skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think political content is discouraged here because of an assumption that politics is inherently unreasonable and trollish. But politics, government, society/culture are as much a system with dynamics as anything else, and we should be able to discuss that here. And as systems-thinkers, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard of thought and discourse.
[One's party] desiring to be reelected provides more incentives to represent 'the people', or at least a reasonable approximation of what a plurality of voters in ones state considers acceptable than a system in which politicians have no incentives to do anything other than pursue their personal interests.
The fact that RAM cannot be upgraded, even on the 16" MBP, will keep me away from buying another Mac laptop. It is so nice just not having to worry about whether or not I have enough when I buy the machine.

I do wonder why so many manufacturers are moving away from user-upgradable RAM. Perhaps the failure rate is lower or it is easier from a manufacturing standpoint. It can't all just be to save space or to make more money by selling marked up RAM, can it?
> nobody lost the use or ownership of any physical article

Presumably the author and/or publisher lost the use of the income they could reasonably have expected to receive corresponding to a certain number of copies of the work going into circulation.

Anyhow, physical articles are not the only things that can be stolen.
Great article Mario! Was a pleasant surprise to open HN and find this
More effective if you quit.

If you go back to work tomorrow, what changes?

Especially when no one’s in the office anyway.
Financial Times open sources Covid-19 excess mortality data
I like to plant them and grow Geraniums.
Applied Intuition | Software, Sr. Software, Sr Frontend | Bay Area, Detroit | Onsite, VISA | Full-time

[ACTIVELY HIRING]. Help determine the future of autonomy. Applied Intuition provides the infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. We've raised funds from A16Z and General Catalyst.

Applied Intuition equips engineering and product development teams with software that makes it faster, safer, and easier to bring autonomy to market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top companies in the world (such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch).

We are hiring for all roles listed on our website, but the following roles are P0 priorities:

-Senior AV Engineer (Los Angeles)

-Senior Planning and Control Engineer (Los Angeles)

-Technical Program Manager/TPM (Bay Area)

-Software Test Engineer (Bay Area)

-DevOps Engineer (Bay Area)

-Head of Legal (Bay Area)

I am a recent addition to Applied, and have only great things to say about the culture[1], the product, and the team. Our tech stack is cutting edge and a blast to work on, our pace is fast but sane, and our customers love us (and demand a lot from our product). If you're interested in bringing a deep software skillset to autonomous vehicles, Applied is a fantastic place to land in this industry. There is a wonderfully wide mix of age and experience here as well.

Apply online, every application is read: https://www.appliedintuition.com/careers or email me (def + @<company address>) with any questions, but do not send me your resume (please apply instead online).

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August Health | Experienced Software Engineers, Designer | San Francisco or REMOTE | Full time

We're working on a new company to improve how people age in our country.

A demographic "perfect storm" is brewing over the next 25 years: (1) the 80+ population will double to more than 30 million people, (2) the family caregiver ratio will almost cut in half (and is further hurt as more children move away from their parents), and (3) as life expectancy rises, people are living for years with complex health issues and disability.

And annual long term care costs are about $400 billion today. Our goal is to make a significant difference in care quality for elders and put a dent in healthcare costs in the country.

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We're looking for some founding engineers to join us, both frontend and backend - especially those with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications. Our team has a pretty technical background and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped.

We recognize the power of design and are also planning to have a designer as one of our first full time hires. We're looking for an end-to-end product designer who can span user-research to full resolution mocks.

Please email erez AT augusthealth.com.

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Prior to this, we cofounded and sold a big-data mapping company, Mapsense, to Apple. Our team of 5 has a strong technical background and also includes a physician with years of experience with geriatric patients. We recently raised a round of financing from tier-1 VCs.

The first few hires for a company set the engineering practices, philosophy, culture for the future - and we are looking for people who are excited by these parts of company building in addition to the technical parts.

We're using scala and react for those that like to search for keywords, but it probably shouldn't be that important.
> mostly out of the public eye, with private money.

While I agree with the sentiment of your comment, BO is also developing with public money. It's true that their funding has largely been private, it's not exclusively so however.

"Blue Origin will receive up to $500 million from the United States Air Force over the period 2019 - 2024 if they are a finalist in the Launch Services Agreement competition, of which they have received at least $181 million so far."

"Blue Origin has also completed work for NASA on several small development contracts, receiving total funding of US$25.7 million by 2013"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin#Funding
I don't condone violence, but at the same time you have to acknowledge that modern American democracy was built on the foundation of political violence. It worked for us.
>"One of the problems with them in their current form, however [...] inactive sodium crystals tend to build up on the surface of the negatively-charged electrode [...] which winds up killing the battery."

[...]

"Experimenting with the design of sodium-ion batteries led the team to produce a version with a cathode made of

layered metal oxide

and a liquid electrolyte with a higher concentration of sodium ions.

