skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matterport | Staff Software Engineer, 3D | Sunnyvale / San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE VISA

Matterport makes a 3D camera and web platform that allows users to easily capture and display 3D models of physical spaces. Check out some example spaces in our gallery: https://matterport.com/gallery

Some interesting facts about us:

* We host over 1,800,000 highly detailed 3D models of real places captured by our cameras, amounting to over 2PB of data.

* We serve over 60 million 3D views every month, which amounts to over 30 billion requests and 1PB of data.

The WebGL team makes our 3D viewing and editing applications for the web and VR. Core technologies include Typescript, THREE.js, WebGL and Preact. The team sits at the very end of our 3D pipeline: 3D data gets uploaded from our cameras, processed by our vision pipeline in C++, Python, and TensorFlow, before REST APIs serve the data to the WebGL and VR applications, which is what the end user sees.

If you already know "normal" web development quite well, and want to take the next step into the world of 3D and WebGL, send us a note!

More details: https://jobs.lever.co/matterport/b35352d5-72ff-4620-9956-358...
Are these actual reporting and investigate journalism jobs?

Or are these the type of "journalism" jobs that produce all of the endless "16 cat pics you won't believe" and anger/outrage clickbait rubbish?

The former is very important, whereas the latter won't be missed by anyone and shouldn't even be considered journalism.
A bit tangental but I would start with overhauling the U.S' exclusionary housing policies that kneecap mass public transit systems. Unfortunately this is a political problem more than a technical one, not exactly Silicon Valley's wheelhouse.
> Pretty sure Germany runs on wind solar and nuclear.

Nuclear is pretty much dead. Unfortunately, nuclear was considered much worse than coal couple of years ago (and is still) so shutting down nuclear had and has priority.

As for wind, solar and water: Most of the time, it is utilized 100%. Every extra consumer of power means more coal or gas has to be burned.
Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy it. Give it a few weeks to sink in if you feel at odds, and keep #netbsd on irc.freenode.net in mind. Probably worth even just lurking on #netbsd in the absence of any problems or questions.

Good luck!
The question is, have they ever accepted a logical argument backed by rational evidence even if it clashed with their world view?
>the variance is high

More than two orders of magnitude?

>Only if you leave it at home instead of taking it with you when you go outside.

Well it's charging overnight. My phone is inside the house probably half the time. Honestly this is a really silly argument. If we cared about the extra heating from fridges then we would put them outside in hot climates.

If we're talking about a hundred phones versus a fridge, it might be comparable.

I take your point about hot climates but I still think any comparison about power usage between a phone and a fridge is ridiculous and draws into question the credibility of the writer.
anyone worried about crops and yields ?
So you mean the police always has legitimate authorithy?
I speak as a trained environmentalist. These rare extreme weather events are emotive publicity for climate change but they are mainly only just that and are not actually science.

It's the meteorological equivalent of a horrific serial killer being used as evidence that crime rates are going up.
And here's how to do it instead of using the registry (for all uses - COM garbage included). And here's how to migrate, and here's some tools to help you...
It's not a non-starter (indeed most demographic projections are that populations will decrease after a late 21st century peak). But it's too slow to be relevant to the climate collapse issue.
This is very good news. Maybe few years late but better now. Current situation is a disaster waiting to happen

Stuxney penetrated a heavily guarded, monitored, secured with air gap facility. US power grid systems are child’s play in comparison
On this note, I have an old google account that wasn't used for a while.

Tried to access it recently, signing in with the correct password, and it whinged at me.

Offered to confirm that I'm "me" via SMS message to an old phone number (probably from the UK). No idea what that number would have been, as I'm not in the UK any more.

Alternatively, it offered to email a verification token to my email address. Did that, received token fine.

Still couldn't access the account. So now... no access to that account, and there's no avenue to follow up.

So, even with the correct password, and verified email, that account is now forever dead. :(

No wonder I fully agree with the "these tech giants are irresponsible morons" crowd. They've very much proven the case through their actions.
Some accidents caused by automation failures would have been avoided, but how many others would have been caused by human failures?
I think you're just talking about the historic portion of town?

Lots of AC units on display here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8816316,12.4546184,3a,75y,23...
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> Get a portable, floor standing unit in the 1500 watt range so you plug it in anywhere. It will have a fist sized duct to exhaust hot air, stick that out a window. Now reduce your living space to something it can cool.

Try to get the two-duct ones, they are dramatically more efficient. This is reflected in the newer U.S. DoE capacity ratings, which take into account the various ways that single-duct portable air conditioners are not so great.

