skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Goldbach Group is a leading European advertising firm and part of the TX Group, the
largest media corporation in Switzerland with brands such as 20 Minuten, Ricardo, Tutti, Tages-
Anzeiger, Doodle and Zattoo. We market and mediate advertising in private electronic media
with a focus on online, video, digital TV, digital out of home (DOOH) and performance marketing
in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The business unit “Goldbach Next” is in the center of the
company’s digital transformation and responsible for product development and innovation, ad-
technology solutions and engineering, revenue management and our operational infrastructure.
We are based in the heart of Zurich with additional offices in Küsnacht, Berlin and Belgrade.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer-Javascript to join our team!

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be working with internal engineering teams and external suppliers to build the next generation of advertising platforms. You will work on large architectural decisions, implementing high performance systems and creating new greenfield projects.

Your responsibilities would be to:
Collaborate with Product Managers and other Software Engineers to implement and maintain our advertising tech-stack.
Develop applications to integrate internal and external APIs.
Create and build new exciting advertising formats.
Collaborate with the engineering team in Belgrade (Serbia).
Identify and solve performance issues.
Develop and improve our advertising ecosystem.
Share best practices with others and help establish engineering standards.

We will invite you to the next level if you have:
High expertise in vanilla Javascript and a true passion for performance in web browsers.
Effortless application of debugging tools.
Good knowledge of responsive web design and its common frameworks and standards (e.g. Bootstrap/Foundation/SCSS).
High interest in web standards and future web trends.
Ownership for the code you write (QA, testing, reviews, refactors).
Ability to plan for future work while maintaining the current delivery with rapidly changing market requirements.
Ability to drive projects forward and clarify unclear requirements.
Experience in the advertising industry (digital or not) is a plus.
Knowledge of common ad servers like Google Admanager or Xander is a plus.
Preference will be given to those with proficiency in English and German.

What we offer:
A workplace in Zürich or Berlin - for an international company which drives advertising forward.
A dynamic & passionate team environment.
Hybrid type of work.
We come from different corners of the world and work interdisciplinary.
We want to know each other better - wherethere are opportunities to socialize - across all our locations.
Find all benefits at a glance here: https://goldbach.com/ch/en/about-us/career/units/goldbach-ne...

We do not accept unsolicited CVs from Third Party Agencies.
At best the "traitorous eight" took with them the direction of research and work they wanted, which wasn't supported by Schockley - and Schockley did try to lockdown as much of the IP he could, taking patents out even if they were dubiously assigned to company.
https://archive.ph/qiMYw
You widely underestimate how much work goes into documenting hardware.
Roaming profiles would be my guess.
https://archive.ph/5TrEv
Except we clearly see that Linus has bought Macs over and over again. Presumably because they're the best tool for the job and he likes them. And you still have failed (like everyone else) to make any real argument that Apple is somehow warring against "software liberty". Promoting your own platform doesn't amount to doing so, certainly.
Ask HN: Why is there no RSS-equivalent for events?
It seems obvious to me that something like RSS would make a great events publication format, and I'm wondering if anyone has already thought of this.

Say I would like to follow the events of my local art gallery and the local gigs of a certain musician. The gallery and musician could put out a feed which I could follow, with values including date-time, address, info-url, ticket-url, details. My event-feed reader would pull in the gallery's and musician's events from their website, and populate a calendar with them. Moreover, I could set the reader to only display events in the region I care about, so the only gigs of the musician that would appear would be the ones when they come to my town.

They seems a simple, decentralised way of following events, but I'm surprised nothing like this already exists?
I suppose water (at least natural water from rivers) is one of the few actual zero-sum games in economics. No matter not hard you try, it won't rain more, and a given river only has so much water to give.
> It isn't perfect at all and maybe fallen out of time a bit, but it is better than that of any other country I know (I am not for the US).

That's a very surprising take to me.

Some more obvious problems with the US constitution are highly ambiguous clauses (right to bear arms vs militias), unclear powers assigned to parts of the government (could Pence have legally decided on the electors to make Trump win? what's the exact succession of powers?), an election system causing imbalanced voting power (how many senators per state vs population, first-past-the-post vote), important rights left undefined (right to privacy vs the abortion issue), and many many more issues. These really are just the recent things that come to mind. These problems also don't seem scholarly, they appear to have substantial impact on political reality.

The US constitution was certainly a huge achievement for the 18th century. There's - unsurprisingly - been a lot of progress in constitutional theory in the 235 years after though, and it seems like it is a massive liability for the US by now.
I'm trying to do this more.

It's a tough one, because with access to so much information, I feel like there are a lot of interesting things to see and learn which could impact my thinking and the stuff I do a great deal, but at the same time, all of that stuff and content seems to have crept into every spare moment of time, I am not sure how much I know how to genuinely think deeply about things for myself anymore. Most of my 'ideas' or view points are more just something I read from somewhere and I wonder about this is terms of how do these people come up with these thoughts and ideas? i'm just copying there view points but not having much original thoughts of my own, they are just people like me, everyone seems to look up to certain people or 'leaders' but they are just people.

