skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ya I did some researching and still don't get how this works lol

"Proof-of-Optimization, a novel blockchain consensus mechanism described in the whitepaper, plans to solve computational chemistry problems at a cost competitive with that of standard on-premises environments and cloud computing. Compute contributors can run both solver and validator nodes powering industrial-scale virtual screening campaigns in exchange for $MSI, the platform's official token.

"For the first time, any computer or phone with access to the web might be responsible and rewarded for discovering the next breakthrough medicine," said Shkreli, Druglike Co-Founder. "We will disrupt the economics of the drug business by allowing a wide pool of innovators and contributors, rather than only pharmaceutical giants, to profit from drug discovery."

link: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/25/248519...
True, iPhone was an avant garde invention when it was launched. Having said that, it's sad the glory days of iPhone seem to be fading away. Every innovation has its time and place, and it's about time new technologies are given their due, such as blockchain and crypto. We have to come out of our shadows thinking these are harmful for the mankind.
Fair enough, I'm definitely coming at it from having a technical background on cameras and optics and to me the article is halfway between one explaining why apertures as so weird (and not even doing that), and how the exposure triangle works.
Space Junk Lands in Australian Sheep Field
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Technologies:AWS, CDK, Kubernetes, Postgres, incident response, myriad DevOpsy things

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Email: chris@focusfire.net

I'm an SRE / Tech lead / infrastructure goblin covered in scars from discovering many of the sharp edges of AWS and distributed systems over the years. I've worked in both the enterprise and startup-land, having spent the last several years in SaaS, helping orgs scale from thousands to billions of requests per day with tech, process, and engineering leadership.

Right now I'm most interested in the climate tech sector, but am happy to learn about any role with potentially positive social and/or ecological impact.
This is a great list! Hadn’t heard of cms.js before, looks interesting.

I wonder what the dividing line between ‘blog’ and ‘framework’ was? I was surprised to see 11ty and Jekyll under blog, instead of down with Gatsby and Hugo under Framework.
Probability of competing in college athletics by sport
Ah ya, debugging in real environments is a very difficult question, particularly in robotics where the system is complex, and not always with the best internet connectivity.

The approach we are taking to this is two fold:
1) Robust self monitoring and metrics, ensuring we measuring system performance (we are using Prometheus to allow us to scale to (hopefully) millions of devices.
2) Ensuring we tie those metrics to a rolling buffer of the last 90 seconds (or so) of data. When an issue occurs, we automatically save to disk, and allow remote operators to pull the raw sensor data as needed.

With the raw data, we can (and do!) play this back through our stack and step through the behavior tree and control outputs, comparing them to what actually happened on device. The system is certainly deterministic enough to allow this sort of debugging and testing!

We will have a set of articles on this approach in the future!
So between the mining/manufacturing/delivery of new scooters and bikes, and endless running-around of a fleet of vehicles to continually pick-up the rentals for recharging & redistribution, it seems that the chances of these being a carbon-reducing scheme dwindle to s.f.a.
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Also looking for DevOps Manager and DevOps Engineer+MySQL DBA, also in the province of Quebec

We build a marketing cloud platform helping agencies to be more efficient and make better decisions. We have 200+ connectors to third-party platforms (e.g. Facebook Ads and Google Ads) where we store data in our data warehouse and allow advanced data transformation and blending (ETL), and are also investing in a live connector framework to get data on-demand from third-party APIs.

Our stored connectors are written using the LAMP stack (PHP 8) and our live connector framework is written in TypeScript.

We are hiring for various roles on different parts of our application, and therefore looking for intermediate-senior developers with at least one of the following:

* Node/TypeScript experience to work on our live connector framework

* PHP 8 experience to work on our stored connector framework and back-end app

* Vue.js experience to work on our front-end, including the UI for our ETL functionality

If you are interested in leading a small team; please also mention that.

We're looking for people anywhere in the province of Quebec and ideally in the Montreal area. We're open to sponsoring VISAs for great candidates.

Our office is in the Old Port and we'd like to see you there from time to time (once every 1-2 weeks possibly), but these can be mostly WFH positions if that's your preference.

