasibly be verified without access to the discrete documented steps of the derivation[1]. Showing the work of the derivation is sufficient to convince any honest interlocutor of the correctness of the proof. It may well be enough to allow an algorithm to perform the verification too, I'll defer to your expertise on that. In any event, as I said before using the analogy of primes, verification is rather a lot harder than construction.

Edit: Also I want you to know I'm finding this a pleasant discussion and am thankful that you're taking the time to help develop my thoughts and hopefully yours too.

[1] By analogy, factoring the product of two primes is easy when in addition to being given the product you are also given the multiplier and multiplicand.
"Does the sub-licensed Intel Management Engine on the Broadcom CPU in the Raspberry Pi 400 call home to Intel servers?"

Tomorrow's headline?
That happened. It is no longer plausible for us to hold temperatures to 1.5C, which means that we will lose the polar ice cap, and greenland will slowly melt. The weather in the Northern hemisphere will consequently become chaotic and unlike any weather since we developed agriculture.

The thing everyone misinterprets is that there is no hard threshold beyond which things cannot get any worse. Even though the warming that is now locked in was considered the end of the world before, and will have catastrophic effects on the world, it is still worth fighting to keep it from getting even worse.

The worst case scenarios from a "business as usual" rate of emissions growth would in a few hundred years have mankind isolated to a few extremes of latitude as the only places left where the outdoor temperatures won't kill us.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/08/20/climate-emergenc...
I moved my Google Voice number to OpenPhone [1] (YC S18). No relation besides being a paid ($10/month) customer. If you have T-Mobile in the US, they have a similar offering called DIGITS [2] you might try (although OpenPhone offers more features for the price).

[1] https://www.openphone.co

[2] https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/t-mobile-digits
> Bengali is very much a descendent of Sanskrit

Yes, that is nearly same as what I said above, except I said "likely", because I was not sure, not being a language expert. And that "likely" applied to the other languages I mentioned too, in that sentence.

Edit: Actually, I am (still anecdotally) pretty sure of it for at least Hindi and Marathi, because both of them have too many words which are the same as, or derived from Sanskrit, for it to be a mistake.
My case for shorting direct listings based on secondary market activity
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: NYC Only

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Express, Node, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Resume/CV: Will send upon request

Email: johnpmeyers20@yahoo.com

Recent General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive Program graduate with 8+_years experience in HR and Operations. Looking for an entry level role in software engineering or Tech Support.
Orum | Full-stack developer | Remote (US only) | Full-time | Visa Transfer | https://orumhq.com/

Orum connects sales teams to their target prospects efficiently, helping them sell to their ideal customers. Using Orum's parallel dialer, sales reps can dial multiple numbers at once, and Orum's speech recognition will automatically recognize and connect representatives with humans that pick up. This leads to consistent conversations, faster training, and more meetings booked.

We're a small, fully remote team that bootstrapped to almost $1M ARR in two years. Our business is young but growing quickly, and customers use our product daily (~10,000 calls/day).

This role is ideal if you like to work across the stack to significantly impact a small team's output. You'll be in charge of building and owning features end-to-end, from conception to implementation to feedback/iteration. Examples include routing calls through our event-based SIP Softswitch, displaying real-time call information in our UI over WebSockets, or processing streaming audio for speech recognition. Our technology stack is TypeScript, Node.js, React, and PostgreSQL.

What we would love to see:

* Past work that shows comfort with both back-end and front-end development

* Good understanding of and experience with JavaScript and it's ecosystem

* You like working closely with product/sales to drive customer success

* You're not afraid to say "I don't know" and proactively learn new things

* You are based in the USA. This position is not open in other countries.

To apply, please reach out to jobs+hn_nov2020@orumhq.com with your resume.
It’s typically all HTTP requests; nowadays with HTTP3 we are back to using UDP, but apart from real-time video conferencing etc I don’t believe many streaming services use anything other than HTTP.
I think a reasonable default would be for the customer's account to continue to reference the private material, but to disallow private access to it.

Then a customer could:

1. Convert it to public and access it as such.

2. Remove it.

3. Leave it alone, possibly intending to privately access it in the future if they can re-subscribe. (It'd seem reasonable to me if a service provider opted to automatically delete inaccessible content after some time-out period of non-subscription; I'd see their retention of such inaccessible content as a professional courtesy rather than an obligation of theirs unless the contract says otherwise.)

