skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fly.io | SREs | Remote | Full-time

Fly.io takes container images and converts them into fleets of Firecracker VMs, running on our own hardware around the world. It's easy on Fly to run applications close to users, no matter where they are in the world. Try it out! If you’ve got a working container already, it can be running here in less than 10 minutes:
https://fly.io/docs/speedrun/

We've got a lot of fun ops challenges here. We're HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, and Vault), plus Firecracker, plus WireGuard, which is what our network fabric is built on. Our users drive Fly.io through a Rails-based GraphQL API. We host a heavy-duty Prometheus-style metrics cluster, an ElasticSearch cluster for logging, a monitoring system using Sensu Go, BGP4 peering with Bird… the list goes on.

We're hiring SRE-types to help us manage and keep this stuff running smoothly. The role includes:

* Intense observability and monitoring, so that Kurt only gets paged during his on-calls when something important happens.

* Coordinating deployments of new infrastructure across a fleet of servers with custom kernel and networking configurations.

* Enabling us to quickly ship new features to prod with canaries or blues and greens or whatever the cool kids are doing, because some of what we deploy right now is scary enough to slow us down a bit.

We're a small, almost entirely technical team. Ops and dev are tightly integrated, and devs don't throw things over the wall expecting ops to magically keep them running.

We're remote, in Chicago, Montreal, Colorado, Virginia, Utah, Wisconsin, and London.

We all share an on-call rotation, which is a company value that won't be changing any time soon.

We're weird about hiring. We're deeply skeptical both of resumes and interviews. We're believers in aptitude and of discovering and developing talent. Regardless of your background, we're interested in hearing from you; you can't waste our time. More about the role and our hiring process here: https://fly.io/blog/fly-is-hiring-sres/

Salary: $120k to $165k, equity, health care (in the US).

Or just reach out: jobs+servers@fly.io.
None of which is relevant to the premise that someone is going to do [insert something evil here - perhaps involving the radio]. Because if any device is cracked after any period of time then someone wanting to do [insert something evil] will just buy that device in order to do it.
While some Atlas users are internationally mobile, the dominant use case for Delaware entities is to give you a convenient box the system knows how to interface with while you live and operate your business wherever you live and operate your business. This is true for foreign and U.S.-based owners of Delaware entities.

One of my favorite Atlas users, Meitre in South America, has this tagline on their site: "Proudly born in Uruguay. Made with love in California" Much of their business is in South America; they went on (after incorporation) to through YC, raised from A16Z, etc. I think their experience is a userful counter to the standard narrative about brain drains, because that business is very thoroughly South American and also a first-class participant in the SV ecosystem.

Anecdotally speaking, a lot of the Atlas companies I'm aware of which raised money raised it either primarily locally, a mix of local and Silicon Valley, or "extremely widely distributed."
Are they so expensive to host yourself? Sure the picture quality won't be as great but with modern codecs it doesn't seem like it would be much worse than the average web page.
Strateos(YC W15) | Front End and Back End Software Engineers, Product Managers | Menlo Park, CA | https://strateos.com | FULL TIME; ONSITE & REMOTE

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2021/06/08/remote-co...

Strateos is turning life science into an information technology by creating a fully automated cloud wet lab. Scientists anywhere can define and (reproducibly!) run experiments over the internet on-demand and without investing up-front in a lab facility.

The Strateos Common Lab Environment (SCLE) takes Autoprotocol (http://autoprotocol.org/), a high-level JSON description of a biological protocol, and executes it on our custom-built robotic workcells. The protocols we handle routinely involve solving constraint programming models with thousands of variables and constraints in order to find the best plan that fulfills the scientist's biological intent.

Scientists manage their experiments through our web application or via our API. We provide a single platform that controls scientific devices from many vendors in a unified way, and an interface to control our automated labs.

Tech stack includes: Linux, Scala, RabbitMQ, Rails, Typescript, React, Ansible, Postgres

Benefits include: medical/dental/vision insurance; catered lunch and dinner and a fully stocked kitchen when onsite; flexible vacation policy; 401(k) with matching; gym and commuter reimbursement; and education reimbursement up to $3,000/year.
Is it? It seems like “damages” is more of an umbrella term for the value of the harm caused. When I write “your client’s breach of contract resulted in my client suffering damages of $X” no one (OC or layperson) would be under the false impression a court or a jury has awarded my client a judgment for $X.
What you mean is gaussian or normal distribution.
Fighting to the bitter end might involve lawyer fees > the settlement amount.
This doesn't seem to be borne out in any research on this question within the past 40 years[0]. Only competent policy-making can decide whether a tax break, of any sort, will be beneficial to the local economy where it's enacted.

