skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ConcR | London, UK | On-Site/Remote | Lead/Senior Software Developer

ConcR is a start-up focussed on answering the question “Will this cancer drug work?”. We are developing custom modelling frameworks in collaboration with astrophysicists from Durham, to enable us to model a broader range of the tumour biology than is currently possible, and through that enable accurate predictions of drug efficacy to be made with less data. Our first product is focussed on helping accelerate the development of cancer drugs before they used in clinical trials.

We are looking for a software engineer to join the core team as lead developer. Key responsibilities would include developing the software for ConcR’s products, defining software architecture and strategy, and instituting and managing quality management processes.

The product is being built in Python. The primary model development is performed using the Python scientific stack and Julia. We use AWS and GCP to perform some of the more complex calculations.

If hired we would be able to offer a competitive salary and stock options. We are flexible on working remotely or on-site.

If interested please contact matthew-at-concr.co
Hypocrisy 101: Facebook lifted their ban on crypto ads before launching Libra
ZS Hiring Hackathon: Patient Drug-Switch Prediction
Competing goverments sounds like the world of the novel SnowCrash. That was a shitty world, though a fun read.
Also Kodak was still king of photography. On decline but still king in 2000. Who'd thought in just 5 to 10 years would've become a nobody?
Not sure RQ was the problem here. I have used on dev and productions and I didn't have any issues with it at all.
>According to your legal theory, if you now here say "no", you also committed also a crime since you admitted to helping me gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

Do you mean "no" as in "I won't try to crack it", or "no" as in "I tried to crack it and failed"? In the first case, I'm not helping you at all and there's no analogy with the Assange case. In the second case, it depends on the details of the law. I don't know if unsuccessful attempts to gain unauthorised access to a computer system constitute a crime per se in the USA. (I wouldn't be surprised if they do, given that e.g. attempted burglary is typically a crime.) In any case, if I tried and failed to crack the password as part of a broader effort to help with your (successful) efforts to break into a computer system, then I'd pretty clearly be an accessory to that crime. Intent is really, really important.

Ineptness is not usually an excuse. If I do a poor job of hiding the murder weapon for you, I'm still an accessory. If I stall the getaway car, I'm still going to jail along with all the guys who robbed the bank.

Note that in the Assange case, I don't think anything much hinges on the password hash. He's primarily accused of helping Manning to cover her tracks, independently of the failed attempt to crack the password.
> 1.) As quantum computing advances, there will be at least one successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency.

Is there a quantum solution for one of the popular proof-of-work algorithms?
Does that matter with a double life sentence.
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Quite a number of mathematics and computer science books are written using latex + emacs.
Talking about magic I came across this one last week. Robert Houdin hired by Napoleon III to perform a magic trick in Africa to convince the local tribes France magic was stronger than theirs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Eug%C3%A8ne_Robert-Houdin

https://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Elephant-Magicians-Impossible-...
I was under the impression you could get away with using Machine mode for both the SBI and the Kernel?

Sv39 paging is the major requirement as you point out.
First of all, government monopoly is not the same thing as government regulation.

Secondly, Lysander Spooner was a libertarian socialist. Libertarian socialism rejects economic control by the state. You’re probably thinking of social democracy when you think of socialism, because social democracy is what you see on the news. Social democracy is only one branch of the socialist movement (or movements).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
Alternative explanation: some sectors are unreadable due to checksum errors (caused by improper powerdown). Repeated read requests sounds like ticking because the head will be seeked every time.

Writing all 1's or 0's to the drive causes those sectors to either be rewritten or reallocated.

The fact it's 1's and 0's wouldn't have an impact anyway - all drives use data whitening techniques anyway.
Jobs was alive in 2010.
Too bad it doesn't let me swap Caps Lock and Control. This fact alone makes this (and most other iPad keyboards) a non-starter for me.
They also have reliability issues with the CPU and SSD. I got a 2016 with an i5 series y processor and 512 Gen of SSD for around $615 about a year or two ago on the used market.
What alternative is there on iOS?
Just because a website is up doesn't mean its relevant
The fact that the USPS has a postal mail monopoly has always confused me. Other countries like Sweden have a plethora of competing mail delivery firms (including dedicated "junk mail" firms that only deliver junk mail. Delivering junk mail is a popular job for teens to do on the weekend)
Good work. I guess the most important feature of this versus something like Elementor is that you can change the styles of all your created pages instantly, correct?
Those $1.5 apparently came from a leprechaun, there is no other explanation :).
Exactly. You have no insights in where the meat comes from and how long it was cooled before preparation etc.

Fortunately, here in Vietnam the vegetarian options are plenty and also really good.
The video is heavily edited, it was cut and over 20 min were removed by WikiLeaks that showcase the entire engagement.

