skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A: Like with most of these programs, a few large organizations like google and microsoft stand to make a lot more money, but the people at the heart of the problem (the actual maintainers) stand to lose.

AT the bare minimum, even doing it yourself, it costs more money to create a company and apply for 501C3 status than the paltry sums of money most projects receive in donations.
>Roman slaves were the spoils of war, while American slaves were the spoils of criminal enterprise

American slaves were also the spoils of war, just with a middleman and a miserable voyage between capture and being put to work.

The competing African peoples conquering and selling off enemies is it's own interesting and often overlooked topic.
First, it would be great to be able to send SMS messages without using the cell network, just through internet. Then you could use computers, tablets, etc.
As far as I know only textplus/nextplus allows that, but it had become very buggy, and definitely not secure.
Also you don't need a cell number to communicate with people through the cell network.
The process at my company (< 20 people) is like this:

1. Phone screen with tech lead / manager.
2. Take home 2-3 hour code challenge where you have to build something. No leet code questions - it’s a challenge relevant to what we do.
3. Interview with 2 or 3 engineers / product managers to go over your code and meet the team.

Our offer is usually one where we provide 3 or 4 options (less stock, bigger salary or more stock and smaller salary).

We’re looking for good communicators, quick learners, and passionate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset. Simply put, we’re looking for people we want to work with everyday (especially when it’s crunch time).

I’ve only worked at startups. I love it and I have no desire to work for big tech. My job security comes what I do and what I can build, not from the company I work for.
It's an actual response. WSB just changed up their rules (I'm not super active there and I don't really understand why) but this is accurately stated.
Hey (I don't want to out your first name here), we should catch up! I'll email you after digging out the inbox.

Proxy Bidders are pure functions that map inputs (market conditions on other venues, metadata) to Expressive Bids in our bidding language (a bounded fragment of linear mixed real integer arithmetic logic—LIRA); certain EBs are CFMMs, and our most general solvers are SMT LIRA.
iOS and apps (that don't consume your iCloud capacity) would use about 10-20GiB on 64GB(actually 59.6GiB) iPhone, so it can be backed up.
This is crazy but, I have had the exact same symptoms recently. At night, when laying on my stomach like I have slept my whole life, my hands start tingling like they are losing circulation. This is when flat beside my body.
Tell HN: Udacity dark pattern to cancel a subscription
I expected better from Udacity, but apparently it's not enough to click the "cancel" button on your subscription. You have to chat to an agent that has to convince you Comcast style why you shouldn't cancel.

Funny enough, they'd put a "cancel" button and then a popup shows up telling you to chat to an agent.

Granted chatting with the "agent" took about 5 mins, but it's still kind of a sh!tty pattern.

If I can enroll online by clicking through and filling out my info, I should be able to cancel just as easily, not be coerced into chatting with an "agent".
I think the cause and effect here is backwards, the writing was already on the wall. The pivot to Meta was a response to that.
> If i were in your shoes, I’d try to reach out to one of the groups researching long covid therapies.

Have a link? I'm in NJ.

This isn't "talking up" my symptoms, it's real. I'd love to talk to anyone in this field.
> For which no one was held accountable IIRC.

If you're used to a system in which the courts assume the prosecutor is always right and so the judge's only task is to decide the sentence, then a trial with rules of evidence, burden of proof, etc., will seem very slow.
We built this future. We built platforms that do not allow using the file system. We built this mobile-first, file system-last world. We're to blame.
No pipes is more like node red. Alteryx is fairly unique given the heavy excel focus

I guess visually they look the same in that it’s flowchart building blocks
Except in one of those, protesters weren't invading government buildings, they were assembled in an open square. And it wasn't just one rioter about to break into the house chamber that got shot, it was hundreds or even thousands of people gunned down.

Drawing any sort of equivalency between these two events strikes me as extremely far fetched.
I build the biggest Pokemon Go community in Belgium within 2 months, started 1 week before it launched ( to test Facebook ads), a long time ago by now.

I'd say Facebook ads is too expensive for a not hyped term ( we had / 10 the normal costs because of the hype).

Some giveaways grew it together with a lot! of content ( advertised) planned out ( i usually checked Sunday for content for the next week).

Starting earlier than others on fb was a pro too.

Finding good/interesting content was relatively easy.

It's not easy, cheap and very time consuming though.

A like doesn't mean they would join an event ( we had about 100-200 participants for events with entrance tickets for theme parks)
Having an early stage investment from a prominent SV venture firm is essentially a blank check to lure in suckers for the next half dozen rounds. It doesn't matter what your company does or what results it has. In today's environment you can just go "a16z is invested in us, you wouldn't want to miss out right?"
Terms of service are, legally speaking, hogwash.

