skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t remember hearing of any actual data breaches, so if your question was supposed to be confined to that area, point taken.

“selling your attention to advertisers not the data”

That’s a fair point as well. (I’m the last person to complain about being pedantic.)
Multicast is used in this scenario because it is cheaper than establishing a TCP connection to 100 devices just to transfer the same packets to each of them separately.

By using multicast, the device playing the music can simply subscribe to the transmission and passively listen in.
> I know the "correct" answer is "whichever one is available to you", but let's pretend we're free-agent adults here and put the infantile answers aside for a moment.

The way this sentence is worded negatively affects the way the rest of your comment is read. You would have created a better foundation for discussion (I believe/hope) if you had removed all the snark:

"I know the answer is 'whichever one is available to you', but lets put that aside for a moment."
Location:Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Prefer remote

Technologies: Proficient in Python, Julia, JavaScript, Cython, statsmodels, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch, Flux, NLP, Object Detection, Time Series, Genomics, Transcriptomics Azure, Google Cloud, WDL, Apache Airflow, Django, SQL, Linux/Bash

Résumé/CV: 3-4 years of data science experience in the field of bioinformatics (Available upon request)

Email: biodatascientist@gmail.com

Mainly interested in senior data science positions. Im fine with working in most domains (retail, biology, chemistry)
Can you say more about what you think the implications of offering the control group vaccinations are? My prior assumption would be that protecting the control group would cause the study to underestimate the effectiveness of the vaccine since it now looks comparatively more similar to the control.
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I concur. My English is pretty good, but to fully master these naming conventions, one needs to major in English.

For Christ's sake, I keep forgetting what "croak" and "cluck" even are in, you know, normal language usage.
If curious, past threads:

The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799831 - July 2020 (41 comments)

Frink Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22523362 - March 2020 (7 comments)

Frink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669195 - Nov 2019 (16 comments)

Frink data file for non-changing units (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20322262 - July 2019 (2 comments)

Frink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745726 - Aug 2018 (62 comments)

Frink – A practical calculating tool and programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825366 - Oct 2016 (24 comments)

The Frink programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893319 - Jan 2015 (11 comments)

Fart joke myth busted using Frink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543428 - July 2010 (22 comments)

The Frink programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541452 - July 2010 (10 comments)

Frink: a JVM language for doing unusual but precise conversions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292985 - Sept 2008 (1 comment)

Others?
Webaverse | Building the metaverse | Remote | Full-stack Software Engineer

Webaverse (https://webaverse.com/) brings virtual worlds together with fun digital objects (NFTs) on Ethereum. We have raised a seed round and are looking for gamedev-minded web hackers.

We are a small team of hackers and artists, looking for full-time engineers who: - Have strong web engineering (JS, profiling, optimization) - Have experience/interest in Ethereum/Web3 - Understand WebGL/WebGPU shaders + rendering pipelines - Can grok networked objects - Like video games and memes

Technologies we use: Ethereum, IPFS, Three.js, AWS, Node.js, React, Next.js, WebRTC

You'll be working with the founders on the hardest and most valuable interoperability problems in game development. https://webaverse.com/hiring
What is the distribution of education-level of workers at a typical fab? Is it like 90% researchers, or more like 90% production workers?
Here's some tips that have made my life easier when working on my own podcast (https://soundcloud.com/inpatientradio)

1. Don't get a pricey Blue Yeti mic or other USB mic. Phantom powered studio mics are the way to go. I like the MXL V63M. I run that using a MobilePre Interface. Get a pop filter, too.

2. Invest in good recording software. It'll make editing and cleaning up the sound A LOT easier. My earlier episodes are pretty lo-fi because I used a USB mic and Audacity. Currently I like Adobe Audition but there are other tools.

3. Soundcloud is a pretty good platform and I get lots of organic listens from them. I'm sure there are services which you can use to bundle releases to e.g. Apple Music, Spotify, etc.

