skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latitud | Software Engineers, Sr Engineering Manager | Remote | Full-time

We are focused on elevating the next generation of startups in Brazil and Latin America. There is so much friction for startups and we truly believe that they are an incredible lever for economic progress and social mobility. We started as a community to help support founders and we have since evolved into a tech company that builds infrastructure to reduce friction for early stage startups so they can focus on their product and customers. You could think of Latitud as the OS for startups in Latin America.

We're looking for folks that can help us build legal and financial products for founders in Latin America from the ground up!

Why Latitud?

- Amazing team & culture

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- Work from anywhere (100% remote)

- Two fun trips per year on us!

- Shape product roadmap & tech stack

I'm a co-founder - if you want to learn more drop me a note at yuri [at] latitud [dot] com mentioning Hacker News in the title
There is still a _desperate_ need for a widely used common standard for GUI; I'd even be OK with that happening to be 'things are webpages' if they were OS native and would otherwise behave similarly to native apps on every platform. That HTML5 desktop or even Postscript would be nice; anything as long as it's a real standard already installed and kept up to date on 99% of potential user's systems.
That's why I'm wondering why Russia doesn't consider weapon suppliers being at war with them.
I understand that the TPP is politically dead. But hand waving over details on the specific tariffs on suits from Singapore is misdirection. It was fundamentally an agreement to form a trade block against China. If we politically cared more about the details, then we really didn't care about China.

> I assume you're suggesting that the "everything Trump does is wrong" crowd doesn't exist?

I'm not. But I also don't understand the driving need to give a specific politician credit for doing something normal. Someone quoted Trump's opinion, several of us pointed out that it's not particularly novel or unique, and now we are being lectured about how absolutes are wrong?

Are his words somehow divine that his opinions deserve to be discussed?
I used to bank with a company called "Simple" that was bought about a year ago. Is this company related?
Good camo is broadband. Camo nets, ghillie suits help spread and dissipate a thermal signature, making it more difficult to pick up from the noise. And unless you have a JWST and know exactly where to point it (and obviously the whole idea of snipers is that you don't know), good luck trying to find a human head-sized target that's a klick away from you.
Same, though much newer! UW CSE did the same when I worked there as a help desk tech, student directories mounted on login to the machines. IIRC, it was just a samba share linked into kerberos auth somehow.
Focus? Google? Hah! This got a giant belly-laugh.
GiveCampus (YC S15) | senior engineers | Full Time | Remote (US) | https://jobs.lever.co/givecampus?team=Engineering

GiveCampus builds fundraising software for schools to advance the quality, affordability, and accessibility of education. The company has been profitable since early 2016 and has used revenue to drive growth of the company. We serves more than 1,000 schools, including 30 of the Top 50-ranked colleges in the United States.

Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, JS/React, Heroku, AWS

Team: currently 15 engineers, and we're looking for those strong on the backend, frontend, or something in between.
The ability to easily print and create those patterns has likely improved over the years to where it's cheap enough to be worth the mild improvements vs the cost of the printing of the uniforms.

Plus, like another commenter said camouflage is a last to second to last line of defense. Most units aren't moving stealthily in close proximity to their enemy and those that do adopt better camouflage techniques like ghillie suits or using terrain to hide while staying still (eg: waiting to ambush another group).
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Calyptia is an open-source company that focuses on solving Observability challenges for cloud environments. We are the creators and maintainers of Open Source projects Fluentd and Fluent Bit, which are all about observability (logs, metrics & traces).

We are looking for an experienced Frontend developer that has been a tech-lead before with strong skills in architecture design, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Git and API services,

We look for a proactive candidate with strong communication skills and able to work in a distributed team.

If you are interested, drop me a message to eduardo at calyptia dot com
Cynical take would be it's pretense for future nationalization of industry.
So do sellers who got scammed by Opendoor get any kind of reimbursement? Or does FTC dust off their hands and call it a day?
They lost $662MM last year. “Gross profit” is before all their operating expenses. It’s a confusing term if you’re not used to reading financial statements.
Lately I'm close to apperture priority. With Nikon you can over ride the apperture setting in Programm / Automatic mode. Most of the time automatic is just fine. In case I want something "special", longer exposure for stuff like waterfalls or shorter exposure for movement, I just change the apperture until I'm happy with the shutter speed. Preferring low ISO values, that makes you appreciate fast lenses.
I like it. It reminds me of leaving oppressive situations like a high-control work environment or a high-demand religion.

