skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flow Commerce | Hoboken, NJ | Senior Backend / Senior Frontend / Solutions Engineer | Technical Project Manager | flow.io/careers / Full-time Onsite (remote until things normalize)

Flow is a SaaS e-commerce platform that enables brands and retailers to become international and sell cross-border. Flow’s API driven platform enables merchants to sell & ship globally from their own sites, solving all cross-border pain points throughout the entire e-commerce supply chain, such as local payment methods, international shipping options, and all aspects of the upstream site localization such as duty/tax calculation, local pricing and product restrictions. These challenges create enormous friction to selling globally for merchants. The result is a next generation platform for cross-border commerce, focused on the customer experience and on maximizing conversion rates.

Flow has raised $55m+ in funding (most recently Series B) from NEA, Amex Venture, Bain Capital Ventures, Forerunner and Fung Capital and more.

We are growing rapidly and looking for some great leaders in the engineering, product, and design space to join us.

Apply directly on the job posting and note YCombintor in the source field or send me your resume directly @ jhano@flow.io

You can see our job board for all of our open positions @ https://www.flow.io/careers/

Or you can click the links below:

Sr. Frontend Engineer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/44524655-ca52-4cf3-99b0-404b66a64....

Sr. Backend Engineer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/a90119bb-cee5-4b45-a08a-df0dfdc88....

Solutions Engineer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/4b1f2c26-ff31-45f6-a894-3a98f65ac....

Technical Project Manager (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/464728d7-95c2-4316-9f1e-d5094e534....
Good luck to them. They'll need it.
It's more like asking for directions to a restaurant and getting directions to a different restaurant.
This article reads alarmingly similar to the Kurzgesagt video about the great filter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtOGPJ0URM).

Of course, the Great Filter isn't a new concept, but provided that this is an argument made by somebody other than the person who coined the term (that was Robin Hanson I believe), combined with the fact that I read almost the entire article before then going on to find the video, I find the two too similar to write it off to simple chance.

There have been criticisms of Kurzgesagt in the past, one I can recall being the following, in video form (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2dAGU-VJcE). I've now found out that the original video was retracted and the creator issued a public apology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgHGslVdrg), in addition to Kurzgesagt committing to performing more scrutiny over their videos and citing their sources wherever possible.

I do applaud this last step on their part, and I understand that you have to admit that the Great Filter video was published back in 2018 before this commitment was made, but something about the lack of attribution throughout the video doesn't sit right with me, still.
I think the Fermi paradox simply underestimates the enormous difficulty and expense of traveling between solar systems.
Go to a psychiatrist. Report your symptoms. They will give you a diagnostic and make the call. As long as you go in without stating your suspected diagnosis, you're not "diagnosing."
I actually like this aspect of the USA. Most parts of the world, specially more socialistic-leaning countries, would have politicians eager to expand their powers and size of the state so that they have control over a bigger cut of the pie. Of course, this is supposedly for the good of the people.

It seems to me that more people is socialistic-minded in the USA these days, to me that looks like a indicator of the decline of the country.
This is a beautiful implementation of a tactic to shift a conversation.

OP starts with a seemingly related pivot to the topic of how to prioritize the regulation of a company like Google with the regulation of other companies. Such a conversation would obviously involve at least few points about why Google ought not top the list. (And hopefully many points given OP says Google is "by far" not top priority.) I was certainly interested to read such a digression...

Then, like Alan Sokal's prank[1], OP leaves out any argument for that prioritization. Instead, OP moves directly to complaining about the other companies which OP has declared by fiat should take priority.

And, voila! Every single comment below OP at the time of this writing similarly avoids the ostensible discussion about Google's prioritization, instead discussing only the other companies and the efficacy of their regulation. Potential regulation of Google as a topic is completely avoided in any of the child nodes of this OP.

