skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LUMICKS | Multiple roles | Amsterdam, NL | FULL-TIME / PART-TIME, ONSITE, VISA | lumicks.com

Software engineers at LUMICKS write the code behind two of the most exciting instruments in life sciences, C-Trap and z-Movi. C-Trap helps scientists to understand fundamental biological processes by visualizing and manipulating single molecules of DNA and proteins. z-Movi is a unique immunology tool which uses acoustic waves to allow researchers to understand how immune cells interact with cancers on a single cell level.

As a team we are responsible for the full software stack that powers our instruments, from data acquisition and processing through to the analysis software used by scientists in laboratories across the world. We bring it all together with intuitive user interfaces so our customers can focus on the experiment they want to perform, not the complex hardware and analysis underneath. We care deeply about providing our users with easy-to-use, reliable software that actively supports Open Data and Reproducible Science.

As a software engineer at LUMICKS you'll get the opportunity to work alongside a range of other disciplines including biologists, immunologists, and mechanical and electronics engineers as we continue to develop our instruments towards our goal of improving human health.

We are currently looking to fill the following roles:

- C++ Software Engineer (all levels of experience) - see https://lumicks.com/vacancies/cpp-software-developer

- UI / UX Software Engineer (experienced) - see https://lumicks.com/vacancies/ui-ux-software-engineer

- QA Engineer (experienced) - see https://lumicks.com/vacancies/qa-engineer

- Python Developer Automated Testing (experienced) - see https://lumicks.com/vacancies/python-autofat-engineer/

- Python Developer Cell Avidity (experienced) - see https://lumicks.com/vacancies/python-autofat-engineer/

We use the following technologies:

- C++20 for our core codebase, Qt (QML) for the UI, and Python 3 for automation and analysis.

- CMake builds everything and Conan manages our dependencies.

- Libraries we use include abseil, asio, caf (C++ actor framework), catch2, cereal, fmt, opencv, pybind11, ranges-v3 and spdlog.

Read the full job descriptions, and apply directly, at: https://lumicks.com/careers
Also reminds me of the old story about the Air Force discovering that you cannot design a single seat for all pilots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287

Seems to me we're regressing to the view they had before this story: "If I just had more data, I could find out the real seat dimensions that will fit everyone! Then I can finally do away with all those pesky knobs and levers!"
I think the length of the explanation is due to the impact this had. Most Firefox bugs don't cause all Firefoxes everywhere to stop working simultaneously. That's quite the WTF and it's hard to understand how it is even possible without the explanation.
Look at the Indexed Finance hack, the hacker has been identified, and is fighting it in court (or claiming he will anyway), under the argument "code is law"

Definitely an interesting one to watch
I pay for Pocket, it's been my main bookmarking tool for years ever since Feedly got too intricate for my needs. I was a founding member of Feedly when Google Reader went down but it got too many features and too complicated for my taste.
> In your dictionary if I play poker and get a lucky hand I am now privileged.

Reductio ad absurdum. A poker hand is dealt randomly, as are circumstances of birth and other factors, sure. But the next poker hand we are all on equal footing.

However the analogy is a good one if you extend it. If you win a big poker hand early in the game, gameplay changes once you're the chip lead. Your definition of what a good hand is changes. You are able to take chances and play hands that someone else couldn't. Once you have a stack of chips, you can win hands with those chips regardless of what cards are dealt. Sure, it's not a guarantee and you still have to play the rest of the game well.
Germany isn't really a good example on anything that requires plurality. Currently society exposes primitive peer pressure and fear and that is reflected in decisions like this. This is clearly a pretext too.
Biggest Texas Bitcoin Miner Shuts Down Ahead of Cold Blast
Final Fantasy VI is my all time favourite Final Fantasy game. There's something so ... spiritual about it that modern games have really struggled to capture. I wonder if that partly is because voice acting in some ways often takes away from the experience- less often is more. Along with the wonderful story and script, it allows you to fill in a lot of gaps.
If it were remade I just don't think the new one would have the same feeling. In the same way that both 'Secret of Mana' and 'Final Fantasy' remakes again fall short of their originals. As pretty and polished as they are, they have lost the deepness to them - or perhaps they were just not daring enough.
I like this sentence from the link:

