skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8th Wall | Full Time | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE | https://www.8thwall.com

8th Wall develops the world's leading WebAR platform. We run on the cutting-edge of today's modern web, leveraging WebAssembly, WebGL, and cloud edge-compute to enable augmented reality that runs in the mobile browser, no app needed. Company Info: 30+ people, tech-focused, growth stage.

Stack: C++ / Javascript / React / Redux / WebAssembly / WebGL / AWS

Hiring for the following roles:

* Software Engineer [Generalist] (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4054220002)

* Software Engineer [Web Frontend] (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4047213002)

* Software Engineer [Computer Vision / Machine Learning] (https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/4047214002)

* DevOps Engineer
(https://boards.greenhouse.io/8thwall/jobs/5493082002)
One of the first things we've used it for internally is to run one-off isolated tests on WebAssembly modules instead of feeding them through a production Atmo[0] instance. It basically serves as a dumb pipe for feeding data in and out of any Wasm module built for Reactr[1].

0: https://github.com/suborbital/atmo

1: https://github.com/suborbital/reactr
I was in college 8+ years ago and we would use GroupMe. I’ve heard people still use it or what’s app. No need to share any type of media.
failure to see disaster 3 moves ahead is a mistake, failure to see it 10 or more moves ahead is just the limits of human reasoning. In between is squishy
>>As for myself, I've always felt like an alien on earth. As a kid, I truly did not understand why people did what they did. I saw people forming all these social connections, but I couldn't understand why they did it: what were they looking for in others? I've always lived in a world of my own. Patterns, structures, associations, have always interested me more than material things and socialization. If I did not have my inner creative world, then maybe I would have been like the others around me...but I was otherwise occupied and so I became an outsider -- an outworlder.

This is directly on target with how I felt as a kid to late teens. Is this something you talked with others about or maybe read somewhere? I have never came to grips on why it took me longer to understand people. My siblings close my age did well socializing where I felt out of touch.
> "port" Windows services and applications to the Linux kernel.

In every category imaginable, the NT kernel is better designed. Async IO, better power management, pageable kernel memory, stable driver API. I'd much rather KDE shell on NT kernel.

I get that Linux is popular, but no objective evaluation would claim that Linux kernel is better in any metric other than "how open source is it?" Spend some time to read the NT docs and get familiar with the design and you'll see.

This may be a hard pill to swallow, but in many areas linux's design is still very much "my first kernel" (I will give credit where it is due though, it is slowly being patched piece by piece, slowly). Whereas NT was written by a team who's done it a few times and avoided a lot of pitfalls (eg: synchronous by default IO, really??)
How do you find your full-time developers and assign them projects?
M6-Competition Rules. $300k in prizemoney [pdf]
There are still no "rails" or "django" for JS. There are frameworks emerging with the same features, but they don't have close to the ecosystem. Meaning every time you want auth, social integration, etc. you have to reinvent the wheel.

There is also the stdlib. JS doesn't have simple things built in like left trim a string, csv loading, uuid generation, etc.

Then there is the API. Sorting in JS requires this weird -1/1 function. Getting the last element or truthiness to manipulate length.

Suddenly not only you have to install tons of things, but libs and frameworks can't rely on a common ground, nothing seems to integrate well. You glue a lot of things manually.

The popularity of JS is because it has a monopoly on the browser, and so a lot of people must use it, and a lot of users know it by default, and look for it elsewhere.

But when you have Ruby, Python, or even modern PHP frameworks in front of it, it's not a great deal.

Of course, not all programming tasks are about the Web. And this is where JS collapses completely. Sysadmin, data analysis, pen testing or automation using JS is a pain compared to the fluent versatility of alternatives. You know, things like connect to this ftp, download the excel files every hour, put the average of every column in the mysql db then export the thing as a PDF and send that to the boss.
I'm interested: why join this when you can simply donate 10% to charities without joining this?
Yes, I looked at your source data. I mentioned one case of a woman being shot outside an early learning center in a domestic dispute. That is clearly not a "school shooting". You need to understand the source data before trying to represent it in a meaningful fashion.

If a "school shooting" happens outside a school when there are no children actually in school at the time (during vacation for example), how many children are actually affected?

If a shooting happens in a school parking lot at 3:00 am because two people decided to meet there for a drug deal and it went bad, is that really a school shooting?

If you want to go with a simplistic "it happened on school property", then maybe we should be tracking "grocery store shootings", "nail salon shootings" and "corner of 3rd avenue and West Isles street shootings"?

When the term "school shooting" is used it connotes something very serious that has an impact on parents and children alike, society in general has an idea of what is meant by "school shooting" and to ignore that to keep it simple, merely exacerbates the problem and like I said, opens up the opportunity for argument that distracts from the very serious nature of the issues at hand.
You’ll find it similar in America but that doesn’t prevent for-cause exclusion if the tenant or account holder damages the property owner or his property.