Email me at plsoucy@tapclicks.com if interested. Thanks!
Our platform started as a "Bring your own computer!" - and AMD64 was much more popular then than ARM64 (for our users). Unfortunately, just saying "bring your own computer" is a technical barrier for lots of people (even sysadmins who just don't feel like doing work at home) - which is why we built a sort of "all-in-one" box
Are they as relevant anymore in a world of dynamic data driven prices and tons of personalized promotions?

Very few things have one price.
They should go all in and make them self driving as well.
Now do the same, but with DNS records.
I keep hearing the "You have go to all in" argument from React Native evangelists, but I haven't heard a reasonable explanation for why this would be. Why was Facebook able to introduce it within an existing native app? This also seems to contradict one of the major selling points, that you can always just drop down to native for problems outside its scope. This is a very important requirement for any company building more than a simple CRUD app.

A simpler explanation is that "you have to go 100% in on React Native" self-selects for anecdotes from tiny companies tackling trivial problems, and allows one to say "No true scotsman" when a bigger company has a bad experience.
Another day, another bridge down.
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Description: My team makes the software that simulates autonomous vehicle on road in millions of virtual scenarios in order to measure their safety and performance.

We specialize in simulating the physical processes involved in road-vehicle dynamics which allow motion planning, control, safety, and test engineers to design, verify, and validate changes to autonomy software without needing a physical vehicle on the road. We are a key part of Aurora’s safety culture: https://aurora.tech/safety

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Perl is not memory-safe
NYT subscription takes much-longer to cancel than to create
That's a great way to think about it, you are describing it exactly correctly.
shrug it works for me to have it set like that. Besides, it's a limit, I don't necessarily hit it.
The CHIPS Act is popular, bipartisan, and a bad idea
Faster Inverse Burrows Wheeler Transform
> You seem to be working with a different definition of "wrong" than the rest of the planet.

How would you define it then?

I know this is sort of a trick question, as defining morality is something moral philosophers have struggled with since forever.

Generally though, i think that if you give something to someone for free, you're not responsible to teach them how to use it or make it accessible to use (Unless you promised otherwise).

e.g. We don't think Linus is responsible for teaching a course on how to use Linux.

> There are people becoming homeless and losing government benefits because of Google.

Is it really because of google? I would think the primary party to blame here would be the government that seems to insist using email to communicate about benefits. This seems highly inappropriate given the audience they are trying to serve.

> Either you didn't read the letter, or you are a deeply amoral person who should seek professional help.

You can be sympathetic to the situation without thinking google is at fault here. Or alternatively think the situation is really sad and unfortunate but think that imposing a duty to provide support is a bad solution.
Don't forget, this is an F35 thread. b^)
Apple network traffic went through Russia for 12 hours
Connections have value, but that value can easily be negative.
They did profit from the deceptive practices (lying to customers about buying at market rates while systematically doing so significantly below market), it just was dwarfed by the losses from other things they did.
Seems like a second order consequence of optimizing for SEO. Google takes time to index websites and as a page accrues search index strength, by the time it becomes a top result, the actual content is likely out of date or irrelevant. An adverse network effect perpetuating less relevant information rewarding being first / existing for the longest period of time.
Have they done a good job at preventing hacking or disruption of the wireless parts of these systems?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/health/ultraprocessed-food-de...
So true, I was confused by the comments so far. Gell-Mann Amnesia effect confirmed.
Not everyone; but at about $1-2K per unit these days, it is increasingly available even to third-world militaries, such as the Taliban.

In Ukraine, it's one of the things that are often crowdfunded by either side, along with NVDs and drones. Of course, when they are in short supply, they usually go to the units that can use the most effectively, such as recon & sabotage groups (диверсионно-разведывательная группа; not sure what's the proper English term for that, but it's basically guys who work behind enemy lines). So even if not everybody has them, the guys who are the most likely to mess you up probably do.
My trash and your trash isn’t toxic to millions of people for millennia
I’m glad to see hexo on here. It’s an underdog, but very capable, simple and fast.
It can be hard to express the value proposition. For a lot of people, it's a media server with some really neat torrent related apps. For others it's a photosharing box that doesn't share photos with anyone you don't want it to. Others buy it because it's a tiny Kubernetes cluster, and they want to learn real tech skills with their hobby.

