skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nova Credit (YC W12) | San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY | Onsite or Remote (North America only) | https://www.novacredit.com

Despite having built substantial credit in their home countries, millions of immigrants have difficulty accessing credit cards, loans, mortgages, and leases without domestic credit. Nova Credit enables newcomers to share their credit history from their home country with financial service providers and others, unlocking new consumers for lenders, and new futures for immigrants. The team is 30 people and has raised $20m+ in funding from Index, General Catalyst, First Round Capital, Nyca, and Y Combinator.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/nova-credit

Here are our open roles:

- Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/d94c4bb0-5129-48ee-ae18-d65b7...

- Dev Ops Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/a9203b93-9fd2-42ca-8f17-16cba...

- Quality Automation Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/2e04923d-dd27-474f-8415-8da86...

- Data Science Internship: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/ddcdbffd-cf1e-4c71-b1bc-db5cc...

Tech Stack: Node.js, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, React
Reinforcement Learning: Q-Learning
fast.ai has some pretty good defaults. The main HP to choose in their tabular learner are the neurons in the linear layers and the number of embeddings for each category.
If you are an engineer and the company primarily makes money through cold calls by salespeople, then the salespeople are a revenue generating center and you are a cost center. A company increases profits by increasing revenue and reducing costs, so you can figure out which group will be prioritized when it comes to promotions and bonuses.
“Hey kids, did you know you can change your grades online? Check this out. Oh hey Jimmy, lets make that C into an A”

“Wow!”

“Change mine, change mine!”

I was impressed with dev tool live edit as an adult, unless kids already know about it, they’ll probably love it!
Location: North West UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (only looking for remote)

Technologies: Engineering Lead working on designing Kubernetes infra, containerisation, automation, testing, devsecops, low level Linux, packaging, IoT, ETL etc

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: joel@smashthesystems.com
SEEKING WORK | US citizen | Remote only (or Guadalajara)

Tech: The past 5 years, I've mostly been working on server applications with Node + Postgres and web client applications with React or Elm.

https://github.com/danneu

I've been the first hire of the largest bitcoin casino. I've built a popular forum from scratch with Node. I'm open to short-term work and longer term work, part-time work and full-time work.

Just shoot me an email: danrodneu@gmail.com
something something raspberry pi blinking lights
So if you live off the coast of some country, that country is liable to take care of you? Or maybe the seasteaders would simply pay for whatever services they need? Just like humans have traded for most of their existence?
Or maybe by "take advantage of" you mean "trade"?
I have shown the '7 minutes of terror' video every time I go in to my kids school for the Hour of Code events.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1090

I gives me the chills every time I watch it and is a great starting point to talk about how software / engineering can solve cool problems. I also like that it has both men and women from various ethnic backgrounds.

Another video I've started showing is the Human-Machine brain implant helping this quadriplegic control his arm again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6oNoLWcDqw

With that all said, I show these specific video as they are enabled with the tooling my company produces and I think that's an important part of the message as it helps connect the dots between the presenter (me) and the uses cases shown.

Good luck!
> Facebook’s acquisitions were ridiculed by most people at the time.

by whom, exactly? FB acquired companies with massive userbases and networks. Instagram is social, WhatsApp is communication. in fact, most of these make sense to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Oculus is a bit more questionable to me from an integration perspective.
The extension given to Huawei is due in August 19. My bet is that Huawei will be given another 3 month extension, which will line up with November presidential elections. After the election they will reach an agreement.
\u{200B} also has nothing to do with UTF-8. But I guess the inherent complexity with Unicode and its encodings means that most people will not care to understand how everything relates to each other.
cloudflare used to use iptables with SYNPROXY, simple blocking rule and later BPF matching.

Your server would be dead in any large scale attack anyway, iptables is fine and works well
Linux Kernel Memory Management for 400Gb/S Interfaces
Caracal | Data Integration for Wildlife Conservation | INTERNS | Kigali, REMOTE | https://caracal.cloud

Caracal is a data integration and analysis platform which aims to convert geospatial information into actionable information for protected areas. We are a startup (just 3 of us) with partnerships with national parks and other protected areas in east and central Africa. We are looking for React developers and graphic design interns.

Key technologies: React.js, OAuth2, AWS suite

Email casey@caracal.cloud to learn more!
Yeah well I didn't see anyone in my country advertise full time remote positions but I got one by offering to take a job and do it remotely.
Then not too different from living in a undeveloped/least developed country?
Rust inspired Swift heavily. I kinda don't care about Google results. All the big companies are doing something with Rust. Microsoft is doing actix and wants to use rust for IOT, Apple is trying to make Swift more like Rust, Google supports Rust on Fuchsia as a first class language etc.

