skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8th Wall | 8thwall.com | Full Time | Palo Alto, CA

8th Wall develops the world's leading WebAR platform. We run on the cutting-edge of today's modern web, leveraging WebAssembly, WebGL, and cloud edge-compute to enable augmented reality that runs in the mobile browser, no app needed.

Company Info: 20+ people, tech-focused, growth stage

Stack: C++ / Javascript / React / Redux / WebAssembly / WebGL / AWS

Hiring for the following roles:

* Software Engineer [Generalist] (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4054220002)

* Software Engineer [Web Frontend] (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4047213002)

* Software Engineer [Computer Vision / Machine Learning] (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4047214002)

* Marketing Coordinator (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4971869002)
The thing about a gold rush is that you never know when your claim will dry up.

By all means, take advantage of FB, but prepare for the day it ends.
I would say it's more culturally motivated than political. Google has accumulated a lot of idealists that have strong opinions about the direction of the company without being promoted to a level where they can actualize these opinions by themselves. Given the support previous walk-outs have received asking employees there seems to be at least a strong passive support for these opinions.

Part of this is from how outside leadership has been brought in that is accidentally trampling over unwritten rules and part of this is conflicts in the different interpretations the increasing number of employees have of these unwritten rules.
Moderna Covid-19 vaccines shipping; this company helping them survive journey
You don't have to check for overflows in rust? It does by default in debug and not in release and has five explicit adding methods for any of the ways it could behave
This should serve as a warning to all business owners. Relying on any one channel for your business can be very risky as we can see with the problems this business is having.

I don't know if Facebook is right or wrong here but the big internet companies are big enough now that they need an independent review board for cases like this. Yet, we hear rumblings of it happening but it has not. I wonder what it will take for that to happen?
Blueshift | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (anywhere in USA or Canada) | Full-time | https://blueshift.com

Blueshift (saas customer data platform) is hiring a senior software engineer (remote role anywhere in a US / Canada timezone) to build & scale data ingestion pipelines that process a petabyte of data. Familiarity with Ruby on Rails / Elixir, micro-services, experience working with real-time & distributed systems, AWS (or other cloud environments), SQL & noSQL databases.

Apply here: https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5008162002

More about the company here: https://blueshift.com
This is a lovely compliment. Thank you for taking the time to write it :)
Looking to get my foot in the door as a Python developer
I decided on a career change a couple of years ago and committed to learning Python. I've done various side projects of my own and also was extremely lucky enough to land a entry level position at a small data science-related company through someone I know. Unfortunately, that company ended up going under right about the time corona-virus hit and I have yet to formally work as a proper software developer.

I've been looking through employment sites and things have been difficult for me because I'm coming from such a different work background (I have been professionally cooking for 4-5 years after graduating college).

I'd like to figure out how to get my foot in the door in order to get a proper start on becoming employed. I'm completely willing to work for free in order to gain experience and to learn what it takes to become employable.

If there is anyone here that can benefit from having helper for Python-related work, I would love to make myself useful for free. My goal is to learn and work towards becoming employed in this new field.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
ResoluteAI | Full Stack Software Engineer | New York City or remote | Full-time | REMOTE

ResoluteAI is a VC-backed fast-growth data aggregation and intelligent search startup, with a mission to enable scientifically driven organizations to make their next big discovery.

We enable this intelligent search through our proprietary machine learning algorithms. We are proud to count amongst our clients two of the top four (and five of the top twelve) global pharmaceutical firms by market cap.

I've linked one (very small) piece of what we do below - Stanford uses our software to power tech transfer search when their faculty lists opportunities:

https://stanford.resoluteinnovation.com/search

We are looking for full stack developers to help build out our capabilities as we continue to grow.

Python experience, and preferably expertise, is a must for this role.

Some of our tech stack: python amazon-web-services react flask elasticsearch docker

If you'd like more information and/or are interested in pursuing further, please apply at the following site:

https://resoluteai.applytojob.com/apply/qEBd0FBx4a/Full-Stac...
Repl.it (YC W18) | Growth, SRE, Product Eng, Designer | SF or REMOTE | https://repl.it/careers

What if you could influence how an entire generation of programmers code?

Repl.it is a collaborative in-browser IDE. We're building a stellar compute platform that runs code for millions of users, and hosts millions of apps (cheaply). Repl.it is the most popular entry-to-programming IDE and is the best in its collaborative capabilities. It's also increasingly the number-one destination for teenage hackers and hobbyists to build and launch apps.

Our work spans the hardest problems in computing (sandboxing, distributed systems, scheduling) and the most interesting problems in HCI ("how do you create a learnable programming environment?").

