skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was downranked once when switching jobs. I had significantly more experience than the people who I was working with, including the leadership, and it showed. There were some red flags during the interviews, but because of life circumstances, I felt like I couldn't say no.

The situation didn't end well. It didn't have to, but I place that firmly on the managements' inexperience.

(Side lesson: I suspect that situations like what I encountered are why a lot of people "age out" of tech. Although many people state that "ageism is real," I think a lot of younger managers just have trouble letting go when they work with people more experienced than they are.)
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Writing doesn't get any better than this. From this line onwards I was and always will be a Gibson fan.

His latter works are less impressive though, I think.
You can change your money into a currency that's run under a policy more to your liking, if you please.
What I ' not sure I understand is why does Dr. Sapolsky insist humans have exactly zero free will. Privileged to have (hmm, I'm not sure if this sounds humble or supercilious in this case) a rather healthy brain with sufficiently developed prefrontal cortex and other areas, no matter how depressed or aroused I am (I have probably never been either in a serious degree but nevertheless) I usually can "wake up", pause, overcome my urges and make a conscious decision to behave this or that way out of some logic, mindfully aware of the fact what I feel and think is subjective and mostly illusory. I agree the degree of freedom of the will in rather humble in the majority of people (me included) but why zero?
I like when a project I downloaded uses CMake because then I already know how to build it. Just the same old "mkdir;cd;cmake ..;build" I always do, maybe with some custom option flags.

But using CMake for my own projects? Hell no. The concept of a DSL for build systems just seems awful to me. A shitty build system is one where you have to rely on "magic" commands/flags/options to get it to do what you want. A DSL is an entire language dedicated to magic commands. Why would I want to go through the pain of mastering that, even if the documentation were decent?

My current go-to build system for non trivial projects is waf. It's got some really interesting ideas (like describing builds using aspect-oriented programming), but most importantly it has you use straight up Python to write your build scripts. No DSL or special formats.

There are other build systems that use general purpose languages to describe builds like premake/xmake which use Lua, Gradle which uses Groovy and Kotlin, or Scons which uses Python (and inspired waf). Personally, I think Python is much more comfortable for working with strings and files, but I'd prefer any of those build systems over something like CMake or Meson.
Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, CO, Greece, South Africa, and Poland) | Full-time | bottle.com

Bottle wants to keep everyone stocked with insanely good local food.

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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 this past spring. We're currently 10 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)

- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

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

Email work@bottle.com
I should clarify that I'm not saying remove the ability to install packages into a venv or even straight into the system.

However this article is about making pip to better interact with the system package manager on Linux. To me this seems like a bandaid solution instead of generating a rpm/deb file and installing this. You essentially get protection against overwriting other package files, but also protection against the package manager overwriting pip installed files for free. Instead we put a hack in place to add another db (a file) to check for both the system package manager and pip.

Clearly I'm missing something but why is nobody proposing this solution at least for this context?
AiRANACULUS | Principal Scientist | Remote, Partially Remote, In-Person | Full Time

AiRANACULUS is an Intelligent RF startup company based in Massachusetts. We are a very small team but are growing fast. Our website is https://airanaculus.com.

We have had SIBR contracts with the Army, Navy, and NASA. We will be starting a multi-million dollar contract awarded by IARPA this month.

We need to fill positions in the roles of:

* Senior Principal Scientist

* Principal Scientist

There is a lot of flexibility in what these roles would be specifically. If you are interested in the company but in a different kind of role, don't hesitate to also reach out. We can move very fast in the hiring process. Knowledge of signal processing and wireless communications is important. Machine learning experience is also great.

If you are interested, please get in touch through the website or my email: bryan.crompton@airanaculus.com.
Stephenson occasionally fields questions about his endings in talks. Here's one of them, from his Google talk for the Anathem book tour [1]:

Q: How do you think about ending your stories? They seem to run the gamut from some where the action just ends, and others where there's the equivalent of a movie ending with a ten-minute car chase in it.

A: Well, I'm reasonably happy with all of my endings, but I know that some people feel differently.