There was an inquiry into this, yeah mistakes were made and quite a few lessons had to be learned but this wasn’t a joy ride.
>Significant progress in recycling and cleaning the oceans from plastic.

Bold. Hope that materialises
Socialism does not equal government regulation. It's true that many practical implementations have resulted in a big government, most famously communism relies on centralised control.
But to take the opposite site of the spectrum, anarchism rejects the idea of government.

In the same vein, conservatism is not automatically pro small government. For instance in recent years the British tories seems to be in favour of heavy government control/regulation.
Quantitative/Economics Researcher with Python coding skills
I volunteer for a lifesaving organization in Germany and the bowline is one of the most important knots there. One example is diving, where the diver is secured by a bowline around his hip.
Have you ever tried to process RAW pictures (including pictures from Hasselblad and Fuji medium format cameras, or Canon and Sony full frame cameras) and/or edit 4K 60p video on a MacBook?
Well, me neither, because it's simply impossible. Surprisingly enough, that's what I do on a regular basis on an iPad Pro.
The power of the ARM setup on that machine is unbelievable.
So, there you go, that's single-handedly a reason why this kind of computer makes more sense to Apple (and to me) than an underpowered Intel MacBook. I do agree that the keyboard and trackpad setup is bullshit though, as it won't really improve the apps I use for what I mentioned above--they're built for touch, not for a mouse pointer.

As always, it's a matter of what's your purpose. As a developer you'll be much better off with a MacBook Air, for that measure, which I think is a much better piece of hardware than the 12" MacBook.
This is only really a convenience limitation; it’s possible to run the iOS toolchain on other platforms with a significant amount of work. In any case, I can’t see GPL’s clause on distribution and modification kicking in here.
...or ZeroTier
Very interesting article! I wonder how compound requests scale as body size increases. Would we see individual HTTP2 requests become faster after items become "large enough"?
Thanks for the write up. We are moving away from Kafka to Kinesis, and will consider these points mentioned.
Feels like every generation needs to perform its coup. Once upon a time you could set your clock to whether there was a revolt going on in places like Spain or Turkey.
But note that looking for predictions that worked out leads you to “safe” predictions. I would like to see a list of things that were big that no one predicted. (Uber?)
I haven't heard almost anyone say its a panacea, but are still advocating for their consideration as there's plenty of people who will advocate its always a bad idea.
In no particular order:

1/ More jobs will be automated. You can imagine what kind of scary implications that might entail.

2/ Remote work will become more popular, but not ubiquitous.

3/ The Balkanization of the Internet will continue. Smaller governments will try to create their own Internet. Nothing good will come out of it.

4/ Phishing is still an unsolved problem.

5/ More people will care about their privacy on the web (still a minority though).

6/ Web pages will keep growing in size.

7/ Psychedelics will be decriminalized in some countries.
1. The first nuclear fusion power plants are being built.

2. Universal Basic Income is being implemented across Europe.

3. Marijuana legalisation is commonplace in the west.

4. Steam will still dominate the PC gaming space.

5. Earth is not on track with regards to CO2 emissions.

6. Self driving cars/vans/lorries are common, replacing taxis and mutating the transportation sector.

7. Legislation will exist banning or requiring notice of deepfake videos, similar to current legislation around product placement/sponsorship.

8. Copyright laws will change to prevent early Disney cartoons from being public domain.

9. Streaming service industry become more fragmented as all studios create their own versions of Netflix. Other companies sell package deals of bundled services, effectively recreating all the problems of TV.

10. Instance of massive cyberwarfare/cyberterrorism hits a large NATO power, grinding the country to a halt.
I have had the 3rd gen iPad Pro since its introduction and game on it daily for extended periods often held by one edge or corner, because gaming. If I'm not bending this thing, I don't know what "without much force or pressure" means to anybody.

I don't travel with it - if you're dumping this thing in a backpack or something without support and with other stuff in there, I'm sure you can bend it; I'd suggest not doing that, I keep my laptop in a separate shock case in my messenger bag for this reason.
Ok, thanks!

Would you happen to know why they'd transform the data instead of just writing through?

Oh: and I also added detail about another drive to my question. I didn't think anyone would answer that fast :-)
The vast majority of what I do is C or C++

Given your comments here, that makes sense, but there is a whole world of other programming languages used in other ways out there, and what you use to edit your code or even debug it is far from the only tool that matters. In many of those languages, the best tools and newest developments typically happen on UNIX first. I'm not sure why this is such a difficult thing to acknowledge, but anyway, this discussion doesn't seem to be going anywhere useful so perhaps we should stop here.
Semi-correct observation. You could think of it as a ZeroMQ broker that supports the pub/sub patternz, yes. Difference is it's centralized (with support for HA), adds security, gives you monitoring, supports multi-tenancy and horizontal scaling allowing to connect multiple clusters. Benefit of using broker is that service discovery is a no-op.

