skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duolingo | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | ONSITE, VISA | Security Engineer

Duolingo is the most popular language-learning application in the world, with over 500 million users and over half a billion exercises completed daily. Beyond our core learning product, we have also entered into literacy with Duolingo ABC and English proficiency testing with the Duolingo English Test.
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.

Our security team is growing and we are looking for engineers with experience in AppSec and CloudSec. We are running a microservice architecture on AWS and GCP, managed with Terraform, which supports our multiple web applications, mobile apps on Android and iOS, and a desktop Electron app.

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/5392230002
The Controversial Origin of the Kinetic Energy Equation Ek = ½mv²
Many companies use essentially slave labour and pass some of "savings" onto customers. Workers here couldn't live on 3rd world salaries. I would be outraged that those companies continue to exploit people.
There is no biblical wisdom to be found in obscure tech tutorial videos. Only pain.
SEEKING FREELANCER | Unity/C#/C++ | Edinburgh, Scotland | REMOTE | Full-time or 24+ hours per week

Kythera AI is a video game AI middleware for Unreal Engine, O3DE, Lumberyard and CryEngine. It provides character and 3D vehicle navigation, behavior authoring and rich debugging tools. It’s in use in indie titles and AAA games alike. Read our blog post how we helped Wolcen Studios to implement their impressive 2D formations: https://www.kythera.ai/news/the-2d-formations-of-wolcen-lord...

We are looking for a Unity and C# expert with excellent C++ skills to support our team in developing a C#/Unity integration for our middleware: https://www.kythera.ai/recruitment/senior-unity-developer-c

Could lead to wider role and permanent position, but the requirement is just to accelerate our progress over the next 6 months.
[shameless plug] I built http://lightnote.co for exactly this. Starting from basic sound waves, it teaches music theory while skipping all of the technical notation. It definitely doesn't go as deep as this post, but I don't think that's essential to getting started.
> Oh sure but they could charge Newegg's price and just order from Newegg?

Good way to not stay in business. At the very least, they need to mark it up enough to cover the credit card fees when they re-sell it, never mind the costs of the logistics of the resale operation.
I verbalise that as "goes to". In the case of, say,

things.Select(thing => thing.Stuff);

I verbalise the brackets as "thing goes to thing dot stuff".
Mozilla VPN uses the Mullvad VPN service for most of its backend, and Mullvad had Cure53 complete an audit of its infrastructure last December:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...
Two important facts that lots of folks seem to miss. The extreme ultraviolet process was created by and remains owned by the US DOE and LLNL. The US wields enormous control over ASML because of this fact. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/ebooks/PM/EUV-Lithography...

The EUV process is an insane rube goldberg physics "hack" that makes these machines very far from something you can just churn out model T style.
Inflation is a tax on money earned in the past. Money earned in 2011 isn't as good 2021. You can't sit on it. If you actually spend it within a year the impact is barely noticeable.

There are two reasons why stock prices go up. Inflation raises revenue expectations. Lower interest rates raise the value of future cash flows. This is especially bad with land because it can absorb any additional money you get from lower interest rates. Low interest rates make your car cheap but not your house... It's a big problem.
Arguably massive altruism by GitHub, yes - although equally the cost savings and benefits of the resulting software to an entire ecosystem of technology companies probably dwarf the GHA spend here.

It also makes me curious: how does the spend on test and build infrastructure compare to the compensation that developers (in aggregate or individually) receive for working on these projects?

(something is deeply, deeply weird about the economics of open source software, and I think we're likely to add more layers -- like sponsorship and free compute time -- before we eventually unpack it all and figure out what was really going on from first-principles)
In fairness to the TypeScript team, their position on this subject has been consistent for a very long time, since well before Deno. They do not see themselves as being in the business of rewriting import specifiers because there's just too many things that different groups would want them to do.

I'd also like them to support importing .ts files and rewriting those imports to .js, but given that they've been clear about their position I think it's up to Deno to solve this without forking the ecosystem.
The typescript team has some weird hangups around import paths that bring up issues. I wasn't aware of this Deno issue, but there's a similar one with ESM modules: TS wants you to import "somefile.js" when you actually want "somefile.ts". It's completely non-obvious, and breaks anything that checks if the file to be imported exists on disk.
Nobel Prize winner: “Vaccines for prevention, ivermectin for treatment”
There are plenty of 1000$+ laptops you can purchase these days with good specs that compete with Apple’s lineup of MacBooks.
It can be mildly frustrating to find the flags in extremely large man pages. They tend to write them all over the place ('oh but this does this when you combine -r with -tr') so searches light up matches all over. This gets compounded when there are flags with two letters and you try to search for the first letter. (want -t but have to wade through 3000 mentions of -tr, -t1, -tz, -tmmm, -tt, -tttt, etc)

Maybe I just suck at searching man pages. Or I'm too impatient. Either way, https://explainshell.com/ has been a great website for explaining flags.
Location: Greater NYC and Philadelphia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Overseas only

Technologies: (2+ years) Full-stack LAMPP development, (0-1 years) Python, Django, Postgresql, MongoDB, Redis, React

CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11MTiIp02azk-myFsWicnJ1lC...

