skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haekka | Full time or Contract | REMOTE | Growth | http://www.haekka.com/

We're hiring a Head of Growth at Haekka. We work similar to Gumroad in that we don't typically hire FTEs or force people to sit in hours of meetings every week. We are considering an FTE for this role, but would prefer contract.

As far as what we do. Essentially we're reinventing Security Awareness Training (SAT). If you've ever taken SAT from one of the big players you'll know it's god awful. Both in terms of content quality and delivery. What we're building is almost a "headless" SAT LMS of sorts. We believe SAT content should be sent within the context of work. We're starting with Slack, quickly moving to web and Teams, eventually building out SMS, and an API.

More information on the job here → https://docs.haekka.com/Head-of-Growth-a217cf20bf6145819b5d3...
Ah yes interesting point. Obviously TSMC and the Taiwanese government want to maintain their quasi monopoly for economic reasons. But there is also a military component: is Taiwan still worth fighting over?
Following. This is something I've been thinking a lot about with WeBase (see https://www.webase.com)
These are all valid arguments in the extreme. As are all arguments about inflation in the extreme.

There is actually no difference between inflation and deflation. For every inflationary asset basis, there is a deflationary asset basis. Flip bread/money in your own text and you see the problem.

The only difference is taxes. Tax basis could be anything. Let’s say, SHA-256 hashes. Every year, the hash value of your dollar investment account quadruples. You need to pay for half of those gains, or else you go to jail, and if you resist, you can be legally killed. The price of food and shelter is irrelevant to me. Pay me. Can’t? Okay, we’ll collect tax in Bitcoin, but we’ll have to raise the tax rate to 90%. We can go back and forth on this as much as you want. In the end, I guarantee the guy with the legal right to kill you ends up owning everything.

In conclusion: inflation and deflation are both the same thing, and they both suck.
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Consumer AI/NLP Startup | San Francisco | ONSITE

Hebbia.AI is building productivity tools that allow you to work 80% faster. http://hebbia.ai/

TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2020/10/28/hebbia-wants-to-make-ctrl-f...

We just raised a ~$4MM seed from Floodgate, Peter Thiel, and Naval, and are looking to scale our team of deeply passionate Stanford PhDs and engineers! Huge equity upside.
- Software Engineers (web devs, all levels) - Backend, Frontend
- Machine Learning Engineers

Please reach out via george (at) hebbia.ai!
I'm not very experienced as a founder, but I put very low weight in audiences on sites like indie-hackers, r/startups, HN, product-hunt... it's a very specific kind of person who hang out there – mostly just tech and growth folks, and super-gung-ho-early-adopter types, who are a poor substitue for actual long-term customers

I would say FB groups, subreddits, meetups around your potential customers' industry are a much better start.
Gametime | San Francisco, Portland, Remote (US only) | https://gametime.co

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Our team is on a mission to connect people through incredible shared experiences. We build technology that gets people out into the real world to enjoy their favorite events at a moment's notice.

With live events returning, our team has been busy and we are growing again. Come join us!

We are hiring across the board (Frontend, Backend and Data engineers). Our stack is mostly Go in the backend microservices and the frontend is built around React/Redux

Check out our careers page for more information: https://jobs.lever.co/gametime if you have any specific questions feel free to reach out to me: bigo@<our domain>
I agree with you on a lot of this. Complex (nested) data structures are a real pain in the ass in Perl, especially back in the early 2000s.

However, named parameters have been a thing for ages. It's extremely common to call functions using an anonymous hash like so:

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => 'www.perl.org',
PeerPort => 'http(80)',
Proto => 'tcp');
onXmaps, Inc | Android, iOS, Web| Montana or REMOTE, USA only | https://www.onxmaps.com/careers

ABOUT – onX is a suite of leading off-the-pavement GPS apps empowering millions of users. We bring our devotion to the outdoors to work daily with a singular, powerful goal: to awaken the adventurer inside everyone.