Obviously the answer to the question of "do tax breaks generate jobs/stimulate economic development" is very context sensitive; policies that work in San Francisco may be wholly unsuitable for NYC or Topeka, Kansas or what have you. But there is an overall consensus of data as to what generates good outcomes for towns/states and what doesn't in terms of job creation and economic development:

- Corporate tax breaks, by and large, do NOT generate more economic development for the cities/states that offer them and produce the smallest gains in job creation than any other option. They do however generate more wealth for that particular company.

- Income tax breaks for lower and middle class income earners are more effective at stimulating growth and produce more jobs.

- Strong unemployment benefits stimulate the most growth and economic activity and the most job creation by a very long shot.

The linked reports provide many citations for the points it makes. It's conclusions also align with everything we've been hearing and seeing for the past 20 years with our own eyes in the USA. I liked the observation made in the report that 3M, based out of Minnesota, saw corporate tax cuts offered to them by competing states wreaked of desperation in their minds, not business opportunity. Very intriguing food for thought. I have to say, chances are low that any other company would see this any differently. Its just that companies such as Amazon thrive on the economic desperation of their workers as evidenced by Amazon's own behavior.

On that last bullet point, I'm willing to bet the current "boom" in economic activity is due in large part to the generous unemployment benefits that COVID has forced our government into the past year. The current mobility of many workers I think can be attributed to this, thus stimulating job creation and more competitiveness for companies to make better job offerings. We've seen how companies have behaved in this environment -- lots of layoffs, furloughs and outright job cuts.

Mind you, I don't think all companies are evil or some such. Rather, business incentives in the USA are rarely aligned with the economic benefits of the places they ply their trades/services.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/do-tax-cuts-create-jobs-3306325
Or if they have Alexa, it should be able to mesh to the next Amazon device in range and use their connected internet to do it's thing.
Yes! I actually had that set up on a previous project (which I just migrated into this one at https://visawhen.com/nvc): https://github.com/underyx/nvc-backlog/blob/main/.github/wor...

This setup was lovely and worked quite well. Except it broke due to an absolutely obscure, insane, hopeless bug: https://github.community/t/cannot-resolve-travel-state-gov-h...
That's not clear from that list.

I was expecting to see it in alphabetical order, but then was confused that it wasn't.

Good job on that site though!
Upnext | 100% Remote | Full Time / Contract | Design / ML

Too many tabs open from HN? Blogs to read in your email, messages and todo apps? Lost that article you wanted to read? Organize it all, follow and find interesting sources of content and supercharge your daily learning with Upnext! We’ve just launched and our building out our team to help us create a next generation reading and learning experience. Check us out at https://www.getupnext.com!

We've got open roles for:

- Software developers: our tech stack is TypeScript / Node / React / React Native

- Designers: we're creating a seamless, beautiful experience across desktop, native and web

- ML research / ML engineer: help us design build and deploy our first generation of recommendation and understanding systems

- Marketing / growth: help us get the word out!

If you'd like to chat, email in profile!
You could play MP2 files just fine.
Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
I was actually a fresh college grad a little over 20 years ago, and I can tell you we were not making even close to $100K. Maybe a few who lucked into Microsoft or SGI or something, but not the vast, vast majority. My first salary was $45K with no stock, back in 1998, which felt absolutely amazing and already put me far above the median US worker.
I see the value in using a TPM to protect a disk encryption key; but also the downside of it being harder for me to recover data when the TPM fails before the disk (or if the motherboard fails and the TPM is tamper resistant and doesn't want to be moved to another board, etc). For me, data recovery is more important.

Boot time security sounds kind of useful, but I don't have time or desire to audit and sign everything I run, and Microsoft doesn't either; they have historically signed all sorts of garbage that undermines the system security, and I expect that will continue.
Playing Mpeg Layer 2 files would be fast enough for the PS1 then.
No. I’ve never seen that term used except for a court ordered payment. Anything else is called a “settlement,” or “settled for $x” or even more explicitly “settled out of court for $x”
> Complete, utter garbage. Cites no statistics.

I'm not sure your source is exemplary in citing cast-iron statistics - the article you cite includes a lot of referenced and very varied sources (some of them seem to be just news articles), but few concrete references to back-up their purported numbers.