Email: samfailing@protonmail.com

Completing M.S. Computer Science from Fordham University in December 2021 and seeking full-time position immediately thereafter. I've been a generalist and am eager to specialize, especially into NLP, internationalization and/or AI applications.

Hablo español.
AWS Service Health Dashboard (Parody)
Surge protector (high quality, insured) or UPS.
Long time listener of Econtalk, but Russ tends to digress a lot and covers his interests. Still a great show, but Conversations feels on another level.
I know, but it's just, with git:// you know you're getting the "anonymous user" experience, so when things work for instructions or submodules or whatever you know it's not just because of your own saved credentials. If your repo is accidentally private, a git:// URL is just going to give you an error right away.

Not a big deal but just something that to my knowledge you won't be able to do going forward.
Business idea: take in cash deposits. Hold the cash as paper currency in a vault. Avoid negative interest rates. After you build up enough deposits, start making loans to make money. Maybe if you make good loans you could even pay some interest to your depositors. I’ll call it “Bank.”
> Dogmatic attitudes are surprisingly prevalent in academics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

“Science progresses one funeral at a time.”
Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes (or local SF)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Python, Javascript, Vue, Haskell, Scala

Resume/CV: available upon request.

Email: hnwwthread@gmail.com

I'm a senior-to-staff-level individual contributor with 14 years of full-stack experience in a wide variety of technologies, languages, and problem spaces.

I've led and developed teams of up to twelve engineers, have years of experience in a technical product ownership role, and have been fully responsible for the architecture, initial implementation, and ongoing production management and maintenance for systems currently used by millions in the health care space.

These include no-code web builders for forms and whole applications that have saved thousands of developer-hours and millions of dollars, HIPAA-compliant, versioned and fully-auditable data stores, configurable streaming data infrastructure system, and a workflow engine that is responsible for the coordination of a live production application that serves millions.

I view myself as a strong individual contributor who acts as both a force-multiplier for the team and a critical communications hub by being able to understand and translate the needs of a variety of stake-holders due to my truly full-stack business experience.
Leonard Bernstein has some lectures that might be helpful. This one has some good stuff about why notes an octave apart sound similar, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE
I found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/quittingphenibut/comments/d8vazr/z1...

Not sure what it means though, but I would caution.
The Aruba Instant-On AP22 might do the trick. It uses the same hardware as the Aruba AP-505 which support 16 BSSIDS. I couldn't find a documented limit for the AP22. Note, the instant-on series uses a cloud controller and can't be managed locally, however it is a fraction of the price, $180 (Instant On AP22) vs $460 (AP-505).
I would argue that getting faces wrong is just as bad when they're being used for things like law enforcement
Way to Health (Penn Medicine) | Full-time | Philadelphia, PA | Partially On-Site | Software Developer
Way to Health (https://www.waytohealth.org/) is a patient engagement and research platform, which has been used to power hundreds of research studies and clinical programs improving the health of our patients. We've launched over 200 different research and clinical programs, and there are around 100 running at any given time. The platform is built and managed at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) by our team of developers, implementation specialists, innovation managers, and more.

Way to Health had a huge impact on Penn Medicine's COVID response, caring for over 12,000 patients with COVID Watch, and communicated over 14,000 COVID Test Results to patients by SMS. We recently hit a milestone of 1 million patients who have been in Way to Health programs.

We currently have 6 developers on the team, and are looking to hire one more. Requires 3+ years experience with application development (especially but not only PHP) and a Bachelors degree.

More details at https://www.waytohealth.org/careers/. I'd also love to chat informally with any interested (or potentially interested) developers directly. Email me at my HN username at waytohealth.org.
The thing that has made the biggest difference in terms of sleep quality was adding a magnesium supplement to my nutrition routine. It was an immediate change for the better and it’s held for years now.
How to easily set Airtel APN Internet settings Uganda
They are breaching a walled garden. And they are looking at a system with capabilities unseen before. And Apple has its prestige. I can totally understand the excitement that goes into this.

Of course it's like working in front of an armed cannon that can be fired at you at any moment. Apple can very easily perform a lock in the seriousness of which no desktop computer has ever seen before, given they control the hardware down to the transistor level.
Location: Boston, MA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Top 5: Sketch, Figma, Adobe CC, HTML, CSS
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/danielannese
/ I design products, services and experiences. My work spans over fifteen years, encompassing research, strategy, service and product design.
Email: Contact via LinkedIn
>the introduction of new ideas without context made me feel as lost as one of his characters.