> Others will have a tricky design to move the water into the hot exhaust duct and evaporate it. I like these.

That seems really convenient, can anyone comment on the effect that has on efficiency? It seems like if the hot side is hot enough, re-evaporating the condensate on the hot side should improve efficiency.
those aren't gtlds, those are cctlds where the "ministry of communications" or equivalent in some tiny country has been sufficiently bribed by a bunch of domain registrar grifters.
If you are a good engineer and a valuable member of the team people will know, whether you hit your estimates or not. It’s almost like the better you are at actually producing the less you need to worry about the red tape. If you are invaluable and crushing projects no sane manager is going to fire you over your estimate accuracy, but if you are doing poorly and not producing they may point to it as a problem area. I have only worked for small-mid size teams though so maybe it is not like that for huge ones.
Algolux | Automotive Computer Vision Researcher | MTL, MUN, SF | Full Time

Automotive Computer Vision Researcher

You will be a key part of a team that is building breakthrough end-to-end perception stacks for autonomous vehicles. We are looking for candidates that are motivated to solve key imaging and computer vision problems that will enable robust robotics and sensing in adverse scenarios in the wild. The technology developed at Algolux is deployed at scale in vehicles and camera solutions.

We believe at interdisciplinary research at Algolux and candidates will be working with a diverse team of imaging, computer vision, optimization, physics, and optics experts. As part of this team we expect novel ideas to be published in major publications from time to time.

> Develop and evaluate deep learning models in the wild.

> Don't be satistified with solving toy problems. Solve the real problem in the wild.

> Build compelling demos and illustrative results.

https://algolux.com/careers/
Location: Sydney, AUS

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: R | Python | Javascript | Golang | Azure/AWS | SQL | Illustrator | HTML/CSS | Rust (Hobbyist!)

Résumé/CV: Please email.

Email: debo.bal[at]gmail[dot]com

Orginally a philosophy and maths major, I ended up working as a Data Scientist for the last three years. Lately I'm veering towards data/software engineering because I like coding. Looking forward to new projects and challenges before the robots take over.
> At this stage everyone who doesn't accept the seriousness of climate collapse is either a liar (self-interested billionaires who want to make a shitload of money from it) or is clinging to denialism as part of a neurotic identity attachment.

I don't think that's entirely true (or, at least, not entirely true in my personal experience). Various folks end up in bubbles of one sort or another where they just never are exposed to good arguments in favor of the theory of anthropogenic climate change. Case in point: the Fox-watching great-uncle I visited a few weekends ago. We ended up having a good talk over some beers and ended with him in a more open-minded if not totally convinced position. One thing he mentioned that stuck with me was that he appreciated being treated like neither a child, a dupe or a provocateur, which is how he'd generally felt in the past when having stupid internet arguments on boomerbook about this topic. Treating everyone who's not on board with a particular social position (and yeah, I'd call this a social position at this point) like they're in that spot for the most nefarious reasons imaginable is a great way of moving them from a possible convert to a die-hard denialist.

So, I'd say you may be right about engaging with online trolls, but expanding that logic to people you actually know (and therefore are more likely to be able to influence / are probably not paid shills) is overzealous and possibly counterproductive.
Features and stories should be completable in the span of an iteration.

Epics and Features are prioritized by the business and product. They can be expected to slide from iteration to iteration.

Any User Story or task should be expected to be completed an a single iteration.

If you keep having open stories stop bringing in a complete story. Just assign tasks.

Features and Epics are pointed.

Business looks at points earned per year or quarter. Look for trend.

IT leadership looks at amount of open stories and tasks that were moved from iteration back to the backlog. Over the span of all iterations.

This will ensure teams are breaking down work into actionable goals.
Stax / Versent | Backend Developer | Melbourne, Australia | Onsite | Full-time | https://www.stax.io/

We build software to help companies understand how they're spending on AWS and to track compliance - We want to help make everyone be even better at AWS.

We're located in Melbourne CBD, with a team that works remotely / from home part of the time, but onsite as some onsite time is likely required (but we're open to discussions).

We're heavy users of AWS ourselves, and exist within the bigger scope of Versent. The product is developed in a mix of languages, with this role mainly working with Ruby and Go, but we're happy to chat to any experienced backend developers.

To apply, and view a bit more, see https://versent.workable.com/j/515ECA4C82
Nature is largely hierarchical.
PSPDFKit | REMOTE (UTC+-3) | Full-time | JavaScript, Elixir

PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their apps.

