skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript/Typescript (React/Redux, Node, Express), Python (Django/Flask), GraphQL/REST, MySQL/PostgresSQL/MongoDB/Redis, Docker, AWS LESS/SASS/CSS, git
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vxw2vMtiwsl0G_wb3akjs6jFfE0jVTE9/view?usp=sharing
Email: Mark.Galloway@ualberta.ca
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgallowa/
Github: https://github.com/MarkGalloway
Timezone: UTC -6
Desired Role: Senior Software Engineer

I have 6 years of experience developing high-traffic, full-stack web applications. I've built everything from social media app backends to very complex dashboards to mobile-first Progressive Web Apps to web-based, event-driven games. I've also designed and deployed large, distributed, and scalable cloud infrastructures. I've often had full ownership of these projects, with junior developers underwing. I've planned milestones, set and met deadlines, and empowered my colleagues to deliver their best. I strongly enjoy teaching others and helping my teams work together to meet ambitious goals.
I have a solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and system design. I believe in clean and simple solutions. I prefer readable, consistent, and testable code over clever code. I'm motivated to exceed requirements and have an end result that is both performant and provides a superior user experience.

I'm looking to work for a company that has a strong culture around communication, iteration, and collaboration. I want to solve hard problems, learn new things, and be passionate about what I'm building. I prefer to take ownership of large features and the responsibility that comes with it.
Really smart idea. Sometimes people think that there are no “standard questions”, but really we’re all human and need to /want to do a lot of the same stuff no matter where we are.
Comparing China and Rome to a modern economy is basically impossible. Those were agrarian societies whose net output per unit of territory was largely static, and determined by the amount of food that can be grown in the land. I don't think it's valid to categorize them as either socialist or capitalist societies. Marx agreed: he wrote of feudalism (and probably, by extension other agrarian civilizations) as a distinct kind of society that predated the capitalism that rose out of the industrial revolution.
> For any arbitrary shopper-item combination, as long as the item can fit the basic merchantability requirements over the duration of the return period, the only significant criterion is going to be price.

Disagree, quality matters.
Even when it's just one link, it looks better as a reference than a random URL floating around in the text (or after it).
Twitter | Remote, NYC, Seattle, SF | Backend | https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/202007/senio...

We are rebuilding our billing infrastructure. If you have interest/experience with GCP, Dataflow, ApacheBeam, BigTable/Bigquery, or Ads, we would love to hear from you.
Our payments team is also hiring https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/202007/senio...

If you have any questions or want to chat, I am a engineer on the team and be reached at Mckendon@acm.org or https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckendon/
This is why I have both the fingerprint AND face unlock on on my phone :) The combo of the two covers 99% of cases IME.
I don't think OP is ignoring any points. It is a statement of fact that we've been carrying around what ultimately amount to high power RFID surveillance devices in our pockets for about 20-30 years now (en masse). There are also many on this board at this very moment who can remember life before any of this technology or concern was a thing.

In 1990, if you walked to the store without telling anyone where you were going, you were basically a ghost as far as anyone else was concerned. In 2020, even if you leave all of your digital electronics at home, you will probably be detected by someone else's electronics.
> What do you think NBA players are doing?

It's their job, which they get handsomely compensated for. Wasting away thousands of hours grinding Dota or CS:GO is the job of very few people, while the grand majority of gaming addicts are simply wasting a significant chunk of their life.
Because of their success these companies also get the most scrutiny (see house investigation/hearings last week). One foul step and its a PR disaster, impending regulations, boycotts, etc. Are you sure you'd prefer your convenience to come from smaller companies that garner less attention?

Which 'secret groups' are you referring to?
Whova | Infrastructure Engineer | San Diego, CA, USA | ONSITE FULL-TIME VISA | 1Y+ experience | 90K+ |

Whova is growing fast, especially our recent shifts toward virtual events, and we need to scale our infrastructure!
We are looking for a new infrastructure engineer to join our team in San Diego and tackle many scalability-related challenges.

Our infrastructure team is small, so the job responsibilities are various (operations, team processes improvements, application-level performance improvements, various infrastructure-level projects like setting up docker/k8s or adding support for clusters/replicas, ...).
In short, the position is a unique opportunity to build the foundations of a growing infrastructure.

1 year of experience working on infrastructure is needed.

If you are interested to learn more, feel free to drop me an email at simon.ninon@whova.com.
> As Kevin Williamson observed, Sowell is “that rarest of things among serious academics: plainspoken.”

So rare, and so precious.
The measure that describes what you state would be the median, which is defined as the point at which there are as many values above as below.