> The truth is, about 25% of new businesses in the US are started by first-generation immigrants

And this assertion doesn't contradict the article unless we're supposed to assume that being a "first-generation immigrant" automatically means you are poor and without any family resources.
Location: Maine

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (Not in the cards right now)

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Node.js, C#, .NET Core, HTML, SASS, CSS

Portfolio: https://eddieabbondanz.io/portfolio/

Email: me@eddieabbondanz.io

Hi, I'm Ed. I'm a full stack web developer who's returning to the industry after attempting to start a brick and mortar business. Most of my experience is self-taught from research / side projects over 4 years but I do have 2 years professional experience and a BS in Comp Sci.

I'd be an excellent fit for a role that could provide just a bit of mentoring to help close up the few small gaps in my dev skills. I promise I don't bite.
those speeds mean that each new generation will be substantially faster than the previous generation, because each generation dramatically underperformed what it promised.

so, it works like this: 2G delivered 1G speeds, but it delivered them better than 1G did.

then, 3G delivered 2G speeds, which was much faster than the 1G that 2G delivered!

and so on. it's called "marketing", it's "aspirational", lather, rinse, repeat
I agree that many businesses are started by immigrants and lower income. I think the title of the article is sloppily worded but I believe it’s more so referring to tech startups. Unicorn founders are overwhelmingly from wealthy families.
Magit 3.1 Released
Turns out the secret to a successful gaming tablet is to actually have games for it.
Well good for you. You’ve come to the right place. ;)

To be clear, I don’t grieve the lack of Ferraris. But the lack of ambition and related consequences gets to me.
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon have implemented the FCC’s anti-spoofing system
It allows Walmart to care less about safe working conditions for its employees.
Vendure headless GraphQL-based open-source e-commerce framework v1.1
This is an awful take. From experience, being “wealthy” in a third world country translated to being on one of the lowest brackets of poverty here in the USA.
Many SoCs let you burn a hash for the second stage bootloader. If your threat model includes this then build a copy of uboot that will only load kernels signed with your keys and burn the hash into the fuses of your device.
> In all fairness, maybe that's why they're adding this: the workplace culture and irresponsibility of Amazon are the main things I hear criticized a lot, so this could be them trying to actually address that.

They announced the leadership principles, but they announced no change at all.

If I recall correctly, amazon also likes to tell it's employees that first they need to deliver work at the next level, and then and only then are they considered for the promotion. At best, all I'm seeing here is the exact opposite.
Right-to-repair laws aren't about you personally repairing every item you need. It means you have the freedom to buy the support and maintenance you need from the entire market, rather than being beholden to expensive options "blessed" by the original manufacturer.
I don't know if you're intentionally misrepresenting the situation or legitimately don't know. There was a time when the scientific community believed what you are suggesting. That trans people had an illness that caused confusion about their gender, which led to depression, and suicidal thoughts. But in the last decade the science has indicated something different. Yes, Gender Dysphoria is a real thing, it's possible for your brain to tell you one thing while your body tells you another, and no amount of societal acceptance will solve that; the only real known treatment is to transition the person's body to match what their brain expects.

But the depression and suicide that often happens post transition is always associated with how society reacts to their transition. After years of study on this topic, we now know the depression/suicide has nothing to do with their transition. It's brought on by the people around them who see them now that their body physically reflects the self they've always known, and reject it.
Let’s say we have 12 iron mines with known amounts of iron ore supply, and 10 steel foundries with known amounts of demand. For each (mine, foundry) pair, there is a known cost of shipping the ore from point A to B. Which mines should send how much ore to which foundries?

AIUI, that is the general “optimal transport problem”. Now replace ore with colors and it applies to the problem above :)
$20k Bug Bounty – Microsoft has paid the lump For uXSS Vulnerability
Revvable | Founding Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | https://www.revvable.com/

We’re a VC backed seed startup transforming powersports (e.g motorcycle, snowmobile, boat, rv, ect...) dealership management by bringing modern technology and workflow automation to the industry. Most dealerships use 3+ software systems to run their dealerships with multiple employees copying data from one system to another. We’re creating a seamless system for owners and general managers to run their dealerships, servicing departments and manage their online presence from one platform.

We’re hiring multiple founding engineer roles to work on our Go, gRPC and Flutter. We offer founding engineers:
A large equity stake in the company
401k with an automatic 3% contribution by the company
Health/Dental/Vision benefits
A 80/9 work schedule (every other Friday is off, no questions asked)
Hybrid work environment (optional 2+ days WFH days per week)
The opportunity to work in an exciting industry (what's not cool about motorcycles?)