The damages in this case are more abstract, but Facebook arguably has cause to exclude. That said I am much more open to debate the merits of this particular exclusion rather than whether Facebook can exclude at all.

I’m also going to go out in a limb and point out that Facebook does not in fact have a social media monopoly, certainly not in the United States which would be the jurisdiction here because in order for that to be true, everything from Twitter, TikTok and iMessage to WeChat and YouTube and Snapchat would simply have to not exist.

Social networks tend to have overlapping user bases, with people on both Facebook and Twitter, or Facebook and Snapchat, or some other combination. Nobody has yet convinced me where and how Facebook has any sort of monopoly because they’re too focused on the large user base and that in itself is just not a good argument. Feel free to take a stab at it though.
I've had a look and it's hard to see how the foundation's money is being spent. The accounts suggest most of the income is from donations from Andrew Kelley and most of the outgoings is Andrew's salary.
>As indicated by research

This reminds me of a few articles I've seen talking about the "gaslighting of science."

There's a fair amount of research indicating the opposite so it's a little more complicated to know what's "indicated by the research".
Specifically all the issues I raised apply in an American city that is relatively good for biking. The bike lanes are still on the road, and drivers still swerve into them, so I want heads up on that.

Its also physically difficult to get comfortable biking if you're not used to it. That's fine, but when the roads are like mad max post-COVID, you don't want to be wobbling when you're trying to signal.

Yes, the roads need to have bike lanes, but at least in portland, there's a stunning lack of reflection on why more people aren't taking advantage of them.

E-bikes probably help with the appearance part. It is just weird seeing a market where the entire culture is so hostile to innovation or improvement. The biking community should really be trying to remove all the barriers and not just saying it will get better when every road has a bike lane, because it won't.

Heck, even trying to find a class to learn how to bike is a massive pain. Each town and city has a different standard for hand signals (which I think refutes the claim that drivers would be completely unable to recognize or understand a turn signal on a bike) and the laws are different everywhere around things like lights and bells.
> Mouse + keyboard + big screen computers aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Yeah, and people still ride and otherwise use horses and hunt and gather, and cars are older than smartphones and agriculture is much older.

The niches shrink, though.
In most of the U.S. biking to get to places is remarkably dangerous if not outright impossible. Your average cyclist is one who drives their bike somewhere to ride like a large state park with little car traffic and smooth hilly roads, rather than a bike commuter. That sort of cyclist tends to be wealthy with all the latest gear and clad in spandex in my experience. Its a nice situation for riders like me, I got a great deal on a roadbike with dura ace components since the seller was hopping on the gravel bike craze at the time and didn't care about selling their pretty nice bike for a huge loss.
They appeared to have changed but have changed back it seems and is now ripe for another lawsuit or two for abuse of monopoly power.

Just take Google Chrome first.
Deno currently requires glibc. Anyone have insight into it? Would getting musl more funding help make it so it can run on stock alpine?
1,000 is more than enough people to make a measurement if they are selected sufficiently randomly. You only need to poll ~400 people to have a 5% margin of error for a binomial variable across all of the US (with 95% confidence). 1100 makes that margin 3%.
Do you expect significant drop in oil price if plastic was getting burned? I'd think it would displace things like coal first...
It really is an egregious lie. By this definition of subsidy, the government is also subsidizing your dog, since no-one is being taxed to pay for its methane emissions.

Redefining words to make a point is just a fancy way of lying. If they cared about the truth, the media would treat these liars the same as they treat the Dan Rathers of the world.

But when you think about it, the media derive a lot of their influence from their ability to freely navigate the space between 'telling the whole truth' and 'not lying'. So I suppose it's not surprising that they're happy to have the bar for 'truth' set as low as possible.
In my experience with SMA materials, the speed to contract is not the same as the speed to expand (one direction will be much slower). In practice, this means that there might be a time delay from one shift to the next in a case where the material now needs to go in the opposite direction.

Can you shift all the way to the top and then back down without any delays between shifts?
Why does a whistleblower need to give any policy advice? If they have suggestions I suppose that’s fine but I think that goes beyond the responsibility of a whistleblower.

All a whistleblower needs to do is… blow the whistle. We have existing mechanisms to address the problem or we can create new ones.

I certainly hope nobody is waiting to blow the whistle until they have a solution.
Rohloff's seem great (my brother rides one), but they do have one major downside: they are essentially unserviceable by the user. Yes, I know they don't tend to need much maintainance, but when they do, if you are not close to a Rohloff facility and/or Rohloff-experienced mechanic, you are screwed (for a while).
There's a time and place for visuals. Geometry is a form of visual math, but how do you "visualize" models that go beyond the 3rd dimension...?

