skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a stark difference between "people will need to resettle" and "widespread extinction". Some of the coldest climates that are now largely uninhabited may thrive again, as they have in the past.

Climate change, at any large enough timescale, is completely unavoidable. It's also (to me) inconceivable that humanity will agree to limit its standard of living now just so that climate change can be somewhat mitigated.

> No, humans won't die, absolutely not. But I'm 100% certain that the civilization as we know it is fucked.

In that regard, I'd be much more worried about the prospects of a nuclear war than about climate change.
SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote

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Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML
Recent Highlights:

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

* Participation to the FICO-Google Explainable Machine Learning Challenge

* Intuitive, visual data/signal explorer (work in progress, partial view at http://explicable.ml (the 3D view))

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

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

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

Email: benoit@explicable.ml
SentiLink | Software Engineer (backend, platform, infra, machine learning, data science) | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | sentilink.com

SentiLink prevents synthetic fraud, an emerging fraud vector in which fraudsters open accounts using name/DOB/SSN combinations that don't correspond to real people. Our partners include top ten US banks, fintechs, and alternative lenders. We're backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin (Affirm CEO/PayPal Co-Founder), and former presidents/CEO's of Visa, Transunion, HSBC, and Citi.

We recently closed a $14M Series A [1] and are hiring software engineers to help us build our identity platform. Our tech stack uses Go (for the API part) and Python (for the ML part) on k8s and the work involves a lot of complex and sensitive data.

Please apply at https://jobs.lever.co/sentilink.

[1] https://businessinsider.com/synthetic-fraud-detection-startu...
Yeah but you better hope your constipation kicks in because I'm never going to a bathroom on any Indian train
what... hash tables? :) yes
I'm using technical in a broad sense. One effect of scientific research becoming bigger is that roles are becoming more specialized. Often the people leading the research have primarily spend time writing grants or papers, and less senior professors and post-docs will carry out the actual tasks. When I first started I was a bit shocked at how many of the big names knew basically nothing about the process of how their own research is carried out.

The effects are more pronounced depending on what field we're talking about. For example, in physics, I'd imagine most people have at least the fundamentals of programming down, even if software design may be lacking. In the field I work in (Neuroimaging), a lot of PI's are doctors or neuropsychologists, and might barely even know how to use a computer.
It's true, those two may soon swap, as my trust in not being recorded goes down.
Could you expound on this? I’m not saying I disagree, I’m just not sure which part of what he says disqualifies software engineering from being “engineering”
Author of LF and founder of ZeroTier here. I think my write up was a bit wordy so here is some more TL;DR:

LF is like etcd or consul (or so far just the data store aspects) but for decentralized systems that can be run by multiple parties across trust and organizational boundaries. It's an orchestration backend for decentralized apps.

We are going to use it to fully decentralize ZeroTier and for some specific enterprise customer projects, but others can use it for other stuff.
Sidepact: Start a company with a full-time job (applications close Wednesday)
Beekeeper | Growth Backend Engineer | ONSITE (Zurich, Switzerland) | Full-time

Beekeeper is a fast growing SaaS company disrupting the way 2 billion people working “out in the field” communicate within their companies. Are you eager to shape the future of traditional industries like hospitality, retail, manufacturing or transportation using latest mobile technology? We are looking for the most talented and passionate individuals that love to work in demanding and international environments.

As a Back-end Software Engineer in the Growth team you will be responsible for figuring out ways to scale our acquisition channels and run growth experiments to increase user activation and retention on a regular basis in close cooperation with our product and engineering team. The ideal candidate has a full-stack developer profile, with a specialisation in backend.

Technologies Used: Python, Java, Node.js, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Docker, Vue.js, Objective-C/Swift, Kotlin

Find more here : https://boards.greenhouse.io/beekeeper/jobs/1679583
So basically: Architect advocates for works program for architects...?
Could new Israeli research allow humans to choose their children's sex?
There often is an advantage to being a second mover. I am sure Tesla made a lot of expensive mistakes that a newcomer can avoid and save a lot of money.

The same would apply for SpaceX. They could study a lot of the successful and unsuccessful things other rocket makers had made and then do better.
Yes but the TGV is all based on 70s technology. The more modern trains (such as Siemens Velaro, Alstom AGV, Bomardier ETR 1000) are all multiple-units.

One notable exception is the Bombardier/Talgo 350 (known in Spain as "the Duck" for obvious reasons).
Taking even a half decent train is worth it if it means avoiding the airport security theater.

Also, anyone else get annoyed with tons of shops at airports? I think of airports as mega malls with some planes attached to them :(
Kensho Technologies | Data Scientists/Engineers across the stack | Full-time/Onsite | (Cambridge/Boston)/NYC/DC/LA

Kensho is a leading analytics and machine learning company serving the financial, healthcare, and national security sectors.