Tech you’ll work with – Go, Elixir, Python, Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, Vue.js, GraphQL, MapBox, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, 3D

Hiring both mid-level and senior engineer for the following roles:

Android Engineer (Kotlin, MVVM) - https://onxmaps.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req...

iOS Engineer (Swift) - https://onxmaps.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req...

Backend Engineer (API, Go, Elixir, GraphQL) - https://onxmaps.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req...

Web Engineer (JavaScript, Vue.js) – https://onxmaps.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req...

General Consideration – https://onxmaps.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req...

Contact: recruitment@onxmaps.com
1)Planning. Choose A Topic. Pick A Co-host.
2)Preparation. Create Cover Art. Get A Professional Intro
Recording & Editing.
3)Alitu (The Easy Way) GarageBand (Free Option)
Launch!
4)Get A Podcast Host.
5)Upload Your First Episode. ...
Recommended Steps (After Starting A Podcast)
6)Create A Website and transcribe podcasts for example with https://audext.com/
Angaza | San Francisco and Nairobi | REMOTE OK | https://www.angaza.com/careers/

Angaza enables life-changing products, such as solar + battery home energy systems, to be sold _on payment plans_ in off-grid regions across Africa and Asia.

We've reached millions of people whose homes now have electricity for the first time:

- https://youtu.be/2EvEeAs_9R4 and https://youtu.be/onMT6_Yv67I

- https://www.angaza.com/category/engineering/

The technology you build will help reach a billion more. We are hiring software engineers and other roles in San Francisco, Nairobi, and remote:

- https://jobs.lever.co/angaza

You can read more about Angaza engineering culture on our Key Values page:

- https://www.keyvalues.com/angaza
In general, don't you want to have a potential customer with a problem first?

It seems like building a product and then trying to find people to validate it is backwards.
Say you have:

public void doSomething(Optional<String> foo) { ... }

You want `foo` to be `Optional.empty()` or `Optional.of("some string")`. The way things currently work, `foo` could also be `null`.
Lots of interesting comments about Perl's shortcomings here. I think it's safe to say both Ruby and Python became popular because they addressed this sentiment -- for instance, type "man ruby" and notice references to Perl twice in the description. Python's "one way to do it" was a direct reaction to Perl's motto "there's more than one way to do it".

Perl 6/Raku was also a response to Perl's shortcomings. The rewrite has allowed the language to leapfrog several other languages in various ways. Without going into details, I'm thinking about just concurrency, gradual typing, parsing, method dispatch, unicode handling -- digging into any one of these topics reveals a lot of richness to be explored.
Nosco | Clojure Web Developer | Remote EU/EEA

NOSCO is a small, successful SaaS company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. We help our clients innovate by offering a well-designed and easy to use web platform for sharing, evaluating and developing ideas, as well as consulting services to help them run successful innovation campaigns.

We are looking for a full stack web developer to join our cross functional team that develops the Nosco Platform. As part of the developer team, you will be working on client-facing features, collaborating with designers, business analysts and customer success representatives.

For more information and how to apply see https://clojureverse.org/t/job-post-nosco-is-hiring-clojure-...
I would say this - 1Password has taken a real dive in quality. If the software was a single upfront cost I'd just shrug it off but the fact that my company is paying to sustain development that's actually ruined the UX for me is quite frustrating.

(Hey 1Password, don't have your "App" open as a little window in the corner of the screen for password entry that instantly closes as soon as I alt-tab anywhere. It takes too many ms for you to render a blank window with a text box to keep my focus on you so I'm going to context switch while you're loading all the libraries you need to support your text box entry form)
MedifriendRx | Remote | Full Time Software Engineer

We have an automated dispensing kiosk for pharmaceuticals that can be placed in healthcare sites and managed by a remote pharmacy. The kiosk can handle dispensing of high-volume medications, as well as act as an interface for handling mail orders and transfers.