For most people, trigonometry is enough to build stuff with. And for many ideas, a diagram communicates better than talking or writing it into an excel sheet.
The use case for dynamo lights went away once LED lighting arrived - they add to much resistance.
I can't see that working very well. Dell computers are profoundly ugly. Mac OS X was a decent operating system but it would have hurt the Mac brand to have it running on the dull gray boxes that are Dell computers. Just seems like a last ditch strategy to get some revenue for Apple.
Every time I hear an abundance of acronyms it makes think of this scene from Rocketman: https://youtu.be/ndj_dS4jImA?t=217
One consequence of this essay being published in a high-profile literary magazine such as Harper's, whether intentional or not, will be Sheila's sense of humiliation upon reading it.

I bet it's intentional.
Yes, but also no. Through practice alone you do get better at activities while drunk, like walking or driving, but I can assure you that what two drinks did to me when I never drank vs what they do now is entirely different. My rationality stays the same now. Note that the high alcohol content will catch up to you later (you’re still dehydrated), but in the moment alcoholics are an entirely different breed a couple drinks in. If you ever hang out with people who drink regularly and those who don’t, you’ll quickly see the difference.
How Will CRISPR Gene Editing Revolutionize Our Future?
We are on the verge of a health and gene editing revolution. CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (yes, complicated, but beautiful), a segment of DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences, is involved in the defense mechanisms of prokaryotic organisms to viruses. More simply, if we think of our genes as Google documents, then, with the CRISPR technology, we will be able to edit the document to change the features of the file, which is our DNA. So, what does the future hold? The possibilities are endless.
This is an entire seed round's worth of money on an operational expenditure.
The problem is it gets weaponized. If you're unlucky you have a client who runs a scan naively on your software and demands these get addressed as critical priorities under SLA.

I'm sure there are plenty out there with managers who will just run the report and demand these "security issues" are fixed and won't understand an explanation on why it's not relevant.
Any metrics on what TLDs are more unreliable than others and which one should avoid?
Wow. That's beautiful. Thanks for letting us know about a real-world use for nitinol.
What if your language got 100x faster? What if deployment became trivial? Would that be incentive enough? I would take annoying breakages for that.
> I wonder when Magnus will stop being able to "beat" Magnus of 1 year ago.

While this doesn't answer your question, it's interesting to note Magnus's peak rating was actually 7 and a half years ago, when he was only 23.
Jobs still reached an audience through iTunes. It paved the way for the iPhone to be untouched by carriers. Verizon rejected the first iPhone, but Cingular agreed to Apple's terms.[0]

[0] https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-28-verizon...
With a title like that, I thought about mechanical engineering. Humanity built machines to "automatically" perform tasks for the last 100+ years. Factories seem to always aspire toward automation at any technological level, even if fully mechanical.
I don't know if I'd characterize a price that's 10-25% more expensive than the alternative as just "a bit more."
Sony VAIOs were the MacBook pro’s of their day. I har a couple of them and so did my brother. All were very nice computers even with the garbage OS that was Windows Vista.

They had some cool models in the 2000s.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/6/5385716/sony-vaio-iconic-p...
I misread that too. He said "bike owner," not "bike shop owner"
.. and i still don't understand how we're all just supposed to ignore the monster chain crossing that this setup implies.
You mistake my reasons. Popularity is not an end in itself. Popularity, in this case, is a requirement to capture meaningful workloads to test what is purportedly a research operating system.

The reason that Plan 9 failed as a platform for exploring OS design (not strictly speaking "OS research" in a narrow sense) is that modern workloads didn't run there.

Honestly, who cares which platform supports a handful of processes running the moral equivalent of xclock, a few shells, a 1980s looking terminal and the occasional build? This isn't a proxy for anything that anyone cares about, and all modern hardware is ludicrously overpowered to do that. Give me a modern machine, and I could probably write you something that simulated a decent-looking 1989-level experience in pure Python (I am not saying this is a good idea).

It rapidly became impossible to test any meaningful ideas on Plan 9 because what consensus reality regards as "software" doesn't really run there. This filters down into potentially bad decisions about design of OS and runtimes. You can't test out ideas that come from anywhere outside your narrow circle of "the Unix room and miscellaneous fanboys and trainspotters".

For example, is "everything is a file" a good abstraction for a modern graphical interface of any kind? Who knows, we'll never see one ported to Plan 9, just a bunch of bitblt-level fingerpainting.

If Plan 9 had stayed popular (there's that word) enough to attract enough users to matter, maybe we could have explored these ideas. Not necessarily building a dumb clone of Windows and doing everything the same way, but having enough interoperability to make it a plausible daily driver.
Robert W Malone, MD: Physicians who speak out are being delegitimized
Calls for 'right-to-repair' rules for vehicles in Canada
Michael Dell went on John Calacanis' podcast last week too, discussing the book. It was a pretty good listen.

