skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hakeema | Cofounder (paid) | Boston or Remote | www.hakeema.com

We're a small startup that runs like an ashram. Peaceful, low stress, but still we get a ton done everyday. We're helping turn up the lights on meaningful industries by building a platform that allows analysts to gather, organize, and track insights in their industry. We have EdSurge, World Econ Forum, IDB as some of our clients.

What's needed in our team: we are a team of an engineer, a generalist who codes, and a remote ops team. I'd love a natural-born hustler (a VP of Growth, a renaissance sales exec, etc) or a data-minded CTO (tech stack is node, vue, python) to join as a paid co-founder. The pay would be well below market but enough to keep you from using savings. We're looking for exceptional proven people who love the garage stage of startups and want to have significant equity without burning into their savings.

My email is kyle@hakeema.com
Understanding the “PLEG is not healthy” issue in Kubernetes
Who in this day and age and in a job that gives access to the internet doesn't use it for checking up on things for their job?

Developers do it on a near constant basis. Computer techs do it, secretaries use this, lawyers use it constantly...
I think this is the way of the future and it's exciting to think about. Who you are is yours, not some other social media sites. You control what is and is not available. That would be good.
> E.g., if your program says:

> VARIABLE FOO

> Then that's essentially a global variable in other languages; any function can read/fetch from foo (FOO @) or write/store to FOO (new-value FOO !)

This is the point where I disagree. Only functions statically within the scope of FOO --- that is, where FOO is visible when they are defined --- can read or write (or call) FOO, unless you pass them a pointer to it. If you write the following function in GCC, we have a similar situation with the variable m:

int (*adder(int n))(int)
{
static int m;
int rv(int p) { return m + p; }
m = n;
return rv;
}

m is visible to the inner function rv, because it is within its scope. It retains its value after adder returns, because it is statically allocated and thus has unlimited extent. (Static allocation is the only way to get unlimited extent in C or Forth, since they don't have garbage collection; woe unto those who attempt to use this adder function in almost any real situation!) But this does not mean that m is a global variable. On the contrary, it is a local variable lexically scoped to the body of adder. A similar situation obtains for traditional Forth variables, it's just that the scopes are not block-structured. But neither are they usually the rest of your program.

Several of the problems of global variables in other programming languages are absent or less serious with Forth variables. As I mentioned in the other thread, non-preemptive multitasking avoids the problem of another concurrent thread overwriting the variable except at well-defined (if implicit) yield points, and because each thread has its own dictionary, ordinary variables like FOO can be thread-local. The fact that Forth variables must be declared, and a Forth variable's lexical scope is suspended when another variable of the same name is declared, means that you don't have the collision problem you have in C, where if two libraries both define a global variable called "errnum", it causes a link error, or under some circumstances, both libraries use the same variable. (The wordlist system, providing separate namespaces for separate libraries, also helps with this.) Because recursion doesn't happen implicitly in Forth, and you have a stack you can explicitly save values on, statically-allocated variables don't prevent reentrancy in Forth as they do in old versions of FORTRAN, or as they do if you use them in C.

So, yes, Forth "locals" are basically like auto variables in other languages like C, in that they are allocated in the same way. But, in C local variables are implicitly auto, and in Forth they aren't; and in C making a variable non-auto is usually a bad idea, and in Forth it isn't.
Apple fails to end MacBook 'butterfly' keyboard class action
Greed Is Good: Creating Teleport’s Discovery Protocol
They made sweet drinks by using lead vessels to store wine/vinegar with acetic acid in it. That created lead acetate; sweet and toxic.

I'm sure it started accidentally but was continued because it magically turned shitty sour wine into sweet wine.

A side note; we still actively use artificial sweeteners from petrochemical sources.
Was true in 2017. It has apparently been fixed since.
How can a simulation be more accurate than what it's simulating?
Past experience from having seen quite a few yaks in my day.
Amazon Bracket seems to allow you to run on actual quantum hardware which I’m guessing is the difficult bit rather than the software.
Whoah! That's cool, haha! Thanks!
The bags full of bombs were to kill people after the shooters were dead. They weren't to get in the door. They got in the door by outgunning the security guard (one handgun vs two rifles in a gun battle, so the guard retreated).
Vopak | Rotterdam,Netherlands | Full Time | Vista

Backend Engineer (Nodejs + MongoDB + AWS)

We are building an IoT Edge Platform for Industrial IoT initiatives.

