skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm a data engineer, visual (UI/UX) designer and application engineer specializing in ML solutions. Economics background turned engineer, artist.

Formerly Google (GCP), Citadel (hedge fund), various startups (computer vision, predictive analytics, IoT, fintech, edutech).

I focus on improving human factors in products and creating experiences.

15+ years experience creating web/mobile solutions. 5+ years CTO experience of VC-backed companies. Robust background in tech, teams and business. Solutions architect / strategy and startup founder. Helped raise > $10M in funding.

Looking to join/create a startup or build new teams within greenfield opportunities. Also looking to join a venture funds as EIR or technical team.

Open to project-based or quarterly contracts.

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No. Florida. Good economic freedom. No safety net.

Disability was private company though.
Nice work. Reminds me of Spring Rest support. I think both are similar in regards of development speed.

Will definitely add it to my toolbox. Hope Flask will die for good.
The only licensing change Oracle has done is to make the JDK 100% free and open-source. The license of the JRE didn't change; it had simply been discontinued and replaced by something much better.
Except all of those are insured by the FDIC so there's almost no risk outside of market volatility.
How long until this is strategically murdered?

I refuse to use Google products for critical infrastructure until they prove they won't kill the product as soon as they lose interest to chase the next shiny trinket or maybe build their 78th chat app
Out of curiosity, what was that sentence? (Or a translation of it)
Location: Houston, TX

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Technologies: C/C++, Java, Python, Basic HTML | Willing to learn more

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I have graduated since September 2020, so I can be considered a recent graduate. I have not had any internships or held any jobs before, but I have made multiple personal projects at both my GitLab and GitHub accounts, and even contributed to a few FOSS games. These side projects are the only experience I have gained outside of school projects so far.
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Got this up quickly while we launch the real thing on our stack. I mention this in the podcast, absolutely going to be moving off of squarespace.
Most apps don’t get a lot of traffic
You can assume that USB mice are going to become increasingly unlikely to work with those as time goes on - they're just passive adapters that instruct the mouse "hey, someone is trying to plug you in with an adapter to a PS/2 port" and hoping that the mouse knows how to switch protocols.

As PS/2 becomes a deep legacy standard, the likelihood is that mouse manufacturers will simply stop bothering to include that capability.
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Xavier Waller
> If Google had never attempted a game studio and launched Stadia as a standalone platform (as it will now be), no one would have said "ok but it's a bad sign that Google isn't getting into the game development business"

Throwing money at a first party studio was a sign of investment and dedication, though. Had they thrown the money at something else - like developer outreach - sure, that would have been fine. I don't see that as the likely alternate reality had they chosen not to open a studio.
Great job Narner! I'm David Lee, and I'm glad that you have found my dataset helpful!
those institutions are not lending your money out in uncollateralized loans.
For those wanting humid air: get an aquarium.
A half table oriented half document oriented solution is just odd. I’ve worked with JSONB in Postgres. There are many reasons to dislike mongo but “your can do that with PostgreSQL “ isn’t one of them.

Querying nested values is is nothing like Rethink or Mongo.

Keys could be rows or keys.

You’re still having to make one to many relationships for something that should just be an array.
> Take regular breaks from the medication

"Medicine holidays." They're a necessary part of ADHD treatment to deal with tolerance and to ensure you still need the medication at your current dose. After you take a few days off (I do one weekend a month and one week a year) try taking a smaller dose.

Everyone's tolerance and needs can change drastically over time. If you stay at the same dose forever without breaks you'll have no concept of if the medication is still working for you - much like your 3rd point. I took 40mg/day in my 20s, down to 30mg a year ago, and now up to 35mg/day in covid times.
> I'm not really sure why that quote would give anyone the impression that American culture was built for blacks.

The difference between James Baldwin and the persona you've adopted for your comments here is that Baldwin was able to see things from another person's perspective. You could probably do that too, if you tried, but you haven't in this case.

You're simply asserting that the ideals used to justify the American war of independence are a sham, and everybody should know it and accept it as resolutely as you choose to interpret it

Did you watch the video of Baldwin at Cambridge Union?

He gives the audience a first hand account of what it is to be a 4 year old black kid in America. The audience didn't know what that experience was like. It was literally foreign to them. They were surprised and enlightened by what they heard.

Why do you think the Cambridge Union gave Baldwin a standing ovation? What do you think they were responding to?