Jobs wanted a cut on every PC sold if the deal went through. That was too much for Dell since they were selling so much PCs already, so it fell through.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/googles-game-changing-...
On this page: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> "... a pretty solid study on the boredom of performance-oriented software engineers grouped by programming language."

I think that's probably the best way to describe it.
This reveals how the chasm between mobile operating systems (iOS, Android) and "desktop" operating systems (OSX, Windows) are impacting generations. The next generation live nearly their entire lives on smart phones and tablets. I think most almost never use a desktop computer unless they have to. And why should they? These mobile devices can do almost all conventional tasks that one would want out of a desktop computer. You mention that the concept of files is bewildering to them. And this makes sense when you consider the fact that mobile operating systems are "application based" while desktop operating systems are "file based". On a mobile OS, you never have to think about managing files. Everything is managed by the app. On desktops however, the user has more responsibility to properly manage files and have the appropriate application to run them.
I definitely fall into the latter category, that is I have very little tolerence for alchohol.
There are people I have known who can drink huge amounts and still be functional, these people drink steadily and regularly.
I gave up completely about two years ago and I strongly recommend this.
I was never a big drinker but stopping has had a dramatic effect on my weight and health.
It is not that difficult to stop and has dramatic benefits.
> From what I understand, the immune response from natural infection varies dependent on the individual and circumstance, so some may have tested positive with their immune system not eliciting as robust a response as someone who was vaccinated (or infected under different circumstances).

Can you explain why you don't believe the same would apply to the immune response elicited by vaccines?

There are breakthrough cases in people who are just a couple of months out from their second dose of even Pfizer and Moderna, and not all of these people are in age and risk groups where one would expect a poor immune response. So clearly YMMV with the vaccines as well.

> Another factor I have come across is that it may be that natural immunity is more variant specific while the vaccine results in a immune response to a wider array of variants.

The science actually indicates the opposite of what you suggest. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04060-7

> While individual memory antibodies selected over time by natural infection have greater potency and breadth than antibodies elicited by vaccination, the overall neutralizing potency of plasma is greater following vaccination.

So basically, if you recovered from natural infection, your memory B cells will be "better" than those generated by vaccination in terms of their potency and breadth (which speaks to the potential to deal with variants), but people who have been vaccinated have more potent neutralizing antibodies immediately following vaccination.

The problem, which can be seen in places like Israel, is that the neutralizing antibodies don't stick around forever. In fact, the latest data[1] suggests these antibodies wane quite rapidly (in as little as a couple of months) in those vaccinated with Pfizer. This is discouraging but not surprising. It doesn't make sense for the body to keep high levels of neutralizing antibodies circulating indefinitely every time you're exposed to a new pathogen.

The question: is the world prepared to boost everyone every 2-3 months to keep our veins flowing with high levels of neutralizing antibodies?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/health/pfizer-vaccine-waning-...
If Europe forces Apple to lower its commission by say 25%, that goes directly into the pockets of European companies, individuals, and taxes. It's a huge economic benefit. Why should they care if it makes some American monopoly sad?
You make a very adulterous point. There was too a point where MySpace did feel stale.

An anecdote isn’t data, but now you have me curious what the data looks like.
To add to this: any time somebody at my company who doesn't work on our Python services every day has to dip into them for a one-off task, it takes a day or two of troubleshooting their environment just to get to where they can start working with the actual code. And this isn't necessarily from scratch: any Python environment that's sat still for more than a few weeks becomes inevitably broken. It's a huge time-sink and I have to think it offsets any other productivity gains that Python may be giving us.

Personally I refuse to touch our Python services with a ten-foot pole. My local app hits the testing environment and that's that.
Fair. But also innovation at scale. GE overrelying on finance income, despite having so many other core competencies, would be a similar example. But then Amazon would be a counter-example of successful diversification (unless we want to look at their tolerate-fakes-for-revenue approach).

But it boggles my mind that Facebook doesn't trade at a discount, specifically due to Zuckerberg's sole control. A singular leader at that scale seems... dubious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)#History :
"Congress [... enacted the ...] Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) as part of the Revenue Act.[8] This occurred on November 6, 1978."
10 years ago people used computers for things that they use smartphones for today, like doing banking etc. So the category is everyone who feels they need a smartphone today but doesn't feel they need a computer today.
The Zig foundation is super transparent about where their money goes, modulo a few months of delay. Technically he's drawing a salary of something like 12k/month but he donates most of it back to the foundation (initially 100% of it was being donated back, but he's scaled back gradually so it's more like 80% last I checked). I don't know if he has any other income but it seems like Zig is really a labor of love.