skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK | Remote

Location: Latin America;

CV: https://gildedhonour.xyz

Email: a100 /@/ serendipia.email

Technologies: crytpo/blockchains; Elixir, Haskell, Rust, Ruby, Python, C, JS, web (full-stack, mostly backend)

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I'm an expert of nothing, a problem creator as well as a solver.
I've been in IT for a decade or so.

For the last 2 years I've been working with cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
That’s horrible.

My Google account was also suspended at a time when I needed it most, due to no actions of my own. A hacker gained access to it and was demanding Bitcoin donations in my name.

I tried every appeal process. I tried to backchannel through a great attorney.

I received an email years later that my entire Google account was being deleted from their tape archives.

I bought into the dream of the cloud, I transferred most of my data to GMail and Drive early on. That was all erased and I, after years of trying, never was able to contact a human. Nor was my attorney.

Google is a TERRIBLE company. Do not work there. Innovate them out of business.
I heard sometimes they are part of the peers upload/downloading the torrent content and they just get a list of all the other peers they're connected to and send DMCAs to each of them.

edit: I misread your comment. I was talking about the copyright holders not VPN providers.
Many people don't care about health data being monetized. I don't personally care if Strava sells my heart rate data or where I rode my bike today. I'm fine with trading them that data for their heat map, which is super useful in planning rides.

To me, it comes down to me being fine with this data being considered public. If others don't want to share it, that's totally fine and I understand their perspective. For me though? I couldn't care less.

Congrats, you sold some data that says I'm fat, out of shape, and don't like riding my bike on busy roads.
Re: "key features really well", they're not even doing this.

My normal morning jog goes under a large bridge. This often confuses my phone's GPS, leading it to return a spurious point or two a kilometer away. Strava is completely incapable of detecting these spikes (accelerating to 200 km/h when running is normal right?) and offers no way to edit them out afterwards, meaning all my speed and distance records, progression charts etc are ruined by junk data.
Non technical problems are the worst. The type of problem would probably take tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in manpower to fix. The amount of meetings and negotiations is probably staggering
Your second point does not invalidate it as a double blind. But I agree that the person administering should not be aware.
Komoot is by far the best IMO. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.

My workflow is 3 monitor setup. Komoot in the middle, actually planning the route. Strava heatmap on the left to see where people often travel in an area. Gmaps on the right to see streets and street view.

It's still a pain to plan, but it's _so much easier_ with komoot.
You have sympathy for experiences you haven’t had. You have empathy for ones you have.
To strategically confuse visually impaired pedestrians causing them to walk out into the street thereby tying up traffic in the nations capital making it impossible to roll out tanks to fight the invasion of liberals putting chemical microchips in the water to turn the frogs gay, obviously
I guess my point was this library bridges next router similar to how it could bridge react router with Remix. Neither are a great native experience that React Navigation provides.
Never use google. Truly an evil company.
Ask HN: Anybody else getting strange gibberish emails in Gmail?
For the past few months I have been getting very strange gibberish emails in my gmail inbox that are just random sentences about nothing.

It does not contain any links and I don't really think they are phishing emails - as stated they are just gibberish sentences.

Funny part is "according to Google magic" they are important and always get marked as priority! Could it be the reason for sending this to corrupt the spam filters or something?

I've marked dozens of them as spam but they are mostly from different domains, always in my main inbox and 99% marked as important by Google.

Is it happening for anyone else? Any way to stop this?
Much the opposite. GCP's names are painfully transparent and banal. No need to look them up, you can tell what they do from their names (which are proper nouns, so it's clear they're a service name)

- Cloud Logging - stores logs

- Google Compute Engine - VMs, compute

- Cloud Monitoring - stores metrics, monitors stuff

- Cloud Storage - stores stuff

- Google Kubernetes Engine - runs Kubernetes clusters

- BigQuery - runs multi-billion row queries with ease

- Cloud Functions - FaaS run time

Now sure, Cloud Spanner is a DB, without DB in the name, so you'll have to read the docs for a few seconds, but let's compare that to Cognito (brains?), X-ray (medical imaging?), Kinesis (something to do with mitosis?).
I'm not able to reproduce this on iOS. If you're okay, do you mind sending me a screenshot of the issue via email [1] or Twitter DM [2]?

