skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PopSQL (YC S19) | Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby) | Remote | https://popsql.com

PopSQL is a collaborative SQL editor for teams. Our vision is to build the best way for teams to explore their data. We have early traction with some of the top companies in the world and are ready to scale up.

We're looking for someone to own our backend and AWS infra. If you're interested in B2B SaaS, dev tools, analytics, and an early-stage startup experience, please email me at rahil@popsql.com. Competitive salary, equity, and full health benefits.

Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
This was actually one of the things I was going to reply with-- it also crashed significantly less on Windows than Netscape 4 and ran faster up until Active Desktop started to clog the whole thing up.
Put port there also.

Host foo
...
Port 2019

So we dont need to specify -P port everytime.
There's a second order death toll too, because resources that would otherwise be available are being used to treat the pandemic.

That means many things that might not be lethal if treated quickly and with the best care, for example injuries from a car accident or a heart attack, are now entering a stressed health care system and likely have worse expected outcomes.

Then, all the folks who would normally be secondary concerns and receiving preventative care are now most likely not receiving that care. It's less likely that these develop into death, but could easily turn into serious health complications.

It's important to remember that it's not just covid-19 we're dealing with. It's covid-19 plus all the stuff we'd normally be taking care of. We'll be unwinding this ball of yarn for a long time after addressing the virus itself.
For people to be able to find you on the Internet, you need a Googlable name that has nothing else associated with it.
Good point Scott. A more difficult to capture metric would be "what software would you work with if you had the choice and could use whatever you wanted"? I really enjoy writing in array language (like K) and have actually had a blast learning 8th. So either of those would make me happier over the more common/traditional tools that I generally work with.
If this is interesting to you, I recommend this (1) documentary on XBAND, a peripheral used to access an Xbox Live-like service for the Super Nintendo. It's a fascinating piece of engineering for the time.

(1) - https://youtu.be/k_5M-z_RUKA
Works perfectly. Just tried it. Going to adopt this from now on. Seriously.
yeah we use it. Not sure if this is still hangouts or something else underneath, but meet.google.com is the url which allows you to quickly create a session and share it. You can present your desktop using a separate tile.
Look on Adacore's website. They have a decent amount listed iirc.
Location: Toronto (US Expat)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Inside Canada, but avoiding if possible.

Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, React, Vue, GraphQL, Rust, Wasm, C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Kotlin, Android, C++, Python

Résumé/CV: https://represent.io/berwyn (PDF available through link)

Email: berwyn.codeweaver@gmail.com

Serial generalist, at my most recent job I've been a front-end dev, and the primary DevOps, SysOps, and CorpIT point-of-contact.
It is a very sad state of affairs that a Presidential statements cannot considered reliable anymore.
> Would you say that no desktop app that saves its key can ever qualify as end-to-end encrypted?

I would say that no app can qualify as end-to-end encrypted if a large fraction of users send their data to the maker of the app in a form that can be decrypted by the maker of the app, regardless of the reason.
“Jami is inspired by a Swahili word that means “community”. The name was chosen as it reflects the vision: to be a service open to all, to be community supported, and to respect the privacy of users.” - https://jami.net/help/
Zerah Colburn (mental calculator)
Weird that strings are passed by value instead of reference
I (among a few others) in my team was laid off this week due to the COVID-19 crisis.

That never happened to me before. I have never once fired, laid-off, or furloughed. And I don't know how to cope with this. The market has gotten very tight since the beginning of the crisis. Usually, my email would explode within hours whenever I make myself available for hire. Now I'm into the third day of my unemployment and still have no prospects, no interviews, no offers.

Just a couple of weeks ago, I was tweeting about how concerned I was about seeing so many developers losing their jobs. I was hoping we'd figure out something, maybe a way to help them. Now I'm looking for a job myself.

Fuck this virus. And fuck those politicians who didn't take it seriously. And fuck those people who still support them.
Easy Angular Testing – ActivatedRoute
There's no way that's true. I just checked and I have that option set on many of my ssh aliases, and ssh-agent functions exactly as expected.

