skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only objection to UBI is that it would become a political bone that would be endlessly chewed on by politicians. Cutting UBI would be akin to cutting SSA or Alaska Permanent Fund payouts right now. IE: Political Suicide.

I would like to see some objective standard on which the UBI would be set. Similar to how the Fed sets interest rates.
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China is actually also doing a lot pro-climate. Also, reading this as a German: I think the U. S. can do a lot first, before pointing their finger to China. Same for Germany btw., because we have similar discussions here as well like "why should we do anything? The US and China are the culprits".

You can follow this logic all the way down to an individual level.

If China doesn't do anyting, the US doesn't have to do anything either. If the US doesn't do anything, Germany doesn't have to do anything either. If not Germany, then not Munich. If not Munich, then not our little town. If not our neighbor, then me neither.

Everybody and every country should do whatever they can. Will it be enough? Probably not. But you gotta start where you actually have some control.
There's actually a recent ruling from the SEC that allowed raising funds from non accredited investors when it comes to crowdfunding. So it's actually legal to sell equity in crowdfunded projects to pretty much everyone [0]. But there are a LOT of rules and limitations around the whole process, which makes sense imo

[0] https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html
GitLab | Remote only | Full time

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Not all of the federal lands are national parks. I'm not advocating for their dissolval. Only talking about the parts that are literally barren. You could e.g. put solar farms there that generate H2 or methane and fix the renewable energy problem. If you check the satellite photographs, so many parts of earth are yellow. I want them to be green and teeming with life, just like the other parts.
Qri | Software Engineers | New York, NY or Remote | Part-time Contracting |

Qri (https://qri.io) is building free and open-source dataset versioning software. With Qri, you can copy, edit, & share public datasets, perform key tasks like data munging/cleaning, version tracking, and dataset auto-updating/synching, all while tracking changes and attributing them to authors (peers) in the network.

We are a team of 5 experienced devs and data nerds based in Brooklyn. We’d be happy to hire remote and find flexible work arrangements for the right person.

Tech we use:

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- React
- Typescript, Storybook, Webpack, Electron
- Kubernetes

Hit us up at jobs@qri.io. To check out details on the two roles we have open, visit us:

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Location: Providence, RI (Boston area)
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Technologies: Full stack web development, front-end leaning:
TypeScript, React, Redux, Node, Docker, GH Actions, Terraform, CircleCI
Email: elliot.bonneville@gmail.com

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Blog: https://elliotbonneville.com

StackOverflow profile (40k+ reputation, ~600 questions answered): https://stackoverflow.com/users/339852/elliot-bonneville

I have nearly six years of experience developing complex web apps for startups and have contracted remotely all over the US and internationally throughout that time.

I am currently looking for full- and part-time contracts with immediate availability.
Point | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE | VISA | Full-time | Senior Full-stack Software Engineer | www.point.com

Point offers homeowners a way to open a portion of their home equity to investors, who then share in the appreciation (or depreciation) of the home. With an investment from Point, homeowners can achieve their financial goals without any monthly payments. Examples might include paying off existing debt, renovating their home, or handling unexpected medical expenses.

Our tech stack consists largely of Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Heroku. We’re product focused and in the words of Joel Spolsky, looking for smart people that get things done. Your responsibilities would include working with other teams, designers, and product/engineering to implement new features, improve our architecture, and take the lead to launch new products.

We hire carefully and as a result we have a friendly and professional team (https://point.com/about_us). We offer competitive market compensation and benefits, with an excellent work-life balance throughout the company that is reflected in our 4.9 score on Glassdoor.

Point is headed by proven, experienced leadership who have founded companies acquired by Visa, McAfee, and Buy.com. We’re backed by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz and we’ve established relationships with major institutional investors to invest into homes.

In the last year we’ve grown our team from thirty to eighty while growing our revenues by 10x, and we’re primed to continue the momentum into the new year. We’d love to have you join us for the journey.

You can email me at hugh at point.com with any questions or applications.
If anything, P2P high bandwidth connections are often more reliable as your traffic likely stays on your ISPs network rather than needlessly hairpinning through a central server outside their network.