About Vopak? Vopak is 400 years old company that storage vital products, which is currently going through this massive digital transformation. p.s Greenfield!

https://vopak.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CareersAtVopak/job...
Location: Ocala, FL

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, relational databases (MS SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), web crawling, GUI development, scripting, automated testing, SQLAlchemy, web development (esp. Flask, Django, Pyramid), ETL, REST APIs, parsing. Web development: mostly React. Languages: Python of course, Scheme, Prolog, Lisp. I have some familiarity with many other languages, like C, C#, Ruby, OCaml, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, etc, and in most cases I can probably quickly become productive in them, if you have an existing projects in one of these languages. (I am always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies.)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-nowak-16a9b316a/

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: At this time I am looking for part-time work, preferably 20 hours a week or less.
>A decade or two passes and rebooting your widget industry will be an order of magnitude harder than it was to start in the first place.

Eh, you don't want any of the old equipment anyhow, you want new computer controlled stuff. I mean, sure, the people making that equipment need to have some experienced machinists, but... not so many of them; you mostly want Engineers for this job.

I think the problem America has is not with losing existing factories, but in how little value we place, culturally, on education.
That's kind of the problem... hiring managers don't hire people because they feel sorry for them. They hire people because they think those people will be good at doing the work the manager needs to have done.

After working with you side by side for a few weeks, the manager may, in all likelihood, genuinely feel sympathy for a problem you may have (though apostrophe use likely doesn't fall into that category). But that will have been because you earned it by being a colleague.
> I'm not sure why Australia does that, but it's really annoying.

Suppose you buy a PAYG SIM, and then use it to make death threats or bomb hoax calls. Easy for the police to track you down and arrest you. (Of course, they still could using other means, like geolocation, but that could be a lot more work.)

And, of course, it isn't foolproof – one could use a fake ID, one could pay some random poor person to buy it for you using their ID, etc – but, the kind of people who make death threats or bomb hoaxes usually aren't very smart.
IPUMS, Univserity of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | Backend Web Developer | Full-time | Onsite | https://ipums.org/

IPUMS (https://www.ipums.org/) is a leader in the field of quantitative social science research and the largest disseminator of census and demographic data to the world’s academic research community. Or, to put it another way - we’re on a mission to gather, process, link and publish billions of records spanning hundreds of years and more than 100 countries so that demographers, historians, economists, environmental scientists, journalists, policymakers, and others around the globe can use the data to do amazing research and make the world a better place.

The position functions as a member of the data dissemination team and will have responsibility for design, implementation and support of software systems, including enhancing and adding new features to the IPUMS web applications and APIs as well as building standalone software systems. This position will report to the lead developer of the team. This position involves daily interaction with the rest of ISRDI IT, the ISRDI research staff, and other user communities.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor’s degree. Two years of work experience in application/web/systems development with a related bachelor’s degree or four years of work experience in application/web/systems development with a non-related bachelor’s degree.
* API design and implementation
* Databases (relational or NoSQL)

Preferred Qualifications

* Containerization technologies such as Docker
* Service (or microservice) based architectures
* Developing applications in a Linux environment
* Working with and transforming large amounts of data
* The Ruby on Rails Framework
* Application server technologies such as NGINX and Passenger
* Message queues such as RabbitMQ and Kafka
* Elasticsearch
* Data Analytics and B.I. experience

Go to https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/334356 to apply.
How convenient -- because DocuAPI has been refusing to work for me all week.
That article is about the founder of the Web site where this article was published, rather than the founders of the company, Outreach.io, that the article is about.
Someone can have kids without marrying the mother? There are also other edge cases, such as adoption, surrogacy, etc.
Can you please back up your assertion with sources? Here is the opposite of what you said:

Developers acquire new plots of land from local governments and are mandated to construct something more or less immediately.[10] Developers can't sit idly on vacant land and wait for the surrounding area to develop until it's economically viable.[10] This creates the quick-buck mentality in developers to rapidly build in the new area without the necessary demand for housing.[10]

"The cities are product of plan-driven economy that many cities are not expected to be complete or vibrant after 15 years of construction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Fullstack development (Javascript, Node.js, Angular, React.js), Android developement (Java, Android SDK), Desktop developement (Electron.js, WPF), SQL, C++, Python

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CwpVmpOrqSqBffaX3_-Pfle1LBO...

Email: shawnl9025@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/zys5945

I'm looking for a part time remote position. I'm fluent with various tech stacks (web, mobile, desktop, server side, etc) and I'm willing to learn new technologies if needed.
hey, just wondering if you had a chance to review applications from the last month? Got an email from you that you will review my CV and get back but no answer since that. I'm still interested in front-end position. my email - s2288b [@] gmail
thanks
Hudl is a client of ours. We like Hudl!

