skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see this story was already posted before I tried to post it via another link. But here's my comment:

This is on par with The Smithsonian or the British Museum burning to the ground. It's where Brazil's Declaration of Independence was signed and it was the residence of the Portuguese Royal Family for decades.

While the closest fire station is 500 meters from where the fire happened, and the National Museum is located in front of a lake (in a place called Quinta da Boa Vista), they had issues accessing their water supply - for which they are the entity responsible - and whole areas of the wooden, termite-infested museum burned while they tried to sort the water supply out.

The museum was in disrepair for several years, with the media reporting on it repeatedly, but their govt budget for 2018 was a mere $13,500. Since 2010, it was the fourth important Brazilian museum to be burnt down due to fire (or rather, lack of a proper fire prevention system).

Not from the article, but important to emphasize:

"The museum of Quinta da Boa Vista had the largest collection of Egyptian mummies outside of Egypt, the largest collection of Pompeii outside of Italy, the mummies of the American civilizations, the fossils of Luzia, the oldest homo sapiens ever found in Brazil. Largest meteor to ever fall into the country. A huge collection of dinosaur fossils."

And, finally, I'll add that the museum was where physical evidence of new species was mandatorily catalogued. It's a loss for so many other branches outside history, like biology.
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> his unusual use of Either twice also makes me wonder if maybe he's foreign and is as confused by English as native speakers are

Non native speaking can be terrible. It's as if American's don't have the letter 'u' on a keyboard.
> builders haven't been taking cash since more than a decade now

Why do you think they have accounts in Mauritius?
I see, thanks. I had the experience of having some mails ending in gmail spam box until we added SPF, but we were a young company (and thus, domain name), and it was in 2014. I wouldn't feel confident recommending not using SPF to anyone, though :)
Ah thanks, I wouldn't want to inconvenience you it was just to tell her something along the lines of : "Hey did you know roe-deer would be the main source of protein for early hom(inins?)"

It's kinda sad how some not-so-old knowledge has essentially been lost already (as in, if it's ungooglable it's practically lost)..
It's "becoming common" largely because the US is requiring it by 2020 in all aircraft, incidentally.
WalmartLabs - Portland, Oregon | Software Engineer, All Levels | Full Stack Node.js / React | Onsite, Full Time or Contract to Hire

Position Description
Over 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. Over 140 million people shop in 4500+ Walmart stores every week. As such, no one else is better positioned to deliver the best, most seamless shopping experience, in-store and online, and that's exactly what our team is set up to deliver.

The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is comfortable with a variety of technologies, and is able to ramp up quickly on new ones if needed. We are looking for a strategic thinker, someone who is analytical, detail and results-oriented and has excellent problem-solving skills with a strong work ethic. You’re customer focused, highly motivated, and a self-starter. You’re an excellent communicator, building strong cross functional relationships and excel at working across departments and easily collaborating with Business Partners, Product Owners, User Experience, Project Managers, Research, Engineering and QA teams.

I'm specifically looking for engineers with strong backgrounds in node.js/react OR iOS OR Android.

Reach out to me directly at smiles@walmartlabs.com.
This is one of the most important parts of biological intuition that is very hard to get access to. Even PhD graduates often stumble when asked even about the order-of-magnitude of some of these values.

It's not dissimilar to the general order-of-magnitude of speeds associated with various computer components (RAM, CPU, Cache, HD seek, network latency, etc.). But there are many more components in a biological system, and their interactions up and down the physical scales are sometimes not obvious.

A simple example of intuition: once you've sequence your DNA, how would you go about changing it? Which DNA? Is the 'sequence' you got back an average sequence across just those cells that were sampled? Is the DNA you would want to change both copies, in each cell, in every tissue?

Another example is running through how a PCR reaction works.
The actual result of the process often trips people up the first time because it's not immediately clear that there is an infinite pool of each component in the system to permit self-reactions in later steps of the process. Once a component is used in the first part of the process, it's still there in later parts of the process.
For example, consider a process, like writing an expense, that is really simple. Because it's simple, it might be tempting not have a specialized person do it and instead having every person do it on the need basis. But then, if it's done only rarely, people will have to learn it each time, or ask somebody how to do it, spending lot more time on it due to what are pretty much cache misses, and it would be more efficient to have a specialist do it, because then he would do it every day and had all the process corner cases in working memory.