Whether this was intentional or not, it makes an excellent archetype for this tactic.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sokal
Every time I see somebody identify moderation as censorship, I remember my experiences with public wikis, forums, etc. It's always spam and porn. They'll spin up more fake users than you'll ever have real users, every damned time. It's a vicious cycle, as real users won't stick around if you don't filter.
I'm not even sure who Nick Bostrom is, but thanks for your comment, it stands on its own :)
Let's prioritize bickering about what our priorities should be.
I didn't see any examples of how people can get anything in return for sharing their time. Unless you can convert your time credits for unpleasant work you don't want to do, it is just a gold star for charity work, and I'm not sure that quantifying and gamifying charity is a productive change.
This is a very short-sighted move, it will lead to lower investments from China to US in tech and other sectors.
It's not logically consistent. Why does it matter whether the tooling compiles down to js or wasm, if anything, expanding the web development ecosystem to include dozens of new languages and frameworks will increase "churn" as many new approaches become popularized on the front-page of HN. It's absolutely no different than a new js framework.
Thus creating the self sustaining economy
Just to add... yes, I know it's possible to register a Signal account with a disposable VLN, but how many Signal users can be expected to be "tech literate" to this level? Practically none.
the thought TSAcaptcha for air travel came to mind about halfway through reading.
Flow Commerce | Hoboken, NJ | Senior Backend / Senior Frontend / Solutions Engineer | Technical Project Manager | flow.io/careers / Full-time Onsite (remote until things normalize)
Flow is a SaaS e-commerce platform that enables brands and retailers to become international and sell cross-border. Flow’s API driven platform enables merchants to sell & ship globally from their own sites, solving all cross-border pain points throughout the entire e-commerce supply chain, such as local payment methods, international shipping options, and all aspects of the upstream site localization such as duty/tax calculation, local pricing and product restrictions. These challenges create enormous friction to selling globally for merchants. The result is a next generation platform for cross-border commerce, focused on the customer experience and on maximizing conversion rates.

Flow has raised $55m+ in funding (most recently Series B) from NEA, Amex Venture, Bain Capital Ventures, Forerunner and Fung Capital and more.

We are growing rapidly and looking for some great leaders in the engineering, product, and design space to join us.

Apply directly on the job posting and note YCombintor in the source field or send me your resume directly @ jhano@flow.io

You can see our job board for all of our open positions @ https://www.flow.io/careers/

Or you can click the links below:

Sr. Frontend Engineer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/44524655-ca52-4cf3-99b0-404b66a64....

Sr. Backend Engineer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/a90119bb-cee5-4b45-a08a-df0dfdc88....

Solutions Engineer (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/4b1f2c26-ff31-45f6-a894-3a98f65ac....

Technical Project Manager (Hoboken): https://jobs.lever.co/flow/464728d7-95c2-4316-9f1e-d5094e534....
Isn't $y just the minimum wage, and in the absence of the voter-compelled pressure, $y tends towards lower than $x (as the zero-pay internships have amply shown can be taken advantage of)? The value of $x shouldn't be taken alone; it can be a blended value arrived at with ancillary policy decisions decided by major actors like Walmart with asymmetric resources to throw at policymakers.
Greek before Homer – How Linear B was cracked
I wonder if this was just population effects. The group of people communicating over the internet in 1993 is not the same as the group of people doing so today.
OctoSQL Streaming: Adding Temporal SQL on Streams
Interesting. Well, that just shows how much I still have to learn. xD Thanks.
> Our goal should not be incentivizing people to spend money as quickly as they make it.

I think wise societal goals would be those that clearly and consistently lead to increased funds for people in non-upper classes.
Best to use a bank which treats you like an adult and trusts you to make grown-up decisions about using a rooted device. Monzo fits into this category.
The "hit by a bus" thing is used for the most dramatic effect: there's nothing you can do, there's no grace period where a "poached" developer can give some wisdom to his/her successor etc.

Managers know that it's not the most likely case, but it's still possible.
Hey everybody, one of the authors here!

This release contains all we did in terms of our bachelor thesis[0].

This release adds temporal SQL, which means SQL on streams of events, like Kafka, which understands the time the events actually have happened. This is all designed to be as ergonomic as possible. We finally added Parquet support too.

We're not so sure of our move to on disk storage, but for now you can kill and restart OctoSQL, it will stand up where it left off, without duplicating or losing messages.

We also added telemetry in a hopefully non-privacy-invading way, to better understand what users actually use.

Please let us know what you think! Feedback is greatly appreciated :)

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/blob/master/whitepapers/...
What do you mean by the money that circulates in it doesn’t leak out of it? Do you mean having no forex markets? i.e. capital controls?
I still see it as an important distinction simply because developers also have an interest in not getting hit by a bus.

But they are quite happy to leave for Netflix and given turnover rates in tech, are almost guaranteed to leave in a few years.
There is no alternative. Signal has its downfalls but it's still the gold standard in secure messaging on mobile, unless you're willing to accept some pretty substantial tradeoffs.
Sure, but there's a small chance that it will bring about the end of modern civilization. In that sense it will be civilization-ending. An interesting question is whether humans would be able to rebuild civilization after events like this.

I think the main extinction risk is the secular trend for technology to become both more destructive and more decentralised. If that continues, it might only be a matter of time before independent actors will be able to extinguish the human race. And given the distribution of human motivations, if individuals can do it, someone will sooner or later.
So they answer to no one?
Quantum Decision Making/Universe Splitting App
For anyone who doesn't know what this is about:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/mandatory-pin-without-cl...

