skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm building a PDF generation service (DocSpring), so it's probably time to look into using AI to detect fields on uploaded PDFs so that it's easy to create PDF templates. That's been in my backlog for years. It was probably easy to build this many years ago, but maybe it's even easier now with the latest AI libraries and services.

I should really start to get familiar with AI and learn how to use things like PyTorch. I'm a bit nervous though, because it feels very different to all the programming that I've been doing for over a decade. I'm using to building CRUD web apps and mobile apps, writing SQL queries, setting up servers on AWS, etc. I'm not very good at math and I don't really understand how neural networks work or which kind of algorithm I should choose, so it feels like learning a whole set of new skills from scratch. But I can probably figure out how to use some off-the-shelf libraries and frameworks and string something together. Maybe this will be my next weekend project.
Location: San Francisco, California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML/CSS/React, Javascript/Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, C++, Python

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ydNZrY9RHj7lkZfXwyEMdFJ_wd...

Email: christiantemartin@gmail.com

I'm a CS college graduate that has been struggling to get my foot in the door. I have internship experience working full-stack, but I'm eager to learn more. I have a preference for companies that focus on directly helping the lives of others, such as the health and education industry.
What I can’t believe is that people will fly commercial routes from NY to Australia in real time in MS flight simulator…and that other people set up ATC, and pass the jets from ATC to ATC.
Practicing writing will help with this.

Just write your jumbled thoughts, what you write doesn't necessarily have to be coherent imo.
Largely agree... that said, I'm still typing this from my Ubuntu-Budgie desktop as I'm sick of it... I'll deal with a little technical pain dealing with my bluetooth headset over getting served ads in the application search bar (Windows). Given Apple isn't far behind... I did get an M1 air for personal use laptop, but don't use it much and most of what I do use isn't Apple apps.
Location: EU/NA

Remote: Open for discussion

Willing to relocate: Willing to discuss

Technologies: .NET / TS / Python / Graph theory / Computer vision

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OiUDozOwxjTx5xWshx9CdQhltO_...

Email: hristohristov54@gmail.com

I'm looking for an opportunity in computer vision, preferably in recognition of documents or diagrams. I have experience with shape recognition, classification and text extraction and want to build a great product with those technologies. I'm based in EU but will be in North America for the foreseeable future (no work permit tho). I appreciate in person work but remote is doable after some period. Please contact me only if you are a decision maker, I'm not open to recruiters.
Is that needed a lot in industrial apps?
I understand why people are pissing their pants over a hypothetical more than the reality. It takes a lot of courage to confront evil. It even takes courage to admit evil exists. Not everyone has this capability.

Ukraine has a right to defend itself until Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine, and complies with their prior agreements[1], all of which they agreed to voluntarily. So long as they're not complying with those agreements, why bother making another one that they'll just piss on?

It was a Soviet jurist who referred to wars of aggression as the supreme international crime. The worst wars have all been wars of aggression. That is why it is never to be committed. For the first time in history a nuclear armed nation, that's also a founding member of the UN, and permanent member of the Security Council, has directly violated the most important proscription in all of international law. The very reason why the UN exists, and the Security Council exists, is to prevent exactly what Russia alone has done.

Compromise with evil will completely undo what we thought we had learned from WW1 and WW2. There is something you don't fear enough, because you can't possibly have an imagination for it, given what you wrote. Unwinding the current international system of laws is a demand to resume world war, because obviously we did not learn the lesson the first two times around. Abandoning the lessons we have, however imperfect, is what leads to hell! Not defending the most important lessons!

Chamberlain also thought about giving in to tyranny. Tyranny made a peace agreement with him. And then reneged two years later, starting WW2 after it had sufficiently built up its industrial military capacity.

We have very good reason to know if Ukraine doesn't defend itself, it will be exterminated. Russia has published a genocide handbook akin to Mein Kampf [2]. One of the lessons from history is, when they tell you they want to commit genocide, believe them. Whereas Russia could withdraw at any time, and Russians would accept it because they live in tyranny. They'd have no choice but to accept it.

We are dealing with this now because the world ignored the invasion in 2014. We're lucky Putin is so badly prepared in 2022.

[1]

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

[2]

https://human-rights.cmc.edu/2022/04/14/russias-genocide-han...
Read following IMHO:

- "Ecology of decisions", Phil Salin

- "The use of knowledge by society", FA Hayek

- "Origins of Money", Carl Menger

You can also watch videos by Thomas Sowell or his books
SEEKING WORK | Seattle | Remote OK

I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I've been using Kubernetes since the very beginning, been actively working at scale, and worked across the stack and with diverse technologies. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks. My current availability is limited; I'm well stocked on clients though trying to increase throughput and wrap up some projects. I'm available for consulting on your initial setup, for fixing your build, as well as on retainer for operational Oncall. I'm actually quite busy at the moment, but happy to have a conversation if you've got something small or forward-looking, or happy to forward it on to my network.