This is true, but it's important to remember that people aren't machines. Going too far down the division-of-labour route risks losing sight of what you're actually trying to achieve. Certainly in my case, that makes it a lot harder to perform my best, and it reduces the chance of spotting different ways to slice-and-dice the problem.
Location: Los Angeles, CA · Orange County, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Email: jorge.israel.p@gmail.com

https://www.blaenkdenum.com · https://github.com/blaenk · https://stackoverflow.com/users/101090

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zg61blcfod3i3mr/resume.pdf?dl=0

Technologies: Rust · TypeScript · Python · Go · Node.js · React.js · Ruby · Clojure · PostgreSQL

I'm a practical developer who is happy to work at any level of the stack using a variety of different languages and technologies. I have a wide interest ranging from algorithms and data structures to the scalability of data-intensive applications.

I'm always happy to embrace the fun challenge of adapting to the given situation. I can comfortably go from working with low-level C to high-level functional-programming languages like Haskell and Clojure, from kernel APIs to REST and GraphQL APIs, and everywhere in between. Whatever the tools, I'm always eager to employ their best practices to produce correct, idiomatic solutions.

I love to learn different technologies out of a genuine interest in gaining different perspectives on software development, both to help me keep an open mind and to be mindful of the variety of different approaches that can be taken to solve a problem.

Check out my notes on what I've learned: https://www.blaenkdenum.com/notes/
Facet | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineers | Full-time | Onsite

Facet is harnessing machine intelligence to make photo editing quick, collaborative, and scalable. We understand that pictures are more than just pixels, so we're building a platform that lets creative professionals edit whole collections of photographs in terms of the people, objects, and colors they contain.

To build this platform, we need engineers (like you?) who can think deeply about complex systems and empathize with artists, and are also curious, respectful, and creative. We use Typescript, React, WebGL, GraphQL, Postgres, Node, Python, Tensorflow, and Terraform, but it's not a big deal if you haven't.

We're seed funded -- backed by great VCs, former Dropbox execs, and AI researchers from Google Brain and Salesforce -- and building out our founding engineering team in SF.

If you'd like to talk, I'm the CTO and you can drop me an email at matt@facet.ai.
He said he has been working remotely for 10 years.
EdgeMethods | Senior .NET Dev | Full Time | UK Remote

We are the UKs leading Microsoft partner for IoT. We build solutions and products for primarily for industrial and scientific customers on top of the Azure IoT platform.

Looking for a senior .NET dev to join the work-from-home based team. Full stack with modern web dev experience. Great opportunity to learn new skills in processing large amounts of data in an architecture that is message oriented, serverless and has plenty of complex analytics problems to solve.
Remote: Yes, occasional on-site meet-ups or retreats are welcome

Location: Based in the south of Germany

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, JSON API, Sidekiq, AWS, Heroku, RSpec

Email: seniorrubyengineer@gmail.com

Senior Ruby Engineer with more than twelve years of experience in building web applications based on Ruby on Rails at scale (>10M users, >20M daily requests). Strong focus on performance optimization (algorithms, SQL optimization, scaling), site reliability (monitoring, debugging, bug fixing) and maintenance/refactoring of huge, legacy Rails applications (major Rails updates, extracting services).

Looking for a Tech Lead role in a team of about 4-16 developers or a CTO position in a startup in an early stage. I like to work autonomously and pro-actively on hard and difficult tasks. I mentor juniors and train my teammates to make good architecture and design decisions.
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Total BS. The announcement of the demonisation by Modi repeatedly mentioned removing black money from the system. There wasn't a single mention of moving to a digital economy. When the blackmoney angle failed, the BJP govt started talking about digital India etc.
FYI; companies typically make one reply, instead of per opening, unless those roles are incredibly distinct.
Merantix | {Machine Intelligence, Software, Frontend, Backend} Engineer | Berlin | Full-Time, Internship, Onsite, Visa assistance | http://www.merantix.com
Merantix conceptualizes, builds and scales AI ventures. Our team is made up of entrepreneurs, scientists, physicians and engineers from premier universities in Europe and North America. Many of us have PhD’s and work experience at top tech companies. We’re based in Europe’s startup capital, Berlin, and are growing quickly!

We are looking for Data and Machine Intelligence Engineers to join our core team to help us develop impactful applications of machine learning across a range of fields. We deploy to Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Tensorflow, Apache Beam, Google Cloud ML, and Docker.

You will:

* Research and prototype state-of-the-art deep learning models

* Design terabyte-scale data pipelines

* Iterate on building and analyzing products to uncover scalable businesses

Further, we're also hiring Frontend and Backend engineers for our medical project team which is making healthcare more efficient through machine learning. There, you will:
* Work on a very challenging browser-based medical application in ClojureScript / Django

* Have a tight and efficient feedback-loop with physicians (two of which work here full-time)

* Interface with our Machine Learning models.

