skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vetspire | Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Austin, TX | Full-Time | https://vetspire.com

Vetspire is an AI-driven medical records and practice management platform for veterinarians. We’re a startup that builds the technology suite that powers veterinary hospitals, impacting every aspect of patient care from AI assistance in the exam room to managing client communications and clinical analytics.

We're looking for a full stack engineer to join our small and technical team to continue to bring veterinarians’ dreams into fruition. Your day to day work will consist of learning and understanding veterinarians' needs and bringing them into reality from the front-end to the backend. Some examples of what your weeks may look like:

* building remote tools for pet owners to sign consent forms, pay invoices, and fill in information online so they don't have to walk into the clinics during the pandemic

* creating an emergency room clinical census to monitor patients and alert staff in real-time

* designing the interface and algorithms for intelligent immunization reminders.

You'll be working directly with the thousands of veterinarians and staff using Vetspire every day, and talking with them often to better understand their needs and iterate on solutions with them. It's an incredibly fulfilling role to be able to make such a drastic difference in the lives of vets, and ultimately, everyone's pets. It's half-part engineering, half-part problem-solving.

Our backend tech stack is a GraphQL Phoenix/Absinthe application written in Elixir, our frontend is using React with the Apollo GraphQL framework, our primary database is PostgreSQL, and it all runs on Google Cloud via Kubernetes.

Email me if interested at sam@vetspire.com (include "HN" in the subject), or view more information here: https://jobs.lever.co/vetspire/7db76974-453a-49dd-be68-d9695...
Yes, but you deploy it from one region.
Their sales teams have been locking in all major corporations. I have no idea how they cornered a market so fast. They are living like kings right now.
For those generations of people who grew up by being able to spin up servers with a few mouse clicks, doing that manually seems like a whole level of professional skills.
Wow. I had to use a Salesforce tool once, and I can confidently say that the only worse things out there are various online tax return forms and Workday.
My free time starts at 10pm. But time is 12pm.

If I don't get a solid 2 hours a day I get very unhappy, very fast. So long as I get that, I'm good. But that's about all I can manage these days.
This is what I am excited for.

I have wanted our company to move away from Slack to something w better thread discussions.

We have long resisted Salesforce because of pricing, say, compared to Pipedrive for CRM.

I am interested to see what happens with pricing and many orgs locked data.

I know we do not pay for the high uptime plan.
Tftp is commonly used for PXEBoot scenarios.

You have a centralized PXEBoot server (basically a DNS + TFTP Box). All servers you manage auto-boot to PXEBoot, then download their image from the central server, then automatically provision themselves through Puppet or Kubernetes or whatever the heck you're doing.

Throw down a few network power-adapters (to turn on/off in times of emergency), IPMI for network remote KVM, a VPN to provide security, and you're set to run your own small cluster.

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If you need more servers, you buy them up, give them a PXEBoot thumb-drive, and add them to your network.
I can't possibly see this going well for salesforce. Buying slack for 70x revenue is insane. Their entire market is going to be eaten by teams and google chat, if it hasn't already. Microsoft has such a gigantic advantage when it comes to enterprise productivity software because everyone is already using office. And those that aren't are on g-suite. Slack's recent guidance was horrible too.
The biggest issue with the author is that he complains both about the controlling/locked down nature of Apple’s platforms and about any bugs that show up in that system.

I.e. His goal is to criticize Apple no matter what they do, because he dislikes the fact that they are no longer producing the kind of open system he prefers.
It says much more about the people saying that than anything.

Salesforce is a reasonably good operating entity, I don't see any reason for Slackers to flinch.

But consider that 'Slack' was a movement - literally the name, the original premise, there was a corporate/hip aspect to it. Which now it's not, just the opposite, because it's 'Salesforce'.

So at least in part - 'it's not cool now'.
The newer ones might, but the older ones seem to have the worst thermal solution of just about any modern laptop if that Linus Tech Tips video is to be believed.

