skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eero | Software Development Engineer | SF/USA/VISA/REMOTE

My team works primarily using Scala with some occasional Python. Most of us are currently in the Bay Area, but you can be anywhere.

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Our mesh routers rely on a cloud backend built in Scala, backed by Postgres.

Our cloud-based backend allows our users to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot their devices and networks from anywhere. In a typical week, you will work closely with a cross-functional team including product managers, designers, and iOS, Android, and frontend engineers to prototype, design, and build core experiences for existing and future products.

You will also be defining APIs, reviewing technical proposals, and contributing to our internal tools and test frameworks.

Interested in learning more? Email me (Ryan): rkabir@eero.com
To be fair, it's a business transaction. I can sell you $50 million widgets, and decide to not sell you any more for (almost) any reason.
Agreed. And I can't fit my professional title within the character limit either. But that's probably more of a sign of a personal/professional problem than a bug... :)
> No one (sane) is delivering a lisp image as "The Product" without also having a way to regenerate that image.

Oh man, you are so wrong about that.

It's worth noting that this style of development also hamstrung quite a few Python web app projects in the late 90s because the Zope application server encouraged the use of this style of development (except through a browser rather than the command line) and beginners eventually got to a point that they were stuck and needed to make the leap to a completely different workflow of development based on files on the filesystem and in version control instead for their code, while content (ie. application state) for each deployment of their app remained in the embedded object database.

A frequent lament was "if you knew I would eventually have to switch to filesystem based development, why didn't you have me start out that way?"
> It makes sense that one centralized entity coordinate the production and distribution

Centralized planning can work, but when it doesn't work, it's disastrous for everyone. Decentralized systems trade off a little bit of hypothetical efficiency (again, it depends on the central planner being competent) in return for guaranteed antifragility.

If what you're saying is accurate, then we really ought to have a global government (say, the UN) coordinate distribution across the entire planet. Countries like Israel, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Singapore shouldn't be allowed to set up their own distribution systems, rather they should all play into the same globally centralized distribution system. It's a global pandemic after all, right?
That's very cool, I had no idea! How did you find this?
Email is not a chat system, and chat systems are unsuitable for asynchronous long-form threadful discussions. There is some overlap, but combined they form a spectrum of communication modes so wide that it can‘t be covered by a single UI.
That's what expert witnesses reported, not some thought the judge just came up with. I recommend reading the actual ruling if you want to understand how the judge came to this conclusion.
> And it doesn't work at all with low power mobile delivery.

What makes you think so? If Conversations was draining my battery, I would have noticed by now, I'm pretty sure that Facebook Messenger is worse in this aspect...
the old rule in espianoge is that some times the source is more important than the information, where using the information from the source reveals the source which means the source is no longer useful. whether that's a spy that gets jailed/killed or a patch applied to a vuln.
That's a noble goal, but one of the reasons companies hire contractors is to give themselves flexibility. Often they aren't even the company on the pay check the contractor receives. I fully support contractors and employees being treated fairly in the workplace, but it's not reasonable to expect them to be treated with full equality.
The headline seems to be....quite accurate. What a terrible job by Sixty Minutes.

Then again, Sixty Minutes has a long history of making stuff up, lying about it, or peddling other peoples lies without bothering to investigate (eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#Controversies), so perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised...
Obsidian kind of gets a pass since you can sync a directory of markdown files to anything and editors are available for iOS/android. Not idea, but not going to stop you from getting ideas down into text.
I wonder what if genes are only like "functions" and inputs still come from environment. This makes it easy to not change that function often as the output changes based on input received from the environment. While only in very rare cases the function itself needs to be modified or simply put inside another function to give the function inside access to more environmental inputs.
> No one is forcing you to work a union job

The person asked if I was worse off or not. And I am. I am worse off in that I cannot stay at a job that becomes a union job, without having to pay the union.

That is how I am worse off.
996.icu was actually started in March 2019. (Earliest HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498179 )
There are different ways of doing outsourcing. Companies like IBM (and Dell, at one point) outsourced more and more of their value chain, until eventually all they contributed to their products was their logo.