Check out our job description (https://bit.ly/34GQjhG) to learn more.

If you’re interested, email me your LinkedIn or resume to jobs at revvable.com. If it's a fit, we’ll get back to you within 48 hours.
Dailymotion | Front End Engineer - Video Player | Sophia Antipolis (Nice area) or remote (France) | Full time

Dailymotion video player is a solution used by Dailymotion.com (Alexa top 400) and thousands of partner websites from France, US and all around the world.

We're looking for someone curious, motivated and comfortable in JavaScript, with at least 2-3 years exp.

Details: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Dailymotion/743999757883162

(I'm not a hiring manager but feel free to DM me if you want some info).
Either the person who bought the policy wants to sell or the insurer who wrote the policy wants to sell. The person selling wants cash today, and the person buying wants cash tomorrow. Same as anything else.

EDIT: I will add, there is a lot of this kind of thing going on in insurance now because no-one expected rates to stay this low for so long. This drives cash out of insurers who, often, have a massive stream of liabilities and no way to generate cash to pay them. And this specific market is driven more by individuals who took out huge life insurance policies, lived longer than they expected, and are now stuck paying huge premiums they can't afford (so they sell the policy to someone else, who pays the premiums, and collects the final value). Again, this is basically how financial markets work. Risk is shifted towards those who are most able to bear it. The alternative here is a bunch of old people having to declare bankruptcy and being stripped of all their assets because there is no-one who will cash their policy.
On the other hand, a Pi/ESP32/whatever shoved into a plastic case instantly becomes almost as inconspicuous once again.
Probably one of the businesses generated $500M and the rest is a very long tail, if startup power laws are to be believed.

But still impressive none the less!
You might want to look into the history of Northern Ireland during the 20th century, and local attitudes to British rule.
About the only code generation I've ever liked is the pure-convenience stuff, like generating a complete (but empty) pattern matching constructs for whatever algebraic type I'm matching on (e.g. case-of). Otherwise, all I want are good suggestions for code completion.
How so? Sorting changes the order of the list, to the extent it's adding information (the sort order) it's also destroying the same amount of information (the previous order).

It's easy enough (including by accident) to deliver insertion ordered iterator behaviour for small hash maps that have never had any items removed, but after that things get sticky very quickly.
Coral | Full-Stack and Backend | 100% Remote | Full-time | owncoral.com

Coral is hiring engineers who want to hit the ground running to build a polished product from the ground up.

Our mission is to democratize real estate ownership, letting anyone directly own part of a rental property. We’re a platform that buys, fixes up, and manages properties while you sit back and get the rent check.

Why work with us?

1. We’re self-bootstrapped, already profitable and manage $80mm+ in properties.

2. You’ll work closely with the founding team, having multiple successful exits and 30+ years’ experience bridging tech and finance.

*Stack: PostgreSQL / Node.js (TypeScript) / React

Please mention HN when you apply at https://angel.co/company/own-coral/jobs
Again last night I had that strange dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed
No concerns about the world getting warmer
People thought that they were just being rewarded
For treating others as they'd like to be treated
For obeying stop-signs and curing diseases
For mailing letters with the address of the sender
Now we can swim any day in November

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPy64IgG58
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, Node.js, React, Redux, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://martomo.nl/CV-Martijn-Dijkhuizen_2021.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martijndijkhuizen/

Email: hello@martomo.nl

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Being on a sabbatical since November and I'm looking forward to get back to work!

With over eight years of experience, I've worked mainly on frontend/backend, with an everlasting curiosity to understand the product. That said, I'm not afraid to learn a new programming language/framework or to dive into the infrastructure.

Problem solving for me does not stop at the product/code, I'm always running into ways to improve the development process or to help fellow peers by mentoring/coaching.

Are you looking for a software engineer, to drive and implement features, who is product oriented and cares about user experience, yet ensures optimized output for low-end devices?

I'm available as of 1st of August, looking for a full-time remote, long-term position.
Mercury | Engineers + Designers + Support + Recruiters + more| SF, NYC, Portland, Toronto, or REMOTE | www.mercury.com/jobs

We’re building banking for startups. We emphasize beauty and usability, and customers seem to love our product.

We are hiring technical and non-technical roles across the company. On the engineering side, we use:

- Haskell
- Typescript/React/Redux
- Nix
- Swift/Kotlin

Please check out www.mercury.com/jobs for more information on our openings, or reach out directly to jobs at mercury dot com. Thank you!