skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Claypot AI | Founding Engineer (Infra / ML / Full-stack) | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Full-time | https://claypot.ai/careers.html

Claypot AI is a platform for real-time machine learning. Our platform unifies streaming and batch systems to make it easier and cheaper for companies to do online prediction, real-time evaluation, and continual learning.

We're looking for engineers excited about ML and streaming tech to be the foundation of our engineering team.

What makes Claypot AI special?

* A culture of transparency, collaboration, and ownership

* A very high bar for engineering craftsmanship

* Expertise in both distributed systems and machine learning

* An opportunity to win over a large, growing, yet untapped market for fast ML delivery

What will you get?
* Competitive compensation package

* Flexible remote-first culture with options for in-person collaboration

* Learn how to build a startup from the ground up

* Public speaking opportunities

* An environment for you to grow into the career you want

Reach out if you're interested, even if you don't find a job description that fits you. We believe in creating an environment for people to do their best, not squeezing people to fit into job descriptions. As the company grows, you can define the role that you want with us.

My email is chip at claypot dot ai (cofounder).

Thanks for considering us!
Few notes:

- today "needed resources" might be different, at least partially, than tomorrow ones, as they are partially different than yesterday, but such differences are very hard to estimate since we know the past, but we can't really know the future, planning cover development with already or almost already known things, future scientific discovering are not predictable;

- resource estimate is done and sold as a "tangible number" however I'm not sure how approximate it can be. So saying on earth we can source X gazillion tons of a certain mineral for me is "probably near truth but until extracted we can't really know" and that's similar for agriculture production vs climate change;

- another issue is the meaning of "renewable" and "circular", wood is renewable at a certain rate of usage, recyclable one ore two time for different usage in a more or less significant percentage, Al is formally 100% renewable ad infinitum, glass the same, but the scale and the cost of such supply chains are not immediately measurable on scale etc.

Long story short my own personal opinion is: for actual technology, actual number of people, actual human development, we probably have significant resource issues witch does not means "we run out" in the broad sense, but we still are in a very bad situation. Planning moves to evolve is mandatory, but must be done at both scientific and social level, certainly not at economical level as is done today.
Is this a common belief? That he is taking "risks" others don't have the courage to? This is a new one to me and interesting cultural development for sure.

Edit: Just kind of seems in contradiction to the previous stories of him where it focused on his intelligence/de facto technocratic authority to save the world. It wasn't so much his courage, but his moral rectitude combined with capital resources -- "he is going to save the world! Take us to mars!"
>I consider changing good products to use emotional and marketing manipulation to make customers feel bad about not paying enough "abusive".

This entire statement seems like a stretch. Do you also find it "abusive" that freemium products try to upsell premium features, or that a cloud storage service prompts you to buy more storage after you ran out?

>Just like every other action that prioritizes maximum money extraction over paying customer satisfaction. It doesn't make for a happy society.

By the same token, as a paying netflix customer I'm pretty dissatisfied that I have to pay $15/month. I'd be much satisfied and happier if it only costs $0.01.
Matt Levine was, clearly, being snarky. Especially considering that such activity would be illegal.

As for "suboptimal", if you're trying to maximize financial or other gains regardless of societal impact or human suffering, maybe what you describe is correct, but it also requires the person to be a bit of a sociopathic asshole to choose that path.
That guy was an asshole and they were both assholes to each other. I would say the other guy started the conflict. And both don't come out looking very good.

And the other guy was a guy that pushed himself into the media light and made headlines and also not deserving any.
That was a good one - there were a lot of good icon edutainment titles: Math Town, A day in the life, Crosscountry Canada. We had these machines in my 5th grade class. I also recall multiple generations - we had multiple in the same class. Wikipedia seems to confirm (but with no additional information unfortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_(microcomputer))
These type of messages usually go away when you press harder, hold press hard or use a hammer. Me talking to the car : "No car, plausible deniability won't work with me."
Hey. I am sure you know a lot more about this than I do, but just to let you know, your comment comes off as sort of petty and ill-motivated.

I've never heard of AAJC. You linked a news article that proves her donation but doesn't make the organization seem sinister. I search AAJC and I get a bunch of results that do nothing to tell me anything sinister. I check Wikipedia and there are a handful of political stances, some of which are expected from political NGOs. I can't find any indication that anyone views this organization as anti-Asian. Based on what I've found, I assume what you mean is that this organization seems to support affirmative action in college admissions, a position that sets them apart from many other Asian groups, and which you could argue hurts Asian participation in colleges relative to a race-neutral admissions standard. Again, I had to do research to figure out that was what you were thinking of, I couldn't read your mind.

