skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there! SVI is looking for a Sr. Product Manager who is excited to join a fast-moving, remote-first, multidisciplinary team with an unconstrained opportunity to grow their depth and breath of design work.

We're looking for folks who have:
- 2-6 years of product experience, preferably in launching a full new product (not just a feature) from start to finish
- Led a team (point person for a project pushing the progress forward and accountable to stakeholders) and mentored junior team members
- Managed project development (owning product roadmap and backlog, writing tasks, running DSMs, sprint planning timelines)
- (Bonus) Managed clients and/or multiple internal stakeholders, even in a non-PM role

About us:
SVI is a digital software and product development company - in short, we work with innovative companies and founders to build and launch digital products from scratch.
While much of our client work is discreet, our recent design projects have ranged from collaboration with international rap stars to interfaces that secure hundreds of thousands of IoT devices to software acquired by a camera company for $110M+.

If this sounds like it could be a fit for you, take a look at our longer job description to read more about the role and get in touch with us!
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I had never read about dithering before, but this article sparks interest. Coupled with sample images, it is fun to read about the different dithering algorithms. Thanks for sharing!
I was bought a ZX81 after I pestered my parents for months, unfortunately they were not particularly well off, so they couldn't afford a tape recorder, which meant I had to write my own games (copied from magazines at first of course).

I now own a couple of software companies and have had the good fortune of making my once hobby my career.

Lucky us!
From the article: 50% of the time, the white player wins and 50% of the time, the black player wins (we'll ignore draws and any first-move advantage for the example).
XMPP is hardly killed. There are tens of thousands of XMPP servers out there with over a hundred public servers. There are lots of client implementations. Even the really bad implementations manage basic messaging.
Bitcoin is traceable, so it is quite solvable until more people use Monero
That's more a hypothetical "if ECC was common enough that the products would exist" scenario.

The current status is that it mostly doesn't exist outside OEM parts. Searching an online retailer for ECC brings me hundreds of results for "non-ECC" RAM. When they occasionally have 1-2 products with ECC, they aren't as aggressively binned as the non-ECC sticks. They'll have higher latencies and lower clock frequencies. Basically: you'll need to accept gambling on being able to overclock your ECC RAM.
This looks amazing for audio. There's no doubt that this will massively improve podcasts, radio, etc.

I can't imagine watching a video that's been chopped up like that would be a particularly nice experience though. Editing video to remove unwanted sections and not have it look like people's heads are jumping around weirdly is really hard. Cuts are really noticeable. If they've managed to fix that with ML it's going to have a huge impact on the cost of video production.
Yeah, data in the US is horrifically overpriced.

In Thailand I pay similar prices to you.
That struck me as odd as well, although, there could indeed be a shortage.

In UK hospitals it's not so much that there's a shortage, but the oxygen distribution network/lines in hospitals aren't sized for the number of patients requiring it.
that was a nice way of saying it
Considering the British had a huge colonial empire, the US had brutal segregation, rampant anti-Semitism ( so much so they refused ships with Jewish refugees and sent them back to their death in German occupied Europe) and eugenics experiments, and the USSR( the third main country in the Allies, mostly by necessity, but nonetheless) was pretty much as violent to their minorities as the Nazis were... What could any of them say without being blatantly hypocritical?
I use signal on Android and an iPad. On the iPad, sharing photos etc to signal doesn't work, it looks like the touch input coordinates get translated incorrectly with the input location of the send button being somewhere off the screen.

On Android it's flawless.
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Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: can't
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I'm a 17 y.o. high school student, did a lot with Flask so I would say I'm proficient with it. Looking for some internship-like job I can do while studying. Willing to learn other Python (FastAPI etc.) or other languages (I liked Kotlin when I learned Android basics) if you like my other work and want to try me.
Good luck with SSA application, if you refuse to stop smoking :)
I'm disappointed that all the discussion seems to be operating at a non-quantitative level. ("If there's any chance, we have to try" against "If circulation can't be reestablished on scene, there's essentially no hope".) Presumably there are academic article that make an attempt at this.
Managing Unmanaged Objects in C#
> Google image search results

I hate this site with passion too, but it depends on what I want to do with my search. If I desperately want to find a particular picture from my vague descriptions, Pinterest has helped me quite a few times, since at least it gets indexed reliably (the original site often is not). So if someone has ever re-uploaded the image I want there, it at least can be found now (and it sometimes even includes a source link).
Any theories on why google continues to allow them to degrade their search results?
My advise:
try to open a Adsense and Adword account for the website and run some ads. If there is something wrong with your site it will be rejected and they usually provide the reason.
I'm in impression that a data scientist would have lot of potential job offers to places where he/she could generate real added value and get paid well for that. Am I wrong?
I don't think it's entirely right to discard comparatively less developed theories based on their relatively weaker predictive power. That does sound like how one reaches a local maximum, to use the term from the article.