> Many papers have errors, yes—but our major results generally hold up, even when the intermediate steps are wrong!
I see more poison in your attitude than his.
Advent Of Computing podcast (https://adventofcomputing.com/) did an episode about this which is worth a listen

Its episode 57 or is on youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLI5AKoyjMM
Bro, you wanna send a bunch of emails to keep up with your friends. Facebook is and was the truly first social media for the masses.

I hate Facebook, but I will buy its stock, and I will make money.
Microsoft swallows up Activision, a further concentration of power
Someone posting a recent sociology paper behind a paywall in support of proposition p makes me update my beliefs closer to ¬p.
Wow, I remember TSSF from IRC back in the 90s.
Very impressive.

Note: I had to disable uBlock Origin to get this to work.
That is important to know but orthogonal to the GP's point.

Removing Facebook from my Browser bookmarks etc. improved my life a lot. However I didn't delete the account as some shops unfortunately update their opening times etc. only there and especially in current pandemic world that sometimes is needed to check ...
Win/lose/draw on blockchain long-term, in between the generally scamminess some of us are trying to figure out if we can create lasting utility/value in the space. Honest answer: we don’t know!

With that said smart-contract programming is (at least for now) an in-demand skill set.

The company I work for is interested in developing that skill set because such people are in short supply. A background in conventional distributed systems is very helpful, but anyone with a solid grounding in CS fundamentals can pick it up. It’s a different execution cost model and it’s an adversarial environment, so one needs to keep their wits about them, but it’s learnable like anything.

If you want to know more: ben@rocinanteresearch.net
I've heard that Tiktok is for old farts who finished school, and young people use Likee nowadays.
Wait, how is this remotely the same?
> as we had that stuff a long time ago already (Second Life) and it was a flop

A flop? I remember watching a documentary a while back saying some people were totally addicted to it. I'm not sure if they're still afloat these days, though. Might go the way of Playstation Home (which I genuinely liked!).
Isnt the out come of the software determined by describing the problem that has to be solved? When you describe the problem poorly the ai wont be able to write the correct software, ergo we need humans to describe the problem properly to get the correct software.
I think the GP referred more to those people who write down a lot but (almost) never refer to their notes or review them. For many people, after several years they will have a giant repository of hundreds or thousands of notes with very poor organization and the value decreases rapidly because they can't find anything anymore.
> What they _should_ have done is debatable, but developing some sense of ethics might have helped.

Right? Imagine what could've been if they would acknowledge problems they've caused and co-operate with society to help overcome them. Such a radical idea. Instead, in the hands of capitalism, they were focused on the short-term giant profits that everyone knows won't last forever. It'll be joyful to watch it collapse. I think they were to proud of themselves to admit what they've created - a 21st century phonebook and that's it.
It was me guys. I finally deleted my account.
> Joseph Bosco served as China country director in the office of the US secretary of defense,

I hope this is not a senior position. This article reads like a less literate David Icke's fever dream.
> kind of an essential for anyone working in tech

Don't mean to be rude but you appear to have a quite limited concept of what 'working in tech' can entail.
> he can see VR is a good play

It's a good play only if he finds a way to monetise it on a similar scale he does with the social network. I might have my open-mindedness failing me, but I simply can't see a way how VR can be monetised even close to selling the access to and influence over masses on a global scale.
Incredibly fun. Well done!
Meta recruiter (sipping coffee): Let me close this candidate today.

The Market: hold my beer.
> can't be changed anymore

.. which means that when an undiscovered vulnerability is found all the investors are guaranteed to lose their money.
Ironically I don’t understand why my critique must be framed in an extreme context to be valid!

