skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Riddle&Code | Frontend and DevOps | Vienna, Austria | Onsite/Remote | Full Time

We are a diverse team that build cryptographic software and hardware solutions tackling various identity, security and privacy problems. We are currently focusing on building confidential computing platforms for the cloud and need help building our infrastructure as well responsive and transparent UX/UI solutions.

I'm a lead software engineer at Riddle&Code, and so if you have any questions or just want to send a resume please email me at julian@riddleandcode.com. On our technology stack, we use mostly Rust, Python, C/C++, Vue and Docker. Although we urgently need a Frontend and a DevOps engineer, we are constantly growing and hiring, and all positions are welcome to apply.

We are a largely international company headquartered in Vienna, but have employees all across the EU, as well as outside. German speakers are of course very welcome, but English is our day to day language. Even before the pandemic, we have been working on becoming a remote-first company and welcome applications from all over the world!

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When you say "unconstitutional" though, do you mean "something that is not in the constitution" or "something that directly contradicts the constitution"?
Why would electors who have spent their entire lives being responsive to campaigns and parties suddenly strip off their partisan blinkers when assessing the red team and blue team candidates?

All you're really doing is barring the vast majority of the population from political participation and ensuring close races are determined by lottery rather than actual popularity and differential turnout, which [absent effective voter suppression] is a strictly worse method.
In a way you can say the same about a telecom company that is private and should be able to censor phone calls. Yeah, right.
Actually, she/he moved the code for acknowledging radio packets into the ISR, relative to the the "by the book" solution of having minimal ISRs.
It's probably more accurate to say that libraries have narrow exemptions specifically for preservation and scholarship purposes, especially for works that cannot otherwise be obtained at a reasonable price. Libraries and similar certainly don't have a blanket "Get out of jail free" card for reproducing and making widely available in unlimited quantities digital reproductions just because they're a library.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108
The older I get the more I need to get up and walk around the office between major tasks groupings. It helps me focus and leave the “residual worry” about that last task behind.
At the same time, Amazon was not cash flow positive when it IPOed and it figured out its profitibility just fine. Further, SOX makes this a lot more complicated.

If you give out stock (say, an employee stock ownership plan or options), you are already subject to SOX. https://www.bradley.com/insights/publications/2004/03/sarban... shows an older article about some of the other reasons you might be subject to SOX.

Further, if you give out options, your employees might expect to be able to sell those. So, once you normalize options, you have set yourself on the path to either acquisition or IPO. Once you take venture capital, they will want a way to sell their shares at the highest price, which means acquision or IPO. So, while you can point to ESRI or Basecamp or any number of private companies, they are in the minority.

If you can bootstrap a company (or rely on alternative funding sources to VC), and you can make it profitable enough to hire employees at market rate without the lure of options, and you can fend off any VC-backed competitors who can undercut you on cost and hire a larger team, then you're golden. However, there's more than an adverse selection problem going on here.
As they should. All it takes for evil is for good people to do nothing. FB and Twitter have been weaponized. This reduces the value of their platforms.

What do you do when a bully is the most powerful person in the world? Well you stand up to them as a community.

Take away his microphone.
Show HN: ObjectScript Jupyter Kernel
Hello, HN.
I've created a simple Python wrapper kernel for ObjectScript in Jupyter Notebooks.
The article is about the inner workings of that kernel.
All of the code can be found here: https://github.com/Vekkby/objectsriptkernel
>>Then say that instead of saying that 230 means they “need” to be neutral.

umm, read the entire line.. I clearly states "many people say that is... then they need" in this context that is clearly an opinion that people are taking on CDA 230,

>the answer is a hard no. It is not wise or prudent to inject the government into regulation of private speech to achieve short term political aims.

The very fact that CDA230 exisist is government injecting itself into the market place, it is providing a liablity shield.

your statement is akin to the people holding a sign saying "keep the government out of my social security"

We are talking about reforms to an existing regulation, if you want the government out of it, then CDA should be repealed in its entirety

>You would give the government the ability to decide which forms of protected speech receive extra special protections

Incorrect, forcing companies to abide by the 1st amendment would in no way grant the government the authority to decide which forms of speech is protected, that is not how constitutional law works

>Hard pass.

Well it is hard pass from me in allowing Authoritarian left wing Silicon Valley companies that enjoy market dominance largely on the back of government regulations that prevent competition in the market place to control public discourse in a way that is clearly biased and has the objective to rig national elections in favor of a single political party

To be clear I would equally support a total repeal of the CDA and have no liability shield for these corporations. This would likely return us to Open Protocols and decentralization which I would prefer anyway. The world was a better place before Twitter and Facebook

Anything that ends Silicon Valley's reign over human communications is a Win in my book
Which I get why the CEO would want that, but I don’t get why the board would tolerate such a clear waste of their resources, plus the strategic risk that losing employees represents.
As a not small anecdote, I live in a new building in Mountain View -- about 300 units. When I moved in last Summer, there were only 4 units available. It's currently over 50% vacant.