I am not a sports person at all, unless competitive single malt drinking or Chicago parallel parking have been recognized as sports. Before working with Hudl, I would not have predicted what a big deal security is for sports analytics.

That is because I wasn't paying attention, because, obviously, it is a big deal. It's a well-funded overtly competitive industry. Of course it's security-sensitive! Our experience working with Hudl leads me to liken the security challenges of doing what Hudl does with those of trading finance companies; everyone's looking for an edge and there's all sorts of crazy incentives.

Hudl has a super interesting collection of applications in multiple development environments, and even a significant chunk of hardware (the Hudl Focus Camera, which instruments a gym to give all the teams that practice or play there access to video playback). They're also just super great, friendly people to work with.

We run security engineering teams for startups, and so for the last year we've been working to lock down their applications, monitor their cloud environments, get corpsec wired in, all that kind of stuff. In addition to getting to work with us, I can also say with confidence that the Hudl team knows what they're looking for in a security engineer and has a clear idea of what application security is about. We're involved in their hiring process and so, to the extent that you believe we're clueful about hiring security people (I think we are), I can say that about them as well.
Aiven | Site Reliability Engineers, Support Engineers, Solutions Architects | Helsinki, Boston, Berlin, Sydney | ONSITE | https://aiven.io/careers

Aiven is a rapidly growing, well funded startup creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source data technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL.)

Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on open source technologies and we're active open source contributors.

We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and also have offices in Berlin, Boston and Sydney. We're now looking for new team members for engineering and go-to-market positions.

See https://aiven.io/careers for more information.
I have a feeling this is common in nearly every field these days.

While not equivalent to a medical procedure, I had some furnace issues last year. I was able to do a lot of repairs myself with a mix of reading forum posts and youtube videos. I ended up having to call a furnace tech for an issue that was outside my comfort area at the time, but I was still able to communicate my issue with him more intelligently because of the knowledge I learned from watching a few videos.
Arguably the worst stewards of the environment and other resources have been those economies that didn't focus on growth in a capitalistic sense. Consider the corrupt banana Republicans of Brazil who cheerfully support burning the rain forests, or the apocalyptic levels of environmental disregard displayed by the Soviets.

Yes, it's true that here in the US, we set a river on fire that one time. That sucked. We tried to do better, and largely succeeded -- which feeds back into the larger question of why it takes 40x as much time and money to build a subway in the Y2K era as it did in the 1900s.

Point being, with a healthy economy, at least you have the option to do right by your neighbors, your countrymen, and the planet as a whole. That may be what Tyler is getting at.

Although in one part of the interview, his words sent chills down my spine ("I’ve often suggested for graduate school, instead of taking a class, everyone should be sent to a not-so-high-income village...") All three of the participants spent a lot of time and verbiage signaling their historical awareness, but apparently the Cultural Revolution escaped their notice because it didn't happen in Vienna or Edinburgh. I'd like to assume good faith... but holy hell, dude, how'd you think that would sound?
That's actually pretty cool, thanks for the link.
When you eat a dorito you are tasting more spices than the average medieval peasant consumed in a lifetime.
With imGui you must fully describe your interface at each frame. Because it's fully GPU accelerated it does not cost that much and run very fluently at 60 FPS.
Or interest tax deductions, property tax deductions and the fact any renovations you do can be used to raise your cost basis to offset some of those gains. Also your mortgage inflates away over time too.
Nutrition science is hard. It has long timelines and relies largely on self-reporting and meta-analysis because it's unethical to study humans like we would mice and perform actual control studies.

That's not even getting into the monetary and political factors involved. It took decades for society to agree that smoking was bad for your health, because of all the money paid to bribe scientists, doctors, and politicians. And this was obvious. The food industry is orders of magnitude larger in monetary terms, and involves far more people, many with political influence worldwide.

I give doctors a pass on this.
Same question for Delaware corp based in NYC.
This is also something you see with some other corporate products for startups, for example, Brex explicitly says "Credit limits are based on the cash you've raised and/or equity in your company" [0] while Stripe instead asks about revenue [1] (I assume because they're in a unique position to verify it). I guess different b2b companies are looking to serve different kinds of businesses (shocking conclusion, I know).

All of that said I definitely agree, as an outsider, it seems like a bootstrapped business would have a lower risk profile, but a venture-backed business would have faster growth potential and thus be worth more in premiums, so maybe that's their reasoning?

[0] https://brex.com/startups/
[1] https://stripe.com/corporate-card
I am not making that particular argument. I'd prefer to mount the .38 special revolver on the robot now, make sure the trigger-pull servo is 100% human-controlled, and train the robot operator on the rules of engagement and remote use of lethal force right from the start, rather than just wait until the inevitable happens to catch up.