TL;DR:

- Signal introduced mandatory PINs to store certain user information (profile, contact list) on their servers in an encrypted fashion (protected by the user's PIN and, if the user chooses a short PIN, Intel SGX enclaves that Signal uses)

- PIN UI was/is exceptionally bad, didn't explain what PIN was for and came with annoying Do-you-still-remember-your-PIN popups which made zero sense when user chooses long passphrase.

- Most importantly: If user chooses a short PIN, protection of their information will hinge purely on Intel SGX enclaves. But: The PIN UI didn't recommend choosing a long passphrase and also didn't explain this point.

- Lots of users didn't want any of their information on Signal servers to begin with, were annoyed by popups and/or didn't trust SGX and ran amok (see the above two links)

- It seems PINs can now be disabled[0]

[0]: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...

For more details, see the post by Matthew Green that was posted in a sibling comment.
This is a relatively narrow view of the Internet, though. You're talking about a web-standards silo kind of thing, which I agree is bad, but is not the sum total of the problems affecting the Internet. See https://internethealthreport.org/2019/ for some more context on what I'm trying to convey. I don't agree with everything in that report, but hopefully it demonstrates that there are threats to the Internet that Firefox can't fix just by being a great browser.
Well, it's everything he wants, not necessarily everything you want.
Companies buy data on who buys their products if they have a wholesale/retail distribution model. Unlike DTC they don’t know who buys their stuff so they don’t know who to target.

Buying our credit card data is a big business.
So am I, for even longer. How is that relevant?
Cool, I hope this does well. Last I looked at reason/bucklescript I really liked it, but found the barrier for entry pretty high. The bsc compiler wouldn't even install on arch.
Do you have a PCP? You just say that you want to get referred to someone to get tested for ADHD because of x, y, and z and you think a diagnosis would help you
I think this mixes up low odds of success with risk, the latter rather being an expectation value than a probability (i.e. probability of success or failure times the value of the things at stake). Risk can be low even when the odds of success are not good just by nothing being really at stake.

Think about their rocket landing program: the probability of landing a rocket on a boat in the first attempt might have been low but the risk was almost negligible because the launches that SpaceX practiced landing on had been paid for by a customer already. Now, if SpaceX had bet the company on reusability by paying for all these rockets out of their own pocket instead and hoping they manage to get it right before cash runs out, then this could have been called risky.
All of which can legally block, restrict, or charge extra for traffic to Google since net neutrality has been repealed.
I don't understand why Rust is more compelling than ReasonML (OCaml).

Reason is more expressive and on the web low level memory management isn't a concern.
The way that people underestimate the scale and complexity of Google's indexing always makes me chuckle. I'm especially fond of the idea that other parties will just wantonly copy it, like for research purposes or something.

Also I'm sorry to inform you that the way the index shards are produced, arranged in memory/on disk, and the manner in which they are queried and ranked are inextricably linked. You can't make a search-neutral index format that can be queried economically.
Because even they know the government is not competent enough to create a search service that people would want to use.
is this a RoR ad? It doesn't really provide any new insights. If your devs are hired by nflx or hit by a bus the outcome is the same. It's just a saying
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but being able to run Rust both on the server and client should allow SSR, no?
> We love the traits of it — the decentralization, its permissionless innovation, the open source underpinnings of it, and the standards part — we love it all. But to enable these changes, we must shift our collective mindset from a place of defending, protecting, sometimes even huddling up and trying to keep a piece of what we love to one that is proactive, curious, and engaged with people out in the world. [...] and seeing how the traits of the past can show up in new ways in the future.

If my US corporate-speak decoder works halfway decently this paragraph reads really scary. When exactly have decentralization, permissionless innovation, open source and web standards become things to remember fondly while you move on? This honesty reads like an admission of defeat.
I don't see any clear way in which it is an existential threat multiplier.
Airbnb plans to confidentially file for IPO this month
You still have to trust your browser and your OS.
Thank you for the detailed reply!
I read all your (very interesting) comments on fly.io's posts here on HN before asking :)
Yes, you are absolutely right. No, it does not invalidate what I am saying.

If we keep expecting underfunded and under-resourced parties to come up with software ready and with absolute feature-parity over what is being pushed by the companies that have time, money and marketing teams, we are never going to make a dent on mindshare of the general public.

If on the other hand are diligent in refusing for centralized alternatives while willing to learn and emulate what they do right, then we will at the very least be in a state of steady progress. Matrix and Synapse from two years ago where way worse than they are today. I am confident that in two years from now it will be even better and easier than it is today. Facebook/Google Meet/MS Teams/Skype from two years ago was centralized and closed, just as I expect them to be closed two years from now.
I found this [0] suspicious-looking source code from 2002 that may be able to give some answers.

[0] https://www.developerfusion.com/code/2184/dm-web-server/
I think with a bunch of nations wielding nuclear power, the threat of a global collapse absolutely becomes an existential problem, regardless of the source of that collapse.