4. Nail down a note system that works for you. I usually just have a huge google doc open with tons of notes, info, sources, and quotes. The really important stuff I bold and highlight and then I have little references and riffs relating to that bulleted beneath. Once you get into the rhythm of your show and what points you want to hit, you'll find a groove that works for you.

5. Do not take yourself so seriously. You can be authoritative and knowledgeable, but I've found that podcasts really thrive when they have a casual, conversational vibe
Why humor them? Their "Plain stupidity" comment without offering anything resembling reason shows they will not respond to reason. Don't encourage the Twitterification of Hacker News.
Credit Key | Full Stack Developer | Los Angeles, CA | Full time | Remote | https://www.creditkey.com/job/full-stack-developer

Credit Key is hiring for a Full Stack Developer. We’re a fast-growing company providing an instant B2B Point-of-Sale financing payment option. We work with Rails, Node, React, Redux, AWS, MongoDB, SQL Lite and more.

We're at a pivotal stage in the company's growth, where we will be making key decisions on platform, data and analytics. We're a Rails backend today, but that may be changing and you would be a part of that conversation and decision process.

We have a great team of humble, supportive and experienced developers and we emphasize quality of life and healthy processes.

Our interview process is very relaxed, we try to eliminate tests and code challenges and just focus on conversation that gets at your experience and thoughts on software development.

This role is 100% remote in the US. I’m the hiring manager, so you can reach out directly to me if you’re interested or know someone that might be: egoodman @creditkey.com
Toucan (https://toucan.events) | Frontend Engineer | FT | Remote

Toucan is a year-old, post-COVID virtual gatherings platform that makes mingling at an online happy hour as easy as circulating around a physical room or just standing around with a drink and waiting for folks to come to you.

The role: Frontend engineer interested or experienced in React, TypeScript, real-time servers, REST APIs, websockets, and audio/video streaming. Experience/interest in Node.js, [No]SQL, and the AWS platform is certainly welcome. Self-starter who enjoys working in a small (very) distributed team, can design and implement solutions to unusual and complex problems, as well as troubleshoot, identify, and resolve product issues.

The core UI stack is React/TypeScript and Tailwind CSS in conjunction with a homegrown library for rendering OO HTML5-based sprites.

Note: our interview process largely consists of a small programming assignment with a 48-hour deadline, and the discussion around the solution. To apply, please send a note to andrei@toucan.events.
I forget where I saw it, but it said that the biggest predictor of whether or not you'll get cancer is time. The longer you live, the greater the chance you'll get cancer.
I think you have that backwards. Wikipedia is random access to information. Clubhouse is serialized access to random signal that may or may not contain information at the time you access it.
I'm just going to put out there that to my mom, priorities are different. She'll absolutely prefer a video/phone call and visit to me just solving her problem.
Released the game on April 1. A game about a ship in the Suez Canal
Try to pass the Suez Canal and not to destroy the world economy
Location: SF Bay (San Jose)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (* possibly Austin)
Technologies:
• Javascript / Typescript (Node, deno, VueJS / React)
• Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit), Lua, Perl
• Go, Kotlin
• ObjC / Swift / SwiftUI
• Tensorflow, Pytorch, CoreML
• OpenCV
• Google Cloud, Docker
• HTML, SCSS, Webpack, yarn/npm, git
• Sketch, Figma, Framer Adobe Creative, Screenflow
• Maya, Autodesk, Blender
• ... (many others)
Resume/CV: https://angel.co/u/tzmartin
Email: dragonzawn@gmail.com

Hi. I'm a full-stack engineer and product designer looking to build and/or lead a product team. Open to joining a startup (seed or A) working on greenfield problems. I write code as needed and work like superglue.

Connect with me on AngelList or email. Open to contract or FTE.

Thanks!
I worked at home through three kids, birth through college. Try again.
As someone who has been through the creation and maintenance of an in house email design system and builder, I’ll leave this link here: https://litmus.com/community/discussions/4990-outlook-2016-1...

It is the latest of many issues we’re facing caused by the despicable lack of consistency, especially in Microsoft’s email clients.

As for an email designing software, what my organization needed was a set of predesigned components with predefined variations - to form a somewhat flexible but disciplined email design system.