I'm not saying you're wrong in your belief, or that you can't make the argument you're making, I'm saying short-circuiting the entire argument and just declaring it so is both intellectually facile and unlikely to inform anyone about anything. I've seen the same argument before when people on the right baldly assert that the SPLC is a "hate group" -- when what they means is some nuanced take on a particular political stance SPLC takes being disagreeable to conservatives.

But then that's not the only leap you make. It's not just taken as obvious that AAJC is an anti-Asian organization, and everyone knows that, and no one could think differently: it's also taken as an obvious conclusion that anyone who donates to them in spite of this must be an idiot dilettante who doesn't even understand what they're giving money to. I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion to draw. I think a much more reasonable conclusion to draw would be that Mackenzie Scott supports affirmative action in college admissions, doesn't mind supporting an organization that supports affirmative action in college admissions, and knows exactly what she's supporting.

Again, not trying to change your mind about the organization or about Scott, trying to encourage you to express yourself in a more useful way so that readers actually know what it is you're trying to say.
So, if you're happy with all the ways your information is used against you, then I wish you the best of luck and eternal happiness in your endeavors and life.
> How else would you scale to meet peak demand without being wasteful?

I can only speak to the banks I've have the opportunity to work with who stayed on prem or built their own internal cloud infra; what you call waste, they consider a premium/cost of business for security and resilience. I'm sure a lot of folks would've said the same thing about JIT supply chains (that had been squeezed to be as efficient as possible) until they unraveled.

> I don’t see how cloud’s advantages of scaling and worldwide “edge” locations can be replicated by the average bank’s tech team.

As always, "what are your requirements and what are you optimizing for?" Most folks don't need web scale nor edge locations [1] [2], they'll get by just fine with a CDN and some API endpoints [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092

[2] https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

[3] http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
I still admire him, I just don't idolize him.

The guy knows how to hire smart people and keep them around, that in an of itself is rare these days and worth admiration.
I can't think of many living CEOs as effective as him in this regard.

I wouldn't say my admiration extends outside of areas he is an expert in though, usually when he starts talking about anything else he talks out of his ass.
Vaccine effectiveness of 2&3 doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against Covid in HK
He insulted that man because he cast a shadow on his own useless and clueless "efforts" to help. But Musk wasn't helping, just doing cheap PR; the insulted man was actually helping.

That's despicable. He's an evil narcissist and a dangerous person.
You reminded me of StumbleUpon. I miss that service dearly, or maybe I just miss that general era of the Internet.
Unintended Consequences: The Curious Case of the Flat Curve
Well there we go, an established framework for how this could work. Legal consequences are good enough.
I actually continue to use Google Maps for the opposite reason. The anonymous data aggregation across users is what powers features like traffic estimates and store busyness data.

Those are great to have, and I don't mind donating my information to keep them running.
I wonder how many petabytes of Google's storage is filled with blurry pictures of fish in aquariums that will never be viewed.
Well, focus is all about picking 1-2 projects to work on, and excluding anything not-relevant to those projects. You can't make 10 projects work at once. So pick 1-2 and commit.

Which of your projects are most meaningful to you? Which solve problems you care about and seem most interesting? Start shipping something, share it on HN, Twitter, IndieHackers, etc. Getting positive feedback can also help you stick to 1 thing.

Note: don't focus on technologies and ideas so much, focus on problems to solve for others. What can you make easier for others that would be valuable for them?

A bit more on the point about excluding things and the whole topic of focus here:
https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-focus-in-the-ag...
There's no point at which you will be able to get those from a pill mill but not a doctor if they're actually medication for you

Crack dealer dot com definitely should be demonized
I mean, yeah, it perfectly describes humanity - we'll die on this planet while knowing there are unlimited resources outside of it.

But it was a small island and they couldn't even read/write.
> He is probably trying to take down the flight-tracking bot

Anything is possible, but this doesn't make a whole lot of sense given that it would have cost him just $50K to do it rather than the price to purchase 9.2% of Twitter.

> Funny how he talks about Free speech on twitter while actively trying to take down a twitter account.

"Actively trying to take down a twitter account" is a hallucination at this time.
Pomodoro. I don't always use it, but it really helps when I'm having trouble getting into a groove on a task.

If my focus issues are partially due to tiredness, I make a point of keeping my eyes closed for all or part of the break periods.

I normally pin a browser tab and allow alerts for this site: https://pomodor.app/timer

I'm not affiliated, but it's simple and good. It's the only site I allow notifications from.
This app is a pretty cool idea, and I'm sure its users love it.

I wish open source software developers understood that if an app's UI is so unintuitive that it takes days worth of dedicated learning to figure out how to use it, it's never going to get adopted by the mainstream. I can't figure out how to use this app, and it's not because I'm stupid, I'm an app developer myself, it's because I don't have the time to invest in learning the unintuitive paradigms and labels used in this UI.

