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Open Diffix | Software Engineer | Remote (UTC+[0-4]) | Full-time | open-diffix.org

Open Diffix is a source-available project spun off from Aircloak, a company that developed and sells a start-of-the-art data anonymization solution. Open Diffix aims to adapt the Aircloak tech as both a PostgreSQL extension and as simple, stand-alone applications.

Open Diffix is supported by the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and currently has budget through to November 2023. We expect to secure continued funding in the interim.

We are looking for a particular kind of person.

You like to work independently, you are pragmatic, and you have the confidence to take on hard problems lacking a detailed spec. You enjoy working on a variety of languages, from low-level C to functional or multi-paradigm languages. You are able to simplify or bypass over-engineered solutions. Chances are things will change down the line and changing something simple, or better yet something that was never made, is much easier than changing a monstrosity. You should not need or want anyone breathing down your neck to be productive.

Much of our system is written in C and F#, but we have parts written in TypeScript / React as well. Knowledge of functional programming is a plus and experience with web development is not going to hurt either. We do not specifically look for someone with skills in our particular stack. It is our experience that people who are smart tend to pick up the required tools very quickly.

There are countless challenging things to do in this job. They range from parsing SQL, to GUI design, to low-level C functions, to ensuring that all results produced are safe and fully anonymous, irrespective of the level of deviousness on the part of the attackers accessing the system.

Our team is small, fully remote and dispersed across Europe.

If you are interested, please write us at hello@open-diffix.org.
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For a long time there's been an understanding in SETI that rocky planets aren't the most likely places for life to arise.

That is, a rocky planet contains very little water to begin with, gets cooked in the early days and is very lucky to get rehydrated by comets and not lose the water it gets.

Get outside the frost line and generic bodies (outer solar system, cometary, interstellar) can be 50% water.

Gas giant moon systems generically have tide-locking situations such as the Io-Europa-Ganymede resonance. Something that gets cooked a bit less than Io or a bit more than Europa could easily be habitable. Tide locking could be relevant close to (common!) red or brown dwarfs. For that matter, geothermal energy is a generic heat source that probably produces liquid water in many outer solar system bodies, probably even Pluto.

It's not so clear how geothermal + tides would support the development of higher life, but the most common environments for simple life are clearly outside the frost line. Interplanetary species able to change the form of their bodies would likely learn to colonize the available locations in preparation for becoming interstellar.
Joe Biden: Eight Months Later, Was It Worth It?
Stay out of politics, your rewards come in heaven. This place is for us heathens.
Author here. I agree. Even as a past maintainer of minikube, I still am a frequent user of Docker Desktop and would gladly pay for it
wow. Just dropped in a new home gateway (Devuan 3/Debian 11)

- hardened Linux (Kicksecure/Whonix)

- openrc (no systemd network vulnerabilities)

- DMZ

- NAT + IPv6

- stealth/hidden master DNS server.

- Shorewall firewall

- Wireless, 4 SSIDs

- Wireguard to remote VPS carrying DNS queries

DMZ covers all IoT, Alexa, SmartTV, game console, cable TV; both by wireless and CAT5e.

Household network covers laptop, desktop, cloud servers (Proxmox), Kerberos ticket server, file server (NFSv4, media DVR, ownCloud server.

And my white lab is totally airgapped and occasionally waterfalled firewall as needed.

I have a subnet that offers encrypted MAC.
I tried running Kubernetes on my MacBook Pro, and it was just too resource-hungry — Kubernetes relies on a lot of polling, and it was constantly consuming about half a core. (I tried out both Minikube and Kind.) Does Rancher strip down Kubernetes to make it less resource-hungry and more friendly to individual developer machines?
My hepatitis vaccine was like that, and I delayed the last dose, and apparently they say it doesn't matter how long you delay the last one, it just can't be taken earlier.
(Big) Enterprises nowadays have mandatory backups for emails. So downloading e-mails on clients doesn't remove the need of storing on the server.
Cowen is a unique talent in the world.