Must have been because I read this comment from my mobile device. Time to get the printer going ;)
> For example you could have one process paused after loading all needed libraries and opening all resource archives and then just fork from that.

Plausible I guess, but also seems like a lot of effort to work around broken distros. Actually calling exec has tangible benefits too, e.g. it allows each process to have its address space randomized.

> However, you could also have a stable API between the browser binary and the javascript parts if you wanted - that is a far cry from mixing arbitrary source files.

Yes but the problem here is stable API and ABI between the browser binary and.. the browser binary. IPC within a binary is hardly ever written assuming a stable ABI, it'll just constrain the project way too much.

> And you definitely don't need to reboot because the kernel has been updated on the filesystem.

I feel like the kernel isn't really a fair comparison since it's relatively self-contained and you generally don't have multiple instances of the kernel talking to each other using IPC.

But go ahead, update your modules and see if you can still load them on your old kernel without rebooting. No, you can't. Same problem.

Unfortunately OSes today tend to have many dynamically loaded parts that require restarts if you want to keep everything working after updates.
>Are you upgrading your home? Choose building materials that don’t contain PVC or other types of plastic.

Don't most US homes have PVC piping?
During the run up to the Brexit referendum, Facebook became very political. I just blocked all political groups that popped up because friends were sharing or commenting under their posts. That made it much more sane and pleasant to scroll through.
I lived in England in the mid 90s and CompuServe (and to a lesser extent AOL) was the way I and most people I knew got 'online'.
Anything which is both conceptually simple and used by/useful for developers is very likely to produce a huge number of variant products. It's a step up from todo lists but think how many text editors there are.
Thats just the internet in general isn't it? Show me any site or platform that has stayed the same and hasn't innovated in 10 Years?
> If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks

What about:

- browser saves content of each bookmark

- browser’s search bar searches both existing bookmarks _and_ queries the user’s configured search engine

- browser shows results (not too many) from bookmarks above the search engine’s ones (in place of its adverts and removing duplicates would be better, but that might lead to lawsuits about tampering with web pages/deteriorating search results)

Maybe, your browser should also search your entire hard disk, email, etc?
There are desktop apps for 2FA
Thread: Is OpenAI's CLIP hard evidence for 'unified meme theory'?
3D has come and gone many times over the history of cinema, from the red/cyan glasses, the (Pulfrich) glasses with a single shaded lens, shuttered glasses and polarized screens.

While the image quality and frame rate have improved, there are still fundamental limitations on the technology. One common pushback is that some people will get headaches due to scanning the scene, trying to focus on objects at their false depths.

3D film is a pain, way more than double the work. So most 3D content actually was made 3D in post rather than filming with multiple cameras.

Still, the way you would frame a scene to be 'interesting' in 3D is different from how you would do so in 2D. This usually results in being able to 'tell' whether a movie you are watching was primarily made for one market or another.

VR adds something other than image quality - it adds the ability to be immersed in the content. However you still have the same issues:

- So far, we don't have consumer headsets that enable you to actually focus on the objects in the scene. For example, you can't hold a piece of paper up to your face to read the fine print.
- Trying to capture certain kinds of media is infeasibly expensive in VR, both from a post-production cost perspective and a data size expectation. Live action basically is too difficult.

The latest incarnation of 3D movies were in a sense a clever business maneuver - it created a premium tier of movie experience and got many theaters to start upgrading their older projection equipment and screens to newer digital alternatives.

For home use, 3D movies were weird because they didn't follow the traditional hype curve. A lot of early adoption was by families, where unfortunately the shutter glasses still tended to be too expensive for young hands. But that market has the same thing - manufacturers will eventually take technology and reduce it down to cost, so how can you compel people to buy the newest fancy screen where you still have a good margin?