I believe Apple is trying to go down a different path, by staying involved in the minutiae of manufacturing, materials science, etc, basically everything but actually doing the manufacturing.
House size maybe, but that leaves out bunch of other types of living. Not just apartments, but slum huts, refugee camp tents, and so on.
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States (US)
Remote: Preferred, Open to Local with Flex
Willing to relocate: Yes/Maybe
Technologies: React, Node, JavaScript/JS, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Front End/Frontend, PHP, WordPress, NextJS, Serverless
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/codyogden
Email: cody@codyogden.com
GitHub: https://github.com/codyogden

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I've been crafting on the web since 2001, and it all started with a JavaScript program to help me cheat on math homework--fifth grade math is tough! Even though I have spent twenty years self-learning and developing on the web, in 2016 I joined a coding bootcamp primarily to network with and learn how to collaborate with a team of engineers.

For the past couple years, I've been working remotely at a B2B SaaS startup, and before that I was leading a successful team of developers at a boutique marketing agency in the Twin Cities. I also run a successful side project: you might know me as @killedbygoogle on Twitter and have seen the Google Graveyard I started, killedbygoogle.com .

As an individual contributor, I'm a skilled front end engineer with a knack for building usable interfaces that make the experience of using technology a joy. In my next role, I'd like to find a great team where I can focus on JavaScript development, specifically in React or Node, but I'm open to working in the technologies I've listed.
I think this looks beautiful, definitely kudos for taking the time to finesse it so aesthetically.

If i had 5 CVs of this format to review i think i’d appreciate a few usability tweaks. The information density is too low for me. I think my ideal situation when consuming CVs is an uber dense firehose consisting of only relevant info.

I’d happily sacrifice the whitespace to have deeper detail about what was done in each role. I’d love if there was some consistency or key or colouring to help me figure out what each section contains.

E.g. if i read the first job listing and achievements/differentiators were in one colour box, responsibilities in a different colour and data like tenure/industry etc were in another colour box - then i could rapidly scan the other historical entries to compare and contrast, e.g. to help me get a flavour for how this person has chosen to develop their career over time for example.

Another thing i’d love is plenty of links to supporting info where available - git repos or published work etc.

This is going to sound ridiculous but i find the read aloud feature of the edge browser’s reader view and the two finger swipe audio reader of ios to be super useful. I have the speed cranked way up and i’m freed to efficiently write notes. If the format lent itself to speed read-aloud, i’d be a massive fan.
HN is not a job board, please read the FAQ.
td;lr

Existing SpaceX rockets land on legs.

For the SuperHeavy booster that will launch Starship, Elon wants to take the legs away and instead have it land on a platform intended to catch the rocket on its grid fins near the top.

This requires a very precise landing. But gets rid of a very heavy piece, and makes it easy to build a shock absorber. The downside is that you'll need to replace platforms any time one of these misses, hence the need for a very precise landing.

(The landing already has almost no margin of error given that they land with a suicide burn.)
I didn't care about offices, they were nice in the other place that I worked years later. It's the lack of software engineering culture.

They followed the "flag oriented programming" paradigm. The company tanked a few months after I left anyway, so no bad feelings. Edit: I meant the other hardware company. The we-dont-honor-contracts one I guess it's still there making the world a nicer place.
> I still want better working conditions though, for me and for everybody. What do you suggest?

Well, a re-brand for one. Don't call it a "union". Call it something else if it is something else. If you make a union patterned after traditional ones, why shouldn't it become a corrupt entity 50 years later just like all the current corrupt unions?
Yeah - totally agree, this was just intended an a serendipitous anecdote. In this case it was, though, a clearly constrained problem space. For only a few hundred rarely changed nodes, an O(n^4) algorithm (running O(n^2) against every possible n^2 pair of nodes) is perfectly amenable to brute force and caching the results.

Totally wouldn't work for Google Maps doing shortest path routing globally, but for an event with only a couple of hundred POIs and intersections, it's a cheat that seems almost magical to people who have some concept of the algorithmic problem, but haven't worked out the "trick".

If I were asked to whiteboard this, I would 100% be asking that constraints of the dataset up front. (I'm not too sure I'd have been smart enough to do that a couple of decades back, when I last had a "perform for us code-monkey!" type of job interview...)
I mean, I agree with most of the content here, but it's written in that confident left-wing manifesto style that is probably more convincing to the already convinced than to the undecided.

If I kind of saw myself as at-one with the basic Silicon Valley ethos, like I used to, this would definitely put me off before I fully ingested the argument.

