skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be sure different models fit different situations, and there are other needs people have aside from getting shit done, namely social interaction (which is at its root the biggest cause of resistance). If you don't get those needs meet elsewhere, the workplace is historically a good place to do so. But of course there are all sorts of ways outside a traditional office to optimize for this.
Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE (USA), Full time | Java/Linux engineer, Medical Image Processing and Storage

At Ambra Health we help the health care system solve complex problems with storing and sharing medical imaging data (X-rays, CT's, etc), at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves managing a lot of medical data, getting it to the right place quickly and reliably over the Internet - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems.

We are looking for a Java developer with Linux experience to join our remote-only image storage engineering team. This team works on the storage and image-processing services of our platform, which manage over 8 billion images (4PB) in the cloud and in data centers around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/coding/architecture decisions.

Requirements:

- Java development for back-end REST services

- Basic Linux system administration skills

Big plus if you've got these skills:

- Building server software with multi-threading and concurrency, in a distributed network environment

- Experience with DICOM medical file format, other medical standards, or image processing

- Diagnosing application problems in a Linux environment

- Experience with other systems languages (C, C++, Go, C#, etc)

Our hiring process is pretty painless - short introduction call, 1-hour phone call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: pete+jobs@ambrahealth.com
I studied physics as an undergrad and then went on to get a PhD from UW (Seattle), which has required courses for physics education that all graduate students must take. With ~10 years of physics study/practice/teaching, I think the one meta lesson I've carried with me is it's not about which book or which method, but rather the marathon process of ongoing exploration, which is often fueled by genuine interest and joy in exploring the subject. Exploration here applies to the subject itself in spirit, but in reality means exploring the resources to gather perspective and understanding.

The above probably sounds obvious (sorry!), but a lot of learning recommendation seems to focus on "the best" resource, which in my older years strikes me as kind of odd. In the grander scheme of studying something in earnest, time spent with any one book will not be the determiner of success. That's not to say there are no great books or resources, but rather if something is hard or not making sense you should try to approach the topic from another angle: read the chapter on the same topic from another text, or a few others, find some alternative lectures online, etc -- these days the resource list is near limitless... So, start somewhere, don't worry too much about how you start, and keep going!

A lot of the above opinion was motivated by a kind of serendipitous conversation I had with a physics professor. I returned to that convo often enough that I finally decided to write it down last year. Pardon the self plug, but intent was to help share a learning perspective: https://medium.com/@kevinconnolly/effort-neglect-and-the-sec...
I think the die has been cast. A lot of people in fact most americans I would argue not only would be ok with that but want that. Theres two options here. China flourishes and the world is in different start, or it doesn't and the worlds fine. But the current relationship is wholly untenable
In pandemic times I only ride e-hailed taxies with the window opened at least 50%.

Guess it's a matter of picking my poison.
The US has a long term plan to outsource all those things. We're about 2/3rds of the way there.
I know bashing on Jira is a popular pastime on HN, but I'm always surprised folks are not more introspective around why it's still so popular in the enterprise. It's because there are a million and one ways that teams like to work, and any one project has lots of different stakeholders with competing needs, and there really isn't any other tool that can scale out to this many use cases.

I've certainly pulled my hair out a million times with Jira, but TBH I'm extremely impressed with their redesign. They've really scaled back the complexity IMO while still giving my team the customizability we need (we started on Trello and quickly hit roadblocks).
> ideally it's supposed to be 6% by mass.
Correct, but when you're talking about a difference of 1kt on a 3kt estimate, 6% is non-negligible IMO.

> we know that there was some level of explosive power that wasn't fully consumed.

Agreed, if there were no other oxidizers nearby then it's clear based on the reddish brown color of the smoke cloud that the AN was not consumed.
Because the minefield of chinese tech IPOs in the past year. With scrutiny it hasnt gone well for most chinese tech.
> I don't understand the pill reference, other than that they behave diffently as medicines.

Trans people often take hormone therapy in order to become their true self, just as the characters in the matrix take a pill to "wake up".

Edit: because i can't directly reply anymore, replying here to your response on pills. I agree that by itself, it means nothing. Pills can mean lots of things to lots of people. Its not one individual thing that makes the movie an allegory about trans people. Its the pattern and combination of elements that make it an allegory. Any one of the various minor plot elements or aspects of the theme that relate to the trans "experience", on its own, mean nothing. Its that there are so many such elements that all fit together.

Idk what the trans connection is to the woman in the red dress. I always just took it as a nod to how in movies the dangerous female characters always wear red dresses (think #6 in bsg, but many other examples)

> To express my own take, it was more about government, society, and the inevitable end we would come to some day as resources constrain.