If I opened my computer that was thermal throttling and found that I would demand a refund. An undersized heatsink that wasn't making proper contact to the die. With a fan that 1. Isn't sucking air in from anywhere. And 2. Isn't blowing anything over the heat sink.

"Think different" as in "be dumb". Or smart; Because that makes their new computers that are properly amazing look even better in comparison.

Edit: paste mistake. the video link is here. Can't edit the original commet. https://youtu.be/MlOPPuNv4Ec
The conventional wisdom in ham circles is that thicker elements result in broader bandwidth. That goes along nicely with structural stiffness, and thus most VHF Yagi-Uda antennae are made with their elements cut from tube instead of rod, for example.

I'm not sure which changes you made exactly, but I wouldn't be surprised if the end effect was thickening the relevant portions.
Considering they often re-brand Xiaomi hardware, i wouldn't say they're building "a Xiaomi kinda of brand" as much as "re-building Xiaomi's brand"
i heard this, but all my meetings with amazon folk are still on chime. plus, slack audio and video capabilities are imo sorely lacking.
Is that stripped or unstripped?
Actually that's one problem I've never had with Linux. Even using stuff that isn't in the default package manager seems to just work.
How does it compare with Matrix?
We still use Lync aka communicator aka skype. the killer feature is screenshare and exchange integration. its actually really hard to get some team members to join us on mattermost because they don’t see the point. :/ Looking forward to teams replacing mattermost and business skype going away.
The old adage 'you get what you pay for' comes to mind here.
Just mean that you'll need to deal with latency, either through provisioned capacity lambda or build it into your service SLA :)
But note:

"A consequence of this specification is that an implementation may use any translation for an address that was valid at any time since the most recent SFENCE.VMA that subsumes that address. In particular, if a leaf PTE is modified but a subsuming SFENCE.VMA is not executed, either the old translation or the new translation will be used, but the choice is unpredictable. The behavior is otherwise well-defined."

This is not the "particular" case mentioned - essentially "subsumed" for satp is the entire space (you have to think of satp as simply being a non-leaf PTE)

To be fair I think that there's issues in this area that may force a double pipe flush in some implementations
An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
> It's so sad that this is the cycle for software now

...now?
Sad to see that Microsoft needed outside feedback instead of figuring out the outcome on their own before they shipped. Am I to seriously believe no decision-maker saw this coming? I think they threw it out there to see if they could get away with it, and if not, well mea culpa all around. It's either that, or some program managers over there are awfully naive.
I do have a question. I know that Lambda normally reuses a running container for multiple consecutive function invocations. What if I don't want to do that for a particular function? Suppose, for security, I don't want any leftovers from a previous invocation (in case it had data from a different user). Is there a way I could gracefully tell Lambda to create a fresh container instance for each invocation, and just live with the cold start penalty every time? Edit: I could just look to Fargate at this point, but it sounds like Lambda is doing some extra cold start optimization.
The 23:12 event could have been a cable failure which lead to the eventual collapse at 11:52.
> if you already use Office, why not Azure?

My gut reasoning is that cloud infrastructure is not the same product as office productivity and the two use cases are not the same, the purchasing decisions aren't made by the same people (except at scale, I guess, I'll concede that), and the boots on the ground building shit in the cloud take the path of least resistance where that logic would never apply.

I don't really subscribe to the belief that a company should half ass a product or acquire something in a new market because they aren't already there, but I may be in the minority. Amazon has shown they can build a trillion dollar enterprise without caring about office productivity or chat, but they'll sell the shovels to anyone who wants to try and dig those holes.
systemd-resolved is inferior to what? It's the only DNS system on Linux that can handle LLMNS + split-DNS (i.e. a VPN and your LAN running alongside each other) + DNS-over-HTTPS correctly. Sure it's a pain in the arse to configure correctly, but it's more featureful than NetworkManager.