Think on it in a different way, most of the very revolutionary theories, those that changed how we see the world, were relatively more simple, they were generally simple enough that one fringe could develop them to a point where they shined so brightly as to be next to irrefutable. Things like how the earth might be round, and circle the sun.

We can't expect the same to be true for more advanced fields, we can't say "yeah, this "new/underdeveloped" idea does seem reasonable, but it does not solve everything as well as our existing theory that we've been iterating on for decades, so let's not waste time on that".
For those interested, here is the youtube video of geohot building it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFjZ1gXBxc
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For varying amounts of "a lot".
Man, that's so cool thanks for sharing !
> And if you try to make the case that something is exaggerated, you come off as a right wing nut job.

Doesn't it depend on the topic? I mean, remember when right wing news outlets were exaggerating the hordes of migrants invading borders etc and "left wing nut jobs" yelling that people are blowing things out of proportion?

I don't think each if these tactic necessarily belong to one political orientation. It's just a particularly infuriating way humans communicate and deal with verbal conflict.

Nowadays the general level of education is much higher than a century ago, yet there is still a long way to go; hopefully we'll have many more centuries to learn how to build a public discourse more effectively.
They aren't totally wrong about the state of things, just wrong about why.

> virtually everyone is convinced that Facebook is selling their data, yet when pressed they can't explain what "their data" is, or who Facebook might be selling it to (Facebook doesn't sell data, the idea that Facebook is selling people's data is a myth)

1. You're playing word games. Yes, Facebook doesn't sell data, they provide access to and use of it with streamlined products and services. The extent to which can be abused and/or used against you.
2. Things like privacy laws would delineate what data someone owns and what they don't. I think this is a great topic for debate, but not dismissal in either direction.

> It's amazing to hear so many people insist that Instagram is listening to their conversations to sell ads

Instagram (and other social media) doesn't need to listen to you when graph theory and it's surrounding algorithms do the correlation way cheaper than real time audio processing ever could. The reality is almost worse than the rumor.

> many of my mentees will insist that large corporations "don't pay any taxes"

Somewhat. Not all corporations dodge taxes or have obtained favorable tax deals, but the ones that do often do so grossly. Even the way various companies have shifted money around to different nations to avoid paying taxes is problematic.

The rest I agree with. The whole concept of punching anywhere is pretty gross, where else in society do we authorize "punching" because you don't like someone or somethings behavior? Nowhere.

Personally speaking, I think someone or something is out there establishing these narratives and making them so cloudy to talk about that they're unfalsifiable. It kind of reminds me of the church. Ironically, the idea of "punching up" comes out of a moral community -- and guess what a religion also is?
The 220m turbine is rated for 12MW meaning if it turns at full speed it will provide 12MW of power. What you are worrying about is the capacity factor. The capacity factor is a percentage of the average load on the turbine. Wind turbines generally have around a 50% capacity factor so if you install a 12MW turbine it will generate 6MW per hour averaged over the entire year. The capacity factor entirely depends on location so you cannot make a general statement about the capacity factor just based on looking at the turbine itself.

> they don't say how these homes are powered when the wind is down

You can run gas plants, which you have to do anyway because they produce less CO2 than coal plants. The nice property of gas power plants is that the fuel is quite expensive, meaning you only run them when you have to. So naturally they will yield to renewables if there is wind available.

>It gives the impression that electricity works like fuel : you just extract it, then use it when you want.

If you run wind power to avoid CO2 emissions then that's exactly the way it works. It doesn't matter when you stop burning gas. What really matters is that you are burning less gas.

CO2 levels in the atmosphere were 280ppm before the industrial revolution. It took much less than 200 years to add another 45% CO2 on top of that. We are at 409.8ppm now. This means 120ppm or around 30% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is man made and that percentage is going to increase in the future. You have to consider that not all of the CO2 ends up in the atmosphere. A lot of it is also absorbed by the ocean. It took a lot of human effort to get this far and now we have to stop it from getting worse.
> ...because you expired it after 5 minutes.

Just increase the time? 30 mins will do. Especially if it's only one time use.
Functional and very simple to use, and looks clean to the eye. Great job!
With cryptocurrency you can travel across a border with a million $ worth, by just keeping a 12-word recovery phrase on you.