It's a unique time to join because we proved a huge demand for what we're building while also being early enough to have a huge impact and get a big part of the upside. We are only 16 people.
Is there some easy to run server software for this? Looks interesting but seems to only run on obs desktop?
I would be very surprised if it weren't browser prefilled. Although scummy things like that are not unusual when it comes to facebook, maybe they took it from instagram or whatsapp.
I don't know about the feasibility comment. Based on what the NSA already does, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to expand those sorts of programs. Not that I would support that.
Yeah, what?? Is the author worried his BTC will rust? Does he think BTC is easier to fake than gold? Do governments buy gold for the economic tourism produced via tours of their vault?

Maybe the author is close to solving P=NP and knows something we don’t
My overall perspective on this whole discourse is that we spend a lot of time attaching a particular union, amongst a particular group of well-paid workers; to titanic struggles amongst Class and Culture.

My personal opinion is that yes, inequality is a huge problem! Solutions which come to mind are Medicare for All, UBI, free public college, and an end to Homelessness; all paid for by higher income taxes on the top 10% (we can start with ending the absurd FICA cap, and then raise rates).

It's not at all obvious to me how coders at an Ad company putting an intermediary between themselves and an employer changes... anything. I get that Unions were THE answer in the past - The Jungle and all that. But it's a different world and I just... don't get it!

(Just to add - some of the "pro capital" comments are just as silly. I don't think Unions will ruin the world, I think they're just sort of 'fine' and super tangential to more important policy topics)
That was the usual pattern in the UK too, until GDS. (We used to have world class computing facilities in the past before outsourcing them, but that was pre-Web). Credit to those involved (and to Francis Maude, the Conservative minister who believed in the project and gave them sustained political cover - I am decidedly not a fan of the Tories but that was very good work).
A simple litmus test here is: "Do you genuinely believe at face value China's statement that this virus originated from outside China"

If the answer is yes, then you also believe the statement "China has zero cases since it stopped reporting them".

Our responses are based on the numbers reported by the CCP, if you realize that there is now tens of millions of suddenly deactivated phone plans in a country where the smartphone is integrated into everyday life, on top of the millions of urns, one can connect the dots at the true nature, and its imminent danger.

Example: As our Canadian Health minister quickly shot down criticisms of China's low case numbers as "conspiracy" and "racism", it absolutely is relevant to the decision makers who seem oblivious that they are quite possibly being lied to. Again. ( For a country that allowed the CCP to steal from their biggest telecom company and fund the rise of Huawei, it is absolutely puzzling as to why the US should trust Canada )
Delete your cookies regularly... here's how with Python and Firefox.
Maximum privacy, no need for extensions.

import sqlite3
import pprint

def cnt():
rows=csr.execute("select count(*) as nr from moz_cookies").fetchall()
return rows[0][0]

db=sqlite3.connect(r'C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY\cookies.sqlite')
csr=db.cursor()

ckbefore=cnt()
rows=csr.execute("select host,count(*) as nr from moz_cookies group by 1").fetchall()
for r in rows: print("- %3d %s" % (int(r[1]),r[0]) )

csr.execute("delete from moz_cookies where host not in ("
" 'your', 'own', 'list', 'of', "
" 'sites', 'you', 'trust')")
db.commit()

ckafter=cnt()
print("%d > %d cookies" % (ckbefore,ckafter) );

csr.close()
db.close()
One thing that has tripped me up with this workflow in the past is that you lose context - the code you copy/paste and execute in the repl is not evaluated in its module/namespace, so any other code calling it is not updated.

Is there a shortcut to evaluate the code in the correct module/namespace for Python? Maybe to switch the namespace in which the Python REPL evaluates the code you paste in?
Most likely because those whales that had personal experience of danger in those areas have died out. And leaving whales who have no aversions to being in those locations.

An analogy is humans who have roughly a century between experiences of major ('or 'World') wars. Once the 'old soldiers' with personal experience of the horrors die away, nobody knows how bad those wars were, and so don't have the proper respect for major wars. Consequently, the whole cycle begins again. My belief is that we're not very far away from the next 'Big One'.
On top of that we can't eat hydrocarbons, but we can use them to move food around.
By that logic, it would be sensible to lament that, say, a particular daycare is staffed entirely by women, or that a particular ice hockey team is made up entirely of white men. Sometimes groups of humans coalesce these ways, and there’s nothing wrong or unfortunate about it. No intervention requested or required.

If you want to champion diversity of viewpoints, that’s a different matter entirely, and such conditions may be desirable, depending on the wants & needs of the group in question.

Take these things on a case-by-case basis. Don’t reach for top-down governance as a panacea when such a thing is neither requested nor required.
Yes, they are strict about their quarantine. It's much easier to do that when you don't have to quarantine millions of people.