A design studio wouldn’t really work for us- the same way a website CMS should not allow complete freedom to its editors. Design decisions should be separate from content decisions.
Bitcoins isn't a security issuance. Just like the SEC can't regulate the trade on a lot of speculative investment goods like collectible items.

The SEC can't regulate Bitcoin out of existence. A government can make using Bitcoin for payment purposes, even mining, to some extent, illegal. That wouldn't extinguish any cryptocurrency, but it could squeeze them to a fraction of their former value or relevance.
It would be nice if they reported on the reasons given in support of the claims instead of just the claims on their own.
If you work with a broad range of their softwares (ps/ai/ae/premiere power user here) the subscription system is awesome. Ends up being cheaper than buying it used to be & much less upfront costs for the business.

They could do better on many aspects but it's nowhere near "shitty".
The solution we have is quite complex, as it also includes a builder where client can drag-drop blocks to create template (with text variables) for mailings.

Mustache is used for color/font substitutions and also for text variable (like $recipient_name) substitutions.

So: JSON representation of an email -> HTML+Mustache -> HTML+Mustache (only variables) -> HTML

For (live during email building) previews we skip the last step and show the Mustache syntax.
bit.io, inc | Multiple Positions | Remote | https://bit.io

bit.io’s mission is to make data scientists and software engineers immediately productive, to remove obstacles to using data, and to make data more accessible. Join us in building a shareable cloud database where users can share their data with anyone in seconds just like a Google doc, query their data without worrying about compute or memory, and combine their data with a growing collection of immediately use-able open data. bit.io is transforming data in the same way GitHub transformed software and open source.

We're a seed-stage, well funded startup, 8 people right now and have just entered beta. We've solving hard problems in the database space and in the UX space, and we've got some really interesting engineering, data science, and special projects positions open.

Find out more about our open positions https://bit.io/jobs?hn

Feel free to reach me on here or adam at bit.io - I'm the CEO & Co-Founder.
Roblox | San Mateo, CA | Full Time | REMOTE through August 2021 -> ONSITE (pending safety protocols) September 2021

Roblox is ushering in the next generation of entertainment, allowing people to imagine, create, and play together in immersive, user-generated worlds. We are recruiting across multiple teams and positions. We are actively hiring and all interviews are currently done via phone & Zoom. Our top priority roles are: - Technical Artist: 5+ years exp.; Proficient in C++, Lua, Python and/or JavaScript

- Senior Frontend Engineer: 5+ years exp. JavaScript, React and Redux

- Senior Backend Web Engineer: 5+ years exp.; C#, Java; experience dealing with complex large scale systems

- C++ / Lua Engineer: 3-5 years exp.; Proficient in C++; Experience with Lua preferred

- C++ / UI Engineer: 3-5+ years exp.; Proficient in C++; Experience with building very complex end user applications

- C++ 3D Modeling Engineer: 3-5+ years exp.; Proficient in C++ (and/or Python); focus on 3D APIs

- Sr. Software Engineer - Cache Infrastructure: Building large distributed systems, on-demand deployment of large-scale Redis and Memcached clusters; C#, Go, Rust, Docker, Hashistack’s Consul, Vault & Nomad

- Data Engineer: 3+ years exp.; Expert with Java and Go; Custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance

- Tech Lead/Engineering Manager: 3-5+ years exp. leading projects and/or teams; Proficient in C++ (and/or Python); focus on growing and mentoring teams

- Principal Software Engineer, Growth: 7+ yrs exp.; FE/BE, Java, GO, Python, architect-level, Tech lead/leadership experience

- Principal ML Engineer, Bots & Spam: 8+ yrs exp.; ML, Python, SQL, leadership skills, etc.; Bots, Spam, fraud, security experience a plus.

- Senior SREs - Orchestration Systems: 5+ years exp.; SysAdmin or SWE heavy OK; Building, scaling, and improving Consul, Vault, and Nomad in a hybrid cloud with focus on bare metal. Chef, Terraform, Containers, Python, Ruby, Go, etc.