Cryptocurrencies can never be stopped, and will more likely outlive governments than vice versa. Long live tax evasion! Vive la liberté!
It's against google rules to show different content to their crawler and the end user (images for the crawler, login for the user).
This is one of the main sins of postmodernism: the thought that because all view points are tenable, all are correct. The scientific method is based on accuracy of prediction, otherwise we are not talking about science anymore. That's not bad, and many a researcher could do with the realization that maths and models are not the best way to describe all things. It's a different ballgame though.
Financially rich.

Economically not rich.

Morally bankrupt.

Some of the world's most advanced western countries that profess freedom and democracy across the globe.
Partoo | Lead Developers / Fullstack devs | Paris, France | Full-time | Onsite | https://www.partoo.co/en/

We keep synchronized and up to date your business information on all major online platforms as Google + Google Maps, Facebook, Apple Maps, Foursquare, etc.. For example, those past weeks we helped tens of thousands of business updating their opening times regarding coronavirus. Like this, we avoided people doing unnecessary trips to a closed business.

We're looking for :

- Lead developers, to manage a feature team of 3 developers and a Product Manager.

- Full stack developers, all levels welcome :)

Our stack is mostly in Python & React, and we're in AWS. If you never worked with that stack, we will teach you, as we believe that a good developer adapts itself to any situation :)

We're growing rapidly while being profitable, and there are plenty of opportunities to leave a mark in the company. To know more about us : https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/partoo (in French)

Need to be able to work in France.

If you're interested, send an email to jonas@partoo.fr :)
they have to clamp down on financial privacy because they invented financial crimes

the federal crime of "money laundering" requires the state to use public resources in whitelisting every transaction, and having the entire population stigmatize the concept of ever having money themselves let alone actually moving it

and that 50 year old absurdity is pretty much what they are doubling down on
People's estates tend not to fight back as aggressively to spurious bills than live people...
So the solution to that is to make it extremely suspicious by releasing the virus in Wuhan, city far away from the bat caves where they have a virus lab and which isn't really well known for outside travel?

Wouldn't it be much more logical to release it in one of the southern cities, Hong Kong or Macau. Hong Kong would be a perfect candidate as it would allow China to institute strict lockdown in the city which had decent amount of protests in the past years.
Welding tanks are different, and not in shortage.
What on earth was that?!
Hard not to read the name as "DES-crypt," although that's surely a non-issue for the target audience...
Many people over estimate our capabilities regarding manipulation of biological systems. A gain function is extremely difficult to get right. It is more likely that zoonotic transfer occurred. Either within a wet market or people operating in that industry or a lab worker accidentally exposing him/herself.

Sequence analysis show a unique mutation that increased receptor binding affinity that was not predicted by previous models. It just shows, nature knows best.

I find this debate extremely stupid. We always known that as natural habitats are being encroached upon, the more likely diseases like this will emerge. By focusing on our human conspiracies, I am afraid we will ignore Nature's conspiracy to get us.
>For one, it's not the case that overall white and black win 50% of the time each.

He addresses that (first-move advantage from white moving first) in the parenthesis after that same sentence:

"After extensive experimentation, they realize this: 50% of the time, the white player wins and 50% of the time, the black player wins (we'll ignore draws and any first-move advantage for the example). "
Is this position open to UK residents?
I mean, who is which color actually is a coin flip (it‘s random or as good as random and there are repeat games to make sure the first mover advantage doesn’t play a role), so the model seems to be correct in that regard. They modeled that part of reality correctly, just missed that that’s not what the game is about.

It‘s an interesting way of being “wrong”.
There is some work that explores this from an AI perspective with relative success [1]. It turns out that you can create quite intelligent agents if they look to maximize future entropy, with interesting results [2]. It's still quite computationally expensive, but your normal search reduction tricks apply and you can get something computationally feasible.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1863

[2] https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/5/2789
22% of Django websites can't roll back prod thanks to these 2 mistakes
I have this problem with paypal:

Made an account about 10 years ago with email address x, mobile telephone number y, bank debit card z with some security questions thrown in.

I cannot remember my password from 10 years ago so I need to reset it.

If I try to reset it, they want to send me an sms otp to the mobile number from 10 years ago which I no longer have. Obviously I cannot update the mobile number if I cannot log in.

Another option they give me is to enter some portion of the debit card number that was linked to the account. I no longer have that account from that specific bank, nor have the old cards laying around.

Another thing they offered was for me to fill out the answers to the security questions, but I absolutely hate these and always fill in random characters by mashing my keyboard, so no go here.

In their help guide they say you can contact support if you cannot log in at all, but you have to log a support ticket.... which requires me to log in. Last time I gave up after 30 minutes of poking around their site to try and find a way to speak/email a human that can help me get back into the account, since almost every path leads back to the login screen which wants my debit card number from 10 years ago.

