skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Choosing to seek out changing your belief by seeking contrary evidence is a form of choosing to change it. You can also do it while skipping that step, though it takes some practice. If you say something to yourself enough times, eventually you will believe it is true.

Ultimately many beliefs are just selective readings of available evidence. Once upon a time, there was a viral meme featureing a striped dress that was either white and gold or blue and black depending on who you asked. People became very attached to their interpretation of the illusion and I saw a lot of very fierce argument. With a bit of practice, however, it isn't actually that hard to hold both interpretations simultaneously and choose between them at will.
How to manage database transactions in a distributed system
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1) Team Lead 2) Senior Python Engineer 3) Senior Front-End Engineer

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It is true of ICs, but a good recruiter will tell you that you don't need to have stories for all 14.

There are really only about 8 or 10 that they expect SDEs to demonstrate.
Three real-world examples of distributed Elixir (pt. 4)
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We are aggressively building a team of performance driven investment professionals with the goal of scaling into a global hedge fund with world-class research, trading, and investment techniques. As a complement to our active US equities trading program, our firm is committing significant resources to develop automated trading capabilities. We are seeking traders, quantitative researchers, and developers to drive innovation in alpha generation.

As an early member of the quantitative research team, your experience and opinions will influence the design and technology used in our research and trading infrastructure. This is a greenfield project. We expect you to come with a plan for developing an automated trading platform and implementing sophisticated execution algorithms, complete with order management and risk controls. You will evaluate historical and realtime data vendors. You will also work on research infrastructure, including a backtesting/simulation framework.

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Compensation includes a competitive base salary, a relocation package and a guaranteed first-year bonus. Subsequent bonuses are commensurate with performance and team-based contributions, and are eligible for defered payment in order to invest in the fund. This position also includes standard benefits (401(k), health insurance, PTO, etc.)

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Are you missing an /s or are you saying that it shouldn't be done because it would enable e.g. use of radio hardware that goes against radio regulation?

If you're really expressing concern, what do you think of e.g. modem modules for regular computers or SDR hardware?
Cyber Espionage on Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan by Chinese Group
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Technologies: C/C++, Python, Django, Django REST framework, Pytorch, + more

I have a broad range of experience - from developing custom controllers for hardware on autonomous vehicles to creating a book written and illustrated entirely by AI. Plus plenty in-between.

My job is to solve your problems, usually with software. If you have an interesting or niche project we might be a good match! I like helping to get early-stage projects off the ground, but I consider most projects as long as they're interesting and challenging - bug fixes and legacy systems included. Particularly interested in projects in sports and automotive.

Also available for writing (incl technical).

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Look into conference room monitors they run around 1k USD and typically are available for reasonable tv Sizes. I think the Dell ones are Up to 55 inch
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BotsAndUs are building the next generation of autonomous robotics technology to help organisations harness the power of real time data and become more efficient in driving their operations and customer engagements. We have developed and successfully deployed our own hardware and software platforms and are now looking for more people to help build our technical expertise.

We're currently hiring for a senior robotics engineer to help us improve the core platform that powers our robots. This includes working on problems like path planning, navigation, localisation, and mission execution – as well as helping to define the architecture of the robotics platform as we scale.

We are also hiring a senior C++ engineer to provide support for improving and industrialising the parts of our systems that are written in C++. This includes both core robotics applications and our application-specific systems for things like computer vision and environmental analysis.

As a company, we’re still in the start-up phase of our life – we’re a small VC-funded team, but we have a great platform in an advanced stage of development. You’ll play a significant role in shaping the future of our products, culture, and engineering team, and will receive a market-rate salary, share options, and an incredible number of interesting problems to work on.

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Third Iron creates innovative, industry-leading software for researchers reading research papers in thousands of peer-reviewed academic journals. Founded in 2011 as a remote-first company, Third Iron products are used by researchers from over 1,200 libraries which are part of universities, hospitals, corporations, and government agencies located across 35 countries.

We’re looking for a developer interested in doing work throughout our entire stack, with a little more focus on the backend than the frontend, but with plenty of opportunities for both.

Stack: NodeJS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, TypeScript, EmberJS, React, Terraform, Chef - more details here: https://stackshare.io/third-iron/third-iron

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Primarily interested in folks with US work authorization.

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Courted is transforming the $2.3 trillion dollar residential real estate market. The company offers the first professional network for the 1.5M real estate agents, the brokerages they associate with and the ecosystem of players across the home buying value chain (e.g., mortgage providers, title & escrow agencies, moving services companies). Courted provides the network, in conjunction with automated and digitized workflow solutions around team building & agent-to-agent referrals and a market intelligence dashboard to make these professionals more productive.

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We are currently a team of 6 (5 of which code) and are looking to continue building out the engineering team.

Tech Stack: React/Redux, Django/DRF, Postgres, Docker, AWS, Terraform

Contact Joe @ hello _AT_ courted.io mentioning HN, or apply directly to the link below.

