skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting hypothesis, but I have a hard time buying it. If everyone around them is eating meat, where's the motive for them to abstain?

> Plants contain higher levels of strontium than animal tissues. People who consume more plants and less meat will build up measurably higher levels of strontium in their bones.

How can we rule out that they weren't just eating tons of strontium-rich meat like seafood and less strontium-deficient meat like chicken? Or that they weren't just eating WAY MORE plant carbs than your average person being warriors and all? Maybe gladiators were like marathon runners and were always carb-loading to pack calories. That would effectively multiply their plant over meat intake by orders of magnitude. But just because marathon runners eat way more grains than meat doesn't mean they are vegetarians.
Fixing infrastructure is expensive. Just look at the roads and bridges in e.g. the US or Germany. Just to single out two countries with a mighty car lobby and crumbling infrastructure.
Also take into account the state spent 5% of GDP in the 1800's. That would barely pay for medicare today.

Income taxes are, however, pretty progressive, relatively easy to levvy and practical. They are not particularly bad taxes. Sales taxes, or VAT are worse in my opinion.
*aren't molded
Now we're talking about the angle each pixel subtends, so the size of each pixel given different screen placement distances. This does not mean we need more than 4k, just that we need smaller pixels for screens that are meant to be held closer to the eyes.
ok. but how about just faces? i wonder if it is possible to find enough data for that
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DigitalOcean | NYC | REMOTE | Sr Engineer: Platform Core

My team, Platform Core is hiring a Sr Engineer. Our team develops an internal PaaS based on Kubernetes, and operates the underlying infrastructure. Lots of fun and interesting stuff to do: we run over a thousand different services on our platform, and are constantly evolving it to expose new features and make operations simpler and better for the whole engineering org. The work is a healthy mix of operations (chef, docker, linux, kubernetes) and development (golang). Ops experience is a big plus for background, but the work is heavier on development.

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Ubisoft Massive | Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure Engineer) | Malmo, SE | Onsite, Relocation/VISA offered http://www.massive.se

My team is looking for an automation focused individual to help us release AAA games with the highest possible reliability, while supporting the needs of the adjacent programming squad.
Our team is comprised of classicly trained sysadmins who have always had a brush with automation, we work very closely with C++ programmers so experience or willingness is helpful.

Our stack is primarily comprised of Saltstack/Python/terraform, an ideal candidate would have enough Python experience to be able to investigate with us and fix bugs with us in saltstack (and contribute them back upstream).

We also deal with Windows and FreeBSD, but knowledge in those things is not paramount, typically we look for expertise in practical use of systems and infrastructure, concepts that go beyond the implementation of a single OS.
A full Jobspec is here: https://www.massive.se/job/online-infrastructure-site-reliab...

We have many other open positions for C++ programmers, Animators, Data Managers: https://www.massive.se/career/ each offers a relocation package and an additional VISA if required.
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I saw a "how do you make a good pick from an unknown selection?" article a couple of decades ago in the Observer which basically boiled down to "Always reject the first item; then pick the one which isn't glaringly worse."

Seems reasonably sound, statistically, based off some Monte Carlo simulations I did.
https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/koa

40 nodes, with one being an "unspecified" license. That's a reason not to switch.
>Old brick buildings can be really depressing when they're not kept up.

Brick dominates the UK, but the architecture in the continent in general is much more varied and interesting (see Paris, Rome, Prague, Cracow as examples).
The point here is not about this particular developer, but at about recommendation engines in general and the challenges they pose.

I'm not arguing against algorithms here, there are just too many games on Steam to show everyone a raw list of products and let them fend for themselves.. You need some kind of automated curation.

But as a seller of products, you have to put all your faith in the marketplace's ability to put your products in front of the right people as much as possible, and it can be frustrating when you suddenly start seeing data that shows this is happening less, and you don't know why.
When there's a bug I can't fix, I stop thinking "what should be happening" and instead start asking "what IS happening"?

Really helps think through the process
Who, with a college degree or without a union, gets overtime?
Yes, if there are experts today on homomorphic encryption, one would assume that Microsoft's department of Cryptographic Research plausibly includes some (if not all) of them.