I wish I had an example of an introductory text in the style I would like to see. I will try to find something like that. I'm sure it exists, given how much writing there has been on this topic over the last decade.
I'm happy to answer any questions here.
They do, Previously I wrote a few things about my experience with Apple. Rejection is manageable when you deal with people since you can actually reason with, unlike algorithms.

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137475
That would be doable if the U.S. had a robust social safety net for all these contract workers, namely health insurance for those in between jobs. Right now relying on employers for insurance has been a terrible hassle.
Driving is driving

Doing some calculations is doing some calculations

Driving for bank robbers or doing some calculations for the mob can be a crime, if driving or doing calculations was helping them to commit a crime and you knew it.

> even if he tried to physically get into buildings and steal documents in order to expose warcrimes I would say that they should let him free.

That's your opinion.

I'm not saying you are wrong in principle, but that's not how law works.
Greek here. This is correct.
I've been using computers in bed for many years and as far as I can tell, I have no problems whatsoever with sleeping. Sometimes I stay up late surfing the web and then don't get enough sleep because I have to wake up the next morning to do some bullshit, but I'd do the same thing if I was sitting in a chair - I don't surf the the web at night because my computer devices tempt me into doing it, I do it because it's fun.
What are you talking about ?? You need to confirm each other before communicating on XMPP, spam can't get through that !
I quit one after two weeks once. It was a small-to-medium consulting company that talked a great game in their interviews and then turned out to be a complete clown show.

After two weeks I was panicking over things like customer Hipchat meetings in which participants were using other channels to mock the customers (not shared with the customers, of course) with porn clips.

I noped out of there after two weeks. They gave me puppydog eyes and made all sorts of promises but...nope. Just, nope.
Your microwave oven has a mesh in the door that you look through all the time, it keeps the microwaves inside, and keeps you safe. This is a well known technology.
> I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago.

Was that casemodder.de by any chance?

I spent quite a lot of time there back in my teenage days.
Not really more surveillance than anyone else. And the discrimination and mistreatment for people in the US is bad but nothing compared to camps.
For anyone wanting a short summary, these two excerpts pretty much summarize the entire situation:

> One key issue facing Haven was that each of the three founding companies executed their own projects separately with their own employees, obviating the need for the joint venture to begin with

> Many of the Boston-based firm’s 57 workers are expected to be placed at Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway or JPMorgan Chase as the firms each individually push forward in their efforts, and the three companies are still expected to collaborate informally on health-care projects

Seems like a non-story, IMO
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25638368

(Looks like dupe not automatically caught because a different point in the Twitter thread)
I'm not surprised. The speech gave away almost no information, and you had to go online to find out why he had disturbed our evening!
Security deficiencies are technical debt
It's not like that is hard to fix, and modern compilers will flag uninitialized variables.

Use your brain and use your tools. C is not really that hard for a large number of problem sets.
Nothing bizarre about it; Diverse viewpoints tend to strengthen a community, so considering it unfortunate that HN doesn't benefit from a broader demographic distribution is pretty defensible.
As we know, correlation doesn’t mean causation. Recidivism may have nothing to do with prison conditions for all we know. The link you provided even says that numerous other factors have more of an impact on recidivism.
"Yes" meaning the parent poster's incredulity is justified.

> 600M sounds like very very few doses given worldwide population and even western world population.
Because I don't want to be politically involved in steering the future of yet anther organization. I want to program. I have enough trouble staying informed enough to steer the futures of my state and federal governments.
They're definitely overused in a lot of designs. They can be useful to portray some information at a glance in some data-heavy designs, but I don't find them helpful here -- I find them distracting.

Comparison CV with/without faces: https://i.imgur.com/u6FVLqr.png
Federally Chartered Banks May Use Stablecoins
That doesn’t sound like that much compared with the normal loads that GA handles every day, though? Gold star to the UK gov team for their bit holding up so well though.
A thousand different technologies were required to make the COVID vaccine. Having the HGP helped, that's for sure. My main complaint is that the HGP leaders basically sold the public and government on a list of accomplishments that never materialized, and yet the underlying data has been invaluable in a wide range of different health problems that they didn't think it would be useful for.
One of the funniest things I ever saw was the SV Fry's Store back in the early days. It sold 3 things: electronics, junk food, and makeup. Its makeup section was huge. One can imagine its geeky owners desperate for a chance to meet attractive young women hoping to draw them into the store.
And we got to watch those checks and balances play out this very weekend. Incredible to watch somone who would happily accept a crown be taken as a fool instead. Our system of governments may not be perfect, but it has certainly avoided a major historical event.
DNS SRV records seem appropriate for that.
> Point in case the voters of Oregon have multiple times voted to not issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

I don't understand why. Licensed or not, they're going to drive. If they're in the country illegally, they're not gonna care they're driving illegally. Isn't it safer for others on the road if they're made to take the appropriate tests and have insurance like everyone else? If you're involved in an accident with an undocumented person, isn't it better to be able to get their insurance information?