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They detected plutonium in the water supply of Santa Fe in the 70s and according to this article, as recently as 2006. The ideal quantity of plutonium in your water is zero.

https://rense.com/general77/santa.htm
Finfare | Backend Engineers | Irvine, CA | Hybrid | https://finfare.com

Finfare is an early-stage (Series A) fintech startup with a focus on AI-powered payment systems. With our large seed funding this year, we are expanding our platform engineering team to create APIs and integrate with partners. Our current tech stack is a microservice architecture built-in Node.js, Java (Spring Boot) / MySQL backend hosted in AWS and Python for our data science.

We offer a hybrid work model working remotely and onsite in our Irvine, CA office that provides us catered lunches and an onsite gym. Benefits include health, vision dental (you and your dependent(s) are covered), unlimited PTO, 401K (employer matching), parental leave, WFH monthly stipend, employee stock purchase plan and more. Sorry, no VISA sponsorship available at this time.

To learn more about us and our industry, checkout our CEO's interview:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelashley/2022/07/28/can-fi...

To apply, please email gloriad [at] finfare.com and mention HN.
Yes, TFA really is suggesting we combine tree droppings with human excrement.

Where can I sign up to become a donor?
Breaking in is tough. If you’re confident in your skills, there are a bunch of platforms like fiverr which aren’t glamorous, but it’s something. The tough answer might be to work the blue collar for a couple months and then go all in on software once you have some money saved up.
My HACK app provides all those (and a few additional views which aren't listed on that page) plus chronological views which can be filtered by Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly. You can also filter for posts with 100, 200, 300, 400 or 500 points.

Also sends push notifications for when someone replies/comments to your post/comment.

Screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/I8MCYjV

iOS, iPadOS and MacOS:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
All your examples are far better served by opt-in "sign me up for new/interesting stuff on X" model.
The article strictly points out the need for a shared concurrency models required in the functioning of a online game thats massively parrelled across both clients and various individual 'servers'.

Unique, hash based, 'stacked' items that are non-fungible with a decentralized shared state across clients.... yes, technically that's 'Just a database' but a highly complex one.

I get people hate the hype and 'uselessness' of crypto and even the term 'Blockchain' is loaded, but dismissing the technology out of hand is uncalled for. Especially when the author gave a very clear use case for a very real problem in shared state computing.
that's a good one, Mandelbrot is the boss. not exactly economics though but more about the markets
Isn't HN like other forums with terrible, er quaint UI at this point? No power users on reddit actually use the bare app or official mobile application.
I feel like focusing to spray your organ with sufficient coverage is way more complicated than just slipping a regular condom on
PopOS and Ubuntu-Budgie are pretty nice for general use... I think my only problem really is that Bluetooth headphones don't always auto negotiate to mono+mic to/from stereo... but I'd rather deal with that than ads in the Start menu search.
The thing with hard working jobs is that you need to consider pension. Probably you wont bei able to do heavy lifting stuff fulltime in your sixties. What then?
For too long, Kendi told the audience, society’s understanding of racism has focused on the perpetrators rather than the victims. “We should be outcome-centered and victim-centered,” he said. “If a policy is leading to racial injustice, it doesn’t really matter if the policymaker intended for that policy to lead to racial injustice. If an idea is suggesting that white people are superior, it doesn’t really matter if the expressor of that idea intended for that idea to connote white superiority.”

If we train our focus on outcomes and victims, Kendi said, “intention will become irrelevant.”

https://news.yale.edu/2020/12/07/kendi-racism-about-power-an...

The book presents 5 questions to settle the question of "Am I racist?"

__always giving primacy to the individual over the collective, or group;

__always embracing the concept of individual rights to help me judge problematic social interactions;

__never assessing quantities of stuff in gauging whether a policy is racist;

__always attempting to embrace the “color-blind rule” when making choices;

__always maintaining awareness of the distinctions between equity and equality; never compromizing equality of rights in order to bring about equity of stuff.

the central idea of antiracism seems to be that all racial groups are equal, and therefore, any inequality is proof of racism, and any policy that arguably contributed to that inequality is also racist. This too, does not make sense. If inequality is due to racism, how can we explain inequality within racial groups? Why do white people in one state make more money than in another state? Why do chlidren from two parent households generally do better academically than children from single parent households of the same race? Racism can't be the answer. And Kendi rarely offers any proof that racism is the primary source of inequality between groups, let alone the only source. The book also feels overly long and highly repetitive, with Kendi driving home the same handful of points/ideas over and over again.
In some rankings in tech hiring, Principal is just the level after Senior in this sequence:

Junior -> Mid-level -> Senior -> Principal -> Staff

The rank in that scheme doesn't imply head of anything, not even head of any project. It may or may not come with a relatively high degree of autonomy. It doesn't imply only one of anything.