What do you think those people, drawn from the 1% of the country that America broke from with Jefferson's words to become its future ruling class, learned from that 40 year old son of a drug addict from Harlem?
MQTT is just a tool for publish/subscribe; that pattern exists in way more domains than IOT. Facebook Messenger, for example, is implemented on top of it.
This is spot on with my experiences as well. I've never told any coworker that I didn't have time or wouldn't try. Same exact experiences with management being very happy.
It is a great idea and supporting a good cause! However, does it sound like you have to open a store with them to be eligible?
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Reminds me of Spring Rest -> will add it to my toolbox. Hope nobody ever uses Flask again for Rest services in Python.
Oh, good, then US doesn't have systemic racism, as proven by Thomas Sowell in "Disparities and Discrimination."
The key to a successful career in tech is to be comfortable being uncomfortable. The key skill you bring an employer is not that you know x, y and z systems, but that you were able to learn x, y, and then z when required, and if they hire you you’ll be ready to learn a, b and c when they decide to use those.
Hands-On MongoDB: Part-2
Modulus operandi of the short seller (2014)
Hell is other peoples code
This isn't obviously anything new. From the github repo, it looks like Google open-sourced the underlying implementation for certificate transparency a while back. [1] Any DNS registry will need something similar to this to participate.

While in theory, anyone publishing public information might find something like this useful, it's not clear there's much demand for it outside DNS. Something like Dolt [2] seems like it would better for publishing public datasets in a way that changes can be tracked?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
[2] https://www.dolthub.com/
Just checked with recruiting, and both Canada and the UK are eligible. Anywhere else, we might have to investigate.
I wonder about this too and find it’s hard to get good intel.

First, there’s not many “old” hands-on technical types that I see anywhere.

Reading material seems so focused on hiring large numbers of people from early to late.

So it’s hard to get evidence, but what I’ve been working on is being able to understand my organization and industry well to be able to code solutions to answer strategic questions that no one cares if I’m hands-on technical or not, but as long as the answers are useful.

Just a few years into mid 40s but the work is no longer “build me this app/system/db/site” but hairy problems that require learning new frameworks, writing move approaches, etc. so that’s pretty fun and as long as my brain keeps working it seems interesting 5-30 years out.

I recently talked with a 40-50 engineer through Lunchclub who was working as a “test driven development coach” that sounded horrible, but the way they described it was cool. They would mix design, code, and r&d to be part of teams and projects to help them code better. So they were just a senior dev who elevated above individual project design and they said they got there by just working on bigger and bigger projects before moving into this new role.
Reminds me of the aesthetics of Drivey: https://drivey.com/

(Demo of JS version on Github: https://rezmason.github.io/drivey/)
No, that's one of several options to earn entries. You can just donate to St. Jude.
Another similar game is 4Ever Transit Authority: https://turnfollow.itch.io/4ever-transit-authority
IINA is an excellent piece of software. I would love to see a linux build.

VLC is still valuable for more technical edge cases, but I've had significant stability issues with VLC for many years and on all platforms.

IINA has never crashed on me. It also addresses so many of my minor annoyances with VLC.
> So, they're not shadow-banning anyone, but they're shadow-banning. Nice gaslighting.

How is an account not showing up in auto-suggest a shadow-ban?
Just go read /r/stadia or the /r/games thread covering this, yes people are convinced by this and there's many comments talking about how they can't stand the UX on GFN.

Too inexperienced to use technology is a strawman, the real comparison is do they prefer the benefit of the better UX more than they fear the amorphous dangers of lock-in. The answer is easily yes.
That was fast. Feels like Google has more swings and misses than hits lately.
I have been working for years now on Exomind[1], a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have an iOS and a web/electron client at the moment, and a simple Chrome extension for bookmarking. I plan to eventually add files (blobs), definitions and support extensibility via WASM applications.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before).

[1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind
[2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore
He's also in Dodge
Why is it called cab ride if it's about a train?
This sounds really cool! I don't understand the pricing, though: it sounds like the $2 plan is the obvious choice: no minimum order, and you can request what seems to be a fairly unlimited number of images. I would assume that to get $2/km^2 you'd need to have a larger minimum, otherwise, what's the point of the $15 plan?
> For example, if the app reviewer’s touch interaction with an app were recorded and the resulting screens diffed with the same pattern after publishing, there should be no changes.

There are lots of valid reasons for apps to change based on outside events (location, time, online content). For example apps displaying weather forecast or current news.
You’re absolutely right.

As mentioned earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25993825), our goal is to be super transparent; we want you to fully understand what you’re spending on infrastructure. We feel good that there’s an incentive to help you work through the problems that you’ve mentioned.

Attributing collection and querying is made easier with authentication enabled by default. You can make your tenants as fine- or coarse-grained as you want, handing out authentication tokens to the producers writing to those tenants. This makes it easier to trace back to sources of bloat. You can also place rate limits on individual tenants to prevent bloat in the first place.

Additionally, we think users might reconsider the premise of the problem. Because the cost of running Opstrace follows cloud economics (because it runs in your own cloud account), it's basically as cheap as it can possibly be. So you might consider that you do not have as much pressure to curate what is stored as you think. (I didn’t say "no" pressure, but "less" might be a huge improvement. :-) )
Have you ever used Steam on Geforce Now? There is absolutely no friction. You do not even have to know Steam exists. You just search for the game you want, and do one more sign-up.
Are We Overestimating the Number of COBOL Transactions Each Day?
Google never puts the real effort required into any of these platforms like Stadia or VR.