In testing, the team found that this led to a much smoother interaction between the electrolyte and the cathode, enabling the continuous movement of the sodium ions and

avoiding the troublesome buildup of inactive crystals on the cathode surface.

The upshot of that was battery offering capacity similar to some lithium-ion batteries and with an uninterrupted generation of electricity, maintaining 80 percent of its charge after 1,000 cycles."
> All of this "modern art" is just terrible and not soothing to the soul.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Iseo_Flo...

Christo, The Floating Piers 2016

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/olafureliasson.net/objekt...

Olafur Eliasson, Weather Project, 2003

https://divisare-res.cloudinary.com/images/c_limit,f_auto,h_...

Tokujin Yoshioka, Rainbow Church, 2013

>but any talentless hack can do that. It's not art.
We have similar pro-tenant protections in the Bay Area to Germany.
A Pregnant Woman Miscarried After Police Allegedly ‘Stomped’ on Her Stomach
I think this would have the interesting effect of strongly incentivizing people to form a group with other people that share their political views. Kinda like a micro-party. And I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
They're also more likely to lack knowledge on the things lobbyists will attempt to lobby them on.

Already lobbyists try to run "education programs" with representatives as a means of influencing them (which works rather well). That tactic would be a lot more effective if representatives were perpetually lacking in knowledge about relevant issues.

And I'll bet a lot of these randomly selected representatives will choose to be educated by the group that takes them to a fancy dinner and ball game after, or has donated money to their church rather than the one operated by the local chapter of a perpetually underfunded Walmart Union who offer stale cookies.

All of these things can be mitigated with stricter antilobbying laws, but then again, so can our current problems.

I don't see the problem as necessarily being worse with randomly selected representatives, and in some aspects it may work better (randomly selected hippies will tell big corps to take a hike) , but I don't see it as solving the problem structurally.
Don't underestimate how many extra people are now leaving because they are working from home for the indefinite future and can get a lot more for their money (and lower SALT) elsewhere.

I'm in NYC and we are strongly considering moving out when our lease expires in July. Google NYC isn't reopening at least through the end of the year so it doesn't make sense to continue paying a lot to live in a one bedroom apartment that is sub-optimal for multiple people to work from, especially while most of the typical amenities of city life are closed. The main reason I lived here was for a short commute and that's irrelevant now.
If cheap and safe enough, hybernation would be the perfect social isolation technology.
Turo[0] immediately crossed my mind upon finishing the article. I have never used a traditional car rental service and plan to avoid them.

[0] https://turo.com/
SEEKING WORK | Denver | Remote

Technologies: Trading API, (TDameritrade, Interactive Brokers) Stocks, Options, Futures, Trading, Python, Mysql

Résumé/CV: http://www.strategic-options.com/chads_resume.html

Email: chad.humphrey@strategic-options.com

Algorithms / Strategies

-Volatility Algorithm, deploy across $150 million portfolio

-Options Implied Volatility Arbitrage strategies

-Stock & Equity Algorithms, Current tracking over 500 stocks.

-Futures / day trading algorithms

Software & API:

-TD Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, Etrade, Ally
That appears to not exist anymore and replaced by a person's feeelings as more important than your right to speech.
strongDM | All Roles! Go / Golang | FULL REMOTE (core hours ~US timezones, any latitude) | Full-time | https://www.strongdm.com

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June 2020 update: because we build remote access software, we're seeing a surge of teams everywhere go remote -- we could definitely use your help!

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strongDM is an identity-aware proxy for managing and auditing access to databases, k8s, and other servers. We build secure, high-throughput networking systems in Go.

We've been fully remote for years, building software to help people work remotely. We have high standards and high levels of respect for each other and our customers.

One note: being able to work "live"/synchronously with each other is critical, so please be somewhere between UTC-4 and UTC-7 (roughly ~the Americas).

Current roles:

* Senior Software Engineer (Golang, distributed systems)

* Full Stack UX Engineer (Go fluent but React/UX-focused)

* Lead Engineer / Engineering Manager / Director

* Technical Writer - Documentation and API

* Front End Developer - Documentation and API

* IT and Compliance Manager for our fully remote team

If this sounds like the type of work and the type of environment that would suit you, send me (Justin, co-founder & CTO) a note at justin@strongdm.com
Wine.com | San Francisco CA | Senior Software Engineer (JavaScript, NodeJS, Performance) | Full-time | REMOTE ok

Wine.com, the nation's leading online wine store, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, who has a passion for performance, web technology, and JavaScript. We are building a better way to shop for wine. Our mission is to make it fun, easy and risk-free for our customers to discover great new wines from all over the world. We are searching for someone who has a thorough understanding of modern web technologies, is passionate about performance, and is framework agnostic. The core ecommerce platform that you will be working on is an isomorphically-rendered NodeJS application that uses an internally-developed framework based on BackboneJS and EpoxyJS. We are looking for an incrementalist, who can identify areas of request/page load cycle that can be improved over time. This person enjoys working with others and is open to mentoring other members of the team on an as needed basis.

