skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assange tried to do that and was rejected.

Assange tried (at least he claims he tried) to get the US government to help him remove names that it felt should not be released. The US government refused. Which is perfectly understandable: why should the US government tell Wikileaks exactly which names in some leaked documents are the names of actual US government informants? That would be stupid.

Assange then chose to release all the material anyway, putting the life of anyone whose names were in that material potentially at risk. Newspapers, in the same position, did not publish the names. Whether you agree or not with either action, the fact remains that they are clearly different actions, and that one involves publishing people's names and potentially putting their lives at risk and the other does not.
> Anything more or less is pure speculation at best

There are two lines of evidence. The first is empirical. It It appears that one dose of Moderna _is_ highly effective, perhaps 85% or more. Note the treatment-control divergence after about fourteen days [1]. The second is theoretical. From our ample medical experience with other vaccines, there is strong prior reason to think that one dose is likely to work well, and that a second shot in the distant future would be even better than a second shot after three or four weeks. Booster shots are given a.) as backup for people who don't seroconvert after one dose b.) to trigger a secondary immune response. In light of a.), we shouldn't be surprised by the 85% number (most people seroconvert; there's no partial immunity, you either seroconvert or you don't). In light of b.), we should be very skeptical of the four week interval, especially since the secondary response takes about two weeks to develop. It's shorter than the interval for every other vaccine.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/fda-releases-data-on...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
The lesser of two evils and the product just works. They might have a few governance issues they need to fix. But at the end of the day, they signed a BAA with us and will take the liability and fallout of a breach.
People often seem to think of unions as being purely blue-collar operations, and this just isn't true.

If you need an example to back this up, the million-dollar television news anchors in the United States are all union.
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Clearly you aren't aware how easy it is to influence a lot of people with how easy it is to spread misinformation online.
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I am the Founder / CEO of Cash Flow Portal. Cash Flow Portal is an investor portal for real estate syndicators. It contains the system of record for a real estate syndication and helps automate a syndicator’s back office.

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I had the bozo bit flipped on me. I eventually rage-quit without notice a good job of five years where I was contributing. Or so I thought.
Sounds like someone missed the bull run, aaahahaha
Remote | Full-time | VP of Product

Legalist, Inc. (alternative asset manager, fintech startup) | Remote (US based) | Full-time | VP of Product | https://angel.co/company/legalist/jobs/1045206-vp-of-product

Legalist is hiring a VP of Product. We're looking for somebody who is comfortable wearing many hats; has a data science/data analysis background; and who wants to help build products that support Legalist, a multi-hundred million dollar AUM asset manager, across a number of esoteric investment strategies. An interest in law and/or finance is preferred, and a curiosity and interest in working creatively with data is essential.

This is a US-based remote team, and post-covid it will continue to be remote.

Link: https://angel.co/company/legalist/jobs/1045206-vp-of-product
That's the problem. Life is complicated chemistry. We won't know what to look for until it is too late.
Fungus put to use in eco-friendly soundproofing material
Italy has been mass-importing cheap manufacturing labor from China and it has most-affected textiles businesses.
I picked the trivial example on purpose to make the point that none of the top 5 programming languages do it, even if it was solved in the 80s.

Recent languages like swift/kotlin (which I expect will see increased usage in coming years) seem to have ignored this area.

https://github.com/peter-tomaselli/swift-refined/blob/master...
https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/refinement-types/9753/19
Nova Credit (YC W12) | San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY | Onsite or Remote (North America only) | https://www.novacredit.com

Despite having built substantial credit in their home countries, millions of immigrants have difficulty accessing credit cards, loans, mortgages, and leases without domestic credit. Nova Credit enables newcomers to share their credit history from their home country with financial service providers and others, unlocking new consumers for lenders, and new futures for immigrants. The team is 50+ people and has raised $50m+ in funding from Kleiner Perkins, Index, General Catalyst, First Round Capital, Nyca, and Y Combinator.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/nova-credit

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* Engineering Manager - Credit Passport Coverage: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/da9b7eef-0fd8-4c53-ba11-a7e19...

* Senior Software Engineer (Backend): https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/1d10f732-c59a-45a2-89f6-43fa3...

* Software Engineer (Infrastructure): https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/0dd2948a-507e-4cf4-88c0-3bd6c...

Tech Stack: Node.js, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, React
Have you published anything I can get my grubly little eyeballs on?!
Show HN: TensorFlow for .NET and Unity ML Agents
Blueprint.store | London, UK | Senior Node.js Full-stack developer | Onsite or Partly-Remote (UK only) | Full time
Blueprint is a venture-backed technology start-up backed by some of the best investors in the world - enabling brands and creators to sell inside SMS and WhatsApp. Blueprint is now launching to a global waitlist having been in development for 12 months.

We’re looking for an ambitious Senior Software Engineer to join our tight knit development team as we move from launching with our first clients to scaling up our business and platform.

Our UI is written in React and the backend built on Serverless using AWS Lambda, Node.js, DynamoDb and MySQL (Aurora). Our roadmap consists of challenging projects, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), payment processing and delivering an exceptional user experience for our clients.