[1] hello@smort.io
[2] https://twitter.com/SmortApp/
This is good. Guessing you're already ahead of me, but a feature that I find super useful in competitors is an elevation map of the route after I've selected it.
I paid once upon a time, then didn't: purely financial. I have recommended the app to many people, about 40% of whom subscribed. I continue to push the app, but it's getting more and more difficult - and there's more and more competition.
Paul Graham calls for all talented people to leave Russia
I did the same, with the added part of chanting the contents of the sheet in my head when entering the exam room and then re-creating the sheet from short-term (rather than long-term) memory.

Fortunately more recent exams that I've taken allowed the use of a single sheet of paper as a cheat sheet.
If it's an exam for an MD in General Medicine then most people are probably at least 25 because it looks like in India you need a MBBS (5.5 year undergraduate program) and then the MD program is another 3 years.[1][2]

In the states it takes a long time too: 4+ year undergraduate, 4 year med school, 3-4+ years residency.
My sister was around 27 to 28 when she graduated medical school, before even starting her four year residency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Medicine,_Bachelor...
[2] https://www.shiksha.com/college/mahatma-gandhi-memorial-medi...
The troubling truth appears to be that non-native trees brought to Ireland in the early 20th century (esp Sitka Spruce and Douglas firs, from North America), while good for producing lumber, are not good for preserving Ireland's native flora and fauna. This is an interesting and worthwhile article.
Location: Latin America

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: crytpo/blockchains; Elixir, Haskell, Rust, Ruby, Python, C, JS, web (full-stack, mostly backend)

CV: https://gildedhonour.xyz

Email: alex @ serendipia.email

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I'm an expert of nothing, a problem creator as well as a solver.
I've been in IT for a decade or so.

For the last 2 years I've been working with cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
Multiplayer Doom on a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico
Aren't Facebook, Instagram and TikTok already banned or crippled in Russia? That pretty much is the "internet" for most people.
These are meaninglessly vague. It’s just “whatever there is now, but more”.
Presumably because keeping the link up costs time and money.
That's not an argument, that's just emotional guff. Sure, they change the UI around every now and again. But they also maintain a firehose of improvements which keep users in control of things which actually matter, like Firefox's highly configurable enhanced tracking protection.

Not gonna happen? If you refuse to partake in the most minimal of engagement with the process, don't complain if you don't like the outcome.
How I Know Your Data Science/ML Project Will Fail Before You Even Begin
In my high school a few years before me there was a legendary cheating ring that would tap out the answers to each other in Morse code which was presented as tapping a pencil eraser on the desk like they were thinking. Unfortunately for them it was long enough ago that one of the teachers knew Morse code and so it didn't last.
The Omnibar is Chromium/Chrome specific. The Firefox address bar is also known as the awesomebar, but has never been known as the omnibar.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-little-something-aweso...
>"Oh, I remember I saw something like that in school, let me Google it!"

This seems like a good thing, not a bad thing.

I'd MUCH prefer to have a doctor verify a diagnosis with reference material than to have them rely on their memory.
Hey, yes I am. I would love to speak at Reactathon :)
Please email me at hello@smort.io
Better tyranny of the majority than tyranny of the one.
It sounds like your issue is not that the browser is promoting a moral view but rather that it’s promoting one in conflict with the moral view you think it should be promoting.
It's pretty awful though for a lot of people. Researchers outside of the US have published studies showing that s-ketamine has higher risk of dependency in animal experiments and lower long term efficacy for depression, like on par with placebo. If I'm remembering right there are a number of reasons for this and one of them is that r-ketamine seems to simulate neuroplasticity better, something related to BDNF in certain parts of of hippocampus I think?