Your Responsibilities:

• Profile our Server and Client Performance and determine incremental ways to improve page load times.

• Develop a system of automated benchmarks to detect performance degradations before they make it to production

• Improve our Asset bundler pipeline. Ensure the most minimal amount of JavaScript is executed on first page load.

• Identify optimizations to reduce our DOM and CSS Bloat

• Upgrade our codebase to take advantage of features of modern JavaScript not available in ES5 and reduce third party dependencies when possible

• Work in a team environment, able to effectively communicate progress and difficulties with peers, and can break up tasks to releasable chunks.

• Tune our CDN, Fastly.com (based on Varnish) to ensure we are doing everything we can to ensure quick load times.

• Be an advocate for keeping the site fast

Your Experience:

• You have a thorough understanding of the Javscript Language from ES5 to ES2020.

• You know how to profile for performance both NodeJS and Browser applications.

• Have familiarity with the modern JS ecosystem and have deep dived into a JS bundler like Parcel.JS, Browserify, or WebPack.

• Is familiar with and can explain the request life cycle for a modern JS Framework that does Server-Side Rendering and Client Hydration

• You have a thorough understanding of the Browser DOM and CSS

• Have worked with a CSS Preprocessor

• You understand CDNs, resource caching,

• You can write a service worker

Please send all resumes to seniorjsengineer@wine.com (candidates only, no recruiters)
It's not that difficult. I would recommend to use not the most recent OS and compiler version, otherwise you risk that only users having your or a later OS/compiler version can use it.
Many countries pay copyright owners for library lending (the UK for example through the public lending right).
How would I apply?
Does the solution to turn off commenting negatively impact sharing news stories? Maybe another way: What is the business rational to allow commenting on news stories?
CompilerWorks | SF Bay Area | Full-time, remote (or local) developer/architect/CFE | $95k-$250k driven by what you bring to the company.

If you love solving tough programming challenges and avoiding organizational politics this might be the place for you.

CompilerWorks is a bespoke compiler company, with our core technology centered around compiling one dialect of SQL to another - e.g. would you like to run Oracle PL/SQL on a PostgreSQL database? You can with CompilerWorks.

We are driven to solve interesting engineering problems, for this reason we take on challenges where compilers are useful. Our current product focus IS disruptive to the database market.

We are looking for EXPERIENCED developers. Our core development language is Java. We are currently a team of 17 in 14 regions.

http://www.compilerworks.com/about.html#jobs
Are you able to avoid going through HTTP requests and use directly UDP for streaming when using WebAssembly? Or the only advantages of WebAssembly are the improved client-side rendering and processing performance?

In that case, if client-side processing speed is important, wouldn't it be a lot more important and faster to render the output using OffscreenCanvas than by frequendly updating DOM elements?
The right one is kitty. Look how the italic characters have uneven spacing, eg. the 'l' in 'bold', and some of them are chopped off, for example 'M'. Look how the percent sign on the bottom looks like it's been stretched and the circles aren't the same.

The right hand one is sharper but I have my freetype tuned to look like the left one, which looks the same as every other application on my PC. kitty is doing something completely different and incorrect.
Is there a word for when a headline and maybe even the first few paragraphs of an article makes you roll yours eyes but by the end you think the author has made a pretty good point?

I think that genre is my favorite.
> My rent was $4300. They're currently renting the same unit on a higher floor for $3500.

You should ask them to lower your rent to $3500. Then ask if you can move in upstairs.
no it is not the default that " intellectual labor" must be paid for in currency (which is the assumption of your post) my comment here for example is " intellectual labor" but i am not paid for it

There are all kinds of labor that people do with out being paid in currency for it, they derive other value from that labor.

You then present a false dilemma in that it is either copyright law or socialism (public funding), there are a whole host of funding models that have been proven to work over and over again that require neither. Open Source is a ripe with examples, YouTube also provides for some, but there are many others (including complete creative Commons books that are funding voluntarily, and voluntary "Pay what you want" systems)
> Absolutely not. Al Qaeda is not anarchist, they have a strict hierarchy, a chain of command, membership lists, payrolls, leaders and so on. Al Qaeda is also not an ideology but a formal organization,

Believe people more.
Location: Greater London
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not right now
Technologies: Python, Oracle
Github: https://github.com/nm-f
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eXCas836klvR5jTsMyM6OcbyRyYU_ZT9/view?usp=sharing
Email:nikita{at}filippov{dot}ch
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Hi! My name is Nikita and I'm working as a technical consultant in financial services. Having graduated with an MSc in Data Science (distinction) worked as a software engineer for just over a year specialising in regulatory reporting. We were using an ETL pipeline built on top of Oracle. Right now I am looking for a junior SWE/ML engineer role.

