skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the solution to negative externalities is always the same

Not really. There are lots of actions that have negative externalities and which we choose to treat differently. E.g., consider drug abuse, financial fraud, violent crime. We do not attenuate the incidence rate of these behaviors using the tax code.

The idea of using the tax code to shape behavior by manipulating market forces is relatively new and has a mixed track record.

This is true even market-based solutions to decarbonization. E.g., "cap & trade" crucially includes a "cap" that has to be enforced one way or another.
Unfortunately they’re known for several sketchy business behaviors. It’s a shame because when I lived in Europe they were one of the few pubs that had unique craft beers in my town.
I don't see how this is a criticism given that Tesla is actually vertically integrated.
Road damage disproportionately comes from freight vehicles, not consumer vehicles. If anyone is benefiting from uninternalized road damage subsidies, it’s people in cities who need to truck in all their food and stuff.

As far as pollution externalities go, you may be right, but actual level-headed analysis of the dollar cost of global warming are tough to describe as “civilization-changing”. Certainly I think the externalities of my own vehicle usage are worth it, and I would be happy to pay those costs if they were internalized correctly (but good luck not turning that into a pork-barrel monstrosity).
As a company we certainly work hard to ensure our technology is used for approved drug development. We have internal alerts as a company as to the risk of compounds being entered into our system and certainly suppliers and chemical manufacturers have high regulatory oversight. But yes there is always such an unfortunate risk but something we do spend time thinking about.
Intersection | Senior Software Engineer, LinkNYC | New York City | Full-time | ONSITE

https://www.intersection.com/join-our-team/your-job-search/j...

Who are we?

At Intersection, we are at the forefront of the smart cities revolution. Our mission is to improve daily life in cities and public spaces, with products that bridge the digital and physical worlds by delivering connectivity, information and content to enrich our everyday journeys and elevate the urban experience.

We pair our human-centered methodology with groundbreaking technology to design, develop, deliver, and maintain unique products and experiences in public space that deliver value to advertisers, cities, and consumers. Whether partnering with urban transit systems to revolutionize commuting and travel, with cities to transform how they connect with residents and visitors, or private developers to craft unforgettable experiences in neighborhoods and districts, our solutions are scalable platforms on which our clients can build the future.

Intersection is backed by Alphabet through its urban technology company Sidewalk Labs.

What is the Role?

As a Senior Software Engineer, LinkNYC you will serve a key role in developing and supporting the tooling that empowers the LinkNYC engineering initiatives. You will work with team members from across the organization in order to develop and maintain the front-end and back-end platform that we use to monitor, manage and support our fleet of devices in the streets of NYC. You’ll be an integral part of our efforts to execute the vision of the LinkNYC project and deliver value to the people of NYC.

You’re great for this role because:

- You have full-stack software engineering experience

- You have strong experience with React

- You have strong experience with a server-side language, such as Python, Go, Node.js, Java/Scala, etc

- You have strong experience with RESTful APIs

- You care about building clear, maintainable code

- You are excellent at communicating and collaborating, especially with folks who aren't engineers

- You care about continuous integration and delivery

- You have a track record of building and operating successful products and platforms
I hope this trend continues, but I feel like after the pandemic ends, prices will bounce back up.
Technical Writer

Location: Raleigh NC
Remote: Yes, or research triangle
Willing to relocate: Open to conversation
Technologies: Git, SQL, SSG (Jekyll/Gatsby/Hugo/etc), some Ruby and Javascript.
Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2As6EuQ
Email: rnd4@columbia.edu

I want to help your team create docs and product-focused content that are so good they preempt support requests and become a significant driver of growth.

I'm currently a technical product manager, but my superpower is collecting, synthesizing, and disseminating information that empowers developers and technical audiences. Explication is my flow state, and I love the challenge of unpacking complicated topics so real people can accomplish their goals with software.

With a background that spans journalism, web development, and teaching, I'm equally comfortable liaising with engineers and stakeholders across departments, building web sites with modern SSG tools (what some call the Jamstack), and working at the command line.

I'm looking to be hired, but if you're part of an open-source project with docs I can build and/or improve I'm very happy to talk.
Location: Berlin
Remote: Yes, only remote positions please
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, iOS, Ruby, JS, AWS, serverless
Resume: https://milancermak.com
Email: milan.cermak@gmail.com

I'm an experienced SW engineer bad at marketing myself. I have built and been part of various projects, from iOS apps, HTTP APIs to CRUD web apps and ETL pipelines. On the ducktape hack --- perfect code spectrum, I'm more to the right, but I understand trade-offs and when to accept them. I enjoy team-leading and teaching/training less experienced team members. I'm always interested in the broader picture, how does software engineering fit into it and how I can help.