But honestly, it's also a computer. It's the dream machine (1). What was the value proposition of the personal computer? What we're proposing is the personal server. Billions of folks run the client-side of the internet - but only a tiny elite class of us know how to run the server-side?

If I get hyperbolic and kool-aid drunk, just know it's because I'm quite passionate about this. The blockchain folks talk a lot about "distributing the web". We're simply distributing web servers.

For now though - it's a neat box to run Photostructure or a Ghost blog on :)

1. https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine
> Isn't the theory (at least the mathematical, abstract version of it) already fully represented in books like Griewank that I mentioned in another comment here in this post?

I guess it's in there somewhere, but like many of the papers, I find that book to overcomplicate things and just not to my liking. I also don't see any mention of dual numbers, although it's probably somewhat implicit in the development (maybe). I'm mainly interested in the dual number approach. With the dual number approach and forward-mode automatic differentiation, there's really no reason to overcomplicate the developing by discuss "propagating tangents". The development can be more much intuitively done because using dual numbers, automatic differentiation just falls out without discussion of propagation.
If I had billions I’d give it all away. I promise.
Why didn't they just download the dumps via https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ (as explained in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktiona...)

Scraping, even via an api, is way less efficient imho.
Interpolating Polygons (2017)
So-Called C-level Executives do So-Called C-level work, which doesn't relate to anything in reality that founders are used to. A lot of C-level hires is about looking the part and talking the talk, but not actually doing much work. The most egregious and useless C-level hires are usually CIOs, CMOs, CDOs, CTOs, and often COOs. The CFO sometimes carries their own weight, especially in going-public or already-public companies.

The sad part is that it's usually the investors that demand the C-levels, and often when a new CEO is brought in by the investors, they bring their C-level friends. Look at the chaos caused by all those new hires (and culture) at companies like DataRobot. A perfect example of why C-levels are hard to hire by the founders, and usually is the "new team" brought in.
Having tried a few, the thing I settled on is Wordpress.

Why? It is not going anywhere, it has lots of themes and plugins, you rarely have to "code", in the sense of writing programming code, or figuring out the precise location to drop a file based on the behaviour of the generator. Or battle with TOML.

Finally there are plugins that will pump out a static site from Wordpress if you want the performance/security of that. Or you can use a caching plugin if you need the performance but are happy with Wordpress security.

There are sites I set up for other people I may not touch for years. If it is on Wordpress, and they ask me to do an update to the text, I know I can do it without much fuss.
Or if the majority of people running the blockchains (nodes or miners) write code to never accept transactions involving that contract or roll back the chain to before that contract was deployed or any number of things.
Thanks - appreciate that. And thanks for reading my response in the right tone (I was nervous no inflection might do me a disservice).

I’m not familiar with Tangram, but thanks for sharing. I’ll take a look!

There is definitely a world where customers “graduate out” of using Polymath, people do the same with Stripe (I know Uber has been at that decision point in the past). There’s probably a reasonable cap on how much we can charge a customer as a result (more likely pegged to the cost of 10-100 FT roboticists) and in time we’ll have to offer enterprise level SLAs.

So far we’ve seen traction with startups, tech consultants who are servicing big industrial co.s, OEMs, and the large industrial co.s themselves.

My hunch is that as we stop “doing things that don’t scale,” we’ll stop serving the big industrial companies themselves (and leave them to our other customer groups).
It’s odd that you would find the same type of constraints, such as limiting the evaluation to the single dimension of close air support, to support your view while saying the same constraints are unreasonable in your next response.

I would like you to consider that we likely don’t disagree. I never said that money should be spent on the military or even by the government for that matter. The fact that was how you interpreted that comment before going on that long and apparently pre-chambered rant might be a good reason to give one some pause about your worldview.
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We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.

The problem we're solving

When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).

Tech stack

Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).

Fun fact

We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.

What we need

We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, operations, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for web people to help us build out our customer-facing product and sales/operations folk.

Reach out to hiring@fishtail.ai if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us (we also have a job site here, if that's easier -> https://jobs.lever.co/fishtail)
There sure are many articles popping up trying to persuade the US that protecting their strategic industries - what every economy in the East has done and is doing - is a bad idea.