Averages will skew with large outliers on either side. E.g. if Bezos and I are alone in a room together, the average person in that room has $95B dollars. (Granted, in an n=2 situation, the median isn't meaningful either)
Vs Linux, I get (Like the MS office suite), but I think the OP meant vs Windows, which is hard to grok.
$100k is another employee for free. That's a significant sum for an early stage startup.
Why should the WHO not incite fear if the fear is entirely rational and justified? People not being afraid enough is exactly how people die.
Because they want to destroy the government. Or their frustrated. Or mad. Or feeling mischevious.

None of those things are terrorism
Low but greater than the “aerosolized” vector. When people sneeze, it land on surfaces (like floors), when they cough, etc.

If surfaces were not a problem, we wouldn’t be using wipes and sanitizers. So why ignore one possibility and stress another?

When people take off their shoes they can get contaminated. If they have pets the pets will pick some up and get it on you, etc.
State-Dependent TMS over Prefrontal Cortex Disrupts Fear-Memory Reconsolidation
The government in general, and to a certain extent me as-well (despite me voting left of D66).

The fact that Schiphol is a major hub helps make us a bigger player in international trade. It helps setting up main offices here (which bring in decent tax, and maybe some jobs too).

In general, on this issue, I trust the VVD to get the economic side somewhat correct. They are pretty smart people, and not totally evil. And they care a lot about the economic side. So I tend to believe them when they say 'this will be good for the economy'. Especially when they come up with an underlying mechanism that seems quite plausible to me.
For those with Apple News+, just visit the URL in Safari on iPad or iPhone, hit the "share" icon, and share with News+ to view the story there. LA Times is included in News+.

This also works with the Wall Street Journal.

Note: this only works in mobile News+. It does not work on a Mac. Sometimes you can just open the newspaper in question from News+ on a Mac and simply find the story, but in this case I didn't see the story.

PS: you have to actually visit the URL in Safari. If you long tap on the link on HN to bring up the actions menu there is a share option there, but News+ is missing. News+ is only an option for sharing the URL Safari is actually on.
Call Siemens and ask what they charge for Parasolid. Hint: you have to ask, so...

Computational Geometry is hard. FOSS CG Kernels are not going to spring from the ether. CGAL exists, but its target audience is CG researchers. OpenCASCADE exists, but it's really a loss-leader for proprietary extensions and consulting contracts.
Without some decent advances in battery technology I have strong doubts about electric planes being common for commercial flights.

This is just based on the wh/weight ratio - lithium batteries are far heavier then oil based fuel per watt hour, and aviation is incredibly weight sensitive.
I love his reviews.

Notable quirk in this review: around 5:10 where he starts talking about how usable the software is, he also makes an erroneous gesture with his thumb and has to do it again. This is my experience with the Pixel 3a. The gestures require a range of motion that my thumb just does not have. This isn't going to be any better with the 4a, which is even bigger than the 3a.
The only reason I wouldn't buy the Samsung is because of their software. Their hardware is great but their version of Android is its own beast, which is great if you like it, but if you just want vanilla Android or to replace it with something custom then they're often a bit more of a faff.
Tax preparation & downloading forms to print is free. All these products charge customers for electronic filing.
If your point is that there is an analogy between liberals and Snopes and Mormons and fairmormon.org then I actually agree with you since things like Snopes are basically ecclesiology for liberals.
Indeed. You make a powerful critique of those who say that pre tax property law defines what somebody has morally earned.
> Great, now apply that logic to automobiles in general.

Do automobile accidents experience exponential growth? If so, I guarantee they'd get the exact same treatment.

Or guess what else with your auto example. Drinking and driving. You don't get free reign to do so because society shouldn't have to pay your costs for you.
It seemed like California took some of the strongest lockdown measures early on, especially compared to Texas and Florida; all three of which are seeing increased fatalities while the rest of the country is plummeting.

I wonder if this a case of lockdowns delaying the inevitable, combined with the fact that many of those affected are in places with high population densities. If we are to learn anything from elderly care facilities in NYC, Sweden and Canada, it's that infected people need to be separated way out away from anyone in their home. The primary vector of infection is still the home, likely due to higher exposure if someone is sick.
My wife works in a doctors office which has stayed open through the pandemic. She sees a few people a day in a small room. The very first thing she did after the pandemic hit the US, was buy an air purifier and she runs it continually. I'm quite surprised that they aren't more common in medical offices in general. The benefits of the air filter are cumulative with other protections—particles caught by the filter can't bypass the mask.

