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Avallone | Senior Software Engineer | NodeJS | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE (currently remote) | Full-time & Part-time
Avallone is a SaaS company that is on a mission to empowering companies to eradicate financial crime. Initially this is done by helping our customer (B2B only) document and fulfil KYC requests. We are young (started in 2020) but VC funded. We have our first customers live, but tons of work ahead of us.

Tech stack: NodeJs, React, NestJs, ExpressJS, TypeORM, Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCI, PostgreSQL ...

More information can be found here: https://thehub.io/jobs/60704029a9c5b95034ab5af6

We are also looking for a Product Manager : https://thehub.io/jobs/60a7946dcf042a54c5574037
and a front end engineer: https://thehub.io/jobs/607040c9a9c5b95034ab86fb

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/Martin Albertsen - CTO @ Avallone.io
That completely depends on the specifics. If you expand your house with extra spaces or buy gadgets, you typically also lower security. Security always requires a principled approach.
Just a couple of example scenarios:

- Someone sells you BPF observability that's buggy and dissapointing, and you avoid BPF in the future. So in that case it's hurt the BPF community.

- Funding goes to a project that gives nothing back, instead of funding a project that does. Again, it hurts the community as funding isn't infinite.
Plain Jane American here: my gut sense is something is off : you do not give funding to the Chinese (that's government to government) for research in this area. Something does not sit right. In the recent 25 years the US outsourced too much ... There's no implied or explicit coequal on this kind of R&D.
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Stake Website keep having issues from two days in a row. The support team is claiming issues with an update; however, no official announcements have been done so far.
The chances of a transplant surgeon discovering that they’re a match for their patient seems exceedingly low.

Furthermore, assuming transplant surgeons are rare, then that surgeon is probably the only healthy person who can’t easily donate their kidney; after all, who would do the surgery?
> a heavy American accent

Any non-Americans want to chime in on what is a heavy American accent? I’m imagining heavy southern accent, but maybe this is something that can only be heard by non-Americans?
>"I legally (and most likely naively) bought a stock photo CD but did not have that in my possession any longer"

Explain exactly how pissing away all that electricity by burning all that coal and generating all that carcinogenic pollution and greenhouse gas would have caused him to not lose the entire original image just like he lost the original stock photo CD?
That's fair. I wouldn't say that it's "we can't figure it out" but rather that "doing so takes a lot of mutations and thus resources that may be difficult to do under the table"

Sitting in a cave somewhere implies not being studied, right? Which is more the "natural mutation" thing.

Sitting in some government lab is a different story and depends on belief in scientific institutions to do science and publish peer reviewed papers and all that jazz.
I thought it meant mostly "Sorry, I'll have to be absent for a while" -- as in, a euphemism for "I have to go to the loo". Isn't that how it's often used in English too?
A 2007 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (an important virus affecting cattle) was traced to effluent released from a laboratory in the UK [1].

A small number of SARS infections in 2003-2004 are also believed to have been due to laboratory accidents [2].

This article [3] gives an introduction to the subject from the perspective of a journalist who has reported on laboratory safety in the US.

This article [4] published in Nature in January 2012 by members of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity reviews the risk of a release of an engineered form of H5N1 influenza. It includes some alarming remarks such as:

'We found the potential risk of public harm to be of unusually high magnitude' and;

'A pandemic, or the deliberate release of a transmissible highly pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 virus, would be an unimaginable catastrophe for which the world is currently inadequately prepared'

The authors take the possibility of release of a dangerous pathogen from a laboratory seriously, though the article is prospective rather than retrospective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[3] https://eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/03/22/why-covi...

[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/482153a
An invisible sculpture has just sold for $18,000
I have found that many EM/PM pairings are not balanced.

The M in both names means different things - the PM manages is the product scope, the EM manages teams. Thus, most PMs are ICs, and EMs are people managers.

This, in turn, causes the experience needed to become a PM or EM to differ. Very few organizations would hire a new grad into an "Associate People Manager" job - it is implied that one needs some experience in the industry before one can be entrusted with people management duties. But many new grads step into "Associate Product Manager" roles, where they are on a career track to own business strategy. This is, IMO, a bad trend in PM orgs.

This imbalance in industry experience is often the root cause of tension between many PM/EM pairings, particularly in B2B space.
How is information in this blog related to Wikipedia article on DTrace [1] where one can read "DTrace is ... originally created by Sun Microsystems" and "Original author(s): Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal, Mike Shapiro (Sun Microsystems)"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
You also have suction with very hot disks with a hole in the centre.

Bernoulli effect in its different emanations.

