skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QAware | Frontend, Backend | München (Munich) / Mainz, Germany | Full-time, Part-time, INTERNS, ONSITE

QAware is a project house with ~180 employees, creating value for enterprise customers like BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Allianz and more. QAware was founded in 2005 and is very well funded.

We are continuously ranked among the top employers in Germany ([1], [2]) - in 2021 we are ranked 2nd in whole Germany and 1st in the IT sector of whole Germany. For more perks, see [3]. I'm already working there for close to 6 years, as my managers are treating me very well and the projects are (most of the time) interesting. We have a great WFH policy (even before COVID) and we don't have open plan offices!

Technologies include (modern) Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, React, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spring Boot, JavaEE, Quarkus (of course not all in one project - the technology choices differ by project). At the moment I'm working extensively with Kubernetes, Terraform and JavaEE.

Office in Munich is close to public transport "Giesing". Office in Mainz is near public transport "Römisches Theather". Office language is German.

We are currently looking for IT Recruiters, Cloud Platform Engineers, Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, Software Architects, Project Managers and IT Consultants. If you are interested, take a look at our jobs page: https://www.qaware.de/. If you need more convincing, take a look at our recruiting landing page: https://info.qaware.de/senior-software-engineer
For questions, just contact me at sebastian (dot) macke (at) qaware (dot) de, I'm happy to answer them. Please don't send CVs to me, I'm just a mere software guy.

[1] https://www.kununu.com/de/qaware

[2] https://www.qaware.de/news/platz-1-bei-beste-arbeitgeber-in-...

[3] https://www.qaware.de/unternehmen/#kennzahlen
I get the impression Apple stores handle this reasonably well (though you lose data after a last-ditch password reset if and only if that data is unavailable to law enforcement warrants).

Anyway, I think the the common case is that most data is recoverable with an ID or whatever they require. FWIW, searching HN for: “locked out of icloud” doesn’t produce much.
Here's where we are headed at present I think, just a question of how fast:

> "Carbon dioxide concentration during the mid-Pliocene has been estimated at around 400 ppmv... However, the global average temperature in the mid-Pliocene (3.3 Ma–3 Ma) was 2–3°C higher than today, global sea level 25 meters higher, and the northern hemisphere ice sheet was ephemeral before the onset of extensive glaciation over Greenland that occurred in the late Pliocene around 3 Ma." (pliocene climate wiki)

This article is paywalled but it essentially looks to be very similar to an open-access paper (2020) by the same research group. The permafrost and soil carbon feedbacks under different scenarios (Fig 3) are worth looking at:

https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3571/2020/

Realistically, the only things that would noticeably slow the current climate trajectory over the next 100 years are major supervolcanoes or asteroid impacts. Hence, adaptation to new regional climate norms is going to be necessary. However, continuing to burn fossil fuels at current rates for the next 100 years would accelerate that trajectory somewhat and have major consequences for the 2100-2200+ timeline.
There probably a lot of brilliant minds at Google who have their very first taste of Linux there. Designers, management types, even developers, who suddenly need a Linux install to run a specific tool or dev build. Having a consistent Distro for them to just turn on and go is very useful.

If something doesn't work, they can communicate back to the (well-bearded) developer who sent them that weird build. The developer surely has some crazy esoteric distro on their bring-your-own device, but they also have desktops running the consistent distro available to them all around the office to reproduce the issue on. It's a bridge between worlds.

I work in academia and we manage our own Ubuntu spin for this reason, despite everyone we ship it to being very conventionally smart.

> if you're smart enough to work at Google, you're smart enough to manage your own OS.

I also like to think of myself as "smart" for self-managing most OS and cloud things. But the role of smarts is probably minor compared to the decade+ of experience I have doing it. When it's something I'm good at, I think it's because of intelligence. When it's something I can't do, I assume the people who can have lots of practice.
During my undergrad I semi-randomly picked out "Beautiful Code" [0] from our university library. Not sure why it never features in such lists but I thoroughly enjoyed it. :)

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pr...
God. I know newsletters work and I've been told to start one a dozen times for a personal project but i just HATE getting them. Not all newsletters but the ones that are clearly just another push notification market channel that dont add any additional value. Those seem to be the bulk of newsletters.

The ones that are actually interesting take a lot more time and effort to make.
I have self diagnosed (never saw a doc) Ocular Migraines, and the first time i encountered one it both amazed me and terrified me.

I was working and i noticed something was off with my vision, i couldn't read a label. I went to the bathroom and didn't see anything. I eventually realized i had a large deadspot in my vision that my mind was just... autocompleting. It looked flawless, but then i'd pass my hand slowly infront of the deadspot and there would be this strange artifact. My hand would be missing a finger, or this odd blending with the mirror behind it, etc.