systemd-timesyncd is inferior to what? a fully fledged ntpd? go ahead, use that if you really need to, but on 99% of Linux machines systemd-timesyncd is enough.
It's because comments are usually far more intelligent and interesting to read and I set my app to open up comments than the story by default. I don't blame the others doing the same.
Is this specifically a problem with Salesforce? I think people would have this reaction with almost any company that purchases Slack. It represents a shift in focus from being a messaging company to being a piece of a bigger portfolio. That shift alone is much more important than whatever the other pieces in the portfolio happen to be.
zulip is one of those rare pieces of software that really gives me joy to use.

feature-by-feature on paper, it doesn't necessarily stand out compared to the crowded landscape. It's not a new distributed protocol or anything unique.

but you really can tell it's well crafted, with love as slack used to say. And if you don't believe me, you can inspect the source code yourself!
> Security deposits of attackers in ethereum are slashed, up to 100%, in case of an attack.

What defends against the attacker configuring his nodes to just not relay the blocks which slash his deposits, by having a majority in the network connectivity, and thereby convincing victim nodes that he in fact is the victim of false slashing because the victims will only discover the slash-claims much after the attackers "valid" blocks?

Or in other words:

Isn't the slashing mechanism also reliant upon mere hope that the network topology randomly happens to be in favor of non-malicious peers?
Surely S3 is a pebble compared to Dropbox?
Sure but it also doesn’t justify innuendo about Apple not caring about privacy.

You know as well as I do that this stuff is complicated.
I'm in the SF/Bay Area and it's legal here.

What states have done is they legalize in the cities where the research is being done. (Or research follows where cities have legalized.)
Honestly confused why Salesforce didn't buy Discord instead.

Discord's entire business model seemed to be geared toward toppling Steam by perfecting community features and then expanding into digital sales. Right when they launched their game store, Epic Games started one too and was throwing around Fortnite money to lock in exclusives. Discord quickly retreated and has seemed rudderless for the past year.

They already started shifting away from their gamer branding. Earlier this year they generalized to online communities. And they have a formidable architecture. Some game servers have 6 digit user counts. Their permission model is also way more robust than Slack's, and that's not an easy gap to close given how tightly woven into the architecture a permission model needs to be.

In comparison to Slack, this all could have been had for pennies on the dollar. They must really want the brand, or the customer base, or to already have the enterprise feature gap closed.
There are similar solutions on all platforms now, aren't there? I think you could safely contemplate the use of just about any platform, if full backup & restore is holding you back.
Hey Chris. Happy to see your awesome trajectory from Meetup admin to The Serverless AWS guy.
Follow Up Boss | Senior Android Developer | Remote | $150K - $162K | Full-time | https://careers.followupboss.com/senior-android-developer/en

We are a simple, sales-focused CRM for real estate teams. We’re a bootstrapped, profitable company started back in April of 2011. We are a remote company with a mostly US-based team. We are very customer-centric: https://www.facebook.com/followupboss/reviews and our customers love our product.

Working closely with the original architect of the iOS and android app you will contribute by building new features right away. Learning how and why customers (mostly real estate teams) use Follow Up Boss will take time and the sooner you bridge that knowledge gap the sooner you will be able to contribute to the strategic vision for the app. We work in 4 week cycles with a 2 week cool-down in between. The cycle is dedicated to customer facing value. A recent project was to add group texting. The cool-down is for bugs and technical debt. Current cool-down efforts have been to migrate existing Java code to Kotlin.
You basically said "everyone has an accent", and this is true. Regarding understandable English though, some accents are MUCH harder to understand than others.
I wonder how Microsoft is going to respond to this..?

Although a slightly different market, I could easily see
them acquiring Discord and rebranding it towards corporate customers turned off by the incoming Salesforce integration with Slack. After all, Slack managed to Trojan Horse it's way into companies, and now with many people using Discord at home... it's not a stretch to say Discord could take the same approach!

