skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I’d want a running business haemorrhaging $10,000/minute or whatever is possible for cloud compute.

My business is looking at cloud compute at the moment and we have absolutely no idea how to do it safely. In fact sagemaker is exactly a product we have looked at and discounted since we cannot be sure we can do it safely without getting unexpected megacharges.

We had an incident recently where a cellular router was set up to send a text message on a GPIO changing. The old firmware didn’t have pull-ups on the input. We told our end customer to update the firmware. They didn’t and also didn’t hook up the input and left it floating. We got a £20,000 bill for text messages as a result and a soured relationship with the customer.
Don't conflate all "work for credits" as being worthless.

'Love Is Blind' was "sampled by 30 million member households."

If your business's demographic would be in a similar cohort as the show, then this work could be used to project authority. I know of this show. My wife does.

If a local photographer demonstrated that they were in the show, their work is great, I would find them interesting. I wouldn't blindly give them my business, but at least they don't blend in like 100's of other photographers.

If you can't envision exactly how you would use this as a promotional piece or blindly expect that just by doing the work you'd get a magical windfall of additional business, then this isn't for you. Don't sign.

>Another little dirty secret: bylines in your website don't mean shit. The money comes from networking.

Empty bylines? Sure. But a byline that states your competency and goes on to display that competency by supporting it with 1) beautiful work and 2) having well known clients? That helps to solidify the case of why they should work with you.

"Feel free to reach out to any of my previous clients. I will give you their contact info if you need a reference or two before working together. "
The power asymmetry massively favouring the production house in this case is the reason they are able to make such an aggressive demand as having a professional work intensively for a week for no pay in the first place. I don’t think you would be given much space to negotiate because they would just move down the line to the next person willing to work for free but without all your requirements.

It’s a very different world from software development. Imagine what Google would pay to bring on a consultant for a week of important work...
> If a TV show contacted you do create a web app, would you do that work for free? Would you give up other opportunities to get paid to do so?

So, say no? (I've done that a couple of times in similar situations.)
This describes having children pretty well. You’re always just jumping in to rescue them from themselves all day long. There’s no time to have a single coherent thought or even spit out a sentence- it’s just single words. “Off! Fingers fingers! Shoes! Out!”
Then the vendor deletes all your data for having unpaid invoices and you suffer. This isn't what I would call hilarity.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it's clear from your comment history that you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for. (Actually a lot of the time we don't know, or care, what they're battling for. We care about HN not becoming a flamewar hell site.) If you would please stop doing that and use HN in the intended spirit, we'd appreciate it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044182.
That is awesome. I work in flood forecasting and previously worked in NCAR/NASA. If you would be so kind, feel free to share any white papers, links etc to the project you are referring to.

msaharia[a]iitd.ac.in
Also seems to come down to identifying oneself with / as... Well, anything. Maybe hanging one's whole identity on something is a sign that one is obsessing too much about that one thing; "Nobody is just one thing".

(Hmm, I think I just got more of a handle on what it is that makes me uncomfortable with "identity politics".)
Big organizations do that all the time. They call them hackathons.
It appears to affect non-heterosexuals differently , though
It’s bad for other professionals because it creates expectations that people will work for free and it reduces the amount other professionals can earn. That’s why it generates negative reactions and shaming in those communities. In the short term, that’s good for whoever gets a free service. In the long run, it’s not great for sustaining a population with a valuable expertise.
I'm pretty sure the advertising is worth at least the $50K. If you tried to purchase equivalent exposure it would cost you more. It's a bad deal if you don't need the exposure, but seems alright if you do.
Perhaps I’m a bit too relative in thinking our threshold for responding to pandemics should be in proportion to the response than previously seen pandemics and events... so here’s what I mean:

“Any mortality comparisons between these two pandemics in the United States, 2020 and 1918, must differentiate between totals and rates. The current US population, a little more than 330 million, is more than three times larger than the population in 1918, estimated at 105 million. The 675,000 deaths attributed to the influenza epidemic made up 0.64 percent of the total population, a little more than six in every thousand people. By contrast, the more than 500,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 make up about 0.15 percent of the total population, or between one and two in every thousand people. If COVID-19 caused deaths at the same rate as the 1918 epidemic, the total would approach two million. Even the disturbing projections of more than to 600,000 deaths by July 1, 2021, would still remain below the rates recorded in the earlier epidemic.“

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hblog20210329.5129...

So, by one token, you could say we did better through the response of drastic measures...

Or we could note that the world didn’t perform wide scale testing in the 1918-1919 pandemic to determine how many other seemingly unrelated deaths also contained Spanish Flu, or how many pandemic cases they really had back then.