I feel like I need more time and space to have more thoughts of my own. Last year I did experiences with just sitting in silence for an hour a day, or doing a meditiation where I just allowed myself to think whatever thoughts I wanted, it felt really nice, but in the end I wasn't so sure I could spend an hour a day on it.
I think they released the drivers so you could make your own JN compatible distro, not open-source, so I guess you are stuck with an old kernel...
Dell laptops support Linux for a select few models. You can't just get any Dell and expect manufacturer support. I think "laptops from a few tiny Linux-focused companies, plus a few Linux models from dell" counts as a "very limited selection", even though it's better than it used to be.
You'll love this (french) subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/giscardpunk
PYNQ is an interesting project. It blends python / jupyter notebooks running on the embedded processor in the FPGA ps with any custom hardware you design for the FPGA pl (programmable logic). You can generate the hardware logic by writing a Verilog module, or else using HLS which is a flow for taking c code and creating hardware. It's a really fun environment. You'll still need to grok the HW side, but thats part of the fun!
I used an iBook G3/G4 for years as a primary development laptop running Linux, and I think your recollection here is a bit off. The state of it was that:

- There were numerous laptops with near-full Linux support, the Apple hardware wasn't categorically better when it came to that.

- The power usage of x86 CPUs was atrocious at the time compared to PPC. Now history is repeating with Apple's M[12] line. Therefore people put up with a lot to get 2-3x longer battery life. As I recall I got 3-4 hours of active use out of my iBook, but (going to conferences) it felt like people's x86s almost always had to be plugged in.

- The Linux support for software suspend/hibernation was really flaky at the time, but it worked perfectly on Apple hardware, because all Linux had to do was to tell the hardware "do the suspend thing now" (IIRC by tweaking a file in /proc). The hardware did a slow "heartbeat" with a front LED hidden behind the plastic frame when suspended (a nice effect). When running Linux it would do the the exact same, as it was all done in hardware.

- There were still edge cases in hardware support, just as with any other laptop vendor, it all came down to what individual components happened to have Linux drivers. Some of this was better on Apple's hardware, some of it was worse.
Flakes stable yet?
NATO nuclear missiles aimed at Moscow were removed in Cuban missile crisis trade
I thought so, too. I've switched to mdbook[1], which is more lightweight, and (at least at the time) was one of the few solutions that compiled down to a directory that can be used without limitations while offline.

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/ – the website itself is a demo of the sites produced by mdbook.
But the definitions haven't changed, either on Wikipedia or the definitions used by the US government and most of the rest of the world respectively.

What has changed is the ability for new accounts to edit war the definition due to recent debate in the US
> Could this be used as an argument against capital punishment?

If it is, it's equally applicable to any other situation where an innocent person dies in a legally-preventable situation, e.g. drunk driving (let's eliminate driving, that will 100% eliminate tens of thousands annually of those innocent drunk driving deaths). Or that < 1 guy on death row annually, in the case of capital punishment.[0]

Here on Earth, with people, we understand that mistakes happen, that people are fallible, and that everything has both positive and negative tradeoffs—including capital punishment.

[0] Yes, I treat ultra-rare capital punishment mistakes in the same mental category as innocent drunk driving deaths. It's sad that it happened (in both cases) and in a perfect world, neither would occur—but we do our best. (And as the case of drunk driving shows, literally no one believes in "if it saves one life" rhetoric consistently. There's more to life than safety.)
They’ve been flying just fine for 4+ years now.
The US is a military junta masquerading as a republic. Presumably Australia's republic movement will address the issue of the corruption of the republic, eventually.
Basically as with any live stock. We should eat it and then be done with the meat production at least. (Ok eggs and milk etc. are debatable, but meat time is over)
Building a Distributed Webhook System
Interesting. I went to look for England&Wales entries and the first local (to UK) entry was from Ireland: https://www.public.law/dictionary/entries/emergency-care-ord....

It talks about "Tusla", which term was entirely opaque to me. Apparently it's a neonym for a child welfare agency. An otherwise very readable sentence became entirely opaque due to use of a proper noun.

The "ex parte" entry appears to say that it's a two party proceeding, in USA, is that true? In UK it's one-party before the court/tribunal. Multi-party proceedings where a party fails to respond are not ex parte in UK law (AFAIK) but are still inter partes.
Your docs seem to flash unstyled content for a second before the CSS loads.
Tangent: do web push notifications work?

A lot of websites ask if I want to be notified via a web push, which I personally find very annoying and have never tried it. But perhaps people (consumers/users and sellers/creators) find them useful?