But as you've noticed, they're different, it's not always the same thing. All I can say is different books end in different ways, and different people have different tastes in what they want to see. I'm well aware that there are certain people frustrated with the endings of some of my books. But I also think that it's one of these things where people's preconceived ideas sometimes drive the way they perceive things.

...

So I think that my experience is that once you've written a book with a controversial ending and that meme gets going of Stephenson can't write endings, then that gets slapped on to everything you do, no matter how elaborate the ending is.

For me, the endings meme really is that - I don't see what people are complaining about.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE&t=10m54s
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Outerbounds | Frontend dev | SF / Remote | Full-time

Outerbounds was founded recently to commercialize Metaflow, an open-source Python framework that makes infrastructure easily accessible for machine learning/data science projects. Metaflow was originally started by us at Netflix and it is now used by hundreds of companies across industries.

We care a lot about thoughtful design, overall product experience, and quality of code. We are looking for stunning colleagues who can help us build delightfully usable, technically non-trivial UIs. This is a great greenfield opportunity for a senior frontend engineer who wants to build a product from scratch.

- Metaflow: https://docs.metaflow.org

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True!

I meant sad in the sense that if folks were properly incentivized to stay at an organization longer-term (10-20% pay bumps per year), I think we'd see more big innovations in technology – think NASA, Bell Labs, etc. – as opposed to incremental improvements.
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https://vantage.sh/ | NYC or US-REMOTE

Vantage is a cloud cost transparency platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz and a number of fantastic angels. The company is a seed stage company with under 10 employees but growing quickly. We have thousands of businesses on the platform, paying customers and a well-defined roadmap to execute on. The team so far has experience from AWS, DigitalOcean, Github, Datadog, Cloudflare, Akamai and more. Our co-founders are both technical and engineering is very important to us.

We are looking for:

- Full stack engineers to work primarily with Ruby/Rails, Postgres and a bunch of AWS services. If you love infrastructure, chances are you'll love the scope of work here.
- A developer advocate to help engage our growing community and write technical content.

More information can be found on our careers page: https://www.vantage.sh/careers

Apply by email directly to me at ben@vantage.sh
So the utility of war isn’t the economic mobilization that is claimed but instead the cover it provides for implementing a progressive tax rate, etc
I'm still on Ivy Bridge (2012) and it works just fine with the latest & greatest Linux software.
Check Point Acquires Avanan
Babylon https://www.babylonhealth.com/ | Healthcare Technology | Engineers (all levels: product, data and cloud) | US (Austin, SF, Remote) & UK (London, Remote)

Tagline: "We want to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth".

Over the last 7 years have built a platform that combines telemedicine, patient facing AI services (a symptom-checker and an automated health check) and clinician facing AI services.

We are now consolidating this offering into a set of "Cloud Services" as well as moving towards a value-based care model in the US and the UK.

I work as an Engineering Manager in the data team where we are especially excited about hiring talented junior engineers.

If any of that sounds exciting feel free to reach out to alex.morley@babylonhealth.com

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Why? The license to use the allotment doesn't include living permanently on it. It's not a land you own.
You've sort of identified the problem. Services/taxes/laws/etc. differ from one province/state to the other. So it actually matters where you're a resident (and where you're physically employed--if you are at a fixed office). I guess the alternative would be to have some sort of country-level no fixed residence/federal district status but I can't imagine a lot of demand for it (at least among those who have to political capital to push for such a thing) and I can imagine a lot of abuse if the terms were favorable. (ADDED: And people would just continue to fake things if they were't.)
Hellosaurus | Full Stack Engineer, Backend Engineer, Product Designer | Full-time | Remote (US)

Hellosaurus empowers the world's most popular kids media creators to build immersive, interactive learning experiences that kids can play, not just watch.

