skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Greece
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes*
Technologies: Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, Git, Linux
Resume: https://cutt.ly/Thz28fR
Email: mark.dimitsas at gmail dot com

My current job is in web development (full-stack-ish). I work with WordPress (setting up eCommerce sites or applications with custom functionalities), Python for more than a few things (messing up with textual data for ML and Django for web applications), JavaScript for some front-end work (currently learning React and Svelte) and static site generators (mostly Hugo). *I am also interested in (entry-medium level or even academic) jobs in Machine Learning, especially for tasks where I could work with lots and lots of text and tabular data and get insights from them (clustering, classification, summarization, recommender systems, etc). Thank you for your time
> Then forget to call and feel bad about forgetting.

This. I feel really, really guilty if I hear something great or awful happened to someone I used to be in touch with, but the relationship faded away into the flow of life.

Why wasn't I there? What? It's been 3 years since we last talked? How did that happen?

So, no to all that jazz. Enter Monica. :)
You are correct. The meeting for the "decision" (rather, it is a recommendation on which the European Commission acts upon) is scheduled to be December 28th at the latest.
Google is a research tool, not a source to cite.
Voting at a company's stockholder meeting is another reason. If an investor needs to control a certain amount of votes to have some proposal approved, he can borrow the shares he is lacking instead of buying them.
> Aged gmail accounts available from 30 cents or less

They’re frustratingly unreliable, but definitely an option.

Nobody is claiming that fraudsters only use protonmail.
This particular vaccine is literally just a bit of RNA in a blob of fat. The fat sticks to cell membranes, and the RNA pokes through. There's nothing more to it (this is also why it's possible to scale up production so quickly)
UK authorises Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine
Location: Munich
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: C++, Java, Python, Android, PyTorch, Tensorflow, CUDA, Git, OpenCV, GCP, hobby projects with Golang
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I'm looking for for positions in Health AI, specifically machine learning in medical imaging. I've spent several years as part of R & D at a large CT manufacturer. I originally studied Biomedical Engineering, therefore I'm interested in the MedTech space, but open to other opportunities. Have also worked in development of Android health CV apps.
Oh dude thank you. Nothing prepares you for hitting the front page of hn when you fully expected it to just disappear. Heartrate through the roof and the sudden 'oh shit!' of wondering whether the article was truly up to snuff or not!
So before this version, PostgreSQL had the opposite problem with CTEs compared to MS SqlServer.
It really depends on the problems you work on.

For my first program (task scheduling, regexes, redis, rest), everything was simple and obvious, it was made in about 3 days.

My second program was dealing with several kinds of graphs, optimal sub string addressing, and then I hit the painful points and it took me several weeks of this side project to get my head around the complex concepts of Rust, and several months to really feel at ease.

There's a subset of problems for which Rust is "easy" and it's probably possible, with some guidance and occasional help, to organize one's work around those.
Not every radio plays Clean version/radio edit of pop songs?
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Instruqt is a challenge-driven online learning platform that helps organizations accelerate the adoption of new technologies. Customers, like Hashicorp or Google Cloud, use our platform to teach real-world usage of their products and drive adoption.

Instruqt was engineered for reliability and scale, making sure our customers can train (virtual) classrooms of all sizes without headaches. Our customer base is growing fast in the face of the new reality of working from home, in combination with the ever-growing pace of technological innovation. Therefore we are looking to expand our product team with great engineers.

Apply if you like working on challenging problems, running Instruqt is a complex operation to scale and secure. Supporting all major cloud providers and containerization platforms, is a hard problem. Our core technology is Golang and React+TypeScript, knowledge on cloud automation technology (e.g. Terraform) is a plus.

It's a great time to join Instruqt, we're a growing product team consisting of 6 full-time people, and we reach students all over the world through our customers like Hashicorp and Google Cloud.

Apply via https://instruqt.com/careers/product/full-stack-product-deve... or contact me directly matthisk at instruqt.com
> These vaccines have been tested in ~40,000 people each, so we do know quite a bit about their safety.

We know quite a bit about their short term safety. It's impossible to know for sure if there is any long term side effect. But that is probably a risk we have to take to get past the immediate threat of covid-19.
Everyone's money is the result of transactions, all transactions are at risk of being reorged, so everyone's money is at risk.

Those tools don't work in this chain death scenario of dwindling hash rate.
Exactly. How many more months of losses could they have taken in 2020 before throwing in the towel?

