skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colossal Biosciences | Multiple Positions | Austin, TX/Dallas, TX (REMOTE +/- 4 hours CST) | Full-Time | https://colossal.com/

We are a genetic engineering company building new technologies to advance the field of genomics. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction, beginning with the woolly mammoth.

I'm the head of engineering, we're looking to build out a Software platform and DevOps team to support running Bioinformatic analysis to support our core vision of advancing the field of genomics.

We're looking to hire Senior Golang developers to build out our backend APIs and services. You would work closely with our Bioinformatics team that is developing cutting-edge pipelines and help optimize building and running those pipelines on our custom built SaaS platform.

Tech Stack: Backend - Go, PostgresSQL, Google Cloud, Terraform, Nextflow. Frontend - React, Next.js, Typescript.

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Stuff was viral as soon as the printing press was invented and one could distribute printed material and have physical meetings. Instead of logging into some radical forum, you'd just drop everything and run off into the woods with Charlie Manson. The stuff coming out of Donald Trump's mouth has been the same rhetoric that's been all over AM airwaves for 50 years. Plenty of people figured this stuff out, earned doctorates in it, taught lectures in it, were hired on as consultants for it. This is why this stuff is so successful today, because propaganda is a long established science with a mountain of literature explaining just about everything you see play out today.
Read "The Machine Stops" (1909).[1]

Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk-that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh-a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs.

An electric bell rang.

The woman touched a switch and the music was silent.

"I suppose I must see who it is", she thought, and set her chair in motion. The chair, like the music, was worked by machinery and it rolled her to the other side of the room where the bell still rang importunately.

"Who is it?" she called. Her voice was irritable, for she had been interrupted often since the music began. She knew several thousand people, in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously.

But when she listened into the receiver, her white face wrinkled into smiles, and she said:

"Very well. Let us talk, I will isolate myself. I do not expect anything important will happen for the next five minutes-for I can give you fully five minutes, Kuno. Then I must deliver my lecture on “Music during the Australian Period”."

Sound familiar?

[1] http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html
Samsung announces NFT platform for smart TVs
BBC 100 Anniversary Website
The biggest perverse incentive for Google is that making better search results can mean less clicks to ads

This gets close to the real root of the issue -- attention is monetizable independently of the quality of content. There would be much less incentive to create SEO spam if search engines negatively weighted pages with ads and affiliate links, and if manufacturers were barred (e.g. by the FTC) from owning or imitating reviewers.
I'm not sure it's even necessary to blame politicians with influence.

Over the last few decades, we made home ownership a goal for the vast majority of the US populace. Now we expect those homeowners to vote against their own self-interest (to approve additional housing units/zoning).
I collect post views, but not using Google Analytics or anything like that. I built a pretty substantial developer blog (tips, resources, etc,.) back in 2014. I think it peaked at around 350,000 monthly visitors after 12 months.

Later on, I sold it because I needed the money. Not so much that I didn't want to keep working on it. Unfortunately, the new owners didn't have any idea how to maintain a "healthy" content blog, and it has plummeted down to around 30,000 monthly visitors. All the content they're publishing now is some thin headline-clickbait bullshit.

I even gave them free advice on how to fix it, but I think that for a lot of people, they just don't care and will mindlessly pump out as many pieces of content as possible. And such blogs can be identified from a mile away.

And therein lies the problem with Google SEO at the moment. Even myself, someone who has done SEO work for more than a decade, I can see that results are getting worse. In some niches, the same crappy articles that dominated 6-7 years ago are still dominant today.

I guess we're stuck in time, or so Google thinks.
I sorta figured reddit was a more likely representation, especially with the rise of very good but amateur accounts like /u/poppinkream
I don't think "preventing issues" is the reason for deploy freezes. It's more about minimizing change with the hope of minimizing the surface area the skeleton crew needs to consider when an issue does happen.
> PHIMBYs

Basically don't exist. AHIMBYs do, but even people who demand affordable units don't want public units anywhere close to where they live.

> But the elephant in the room is that so much resistance comes from poor people who think “luxury housing” (aka anything market rate) will lead to more gentrification.

In any place without open space, the only way to build new housing is redevelopement; if you target the top of the market (which is what “market rate” housing means), you cannot have any hyperlocal (and wider, on a short-term scale) effect besides more gentrification.