A more practical use of is to just use compressed air to create vacuum like Bernoulli suckers do

It's convenient because this way air tools don't need separate vacuum hoses (which are way more expensive, and bulkier than air hoses.)
We've always had the weather.
I remember RMS saying that the license was based on these freedoms he enumerated, but after releasing software under GPL v2 he found out he had to explicitly add the freedom to actually RUN the software.

Remember that the idea of the GPL is the authors preserve and propagate the rights for the USERS.

He also once said "proprietary software subjugates people", which I thought was sort of over-the-top to say, but over time I think software in this era of dark patterns and privacy has unfortunately become very obvious.
Researchers rewire the genetics of E. coli, make it virus-proof
"is non-deterministic, when you use a plain range to iterate over such a map".

If you need ordered iteration to stay deterministic, extract the keys, sort them, then iterate over the (now-sorted) slice of keys?

If the order matters, you should defensively make SURE you are iterating in that order. If the order doesn't matter, the fact that each iteration over the map is different helps you not fall into a "I know this" trap.
Well yeah, but that's an argument towards it being spread from the wild/against it being a lab escape, right?
Thanks! Also, you never heard back from the Dtrace expert? (silly question, ok)
Where are the other fucking comments? Like the ones pointing out that Kotlin support was absent as late as 2019?

Eat shit, Hacker News.
Blockchain is great for temperature monitoring equipment. Small portable devices that make sure your food didn't thaw out during transport. Blockchain technology can make it hard to tamper with the logs.
Starship already requires in-orbit fueling to fully refill its tanks for the outbound journey to Mars when loaded to its 100T payload limit. It cannot carry additional fuel to accelerate and decelerate another 100T+ of water shielding. SpaceX currently plans that Starship will return to Earth from the Martian surface without in-orbit refueling. I don't know the payload capacity for that trip offhand, but again water shielding would exceed the 100T mark and it would be an incredible amount of added complexity to do in-orbit refueling there with the limited fuel generation infrastructure.
Obviously it hurts if your project gets bad rep from an old unmaintained fork. If "everyone knows $your_project is broken, don't use it" it will spill back on you.

Somewhat like when powershell on windows had aliases for wget and curl that was just shell aliases for a simple downloader, making some scripts work without those two installed, but also confusing anyone that wanted to do anything outside of "get one single file from url".
One example is wrapping Amazon's DNS hosting. I added a layer on top to take a text-file, stored using git, and turn that into a series of DNS records via the AWS API.
At the end of April Biden gave a prime-time address to the joint sessions of Congress announcing that the USA is "in competition with China” to “win the 21st century". Critiquing China became allowed and stimulated by that status quo press, instead of a partisan issue promoted by Trump who the media disliked.
"Auditing", in this context, refers specifically to the kernel audit framework, cf.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Audit_framework
No. 4 - How hipsters make coffee, and photographs.

Okay fine, haters, it's interesting. :) It's depth-dependent wavelength encoding. I never learned about this in a History of Photography course that included a visitor who made a daguerreotype of me in a Civil War uniform. It sounds like a physical, 3D spectrum analysis (2D to physical, 1D to wavelength)

The now extinct Kodachrome color K-14 process is also interesting because the colors last longer than early negatives of generic color film E-6 processes, the kind my grandparents took. Does anyone know why K-14 went away? Did the developing chemicals expire rapidly?
Article gave me the impression that the Obama ban wasn't real. It included an "unless its important" exception and everyone just kept on doing it anyway.

>Inside the NIH, which funded such research, the P3CO framework was largely met with shrugs and eye rolls, said a longtime agency official: “If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology.” He added, “Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.”
I‘ve found that SVG animations seem to be kind of slow, especially compared to CSS animations. My suspicion is that specific browsers don’t optimize them in the same way.
People who want to ban cryptocurrency will be using this as an excuse and scare tactic to get what they want.

Maybe we should ban _paying_ the ransoms instead?
Transport category aircraft are inherently stable by their aerodynamic design, it's a certification requirement.

If you have normal wings and the right size horizontal and vertical stabiliser the basic design of an aircraft is self stabilising. Especially with the wings sloping upwards (as all airliners have) because that wing shape also contributes to stability.
Also interesting to note that (per the leaked emails) Fauci was in regular correspondence with the guy who thinks everyone should die by age 75 or else they're a waste of space[1]....Discussing strategy on the pandemic that primarily kills people over 75.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-h...
What's interesting is that the way the Chinese govt responded and is responding is consistent with the fact that they believe it escaped one of their labs.

There is much to be said in not cooperating in an investigation against yourself, but active measures to prevent the investigation is a step further.

Ultimately the problem will be cracked, artificial selection and natural selection can be discerned given enough time and effort.
Almost 7 years ago, we set up our first build pipeline and I was a bit anxious about Jenkins because I simply hated it and it would have been the only piece of Java technology in our stack. Our infra guy basically told me "look, there’s nothing more powerful and widely known out there" (which was pretty much true at the time, at least in open source) and had already set up the VM when Gitlab came out with their CI/CD.