Then I'd think that a good service would offer migration tools to help make these options easier on the customer. For example, offer an easy option to make everything public or delete everything.

But it's hard for me to see how forcing publication upon canceling a service could be defensible without some sort of contractual provision to that effect.
IANAL either, but you are not wrong. I know about this because I was involved in a lawsuit that involved contract law. In order for a contract to be valid it is not enough to have a document with a valid signature on it. There has to be an actual "meeting of the minds". Both parties have to actually intend to abide by the terms of the contract at the time it was signed, which logically implies that both parties have to know the contract's actual content.

The real underlying strategy here is to leverage people's general ignorance of contract law in order to intimidate them into thinking that they are contractually bound when in fact they are not, at least not legally. As a practical matter, the need to pay a lawyer often trumps the actual law (another lesson I learned the hard way).
I use GMX as one of my email providers. The web interface isn't that bad, but I have it set up with IMAP and it works just like anything else. The front page of GMX is a news site. It's more old-school with folders rather than tags and priority boxes but I never liked those anyway.
Ireland has reforesting but is using the wrong type of tree. These forests are indeed weird. They're totally silent inside and there's no undergrowth because nothing can grown underneath all dead pine needles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/07/the-wrong-kind...
The Wisdom of the Inner Crowd
NerdWallet acquires small business loan marketplace Fundera
StartPage was acquired by an ad targeting company, I wouldnt use them for search.
Use Firefox, people. Brave is shady as hell. I'll use Chrome or Edge long before I use Brave.
Solar energy is getting so inexpensive and more TWhr installations will come online in the next century, it’s still possible we can use that energy.

I’m thinking more on the 100 year timeline.
SEEKING FREELANCER | Life-saving start-up | Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Scientist | Senior Software Engineer (Python) | Always remote (in EU) | https://watcherr.com

Brief overview video: https://youtu.be/ANSosPGSuEU

Company: watcherr.com is a healthcare tech start-up that is currently developing an ecosystem around a medically certified smartwatch that can provide a much sought-after solution for the market, providing features like indoor and outdoor location tracking, voice communication and advanced daily activity insights to save lives by proactively trying to prevent cardiac arrests and helping a person in distress more quickly.

Location: always remote (located in EU), main timezone is CEST

Type: can be either contractor or on payroll for a long term cooperation

Looking for:

- Medior/senior Python (Flask) engineers with cloud experience (preferably AWS)

- Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Scientist: set up the data pipeline, train models on medical data to detect diseases and heart rate anomalies, gesture recognition with data from our smartwatch and more.

Bonus: worked in a start-up before

Why us?

- contrarily to most start-ups, customers are already waiting for us to launch the product in the next weeks

- the company is founded by people with proven experience in this industry

- we have our hardware, firmware and software under one roof, which gives us full control over the ecosystem that we are building

- we value everyone who helps to build this story and reward that with stock options. If the company does well, so will you.

If you’re interested, send me your resume/LinkedIn via the website or to jonathan.stevens@watcherr.com
Change.org | San Francisco, CA; Victoria, BC; Mexico, or Remote | Remote-OK | https://www.change.org

Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries. Change.org empowers anyone, anywhere, to create the change they want to see. We are a certified B-corporation and enable people to start campaigns, mobilize supporters, and work with decision makers to drive solutions through our platform.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/change-org

Our open positions:

* Engineering Manager, Starter Growth (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/change/bbbee601-dd29-4408-be68-e32675f...

* Infrastructure (DevOps) Manager (Remote): https://jobs.lever.co/change/1bf73bf2-f7d3-4606-97f5-9baef3f...

* Senior Director of Engineering (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/change/8fb1ee9c-3eb3-444a-ae9c-de90dc4...

* Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (Comms Platform) (Remote): https://jobs.lever.co/change/a644b706-d2e9-429e-8dff-7cc8d51...

* Software Engineering Manager - Supporters (Victoria): https://jobs.lever.co/change/efd04f45-2128-4fb6-86a9-b96d18c...

* Staff Backend Engineer (Comet Squad) (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/change/1994f093-f92a-46f8-8830-0865f18...

* Senior Product Manager, Growth (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/change/2f2d0ff0-5f4f-49da-b5e1-ebda0f0...

* Senior Software Engineering Manager (ML Platform) (SF): https://jobs.lever.co/change/801e43e3-f3bc-4dcd-a187-9e42ad7...