Currently I'm trying to pick up a bit of C++ to contribute to an open source project, excited to have extra time to improve my skills during the lockdown.
violence speaks the language of the non-educated in the short term, but it does more damage in the long run.
Oh yeah, forgot that! Let me update..
> How does it work if you then later add a fifth 4TB drive?

If you later add a fifth 4 TB drive, two partitions (1 TB each) are created on it. The remaining 2 TB will be unused: a slice with a single element cannot be replicated.

The first slice is expanded from "4 x 1 TB, RAID5" to "5 x 1 TB, RAID5", so the logical capacity of that slice is now 4 TB.

The second slice is migrated from "2 x 1 TB, RAID1" to "3 x 1 TB, RAID5". MD is able to change the RAID level (aka the "personality") of a RAID array, which is pretty cool.

Then the LVM layer is made aware of the increased capacity of the MD layer with `pvresize`.

The solution of using "LVM over MD" suffers from its complexity because you have to manage two distinct layers. For instance, you have to run LVM / mdadm commands in the right sequence to replace a failed drive.
The German housing laws are protective with rent spikes.
pip-tools is almost never mentioned because it's boring but great. I always default to it.

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools
If you delete the account, the account name is irrelevant. You can give the exact name, and still no information could be obtained via it.
Location: Denver

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Trading API, (TDameritrade, Interactive Brokers) Stocks, Options, Futures, Trading, Python, Mysql, Interactive Brokers,

Résumé/CV: http://www.strategic-options.com/chads_resume.html

Email: chad.humphrey@strategic-options.com
Ask HN: Who is Hiring” still has a bunch of “ONSITE” positions; Why?
As I peruse through "Who is Hiring" to get an idea of the current market, I see that is is a surprising amount of "ONSITE" or "Onsite after shelter in place is lifted". Am I the only one who expected to see many more Remote positions this month?
I'm puzzled that you feel we are losing this, when it seems clear that with every passing day, we are moving further and further into a world where anyone can freely express anything they like. You and I and everyone around us has the ability to write whatever opinions we have, and immediately share them to tens of thousands of people. This is something that would have been unthinkable 20 or 30 years ago. Groups that were for much of history suppressed by dominant cultures are now vibrant and active. The LGBT community certainly doesn't wish for a return to the past, for instance. Whole social movements have been organized between people who, prior to recent history, would have been logistically unable to communicate with each other.

At the same time, certain people have views that are morally abhorrent. Or, heck, even just not very interesting. It's important to NOT to shoehorn some kind of homesteading right over public attention in the name of free speech. In the past, society's way of protecting itself against this was mainly that speech was expensive, and extremists frequently lacked the money to impose themselves on others' attention. This was in some ways a horrifying way to solve the problem, since it suppressed the disadvantaged, and didn't work anyway. In any case, it's gone. Speech is no longer expensive.

What remains to see how we can regain some semblance of sanity in a world where all public communication devolves into people shouting at each other. I'm sick of living in that world. I don't particularly care whether Facebook takes down Trump's comments; they've already been heard. But I do care about notions of free speech that prevent tech companies from trying to solve the pressing social challenge of how to let people regain control over their own attention spans.
Maybe in the very early days. But there were various archives of many newsgroups pre-Web (much less pre-DejaNews and Google).
Using Formal Methods to Eliminate Exploitable Bugs – Kathleen Fisher
And yet that's exactly what you're "buying" when you crowdfund a freely redistributable work. Even some movies have been crowdfunded in this way, such as the animation movie Big Buck Bunny.
This was always the way back before GA really gained traction - a lot of the old school log monitoring analytics basically equated requests as hits (with only some slight filtering) and so the numbers were always inflated (I never normally got to 2x, normally to about 1.5x - but guess it depends on the implementation's filtering of bots, spam IPs etc... Edit: remember we were using AWStats).

Was great being able to spin the traffic figures on our game review site for PRs who didn't understand web analytics at that time.
Are average HK citizens exposed to more police brutality than minorities and the poor in the US?

Our administration acts like that's the case (especially during the HK protests) but it doesn't ring true.
New grad anecdote: If not for Covid I'd be in Palo Alto right now. Instead I'm buying furniture to set up an office in my parents basement in Toronto. My sister and her fiance already grabbed the extra room on the first floor for the same thing (otherwise they'd be in two different cities with apartments).

All three of us are sort of "just milling around waiting for the gates to open". Not literally, any of us could technically be in the city our workplace is in today (the border isn't closed to work related travel), but we are waiting to be required to show up in person at the office before we move (back). In the meantime we'd rather be here where we have lots of space, good company, no rent, and so on.