Yes, they would've eventually been right but being right at the right time is where the trick lies.
This just seems like pure luck.
Short selling is not speculation if you have hard evidence that securities are overvalued and are working to bring it to light. There is risk involved, of course, but the risk is that the perpetrators and their accomplices will be able to perpetuate the elevated valuation for longer than you can afford to hold your short position.
Exceptions are bad and languages using them should feel bad. Go and Rust got it right, it is a major reason why Rust code Just Works. Yet some Rust folks are moving towards exceptions, and I find it unsettling.
Certainly I agree that if someone is in real financial hardship a gift of cash is going to be better than a gift card. As for the more general case, my anecdotes differ from yours—I expect that there are plenty of people who fall into both the prefer-cash and prefer-card categories.
Ideally one always has OOB (out of band) access to all devices to make sure one can always recover from any error, such as messing up firewall config or similar. But there are transactional network management tools that can automatically roll back changes in case one messes up.

But the colo techs can do pretty much anything you would do yourself.. Plenty of people run racks in locations they have never set foot into themselves..
Generally approval of this is fast-tracked everywhere, but the UK being first is a political marketing stunt in my opinion.

The UK government is in dire need to demonstrate positive aspects of leaving the EU, and being able to independently greenlight this vaccine first is one particularly well suited for PR. The Brits love their NHS system and healthcare in general, so hitting it home on that turf resonates with them.

Ceasing this opportunity is especially important because all the other aspects of Brexit are just about to hurt the Brits big time next year, with the EU transitional period running out at the end of this year, with effectively no trade deal whatsoever in place to replace it, and Trump having been thrown out of office and most of the British prime ministers' hopes for an advantageous and quick trade deal with the US being dumped together with him.
We had excellent Public Health test and trace departments who had a wealth of experience of tracing people for sexual health purposes. But we still chose to give the contract to Dido Harding despite her poor record at NHS Improvement.

And I saw what happened to NHS Logistics, which was one bit of the NHS that wasn't losing money. It was running well. It was privatised to DHL in 2006 for purely ideological reasons, and then for several years was terrible. Ten years later, after Lord Carter's report into efficiency and productivity, we set up a new org called NHS Supply Chain and in effect re-nationalised it by giving the responsibility to a company which is owned by the Secretary of State for the Department for Health and Social Care. I don't think anyone has really learned any lessons from that.
Someone has to be. Happy for it to be me.
He says (1:03:00) that the harness "will be isolated from the area that your design goes into" and (1:03:21) that it will "enable probing and controlling your region if you want".

In other words, the video says you can simply not connect to it and not use it if you don't want it. He never says anything about it being hardwired to the padframe.

Then, two weeks before tapeout, they changed the rules and made this thing not only mandatory, but made it the only way your design can boot up or communicate with the outside world.

This was a bait and switch.
PDF and EPUB links: https://futuretextpublishing.com/future-of-text-2020-downloa...
> Having had Covid-19 should confer at least as much immunity as a vaccine does.

[If I'm understanding what you're saying correctly] Not necessarily. There are vaccines, such as those for HPV and Tetanus that provide better immunity than the natural immunity provided by having and surviving the illness [1].

I don't recall reading any research on the immunity provided between a vaccine and the illness on COVID-19, so I don't know whether this could be such a case.

[1]: https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cent...
> Making a deliberate effort to maintain those relationships doesn't seem like its fake to me.

I actually think it's more genuine to care enough to write down to call somebody instead of letting it slip by you. Being determined to build the tooling to be good at something doesn't have to stay within the professional realm - it should extend to personal life as well.
The title alone makes it sound like a pyramid scheme.
> Uber bypassed it by saying "we're a tech company" and left it to the drivers, making the enforcement of the law a lot harder.

The original loophole that Uber used was San Francisco’s different regulations between taxis and limo companies: The latter are less regulated but are allowed to accept prebooking, and not street hails. Uber realized that ordering a ride via a phone app is more convenient than trying to hail a passing taxi in many cases and can be served by a limo company instead.
Usually, the more competition there is in a market segment, the lesser the margin becomes.

Let's say your customer often "complement" your offer A with B from another company. If the other company faces fierce competition on the market for B, its margin will be low. So, you may be able to capture a little bit more of the customer's money: he wants to spend x on both stuff, the less it spends on B, the more it can spend on A.
You can own your data and still use public cloud.

You are familiar with using multi-site DR strategies, yes?
Sure, but the political party currently in government (and the particular people from that party in government) have shown great inclination to put "Favour for an old friend" above "This makes sense to not kill thousands of people" in their priorities.

The UK has universal healthcare so the infrastructure and public understanding are in place to actually do the vaccination programme per se. I have every confidence that the NHS medics will do their part efficiently as they do every year for the Flu shot I get, but getting frozen vaccine delivered to local NHS clinics is a logistics problem and an opportunity for somebody's wife's best friend's ex-boyfriend to be given a £100M contract even though he has no relevant experience and is obviously the wrong choice.

