skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft | Sr. Data & Applied Scientist | Bellevue, WA | Full-time

At the Web Data team we're looking for a passionate Applied Scientist to help us on our mission of employing deep learning to understand all the data on the web; the largest store of information in human history. With this understanding we power end-user experiences across a variety of areas, including:
• Relevance of search results on Bing.com
• Question answering
• Recommender systems

As a team, we play a central role in document understanding and aggregation of data across documents leveraging the web graph. Work in our team is unique in that you'll be able to work with trillions of documents, which pushes the boundaries of our infrastructure and computational resources. Moreover, it provides interesting challenges that haven't been encountered before, thereby combining research and product applications.

Examples of our team's work include:
• Revolutionize the field of information retrieval through bridging the gap between end to end dense retrieval and the traditional cascade approach of sparse retrieval with BERT reranking. [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00808.pdf]
• Develop the best technology to bring deep learning solutions to unprecedented scale, for example we built the world's fastest tokenizer. [https://github.com/microsoft/BlingFire]
• Establish new benchmarks for natural language understanding tasks such as key phrase extraction. [https://github.com/microsoft/OpenKP]

We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist with demonstrable skills in information retrieval, deep learning, natural language processing and/or large-scale distributed computing.

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/990004/
Jobber | Remote (Canada) | Full time

Jobber’s field service scheduling software and app is the best way to organize your service business. Quote, schedule, invoice, and get paid—all in one place. Our easy-to-use app powers your sales, operations, and customer service.

We're hiring a variety of engineering roles:

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- Database engineer: https://getjobber.com/careers/database-engineer-5109978002/?...

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The team & company is remote (Canada) and will continue to be so post-covid.

A bit more about the company:
- https://getjobber.com/
- https://getjobber.com/why-jobber/

We also have other open positions on our product team! Apply here!
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Referring to "that" vaccine with Pfizer instead of Biontech is like saying that "Yellow Submarine" is from EMI instead of the Beatles because EMI produced the LPs.
The West should deal diplomatically openly with Taiwan: some limited production creation in EU/US in exchange for international recognition and protection of Taiwan.
Weav (YC W20) | Backend Engineer | Full-time | Remote

At Weav, we’re building a universal API for integrating with businesses’ commerce platforms (e.g. Stripe, Square, Amazon).

Weav makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to share commerce data with fintech companies and financial institutions. This enables these businesses to access new services and financial products that help them grow and succeed.

The company is currently fully remote and our development team is spread across the USA, Canada and Tel Aviv. We use Golang, Python, Docker, MySQL and AWS. We prefer candidates with 2+ years of industry experience.

We are looking for backend engineers who are interested in building a developer-centric product and are curious/excited about supporting the next generation of fintech. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of your work from development to testing to deployment.

We’re growing fast, join us!

Job description: https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/33566
Website: https://www.weav.co

Mention “hackernews” in your application/emails.
Feel free to email me with questions stefan@weav.co
LiveJournal was invite-only for a number of years before Gmail existed for this exact reason - it was growing faster than the server architecture could handle. I wonder if Gmail got the idea from LiveJournal.
Europe saves on shipping from ASML to any fabs on the continent! That's a competitive advantage!

/s
The java ecosystem is very nice. Not necessarily the language itself, but everything else. The jvm, the tools, the libraries are all very mature and good.

Skipping java and instead using Kotlin allows one to reuse all that knowledge in a great language as well.
Your analysis sounds correct.

Kubernetes is great when it's all set up and working properly. The challenge is getting to that point and training enough of your staff to be able to navigate Kubernetes in case someone is on vacation.
Just my 2 cents: I think a lot of the reason why we feel we need to “get” poetry in the first place comes from our education system. When poetry is taught in the classroom, it is always done so under the guise of there being some hidden meaning that, if you are unable to discover, makes reading the poem feel utterly useless.

Fast forward to my university and I was taught something completely different in a creative writing course — poetry is about play. It isn’t about having to inspire some deep meaning. Sometimes it can just be fun to mess around with words in a way that sounds pleasing. As others have mentioned, there’s also this notion pushed in our youth that poetry has to have perfect rhyme, or follow some scheme; but as soon as you realize that isn’t the case, combined with the fact you don’t have to be searching for some obfuscated truth within poems, you start to realize poetry has been marketed as something much different than what it really is.