--- Tech Stack Details ---

Tech stack is entirely web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript/React/Node). If you can build web apps, you can work here.

Backend: NodeJS with Postgres, hosted on AWS

Kiosk Client: Electron (TypeScript)

Pharmacy Web Portal: JavaScript

Mobile Application: TypeScript PWA

We're looking for a competent engineer who can work on and take ownership over features. An interest in building developer tools and tests is a big plus. Experience writing E2E tests, particularly with Electron, would be even better, although by no means necessary.

Contact: CTO Tomas Savigliano jobs@medifriendrx.com
I think the solution is to make SSN useless for anything. It's ridiculous what can be done with nothing more than what amounts to glorified directory information. Why are SSN targets? Because of what can be done with them. The world should expect SSN to be in the same class as a phone number. Private, but mostly useless. "Oh no... they hacked a database and got a list of phone numbers." Not something you hear very often nor does it really make people squirm.

I think we need something like drivers licenses with public-key crypto. Lost your ID? Go to the police, prove your identity to them and get a new driver's license. If people are worried the masses are too dumb for PKI, then make it opt-in and leave it to advocacy groups to expand utilization.
This appears to be a very new finding. I seem to remember earlier studies suggesting single doses of Moderna/Pfizer were between ~53-70% effective. The number 53 sticks out in my memory for some reason. Could be misremembering though.

Edit: Looks like the earlier results I was thinking of say 52% effectiveness from 1 dose, but that included people who were infected very shortly after the first dose.

> Using the data from the published study of the Pfizer vaccine, Public Health England determined that vaccine efficacy was 89% for 15-21 days after dose 1 – and before dose 2 on day 21. The range was between 52% and 97%.

Source: https://globalbiodefense.com/2021/03/20/how-effective-is-the...
TreeCard | Mobile and Backend Engineers | Full-Time or Contract to Hire | Remote

TreeCard is a debit card which reforests the planet when you spend, backed by Ecosia. We have over 150,000 people on our waiting list, we’ve just closed a $5mn seed, and our ambition is to be the leading green finance brand for the 21st century. By 2026, we aim to have planted 1bn trees.

Hiring for mobile (React Naive) and backend (Go) engineers, please reach out at gary AT treecard.org
For a variation of this technique see this handy privacy-preserving metrics collection golang library that uses DNS: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/choir

Currently used by the Jigsaw group at Google to collect metrics from behind censoring ISPs.
> There are a lot of cancers that grow in the body for a while and then just die off without causing any problems.

Wow, did not know this part! Is this common knowledge? If so, how is "a while" defined? How do we know which ones to just ignore?
I don't know about quality of design. Python's popularity is largely due to how much it dumbs down and being a first mover in the scientific world. Python has no built-in regex support and its crippled lambdas are nothing more than the indulgence of its BDFL who has a bias against functional programming. Compare that with Matz's approach to language design.
Genospace | Full Stack Software Engineer | Full time | Remote (US only)

We are a precision medicine / healthcare software company focused on making high dimensional healthcare data more useful and accessible in research and everyday patient care.

https://www.genospace.com/careers
More like having a meeting with people where the specific interest has a lot to do with the excluded group.

A simple thing is just reverse the position.

Imagine a public meeting by WASPs discussing the (black/Latino/Asian/Jewish) “problem”.

Imagine this being a public meeting by men discussing the “female problem”. There would be massive backlash.

Look at college campuses. Left wing groups do not allow right wing speakers to even “speak to their own”. The disrupt and try to shut them down.

You can’t both fight to prohibit speech you don’t like and then have speech they aren’t likely to like and expect them to be quiet about it.
The article is confusing. It appears they're leveraging implicit information in the spectrum of the light reflected from objects to settle on the object's identity.

Then they're encoding that information using the light spectrum again - but not the same wavelengths or information as they used to detect them in the first place.

