jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> We are talking about companies which have plenty of assets and strong businesses.

Technically true, but I would argue misleading (note: not implying intent on your behalf).

"We are talking about companies which have plenty of assets and fragile, taxpayer supported businesses" contains kind of the opposite message of your statement, yet this statement is also technically true.

> Thus the FED is acting as a lender of last resort directly to major corporations. Without this last resort said corporations would need to either fire-sale off assets to pay the principle on these bonds or face a technical default.

Again, technically true, under the circumstances we find ourselves in. But might the existence of the Fed, and its past policy responses to such events, have possibly creates an environment of moral hazard whereby events like this are practically guaranteed?

> Which is to say: these bailouts are going to happen. No one who understands what is at stack would choose to "let the house fall".

This seems like a bit of a false dichotomy to me, as if letting the house fail or bailing them out (once again) in this fashion are our only two options.

In a true capitalist system, the US government would receive equity in all the companies they bail out.

At some point I think it would be a good idea for us to admit to ourselves what kind of economic system we really have in the West, and try to determine if it is up to the task of competing with China and their economic system, which to my eye is clearly superior (based in part on observable relative performance in the last 20 years).
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Yes, but also ok with working on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes, and also in the process of getting EU citizenship which might facilitate the process (but no ETA on that yet). I'm also ok with relocating to NA.

Technologies:

- Currently Lead SRE at a healthcare startup, working on Platform Engineering, focusing on our cloud architecture's security and compliance aspects because we store a lot of sensitive patient information;

- 3 to 4 years of AWS experience, but prefer GCP by a mile;

- Solid experience with Systems Engineering & Architecture, especially distributed systems;

- Good background of close interaction with Data Science teams, and helping raise the bar when it comes to putting things in production;

- Passionate about Programming Language Theory, compilers, and the more formal/philosophical aspects of Computer Science;

- Previous experience with managing people and projects, with excellent reviews and feedback from my peers;

- Looking for Senior/Head/Tech-Lead positions in areas of R&D, Platform, or SRE, and to help with pushing forward strategic projects of high technical difficulty;

Résumé/CV & Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luizberti
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (travel 50% okay)

Technologies: SQL, Vuejs, BI, Linux, Node.js, Aws, Python, Elasticsearch, and more. Full stack generalist with a focus on data and MVPs

Résumé/CV: http://resume.generativestuff.com/

Email: work@generativestuff.com

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About: Venture, software & startup strategy. Product and consulting focus with 8+ years full-stack practice. Startup background and product management/go-to-market experience. Recently, co-founded a cash-flow positive market-tech startup and technical pre-sales for international clients.

Happy to talk about wide variety of opportunities, particularly generalist or T-shaped.
> Employers need to dial down expectations during this crisis - it's the price to pay for living in a society.

What would you do though when employers expect full working weeks, or for people to take holiday time or unpaid leave if they can't work the full week.
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Remote: Remote or onsite

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java

Resume: https://ericbalawejder.com/resume/

Email: eric.balawejder@protonmail.com
Location: Austin, TX.

Remote: Yes, only.

Technologies: C/C++, Java, Python, Scala, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, various cloud, machine learning, lots of others.

Experience: 16 years total at Google, Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, others. Please reach out for résumé.

Email: monktastic.prasad@gmail.com

Looking for folks driven by kindness and a mission to alleviate suffering (more directly than the average tech company). Good at building software, but interested in moving into data problems.
Location: Florida, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Full-stack development with a heavy focus on front-end tech: React, Redux, React Native, Angular, Typescript, etc.

Résumé/CV: Upon Request

Email: caseymcneil@gmail.com

I am a fully remote software developer that has been developing with Rails and Javascript for over 6 years. Last week, everyone in my company was placed on indefinite unpaid leave, prompting me to post the 'Have you been laid off?' thread here on Hacker news.

I am available for full-time or contract-based employment and would love to jump into a call to discuss how I can add value to your team.

A 60-second self-introduction: https://www.loom.com/share/1f98a46a707644978301b88ba47a0204
http://123d.circuits.io/ and https://projectignite.autodesk.com/
I'd agree up to a point, but if I read something where early on there is an obviously biased and/or incorrect series of statements being made, it's not much of a stretch to assume the rest of the content will share that trait. Still, it doesn't necessarily mean they won't make some decent points regardless, but it makes it all too easy to dismiss an argument when it's formed that way. I'm not sure I'd call it "looking for an excuse to be dismissive", as much as "not giving the author a chance to redeem their argument in spite of obvious weaknesses".
> At least everyone can agree that they don't like it for some reason, even if the reasons themselves contradict each other.

How does too many features and missing features contradict each other?