If that's how BuildZoom are using it, advertising for a Principal is very similar to if they were permanently advertising for another Senior Engineer. If they end up hiring a lot of Principals who have come from other roles at a simialr level, I don't think there's anything odd about that.

I style myself as a Senior on LinkedIn. The title doesn't mean anything formal because I'm self-employed most of the time, so I choose my own title to convey a reasonable idea of what I can offer. I had formal employment with a Senior title 24 years ago, so I'm pretty sure I can stake a fair claim! It had never occured to me to use the higher titles in the above list, though nowadays as Principal/Staff gets more common I'm wondering if Senior looks too inexperienced now.

In late 2020 I applied for a role as Senior Firmware Engineer, and was instead offered a role as Principal Firmware Engineer. When I asked what that title meant, the company said Principal came with higher RSUs as proportion of the compensation, because Principal Engineers were expected to take more of a lead in defining company projects and mentoring others, so they should share a little more in the stock risks of the company.

Well, who'd complain about more autonomy and pay. However in reality, it appeared to be the same kind of coding work with about the same autonomy as they'd give a Mid-level or Senior, with a title-based reason to pay a bit more and some recognition of experience.

(I accepted the role, but after a long time preparing to start, they ghosted me and the recruiters. This was after we had agreed terms and starting date by email, and told me to expect the new-employee pack by post. Turns out their executive team's secret policy, not mentioned during interviews or chats with HR, was to review Principal-and-above roles after the candidate accepted terms without telling the candidate or recruiters this was happening, and intentionally delay sending the "formal" contract out so the candidate would believe they had no rights. They decided they no longer had a business need for the role, apparently. You would think a Principal Firmware Engineer already signed up could just have been transferred to any of the 100s of other products, given the implied experience and autonomy from the title, but apparently not. This is a company with about 1600 employees and high technical overlap between products, that was doing well during the pandemic.)
Usually comments are grayed out if either it's been downvoted a lot (some sort of upvote to downvote ratio) or if it's been "FLAGGED" or "DEAD".
I have a list of YouTube social science (many being Economics) lecture course playlists:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw-6EtbW9DCzj5f0EoAWvNw/pla...

But I have only watched a couple. There is also a Business & Finance list under the same channel.

For a book for someone who hasn't learned any Econ (or doesn't remember their 1 semester high school) there is the two part Cartoon Introduction: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CHP27M?binding=kindle_edition&...
This was NYC Flushing and they limit to one per in-store customer. Believe it or not there were a little over 50 of them and the stock lasted about 5 or 6 days. I waited two days before going and there were still like 30 of them. Picos are all over.
I missed UO's hayday, but when I've played the big modern MMOs I find myself instead attracted to the idea that individual characters shouldn't be able to do everything. I feel like forcing players to interact if they want to gather specific resources or craft vital items would really help a game feel "massively multiplayer".

Are there any modern MMOs with mechanics like this, e.g. life-skill limits or some other source of dependence on other players?
What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
Conditional statements are even harder to remember. How many square brackets do I need? 1 or 2? Do I use == or -eq? Where does the semicolon go again?
Eh - I suppose with the music analogy it's more like the Pi folks chose to play arenas instead of festivals, and keep putting corporate box seat customers on the guest list ahead of GA attendees. I think there's some blame here, I just also think it's flat-out incorrect to claim that Pi prices have increased.
>There's nothing they can do to prevent scalpers from buying them and jacking up the price 10x

There is, actually. They can raise their price until supply equals demand
I read the thread backwards and missed the GP.
Which is why I'm so glad that Valve/Steam are putting in the efforts they have been, even if it's yet another (less) walled garden. I don't play games a lot, but appreciate their efforts all the same.
I spent some time as a volunteer sandbagging one of the levees in Missouri as high water neared flood stage. While there, I heard a quote attributed to an old-time farmer who was also the president of the Upper Mississippi Valley Drainage Association who also appeared before Congress on damages caused by varying the water level. The quote was along the lines of: "We think we can drain water from certain areas and farm the land next to the river, but that land belongs to the Mississippi. It can take it back any time it wants to."
I can’t speak for others, but I use the Pi for student projects in an undergrad networking course. I previously required students to supply their own, but I now have the option to rent from me at cost.

With the current situation, I am not certain that I will have enough supply for my next class.
Is it enabled by default in Firefox yet? I've just tried:

https://libre-software.net/image/avif-test/

on two Linux machines with Firefox 105, and both showed the alt image text, so I guess maybe not, although it's showing up as enabled in about:config.