Six months later, with headlines about vaccine shipments defrosting abandoned in carparks miles from their intended destination and tens of thousands more dead the government will announce it had a brain wave, the Army (always the people drafted in when policy has failed) will now deliver vaccines. Don't worry about the money which has meanwhile mysteriously increased to £250M due to "performance payments" which somehow didn't involve performance but did involve payments - that's water under the bridge, can't be helped ...

Remember when we were going to do a snap Brexit, no transition, just drop dead one day suddenly? Basically the same group of fools paid people with no relevant experience and no ships to provide last minute ferry services. How do you provide ferry services with no ships? You don't, you just pocket the cash.
Mostly because that's also how all other vaccines work, going back 200 years. Its really only the mRNA part that's new.
> So its effect on the immune system lasts even after it's gone.

The general principle is the same as for most vaccines: make the body generate its own antibodies (and/or T cells) for the virus in question. So in that sense of course its effect is long term, just like when you get sick with some virus and your body develops antibodies for it - the virus itself is gone, but the effect on the immune system is long-lasting.

From an FT article:

> Conventional vaccines administer an inactivated virus, or proteins from that virus, into the body to trigger an immune response, which can prevent subsequent infection.

> In contrast, mRNA technology — originally developed as a cancer therapy — injects genetic instructions into the body that tell cells to make viral proteins that prime the immune system. Although mRNA vaccines had been under development for several years for viruses including influenza, cytomegalovirus, HIV, rabies and Zika, the arrival of Covid-19 turbocharged the process.

- https://www.ft.com/content/74e41528-80c3-4b0f-b343-be43d90f0...
There are several problems with that, and they can be seen online already.

1) It is much easier to spread misinformation than to collect facts and spread real data

2) Mistrust is insidious and spreads, allowing anti-vaxers then goes into other forms of anti institutional ideologies.

3) Herd immunity. If some kid has leukimia and cannot get vaccinated, he survives thanks to everyone else being vaccinated. Some 30 year old reactionary being an anti-vaxxer and getting covid and surviving it would be ok if he was not a vector of infection to the most vulnerable in society.

So in my opinion teaching people basic scientific literacy (so they can check primary sources like published research), and fostering scientific respect and trust would do us wonders as a society. We put a man on the moon, and reduced child mortality by 90% by trusting science, why allow people who think the theory of gravity is "just a theory" spread their thoughts.
I really liked Glitch. The aesthetic was really cool and it always felt cozy. Was sad to see it go, but I can kind of understand it since I don't know they ever had a real business model to it.
I know it's guaranteed internet points to deride the current government, and the ferry thing is/was despicable, but I think it's highly unlikely they're going to put KFC in charge of logistical operations for the vaccine rollout.
My understanding is that that trial condition (half->full) was administered accidentally (thus not pre-registered) and nobody expected it to work better, and the sample size is small and on the wrong age groups.
Facebook has this but not many people use it. Google+ also had a good implementation in "circles".
> Not really. mRNA starts to degrade within minutes of injection, and lasts maybe at most a few days in your body.

According to the data I've seen on kinetics (these vaccines have been in development since 20 years ago, so there's plenty of basic and animal test data) there's production of the antigen at the site of injection for approximately ten days. There's some systemic production in the liver for 2-4 days, but that's it.

The mRNA can last this long (normally, as you correctly say, it would get broken up in minutes) due to the lipid nanoparticles it is bound to, which are the "secret sauce" of this vaccine.
Don't know why Big Sur's UI wouldn't be suitable for power users.
I also developed my own version of it and launched it many years ago!

It was extremely simple on purpose, you had two views:

- List of people: sorted based on when you needed to get in touch with them

- The profile: add notes (with a contact more/less often when submitting) and choose social circles (by closeness: Family, Close Friend, Work, Acquaintance... or by situation: Golf Club, Gym, Chess...)

Based on the circles, notes, ratings, etc. the App organized them from top to bottom on a "Who should you contact now". It was cool.

As I grew older I used it less and less and ended up retiring it. It helped me become a better person by internalizing the importance of remembering names, hobbies, FORD method (Family, Occupation, Recreation and Dreams) and improving my small talk or breaking the ice.

If you've never used a personal CRM and you struggle to maintain and nourish relationships I highly recommend you to try something, either Monica or what someone suggested of having text files, a spreadsheet, notes...
The immune response also happens for all other types of vaccines. That part isn't so different with mRNA vaccines.
there are plenty of installers of archlinux - I use https://anarchyinstaller.org/ for instance
Hard to answer this question but I worked with scientists who were wasting an incredible amount of time debugging their badly designed fortran or c++ programs, or just hitting walls when they shouldn't.