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I sense sarcasm from you. How is having 3/12 board seats meaningful? What can the 3 board members do?
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If one wanted to replicate their methods, what's their source text and who are the key luminaries in the field? More importantly, is there research into the most effective methods to disrupt/disable this kind of malignant activity? There's gotta be something more effective than "investing in public education and civic engagement."
The legal system should not protect ponzi schemes investors, or just any investors.

Somebody's lack of commercial sense, and financial stupidity should not be rewarded with such "insurance" by the public.

American ultralitigious banker/investor culture effectively rewards people going completely casino with their, or, more often, somebody's else money.
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... did you intend to reply here, or on some other post?
I had the same take.

Honestly, I don't know how people work in environments like that. Forgetting to give honorable mention to some person or cause shouldn't become a conscience issue boiling over into a penitent confession about all the people and causes forgotten over the years. Sadly, I fear that the "silence is violence" claim is influencing more and more of our society. It's like we're intentionally creating new mental health situations.
This line "“We run all this stuff through nonprofit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity,” he said. “People don’t know who supports us. We’ve been doing this for 20-something years in this regard.”

Seems pretty relevant today since the Supreme Court struck down a law regarding donations to non-profits.

https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-political-donors-califor...
That DoS is how I got our whole class downgraded from Windows to DOS as a punishment: all our school educational software was written for DOS anyway. I DDoS-ed one of the classmates, and he couldn't understand who was the culprit; in the end, he physically attacked another one of our classmates, thinking it was him.
That's what Lobbyists are supposed to do: manipulate politicians and public for their boss. Big Tech does the same thing. No need to be surprised.
Having hashmaps be ordered is not always desirable. It's not necessarily meaningful for every application[1]. Also, it can have overhead.

If the problem is that the developer doesn't get what they expect, often the solution is to require the developer to be explicit about what they ask for.

I think that could work well here. Instead of having map.keys(),
the API could have map.orderedKeys() and map.unorderedKeys(). (Or make it okeys() and ukeys() to be more concise.)

Yes, it's slightly more typing, but to me that's a small price to pay to ensure you get what you want.

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[1] For example, maybe the order that's meaningful to me has something to do with the values rather than the keys. If the map represents git commits, maybe the order that's meaningful to me is a topological sort, and the map isn't going to provide that.
I'm a fan of free speech, but defamation is one of the limits I agree with.

The UK has a stricter framework than the US, but I think these cases should happen in the US too.

It's good to see precedent being established for prosecuting those that abuse social media for evil.

I'm interested in who the guilty party is in this case. They can afford a six figure penalty and want to remain anonymous.
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Exogene is a VC-backed biotechnology startup using deep learning to unlock the discovery of innovative cell therapies for cancer treatment.

We are building a deep learning platform to rapidly identify specialised molecules that can guide immune cells within cancer patients to destroy cancer cells. The platform is trained on massive proprietary wet-lab datasets we generate in-house. Our mission is to discover cell therapies for untreatable solid tumours using a hybrid wet-lab/computational approach.

We are a remote-first company with labs at the BioEscalator in Oxford, UK.

Position details: https://exogene.co.uk/job/ml-scientist/
It's what Apple calls a "secure element", essentially a mini-HSM or multi-feature smartcard. "Put keys on it and it lets you use it with a PIN and rate limit" seems to be the main use case (they can implement FIDO2 with that too for instance).

These things are very useful for authentication and have been on business laptops for this very reason forever.
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At Ikon Science we're pushing the boundaries of data visualization and exploration of well and wellbore data, especially in the browser.

On the Curate product team we're creating a full suite of applications to help scientists and operators discover, visualize, and understand their data. We publicly launched Curate in May, and it's a greenfield project where we get to leave legacy behind and focus on what works for modern software dev. So far we've created:

* data-heavy charts rendering at 60FPS

* interactive 3D visualizations of seismic data

* all tied back to GIS views of data on a map

We need to fill our growing team with a Senior Frontend Engineer who loves creating stellar data-heavy web experiences, with an eye for good UI/UX, a deep level of JavaScript expertise, and the ability to help mentor and train up a team through their experience, code review participation, and improptu mentoring skills.

Our tech stack:

* JavaScript / TypeScript

* React.js

* Redux

* ArcGIS

* Jest and Cypress

If you have expertise in some but not all of those that's fine, the highest preference is to solid React.js and JavaScript experience--we'll help you level up on everything else! We're all staying remote because we're scattered across the UK (and even me in the US), but there's an office in London where you are welcome to gather if you enjoy that work/life separation.

You can find the job page at [1], and you are more than welcome to email me questions or your CV by including "[HN]" in the subject (jlyman@ our company domain, see the link above). Can't wait to work with you!

[1] https://careers.ikonscience.com/jobs/1182214-senior-software...
What's the story behind clojure.core/read-string? I have always wondered why it executes code. There are some examples in the docs:
https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/read-string
Companies are making big bucks making apps for small business but they are relatively expensive. Write one app that is useful for one business type,you need to focus, and reuse the same over and over again using the original as a template. Charge a one time fee and an on going maintenance fee. So MAYBE, 5000 for the app plus 750 yearly fee. You'll need to define what you will do for the 750 otherwise you will end up working forever on one app modification.

