skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are skeptical that someone who has what appears to be otherwise great grammar and spelling is not from the US... because of one mistake? That everyone and their grandmothers has made at least once in their lives?

Have you seen the 45th president? Have you seen the average American?

Are you actually serious right now?
The summary is two case studies:

- Searching for molecules with specific pharmaceutical effects.

- Solving ordering problems for cargo ship offloading (which feels like a traveling salesman sort of problem?)

All in all, I liked reading this article because it helps show places where quantum computing adds value by solving problems. I spend a lot of time in cryptography where the fear of quantum computing is that it will force a new class of slower cryptographic algorithms into use, so seeing positive uses of the technology is really quite nice.
> KDE did the same major overhall

The difference between GNOME and KDE's major overhauls is that KDE didn't get rid of all of their customization options in theirs.
I haven't because I don't need it or want it
in the right context, greek letters were actually supposed to represent meaningful names. especially with Greek historically treated as the lingua franca for science.

the fact that most people abuse greek letters for this purpose says more about most people than about the utility of greek letters in formulae.

(but otherwise, yes, I agree with the more general point)
Sure, but for some structures it amortizes to log(n) where mutable structures can amortize to O(1).
Byecoin
It's still F2, and due to this change I've actually learned to start using this more often.
Lots of UK native people make the same mistake, never mind the US. Give him a break.
He must not look at the UI, because the HomeAssistant interface begs you to update it _constantly,_ it's actually one of my biggest gripes with HA
I find these kinds of articles so tedious. There are many millionaires that came from nothing. Self made if you will. But they choose to highlight 3 of the most successful people in the modern world (not “just” millionaires but multi-billionaires) and say “see, their parents were not poor, that means self-made millionaires all come from families with money!”. Such lazy thinking.
Ask HN: C/C++ books on infrastructure(building, linking, crosscompiling, etc.)?
Most of the books are focusing on language itself while skipping such important topics as building third-party code, build systems (including how to bridge different systems (e.g. consume Make project from CMake one, or how to consume project without build system at all)), how to utilize system package managers to link libraries, cross-compilation, etc.

Any suggestions on where to read about those topics in a structured format or you learn this mostly through trial and error? Thanks!
The reason you were born on Earth and not on Mars is because Earth is hospitable to life and Mars is anything but. Put complex Earth lifeforms on Mars without a plan on how to terraform a good chunk of it in a way that it stays terraformed and with a large enough cycle that losses can be made up timely and you're merely sentencing them to a complicated form of death. The only earth creatures that can make it on Mars today are unicellar, maybe some exotic lichen or stuff like that. But humans? No, not for a long long time.
If one end of the cable is the size of the Earth, the physics can't get away with neglecting the gravity created by the cable itself.
There/their/they're is a very common mistake among people born and raised in the US, same as too/to/two.

Your third line is entirely unnecessary.
Flexibits | Windows Software Engineer | Remote | Full-time https://flexibits.com/jobs

We make Fantastical and Cardhop, award-winning calendar and contacts apps for Mac and iOS. We are a 21 person, fully-remote company spread across the US and Europe, and welcome anyone from around the world. We prefer candidates that are in time zones between US Pacific Time and Central European Time.

Tech stack: Objective-C, AppKit, UIKit, Swift, SwiftUI, C, C++, C#, WinUI.

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Software Engineer (Windows)

We're looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Windows developer to help bring the joy of Flexibits apps to Windows. This will include learning the ins and outs of Fantastical and Cardhop on macOS and iOS and bringing their magic to Windows, all the way from the natural language parser to the beautiful user interface.
Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal.