The intermediate term, wider area (but still somewhat local) effect may be more affordable housing as existing housing becomes more down-market through competitive forces, but that also could be offset by further increasing nonhousing costs and reduction in nonhousing services targeting the lower income segment as the gentrifiers reshape local markets.
> literally nobody else could or would implement the same Apple-proprietary ISA extensions.

That is maybe a little excessive, technically they could probably pay an other architecture license holder to do it for them.
"SEO" spam is "Google SEO" problem. So SE ranking Optimization is not (yet) so much a problem for other Crawler/index SEs (Bing, Mojeek, Gigablast). You might say that Amazon (in eCommerce) and TRIP (in Travel) have cracked the problem of combining good/deep Content/Reviews and Category expertise with Search.

We regularly see partnership opportunities with customers interested in our API [0]. I presume Bing see the same, though their terms are more fixed and require you sharing more data. Definitely big opportunities in other categories, which are often squandered through a naive, if understandable route, of choosing a Scrape and index route.

[0] https://www.mojeek.com/support/api/
I mean, Google is big and it has that advantage like any big enterprise, but the search engine market is very permeable compared to what people traditionally refer to as a moat (say, trying to compete with YouTube as a video hosting platform or with Salesforce as a CRM).

If you have a good search engine, people will flock to it, and search ads will be valuable. That's it. That's how Google became Google.

The fact that Microsoft couldn't do it honestly doesn't mean much. Microsoft also couldn't do a phone OS, a portable music player, and many other things. They have a complex web of conflicting interests that $SEARCH_ENGINE_STARTUP does not.
i’m also worried about how they calculate this rent-to-income ratio.

> Monroe County in Florida, where the median market rate rent consumes 62.9 percent of the area’s median household income.

at this point, if they’re using the IRS definition of “household”, they’re probably overestimating how much each household pays on rent. as rent per sqft rises there’s a competing effect whereby more people of different tax households pool their income and collectively rent just one unit.

e.g. median IRS household income is $100,000. median house rent is $60,000/yr. 4 unrelated people each making the median income choose to share that roof. the median share of income going to rent in this case is 15% — not the 60% that could be calculated if you compared median unit rent directly to median IRS household income.

the methodology seems pretty important and should be touched on, otherwise it’s easy for the reader to misinterpret what these numbers actually mean.
So far electric vehicles are getting worse not better, because they're less regulated on things like OBD access.

And manufactures see them as a chance to make an always connected car that phones home. Tesla was first but everyone else is copying them now.
Bang on. Saying that "there isn't anything out there anymore" is missing the point: Google's algorithms created this situation, intentionally or not. Before Google, people linked to what they wanted and communities would naturally cluster around topics of interest. Google came in and made reputation into a currency which effectively destroyed all these communities through incentivizing selfishness.
$250k REMOTE, work when you like: Go, Rust, Solidity devs to work on my blockchain projects. (Blockchains software sucks and we can make it suck less!) About me: RichardHeart.com. Our team is quite good, you'll be working with intelligent, fun and productive folks.

PulseChain.com (Raised $27M for medical research!) (Ethereum fork with full state/POS/Fee burn.) https://gitlab.com/pulsechaincom/pulsechain-testnet

PulseX.com (Uniswap fork with yield farming incentive token. (like sushi and pancake swaps)

HEX.com Deploy encapsulated HEX stakes on other networks. https://github.com/StakerApp/staker-shares-contracts

Metamask replacement (blockchain wallet.) Easiest to fork their old version pre their license change to max 10k users. Thus a chrome extension.

You must speak good English.

t.me/RichardHeart and devs at HEX.com (but I really prefer telegram) are the best ways to reach me.

I've received thousands of messages from people who say I changed their life for the better through the software I've founded. The things we build really do make the world a better place.
But escapees also have an incentive to lie. Nobody will hire them, assuming they're spies.

The only real employment they can get is giving interviews about how awful and insane North Korea is.

That's not to say it isn't, of course.
FTA:

> When the BSI (Germany's Federal Office for Information Security)

> migrated back from Linux to Windows, a need to migrate their

> end-to-end encryption solution, based on GnuPG and KMail, was needed.

What was the reason for going from Linux -> Windows? The original Windows -> Linux had plenty of articles about this, but I can't find any (english) articles on this change.
Good read...

"Dirt to Soil One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture", by Gabe Brown, 2018

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown―in an effort to simply survive―began experimenting with new practices he'd learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers. As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture.

Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture. He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices. In so doing Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life―starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.

In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge―restoring the soil. The Brown's Ranch model, developed over twenty years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil. Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown's Ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only twenty years! The 5,000-acre ranch profitably produces a wide variety of cash crops and cover crops as well as grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured laying hens, broilers, and pastured pork, all marketed directly to consumers.

The key is how we think, Brown says. In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things. But that mindset was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized. Now he channels his creative thinking toward how he can get more life on the land―more plants, animals, and beneficial insects. "The greatest roadblock to solving a problem," Brown says, "is the human mind."

One source:
https://u1lib.org/book/5283239/7bd9a9
38.14 MB

About the Author

Gabe Brown is a pioneer of the soil-health movement and has been named one of the twenty-five most influential agricultural leaders in the United States. Brown, his wife, Shelly, and son, Paul, own Brown’s Ranch, a holistic, diversified 5,000-acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. The Browns integrate their grazing and no-till cropping systems,

which include cash crops and multispecies cover crops along with all- natural, grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured pork, and laying hens. The

Brown family has received a Growing Green Award from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the USA Zero-Till Farmer of the Year Award.
Dictionary definition. I won’t engage any further
Hundreds of Megabytes? That’s a big number to you? Did you step out of a time warp from 1990?

Also you are surprisingly quite clueless about basic crypto if you think storage is the biggest issue with practically using one time pads (though it is indeed one). I’m pretty sure even the Wikipedia article can explain this so no reason to spoon feed it here.
A search engine that only indexed Reddit, Stack Exchange, Wikipedia, and a small number of other "good" sites would get 80% of the way there.

No, DDG bang operators don't let you do this. I want an SERP, not a shortcut to a single site's on-site search.
Hey HN,

My side project that is (finally!) good enough state to share.

Lore and Quill is book site to discover books via a clean browsable interface so you can quickly see lots of books that can match your tastes.
E.g. Here are books about Business and Technology : https://lorequill.com/books?gg=59&gg=906&fc=nonfic&ac=r

If you find this useful, you can also curate your bookshelf and share it with friends with the same interface.

Would love to get your feedback on it.

Thanks,
MG
> homoiconicity... is simultaneously very prosaic and very deep

That's what drives me on. That and Rich Hickey's enthusiasm and the sense that he knows something really valuable that I don't. I watch a lot of videos as well, so I can't remember who said that programming languages were user interfaces between human and machine and are an attempt to talk to machines to get them to do things. In that sense, programming languages are a lot deeper than syntax convenience or efficiency. A good language allows us to talk to machine at a much higher level, and I get from functional programmers that this is what they find so attractive.

I will contact you if I get really stuck and when I finally get it just to share it with someone. Thanks!

edit: I've heard a lot about SICP but never looked into it. I think it's time, now that I have time
This is why I love audiophile marketing/reviews so much. They make every single equipment "upgrade" sound like a huge change in how the music sounds. Just throw in enough dull and lively sounding adjectives and you can convince the reader that yes, this expensive piece of equipment is EXACTLY what you're missing!
I indeed coded with modern computers/browsers in mind. It's unfortunate to hear someone is siting at "Working on it...", because at least for me on Chrome+Windows at home accessing my production website, it is very quick. I have heard some people also say it's quick, but it is starting to seem like 10% or so are having issues with performance. I could see the wallpaper being an issue. Or the CDN perhaps not having it cached as my web server is slow if it needs to grab from there. Thanks for the feedback!
Remote Work vs. the Costs of Commuting
FWIW that's the project lead for Asahi Linux (the effort to build a distro working perfectly on M1), I expect they know what you're talking about already :)
CR do not review moving companies.

They have articles on how to avoid dodgy ones but make no recommendations.
Actually, a lot of people do. Ever heard of Laravel, Django or Ruby or Rails? Outside of the React/JS world, a lot of developers are happy solving real business problems instead of working with hacks that were built on top of browser DOMs.
Location: London

Remote: possible
Willing to relocate: possible

Senior, self-taught, BSc Computer Science, MSc Information Security. Experience in a range of areas from C/C++ QUIC networking to React to penetration testing to AWS Lambda with TypeScript.

A trusted problem solver who is often asked to do odd jobs by senior management, in addition to larger scale work.