Note several television manufacturers are now trying to proceed advertising and sales revenue, which is why smart TVs have now taken over - a 15-30% cut on a HBO Max subscription adds up to real money quickly over their typically poor margins on the sale of the set.
I'm aware of this 'colonising strategy' of FB in developing markets and I find it really sad that many people's first experience of the net and the web will have been FB.
See this was my initial take from like the first part, but as I read on I was wondering if there was something a bit deeper that they were trying to describe.
Housing prices exploded in Texas. According to Zillow my 2800sqft house was:

JUL 2012 - $147k
DEC 2015 - $202k
AUG 2017 - $223k
OCT 2018 - $251k
NOV 2019 - $250k
MAR 2021 - $280k
APR 2021 - $308k
JAN 2022 - $352k

I do not live in Austin though. Too pricey with worse traffic, as if that’s even possible. Austin also has strange local politics.
I had a realisation a while ago that one of the first things I do when I start using a new app, or after a significant update, is to look at the settings. It gives me a feel for the "functionality space" of the application and helps me visualise its "boundaries" somehow. Different ways of presenting properties seem to make this harder or easier: I find Android to be less good and (for example) Visual Studio and Lightroom to be better. I'm not sure why.

Does anyone else do this?
Yes that is true of course. But at least forks of Chrome, FF, can try to implement a decent bookmarking feature in their browser.

Maybe FF is not doing it because they own pocket. But true there is conflict of interest that I didn't see until I read your comment.
Lessons from the Whorearchy: What Can Sex Workers Teach Us about Stigma?
>allowing for rent seeking

You are saying this in a thread about a company that regularly sells features as a subscription and revokes them upon resell, as well as voids warranty if you get it repaired anywhere that's not a Tesla shop. Tesla have entrenched themselves as rent seekers from the beginning.
> given enough time the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place

Just like modern-day web development!
I get 'suggested posts'.
It's worth pointing out that this is "published" in Nature Scientific Reports, which has (by design!) A very low barrier for publishing/peer review. It's just a small step up from arxiv. This also means we shouldn't take this report too seriously until it's published in a serious journal
No - I’m referring to the comment above regarding some LP tokens…
You really think your ISP reserves 300Mbit of their bandwidth just for you?

I got curious and checked the local IX (smaller EU country), one of the largest ISPs has 4x100G connections, but their combined maximum ingress+egress almost never goes beyond 100G.
Bookmarking, note taking, todo all have one important characteristic in common. They all require users with discipline and organization skills.

Every indie-hacker is bound to see gaps in existing solutions based on their biased ideas of organizing. Many times these ideas won't work out for the creators themselves as they over-estimate their capacity to maintain discipline over a stretch.
This isn't atypical for high performance network software, AFAIK. Single-thread with aio.
I sometimes get the feeling that all my coding is actually a class of mathematical transforms that I have no idea how to define but feel very strongly that it is definable and AI-able.

Well it’d a curious day when an AlphaGo moment hits coding. Would be funny if it happened at the same time as Fed rate increases and destabilizing world events this year (the path from median human to top human is shallow). Mass firing of a few million highly paid redundancies out of the blue? Would be quite a sight.

Or maybe it wouldn’t happen that way, but rather it would pave the way for a leaner set of startups that were built with the power to do the same thing at the same or better velocity with an order of magnitude or fewer people.
Are you in India?
Any plans for mobile support?
> Seems naive to think the EU is not included.

No it's not, seems naive to think the EU is included, that would be contrary to the longstanding Russian opposition to multilateralism. That goes back to the kicking the Soviets got from joining the OSCE in the 70's. Which was originally their idea, but didn't go so well.

> Link?

for example here: "In November, the ministry actually published its correspondence with France and Germany on Ukraine — 28 pages of diplomatic documents that were supposed to stay confidential (an echo of the famous Bolshevik move to reveal the secret diplomatic documents of the czarist government in 1917)."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/01/russia-fs...
Since then, Facebook have innovated very little.