Hence why VoIP like WebRTC encourages direct media rather than wasting a trip to a server, the server's peering can often be much worse than a path between two users on residential ISPs.
SEEKING WORK | Waterloo, ON Canada (UTC-5) | REMOTE ONLY

Fullstack Developer, 7+ years experience

Backend: Elixir, Rust

Frontend: React, ReasonML, Elm

Mobile: React Native

DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Dokku

Email: me@praveenperera.com

Availability: 20-25 hrs / week

I love Elixir and I’ve been using it and Phoenix since August 2015. Before that I was mostly doing Ruby/Rails work.

In the frontend I’ve mostly worked with React. I’ve also done a few web projects using Elm and ReasonML. As well mobile apps using React Native.

I love learning new things so recently I’ve also been learning Rust. So far I’ve loved it and I wrote a little CLI to sort Tailwind CSS classes:
http://github.com/avencera/rustywind

A couple months ago I created a mini video course on how to get started using Kubernetes on DigitalOcean DOKS: (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSUpKDgWfQ&list=PLcdHMZkfm5...) (text: https://avencera.com/learn/)

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Personal GitHub: https://github.com/praveenperera

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LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveenperera/

Neglected Blog: http://blog.praveenperera.com

If you think you can use me for something you can contact me at me@praveenperera.com
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Location: Europe (other timezones possible)

Technologies: NodeJS, Python, PHP, Apache/NGINX, GCP/AWS, SQL/NoSQL, HTML/CSS/JS, Go/Java, more

Remote: Yes

Email: tom@kleinholding.com

Full-Stack Developer - https://linkedin.com/in/tom-klein
passwordstore.org is still the best password manager I know of.

https://www.passwordstore.org/

Add in a GUI and you're set.

https://qtpass.org/
SEEKING WORK | Edinburgh, UK or remote | Web app designer + developer

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

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I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience who can take your web app from concept to delivery.

I've consulted for well known global companies like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own commercially successful apps and have a PhD from Edinburgh University so you can rely on me to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule. I can take charge of requirements gathering, design, development and UX.

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Portfolio: I've independently created two commercially successful apps where I was responsible for the concept, design, development, graphic design, UX and marketing.

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks 100s of pages at a time follow 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. This included authoring a modern web best practices guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Technologies: Vue, TypeScript, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 30K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

- Fresco for Android (see https://www.seanw.org), a digital painting app which was one of the first on Android to support layers. Features customisable brushes, image filters, and robust undo/redo + autosave while being highly optimised for low-end devices. Technologies: Java, C, JNI.

[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]

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Previous experience: Full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, Angular, WordPress), mobile app development (Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase) and website optimisation (page speed, security & SEO).

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Email sw@seanw.org with details about your project so we can arrange a call and work towards a quote. I'll get back to you within one working day.
> Well for one, video calls don't really work, even with excellent internet connection

I felt this way for a very long time. Then I switched jobs and realized (1) there are some very good video conferencing tools that work even on 1 bar of LTE (2) a small investment in a camera/headset/microphone goes a long ways.
Why is a 1.5° maximum a target that should be aimed for? William Nordhaus says a 3.5° maximum is the optimal target. His models show that a 3.5° maximum would result in a net benefit of 30 trillion whereas a 2.5° maximum would be a detriment of 50 trillion[1]. That is to say the reduction in damage would be far less than the cost of implementing such a policy. The cost for a 1.5° maximum target would be even more severe.

[1]W. Nordhaus, “Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 333–360, Aug. 2018, doi: 10.1257/pol.20170046.

edit: This comment is currently sitting at -2. If you think a 1.5° target is optimal, you should explain why you think so rather than just down voting this post. The paper I linked to is by William Nordhaus who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2018 for his work related to the economics of climate change.
It's nearly impossible to define 'something better to do.' Solutions to Martian needs could have applicability to problems here on Earth. Feeding, clothing, and housing are definitely problems Martians would have. What lessons might be learned in their relatively small, closed ecosystem that we're completely blind to here with Earth's abundance?

In my personal opinion, if humanity has any purpose or meaning at all, it's to spread Earth life. For all the faux human exceptionalism people like to extol, the one thing we can do that no other life form can do at any scale, is spread Earth life. (Panspermia seems incredibly unlikely to me and probably requires a near-perfect match between initial conditions on the planet and the organism(s) that happen to find themselves there.)
A time-lapse video of your computer helps you open webpages from the video
Great tip. I've been using Molecule [1] to write my Ansible roles. It's good to be able to write your tests before heading to your roles. It also makes it easier to reuse roles.