You start to think, "wow I've really changed here, and not for the better" but then you leave and in some cases the negative changes almost instantly disappear.

In order to kick habits in the way highlighted by the article, people in general need to be exposed to opportunities to experience change.

IMO one of the biggest ways we could help the human race evolve in a positive direction would be by focusing easing or even incentivizing the transition from team to team and from job to job.

The "career" mindset is also still way too sticky, too.

Convergence psychology--"what I'm thinking about doing is X, therefore I am headed at X, well here I am at X, guess I'll stay at X, after all I know a lot about X" is a massive risk. It is too subjective and almost completely blocks out objective factors, e.g. environment.

People will over-associate themselves with their behaviors as long as that tradition of looking at careers, teams & jobs continues. This over-focus on self is far from selfishness, but way too lax on testing and evaluating the effects of changes in objective circumstances.

Thanks for sharing.
Even Underwater, Money Talks
Location: London, UK

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Express.js, GraphQL, Next.js, React.js, Redux, Nest.js, PostgreSQL, AWS (S3, EC2, RDS, EKS), Heroku, Github, Github Actions, Open Source, Docker, JWT, Auth0, Vue.js, Vuex, Gatsby.js, Netlify & Netlify-CMS, Hasura

Résumé/CV: https://mdunaev.herokuapp.com/static/docs/web_cv.pdf

Email: mihail [dot] dunaev91 [at] gmail.com

I am a Software Engineer with more than 6 years experience. I did fullstack web development for more than 5 years, mostly working with React.js, Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, GraphQL & PostgreSQL. Before web development I did low level programming (Linux kernel programming, caching devices etc) in C/C++ and a bit of machine learning in Python and MATLAB. I can pick up new technologies really fast and I'm always up for a good challenge! I enjoy open source a lot, my github profile is https://github.com/mihaildu

Outside work I am into fitness (bodybuilding, running, hiking, martial arts etc). I even wrote an open source book on fitness. I have a curiosity for computational neuroscience, having studied EEG headsets in university, and I also enjoy experimenting with food (molecular gastronomy), travel & MotoGP!
I love to dunk on Boston.

Mediocre place with such an inflated sense of relevance. I feel like nobody would notice or care if so many aspects of Boston and people from there didn't think people cared.
The usual fallacy, which you also make in your post, is assuming that none of that improvement would have happened under a free and democratic regime. That all improvements were because of iron-rule authoritarianism.

Of course there are quite literally thousands of reasons that explain Singapore's economic growth. Attributing everything to only one of them, to the influence of an enlightened dictator, is silly.

Want an opposite anecdote? In my country we experienced our greatest transformation in centuries in our first ~20 years of democracy. The country is radically different now from what it was 50 years ago, and it only happened when democracy and civil liberties suddenly and unexpectedly came into the picture.
Well, that ghillie suit doesn't look pixelated to me - it just looks like it has quite a few straight-sided polygons in it.

Actually, that's what's bugging me most about this camo made from regular square blocks: it looks really easy for a recogniser to spot. No AI <spit>, an old-fashioned neural network would be enough to recognise edges, and then spot squares on a grid.

[Edit] Yeah, I get that your average stag deer doesn't have access to thermal imaging and neural networks. But this is military camo, not deerstalking camo.
All 3 were engineers. Although I think 2 of them were front end engineers even though my experience is backend, but I can't be sure because I had a bunch of interviews lined up at that time.

Maybe that's why they have scheduled 2 more, but I haven't asked yet who will interview me next.

It's a position requiring about 5 years of work ex. Mid-senior level I guess.
Do you run gLinux on it?
The percentage of California which is Disneyland is not large, by area or population.
Aquarium (YC S20) | Remote (US) | Full-time | Engineering (Backend, Full Stack, Infra)

Data Management for Deep Learning.

Machine learning models are only as good as the datasets they're trained on, and that means that most improvement to model performance comes from improvement to the quality and diversity of their datasets. Our platform [1] makes it easy for ML teams to find anomalies + failure patterns in their datasets and fix these problems by editing / adding the right data. So the next time you retrain your model, it just gets better.

We have great customers like Pinterest and Woven Planet, and are backed by top investors like Sequoia Capital and YCombinator. We're currently growing our engineering team, tackling projects like streaming data pipelines, data clustering for visualization, and tight integrations into third party platforms.