It's entirely possible for something to both have too many, unneeded features, while at the same time missing other important features.
It's kind of ironic that the author states "In his article, Byorgey hints at what I'm going to say, but I think it deserves to be said again, with slightly different words.", which is essentially what monad tutorials say about other monad tutorials :)
That's hard to compare with but honestly difficult to even call that an e-sport. It's more like a remote sport?
Wow, that's the first result on google. I've been noticing a trend of mental laziness in myself in the past few months.

Time to do something about it.
> I think you're just initializing a bunch of null bytes.

You're right. From MDN:

> The Uint8Array typed array represents an array of 8-bit unsigned integers. The contents are initialized to 0.

..And the function signature for crypto.subtle.encrypt() describes the iv parameter for the algorithm:

> iv - A BufferSource — the initialization vector. This must be unique for every encryption operation carried out with a given key.

> Put another way: never reuse an IV with the same key.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AesGcmParam...

The code comment implies that the author knew the iv parameter should be unique - and yet passed an array of zeros every time.
On the same topic:
"Medical company set to aid coronavirus response struck by ransomware"
https://www.ciodive.com/news/medical-company-coronavirus-ran...
Since this is getting some attention, we do also have roles for Web Dev in NYC that I want to call out:

https://grnh.se/daa7132a1us

https://grnh.se/52c084841us

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And C++ roles in London & Dublin

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If you use the extra time to do those quality things like playing with your dog or reading then you're benefiting from the on-demand economy. You've figured out how to make it work for you. That's great.

But... Lots of other people don't use that time well. They 'save' lots of time by having things brought to them, and spend that time watching TV or browsing the net despite not really enjoying those things. They're exchanging money for time to do passive activities they don't like and don't make them feel good. That is not a benefit. People apparently forget that saving time is a two-fold activity. There is the act of doing something to save the time, but there is also the act of using the time you saved to do something that doesn't make you feel awful. Unless you can do both things spending money to save time actually makes your situation worse.
That website. Omfg.
Note that `unsort` uses the Mersenne Twister for its PRNG, which is not cryptographically secure [0]. However, cracking Mersenne does require a significant amount of random bytes generated from the same seed, and a quick glance at the source reveals that it initializes the seed from /dev/urandom where available (unsort.c:169), which is good and probably obviates practical attacks.

[0] https://jazzy.id.au/2010/09/22/cracking_random_number_genera...
There are also many developed countries where these types of Gamedev Companies simply cannot and do not exist. The stories I've heard about (say) EA, that would never be possible in the Netherlands (probably even illegal, but culturally nobody would be willing to work under such conditions, either).

Not saying there aren't places here where you can software develop yourself to burnout death, but that really becomes a personal choice at that point. 80+ hour weeks are for the crazy ones. Sometimes it's the beautiful passionate crazies, and something amazing happens. I don't want to play down the results[0], but it's a gamble you play with your own health, life and well-being, it's a choice and one's own responsibility. You can't stop them, but you can make sure they may not hurt themselves too much.

[0] Actually, most examples I know of this are from areas completely outside software/computers, superheroes giving themselves for social/societal causes--but I wouldn't exclude "our" line of work per se.
Because they are so complicated, they are unlikely to have evolved twice.

This reminds me of the beginning of the babel fish argument for the non-existence of god by Douglas Adams:

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance ...
It depends on the programming language the project is done in.

Read the README in the repository (most have some)

For auto-tools (C) programs, usually:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/some-thing

make

make install

your program should then be in $HOME/some-thing/bin/some-program
It was not in that article - but I wander how do the guys using it feel about the security implications of it.
Then most programming is not computer science.
I think both the old and new diff worth a look. Maybe showing them using different colors is a good idea.

Phabricator uses light colors to show changes not introduced in this patch but a rebase against master [1]. The experience is pretty good if the workflow is to always fast-forward and the patch author does rebase. Changes introduced by other people are in light green and red. Duplicated-line issue can be obviously seen.

[1]: https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/diff...
I'll have one I don't need anymore when the new iPhone comes out.
This is what you get if you connect to the F1 live timing. It's live (as it says) and updated in real-time during the race:

http://www.formula1.com/live_timing/live_timing.html

I always have that open during a race, because you get a lot more detail from that than from the commentators. Some camera shots of the pit lane wall show exactly that screen.
On top of that, a few weeks after donating I got an "urgent" request from Jimmy Wales looking for a recurring monthly donation.
I never understood this sort of overblown digital hoarding attitude. Can you shed some light?
Yeah that is one potential problem, turning people off with politics. Really I think Progressives serve the science and technology sectors better than any other party/political group though, which is why we decided in the end to put these three topics together
They've already proven their business model, have tons of customers, are making a profit, and have a plan for scaling their business. This is the perfect time to take investment - regardless of whether they were bootstrapped to this point.