But in the movie resourses weren't constrained due to overpopulation, but due to war. And even then, people may not have lived in luxery in zion, but we had no indication that people were doing without.

The only character who talked about over-population and resource constraints was Agent Smith, and he was the villian

> I like to think nobody is wrong

While good art can support multiple interpretations, i definitely think that interpretations can be more or less wrong. E.g. Anyone saying the matrix is actually about the benefits of double-entry bookkeeping, is straight up wrong.

Edit: lol, i just realized that the sequels were all about how the equations were "unbalanced" and neo is the result of things not adding up. Maybe it is about double entry book-keeeping after all.
I'm not sure DNA is something that is even possible to protect. You leave samples of it everywhere you go, and you share most of it with everyone else anyway.

I happen to think my DNA is pretty good, but it's not like I had anything to do with that. It's more like I happen to like the seed for the minecraft world I'm playing.

I don't feel like I own my DNA in the same way that I own property or things. It helped me be who I am, but why would I stop someone else from looking at it or trying to use it in some way? As long as I get to keep using it, I'm happy.
I will say, the Netflix idea dump is a bit self contradictory, and draws some pretty silly conclusions in places. The bullet time part in particular reads like nonsense.

On one side they talk about eggs, people who don't know yet. Then the next post is about the camera zooming between the M and F. Well which is it, did they not know, or was it intentional? Either the red pill was intentionally modeled after an estrogen pill or it wasn't. If it was, again the egg theory is out the window. Personally, I think the movie is much better from the egg point of view. Someone not understanding their identity and searching for answers. The rest doesn't need to be spelled out as having one specific meaning. The Lilly interview video embedded in the article is much better than any of the headlines journalists took out of it as clickbait. But it's editing is questionable, and parts nearly contradict each other, I suspect because their contexts were cut. ("It was always intended as a trans allegory" vs "I don't know present my transness was in the background of my brain while we were writing it" and "we were existing in this place where the words didn't exist" the latter two implying a more eggness.)

The idea of questioning your identity, purpose, and capability are broader than just specific communities. The Matrix works because it broadly touches upon themes without being overt, so many people can relate to it. I think saying "it specifically means this and only this metaphor" not only does it a bit of disservice, but is revisionist in a pigeonholing way. Lilly didn't say what these articles are interpreting her words as.

Not knowing your place in society and your community is universal, and when they were making the movie I think it's pretty clear they wanted to achieve that universalness. They took bits and pieces from thousands of sources and sricked something together that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Looking at the movie through different lenses is great, and I enjoy having more ways to interpret the movie, but don't get too stuck wearing just one pair.
It's the risk that has to be taken. Also it isn't racist a lot of techie in silicon valley are asian. It's a difference in philosophy if anything.
I can tell you I made a friend by going for beers with him and opening up about stuff. I think the alcohol played a role, because the opening up part came after at least a beer.

And no, I'm not an alcoholic. I'm tipsy already after a beer.
It's ETC. ETH is a separate currency.
Agreed, at some point I've used something from all three of those and they're all great! I've seen a surprising amount of great stuff from smaller universities too iirc, if you google around.
A second position:

Ambra Health (https://ambrahealth.com) | REMOTE (US), Full time | Performance/Reliability Engineer (SRE-like), Medical Image Processing and Storage

We are looking for a US-based remote-only DevOps-oriented engineer to work closely with the team developing the storage and image-processing services of our platform. You would find ways to improve performance and reliability of the services, which manage over 8 billion images (4PB) in the cloud and in data centers around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/planning decisions.

Requirements:

- Strong Linux system administration and diagnostic skills

- Experience operating a distributed application and diagnosing problems at the application, network and hardware level

- JVM tuning experience

Big plus if you've got these skills:

- Familiarity with programming, profiling, or debugging a JVM or system language

- Experience with application instrumentation (specifying, collecting and analysing performance metrics)

- Experience with automating testing or deployment

- Experience managing cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Our hiring process is pretty painless - short introduction call, 1-hour phone call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: pete+jobs@ambrahealth.com
I have some very heavy doubts about the validity of their data. Look at their primary findings:

"Using a popular family hatchback running on brand new, correctly inflated tyres, we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles."

Most tires seem to be around 7kg, which means according to their data a car would have all 4 tires reduced to nothing after 4828km. With most tires going bald after ~50,000km (not fully vaporized mind you), there's clearly something wrong here.