Highlights:

* Intuitive, visual data/signal explorer: http://explicable.ai

* Implementation in Spark/Scala of treeinterpreter, currently used in production

* Participation to the FICO-Google Explainable Machine Learning Challenge

Location: Paris, France

Remote: open to it

Willing to relocate: for the right job, yes

Technologies: SHAP, RuleFit, Random Forest, Word2Vec, PCA, t-SNE, LSH, Scikit-Learn, Spark, Flink, Weka, Databricks, BigQuery, Hive, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, AWS, Linux, Maven, Git, Java, Scala, Python, CAML, Elm, Javascript, Typescript, React, Spring, Primefaces, d3.js, Three.js

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitparis/

Github: https://github.com/benoitparis/

Email: pro+hn@benoit.paris

Blog: https://benoit.paris
When AirBnB became public, it wasn't about growth anymore but purely profit. These services were only "good" for the time they had to build positive buzz, now the bill is coming due and they are making as much profit as possible, at the expense of the guest. After all, what is the alternative now they have a monopoly in their niche? "Disruption" my ass... since Airbnb owns no property, the host is their lifeblood and they will always favor the host's reputation in order to make money.
So, many, commas, what could, it, mean? .
bro, I have family from the southeast US who write sentences that don't look like english. lol. Chill. The US is a big place with people who have varying degrees of DGAF when it comes to spelling/grammar.
English is not the official language of the US. :^)
If you judge people based off of grammar online then the US just lost 99% of its population.
Location: Mississippi, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Linux, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon Web Services (EC2, ECS, ELB, EFS, RDS, Lambda, S3), Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK

Resume/CV: https://sergiojpichardo.com/static/files/resume-sergio-picha...

Email: hello@sergiojpichardo.com

Website: https://sergiojpichardo.com/
Heh... I recently made a Booking.com review that started with...

"Reviews were stunning, the location was great, the price was reasonable".

Then, I went on explaining that I landed in front of a closed door, the host was not reachable, Booking.com support was not helpful, so I just drove on through the night and over mountains until I reached home 11 hours later.

After I made the review, Booking.com only kept the first sentence.

Since then, I try ordering directly from hosts or hotel chains.
- Sirch is a new search engine.
- Early prototype here: https://sirch-cyan.vercel.app/ (It takes a second for results to load)
- Looking for React + Node engineers mostly.
- If you're interested in HITL AI, I'd love to chat.

josh@sirchit.com
This is exactly the kind of dismissal that the guidelines explicitly ask you not to make.
SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote-open

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Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML. 13 years professional coding experience, 24 years personal.

Highlights:

* Intuitive, visual data/signal explorer: http://explicable.ai

* Implementation in Spark/Scala of treeinterpreter, currently used in production

* Participation to the FICO-Google Explainable Machine Learning Challenge

---------------------------

Tech: SHAP, RuleFit, Random Forest, Word2Vec, PCA, t-SNE, LSH, Scikit-Learn, Spark, Flink, Weka, Databricks, BigQuery, Hive, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, AWS, Linux, Maven, Git, Java, Scala, Python, CAML, Elm, Javascript, Typescript, React, Spring, Primefaces, d3.js, Three.js

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitparis/

Github: https://github.com/benoitparis/

Email: pro+hn@benoit.paris

Blog: https://benoit.paris
Property taxes are the only place I still use them. I can pay with a credit card, but they charge a percentage "convenience fee". The county does have a drop box for paying, though.
For me the main barrier has been convincing my family to actually take password management seriously. My entire family has had their emails hacked at least twice due to poor/reused passwords that have been in leaks, constantly forget IDs/passwords, and are constantly overwhelmed with the idea that they need to keep track of all these things.

I've set up a 1password family and set up accounts/vaults on everyone's computers/phones/tablets, yet they still find it too troublesome to use rather than simply writing passwords down in plaintext on their notes apps or just on sticky notes attached to their computers etc...

If anyone has had success encouraging family to use a password manager I would love to hear any tips, as I've sat my family down every holiday season to reset everyone's forgotten passwords and walk them through everything, practice creating/saving/using passwords and within a day it's all forgotten again. Like backups, I feel like no one takes it seriously until something truly horrible happens.
Location: Canada

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Various solvers (CPLEX, Gurobi, Or-Tools, etc.), Python, C++, Bash, Linux, and others

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/PhilippeOlivier/curriculum-vitae/blob/mas...