While it probably works for some people, it's likely dangerous for many others.

Kenji Hashimoto and others have published numerous papers about this. It's not exactly under-researched. The incentives in the US are horribly misaligned.

Quite honestly it's upsetting that spravato even exists and there ought to be a huge class action lawsuit about this.

A few papers:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32224141/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26327690/
Once again this proves Google is NOT a customer focused company. These price increases are driven by accounting and are short term calculations.

As someone who's used AWS for most of my professional career, I've only ever seen prices being reduced to be more competitive rather than increased to 'align' with offerings of other vendors.

Newer generations of compute and storage are often cheaper and faster than previous generations which shows they are able to invest in technology to make things cheaper for the customer and lower cost for them to maintain which is impressive.
People can use whatever search engine they want - how is that not on their own terms?
In the future: Do not use Google. It's too big to be practical. They are entirely incapable of telling legitimate access from fraud. I logged in to my childhood email from 20 years ago to prove I was who I said I was, I've been locked out for 3 years with no recourse.
Spilling a thousand tons of melted lithium (and beryllium?) would be disruptive enough that containment, safety systems, and armed guards would still be needed. Also, not spending to protect your $100B facility from harm might make your insurance company nervous. (You did find an insurer, didn't you?)
The US gained a ton of credibility during this war. I'm not sure what you're talking about. The whole process of announcing all the intel of the war coming to everyone before it began and announcing false flags before they happened worked wonders for US credibility.
Twilio Authy is another option for those who don't want to integrate MFA with their password manager. It will sync across multiple devices and optionally back up to the cloud. (All E2E encrypted of course.) Honestly the risk of having MFA in 1password is extremely low to zero I'm sure, but I still feel safer with the two separate.
We tried this, needed to validate your identity to get it. The hacker started it though, presumably to get all the data.
I've been really happy with ridewithgps.com for route planning. I do sometimes have to go to other sites for areas I'm more unfamiliar with. It syncs any routes I make automatically to my Wahoo GPS, and gives me options to share with others on that platform.
Maybe the student should have been an engineer?
As long as they don't reveal my 'hidden zone', they're welcome to the lot, and I freely give it whilst severely understanding the 'risks'. If my W/kg or bpm can be monetized, go for it.
Hit me with one single ad, though, and it's goodnight Vienna.
Anonymous hackers hit Russian oil giant Rosneft, secure 20TB of data
Nickel Blowup Made a Lot of Trouble
I don't understand this claim. If Mozilla is so awful at developing Firefox, why isn't anyone forking it? Open source is not an empty slogan
Because a log of my cycling is the least important data to me and the value it provides is immense.
Circle or square isn't that critical, the uniform shape is the key.
Making a reply to say you won’t make a reply because a reply you make could be downvoted does not really follow. Can folk who disagree with you not just now downvote this reply, both for political disagreements but also wasting everyone’s time?
Freestanding billboards are banned in Singapore. This is one of those things where you don't realize how nice it is until you go to a neighboring country and your eyes start bleeding on the drive from the airport.
And require 4MB ram... since i have machine with 2MB i wasn't able to enjoy it.

But i found DOS4GW command line option to "emulate" ram with swap file on DOS. I make virtual memory like 4MB and run game. It took 15 minutes to start game and show main menu, another 5 mins to navigate on menu and 15 to run game.
Frame rate was some like frame PER minute.
I used pixelmatch + puppeteer at a previous job to automate this. The service would screenshot each page on the master branch and the PR branch, then comment on the PR with a link showing the Before, Diff, and After of each page that changed. I highly recommend this type of setup.
I found a video of the GP:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3VlyZIywY9c
Exactly. The label says something along the lines of "IMP-#####" where "IMP" stands for 'investigational medicinal product' and the number is unique and tracked. Below that will be a dosage statement, a label with the patient's name and patient ID on it, and (in the UK at least) the legally-mandated words "keep out of sight and reach of children".

