skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thriver | Senior FE/FS Devs | Toronto, Canada | Full-time | Onsite (Remote for now)

Thriver (https://www.thriver.com/) is looking for sharp, focused, and clever senior developers to help shape and build our outstanding team. The ideal candidate has experience, a track record of good judgment & positive impact beyond the code they write.

We believe great things happen when you bring your people together to break bread. We believe modern technology should be used for good - like fuelling the culture of the biggest companies in the world. Our problem has become so much more difficult with the pandemic, how do we keep people engaged and together even though we're all kept apart? That's our mission and what we're building.

The tools we're using day by day on the FE include Angular & React using Typescript & GraphQL. Supported by a BE on Rails/Kotlin.

We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunities. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whatever makes you unique, we’re here to celebrate it! We’re also here to celebrate your dog, which is welcome at work whenever you want (if we ever get back to the office).

The role is here: https://angel.co/company/thrive-er/jobs/895665-senior-front-...

All our other roles are here: https://angel.co/company/thrive-er/jobs.

We were recently in the news, here's some light reading: https://betakit.com/platterz-raises-43-8-million-cad-series-...

Any questions please shoot me an email here: nathan AT thriver DOT com
I've fallen in love with Alpine. I'm using it on my bare bone servers running from a ram disk (USB drive) hosting Docker containers and even qemu VMs. All on encrypted zfs volumes. Totally love it
Ahh... of course. Employers use dirty tactics and if unions do, it’s because it’s employers trying to sabotage them.

No way a union could ever use dirty tricks too. But of course they might because they were forced to by their employers?
Like most of the rest of AWS product people and AWS users do, IME.
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hey peter! i admit to being more of a deep space one fan myself, but with MC, DS1 and Space Station Soma, there's something for nearly everyone.
> All data transferred out, when triggered by GitHub Actions, and data transferred in from any source is free. We determine you are downloading packages using GitHub Actions when you log in to GitHub Packages using a GITHUB_TOKEN.

Should be free I think?
Nah. I think I am pretty ok will calling someone who does this a murderer. That is totally fine in my book to call them that.
So far @textfiles has traced that quote back to '65, give him another hour or so and I fully expect him to come up with a fragment from the dead sea scrolls or some fragment in Linear-A hewn into a rock.
Destigmatizing sex work is ironically bad for sex workers because it massively increases the supply by removing a major barrier to entry (the associated stigma of being a sex worker.)
Oh. Ye well obviously each number sequence has to correspond to pre-written orders? And mostly they sent numbers that had no corresponding value to cover actual activity? Or maybe it was a joke to waste foreign intelligence resources?
I've been using my current monitor for ~10 years.
I'm not convinced.

1. We still don't know what the memory engrams truly are ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engram_(neuropsychology) ). I once read that aside from relying on the interconnections of the neurons they also rely on specific proteins created during memory creation. They are then vital for memory recollection.

2. We know that the connections between neurons are important but we just realized that the support cells (glia) also affect the firing mecanism: they are not only support but a filter as well ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glia )

3. Inhibitory interneurons provide a way for synchronous firing of neurons to form a learning experience:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13170-w

All in all to replicate the brain functionality we would need to fully replicate the chemical composition of the brain to the lowest level (molecules).

I'm not holding my breath.
It's not impossible to distribute training across multiple GPUs, but it's certainly not straightforward. And if you want activations for an entire 4K image in the same model, having a lot of memory on one card is your friend.
Uncountable | San Francisco & Munich | Full Stack & Internships

https://www.uncountable.com/careers

Uncountable accelerates the innovation of the world’s largest materials and chemicals companies. With the Uncountable Web Platform and our optimization algorithms, our customers get better products to the market in half the time. We currently have 15 employees and are headquartered in the Design District in SF.

Full Stack Engineers | $120k - $220k + Equity

---> Uncountable is looking for an experienced engineer who can spearhead the development of the Uncountable Web Platform. The position is heavily product-driven and comes with challenges across the stack.

--> Summer internships and working student positions are also available.