Email: See CV

I have a PhD in optimization / operations research. I'm the father of four young children, so I'm looking for flexible/remote part-time work, and/or contract work. I can work up to around 20-30 hours per week.

My specializations revolve around optimization and operations research---essentially, I solve optimization problems. You can give me a real-world problem and I can translate it into a mathematical model that can be solved (often optimally) via integer programming, constraint programming, or various forms of metaheuristics. I could manage my way around new solvers and programming languages if the project required it.

I'm currently working on a column generation-based daily fantasy sports (DFS) solver as a personal project. Taking as input the predictions/requirements of the user, this solver can generate optimal lineups for multi-entry tourneys. It is, as far as I am aware, the only DFS solver that can generate provably optimal sets of lineups for multi-entry DFS tourneys.
I don't see why an already rich person who became much wealthier than their parents cannot be praised for their ventures. Also, many people become rich by working for these companies, and they create new companies which provide more jobs. Some of these people become rich and have children as well...
As 196cm (6'6" in crazy units) I don't think I would want to be shorter, sure it would be more convenient/cheaper in past when trying to buy shoes and pants and I can't count how many times I hit my head while living in Eastern Asia for years (and even apartment I bought have only 191cm door frame and not gonna cut concrete to make them standard 200cm), but I am still fine with my height, though I would prefer for my kid to be at some higher average, something like 185-190cm would be fine with me. It seems it will work out considering his mother is lower than average 158cm and lower than my mother (I outgrown my father, same as pretty much everyone in extended family).

Btw. travelled a lot, took numerous flights (I remember good times where you could be upgraded to emergency row for free), 30+ hours bus/train journeys (India/China) while travelling and honestly travelling is not an issue, door frames and clothing/shoes are much worse. I remember hitting my head multiple times in narrow apartment hallway this summer vacation where AirBnB owner had great idea to put sticking sharp top side of hanger furniture around 190cm height, even proposed him in review solution to just cut tennis ball and put it on corner of furniture, which will be appreciated by anyone above 190cm in future and it solves issue for less than a euro.
“We currently can't use libraries with our stack”
Interesting. Could you share the reason?
VRBO's shtick -- unlike airbnb -- is that you're not sharing with anyone. Not even the owner. It's their differentiator.
Of course you can, but it would be hell when it comes to state management.
At my work, we have a so-called "social daily": every day from 16:00-16:30 people can join the call for some lighthearted banter. Attendance is optional, and I rarely join myself. But I value a lot that it exists.
VRBO?
>Of course, there is no guarantee that private security will remain "social service-y".

I think it's bound to happen. Money creeps in, the police officers are too expensive to maintain. They get replaced by blender drones.

Luckily, all media will be privatized and anyone reporting might end up in a blender drone accident.
"NASA has spent decades learning how to survive in the harsh environment of Congress, and that knowledge is bearing fruit today."

This is a great line.
Depends on riches and modern Times. There are many People in their 40-60s, who started by nothing, and worked themselves to the wealth of single or even ten millions. Which is by definition quite rich, just not super rich, which would be hundred millions or billions.

And it seems for becoming super rich you, usually need a good seed you can grow even more. For which I don't remember any real example. Maybe some gangster, or politician how earned their wealth through some other means, like Putin.
The author is against tagged unions. Ok.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union
> the publicly funded optical networks we use to reach our clients are not IPv6 ready.

> We small operators need to set up tunnels to provide IPv6 to our clients. ... And yes, of course, this infrastructure operator, Covage/XPFibre is owned by Altice, who also owns SFR,

I might be misunderstanding who the private and public actors are. To clarify, is Altice is over the tunnel infrastructure?
>Hiring private security on a large scale is novel in America.

