skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synopsys | R&D Software Engineer - Junior/Mid | Glasgow, UK | Full-time, Onsite, Visa

Synopsys Glasgow is seeking a skilled Python developer to join its TCAD team. We work on tools that support companies at the leading edge of semiconductor design and fabrication. You will join us working on tools for optimization, circuit model extraction and workflow management. We work closely with our end users across multiple evolving projects where you will have the opportunity to get involved in many different aspects of the technical problems we are solving.

Since 1986, Synopsys has been at the heart of accelerating electronics innovation with engineers around the world having used Synopsys technology to successfully design and create billions of chips and systems that are found in the electronics that people rely on every day.

If you are interested, please apply through https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1444256648/ or directly at https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partner...
Facebook used contractors to transcribe users' audio messages
Why not just gamble on Wall Street with fancy algos and options?
Nothing stops you from switching. Make an informed choice.
Not all ground beef is bottom of the barrel ground beef. Obviously buying the cheapest thing in a 10 lb tube isn't exactly a recipe for success, but let's be honest, the Beyond Impossible crowd probably wasn't purchasing that to begin with.
Snowplow Analytics | Engineers | Full-time | Remote |

Snowplow is a fast-growing London-born startup. Having doubled in size in the last 18 months, we're now looking for Scala Engineers, a Site Reliability Engineer and one Mobile Engineer to join our fully remote engineering team:

Scala Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/snowplowanalytics/8d30a509-b371-46fb-8....

Site Reliability Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/snowplowanalytics/0469b933-9d16-49aa-b...

Mobile Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/snowplowanalytics/46adcfdd-d6c2-45d4-8....

At Snowplow, we are on a mission to empower people to differentiate with data.

There are tens of thousands of pipelines using our open source pipeline worldwide, handling data emitted from over half a million sites, apps and IOT devices. We also collect, validate, enrich and load up to 5 billion events for our customers each day. We help our users to securely and responsibly track comprehensive data sets to drive their business decisions.

Please apply using the links above, we would love to hear from any engineers who are interested!
Show HN: Fast Robust Geometric Predicates in JavaScript
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California)

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a brand new office too.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly in Python, C++ (replacing still present Erlang[ß]) and Javascript for React & React-Native, relying heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. The tech stack sports Kafka, Postgres and increasingly Kubernetes. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

Our entire production is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.

We are looking for engineering talent all across the board: frontend, infrastructure, trading engine, security - and of course generalists, those yet to find their calling.

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers .

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ß: to pre-empt questions on why C++ or why not Erlang - our exchange team have promised to put together a proper write-up on the tradeoffs, design constraints, performance needs, etc. In fullness of time, that is, when the most painful (and probably interesting) migrations are behind them.
Question is: why is it still 'marketed' seperately?
This was the single thing I was hoping to see here. Upgrading now.
Frame Health | Senior/Lead Developer, VP of Engineering | Los Angeles area | Full-time/Contract | ONSITE | http://framehealth.com

Frame Health brings the power of behavioral and personality science to enhance many aspects of health care, leading to better outcomes, economics, and patient happiness. Our growing company has exciting partnerships with leading national healthcare organizations. We're seeking strong generalist technologists, ideally with a data science interest or background. Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Python, Javascript, and React. Please email: developerjobs@framehealth.com.
As people with the knowledge that video is no longer trustworthy, it is incumbent on us to share that message with other people, so it does become common knowledge.
It's difficult to provide concrete numbers here. A lot of independent research is needed on data. All one can point is examples.

For example, it is acknowledged by many that Germany made a mistake in shutting down their nuclear power plants since all they have done is simply increase their reliance on coal plants. Also, their renewables share of 36% quoted by several folks on HN also includes biomass!

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-climate-change-green...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06...
> "The US is funding the Hong Kong protests"

This wasn't the claim, so please don't quote it as it were. That's not a quotation from anyone here.

> later on

That's not how induction works. What we're doing is making a prediction. When we observe that something happens with a certain frequency, we judge that the probability of it occuring in the future is proportional to that frequency. I'm not saying the US is involved in HK. I'm saying it's justified to conclude that the US probably is involved in HK (and to be explicit: this is not equivalent to saying that the US did or did not cause HK.) People do not wait for an object to fall before they make their prediction and that's because we have sufficient historical data as well as explanatory theories to support our expecations.

> without any evidence

The evience is the history of the US's behavior and their current incentives to do so.

> arbitrary priors

The priors are not arbitrary. They are consistent and theoretically accounted for by several branches of IR theory.

> conspiracy theory

Geopolitical neorealism, for example, is not a conspiracy theory, it's one of the leading schools of thought in IR theory at the moment.

