skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are looking to expand our team, specifically looking for a Data Scientist who is passionate about the future of women's health and who wants to be part of shaping our tech & data collection strategy.

About the role

In this position, you will:

Work closely with the founders to develop tech and product strategy
Play a leading role in defining the technical roadmap and data collection strategy
Oversee the technical stack
Inspect, organise, and parse clinical data
Oversee the software team to deploy trained models into production
Develop algorithms and lead algorithm testing
Oversee the web app A/B testing
Design and implement machine learning algorithms for regression and classification tasks
Stay up to date on clinical, scientific, and technical literature
Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors

Why you'll love working at Dama Health:

You’ll work with a small team of people passionate about improving women’s health
Your success will be visible and your work will impact the lives of our internal team and patients
You’ll use creativity to solve novel problems and be encouraged to learn new technologies to meet our business goals
You’ll have a key role in shaping our tech team and culture - from your team’s technology choices to how we celebrate team wins
Flexible role and team

About you

Degree in data science / data engineering / AI / ML / bioinformatics/ computer science or related field
2+ years' prior industry related experience (The ideal candidate for this position has hands-on experience developing health-related algorithms or working with clinical/medical datasets).
2-5 years of hands-on experience in data science/machine learning with large datasets
Proficient in Python and machine learning libraries (SciKit-learn, SciPy, NumPy, Pandas)
Knowledge of statistics (powering studies etc)
Experience with training neural networks (PyTorch, Tensorflow)
Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Google Cloud)
Enthusiasm for building start-ups, proactiveness and eagerness to take responsibility and initiative
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Proactive and excited to work in a fast-paced and cross-functional startup environment.

The process

You can apply directly by sending your CV to info@dama-health.com, with a short description as to why you are interested in the role
Informal call with one of the founders (from early April)
Technical assessment with our consultant Senior Data Scientist
Possibility to join us part-time to start with
Compensation

Salary - negotiable based on experience and expertise
Equity
I suspect it’s mostly about control, or maybe some misguided idea that employees owe loyalty to their employer. People trade their work for money. It’s not like getting married, forsaking all others.

If the employer sets clear performance expectations and has some way to measure performance, then employees either meet expectations or they don’t. If they don’t the employer can take remedial action, up to letting the employee go. It doesn’t really matter if the poor performance or low productivity was caused by another job or the employee playing video games or watching TV all day.

There’s some irony in the business the OP describes hires programmers out to multiple customers. That means the owners and managers of the company are working multiple jobs.
> What the customer wants here is impossible, but some customers (larger enterprises in particular) will pay handsomely for you to try. Why is it impossible? Change is the one constant in our universe. Long after there is no consciousness left to perceive it, change will continue.

Companies (and their budgets) like predictability.

Sure, it's unavoidable that you'll have to upgrade or abandon certain software, but it's an altogether different ballgame when you know exactly when that's coming.

If I know I've got guaranteed security fixes in whatever is installed on my system for 5 or 10 years, it means I only have to do the work once every 5 or 10 years.

That's service being provided, and I'd like to test that hypothesis sometime with starting a company to support your dependencies for a monthly fee.

Existence of enterprise Linuxes like RHEL and SUSE offering confirms the market is there, the biggest question is if the overlap of those willing to subscribe to such a model matches those who want this type of predictability. You'd be basically paying for distribution-type development focused on packages you need.
You agree to

> stop. Just stop. Don't send out any DMCA notices at all, not unless you encounter a case of infringement so blatant that it is obvious to all. And then make the decision yourself, don't contract it out.

?

Sounds great - did you make similar promises last time?
There are a few Telegram channels that do exactly that:

https://wip.co/

https://getmakerlog.com/
I take issue with this kind of argument, because it implies that because we don't know everything that can happen in the future, we should not use nuclear power. We already know the costs of producing energy with coal and oil: thousands of deaths every year, potentially billion of deaths in the medium-term.

Like most things, this decision is about trade-offs. No, we have not figured out how to process nuclear waste in 1000 years. But if that's our major problem in 1000 years, we have succeeded in our most important challenge right now.
That's the kind of thing you use consultants for.
> I am not too fond of use-package.

What do you dislike about it?

It seems like almost a standard now. Even if you don't personally like it, it might be useful to beginner Emacs users to use the tools that everyone else is using. I could say the same about helm.
I think that's in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman". As I recall, he gave up on it because no-one else could understand him - notation is both a tool of thought and of communication with others. A similar idea is Abelson's (I think) remark about writing code for people and only incidentally for machines.
I don't think they have a right to limit the employees' income but they do have a right to demand full time work when they're paying for it.