Maybe it depends on version or something? I've had the same config for years though over several very different OSes and presumably versions of everything.
I could use clarification on this. Lets start with the assumption that I have my own machine/router/cable modem....and I want to talk with my girlfriend, who also uses one of my machines/routers/cable modems that I spec'd, procured, set up, and administrate for her.

Would I be wrong to be concerned about the potential for contractors to review private video that was captured/re transmitted by the central servers, e.g. for machine learning training purposes or other "internal" service quality checks? And potentially capturing some of that video if they find it interesting and potentially sharing it anonymously on viral social media? It seems that would be a rare occurrence, but possible.

Would end-to-end encryption be an appropriate way to eliminate that risk?
Cyber-Attacks Surge as COVID19 reaps new exploits. Here are 10 WFH Security tips
> ...a header originally defined by pirates...

Specifically, the "iNES header", originally created by Marat Fayzullin for use with his NES emulator, iNES[1].

If you look at the iNES manual[2], way down at the bottom in the changelog for version 0.7, you can see "Sound support completely rewritten, thanks to Kawase Tomohiro".

If you search the Internet for Kawase Tomohiro, you'll find[3] somebody by that name seems to work for Nintendo as a programmer, and in particular worked on the NES emulator used in 2001's Animal Crossing.

Of course, that's not conclusive evidence, but given the competing claims "Nintendo, a notoriously uptight company, has been downloading pirate ROMs to sell" versus "Nintendo hired a pioneer of NES emulation to work on their emulators, who kept using the tools and formats he was used to", I feel like one is more likely to be true and the other is more likely to get ad impressions.

[1]: https://fms.komkon.org/iNES/

[2]: https://fms.komkon.org/iNES/iNES.html

[3]: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Tomohiro_Kawase
If there are a majority of my target niche companies that literally don't know my type of software exists, and it could help them, but having physical door to door salespeople would make the software more expensive than they'd be able to pay, what approach do you recommend?
The practical impact to my knowledge is very high bit rate communications (many gigabits?) at short distances and indoors.
Why does a product name have to have a "meaning" behind it? Kodachrome was abstract.
Unified GC Logging Analysis
I cannot read this article ATM, but there was another one a couple days ago on an Italian newspaper, in English, which gets the same conclusion by looking directly at the number of deaths in the period compared with last year. The number seems to be a much better proxy of the gravity of the epidemic than the reported infected.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.corriere.it/politica/20_mar...
Well, actually-

There is a way of calculating GDP that uses aggregated payroll income...but it also uses other accounting measures that reflect the notion of "national income", like corporate profits (which are revenue in excess of expenses, which include payrolls) as well as others.

The interesting point is that less than 50% of the US population are on payroll. So summing the average income of 63k/year for everyone on payroll accounts for well less than half of GDP.

The point you wanted to make was- where the F are all the rest of those sweet sweet income money dollars going?
Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns: memo
How wide is/are the existing 2.4/5 GHz ISM band(s)?
Huh didn't know you guys were still around.
That's true, otherwise it gets drowned in the noise. I guess, I was just commenting on the general trend of the way we name things today.
Can't shout fire in a crowded theater. And no particular religion is being singled out.
Got any sources for that? Sounds a lot like FUD.
Mechanical switches and rotary controls require debouncing which is no picnic.

I can 100% tell from your comment that you've never had to work with one.

It's less science than black magic to avoid double presses or missed presses.
It's like smalltalk or hypercard.