Discord have recently been actively re-positioning themselves less towards the gaming community overall, and more towards being a general purpose chat application.

Teams will likely see a flurry of updates and new features as well.
I feel two ways about it because I'm so similar to my friends and family in terms of the charities I support. I did appreciate, and remember, a charity gift I got from somebody who I knew did not give a damn about the cause that the charity supported, because I knew they did it solely as a gift to me. That felt good.
right, which big tech acronym has Salesforce in it? gonna need a new one
That's a clear nit.
I'll just give you that point and say 2/25 of 1%, and the argument is exactly the same.
Location: Northern Germany

Remote: Yes, preferred.

Willing to relocate: Only for very well-paid jobs.

Technologies: TensorFlow, Chainer, Python, Go, C++, C#, CUDA, HLSL

Email: Golf Oscar @ Hotel Alpha Juliet Oscar . Mike Echo

I'm very much enjoying optical flow research. If I could freely choose, my goal would be to create algorithmic features with known and well-behaved likelihood distributions by training AI components and then analyzing, understanding, and re-implementing them using explicit functions.

Earlier this year, I was leading Sintel Clean EPE matched with my H-v3 attempt - which sadly still included lots of black box AI for ambiguity resolution, but at least it was based on handcrafted linear filters to create the feature space. I'm hoping to release my next attempt in January, but as a hobby, competing alone against FAANG teams is kind of unwieldy ;)

I'm fortunate to be remote CTO for a US company, so there's no hurry. But I'd be very curious to look into selfie drones or self-driving cars :) And I would be willing to free up 2-3 days per week to explore job opportunities there. So I guess I'm looking for a remote & senior & part-time AI/ML research position, if such a thing exists.

In case that's useful, I also have experience in related areas like Unreal Engine / Houdini for data set generation or 3D printing / SfM / Photogrammetry / Satellite processing for measuring things.
Before the web, centralization meant you couldn't get published unless you made a one sided deal if you were lucky with a publisher. You would have to buy 2,000 copies yourself and try to sell that out of a car.

When amazon opened that up it allowed anyone to publish and now we have other smaller sites like smashworlds that offer similiar.

Things are now so much more open as a publisher.

On the selling side you had smaller book stores being pushed out by Chapters. Chapters bought up many book chains and pushed out many smaller shops with better prices.

When Amazon came in they were fighting against the big box stores and they won.

Things appear centralized with Amazon but you can sell your ebook from anywhere (from your site/app/newsletter) you couldn't do that before. Everyone wants easy Amazon sales.
$2,679 in cash
Salesforce, more like Buyforce. They are acquiring so many companies, it's not even funny.
Nice! Apologies if I sounded condescending, you clearly are much more familiar than me :).

I tend to agree, but I have difficulty when you scale the problem. No individual person benefits from having their computer rebooted enough to counteract the issues, but might everyone collectively? The utilitarian calculus becomes difficult.

Though parallel solutions: better security testing or a capacity for live updates without a reboot, may be an answer.
Google "nothing at stake problem".
Reading this during my ~75 minutes of time I get to myself daily, and only by having basically no non-parenting conversation with my wife all day.
> enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world

That's not the only world, right? Anyone wanna succeed in the real world?
I'm just speaking from my own experience, but I guess I've just been lucky. The subreddits I've posted projects to are in the ~20-50K subscriber range and have always responded well to whatever project I'm announcing, unless it was something that clearly didn't take me very long.
I know corps and teams where they need approvals for each cloud resource they instantiate. That is a culture problem.