If the audience for this project is it's creators and dedicated hobbyists, then this comment doesn't matter. But if open source apps have any intention of becoming mainstream, they need to invest in UI design and usability. A user friendly UI is at least as important as the code and technical aspects, and open source software could reach so many more people if open source devs took some UI design courses or learned how to partner with UI designers.

/rant
> Might not be enough, since some viruses are using firmwares and other things to be made more difficult or impossible to remove properly

I object to this vague and incurable diagnosis as an everyday response. I don't enjoy this topic but I practice good hygeine, habits and backups.. keep the possibility in mind? sure, lets not be naive. Every time, destroy the hardware? no, just no
You can set Crispy's GFX' exactly like Choco. They are pretty close, the setup menu it's pretty much the same'
What comfortable life do you think he's giving up? Owning only 10 houses instead of 45?
Natural Language Query (NLQ) in BI – Past / Future
I just started reading the book Lost Focus by Johaan Hari. It's a well-written deep dive on how we as a society have all lost the ability to concentrate on one thing for any good length of time.

I'm only a few chapters in, but it's fascinating so far. Can recommend.
Maybe start with a country lol
I can agree with this take.
This is a very useful attribute if you generate base64 encoded images and need to create download links that give the files unique names.
> We're not, not really.

We are, by definition down to single factor if you store the codes in the password vault. The argument wasn't that therefore the system is weak, it is just that the point of having a second/third factor is to add something that isn't already present in an attack against a system.

One example would be that you leave your desk momentarily with your password vault unlocked and someone decides to quickly use your account to login to some system. Single point of failure. If you had the codes on a cellphone instead, firstly there is more of a chance that you would have taken your phone with you but even if you didn't, that "attack" now needs to access your phone as well.

Not all attacks are strangers and not all are malicious, just somebody elevating their privileges via your status is an attack in the broadest sense, even if they did it for respectable reasons.
“It”, being neuter, is usually reserved for inanimate objects and sometimes wild animals. Calling a living human, dog, or cat “it” is basically a slur.
The point is: I bought the hw, the OEM must not have any form of control on it, it can protect intellectual property imposing non-duplication of it's tech but nothing more than that.

If something is not there it's not mine. If it's there and disabled it's mine but I can't use it, and that's totally unacceptable.
True dynamic block ("moving block") still isn't that widespread, at least as far main line railways are concerned. High-speed lines are still by far and large using fixed block signalling with conventional train detection (track circuits or axle counters), it's just that the movement authority is given via some sort of cab signalling.
NPM introduces a new Dependency Selector Syntax
I’ve been meaning to use these attributes for the very reasons you mention, but I’d need to check the impact on the accessibility tree. I’m not sure of the impact of having the submit buttons in a completely different part of the DOM to the inputs.
Is it Andrews & Arnold? I remember their director blogging about moving the business to Monzo so they can get real-time webhooks for incoming payments. I've just checked and they still appear to be using Monzo as per their "bank details" page.
Pity that despite having manuals on parallel construction, the government never seems to be held to account for acts of perjury; as in order to establish it perjured itself, it must admit to doing so, and anything that could come to light to convincingly do so is classified.

The judicial system jas some serious issues when it comes to not reigning in Executive excess.
One was Facebook. I did just find that their prep guides are apparently public on their website, so here was the one I was given for the tech screen, which was heavy on data structures (look for "our comprehensive Facebook Technical Screen Guide" link to the PDF):

https://www.metacareers.com/swe-prep-techscreen/

And heres the one I was given "the loop" interview (theres a link "our comprehensive Facebook Onsite Interview Guide" in the first paragraph):

https://www.metacareers.com/SWE-prep-onsite/
I run graphene on my phone and AFAIK you can replace the location provider with a local-only version.

I haven't dug deeply into it yet because I keep location off, but I believe it is possible.
Indeed, there is no stopping this in the current global aviation regime.

This might be a good opportunity to advertise ADS-B data collection: websites like flightradar24, flightaware, adsbexchange are powered by thousands of volunteers that collect and upload ADS-B radio transmissions broadcasted by aircraft. Most of the collection goes through an RTL-SDR dongle, so if you have a raspberry pi or some other machine that's up 24/7 - consider contributing! Minimal radio kit for signal reception (RTL-SDR+simple antenna) costs somewhere around USD50. It's also a good entry point for learning SDR and radio in general.
There’s subtle differences. In HIQ case, they are scraping user generated content. In OpenBB case, it’s pricing data owned by a particular firm.
Is it?

https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/license.txt
It's worth understanding the context Bourbaki arose in.