You will work directly with our CTO and the company founders. Our engineering team is currently 5 full-stack developers, and we are looking for full-stack developers who can contribute in all areas of the platform.

Salary depending on experience: £60k-£90k

https://apply.workable.com/blueprint-store/j/EE934DE909/ . Apply via form or email me at al {at} blueprint.store.

Sorry, at this time we are not working with recruiters and are unable to offer Visa sponsorship.
> Probably there is an opportunity window for middleman services that collect orders and sell to UK customers

There absolutely is, and such services are already showing up. "Let's fund our middlemen instead" wasn't a great slogan for a bus, of course, but this was always inevitable.
it’s pretty awesome. back in the day i build a service that runs to this day by leveraging em
Excellent article. I've also always wondered, I was making some gradients the other day and I was curious to how I could dither between two colours. Big thank you for this article!
Yah. I just have bad memories of not being able to move my monitor from one end of a desk to another without a worker in a union filing a grievance. Just because you have lots of bureaucracy doesn't mean you can't have a bunch more.
The thing with Brexit is that the referendum itself was unbelievably stupid, not democracy as a concept.

If you are going to have a referendum it should require a supermajority because the turnout is never going to be good enough for a real consensus.
This is a great overview.

A few years back, when TechShop still existed and was open, I made a present for my mother: a glass laser-etched and engraved with an image from her favorite comic. Because the comic was painted in a set of watercolors, this was going to be difficult. I ended up tracing the lines (for the deeper engraving) and then stomping on the color palette for the etching. Finally, I settled on different newspaper halftone sets for each "color."

It took several tries for it to come out alright. This might have saved me a few runs.
You mean a note written to help determine the value of a stock focuses on the effect of a decision on that stock rather than something else that you (a non-shareholder possibly?) find important? Do you really find that surprising? Should be no more surprising than the idea that an internal union communication would focus more on benefits to workers instead of benefits to shareholders. Neither of the above is meant to be some kind of ethical treatise, why would we expect them to be so?
We built this little hackathon project to search this page (and past months too)

https://hirehackernews.com

Would love any feedback or suggestions anyone might have
> It does not matter any more if there are still valid patents for exFAT.

Would you care to elaborate for why that is? Would anyone else with knowledge about the patent system and any possible risks imposed by it also like to do so?
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Webflow is an all-in-one, no-code design and development platform for businesses to build and grow powerful, custom websites visually. Developers and designers alike use Webflow to create bespoke online experiences using first-class web technologies, such as CSS Grid (http://webflow.com/grid), Flexbox (http://flexbox.webflow.com), and After Effects & Lottie (https://university.webflow.com/courses/after-effects-lottie).

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Tech Stack:
Backend: Python3,
Deployed on AWS Lambda + ApiGateway,
GraphQL endpoint.

Frontend: React written in Typescript.
Win+calc+enter searches being for a calculator on my workstation, Win+cal+enter opens a calendar, and Win+calc+enter works fine for me! Yay!
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Enigma is focused on transforming how businesses interact through data and technology. We build world-class data infrastructure, developer-friendly APIs, and intelligent tools that reduce risk, increase revenue, and radically improve experiences between businesses.

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Rookie move...

Search engine redirects (301s) are part of our "launch checklist" and we're just a small town web agency.
Yes, that is correct. If you use n8n as a backend or part of your backend that is totally fine. What is not permitted is to use n8n code to offer some kind of automation service.
So something cool I noticed at the bottom of the page. There's a "Report Information" button that brings up a modal outlining several ways to report information to the CIA. The most interesting one to me being the option to report via Tor.

From the dialog:

> We go to great lengths to keep these channels secure, but any communication sent using the internet involves some risk. You can reduce some risk by using the Tor browser, a virtual private network, and/or a device not registered to you. You can access the Tor browser at ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion.
Would you be able to force your company to make a donation of $100 to save someone's life? Like actually get a major corporation like Google to move the money out of their bank account as a regular rank-and-file developer? If not, are you evil, or is Google evil?

The system is often setup in such a way that the person who is setting the rules doesn't see their impact and doesn't even know you exist, and the person who sees your plight is powerless to help you. Cruel system can arise with no intention, just stupidity.
>Total scam

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe the union electrician is there because once upon a time someone setting up a booth daisy chained a bunch of extension cords of small gauge to run lights and demos and started an electrical fire in a crowded convention hall.
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" - Blaise Pascal. Coming from him, he not only was a mathematician, a philosopher, and a physicist, but he started the first modern form of public transport in the world[0].

Business is recognizing problems, and then solving them for a profit. The problems can be yours or others'. The "definition" of a problem is a gap between a current state and a desired state that one does not know how to overcome. You can train yourself by looking for signs of problems such as anxiety, frustration, ranting, complaining, and then digging deeper instead of shrugging it off as another day in the office.

