skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes (Open to non-remote and flex for the right position)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, SQL, PostgreSQL, Angular/React/Vue, Express/Node

Résumé/CV: Happy to send one via email

Email: matt[dot]leonard[dot]22[at]protonmail[dot]com

Been tinkering with web dev for the past 5 or so years. Went back to school and recently completed my BS Computer Science in nights/evenings while also working a full time job. Currently working for a small SaaS company as an Internal Tools Developer. Looking for a gig where I can work on something meaningful. Open to position at any point of the stack.
Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, CSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, CSPO, SAFe

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seasonhughes

Email: seasonhughes@gmail.com

Agile Coach and Scrum Master with a decade of experience in tech at companies like Amazon, Atlassian, Dolby, and TripAdvisor. I coach and train teams on Agile methodologies and values to enable high performance, continuous improvement, and motivation.
Didn't spotify used to have a native platform application?
Trying not to throw the older/helpless out into the street. Its no fault of theirs that the house they own increased from $40k to $3M(know 2 elderly people in this exact situation) and they would now incur a gigantic tax bill(if prop-13 was repealed). They could sell but would most likely be forced to move out of the area and away from all family/community and would be devastating to a person of advanced age or who was disabled.

Also the thinking would be "oh they will have so much money!", #1 the majority of the windfall would be taxed at max tax rate, and #2 I imagine people preying on these forced out older "millionaires" ie. family members and con artists.
Physicists create and observe a new state of matter, ‘Quantum Spin Liquid’
It was “safe”, considering the wallstreetbets alternatives. Like 5% OTM calls on stable indexes or tickers, expiring within 3-5 days.
But the government doesn't get involved at the outset of new contracts between businesses. I get that government, via the courts, has involvement when there's a dispute, but it's not like two companies wanting a contractural relationship have to file the contract with the government when it's created.
A rare quality for members of any community.
I have never heard this quote before, but I like it. It's a good point. So how about this to help lead the discussion. We, the HackerNews community, seem to have a general consensus that increasing supply is the best way to lower prices. Rather straight forward, really. But the reason why housing is currently limited is due to a conflict of interests; existing property owners want to stifle supply. And they have more political power than non-property owners in the state. So perhaps we can discuss ingenious policy ideas that would help feed their own self interests, but result in increased supply? The following article references how other countries were able to accomplish such a feat [How to turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/09/11/h...)
I went through the hell of their system of bug reporting to report this bug. After some time they just deleted it stating it was re-assigned by some bright individual to some other bug that is not fixed for years. I argued that this bug is different but never got reply from that bright individual.

So why do you think that dealing with such bright individuals when I'll fix the bug would be a success story? I mean if the one in charge of the project opens a new tab that doesn't work properly and instead of fixing it this bright individual presumably goes along the lines you've described then what are the chances that my fix would be applied? If everything under control of such bright individuals that do not see it as a problem in the first place how working to support them is even justified ?
> Someone inevitable mentions QT in these conversations. Find me a single successful QT based app.

Let me start with Telegram. The ux is universally liked (yes, even by the Mac crowd!)

> Front end focused? It makes desktop apps accessible period.

If someone just wanted to create cross platform applications quickly and push them upon people who don't have a choice (i.e. in an enterprise) there always used to be Java Swing as well.

Far easier than Electron, even approaching VB6-simplicity in GUI design, but with a sane language behind.

So, GP was right: It makes it easier for frontend devs.

Edit: yes, a lot.
The media is extremely focused on the number of infected and how infectious a new variant is.

Somehow the low number of new hospitalizations is not newsworthy.

Here in Denmark the hospitalizations have been steady at around 45% of the numbers we had when there was no vaccine.

It's also 45% of the numbers we had in 2017/2018 with the flu back then. But that fact is not being used much to put things into perspective.
As an amateur programmer, it really does feel like Electron would be one of those things that's absolutely garbage except for literally everything else which is even worse.

I am able to do and automate all sorts of very cool and amazing things that wow friends and family, mostly through bash as well as some Python.

And then there's GUIs. It makes no sense that they are this hard to program. If it's the tiniest bit more complex than something that can be done with Zenity, it's probably not going to happen. Nothing comes close to being as easy as some web-type GUI, which aren't themselves that easy.
> Overnight, their house is much more valuable because if they choose to, they can sell to a developer who can make MORE money by building more homes. And if they choose to keep their house as is, nobody is going to force them.