Since we just had set Gitlab up as our source control platform, this was the logical choice and we immediately ripped down the Jenkins server. Since we were still starting out, integration and rewiring was done in just a day.

I‘ve never been so happy playing the early adopter guinea pig. Actually we never had any real issues with it and aren‘t looking back.

For me, powerful equals "footgun included". CI should do one job and do it well imho. Huge bonus points for tight coupling into the source control workflow.

Your mileage may vary.
But there are consequences; Belarus is now cut off from air travel except with Russia. Flights are avoiding their airspace. They are a pariah.
I meant populism in the pejorative political sense, not in the sense of popular with rational, self-interested and well-informed voters, say. As in populism: when various actors tout extremely simplistic (and generally bad faith) solutions to painful, complex, or even misdirected problems via emotional appeals. I was under the impression that's how people usually use the word nowadays, but that might have been my mistake ;-).

Unfortunately, it's just very, very rare to have sufficient unity within the electorate for old-style populism (in the positive sense as in representing the will of the people) to have much active, helpful impact. Maybe it helps sustain well-regarded accomplishments, and thus acts in a harder to see fashion?

In any case, when I ranked citizens everyday rights (not just emotional appeals to concepts) as pretty much dead last in the priorities of the elected leaders, that aligns with the text you quoted.

But the GDPR is also a product of its time, and emotional appeals play a role here too. Peoples mistrust of big tech surely helped bring this to the forefront, even if the actual rules probably help avoid competition by being practically very burdensome for small competitors - and it wouldn't surprise me if corporate lobbying had a hand in ensuring that outcome. And perhaps stuff like NSA's spying on EU leaders helped stiffen their spine against US corporate interests; because the snowden stories would have been breaking around the same time, (IIRC?).

In any case: the point is that I'm quite skeptical that the GDPR somehow managed what most legislation does not, which is to actually place citizens rights first. The emotional appeals combined with the fairly poor result (in practice - the idea is sound) sure seems to suggest that as usual, even here, normal political reality was quite present and that it was drafted and passed while protecting major corporate interests and firing up the emotional appeals of political leaders. It's a little ironic that part of that appeal was likely the fact that they were sticking it to those pesky foreign (american) firms... when in fact those very firms were among the best protected by the legislation.
Quite simply, it is not. The author is not claiming to have written DTrace, but rather, tools that made use of DTrace. From the introduction: "Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace" and "I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace".
TeamCity is expensive and when we evaluated it we hit a significant bug that they couldn't fix (if you rebuild a snapshot build from early in a long chain of snapshot dependencies, it would run a quadratic number of rebuilds rather than rebuilding everything once in topological order as Jenkins does).
It's a fair question. One difference is that electricity is not making decisions or suggestions on the fly.

Another example is roads, where the design of the road allows one to turn into an opposing vehicle. The road itself is not deciding to turn your car into a semi trailer because it looks like sky, but an ML driven car has, multiple times.

I don't even own a Tesla, and I resent having to participate in its beta program. ML in a car is quite different from a brake recall, or even a stuck accelerator software recall.
How to track lost Android phone using IMEI number
You don't need Kotlin to do this, even Java can do it:

<T extends Sorted & NonEmpty> void doSomething(T values)
Does that mean the MP3 algorithms implemented in software form were not patentable in Europe?
Not sure. I am not sure if banning anything won't make issues worse. Born in the Netherlands but travelled all my life, I see that the worst criminality and Crack addicts living on the streets and fullest prisons are in countries that ban drugs. I understand this is not the same thing (a point I tried to make in another comment) but banning seems often to make things worse. Unfortunately (seeing the comments here) I am more for blaming the victim; companies need to be forced to spend money on security and educate their people on security. In this day and age, all data should be treated as banking data, by law. And punished if you do not.
Look at footnote 28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace#cite_note-28
Google is revamping its ad policy for crypto exchanges and wallets
I don't understand what bsdiff does, or is. I am a software developer and I frankly have no clue what I would ever use bsdiff for! I've read what it does (libraries for building and applying patches to binary files) and still don't really have a sense for what the purpose of this tool is.