It's a programming environment. You can use it for anything you can program a computer for. In other words: anything.
Is there any way to verify this? How do we know they are telling the truth? Also why is Russia so quiet about their population infection numbers?
An ACL implies a level of indirection, and typically a look-up as well.
I see pip's behaviour being called "bizarre" and "baffling", an expectation that the "fix" should be easy (it never is: you "simply" add a flag, now some code paths bifurcate, now you need more tests, documentation should be updated and reviewed, etc.), no pull request, and the pip developer is still patiently explaining why pip's behaviour is not meeting with expectations. But really, it takes a lot of entitlement to expect really anything whatsoever out of somebody else's free time.
Location: San Diego
Remote: Yes, I have previous experience.
Willing to relocate: Not right now but open to the possibility at a later point in time.
Technologies: Javascript, React, Docker, Redux, React Native, Python, Flask, Node.js, D3, PostgreSQL, SQL/NoSQL, Spark, Hadoop, Java, Ruby, PHP, Linux, Apache, Mysql, CI/CD and so much more...
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/codekendo (PDF on request)
Email:brandonwong@fastmail.com
Thats 16 bytes of data, not nearly enough to be covered by copyright. Its not about how important it is. Like how a single line slogan isn't copyrightable even if its unique and clever, they can be covered by trademarks however. I doubt a 16 byte header could be covered by trademarks either.
Could Less Air Travel Due to Covid-19 Coronavirus Degrade Weather Forecasts?
Bayesian inference applies to quantum mechanics in the "obvious" way. You have some hypothesis space (of possible wavefunctions). You plan to perform an observation (a measurement). Different hypotheses assign different probabilities to the various possible outcomes. You perform the observation, get a result, and perform a standard Bayesian update based on the outcome.

There are two caveats somewhat unique to quantum mechanics.

First, measurement has a known kickback effect on the state. So you always have to be careful to distinguish inferences of what the value of the state was before measurement vs inferences of the state after measurement. In general, after the observation has been made and the back-action accounted for, you know more about the post-measurement state than the pre-measurement state.

Second, many apparently different probability distributions of wavefunctions are observationally indistinguishable. For example, a qubit with a 50% chance of being definitely ON and a 50% chance of being definitely OFF is observationally indistinguishable from a qubit known to be in a state of the form 1/sqrt(2)|ON> + e^(i theta)/sqrt(2) |OFF> where theta is a uniform random variable ranging from 0 to 2pi. Those two hypotheses give identical predictions for all possible measurements. So people usually work with equivalence classes of probability distributions, represented by mathematical objects called density matrices, instead of individual probability distributions. Density matrices massively simplify everything, to the point where you might not even recognize the Bayes bits happening underneath.
Tony Lewis of the Duckworth-Lewis Method Has Died
How to Fetch DTO via a Custom ResultTransformer
It might be said that python solved a LOT of packaging woes by including so many batteries.

Compared to other languages, python has a pretty rich set of modular tools in the standard library.
Location: Bangalore, Remote
Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: Prefer not to
Technologies: Django, React, Machine Learning
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mzQHjxMlAi_LOrQwccnQUskjzjr1RU6I
Email: anoopemacs AT google mail

I work at an oil trading startup and times have been tough now. Would like to start out as an individual freelance contributor and prove myself.

However, I do have prior experience setting up remote teams for overseas startups if thats what you are looking for.
That's a nice sentiment but recent history doesn't have Newtons or von Neumanns showing up, and I've often asked why. In my opinion it's quite a serious question, will we ever see such genius again, why or why not?
Like many things '80s, it went way "Over the Top".

(For reference, that's Foobar2000 over there rolling its eyes...)
Entity Inside Spring Projection
I don't think this is a joke, but an attempt of innovation. I think it is just rude to assume it is or make fun as it was.

Years ago I made an attempt to reinvent forums, with comments ordered horizontally instead vertically. It was very interesting to think about, but the end result had a lot of issues. I wouldn't appreciate people just making fun of it.

Some attempts to innovate might generate weird results, but there is no gain to society in pointing and laughing at the weird results. Thoughtful comments on why it's bad in anyone's point of view are much more helpful.