It was like some poorly ML generated object removal. The scary thing was i had several, and had no idea. As i experimented with it further that day i was able to disappear entire vehicles (i wasn't driving thankfully), forklifts, etc.

I've only had ~half a dozen in my lifetime that i'm aware of, but i'm still quite fearful of experiencing one while i'm driving. As i likely would not realize what was wrong with me, immediately.

edit: Oh i should note, as the "migraine" clears, it turns the blindspots into this weird crystalline structure. Kinda like looking through a prism. It's a pretty crazy experience.
Doesn't this PR https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client/pull/... , linked in the article, address this issue (its only ~1.5 years old).
Look for Things That Don't Make Sense
This isn't total random enforcement.

The article presents the facts as the traveler is coming from Bali and did not declare their food, Bali is currently experiencing an FMD outbreak, and the cost of containing an FMD outbreak in Australia could top 80 billion dollars.

You can certainly argue those points, but trying to present this as 'random' is disingenuous, at best.
Yeah, because page speed under 3 seconds doesn't make a difference to pagerank.
This is why I dislike the fight against location based pay in the U.S.

People are heated about how they add the same value whether in SF or Kentucky, but forget there are people even more valuable than them getting paid significantly less.

If you are fighting against location based pay, you should be asking your employer to pay all employees on similar teams worldwide the same
I'm not talking about official diagnosis by trained professionals, i'm talking about tiktok and self diagnosis.

Kids today think they have OCD because they jump over the gaps in tiles, and promote that on social networks. Other kids claim they have it too, because they jump over the gaps too. And in the end... social vmedia (tiktok videos) leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (like 'real' OCD)... as the title of this post says.
They might not be. I'm hesitant to admit that because 1) They used to be and I was a high performer at a mediocre non-tech company 2) There's nothing else I can do to earn enough to support my family.
No. It's really good.

We have about 100 devs in multiple teams. Kubernetes provides great level of standardization and transparency - completely different experience than VMs, where admin team had too much ability to cut corners and build technology debt. People would riot if they had to go back to these days.

A few warnings:
* It takes some resources. Maybe can be mitigated with k3s or similar, but I don't have first hand knowledge here.
* It requires some time to learn and configure properly. If your entire team is 3 people and you are on limited budget, probably not a good idea.
* Adopt some tools (helm?), standardize deployments, where possible. Bare k8s is bit too much for daily work.
* Read good practices and don't try to be smarter, at least until you really know what you are doing. Limit misconfiguration may really burn you at least convenient moment.
it really comes down to what you're building. many web app startups would be better served paying for PaaS that manage this for them. as an example: Netlify/Vercel. if you need a database add FaunaDB to that. if that sounds risky or expensive, consider the cost of building a DevOps team.
> it's banned in China itself
My understanding is that TikTok is the international version of Douyin.

There maybe be some technical reasons for this.

But feeding into the psyops narrative, it's good practice to separate your intelligence gathering into domestic and international. Ex. CIA and FBI
I will pass on that, no one should be required to accept messages from anyone
What, pray tell, do you think is "abnormal and awful"?
Since you are german:
Your website is in violation of the GDPR and german law in general. Fix those problems immediately or I will report you.
This is not really Google's "fault". (trust me I'm not a fan of their cavalier attitudes to beta services and lack of customer support)

They are working "in the future" where every human has access to the virtual world by "right". You cannot cut off someone's gas or phone without huge regulatory hurdles. And we will
see something similar for access to internet

We just aren't there. And that's the problem.

And this conversation should not be about "google should reduce its security" it should be about how do we regulate ISPs and google and facebook and Email providers so that they are on par with the gas company?

Is access to http a basic utility? Access to an email inbox?

In short Internet access is a necessity for access to civil society, and now we work out who pays for it.
it's going to be a fun decade
https://nutrition.org/eating-disorders-are-on-the-rise/
Thanks, I didn't know that.

From "Electrochemical synthesis of ammonia as a potential alternative to the Haber–Bosch process" (2019) :

Water electrolysis, combined with an improved smallerscale Haber–Bosch process, seems to be a short-term solution for the generation of ammonia from renewables at a matching scale. There is a major research focus on reducing the NH3 synthesis reaction pressure and temperature, while keeping the catalyst cost and means to follow the intermittent electrical power input. These technologies are anticipated to be developed within next few years. Electrochemical ammonia production is much more distant from commercialization, however, potential
benefits of electrochemical ammonia production, such as reduced energy consumption and associated footprint, scalability, lower process pressures and
temperatures, the ability to follow the intermittent electrical power input and
use nitrogen with reduced purity justify further research.

