skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No one in general had ever experienced literally just being in a room with someone completely asymptomatic leading to transmission of a deadly virus.

Anyone have updated data on asymptomatic transmission? I was thinking that wasn't really a thing:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
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Technologies: Python, Tensorflow/Keras/pytorch, spark, AWS, kafka, HDFS, logstash, etc.
A whole host of technologies over 20 year career.

email in profile.

I'm an experienced Data scientist, who's worked on a bunch of interesting projects. With Covid I've come to realize I need to work in public more often. So an ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire problems that need solving.

What sort of problems do I like?

Well a Taxi company in latam hired me to built a fleet maintenance system. It predicted and scheduled preventative maintenance to reduce wear and tear and avoid breakdowns. We also identified the leading cause of wear - leadfoot drivers. So we built a system that would identify aggressive driving.

Another example was a speculative sports highlights annotation system I built with a consultancy.
It ingested sports video and identified predetermined highlights in baseball - diving catches in our case.
The ML pipeline was a CNN model which fed into an RNN. Given a bunch of video clips of diving catches as training data, it could later identify those diving catches and automatically annotate the video feeds.

Who shouldn't contact me.

If your market is Ads or gambling I'm not interested. Sure there's lot of money, but I'd rather sleep at night. Thanks.

Things I'd love to work on:

ML security and safety. Can your DS process be made to give up its internal workings? Can I subvert it to cause unsafe conditions? Almost no one is thinking about these questions, and I'd like the chance to.
> Physics really doesn't want you to build a foldable smartphone

That’s the kind of statement Apple would use in its presentations, just before they would reveal that they built it anyway.
I don't think they're similar. There are many stores in my neighborhood, but there's only one google, only one app store on my phone, and only one Amazon.

I also think the degree to which the platform can exploit data related to producers (and consumers) is totally different with online marketplaces.
A good example of how people who present themselves as progressive often reinforce tradition and convention at the same time
Didn't you, historically, want to be the person selling shovels?
Hello Gophers (2014 Opening Keynote by Rob Pike)
I upvoted this comment.

I think there are issues here though.

> you shouldn’t have to choose between a career and having children.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. If ones chosen career consumes a lot of time, the time comes from somewhere regardless of your gender.

> In the EU they mandate equal paid leave for both parents and require holding a job for them when they return to the workplace [0]. This means that not only are parents given the opportunity to share actual parenting, but also that their children wind up with better care by their actual parents for the vital early months of their existence.

Indeed, and this is reflective of many things. One of which is the idea that society should encourage and/or protect the decision to have progeny beyond the gender imbalance inherent in the fact that men as a sex cannot bear children.

It's possibly a harder sell in the US because of the immense value placed on individual liberty.
I think the author makes a great point. In fact, I think that your attitude to parenting even determines the kind of startup you're able to run.

My experience matches closely to that of the author. Our second kid got born a few months into my startup and on average I think I've spent more time raising our kids than my wife has. I'm a man, but in terms of old-fashioned gender roles, I've become the mom.

I think that this has profoundly influenced the kind of startup we've become. Even if I wanted to, I could never do those typical mad coding frenzies, or spontaneous multi-day deep dives, or working through the night because of some important customer/opportunity/deadline. After all, my kids wake up at six (if I'm lucky) and much it's going to be on me.

Our company became the kind of company that has a healthy work/life balance, lets people work flexible hours and trusts that they do the work. No pressure to do overtime, no arbitrary deadlines just to create a sense of urgency, no chaos just because we're a startup so there's gotta be chaos, right? We ship fast not by stressing everybody out but by aggressively scoping down and then shipping that when it's done.

Thing is, my personality is actually much more hectic than that. I could've totally been that enthusiastic founder that drives half the team into a burnout through sheer passion. Mad beer-fueled coding nights, going for the Ballmer Peak. But I have two kids, I'm off at five, you're gonna have to drink that beer without me. Might do a few hours in the evening but to be frank, I'm often all out of energy once I finally got the boys to bed.

I sometimes envy those male founders who just drop everything and go all-in on the company, and just "let the wife handle the kids". In some ways it's almost offensive to me, what is it, 1960? Give your wife some space too, man. But it also sounds exceptionally luxurious.

At the same time, why would I want kids if I didn't want to be with them? That context switch twice a day is harsh, it's killing. But I think it's also the only thing that keeps me sane.

EDIT: I just noticed that the author makes a related argument in an earlier article: https://femfosec.com/start-a-startup-before-you-have-kids/ I don't fully agree, but I do think that you're unlikely to be able to run a stereotypical VC-treadmill super-high-intensity startup while raising small kids.
It's called the curse of knowledge :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

The best way to get better at the game is to know you have a blind spot. Once you do, then you can come with strategies to work around it. It takes quite a bit of work, especially at first - but like most skills, the more you make the effort to practice them, the less effort and easier they get to accomplish over time.