It's a tricky problem that I don't necessarily have an answer to. My point was that it's misleading to compare people who have to work multiple jobs to survive with people who are making hundreds of thousands at each job.

Example from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784608:

> As far as the money goes, my math goes like this:

> - 1 job: 250-300K cash, 250-300K equity (at the high end, higher if I moved to management)

> - 4 jobs: My current situation is 225K avg cash (including bonuses) per job, 100K avg equity per job

You can't look at this and say (like the GP comment did) "how about paying employees adequately".
IIRC there are ways to use the firmware blobs with the official free ISOs, but I have never bothered with that, just having them present in the ISO and not having to fiddle around with putting them where they are expected is easier.
My (speculative) take: Covid crisis ended and people are going outside, and they lost subs in RU and UA (why would you have Netflix sub if you are fighting a war and are broken).
Modern computing is somewhat exciting. We finally got two competitive architectures (x86 and arm) and risc-v slowly building its momentum. This can only result in a better outcome: architectures will compete with each other and improve at faster rate; software will be forced to be cross-platform which is known to improve robustness even if you don't care about other platforms (some bugs are more likely to manifest on other platforms).
P2P doesn't have ads and doesn't look like it's going away.
Yes, because I know how to spell.
We don't disagree, I think. Gender neutral job titles are ok, as far as I'm concerned. Mostly that is, as the female jobs are, historically, more often lower income jobs in the same domain (nurse vs. doctor comes to mind). Coming back to courtesy, if a female mailman prefers to be addressed as mailwoman I would do so.

Funny side note, the German language has some interesting edge cases. E.g. the rank of Hauptmann (Captain in the army and air force) usually isn't gendered, the other ranks aren't neither. So usually female soldiers of that rank are addressed as Frau Hauptmann. The funny thing is Hauptmann is also last name... The plural of the rank Hauptmann is gender neutral again, it's Hauptleute...
As an engineer, I used to think the same. From vicarious experience, I’ve learned that software execution is far down the list of reasons startups don’t work. The wrong market, the wrong approach to the market, or the wrong team approaching the market are all far more likely and harder to change. By comparison, a tech stack that won’t scale is much easier to fix on the fly.

Source: I lead engineering at a VC firm. We’re hiring data scientists and software engineers! https://drivecapital.com/join for more, email in profile.
Maybe not so much a raspberry pi as a Mac Mini or other kind of small non-laptop form factor system; I'm sure that, especially with these plans, someone can make a VESA-compatible mount.
"Consider turning yourself in immediately to the nearest authorities"
Is that definitely true? You might end up not as wealthy as some others, but do you actually lose your wealth?
Yeah and we could still distinguish it from alien life later with genetic analysis
You are correct but sometimes home prices are rising faster than rents it is absurd.
Microsoft is pretty big on compliance. Just look at their customers and you know why.

Github isn't really a good place to host open source in my opinion. Microsoft basically bought the momentum which will maybe remain for years. But you should look for alternatives.
How do you use your mental model to make money unless you have money to invest?

How do you convince others that your mental model can make more money than other VCs?

How do you convince a start-up to take your money because you're a better investor than other VCs?

That's all "sales".

Venture capital is very relationship driven. Not 100% of course, but it's almost impossible to do without it, at least at the beginning.
> sometimes you cannot even use [SSR] - for example, if your code needs to know browser windows size to arrange objects on the page

It's been a very long time since I ran into a situation like that which wasn't best solved with CSS. Describe what you want to the browser and let it handle it for you.
YouTube terminates campaign channel of Hong Kong's sole leadership candidate
Dunelm run over 400 browser tests at the same time in AWS Lambdas
...what?

I'm genuinely confused, who are the bandits in this analogy?
100%. Also, every web app I’ve worked on has accreted UI interactivity with time, and I often end up crossing the threshold where I wish I had started with a decent client-side framework.
Why would you include integration costs for renewables but not nuclear? They face very similar challenges with very similar solutions.

The demand curve is lumpy on a daily, weekly and yearly cycle. Nuclear is flat and predictable, renewables are (like demand) predictable to a reasonable degree but variable (weather and energy demand are linked too).

Nuclear (and coals) difficulty meeting peaky demand is a big reason for pumped hydro to exist for decades. It is still the biggest source of energy storage we have. Why should renewables pay for storage built for nuclear?
Does anyone know if this release supports emulating the iPhone?

If I remember correctly, some ARM extensions and peripherals needed implementing, have they done this for this latest release?
The main reason to make a building airtight is for energy efficiency.

But it's pointless to go to such lengths for airtightness if you have massive thermal bridges in the walls and roof in so many places.