Edit: https://avif.io/ seems to work and display converted .jpg files, so maybe the first URL is old and doesn't work.
The applicator looks to me a lot like a HVLP (high volume low pressure) gravity fed paint applicator, which I have used to spray automotive paint. In that scenario, compressed air is used as propellant.

Example: https://www.johnsonautobodysupply.com/meiji-air-gravity-feed...
I was excited to play but I couldn't make it past the character creation screen. There's a bug preventing me from spending all of my attribute points.
If its any consolation, my take on this is that by purchasing a Mac (and not an iPhone) and avoiding all apps from the App Store or anything that displays ads you actually signal to Apple that you value their open hardware and software ecosystem. I would dispense with the iPhone but not the Mac ... until the day they actually mandate the App Store on Macs.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Typescript, C++, Python, React, MongoDB/MySQL
Résumé/CV: https://yok.dev/resume.pdf
Email: sam@yok.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/samyok
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samyok

I took a gap year after high school to work at an ed-tech start up as a full-time software engineer. Turned down a return-offer to attend UMN, so I'm looking for internships for next summer. Preferably, I'm looking for opportunities to work on interesting (read: challenging) problems with smart people, regardless of any tech stack or domain.
Anybody who draws a DBZ over 9000 meme into their lessons on control theory gets an A+ from me.
Not even. Everything except Monero makes money-laundering analysis trivially easy.
Was there ever a time when that kind of syntax was normal in other languages? Or is it just arcane syntax, that never had a time when other languages were built like it? Maybe the problem isn't that it's old, but just that it's bad.
Airports are a different animal and I refuse to do them if I can help it. Uber drivers in the SF Bay Area compete aggressively for airport runs, so if that's any indication then I'm not surprised Uber is better for your airport. It's easy to break a rule at an airport and get a ticket, it's always a mad rush, and some passengers are cranky and get mad if you don't act like their personal driver in regards to luggage handling. Some drivers can't figure out there are much easier ways to make good money.
PiHole goes a long way.. for mobile, I've setup wireguard at home, which lets my phone use my PiHole for DNS... Was the most convenient self-host option for it... bonus, is it blocks ads for other devices too.
Because it's hard to say "conditionally enable AVX-512 only on platforms supporting it BUT not on platforms where it actually brings performance penalties."
You're paid what it costs for you not to work somewhere else. This is largely decoupled from how much value you create.

The only kind of compensation that is correlated to value are sales commissions, which most devs don't make.

A lot of us get deluded from the fact that we're highly skilled labor that takes a ton of training and skill sets most people don't have, while at the moment we make products with zero marginal costs. It's not the latter that's as important as the former.
I think the mainly part is correct, but 12 hours of running like 6-7k calories for an 150 lbs. person. As you get heavier it’s going to go up fast (and non linearly)—essentially any kind of extreme exercise is going to put an upper limit on your weight.

I’m unsure if your body can even process 10k calories in day. The basal metabolic rate for a 1000 lbs person isn’t that high.
Epic Games Website Bug – Don't Buy V-Bucks for Nintendo Switch
I don't even want to submit anything to Hacker News, but I don't know where else to post this.

Epic Games' customer support is lacking.

The Epic Games website allows you to log in with a Nintendo Switch Account. Once logged in you can buy V-Bucks for Fortnite. However, if you buy V-Bucks for Fortnite while logged in using your Nintendo Switch Account they don't actually transfer to your Nintendo Switch Account.

Does this make sense?

So, I did this for my son 3 times. The first time they didn't show up right away, so I rebooted his Switch and then the V-Bucks showed up. I did it a second time...they didn't show up even after a reboot. I reached out to customer service, and they did transfer them. I figured it was a network issue or something. I did it a 3rd time. The 3rd time the customer service person said they won't transfer them, and they have a policy of only doing that once. What!?

Epic Games, please get it together. This policy and website bug make you look ridiculous. Either disallow logins for Nintendo Switch, or fix the transfer issue.
Bash is trying to mimic algol68 (poorly).

Allegedly the guy who created bash had a bunch of C macros that made C more algol68-like.
I normally put years of experience with a language. That leads to some dumb things like saying I have 3 years of xp with Node when most of those years have been beginner tier, but overall it's gives a decent overview.
That's pretty much standard with chemistry. Have fun trying to violate thermodynamics.
It kind of does, even if mistakenly. People use "schizo" as a derogatory way to refer to schizophrenic and "schizoid" isn't a commonly used term; I have seen people use it this way.
Credit Suisse Shares Tank as Capital Concerns Remind of Lehman Brothers Failure