Consider that we know that the virus was spreading in the US in January (via Europe), and there's phylogenetic and blood-screening evidence that it was here as early as late 2019. Even the strictest quarantine wouldn't have helped much at that point.
> Because it requires a non-trivial amount of static analysis work on the compiler side to make the UX comfortable.

How so?

Any modern language that supports operator overloading enables a half arsed version where you create a struct/class for any subtype of integer you want (e.g. `milliseconds`), and then you create binary operators that takes in on both sides your class, and you add bounds checking yourself, and also this way you can restrict allowing "primitive" types from being just added/subtracted willy-nilly.

As I ranted about below, a simple "milliseconds" type would make life easier all over the place. Who hasn't mixed up an API call where part of it takes seconds and another part takes milliseconds?

That sort of crud should be easy for a simple subtyping system to catch.
I was just about to suggest this myself. It would be a great addition for sure!
It's really good! I like that the zoning is more realistic and the finances seem to make more sense (e.g. when you hit $0 cash you start borrowing automatically, rather than having to explicitly take out a loan, and also you have to pay emminent domain when you destroy someone's building). Also the regional scale is neat.
More like 20%.
I can basically guarantee that you will have both an easier time and a more rewarding outcome getting involved in a members union of like 250 people than with a state or federal government in the US
Back in my day, the Earth was static toroid at the centre of the solar system
You Can Now Get a Covid Test in a Vending Machine
Who cares? We should not force the majority to be serfs so a minority is served.
and there's serious planning right now on appropriations to fix this... e.g. buying a huge amount of new computers and hardware + staff time

seems very very far fetched. i guess if i got caught breaking a ton of laws against my own government I might want to misdirect too

this seems like the same trolling type comment farm crap we see anytime these countries come up
I watched the piece. Here are the basic points it made (which I agree with):

- Pre-internet, generally speaking the only entities capable of widely spreading facts about private individuals were things you could sue for defamation or libel: newpapers, tv stations etc.

- Now Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can spread defamatory information about anyone without paying a similar price.

- It's true that the services will eventually accede to taking the content down (although in one case, that of a woman murdered on camera, it seemed to have proved difficult/impossible to fully do so given all the reposts).

- But they let it be put it up there in the first place! Once its up, all the damage to someone's life can be done in a day.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is your Steam Awards game of the year
It's probably a matrixed organization. There is just a VP with this focus because it is "very important".
Keep this incident in mind next time you're watching '60 Minutes' report on a subject you don't have familiarity with.
> There is no word "gyro" in Greek.

Greek here. Yes, there is: γύρω. Means "around". Same root as the word "γύρος" (noun).

> In Greece there are several pronunciations, including "zhee-rohs", "gee-ros", and "yee-rohs", though the latter is preferred.

I'd say not only the preferred, but also the standard one. Others may be used in local dialects. I've never heard of "gee-ros" (with the "g" pronounced either as in "google" or as the "j" in "jive"), by you may hear "zhee-ros" from people in Crete with a heavy Cretan pronunciation.

> the last syllable includes a long O and an S, roughly rhyming with "dose".

No, I'd say it rhymes with the "os" in MS-DOS.
You think noone tried? They just got assasinated.
Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for 'killing' the ECC industry
Ah, this happens when Firefox/Chrome scales the image. I added a note to the article a couple hours ago, not sure if you saw that.

If you open the image in question in a new tab (to prevent any scaling) you’ll see the image as intended with the “desired” effect.
>AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors

Only for the ryzen 7 and the r9 _900 cpus. The low end ones come with a basic black cooler and the high end come with nothing.
nabc sounds good, but i might be inclined to augment it with a "d" that being "disadvantages" in addition to "advantages"

too many times engineers dont think clearly about the negatives of an approach/proposal (every idea has a negative or disadvatageous aspect) and people should go into a proposal with both eyes open

i cant count how many proposals i have seen that have only mentioned advantages and "alternative" approaches similar to the proposed ones...
The original reports from the us government stated that only 40 organizations got a secondary payload .. now they've upped it to 250.

That's a 5x increase, and is pretty substantial, especially because each of these organizations are generally large, important, and were likely specially targeted for a reason.

It's also important to get this message out because so many people are out there thinking that since they weren't on the initial list, that they are safe.

That is not the case. The attack was much wider than reported, and this is a huge deal because it means there are likely still breaches that have not been found yet.
I think about the best you can manage (with or without having a doctor order the test for you) is a Whole Exome Sequence[1]

1: https://www.verywellhealth.com/whole-exome-sequencing-458268...
Unions are cartels by design , which is anti-market in and of itself. The only way unions could exist while being pro-market is if they competed with each other, which they don't. There is only one teamsters. There is only one auto workers union. There is only one longshoreman's union.