In normal states -- people oppose up-zoning, because if their lot becomes more valuable, they instantly lose a lot of money. Sure, it's on-paper higher, but if they stay, that just means higher property taxes instantly (it's not uncommon for taxes to double or more after a few years of gentrification have occurred), along with higher cost of living (every other thing around them, like child care and restaurants and such will all get more expensive, to cover the higher rent and higher cost of living for those folks). And that's before getting to all the other minor annoying issues (extra noise, less infrastructure per person, income inequality, etc)

And sure, in theory they could sell out. But how, for what? Sure, in California, you can always just assume there's a boring midwest/south place to escape to -- but for everyone already in the midwest/south, no such escape option exists. If those folks leave, they'll have to buy a new place somewhere else, and they're all expensive too. If your $50k house is now worth $500k on-paper, but every other place to live is now $800k and up, you can't afford to stay (property taxes + cost of living are eating your income) and you can't afford to leave (everywhere else is getting even more expensive, there's no where to 'sell out' to). And that's before getting to the fact that the average person literally can't move anywhere meaningfully different. (They have a job that forces them to stay in market, or are going to a specific university, or have kids, or have kids with divorced ex-spouses, or are caring for elderly parents, etc, etc)

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This is of course, just for normal/boring states. California has this "never charge people actual property taxes" law weirdness that complicates things.
Musescore? Wireshark? Transmission? TeXStudio?
Yeah. If he'd have been younger he'd have been prosecuted for doing what he did... sympathies of his neighbors notwithstanding, this guy probably destroyed more information about native culture than any other person since Cortez.

Plenty of people nowadays get their vehicles seized and jail time for getting caught digging one hole somewhere they shouldn't... this guy wholesale looted graves for decades and people thought he was just a nice old guy.
Easier?

You can get a functional, graphical, Hello World! WinForms app running in like 10 seconds, ok, perhaps 20 seconds if your computer is slow

I can teach anybody with very basic programming skills to build something fancy in like 2 hours

No idea about Mac environment, but I guess it must be similar.
With so many data breaches occurring, we all probably have free credit report monitoring for life.

It's completely ridiculous. There's zero consequences for bad security. All companies need to do is report the breach to the government, buy "credit monitoring" for the victims which costs pennies, and deal with half a day of bad press on Twitter. Meanwhile, consumers have to deal with identity theft consequences, which in a court of law, is nearly impossible to tie back to a specific incident.

Until governments impose serious fines, even to mom and pop businesses scaled up to massive corporations, this will not change.
Am I the only one that questioned how hard he was actually looking? Or is the assumption that there were only 50 in the whole world and Miller managed to snatch all of them
Nix, is a dynamically typed language, i.e. the language gives every value at runtime a type, but there a no compile-time (i.e. static) checks whether any function or operator calls will match at runtime to their parameters. Programs can be translated from dynamically typed-languages to statically typed languages. Either by infering types at translation time or by exhaustively adding lots of cases to every function or operator call depending on the runtime. The first approach can in principle only translate a subset of all programs, the latter does not give you any additional guarantees, because you have encoded an interpreter for the dynamically-type language into the statically typed language.
Whether the first approach could be used on a large codebase like nixpkgs is highly questionable, the second approach would not yield any advantages here.
Could you do this with any brokerage, or would others tell you "no, not letting you do that"? E.g. if we accept the gambling comparison, in actual gambling we do regulate (admittedly to different degrees, and not necessarily successfully) what gambling providers can and can't do.
It would probably be cheaper but less convenient. I was in a ski house once with people who lived in Manhattan (carless) and every weekend they came up there was lots of planning and overhead associated with the rental car.

Manhattan is obviously extreme but most people who can afford to do sso would rather just have a car they can jump into when they want to.
Yeah, some do. But consider that there are at least millions of new infections a day, globally...
LA resident here. There are a number of problems with housing in LA. This will help a little, but more will need to be done.

However, it should be noted that duplexes in single-family neighborhoods are not new. There are plenty of them here. I'm over in Westchester, and our neighborhood has dozens of 2 and 4-plexes. I've never heard a single-family homeowner here complain about it. My brother used to live in a duplex down in Redondo, as well.

They've also built about 4 or 5 low-rise apartment complexes within 1 mile of my house in the last 3-4 years. Again, I haven't heard any complaints from homeowners. (And as one myself, I have no complaints.)

People like to say the problem is that we don't have enough housing. While that's part of the problem, the bigger problem is that we have plenty of housing that nobody wants. A few years ago, the LA Times ran an article about how there were several large luxury apartment complexes built downtown that nobody wanted to move into. The problem is less that housing isn't being built and more that it's only being built for the high end, and the people at the high end have better options.