I don't think anything in the so-called "lean startup" philosophy runs counter to the idea of taking Series A financing when appropriate. Hell, even 37Signals took money from Jeff Bezos...
I really resent the unexplained blanket assertion that "college is broken".

If it's hard-hitting enough for you to post as a rebuttal, it's hard-hitting enough for you to explain your reasoning for. I had a useful, fulfilling, transformative college experience that challenged my preconceptions and taught me how to reason and appreciate complexity; I will readily admit to the financial privilege I enjoyed going in, but I couldn't have done it without financial aid and I knew plenty of other people who went in with much weaker financial backgrounds than me who did just fine (i.e. without debilitating debt afterwards).

So please, explain to me how "college is broken". I don't mind challenging it, and I would certainly agree on an anecdotal basis at least that some colleges and external systems surrounding them are broken (e.g. SAT), but asserting "college is broken" without further explanation isn't a meaningful challenge--it's a provocation, and one I will gladly take.
In Bitbucket's implementation you still only see the changes that are unique to your branch, but they're diff'd against the current tip of master rather than the merge base.
Which is ridiculous, because an S&P500 index fund is a much less risky asset over 30 years than a 4-bdrm house on Maple St in Anywhere, Michigan, yet 20:1 leverage is available for the latter. Unfortunately the government favors homes as an asset class and has distorted the market with policy.

I'd much rather put $50,000 down on something like a 30-yr mortgage for $250,000 in a diversified index fund than do the same in a house. But alas this isn't an available product.
How else do you pay for developers / servers?

Everyone that makes software should just sell it for profit, or give it away at a loss?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
I have a similar experience as you. I worked on a Neuroscience/BCI focused signal processing platform, and also came up with the idea of having a "Python script executor". We used YAML though to store the pipelines. Seems like a very recurring problem.
Grep, learn the symbol names, and talk to people to keep it in your head.

If you start having migraines, you're doing it right.
Graph annotations matter a lot for diffing I think. I think this is actually a good space to explore as it is a hard problem, and would require some serious UX research on how to handle this.

I feel that the one-dimensionality of text makes merging and reasoning about diffs simple, because they are easy to represent side by side. To diff something like an image, or a graph, you probably want to see them on top of each other, however that makes it harder to see the whole.
The author actually suggests different mechanism where not water but solid ice is pushed through the hole by the expansion behind it.
> So good cops who have never done anything wrong and never looked the other way or covered up for their coworkers would lose their pension?

100%, not even a second thought. We need reform, not excuses. Why do cops even get a pension in the first place? It should be a reward, not an entitlement. And it should only be rewarded if the entire department does its job, not an individual officer. They serve the community, and if the community is not served they should not be set for life.

To be clear here, the bar is "don't break the law." This isn't some extraordinary standard we're expecting them to adhere to. In fact, we're only trying to hold them to the same standards they hold everybody else to.
Yes, turn over more power to the German government, that's historically worked very well.
> The era of $400k total comp software development is going to end someday and more accessible remote work is only going to hasten it.

I'm not sure I buy this when the vast majority of these CEOs have magnitudes more money than they could feasibly spend even if they used a flamethrower. Honestly I don't see tech becoming less useful/profitable in the future, quite the opposite. As long as these $400k employees are netting people higher up a lot more, it isn't going to stop. One could argue that there's still room to pay the employees even more. (and let's be real, most people aren't getting $400k tc)
Delphi was a RAD environment (gui builder and component property editor) with pascal as a business logic impl language
It would be an interesting parallel universe to visit, where the Web runs on VBScript instead of JS. Would we have had node.vb?

VBScript, the syntax is aesthetically less pleasing, but there is no reason why it couldn't do anything that JavaScript can do, if more verbosely. (Of course, the semantics are inferior as well, but if VBScript had taken off, its semantics would likely have been improved at some point.)
"Hi, I don't think anyone from google is even looking at this since we have no resolution"

What's up with this Google?
True, but I don't know how stealthy it will be in practice while loaded up with external weapons and fuel tanks, not to mention the large profile fuselage that is has to accomodate the V/STOL capability. If it's radar evading abilities aren't that great with a combat loadout I have to wonder if the expense of designing the F-35 to be low observable will be worth it.

Because, as you said, if AA missiles are becoming so advanced that dogfighting really is dead, having a quasi-stealth aircraft may not be the advantage that it was originally billed to be.

Crazily enough, the program is having problems with heat melting off the stealth coatings, which is why the current fleet is not cleared for supersonic flight. My understanding is also that the sensor package is behind schedule.