Bonus question: are you subscribed to any web push notifications? Which ones and why do you like web push vs. a newsletter or RSS?
Newsletters work because email will never ever die. Email is the one constant that will exist forever. So if you can reach a persons inbox you can reach their attention
> Nuclear needs water to cool, hot water then goes into rivers.

Can you back that up? From what I understand most of the cooling happens in the cooling towers by evaporation?
I don't see a reason why one couldn't use 90% of a golf course to grow grass/alfalfa and not waste the water.
It's a "push". If I go to your website because I see an interesting article on Hacker news or Twitter I'm unlikely to return for newer articles, even if I'm interested I will simply forget. However if you get my email you can push content to me.

If you have enough people in your newsletter you can increase your traffic and keep it more consistent, more traffic is more ad revenue. You could even get your newsletter sponsored and make it a source of revenue.

I have not worked on newsletters specifically but I can attest that sending emails is generally very effective.
Email is a great thing, I use it heavily.
Why newsletters doens't work for me:

1. I don't want to give my email.
2. I don't want to receive spam.
3. I don't like long letters with massive amount of different news (even in single domain).

In my view newsletters/digests take more time to read and I prefer to receive small pieces of topics more often (what I'm interested in specifically, not whole the editor choice) than to recevie bunch of them on weekly basis.
Someone needs to tell this librarian Google has 2FA backup codes you can just write on a piece of paper.
> but what is the justification for flagging posts about whether we are in a recession?

There is none.

As for 'flagging medical misinformation' have been here before haven't we? With Facebook claiming that official CDC.gov links flagged as bring "False Information". [0] Now the 'Fact checkers' are working overtime on gaslighting and reality distortion spells on Facebook.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720
Google, we know a river of $$ flows from G-Mail - do you not feel any need to create a useable account recovery mechanism, all it would need is a few drops from that river?
It's not a miniscule difference in port size at all, btw. It's actually quite significant. And yes, it is a limiting factor in at least two ways: how thin the device can become, and how strong the case frame can remain at its weakest point, which is inevitably in the area surrounding that port.

http://www.josh-ua.co/blog/2015/3/15/usb-c-dimensions-size-c...

https://blog.ugreen.com/usb-c-vs-lightning-port/
Soon(tm)
For hysterical raisins: Before the advent of power electronics, which allowed three phase asynchronous motors to proliferate, commutated series-wound motors were the railway motor because of their beneficial characteristics (quoting Wikipedia: "high starting torque, can run at high speed, and are lightweight and compact").

A classic commutated series-wound motor is a DC machine. The problem with DC power is that without power electronics, you can't really change the voltage (except downwards by wasteful resistors), so your transmission voltage is limited by your maximum motor voltage and you incur relatively high transmission losses and need frequent substations every few kilometres. (Mainline railways can cheat a bit by equipping all of their rolling stock with two (or occasionally more) motors permanently linked together in series, so each motor only gets a fraction of the voltage, but you can take that approach only so far…)

So you want to switch to AC power, which is more efficient because it can be easily transformed up and then down again, because transformers can actually be made small enough to fit into a locomotive.

Fortunately with some adaptations a series-wound motor can be made to work on AC, too, but there are some trade-offs depending on the required amount of power and the frequency. I.e. the motor still works better if your AC current is more "DC-like", i.e. doesn't have too high a frequency.

It turns out that for something more modest like a hoover or a domestic power drill, an AC series-wound motor ("universal motor") will work fine enough even at 50 or 60 Hz, but for railway purposes with their somewhat higher power demands things didn't work so well.

Because at that time power electronics didn't exist or were still in their infancy (e.g. mercury arc rectifiers), there was no possibility of doing anything useful on board of the locomotive, so instead it was decided to reduce the frequency of the railway's power supply system, because at 16 2/3 or perhaps even 25 Hz motors could still be made to work reasonably enough.

Also at that time changing the frequency meant using a motor-generator set, and presumably choosing some simple integer ratio for the two frequencies also simplified things.

By the time other countries started considering switching to AC electrification, usable rectifiers existed that could be used on locomotives, so those countries could electrify at the full 50 or 60 Hz and then rectify the current to DC on board of the locomotive, thereby sidestepping the problems of running a commutated series-wound motor with AC power.

Even later on we then got fully variable voltage and frequency inverters, which finally allowed serious usage of (usually asynchronous) three-phase induction motors.

(Some railways used three-phase drives even before that, but without modern electronics this was a somewhat more cumbersome prospect, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_Kand%C3%B3)
Walking without distraction is a pleasure that I rediscovered recently. It’s been great for my mental health. I also seem to solve problems out of nowhere on my walks.
What Should a Nine-Thousand-Pound Electric Vehicle Sound Like?
If you are looking for a similar markdown-to-docs-site tool but don't want to run javascript outside of a browser, MkDocs is great: https://www.mkdocs.org/
> People tend to not want to follow companies

Also many companies got burned thinking the smorgasbord of free traffic on social platforms would never end.