Please reach out to "efife at roblox.com" and mention this Hacker News post. Or, to find more information, see our full list of open positions, and apply, please visit: https://corp.roblox.com/careers/
why is our job posting being downvoted?
I think it's important to note here that you need to start your thinking or design from the simplest possible solution, but that doesn't mean it always makes sense to actually implememt that solution.
I would ask the doctor and not trust my ignorance (as a non-medical professional) to provide me the answer. Everything being equal? I'm taking the shot that doesn't require me to come back for a second.
> Is there any realistic way to compare which of the vaccine selections available in the USA is better given certain conditions?

No. Because the trails were structured differently and measured different things and there is little interest in doing studies comparing the options rather than just administering them to as many people as possible.
Show HN: A no-code chart builder
Ox (formerly Oculogx) | Android (Java), DevOps, Full Stack | Full-time | REMOTE (US time zones) | https://getox.com

We are looking for an Android Software Engineer to join our team as we grow to meet the rising demand from our corporate partners. An ideal candidate has experience working on all aspects of building Android Applications, from building rich user interfaces to integrating with external APIs. We’re looking for someone who is excited about developing on and deploying with emerging Android interfaces like smart glasses.

Ox is Enterprise Retail's leading fulfillment platform. Ox leverages the power of machine learning to automate manual back-office fulfillment processes. Our platform also delivers an efficient and accurate user experience through augmented reality that empowers warehouse and retail associates to do more. Ox is recognized as one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive companies in the Enterprise Supply Chain Tech industry. We’re open to remote candidates and looking for amazing, motivated people who will help us improve lives and invent a better way for Ox. Come along for the ride!

Please apply at: https://jobs.lever.co/getox
Show HN: Map based website to book vaccines in CA
This is interesting. Anecdotally, I notice that all of the trailer parks in the Bay Area seem to be 55+ communities.
A colleague of mine has built this website to help book covid vaccines.
But the problem with relying on tracking pixels to flag whether a message is read is that not everyone loads them.

I've had my mail clients (and Gmail) set for years to not load external images, and occasionally get "we notice you haven't been reading our messages so we're going to stop sending them to you" emails from mailing lists that I do actually read.
Coreweave | Various Engineering Roles | Full-Time | New Jersey - all positions Remote [US Only].

CoreWeave is a modern cloud infrastructure empowering VFX agencies, ML/AI/NN engineering companies and Pixel Streamers with access to GPU resources they need to work more efficiently.

We've got a variety of engineering roles that we're looking to fill:

- Creative Technologist
- Rendering Solutions Engineer
- Unreal Engine Developer
- Machine Learning Operations
- Senior Backend Developer
- Virtualized Infrastructure Engineer

Our stack includes:

- Ruby, JS, Python, Go, Bash, and/or typescript
- React, Rails, Node, Express
DCC plugin development in MaxScript, MEL, bpy, Python, C++
- Kubernetes internals, such as scheduling and CNIs
- Machine Learning pipelines

All positions can be based in the NYC area or fully remote within the US. Experience with VFX companies of ML/AI modeling a big plus.

Learn more and apply here:

https://apply.workable.com/coreweave/
Meetups or facebook groups select people who are into meetups.
Crux: The Strength of the Record
I seem to remember that Magic Carpet was a massive hardware hog and that it ran marginally well on the best you could buy in 1994. That was something like a Pentium 90.
The things that always blows my mind is how every individual piece of code you read has good, clean, well documented, well tested code. But overall it's just a big mess.

Not everything, though. Infrastructure code and libraries are usually very high quality and very nice to work with.
Yes, I can totally believe that, the software itself is actually distributed in a fairly convenient format, given that some of it is only compatible with some obscure RedHat version, so installation amounts to copying files from an iso image and pointing it to a license server. It probably is also easy to patch out the License server code. I would be fairly surprised if those places also had access to current gen PDKs and the required memory compilers. We have to basically order memory blocks by mail and don't get access to the tools to generate them ourselves.
I’m not convinced that UniFi today is in the same league as UniFi two years ago. UniFi Controller 5 worked. Version 6 still wants to kick back to old mode for some tasks, changes its dashboard for no reason (ads?) every month or so, and seems far less reliable. And the actual fancy config remains in JSON, and, to the extent that anything is supported at all, JSON config is definitely not supported.

