skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you aren't worried about losing your assets that blockchain is great. You can misplace your key, someone can steal from you, and no one can fix it for you.

Wow, why haven't we moved to this system before now!

There's a reason banks, exchanges, clearing brokers, etc all exist. It might cost money and have redtape up the wazoo but you cannot argue it makes it so you basically don't have to ever worry about a thing with your money/portfolio etc.
Thinking Robots| Mechanical Engineer - Robotics |ONSITE Boston, MA

Thinking Robots Inc. is a bootstrapped startup that develops products to enable natural interactions between humans and robots. We come from a research background and are looking to apply state of the art research to real world applications. Our software enables robots to function as autonomous teammates in social, assistive and healthcare domains. We are beginning to develop a hardware platform to expand the reach of our software products to new domains. We are currently focusing on developing robots for indoor spaces where humans are co-present.

We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer to contribute to the design and development of the hardware and software elements of a mobile robotic platform. We are looking for a candidate with strong rapid prototyping and fabrication skills, as well as familiarity with robotics algorithms and programming. You will oversee the design and fabrication of hardware components, and take part in designing and implementing their accompanying software APIs. You will be involved in the integration of new hardware into existing sensing and control frameworks, and testing systems in real world environments.

https://www.robots.jobs/jobs/mechanical-engineer-robotics-in...
Chris here, from the Opstrace team. As it turns out, it’s just a happy coincidence. When we discovered theirs we fell in love with it as well. They have many different versions of their monster (https://www.scylladb.com/media-kit/)... similarly you’ll see several new versions of our mascot, Tracy the Octopus, over time!
But more profits are a sign that the customers are getting even more benefit! /s :)

I think we could all clean our own elephant's cage every once in a while. Do we, however?

I'm all for wishful thinking but from personal experience, the times when I made significant positive changes in my life, it didn't come from self determination, creativity or passion, it came from having to do it because there was little choice in the matter.

I don't expect companies to operate any differently, the cynic in me would even expect less of them than I do of myself. Given that's the case, I don't expect any company to do cool new things, I expect new people to bring something new to the table and for old curmudgeons to not get in the way too much.

My problem with entities that hold power, is that they just don't want to die. It works out with humans because we have no say in the matter (although, we keep living longer which's a problem :P), but when it comes to organized religions, corporations, political allegiances, superstitions, etc, these old dreadful beasts can last hundreds of years!

We need some brave dragon slayers to combat these creatures but instead we seem to be glorifying all sorts of non-sense and hoping the dragons act in benevolent manner instead of hoarding ever-more gold to sleep on top of. Perhaps our culture itself has become a monster of sorts and needs an update :)
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Savvy is modernizing the credit system for housing, starting with tenant screening. We help renters save time during the application process and offer operators highly vetted applications with verified financials.

The rental process is broken - paperwork, delays, wasted time. We make it easier for everyone by moving the rental process online, standardizing rental applications, and eliminating paperwork by retrieving users' bank data automatically. Once someone applies to one apartment, they can apply to others with a single click. They can also easily qualify for other financial products (renters' insurance, credit cards, etc.) using their Savvy application.

We're looking for an engineer with previous early stage experience who wants to join an ambitious company.

Remote OK in USA and Canada.

Tech stack: GCP, Postgres, TypeScript, Node.js, React

https://angel.co/company/savvyscreen/jobs/886044-senior-soft...

Mention HN in your application.
macOS Big Sur 11.2 Update (20D64) Is Live! What’s New?
'When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...
Some programs have warts before the first line of code is written.
Ford can't seem to figure out that their infotainment is a buggy mess because they insist on developing it in house and they are completely incapable of developing quality software.

The last time Sync was good was when Microsoft handled the full stack. As soon as Ford decided to put their own software on top of Windows Automotive (MyFord Touch) was when it all fell apart.
In Islamic societies, men having multiple wives was quite rare, with the vast majority of marriages being monogamous.

It wasn't driven by having less men. It was driven by the upper class wanting more sex.

It also turned out to be disastrous for society, and most of the Islamic world has outlawed or severly restricted the practice as it leads to huge social problems.

The fact is that war has never been a large driver of casualties in these societies, outside of WW1 and WW2 which are the two exceptions and really don't prove your point. Wars were never fought to protect women, and most men died of disease and accidents, not war.
I had the same reaction.