--> We're looking for a backend-focused TypeScript engineer interested in owning the API that powers all aspects of our business: https://grnh.se/af0bcea74us

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Docker Desktop*
It is supported as you can read for yourself:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwm(4)

>Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265

Yeah please tell me what is "better" supported?
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Jocko also has a very popular podcast where he further dispenses leadership principles.
I'm surprised that that group apparently also includes me. I had an awful experience during my LASIK procedure. What should've taken a few minutes ended up taking like 40+. It was almost an hour of the doctor and nurses constantly repeating "please keep still", yet from the very start to the very end I was literally making myself as still as possible and from my perspective wasn't moving any part of my body in the slightest.

It felt like some Kafkaesque nightmare, being repeatedly told to do something I was certain I was doing the whole time. And also, since it was taking so long, they had to keep restarting the whole thing over and over, including jetting my eye with freezing cold water again and again, which wasn't a pleasant sensation even with the local anesthetic. It was so confusing to me because I just... was not moving and they kept telling me to stop moving. I was neither voluntarily moving myself nor did I feel like any part of me was moving.

After it was over, they said my heart was beating so fast/forcefully that I was involuntarily moving around, or my eyes were moving around, or something. (It was years ago and I forget the exact explanation.) I know in theory one has some indirect voluntary control over their heart rate, such as with breathing patterns, but 1) during the entire procedure, they never told me that; they just kept saying "stop moving", and 2) even if they did tell me it probably wouldn't have helped much. I think the only thing that helped was my breathing eventually naturally slowed and my body started relaxing.

I had no conscious anxiety or worries going into the procedure, but I guess some part of my "lizard brain" just automatically took over once I was on the table. And probably related to this, I also have a dire case of "white coat syndrome", where the first blood pressure reading I receive at any doctor's office is often unbelievably "go-to-the-hospital-now" high, and then a few minutes later they test it again and it's normal. Again, I have literally no conscious fear of or concerns about doctors, procedures, blood pressure readings, needles, etc., but somehow my autonomic nervous system begs to differ.

So, I would guess some of the patients you work with may genuinely be just as surprised as you are when you tell them they're moving.
EUROPE | BERLIN | ONSITE/REMOTE-EU | LOOKING FOR SENIOR FRONTEND ENGINEER + BACKEND ENGINEER + ML ENGINEER + PRODUCT DESIGN LEAD

Back is a Berlin-based software company that equips teams like HR, IT, and Finance with the tools they need to provide a great employee experience at scale. From simple questions about policies or remaining vacation days to entire processes like onboarding or parental leave requests – with Back, employees always get the information and support they.
Our customers use Back to connect their favourite business apps like Slack, MS Teams, Google Chat, Notion, Jira, BambooHR, etc.

Wondering who our customers are? Loom, Statista, and Soundcloud might ring a bell, just to name a few.

How do we build Back? Our frontend stack is Typescript, React and GraphQL. Our backend is written in Go, and our machine learning services in Python. Finally, all of it is connected using gRPC and Protobuf.

Where are we? Our office is in the heart of Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. Part of our team is working remotely. Our only requirement is that you are +/- 2 hours timezone and willing to come to Berlin once a month for team events.

Curious to see who your future colleagues would be? Go have a look at http://bit.ly/working-at-Back

We're hiring:

- a Senior Frontend Engineer http://bit.ly/senior-frontend-engineer

- a Backend Engineer http://bit.ly/back-backend-engineer-3

- a Machine Learning Engineer http://bit.ly/back-machine-learning-engineer

- a Product Design Lead https://bit.ly/back-product-designer-lead

You can send me an email at <my first name>@backhq.com if you have any questions. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

James - CTO @ Back https://www.backhq.com
The bank is also providing a service (tracking your money, making it easy to manage and transfer) and that costs. We’ve just ended up in a situation where the cost of the service exceeds the value of the interest paid.
"fat arrow" would just be symbol-speaking. Assuming you are referring to the match syntax in rust[1], I verbalize "PATTERN => EXPRESSION" as "on $PATTERN, do $EXPRESSION".

I don't read code in English, even though I'm a native speaker. So its kindof a silly question: this would only come up when walking someone else through the code. I internally read code using data-flow and control-flow graphs. The written abbreviation is just shorthand for a specific type of graph vertex (or edge).