That’s not to say you can’t search for deep meaning in a poem, or attempt to write something meaningful into one - but really, poetry is about play, and it should be as serious as you want it to be. For me, that realization made me “get” poetry more than I did back in my high school days.
Sounds like they bought first and then tested later. Not a bad strategy for equipment in short supply.
Now we've got Spring, which in my, admittedly limited, experience does a great job of transforming what could have been compile-time errors into run-time errors.
"But if the storm is powerful enough to destroy actual chips and systems it would be very very difficult to recover."

That's not out of the bounds of possibility, during the solar storm of 1859, aka the Carrington event, there were multiple reports of electric sparks coming from telegraph line and terminal equipment and of Morse code operators receiving electric shocks from their keys, etc.

Clearly, modern RFI/EMR shielding would protect much of the susceptible solid-electronics but I'd suggest that with such a high level of induced energy there nevertheless would be huge and widespread destruction of poorly protected/shielded equipment, especially so domestic electronics (which would fall into that category). Moreover, it's likely that most satellites would fail or be severely damaged.

I'm somewhat surprised that I've not yet seen any authoritative modeling of the effect that a solar storm the size of the Carrington event would have on the world's electrical and electronic systems (if anyone knows of any references I'd be grateful if they'd post them here). Perhaps the reason is that if any do exist then they would likely be classified under national security. I suppose that's sort of obvious, isn't it?
yeah, you are totally right, I somehow skipped the CRUD-form requirement.
It’s called the ‘Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine’ in virtually every language and country (see Wikipedia pages per language). Most people outside of Germany just say Pfizer vaccine because it’s a lot shorter and has some preexisting name recognition.

I haven’t even heard people discuss the ‘where’ when getting the vaccine they just want one of the more effective vaccines (be it Moderna or Pfizer- Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca are possibly just as effective but that’s hard to communicate and still being studied).

I think either way is probably fine, both companies are sharing the costs and profits equally.
I'm ignoring Layer 2 because I think it's vaporware. Every time I look for volume numbers they are negligible compared to BTC as a whole.
well everything is a people thing because we’re people. What science offers is proof and data that can be reproduced. So no two scientists bickering is not the same as two theologian.
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- Go / Golang / React / React Native / AWS

- Full market salary + benefits + everyone gets equity

I'm the founder (successfully exited last startup I founded, ex-FAANG team lead, one of the first employees at a previous unicorn) of a startup that connects sales reps together to exchange leads & referrals. You'll be a part of a growing team of a few highly skilled engineers + sales reps and help us build out our features. We're incredibly fast growing for being in beta and just weeks away from fully launching.

Our stack is Golang + grpc microservice architecture but in a monolith repo for ease of deployment. Front-end is React + React Native for app development.

We currently have 3 engineers on our team (two full-time + one contractor), two sales reps (we're hiring for this role too), our COO, and myself.

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> Not to be overly cynical, but are people with low-tier equipment the ones that marketers usually care about?

Yes - they generally are. Sure the newest SV ETL pipeline might be catered towards folks with up-to-date hardware, but most marketing is directed toward having a large reach and you'll find that the distribution of gullible people is pretty even society wide - and so those low performance having folk actually do compose a fair chunk of the intended audience.
Won't this lead to innovation grinding to a halt? Right now TSMC has a decent profit margin to re-invest into newer technologies. If the margins become thinner, the industry will find it difficult to set aside R&D dollars for the newest technologies.

Of course, you can always have a newcomer who can disrupt the market but most Moore's law advancements appear to happen in government funded research labs and large semiconductor companies.
They both look like boring electric razors. The dashboard looks like someone awkwardly bolted not one, but two ipads onto it. Nothing looks like it's actually designed to fit together, it's a clash of styles with no flow.

Gross. Can we just get a normal looking, Corolla-price-range EV for normal people already? I don't give a shit if it only has 50km range and no luxury features whatsoever.
At least with Lombok, I've found it makes builds and tooling flaky, so I'd rather write an extra line here and there (or use Kotlin).
I was thinking about that recently. China can't realistically invade (or intimidate/sanction) Taiwan as long as they are dependent on TSMC, because of those semiconductor manufacturing plants went down, it could be a global economic disaster, and China would be one of the most heavily impacted, given the proportion of everyone's electronics they manufacture.
As someone unfamiliar with C# but interested in how languages impact each-other, could you provide some examples? I know C# was heavily inspired (perhaps not a strong enough word) by Java, but not as familiar with the opposite.

Java does seem to absorb from tried and tested ideas. There are a few major features I can think of that have largely come from or been inspired by popular and mature 3rd party libraries (time, reactive streams and various collection apis come to mind).
Would you please post a link to the mp3?
I totally get why it 'feels' wrong - but what I'm trying to establish is what precisely makes it wrong.