I'm not sure, it sounds like the government usually is against such displays, but in the fervent of the Victory Day, they simply allowed the displays to stand without interference?
At least it’s a start.
While I appreciate the effort, I stopped reading at "quitting my job at Google".

People starting a business after working a few years for a FAANGish company are like people with rich parents. They begin their startup journey with much more than the rest of us.

--edit--

Sorry, guess I'm just jealous of people who start with parents/insurance money, FAANG mentoring/compensation, or such.
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VIVA Finance is a FinTech Startup focused on building a more inclusive financial system. We offer fair and affordable personal loans to working Americans using an alternative underwriting model that is based on employment--instead of credit history. Our rates are as much as 35 times lower than traditional lenders, which has fueled extremely high customer satisfaction and explosive growth. At the end of 2020 we closed on a $2.3 million seed round to cover operating expenses and a $15 million facility to fund our loans and are looking to use this capital to grow up to 5x this year. If you are interested in working for a high-growth startup with a strong commitment to positive social impact, we would love to talk to you!

VIVA's Engineering team is looking to hire Full-Stack Software Engineers to help us as we continue to scale. Our website is written with Vue and Tailwind, hosted on AWS with S3 and CloudFront CDN. Our backend is written in NodeJs running on AWS Lambda and orchestrated by the Serverless Framework. We are looking for someone who is interested in working at all layers of the tech stack, be that configuring CSS on the website, adding DevOps functionality to our CICD pipeline, or updating the decision logic for our underwriting model.

If interested in applying or hearing more about the job, reach out to me (Alex, VP of Engineering) with a resume via email: alex@viva-finance.com
Location: Moscow, RU

Remote: Yes (open to visit conferences, meetings, etc.)

Willing to relocate: In future

Technologies: Python, MATLAB, Optimization, Data Science, ML, NN

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/105NZpykkMBw3VfRnH_NLL3fD...

Email: in CV

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Experienced Senior Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Data Science, Neural Networks, Matlab, Data Analysis, and Algorithms of Optimization. Strong engineering professional with a Master's degree focused in Mathematics and Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University) (MIPT).
This one is from October and was fixed as part of a bug bounty. There may be a different mp4 0-day circulating right now however, that is unrelated to this.
This would just return to 2000-esque state of affairs, where the ad model was based on selling page views, clicks or actions.

That model favors small publishers (as niche advertisers flock to niche publications) and disadvantages large generic publishers (social networks, email clients, portals).
As Google Eyes Australia Exit, Microsoft Talks Bing with PM
"This won't allow us to collect new types of information..."

Yeah, just information you've already been shadily collecting.
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Chronosphere is looking for trailblazers who are experts in their space and are passionate about creating meaningful solutions for engineers and digital businesses.

We're hiring a leader - our first Engineering Manager for our M3 team(NYC/Seattle/US Remote).

We're hiring multiple software engineers; Platform Engineers & Backend Engineers.

You'll be working with Matt Mihic, our Global Head of Engineering, who previously led engineering at Okta, Square, and Uber during their early and hyper growth phases. Read more about our team and career opportunities here: https://chronosphere.io/
Not obvious, and probably incorrect.

The immunity induced by the vaccines is said to be potentially more effective and/or longer-lasting than the immunity obtained from a prior infection.

There is also an open question about whether people who are sufficiently immune from prior infection that they won't get serious symptoms are still able to pass the virus to others during a "fighting it off again successfully" phase.

Immunity is not a simple yes-no boolean. It's not even a single variable, because there are different parts of the immune system memory.
> Why your existing bubblewrap/flatpak-spawn/bash-wrapper works only okay, and why Bedrock might be a possible improvement?

One thing is managing all the /bin links and taking care of all the directory mappings that are needed. Say env-A calls gcc which is installed in env-B: First, env-A needs a wrapper for all gcc packaged binaries - and those wrappers need to ensure the current directory stays the current directory, /bin and /lib become merges of env-A/env-B, etc. It gets hairy and I'm not sure what's even needed - I haven't done something this complex.

I think I read bedrock has fuse for managing links which seems like the level of complexity that's needed.

Also managing fonts is something I haven't looked at. And I'm sure there are more things.

- Why you don't want to use Bedrock Linux as your distro?

Because it makes things more complex. I expect things will break and reasoning about security will be more difficult.