My rent was $4300. They're currently renting the same unit on a higher floor for $3500.
Because unfortunately, good leadership is so rare now that seeing it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". I myself just went through the five stages of grief realizing that we're supposed to have presidents that can write thoughtful articles, not all caps tweets.
To me it’s the huge distance astronauts would have to travel from the ship to the surface that seems like a serious demerit.
In the node world I see half of projects telling you how to install it with npm and half with yarn. In Python at least pip is a standard that always works to install, even if it doesn't solve the other problems.
I don't think those two things are meaningfully different.

10th amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I think it's more of a story about marketing, consumer habits, driver churn (for Uber and Lyft), and competition. Breaking into an industry is expensive.
Agreed. I think pipenv had a really good start but sputtered. Poetry does look hopeful to solve the dependency resolution.
There was another that dealt with prehistory as well...
> it's the tourists causing the cost increase

Ok, show me where the tourists do this without a landlord enabling it. If AirBnb didn't exist, would tourist just sleep in the park?
My 2c of insight: I found Svelte's docs & examples greatly sweetened the on-boarding.

While I presume writing specs is a boring collateral, a friendly / bitesized / WISYWYG documentation would make a world of difference for the enthusiastic but less-than-ninjas of us.

The smarter kids can catch up faster, and some might not bother, already do react/vue. I personally found with Svelte a way tamer learning curve.
Python dependency management is much like Python 2 to 3, a mess. It's shocking to think pip and pipenv are so widely used and still such terrible tools.
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It's a lot more of a pressing concern when you have an average of 1,200 dependencies per project.

(I'm actually not sure if it is the average but my anecdotal experience is that it's an order of magnitude higher than python, and 1200 wouldn't be unusual).
The French pronounciation is the "Correct" pronounciation? Wait 'till you hear how Greeks pronounce "Giga" and "Mega"- Greek words meaning "giant" and "large" :)

... or how we pronounce "gamma", for that matter.

(See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_fricative)
If you're staying in the same market and you already own, then it doesn't matter much. What matters more is that your other investments are relatively outperforming the house (likely already true because of the Fed's money printer).

If you don't already own, waiting for a drop might be wise, but if you're going to sell stock to do it, you might wanna do it now. I'm looking at trading up to a new place right now and that's my plan.
Ask HN: How would you learn C++ today?
There are countless tutorials online and many books as well but it's overwhelming to know which standard to pick. I'm not looking for an authoritative source but rather a good introduction for someone with prior low-level development experience.
Despite that you would be surprised how many companies still make it difficult and employ dark patterns here. Apparently the WSJ only allows that flow for California residents?

https://m.signalvnoise.com/subscription-hostages/
Reading this has reminded me of the tragic accident in Florida for a truck jackknifed and the Tesla could not discern the side of the trailer with the road
Responses to your bullet points:

Re: 1 & 2: I would like HN participants to consider the HN guidelines, because I often see what appears to be a lack of awareness. Following the guidelines (many of which are about self-reflection and tone) helps shape the community discussion constructively.

Re 3: I asked because I want to understand your motivations here.

Yes, I understand the general idea of non-sequiturs.

In summary, I think an accurate and charitable reading of my comment will realize that it was not a non sequitur nor off-topic.

Above your comment said:

> Im telling you the context of the thread implied it, otherwise your comments arent relevant to the POV of a dev.

My comments are relevant to the point of view of a developer. Moreover, HN discussion is about more than the POV of a developer.
Every attempt to solve this problem in Python seems to eventually end up in a pretty terrible place. Pipenv got off to a great start but got slower and slower to the point that it was more painful to use than not. Poetry (which is still my preferred option) started off with something seemingly beautifully thought through, and very fast too. But after only a few version updates, it seems to be hitting the same problems Pipenv did. On one project I was working on recently I managed to screw up the Poetry.lock file, so I ran `poetry lock` and it took 18 minutes. I still have high hopes for poetry, but I spend way more time trying to work around its shortcomings now (v1.0.5) than I did when it was at version 0.10.0 two years ago.
Isn't SciHub just a rich "client" for LibGen?
You're probably right, but this doesn't solve the fundamental problem.

People who do intellectual labor, such as writing books, must be paid because everyone must be paid. Nothing is free.

There are two options:

(1) Copyright law, which allows them to erect toll booths and charge readers and users for their work.

(2) A socialist type of system where writers and other intellectual laborers are supported publicly.

The cyber-libertarian crowd is unhappy with both these options. They want everything to be free in all ways.

Since intellectual labor is not free, Jeff Goldblum's Law (from Jurassic Park) comes into play: life finds a way. The way to support oneself in the cyber-libertarian everything-is-free world is by either overt advertising or whoring oneself out as a propagandist (covert advertising).