Also, NATS has client libraries for many languages that adds request/response semantics on top of the pub/sub semantics.
The desk?
I think we in free countries have an obligation to keep our companies from being accomplices to human rights violations. There seems to be a lack of regulation.
That verbiage no longer seems to appear in the EULA.
Brutal honesty at its best. If everyone had the guts to talk this tone to their boss the world would look a lot better.
Trapped in My Own Mind
The first thing that comes to mind when I look back at these kinds of predictions is what is being said today (or during the last few years) about how AI is going to enslave and destroy humanity. The other one is how robotics (+ AI) will lay waste to human employment.

Some of the people championing doomsday scenarios ought to be humbled by the reality of not being able to predict almost anything ten years out.

Until someone invents a real crystal ball...
There is a long history of anti-government socialist movements. Spooner was of the opinion that governments themselves are illegitimate in how they come to be and that in particular the US Constitution was a charade. I had to look up the First International, I found this bit of trivia interesting: "In 1872, it split in two over conflicts between statist and anarchist factions and dissolved in 1876." I don't know when Spooner joined, but he was 68 when it dissolved.

If you want to read about him, his works, and read his works. Punch his name into google with the word Mises tacked on the end. You will find that Libertarians(the Anarcho-Capitalist ones) tend to hold him in high regard for his actions and his writings.
Location: Sweden

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, also Internationally

Primary technologies: COBOL & RPG IV (Mainly OpenVMS, some
AS/400, want to learn Z). SQL/RDB

Secondary tech: JS, DB2, Micro Focus Cobol.net

Résumé/CV: skoog.dev for my LinkedIn, JS rework in progress

Email: hn@skoog.dev

Also interested in knowing what stacks involving COBOL are out there for my own personal development.
That's not what most people call Midwest. Great Lakes and Great Plains is what most people think of, not the Rockies.
> Meanwhile, I can just open Snapchat once, and I lose a few percent.

That’s really a mark of Snapchat’s incompetence rather than Telegram’s adroitness.
Controversial opinion maybe, but I personally don't think anyone deserves to lose their life for stealing a laptop.
Preventing Chaos with Legal Tech – How Bryter Helped Refugees in Lesvos
Maybe just work through this book

https://beginners.re/RE4B-EN.pdf
Yes I have both. It’s not “impossible”. Why on earth would you think that?
It’s just slower. That Macbook Air you recommend uses the same processor as the 12” MB did.
Should we leave automation to the workplace?
I’ve started marking those as spam and they’ve really stopped bothering me.
the debt cycle will come to an end: inflation will pick up significantly, interest rates will be higher, there will be a great deleveraging for governments, companies and private individuals.

The US won't default, but it will devalue the dollar. US debt (both bonds and unfunded obligations from Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security) and the $1tn/y deficit will begin to matter.

Higher taxes, high unemployment, social unrest ensue. Passively invested money (through ETFs) will cause a stampede to leave the market. Volatility will be back. The long running bull markets in bonds and stocks will come to an end. Pension funds will lose a lot of money. Not necessarily a crash, but a long, painful decline.

- oil will hit $120+/barrel

- Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft will come under a lot of anti-trust scrutiny

- Germany will have a chancellor from the Green Party

- AOC will become US president

- mobile internet will come from satellites in the US (Apple, SpaceX)

- Java, C and C++ are still going strong

- large layoffs in retail, automotive and banking

- VR will become mainstream

- hacks will begin to matter financially, unlike the incidents at Target, Sony at Equifax

- Deepl will be acquired by Microsoft

- Twitter will be acquired by Alphabet

- a move out of large cities: as remote work becomes more widespread (and fewer people work physically) people use more affordable living options outside of metropolitan areas. telemedicine, pharmaceutical eCommerce and faster internet connections will help. Shared satellite offices will take off as a result.

- the UI of HN will stay the same

- Gamestop and J.C. Penney will declare bankruptcy
>people go back to paying for goods and services with money instead of personal information,

Downside of this potential knowledge gap between the haves and have nots
I know this is a joke but Windows has build versions which might work better than the number marketing name.
In climbing, the offset overhand bend (EDK) is also very commonly used. It's arguably simpler than the double fishermans.

I'm a huge fan of the zeppelin bend - it's a bit exotic, but is catching on in some climbing circles. Competitive tree climbing is carefully adjudicated for safety... in the PNW at least, judges have absolutely no problem with it being used as a joining knot on a lifeline.
the original premature optimization text posited scenarios where complicated algorithmic patterns were implemented (that took a significant amount of development time) before it was found out whether they were needed or not.