So yes you can easily start hacking something in fortran or c++, and the cognitive load is probably much smaller, but then you have the risk of being eaten by your bugs, or of not working on some problems just because the tool you make is so badly designed you give up doing the necessary changes.
Great video, but without any comments and the very few captions it's quite impossible to understand what's going on.

Is there a version with a commentary or some richer description?
Thank you for writing this. I’ve tried a few methods to keep track of important information about friends, and thought about writing exactly this - especially tracking contact frequency. I just installed Prim and I’m going to try it!
Companies Urged to Adjust Hiring Requirements for Cyber Jobs
I hope the future of text, as collected in large distinct articles by different authors, will contain a table of contents.

This book does not. It's impossible to gauge whether it's interesting.
What about unit testing?
Care to specify what exactly you're thinking about? I mean in a sense we have that freedom, you don't necessarily have to associate with people that you don't want to. It's probably more the reasons you have for it that count here.
Would antitrust cover....a hypothetical unlimited budget de novo build? Sort of acquihiring without going after Discord employees.
That's odd. I'm using Linux Teams client in a Docker container, and it gets many days of uptime (and many voice calls per day) between restarts (for unrelated reasons). No problems with integrating with host pulseaudio server.

I'm quite a happy user of Teams, the only thing I'm missing is ability to share my desktop with giving control to a remote caller - but I only needed that maybe once or twice over this entire year so far.
Sadly, they are being realistic. The current UK government is riven with incompetence and cronyism. They couldn't organize a piss up a brewery.
I think the resistance towards that particular book is because the full title is "How to win friends and influence people". The last part in particular is what makes it sound sleazy. It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends".
What is an MMO? Massive Multiplayer Online?
There is significant evidence that it prevents you getting the disease. That's the 95% efficacy everyone is talking about. Whether or not it fully prevents spreading has not been tested yet, but early signs sound positive.
There's another readout expected in the USA sooner or later, with a far larger cohort (30K people), but for the full/full dose regimen.
Those investors are less screwed than if they'd bought in at higher valuations because of a lack of any downward pressure. It might be bad in the short term for the economy of the local area, but the malls were going to collapse sooner or later, and now capital is freed up for more sustainable investments - such as walkable neighborhood shops.
I read this article a few years ago when I was in a "CARMACK IS AN ALL KNOWING GOD" phase. So I started using these concepts at work, for business stuff. It ended up becoming an absolute unreadable, illogical mess that only I could possibly understand. Proceed with caution and don't blindly assume that this is the best approach for all situations like I did just because Carmack did it in the Quake engine.
Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270184
I don't even earn $100k and then tax takes about 52% of it xD
In Denmark where I live, a large proportion of infected people are age 20-29, and I wonder if it would make sense to vaccinate them first when you get to "rest of the population". Even though they have a smaller risk of getting seriously ill, that could be an effective way to lower transmission.

That is:

1. Immunize the age group that is dominating in the hospitalization statistics, then
2. Immunize the age group is accounting for the majority of transmission, then
3. Immunize the rest.
Pfizer had FDA Fast Track approval in July which means they could start reviewing it early as the trial progressed. In a sensible process all those hundreds of people should have reviewed and discussed nearly everything but the final numbers prior to Nov. 20 and been ready to plug in the numbers as soon as they came out.
> My suggestion is just learn how to write secure code in C.

This not good advice. We've been battling with this issue for decades, and it's clearly not going away by trying to be more careful.
I heard it said that Tesla is not a car company. It's an energy company -- and I think that makes sense.
Thanks for the great response!

I may be wrong, but it seems your design architecture is similar to “structured design”. Where you model data, and alongside that the transformations to be performed on that data. Traditionally this might have been documented using entity-relationship and dataflow diagrams.

In our case, we model our complex business problem domain using an object model independent of persistence and any particular user/system interaction. Perhaps unusually for these days, we also model the many constraints (business rules) within the object model.

Given that the nature of our domain model is not based on transformations that I guess are more easily quantified (or as Dijksta would say “calculated”), I’m still unsure that formal methods would apply or bring any benefits to us at large, other than perhaps some areas of specific behavior?
Five Boeing jet drones use AI to chat and collaborate while in flight
It's only really mentioned as a tag on the article, but significant portions of this are only relevant to a Linux environment.

That doesn't mean it's not useful, but there are entire swathes of developers who will never deal with Linux, so claiming "every developer" is hyperbole.