On other hand, when we were using simple VPSes at various companies, at some companies, I could just send email saying I provisioned a new server and at the others, they wanted a ticket with justification for it. But we always had enough test servers to try out and experiment. Cloud is great in many ways but freedom has more to do with an organization.
$2,679 in cash and the fractional shares of CRM (0.76) will likely be converted to cash as well at some market rate.
Samurai: Ninja-compatible build tool written in C99
Don't forget Lync / Skype for Business!
Location: Greater Los Angeles Area (US Citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Dependent on COVID situation)

Technologies: Python, Docker, Git, C/C++, Java, Typescript, AngularJS, .NET/C#, HTML/CSS, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Unity, Unreal, VR, Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, Research, Prototyping, Unit Testing

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qiu0Kk-bD7VHbWDzjqYDvXEaCo_...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/braxtonlazar/

Website: https://www.braxtonlazar.com

Email: braxtonlazar [at] gmail [dot] com

ABOUT: Software Engineer with 1.5+ years experience working in Research and Development Laboratory, currently working on L-4 Autonomous Vehicle System. I have a desire to move out of research and more into something more product or SAAS centric. I'm always willing to learn new tech stacks and face new challenges. I work nearly all in Python these days, but with some C++. I am currently taking a variety of Master’s classes in Machine Learning, and SQL, NoSQL and AWS technologies. I have worked as a Full stack Engineer in the past, building small internal websites with .NET backends. I'm only considering full-time opportunities at some cool places. Reach out if you have any questions or opportunities that you should like to talk about. Thanks! And have a great rest of your day.
Oh my god the absolute worst thing about slack are threads. Can we please not bring them to anything else? how do they provide any value whatsoever other than making it hard to realize someone responded to you?

Signed,
Someone who used IRC for decades
Pave | Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Machine Learning | Full-Time | Remote USA

Pave is a fintech API based in the Bay Area and founded in early 2020. We’re democratizing the massive data engineering & data science effort necessary to build financial services. We’re seeing an explosion in the market of digital first banks, automated budgeting & savings apps, robo advisors, and financial products geared towards a new market of consumers who have traditionally been underserved.

Our first product is a Cashflow API that helps data scientists & developers access clean and unified insights into an individual’s financial health and behavior.

We’re looking to bring on our 2nd software engineer to help architect and build out our core data infrastructure and human in the loop ML systems that will clean and transform messy bank data into financial insights.

If you’re excited about joining a 3-person team and helping more people gain access to financial products, email us at hi [at] pave [dot] dev.

Full description here: https://bit.ly/3mtf0pd
> The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world.

I'm just complaining, but... Why do people write things like this? I see it in my own employer and our marketing material, too. It's confusing bullshit that is devoid of any meaning.
Location: Italy / Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Elixir, Postgres, Elm, RDBMs, DevOps, Web applications, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ojVEWlKYX49mAnesAPqZpb2EurL...

Email: in the CV

I have been a software engineer for over five years now, and have also been responsible for multiple software projects from their conception all the way to their validation with the end users. As I have worked on numerous projects in various roles and with different partners over the last years, I have honed my organizational and soft skills, and I’m capable of working independently while at the same time being able of collaborating with colleagues and clients.
Did they definitively say everyone gets infected and becomes infectious, or is it the case that they don't yet have the data on how often infection is prevented?

A plausible explanation for your second question is that the vaccine significantly reduces the peak viral load, reducing the overall immune response, but not reducing the peak so much that shedding is prevented.
100 shares of WORK will be converted to $2679 and 7.76 shares of CRM. Where did you get 43.84 from?

The current value of WORK doesn't matter, it's the closing price on 11/30. The stock price will effectively be pinned at that now since nobody will want to trade at another price.
I was only aware of their Wyze Cam (which I have a couple of) and I had no idea till I saw this post that they have other devices now, such as Plug, Bulb, Scale etc.
No, it means you get

1. $2679 in cash (100 * 26.79)

and

2. 7.76 shares of CRM (100 * .0776)
As a recipient of a blacksmithing course I'd like to say it was one of the best gifts I ever got. But it's a pretty expensive gift.

But I've also been given knives a few times, and I loved most of them. It's not like you can have too many knives.

I'm not sure what I'd do with an extra set of whetstones though.
My previous megacorp switched from Slack to Teams for that reason. Save millions annually for essentially the same product.