Filters should be mandatory in any enclosed room, the fact that they don't even talk about them as part of the discussion about schools and businesses opening is mind boggling to me.
Sowell has been criticized widely for his reductionist take on economics. Not sure what "tone policing" has to do with anything...
Out with the old and weak, in with the strong!
It's all about bilking customers. It's the natural endgame for capitalism. Same idea with planned obsolesence. It's why big ticket items like washing machines and fridges last a fraction of the length as their counterparts from 60 years ago.
It's Time to Talk About the Coding Bootcamp Promise
The article indicates that most cases are actually relating to ending an affair, rather than initiating a divorce. E.g. someone is hired to seduce a husband’s mistress, and cause the mistress in turn to end the affair.

Seems like a crazy amount of deception and effort to avoid confrontation, but perhaps that also hints at the root cause?

The article also notes that the marriage can’t be terminated easily if contested, which suggests to me that it can also be easily terminated if both parties agree.
MUJI closing California stores amid bankruptcy
SameGoal Inc | Staff Software Engineer | Madison, WI | ONSITE (Post-Covid) | Full-Time | https://samegoal.com/

SameGoal's web application allows districts to collaboratively and compliantly document student participation in K-12 Special Programs such as Special Education, Gifted Education, English Language Learning and TGRG. We are a privately held, profitable company that operates without external capital to ensure stability and strategic direction.

We are looking for someone with 5+ years of Software Engineering experience ; 10+ preferred, who can architect and develop significant infrastructure projects, debug complex systems to isolate and resolve problems quickly, mentor junior engineers to increase their productivity and foster a highly collaborative environment, develop key new features & functionality end-to-end including modification to our frontend and backend, initiates and leads tactical engineering projects to streamline operations across the company, and can keep our users happy with a user-friendly, low latency, highly stable application experience.

Technology Stack: Backend - Go, PostgreSQL, K8s | Frontend - Closure Tools, SPA | SCM - Git, Gerrit

Competitive salary and benefits package included. FLSA: Exempt. To comply with federal law, SameGoal participates in E-Verify. SameGoal is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To apply, email cover letter and resume to jobs@samegoal.com
Estimating the fatality rate is difficult but doable with better data
Its not all mortgages though.

What do you tell the property owner who paid off mortgage, and uses the rent as primary income? Should the govt pay these people? I suppose they could get the banks to loan the money interest free...
If people are interested in your project, it's courteous to let them know what's going on, even if just to tell them the project won't continue.
I think there's definitely a market for some kind of "forever PC". A 20 year old PC is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff, and the really impressive part is that it wouldn't ever need to change significantly. Maybe something like the pico-8 "fantasy console" but for anachronistic "personal computing". Build some minimal apps that aren't user-friendly by today's standards but are nice and simple to program against and have good and simple UI paradigms.
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accuRx’s mission is to be the communications platform that brings patients and their healthcare teams together; helping make patients healthier and caregivers happier.

Currently, we let GP practices communicate with their patients, team and other organisations.

We’ve grown from being used in a handful of organisations at the beginning of 2018, to now being used in over 98% of England's GP practices that send over 250,000 messages a day to patients – improving care and saving staff over half an hour each day.

Over the next 12 months we'll be releasing new products in GP practices, hospitals and pharmacies. Speak with us to find out more :)

Apply here: https://www.accurx.com/careers
Covid is basically the perfect pandemic to hit the US in terms of worst-case scenario.

This is a good example. Many of these people are illegal/undocumented persons who can't get benefits or medical treatment and can't afford to NOT work.

They're still vectors anyway.

The truth is that the US benefits from these workers and our economy would implode without them yet we vilify them and treat them horribly.

Covid is karma.
I don't see the direct economic competition as a problem. Informing the population is fundamental to living in a democratic society. Providing a non-profit oriented basis makes as much sense as funding libraries (which compete with publishers) and schools (compete with private schools).

I know it's not perfect, but it definitely is not a "big problem".
Any community that is large enough is going to have some less informed brash members. Communities are open big tents after all.
Thank you for walking away.

I hope more people will follow your example and question their work. Not only at Harris Corporation, but in every part of what is called surveillance capitalism.
Definitely that. Also: ever had to write in all caps "Don't touch this column!" to stop people breaking your formulas.

Giving people access to your sheet can be like giving them access to your SQL database.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Russia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Full stack.

Python/JavaScript/aiohttp/django/reactjs/redux/docker/html/css/git and etc.

Résumé/CV:

I am a Full Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience.

https://bit.ly/2CVRNdz

Email: me@andronov.io
DocuSign | Chicago | React, C#, Full Stack | FT

DocuSign is a leader in electronic signature and agreement cloud technology. We're growing across all of our offices and COVID-19 hasn't hurt our business. GlassDoor's top 10 places to work for!! The stack is primarily React and C# with openings for front end, back end, and full stack roles. The technical challenges are interesting and fun to work on @ scale. Join the Chicago team and work together w/ us on our CLM product.