So you have two things being run together. One is the identification of objects and the other is the encoding of information about those objects so that a single pixel detector is all that is needed to read what has been encoded.

Leverging the light coming off objects and processing it using diffusion filters to "learn" or "reason" about what the object is is a sort of side channel attack on the problem of object identification wrt to current approaches.

Encoding thngs into a light so only a single pixel is needed to carry information is an encoding trick.

If I misunderstood anything- entirely possible- feel free to correct.
> Ironically, devices which haven't had security fixes in 1 year (thanks for nothing, Sony) will also pass safetynet, and the mentioned apps' vendors will still deem them "secure".

Yeah, that's what always got me - they'll act like rooting your phone or installing a custom ROM makes it "insecure", but then turn around and act like a phone is secure running an arbitrarily old stock ROM that's little more than a pile of known vulnerabilities. I even hit this with a company I worked for - they could not grasp the idea that my phone with a current patch level could possibly be safe, because I had root on it... while seeing no problem with my having root on my company laptop and all of our servers. Yeesh.
I agree with this - for desktop software, a perpetual license and optional annual maintenance is the expected model. Moreover, this seems to me to be a tool you'd use once to create a template, and then your content gets slotted dynamically into.

As some pricing feedback, I'd personally prefer to pay something like $75-85 as a one-time fee, with $20-30 optional maintenance to get access to the latest version and continued support - $20/month is way too high; yes, creating nice emails that work across clients is a PITA, but there are some very popular OSS templates out there that work great.
Most (possibly all?) of the headline figures for how effective Covid vaccines are at preventing disease are based on the number of symptomatic cases, including mild symptoms. So it's not purely measured based on number of positive tests regardless of symptoms, but it's not just severe symptoms either.
Maybe this answer isn't scalable, but I personally find that as long as I want to use it, I can find other people who want to use it.

Typically, posting to reddit and sharing with my friends has been helpful.

Also, I recently started a Twitter to try and meet other builders, it has been invaluable in terms of support and feedback.
Houston is only a "cheap" city if you look at housing costs but not transportation costs. The ridiculous sprawl of Houston increases transportation costs so much that it is actually less affordable than "expensive" cities like New York City.[0][1] This doesn't even take into account the externalities of the higher emissions that come from living in a car-dependent place.

[0] https://htaindex.cnt.org/fact-sheets/?lat=29.7604267&lng=-95...

[1] https://htaindex.cnt.org/fact-sheets/?lat=40.7127753&lng=-74...
Yes, especially when you know its time to abandon a project because it's not getting any traction - after you've been telling everyone about it for months. Should keep in mind nobody else is going to think much about your failed project but you :)
Just make sure the rtl8125b NICs are actually supported by what you want to run; they're relatively new . And poor driver performance will be magnified by the low power CPU at those speeds.

I bought an H2+ sometime last year to use as a router but struggled to get acceptable networking performance, so moved onto something else.
Russian Court Bans JW Library App
The problem is 5ghz has much better bandwidth but less range than 2.4ghz. Also there is more interference these days with everyone having routers.
Anyone that has ever spent time in what I now call 'Cancer Inc.' will know just how absurd that statement was, whihc oddly enough was exactly when I was in it: from Undergrad to working in Diagnostics.

Cancer research is it's own entrenched entity with horrible incentives that promote stagnation and often imbecilic levels of hubris that are at it's core shielded by the general public's ignorance of biological science as well as their nearly child-like level of fantasy of what was possible back then.

As biologists we all had hopes and dreams of pursuing these seemingly insurmountable feats to make a dent in the problem, but as we went through the meat grinders of undergrad, and then the soul-crushing reality of the 'Industry' and its machinations and internal politics from the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex on which it's built on compounded with tons of debt and lowering qualities and standards of living it's no surprise so many biologists ended up quitting life sciences and going into tech--HN revealed to me many things, but also just how common that route is.