In this case, I think the voters really are being dumb. Or they're being fed a pack of lies, such as getting driver's licenses will make undocumented aliens eligible for other benefits.

Maybe these legislators are able to see both sides of the issue and believe that giving driver's licenses will be a net benefit to their constituents. Even if those constituents don't realize it themselves.
I like the implementation of https://www.fast.co/.

1. There is a dependency on speed of email delivery. May be use SMS as well?

2. Personally, I didn't find it too difficult. We run into same issue if we have MFA

3. fast.co experience is pretty clean. Give it a try

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with fast.co
I would add - finally, the nature of the film industry is to work on a contract project basis, with individual funding rounds rather than being a "regular" employee. Thats why the union benefits in terms of health insurance is so important.

So imagine a union of software contractors - that union would have no power because anyone wanting to use a contractor could sidestep them immediately by hiring a non-union contractor of which there are many.

How it could work is this - imagine you took the top 20 researchers in machine learning and they unionized, and refused to work except under a contract negotiated by the union. If Google wants "that guy" then they have to use that union contract. "That guy" has power, because people want to hire them. That can form an umbrella under which other ML researchers can sign up. Suddenly you can't effectively do ML without working with the union.

Companies with people like that keep those people under extremely lucrative contracts so its unlikely they would be financially motivated to form such a union. There's also the factor that "what even is the top-20 researchers". In movies you know if you have Brad Pitt or not. But you 100% need as many top people as possible to somehow become union-minded. I'd hope that this group of Google workers grows quickly. Its great that they've voted to form.

Note of course I'm just spitballing here and am not at all an expert in labor relations or how unions really form or work. Maybe it didn't go like that. Here's an interesting article thats paywalled, but it at least describes an early unionization and then a big back and forth struggle. It would behoove us all to understand how the labor movement of the 1890s to 1960s came about, because it would appear we are just about to enter such a period.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815030?seq=1
Only if you think the doctors' decision, right now, is broadly generalizable to the entire population at the moment the vaccine is available to them. To me, this is a massive leap.

Broadly, however, you are right: we should be (and are!) studying vaccine uptake. It is not a wise decision to put much weight on the doctor data, as it's not been shown to be generalizable.
Not that I've been able to discern. But why live in a world of ambiguity when you can blame everything you don't like on a central antagonist'
For real. I've been wishing for such a format for years. Now if I find myself applying for jobs, I can sneer derisively at places that don't support any of these, and then grudgingly apply for them manually anyway.
The thought of a ZX81-based server getting hammered by HN frontpage…
Democracy is the worst form of government there is, except for all the others. -- Winston Churchill.

I may be factually wrong, but I hear that Singapore is/was somewhat autocratic. However, the government was competent and honest, avoiding things like nepotism and suchlike. The result of all this is that starting from the mid-20th century, it grew from one of the poorest nations on earth to one of the richest. All this as a small island country that even has to import its own water.

China is basically a giant kleptocracy. My dad is fond of China, but I am hesitant. China is so corrupt that it's hard for good things to come from it. I guess it is slowly industrialising and getting better, but it seems to be labouring under a heavy burden.

I have long been suspicious that the Chinese economy would collapse. My theory is that it produces returns below the cost of capital. That's why we've seen movement in production from places like America to China.

My argument is that you produce wealth by creating returns that are in excess of the cost of capital. You destroy it if it's the reverse. So we could find out that America has actually done the right thing by letting China do the manufacturing.

That's all just my theory, though. I've been thinking like this since the 90's. So far, I've been shown to be resoundingly completely wrong (at least as it appears on the surface. Will I have been proven to be very wrong until I'm proven very right, or is the whole thing just a completely invalid theory on my part).
Another good article about dithering algorithms is https://www.freesion.com/article/3406137250/. It goes through most of the matrix-based dithering algorithms, including the more obscure ones.
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