Their purpose is almost entirely to scare legally uninformed end users.
Lots of airbrush, like Atari software boxes or Sorayama's gynoids:

https://wearethemutants.com/2017/09/20/atari-400800-box-and-...

http://sorayama.jp/works/

https://overspraybook.blogspot.com/
This seems like the perfect time to pull out the old phrase:

"All models are wrong. Some models are useful."

Big 5 seems useful.
He's also human, and most of us do have to develop self-identity as children. That part of his life is mostly omitted from scripture though, as I recall.

edit: Googled and remembered there's the episode where he goes wandering off from his parents, they find him in the temple, and he asks why they'd think he would be anywhere else but in his Father's (God's) house. So, well aware at least as a twelve year old. Luke 2:41-59
When you are a manager you need to learn to put your ego to the side. Everyone thinks they can do this, but most people can’t.

You have look at some one else’s work and say, “I wouldn’t do it like that, but that is okay their approach is valid and good too.” Sometimes it isn’t or you could provide valuable feedback on how to do something better, but often you just want it done the way you want it done and that is waste of everyone’s time.

Another way to say that you manage process not people is to say your job is to remove challenges your employee might have in accomplishing their job. You aren’t managing them, not ideally, you are acting as a producer making sure they have what they need to succeed. Doesn’t matter what that is. One minute it could be advocating on your team’s behalf, the next it could be making sure there is a clear process for how to handle a project.

First time managers often think they need to provide their vision for every piece of work, or tell others how they want the job done.
Tell HN: You can see your vouched and flagged items
It is possible to see items you vouched for or flagged by editing and visiting these links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=your_username

https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=your_username

It might be useful to catch flagging-by-fat-fingers. Also to take a look at how well items you vouch for do afterwards.

I figured the vouched link, then dang told me about the flagged one. Couldn't find any references to these on HN or "hidden features" guides, but it's been a while since I last looked.

Do you know of any other hidden links like these?
I guess it's a difficult task to purge offensive behavior from a model, if you still want it to sound alive.
Values-driven artificial intelligence can reshape the way we communicate
For me, the PowerToys tools are the gold standard here (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...), especially the Canvas mode: remember where I like my applications, and put them there, including whatever peculiar layout that I think is important.
Acquisition is not the only way DoD operates.

I work at a Navy research center that's 3000+ employee strong and feeds all of DoD (we're a working capital fund, meaning we take customers to fund ourselves). In four years here, I've worked projects sponsored by Air Force, DHS/CBP, Navy, Marines, and two three letter agencies. There was no general involved in any of them, and I don't know any projects by coworkers that involved acquisition of technology. As for my projects, all except one still still in R&D have transitioned into production systems. All involve OSS to some degree. One was a design for a COTS multi source information fusion system meant to be deployed in the cloud and has all the open source tech there you'd expect, NiFi, Kafka, Spark, etc. My current project is a combination of us (correlation) and two contractors (separately IT and predictive models). Again, it's all the OSS and tech you'd expect to find in a real time analytics/tipping system and CI/CD pipeline/orchestration.

I bring up my experience not to say you're wrong but to show there are other avenues it comes in. There are lots of research labs, and researchers aren't about buying software from contractors.
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Apply via our website above, or send resume and a blurb to exec@matician.com and let me know you found us on HN :)

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The very last thing I want out of my automation tools is SaaS. Not even if it’s free.

Ansible, bash, python etc. stuff I can control, self host and move around at will. Even selfhosted gitlab ci makes me wary

Tired of getting held hostage by all these crappy SaaS that start of ok and then squeeze
Without limiting the answer to the United States:

Antitrust law is very complicated because there's multiple different legal concepts in play. The punitive action response above is probably much better informed than my off the cuff one, and probably applies to this case moreso.

However, one principal test example I had in mind is if they close someone's Google Ads account.

For most businesses, removing the ability to advertise on Google would seriously impact their viability to compete with their competitors.

That's a classic example of Google being in a "market dominant position" vis a vis antitrust law.

Now the likely hood of this happening is close to zero. Because Google does NOT want to establish ANY sort of legal precedent ANYWHERE related to Google being in a market dominant position.

That would impact its business hugely.
Lower ad price area means almost same as lower income, so they can't charge.
React already has us there
So you're taking all wet bench data and analyzing or integrating it rather than modeling? That's interesting!

Are there any possibilities that you see from your experience in using modeling or other in silico methods to reduce time in the lab, find new leads in drug development, or otherwise enhance research capabilities?
I've seen Cross, but it was decades ago, and don't recall much from it. Golddiggers is just saucy fun. One of the songs is even titled "Petting in the Park" :-) The 60s generation that thinks they discovered sex should see that movie.
“you don’t have a military, you have a social club with tanks.”