We have been formally backed by investors as diverse as Google, Goldman Sachs, and In-Q-Tel (the venture arm of the CIA). In April of last year we were acquired by S&P Global.

We recruit world-class engineers, data scientists, designers, scientists and researchers, many of whom have PhDs in scientific disciplines. We have a spectrum of opportunities in Harvard Square, New York City, and Washington, D.C. for individuals with the right scientific and computing skills.

To see all open positions visit: https://www.kensho.com/careers
Which both sides? I'm typing this on the MacBook Pro. And I'm really pissed off on Apple because of half-baked touch bar, and because letter N on my first generation butterfly keyboard is starting to stutter. But USB-C power? That's the thing I'm expecting Apple to do - to drive the whole industry kicking and screaming into the new direction. Do you really think we would see Dells and Lenovos and HPs with USB-C power without MacBooks being first, without compromises like "let's include MagSafe too"?
Amazon's response to The New York Times’ story on book counterfeiting
Nice to know it's in progress!

I hope the Matrix equivalent will be able to fully match and outdo email eventually, but 1-on-1 is already enough to be valuable, and it seems to me the room metaphor should be possible to map fairly gracefully to mailing lists at least.

Thanks for the efforts, as always!

I will read up on more of the current capabilities soon, by the way, to see if we can put an society I'm in on Matrix for internal communications and event announcements.
Exactly. I think when people talk about intelligent machines today what they are most after is autonomous, robust, common sense orientation and agency. It's not the ability to do algebra or reason logically, because we can actually already built systems that are quite good at that.

What we really want is a robot or a car that can orient itself in the abscence of structured data and doesn't glitch out into the wall once it loses its objective. And even primitive animals are very good at that.
In Europe most trains are electric. Even where trains run on diesel they are probably 10x as fuel efficient as flying.
It's a subjective question, but given that A68's slices are already burdened with carrying their lower bound wherever they go, not much is lost with adding another piece of data to them. They are already quite fat, and more with each dimension. I think the ability of taking a column and just apply any sequence function to it is well worth it.

I don't think you could use OS APIs without boxing and unboxing data, but I think that's the case with every language except C.
I was actually trying to find an example when I made my initial comment, but was unable to. It's been a long time since I did web scraping. Since then there are a lot more frameworks that help you build a website (and a correspondingly sane robots.txt), so there may not be as many as before.
Serotiny | Bay Area, CA | Full-stack Engineer, Frontend Focus | Full Time
Serotiny is a synthetic biology design firm that invents custom proteins to cure cancers and genetic diseases. We help design proteins involved in CAR-T therapies, CRISPR systems and other multi-domain protein therapeutics. See https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/

Industry: Synthetic Biology, Biotherapeutics, Bioinformatics, Genetics

Location: San Francisco

Current Stack: Javascript (Ember) front-end, REST API written in Go

Role: Front-end and data-visualization engineer - design, code, and deploy novel interfaces for protein design that interact with our custom API.

Perks: Small credentialed team, flexibility, community engagement

Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision

Compensation: $100-150k + Equity

https://serotiny.bio/careers/#Software%20Engineer%20-%20Fron...

Happy to chat. My name is Justin, and my email address is my name at serotiny.bio
Unfortunately, this simple argument is taken as if you are advocating socialism. When this simple argument can not reach traction with the majority of the citizenry, it feels hopeless.
Any modern car that is well maintained will last far longer than you will own it. People give up on their cars because their self image needs an excuse to get a new one. A lot of the maintenance cost is time based as well: UV and ozone are destroying rubber parts even while the car is sitting.

It depends on the car, but typically you are looking at $.20/mile for fuel, and $.05 for all other maintenance (including tires).

The average new car payment is something like $550/month. The average used car is somewhat less of course. Most people are making payments. Insurance is $500/year if you have a perfect driving record, many people pay more. These costs have nothing to do with how far you drive.

A few years ago I calculated my actual per/mile cost for my car, it was $.15/month, even though I bought it new (I track every fill up, though at 46mpg my fuel costs are less than average). The car had 200,000 miles on it to spread all the fixed costs across, and had been paid off for a few years.

The point is the marginal cost to drive a car you already own is low.
John Siracusa used to write about this in his old OS X reviews… Apple would do weird things like make a dark title bar for Garage Band, then a title bar with vertical "traffic" lights in iTunes that wasn't used anywhere else, then a normal looking title bar that was just a few-pixels off in margin from the stock title bar…

It's all kind of weird and silly, but nothing at all like Windows where you can suddenly jump into the Windows 2000 UI at any turn.
Want to make a difference on climate change as a technologist?
Feel free to join these communities actively looking for support and with ongoing projects (that are alive):

- https://climateaction.tech/

- https://techimpactmakers.com/

- https://www.tmrow.com/
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

OpenRent is the way people rent property online - a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £11.5bn worth of property, to over 1.5 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition. We're looking for people with a passion for solving real-world problems.