I didn't say that upwork is skewing it intentionally, I'm saying that the samples aren't representative of the larger population.
And why is it valid to assume Google is doing this "parsing it into various marketing databases", where the only evidence about that is Google explicitly saying they don't do that?
They used to scan email for relevant ads (and only next to the email). They decided that was wrong, and stopped doing that.
What evidence do we have that they are lying?
> They've reinvented OCaml / SML pattern matching.

I don't think so. ML pattern matching is statically machine checkable for exhaustiveness. P6 matching is dynamic.

Aiui what they've done is generalized matching.

This includes features traditionally associated with pattern matching. But also any other match/destructure/bind operation.

A field of a match might build a parse tree or AST.

(Perl 5 did a simple small scale flat assignment approach to this; a statement could assign variables to selected elements of an array of captures extracted from a string by a regex. Perl 6 scales this up to turing complete parsing and AST generation involving huge numbers of nodes.)

One can match an arbitrary predicate. That's what the `* > 1` is. It's not a pattern.

Any value or variable can be matched against any value or variable. (Not just literals.)

Matching is "smart". For example:

say DateTime.new('2020-01-01T01:01:01Z') ~~ Date.new('2020-01-01')

displays True.

And it can all be destructured (with a fairly sophisticated range of options) and bound as part of the match.
Blocknet | REMOTE | Contract/Freelance | C++, Ethereum, Solidity

Blocknet was established in 2014 to create an open-source blockchain interoperability protocol for open interaction, communication, and exchange between different blockchains.

We are seeking a developer with C++ and Ethereum/Solidity experience to help complete existing work on a smart contract that allows exchange between ETH and our protocol. Payment will be based off completion of tasks/milestones.

Additional details on the scope of work:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J7Oq77jzvcjLkZKmgc9Jjuw6...

If interested, please reach out via contact@blocknet.co
Neither do i, but if some people truly believe that communism/socialism can work without iron curtain keeping people inside, they should be happy about seasteading as it will give them a way to test their hypothesis.
> The contention upthread was that we shouldn't use government spending for stimulus when monentary policy works better

I actually disagreed with this assertion in another comment [0], so I think we're in agreement here.

> monentary policy doesn't work at all in this situation

This is incorrect, though. A central bank may loan money to banks at a negative rate, with the condition that the loan funds non-financial and household spending (TLTROs) [1]. Such policy can provide stimulus at or below 0% interest rates.

> "well, just helicopter in money from the central bank as stimulus", which is... not monentary policy

As stated, whether helicopter money is monetary or fiscal policy is murky, but likely depends on its implementation:

"In other words, fiscal policy is about managing the net financial assets of the non-government sector relative to the state of the economy, and monetary policy is about managing interest rates (and through it, to the best of its abilities, bank lending and deposit creation) relative to the state of the economy." [2]

If, for example, the legislature were to issue a tax rebate to each citizen, it would satisfy Fullwiler's definition of fiscal policy. However, if implemented by directly altering bank lending, as TLTROs attempt to do, it should be considered monetary policy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20080372

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omo/tltro/html/inde...

[2] http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/06/what-is-helicopte...
Location: USA, NY

Remote: Ok, on-site preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Node, Redux, D3.js, HTML/CSS, Sass, Bootstrap, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.sahilkolwankar.com/resume.pdf

Email: sahilkolwankar@gmail.com
Chargeback insurance/protection is not new in the industry. And despite how nice it sounds to not have to worry about chargebacks, I think it's a bad deal for almost everybody.

The basic problem is that your incentives are not aligned with Stripe's: you make money when a good sale goes through, but that's when Stripe might lose money (if the transaction ends up being fraudulent). So they have an incentive to block any marginal orders, which means you lose revenue and suffer reputational harm of blocking good users.

Then there's the price: companies with a good fraud protection system / process typically keep chargebacks <0.1%. (For large companies, this means using something like Sift or Accertify along with a fraud review team, for smaller businesses it might just mean manually reviewing every order). So you're paying a lot for the convenience.

[Disclaimer: Used to work on fraud protection at Sift]
I've never heard of this State. It's very similar to Transnistria (which some of the world recognizes as a nation, but most UN countries still recognize as part of Moldova).
SwiftOnSecurity kind of did this, I think. But only managed to get into a higher rank by changing employers.
So if I pay your govt 3 million (or 3 billion (or 3 trillion)) in exchange I get to deport you, your family and everyone you know to wherever I want? Legal yeah?
As a commuting cyclist I usually prefer to ride in the street than in a bike lane. Protected cycle lanes are great only so long as nobody turns to the right directly in front of you. When there are cars parked in between the cycle lane and the car lane it's much easier for the driver to miss the cyclist, and few people check the cycle lane before turning right. I was definitely guilty of this until I started cycling.