These are full-time positions in San Francisco, CA or Munich, Bavaria. They are usually onsite but are more flexible currently. Learn more: https://www.uncountable.com/careers

Contact: jason@uncountable.com
Back in the 90s a domestic terrorist derailed an Amtrak train in Arizona.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/best-reads/2015/1...
Google, Fastmail, Microsoft(Outlook/Office365/Hotmail/Live) already cover something like 90% of one side of emails, and 50% of both sides (that is, 50% of emails originate AND terminate among these three, and 90% originate OR terminate among them). I haven't seen any recent stats, but in 2017, 50% of emails already originated or terminated with Google, one provider.

The significance of "originate OR terminate" is that the provider has the ability to meddle or outright ban, either going out or going in.

> work email domain.

> Vanity domains are popular.

> Colleges still give email addresses.

Most universities, workplaces and vanity domains are running within the Google+Fastmail+Microsoft sphere, regardless of the domain name. Every university I've worked with in the last 10 years (e.g. NYU) was using a G-Suite or Microsoft hosted solution, as was every single workplace.

> People like myself run their own

There is a very long tail for the last 1%, but likely 99% of the users are served by 10 companies worldwide. I call that federated, not distributed.

I used to run my own server as well, for ~15 years. Until one day, google stopped delivering it to gmail or g-suite addresses (sent it to spam). There was no one to talk to to figure out why. Which turned out to be ~70% of email I sent -- despite having SPF, DKIM, DMARC and everything else properly set up. Eventually, I switched to fastmail hosting because I have better things to do with my time than figure out why Google is blacklisting me.

It's federated, not distributed, and we're all at the mercy of the big few.
I'm always skeptical of this assertion. My observation is that business travelers tend not to check luggage because they're often on shorter trips, know how to pack lightly, and don't want to spend the extra time on every one of their many trips. This in spite of the fact that they can expense the cost if they even need to pay because of loyalty programs.

When you see the people checking seemingly all their worldly possessions, it's mostly families.

I don't doubt there's some effect at the margins but people mostly just prefer to carry-on if they can.
The challenge was that depending on the role, the union was involved. When that came into the picture there was a long, dragged out grievance process where someone would have to violate the policy x amount of times in y months before they'd be terminated. It was not unusual from what I've seen for folks to abuse this for years.

To be honest tho - this is the contract that both the company and union agreed to, so bad on the company for being okay and not making this a more serious infraction. I've talked to some of the union stewards about this and they basically said they wanted this data locked down harder. They said it's too easy to access and super temping and wished the company would put more protection around it. Go figure.
It can't do long division because it literally can't read the number inputs, due to the way text is encoded (BPE). That it manages to learn any sort of arithmetic despite that is pretty impressive to me.
Digital Foundry's initial analysis mostly bears this claim out.

They found FPS increases of between 160-190% for a bunch of recent games featuring both RTX/traditional rendering, and about a fixed 190% in Quake RTX (which is exclusively RTX rendering).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWD01yUQdVA
Thanks for mentioning us, if someone if looking for the docs they are on https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/
> This would basically destroy all specialized scientific research, education degrees, agricultural science, all high-level maths, biology, ecology, zoology, environmental research.

Why? All of these fields existed prior to student loans becoming non-dischargable. As it stands, in many fields there is a massive grad school bubble where there are many more grad students and Ph.D’s than tenured positions.

As for education degrees, those have the same basic instrumental role as engineering or business degrees—they’re a form of professional training and accreditation. A lot of minor public universities started off as teachers’ colleges in the first place.
Rumor is that RTX3080 gets 20GB RAM and another that RTX3090 gets 48GB RAM just by simply replacing memory chips for twice-the-size ones.
Tesla and SpaceX are successful corporations - Elon has the ability to collect a selected group of very motivated nerds in a narrow area and then good things happen. There is a risk of charlatanism but I don't like to fault the results when there are 10 other billionaires trying to play at this level and it is not obvious they are succeeding.
Just watched the RT demo video and the paintbrushes for example look amazingly bad. All surfaces look flat for a better word, most noticeable it’s sterile without dust. The steam blasts are terrible as they miss all the internal swirling you get from actual vapor. They cover most of this up by moving stuff around and adding clutter which tries to keep you from really focusing on anything.

It’s basically using the same technique as hand drawn animation where as long as you realize what’s being represented you can automatically fill in missing details. However, this fails as soon as you focus on any one detail.