I'm looking for a high growth startup filled with smart people who know how to get stuff done.
We stopped using conference phones and switch to video Sol. in Conference rooms
> Oil became so abundant this year

No, the rate of oil being yanked out of the ground has become so abundant this year--especially when contrast with the rate of use since a staggering amount of us are staying at home--that the price went negative. (And it only went negative because futures traders did not want to actually take delivery of the physical oil they'd "purchased" with their options contracts.)

The quantity of fossil fuels available to us on this planet is decreasing while our use of them continues to wreck the atmosphere we rely upon. A large component of this is personal transportation (alongside industry).
Richard Hamming
Possibly it is lower traffic than a full on dos?
Isn't this just a misunderstanding of what we mean by intuitive? It's possible to have an intuitive understanding of a thing that's not "intuitive" to humans.
Just Don't do it in California because you'll find out you can't register your LMTV in this state....
The Mongol Rally
We wrote this after our move away from using SSH bastion or jump hosts. We found getting away from bastion hosts was quite easy in GCP, so started writing this series. We are going to follow it up with posts about how to do the same in AWS and Azure, although we didn't find it to be as easy as it was in GCP in either of those platforms.
HireArt | Senior Fullstack Engineer | New York + remote | Full time

HireArt is trying to solve one of the biggest problems in hiring: how to effectively measure a person's fit for a job. We want to do it in a way that is intuitive and transparent for both employers and job-seekers, and which scales to support organizations of any size.

We believe that the right solution requires both algorithms and human judgment, and we are developing technologies which incorporate both. We believe that by building a product around new standards for assessment in recruiting, we can dramatically improve the accuracy of hiring decisions, as well as the job-seeking process.

We've already helped build teams at hundreds of companies, including, Facebook, Google, and Airbnb, and helped hundreds of thousands of applicants in their job searches. You would help build pieces of the employer- and job seeker-facing apps, as well as internal tools we use in our back-end operation. You would also contribute to our R&D effort, working with domain experts to incorporate their knowledge and experience into our web application.

Our technology stack includes React, Rails, Postgres, Git, and Heroku. We each own specific product verticals and enlist each other’s help to get things shipped. We like to have thoughtful discussions together on a range of topics, from software architecture to company strategy. We make sure every voice is heard and every opinion is considered.

Apply here https://www.hireart.com/jobs/4652be1e/apply
And manufactured in North Ireland (while the headquarters was in Detroit, USA).
Great content, simple and useful. Loved!
You're missing the point that mobs are not justice, just because they happen to side with you often.

To make the analogy more in-line with your pedantry, imagine that it's a mob that's smashing storefronts rather than killing people.
Pelosi has power and will never be voted out no matter how far she strays from the people she represents.
I have lots of outdoor hobbies that require the transport of large and heavy gear. Scuba tanks, gun cases, power tools, skis, mountain bikes, etc.

The options for me are a big SUV or a pickup truck. Right now it’s an SUV, but an F150 is looking pretty attractive.
First: Russia lost the territory in 1989 (Warsaw Pact) and 1991 (breakup of USSR). It hasn't lost any Russian territory since, or was it in any danger of doing so. It was (and is) in danger of losing influence over territory that is not Russia's, but nobody was going to invade Russia to steal territory.

But the way you and Russia talk about it shows that they still consider that to be their territory, even though it is now a different country. That attitude leads Russia to think they have a right to meddle in their former territory.

Second: Why did those countries join NATO? Because NATO held a gun to their head and told them they have to join? No, because Russia kept talking and acting in ways that made them afraid that they were going to get pressured, meddled with, invaded, and/or annexed. They wanted something bigger than their own military to protect them, so they pushed to join NATO.

All of which leaves Russia feeling surrounded and encroached upon. But the cause of that has been the Russian habit of trying to treat former territory as still their own, rather than the evil machinations of the West.
Except you don't because tampering with the odometer isn't seen as being common in the US.
Yes, if i create a memfd, populate it with with a reference from vmsplice, that maps to a mmaped file memory chunk, open it with dlopen through procfs in the child process (that i've passed through pipe) will make it happen without any copy.

This is what i've been looking for, as the child process is sandboxed and it's good to have a option where there's no need to access the filesystem to work some things out.

This is pretty good, thank you. I've passed through vmsplice here and there.. but as i didn't need to use it, i've completely forgot about its existence. So thank you for this good reminder of a great syscall.
> I think Netflix did pretty well with just hiring some known creative people and telling them „whatever you do, just use your gut feeling and we‘ll buy it“.