Their publications are online, if one wants to see what peer reviewed works they've published: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/cryptography-...
Economically speaking, payroll taxes are always a burden on the employee, not on the employer, even if the employer is the one writing the check.
> so I want to ask this to understand why C++ was picked for this

Probably in-house competence & interoperability: tons of language provide binding to C++ (including Microsoft .net framework). And I guess researchers at MSR have other things to do than to learn a new language for the sole purpose of having the approvement of one or two netizens.
But does it support ray tracing at 4k 60 fps?
When dealing with clutter, I pick up an object and go "where should I put this?", and of course this doesn't work, because if I knew that, I would've put it there in the first place. It's clutter because I didn't have an answer.

So instead, I say "Where should this be a year from now?"

For some reason, this elicits entirely different answers. It cuts through the paralysis and imagines a future where the needful has been done.
Have you checked out Ubuntu's snap system? It provides fine permissions for applications, alongside a certain amount of application isolation.

https://snapcraft.io/
Tyton: Kernel-Mode Rootkit Detector
Probably for the best..
iPhones are not optimized for far-field use, though (which typically requires a mic array different than what's on iPhone). Echo has seven highly directional mics pointed in all different directions, and software which detects and isolates the source of speech. iPhone has two omnidirectional mics[1], on the bottom of the phone optimized for how you hold it in your hand.

[1]I am ignoring the other two mics on iPhone, which are not relevant: one on the back for video recording, and one in the earpiece for noise cancellation
To be fair, that is an ad.
Which earplugs do you use? I find that my ears get very irritated using earplugs for extended periods.
I don't know, I think I was very lucky. I just went from job to job (I'm 47 btw, and started working in the field ~20 years ago), and it all just came to me.

The switch to freelancing also sort of came naturally - a permanent job stopped very abrupt, and a headhunter that helped me find developers before approached me with the idea, because he had a customer who needed help.

I guess you also have to be "management material". Either you can do it or not. To a certain degree, you can learn management stuff, but honestly you have to be that kind of person.
This is one reason I don't really like embedded programming. There seems to be generally a fear of newer systems languages like Rust and a fear of newer features in C++. An embedded programmer told me he doesn't use the C++ STL because he doesn't want functions allocating stuff on his back. Doesn't seem very convincing as you can always redefine the global operator new.
Programming iOS 12: Dive Deep into Views, View Controllers, and Frameworks
Battery idea: Hydroelectric pumped storage, but with bricks
The best part being that assigns can point to multiple directories at once. Sort of like $PATH, except built-in to the OS and not just for executables. I guess a union filesystem is the closest you get on modern systems.
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We're looking for some Java and Ruby developers to join our backend team. Which? is in the process of a massive "digital transformation" overhauling our main CRM, publishing and data processing systems.

Email me on richard.hart@which.co.uk
I don’t understand why Firefox removed the tab exposé feature they had. Clicking a button gave you a look at all your open tabs allowing you to then drag them into groups. Only your active group was displayed but you could always switch to another group when browsing in a different context.

Combine that experience with the current Containers sandboxing feature and that would be a dream.
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Back-end: Java ElasticSearch Kafka

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Hiring:

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[Jr] Back End Engineer - Charlotte
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> People on call should get paid extra for it.

Lol does anyone here get paid extra for being on call?
> there are almost no major projects released that have been built in Rust.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18545373

This includes Microsoft, which I forgot in that post, who uses it in production for their IOT product, and as part of Visual Studio Code.

That said, for crypto, there are some less than ideal things. That’s not stopping projects from working on it.
+1 to brown/white noise. As much as I love listening to music, glorified static calms down my brain while I work. It's also great for quieting down the office... no cubicle wall is high or thick enough to drown out the guy with bronchitis who won't work from home OR the other guy who conducts remote trainings from his desk.

Whew, that got specific.
We can all agree that rewriting science department press releases is a bad idea and that journalists often get it wrong. But I wasn't referring to shoddy journalism, naked propaganda, click bait, or low-quality churnalism. My point was that no journalist or publication is perfect, but some are good enough, and what they do is expensive, necessary, and deserving of support.
Yeah except in this case Google is the enemy of even the moderately useful. Find any website you like. Odds are it uses google analytics and/or google ads, and good news: that website absolutely uses fingerprinting, even if they didn't implement it "themselves".
Read Committed vs. Repeatable Read in PostgreSQL
> How do you ensure that your business doesn't get coopted by BoM (Buckets of Money) to basically be a contract development house and eventual acquisition target by your largest enterprise customer while ignoring/harming all your other customers who were earlier adopters?