So without knowing how many contracted both sets of viruses, it’s tough to make a call on the R0, but could a rough approximation of a pandemic's severity could be the proportion of populations, strata by types (age, whatever you’d like), that experienced fatalities?

If so, does that mean the flu then was worse? What was the world response at that time? I’ll bore you less and say that the measures taken then were no where near as strict as those now.

So comparing that response to this new worlds response... why does there appear to be a disproportionate response that appears more strict in this age than the last?

Many possible answers can fit the set of facts above... one extremely unlikely answer I’ve entertained is that the Covid-19 infection is latent in nature and could cause issues down the line.

Prions share in that characteristic in some research... as in they have a latent emergence that some have been thought to be misdiagnosed as dementia or the like, when in fact it is probably mad cow disease.

So those super, super loose correlations I look at and say, “hmm if someone tells me Covid causes a latent prion disease with solid facts, I wouldn’t be surprised” — I’m mot advocating that is what’s happening, I’m just saying ruling it out as completely invalid without evidence is a little short sighted.
I suppose I should really read the book. But I am suspicious. To me having a carbon tax emphatically does not mean embracing some "capitalism solves all problems" ideology. Direct intervention is still needed, but direct intervention works best in conjunction with carbon taxes. You don't want the market trying to "route around" your direct intervention because there is no incentive to play ball.

See https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI... for more of that.

If anything, it's actually this sort of nuclear subsidy that could be too hands off --- if it's like a 1990s throw money at ISPs for fibre with no strings attached tpye thing. I would say Carbon tax and nationalize the nukes.
Most engineering internships at this point are paid and most people on HN are working for companies that do paid internships. Unpaid internships tend to be more prevalent in the arts and at small companies. Anecdotally I distinctly remember people doing design for free as interns, with very little oversight or training. Back in the day Craigslist would have a number of these types of "internships" although I think these are no longer common due to both better enforcement of laws and more importantly the rise of the gig economy creating competition
From the article, this does not appear to actually be Netflix. Netflix is the studio. This the production company producing the show that will run on Netflix. (Studios are mostly about green-lighting shows/films and, obviously, overseeing their investments. But they're mostly not actually producing the shows themselves.)
I'm sure there is and the microdosing groups probably have it offhand but I'm just a busy dev sharing my personal experience.
I would bet that Warren asked a favor for someone at the Nasdaq to let this happen for a big marketing opportunity. Nasdaq would have easily seen this coming.
As with any contract, you don't know unless you ask.
So who decided to get "new leadership"?
I think this is more because they are still trying to recover their reputation from the deadly dresser debacle.
My take is that you're hilarious and awesome.
I wonder what level promotion they offer? The logo in 72pt visible for whole time when work is shown? Watermarks allowed to be shown at all times? Maybe a 15 minutes of free advertising time?
If you didn't know that yet, watch Raymond Hettinger's talk "Beautiful and idiomatic python". I consider it mandatory for any professional python programmer.
As a bit of an aside Michael, I've been pretty impressed with the quality of your team's response on HackerNews. If my skillset was a better fit for your company I'd consider applying. I hope you all get some great talent with this latest raise and I hope I get a chance to try out the product soon.
The startup performance issue is just a regular difficult issue, as far as I'm aware. I don't think it has much to do with the goal of "being readable pseudocode" or something. It's getting better with time too.

The "readable pseudocode" kind of code is exactly the sort of code in Julia that you almost always expect to be compiled down to native code quite efficiently. The kind of pseudocode I usually see is either straightforward loops iterating over something where the compiler can infer all the necessary information, or calls to library functions where somebody else has already made sure it's good. I use this a lot in my own code, and, like I said, I don't think there is a tradeoff.
The announcement is here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...

Quick summary: it was being used for malware and phishing, aggravated by the trustworthy-seeming firefox.com URL.
> people (here among all places) are especially sick of firms like Accenture/IBM/etc. of loading up projects with unexperienced junior people and putting absurd markup on their services

Are people sick of the inexperienced teams, or are they sick of being scammed? IIRC, that business model usually starts with a bait-and-switch - they company will send their best people first, to make an impression and get the client to sign the contract, and then switch the project over to the cheapest team.
prions - scary shit.
Classic broadside against unpaid internships: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/internment-camp
I have anxiety and it's helped me. This is all anecdotal but my experience lines up with thousands of others in the microdosing community. The clarity also seems to come from living more in the moment and not always half fretting about the future.
Yep, different languages have different idiomatic styles, for lots of reasons. When I’m learning a new language that’s very different, I have found that breaking through these mental roadblocks opens my mind to a lot of new possibilities and considerations. No language can be everything to all people and purposes.
The problem with this is that it creates lots of equity issues. How exactly are poor people supposed to get into government if the entry level positions (internships) are unpaid?
As one example, I use Arrow in production to share DataFrames between Python and Julia processes. My previous method was saving to disk and loading, this reduces the time from ~2 minutes to ~5 seconds.
> What level of logging/privacy can we expect from a self-hosted instance?