Unprotected bike lanes between traffic and parking are the worst though. It's terrifying riding past cars any of which might open their door without looking and either cause me to crash into them or swerve into traffic and be run over. On these streets I will frequently ride in the car lanes as well.
I think this is true across most industries, now adays, not just modern tech.

At the very least, it doesn't appear to happen within companies anymore. It's more likely that an entry-level position (helpdesk, or otherwise) is a foot in the door to a _different_ company, rather than being the stepping stone _within_ a company.

I have nothing to support that, just my anecdotl observations.
> USSR, Imperial Russia, which ok, might have not have been democratic in any modern sense

That's a massive understatement. The Russian Empire abolished serfdom in 1861[0]. There's no way that the Soviet space program was an extension of institutions from a society that was literally feudal a generation before the revolution.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861
Omnivore.io - Senior Operations Engineer
TELECOMMUTE Full Time

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Operations Engineer is responsible for the health and well-being of the production environment, implementation of new and existing components, and maintaining and modernizing the processes and methods used within our platform.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Onboard and optimize microservices using Docker

Streamline CI/CD process and green/blue deployment

Maintain and evolve monitoring and notification systems

Create and maintain documentation on new services, procedures,
and requirements

Participate in an on-call schedule established by your manager, and be ready and available while on-call to immediately diagnose and resolve incidents.

Participate in the diagnosis and resolution of escalated critical emergency incidents.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Linux / Unix system administration skills, 5-10 years operations experience

Strong time and project management skills and attention to detail

Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks

Experience with multiple cloud hosting providers, and extensive experience with AWS

Experience with virtualization and containerization (i.e. docker)

Experience with RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch and Redis

Experience with monitoring and metrics systems (i.e. nagios, grafana)

Experience with configuration management systems (i.e. Ansible, Chef)

Solid scripting skills (i.e. shell scripts, Ruby, Python, Go)

Authorized to work in the United States and pass standard background checks for compliance standards

https://omnivore.applytojob.com/apply/ObT6mbdRBK/Senior-Oper...
> investigations don't do anything

Sure they do. Even if they result in no action, they're a distraction for management and a source of stress for every senior person who has to prepare for providing testimony under oath.
With regard to Gmail, privacy might be the wrong metric to be concerned about anyway.

Gmail can unilaterally lock you out of your email at any moment, immediately and forever, with no recourse nor consumer protections.

That, for me, would be mighty annoying.
Except in very high-demand seasons/routes, Amtrak is pretty affordable. I routinely see 200-mile one-way tickets on my usual route for $30. I took my sister's kid on a fun 35-mile train ride for like $8 total.

I've done Chicago -> Oakland via Amtrak for less than $200... It's brutal in coach. But I've done the same route in a private sleeper room, with 6 or 7 restaurant-quality meals included, for less than $500. It's basically a 60-hour-long well-catered scenic landscape tour of America. (But the on-board WiFi and your ability to 4G tether is basically worthless between Denver -> SLC, and between SLC -> Reno :-)
If you can accurately, inexpensively, and automatically figure out what the labels on the classifier's training data should be, then you have no need for the classifier.
Crown Equipment
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From their About page, they are focused on disinformation coming from the government of Russia. Do you know if they do anything like Taiwan's 60-min response goal with accountability?

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/about/
Importance of Animation in App Design
Out of fairness, the DoJ reviewed both the Instagram [0] and WhatsApp [1] acquisitions for competitive impact prior to acquisition completion as is generally required for deals of this size [2].

It's not like the DoJ has been waiting on the sidelines unable to stop Facebook from buying smaller companies. They looked at it and concluded it wasn't an issue. Remember: the Instagram acquisition came ~1 yr after Google+ was launched and everyone was sure that Facebook was toast.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/ftc-c...

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/04/ftc-n...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/premerger-notification-progr...
Komodo Health | Data Science & Eng Managers, Sr. Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers | NYC & SF | Full-time, Onsite

Komodo Health builds data-science and AI-powered data platform and products improve decision making in healthcare. Our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease through big data analytics. Our "healthcare map" is where we process data and stitch together information about patients (over 300M in US), doctors, hospitals, payers, etc.

We are a data-first & eng-driven (55 engineers out of 140 employees) company and growing fast. We have significant traction and revenue.