One of the most smartest people you'll ever read or speak to. It seems he has at least a modest understanding of important topics in almost any field you can mention, and an impressive mastery in a few dozen. From Brutalist architecture, tennis to Latin American art.

He talks and writes about politics, but rarely if ever is dogmatic or partisan. Has no problem admitting he was wrong about something, or that he doesn't know the answer (depressingly rare).

I highly recommend his blog and podcast. IMO the most underrated interviewer in the game. Each of his guests he researches deeply and always asks the most incisive, intelligent questions you wish you had thought of.

TC is fairly popular among the HN set but could always be more widely known.
Probably the same as what seems to have happened with the last coronavirus pandemic in 1889. HCoV-OC43 probably killed a lot of people worldwide with symptoms similar to COVID-19. Now most of us get infected as children and gain immunity that protects us later in life. Fortunately now we have vaccines to cut the death toll, but even most vaccinated people will eventually get infected with SARS-CoV-2.

https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-maga...

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
> During kick off, you could have two players running into each other full speed from 50 yards out. Of course the person who is willing to go fully into contact will win. The person going for a Rugby style tackle might land on his behind.

Kickoffs in the 90s were terrifying. Targeting rules get a lot of focus but moving the kickoff spot up to the 35 and touchbacks up to the 25 were probably the most consequential safety changes in modern football.
Please let's not kid ourselves. Propaganda will work on most populations. Somewhat better in places where literacy is low, but it can absolutely take hold anywhere.

There are useful idiots in every population ready to tattoo themselves with some thing either political, ideological, or even commercial.

Populations are not good at context - we take some tiny, possibly insignificant effect, like the utterance of a leader etc. and make all sorts of giant assumptions about it. Sometimes the issue is serious but we still contextualize it.
We also tend to ignore major material issues unless someone is creating a fuss and making a narrative about it.
And to confirm, I knew someone in school who could do this, though I was never able to do it myself despite some notable time wasted in front of the mirror.
As expected of the Atlantic, the author misses the point.

The assertion of "Dead Internet" is not (necessarily) that 99% of everything on the net is made by one sinister literal AI run by the US government (though things might well converge to this point eventually). The point is that currently, less and less of the content is organic or real anymore.

"Bot" in modern Internet parlance is shorthand. It CAN mean a GPT-style program posting stuff on its own. It can also mean a human guiding said program, editing and cherry-picking before posting. It can also mean a bunch of humans in a room somewhere who have been paid to blend into various communities and spread propaganda and disinfo, for the sake of nudging opinion or just to muddy the waters. Sometimes in the employ of nation states, sometimes by a company just trying to sell a new pair of shoes. It can also mean the countless rogue individuals who make such posts just because they like to be disruptive.

It can also mean the so-called "algorithms" at work on every major platform now, a near infinite set of interlocking rules twisting and churning beneath the surface. What video will be recommended? What tweet will rise, and which will be buried? What information will be easy to come across, and what will be nearly impossible? This is a level of control and propaganda the tyrants of the previous era could only have dreamed of, and it is the reality of the modern Internet. Not simply to crudely censor or broadcast an idea, but to nudge the population this way or that in ways that are often almost undetectable.

The Internet used to be largely unfiltered, aside from basic trash collection. Now it is highly MANAGED, in ways that are never clear or honest, by agents that wear many masks. THIS is what is meant by "bots." The Atlantic article itself is a perfect example. What is the point of the article? To inform or empower the reader? Of course not. It's to MANAGE. To address the "Dead Internet" theory, a theory that's dangerous because it's true, and blunt it, to shift your opinion by "debunking"/"clarifying"/scoffing.

The Atlantic article was (probably) not written by an AI. It was (probably) written by a real human, working for other real humans. But why was the decision made, by those real people, to write and publish such an article? Because the "Dead Internet" theory is true: the Internet has become an enormous propaganda machine, exploited in turn by any number of powerful groups. The Atlantic is tied into those groups, and they want to keep the gravy train rolling. Maybe Kaitlyn Tiffany was specifically directed to write such an article. Maybe (more likely) she was hired because she was the sort of person who would write a dismissive article like this unbidden as soon as she encountered the "Dead Internet" theory (a "good cultural match for us"). Either way she's no longer an individual simply expressing HER views, but a tool for the small group of people that increasingly dominate the net to express THEIRS.