Leadership means not blaming the little guys when suddenly the whole enterprise fails. Who is the leader who turned our military into “a social club with tanks?” That person deserves removal at the very least, because they clearly are not able to lead. So who is the leader we should hold responsible?
yeah, I wish the answer to "concern trolling" were to link an FAQ that debunks all the common concern troll tactics, rather than to immediately and permanently ban that person from whatever "private space" they're currently using to communicate
> It wasn't AI of any kind, it was just a dashboard that pulled data from various real estate APIs for things like walkability score, etc. But they showed their investors and called it "AI"

Isn't that the smartest possible way to deal with investors who demand AI?
> How to wear and use masks is taught to every servicemember within weeks of joining the military. Therefore, any argument questioning the legality of an order to wear masks is ridiculous.

How to strip-search people is taught to every TSA agent. Would any argument questioning the legality of an order to strip-search every single traveler be ridiculous too?
So what? I can imagine newspapers in the 1910s lamenting that children no longer know how to light a paraffin lamp. And articles from the 1930's complaining that modern children feel uncomfortable around horses. Times change. Also, i don't really believe that kids today are that unsavvy.
Not legally, and with a large enough balance not practically either.
But it's free*!
What I find sad about this is that the effort and skill required to debunk this nonsense is an order of magnitude higher than the effort and skill required to create it in the first place.

Aka, the "Gish Gallop" and other analogues, observations and quotes about this effect, made many times.
> So first you want some proportional representation.

Well, I did say "some sensible voting system", and I think such a system can still be district-based, either using some top-up seats (like in MMP) or (more controversially) assigning different weights to the votes of each representative based on what share their party got of the popular vote.[0]

> The second fallacy is that of ... the informed representative.

If someone has the full time job and the skills (as judged by the public) and the resources to seek out a broad range of opinions (from constituents, other representatives, academics, activists, and civil servants), then they are surely more able than the average citizen (or average dictator) to make a well-informed decision.

We're not expecting perfection, here, just an insulating layer between the manipulated information of the media (including social media) and the decision-making process.

[0] https://www.dprvoting.org/
You're still wrong. Go check federal law on airline passengers. Don't worry, I'll wait.

And no, btw, pretending to be confused isn't convincing.
>If I have this level of trust with someone they are about at level of adding them as a friend on Facebook.

Yes that's exactly what Signal is for. Talking to people you would otherwise talk to on facebook messenger but you rather not have facebook engineers be able to read your personal conversations.
Also by Kenneth Libbrecht checkout "The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty." You can buy it for cheap on AbeBooks.
I've thought about things like the patent/ip problem, the structure of biomedical research, Pharma research, etc. This is an area where I don't actually see competition as a net benefit, however....it's the reality. The only thing I can come up with is a version of 'data rental'. Rather than Pharma companies locking this data away from others indefinitely, is there a way they could profit from it somehow, while still retaining ownership and not divulging trade secrets? Maybe not.

I've thought that a type of cryptographic data commons based on multi-party communication [1] could possibly be deployed with some effect. Basically you need algorithms that can compute on encrypted data, and a way to securely communicate encrypted data. There might not be huge incentive to use something like this, but maybe a version of this idea could work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation
> Additionally lambda syntax, aka python anonymous first class functions HAVE to be functional.

They have to be a single python expression, but that’s not the same as the usual understanding of “functional” (i.e., referentially transparent). Consider:

d = {"foo": 1}
f = lambda m: d.update({k, v+d.get(k,0) for k,v in m.items()}) or d

> Tail slices on lists like x[1:] cost O(N) and that's the biggest issue right now imo. It makes some valid solutions on leetcode exceed the time limit because it adds and additional N complexity on every slice when the head and tail functions in haskell cost O(1)

Python lists are not lisp-style lists, which is more efficient for most uses, but not for a lot of functional-style algorithms which leverage cheap head/tail splits.

But it wouldn't be hard to write a typed sequence class that wrapped a lisp-style immutable list implemented with nested tuples with the deepest nested one an empty tuple in Python, there's just not a lot of demand for it.
You think, based on what specifically? I don't think you know the history or how it was legitimized. Thom Hartmann has spent a few hours on this very subject across various shows. Checking facts, he gets them right every time. Cato (climate change deniers with phony IPCC reports), Koch (dirty industries tax write off), and Reason Foundation (libertarian grooming factory by rich reporters and rich celebrities pushing a viewpoint, not academics or independent professional journalists) often promulgate ideas that aren't helpful to anyone except the rich and those who vote against their own interests with an "alternative flavor" of "freedom" that isn't free for anyone but the well-off.