You'll be working in a close-knit team, directly with the founders. You'll have full autonomy to work on, and figure out how best to solve, the biggest problems in the industry. We find problems and improve customer experiences via code every day.

- Engineering (all levels) (C#) | Equity Available | Salary negotiable based on experience

https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

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Contact via the form online or email in my profile. Look forward to meeting you!
The article hit on this exact point with a rather interesting quote: "I should note that disenchantment should not be confused with secularisation. The sociological evidence suggests that de-Christianisation, while usually equated with secularisation, often correlates with an increase in belief in spirits, ghosts and magic – not the reverse.".

The article is more about animism than magic. Personally I find the confident, sometimes bordering on militant, rejection of animism by some to be no less peculiar than the no less confident adoption of others in religions undoubtedly invented by men. Why? We know that our brains seem to drive most of our decisions through various complex interactions with the rest of our body. And when these actors are manipulated, our behaviors thus change. This seems like a clear enough argument for determinism that would clearly run contrary to animism, but there's one little problem.

"Me." I am standing here believing that I am the one choosing my words, formatting my text, conveying my thoughts. Why would I be observing this, imagining myself to be the one engaging in such actions? If you write a program to generate a pseudo-random number I think everybody would agree it's quite absurd to imagine some being briefly flickers into existence, imagines himself picking a number, and then flickers back out of existence. Yet how does this notion become any less absurd as the program becomes more complex? You have to engage in extensive hand-waving and appeals to unknown and untestable facts to argue against animism in this case. Quite ironic then that it is this same behavior that people use as a critique of animism.

Don't take this as an endorsement or condemnation of either side. If anything it's an an appeal against radicalism on either side: believe what you want, try to persuade interested others if it gives you satisfaction, don't escalate beyond that.
I don't see how this can possible be legal vs the First Amendment.
Yeah, I've come to similar conclusions about Agile. It can be a great way for an already well-disciplined organization to think about the work they're doing. But many, many undisciplined organizations thought that Agile would be a catalyst for them to become disciplined. But the nitty gritty of "doing Agile" required EVEN MORE discipline than what all these organizations were already capable of exercising, so it just highlights all the frustrations everyone already has.

That does seem to be the downside of Agile. It's a collection of maybe a dozen different techniques and practices. But if one of those practices falters, whether it's the TDD, or the business side still wants a certain deadline, or you don't bother to demo at the end of a sprint, then the whole house of cards falls like dominoes..... checkmate!
There is also >>> for left-to-right composition, which is in base.

My favorite is Elm, which has |> and <| for application, and >> and << for composition, in the intuitive directions. It makes it easy and natural to eta-reduce/expand, when you want to.
twenty years ago, many believed in the idea "One country, two systems", "50 years unchanged"
I agree once someone doesn't own the car the numbers change. However if you already have a car the additional marginal cost to drive it on a trip is very low.
Haha I have the opposite issue and I also was quoting OSHA:

> OSHA recommends temperature control in the range of 68-76° F and humidity control in the range of 20%-60%.

When my desk thermometer started reading 76F+

Here is the thing, you can put on another layer of clothing or using a blanket, I cannot take off a layer of skin and my office does not allow for shorts/tank tops.
Submitted title says "two possibly exposed", but article has been updated to say that no one was exposed:

>No employees have been exposed to the substance, the Menlo Park Fire District said.
Like I mentioned above, I’m of the NetBSD camp. Adopts things like SMP and PAM (, dtrace, zfs, ...) where OpenBSD “drags its feet” or outright rejects (for reasons), but (ime) is less baffling and brittle than FreeBSD (pkgsrc vs ports (though in netbsd tradition, pkgsrc is portable to FreeBSD (and macOS X, Minix, Linux, SmartOS, ...))). Though as ‘pmarin said elsewhere, these are all general purpose OSes, with lots to offer in general, and some specifics to offer which differentiate them from ea. other and from any other OS.

If OpenBSD seems attractive to you, jump in :)

Give it a fair few weeks and evaluate. They’ve got some neat architecture features to play with (e.g. unveil(2), pledge(2)[0]) to exercise your software design/implementation. NetBSD and FreeBSD have dtrace[1] (NetBSD impl. is incomplete but still interesting and useful) and virtualization like bhyve[2] and nvmm[3]. Jump in!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277067

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVMM-Net...
Fake noise will be added to new electric cars starting today in the EU
> How is that different in domain names? If the name is available, you buy it and use it.