I helped people with tiny businesses get in touch with huge auto-manufacturers simply by designing great looking documents with a LaTeX template and designing a commercial offer. I helped others to decide to make chemical products by digging into chemical compounds and having spectroscopies and other lab experiments done after a nightly conversation in a forest where I pulled a notebook and a pen and started listing price points and products because they complained they were being excluded by product wholesalers. I helped others by making software that generates the right document for the right bank for their clients after getting cofee. I helped others move money around, or deal with vendors abroad, or work on an HR system for a sixty thousand person organization, etc... This was when I was a student/fresh graduate and had some time to spare and the result of conversations where I didn't say "It sucks, man."

One funny thing is that you end up as the "go-to person", a "fixer" of sorts, and more and more people bring you their problems or bring you people who have a problem. It becomes a game of solving problems.

The gist of this is paying attention and recognizing problems, and then paying attention to your attitude towards problems. What do you do with them.

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrosses_%C3%A0_cinq_sols
The Inescapable Logic of Ad Fraud
Ask HN: How to grow users and audience for sharing platform?
I have been building a sharing platform that could only thrive if users start to post, share their work/project and engage with it.

Is finding users & audience different for sharing platform V.S an actual tangible product that sells for money?

What is the best way to go about this and find users , so it can foster a community in a way? I tried posting on product hunt, but it seems to not have a huge impact.

any suggestions?

the site: loakee.com
other thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627043
I know nobody would be working on maintaining infrastructure. Or at least not enough people to keep civilization afloat.
Not at all, I think closed private systems are far better (better products, support, service) but when an entire company runs its operations on a single system like Slack, there is a big risk when it goes away and you need contingency.

I’d still rather be on Slack and suffer a day of lost productivity than force people to use only email or IRC.
LoL, the first page of comments on this post only show one top-level comment...
To be fair - I'm more concerned about things like buying companies so that they have exclusive access to various technologies thereby denying other companies the ability to use them, e.g. the sensor used in the Kinect.
Also Googler. When I previously worked at a unionized company the union actually helped a lot when our corporate overlords cut retirement benefits. For that sort of collective bargaining I think unions can be useful. It looks like this isn't that type of union however. This one seems much more like a political advocacy group (I realize all unions are political, but the idealized union is political as a side effect of improving the welfare of their constituency, not as their primary purpose).
IMO it's better to use JSONL[1].

Also back in the day IBM had XML for Logging format, where every separate line was an XML fragment [2].

Most markup languages suffering of having a root element, which prevents efficient logging or steaming.

[1] https://jsonlines.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_log
I find this sort of flippant posturing and minimization much more disturbing than a higher-profile-than-usual disappearance.

Acting as if these horrific, nebulous governing systems can be reduced to the image of a Saturday-morning cartoon villain, an infantile mustache-twirler angrily shaking his fist at the TV screen.

It is not “offense”. A system does not get “get mad”. It constantly sniffs for the slightest hint of dissent, any figure that might even come close to nudging public opinion the wrong way, and grinds it to dust.

It’s no different from every other country’s power-seeking and preserving systems, just with a much more sensitive trigger-finger, and that seemingly excessive sensitivity and reactivity is simply because they can. Not because some CCP higher-up has a fragile ego.
There's graph-tool but it is annoying to compile sometimes: https://graph-tool.skewed.de/
Gyms are a crime against design
Resume

======

...

- Dropped 3 production tables, losing lead data worth up to $6 million

- Designed O(n^2) solution which was fixed in six-person all-nighter a year later when our search p99 plummetted.

...

I would interview someone that puts this on their resume, no questions asked. Hiring? Not sure, but the honesty is definitely appreciated.
I noticed something about dead slack channels on the GCP console last night, which I thought was odd. Anyone see something similar?
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> They had two years to get ready

For the deal agreed on the 24th of December?

I mean, they had two years to get ready for something entirely nebulous. It could have been some sort of Norway+ deal, where they'd have had to do nothing, or it could have been no deal, in which case they'd probably have had to close the British factory, or anything in between. In both of those extremes, and many of the in-betweens, any preparation for the current situation would of course have been futile.
My guess is that the set of people attracted to that mystique is demographically skewed, and the demographics it favors are probably already well-represented. The copy in this new redesign seems specifically oriented towards doing better on that score.

I would imagine the CIA has a particular interest in diversity -- on the operations side, they probably need people who can plausibly pass as locals in a wide variety of countries, and on the analyst side, they probably need native speakers of lots of languages, people familiar with lots of cultural contexts, etc.
The latter being short for "gyroscope" of course.

It can also be a 'copter with an unpowered main rotor, a gyrocopter/autogyro/gyroplane or "gyro" for short.
AWS down again, Slack, Zoom and Notion affected. Why sink with it?
U.S. has been outsourcing to cheaper countries for decades now, and while workers rights here aren't necessarily bad, unions have definitely been weak. As those countries are enriched and developed, eventually they will become more expensive for production, and might have their own stronger labor organizations as well. And then the cycle will continue until eventually you run out of countries/labor markets.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635380
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Technologies: Adobe Suite, C4D, some HTML/CSS
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Graphic Designer, Creative/Art Director with 10+ Years advertising experience.
>describe people that disagree about the efficacy of Bitcoin

That's not what most people mean when they use the term.

It specifically means: people who do not own Bitcoin and are very sour to have missed a once in a lifetime opportunity and will attack it out of pure spite.