But that's exactly the point, it's SUPPOSED to feel overwhelming.
Am I the only one here who thinks TC knows nothing about many things and his main skill is putting himself out there?

I admire his range and understanding and use of the halo effect, but when he talks about some of the fields I know, I can't help but notice that he waves his hands more than those airfield attendants who tell pilots how to move runaway planes.
I’m sorry to hear this. Please take care of your health, mentally and physically. Management usually promotes folks showing “visions” rather than those who keep their head down and make sure the plumbing works smoothly. It’s a sad state.
For me it's just a way to make communicating about music quicker. My ear is mediocre at best. Given time I can figure out what's being played, but having another person say, "It's a I-vi-ii-V-I in F" communicates it much more quickly.
Twitter Will Auto-Block Harassers in Bid to Curb Abuse
Point taken! That's certainly cool to see.
I encountered this, too.

In my case, the teacher "forgot" to give me the final for one of them, and only gave me the mid-term. Months later, they "discovered" that and made me take it then to keep my credit.

I said, "Give me the test right now." I took it, passed with flying colors.

They still didn't look happy. I'm still half-convinced they were trying to trip me up. Their classes were the easiest I have ever taken and I got a 4.0 GPA there. I knew I was just going for the paper, though, so it didn't bother me.

Joke's on me. That paper has never actually helped me get a job. sigh
Does mozilla corporation income necessarily go to firefox development though?

(I worry that foundation income goes to activism and corporation income goes to the CEO’s pockets...)
You can do an in-tree build just fine? Nothing prevents you from putting the build directory inside the source tree itself.
I wish I'd known all this when I was younger

I was too trusting - huge mistake from a health and stress perspective
Note that this is an inverse of Gresham's Law and is behind the large increases in value of alternative stores of value (art, real estate, cryptocurrency, stocks).

Gresham's Law is that "bad money drives out good" - when you have two forms of currency circulating within the economy and one is inflating at a faster rate than the other, people will tend to spend the inflating currency and hoard the appreciating one. The inverse of that is that they will tend to hoard the appreciating currency and spend the inflating one, i.e. as a store of value, nobody with long time preferences is going to hold cash. Instead they pile into any asset with zero cost of carry and a liquid market, which was stocks from about 1980-2010 and now also includes art, cryptocurrency, real estate, NFTs, other securities, etc.

It occurs to me that this could play tricks on how we measure interest rates. Assuming no central bank interference, interest rates are set at the equilibrium between people who want to borrow cash and those who want to lend cash. But nobody serious about future returns wants to lend cash! They've exited the cash market entirely, and only touch it when they need to convert long-term holdings to short-term holdings. Instead, they trade amongst themselves in asset markets, which have appreciated far quicker than 3% CPIs and 2% nominal interest rates would suggest. It could be that the divorce between stock market returns (10-15% in recent years) vs. interest rates (2-3% in recent years) might indicate that all of the firms with high time preferences have exited the cash market, leaving behind only those firms who need cash now.
It's intentional.

In a tweet he identified the issue with the model and how to fix it. Then he got mobbed for it. [0]. But he was, and still is, right.

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
Interesting, Neuromancer is by far my favorite Gibson book. I feel like I'm generally very sensitive to authors trying to hard, and I dont get that vibe, although I think I can see how it can be construed that way.

Neuromancer was (i think) a ground up creation of that world Sprawl/BAMA etc. Personally I always find characters / places the best when you experience them as they are and don't get the explanation, which when attempted is inevitably less interesting than what you might imagine. The later books in the sprawl series (Count Zero I believe and another one whose name I can't remember) felt much more one dimensional to me.
It would be great to have something like the Framework (or a special edition of one) on the FSF's RYF-certified list: https://ryf.fsf.org/
They are free to do what they want. Forcing me to pay for them to do it is another matter.
A really great way to lose your license is drive drunk, crash into an emergency vehicle, and blow.

It's not to excuse (or call out) driving drunk, being a poorly trained AI, etc. but there are few things in life that so effectively: (a) present you with an exceptional event, and (b) have you held to account for misreacting so swiftly and surely.
Y Combinator (yes, the people who run this site) | Software Engineer | Anywhere in US | Full-time

Y Combinator has a small ~7 person team that build all the software that runs YC. We don't hire for this team very often, but we're looking to hire a couple of people now.

This is a great role for somebody who loves startups and is interested in being part of the YC startup community, and wants to own projects from start-to-finish.