She's a bot.

And the Dead Internet is full of them.
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Full stack engineer with background in finance; most of my work was done in start ups and staff augmentation, but open to all positions; preferably with scale. :)
USDC will no longer be backed by corporate bonds or commercial paper:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-23/coinbase-...

I don't know how you feel about short term treasury bonds, but I think they are nearly as good as cash. Slightly less liquid but with some return.
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and nouns aren't verbs (actions) yet both are words?
Wow, that is some overt classism right there. The world is a much better place is you just see people as people. Everybody is trying to achieve the same thing regardless of their "class". Security and safety for self and loved ones by whatever means are available to them with their skills and knowledge.
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> You mean something that is good to great but that "outsiders" or late adopters feel unexplainably threatened by and thus feel the need to attack it and its admirers?

Oh sure, the only explanation is that people feel threatened and insecure; the language is totally perfect and its admirers have never wasted anyone's time or demanded that other people blindly drop everything and start porting to their favorite language.

> Rust today seems like a 2013 Tesla Model S. A couple of years ago it was the GM EV1: It used to be largely promise of a future to come with a loads of downsides, where today it's expensive to get started with, has a lot of incompatibilities, but it's superior to most alternatives. Tomorrow it and those like it will be the norm.

What a beautiful analogy, considering that
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country puts electric cars at 4.6% of all cars sold in 2020.
What reward? I fail to see any substantial benefit from displaying my political leanings publicly. "Work Clean" is often sensible advice for one's public face.

Though who am I to talk, I had a Giant Meteor 2020 yard sign up last cycle....
> collapse is being denied altogether

Yeah, that's happening too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-us-hospital-icu-bed-short...

Bellville is 30 miles outside of Houston. It's not "rural".
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> rare outcomes become much more likely.

Citations needed.

Alternatively if vaccine reactions depend on something like immunotype of the individual that isn't going to change, and if you tolerate the vaccine today you're likely to tolerate it for the next 50 years.

Also if we apply the concept of Original Antigenic Sin, then once you've formed a healthy humoral reaction to a given antigen you're likely to continue to have healthy reactions to similar antigens in the future (and vice versa, if you form a poor immune reaction you my have poor reactions in the future).
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Ok, so this is what I was after in my question. Thank you.

So "Take the redpill" is (in this case) a statement about taking a different path with politics (politicians) .
> It’s a strange feeling when you are actively fighting your own devices.

That's because they're not your devices. As soon as certificate pinning for DNS-over-HTTPS becomes commonplace in consumer electronics filtering traffic by way of MiTM'ing name resolution will be completely game-over. You are an evil nation state actor trying to subvert the privacy of your people, per the DNS-over-HTTPS threat model.

I assume manufacturers are just going to stick 5G chipsets into things to get around user control anyway.
I was going to ask if OP took a sabbatical or something, but then I read he's 17 years old. Good job, OP!

I struggle for time even to nail a painting on the wall or install a shelf, yet alone something like this.
Stop downvoting this, it's a legitimate question. When are we going to stop all the policy bullshit, accept that it is endemic, and get back to normalcy as much as we can? It's wearing on everybody.
"If once vaccinated the virus is mostly harmless"

Note that even not vaccinated, the ultra large majority of people either are asymptomatic or don't get anything worst than a flu (which doesn't mean covid = flu in general)

We seem to have forgotten that the original concern with the virus was the fact that it saturated intensive care units in hospitals, and thus prevented people from getting proper care.
> That said I definitely strongly recommend against using anything UniFi based for routing/gateway tasks at this point (author mentions their AIO custom hardware UDM thing). They have significant issues now in WiFi and even switching, but at least remain kind of workable there. But the company has been an absolutely depressing development dumpster fire for years now and the trajectory still appears aimed straight down.