Whenever I am writing anything explanatory out now, I force myself to step back, and re-read it out loud as if I was reading it to a family member with zero familiarity of the subject. It's pretty effective :) Feels very weird at first, but actually physically reading it out loud is key - forces your brain to process it and not take mental short cuts.
There's nothing definitional about "marketplace" that says you don't have to bear responsibility for what is bought and sold on your marketplace.
The final paragraph answers the question:

> Why choose a nerve agent over a hail of bullets, as used in the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, probably by Israel, in November? The logic behind using nerve agents in the Skripal and Navalny cases was that the target could be poisoned through contact with their own belongings, a method that allowed the would-be killers to operate at a safe distance. The death would be formally deniable but the result plain enough to send a message. In both cases the plot ran into the classic problem for assassins: the difficulty of actually killing the victim. It’s surprisingly common for people to survive assassination attempts, particularly when single gunshots or explosives are used. The recent record of attempted nerve agent assassinations leads to the suspicion that they, too, are a poor choice of weapon. Contrary to popular belief, they aren’t always fatal, since they aren’t quickly absorbed through the skin (death is quicker if they’re inhaled, or enter through the eyes). They’re expensive to produce and their effects can be treated with atropine. In this respect they aren’t a dramatic improvement over traditional poisons: hydrogen cyanide, pentobarbital, potassium chloride – or fentanyl derivatives of the kind used in the attempted assassination of the former Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in 1997 – do just as good a job. A mundane explanation for their recent use is that the FSB unit in charge of assassinations happens to be the division that oversaw the old Novichok labs. They used what they had.
> It blew my mind when I heard someone say "kids are only toddlers for a couple of years"

In your early 20s, a couple years of hard work sounds like an eternity.

In your 30s and later, you realize a couple years is barely a blip on the radar.

The infant/toddler phase is only a couple percent of your overall lifespan. Yes, it's work, but it's not subscribing to a lifetime of sacrifice and misery.
I had no idea there was a word for throwing someone out of a window! Thanks for teaching me defenestrate. Now I need to find a sentence I can slip that into
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Before co-creating Greg I was a Director of Engineering at Tinder, where I founded the Growth and Trust & Safety teams (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexross8/). Our team is 7 people right now and we're hiring 10+.

We just closed our seed funding round (unannounced - top 5% amount, we're well-capitalized) and our job postings aren't online yet. We're looking for engineers passionate about ecology, protecting the planet. If you think what we're building is interesting, I'd love an email at alex (at) our website.

We also have a unique equity model, where each teammate owns a (virtually) equal share of the company. This is because we believe our team will be the primary reason we're able to achieve our long-term mission, and we need very strong individuals in every role. We also believe early-stage startup equity is mostly broken for non-founders and non-investors, and we believe it's possible to do better.
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Typescript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Laravel, and little C# about 5 years ago

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Email: hello@michaelrice.io

My name is Michael and I'm a Full Stack web developer with ~7 years of professional experience. I'm currently looking for my next opportunity and would love to tell you more about myself and see if I'd be a good fit for you!
Lucky for them that local Mexican authorities were at least good at managing a database of deaths.
Warren Buffett names his successor
Change banks!
Installation is easy, but maintenance/upkeep is non-trivial. Kubernetes ecosystem is complex by itself, without having to run non-managed control plane.

They have K8s cloud controller manager to manage load balancers and private networking, and driver for attaching persistent volumes. Also, instances go up to 32 vCPU/128 GB of memory, so they are more than enough to run most loads, including the control plane.
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Location: West coast Canada.
Remote: Yes.

Technologies: Machine learning Python, Tensorflow/Keras/pytorch, spark, AWS, kafka, HDFS, logstash, etc.
A whole host of technologies over 20 year career.

email in profile.

I'm an experienced Data scientist, who's worked on a bunch of interesting projects. With Covid I've come to realize I need to work in public more often. So an ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire problems that need solving.

What sort of problems do I like?

A Taxi company in latam hired me to built a fleet maintenance system. It predicted and scheduled preventative maintenance to reduce wear and tear and avoid breakdowns. We also identified the leading cause of wear - leadfoot drivers. So we built a system that would identify aggressive driving.

Another example was a speculative sports highlights annotation system I built with a consultancy.
It ingested sports video and identified predetermined highlights in baseball - diving catches in our case.
The ML pipeline was a CNN model which fed into an RNN. Given a bunch of video clips of diving catches as training data, it could later identify those diving catches and automatically annotate the video feeds.

Who shouldn't contact me.

If your market is Ads or gambling I'm not interested. Sure there's lot of money, but I'd rather sleep at night. Thanks.

Things I'd love to work on:

ML security and safety. Can your DS process be made to give up its internal workings? Can I subvert it to cause unsafe conditions? Almost no one is thinking about these questions, and I'd like the chance to.
It definitely strikes me as a low quality poll. Or, at least not enough information reported here.

I have Verizon Fios. The day-to-day service is fine and I get roughly what I pay for (200/200 for $39/month with an option to go quite a bit faster if I want to pay more).

But, I'd love to have some competition and downward price pressure. Don't much care if it's municipal or private, I just want an option.