> propaganda with an aim to erode trust in the US

What "erodes trust" in the US is the US's behavior, not pointing out facts about it.

> stealing last year.

We're not talking about one incident. We're talking about an extensively documented history amounting to a consistent pattern of behavior which is trivially explainable using mainstream IR theory.

Nobody is denying what China does. To point out additional facts is not to contradict any other facts.
Using GitHub to build a missing GitHub feature
Intel Gen12 Graphics Linux Patches Reveal New Display Feature for Tiger Lake
Simple: sprawl and ultra low density. Public transport thrives in areas where a single bus stop serves hundreds or more of people, but in rural areas it's cost-prohibitive.
I did see that thread and that's what inspired the mapping with the quadratic interpolation.

To clarify though, DDSketch as defined in the paper uses the logarithmic mapping, as our main goal was to make the memory footprint as small as possible. See: https://github.com/DataDog/sketches-java/blob/1650d939f1485f...

The Java implementation abstracts out the index mapping. This let us add alternative ways to map values to indices and we added the method with the quadratic interpolation as it seems to be a good tradeoff between index computation speed and memory footprint.
I think only Lotus 1-2-3 actually used it, but Lotus 1-2-3 was literally the entire reason to use early PCs. With Scroll Lock active, in Lotus the movement keys would shift the whole spreadsheet, keeping the current cell highlight steady on the screen, rather than move the current cell highlight.
Fears of a German recession are rising
These tools are not for countering that bias.

They are for reinforcing it.
I'm not so sure that's the case: https://cancer-code-europe.iarc.fr/index.php/en/ecac-12-ways...
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Javascript, Node.js, Python, Postgresql, Django, Linux, Android, iOS, C#, DSP, plus lots more. Full stack from kernel to UI. Engineering management experience in a startup context.

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qElqS5txKkzaSG-rz-XnkrzV...

Email: austinf@gmail.com

Lots of experience at early stage startups, would consider another one with the right idea, let's chat! Otherwise potentially looking to go deeper on a larger team.
> But actually, we do a surprisingly good job in America at keeping our nuclear plants running rather well, and we should be investing in many, many more.

No we don't.

The federal government didn't even mandate earthquake impacts for nuclear plants until 'after' the disasters in Japan.

Nevada is still used as a dumping site that is overfilled with leaking nuclear waste. The Republican senator put a hold on Trump nominees until the DOE promised to eventually ship out some nuclear waste a few years after they illegally shipped the waste in.

I found out the former after a PG&E outreach at my university that California was alone in most states over mandates on seismic fault planning for the nuclear industry. PG&E was trying to save the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. I felt that was a very pathetic overview of US regulatory framework. The latter was recently in the news (2 months ago?).

> Conservationists need to really make peace with the fact that the only way out of climate change involves building a very, very strong nuclear energy portfolio.

Disagree, your opinion is 10 years out of date from the facts.

Solar and wind prices have collapsed well below nuclear and coal.

Battery tech is advancing to be competitive towards baseload costs. Samsung plans to ship a graphene battery in cell phones. Makes me very curious towards how graphene can be used for battery plants.

Renewables are already competitive in Australia. Despite lots of sun and coal baseload costs in Australia are very high due to industry and government corruption.

https://www.inverse.com/article/51515-tesla-s-battery-has-al...
Nicotine is NOT a carcinogenic. Lots of things in a cigarette are, but not the one thing that people want from it.

https://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2018/07/nicotine-cause-...
Beware Bias in Data Science
I've tried many mechanical and on-mechanical keyboards, but always come back to Apple's magic keyboard, simply because it's the thinnest of all. It's virtually flush with the desk, and I can't for the love of god get used to anything else. Mechanical keyboards are often quite thick. Palm pads don't help, I'd still feel my hands are uncomfortably elevated.
> Americans switching from beef to plant-based patties would be equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road for an entire year.

But they point out 372 million people not eating meat is the same as 12 million cars off the road for 1 year! Where do they get these garbage numbers?
Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?
Drones have very short flight times and can't carry that much weight. Can this really be cheaper than driving a tractor around?
Agreed. In this particular situation, that's really difficult to do too.
🧰 Developer’s Toolbox: Stack Data Structure
Having spent a bit of time at Replicated, I can't stress enough how much you will grow here (regardless of seniority). Even if you're the slightest bit interested in making a career move, I highly recommend giving them a ring!
> it's the large scale factory farming methods

yes and no. With the massive increase of meat consumption, there needs to be more livestock, which require more land, even if free ranged (unsure of correct term here, but non-factory industrial methods). This land, in lots of cases requires cutting down forests and the greenhouse gas releases of having such a large amount of livestock
Deep Fake with its revenge porn wasn't enough to give this a second thought?
Location: Montreal

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.JS, Rest, Typescript, Docker, AWS

Résumé/CV: not available at the moment

Email: peripatheticien@gmail.com
SpaceX is playing a game of chicken with its Starlink satellites
Crossref (Scholarly infrastructure) | Infrastructure Services Software Developer | Oxford UK or Lynnfield MA or remote | Full time

We’re looking for a new member of our technology team who can bring experience, leadership, and help us solve some interesting operations and development challenges. Crossref operates the service that connects thousands of publishers, millions of articles and research content, and serves a diverse set of communities within scholarly publishing, research and beyond.