I think this is more

Obvious and simple optimizations are beneficial.

I feel in the case of this optimization it also improves the code by making it more clear what is wanted.

I think that is likely often the case with simple optimizations.
I find it rather depressing that 5. (privacy) is the point with most consensus so far.
This analysis assumes only 2 dimensions! I think the handles should be able to overlap somewhat. Some handles in real life do!

"Critique" aside, I adore this site!
Interesting, we haven't had issues with zombie tasks at all (and we DID have issues with them when using Celery). Did you manage to find out what was causing them?

> and some small but annoying bugs while testing

Do you recall any details?

Appreciate you trying TaskTiger, even if you've moved on since!
I have a 2015 one. it was great form factor but eventually with the exception of web browsing I went on 2018 13" due to lack of power. my MBA 13.3" 2013 is still my fav machine from last years.
California Wants You to Eat Roadkill in 2020
Matrix is general lacks support for community tools to handle stuff like that (unless you're running a channel with loose rules that doesn't get raided by 4chan on a weekly basis).
Completely disagree here. All Corellium has done is virtualize hardware that can run iOS. How is that possibly copyright infringement (outside of the DMCA's brain-dead bullshit, anyway)?

If Corellium is distributing the IPSWs that can run on their emulator, then sure, that would be out of bounds (presumably Apple has not licensed other entities to distribute iOS)[0]. But if the user provides the IPSW to run, this is analogous to a version of VirtualBox that can boot iOS. It's absurd to think that should be illegal.

If this suit doesn't go well for Corellium, I really hope they open-source their tech. Good luck to Apple trying to ban that from existence.

[0] Regardless, this is not what Apple appears to be suing them about.
KFC Japan holds annual memorial services for its chicken
> escalation of school shootings

Bubble thought. School shootings are down from previous highs and are actually very rare [0].

COVERAGE and willingness to use any incident to promote a very specific narrative are up.

[0] https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-o...
Where the hell do you people live!?
The constant repetition of this ignorant claim is starting to be annoying. Think there is a client backdoor? Go find it. It is not like the binary is not available to you. It is not like there are not emulators in which you can step through the code. Please, show us the backdoor.

Server side tampering? Show us how it can be done. Create a server that can tamper with a patched client. Demonstrate your chops.
I prefer remote work. I need someone who lives in US, so has a good understanding of local market, mindset and ability to meet other people.
[ ] You require the compiler to be present at runtime
[ ] You require the language runtime to be present at compile-time

The guy never heard of Lisp so I wouldn't pay much attention to this anyway.
I find it so frustrating that it doesn’t yet - just the accessibility dot. I could have moved full time to IOS years ago with this one change. iPad pro and Bluetooth keyboard are right in the sweet spot of how i live and work, but I need a mouse for PowerPoint design.
Miniz: Single C source file zlib-replacement library
> in option G, how much $ do we spend on terminally ill patients in order for them to have a few more days with their loved ones?

Zero. They would be explicitly avoided care if they are known being unable to return to work nor parent somebody (higher-order parenting such as grandparents, uncles, aunts count too).
> If they were helping Apple, then I doubt Apple would be suing them.

I think it's pretty telling that Apple tried to acquire them, but only decided to sue them after their offer was rejected. Seems like Apple really does like their product, and thinks people would find it useful, and is just sore they can't have full control over it.
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Always safe. Only it can’t be patented is why you never got it!
Ask HN: Why do apps like Robinhood and Wealthfront ask for bank credentials?
I thought it was silly at first but it seems like every financial service app is doing this. There has to be a better way?
I’ve loved this list for a long time. It’s a play on the old spam solution checklist: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt .
- Climate change will dominate all facets of our lives with politics and science being the main one
- Solar energy will become more successful
- Tesla will dominate the car industry
- SpaceX will land to Mars first an unmanned and then a manned Starship
- A new major scandal will come out of Facebook and people will ask for it to shut down
- Web frameworks will become even more complicated and a new breed of web developers will be needed
- Streaming will present itself as the complete replacement of TV as we know it
- Property market will continue to rise
- Crypto will have a couple of spike years and then disappear in its current form
- We will go back to the dark years of AI
- Mexico will want to build a wall
Though this reads like a dystopian science fiction, this may very well be path we are set on right now. If not in 10 years, then surely in 15-20 years.
I don't want you to be a good developer
> Things like scheduled jobs can be done through sorted sets and persistent jobs are possible by shifting jobs into backup queues, but it is all a bit fragile.

What exactly is fragile about this approach? We've supported scheduled tasks in TaskTiger (https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger) via Redis's sorted sets and haven't had any issues.