They give it five minutes and if it’s not an instant success just run away from it and give up.

Building a game platform takes time and gamers need a reason to be there.
> So one way to reduce or reverse this is if we ALL lifted heavy things more often. From a risk reduction perspective, that seems to be especially valuable for women?

Depends; women might be much more prone to injury from lifting heavy things.
The DBA problem you descibing is not in database system, it's in DBA. You can have the same freedom with relational database. Or, for some reason, you can also put a DBA between you and Mongo, who won't give you change the schema of your JSONs (you do have that schema somewhere, just not managed by Mongo).

I've worked on plenty of both SQL and Mongo projects, and honestly the process around schema migration is pretty much the same. Just for Mongo you write it in the code instead of SQL.
I read Reamde after Dodge and it made a lot more sense
This is just crypto p2p lending, which is hardly new. Fraud is rampant in this space.
Whether it’s John Deere’s efforts to make tractor repair costly and annoying, Apple’s bullying of independent repair shops, or Sony and Microsoft’s attempt to monopolize game console repair, US corporations have done an incredible job the last few years driving bipartisan public interest in the “right to repair” movement. Last year witnessed monumental progress for right to repair, including the expansion of an existing Massachusetts law that requires car makers to provide independent mechanics access to the same diagnostic tools used in dealerships. A federal right to repair law was also considered for the first time in US history ...

Seriously, Americans are being screwed royally - perhaps this is why the open source and open hardware initiatives also begin and thrive so much in the USA. But a political push is also required to correct this huge imbalance that is now also trickling out of the US to the rest of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_(locomotive)
A cab is another word for the driver's compartment of a train.
This is exactly where this is going, and it will continue to do so until the DOJ breaks the back of vertical integration based tech monopolies.
The concept of Stadia is mind-blowing but execution is not so much. I got Stadia controller+Chomecast Ultra free as I have YT Premium subscription and enjoying* playing a few games (Example: Tomb Raider is pretty good on Stadia) but as much as I like the concept of playing any game without worrying about buying console or PC and thinking of how much higher the hardware specs required to run the game, It hurts to know in a couple of years Stadia is still struggling with expanding its game availability in any meaningful way. I am always nervous of buying a game thinking if the service would be discontinued by Google then I'd lose my content library. Google really needs to make sure to add every major game title (past classics/platinum hits and future titles) on Stadia to really compete with Xbox or PS here.

* For anyone curious: I have 120 mbps internet connection and Stadia works fine on it.
I'd argue that if you can hold an office job for a year without getting fired then you don't have ADHD, or at least it is a very mild version. There are so many small things you need to do in an office hob that are super hard to do with ADHD, there is no way you can do a significant fraction of them with serious ADHD. It isn't about performing your job function which can be fun, but doing all the tiny bits you need to do just to function in an office, like answering emails, updating issue trackers, filling out forms, sitting still and look like you "work" etc. Many jobs will not fire you for being slow, but very few jobs will keep you around if you can't even pretend to do the work.

Most likely you will not even get the job though, since you will get stuck trying to apply for jobs, or maybe even earlier you will get stuck trying to do boring assignments in college and therefore wont even graduate.
It was an interesting read anyways. The answer should be obvious...

"The very fact that his book exists, he wrote, is the equivalent of tossing his cards face down on the table: If society had in fact collapsed, there would be no books, self-published or not. “So let me just admit that I was wrong,” he wrote. “But ... not by much. And not totally.” "
Aston Martin Lagonda, then.
You need the non-ADHD people to fly the the regular boring things from A to B, and you need the ADHD people to be able to take the right decisions about what to do in a split second while being under extreme duress in a war zone.
If I'm reading this right, fractures are actually more prevalent these days?

There isn't enough information to be sure - we need to know more about the life expectancy of the medieval subjects and the likelihood of multiple fractures. Eyeballing it suggests yes, but within a factor of 2 either way.

Note though that the modern study involved older adults (50-79) who I would guess are more likely to get fractures: osteoporosis and weakened joints outweigh the increased risk from physical activity of younger people.
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Looking for up to 20 hours/week of freelance work.

Developing web applications since 1999, AWS since 2009.

- Ruby on Rails

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- Sidekiq

- AWS

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Another tip I've found extremely helpful for webscraping: check the <head> for <meta> tags or a <script type="application/ld+json"> tag that might already have the information you want collected neatly in one place. You may be able to save yourself a lot of time and grief.
I don't think I understand how pricing works, but at the most expensive level, it seems to be $15/km^2, so 2 km^2 once a week would be $30/week, right?
> partnered with Valve and shipped something mind-blowing

Why would Valve partner with anyone? They don’t even need to make games anymore. They could fire the majority of their company and run on a skeleton crew and still be making a fortune years later.

Literally don’t think Google can afford them. The offer would be “hey wanna go from doing almost zero work and making a fortune to making a little more and having to work a lot harder and give up autonomy“