From "Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia: Progress and Challenges" (2021) :

On the whole, a lot of attempts and significant progress have been made, but the electrochemical synthesis of ammonia is still in the infancy stage with great challenges remained to be addressed.
He also talks about how in a deglobalizing world the one power source most every nation has access to locally is coal. So you could see a reduction in industrial activity and consumption, but still end up with increasing emissions due to nations switching back to coal just to keep the lights on.
Gro Intelligence | Principal/Senior Software Engineer | NYC or Remote (US/Canada) | Full-time | $150k-$225k base + equity | Python, Rust, React | https://grnh.se/24ac6dbd4us | https://grnh.se/6c20efd34us

Gro Intelligence is building a platform that harnesses human expertise and machine learning as it assists users attempting to address two of the most pressing challenges facing humanity today: climate change and food security. At Gro, we illuminate the correlations between the Earth's ecology and our economy in ways that reveal the big picture and that help people act on the small details, and we are always on the lookout for people who can help us achieve our goals.

Fundamentally, Gro is a big data platform. Deep domain knowledge and machine learning power all of our applications and underlying analytical engines; scalable collaboration defines our engineering culture. We are a rapidly growing Series B ($85M - January 2021) company that provides our engineers with the opportunities and resources that they need to thrive.

We are looking for strong full-stack engineers - it’ll be a big plus if you’ve worked on the frontend of a full-stack data-intensive web application, but there is also work to be done on the backend & API. Strong knowledge of Javascript, React (or other similar frontend frameworks) and Python will likely mean you’re a great candidate for this role. Apply here: https://grnh.se/752afd284us

In addition, our technical infrastructure group needs engineers who are passionate about building and scaling systems (think decomposing monoliths, CI/CD, scaling data pipelines from petabytes to exabytes) and who have at least one area of deep understanding in software engineering fundamentals. Our current code base is primarily Python, but we will be transitioning our foundational layers to Rust. We welcome Java, C and C++ programmers - particularly those who are looking to transition to Rust. Apply here: https://grnh.se/24ac6dbd4us

You can see all of our open roles here:https://boards.greenhouse.io/gro?t=63175dfe4us

As a Gro engineer, you will build out systems aimed at providing the world with the most relevant, accurate, and actionable information on climate and agriculture. If you love a good challenge, have deep expertise, and a desire to make a positive impact - or just have more questions about what we do or what opportunities are available - please don't hesitate to reach out to us at jobs@gro-intelligence.com and you can find out more about engineering life at Gro here: https://gro-intelligence.com/engineering-at-gro
To me, it's sad that Engelbart is best known for that demo, the mouse,and so forth. Those of us who knew and worked with him at the beginning of this century knew him to be of a different mindset: yes it was about human augmentation, but not by mice and windows, but rather as networked social systems he called capability infrastructures. To him, it was all about the "coevolution of human and tool systems".

Little known fact: SRI- yes, Doug's lab - has an employee who trains you in the proper way to use a mouse, owing to the RSI effects of poor posture when using it. It's not the mice and windows, it's how you work together and network your findings. NICs he called them: networked improvement communities.

You saw the seeds of that in the 1968 MOAD when the screen shows not just the document he is co-editing with Bill English, but a video image of English himself. MOAD was not Engelbart's whole story; it was just the beginning.
What happened is that as we have understood eating disorders better focus on anorexia specifically has been replaced by a much broader class of eating disorders.

In addition what people have learnt is that focusing on illness prevention isn’t the best approach. Focusing instead on more positive alternatives works better. Hence the rise of the body positivity movement.

Finally, anorexia and other eating disorders are much better known so parents and children receive information and education about them through normal channels. Their doctors and school teachers. So discussing it through news media isn’t as important.
Seeing as UCP is owned by the US government, I'm very curious to hear who could have financially benefited from its selection. If anything, HyperStealth here is the one with the financial motivation seeing as their US4CES pattern was not selected.
Location: Florida, USA

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Possibly depending on the opportunity

Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Spring, Vert.x, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Docker, Postgres, Linux, Microservices

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/qwertyq

Email: pierzinskij@gmail.com

I've got 6+ YOE doing backend development at scale (AWS/microservices) and DevOps.

I'm looking for backend focused roles (very open and eager to learn different languages/tech like Go or Python). I'd like to work in a team that values teamwork, camaraderie, and mentoring. I prefer environments where teams have ownership of their tooling and processes.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
> tear out everything you aren't using

I was under the impression that production builds often include tree-shaking/dead-code-elimination as one of the steps?
It doesn't quite land the same way to have to explain it long-form, but...