Product Stack: Typescript, React, Python

Infra Stack: GCP (and various managed services), Apache Beam, Postgres, Docker, etc.

Our postings are here [2], or just reach out to me over email at quinn@companydomain.

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First time i hear contabo.
> Finite difference derivatives are the basis for a range of numerical methods for solving differential equations.

I thought the basis usually involved rewriting the equation in terms of integrals, which can be estimated using quadrature. Numerical quadrature does not have the same problems as finite differencing because integration is a continuous operator. How accurate are these methods you're proposing? Could they be improved using autodiff (via the dual numbers or via reverse-mode autodiff)? Do you have a reference, so I can understand your point better? I'm sceptical and I'm not inclined to believe you yet.
> However, the main reason is the economy.

Yes but the economy is not free of consideration of these other factors.

> The costs of solar, wind and batteries are dropping exponentially

They are no longer dropping exponentially and insofar they do its because of mass production. Something not unique to renewable. If all world governments had invested the same in nuclear we could see the same kind of price reductions.

> 2. A nuclear reactor cannot be shipped, it has to be build on site.

This is not universally true. Some reactors can be ships and others can be shipped in a small number of parts.

> A change in regulation might lower the costs, but it's not going to improve much the innovation dynamics.

You are missing how good current regulation are at destroying innovation. Its literally impossible to build an small example reactor to do research. Its basically either is a very tiny university research reactor, or alternatively you need a full operational license but guess what, currently in the US its not even remotely possible to get an operational license for a non-PWR. So why would anybody even do research?

This is beyond a whole bunch of other issues with nuclear regulation.

> In conclusion, all this talking is mostly irrelevant: nuclear reactors are simply not going to be built because they are not competitive.

So in conclusion, we destroyed the nuclear industry and nuclear research for the most part and they are not competitive, therefore lets never do anything to fix that.

Yes, nuclear innovation cycle will always be slower, but the same can be said for trains, or many other things that are very useful.
The Annotated Pratchett File (2016)
Or you can just use https://www.withserve.com/ to run CRUD on your spreadsheets. No database needed.
Obviously YMMV but my team is at least 75% Linux laptops, so my experience doesn't match yours at all.
Economics has long understood the strength pricing signals have to skew markets. I think a lot of the growth in real estate have been these phony buyer and pricing platforms (open door, zillow & redfin). Sellers are constantly being bombarded with pricing signals about their house, even when off market. And because they are "algorithmic", sellers trust them more than a listing agent.

A good example study followed pricing when a city set a cap on Payday loans that was higher than the average market rate. Once the cap went into effect, all of the lenders below the cap moved their rates up to the cap.

You see this with Cars & Kelly Blue book as well.

All of these pricing signals skew the market and should be banned.
https://youtu.be/ntSyz018rxw
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Many in the USA are living paycheck-to-paycheck and don't have access to traditional credit because of a mistake they made 10 years ago or because they're new to the country. Perpay helps people build healthy credit habits and improve their credit score while letting them buy what they need through easy installments taken directly from their paycheck.

If you want to work with smart, low-ego people in a fast-growing company, Perpay's a great place. We're hiring engineers across the stack and across levels of experience.

Stack: AWS, EC2, K8s, Docker, PostgreSQL, Django, React, Redux, RXJS, Storybook

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More about the roles:
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I disabled chrome and youtube for most of the time. Unless I am looking for something specific, I keep them disabled. This alone reduced by HN scrolling and YouTube binging by factor of 2-3 hrs/day!

Finally I have free time to relax and do nothing!
SPOILERS

But there's a great bit of video/trailer for the book on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM
OpenDoors crime wasn't making those claims... the crime was making those claims without keeping sufficient evidence that they were true.

I'm sure they could have proven all those claims. They could have said "Last year we made $XX Million from fees". Sounds like a big number, but might still have only been tiny compared to market movements.

They could have said "we charge about the same in repair costs as you'd pay on the open market" by just finding one quote from a builder to back it up.

They could have said "we buy your house at market value" by just having a model of market value which tended to lowball valuations - rather than having an accurate model and then putting a " * 0.9" on the output of the model. One way to do that for example would be to build the model on historic data, and ignore the fact that house prices are at all time highs right now. And house prices have been the 'highest ever' for nearly every year in the past 200 years.
> I left in 2017, and I was one of the last SWEs to use a Linux laptop.