It really depends on who is hosting it.

Send itself doesn't really log anything except for errors. A reverse proxy in front of it might be used for an access log, which is default with the docker-compose template for it. Files are always encrypted on the client, and it or its keys are never seen on the server.

If you're wondering for the instance I've linked: it runs on Digital Ocean. I have an access log (IP per request, for 24h), I can list encrypted blobs and their metadata (creation time, size), and that's pretty much it.
> I realize he treated some people in a way that they wouldn't want to be treated.

Allegedly. It's all anonymous blog posts.
"it's pretty clear to me. people coming from other languages are used to typing less characters and expressing their ideas like that, and they want to type less characters in go."

It's not. It's more. A lot more sometimes, plus the indentation for trying to chain maps together is ugly.

I think more people who think this is going to be great need to clock some time on the Go Generics playground [1], implement some Map and Filter and MapError functions, and convert some real code to this style in real Go. It's awful. I'm probably spoiled by Haskell and how nice it makes all this, but it's awful even against normal Go code. Try it.

The problem is, the thing that makes "functional-style" programming in Go difficult wasn't "missing generics". It was, missing generics, somewhat heavy-weight anonymous function syntax, indentation rules not optimized for deeply-nested functions, a compiler that almost certainly won't optimize through very many layers of these constructs, the inability to put methods on core types and the fact the core types are missing the useful methods/interfaces like "Traversable", no higher kinded types so no monads or anything else like that, a variety of little syntax issues that make this all slick, and probably some things I'm missing. Just getting some generics (and not having generic methods that can add new generic types hurts this style too) just isn't enough to make it slick. Go would need a suite of changes to make this slick and efficient, not just these generics.

[1]: https://go2goplay.golang.org/
Some highly unethical and socially destructive behaviors are covered by the criminal law as an extra deterrent (aside from the usual civil case). Crooks in positions of high power (even in the private sector) are very destructive for the society, so it makes sense to criminally punish bribery.
They're also a good stick your toe in the water for the employee to see if they really want to work there.
> but a civil matter when a group does it?

Group also has decision makers who can be criminally prosecuted in case of some fraud committed.
Taking sex differences in personality seriously (2019)
In many cases, even though it's technically illegal, interns end up just doing menial work that does little to further their skills.
No HR person would allow unpaid intern positions in 2021. It's very clearly illegal in the United States.

When I mentor college students, the only times we hear about unpaid internships are:

1) Unfunded wannabe startups or small family businesses who don't understand what they need, but they assume they can convince some naive kid to do it for free. No one with actual skills or prospects takes these jobs. Job boards remove these posts if they're moderated.

2) Students who struggle to get a normal internship, so their dad/uncle/cousin/neighbor lets them do an unpaid "internship" off the books at their company to get something to put on their resume. They don't really do much work, but now they can put a line on their resume and claim some work experience for the next interview.
This isn't anything like an unpaid internship IMO. The photographers can debate the benefits from exposure and promotion (I imagine saying you were the photographer who did season X of a popular wedding show has quite a bit of value) but this is an in-kind trading of services. There's nothing wrong with the practice or this instance.
You shouldn't give them your business then.
> While the series is funded by and will be aired on Netflix, it is unlikely that the streaming behemoth is aware of how the producers of the show are soliciting talent. Kinetic Content is likely solely responsible for how it spends the budget granted by Netflix and the choice to seek unpaid labor from photographers is likely entirely on the production company.

This struck me as weirdly being pandering to Neflix. This is like saying 'the choice to use paramilitary forces to murder union organizers is likely solely the choice of the local plant subsidiaries, and Koca Kola is unlikely to be aware of it.'

Neflix has a clear choice to work with contractors who engage in predatory labor practices or not, just like they also have risk and due diligence teams to obtain business intelligence on their contractors.
It's getting close to a monopsoli
LOL, if you don't like a social network run by communists or capitalists, try the one run by don't-call-them-fascists.
There are several Canon full frame mirrorless cameras other than the R5. There is the R6, which starts at $2,500 for the body. There is also the older R, and the least expensive RP, which starts at $999 for the body only.