Oh yeah, UniFi APs seem to need rebooting periodically to keep working well. My old OpenWRT gear was rock solid with a year of uptime.

I’m currently migrating away. I’m sick of it.
Hi HN,

I maintain QuickChart [0], an open-source web service that renders images from Chart.js configs. It is useful to people who are embedding charts in static contexts such as emails or PDFs.

A lot of people from no-code communities have reached out for help with crafting their Chart.js configs. So I decided to make this interactive chart builder that lets you create a chart template and generate dynamic charts from it.

The idea is that you get most of the flexibility of hand-coding a Chart.js config, but adding your data to it from a spreadsheet/airtable/no-code app is as easy as appending a few values to your custom chart endpoint.

[0] https://github.com/typpo/quickchart and https://quickchart.io/
This short video[1] explains it quite well imo. They also make the interesting point that efficacy rates are not comparable because the studies were done at different times/locations with different spread of the virus in the population.

[1]https://youtu.be/K3odScka55A
Are you aware of any studies verifying this hypothesis? Would be very useful in my team’s roadmap.
Did you see where I said that I'm not weighing in on those particulars? That's because I don't consider myself well-informed of the particulars, and I'm trying to address points of genuine curiosity without wading into the minefield. Sorry if that's unsatisfactory
Rapid7 | Software Engineer (Rust, C, C++), security agents | San Francisco | Full-time remote during Covid, onsite after

We have a cloud-based application security system that uses agents at the customer site to send threat detections.

We're looking for someone who will work on our agents for NGINX (Rust, C), Apache (Rust, C), and Envoy (Rust, C++). You'll also contribute to our core security library which is in Rust.

Interested? send your resume to paul_callahan at rapid7.com
The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines seem to have strong evidence of being more protective than other options. The AstraZeneca vaccine has some early evidence of not being protective against the South African variant and has some minor safety concerns around extremely rare blood clotting. As far as I have heard anecdotally, the mRNA vaccines seem to have stronger flu-like symptoms, especially for the second dose.

If you are in the USA you should be able to easily choose between the three approved vaccines, so it is relevant to gather good information, just as you would with any medical decision.
There are some specific treatments for breast cancer with hormones. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer#Hormonal_therapy
This echos nicely the traditional wisdom, also described here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s02.html
A Parametric VM [1] is part of Java's project Valhalla. However, it is currently some releases away.

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/parametric-vm.pdf
Turquoise Health | Software Engineer (Django/Python, Full-stack or Backend) | REMOTE | Full Time

At Turquoise Health, we are working to make US healthcare pricing simpler, more transparent and ultimately lower for everyone. We’ve launched our free consumer website that allows anyone to search and compare healthcare prices, but we have a lot more in the works and we don't make our money selling to consumers. We are currently a team of 5, but we are growing quickly and have good traction in the healthcare industry and we've been featured in the press, including multiple major Wall Street Journal articles reporting on US hospital pricing.

We are looking for a Python Developer to join our engineering team. You would be the first full-time engineering employee and work directly with the founders. You would report directly to the CTO and have a large impact on the growth and direction of the development team.

This is the types of tech you'd be working with:

- Python (latest version), Django 3.x, and a wide range of Python libraries

- SQL databases, specifically Postgresql including features like Full Text Search

- Open source web infrastructure components, like memcached and Redis

- Cloud environments, including AWS and Heroku

- Large data sets and data pipelines, including private healthcare data

- A range of machine learning tools, which we use to process and enhance our data

If that sounds interesting to you and a good match for your experience, please reach out!

More info / Apply here: https://www.notion.so/Full-Stack-Python-Developer-686e020478...

Check us out: https://turquoise.health/
I don't know :) It helps that my background is in engineering, not comp eng, though, I guess.