What are some real life use cases for it? When does a developer need such a tool?
Sun developed DTrace the kernel building blocks, Brendan Gregg became an expert on it and made scripts that actually did useful stuff with them. The VIP was selling a GUI around Brendan Gregg’s scripts.
What do you mean? Brendan didn't create DTrace, he created DTraceToolkit and this VIP took his work and presented it as his own new DTrace-based product.
The video above is the TV highlights reel with over-the-top (but normal for Japanese TV) captions, sound effects, etc. As far as I can tell, no product/brand names are mentioned or shown, everything is describe in generic terms like "an expensive set of cosmetics" or "a facial mask".
I would be genuinely interested of the advantages of APL over languages like Julia or Python with numpy who have also quite flexible array types. For instance in Julia, I could write:

data = [1,2,3]

# . means element-wise operation

sum(exp.(filter(isodd,data)))

# or, where x |> f is f(x)

data |> x -> filter(isodd,x) .|> exp |> sum

Which looks quite clean to me. But Julia does not have partial function evaluation (just using filter(isodd) above would not work). Is this one of the main differences?
This is fantastic. I love bad English articles.
Rhoticity (the r sound in words like butter).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
> That’s how you get contributions that are huge hacks and require more work to review and iterate on than is worth it to the community.

And yet the author here is saying please work together. Presumably he or the community is okay with picking apart those huge hacks. I'm not sure why you should care what that community is willing to accept, unless you're part of it.

> If some company forks for an observability product and doesn’t contribute back, they clearly don’t want to. Don’t try to force them.

Who's forcing anyone? Did you not notice the "please" he starts that statement with?

> Demanding people contribute to your project instead of forking just sounds like demands to pay homage more than anything.

That's just a straw man, nobody demanded anything, and I'm not sure why you'd even try to insinuate he was when he literally says please.

If I had to paraphrase the part of the post you're critiquing, I would do so as "If you're using these tools, don't feel like you have keep any stuff you do separate. We'd like to build something better for everyone, so feel free to contribute to the project rather than keeping it separate and we can all build on each other's work." That's pretty standard open source ideals IMO.
Since you finally concede the obvious and undeniable fact that we need breathable air, then why are you disingenuously arguing for NFTs instead of against them?

What is the point of wasting so much energy, burning so much coal, and belching so much carcinogenic smoke and greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, if we can simply solve the problem much more efficiently and easily without wasting energy and destroying the environment and giving people cancer and heart disease?

And for what? I think the human race deserve fair use of the atmosphere, as well as pictures of Mickey Mouse.
Predictive coding is based on a theory for brain operation that grounds in the ubiquity of recurrent connection between functional brain regions, where the forward pass transmits the prediction, and the backward pass transmits the error. Unlike backprop, this theory uses only local information, and is therefore somewhat more compatible with how the brain works.

There is a huge body of work about this. The current paper seems to show that the result of predictive coding is equivalent to the result one gets with backprop.

I think it says more about predictive coding as a way to train neural networks rather than biological systems.
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To be fair they (on This Week in Virology) said they think it's unlikely that it leaked, but urge anyone with actual evidence to come forward. Their guest on that episode also said that, while RaTG13 is indeed a SARS-like coronavirus, the nucleotide sequence of the genome is only 96% similar to SARS-CoV-2. The guest said it's not similar enough to do gain of function research with. Bats with other similar SARS-like coronaviruses appear in (at least) Japan, Thailand, and Cambodia, and migratory bats have a range of several thousand kilometers.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-762/
I don't remember the details since it was a few years ago that I came across this, but I think the idea was that both buyer and seller could signal to the smart-contract that they're satisfied and that the withdrawal can happen.

Otherwise, there is also the concept of "oracles" [0] which are able to look outside the blockchain for information (think weather API, or a city's ledger) that could be your "external source of truth"

[0] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/oracles/
Imagine a British accent. Now imagine that that is what’s normal; everyone in your country speaks it. Suddenly American sounds very different.

Specifically in my limited experience stuff like pronouncing t’s like d’s and soft back-in-the-throat r’s. “Budder” vs. “buttah”, for example. American vowels tend to sound larger as well in my experience.
I almost had an heart attack last week when I noticed that a library I've used for work in the last year wasn't open source, but rather source available.

Thankfully, my employer had some licenses for the library without my knowledge, but it ain't fun to break licenses at work, especially when you don't notice until months later.
Java and mysql are treated well, yes, but those are major money makers. Would IBM have done worse? I don't think that's clear.

Solaris languishes, and dtrace/zfs run better on freebsd today. IBM acquired redhat, demonstrating a willingness to develop opensource operating systems.
For the cron-like part, Rundeck. My builds are still in Jenkins but it's much easier to maintain when it's just doing builds, not workflow orchestration.
> Saying that JavaScript is single threaded isn't accurate anymore. Even the article we just read mentions that you can run multiple threads with WebWorkers

This doesn't make Javascript multithreaded. It means you run single-threaded programs in separate containers and pass messages between them.
How to open your company to the tech community?
Oh wow - paint! As someone who’s renovating a house at this very moment, I would happily pay for that!