The last two are probably going to be replaced this year with newer and either cheaper and/or more feature-packed models.
I think this idea of survival rather than living is rather an unfortunate characteristic of our time. People need to rewatch that german movie called "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". All you need is to go see the sea.
Yeah the golden combo is hard charging leader who takes their first 90 days to ID what to be hard charging about. High EQ and being more often than not the last (or at least the third) person to offer an opinion is the mark of a mature leader.

Otherwise it’s just a bull in a china shop stepping on and sh*ting on a lot of pre-existing work and stakeholders who did the work. Easy way to lose an org trust and never get it back unless a ton of headcount churn occurs such that no one really recalls how much of a moron the lead was.
You seem to be confusing assertions with axioms. Have you ever considered taking an introductory philosophy class? I think it would clear up a lot for you.

Just because someone doesn't give an argument for something doesn't mean that they don't have an argument for something. It seems you may be unaware of the study of language use and metaphysics that went on for most of the 20th century in analytic philosophy. I recommend looking into that.

Millions of people believe many things that are false and their belief doesn't make any of those false things true. That's a fallacy called argumentum ad populum.
>The actors guild union actually demand

Not sure this is true. Can you point to where in the bylaws this is stated?
You're right, I should have left off the last sentence. But words mean things. Let's save the description "abusive and predatory" for things that are, well, abusive and predatory. A voluntary invitation to collaborate does not meet that standard, regardless of its reasonableness.
Hey, founder here. Obviously, I feel that utilizing blockchains/decentralization in the case of Q&A/knowledge makes sense. Knowledge is the most valuable asset on the internet. Why wouldn't we want users to have ownership over that? By allowing users to easily post content to a blockchain, they are also able to monetize off of it because they own it. Quora pretty much doesn't pay any users at all even when their content brings in millions of views. So I feel that a need exists for decentralized knowledge and the ownership of it.

Where Bitcoin decentralizes digital currency, we are decentralizing digital knowledge.
Most "straightforward" way I could think of:

```

import itertools, collections

cnt = itertools.count(1)

d = collections.defaultdict(lambda: next(cnt))

s = "abcad"

[d[c] for c in s]

```
oo nice. i haven't seen this before and was doing something similar in a much uglier fashion.
yeah its weird how nobody objects to me paying someone to teach my photography and neither do they object to someone paying me to teach me photography (internship) but they object to the idea that these two payments could cancel out and someone could teach me for free.
This.

I see the biggest problem with the email conversation that the person asking was not up front with the 0$ payout in the very first paragraph of the email.
One horribly fragile solution to this depends on global name resolution:

d = defaultdict(lambda: len(d))

However, it's probably better to avoid defaultdict altogether and implement __missing__ in a subclass of dict.
Yes, maybe the lucky photographer will be noticed by another large company that is also looking for people who are willing to work for "exposure".
I'd say it's more related to the freelance nature of the job.

Also it's a lot more common in industries with high supply combined with relatively "well off" young professionals that do it for "fun" and "exposure" ie creative industries
At this point it seems like, for nuclear to play a big role in the future power mix, someone needs to fund a program to develop carbon neutral concrete that still meets or exceeds the construction parameters for part - or preferably all - of the concrete used in building these plants.

Since they use so much of it, that would build up capacity for other uses, and the subsidy doesn't even have to necessarily go straight to nuclear power, which might improve the optics.

Here's a discount for specialty concrete that only nuclear plants and hydroelectric dams would be interested in...
Great to see the progress on this. It seems my fears have been assuaged and the CLUI keeps all the power of a command prompt while adding discoverability. I still think the average user will stop reading the drop-downs after awhile and just treat it like a normal command prompt once they've memorized everything, but up until that point this seems like a better way to get newbies to learn than telling them to read the man pages.
That said, I do still think it's unfair to say that this is equally as approachable and a GUI for the average person. Certainly it's better than a standard CLI, but it's more of an in-between I think.
This is very funny but not very relevant I think. The employee explains it well: they don't have live support for free gmail accounts so they can't help. The employee should not give information about himself.

At the scale of Google the employee is effectively just another customer.
They are hiding the pricing info for a reason.

Everything over 1000$ is not acceptable.
Star Citizen 2021 Trailer
This title is utterly useless for anyone who has never heard of the project and therefore doesn't recognize the domain. Honestly, even after browsing around the site for a bit, I'm not really sure what this project is about. What does "Upgradeable, repairable, and 100% yours" actually mean?