Do prosperity and autonomy lie in letting your industries wither and die, or get taken over by foreign countries?
Hi yelmahallawy, thanks for the suggestion. I took a look at the link you provided above and I think there are a few things in which our library is more powerful:

Serve seems to only support very simple CRUD at the moment. PyFreeLeh's read, update, and delete operation can support more complicated query like order by, limit, and/or even where operation. I believe this will help people do a more complicated tool.

I believe the above capability is more useful when the data set is getting bigger. Serve seems to return all the rows when its GET API is called. If there are thousands of rows, Serve API must return all and it may not be efficient enough.
If you ask me, they should all be shut down for selling unregistered securities, because all crypto tokens fit closest to that definition more than anything else. It's impossible for these tokens to actually function as a currency, both technically and legally. They're not a new class of assets, the idea of tradable tokens is not new either.
Chiming in to say that if you're using this to buy a Pi from AdaFruit make sure to register an account with two-factor auth before you get the chance to buy. They require this to deter scalpers, and they'll run out of stock before you're able to finish the process if you haven't already done so.
Pixelation by itself does not produce any camo effect. It just happens to be easier and cheaper to produce fractal camo patterns on clothing out of pixels - it can be literally printed. And at any range at which the pattern is likely to work anyway, the individual pixels aren't really visible.

More modern (and expensive) patterns like Multicam or A-TACS do the same thing without pixels, e.g.: https://www.camopedia.org/index.php/File:Multicam.jpg
Exactly the same here. And the sequel is even worse.
I don't think that's the assumption at all. Failure can - and does - happen to everyone, and doesn't on its own imply incompetence. We all make bad assumptions and bad projections, and that's part of the game.

But an incompetent executive will avoid making decisions altogether, and will pretend to lead by setting goals that are entirely detached from reality.

In my experience, the lack of decision making and inappropriate goal setting is quite obvious to those of us "in the trenches". You can't, for example, expect to triple your sales in the next quarter unless you're doing something to support that goal, like increasing the size of the sales team or doing more marketing. But I have worked for people who have set sales targets thinking that this is all that's needed to make sales. These people are good at talking about the "what" but no good at working out the "how".

There is strategic thinking, tactical thinking and wishful thinking. Incompetent executives generally operate using the latter framework.
This is exactly correct, Caladan from Polymath Robotics is just a cheap and easy way to get a bunch of developers to try out our (fairly basic so far) API, and to start thinking about the business logic and applications that could be built on top of this.

Our actual product is autonomy on real vehicles.

We don't plan to ever build any kind of high fidelity sim, just sticking to basic Gazebo or similar.
Do you have a source for it being opposition research?

As far as I can tell, https://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/26/whichhillary_blackliv... describes the event where it resurfaced. Now maybe the activist had the information planted. Maybe not. But I've disliked her since meeting her in 1994 (at Dartmouth College, for a speech on health care). Disliked her more when she ran for Congress. Disliked her more again when I donated to Barack Obama's campaign to make sure she didn't become President in 2008. Disliked everything that I heard of her as part of Obama's cabinet. And also disliked her in 2016.

And as context, here is my bias.

I correctly predicted what Trump would be, but could not bring myself to support Hillary because I don't know which I consider worse. Even today, despite the Jan 6 events, I'm not sure that the worse candidate won in 2016.

If Trump gets back in office and manages to dismantle Democracy, then Trump was in retrospect worse. But if he fails at take 2 like a buffoon should, then I prefer how things actually turned out over Hillary's blend of hypocritical incompetence.
Crimes with Python's pattern matching
> You could make hosting and distribution of the code a prohibited act. Wanna still host that Blockchain if it can get you arrested?

And there goes the blockchain.

I'm shocked it hasn't happened already given the fact that many popular blockchains allegedly host illegal images in the transaction metadata. That's all the FBI needs.

The only reason I can imagine is that blockchain and crypto are still useful to people in certain positions. Exfiltrating money from foreign regimes, etc.
I used to live in the Chicago suburbs. When we got bored as kids, we'd kill mosquitoes and feed them to the fish in my dad's aquarium. They were well fed.

I've lived near San Francisco for 30 years now. I have had zero mosquito bites.

I've been visited by black widow spiders, rattlesnakes, bobcats, wild pigs and the occasional fox or badger. But no mosquitoes.