So I've started ignoring paypal now. All their emails that I still get goes in the trash and I will never use them again. Keep in mind this was a business account linked to a business bank debit card (it was the only way back then to link to an account in my country, and only one bank offered the integration, since then things have become much more reasonable (cheaper business credit cards = international ease)).

I'm fully willing (well not anymore) to send them a copy of my national id card to unlock my account while we speak on the phone, but they seem to have no path to support their clients unless logged in. Maybe its been fixed by now but I no longer care about it enough. If you build systems with an auth mechanism, please cater to all the unhappy paths your clients might fall into. I'm not one of those people who will go scream on twitter to get help, I just silently walk away and you lose a client. It's that simple. I'm not expecting them to treat me like a king, I just wanted to log into their site, that's all.
Location: Dubai, UAE

Remote: Yes, preferably including regular face to face meetings

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Multi-platform e-commerce product management. However, tech stack / product domain is an easy thing to adapt to.

CV: request via email or https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabh16

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Desired position: Product Manager

Reach out and we can do a virtual coffee meeting. :)
I’m not saying demand evaporates. I’m saying supply balloons.
The circumstances in which organ donation is viable are surprisingly rare. I have a friend who worked in a head injury specialist unit, naturally this was a pretty good source of donors. You ideally need someone who is alive but only by virtue of life support so that you have time to turn off the machine and get the processes started.
Inappropriate (or rather, best-we-can-think-of-at-the-time-which-we-later-improved) treatment still saved many lives compared to the toughing it out at home approach.

Doctors already know ventilation is bad for people; they were only doing it for people who would otherwise die.

In the UK at least, we're seeing a fatality rate of perhaps 50% what it was in March due to some drug treatments and better use of ventilation (especially prone).

But without treatment, the virus would be perhaps 2 or 3 times more deadly (as was seen in Wuhan when hospitals were overwhelmed).
To put it more succinctly, no part of the Patriot Act would have flagged the 9/11 terrorists.

The Bank Secrecy Act and every expansion of it (like the Patriot Act) is just some data broker's pet project to fill some lucrative government contract.
What It Takes: Hard Work and Dedication Are Not Enough
Yeah! It seems a nice one, for real... I have many friends that were searching for it, I'll spread the word for sure. Thank you!
We nickle and dime people for good reasons but we have so many good reasons to do it that it compounds into negative outcomes for many people who aren't either doing well or doing so poorly they get a lot of aid. Augmenting this, a lot of our well intentioned ideas also have shortcomings that prevent them from realizing their goals. Aside from nickle and diming people to death, we have a lot of restrictions in our larger cities that prevent building sufficient amounts of housing to create downward pricing pressure. Of those restrictions, one of the most prevalent is height limits which inhibit building in greater densities to make more efficient use of the space. Two of the main political reasons these restrictions don't see much review is because a lot of vocal groups think they ruin the view/skyline while local homeowners (who wouldn't be living in the high density housing) fear that their property values will go down which is bad because for many of them their home is their primary asset.

Edit: We're at the post limit so I'm adding my response to jelliclesfarm's below post here. Put simply, I agree with your assessment of the situation. My point was that the combined effect of all the various political entities compounded with material concerns is the reason why, even if the motivations are good, we're still seeing an exodus of people. If you were to ask my personal feelings specifically on how to resolve the issue of local home owners I'd argue to still remove the height limits but (since the renters moving in are already saving money by way of downward pressure) implement a modest, in the real way, tax that goes to affected local home owners as compensation and which can't be claimed by children who inherit the house under prop 13. By definition the home owners would be heavily outnumbered by renters in new units across the city and the compensation can be capped at roughly whatever the owner's losses are assessed to be.
as a ddg user I wish it had an option to remove stock images; some queries seem to return nothing but same-looking watermarked images for sale. but no issues with pinterest which I occasionally use directly
What is the legitimate use case for Pinterest by the way? I was always regarding it as one of those websites spamming Google searches.
The author did himself a disservice by attracting chess players to criticize his example that clearly could have been about literally any game more complex than coin flipping that has roughly 50/50 parity.

He could have referred to the NFL or something, maybe that would have helped. The point was to set up the aliens to have a gross approximation of outcome determination that is both accurate and wrong.

The aliens could have decided to use home vs. away teams as their "coin flip" and stopped investigating once they found out that home teams win a bit more, for example, and the "crazy" alien in the parable could suggest that examining only the first play of the game is a better answer. The "crazy" alien would be told to stop because the first play isn't more predictive, but the fact that the alien is looking at gameplay is more "right".