And I live in a wealthy suburb and realize lots of people don't even have one good option. Heck, even within my zip, Fios isn't 100% available and the cable internet providers are universally awful.
NFTs are not 'GIFs that burn the Amazon'
So a star moving that fast would last far longer from our frame of reference than a star in "normal" frames of reference? So it might be a fast-forward to the end of the universe if we speed up to catch it and hang out there for a billion years.
If everyone is still alive then a "reset" is impossible. Sure the electric grid may die and kill everyone, but the reset only happens after lots of people are dead.
Just curious: Doesn't you Danish account still support the little cardboard card with the one-time codes?

Personally I really hate that they want to kill the card, and go to an app model (with the option of a key fob). It's made even worse by the police (and others) pushing the idea that the app is safer. How is it safer to have your two-factor authentication app on the same devices as the apps that need the second factor? Those things should be separate.
'We spent 40 days in a cave without sunlight or watches'
Sat solving – An alternative to brute force Bitcoin mining (2013)
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Which sections of the standard are you referring to?
Yup - friction. Those who figure out how to reduce or eliminate it become fabulously wealthy (/waves at Apple).
Note ShellCheck's SC2015, especially if you do stuff with permanent consequences in the place of "say":

"A && B || C is not if-then-else. C may run when A is true":

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2015
But you can install whatever FOSS you want, as long as you can figure it out or find it on App Store. Not providing easy way to do it outside of their platform is not the same as not allowing it.

People are framing the argument against App Store as if they are blocking people from installing software into the devices they bought. Probably this attracts more sympathy but the reality is different, what Apple restricts is the access to its software distribution platform. That's why it's not the users that are pissed off but the developers.

Apple is not selling the right to install software to your iDevice, that's the developers who sell the right to install the software they created. Apple sells the right to distribute software to the devices they make, it's called Apple Developer Program and that's the one that costs money and has restrictions.
To save you some time: from the title I thought it would be some sophisticated statistical modeling, or cracking crypto, or something else that involves nontrivial math. Which would be interesting.

What actually happened, obfuscated by tons of useless filler: death certificates are public on civil registry website, accessible by a sequential ID starting from 1, so all it takes is a binary search for what is essentially max(rowid).
I think mentioning "well if the lock's too hard they'll just break the window" is missing a point: locks right now are just too easy. Destructive bypasses to locks, or even just cutting the lock into pieces, are probably a good thing, since it prevents the equivalent of losing your Bitcoin wallet. But you want the attacker to be forced to either make a loud mess or go elsewhere.

If you didn't encrypt HTTP, you could sniff packets on the network, walk through the front door. If it was weakly encrypted, someone with some level of expertise could basically do the same, pick the cheap lock and walk through the front door. With RSA-like encryption, this avenue of attack is basically closed, and now the options are more like "try and steal this guy's laptop" or "launch MITM attacks".
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We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors two months ago. We're currently 4 full-time employees and 5 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Lead Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience, to take over backend engineering)

- Lead Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, ecommerce, and texting)

- No-Code Specialist (PART-TIME) (to help us build out Zapier, Hubspot, Front, and Retool workflows) (SQL knowledge a plus but not required)

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I don't know if it's fair to classify this as just a mom problem. I'm having the same problems as a Dad.
API with NestJS #34. Handling CPU-intensive tasks with queues
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This URL is a bit weird. The actual article URL is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56875801
> Besides, the hoarding all got burned last decade and the agencies have clearly evolved.

You claim this based on what? Kaspersky has recently found what they claim is (another) massively complex US malware in the wild.

> What's the significance of attribution of exploit source?

As in my example above, people always look for the source of an exploit and claim various actors created them. This creates certain reputations for these actors, just as in the claim from Kaspersky above (which may or may not itself be true - Kaspersky is a private company, but it is also known to work with the Russian government, which is clearly antagonistic to the US).
This is neat. In the 80's, I remember hooking another computer to my Amiga's serial port and entering the debugger ("RomWack".) I had no idea what to do with it though.
Paragraph 4.
One, you're assuming that this research is the cause of the pandemic, and that's not a given.

Two, even if the pandemic were caused by this research, that doesn't make the research itself irresponsible.
> The problem is probably that the DOJ doesn't like to bring cases against people in they they don't have hard evidence and a high likelihood to succeed in their prosecution

It has nothing to do with a lack of evidence and everything to do with not biting the hands that feed the boss's next campaign fund.
Pfizer and Moderna only used cells from aborted babies to test their vaccines. Johnson and Johnson uses them to produce doses of their vaccine.
I totally agree that many people aren't following the news closely and they'll probably eventually get vaccinated. However, I don't see what you're criticizing in the Nature article. They're pretty clearly distinguishing between herd immunity from infection vs from vaccination:

> In early October, a libertarian think tank and a small group of scientists released a document called the Great Barrington Declaration. In it, they call for a return to normal life for people at lower risk of severe COVID-19, to allow SARS-CoV-2 to spread to a sufficient level to give herd immunity.

> Typically, herd immunity is discussed as a desirable result of wide-scale vaccination programmes.

> Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea. “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says. “In the US, probably one to two million people would die.”
I'm quite annoyed at the headline. It promises a mystery; but there was none. It implies that math was be involved; it's not. Basically they just appear to have scraped data from a database with an auto-incrementing primary key.
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- We are also hiring full-time Vue and Rails developers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27029065)

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