My guess is they tested brand new tires which may shed particulate quickly at the start, similar to how a new carpet sheds exponentially more at the start.
> I was able to walk up to someone's desk and spend ten minutes to save multiple weeks of protocol and runaround. partly because it's easier to apply pressure, but also partly because communicating face-to-face is so much higher bandwidth

Let's ignore how you interrupting someone cost them potentially hours of productivity.

I agree face-to-face is higher bandwidth for easy/simple topics. "Bob, what's the mainframe password" is easier shouted than written, and the reply likewise (assuming Bob knows it by heart).

It gets tricky when the topic is complicated or when Bob is distracted and confused. You might get a half-assed dismissive and incomplete answer (which you may or may not notice), or it might take Bob much longer to figure the answer out than if you had messaged it to him.

The quality of your communication depends on many factors, and your perception may not necessarily match reality.
>>Why compete with FAANG trying to pay new grads $300k when you can pay an experienced developer from Europe $100k? I honestly never understood it.

Because $300K vs $100K makes very little difference to them when they're printing money. One idea from a top dev can make the whole thing pay itself and then some, for years.
Only the PoW (proof of work) ones.
I might be wrong. I'm not aware of the Chinese military flying in the gulf of Mexico however.
It's not about the tech industry but the prevailing culture of the country and region. Drinks after work is extremely common in most places.
I saw Terminator when I was very young and more recently, Ex Machina was pretty great regarding what "passing" the Turing test might look like.
Try it in WINE in a VM?
It absolutely does. We're social beings, after all. I used to be very antisocial, but once I learned how to actually talk to people, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
I worked in Switzerland, the 13th month wasn't a bonus, they simply took your salary, divided that by 13, that was your monthly payment and you got 2 of them in December.

Also many bills are due on the first of January for the whole next year e.g. insurance. So it was kinda like a holiday and large bill windfall, but it wasn't additional to salary.

That was just one company, maybe other countries or employers are different.
I stuck to those naval bases (Bay Area HN'ers will notice the absence of Alameda and Moffett) because I'd guess others could, in principle, be relocated without notably affecting their missions[1], but the US would never tolerate losing its (not so?) Pacific harbours, especially the sub pens.

Best (with non-generic probability) scenario for secession I can imagine at this point: under a foreign nuclear umbrella, the west coast agrees that (a) in exchange for retaining responsibility for the federal debt, the US gets all the nukes, and (b) Ecotopia gives the US a long term lease on the bases mentioned above, à la Subic Bay.

As Hawaii was originally filibustered in to the Union, it might be poetic justice for it to join Ecotopia, but both finances and Pearl Harbor would far more likely leave it subordinated to the haoles in DC.

(Unlike Vancouver with the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Ecotopia doesn't seem connected to the US' crude pipeline network, so that part would be easy. Financially, the west coast would find it easier to balance their budgets if they were independent. I doubt Ecotopia would retain any inland territories, but under capitalism and in the absence of blockades, money gets you through times of no food much better than food gets you through times of no money.

I've discovered the items above en passant, so I haven't bothered running down the rest of the feasibility arguments — but I'm sure someone, or even multiple someones in multiple jurisdictions, has.)

[1] Note that the B-52s have recently been relocated from Guam to somewhere in flyover country without, according to the USAF, affecting their missions. (What mission a 70-year old design could still have is above my pay grade.)

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs
Emissions Analytics found that emissions of particulate matter from tire wear can be 1,000 times worse than from tailpipes.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127424_study-particula...

This is a rapidly increasing problem as more EVs, which are very heavy on tire wear, generate more pollution. Good idea to stay on top of alignment: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/unusual-tire-wear.10...
I agree with most of the things in this article, but it smells an awful lot like a planted piece.

The name is very unusual for a Swedish person, I can only find three people with that last name in Sweden, and none of them has the first name Sebastian.

The image of him in a gas mask is vague enough that you can't identify the person based on that.

The blog is a hosted wordpress that only has a couple of articles going back a few days.

The English is very good, I didn't see a single Swedishism, which makes it less likely the writer is actually Swedish.

The article talks about other kinds of deaths that are also bad, and mentions opioid deaths. That is a cause of death that is extremely rare in Sweden, but which would be familiar to an American audience. Using that as an example while talking about Swedish deaths is very odd.

So all in all this piece smells off.
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Would have been nice if poetry shell loaded .env

I got used to that workflow with pipenv.
The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.