I mean, people hold private meetings with a specific list of invitees all the time around the world, and we don't police peoples' private reasons for who they choose to invite.

To take another example: support groups for women coming out of abusive relationships. Very good reasons to not allow men to attend, no?
It's not a dilemma in my mind. They're free to exclude anyone they want from their private meetings. What is disturbing is that there is a sizeable chunk of the population that thinks this sort of exclusion and bigotry is acceptable and would even vote for parties that seek to have such policies codified into law.

Then again, most of the rest of the world is already okay with plenty of "racism" and discrimination when it comes under the guise of justice, so I'm not hopeful that we'll be seeing the light anytime soon.
SEEKING WORK | Canada (Eastern Time) | Remote first, potential for some time on premise subject to current restrictions

Specialized in turnkey deep learning R&D, focusing on uncertainty quantification and computer vision; flexible across machine learning

I can help with project definition through to execution and synthesis of findings; I generally focus on projects that are looking for a turn-key consulting style solution that includes planning and interpretation of results

I have a combination of deep technical experience and business consulting experience from two unrelated careers

Available as just me or a team, fixed scope or time & materials depending on the requirements

Technologies: Python / Pytorch primarily, but adaptable, hardware / cloud agnostic

Contact me through my site, http://willows.ai or linkedin
Grist Labs | Software Engineer | New York, NY or REMOTE (US) | Full Time | https://www.getgrist.com/jobs-engineer

We are building Grist, the evolution of spreadsheets, an easy-to-use platform for individuals and small businesses to organize their data better.

Grist (https://www.getgrist.com) gives non-technical people the power of a relational database, versatile data layouts, real-time sharing, access control rules, and much more. Our more technical users appreciate Python formulas and API support. On top of all that, Grist is open-source (https://www.getgrist.com/blog).

* Software Engineer: 4+ years of software engineering experience.

* Tech: TypeScript, Node.JS, SQL, Python.

* Fun puzzle: https://bank-puzzle.getgrist.com/ is encouraged as part of the application process. Or apply by emailing your resume to jobs@getgrist.com.
What a nice idea. I mean one could probably automate the button with machine learning (it just needs to look for fish).
But damn, it is wholesome to manually watch and help them.

Here is the link to the live stream with the "door bell" button.

https://visdeurbel.nl/
> Ignoring the ecological problems of Bitcoin won't make them go away.

They said the same thing about anti-war movements, of which Bitcoin is a critical component if you understand what is written in the genesis block.

Why not say the same thing about needless wars in Syria, Iraqm Afghanistan, Yemen etc... Or the horrible state of unemployment benefit scams (in the billions) and the distribution of it which ends up putting people into homelessness due to sheer imncomptence?

You HN's are so toxic about not having made it big with opensource tech disrupting finance that it's just sad now.

It's one thing to say you don't understand it, or that it's not for you because you live in the West but to say it has no intrinsic value and yet every major bank is sending us to new ATHs trying to get shows a clear disconnect from reality.

This is not just sour grapes anymore, this is Trump-supporter levels of delusion.

Get it through your heads: fiat is the problem to most of the World's problems, be it in warfare or environmental to the very notion of the State itself and Bitcoin just solved ~1/2 of the problem.

A part of me knows this has to do more with the fact that most of your careers and perhaps existence itself are not as important as you thought they were if Bitcoin wins, and fiat get devalued into obscurity as you have no other desirable attribute going for you, but you should just hedge your bets and join us.

We have way more things to solve and not enough Human Capital, if it's money you're after than it's going to be lean for you until you can add value to the network, but it can be done. I did it and so many others have to.

And I personally didn't even know how to code when I first heard about it 2010 when it was all just programmers.
Use of blood donors is itself questionable and open to selection bias. Particularly if blood donors were getting free antibody testing and seeing the results, but even if they weren't. The authors seem to only have considered the demographics of the sample selection, and somewhat poorly.
This is why I'm a (classic) liberal - because if liberalism wins, not even its enemies have to be afraid of the outcome.
IMO its just smart in case china tries to annex taiwan or initiates military moves and then we're cut off from semiconductors.
This is the funniest possible take about a platform that sells itself on being a space safe from the 'hallway monitors' of mainstream (and now conventional social) media.

If you weren't already exhausted by this genre from the podcast-wastelands, from the sub-sub-subreddit, and 2^n-chan, and Fox News, now is your chance to get an even more mega megadose of opines and chambered echoes.

Rhymes with "Parler shows us that we can all get along online."