It turns out that when your primary business model is selling traffic (via ads), giving it away for free is antithetical to your margins.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok (sometime soon) started off giving creators (and businesses) tons of free traffic only to eventually suppress it to push people towards paying to reach the followers they worked so hard to get.

On the other hand, once someone has given you permission to email them then it really doesn’t matter if you do it from your own mailserver, mailchimp, or anything else… They are still expecting you to be in their inbox (hopefully delivering great value).

Source: I was reading the internal newsletter in the bathroom of a major social network's office ~6 years ago when they were announcing (in celebration) that they had suppressed organic reach to sub 5%
It's not the big components like the CPU and the GPU that's the problem most of the time, it's the wifi/bluetooth chip, the sound chip, the LAN controller, the USB controller, the trackpad, the power management stuff, display backlight, etc etc.
If you have enjoyed home shopping on TV before the internet, you must remember how the hosts promote products and encourage you to call a number to buy them. Livestream shopping brings the same concept to the digital world but encourages business customers to engage with the host directly. Customers who like the products can click on them on the live stream and purchase them immediately. Social media platforms encourage influencers to interact with the audience using easy-to-create live-streaming videos. Now, brands can also create and customize such live-streaming videos for their website or mobile apps to create a personal shopping experience for their customers.

Explore the full article to learn more about it.
Depends on the audience size and makeup.

I've seen tweets like this: https://twitter.com/petecodes/status/1548983470805876737 which talk about $400/month for a newsletter ad.

Cooperpress has a lot of dev subscribers and I believe charges thousands of dollars for an add: https://cooperpress.com/advertise/ (run by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petercooper ).
Back in the day I really enjoyed using the Ricochet wireless modems which allowed up to 128k BPS communication, link to link.

I wonder if Meshtastic can bring back some of that experience, and be used as a way to access my own bandwidth from miles away? Anyone know if SLIP/PPP is usable over LoRA?
> That's not exactly true. For example, arctan = tan^-1 is smooth on R, but its Taylor series only converges for |x|<=1.

This issue creeps in a lot but I think it comes from the complex analysis, where differentiable function is always smooth and analytic (holomorphic).
Adding a Permission System to Node.js
I've been using this makefile to compile my C programs on Linux and Windows for several years: https://gist.github.com/orthoxerox/5ce97c72b03becfb433d923cf...

As long as the program is just a bunch of C (and header) files with no special treatment, it works great.
What does "transparent" mean in this context?
Usually a group project starts at the beginning of the semester and the completed work is presented during the final exams, so it would be a long-term endeavor.
Thanks for mentioning TDD, that is another area that I should explore
Channel Hedging

If you depend on SEO, SEA, Adsense you depend on Google.

If you depend on Facebook, Insta, you depend on Meta.

If you depend on Linkedin, you depend on Linkedin.

If you depend on Newsletters, you depend on Spamfilters.

Every channel has its risk. So hedging your traffic channels is the best thing you can do. And Newsletter is the least annoying one, as Google and Facebook maximize for ad-spendings. Spamfilters don't.
Just, not nuclear stuff.
I dont know if it really even showed us that

The supply chain problems, in part are a result of the Lockdowns.

So sure it "showed us" what people already knew, information workers can work from home. The final tally is still out on if that was better for companies or not, or if companies in the long term will keep work from home for employee

Hell at my company it is about 50/50 on if people want to work from home or not. I think HN being what is it tends to not recognize that here we have a strong bias towards WFH that may not be shared by large parts of the workforce
> Most service agreements for enterprise agreements are negotiable, and certainly don't contain the above clauses.

If you're a corporation, you have leverage which you can use to negotiate. Normal people don't, they are offered a take it or leave it deal and it's pretty much always what I described above.
It's a whole 0.5% of the area of farmland in Canada. Think of the children!
You take that back! (suckless is villified these days i hear)
Because they like the truth.
Check out system76, they seem to be making really good laptops.
Also Framework laptops support Linux fully too.
My team uses Docusaurus for internal docs. I just had to make my first contribution to that repo the other day, and it was a mess. Docusaurus didn't work from within WSL (well, it mostly worked but every page load crashed when viewing), so switching to native Windows NPM and the several dependencies and installation steps to get it working took about a half hour with the help of a colleague who knew how it worked. And ultimately, it was just so I could write markdown.

The generated docs are nice, to be sure, but I certainly would not go through that pain if I had to go documentation from scratch.
Great idea, we’ll do a such an experiment.
Transparent to the application - basically the SQL queries (select, insert, update) in your code base don't have to change at all.

This would be in contrast to e.g. compressing the data in your code before inserting it into the database, then decompressing after you load it.