You see our product in action here: https://web-examples.pspdfkit.com

We also have a version that runs completely in the browser using WebAssembly: https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2017/webassembly-a-new-hope/

If you're interested in working for a fully bootstrapped company, with a team all over the globe, that iterates quickly and uses a modern, pragmatic tech stack, then check out our job ad: https://pspdfkit.com/careers/frontend-developer/
Twitch | https://www.twitch.tv/ | Software Engineer (Multiple Positions) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite

Twitch is building the future of live interactive entertainment, and video is at the very core of that vision. If you are passionate about video, streaming, or entertainment, and obsessed with building performant software, then we’d love to work with you! You will work with talented video veterans in improving the largest live video streaming platform in the world. Along the way, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of our highly available and scalable end-to-end live video infrastructure.

Open roles in the video organization:

* Senior Software Engineer - Video Playback, C++: Please reach out to me directly, tonyjin@ company domain

* Senior Software Engineer - Video Playback, Android: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/76c7622a-a522-48d0-9147-b25021d...

* Senior Software Engineer - Video Playback, iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/33eb4c42-c3e8-4f06-b0ed-a738b33...

* Senior Software Engineer - Video Ingest: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/b1c70660-07a3-4f08-bacc-d600e96...

Other Software Engineer Roles: https://jobs.lever.co/twitch?commitment=Full-time&location=S...
The neurotic attachment is to the political/economic status quo. As they know this is incompatible with dealing with climate collapse, motivated cognition leads them to climate change denialism. This is not remotely 'skepticism', rather a kind of nostalgic credulity.
I mean, there's no "making sense" here. The minute anyone invokes "value" regarding this unit, it's a failed argument on both sides. Of course the Mac Pro is overpriced as hell and there is no way to extract actual value from this device. It is also very specifically not the point of it, which means it's like arguing about the value of a Bugatti.

The Mac Pro is a luxury good and should be viewed as such. The fact that the tech community is up in arms about it because it's technically a computer is really their own fault for misclassifying the device.
Do you really think all power imbalances suck?

Should a 2 year old have equal say in household decision making as their 32 year old parent?

Should a first year med student who wanders into a patients room have equal sway in patient care as a specialist attending physician?

Should an intern be able to make decisions that a CEO typically makes?
Hi! I’m Brian, and I’ve been doing various forms of computer engineering/SRE for at least a decade now. I’m a generalist through and through, and I want a job making something neat.

Location: NYC

Remote: Sure, but preferably not F/T remote

Willing to relocate: not preferably, but willing to travel.

Technologies: automation (bash, PowerShell, Ansible, systemd, etc.), networking, virtual machines and provisioning thereof, VoIP/SIP, PKI, Nginx, Apache, PHP (including FPM), build systems, microcontrollers, PCB design, electrical engineering, and so on

Resume: Available upon request.

Email: br at hackmanhattan dot com

GitHub: https://github.com/b-
> We believe that the company plowing ahead of other contributors is more valuable in the long run. It encourages others to contribute to the polish while we validate a future direction.

I feel like this is a non sequitur. There's no reason why breadth would increase outside contributions other than sheer surface area, but that relationship isn't very linear, especially if the surface area is being created by Gitlab rather than others.

Meanwhile, "polish" is often the unglamorous work which people typically don't want to do for free.

Try to imagine an exchange at Torvald's Bazaar and Emporium. Gitlabbers offer to work on the fun stuff and get paid for it. In exchange they ask everyone else to work on the boring stuff without being paid.

For some mysterious reason, this exchange fails to happen.
The fourth estate is critical infrastructure to a functioning democracy. I know that in the US, we've kind of accepted a certain level of decay in the system, but I can't see how this does anything but accelerate the transition of the US into a more openly anti-democratic oligarchy.

We desperately need alternative models to ad-funded journalism. The two main alternatives seem to be state funding and patronage, both of which have difficulty shoring up a wide perception of legitimacy and independence. I'd love to see more organizations pursuing a model like The Correspondent, where readers are given more involvement in the production of news in exchange for higher subscription charges (or perhaps we could begin to think of them as member dues).

What models have others come across that seem promising?
Your version doesn't provide the same guarantees. It doesn't even guarantee that the same items are returned as the ones that were provided as arguments. So, you appear to be agreeing that relaxing static typing constraints results in code that's easier to understand.

Unfortunately, Haskell type system can result in baroque code in many cases as well. The whole reason monads are so prevalent in Haskell is due to the fact that the type system tracks side effects. Here's an example of a problem this introduces from the core.async library.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/wccacRJIXvg

When I first wrote the core.async go macro I based it on the state monad. It seemed like a good idea; keep everything purely functional. However, over time I've realized that this actually introduces a lot of incidental complexity. And let me explain that thought.