At some point we're going to have to deal emotionally with the fact that we are polarising, not because of 'freedom of speech' (or putative threats to it,) but because of freedom of association --- a freedom that the Internet makes it far easier to indulge.

We are more different from one another now precisely because of Substack and its friends.

That might not even be a bad thing, in the long run, but on the other hand, there is not a-priori reason it would be a good thing, either.

All I can say with certainty is that recent events make me believe that there are diminishing returns and increasing risks associated with this tendency.

And I say this as a (relatively new, but nevertheless excited) substack writer. It's a great product, and it will help me grow my community. It will also help grow many others, including QAnon.
Location: India

Remote: Yes. Preferred.

Technologies/Skills: 9+ years. Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Struts, EXTJS, JQuery, Dojo, Selenium, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, JBoss, Jenkins, AWS, Azure. ECM. SaaS.

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Email - jr2082 @ protonmail . com
> To my knowledge even now you can’t just upload a bundle of .py, .rb or .jar files into a directory hosted by Apache and go.

Doesn't that just depend on Apache settings? You can set up Apache to serve all requests ending in .py as CGI. As long as these scripts emit HTML the situation is the same as PHP.
It can't really be called the spiritual successor of the Nokia N900 if it runs Android. What made the N900 special wasn't just the hardware, it was also that it was running a traditional Linux environment, which means you could use that physical keyboard for all the hacking you can do on your desktop computer.
> Will we have horror movies based on Internet and IoTs, that would be very exciting.

There’s Demon Seed from 1977, an actual horror movie about too-smart devices.

The concept was then revisited in 1984 as a romantic comedy, “Electric Dreams”.
Sigma announced the new DP Phone camera
No, it's a polygon renderer of some sort. But it is quite restricted. Each "world" is a sphere, and checking again in a youtube video, it looks to me like the sphere has a regular tessellation. It's dynamic though: some of the game mechanics raise or level hills. I'd guess they found a way to special case a lot of the rasterization given the spherical restriction. Kinda like how Descent based everything off intersections of a unit cube.
If I interpret this correctly, the fish don't hit the doorbell -- human bystanders see fish and use their mobile devices to hit the doorbell.

There's probably a solution that could detect the fish without human intervention, but it seems like one of the points is to help the citizens engage more an build awareness of the human/wild-life interaction.
A year is not nearly enough time to spin up a new fab. It is impossible to say with any certainty that TSMC did not respond correctly to a variable that has been known for only a year.
If someone is asking for more information and is willing to learn the details, it's counter-productive to give them a canned answer like "whichever one is available to you". You're encouraging ignorance, not being "rational" as you put it. Lack of transparency is what sows the distrust in the first place. Acting like an elitist by withholding the information because "you're not smart enough to make this decision" is what makes the approach so infantile.
The thing about her using Elementary is that these things haven’t come up in the years she’s been on it. I’m sure I just jinxed it now though.
It's a UX/UI issue, you as a (presumed) tech worker should know better and consider it a working beta, not vaporware. It's there, it works, but most people have not been onboarded.
I would imagine a surrogate market has been made using beer as a form of payment or currency.
At least 98SE did.
I have a system for this.

You have two problems, not one. You need to get useful feedback out of 100pct of people, and you might need more people.

To get useful feedback, distill your potential value proposition to one sentence. If you have multiple ways of saying it, make a couple. But one sentence only and write it down.

When you have someone from the correct category (target market) on the phone, yes, you need a phone or video call, emit the potential value proposition sentence exactly as you have written it, not a word different.

Do not do any extra run up other than hi, how much time do you have, pleased to meet you...

Then, shut up. This is called 'the golden silence' in sales. and write down exactly the first thing they say.

The first thing they say is the truth, and you need to listen to it.

after that, you can try to dive in, and they might say they didn't understand at first, but the reality is people like to please people, and all that subsequent talk is secondary. The first reaction is what you bank on.

When you are going to market, you will put ad money, web site visits, whatever, into a single sentence, and it must resonate. Period. And it must resonate with your target market - you did remember to define your target market and potentially do a value proposition for each. There are a lot of target markets who don't buy the product (investors, influencers), but usually you do that only after you believe you have a thesis and resonating message.
Just this week we also saw data from Pfizer & Moderna mRNA vaccine rollouts to frontline healthcare workers in December (at a time of peak infection and emerging variants) that touted 80% effectiveness after a single dose, 90% after two doses. I'm struggling to find a reason not to interpret that as further evidence that the mRNA vaccines are in fact more effective than the J&J shot.

Medical workers take precautions better than the general public, maybe? But they're also far more exposed.