* Senior Software Engineer (Latin America): https://jobs.lever.co/change/f4688c7f-9671-41a4-b2b2-97eb93b...

* Software Engineer (Mexico): https://jobs.lever.co/change/ddf99540-7896-42dd-a986-7a62c52...

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, Elixir, React.js, GraphQL, Node.js, AWS, Redis, Spark & Scala (Data team)
The issue here is ecosystem. Googles advantage is everything syncs together across there platform seamlessly. Going the no google routes fragments my ability to share photos, share docs and sheets, access easily across platforms.The trade off is being locked out and tracking (which you can limit in privacy settings).

Edit: also want to add that there is also a risk with using smaller platforms as they have a high chance of going bust. I employ a strategy of keeping files on both google, iCloud and a personal drive to have redundancy in case of issues. Of course this does make sense if you want to be absolutely invisible
Why are you being deliberately obtuse? The sentence I quoted:

> I don't know but I'm not sure we should keep trying as millions of people end up dead every time someone gives it another whirl.

What is this sentence referring to if not trying to associate future attempts at egalitarianism with Stalinism?
You wish it were for a better cause though.
hey everyone! I’m august, the guy who posted this. It is not leaked source code. I reverse engineered the tiktok APK (which was for some reason not protected) and uploaded the source code. I apologize for the confusion.

There is source code in the classes/ folder for the different parts.

Also please be sure to read the code carefully before you comment! Thanks.
because you don't know where in the run you're going to be at max speed or how long you can maintain it
HERE used to be the de facto choice for maps on Windows Mobile, and has always been great to use. I think Bing Maps also used their data predominantly as well.
If you are recognizing that the "change the world", "disrupt ABC", etc. mission statements are total bullshit then you are doing well.

Look for companies that operate in business sectors that are more agreeable to your ethics. There are tons of companies that need qualified software people to help them with their business. They are just businesses doing a needful service and make profit.

It helps if you are just a little interested in the product but you don't have to buy into their mission statements. Exchange your hours for some high amounts of dollars. For example, if one works at Tesla you could safely ignore the "change the world" mission statement crap and just work there cuz you like cars.

Do you think electricians or plumbers care about the philosophy of whatever business/person uses them?

Its okay if work feels like work. Find passion or interests elsewhere.
Life will continue is a pretty low bar...
One is planted in bulk (by humans), the other is micromanaged to plant exactly whichever species can survive best in that spot (nature).
The Atlantic fully retracts story by Ruth Shalit Barrett
We have a couple stations in town that sell 'Rec fuel', which has no ethanol. It's popular for use in things like ATV's, dirtbikes, small engines like lawn mowers and snowblower.
How to say “I don't know”
Trey Parker is credited as the writer for the vast majority of episodes of South Park, especially since Season 4. Most of their episodes are topical these days, I recommend checking out the recent Pandemic Special.

Matt, Trey and a guy named Robert Lopez wrote the theatre production Book of Mormon, which was well received and won Tony awards (Trey studied Musical Theatre in College, which explains why the South Park Movie was a musical).

Trey's daughter was cast as Jared Kushner in Sassy Justice, which was hilarious, and the lead in Sassy Justice is played by Peter Serafinowicz [0], who is a British comedian!

I hope they make more of these, not just because I'm a fan, but because it massively disseminates the power of deepfakes!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7NDP8V-6A
Disable cookies by default, uMatrix

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And purge LocalStorage, SessionStorage, DatabaseStorage, CacheStorage if JavaScript allowed.
Do you post content there or just subscribe and/or comment? If just sub/comment, you can use an RSS reader to "subscribe" to channels and give up commenting.
Another happy Fastmail user here.
Some soccer teams have bald players. Should they also wear hats?
> Yes, why wouldn't be there? Speaking strictly for Romania (from where I'm from)

Great specific question! Because Romania isn't a signatory to the Washington Accord, which is the mechanism by which these engineering degrees get recognised for chartership by other countries.

https://www.ieagreements.org/accords/washington/signatories/

It's a simple fact that chartered engineering societies don't accept many overseas degrees! It's very hard to get chartered from overseas unless you've been to a few very notable universities. Even being listed on the European Engineering Education Database isn't accepted.

https://www.engc.org.uk/glossary-faqs/frequently-asked-quest...