I hope they hadn't even tried. Initially, Facebook offered lots of value in the early years in the form that users were actually able to follow their friends' lives and stay connected. You had a bunch of friends and you would see a mostly chronological list of what they had posted that you read until you recognized something you had already seen. If they had kept it that simple Facebook might actually be something I'd be willing to pay for. The newsfeed is absolutely the core of the product and they started ruining it about ten years ago, and very steadily at that.
..."almost inevitably from Google Analyt... err, Fonts"
I wrote this a few years back. It is more relevant than ever: In cryptoland “decentralized” doesn’t mean what you think it does

https://medium.com/@josusanmartin/in-cryptoland-decentralize...
This is certainly not true. You can see tons of people in different countries who literally ordered starlink a week ago getting it ahead of lots of people who preordered like a year ago because the ones who are getting quickly are likely in under utilized cells along the path of existing trajectories. It is highly likely that those who have been waiting (with someone they know nearby having starlink) is because that particular cell is over subscribed and they don't want more connections in there until they have more satellites up.
Not very accurate https://www.libhunt.com/funtoo/keychain
Note taking is a memorization ritual for some people. Notes taken but not reviewed have still done their job if it helps the person remember.
there's nothing stopping anyone from taking dollars, what does that have to do with brave's business model? When you use the brave browser, brave takes a share of publishers ad revenue in the bat program, just like Google or Apple do, and publishers who want to participate have to agree with the terms and conditions set by, you'll never guess it, the Brave developers. Whether Apple, Google or Brave pay you in dollars, bitcoin, BAT or sheepskin changes nothing about the fact that they all attempt to generate value by taking control of the distribution channel.

The difference of course being that Google and Apple at least pay you well and in dollars rather than a crypto token that has been premined by the company that also happens to run the browser and in reality isn't going to be adopted outside of the Brave ecosystem. Imagine if Amazon started to pay its vendors in Amazon gift cards, that's what Brave is. (everyone is free to accept amazon gift cards, of course!)
Well, since busybox containers have neither I just use cat - > target.sh copy-paste the thing then Ctrl-D.

Much cleaner, simpler experience compared to VSCode's SFTP plugin, that - for some reason - always logs an error, even though the upload completed successfully...
Natural Gas Shipments, Mostly from U.S., Ease Europe’s Energy Crunch
I came to say the same thing. Although I would never be able to put is so eloquently into words.

For me this goes further. Anytime I rent a car I browse settings. "Oh cool, this car has lane-assist, and radar-powered cruise control". People look at me weird.

I think this is the same mindset that drew me to linux 20 years ago, when compiling and tweaking your own gentoo was not-crazy.

"Let's just say, if your VCR is blinking 12:00 linux is not for you"
You could look at one of the ports of Wolfenstein. Perhaps the SNES version? ;-)
Bad take given how well the Oculus Quest 2 is selling.

Primary improvements in OQ2 over previous headsets: Higher Quality + Lower Price + More Portable.

Very easy for me to believe if you just keep improving in those areas you end up with a device that will be present in every lower-middle-class+ household.
My favorite ff title. An epic story with deep rich dialogues and character depths. I think it’s great we get to see something like this!
Just because the US has terrible consumer protection doesn't mean you need to build a worse system with no consumer protection at all.
“ETH will be added over the next hours to ensure wETH is backed 1:1,”

Are they just going to create 320M USD out of thin air?
Thanks, I was going to post "sigh what?"

I can't ever remember sighing, but I guess I'll be paying attention to it now.

I like reading on my Kindle, fwiw.
Obviously not feasible for everyone but you can solve this by:

1. Subscribing to YouTube premium
2. Not using Facebook
>I do wonder what happens when sleep is back to normal. Are some effects staying or will eventually everything go back to how it used to be before?

We had twins and sleep was incredibly hard for more than 2years. It took me a few more years to realize that not only was my sleep disturbed, my whole sleep hygiene was messed up and I had picked up several detrimental habits (e.g Late night was the only time I had to myself with no disturbances. I started to stay awake increasingly late into the night). I almost had to relearn how to sleep all over again.

So, yes, It does get better. You may need to put some effort to reclaim it.