skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scarlet | Software Engineer (technical hire #1) | ONSITE | London, UK

We are empowering companies building the next generation of medical software – the software that’ll bring accessible and affordable healthcare to everyone on the planet.

The current regulatory environment wasn’t designed for software, yet software is the future of health and medicine.

Scarlet creates a new framework for software companies and regulators to provide them with a way to build and surveil medical software in a continuous and scalable way.

Requirements:

- You have 3+ years of software engineering experience.

- You have built software systems from scratch before.

- You have solicted and challenged user requirements before.

- You want to work in a team that shuns design/technology choices which emphasise the use of mutable, stateful objects.

- You are willing to learn clojure/clojurescript.

- You have a working knowledge of AWS and terraform.

No domain knowledge of medicine / medical device regulations / software certification is required up front, but you must be willing to dive into this fascinating domain and spin up fast!

If you're keen - email me - jamie@scarletcomply.com
You assume that all applicants are of equal attainment, ability, and motivation.

However, women have to fight an in-built discrimination. While men are more forced into work because our gender role expects it of us.

Thus, women who are candidates for promotion are likely to be more motivated and more ambitious than their male counterparts - they've had to fight harder against more obstacles to get to that point.

I see this in the gender balance of programmers. Female programmers have had to fight against a constant discouragement from pretty much everyone in their lives, while male programmers have had nothing but encouragement. So it's not surprising that female programmers tend (on average) to be better; they're more motivated, they really want this, and that's usually because they're good at it (if they weren't they'd have given up earlier).
It's worth keeping in mind that what a neural network like this (just like GPT3) is doing is generating the most probable continuation based on the training dataset. Not the best continuation (whatever that means), simply the most likely one. If the training dataset has mostly bad code, the most likely continuation is likely to be bad as well. I think this is still valuable, you just have to think before accepting a suggestion (just like you have to think before writing code from scratch or copying something from Stack Overflow).
Why is it okay to speculate about mental issues from rise in sex hormone mimicking chemicals in the environment but not about actual sexual issues?
Yes, there are but in iOS even PWAs are at the mercy of Apple as they anti competitively don't allow any competing browser engines.
The feeling you’ve described is how many Americans feel about the woke telling them how they can speak too.
As someone who works for Big Tech outside of the US, it's kind of comical to us foreign workers. From out point of view it seems like Americans are truly obsessed with diversity, or rather being perceived as diverse (PR), to the point where we can't help but laugh at the weekly corporate emails we get from the US leadership and the regular diversity training we have to do.
Workers found extensive concrete damage and suspended repairs at Surfside condo
Type "study delta variant vaccine" in google and you'll find dozen of them

The majority of mass media articles are bullshit, no matter the topic. Every 3 days we revolutionise nuclear reactors, lithium ion batteries, cure Alzheimer and double human life expectancy

People don't react to studies otherwise we wouldn't be fighting for them to get vaccinated, they react to stories, not facts
Signalling wokeness is wokeness. It's not like there's some authentic wokeness - calling it wokeness is accusing it of being inauthentic.
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Branding
More context on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-injunctions_in_English_l...
Influencers work in advertising.
Ah, math. Thanks.

OK, it fits in RAM on a single modern commodity server, and is updated at a rate which can easily be handled by such a server.
Anatomy of a Hit
I've conducted technical interviews for a FAANG company for several years, and been explicitly told to go easy on and inflate the scores of minorities. On one hand it makes sense as we're trying to hire minority groups on a greater ratio than they're coming out of college. On the other hand, it doesn't surprise me they retention rates a lot lower when often they're thrown into positions they would otherwise not be really qualified for.
C and how to debug it.

If you understand the system a layer of abstraction or two below the layer you work in, you will be able to debug deeper. Learn system calls, Various ways how to examine processes.

I learnt a lot of this back in the day by completing war games on a site called digital evolution (dievo). Those are antiquated now but still a really fun way to learn it.
The Extremes a Walrus Will Go to for Love
They have 4 hand picked examples on their homepage: https://copilot.github.com/

One has the issue with form encoding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27697884

The python example is using floats for currency, in an expense tracking context.

The golang one uses a word ("value") for a field name that's been a reserved word since SQL-1999. It will work in popular open source SQL databases, but I believe it would bomb in some servers if not delimited...which it is not.

The ruby one isn't outright terrible, but shows a very Americanized way to do street addresses that would probably become a problem later.