Because in the absence of price caps the registrar can choose to increase the price on "valuable" domain names (for whatever arbitrary criteria it decides means a domain is "valuable").
RemoteLock | REMOTE (global) | Full-time | Frontend Engineer

Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, React, React Native, GraphQL, gRPC, MySQL, AWS

RemoteLock™, a LockState company, is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and provides a cloud-enabled platform for smart locks allowing users to manage any type of internet-enabled lock from a single centralized dashboard.

Must be willing to work roughly US Mountain Time business hours.

If interested, please email techjobs@remotelock.com
> There is also almost daily breakfast/lunch/dinner tech meetups/network events in my city so it's easy to hang out with other cool and smart people.

Wow,that sounds really interesting, I never thought something similar could be a thing. Out of curiosity, where do you live?
The link should be read tongue in cheek, it's presented here out of context.

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/c2xapo/i_thought_...

"Totally joking with that post. I have no hard feelings. I really thought it was awesome how much some members of your community took to the game and made it so much better based on your feedback and play style."
People want more than just housing from housing. Some people want a system of wealth distribution to allow new entrants to the market (the young and/or disadvantaged) to build capital. Some want a place that they can call their own and customize as they see fit. Some want to be invested in a community. Some don't want to have to listen to and smell their neighbors through cheaply built shared walls.

If the existing capital holders build a bunch of rentals, then many of those goals are not possible.
Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada (also Vancouver area)

Remote: Preferred, Experienced

Willing to relocate: Yes (conditional)

Technologies: 2+ years worth in React, Django, Python, JavaScript, C#, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, ASP.NET Core, Bootstrap, Angular, jQuery, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS, Git

Résumé/CV: By Request

Email: pngen93@gmail.com
Worth noting this post is from 11 days ago, before SGDQ started.
As the game's author says in the article

> but I learned to love watching them. Their skill truly amazes me.

I got the impression that the game's author is seriously happy about all this. The timing of the article before a speedrunning event looks like it is intended for maximal publicity.

I'm not sure where you got the impression you did about the content of the article?
That was an excellent read. Thank you for posting it.
That is not the chief complaint of Electron apps.
The government IS the oil industy. They own 50-70% of every big oil company.
Petroleum resources will never be exhausted.

If fossil fuels become too expensive to pump out of the ground, some other process of creating them will replace that. Perhaps it'll come out of the atmosphere:

https://carbonengineering.com/about-a2f/
Exactly. This is way CA can't solve their housing problems today even if they had the political will to correct all the mal-incentives they have put into place.
I spent years using the Department of Energy's giant X-ray generators, and foil wrappings are extremely common at the experimental endstations. My favorite however was the scientist who custom-built a robotic arm that for many years used wooden pencils as part of the gripping hand. (I'm still not sure why he used pencils, except they were exactly the right size and physical properties. The robot worked, anyway.)
This post seems like a humble brag tbh
I'm going to steal this if you don't mind.
Completely right, I've been trying to hype up the "Github sponsorships" program as a way of changing the thinking around software (e.g. tacking OSS onto grants as required equipment), but haven't found much support.
> you ask if you missed anything during the period

For high-volume, fast-paced channels this may not be appropriate. For slower channels where people rarely post anything, you constantly asking "did I miss anything while I disconnected" might be considered spam.

> I might not want a 24/7 archive

What you may or may not want has no bearing on what the technology should be capable of providing when others may require it.

Technology can, and already has, solved these problems. If that's not your cup of tea, fine, but don't impose your own use cases on others through "but it works fine for me"-ism.
A normalized vector; i.e. a vector with magnitude 1.
They didn't handicap them. HK's status was entirely based on the fact that it was the entry to do business with China. Shanghai and China becoming more open (for example, foreign investors being able to invest in Chinese securities) made HK less important, and the Umbrella Revolution made HK less relevant (bankers don't like risk).

Edit - And this most recent round of demonstrations is the nail in the coffin. No business would ever do business in HK now with the political uncertainty, easier to simply set up shop in Shanghai or form a JV.
Location: San Francisco (proper)
Remote: yes. Office visits as needed
Willing to relocate: maybe
Technologies: moving to Elixir/Phoenix. 8 years experience full LAMP stack via WordPress. Will be at ElixirConf to meet in person.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchavezi
Email: mchavez@space-rocket.com
I live in SV, and while I wouldn't say hiring remote employees is common, it is becoming much more so. Staunchly opposed doesn't sound correct given the other founders I interact with.

And "remote first" is a common term so far as I know: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/08/means-remote-first-com... Though I do also like "distributed" as a description.