Different people have different perceptions of what is cleaner, or easier, or simpler. It is healthy to have this in mind while criticizing different approaches to a problem.
Integrate TensorFlow Machine Learning Model in a Flutter App
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, node.js, Nest JS, React

Résumé/CV: https://mjunaidi.github.io (Web) | https://mjunaidi.github.io/docs/resume/Portfolio-M-Junaidi.p... (PDF)

Email: mjunaidijusoh-82@yahoo.com
Introduction to Hierarchical State Machines (HSMs) (2016)
Amazon Alexa: Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Berlin

Growing team within Alexa developing large scale information retrieval and search systems. We are working to answer every question our users ask, including ambiguous questions (e.g. "what's the one where soldiers are sailed home from France by British citizens") or questions about uncommon topics (e.g. "what's the origami animal at the end of Blade Runner?") and other exciting science-heavy projects.

I'm hiring Technical Project Managers (TPM), Software Development Engineers (SDE), a Software Development Manager (SDM) and Applied Scientists (AS) (ML or IR/Search focus).

Key skills: Communication and Analysis, Delivering Results.

TPM: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1033226/senior-technical-pro...

SDE: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1033225/software-development...

SDM: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1035844/software-development...

AS: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1035845/applied-scientist

Questions? erimich@pleasenospamazon.com
Could you be more specific? I've heard this mentioned before but not seen an example. Something like one of those Diskdude! strings? What game?
Hello! I'm Shaleen, I'm a Backend developer/Systems Engineer with 4+ years of experience and love to work on challenging and innovative projects.

I have a background in Blockchain systems and Android apps as well as desktop applications.

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Remote: Yes, experienced
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Java, Javascript, Node.js, Rust
Resume: https://jain.sh/static/Resume.pdf
Website: https://shaleenjain.com/
Email: shaleen@jain.sh || shaleen.jain95@gmail.com
Can you post your resume/portfolio?
Looks like they aren't std::string though, so maybe they're refcounted and behave like a shared pointer.
Not sure if I would choose to get irritated with X-rays if I think I have a cancerous tumor. CT scans are already scary IMHO if you already have cancer. MRI may be safer option.
40Mhz and 20Mhz
The expensive part is solely on health institutions. They could still be super profitable at a much lower price.
The fruits of neoliberal inverted totalitarianism.
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Salesforce/force.com, Apex, Visualforce, etc

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-glauber-583b143a/

-----

For the past 7+ years, I have been working as a software developer supporting a US product entering the China market. Salesforce, force.com and the related wed technologies are what I'm most familiar with, but I would be willing to consider projects outside of that scope as well.

Aside from software development, I am a native speaker of American English, and I've also gotten fairly good at Chinese since I've been living in mainland China for the last 10 years.

If anyone out there needs Salesforce/force.com technical expertise, or is hiring for an internationally-focused company or project, I would be interested in hearing from you.
Klarity (YC S18) | Frontend Engineer | FULL-TIME | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | https://klaritylaw.com

Klarity (YCombinator S18) is an AI company founded by MIT and Harvard Law graduates. Klarity is transforming the legal industry by building an AI contract lawyer that automatically reviews and marks-up contracts for in-house legal teams of enterprises, including software companies like Salesforce, Segment, MemSQL, and Zscaler and some of the world’s largest private equity firms that jointly manage over $750B.

Having raised a large seed round, we are looking to add a brilliant Frontend Engineer (React.js) to our team in San Francisco (as employee #9!).

We have spent years working on our NLP platform (demo: klaritylaw.com/nda) and are looking for someone extremely capable to take singlehanded ownership of building a sophisticated enterprise web app around it. This is a critical role for the success of both the product and the company.
You will love this job if you:

- Thrive in small, cross-functional teams (employee #9!). We are a tightly-knit team of lawyers and engineers, collectively speaking 10 languages!

- Enjoy building from scratch and want to own a huge chunk of the codebase.

- Are excited by cutting edge advancements in NLP/ML.
- Have a passion for UX and product design
Responsibilities:

- Complete ownership over building the core enterprise web application from scratch.

- Building reusable components that can be utilized across multiple internal and customer-facing use-cases.