For orally dosed RCTs, often the pill making process is the way the blinding is done -- i.e. they're either in brightly-coloured gelcaps or a film or sugar coating. If it is a double-blind RCT it must be double blind. All of this will have been explicitly examined in the ethics statement for a trial and very, very prescriptively laid out.
> When Apple does it, it’s looked at with derision.

By...who? There's 100 comments in this thread right now and not one is criticizing the new features.
I think the Miso videos usually even show "regular" patties.
I’m glad I dropped windows in 2011 when they started down this unsavoury path. Now they’re finally in Xiaomi territory: serving you ads inside essential programs. MacOS has issues, but it is just miles better in terms of invasiveness. I keep a win10 machine for gaming and I cringe every time I have to use it for anything else. Luckily Proton is coming along well, so the win10 installation will be wiped soon. In 10y time no one will use MS garbage any more.
>Finland is on the whole much flatter, so has less favourable conditions for hydro power.

Yeah, I had Quebec in mind as a similar geography without the large mountains of the Rockies and Cascades. I didn't account for just how flat Finland is, and how high a big chunk of Quebec is. Interestingly at first they appeared similar, the high points are quite close. But looking at elevation profiles it was clear how misleading that can be.

It looks like I was a bit mixed up, the structure I was thinking of is called the Finnish Mankala system.
Energy producers are owned by parties that bear the costs of operating the company. Owners receive shares of electricity at cost, any unwanted portion is sold by them into the Nordic market. This means that output is effectively contracted to each owner over the life of the plant. The private owners are mostly heavy industry with a high demand for base-load power, and hence low costs are critical for them.

FWIW the plant construction appears to be a fixed price contract with a consortium of plant suppliers: AREVA GmbH, AREVA NP SAS and Siemens AG, which are jointly liable for the obligations under the plant supply contract until the end of the plant unit's warranty period.
I don't believe crocheting was ever used for fishing nets. It really doesn't make a lot of sense for that use. A big problem with crochet is that it's made with a single strand of yarn and if you pull the end, it will unravel. There's a lot of useful knots for mending nets. I'd really need to see a reference to believe crochet has ever been a preferred method.

I googled granny squares in reference to furniture and can't find anything about that either. I can't pretend to know anything about furniture making though.
This is super duper common. Most companies that I've run across don't actually have a mechanism for properly deleting accounts.

My anecdote: Collage.com - I tried it, was unsatisfied with the results so I requested that they delete my account under CCPA (being a Californian). They said they completed. My account was renamed from email@domain.com to email@domain.com-deleted12344843223432 . My session wasn't even terminated, so not only could I see this, I could still see my not-deleted photos AND all the sharing links still worked.

I fought with them at length and their support insisted it was deleted and that this was just something on my computer. Logout/clear cookies/cache/reboot and it'll be all good. I know that's BS.

Even when they "escalated" the issue to a manager who said "Your account has been deleted and will not be reopened." - I could still take screenshots of my account homepage. At which point they stopped responding to me.
OCaml has _when_ but Haskell has _where_. I used to think it was because OCaml was designed by people who's first language is French. Now I'm doubting my theory.
komoot.com

Used by ultra-racers to plan multi-day events.

My only problem is, that when I select 'road ride', it tries to get me on a bike path.
That would be a good thing for some people.
>Would you hire an engineer who couldn't write a FizzBuzz without looking it up?

Yes?

I mean, even after 20 years of writing code professionally, I still don't remember the exact syntax for main methods for each language. Is it public static void main(String args[]) {} for Java, or is it something else? Will I remember that even when I've mostly been coding in Golang this week? Probably not.
You can use mine, but it may only work for mobile. https://testflight.apple.com/join/DeC8ZDnu
Ill-conceived research paper attempt?
I actually spent a lot of time working on one. As usual there isn't a whole lot of special sauce that makes it impossible but its an immense amount to replicate all of the features as well as a rather expensive to run piece of software if you want something like segments and high score boards.