Have a look at our job openings here: https://merantix.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/
Keen IO | San Antonio, TX | Solutions Architect | Full-time | ONSITE | https://keen.io

We acquired Keen last December and have been carefully growing the team and getting the product in shape since then. We started with ramping up engineering over the spring/summer and we just finished staffing up our CS org. We've got enough organic demand that a Solutions Architect is our next critical hire (our chief platform engineer and I have been splitting that work but its definitely a full time job at this point).

At Keen the Solutions Architect role is a bit different. Its a highly technical role and you work both pre-sales and on post sale implementation. Our analytics platform provides general purpose building blocks to solve a wide variety of challenges, we rely heavily on discovery and a deep level of analytics expertise to help our customers assemble exactly the solution they need.

What we’re looking for:
- Experience in either a Sales or Customer facing engineering role.
- Solid understanding of SQL or NoSQL concepts and implementations.
- Technical background working with modern web technologies, stacks, and API’s.

You should have some familiarity with one or more of the following: Javascript, Ruby, Node, or Python, etc.

Ultimately, what we’re looking for is someone with familiarity implementing business or product performance analytics ( activation, engagement, retention, adoption), and that can help other companies use our platform to implement similar metrics and data models.

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/scaleworkscom/view/P...

If you've got any questions shoot me an email (florian.hines@keen.io).
Then let me drop a reference to Sundiver by David Brin, which is the start of the uplift cycle.

The elevator is by far the least interesting idea of these novels which center about a future where we have uplifted (given sapience) monkeys and dolphins. We are also trying to survive in an unkind universe where Earth is a third world political power that is making religious fanatics angry.
Back buttons are so overrated.
>since letting ships sink to save some money is negligence assuming a fix can be reasonably found

I'd assume there are smart people in the shipping industry that have spent a lifetime on such issues. I suspect there is not some "reasonably found" solution that will help.

It may be as simple as surprise severe weather events sink many of those lost - and the cost to protect such a large fleet from rare events is extremely costly.

Paying $3200/trip for insurance against ship loss of this kind is peanuts for protecting a $20M item that generates millions annually in revenue.

And the insurance on the goods (and this $3200) is simply passed on to those paying to ship goods.
I think this is too much too late for Jenkins.

I can't speak for other countries but in London a lot of companies are now using Gitlab or Circle CI.

I migrated all my builds (12 projects) to Gitlab CI. After figuring out the first CI pipeline using DockerInDocker, it was easy to then setup the remaining pipelines.

Self hosting Gitlab was perfect for our needs (private docker registry). I use Gitlab for personal use too.

I wonder if they will get rid of Ruby in the future though and go Java to make it more performant, as it does slow down sometimes.

The Jenkins box is still running though, more out of sentimental value :)
Nylas – San Francisco, NYC or remote | Site Reliability Engineer | AWS, Ansible, Terraform | Full-time

The Nylas Cloud APIs makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can shape the future of how people work.

We’re looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join our team to help build and scale the infrastructure our platform runs on and the tools our developers need to get work done. Our SRE team is responsible for the infrastructure layer of our API platform—the base operating system (including security), CI/CD & deployment tools, monitoring and observability tools, and our horizontally sharded data storage layer which stores tens of terabytes of data. Right now, our open-source Python sync engine regularly archives terabytes of data across a massive SQL cluster, and our Flask APIs handle tens of millions of requests a day. We aim to scale that several times over in the next year.

At Nylas, “DevOps” is a part of our engineering culture, not a role we’re looking to fill. Our development team shares the pager with operations and makes their own deploys. We’re always looking for ways in which we can have specialists who delight in really knowing different parts of systems but still avoid being silo’d away.

We keep our code and infrastructure automation in the same repo, and you’ll be empowered to make application changes necessary for scaling and reliability in collaboration with our development team.

Our stack: Python, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Debian
About you:
- You have 2 - 5 years of production engineering experience

- You are located anywhere in US timezones - we have offices
in San Francisco and NYC and this team contains remote members

- You value communication and empathy as much as technical prowess

- You can navigate a Linux command line

- You have experience automating systems using any modern configuration management system (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)

- You have experience running services on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)

- You can write reliable code in at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript etc.), though this won’t be a focus of our interview process

- You’re excited to create a modern, scalable infrastructure and automate away drudgery

Nice to have:

- Experience with monitoring systems, databases, or service orchestration using terraform (but don’t worry, it’s OK to learn this stuff on the job if you don't know it already)

Our team collaboratively wrote about our values, benefits, perks, and published them in our open-source handbook. Read it to learn more about Nylas. You can also find more details at: https://www.keyvalues.com/nylas

If you're interested in applying, please send me an email at karim@nylas.com!
It's interesting to contrast that to Japan's standard "IC" card NFC system, with multiple vendors (Pasmo, Suica, etc.). Everything in that system is so blazing fast. Commute-hour Tokyo subways full of people moving as fast as they can without resorting to a full run, TAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAP... through the turnstiles, very low failure rates (I've never witnessed one), not really a noticeable delay, and it'll show you your balance if you can swivel your head fast enough as you're whipping through the gate.