You don't. You remember who pays your salaries ( i.e. it is the customers who pay you buckets of money, not Joe Random User that bitches about paying $5/mo ) and you prioritize the features/requests of the Bucket Of Money customers.

If you have a real product, then the requests of Bucket of Money customers would closely match the requests of other customers and your product will grow gangbusters ( see AWS/Salesforce/Dropbox ). If they do not, then it is quite possible that in reality you are nothing else but the custom dev shop for one or two bucket of money customers and you dont have a real product.
Thanx | SF, DEN, Remote | Principal Engineer | Full-time | https://boards.greenhouse.io/thanx/jobs/903207

Americans spend more than $5 trillion on restaurants, retail, and services each year. Nearly 90% of those transactions happen in a real-world store. Data is king and online it powers personalized customer experiences and product recommendations. Offline, however, it’s still 1999. Brands are blind to their customers, causing them to spend more and more money on “spray-and-pray” marketing. The result is an ever-increasing wave of generic spam that makes it hard for consumers to build deeper, data-driven relationships with their favorite brands. No wonder brick-and-mortar stores are being left behind.
Thanx is fundamentally changing that. As the CRM for offline merchants, Thanx personalizes every interaction between a merchant and their best customers, resulting in measurable increases in revenue for merchants and far greater personalization for consumers. How?

•	Through proprietary partnerships with credit card networks (e.g. Visa, Mastercard, Amex), Thanx can reward consumers for their purchases and deliver highly-customized promotions to get them to return

•	Through our interactive dashboard, Thanx makes even the smallest marketing team a data-science driven expert in personalization, delivering the right message to the right customer at the right time through the right channel.

•	And by measuring our success based on revenue generated (not opens and clicks of emails) Thanx is committed to proving that we are actually making an impact for the brands we work with.

Think of us as Salesforce meets Google Adwords for offline retail. Thanx is backed by some of the best investors in the world — Sequoia Capital, Icon Ventures, and Andy Rachleff (CEO Wealthfront, cofounder Benchmark Capital), to name a few.
Thanx Engineering

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•	Culture: data-driven decision-making, risk-taking, no hierarchy, collaboration & shared responsibility, testing and continuous improvement. As a remote-friendly team, we have flexible work hours. We take time off as needed. We work and play hard -- be warned, when it comes to Mario Kart, we are super competitive!
sorry, I was on mobile and not to agile :) thanks!
>Disable malware scan

>The malware scan sends an unique identifier for each downloaded file to Google.

AFAIK that's not how safebrowsing works. it checks the hash against a local database, and it only sends the hash to google if there's a match.
> The legionnaire's daily ration consisted of 78% carbohydrates, mainly from wheat or barley

While calling that "vegetarian" is technically correct, it's not really what people understand by "vegetarian".
> YouTuber with viewerships as high as mainstream TV shows can barely afford "2 guys and a mic."

This actually isn't a revenue thing, its a platform expectation thing. There's a really good video essay (on YouTube, naturally) explaining the 'Manufactured Authenticity' for popular YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJEtCvb2Kw
SEEKING WORK | Full stack developer

Location: Edinburgh, UK or remote

Résumé/CV: https://www.seanw.org

Email: sw@seanw.org

Full stack software developer with over 10 years experience including a PhD in software verification. I can help with:

- Web app development: JavaScript (Node, TypeScript, AngularJS, Vue, jQuery), Python (Flask, Django), Java, PHP (WordPress).

- Mobile app development: Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova.

- Cloud hosting: Creating scalable apps that run on Heroku, AWS and Firebase.

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See https://www.seanw.org for more.
> When users start complaining about not being shown interesting stuff, then Valve will jump into action.

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of complaints about it, but as much as Valve tries to better the situation there's a significant problem: It is hard to match people with games they'll like based solely on broad metadata about both.
Sentry | Software Engineer, Billing & Analytics | San Francisco | Full time, onsite

https://sentry.io

Sentry is an open-source crash reporting platform that helps hundreds of thousands of software teams discover, triage, and resolve production software issues faster, so they can spend less time debugging and more time building software.