Categorically not true, not then, not now.
ha, i think you might have a bit of a wait. apple has a tendency to sit on new products for a long time while they wait for the market to develop and while they work out UX, supply chain, and marketing issues. also, the cadence of product releases is yearly, so if there isn't an optimal slot this year, they'll push launch back a year just for that reason.

despite the rumors, i don't think we see the headset in the next 3 years, and we won't get an apple car in the next 7. there's no competitive nor wall street pressure for either of these rumored product developments (as in, there's no threat to apple if these aren't released sooner rather than later).

i will say the headset fits apple's future product roadmap better than the car, because apple wants to firmly own personal computing tech, which is increasingly miniaturizing and becoming more pervasive/integrated into our lives. the car is a nice extension, but not core to that vision. even apple home is more central to that vision than the car.
"Gross profit" was $730 million. Net loss was actually $662 million.

I think a better metric is to look at how many homes Opendoor bought (36908 in 2021), and if possible identify those transactions where some misleading marketing took place (not sure if that's possible), then divide the fine by that much.
Natural law does not depend upon religious orthodoxy, though it is often associated with it. One can defend natural rights from the perspective of being inherent in our existence as rational beings rather than Sky-King's (Sky-Kingses' for the polytheistic?) decree.

Further, large numbers of people with at least some theistic leanings were/are nevertheless adherents to legal positivism, which explains how you can have Catholics or Lutherans that were okay with the Nuremberg Laws, for example.
Those things are all true.

If what 'samstave is looking for is feedback from the mods, they should do as the guidelines ask and email hn@. If they're looking for feedback from the HN community, they should address the community. There are plenty of Ask HNs about that. 'samstave by their own admission has been a member of HN for over 15 years, and should be well accustomed to the guidelines and expected behavior.
>Being a city state means it's hard to hide when things get ugly. Having capitals far away from citizenry, on the other hand - like in myanmar or brazil, makes it easy to be corrupt. This is a well studied phenomenon.

Fascinating, I'd never really thought of this. Do you have a link to any studies about this phenomenon?
The whole world is running on ASMI/ASML machines and tech.. Not TSMC's
Yeah for a fraction of the cost in complexity, weight and issues with consumables a suppressor does all of what they were talking about and more. The US army is in theory going to a new rifle and issuing suppressors to every (frontline) infantry unit with the NGSW contract.

(We'll see how widely the new system and everything actually gets deployed but it was an important part of the whole program at least)
Would you expect any different? Those who self-select into a language police force come from mostly overlapping classes of people working in politics, journalism and dictionary editing (but I repeat myself). Not everyone has time to worry about that sort of thing, and of those who do, not everyone wants to. So naturally the people who commit the most time to policing and redefining the language appear to have an outsize effect on (your perception of) the language. They’ve literally made it their career.

That doesn’t mean we have to listen to them. It is not rational to disambiguate truth from fiction based on words you read on the internet. It’s especially irrational to trust the words more when they’re on website served from a domain name of a company that paid an employee to write them according to some quarterly editorial calendar and Trello board.

If you’re altering your behavior in response to changes in a reality you interpret based on the words of a 2015 Columbia journalism major, then you have bigger problems than whether your most-frequented news sites tell you we’re in a recession.
Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: For the right offer and/or European nations

Technologies: Robotics, Python, Go, Computer Vision, DL

Resume/Portfolio: https://github.com/hlfshell/

E-mail: kchester AT gmail.com

10+ year long software career engineer whom is finishing their masters in Robotics Engineering (taking classes at night) looking for interesting tech to work on, especially in the robotics world. Spent the past ~5 years building data and machine learning pipelines for robotic startups and cloud control systems for thousands of robots in a global fleet.
Author here: TL;DR of this exercise would be

"If what you need is a fast system, don't start with a slow system and try to load balance or queue your way out of your problems. Design a fast system from the start."
From the release:

“To settle the FTC’s charges that the company’s claims were deceptive, Opendoor has agreed to pay $62 million, which the FTC will use for refunds to people who were affected.”
That is why companies like Moltex Energy are building a nuclear reactor with a combination of a heat battery. So that they can do 100% utilization and then make massive profit when solar is not there.

However that means you are innovating in nuclear and in heat batteries.