A cop-controlled robot is an extension of the cop. It's not the robot's fault if its technology is misused, but the cop's. The problem underlying all this is that cops have too much unchecked power already. At least if they're shooting people remotely with armed robots, we would know the camera wasn't malfunctioning, and that the video should be available for the civil lawsuit.

Rather than freaking out about the possibility that robots might be armed, just assume that they are already weapons, and craft the human policy around the technology. I.e. when a robot is armed, the firing mechanism for the weapon must be under direct human control. If you claim your robot will never be armed or used to intimidate, you can conveniently skip out on writing that rule, so when it happens someone gets a free escape responsibility card, with "we weren't trained for this" printed on it.
HMM, three-year-old project and it's still going strong. I find that quite promising.
Ok, you are no longer EAT_ASS. You are now https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nested_callback.
Not sure it’s final:
https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/Aircraft-maker-...?

Had several 60-something airline pilots arguing over the holiday how single pilot operations will never happen. But with GA dying and few pilots in the pipeline, don’t know who will be flying jets in the future.
Upcoming Linux 5.5 Kernel Improves Live Patching
I think that statement is meant to set the historical context rather than promote pseudoscience...

Later in the article:

>even as the health benefits of curcumin remain unproven beyond a few preliminary clinical trials that suggest its potential as an anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant
I think he means returns correct results to known problems more reliably.
They don't have public schools in Switzerland? I'm skeptical.

But maybe they have functional public schools...
I mention actually implementing it for my personal site, so yes.
>in my education through grade 12, most everything was filtered through a compassionate lens.

The phony compassion delivered by public schooling taught me to be nihilistic. I think that's what the parent poster was getting at. It wasn't a strict adherence to some system I once got a lecture about (because I didn't get one either), but as a natural response to the platitudes they taught.

I could shake off that "wrong" way of thinking because I was under the impression it was abnormal and needed to blend in with the crowd. So in retrospect from writing this post... I guess what they really taught me was doublethink.
The privilege of networking. Yes, you can be the author and maintainer of great things, but not every great author of things receives the same amount of praise and good wishes in such a short amount of time. In fact, a lot of them even more significant never receive the same amount of praise.

Probably the same privilege some complain about other groups of people have, but nonetheless it's usually an effective strategy to build up a good network of people looking over your projects.
Looks like vaporware with nothing to distinguish themselves from the incumbents. Are they going to do anything special other than put their branding on Taiwanese boards?
If the Pharoah Tutankhamen had invested the equivalent of $1, and earned a real rate of return of 1%, today's value of that investment would be more than $350 trillion, which is a quantity larger than Credit Suisse's estimate of "global net worth".
That makes no sense. I understand not wanting to take the article at face value, but the link provided doesn't exactly provide any details of their study either.

> How am I supposed to trust that it's not pseudohistory as well?

Because this part of the article is actually verifiable history. The Atharva Veda exists and available to grok.
The science part is up for debate. You can still read an article for its other merits
China Isn’t the Soviet Union. Confusing the Two Is Dangerous
> So yes, people give away their data for stupid conveniences, but Facebook/Google etc aren't supposed to share the data with the government. They have done so, as Snowden revealed, so this is by no means a perfect system.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "aren't supposed to"? The phrase sounds like there's a law prohibiting them from giving data to the government. But AFAIK the third party doctrine says you have no expectation of privacy for data that you hand over to third parties, so they're free to hand over data to the government. The only reason they don't is because of possible blowback from customers.
The Case Against Civilization (2017)
This scenario ends up being fairly elitist. Everyone should be free, and not everyone can crawl to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine -- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile.
As far as I understand, it's because what it's simulating is a logical qubit which is different from the very noisy, almost instantaneously collapsing physical qubits present in current quantum computers.

Software simulates what's supposed to happen while the hardware only approaches it through many repeated trials.
It's a lot cheaper to get fat pipes than to pay for data transfer in the cloud at scale.
I think the article is a great example of what happens when American attitudes get applied to Eastern traditions. Turmeric with black pepper in milk has long been a traditional "comfort drink" in India. Does it work? I think it does, but not in the sense that there is a specific chemical that is causing a specific response that can cure something like aortic inflammation. The concept of a "health benefit" in Indian families is "drink this and rest it will make you feel good and get healthy soon." The American approach, described in the article, is to find that Kerala turmeric has 6% curcumin compared to Tamil Nadu's 3%, and wow Nicaragua is at 7.9% so let's get a bunch of that and have it every day and it will control our aortic inflammation! and that's just too much to ask of turmeric.