And these are the hand picked examples. This product seems like it needs some more thought. Maybe a way to comment, flag, or otherwise call out bad output?
Famous code examples are also much more likely to be noticed. For all I know, the thing might be spewing random GPL'd code from the long tail of GitHub all the time and nobody notices because it was written by some random guy and not John Carmack.
My intent with saying "Regardless of who you think was in the wrong there" was precisely NOT to re-litigate the entire saga (that's old and played out here).

Regardless of who you think was wrong, it had a big effect on black employees' perceptions of their employer.
“ A government could compel the app store owner to change your app, too.”
Interesting. Can you name a country that does not have a history of systematic enslavement? Perhaps the commenter is living in a Slavic country where whites were enslaved?
Yes, because awareness does not automatically mean ability to circumvent.
I've never worked in a place like that. Every place I've worked I've been able to get up and talk to people as I felt the need. I've never seen a place where you couldn't check a fun website (porn and the like would get you walked out the door of course) - I'm told government won't allow checking the web, but every company I've been with trusts me to not abuse the network. Most of my coworkers regularly check the score of their favorite sports team and some even yell to their boss (who might be a fan of the other team) the score.
The thesis of the article is literally broken windows theory.

I'm amazed that they managed to write several thousand words on the topic, while managing to avoid using the words "broken windows".
Imagine if we made bridges this way... Lets just knock it down and rebuild. Who cares about cost or traffic.

In some ways software engineering is so immature compared with other engineering disciplines.

I believe more in boy scout - "if you touch it leave it better than when you arrived".

:-)
We just need new disruptors.

A little tougher now that the current companies have the government on their side.
Fiddly doesn't cover devices that need to be environmentally sealed. People want devices that can survive a drop into water or even devices designed to be submerged. Making a device with environmentally sealed, and having hatches, covers, etc., is very difficult. Without making the product really bulky.

My guess is people just want to be able to take their device to a repair shop and have the battery replaced.

My biggest gripe is that you cannot find OEM batteries from the manufacturer. The batteries I have replaced (through some effort) have been generally a disappointment. Particularly laptop batteries. The replacement market for laptop batteries is a scam.
or get a meal plan that pre-portions your meals. My partner and I struggled to do keto, we lasted like 3 months. The results were impressive, but not sustainable for us.

We've started a pre-packaged meal plan. Meals are normally good (only had a couple we didn't like) but we are down a combined 75+ pounds and still doing the pre-packaged meals since we get a decent selection. Now, we do get a TON of chicken, and that is a struggle, but it's a trade off.

As to your last point, agree. There's no magic pill that will let you lose weight without fundamental changes
> it’s objectively a bad feature.

It's subjective, and no it isn't bad.

Your argument is "I don't want to" and that is as far from objective as one can get.

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There is at least some logic presented for using Alexa as a tool for kids (and adults) to learn, practice, and habitualise their manners. That is an objective argument.
The original meaning of ‘influencer’ isn’t a stand-alone occupation or job title. It was meant to be anyone who has rapport with a specific demographic and a significant enough following that they can, literally, influence a significant number of people.

Paul Graham, for example, has a large audience of people who read his essays and Tweets. If he publishes an essay, it hits the front page of Hacker News and is widely read. Not everyone consumes his writings blindly or without debate, but the debate furthers engagement with his material and is therefore a net expansion of his influence. Paul Graham is an influencer.

Some degree of content creation, from Tweets to Instagram content to essays or Substacks, is necessary to engage an audience to receive the influence. That’s why influencers and content creators are one in the same, as the article highlights:

> In many ways, the distinction between influencer and creator is the product of longstanding critical divisions between art (seen as organically created) and mass culture (seen as manufactured and dangerous). Influencer suggests a mode of distracting and sedating the public, creating generations of docile consumers. Creator reaches into a different tradition.

The modern definition of ‘influencer’ has deviated to become pejorative. In many contexts, such as Hacker News, it has become an insult that means someone doesn’t produce valuable content, but rather presents a fake front through social media in order to sell things to their uninformed followers. It’s not a good look, which is why people only use the term influencer to describe people they dislike, or people that they don’t personally follow.

Few people would admit that Paul Graham or the Substacks they subscribe to or their Twitter follows are also influencers, because we don’t like to think of ourselves as being able to be influenced. However, by the original meaning of influencer that’s exactly what they are.

The term ‘influencer’ now has too many negative connotations to be useful any more in public conversation as anything other than an insult or dismissal. It’s still useful in the context of discussing PR or advertising, but it’s on my list of terms to simply avoid due to how it might be received.
Interesting I didn't know that. In Italian there is no neutral gender, Latin had it but in modern Italian it has been lost.

> Does this de-emphasise their femininity, or increase their "sexual object"-ness?