If you want to be really efficient, the insulation should be constant thickness with no nails or screws poking into it, and certainly no bits of wood across it. Since the insulation has no mechanical strength, that really means you're building two houses - an inner house and an outer house, both of which need to stand up without the help of the other.
Agenda-Like Chord Keyboard Using a Pico and the Microwriter Cykey Chords
You can just add the firmware.zip file (or extract it, I don't remember clearly) to a USB drive, and the installer will just mount and use it during installation. So, if there's a tool to merge both easier, or better documentation for the current situation, the problem will solve itself, in my opinion.
For one specific (but large) example, lots and lots of older people in these countries rely on economic growth to ensure that their savings/investment can pay for their retirement, since if economic growth stops they'll be far from wealthy, won't really be able to retire and this will create problems both for them and the general social structure.

As in, even "life as usual" is conditional on at least some economic growth continuing for decades; and even in wealthy countries most people does not consider themselves wealthy enough and will not be satisfied with the idea of things not getting better; they'll definitely throw out any politician who promises keeping status quo in favor of politicians who promise that economy will grow.
Understood.

However, I think maybe there are ways to achieve delivery even if the manufacturer is not operating in the destination country? Maybe through a third-party partner such as Amazon?

This Chromebook (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YMM4YC1/) for example, ships from the US and can be delivered straight to my hand even Google don't actually operate here.

Currently, if I want to buy the laptop, I have to hire a courier company to proxy the package (from their US warehouse to the destination country), the company will handle import and customs. But given the nature of the business, the package might be damaged or lost, and when it did, I might only get the courier fee refunded.

Amazon on the other hand, almost never fail, and even if they did fail, I can still get all my money back.

I would totally pay a small premium to get my laptop and other hardware safely delivered. So... I hope Framework consider this.
For a part maybe, but some of the proponents of mass migration truly analyse the situation only through the economic lens, as for them a civilisation is reducible to its economy.

They also seem to lack the basic mathematical notion that one doesn’t add things that are different in nature: “on additionne pas des choux et des carottes”. For them a population size is a population size with no thought given to the underlying composition of the population.

Which is the main reason all their mental models on this particular topic are often so wrong in practice
> What are you doing about all the other bogus DMCA claims you company has sent

Multiple commenters asked him this and he never replied.
Disappointing but not surprising. It's all just superficial hand waving. They are sorry but only for bring caught.
Makes me wonder if even a probe never landing would 'shed' some biological material that eventually makes its way onto the surface.

Then again, there's plenty of theories that asteroids and other impacts have caused enough of a splash to throw trace life bearing materials into space and eventually onto other planets or moons.

My current theory is that we will find traces of e.g. bacteria all over our solar system, but it'll be genetically traceable back to Earth. That said, if it turns out life as we know actually started on e.g. Mars, that would be huge and probably a big accelerator for more missions there.
WebGL vs WebGPU shading languages.
It's not about space. You don't spend $105,000,000,000 on land.

You can spend real money on construction that causes a minimum of inconvenience. Say you want to build on a road median, and then someone imposes a requirement that at most one lane be closed during the construction. The land isn't a problem, doing the construction while closing only one lane is expensive.

There are other variants. Basically, every time either the route or the construction is constrained, the cost goes up. You have to enter a city at one spot instead of 10m/100m further east? You have to build a bridge at one spot instead of 5km further west? I know examples where both of those caused well over 100% cost increases.
I wish I have enough time to host a dedicated hackerrank (among other such business model companies) solutions website in a jurisdiction that doesn't care for dmca at all.

This entire business model is shitty if it involves taking down the solutions for problems. None of this is novel and shouldn't be protected by anything (copyright or patents).
Less is more. No filler content. GoT could have stopped 2-3 seasons before it did and I'd been fine. Star Wars not needed episode 1 and onward. The old ones were neat as they were (personally apart from that I only liked the recent movie which took place between 3 and 4, and the first season (!!) of Mando). Its like meeting your heroes: don't! Same with books. I read the The Thrawn Trilogy. It was great. I don't want a comic about it or a movie about it; I leave the memory as is. There's a remake of the brilliant series Utopia (orig. by Ch 4) and I am not looking forward to it either for the same reason. Then again, perhaps all these reboots are not aimed for me but for people who did not see the orig.
> Being able to vote right or far right wing politics is a sign of mental or moral deficiency. “F*ck you, I got mine” isn’t a philosophy in consonance with a major religion no matter how often they say it is. Regions full of these people are just places to be avoided. There’s a name for people who are willing to compromise their morals for money. There’s also names for people lacking morals. Don’t be these people.