[1] https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule
SEEKING WORK | Dubuque, IA USA | REMOTE ONLY

Full snack JavaScript developer, over 20 years experience

Frontend: React.js, Vue.js, Webpack

Backend: Node.js, GraphQL

Mobile/Desktop: React-Native, Electron

DevOps: Docker, Dokku, Kubernetes (learning)

GitHubs: https://github.com/joshmanders (personal), https://github.com/aniftyco (my company)

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Email: josh@joshmanders.com

Availability: 20-25 hrs / week

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I eat sleep and breathe JavaScript. So much so that my license plate is NODEJS https://twitter.com/joshmanders/status/853640782460456960

I’ve contributed heavily to open source both in tools I use, and my own code being open sourced.

I’m building an application performance monitoring service on top of Google Lighthouse you can see at https://appmetrics.co

I’m available for whatever you need. If I don’t know it, I can pick up on it quickly to get the job done.
Steam has never been a monopoly, except for the online sale of PC games developed by Valve. On the other hand, among the online video games marketplace, it has enjoyed a situation of market dominance.
> Thats the value of Mars. It forces whatever is built there to be sufficient and is largely a one way trip.

The immediate parallel that came to my mind were the first European settlers that came to America.

For instance, Jamestown where they started the winter with 500 people and made it to spring with 60 [1]

It may be an "advantage" but it's also very high risk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_Time
I've been working on a dead simple service to deploy and host Laravel/PHP applications without having to do system administration. https://www.amezmo.com
Muse | engineering partner | remote | https://museapp.com

Muse is an iPad app for research, deep thinking, and creativity. We're a four-person team seeking an engineer to join as a ful partner in the business.

You should be excited about high-performance software like video/audio editing tools, game engines, or browser internals. Swift+iOS experience helpful but not required.

Conference talk by a founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_fe2c6IUUo_

Article about our design approach: https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html

Read more and apply here: https://museapp.com/engineering-partner
Location: San Jose, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Firebase, Express, React, Redux, Material UI, and Next

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-_OF7jyR1f4Q9GvZOJkbEoYBYPj3N-thNAkNUTIYW5k/edit?usp=sharing

Email: aedmonds018@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://supremerumham.design/portfolio.html

Looking for an entry level or junior front-end position
This idea, along with the null hypothesis, are simply not honored by this part of the scientific community. Climategate proved this ten years ago. It's a doomsday cult and they'll stick you with the "D" word if you don't narrative-fit. Check out Ned Nikolov's work for a better alternate theory.
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Native Finance | London | Onsite | Software Engineer, Data Engineer

Native Finance (https://nativefinance.co.uk) is a B2B platform, building a suite of tools to help brokers source the best lenders for Commercial Real Estate projects and track CRE market activity.

We are based near Liverpool Street/Moorgate in the City. We are backed by Passion Capital, one of Europe’s leading venture capital funds, and a number of influential angel investors.

We are a small product-focussed team, you will be reporting directly to the CTO and working very closely with other members of the business in the Sales and Lending engagement teams.

Our immediate needs are mostly within the data processing space, however taking a more long term view we would love to find someone who is interested in working on the API as well.

Some of the things currently on the roadmap that are relevant for this role:

* Reassess the tooling for our data processing pipelines - is DBT the right tool for the job.

* Move our data pipelines to real time ingestion using streaming data.

* Improve the quality of our data ingestion/matching processes.

* Integrate additional data sources into the pipeline to increase coverage.