My hypothesis is that having it might de-emphasise the link between grammatical gender and gender identity of a person, this link is very strong in the English language because in English the only time you use gendered language you are talking about a person, in those other languages you use gendered words to refer to a pot or a chair :-)
Theres also “das kind” (the child). And I’m sure other examples. You simply don’t understand how other languages work, and you’re projecting your own ideas onto them.

And German is a whole different class than Latin and Slavic languages - AFAIK there’s now way to “tell” the gender of a word in German. In contrast, in Spanish, Italian (not sure about French) and Slovenian words actually “sound” either feminine or masculine (or neutral, but those are rarer and mostly for inanimate objects), because gender is based on word endings.
That's interesting what you say about the wheel because the narrative I've heard is instead about gunpowder: the Conquistadores had gunpowder weapons that frightened the Aztecs and dispersed their armies without a fight, even though they had numbers on their side. I've also heard the same thing about horses: the Aztecs were afraid of horses and so broke and run at the sight of the Spaniards on horses.

These are not very well supported by first-hand accounts, for example in my favourite history book of all times, The Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (one of Hernan Cortes' men), there are many descriptions of battles between the Conquistadores and the Aztecs and the Aztecs don't run away - the gunpowder and the horses make a great impression on them but they stay their ground and fight. Except, in Bernal Diaz's telling anyway, they are used to fighting ritualistic battles, where the point was to capture some of the enemy's men, to later offer up as sacrifices to their gods. So the Aztecs are playing for points, in a sense, whereas the Spaniards are fighting dirty and going for the throat. Obviously, the Spaniards have the tactical advatage and it's not because of their weapons and armour, or their steeds.

Another detail almost always overlooked is that the Spaniards were allied to local Mexicans that were enemy to the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan, particularly the people of Tlascalla. So in many of the battles with the Aztecs, the few hundred Conquistadores Cortes has with him are joined by thousands of Tlascallan warriors. This information is almost always left out of the narrative of the overwhelming technological superiority of the Conquistadores that allowed them to win despite being fewer in number. In truth, the forces of the Conquistadores joined by the Tlascallans and other enemies of the Aztecs were comparable in size with those of the Aztecs.

Finally, when the Aztecs decide enough is enough and start fighting for real, the Conquistadores run for their lives. This is the tale of La Noche Triste, The Sad Night, when the Conquistadores try to escape Tenochtitlan under cover of darkness with all the gold they've looted from Moctezuma's vaults, after he was killed (by his own subjects, according to Bernal Diaz, but, well... he would say so, wouldn't he?). They are chased through the streets of the city by the Aztecs who are in open revolt and catch and kill them one-by-one. Most drown in the waters around the city, many weighed down by the loot they cling to, stubbornly. Just a few barely escape with their skins and some of the gold. It's a sad night indeed- and it really puts the kibosh on the Conquistadores' crushing superiority, technological or other.
My Gmail plugin is coming from the same pain (I subscribed to a ton of great newsletters, but they clutter everything human): https://www.getbreef.com . It's just my side project, and it's in beta - let me know if you'd like to try it.

It gives desktop Gmail an RSS-esque topic view of your inbox, and lets you infinite scroll through emails like you would Twitter or Insta.
My question is would Copilot be useful if you could choose the codebase it would be drawing from? Almost as an internal company tool?
I want macOS on an iPad, yes.
I've always assumed that we would eventually have a low-code, or no-code junior dev replacement, and was wondering if this was it. GH and MS actually have [Ed. had?] some cred for this kind of thing.

Nope. Game over. Play again?
Indeed. Your response reminded me of the Ubuntu Convergence [1] goal that was abandoned in 2016 but had similar critics.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Convergence
But they're not responsible for the economic and societal conditions that allow dollar stores to thrive in the first place.
Very nice. I am also currently building a new environment for programming (I want my 5 year old niece to get a head start on modern creativity :-)). I think the main idea is simple: logic + visualisation + data. Make something that takes all of these three things seriously. Programming languages usually care about the logic part only (and even that not very well).
A worldview which sees only The Oppressed and The Oppressors, and maps people into one category or the other. For Marx class was used, now it's race... and complete bullshit.
Nobody is forcing you to get vaccinated.
I'm curious how the interview process at Google compares to other tech companies. I don't mean the text written afterwards but the actual interview process.