An entire generation of French mathematicians was turned to bits of blood and gristle in the trenches of World War I, and so French mathematicians in the 1920s and early 1930s faced an acute shortage of teachers who were current with modern mathematics.

The premise of the Bourbaki effort was to write everything down in enough detail that a sufficiently motivated reader could learn it without having to learn it master-apprentice style -- because too many potential masters were dead.
or to make a news aggregator hehe
Nit: `integrity` also works for stylesheets, not just scripts
Back in the mid-70's Manufacturers Hanover Bank used to give candidates a "Programmer Aptitude Test", which was basically an IQ test. If you passed you were hired, and they paid to send you to a 12-week class that taught S/360 assembler & COBOL.

I took Comp Sci. in college, but my class also had math majors, actors, and all sorts of other people. IIRC it was about 50/50 men/women.
Yeah, but Boom-compatible it's still on the boundaries.

Most purists will be fine with Crispy. It doesn't require a PC more powerful than a 2001 one if not less.
Pentium MMX-2, if any.
Or ARMv5.
Because of SDL.

(G)ZDoom is another level.
Research: Anti-Spam Algorithms Showed Political Bias During 2020 USA Elections
Beyond the warming, the consequences of climate change are very real. Hurricanes that used to be the feat of a decade are now an over-yearly occurrence.

Beyond climate change, the consequences of pollution are very real. Many water sources can't be drunk anymore, and the agro industry is killing bees/insects (necessary for vegetal life) on a wide scale and depleting the soil of its water/nutrients turning it slowly into a desert.

Extinction is far off, but "doom" is a very likely outcome at this point given that no government is doing anything, besides advocating for "green growth" which is the opposite of what ecologists have been preaching for decades (green degrowth).
I have aphantasia. For reference, until 2019 or so I thought things like mental imagery and mind palaces were just metaphors and my memory for such things was poor (even after seeing Sherlock put his mind palace to screen).

As you can tell from my username, I am mathematically inclined (4th in the state in MathCounts, 2nd place team, a 5 on the AP Calc AB exam in 10th grade, and 5 on the BC exam the next year despite not having a math class that year[1]). I'm actually decent at the folding nets problems ("which cube matches this unfolded pattern?") as well, but I suspect my methods just don't match how those that can visualize and manipulate those visualizations do it.

As for the article at hand, there's no real difference to me in terms of what I get out of it (the cartoon gives me a slight smile, but good caricatures usually do) as I only remember the "gist" of such images anyways. I can easily recognize it as the Married with Children actor, but I couldn't begin to verbally describe it in any useful way for even a cartoonist to make without looking at it at the same time (barring "it's a well-known actor": "it's a male face…surprised or 'deer in the headlights', some stubble if any facial hair, short messy hair").

I feel like on some level the aphantasia it is helpful. Namely when expanding some concept such as "equality" to "equivalence" to allow such things as "sum of all natural numbers is -1/12" or modular equivalence relations because I can just replace "is" with "can be treated as" without much mental work. Someone who has a visual representation of such things may have trouble "uprooting" such understandings to plant them in richer soil (a metaphor for which I have no trouble using despite not having a picture of such a thing handy).

Do you have a link to the Ross post?

[1] Having finished Honors Calc in 10th, I instead tripled up on science classes my junior year and went to a local college for math my senior year.
Why not? It's a huge place.

Why don't you transcend and stop using electricity? Needs and desires.
Not a bug. Your brain is exploring the world of ideas, and thus far it hasn’t come upon one it finds truly engaging. Abandoning these projects is the correct strategy.
Ahahah thanks :facepalm:
This is just "dodgy equipment may break the rules" - not the more complicated situations now common where the connector (especially USB-C) can no longer be used to indicate the capabilities of the device.
Eigen: A C++ template library for linear algebra
These are not equivalents. Input type=search can have side effects in that it renders the input box differently, for example with a "X" inside to clear the search. Which may be good, but it may also conflict with your design system.
Most mainstream media reported Ukraine gov links with neo-nazi groups, before 2022, all forgotten now

Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-s...
IMO, this is an obvious weakness in the capitalist model. Money is supposed to be a social reward for solving problems for people. But they turn this on its head by inducing scarcity on something that is inherently NOT scarce. This is, IMO, anti-social and should not be rewarded by us as a society. We should reward things that create solutions, not things that create artificial scarcity. It's corrosive to capitalism itself.

I do not have a solution for this, but the fact that it's a problem is obvious to me, and the fact it will only get worse with time is also obvious.
Just finished this book: https://stolenfocusbook.com/mobile/

One thing that stood out, which I suppose should be intuitive, is the idea that if you input more information into a system, the time to process each bit shrinks.

So basically change strategy from a breath first search, to depth first, close of all information sources not related to the current focus area to avoid distraction.