You'll need two abilities, being able to write the app and to sell your app services to businesses.
Oh, you are right, this can be problematic, although I don't like your solution either, since unsigned long is going to be larger than 32-bit on 50% of the platforms (not really, but you know the drill, Linux: 64-bit, Windows: 32-bit).
Given the awful environmental cost of "disposable tech", everyone should care about reducing waste and extending the working life of our hardware if only for that reason.

Of course it's also bad for society that we have so little effective competition in tech markets now that users think substandard products and user-hostile behaviours are normal. The race to the bottom is bad for everyone, and everyone being sold those products is being abused in the name of profit, whether or not any given individual is aware of how much it is happening to them or understands that better alternatives exist.
Strive to be at peace with yourself. The rest doesn't matter. Status, wealth and fame doesn't matter if you don't have inner peace.
Firefox has this too. You can do it the network tab[1] or in the Responsive Design Mode[2]. There's drop downs there where you can control how much you want to throttle

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monit...'

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Responsive_De...
Even more sobering is to consider how many people who have ever lived. The number is estimated to be ~100B people. I was so blown away by this number when I learned it that it affected me for several days after. I often consider it when reflecting on my own achievements and failures.
> IMO with how many they have it doesn’t make sense since you are bound to forget nearly all of them day-to-day.

You won't forget them if you end up working there. They're used as rhetorical jabs when people want to win arguments.

Someone more creative than I am could probably do a great comedy sketch in the vein of Darmok using nothing but the leadership principles as dialogue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
> Smart TVs are dumb if they aren't connected to the internet.

Unless they find an open WiFi network.
I am not the author of the fetch standard. It's pretty easy to look this stuff up. I have a few commits to the spec, but I barely show up in the `git blame`. https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/graphs/contributors

I've written articles about fetch in the past, but if I search Google for "fetch API" my stuff doesn't show up in the first few pages at least, so I don't think I really qualify for "principal advocate".

Again, it's pretty easy to look this stuff up.
The root servers are not all equal and there is no real advantage to holding two.

There are 63 Js, 14 As, but 165 Ls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
If you haven't seen it yet, the gear on their player offers a number of playback speeds (including 2x) and seems to remember the setting across videos. I suspect it does that because they're reusing the <video> element for playback until a fresh page load, because it's not persisted as much as just not reset between videos
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We're building a petabyte-scale distributed database for analytics (OLAP) workloads, with an emphasis on low-level performance optimizations. Our approach is to build nearly everything from scratch in C++, including custom distributed storage systems, filesystems, task schedulers, consensus protocols, and an advanced SQL stats engine and query planner/optimizer. As an engineer here, you'll tackle really challenging problems and work with huge systems but also get the pride of ownership and autonomy that comes with a startup. We currently have about 50 engineers on the team, and our technical standards are very high.

Our Stack: Modern C++, Linux, Bazel, Python, etc.

Apply at https://ocient.com/careers. Send your questions to starzia at ocient.com.
The hackers have gone soft
Show HN: A powerful TypeScript code generator for your app’s ORM, APIs and tests
Then you take the lessons you need from the line and encode them in a properly formatted script.

A long command is almost never a good answer.
OVO Energy France & Spain (Kaluza) | Full Stack Developer | London, England | Partially Remote

Join a team building proof-of-concept energy supply businesses in international markets. We integrate with regional grid operators and other third parties (including Kaluza technology platforms) to deliver high-quality customer acquisition channels, operational tooling and experiences for in-life customers.

Right now we are looking for mid-level to senior product & customer-focused engineers who have experience with some subset of: TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, Terraform, CloudFormation, CircleCI.

What you can expect:
- An environment where a healthy work-life balance is valued and respected.
- A good deal of ownership (end-to-end) over the things that we build and maintain.
- Support and opportunities to grow and develop professionally, through access to the wider OVO & Kaluza communities and resources.

We are currently (and likely to remain) remote-first, but successful candidates should be able to comfortably visit our London (Notting Hill) engineering offices when useful.

To apply directly to the international department, please shoot me an intro email with your CV mikael.kohlmyr@ovoenergy.com, for more open positions: https://careers.ovo.com/opportunities

Find out more about OVO & Kaluzas commitment to zero-carbon living: https://ovo.com/planzero/
I was fortunate enough to have two parents that let me stay at home and homeschool until high school, then they sent me off to learn from others. They taught me how to do almost all of those things in your list as the opportunities presented themselves. Did we disagree? Yes. Did I hate gardening a lot of the time? Yes. But then my parents would play video games with me after we were done which I loved. We learned how to give and take, how to do what each other enjoyed, and how to do life together. Now that I'm in my thirties, working from home, and have a little family of my own, I'm trying to replicate my childhood as much as I can. I think you have a great dream, I say go for it!
That reminds of Joseph Goebbels asking: "Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?"