Honestly, I'm not sure whether a duplex is that much more affordable than a house. Maybe your recently minted Googlers and such will move into them, but the much larger pool of people who work in the area and don't get paid those salaries still won't have anyplace affordable to live. Hopefully this is just the first step.
If I may ask, what's the default keybinding for dang-macroexpand-1?
I live in Ballard, and bought a town home with a parking spot because I couldn't see the alternative working out (even though, in theory, our transit isn't that bad, living next to the D-line). I mean, there were some nice places that lacked spots, but until my kid is 10 or so years old, we need a car even if we only drive it occasionally.

I don't get why Seattle doesn't introduce permit street parking in our neighborhood though. It just seems like there are way too many cars vying for on street parking. And that's in places that aren't being overrun by RVs and vans.
It seems a bit unlikely that mass co-ordinated behaviour that's this effective would spontaneously arise like that.
Especially, most of these chat apps have functionally similar web/PWA apps. In those cases, I prefer to install them as desktop PWAs or use Chrome's "Create shortcut" feature to get them into my Dock/Taskbar.

One little bonus is that my browser extensions also apply to these installed PWAs. For example, the Todoist PWA now shows me the Toggle icon next to each task as an easy shortcut to start the time tracker.

In my case, I have these running as Chrome PWAs:

- Raindrop.io
- Grammarly Editor
- Todoist
- Discord
- Element
- Whatsapp
- Twitter

And these are still running as regular Electron/CEF apps:

- 1Password
- Obsidian
- VSCode
- Gitkraken
- Slack
- Spotify

Whenever the web alternative catches up with the Electron app, I move to the PWA. Probably the biggest drawback of this is that Firefox is not a suitable alternative for me anymore :( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407202
Correct, but I'm also not saying that isn't true? They aren't mutually exclusive. Electron can still be good/useful for many people, and companies like Spotify/Discord/Slack can still get criticized for not hiring devs to make dedicated teams to build native apps. Just because some companies are choosing the technology in ways people don't like, doesn't make the technology itself bad. I hardly ever see anyone phrase it that way, though. It's only "ELECTRON BAD", not "SLACK IS BAD FOR USING ELECTRON."
Right but that gets into scaling problems and arguments... for a hundred people sticks might work, for a thousand it gets dicey, by 10,000 things start to break down as factionalism spontaneously emerges: within our tribe we handle things via social cohesion and weak displays of symbolic force, outside our tribe we handle things via stronger displays of retribution

Point is that "hit with a stick" happens to also centralize power, albeit dynamically, at scale.

If you're really looking for a counterexample to centralized institutions, a better metaphor is probably "ecosystem." No centralized authority tells the lions to be kings and queens of the savannah, their status as apex predators comes dynamically from some transform {biosphere} -> {biosphere} finding a natural fixed point which has stability simply from the abstract mathematics of fixed points. A similar dynamic stability exists in the US in the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats, no central authority says that there have to be only two parties, but rather the rules of the game state "we divide everything into districts and every race is run as winner-take-all" which naturally induces this 50/50 two-party split that will destroy the country eventually
At one company I worked at we had an 'out of coverage bucket'. It was a zinc plated steel bucket. Worked almost every time. Some dude had found at an arts and craft store a very small version of the same thing. It fit over phones perfectly. Basically put device on ground. Put bucket over it. If you had any gaps or any cables hanging out it was sort of iffy and you would get coverage sometimes.
> "Elderly amateur archeologist has collection seized by FBI for doing basically what professional state sanctioned archeologists do but without state permissions"

If you think what he did is what professional archaeologists do, you have no idea what they do.
As I have been ranting about it for more than half a decade. Apple Retail was basically left unattended for years. After Ron Johnson, it was John Browett, which got fired after only six months, then Angela Ahrendts and Deirdre O'Brien.

Their change in KPI to NPS. And cost cutting measures during the past 10 years.

I would have thought things would improved, and in some area it did as Deirdre is finally opening more Apple Store. Something that was nearly halted under Angela. But it looks like the people management isn't quite back to where it was in Steve Jobs era. After all she came from Operation, working under Tim Cook at one point.
Doesn't it share that missing band with Alpha though? There's not much Alpha around these days, so it's a good signal, but if you go back in time that would confound your search.
it definitely helps a lot. i have horrible pain using a laptop for long periods, but when i was more active it really helped with the pain and soreness.
The point is that the variant was already present in some European countries before Southern African ones. So, to impose a travel ban that doesn't include the former group is a punitive and ineffective containment tactic developed with a prejudiced lens.
Uh yes? If you don’t make software then obviously you won’t make software for macOS either lol?