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-01-all-the-places-for-pa...
"Competition is the surest sign that there was not actually any anticompetitive conduct"

Anti-competitive conduct can be poorly executed, leaving some small room for competition, while still largely stifling new market entrants. A single 'competitor' isn't a healthy market. How many new small firms didn't get formed, or died on the runway to cash flow, because of Facebook?
Sure, but I think I've heard far more about RIIR and the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce than I've actually seen it in action.
Hacking The Pentagon
Lessons Covid-19 taught us about developing vaccines during a pandemic
Great idea, but I am not in the US. I am in Egypt. The only way out is through Mediterranean.
> Q Why do you seem obsessed with brand name apparel et al in Pattern Recognition and Spook Country?
> A You ain't seen nothing, yet! Actually the new one may explain that, a bit. Or just further convince some people that I'm obsessed. It's one of the ways in which I feel I understand how the world works, and there aren't really that many of those. It's not about clothes, though, or branding; it's about code, subtext. I was really delighted, for instance, to learn who made George Bush's raincoats. A company in Little Rock (now extinct, alas) but they were made of Ventile, a British cotton so tightly woven that you can make fire hoses (and RAF ocean survival suits) out of it. Which exists because Churchill demanded it, because the Germans had all the flax production sewn up. No flax, no fire hoses for the Blitz. The cultural complexities that put that particular material on Bush's back delight me deeply; it's a kind of secret history (and not least because most people would find it fantastically boring, I imagine).

https://web.archive.org/web/20100430011750/https://williamgi...
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Oxford Ionics is a small quantum computing start-up in Oxford, UK. We're looking for smart, motivated software engineers to join our growing team of engineers and scientists.

Rust | Python | FPGAs | qubits

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Not really. It's that they have ZERO competition AND the problem of inventing/manufacturing the technology is so hard that no one can afford to compete and its barely viable for ASML as it is.

The other issue is that $150M for a stepper is more than an order of magnitude more costly than the previous stepper technology used for 20+ years. To make that work, very expensive CAD tools were required to grossly violate normal diffraction laws (but obviously not the laws of physics themselves). This is done with "multi-patterning" which uses multiple exposures of the same targets to attain sub-diffraction limit dimensions. It requires many additional process steps to do this and it's mathematically/CAD intense.

And finally for fabs, the throughput of ASML EUV is about 1/50th of the prior steppers (but the previous steppers required 5-10 additional multi-patterning stepper exposure steps in the process to attain similar results. The general rule of thumb is an additional process step is 1/2 day of throughput so the old technology would add a week or two of throughput but the lower throughput of EUV only saves about 50% of that so the throughput is worse or a wash.

As it is, the wavelength of EUV is 13.5 nm so the diffraction limit is still only 6.25 nm feature size (so 7 nm is clean without multi-patterning but below that you need to return to multi-patterning but not as many steps added (yet).

The "Net Net" is that yes EUV is the only way get deep nanometer dimensions (<25 nm) easily and cheaply BUT EUV is economically marginal for both stepper vendor and fab.

The former is why no competitor wants to jump in (plus patents as well). The latter is why it's certainly necessary if the commitment to deep nanometer is life-or-death for the fab. A LOT of fabs have decided that there are better markets above those dimensions that they can tap so they've written-off deep nanometer and switched orthogonal to different market value propositions.

Fun Fact 1: another common name of EUV is "soft X-rays". As such, conventional lens-based optics DOES NOT WORK, so the ASML system uses the only technology that works for X-ray optics: low-angle, glancing metal mirrors. A well known other application of this is X-ray telescopes in space.

Fun Fact 2: the optical power level at the mask is less than 10 watts which is barely enough to expose the photoresist. This requires far longer exposures with perfect mechanical stability to hold the mask-created image exactly still. This is why the throughput is so low compared to prior steppers. This is also where much of the capital cost comes from: stabilizing mechanical components far beyond what prior technologies required.
That only makes sense of your colleagues live in the same neighbourhood, no? Otherwise what's the point of walking to the office where you're the only one?