My female friend interviewed at a number of large tech companies, not Google due to it's COVID hiring slowdown, and generally there was at least one interviewer that made comments I never, as a white man, have heard from an interviewer. Not outright sexist but things like (paraphrasing) "clearly you must have only worked on part of this project and not do the whole thing." It wasn't a question "which parts did you work on?" but a direct statement questioning her claim to have done the whole project.
You need a FANNG salary to afford most hobby farms even if the land was free. It is possible to make a good living farming a hobby farm sized lot, but most hobby farms are not managed to do that (most are about horses which are a large money sink)
Quake and GitHub are both owned by Microsoft now, perhaps we can assume this is relicense?
I think you are right, maybe the correct term would be "linguistic imperialism" because it forces something typical of the English language onto a Spanish word?
Probably multiple forces affect sending newsletters to email inbox:

- Client-side motivation : some users want to use their email as the "universal inbox". E.g. They may also send TODOs/reminders by sending emails to themselves instead of a separate app for alarms. Newsletters are just another stream of info that should conveniently go into their universal inbox.

- Publisher-side motivation: email addresses are valuable because it's important to "build an audience" outside of centralized platforms like Patreon/Youtube/TikTok. RSS doesn't solve the same problem because that's a "pull" mechanism instead of "push" like email.

If the above factors are unimportant to a particular person, then yes, the email inbox is a suboptimal communications channel for newsletters.
Security mindset: read the book Security Engineering (it is online), less for specific technical info than for the many war stories etc. which will help you guard against vulnerabilities and unforeseen consequences.

Basics of cryptography: there are many dumb errors to avoid.

Antirez's general advice about "10x programmers" is good: http://antirez.com/news/112

Thorough (not just basic) knowledge of SQL, if you don't count that as a language. The sqlite.org "technical and design documents" about sqlite's virtual machine and its query planner are well worth reading, and apply to other databases as well. ORM's are less important than SQL, and are usually language specific as someone mentioned.

Reasonable clue about socket programming, even if you're doing everything with libraries that wrap the details.

Comfort using debugging and profiling tools.

Lots of other stuff, I'm sure.
Yes, I'd say that summarizes my statement well, where Marx's definition of progress is moving a society towards communism. This is why any time you see somebody talk about "the right side of history" that's a flag that said person is a Marxist, they view their desired communist end-state as inevitable.
I prefer Matrix way - open network of different servers. Don't like spammers? OK, close registration on your server. Have public rooms? OK, block servers with open registration.

No problems with spammers or trolls at all. And that's literally my experience with 20+ homeservers that I configured

Again, nobody wants unique permanent ID per human.

PS: regarding "a new one for fee" - I hate services that work this way (hello, Blizzard), IMO.
You would be using thunderbird or whatever your client of choice is so that’s where you would be searching.
What is the common reason for this. Does the battery go up in flames if it is short circuited? There probably is a mechanism to prevent that. So was it internal battery damage?

Firemen probably need additional training and equipment to handle fires like this. To be fair, petrol cars can burn just as good if they get damaged.

Would like a software update for the door locks though. Or even better, a mechanical switch.
I think UFO discussion as it is now, hits the "not even wrong" (neither correct nor incorrect, because it does not meet the criteria by which correctness and incorrectness are determined. Making correct conclusions from premises that are off.)

>Elizondo, for instance, is widely credited in the media as AATIP’s director; the Pentagon has said that he had no assigned responsibilities for the program.

This is simply failure in journalism.
- How to write clean and concise documentation, including references to further reading material which helped you solve that particular problem.

- Basics of server/runtime environment security (RBAC, least privileges, common threats, etc.)
I don't know, but his list of things cultural marxism stands against could literally be lifted from BLM's web page.
"Firefighters". "Doctors". "Police". Heck, even garbagemen are more visible to the world at large.
Yep, trivial to implement as an attack.
Good points! But all in all if a value based pricing approach is taken accepting the default conversions will result in overpriced products, that only fit to the value provided in the baseline country (US).

> Also, the alternative choices (in economic terms, “substitute products”) are often different across markets - not just different available apps, but completely different ways to accomplish the same task or spend time. There’s no reason to think that buyers in two markets receive the same amount of value from your product.

I agree! But is this not the case for an even more fine grained per country pricing than the PPP adjusted one including market/competitor research etc.?

> Pricing based on perceived fairness to buyers has some practical challenges for sellers, like that the seller’s expenses - particularly team compensation - are not adjusted based on buyers’ locations.

If we stick to the example of a digital product in the app-stores the overhead could be considered negligible if no country specific marketing, i18n, etc. is done, right?

All in all i agree, that it poses additional challenges but i still struggle to see, the advantages of the default pricing imposed by the app-stores.
Even when optimizing for fairness becomes optimizing for revenue my gut would tell me that the best performing price/value-added from the US would perform better PPP-adjusted than the overpriced alternative. But that is where real world experience from someone around here would be perfect!