I'm an engineering manager and you can contact me directly w/ your resume and roles you're interested in: dan[dot]digangi[at]docusign[dot]com

Roles: https://www.docusign.com/company/careers
OH MY GOD...

The OP brought up that Sowell said that anti discrimination legislation increased defaulting and bankruptcy. Thomas Sowell literally wrote an entire article blaming CRA about 10 years ago. I brought up how Sowell is wrong because studies show that he is wrong.
> Fees can go as high as 20 million yen (£145,000) if a client is a politician or a celebrity, requiring the highest level of secrecy.

Still seems very cheap?
SEEKING WORK, Pakistan, Remote OK, Email: muazzam_ali at live.com

CS student at a top university, hobbyist developer for a long time, academic ML enthusiast. My last freelance project for NYC client involved building a screen and webcam recorder in C++ and Microsoft Media Foundation. Thanks to the memory-related bugs I encountered in C++, I decided to give Rust a go and loved it. In college, I took a semester-long Node.js and React.js course, so that's what I can handle on the front-end. For back-end work, I of course have a preference for Node.js, Rust, and Go but I'm a fast learner and can get started with any language in no time.

See:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muazzamalikazmi/

GitHub: https://github.com/muazzamalikazmi

Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01f448afbc28d5d09a
"Soft searches", i.e. what you see from credit karma or what even your bank might show now when you log into their website, are just estimates of your score. In fact there really is no "your score", the only way to know if you'll be able to be approved is to apply for the loan which requires a hard pull and the lender will interpret the report however they want and translate it to their own version of your score that you'll be evaluated on. It's very common that credit karma will show a decent score, and then when the person applies for a loan or mortgage the score the lender uses comes up much lower and they get denied, and there's little they can do about it except try again later and hope the number went up.

> On the latter example, would you lend vast sums of money to someone who has never demonstrated their ability to manage and repay a loan?

I think this is a misunderstanding of the role of debt in the world today. Access to debt is all but a necessity to have any hope of financial stability. Prices of large costs like housing and college tuition have increased in massive surplus of the average person's ability to pay for them, which in many ways is a huge problem in and of itself, but the only way the system even sort of still works is easy access to debt.

In these circumstances it really doesn't make sense to just shrug it off and let some people fall through the cracks with no recourse because the antiquated and opaque system didn't approve them.
> I'll just say that my statement is factual

> assume

> goal

An assumption is not a fact. A goal isn't a fact either.

While total elimination is probably impossible, plenty of places have managed almost complete suppression to the point where it's more like E. Coli; occasional outbreaks, but action taken to contain it.

"flatten the curve" is now associated with "herd immunity" and other discredited ideas.
Thanks, I love me some icons. Looks like it could work well stylistically along side those also using Github's recently redesigned octicons (https://primer.style/octicons)
Location: Los Angeles, California, US

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Frontend in general: Javascript, React, React Native, EmberJS, CSS, SASS; and some basic Node, serverless, Firebase, FaunaDB.

I also have a good eye and detail-oriented personality for UX and design, and I am familiar with several marketing and growth-related tools like Segment, Heap, Amplitude, Google Analytics, and others (from my background as a marketing professional before moving to software development).

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigohgpontes

Experience: 3 years (I consider myself a mid-level developer)

A few other links that tell more about me:

- My newsletter with writing advice for developers: https://writingfordevelopers.substack.com

- My personal blog about my career transition from marketing to software development: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io

- A side-project that I am building solo, from concept, to design, to development (React on serverless with FaunaDB): https://www.quidsentio.com

- The blog for the said project above: https://blog.quidsentio.com

I have a better fit if the role is for working close to growth or product teams. I like to work close to product decisions.

I want to find a place where I can learn from experienced engineers and work among nice people.

Email: rodrigohgpontes (using gmail)
Moroccan Journalist Targeted with Network Injection Attacks
I think zero makes sense as array indices when it refers to an offset as some kind. But I find it more intuitive for counters to start at one, in line with colloquial ('1st' and 'first') and mathematical usage.
> If China-based engineers have access to TikTok's US-based servers, they can still hand over data to the CCP (or be forced to do so).

1. That is illegal.

2. Theoretically this also currently applies to Google, Microsoft, Google (any company which has devs in China) and is a solved problem. Almost all people don't have physical access to data, and those who do need to go through access reviews to do anything.
Can't tell if this is a joke or not.

For the record, I'm not having that perception. But many will judge people by who agrees with them.
No, because they are taxed at basically the maximum marginal rate. There are cheaper ways to avoid taxation.

It's seldom used and only when there's no alternative (e.g. a lost invoice that you don't want to charge your employee for).