I think if the idea was a stealthy strike fighter for just the Air Force or just the Navy,we might have a pretty nice jet at this point, but the one plane to do everything approach just keeps bearing bad news.
I've wondered about that too. While it would be hard to float any kind of space colony there even with giant dirigibles, I've always felt that Venus' thick, gaseous atmosphere offers tremendous long-term potential, and I don't understand why we don't fire more probes at it. There are extremophile bacteria on earth that live in hot or chemically hostile conditions, many of which are anaerobic. It seems like we could try some long-term terraforming efforts at little short-term cost.
I'd love to know if you could characterize the feeling more precisely :-)
By agreeing to cut starting assembly line workers wages in half the UAW has unknowingly extended its life time.
Eventually all factories will use these robots for the majority of assembly.

But if humans are removed from assembly the reason to keep manufacturing outside the US for cheap labor disappears. A combination of freight costs and supply chain distributions will put it at a decided disadvantage.

So manufacturing will return to America though there will be fewer jobs there will be increased demand for engineers.
ATTENTION: Book spoiler below!

SF author Vernor Vinge who introduced the term "singularity" tried to come up with an idea to prevent this and other "out of the kids basements" lethal threads to humanity, in his latest book Rainbow End. The "solution" in this book though, is to put all of humanity under mind control.
This link leads to a summary page if you don't have iTunes installed:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swapshot/id432027349?mt=8
Cool stuff. Will check it out. Did you do the graphics and icons yourself? What framework did you use to manage the backend exchanging of photos?
Can we get ePub format please ?
Custom cut acrylic (or other plastic sheet) might be an option too. Pretty cheap if you stick to rectangles, though there are places that will cut based on your 2D vector files also.
> The little girl in this vid managed to convey a very specific meaning to a passing ship using only a gesture.

And it's SO specific that just reading that sentence, I knew exactly which meaning you meant, and which gesture. (Clicking the link to confirm was totally worth it though.) I've been on both ends of that gesture and it's always a hoot.

> DJs/audio techs/musicians have a set for talking in loud environments.

Whoah, really? I've improvised plenty, but I'm super curious if there's a standard set. You can always figure out "make louder", "make quieter", point at objects, mimic certain instruments. But it'd be nice to have more vocabulary beyond that.
I think it's quite valuable to know how technically illiterate the judge is in a case that could have very real effects on the employment of people visiting these websites.

Tracking, trading of personal information and profiling are very important topics in computer ethics but when these topics hit the courts, the judge can get hung up by just the wording of the incognito mode, which, as we all know, opens with a page that explicitly states, in non-technical terms so as many people as possible can understand, that this information will still be collected.

All of the well thought-out narratives on these topics can be worthless when a judge bans a practice because they didn't read the instructions when they opened incognito mode.
JC Staff, a "bottom of the barrel studio"? Which universe?
(and I say that as someone who personally really doesn't like the studio)
Pull it on first run and cache it. If you're in place with a poor internet connection, you aren't going to be able to download the app from app store any way. I am going to assume 80% of the code packaged in the app in the app is never used by a majority of their customer base. Like all the business features where a company give their employees allowances.
I would give Blender another try. After 2.8 was released they did a great job on the new UI. 2.9 is showing much more of what’s to come. The grease pencil is turning out to be an amazing tool. I’m going to see if I can recreate some of my vector works using the grease pencil.
Do you offer this service of text summarization via API? I didn't exactly catch that, but we would be interested.

Note: I think the "Register for free" button for the webinar is broken.
It'll be alt-n on mac's I think!
I thought that's what California was all about
I'd be happy if they developed a protocol for testing the constitutionality of a law. That would have to be part of any experiment, since the effectiveness of a law is irrelevant if it's unconstitutional.
Too much state looting (and printing money is a way to loot) discourages production and investment besides causing political trouble. So there's a limit to how much any state can devalue.

To illustrate, your employer could make itself more competitive by cutting wages. But if it cuts wages too much you would stop working for it and find other employment. So there's a limit to how competitive you employer can be by cutting wages. The better, easier way to competitiveness is to increase productivity by enticing more productive workers with higher compensation.

By devaluing money, a government effectively cuts wages for the entire population, thus making the country as a whole more "competitive," i.e., foreigners can afford to buy more of the country's goods and services. But, just like cutting wages in a single firm is not generally effective, so inflation is not the best way to become nationally competitive.
Why would it be a shame? It's not pretty, agreed, but this might induce corporations to start behaving less "evil", otherwise there is always the threat that the hordes with their (digital) pitchforks will storm the castle. It tilts the balance of power in the right way.