A third variation also exists that combines aspects of both: surveillance capitalism. In surveillance capitalism all the free stuff is placed on a platform that spies on its users and the data is used to drive both overt and covert advertising.

This is why a simple news web site is 20+ megabytes of trackers, ads, and surveillance crap, and why every platform seems user-hostile. It's also why an increasing amount of intellectual product whether it be books, news, podcasts, etc. is actually political or other forms of propaganda. You can make money by shilling for political parties or political agendas. You can't make money by being balanced and honest and level headed. The work will be much higher quality but nobody will pay for it.
No, first month free or similar incentives has been common for at least fifteen years in the Bay Area. It's sadly also not uncommon that the first lease is considerably lower than following ones (for no other reason than the landlord betting on the inertia of the tenant).
Do you know when the mortgage payment forgiveness for publicly backed mortgages runs until? I heard it was 6 months or 1 year (not sure which). Do we expect a reckoning after this ie. if the economy is still suffering then
I expect in the near future, the urban rents in general will fall. Between COVID and rioting, living in a dense city just lost a lost of luster.
Local politics have the most impact on people, but get the least attention.

FWIW, this is not a truism. First, the current administration in particular has been consolidating power.

Also, by many measures (ads, canvassing, town halls, discussion on community-based forums), the local elections get pretty much the same attention as the federal in my area.
Although I might benefit from this, but I have to point out that this is supposed to be the intern season, and there were always a surge in rent during this season in the past.

That is not happening this year. So comparing to last year, you are seeing a larger drop, but it will left to be seen whether the scale of this drop is temporary or long-term.

That said, the Bay Area landlords have benefited from the bloom for a decade, they are losing anything significantly, not yet.
I was thinking since a couple of months on the idea of building a simulator that simulate a day live without as social platform like FB. A kind of: simulate people interactions where FB is shut down for, lets say for one day.
Govt analysts are mining social media and credit data to assess Covid-19 impact
Multi Tbps internet is available to certain academic institutions, how much did it cost in the early 2000s? And was it really meant for a single home use?

My computer in 2000 could not handle a 100 Mbps connection, and only had 32 MB of ram as I recall. The 100 Mbps may have been targeted towards businesses operating servers in a home address that were and are relatively common in the bay.
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We've been using Kubernetes since 2017, and are looking for somebody to join our small Cloud Ops / DevOps / Infrastructure team.

RevZilla is an eCommerce startup providing motorcycle enthusiasts with premium apparel, accessories and parts.

Daily tech stack includes Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP. We work in Linux on System-76 laptops. Position is fully remote: we have engineers around the world, but our headquarters is in Philadelphia, PA.

https://jobs.lever.co/revzilla/db8e59f6-08da-4f13-a3fc-b2535...
Yes we all learned that virtual envs are not the right way to do it. Node definitely got this portion right.

I wish Python can abandon virtual envs. This is the most annoying part of setting up a project.
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PostHog is developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. Graduated YC W20, we were the most popular b2b software HN launch since 2012 [0]. Our GitHub repo [1] has 2.1k stars and a growing and active community. We've raised a very comfortable seed round and are growing quickly.

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, someone who knows what a good product should look like, can ship fast and to a high standard. Our stack is Django/React/Redux (Kea -- main contributor works at PostHog).

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Email me at tim@posthog.com to see if we're a good fit!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 [1] https://github.com/posthog/posthog
maybe they should not sellout their users like this and host their own files
[My personal opinion, unrelated to any employment:]

FWIW I've studied copyright informally in UK, USA, and to a lesser extent other countries.

In UK our "Fair Dealing" is highly restrictive compared to USA's Fair Use.

Our (UK) archiving rights extend only to a couple of institutions and then only to people attending the library in person. We don't have rights to make backups; we don't have rights to format shift (except to help the disabled).

Yes, copyright specifics apply but wrt archiving USA is far from the most restrictive regime.
Implementation detail I gloss over for the audience.
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Your GA is almost certainly misconfigured.
I think it’s because the level of abstraction with CS is so high, that it’s very hard to communicate these ideas without having a shared vocabulary. This happens to be English for most of the world.
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We were once evicted from an in-law unit without cause. They wanted the space back for use as a home office. (I suspect that’s extremely common these days)

In hindsight, we should have held out for a “make us move” offer. $10K’s is typical for that sort of situation in Berkeley.

We’re too nice, and moved without a fight, in return the landlord came up with some BS reason to withhold our security deposit.
Suppose the candidates for the sortition are selected using following method:
Phase 1: Each citizen has a right to nominate one candidate. We assume that citizens will nominate persons with whom they are acquainted personally and whom they believe are honest and competetnt.
Phase 2: We count nominations for each potential candidate
end keep in the pool only these who have between 10 and 50 nominations. This way we select only person who are considered honest and competent by at least 10 people, and who are also NOT public figures.
Phase 3. We implement sortition between the candidates left in the pool. This way we have excellent probability to have parliament full of honest and competent peuople.