Those Netflix decisions about who to hire are extremely data-driven - much moreso than Hollywood. House of Cards was their proof of concept in 2013:

> Sarandos says their wealth of data on user viewing habits proved there's a large audience for Fincher, Spacey and political thrillers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130126061225/http://www.huffin...
> but maybe added to highlight the uneven extent of the negative judgement.

That was exactly the point.
Still it's 106MB which has to be audited, checked for license, ...
That depends on two things:

1. If companies will extend their remote-friendly policies beyond the pandemic.

2. If the rising swell of unemployed Americans will pursue a career in tech, and enough of them are willing to relocate to San Francisco (as the trope goes).

I don't have a good prediction for the first point (some companies will likely dig their heels in on remote work because "we tried it" even though "remote work" is way different than "working during a pandemic"), but we'll at least see some of the second.
The modal that pops up is not in the dom until you click the "See details" link, which has target="javascript:;". The "Add to cart" button is an actual link. I wouldn't be surprised if Google just doesn't want to run javascript to extract pricing information if it doesn't necessarily have to.
Energy-saving servers: Data storage 2.0
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At Uplift, we're looking for a well rounded Project Manager with experience owning small to mid-size projects, and guiding them to completion.

You’d be working closely with both Engineering and Design, as well as managing communication with the Client.

Begin part time. Since this is the first position of its kind, there's a lot of potential to grow into a long-term opportunity, and even become a critical part of Uplift.

Key Responsibilities:

* Oversee project execution

* Help define and maintain the project roadmap

* Manage sprints, ongoing progress, and team communication

* Run efficient meetings, facilitate collaboration and present to team and clients

* Test, validate, and iterate on all aspects of the product experience

Please see the full job description, here: https://www.uplift.ltd/careers-project-manager/

One of our core values is continuous learning: within the industry & from each other. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. If you're self-sufficient, passionate & a good communicator, apply now!

To apply:

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Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's the opposite of what we're hoping for here. I understand that it's frustrating to be in the minority and represent a contrarian view to an internet forum, but if you don't want to discredit the truth you're arguing for, the only way is to provide correct information and correct errors neutrally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Not really. There are lots of actions that have negative externalities and which we choose to treat differently. E.g., consider drug abuse, financial fraud, violent crime. We do not attenuate the incidence rate of these behaviors using the tax code.

I'm specifically talking about directing behaviours that remain legal.

I don't expect governments around the world are gonna ban the F-150.

As for things like cap and trade, you're right, that's an alternative mechanism. At bottom it's the same, though: assign an economic cost to the behaviour, and then use the market system to manage the behaviour.

Still, your point is well taken!
Do you think people will move back once the pandemic is over?
I remember the last time IPAs where the major trend (where most of those 10+ year old IPAs come from). Honestly I feel this round of Hazy/NE IPAs is far less bitter than what was happening back then. Much more floral notes in IPAs and the focus seems to be much more on mouth feel.

It's funny to see IPAs dominate again, I remember when the last fad ended because hops became scarce and that gave way to the trend of absurdly strong imperial stouts. The sour trend was interesting but I'd much rather have a bad IPA than a bad sour.

And while IPAs dominate, at least on the east coast, there are a surprisingly large number of lagers, pilsners and lighter ales being put out by craft brewers, breweries are even making normal stouts! People always complain about the trending beers, but I still find more variety now that ever before in my drinking life.

Stronger beers will always dominate because frankly they're more interesting and diverse even if they aren't more drinkable. There's a lot more you can do with a barrel aged imperial stout than a lager.
Wondering why you didn’t but TSLA again! I have bought and sold TSLA shares multiple times each time making a decent earning.
start over?

> to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Your take would mean that anti-black racism would not be against the rule in r/blackpeopletwitter. I don't think that's what reddit meant. I think reddit meant either the majority on reddit or the majority in the US (reddit being a US based site that mostly discusses American politics).

But you don't seem capable of following the guidelines here, and I'm not interested in your style of debate. Let's just move on.
Ah yes, industrializing the Chemistry part of drug discovery is certainly a blue sky dream but a field nonetheless we try to stay updated on -- hardware to do automated synthesis continues to make incremental improvements.
Muck Rack is looking for talented SREs to join our fast-growing New York (but remote-friendly) SaaS startup. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. Muck Rack offers a very flexible remote working policy. We strongly believe if you let responsible people handle their own work on their own priorities and timeline, not only will you produce better work, but you will be a happier employee!
We are devoted to our wonderful customers, transparent with one another, take ownership over our work, and remain resilient when presented with challenges.

We offer eligible employees access to quality health insurance and 401(k) plans, your choice of equipment, a generous vacation policy, personal development, and more.