- Working with the founders to rapidly prototype new product ideas.

Requirements:

- Strong experience developing modern web apps using React and its architectural patterns (such as Flux and Redux).

- Experience working closely with designers and design tools (Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, etc).

- RESTful API design experience.

If you’re interested, please email me (co-founder and CTO) at nischal@klaritylaw.com.
I live in LA, and when switched to T-Mobile from Verizon (10 years ago). I had better experience with coverage in T-Mobile than I had with Verizon (for example it didn't work in nearby Costco). I'm sure it isn't an issue right now, but basically back then T-Mobile didn't feel at all like a downgrade.
I quite like the pyproject.toml; it + poetry + dephell is (relatively speaking) a breeze. Both poetry and dephell are quite good and they don’t not mesh with conda. Python packaging is awful but it’s gotten way better; it’s still maddening but it’s better.
“Sensitivity studies at ECMWF have shown that removing all aircraft data degrades the short-range wind and temperature forecasts at those levels by up to 15%, with significant degradations at all forecast ranges up to seven days.”

And as-of 24 March, down to about 35% of usual. And likely more to now.
Exactly this. As you become a senior dev and up, you have to start having an impact beyond the code you write personally, and the 3 areas you listed are perfect examples.

It doesn’t mean you have to stop coding, or become a people manager, but you do need to start spending a decent amount of time helping the team improve and make good decisions. This does mean less coding, but there can still be a solid amount of coding time.

Like, OP, it sucks that you lost your job, especially during this crazy COVID time. But if you can learn to develop your leadership skills, it’ll be a big help to your career long term. I’d say the biggest thing is to try to keep the needs of the business in mind, and to realize that very often you can make a bigger impact by guiding/mentoring others than you can by just doing it yourself.
Ask HN: International Keyboard Layouts and Programming Syntax
I have been reading some older threads on HN and in other places and came across several comments and discussions about how punctuation characters in programming language syntax is or can be cumbersome for users of non-English keyboard layouts. The character that prompted this to stick in my mind was the ‘\’ and it’s non-ease of use for both Germanic and Japanese layouts. Other than sticking with letter based syntax, is there any consensus on what is the common denominator set of characters usable without complex multiple key modifiers in a global context?
MACHINE LEARNING & DATA SCIENCE | REMOTE (NYC) | PART-TIME CONTRACT

Location: New York (NYC), USA (remote only)
Remote: Yes (experienced)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, sklearn, PySpark, and more
Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8zp1e0ts5wp43x5/Gabriel_Bianconi_Resume.pdf?dl=0
Email: gabriel@scalarresearch.com
Website: scalarresearch.com / gabrielbianconi.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gabrielbianconi

Senior machine learning engineer (data scientist) looking for part-time contract work. Extensive experience in computer vision, NLP, and predictive analytics.

* Built products for fast-growing startups (e.g. Scale AI, Fandom) and large corporations

* Recent projects include helping predict cancer therapeutics (NLP), reduce industrial accidents (computer vision), and optimize corporate QA (predictive analytics)

* Published ML research, served as a reviewer for ICML, and spoke at many leading technical conferences (e.g. AWS re:Invent)

* BS/MS in Computer Science (AI) from Stanford
I was livestreaming about a month ago and kept getting spam calls, so I decided to try to see what I could find out.

A website they pointed me to had a multidomain SSL certificate gave me a list of other scammy domains, and one that appeared to sell robocalling software. On that site I found a phone number to call to get started. I called the number and somebody immediately answered! I pretended to be an interested customer for a while, and he claimed to be the author of the software. I wasted his time for about 10 minutes asking questions about how it worked, and where i could get lists, etc. Then told him I wanted him to add a patch to prevent my number from being called again, and that I'd be calling him again if i got anymore calls.

It was very fun!
We’re you using conda on windows or not windows? (Just curious)
Show proof or bullshit
I really hope the PSF can help the community move toward Poetry. It's a game changer relative to all the alternatives.