It makes a much more recently deployed system in my area of the US look like a total embarrassment: seconds per processed tap, a much higher tap failure rate (regularly see tap failures for myself and others), etc.
180w to 85w is pretty impressive.

I didn't know that compilation was memory speed limited.

Are there any good benchmarks on it?

Anyone have any examples of getting faster memory boosting build speed?

Over the last few years I'd settled into thinking that high speed ram barely did anything. I guess I was wrong!
An incredibly small number of incredibly wealthy individuals buy the compliance of our government through the legalized bribery of political contributions.

The near-term interests of those individuals are not aligned with the long-term interests of the rest of humankind.
Songkick | Full Stack Software & Platform Engineers | London, UK | Fulltime | ONSITE

Songkick is on a mission to bring the magic of live music to fans everywhere. Since 2007, we've set about making it as easy, fun and fair as possible for you to see your favorite artists live. Right now, more than 15 million music fans across the globe use Songkick to track their favorite artists, discover awesome concerts and never ever miss out.

We're looking for developers with the ability to take on a range of challenges: from developing our highly scalable website and mobile apps, to integrating with other platforms (streaming services, social networks), to large-scale data acquisition and processing.

We do our best work when we're happy, respectful and relaxed. Our values and work ethic have got us far, and as we grow we'll never shake that small startup feel. Earlier this year we became part of the Warner Music Group family, opening up epic new realms of opportunities to bring fans and artists closer together.

If you're interested, there's more info on our jobs page at songkick.com/jobs, or reach out to me directly on smudge [at] songkick.com
This recipe is pretty close to the one given when you buy a bilig (the Breton name for what's called «crêpière» in the recipe) from Krampouz (the most common brand). So I guess it's counts as a legit crêpe recipe :). Of course you don't put too much buckwheat floor, just a tiny bit (a spoon or so) to give just a little bit of taste. And yes, there's sugar in it.

And when it comes to salted crêpes made with buckwheat, there's two variants depending on the region you're in :

- Galettes, from eastern Brittany (Rennes) they are indeed made with just buckwheat floor, water and salt. They are around 1mm thick and have a soft texture. There's traditionally eaten with sausage, in kind of a wrap, and called «galette-saucisse».

- «Crêpes de blé noir», from western Brittany (Quimper), which are made with buckwheat floor, eggs, milk, butter and salt. It can also contains wheat floor. Those are really thin, and have a crispy texture, and are commonly eaten «complètes» with ham, cheese and an egg on top.
I know but it's not ecc-ram.
Presumably that explains why they were elected, and are now the government :-)

Why is that surprising?
The increase in the tax base in 2016-17 was 14% which is exactly the same as from 2013-14. That is to say that the tax base did not increase dramatically after demonitisation.
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I'm a big fan of Fog Creek's "The Most Basic Things Your Company Needs to Know About Sales" (https://www.fogcreek.com/guide/The-most-basic-things-your-co...) It's roughly 25 pages about high level sales strategies. The PDF mentions the book "How You Make the Sale" by Frank McNair (https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Sale-Frank-McNair/dp/1402204... was a great 101 level book on sales. It's high level so it could be applied to everything from selling cars and real estate to software.

I found these helpful because it was less "here's 10 closing tips and tricks!" and more about the sales process.
Your company name is somewhat similar to "Springer", which also operates in that space. Is your company related to Springer in some way?
This is very interesting. I follow your logic for products builds on top of blockchains (e.g. smart contract types of apps).

But for protocols like Ethereum or Stellar, how do define "future cashflows"? Do you use cost of transactions? Or what is the thinking there?
What surprised me was that ironically reduction of acid rain aerosol particles is actually accelerating the effect of global warming [1], [2].

As a result, there are some who are arguing about the use of it for climate engineering [3].

I would be against climate engineering, but in the case of aerosol, given the history of volcano eruptions of the past and that we are facing an irreversible trend, this is something we need to seriously consider before it's too late.

[1] (scroll to the Aerosol graph) https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...

[2] https://www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/cli_aerosols....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...
ROBOAMP | DALLAS, TX | Software Engineers | Full-time - Remote

Love to be on top of edge technologies?
Enjoy solving chores through automation? ️

Join us!

What we do: With just one line of code, we make websites load in one second or less.

What we are looking for:

We are a small agile team who value communication, learning, teamwork and organization. We encourage everyone to contribute, think things through, ask, question, propose better solutions and take an active part in everything we do.

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