* Enhance the API to expose the data to the other parts of the system to support the launch of our 'Pro' Product later in the year

* Develop Machine Learning models to extract semantic information from PDFs/Images

Technology Stack

* Everything is deployed in containers to our k8s cluster in Google Cloud

* Fully reactive api build on Java 13, Spring Boot 2, Webflux + R2DBC

* Making extensive use of event sourcing

* Data pipelines built with DBT (http://getdbt.com)

* ReactJS for the frontend

If this interests you then get in touch directly by emailing me - aidan[at]nativefinance.co.uk
Tecton | UI, Data-Viz, Backend, Data Infra | San Francisco & New York City | Onsite

At Tecton, we are building a new kind of AI infrastructure that is transforming the way companies solve real-world problems with machine learning at scale. Our founding team created Uber's Michelangelo ML Platform (https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo/), which has become the blueprint for modern ML platforms in large organizations. We are well funded by top-tier VCs, have paying enterprise customers, and have excellent engineering teams in SF and NYC. We have years of experience building and operating business-critical machine learning systems at scale at places like Uber, Google, Facebook, Quora, and AdRoll.

We’re growing our engineering team and are looking for top UI, data-viz, backend, and data infrastructure (especially Spark and streaming systems) engineers.

Prior experience with machine learning is not required. We are looking for exceptional software engineers who are driven to find simple solutions to complex problems and who are excited to stretch themselves as part of a growing team at the intersection of systems, data, and machine learning.

If you are interested, please email me at careers@tecton.ai.
NV Access | Brisbane, Australia | Full Time | 100% REMOTE (Australia) | Dev Ops Engineer

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/job-dev-ops-engineer/

NV Access is a global non-profit organisation, based in Australia with a 100% remote team, dedicated to the ideal that access to technology should not incur an extra cost for blind and vision impaired users. The purpose of NV Access is to lower the economic and social barriers associated with accessing Information Technology for people who are blind or vision impaired. NV Access develops the free, open source NVDA screen reading software for Microsoft Windows, enabling more than 100,000 blind and vision-impaired people across the globe to access computers.

We are looking to appoint a full-time Dev Ops Engineer to join our small team. Your work will focus on maintaining and improving our public-facing server infrastructure (including website and other back-end services), and in-house development tools.

To apply for this position, you must be classed as "An Australian Resident for tax purposes", but it is not necessary to be physically located in Australia.

Please see link above for more information, requirements, and how to apply.
In my opinion, what Google does is better than just selling raw data. But not that much better -- Google still has the raw data, after all, and other entities get most of the benefits of access to that data.

That's why I consider it splitting hairs.

> if you are unable to make that distinction then you aren't aware of the terrifying scale and specificity of the data provided by other industries.

I am aware of the difference, and you're right, it's terrifying. But it's no less terrifying that Google can still do this.
" ... there's no way to say "I know what I'm doing when I'm in this area" or "pause giving me voice directions for 10 minutes"."

Yes, this is a very obvious feature that one encounters almost immediately when adopting direction tools like this and, like you, I am quite surprised this isn't fixed.

Related: an option, or even a default, to pause media playback for the duration of directions dictation, rather than just drown it out ... if you are listening to news, etc., you can miss 15+ seconds of content while a longer direction is dictated.

Again: these are not hyper-distilled, personal features that took man hours to discover - these are features that one discovers almost immediately, across a broad spectrum of use-cases. Very surprising that it hasn't been "fixed".
I think the issue comes when people try to circumvent the give-way priority - which gets worse when there are multiple lanes and multiple exits.

It certainly seems to be a people problem rather than a roundabout deign issue from my experience?

People trying to "beat" people out onto the roundabout rather than giving way, people not using proper lane discipline and squeezing/cutting into other lanes etc..
> That's fine. Many public policy advocates throw around the term 'settled science'. But based on what you said, is there such a thing?

Yes, there is. Just because there is no absolute certainty, doesn't mean it's all just baseless speculation. Just because, as a matter of scientific methodology, atomic theory is not absolutely certain (i.e., we could hypothetically find evidence that contradicts the model), doesn't mean someone just made it up and it has no predictive power.
I think he wants to be Emperor Elon the first of Mars. It would be convenient for tax purposes, and there's lots of real estate to sell. Mars at ground level may be an uninhabitable dump, but Mars orbit is very strategic. And of course, a rocket that gets you to Mars gets you a lot of places. Like mineral-rich asteroids. Who would probably trans-ship minerals via Mars orbit.
That's the main problem I have with climate science. They don't really have the luxury of proving by experimentation, and I have seen enough perfectly good backtestings in my industry (finance) that go wildely off as soon as they go live, that I have a fundamental mistrust of backtesting as a way to calibrate a predictive model.
It would be good if title included the publication year: 1995.