Morally condemning people a person don't know for different choices that a person doesn't understand and clearly doesn't care to understand isn't going to achieve any productive end for the betterment of anyone-- it's just bigotry: Every sever bigot believes 'those' people are fundamentally bad.

Badness surely exists in the world, but to write off a _region_ of people? Sorry, but that sounds a lot like writing off a shade of skin-tone.
> Even though autonomous driving is proving to be a harder nut to crack than people expected, by 2050 it will be solved.

In 1960s, top researchers believed that scene understanding (one of the hardest computer vision problems) will be solved by an undergrad during summer internship. I feel that this prediction that we'll for sure autonomous driving in a couple decades is an example of similar hubris.
You can infer from this how Artificial Intelligence and Logic should be combined: AI enables a "post-rigorous" mode, and Logic is how you know you are still doing something sensible, and how you expand your sure footing.
This will grow until it cripples California's budget for decade, if it is not shut down.

See also "the big dig"
That's the easiest way, but it loses the visibility and ease for supporters that GitHub's built-in feature has.
Flash, Silverlight, Java, TinyGo and .NET are doing just fine on WebAssembly.
> SEO. Google penalizes your site for slowness and more often than not it can't even render some pages the way you'd expect. Attempting to "fix" that through client-side hacks is a fool's errand and you're likely to get penalized.

This is the only realistic reason I have seen to be honest. Isomorphism is a tool that you use to achieve a statically rendered site that you can give to Google, that will then become highly dynamic in the hands of the user.

But if you've got a mostly static site, what's the point of all the complexity? Why not just make a static site a more simple way, rather than using SPA tooling. Either you have highly interactive site or you don't, and if you do have an SPA style site, and need to appease Google, you might need SSR. Otherwise, use the right tool for the job and cut out the complexity is my opinion on the matter.
No, and I am willing to stake everything I have to fight anyone pushing this experiment.

People that engineer the future of countries they will never live at, happy to displace cultures for a fucking basis point, make me deeply sick.

Who in the bloody hell are you, or anyone at Davos for that matter, to dictate what my nation, my town, or my family needs? Have you even been asked? Or is this just the usual arrogance ingrained in all globalists of just "knowing better"?
I think most people could do with a little less exposure to US culture tbh
Stop burning coal is the long term solution.

Short term solution is similar to nuclear, just gather it in random places and hope you've gone bankrupt before anyone asks you to pay for dealing with it because if you pay up front then you are obviously economic self-harm and people would move straight to the long term solution.
Highway Code: Watching TV in self-driving cars to be allowed
The employer can reasonably expect to get the work they pay for. Professional and creative employees usually get paid for results and meeting goals, not for warming a chair for eight hours. The employer can use cameras and keystroke loggers to make sure they get their eight hours a day — Upwork offers this “service” and I’ve heard of employers doing it. That would be a big morale booster and show of trust from the employer.

It’s up to the employer to set clear performance expectations and measurements, then handle employees who don’t meet those expectations as a job performance problem. If the employer can’t do that basic management work, preferring to pry and control and intimidate their employees into submission, they deserve what they get.

I don’t understand the argument “They are already well-paid so they shouldn’t look to make more money.” Try that on the C-suite execs who sit on multiple corporate boards.
How to make 8 new clients in 48h
Except for the confusion about terminology the article has some good points.

We had an idea a long time ago in the web dev world that we could run the same language in the browser and in the backend. Basically reuse everything and save time.

It think this is bad assumption to begin with.

If I have a clean separation between frontend and backend, regardless if doing mostly server rendering or client rendering it is only one thing that makes sense to share, input validation code.

Like what is the definition of a first name, last name, age, price, email address etc. That is the one thing that need to be in agreement between the frontend and the backend to be able to exchange data.

But to share frontend and backend technology for only the gain of input validation seems like a heavy price to pay for little gain.
Backdoor seems like a misnomer since this does not represent a security vulnerability to the model host.
Yes, but they may not be effective enough; there was a big stink in the area I live where they had houses with a system like that, but the system either didn't have enough capacity, or it had to be cranked up to a point where the noise would be intolerable to the people living there.

I have a one-way system, an air pump that sucks air in through vents and out through the ceiling in a few points; I have it set to the lowest at all times because it produces a constant noise otherwise. We usually have our bedroom windows open and the back door open a crack, it should be fine even if it's not the most energy efficient.

Call me selfish, but I'd like my country to crank up electricity production, reduce its usage by datacenter and industry, and use it to heat or cool houses instead.
People wanted a generic word that collectively refers to all people who aren't white. They didn't want to use "non-white" because they wanted a positive word that emphasises what people are rather than what they're not. And they didn't want to use "colored" because that word has too much historical baggage (at least in the US.) So "people of color" was born.