Honestly, it’s not bad for what it is. I mean the physics engine was probably the worst part, but as a visual demo that’s fine.
Hey thanks for the feedback! I know the UI is a bit too complex at the moment. It's hard to strike a balance between simplicity and configurability. It's still a work in progress.

So what does this do:

Lunar allows you to change the hardware brightness and contrast of the monitor (the one that can be controlled with the hardware buttons on the monitor)

If you simply want to turn down the brightness from time to time, you can set Lunar in Manual mode and use the brightness keys on your keyboard to adjust the monitor brightness.

Where Lunar shines is with a MacBook or iMac where there is an ambient light sensor integrated in the device that adapts the builtin display brightness. In Sync mode Lunar can sync that already adapted brightness to your external monitor so you don't have to worry about the brightness throughout the day.

There's also a Location mode if you want the brightness to adjust automatically based on the sun position in your location.

All this can be controlled through hotkeys which are visible in both the menu bar icon menu and the Hotkeys configuration page reachable by pressing the left arrow key 2 times in the Lunar UI.
https://pinkerton.com/
For me the interface is the draw rather than speed. I use ag rather than rg, but doing `ag search-term path` is how I'd expect it to work. Plus, automatically ignoring .git and other metadata files out of the box is a time saver.
Am in the same situation, the 1080 is still holding up well, but the 3080 looks very tempting indeed.

Looking forward to some benchmarks that evaluate the difference between PCIe 3.0 and 4.0. Getting a new motherboard with PCIe 4.0 along with a CPU will up the cost considerably, so hopefully that can be avoided.

Also considering an upgrade to the Corsair RM1000x PSU which should be able to be totally silent even with the RTX 3080 according to https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7376/corsair-rm1000x-1000w....

UPDATE:

According to this answer, using PCIe 3.0 should not make a huge difference: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/iko4u7/geforce_rtx_...
I would like to add that this instance has been proven to be fake, or something a redditor wrote as a joke/'fanfic'.

althought im sure people like that do exist, maybe not to that extent, this particular case isnt real.

source of the comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/8t6yrp/stre...
There's always a ton of speculation about it, I've seen the claim NVIDIA bins for FE cards and factory overclocked AIB cards together

At the end of the day it doesn't really matter, you're paying a FE premium for early access mostly.

On the plus side, this time the FE card might have a top tier cooling solution, which is why I'll probably be caving to their FE tax (and probably plenty of others, focusing on cooling was a smart move)
The gradual replacement approach (as you describe it) is a useful thought experiment that gets people more comfortable with the possibility of mind emulation but the end state is the same for both approaches. One just intuitively feels more you than the other, but as you said, it's likely all an illusion so doing it while you "sleep" is probably enough to make you sufficiently happy to be alive when you wake up non-biologically.
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No reason you can't be sad for both. When you make money based on having a cultivated persona it benefits you to allow people to sink themselves as deep into your fandom as possible. You don't even have to be particularly active or purposeful about it. You just respond to your audience in whatever way gets you the best reaction and the most money, and like many other industries like gambling and mobile gaming you create dolphins and whales who will embrace a worldview where it's worth it to give you hundreds or thousands of dollars. The difference is that when the illusion is shattered the mobile gamer who wasted ten grand on Candy Crush can't send the CEO of King Digital Entertainment a private message telling him to go to hell.

There's no motivation for anyone to protect people. Twitch has no reason to stop viewers from devoting their time and money to a personal fandom and neither do the streamers.
> They already had the means to revoke malicious binaries after-the-fact by revoking the corresponding developer certificate

That's a big hammer because it breaks everything that was ever signed with the certificate.
These corporations are their own intelligence agencies. Facebook knows who your friends are, Amazon knows where you live, thanks to their line of doorbell camera, and then there's the Google-Microsoft email duopoly.
while "Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work"[0] and while "Amazon is Hiring an Intelligence Analyst to Track 'Labor Organizing Threats'" and while "Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’"[2] ... in this thread we are celebrating these lizards for their Tech innovation. What's more scary than the damage to society the employees hiding in these companies do, is the cognitive dissonance we experience here of highly skilled individuals (who should know better) telling themselves "technology is neutral".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342540

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343361

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24345259
Whenever I watch this video and the other jetman videos I can't help but try to find anomalies or something wrong in the video to somehow try and prove that it is CGI (which I know it's not).
I love to read this and its worth it very formative.