If you enjoy scaling massive MySQL and ElasticSearch clusters and Celery installations, rapid iteration, standing up data model pipelines, care deeply about monitoring, security, and observability, and want to swim in _data_, please reach out! We are a diverse company, we move quickly, and we pride ourselves in shipping new and exciting features for our customers quickly. And please - do not think you aren't qualified if you do not check every single box.

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Browser based games are better than ever. Wonder where it will go next.

My favorite, which was acquired by Kongregate in Dec 2019:

https://surviv.io

2D Last Man Standing. Great fun.
How is that relevant? I’m familiar with the extremely stretched reasoning people use to describe welfare as a “walmart subsidy”, but if anything that just supports my argument - importing low-wage welfare recipients doesn’t benefit society.
I did consider this. There are many things (especially consumer goods, like cars) that cost more-or-less the same regardless of where you live. And that's to say nothing of intangible advantages of many of the more desirable / more dense areas. Your point is taken, but I think for every person who prefers the cheaper location, you'll find one who prefers the more expensive location. And so I stand behind my previous comment.
1. They won't.

2. Those who were made unemployed were not the same people renting expensive SF apartments.
Even old laptops can make good servers. Built-in UPS and screen for recovery. Depending on just how old, you might even be able to add more storage using USB3 ports, or with a controller in an ExpressCard slot or in place of the wireless card, or by replacing an optical drive.
I think its his father's name.
Our team has been testing ProtonDrive internally
Interesting news!
Rent prices are dropping because more people are becoming homeless or dying. Not good.
As sports resume, some fans will be made of cardboard
Will do! When you get a chance please send me a email with your contact info so I can reach out.
To start, let me say that I would never do hiring this way now. It was a flawed way to do hiring.

We ended up interviewing many of them. They were all very interested in the job. In most cases it was their second or third job out of college. ie. not junior engineers.

We got some great engineers out of it. In fact I think most of them are still there a decade later.
So what happened to this site? Did people move onto something else (a site) or was it smartphones?
V0.10 of Gleam, a statically typed language for the Erlang VM, is out
IDK, even rpi4 is still on 28nm which is the cheapest process per gate right now. And they really have very few gates allthibgs considered. I could absolutely see somewhere between $5 and $10 at cost, not counting R&D.
In two weeks I move out of my $2,800/month, 3 bedroom apartment in Boston, MA. We're moving to a lower cost-of-living city.

Our upstairs neighbours, who share a 3 bedroom apartment are also all out. One moved to Denver (job opportunity), the other two are finding a more affordable alternative outside the city. These are young professionals who enjoy a patio and drinks on a Friday.

Our landlord originally listed our unit back at $2,800/month but I see it's now at $2,500/month.

My anecdotal evidence of the shift :)
No kidding! Tree House was founded in 2011. You won't find anyone calling their beers formulaic garbage.

I understand the want to change it up. I seek out breweries that I haven't been to before or that have a deep catalog of beers that aren't found on shelves. Flights are a great way to try those beers, and their styles are usually of more variety.

One of my favorite breweries is Hermit Thrush in Brattleboro, Vermont. They specialize in sours, mostly aged. They source their aging barrels from all types of industries. Not only does the same recipe result in a different beer across multiple barrels, the same recipe results in a different beer each time a barrel is used.

If you look, you will find so much to explore. The space might feel dominated by IPAs, but other styles are benefitting from the rise of beer culture.
that is good too. they should have moved somewhere cheaper. lesson learned.
> Without the vehicle, the population would be a fraction of what it is and you probably would have never been born.

Personal automobile ownership is more than double what it was in 1960 (410.37/1K in 1960 vs. 831.9/1K in 2018). Needless to say, our birth rates are just a tad lower today than they were at the height of the baby boom...

And that's just in the USA. Look up rates of automobile ownership throughout the world. There are massive variations between countries with similar economies and similar brithrates.

And to head off the obvious explanation for the explosion of car ownership in the US being negatively correlated with population growth, notice that other developed economies also experienced a gender revolution and that this lack of strong correlation exists even if you measure car ownership at the level of households instead of at the level of individuals.

The hypothesis that cars => population growth just doesn't bear out in the data, even after correcting for a lot of possible confounds. The two are, at best, uncorrelated.

(Again, my post mentioned "the personal vehicle", not the ICE or carbonization of the economy more generally, which indeed enabled unparalleled growth)

> That's an insane analysis.

After looking at the data, I think you're completely wrong. But of course your hypothesis was not even close to "insane".
How to Add a Feature (Cleanly) [video]
Sharing this for linguistic and intellectual curiosity. Happy Canada Day, fellow Canuck hackers.