Following your logic, if your ISP has a total monopoly, and you sign a contract with them, that is pro-market transaction. Of course, we both know it isn't. Contracts aren't what makes a market. Competition is. And unions have no competition with each other.
They already did, thanks to the provisions of his current imprisonment. The ruling is based on those provisions almost surely removed upon extradition, guaranteeing that his "symptoms" would reappear. To put it extremely mildly.
I was just thinking how nice it would be if there was a reliable system powered by governments or other trusted entities that could verify which accounts are real citizens of a particular country online. Then you could have an API to show which Twitter accounts were bots from another country so you could have an international network but have some visibility into potential bad actors.
Where's the Dwarf Fortress?
If you don't like relational databases what would you use instead? (And why?)
Developing Talent in R&D
Location: Switzerland/UK (right now I'm in the UK)

Remote: Yes (somewhat preferred)

Willing to relocate: yes to Germany, UK, Switzerland

Technologies: Functional programming (Scheme, Clojure, functional-perl.org, happy to start with Elixir/Erlang or Haskell/PureScript/OCaml/F#), C/C++/Rust, databases/backend, compilers.

Résumé/CV: http://christianjaeger.ch/resume-chj.pdf

Email: ch@christianjaeger.ch
I'm from a country where the law is the law and ignorance of the law is no excuse.

I've read "Dei delitti e delle pene" (on crimes and punishments) from Cesare Beccaria many times.

I truly believe what Montesquieu said "every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical"

That's why I also believe that justice means letting the judicial system do its job and prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that someone is guilty or let him go.

We can discuss about what we believe is right or wrong, but that won't change the reasons why Assange is being prosecuted.

It's up to the court now to prove him guilty or declare him an innocent man.

When I say I'm stating the obvious I'm not expressing any opinion on Assange's actions, I'm only saying what are the charges.

We can agree or disagree with them, but we can't undo what's already happened.

He's accused of allegedly helping Mannings to commit a crime.

That's all I've said.
Location: New York, NY, USA
Remote: Yes (Preferred)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Nodejs, React, React Native, Python, JS, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Bash, Linux
Résumé/CV: https://snehesh.me/resume
Email: mail [at_symbol] snehesh.me
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snehesht/
Github: https://github.com/snehesht

Full-stack developer with 4+ years of experience in building software on Nodejs/React stack, I worked on building software in video space for enterprise users and managed the servers. I'm looking for a remote-friendly individual contributor role.
We should have test everywhere and i hope we will have enough minds and entrepreneurship to create some amazing rapid tests for any kind of viruses.
came here to say this... and to also offer...
This isn't a trade union. It barely qualifies as a union at all.
> To prevent phishing, any chat service will suffice; an open protocol isn't necessary, as you don't intend to engage with ppl outside your org.

The same could be accomplished with email if you only allow connections to the SMTP and IMAP server from within the corporate network. That is, nothing external can connect to those servers, which is fine if it's only used for internal communication.
This article seems to be poorly written. For example, I have no idea what the author wanted to say here:

For decades, one of proprietary software's stupid assumptions is that "security by obscurity" works. While it can help -- no, really it can if used intelligently -- that's not the case with proprietary code.
Ultra Realistic Voice Cloning
There's a connection to the gulf war, but that's about it. The threat of WMDs was a concoction. And Iraq is Shia majority, whereas the Wahhabi jihadists and the Taliban, the incubator for the 9/11 terrorists, are supported by Sunni majority countries with completely different and consequential views on their religious texts. After Iraq was 'liberated' from Saddam, a Sunni leader, Iran, another Shia majority country, has been able to take political control of the country.
Yes but I don't feel a union is necessary in my case. I am happy with my wages, benefits, and working conditions. If not I'll vote with my feet, no union necessary.
We went through this hype almost four years ago... HN was interested then, but...

Is anything truly different today? Is it really that interesting? Is it worth dealing with the shillz? (no, no, and no)

Simple is better, blockchain is needlessly more complicated. Censorship resistant, not really, ask those who gave up their BTC over going to jail. The only people having wet dreams about it are those who want to get rich quick. Any competent techie will quickly realize blockchain is just git+raft with some permissionless shenanigans. Does anyone actually want to live in a permissionless world? (you should think hard about what that actually means)

Hammer in search of nails being sold as snake oil. That is why HN doesn't care about it today. We looked, evaluated, and moved on. (you should think hard about what this actually means)
The rules are: stay home, which is the take-away message and what he said.

Some people will always go "yes, but..." and look for ways around the rules, as we've painfully seen in the UK since March.

In fairness, some people have very good reasons not not stay home and the PM did also mention these reasons.

Overall I found the message and level of details well calibrated for a short, straight to the point, speech. Going into an exhaustive list of all the rules and exceptions would have clouded the message and would not have been a good use of the format and of time.