I remember learning years ago about an experiment some researchers did where they anesthetized some test subjects' eye muscles (don't remember how), bolted them into a frame so their heads couldn't move, and positioned mirrors above that could be moved with a handle.

What this test setup found was that as long as the mirrors were constantly moving (even just a tiny bit), the participants could generally speaking see completely normally. But as soon as the mirrors stopped moving, the participants reported that their vision fairly rapidly went completely grey.

(The ba-dum-tss here is the "completely reliable" in your comment... :D)

I don't think the optic system in the brain is the only aspect that is "change-stimulated". A bit of a pet theory is that a lot of thought processes are quite similar at the low (and not so low) level.

I'm hoping to come across that study at some point, just not sure what to Google.
Oh, cool, so tinygo compiled stuff should also work.
Yeah, I have side projects. They aren't anything that I could make money on though. If I had a better option I would leave.
I'm uninformed. So cloudflare has workers which run wasm and the article is about zig->wasm?
Why not use linux containers?
The windows created S3 sleep debacle was annoying. But it's long since solved. Lenovo ships both sleep options in bios now and Linux distro a support both sleep styles because they have different drain profiles.
>the vast majority of the people are not mentally ill

The vast majority of homeless people are drug users AND mentally ill. If you are living on the street when we have 3.6% unemployment--it's most likely drugs and mental illness (yes, there are rare exceptions).
As a consumer, please no. Way too many places go from sending one email to once a week to suddenly every single day... and some local restaurants decided multiple per day would work.
So???
No, the h here is a number, not an operator.
Tom DeMarco is a fantastic author. His book "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency" is incredibly helpful if you're on a team that faces anything listed in that subtitle
I wouldn't bother. I'd just consolidate our product out of microservices and run more small clusters of monoliths all started from systemd.
Bractlet | Remote/Austin, TX | Full-time | Multiple Roles

I am Cofounder & CTO at Bractlet, and we are trying to tackle climate change through energy efficiency. The built world (residential and commercial buildings) accounts for about 40% of carbon emissions. We aim to do something about that.

In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of a building into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software. Our stack is primarily React, Rust, and Postgres on GCP.

We are looking for intelligent people who care about climate change. We are well-funded and have the backing of important minds in our space. We are looking for:

- Senior Frontend Engineer
- Lead Backend Engineer
- Lead QA Engineer

You can email me at brian [at] bractlet [dot] com or use the submission form on our website: https://bractlet.com/careers (just email me if the job you want isn't showing up there).
Asianometry released a video yesterday related to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQGnwKBxAKk

While stating that SMIC might still be around 4-6 years behind the competition, I was completely shocked to hear it was only that.

The next few years are going to be some very interesting times.
Playmake | Gameplay Programmer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://playmake.breezy.hr/p/4cf09688b2ba-gameplay-programme...

Do you love classic 3D adventures & RPGs like the 3D Zeldas, PS1-2 era Final Fantasy, and the GTA III’s?

Do you like game-dev teams with high engineering standards, so you can focus on fun and deploy to production in minutes?

Do want your games played by millions of players a month?

If so, get in touch with me (CEO and co-founder here) at Playmake. We’re the only professional game studio we know of that has had significant success on Roblox (3.5 M players/mo as of today). Our co-founders come from Siri and Microsoft; our investors include Ed Fries (launched the XBox at Microsoft) and Daniel James (CEO SEGA Mobile, creator of Puzzle Pirates).

No one on our team had experience in on Roblox or in Lua before joining, and you don’t need it either. We know good programmers can figure out new languages and platforms. You do need 6 years of experience programming commercially-released games, with experience in free-to-play.

We have a collaborative, prototype-centric dev culture. No one person is “game designer.” We make playable fun instead of long, brittle design docs.

We’re fully-remote; you just need 2 hours overlap each day with PST.

Email me with a list of games you’ve worked on and what you did on each - andrew [@] playmake [.] games . Happy to answer any questions as well.
I can't believe that people working as Software Engineer in Berlin Area is getting paid 300k+ €.

This might be realistic for people working 100% for San Francisco companies
Atlassian | Worldwide (Multiple locations) | Multiple roles | REMOTE | Full time & Contractual

We're a team of 10000+ Atlassians supporting an international group of 250,000+ customers. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned.

We are aggressively hiring for multiple roles: https://jobs.lever.co/atlassian?lever-via=TpMOBaZu8w