(Crossref isn't a household name outside scholarly publishing, but if you've ever seen DOIs (like https://doi.org/10.5555/12345678 ) on an article, chances are that it, and the metadata, was registered through Crossref. )

Tech:

- Java, Clojure

- Elastic Search, MySQL, Oracle

- Terraform, AWS, Docker

- GitLab

More info and apply: https://www.crossref.org/jobs/2019-08-22-infrastructure-serv...
Plus they are not aligned, how hard could that be?

The only good CNN is the DL type ;]
Nicotine does not cause cancer.
There was a PC Magazine utility from the 80s, WAITASEC.COM, that allowed you to use Scroll Lock to page through command output that had scrolled off the screen.
Not GP but in my experience - Curiosity and to gain a certain techy reputation among nerdy circles. About 15-20 years ago when I was in engineering school, my seniors used to ask me to install Linux on their PCs back when installing it was a bit more hairy than today (text based installer that asked you lots of questions) so they could pretend to themselves they were keeping up with the cutting edge if tech :-)
Surely most of the people suddenly not having money would be habitual store clients (otherwise we’d need to understand why suddenly the store owner ordered twice as much produce as he usually does). So it makes sense that he would know them and presumably trust them. I summarise that embarrassed clients probably just stopped showing up.
It’s a biased sample, but most Chinese people I have had such conversations with deeply fear and hate their government. However, there is some really weird cultural interactions from a western perspective.

What’s generally overlooked is how much stability is lost in such a repressive environment. Being the 1,000th person to riot is dangerous, being the 100 millionth is not. So, things can rapidly switch from everything seeming to be ok to total chaos almost overnight.
Intel Lakefield CPU using 3D Foveros possibly spotted in 3DMark database
And in fact, the casino also counts cards so they can correlate your bet changes with the state of the deck.
Intel unveils Frontera, the world's fastest academic supercomputer
SEEKING WORK | Berlin | Remote

Backend / devops engineer with experience in cloud migrations, deployment pipelines, monitoring and API development. I've worked with both large enterprises and small to medium sized startups.

You can contact me at https://hodovi.ch
It's the nature of all living things to extend their life as much as possible. It's in the nature of being human that we think what happens to most isn't going to happen to us - I am the outlier. I'm the one who's going to be vigorous and sharp as a tack until I'm 95. Thing is - someone will be, and it might be me! So we keep going. Going and spending a lot of our country's financial resources.
Oracle | Scala Software Engineer | Oakland, CA or Santa Clara, CA or Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full Time

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Registry team is looking for a Scala software engineer. Previous experience with the language is a bonus but not required. Our service is architected as an Event-Sourced, Distributed system built on CQRS principles. Our technology stack is Scala / Akka / Play. If you have ever wondered what it is like to apply Functional Programming principles in a live, production environment this is the role for you. The Registry service is a managed, multi-tenant registry for Docker container images for customers who want to store and launch their containers on OCI, including Kubernetes users. In addition to working on interesting projects and the future of OCIR, you'll be getting a great salary, flexible working arrangements, a fun, state-of-the-art development environment and excellent opportunities for learning and career growth. Members of our team work on distributed systems in a cloud environment and have ownership of our service from top (Load Balancers) to bottom (Databases).

Please contact justin.ko@oracle.com
The local news and hospitals were citing a recent upward trend in the numbers of teens with a certain lung symptom. They linked it to vaping in teens. At the very end of the segment they said the lung issue could be caused by nicotine alone being inhaled, didn’t matter it if was vape or smoke.
Interesting story about a group of UC Santa Cruz students using slight tilts in roulette wheels which increased the probability of the ball falling in specific sectors the wheel.

http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/eudaemons.html

Or see the 1985 book, The Eudaemonic Pie
Also, the open-source software used: https://github.com/uncomplicate
Epistemic AI | Multiple Roles | New York or REMOTE | VISA | Full Time

At Epistemic AI we are building the next generation of tools to accelerate biomedical research with AI and NLP.

We are a group of world-renown scientists and engineers from the likes of Google, NASA, Two Sigma, NYU, and more. We are dedicated to enabling advances in biomedical research and practice with AI and NLP.