It could also be a great role for someone who's interested in doing a startup in the future (though that's certainly not a requirement). If you're interested in getting funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team could be a great step. Several former software team members are now running YC startups.

We work primarily in Ruby on Rails and React (learning on the job is fine though), and we spend most of our time coding. That said, we encourage everyone to participate in all of YC -- read applications, join our batch talks, help out with Demo Day and speak up on the projects you'd want to work on.

The software team you'd be joining has seven people with lots of collective years of start-up and big company experience, so you'll get the best of both worlds: moving fast and shipping and strong teammates/mentors to help you learn. About half of us are YC alums and several of us are parents. We're open to people 2+ years out of school or 10+ years of experience. Lastly, the work-life balance is great, and you get to work with people across the company.

To give you a sense of what we work on, since YC went remote due to covid, we've been very busy retooling everything for an all remote experience. We've rewritten our entire Demo Day experience (to connect founders with potential investors), re-created the batch experience with both in-house tools and 3rd party integrations, and written software to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and so much more.

If that sounds interesting, apply below or email jared@ycombinator.com

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/43776
Not a lot of dog fooding going on then!
>Those who are aware of VPNs but have the money and would like to support Firefox can do so by using their product.

That's me.
Why firestore is performing so bad?
Is it just because of gRPC connections initialisations?
I think, unfortunately, for a large portion of the world social media and the internet are one and the same.
Wish it supported deploy via Gitlab :)
Not everyone uses Github
Sorry for the thread hijacking but I'd like to ask the HN crowd about my problems:

For the past three years I have various health related problems like brain fog, tiredeness, breathing trouble, pain all over my body and a general bad mood. These things come and go (some times are worse some better) but for these years I remember myself always having some difficulty.

I am very sad and can't enjoy anything anymore. I can't enjoy my family and I feel I am a problem to them for being always moody and sad. I don't want to go out with friends, only stay at home and do chores or play games. I am constantly afraid that I have a major health problem and try to think all the time what may I have or how I can get better. Actually I can't really think of anything else beyond my health problems.

However after visiting a number of doctors and done lots of exams they couldn't find anything.

Notice that I have never visited a psychiatrist or psychologist and I don't think that I had ever had any psychological problems. I may have some form of minor autism but that didn't stop me of being happy the years before.

Do you think that I have some psychological problems? Maybe depression or some major anxiety? Should I visit a psychiatrist? I can't think of what to say to the psychiatrist... Should I keep visiting other doctors to do more tests? Any help would be much appreciated.
I have a pretty similar hardware setup but I went for a used Ruckus R610 WAP. With a PoE injector and shipping I spent around 200 USD. I'm really happy with it.

My current goals are proper IPv6 support in case the day comes where my ISP will no longer give me an IPv4 address. The setup is currently close to perfect, but my DDNS service (google domains) isn't letting me make dynamic AAAA records for some reason. I'm in talks with support right now. I also have not successfully made ip6tables entries for rerouting IPv6 DNS traffic to my local DNS servers. When I have made entries it totally breaks IPv6.

I too would prefer an x86 box for a router, but OTOH purpose-built routers are much more energy efficient. Heat is bad for reliability and more power means less run time on a UPS.

My next home network purchases will be an all-flash TrueNAS box that is backed up to Backblaze. I want to get off privacy-devoid cloud services.
The government will also penalize you for not using those services however. For instance, in many places it's impossible to purchase real estate with cash.
Location: Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: MSFT Stack. C#, Azure, dotnet core, .NET

Resume: https://corybove.github.io/

Email: cory.bove203@gmail.com
Nobody is really responsible for their behavior, their success or their misfortune.

This changes quite a lot about justice. There is no such thing as a just punishment. Criminals should be viewed more like we view a broken car. If someone can't be "fixed", then it is reasonable to seperate them from society. But it should be done as humanely as possible. They are not "evil".

Similarly, anyone that becomes successful should be viewed the same as a lottery winner: Just lucky. Bacause money has marginal utility for individual, redistribution of wealth becomes an optimizing game to maximize the average well beeing.
There is a good Two Minute Papers that explores somthing like that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2ga3BBMTc

Last poverty is not a moral failing. Just bad luck.
TBF if you know the history of Docker, it seems unlikely that this was their plan in the beginning.

Docker started back before the container orchestrator wars and the rise of Kubernetes. They couldn't have predicted that or the popularity of their services and tools.

They then had the enterprise Docker edition and swarm along with UCP which at one point looked like a reasonable path to monetization.

It was only after selling the enterprise software arm to Mirantis, which isn't that long ago really, that it would have been likely that their end game was charging for the Docker desktop product.
Forbes censors, removes “negative” Mask story from website
Multiplayer Prototyping: If your tools aren’t fun, you’re not doing it right