This is depressing to read because I worked a Ubiquiti before things got bad. The company culture took a huge dive when the CEO began removing executives and managers that were getting things done. The company was always weird, but when I started they were good about finding strong engineers who cared about networking and letting us build good products.

Everything changed when they tried to reoganize the company around the UDM and move development to China. The UDM reorg was so awful that employees and executives were leaving in droves. For months we couldn't even tell who was supposed to be in charge of UDM or UniFi because so many people left at once. I think we had 4 different UniFi lead developers get hired and then quit a few months later after the early employees all left.

Sad situation. Ubiquiti was a cool company that paid well and let engineers do good work when I joined. I still wonder why it had to fall apart so fast. The company was never perfect but it was sad to watch the CEO drive away all of the good parts of the company.
I wonder how far away we are from the future where a blood sample is able to predict your propensity for a huge range of possible ailments (from Alzheimer’s to the flu). Feels very sci-fi, but also within reach.
Many books should be edited down. Neal Stephenson is a prime example of getting away with leaving in so much mediocre stuff that it drags down the quality of his books, even though he can be brilliant too.

My favorite Murakami book so far is "South of the Border" - and I'm not sure "Norwegian Wood" could not have been made even better with a few (only a few !) cuts.
Very few of the US cities worst hit by the housing crisis are exclusively single-family. They're actually some of the densest places in the US.

Seems like the blame for the housing crisis lies a lot more with landlords who'd rather kick out a tenant paying X for a new tenant able to pay out X*y - if you have more people moving in than moving out, and existing landlords can simply choose to serve the new, wealthier ones, you're going to have a problem. If you couldn't take advantage of the migration simply by choosing to rent to the higher-income and kick out your existing tenants, maybe the politically-connected multiple-property-owners would figure out a way to get more construction going. We used to have both rent control and more densification than we have today.
AT&T asks the FCC to put extra guardrails on 5G spectrum acquisition
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I'm pretty surprised to still see some misinformation in some of the posts here.

I have a friend who has a PhD in molecular biology and she described the mRNA vaccines to me.

The mRNA is only a piece of the spike protein, and does not enter the cell's nucleus. It only interacts with the cytoplasm. Normally, if a cell had to deal with an actual SARS-CoV-2 virus, it would be dealing with the spike proteins and the entire virus, basically, a much higher dose, and it would also invade the actual cell.

She also described the ingredients of an mRNA vaccine, which were basically:

-mRNA (which is gone from the body in a few days)

-lipids

-salt and sugars

It's also worth noting that the mRNA does not interact with a person's actual DNA. I just don't see why there is so much concern out there. This is a potentially deadly virus. Look at the states with the highest amount of unvaccinated individuals in the US. They are running out of hospital beds [1]. This is not about taking our freedoms, this is about getting this under control.

I do agree with the other posters here that say that COVID will likely just become endemic. My understanding is that eventually it will probably be a common cold, once humans have enough antibodies for it.

[1] https://fortune.com/2021/08/25/states-icu-beds-covid-cases-d...
D'oh, my Jaz drive just crashed again and I can't get the cartridge out!
I spoke there! (Saturday 1:00 pm)

Sorry I probably didn't see your exhibit; too keyed up by the talk & the following book-signing to get into the rest of the show.
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I hope they succeed in this business model. In this day and age that companies and government want more and more control over our machines, we should prefer these transparent products even if it performs slightly worse than state-of-the-art.

If you're wondering about NixOS experience on Framework laptop, there is this blog post I've recently read:
https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework
I think the issue is that with slightly bigger lots and/or city services meant to alleviate these problems (sewage lines), much of what might be problems is smoothed over. Often there are laws about setbacks from property edges for dwellings, which may or may not apply to a structure which is not meant to be a dwelling. By skirting the rules or using a loophole, people may in some instances find why those rules were put in place in urban areas (i.e. where people live closely together).