Our partners include some of the greatest biomedical institution in the world.

We are creating a movement of people enthusiastically committed to a new vision for the future of biomedical research.

We are hiring for a variety of positions, engineering, research, and operations.

If you're intrigued and want to come help advance biomedical research please drop us a line at info@epistemic.ai
Nicotine is not, in any way, a "well known carcinogen".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
What is it exactly about "processed foods" that make it bad for you. Is it just that they tend to be the ones with high sugar and fat content, or is there something about the processing of processed foods that is unhealthy?
Indeed. The best example is Banqiao Dam failure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

Its failure in 1975 caused as many as 230,000 deaths.
The death toll of this disaster was considered a state secret until 2005 when it was declassified.[4] According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province, approximately 26,000 people died in the province[13] from flooding and another 145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about 5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected. Unofficial estimates of the number of people killed by the disaster have run as high as 230,000 people.
I’ll continue buying lean ground beef and steaks from the local butcher. I tried the impossible burger. It wasn’t for me.
CWs (contingent workers) were used so Facebook could pay them less money to do work that a full time employee should be doing. The fact FB did this is no surprise. They are not held accountable, even with a 5B fine so they will continue to push the legal envelope as much as they can..
It seems to be based on self-reporting, so I'm sure it's 80% worthless.

But, the whole reason I brought this up in the first place is because: 1) Google Maps is as mainstream of a maps app as one can find, and it has speed trap reporting, and it will also try to re-route you around gridlock, which I personally find to be little more than a pointless exercise in frustration, and, 2) I noticed that it (speed trap reporting) was actually quite accurate, surprisingly so, in fact, on _a_ recent trip along the I-5 north and then again south through Kern and Kings county (which are notorious for their speed traps, Kings specifically).

I don't generally speed fast enough to get pulled over, I set my cruise control at 7mph over the speed limit on the highway. It's still nice to know that there may be a speed trap coming up, especially if you're driving through one of the perpetually-under-construction zones on a California highway.
Nightly is supposed to be even better, and with further improvements in the pipeline: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857892
Capital One | Senior/Lead Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA | Full Time | Onsite

I’m building up a brand new team for Capital One in Cambridge, MA. We have a whole bunch of interesting openings, and the ones I’m directly hiring for are full-stack (Java Springboot + Vue.js) managing our own infra in AWS (so some ops experience is also a leg-up… Docker, Jenkins, ECS, Kubernetes, all that fun stuff).

We have openings for different levels, mostly on the senior side (Sr. SWE, Team Lead) and we’ll be building a brand new real-time risk management platform (high throughput microservices interconnected via either REST API calls or Kafka). If any of this sounds interesting, please send me an email at david.lago@capitalone.com.
Tell your wife that her gaslighting isn't nearly interesting enough.
There's also several new 'silenced' switches[1][2] which have dampening built-in by moulding in a softer plastic into the switch stem. I can't stand the feel of o-rings; I use a Zilent switch keyboard for work and it's quieter than a lot of my coworker's non-mechanical/rubber dome boards.

1. https://zealpc.net/products/zilents

2. https://kbdfans.com/products/pre-orderaliaz-silent-switch-ta...

(unaffiliated with either of these stores)
boy do I have news for you https://pokerfuse.com/news/industry/210407-borgata-gets-gree...
SEEKING WORK | Software/consulting | NC, USA / Remote

Have been working in web/tech for ~25 years. Can take a project from idea to execution solo or with your team, step in to fix/support existing systems, or anything in between.

Most recent experiences with education, financial and custom ERP projects.

https://michaelkimsal.com - links to blog/CV/etc there.

Technologies: PHP (Laravel, Zend, others), Java/Grails/Spring, JavaScript (jQuery, Vue, Angular, etc), mobile/ionic, MySQL/PostgreSQL/Elastic/SOLR, Twilio/Nexmo, AWS/cloud friendly.

Email: michael@kimsal.com

Location: Wake Forest, NC (can/will travel for periodic onsite visits)

Phone: +1-919-271-1162
Yup, it's the same problem you always get when you have the same people making the rules as are the ones bit by the rules. It's easier to redefine proper than pay what a proper answer costs. In practice it's almost always government that falls victim to this because in any other case the government is likely to write some rules.
Banqiao Dam failure in 1975 caused as many as 230k deaths
FWIW, John Mackey has a pretty warped view on the environment, so I have a hard time lending him credibility regarding his opinions on the topic.

"We’ve been in a gradual warming trend since the ending of the “Little Ice Age” in about 1870, and climate change is perfectly natural and not necessarily bad. In general, most of humanity tends to flourish more when global temperatures are in a warming trend and I believe we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures."

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/whole-foods-...