My ideal setup is a base system which is fairly minimal, but handles boot, init and kernels for sure. And then isolated packages on top (docker, flatpak, nix, homebrew, distro-chroots) which do integrate with each other when needed.
" it costs less to help people that abuse drugs "

Even less if you leave the people who use drugs alone in their pleasures!
> Germany is more than able to protect itself against Russia.

Germany only have ~300 tanks.

It is not by any stretch of imagination.
Read the Docs | Frontend & DevRel | Remote (UTC-8 through UTC+2)

Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org/) is hiring for 2 positions to help us complete the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science grant we were awarded for 2021. All roles fully remote, and flexible from 3-5 days a week. This is a chance to have meaningful impact on OSS for science.

We're hiring a frontend dev with design skills. We're building a JS client for embedding docs, and you'll be the primary person on that project. There's also other design & UX improvements with RTD itself that will help users.

-> https://blog.readthedocs.com/job-frontend/

We're also hiring a developer advocate with docs skills. Interviewing the scientific software community to understand their documentation needs, then building & promoting tutorials & resources to improve documentation in that ecosystem.

-> https://blog.readthedocs.com/job-devrel/
I have literally never looked up these numbers before, so it's entirely possible I messed it up. But I think you might be missing a conversion factor, as it appears that tankers quote liquid volume, while pipelines quote gas (at 1 atm I presume). With that it becomes 2 ships/day, which could be in the ballpark.
Just getting a rough idea here: 10cm gsd at 200km elev with 500nm wavelength requires a 1m aperture to hit the diffraction limit. If you use 40dbi phased arrays at 100W you get -40dbm at the receiver and hit the noise floor at about 100gbps, which is 40km2 of raw photos per second of downlink. So i guess it’s not whole earth observation, but definitely a lot of capability for pre-tasked observation. But then we have to ask, why satellites rather than aerial drones? A satellite is on a relatively fixed trajectory that hits any given target for 11 minutes of every 90, and the same with the ground station if you’re lucky enough to have both on the same trajectory. What is the use case where this is cheaper or superior (aside from no-fly zones)?
mod_xyz plugins were deprecated long ago because they are unstable. If you do a comparison you should compare fastcgi versus fastcgi, that is the standard way to run web applications. Running with mod should be faster because it's running the interpreter directly into the apache process but it's also making apache unstable.

mod_python was abandoned around a decade ago. It's crashing on python 2.7.

mod_perl was dropped in 2012 with the release of apache 2.4. It was kicked out of the project but continues to exist as a separate project (not sure if it works at all).
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Remote: Yes;
Willing to relocate: Yes - US

Technologies: Java, Python, C++, Bash Shell Scripting, JavaScript, Node.js, RESTful API, JSON, YAML, React, HTML5, CSS, ES6, Amazon Web Services, CircleCI, Postman, AWS CLI, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, JIRA, Amazon SES, Route 53, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, IAM, MySQL, DynamoDB, Salesforce Lightning

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Software developer with 2.5 years of industrial experience and over 8 years of programming experience with Bachelors in Computer Science and Masters majoring in Software Engineering. Looking to join impact and mission driven company solving hard problems. Seeking full time frontend/backend/full-stack/devops roles.
> We need to encourage open-mindedness and independent thinking.

"The Cult of Best practice" is just a symptom of mental laziness. You should understand why you're doing something while you do it. This doesn't come with experience (i.e. years in the industry), it comes with practice.
We appreciate you bringing this up - we’re acutely aware of the privacy implications and potential for abuse/misuse. There isn’t a straightforward or easy answer to this, but we want to be ahead of the curve and not repeat the mistakes that other companies have made in the past. We expect this to be an on-going, evolving issue over time, but also something we want to start thinking about from day one. As far as practical steps, we’ll be approving new customers on a case-by-case basis, building our robust internal tools to find bad actors, as well as the obvious measures of adding punitive clauses to our terms and conditions.
We know that’s not enough and we’d love to hear any other ideas folks have on this. The positive applications related to climate and human rights issues are exciting, but we realize we have to properly address privacy and misuse prevention before we can start to open those former conversations. In terms of personal privacy, 10cm resolution does enable one to identify a person (you can detect people in good sun conditions, but not identify).
I didn't know this exists, thank you!
A new emulator of atomic nuclei can solve 20 years of calculus in 1 hour
I think a better question is do you have to be productive and focused all the time?