I don't think it's likely, but I also don't think it's something one can dismiss easily.
Craigslist is testing hCaptcha on some sites
On the storage front, it seems to me like you could get around that a bit by not keeping content forever. You could make a more ephemeral video hosting site.

As for paying for content, I think there's an opportunity to combine ideas from YouTube with Patreon. Tipping or supporting specific content creators you like. You move away from an ad-driven model towards a model where you get some basic content for free, but you can pay extra for more content.
As soon as I see anything nVidia related I know not to waste my time with it. I am not a gamer, I want secure, easily-updatable, stable drivers. That is exactly what you will not get from nVidia. Intel or AMD are the only sane options.
The virtual road ahead: Using simulation to train the Kodiak Driver
Iterators in PostgreSQL with Lateral Joins
>you can always turn it off on your Firefox and never come across it again //

Are you aware that they reenabled it for users who had removed it (and of course made it a non-removable plugin in the first place), not sure if you were being sarcastic?

I still don't understand what Mozilla got out of forcing Pocket on people.
yes. This is more like the kashmir playbook. stopping internet to prevent people from communicating, to prevent an uprising where external agencies can provide information, assistance, attacks and such. This same thing is happening in kashmir the moment i write this so its hardly surprising more countries havent done it yet because it is a kill switch and governments are willing to push it if it threatens them
"where you can choose whatever language you want to program for the web" if by chosing meaning doing PoC during the week-end maybe ... for real work we don't have a choice.
> currency anyone can create and there you have a real disruption.

Why? Anyone can make their own currency. Whether electronic or quite literally, on a printer. No one's going to take it.
I wonder what does this mean to Firefox in the long term. They relied on it heavily from donations, and the fee the Google payed for them for beeing the default search engine (90% of the revenues...).
Another way of saying it:

> Never underestimate how much better a person's life can be by working for a FAANG instead of working for you

Edit: For those who are downvoting, I'm simply saying this is what's implied by the quote. I'm not making a statement about FAANGs.
Mozilla cuts about 25% of workforce after pandemic hits revenue
Thing is, we already have a mechanism for removing money from the economy that isn't controlled by the Fed - taxation. If there's too much money, you can always increase taxes.
As a longtime user of both, Rust has a long way to go on the frontend before I would consider switching.
Did you read this article? There are now 4 cases (all in one family), after 102 days without any. They are reinstating restrictions for 3 days so authorities can properly do contact tracing.

Of course pandemic isn't over, but I think some level of self congratulation is appropriate.
Can't we agree that they're both just awful?
Yeah but I don't think YouTube is aiming for breakeven or small profit, they are squeezing as much as they can. That opens them up for disruption.
Nobody is charging you by the word. Go ahead and make your argument.
It good be accidental or natural, not driven by sapience. Bad code that evolves, or an AI, or similar. Even memetic viruses. Give Existence by David Brin a read some time.
Post it to the monthly who is hiring thread instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038520
indeed, it's surprising this isn't higher. 5% of SEO is making sure your content is indexable. 95% is tricking a search engine into ranking your site more highly than it should. It's incredibly laughable to think SEO companies want unbiased results. SEO companies are in direct competition with Google for ad spend, ie Acme Corp can either pay Google for an ad (and get detailed metrics for what the money has accomplished) or pay slimy SEO dudes to hopefully trick Google (and just trust that it worked).
As you pointed out there are imbalanced ways of phrasing things and societal taboos that all lead to the imbalance of power where employers try to keep as much control as possible.

Not discussing salaries is the exact same thing - the employer doesn't want everyone to know how much their peers are making, lest it result in higher overall salaries. I always think of offering candy to a kid but saying "Don't tell anyone I gave you this". It's pretty clear someone is trying to be manipulative if they don't want anyone else to know the details of the deal.
How would you market/validate this?
Hi friends,

Was hoping to get some feedback/advice from this community.

I'm starting to build a how-to guide for building with Firebase/React/Typescript (and Material-UI). I'd like to build a community around the work as it progresses so that I'm not building in a vacuum. I've already written the first few sections but don't want to get too much further before I have people giving me feedback: https://field-guide.web.app/

Eventually I'll sell the completed guide but for now my focus is getting eyes on it and validating there are people out there who would want to use it.

So my question to the community is this -- what do you think the right next steps are to start building an audience? I've already open sourced some of the work I did on the guide (https://github.com/rothbart/onepirate-typescript) but I suspect that will be more of a 'slow burn' type thing.

Thanks!
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336
What problems did you have installing? I think it was straightforward for me on manjaro.
That's me. I want to finish my refactor but business requirements have me pumping out new epics.

I chip away at it in my down time but it's no longer prioritized.

I find in this line of work, you will always seek to find ways to balance business/market needs vs. being a paragon of programming.