No, it is not. Colleges and universities have been doing it for many decades.

"Seventy-five percent of campus law-enforcement agencies have armed officers, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey. Nine in 10 public campuses had “sworn” officers, meaning those who can carry a gun, have arrest power, and wear a badge; four in 10 private campuses did."[0]

TFA is focused primarily on policing related to homeless persons, while I'm pretty sure with most campuses in urban settings, they are focused more broadly on hard-core crime (murder, rape, armed robbery, gang-related activity).

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/univer...
Key Exchange [video]
You can find a list of billionaires and then just find their associated Wikipedia articles. From a glance at the top 10, only Gautam Adani seemed to have been somewhat middle class instead of upper class starting out. But feel free to continue going down the list, maybe you'll see a trend that's good enough for you.
Oh please. Move on. The internet is full of bad grammar by native speakers. It's the nature of speech. Who speaks the Queen's English?
Literally no reason, or a reason you didn't find satisfactory?
So you want a customer support chatbot? Which can't even handle transactions?

It seems pretty underwhelming as far as ChatGPT applications go.
SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote

Technologies: Various solvers (CPLEX, Gurobi, Or-Tools, etc.), Python, C++, Bash, Linux, and others

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/PhilippeOlivier/curriculum-vitae/blob/mas...

Email: See CV

I have a PhD in optimization / operations research. I'm the father of four young children, so I'm looking for flexible/remote part-time work, and/or contract work. I can work up to around 20-30 hours per week.

My specializations revolve around optimization and operations research---essentially, I solve optimization problems. You can give me a real-world problem and I can translate it into a mathematical model that can be solved (often optimally) via integer programming, constraint programming, or various forms of metaheuristics. I could manage my way around new solvers and programming languages if the project required it.

I'm currently working on a column generation-based daily fantasy sports (DFS) solver as a personal project. Taking as input the predictions/requirements of the user, this solver can generate optimal lineups for multi-entry tourneys. It is, as far as I am aware, the only DFS solver that can generate provably optimal sets of lineups for multi-entry DFS tourneys.
1. love someone, and become their sheltering rock.
2. engage in an (intense) outdoor activity (sports, for example).
3. spend less time in front of tv (either to watch a movie, or the news, or play video game, etc). ideally, you'll spend no time at all.
4. eat and drink healthily, laugh uncontrollably.
5. do not be anxious about anything (see philippians 4, and especially ecclesiastes 12, useful if read non-religiously but with the context of the whole book in mind).
I have never heard of this before, so congratulations on getting big enough for the paid competitors to take out ads.

"Kdenlive" sure is an open-source project name though. How is it even supposed to be pronounced? It's not actively offensive like "The GIMP" but it sure does not imply a single thing about what this program does to the uninitiated.
The children of millionaire lawyers and doctors also make a lot of noise on social media about "millionaires being the new middle class" and why we should only eat Zuckerberg and Bezos but leave out their wealthy parents.
Fwiw I read before commenting.
Even the security experts fall to phishing scams. Should we stop using the internet for financial transactions?

After decades of stupid "secure" password policies and lately almost worthless sms/otp as second factor auth the industry finally came up with a real solution: webauthn.

I think that if a webauthn like solution is provided for crypto storage then you won't see wallets stolen anymore.
Weightlifting in the morning.
1.) Absolutely, DIY aspect is still very strong (which is why I'm in in personally, I think it's pretty cool and interesting) Low Power modes (QRP) are magical. Recently increased solar activity has further enhanced these modes :)

2.) Plenty on YouTube nowadays (Ham Radio Crash Course, W2AEW, etc.), there are a few blogs here and there that you'll run into when you have specific questions. For exam prep, I loved the Gordon West books.