What are we concerned about when we use the state monad, we are shunning mutability. Where do the problems surface with mutability? Mostly around backtracking (getting old data or getting back to an old state), and concurrency.

In the go macro transformation, I never need old state, and the transformer isn't concurrent. So what's the point? Recently I did an experiment that ripped out the state monad and replaced it with mutable lists and lots of atoms. The end result was code that was about 1/3rd the size of the original code, and much more readable.

So more and more, I'm trying to see mutability through those eyes: I should reach for immutable data first, but if that makes the code less readable and harder to reason about, why am I using it?

If Clojure had Haskell type system, the monad approach would be the only option resulting in code that's harder to reason about.
I rarely read the article, this comment surfaced an interesting aspect.
Bullshit news and topics that don't concern most people haven't helped...

Conservative and libertarian-leaning media aren't doing as bad as fake news media (CNN, NYT, etc).
Studio71 | Front End Team Lead | Los Angeles | Onsite | Full Time

We need a Front End Dev with solid experience to join our small group of Front End Devs and help improving and progressing our stable of React/Node applications and future native mobile applications.

Studio71 is a premium global media company and content studio that develops, produces and distributes original programming across multiple platforms. Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company and headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Berlin, New York, Toronto, London, Paris and Milan.

To Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/studio71us/b04e8fde-af2d-461d-b644-5f6... or mflynn [at] studio71us.com
You don't really need Carplay or Android Auto in a Tesla. Those two systems plug in holes in crappy OEM infotainment systems.
My favorite example is SimCity. Any time you have a bunch of models that operate mostly independently and somewhat based on neighbors OOP seems to map nicely. When you are taking more abstract concepts or data flows (which is... probably 95% of web programming and 80% of all programming for example) it doesn't map well, and you end up with a lot of natural funkiness because the base modeling language doesn't match the concepts.
I'd consult the relevant project drawdown entry https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/electricity-generation/gr...
Looks cool but this caught my eye.

> The campus also features a replica of the White House that is used as a lab and testing building

Lol, wtf?

I mean, Apple's spaceship isn't any less crazy but the sheer wierdness of these big tech campuses is beyond me
In light of the prior article about ICANN as an unaccountable private company (1), this is a good time to encourage everyone to read Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's The Dictator's Handbook (2). This is a classic setup for dictatorship by a small cabal (the board): a vast, unempowered populace, a clear source of money (increasing domain fees), and a fairly small elite that needs to be compromised, particularly relative to the size of the unempowered populace.

If governments and corporations haven't already started buying influence, I'd be shocked.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/icann-int...

(2) https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
No, it's time to stop being so obsessed with having people "on your team". Stop making climate a "team" thing, with believers, and non-believers (i.e. heretics).

What difference does it make if they are on your team? What matter is action, not awareness.

And before you say "but the president", Europe is more Left leaning than the US, but I notice nothing different there. Obama was a democrat, and nothing.

The president is irrelevant here, he can be on whatever team he liked and it changes nothing.

The Paris accord is a joke because it's all words, no action. It specifies absolutely no specific action countries should take, except "have goals". It has no penalty or enforcement either.
Location: Montreal, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Computer vision, machine learning, C++, Py3, SLAM, visual odometry, perception for autonomous driving

Resume/CV: https://jimaldon.com/cv.pdf https://jimaldon.com/about.html
I worked with Dr. Lutz about 20yr ago, helping to make some of the early magnetically tipped cantilevers for the effort at single atom NMR. It's interesting to me that the NYT shifted the nomenclature to MRI... although with microscopic scanning that is what they can achieve. It's not that weird because (at the time) the tip magnetic field caused a torus to interact with the cantilever when the atom(s) resonate, so they do have to deconvolve the effect to localize the atom and I assume that they use force feedback control to maintain position much like STM (Tunneling Microscopy). I probably would have called it something like NMM (Nuclear Magnetic-Resonance Microscopy), but hey I didn't make it work!

I'd note that the same group headed by Lutz achieved single electron ESR with a similar scanning methodology at least 15 years back so this was follow on work. It's still amazing and incredibly difficult... just imagine how you would produce something (a test sample) that you know will have only 1 magnetically resonant atom in the affected scan area!

At the time the hope was to use single atom NMR to image DNA, but I think that has largely been accomplished by other methods.

edit: The paper in Nature for those with access.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0573-x
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I deny you the right to put words in my mouth. No, I did not say that, mean that, or think that.

The police do not always have legitimate authority. But not never, either.

In particular, the police have legitimate, legally-given authority. When they exceed that, they become illegitimate (and bullies).