Those folks also us macOS, but that was not the poiI tried to make.
> it would far less tyrannical for the neighbor to force me to remove the tree through the government

The neighbor wouldn't be the tyrannical one. And, there's better solutions - put the liability for the tree on the person whose property it's on. That's a fair assignment of responsibility. I do think it would be tyrannical for the government to declare that all trees must be removed if they meet certain criteria.
haven't you noticed yet? HN is full of techies who think front-end should barely be a separate discipline
Where do you get this definition? Wiktionary just talks about widespread agreement, not unanimous agreement: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consensus

To be fair, I've heard it used (presumably) the same way, but I understood this to be a type of consensus that relies on an agreement by all.

From the wikipedia definition on consensus-based decision-making:

> The focus on establishing agreement of the supermajority and avoiding unproductive opinion, differentiates consensus from unanimity, which requires all participants to support a decision.
Again?! They had a huge breach a handful of years ago too.

On a somewhat related note: I don't think Aetna is too far behind. Their website is just as awful as Anthem and as a software dev myself, I know that if you don't put care into your consumer-facing products, your security is probably really poor.
This article gives some insights on how other countries have addressed their housing shortages. [How to turn NIMBYs into YIMBYs](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/09/11/h...). This is likely just one of many other explanations as to how.
And another question, is it possible to also have remote screen control in addition to screen sharing?

I don't even know if there is such a thing?
France is 5 months mandatory. UK is 3 months availability.
From 2010-2020 the flu killed ~30,000 Americans per year. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

Edit COVID has actually killed 800,000 Americans.

20x of 30k < 800k. You can cut argue it should cover multiple years of flu, except the first US COVID case was less than 2 years ago and it really only got started in March 2020. Per month COVID has killed more people than the flu does per year on average and it’s not exactly stopping this winter.

Years lost are then on top of that deaths multiplier.
Definitely agree. Multiple monitors distract.
Unrelated question, and not to pick on you if English isn't your first language - I'm always impressed by people who speak any multiple languages with any competency:

I've seen people misspelling flu as "flue" a lot over the course of this pandemic. I thought maybe that it was a British spelling, or that it was the word in German or French or Russian or something and foreign language speakers were mistakenly using the same word in English based on the similarity, but I can't find a language where that's the case. What's up with that?
CI/CD for ios apps
I agree I just like to add for development it'd be nice to at least a terminal window and an editor open side by side. In case of web dev the browser pointing to localhost and the editor side by side. I don't understand why an "ideal monitor for programmers" would need to have space for Twitter.
I wish writers would stop using overdone intros like this

"Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5 years..."

I see this sort of thing and I just want to stop reading. Only worse is

"This isn't your father's..."
We seem to have been increasingly getting bad at that guessing game... Thankfully coronavirus put the kaibosh on the flu at least in the short term, so if it was the flu pangenome making a meta-evolutionary play, we may have reset that clock.
You can definitely buy $400K worth of call options on other brokerages. Aside from the initial onboarding period + making sure you have the money (which he did), I don't think there's anything stopping you from doing this anywhere.
True, file system compatibility is a really big deal.
I only have so many gb of ram which means i am limited in the number of electron apps i can run on my system
Again, cause and effect backwards here. He was attacked previous to any trigger pulling.
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They have no point to refute. What specific point are you talking about? I've been trying to pull it out.

I believe social media behemoths have been biased in their moderation / censorship and they should make their mod logs public.

That's a specific criticism and suggestion. What is your specific criticism and suggestion?

Crying whataboutism is a cop-out, you only replied to my comparisons. I said much more, including questions trying to drill their point out of them.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Uber introduces booking rides from WhatsApp
> LA is already building various large expansions of public transit

which suffers from many difficulties and cost overruns because of existing layout.

I think it would be more cost efficient to build another city/town nearby from the ground, and people decide where they want to live given differences in cost and lifestyle.
Yeah, I have the same feeling. Chrome feels like a carefully planned campaign of tricks to enter every aspect of your life and make it controlled by Google. Facebook feels like a browser with occasional frantic episodes of random folks having an idea "let's make money on $this" (where $this is so stupid you can't believe it), and the usually it disappears and another person has another equally brilliant idea. Not ideal, but I can live with that, it doesn't even come close to what Google is doing. And each year they go further.
Hi, there!

I was trying to find any open position for Mexico but it seems that that location is not even listed on the filter feature. I'm not sure if any US remote position is also eligible for Mexico. I'm interested on ML Engineer.

Regards!
The anti-Electron crowd understands the reasons Electron has taken off just as you understand that there are benefits to native apps. It's just a matter of different priorities.

I don't think anybody is on a particularly high horse.
I absolutely believe Slack can’t hire enough developers to build native platforms for Mac/Windows/Linux without hilariously extensive & expensive retraining.

Have you tried to hire developers with eg AppKit experience in the past 5 years? I have, twice. Neither were small companies. Both routes went electron because 95% of the native Mac developer pool works in Cupertino or China, and it’s a kiddy pool at that.