TypeScript, Node, Java, AWS, Serverless, Docker, ~Go, ~Flutter, ~React, ~C

Only able to work up to 3 days each week.

Contact: alastair - grokkie - com
> poll/read/write

The “non-blocking” nature of those calls were invented for network servers, not for video games. Not only is jitter tolerable there but high latency is allowed from the lowest layers of the stack. It’s not uncommon to simply get no response from a network request.

A video game should never ever do arbitrary system calls on its main drawing thread unless those system calls are specifically intended for that use case. Jitter is not tolerable in this use case since the timing requirements are so strict. The code must product a frame every 16.6ms, no exceptions. The interface must never become unresponsive.

> RTOS does not guarantee that system calls do not block

RTOSes do indeed provide upper bounds for all calls.

> And, again, when interacting with device files you must refer to the kernel documentation rather than POSIX

Yes that would be a relevant point if it were the case that the kernel documentation for these devices specified that close() should complete within some time bound.
CxO Insight: Reporting Cybersecurity to the Board
> This. Everything's equivalent. This.

This.
Khan Academy | Backend, Fullstack, Quality Engineers | Remote / Mountain View, CA | US + Canada | Full-time | khanacademy.org

Khan Academy is an educational non-profit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. You may have used our site to study for math classes or brush up on other topics. We've got a lot of content (including official SAT prep), and it's all free. We provide features for teachers and school districts to make Khan Academy a valuable supplemental resource in classrooms.

We've got a 10-year-old+ code base, but the vast majority of our backend has been rewritten in Go. Our React-based frontend (and React Native-based mobile apps) talk to this backend via GraphQL. We've got a big, audacious mission and have lots more to build.

https://www.khanacademy.org/careers#openings
Thanks for doing this pkhodiyar! It's an amazing list and I am honored to be on it!
People do what they have to do to preserve themselves, their minds and world views. This includes allowing themselves to be brainwashed into believing nonsense if it's necessary to survive.

Scientists are no different. If falsifying results or avoiding certain research areas is what is needed to keep your career - and stay alive - then that's what they will do.

It's not a new phenomena, see e.g. Galileo. Arguably the most extreme case of this was in Stalin's Soviet Union, hence the term Lysenkoism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism) for "deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically, religiously or socially desirable."

We are thankfully nowhere near the extremes of Stalin's murderous regime. No one is going to put a bullet in anyones skull if they publish anything saying men are better than women, or anything about "race". But, if they do, regardless of if the research is absolutely perfect, there is still a definite risk to employment. How many institutions or companies would employ someone controversial? How many people would self-censor to avoid the controversial? Water down what they found etc? In general risk what puts bread on their table? For my money, if that doesn't limit the spread of ideas and search for truth what does?
Excellent reply to an obvious troll.
To be fair, LAN9250s generally also have awful perf in the same ballpark.
Exactly. Eeking out every ounce of productivity from land is different to getting the highest return on a financial investment.

My hunch is that small farms are cash poor but time rich and that has implications. At some point the bottleneck switches from cash to available time of talented people.
The article didn't say what happened. Did they turn over everyone but her in the 18 months? Or did everyone but her change their position? Or did everyone but her decide that they had to look and act like they changed their position in order to fit with new directions coming down from on high?

She didn't say. I wish she had; I would like to know what drove the change.
I love that story but the passage you quote is akin to answering a phone call and broadcasting a lecture. The Machine Stops is prescient in many ways but it does not explore the ramifications of a world where anyone can publish
thanks for the unbiased summary we need more people like you
Engineering is the art of making trade-offs between multiple competing concerns. Efficiency is one such concern but it is not the only one. Safety matters too. You can make aircraft more efficient by eliminating all of the safety equipment and redundant systems. That might have made sense for the Wright Flyer but no sane person would advocate that for a modern passenger airliner.

If the subtraction problem were the only issue that might be manageable but it is not. It is just one example of a very long list of such problems. C and C++ are metaphorical minefields of gotchas, any one of which can result in a literal crash or a security breach, which in today's world can be every bit as damaging as a physical failure of a critical system. Actual examples of this occur on an almost daily basis. It is akin to trying to build a modern passenger aircraft out of wood and muslin. It really is unacceptable.
Except you are wrong.

CR do not and have never recommended moving firms.

They in fact have articles on how to avoid being scammed by firms and best practices but make no recommendations.

I think the burden here is on you or others making this claim to link some evidence.