And after all this, your user base consists of the people who didn't want to pay for strava.
I would suggest the hardest part of engineering is building stuff someone will pay for.

The other hardest part is not building stuff no-one will pay for.
Systematic Destabilization in American History: 9/11, JFK, Oklahoma City (2012)
I've always done this, but I've run an email server forever so it wasn't any added hassle to have gmail download the emails using pop. I'm curious how you go about it without running your own server. Do you pay for the google email service? Or just use your registrar's email forwarding to forward from your custom email to your gmail? Something else? I tried forwarding in the past for simplicity but found it results in a significantly higher rate of false positives in the spam folder.
And we'll never see a byte of it.
They are just cheap burgers but are good because you can get 12 for like $6 or so. You get a ton of food for not a lot of dime which makes it great when you are drunk or high.
A thing I've discovered (at least for me but YMMV) -- these tools seem attractive because of how they mimic how our real brains work - but that's exactly why they're not that useful. Your brain is better at what they do than these tools.
> Split your merge request into smaller, independent merge requests

IMHO - This depends on the change. It is not simple if you are working on a refactoring that touches 100s of files.

Review is needed where more developers share the concerns:

Eg.

1. DB Schema changes
2. API Schema changes
3. Changes related to backward compatibility with Biz Logic
4. End to end Design of the change

Open to learn if anyone thinks otherwise.
> That's like saying Apple raises the prices of the iPhone through new generation of iPhone models, which is not true at all.

I don't know if I'm reading your comment right, but the average selling price of iPhones has been climbing steadily from the start.
Also sounds an awful lot like what team leads and senior developers do too.
I wouldn’t consider things like k8s and swarms frameworks, they are developer tools/cluster management software. K8s more or less doesn’t get baked into the binaries or containers it runs.

What I consider to be the two requirements for something to be a framework are 1. it gets baked into the application/the application is designed in such a way that it fits the mold of the framework 2. it inverts control from the programmer (without inversion of control, it’s just a library). The inversion of control is the problem, and that’s what this post tries to point out without identifying.

Also, inversion of control is really only a problem IMO insofar as it unnecessarily obfuscates things. Based on my above definition of a framework, you could say most basic http server libraries (eg the one in the go standard lib) where you add handlers are a framework. But the inversion of control is mostly clear, and you’re not gonna want to ever implement your own http server unless you’re at huge scale, doing something especially weird, or need ultra performance. On the other end you have things like Spring where you basically need to learn an entirely new way of programming with dubious benefits.

Also an imperative language is obviously not a framework. (I won’t say all programs, because I think you can argue Prolog is a framework). I’m not sure this person even knows what a framework is. Doesn’t deserve to be on the front page of HN
How were you able to share this? Didn’t know TestFlight allowed you to do that. How do I give it back later?
I live in NJ. As I understand it, the state gov - via taxpayers, obviously - subsidizes property insurance at the shore (as NJ calls the beach).

That generosity isn't endless.
I spent months working on just getting something that could match GPS logs to "segments" let alone something thats fast and scalable. Geo problems are so much harder than people assume.
To be clear, looks like GCP is disincentivizing:

- Using multi-regional storage (used to be a 30% premium, now much more)

- Making lots of object writes (Class A) vs lots of reads (Class B)

So, if you can:

- Move to regional or dual-region (NAM4) storage

- Snowball your writes into bigger overall objects, <3 immutability

- Keep your data in the same region as access

Then you can reduce the impact here.

They are also closing the Coldline/Nearline loophole, where you could use a bucket lifecycle policy to keep your objects in Standard (cheap access) for a few weeks/months, and then move them to a cheap long term storage tier (Nearline/Coldline), because that move is another Class operation, that just got a lot more expensive. This is inline with two years ago when they quietly moved lifecycle operation pricing from the origin service tier (e.g. cheap Standard storage) to the destination tier (e.g. much more expensive Coldline), cutting down on the savings of tier jockeying.