I'm in my late 30s and I've found you need to embrace the non-productive periods of time as part of life. It's impossible to maintain the same pace forever. The energy you have will rise and fall with how life is going.

It's ok not to be ok right now.
Compass (Real Estate Tech Unicorn / Brokerage) is hiring, largely mid-career and up, across engineering, but also design, product, TPMs, etc.

https://www.compass.com/careers/jobs - All jobs are now remote-friendly, with major engineering hubs in NY, Seattle, DC, India.

The CRM team in particular is looking to hire 20+ people this year. CRM is the hub of an agent's business - helping drive more repeat and referral business by nurturing their professional relationships, leveraging leads and data from other Compass tools, keeping agents organized, providing impactful communication mechanisms, and identifying opportunities with AI.

* Tech: Rails, Golang, React, Typescript, Kafka, Postgres, Elasticsearch

CRM roles:

* Frontend Engineer - https://www.compass.com/careers/?gh_jid=2619859

* Senior Engineer - https://www.compass.com/careers/?gh_jid=2619639

* Staff Backend Engineer - https://www.compass.com/careers/?gh_jid=2618926

* Sr QA Engineer - https://www.compass.com/careers/?gh_jid=2619012

* Sr Eng Manager - https://www.compass.com/careers/?gh_jid=2618852
The english and the chinese want a word with you about that opium experiment they had running for a long time over there.
Hi, this is Nick Parker from the Opstrace team. I personally have my own on-prem arm64/amd64 K3s cluster, including a basic 4-node Minio deployment, so I’m very interested in getting local deployment up and running myself. We’re a small team and we’ve been focusing on getting a couple well-defined use-cases in order before adding support for running Opstrace in custom and on-prem environments. It turns into a bit of a combinatorial explosion in terms of supporting all the possibilities. But we definitely want to support deploying to custom infrastructure eventually.
Safely restructure your codebase with Dependency Graphs
ESP32 Silicon Tear Down
Hm, rack mounted fiberchannel drive enclosures exist (~$100 used on fleabay, usually sans disk trays), but that'd require a fiberchannel card in your server, direct attach copper (or fiber) cabling, and driver finagling.
Sometimes I read comments fist so some context not in title:

> FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Right, psychedelics are really promising as a treatment.

Which I think makes it criminal that psychedelics are criminal.
I'd rather bing than google. Lower quality results but your privacy is protected. DuckDuckGo too if you want to sacrifice quality even more.
http://archive.is/cll8k
If the company is public, multiply that by 10.
Databricks is an RDBMS
Their way of placating the vocal minority is the Community portal, where those who are passionate enough to express ideas to improve Spotify (in a way that is useful for the users, and not necessarily for Spotify) are given a place to discuss their ideas and are promptly ignored.
Cycle of binge and abstinence lowers ability to control alcohol use
I wondered what those options are. The other comment mention SIMD is interesting. Thanks :)
Hey, I think this might be the coolest product intro I've read.

My two points - right now docs are clearly targeting users familiar with the competition but for someone like me who does not know similar products, a 'how it works' section with examples would be awesome.

Fingers crossed!
Companies obsess about these metrics because they don't want their ROI to be less than their competitors', because that would put them at a competitive disadvantage. It's not in doubt that individual-targeted advertising is more effective than than the alternatives; by eliminating user tracking you would be decreasing ROI across the board, but that's fine because, again, all that you're fighting for is a higher ROI than your competitors. And to reiterate, it's not like consumer dollars are just vanishing into the ether; every dollar a consumer makes either gets spent or saved, and regardless of the ROI of a specific ad campaign they've still got to buy dish soap or diapers or what have you. Just because advertising ROI drops does not mean that the company revenue/profit will drop; if it did, that probably means another company has better ROI (and if they can do so, and as long as they're not tracking users, then good for them!).
Finding real-world kernel subsystems
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Fantastic point! We're emphasizing the whip-out-your-credit-card-to-pay model as a departure from the existing industry sales cycle, but we don't expect this to be the only pricing mechanism customers would like.

On the AWS topic, we've similarly seen a good amount of reception around a credits-based system.

> Pay attention to pricing your product in a way that enables your customers to buy it!

You're absolutely correct and thank you for the feedback!