Our product is 100% open source (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry), yet we've found serious commercial success. We're up to thousands of customers and 80 people across our SF, Austin, and Vienna offices. I think our Instagram account (https://instagram.com/sentry.io/) illustrates our quirky company culture much more effectively than I can describe here.

Like everyone else, we're hiring for all our engineering teams all the time (https://sentry.io/careers/), but specifically I'm searching for a software engineer with a passion for revenue + data. We rolled our own billing and subscription services years ago, and we need to scale this critical piece of our infrastructure for the future. Find more about this role at https://sentry.io/careers/1258340/.

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There are cows in the game too. Did you use those in your training set?
SEEKING WORK | Full stack developer

Location: Edinburgh, UK or remote

Résumé/CV: https://www.seanw.org

Email: sw@seanw.org

Full stack software developer with over 10 years experience including a PhD in software verification offering:

- Web app development: JavaScript (Node, TypeScript, AngularJS, Vue, jQuery), Python (Flask, Django), Java, PHP (WordPress).

- Mobile app development: Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova.

- Cloud hosting: Creating scalable apps that run on Heroku, AWS and Firebase.

- SEO: On-page audits and implementing required changes.

- Code quality: Reducing defects in existing projects by integrating test suites, staging + development environments, Continuous Integration, planning boards and code reviews.

Examples projects independently developed and sold by myself:

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), tests if your website is following 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. Rated 4.9/5 with 15K+ active users and has paying users. Everything was done by myself, including frontend and backend work (TypeScript, Vue, Firebase, Docker, Node, Webpack, Netlify), website and UI design, and the comprehensive best practices guide that goes with the Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/).

- Fresco for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...), easy to use yet feature packed digital painting app for phones and tablets. The app features layers, customisable brushes, image filters and more. Rated 4/5, over 500K free downloads, over 10K copies sold. Implemented with Java and C.

See https://www.seanw.org for more.
You don't have to subscribe to a 21st century hypothesis, you simply have to believe or disbelieve the credibility of authors at the time describing the gladiator diet. This article is not controversial news, but scientific support for the existing narrative.
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Rapid Tender | Junior Developer | London, UK | Full-time, ONSITE, www.countfire.com (www.rapidtender.com)

If you are a super inquisitive, enthusiastic junior developer (especially with an eye for the frontend), we'd like to speak to you about becoming the 4th dev on our team.

We (Rapid Tender) make software (Countfire) for the construction industry. B2B software doesn't sound exciting but we do really interesting work. The technology you will learn includes (but is not limited to); js, react, mobx, angular, css, python, flask, sql, postgres and linux. You will be given continuous one-on-one support to progress rapidly to an experienced developer. My expectation is that what you're missing in experience, you will make up for in a desire to learn.

Apply here https://www.countfire.com/careers/junior-developer/ (no recruiters please)

PS also looking for other people too (including Customer Success / Training) https://www.countfire.com/careers/
I'm working at Slite remotely since July, this is an incredible team and product. I'd be happy to answer any questions :)
I expected a programming language that has Book of Common Prayer syntax.
On an iOS device, Siri will still do its best to work from a distance but there are limits to what can be done with a tiny phone-sized microphone.
The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia
Boston Dynamics | Various Roles | Waltham, MA | ONSITE | https://www.bostondynamics.com/jobs

Boston Dynamics is a leading developer of advanced dynamic robots, including Spot, Atlas, Handle, and others. We love to create innovative machines that combine advanced control systems, software, sophisticated mechanical designs, onboard sensing and perception, and extraordinary behavior.

We're hiring for a wide variety of positions - such as Machinists, Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and a wide variety of Software Engineering positions.

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I want to point out two Software Engineering positions that do not require a robotics background. These may be a great way to apply your past software experience to a new domain.

* Automated testing of dynamic robot software behavior. There's a lot of best practices from general software testing methodologies and infrastructure that we could build on, as well as a fair amount of terra incognita for applying this to the domain of robotics.

* Creating an API+SDK. Help define how customers can customize our robots to their specific needs. Past experience with cloud services and/or simulation could be useful here, as would any prior work building out libraries or APIs.

Please apply on the job posting page (https://www.bostondynamics.com/jobs), or you can reach out to me at cbentzel at bostondynamics.com with any questions.