:)
if you want to improve trust and communication in the workplace, encourage positive & healthy social relationships among employees, so they are comfortable enough to speak their mind.

drugging people into an uninhibited state so they speak their intoxicated thoughts is not a long term solution.
Sure, open the gates to hell.
Fluff Piece. Apple PR machine learning that techies read ars Technica.
There isn't a "conservation of flow" principle for liquids, so there's no need to go looking for a flow increase somewhere else because this flow is decreasing.
Thing I remember was in the early 60's detecting clockwork like magnetic reversals in the Atlantic sea floor parallel and mirrored on each side of the Atlantic ridge.
I moved to the US from the UK, where yield ("give way") signs were the standard and stop signs an attention-getting rarity.

I've often wondered how much harm to health has been done by the increased emissions at excess of stop signs (at least in the parts of the US I've visited). Does it outweigh whatever reduction in accidents you get by forcing a stop at junctions which (to my untrained eye) could safely be controlled with a yield?
I'm in Thailand now. There's a lot of Chang and Leos tipped back all over, even casually on the stoop of 7-Eleven, but it's more about the sentiment of not needing to have a drink. The only time it's remarked is when people say it's odd for a Westerner to not go to the bars (which is annecdotal but indicative of how Western culture is perceived here).

It was a bit different in Laos though where Beer Lao can sometimes be cheaper than water and is sort of a national pride and probably most well-known export.
Heh I have a funny story on this:

My buddy (non-drinker at the time) had a job that required him to grease the wheels with clients and a major lubricant was alcohol.

He came up with an idea: cranberry juice in a wine glass

Everything seemed to be going swimmingly well, till one of the senior clients came up to him and whispered in his ear: "it works better if you don't put ice cubes in there" :)

Anyway, he started drinking pretty quickly after and hasn't looked back since.
For sure, but I'm not so sure they would be net-positive for an organization. Plenty of people can't take them in a sustainable way, and if they were given out like beer at happy hour I think a lot of folks would go off the rails.

My last employer offered an on-site therapy benefit and I sometimes wondered whether we'd see a progression from therapy -> on-site psychiatry -> little nudges to take ADHD tests -> everyone is taking Adderall.
Any advantage of using your solution over Kata Containers?

https://katacontainers.io/
OP is saying nomikais are about trust. P is saying they are about team, and that they help bring the boss down and lift the workers up.

Nomikais are both. If anything it's just an excuse to drink, and each company or team would decide how they drank. It starts in college with bukatsu nomikais. And there are good ones, and the ones where the ring leader is arrested for serial rape. That happened at Todai, and is definitely not normal, but unless you're the leader (there is always a leader) how are you to know until you show up and everyone starts drinking? Much like frat recruiting in the States. My year, someone died (1997 I think it was).
Tcl has features that are very powerful, but are really hard for a beginner, and really easy for a novice programmer to shoot themselves in the foot with.

Yet Tcl tends to be forced on undergraduate programmers, who probably just learn to loathe it. I lost several toes to it myself decades ago, and haven’t really felt inclined to pick it up again.
Huawei will take Root in Semiconductors in all Directions: HongMeng will Future
"Unfortunately, we only did the design of the chip, we didn't do the manufacturing of the chip." Said, Yu Chengdong "This is really a very big loss, a great pity!"
Well, it's Osaka. A lot of Japanese wouldn't consider Osaka to be a part of Japan lol.
Can Pysa work on Fastapi. Its fully type-hinted using pydantic
Mao's Factories in Cold War China
And there would be even more so if people weren't use to horses!
That wasn't supposed to be any more of an attack than "I edited [seems] in to soften the message." is an attack.
For anyone who is already used to Jira and considering switching, think again. Monday seems to be popular as the "much faster, responsive" competitor if the marketing is to believed.

I've used it for 6 months - it's garbage. At least, absolutely ZERO times better than Jira as an overall productivity tool.

I can't tell you how many times issues have never loaded (see: blank screen), painstakingly prioritised lists of HUNDREDS of issues that have had their ordering completely scrambled, to name two off the top of my head.

If you hate Jira, think about whether it's the thing you hate that you're used to. Because you're absolutely going to be trading for a NEW thing that you hate, and have to learn to use from scratch.
My company forced me back into a windowless massive open office back in June, I handed in my notice yesterday to take a better paid 100% remote position with a company that has been 100% remote for years before this crisis.

That it also comes with a substantial pay rise, zero travel and the opportunity to work on stuff I actually find interesting is just a gigantic cherry on the cake.

It was by far the largest factor in getting me to go look elsewhere though not the only one.

I was frank (though polite) with my boss (since I'm a lead and I have zero intention of ever returning) about it - they are going to haemorrhage their senior developers and I know stuff he doesn't yet about others leaving.