Generalizing all political systems together is intellectually lazy and lacks nuance. Extreme utopian ideals like communism, libertarianism, and anarchism don't scale in the real world. I think you need to learn more about each of them in detail before you write it off as tribal "muh green team is better becuz it's mine." You're coming across as lacking in knowledge, experience, and a leg to stand on and going for a cheap shot.

Practical is somewhere in the middle that gets things done and considers enough peoples' needs. There are dumb ideas, like for-profit healthcare, for-profit policing, "everyone picking themselves up by their bootstraps (as misinterpretation of a children's parable)", hyper-individualism, and doing away with government (anarchy, anarcho-capitalism).
Zoom supports Language Interpretation, up to 20 at a time
Hardcoding a language variable into multiple builds?
I taught a web development/css course for google codenext, would love to have known about this
I think the idea would have been that Pfizer and Moderna could have pooled resources and made a single optimal vaccine faster, though I'll admit I'm not sure it could have happened any faster than it did from my perspective.

The Kefauver Harris Amendment you refer to was immensely important towards the development of safe and efficacious drugs -- I do not see the connection between that act and rare disease therapeutic development. In fact, drugs that only offer marginal improvements in quality of life for rare genetic disease patients are often fast-tracked by the FDA. Requiring that a drug _works_ shouldn't inhibit drug development. Otherwise, we end up with tragedies like what happened with the use of thalidomide, which prompted this amendment in the first place.
I did a lot of stationary exercises using my own body weight to keep up my level of fitness. Nintendo's Ring Fit, Apple's Fitness+, even YouTube, there are so many avenues to explore.

The other commenters are right in saying that there are excuses, and you seem to be full of them.
No, I'm saying that after the first year, they are now only committed to the base salary.
Does this all work with BCD encoding?
Real challenges to FOSS in the military (or other large organizations) would seem to be long-term stability of features, and implementation of enhancements and fixes:

A commercial vendor works to please large customers, such as the military. If the big customer needs a feature supported long term (remember that military systems commonly last decades), the vendor makes it happen. If the big customer needs a specific enhancement or fix, that is a priority for the vendor, and if it's needed ASAP, that can happen too.

FOSS communities are a bit more independent-minded (which I generally like) and some developers won't want to help the military for ideological reasons. Communication with FOSS communities is much different than communication with commercial vendors, and much less efficient.

I think DoD needs access to paid, professional developers who can provide those services for FOSS. That could be someone like Red Hat, it could be outside consultants, it could be internal developers, they could hire members of the FOSS community. Also, DoD will need to fork projects when the community is uninterested in a DoD priority.

And there's another major problem: Imagine bombs are falling, people are dying, national security priorities are being lost - and the military needs a fix or enhancement now. Submit a bug to bugzilla and wait? Email the dev list? IRC? They need someone to call, who can answer the phone and get things done.
The question their asking themselves, which sucker can I get to work hard on my company whilst giving him as little equity as possible
Very cool idea. I'd love to hear more about how the back end works and what types of software you wrote to interact with the Minecraft server.
> Google Cloud console downloads like 20MB of resources.

That's literally the biggest (publicly known) Angular app in existence, and the fact that it's slow doesn't have anything to do with Angular. E.g. FWD:Everyone pages load in well under half a second:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/K3KKGbMyQbaCGDc-izuaow/venmo-f...

At this point the main things preventing it from being faster are the TTFB from CloudFront, and the fact that Bootstrap is used as a dependency.
You gotta remember, this was over 10 years ago. The VC/tech game was a lot different back then. The "search engine for apps" pitch kinda made sense back in those days.

A "search engine for apps" sounds stupid nowadays because it's impossible on iOS. But back then, jailbreaking was quite popular. Many Quixey employees (and many people in silicon valley) had jailbroken iPhones. iOS 3 was pretty limited and limera1n worked on every iPhone. Piracy was still mainstream. Spotify sounded stupid back then because Grooveshark was so much better. It was inevitable that Apple would cave in and open up its platform any day. And if Apple didn't do that, Android would eat their lunch.

Then Steve Jobs died, and Tim Cook released the iPhone 4S, the first iPhone you couldn't jailbreak easily. The rest is history.

Mobile was a new landscape, and it was a tough problem to solve. Plus they were going up against Google so there was a sense of FOMO if you weren't in on it. The thinking was, maybe there's a 1% chance it pays off and Quixey beats Google.
The Java solution is simpler because they are finding the average of 2 positive signed integers. So if you add 2 31 bit positive signed integers the result will fit in 32 bits and then you can just do an unsigned right shift to get the average.