Career Page: https://grnh.se/5ccd0c0d2

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Komodo Health | Data Science & Eng Managers, Sr. Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers | NYC & SF | Full-time, Onsite

Komodo Health builds data-science and AI-powered data platform and products improve decision making in healthcare. Our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease through big data analytics. Our "healthcare map" is where we process data and stitch together information about patients (over 300M in US), doctors, hospitals, payers, etc.

We are a data-first & eng-driven (55 engineers out of 140 employees) company and growing fast. We have significant traction and revenue.

Career Page: https://grnh.se/5ccd0c0d2

Engineering / Data Science:

* Data Science Manager

* Data Scientist

* Sr. Data Scientist

* Sr. Engineering Manager / Director

* Staff Software Engineer

* Sr. Engineer - Data Warehouse

* Analytics Engineer

* Sr. Software or Data Engineer

* Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Product / Design:

* Director of Product Management

* Technical Product Manager

Stack: Spark, Airflow, Python, React, Scala, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, PostgreSQL, Flask, Django, Snowflake
What country would nuke another country for declaring autonomy???
Most of the early MS open licenses were effectively MIT with a nuclear patent clause that would only be defensive.

Aside from that, the developer tools, azure etc have been under different management from Windows. Windows has specifically been chipped away slowly and methodically. Windows licensing has been reduced and the cost significantly lowered. And while I agree on telemetry, I'm not sure it's significantly worse than say iOS, Android or other OSes these days.

I'm likely to shift from Hackintosh to Linux (Manjaro or Pop) with my hardware refresh coming soon. I'm not a huge fan of Windows. But I don't really blame them too much. All of that said, MS is probably the most developer friendly corporation out there today. That doesn't mean they aren't trying to and don't profit from their positions.
From a position that is just straight local IT desktop support?

I don't see it happen much, at least not straight from the help desk to someplace else without someone say going to school or doing other things in the company.

Personally I worked 'tech support' for some high end networking type stuff for a long long time and that was a good career and still is in many places.... and yet:

Sadly I don't think people think highly of any kind of helpdesk or technical support anymore no matter what their public statements are.

At every company inevitably support budgets are cut, seen as a cost (even at places where we brought in a huge chunk of revenue via support contracts), and the skilled management types try to avoid / stay way from support so there's very few skilled managers to really stop the trend of cutting into support headcount, training, tools, and etc.

This is of course all self defeating because when support type roles are devalued and budgets cut... yeah they're going to suck.

As for the job change I think the issue is that companies don't think anymore about "What could this guy do?" They just see a list of alphabet soup and assume nothing ever changes. We had some "university hires" that were great guys and we wanted to bring up to a salary on par with everyone else. HR fought tooth and nail because "but they're university hires"... like what even does that mean? They're damn good employees...
> Or until you're at the scale where you're working with datasets/queries simply too big or too complex for Sheets to handle effectively.

At which, again from my perspective and view of things which may be wrong, startups are more likely to automate/productize that so they can better maintain and dogfood it if possible instead of letting someone's Excel workbook grow into a pet ML tool that only they understand.
It's important to stop calling them by the generic name doctors.

They are Physicians.

There are lots of doctors, but only one group has spent 300,000,000 dollars on limiting competition and propping their own profession with exclusive privileges.

That's Physicians!
Hello,
I’m a recent grad with experience in development and data analytics / machine learning. I’d love to talk with you about how I can helpPubNub grow.

email: spikej50@gmail.com
And if you hate the rich, you can convince yourself that no tax rate is too high. If you just really hate big business, there's no such thing as a bad regulation, because anything that makes life harder for business is a good thing.

Is it possible to distinguish someone who thinks taxes are good from society from someone who hates everyone better off from themselves?
http://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+launch+date
> The people of anywhere should get to decide what they want.

I don't dispute this. I dispute people in their comfy first world homes pontificating about how China should have democracy, when they haven't been to China and experienced:
1.) the kinds of problems China faces and
2.) the difficulties facing solving those problems in China

It smacks of arrogance and youthful naivety. Yes we have a democracy in the US and how is it doing? We have garbage voting machines that are easily hackable, rampant gerrymandering, and coordinated disinformation campaigns that contributed to Trump of all people being our president.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have it than not have it, and I think we can solve these problems. I'm optimistic. But those are just the problems WE have in a developed country one third the size of China, and with better infrastructure, education, and quality of live overall. I can't imagine trying to implement an _effective_ voting system in a country like China where many people do not even have clean water or basic sanitation yet. Not to mention the fact that they don't have division of powers, so before democracy was implemented they'd require a whole bottom up restructuring of their entire governmental apparatus.
Also "Outer Heaven" from the Metal Gear Solid games.
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