My short and sweet: Cancer is inevitable of any multi-celled organism on a long enough timeline and preventative health measures and healthy lifestyles are worth more than anything any Corp will ever sell you--they're unpopular because they require personal effort.

Eating better, sleeping more, and exercising are better alternatives but rquire effort and possible loss of economic compensation, but if do them and you know that while you are not immune to any malady you are better off than most who are betting on some miracle cure to solve all the health problems they have amassed hoping for a silver bullet.

I'm optimistic about the advances the 21st Century will usher in biology, I think the 21st century will be defined by biology in fact, but it's not something that will be egalitarian nor will it be promoted to most who haven't already have made efforts to take their health serious long ago. Most people don't even know about stem cell therapy besides what a influencer Joe Rogan told them, which is... something but still not even scratching the surface.
Mux (YC W16) | SF, London, REMOTE (US, CAN, and UK) | Full-Time | Elixir, Golang, TypeScript/React | https://mux.com/jobs

Mux is how developers build online video.

With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. You don't have to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings, you just go. And with Mux Data, developers realize incredible insights into how their videos perform from platform to platform, place to place, and user to user.

I'm Ed, and I'm an engineer on the DevEx team here - you might have seen me around HN here and there. ;) This is, and I have to stress that I'm not kidding because everybody says this sort of thing, for real my favorite job that I've ever had. The team here is mind-blowingly smart, there is a real and concerted focus on not just competence but on the human side of things; one of the company's core values is "be human" and I thought it was marketing stuff 'til I joined and learned to my surprise that it is emphatically not. Also? Legit, the best onboarding experience I've ever had. During a pandemic, no less.

The tech stack actually manages to balance cool with useful, too. It's a multi-cloud environment running Kubernetes on AWS and GCP, with Elixir, Golang, and some NodeJS (some JS, mostly TypeScript), plus React and TypeScript for all the usual bells and whistles.

Mux is a good place to be and if video is your bag, or even just sounds interesting, you should check us out. At the moment our hiring is limited to the US, Canada, and the UK. Feel free to email me personally at eropple@mux.com with any questions you've got or head on over to https://mux.com/jobs and check out our openings; we run a pretty standard interview-loop process and I don't feel like we waste candidates' time. Even if you don't see an immediate spot that clicks with you, feel free to reach out anyway; we have a certain facility for finding room for amazing people.
It's not a question of knowing how to build industrial capacity, it is actually building that capacity. Before you can build a fab, you need to build all the machines that go into a fab, and before that all the machines for building those machines, and so on and so forth. 9 women can't make a baby in a month, at some point you come across steps that just take time.
Foucault has had a huge amount of influence, though mostly not in philosophy.

In my experience he's inescapable in the humanities.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Influence_and_...
And allowed adding a file to a zip without needing to copy the whole zip to add header space at the start. A mere optimization today, but absolutely critical when working with floppies.
And it helps in collection efforts in general. There is no benefit to you in divulging it, only potential harm. So don’t do it.
Maybe they can turn it around? Idk. They certainly couldn't improve things quick enough when I was there. The most unfortunate thing is that Lambda is walking away with a tainted reputation.
The greater Racket ecosystem is a very accessible resource.
If your goal is just to get a vaccine passport then J&J will still be the better option until regulators acknowledge that one shot of mRNA is about as good

shrug
For reference - the internal factors post is https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/03/m...
Destruction of forests increased sharply in 2020
The wheel of karma is ever-turning, though [0],[1].

Disclosure: I work for VMware, which sponsors Spring development.

[0] https://spring.io/blog/2021/03/11/announcing-spring-native-b...

[1] https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-fu
I think you'll find a lot of this type of thing in threads like these - the better range of experiences go from "okay" to "pretty nice", but the bad can get very horrible, very fast, and people tend to remember the bad more. Especially if you have to seemingly fight against everyone on a daily basis just to do the basics of your job.