Thank you!
I'm confused about how the documentation recommends using a Kubernetes operator to manage OS updates. That seems weird and backwards to me. I would rather see an immutable OS AMI in an auto-scaled group, and just replace the node instance whenever there is an update.

I can see a place for managing OS updates on an instance, but that seems more like "pets" than "cattle"... and I've always treated Kubernetes nodes like cattle, not pets. Isn't that the most common approach anyway?
Turn it around. Not "Facebook knows things about you, therefore Nazis" but rather "Nazis existed as a historical fact, therefore what Facebook knows about you is incredibly dangerous."
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The whole debate over free speech online is only happening because 1) content is passing through a bottleneck of only a few companies and 2) those few companies have decided to actively censor the content.

These two things could not exist simultaneously without an explicit guarantee of legal protection from the government for online publishers of user content. Without that guarantee of protection it's doubtful that any platform could have grown as large as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or Google without taking a completely hands-off approach to user content (i.e. as a "common carrier"). The threat of litigation would have forced them to pre-emptively moderate all content just like print media and television.

In the 1990s Congress decided that it's okay for the internet to operate on different legal rules from the rest of society. They decided that internet companies can make editorial choices about their content freely without being legally held responsible for those choices, and the Supreme Court upheld that decision. Online speech is now the domain of Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. and they have free reign over their virtual kingdoms without regard for any other legal system.
You are not going to convince the jury with a statement like that. You have to offer "alternative facts". Tell the jury it may have been someone else that committed the crime (even though you know that's not true.) Tell them your client wasn't present at the crime scene. And so on. Presenting a robust defense for a client you know is not innocent and sticking to the truth are fundamentally incompatible. In real life defense lawyers aren't known for their truth telling. Everyone knows this and expects this. Which is why this article from ABA is simply grandstanding.
How much resources did they actually have in 2005?
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gTLDs are safer than ccTLDs, especially the ccTLDs that were sold off to a private company like .io was. The contracts that provide the ccTLDs are almost empty of any guarantees whereas the gTLDs have to adhere to strict requirements.
I think it's pretty clear you should feel sad for the guy, who is obviously, I try to say without cruelty, pathetic and misled. It's like people who are very dumb falling for obvious scams - e.g. send me your money and I'll double it.

I don't mean that everyone watching these streamers is like this guy, but some portion of them, probably a higher percentage of the donating "whales", likely think that they somehow do have some kind of chance or relationship with the steamer. These people, it seems to me, are essentially exploited for profit.

I realize it's not the same as a scam. Not the same exactly - because the streamer never says or suggests she'll be your girlfriend for X dollars or something, but knowingly or unknowingly the streamer is creating that suggestion for some and profiting off of it.

It strikes me as a really complicated moral issue, because some people do seem exploited by it, others like it, and the streamers benefit by it. I don't know what to think about the enterprise, but I think it's at least clear we can feel bad for that guy, even recognizing that he's being a jerk.
Prisons are full of murderers who've also done ordinary things like play video games. This isn't novel and shouldn't impress you.
What the Heck Is ~~ In JavaScript?
Apparently they are putting the phones in a location that is impossible to be physically closer to in order to get the job first -- park car, walk over to the tree to sync your phone then wait in your car for the next job offer.

The trick -- per a previous job -- is to figure out where the computer thinks the address is (on the street, in the middle of the parking lot, &etc...) and get your location as close as you can to that to get an edge over the competition.
That's a bit condescending. The signing stack is very complicated and folks often make mistakes when attempting to back up (export) the correct private key and certificate pair.
> I write ETL pipelines.

"Apps" to folks in storage (like myself), networking, OS, etc.
It seems like they are not just famous but experts. Some of the names are giant in their fields, but not household names. For music for example: "Danny Elfman", "Hans Zimmer", "Herbie Hancock", "Deadmau5" are all huge.

I haven't watched a master class, but they seem well produced and "aspirational" at least.

I have a friend who swears by the teaching company. I did a udemy into to Unreal engine that was oddly decent. But I like to do extension school classes that force me to show up with the threat of a grade.

The Deadmau5 intro video is entertaining (35,000,000 views!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtj6dDARgfQ

"If you are not naturally comfortable on stage, from my experience, you should try putting on a F#$!!$ helmet that covers your face.."