On a personal note:

Today actually marks my tenth year of being licensed :)
10 Years ago I took the tech and general class exams and passed, after studying some of the Gordon West books and using an Android app question generator at the time.
9 Years ago (at time of posting this in two days), I upgraded to Extra Class.

Like most new hams nowadays, I started out with a $35 Baofeng and $20 RTL-SDR dongle. It wasn't till after college and getting a full-time job that I finally invested into HF (Yaesu FT-991A, FT-818ND). For the past year, I've been building QRP rig kits, and learning CW.

Having a license definitely gave me some bonus points on job/internship interviews for electrical engineering jobs (Specifically RF/Mixed signal specialized positions).

Hamfests, especially the bigger ones like Orlando Hamcation and Dayton Hamvention, if you're very lucky like me can get some pretty good deals on test equipment and second hand rigs. I got very lucky last year in finding a Signal Hound BB60C Spectrum Analyzer for $400! (Current MSRP is pushing $3600+).

I've heard and seen a lot of negative stories about the hobby. Yes a lot of older folks (the "RF-Boomers" as I like to call them) tend to be pretty stubborn and hostile, try to avoid them. There are a lot of good folks that want to help (the True elmers of the hobby), spend a lot of time with them. I've been very fortunate to be a part of two clubs (Dayton Amateur Radio Association, and Platinum Coast Radio Society (Melbourne, FL)) that are very welcoming, friendly, and very active.

I can keep writing about all of the positive aspects of the hobby, but TL;DR I highly recommend it!

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KD8TUO
Several reasons:

1. Lack of skills. Front-end has evolved from web design. If people like to criticize software engineering as “not real engineering” then front-end is the farthest thing from engineering that exists in software engineering.
One can see this in the programming languages, the code reuse (libraries, packages, etc), the tools and the attitude.

2. Too much ambition. At the same time I don’t think I’ve ever seen a community so driven by reaching their goals at any cost. Once apps kneecapped web sites the community had a major identity crisis which they solved not by doubling but by tripling down on HTML, CSS, JS and the like. Standards, common sense, performance, usability, privacy be damned. Because of point 1, the solutions they built were also just good enough to not completely fall apart. This is also why everything’s being rewritten in the web.

2. Too much money. Unfortunately companies like Google and Facebook made an immense amount of money ruining privacy for everyone and they could do this faster, better and out of sight with web apps.
They poured money into web technologies like their lives depended on it (because they did) and in the end managed to squeeze a round peg into a square hole: the fundamentally mediocre web managed to displace more worthy technologies and entrenched itself.

Every few years some poor soul realises the reality of their professional existence and writes a blog post or comment asking something along the lines of “Why is front-end so terrible?”. But there’s too much money in the status quo, so they either get gaslighted, or subtly dismissed and the cycle repeats anew.

And that reality is that you can polish a turd. With enough manpower, motivation and money you can really make it shine. But underneath, it still stinks and people will figure it out. :-)

Note: I got out of front-end in the 00s and then out of back-end a year later. Since then I’ve watched this never-ending train-wreck with amusement and amazement, but also sadness when realising how many real apps are replaced by soulless Electron shells.
> We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions

If those reviews help you decide to buy from someplace other than Amazon... perhaps in short term or narrow circumstances it still helps Amazon (reduced refunds/etc).
Facebook is a great example of that: family money helped but the big win was convincing Harvard students that they could get laid by joining and bringing their high-status friends into the network. I forget the name and Google’s search degradation is making it hard to discover but there was a dispute years back by a woman who was an early hire alleging that she wasn’t fairly compensated for her work promoting Facebook to sororities, which seems like the kind of thing which is easy to undervalue (“it’s just marketing”) but key to having a network-heavy business hit critical mass.
Exactly, if we were to listen to such tales we may even still be living in a sustainable world! Luckily, we're steadily destroying life because we can. /s
Considering how often Americans write "could of" instead of "could have" I believe there is a correlation between poor grammar and being from the US.
Peeking into Rust