skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Senior Web Engineer | Based in Austin, TX but everyone is remote | Full-time | ONSITE or FULLY REMOTE (We're a remote first company) | $160k 1099 for US or local avg + 20% for outside the US

SerpApi is the leading API to scrape and parse search engine results. We deeply support Google, Google Maps, Google Images, Bing, Baidu, and a lot more.

Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We are looking for a senior web designer, a senior Front End Engineer, and a Senior Backend Engineer. For the senior web designer position, we're looking for someone to give us a strong visual direction and experience in CSS, JS, or React are definitely plusses but not required.

We have an awesome work environment: We are a remote first company. We do continuous integration, continuous deployments, code reviews, code pairings, profit sharing, and most of communication is async via GitHub. We value super strongly transparency, do open books, have a public roadmap, and contribute to the EFF.

Apply at: https://serpapi.com/team
It's a pretty excellent application if flexibility can be solved.

The issues with color in e-ink boil down to having to float more kinds of ink dot, making it slooooow. But instantly changing to match surroundings isn't ideal, because it's change, and change is what we notice.

Granted that if it could change instantly then that process could just be run slowly, but it seems like a lesser disadvantage compared to any user interface.
If you don't let developers prioritize some time to play around with new concepts and ideas and to learn how they work, they'll play around to learn in your products.
Yea. I've been "eaten alive" as is the vernacular by the biggest mosquitoes I've ever seen in London. Horrendous. Also hard to avoid unless you live at height
There certainly are sandboxing efforts on Linux but most of them have incredibly permissive rulesets to the point where nearly every program has read/write access to everything in $HOME.
You are absolutely right, as someone also working in this space, I found it too fragmented to generate significant revenue [0]. Even in this current HN discussion, there are many people asking for various features like desktop and mobile support, source code integration etc. Figuring out a way to help solve all of everyone's problems will leave you doing nothing well, and I say this from personal experience.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32313370
I think people just (understandably) have little patience for new DSLs in general.

Another thing that I'm realizing is awesome about Nix as I'm getting my feet wet with CUE (also an interesting configuration language) is that in a way, the power of Nix makes it easier to learn than it otherwise might be.

So much of what we actually do with Nix leverages functions and libraries that are written in Nixlang, stored in the same monorepo as all of our build recipes. This means that once you get more familiar with Nix-the-language from using it in your own configs, exploring the implementations of the tools you use in building your packages and environment becomes easier and more natural. And Nixpkgs is then an awesome one-stop-shop for countless examples, and even kind of a quick reference for how a bazillion different pieces of software can be configured.

Maybe it's an acquired taste, idk. But I feel like the language is great at being simple when it can and surprisingly flexible when it needs to be. And Nixpkgs becomes a great resource for users, once they learn some of that relatively simple language.
At the very least, the dragonflies should be cyborgs that can be centrally controlled and can build cyborg components.

I'm pretty sure the Imagineers are already on it.
WLB = work life balance, right
Do you have a source for that conjecture? Was there a specific new outlet that raised the issue previously?
I will never have more than 5-8 myself. For me, focus is the key of accomplishing a given task. If I have to do a research, I collect by clipping in Obsidian, then tag and reorganize. If a given project needs a series of webpages on startup, I create a new profile in chrome (with different colour) and move along.

Searching trough open tabs is way more inefficient than searching trough topics/folders and tags in Obsidian. Working against complexity is a habit, I guess. It comes with realization that time is precious:)
The other thing that slows them down is the need for a meaty human in the cockpit. A fan car (creating downforce by pulling the car to the ground) can go faster than a human driver could reasonably sustain without passing out in the corners
I doubt that most people here are angry about this. For me, at least, my anger arises from the opportunity cost.

First, if you spend a lot of money (and time) supporting a dud executive then you you’ve lost a bunch of runway. These people are often in a position to put startups into a death spiral from which they will never recover.

So it follows that as a founder that idea is dead - it’s almost impossible to restart. If you’ve put your heart and soul into a business, spent a year raising funds and putting a team together, and then some bozo is parachuted into a position of authority and proceeds to throws all your hard work out the window as they miss their own targets and crash into the terrain, yeah that’s gonna make you pretty pissed off because you won’t get that opportunity ever again.

It’s not about jealousy. It’s about the destruction of value.
Formula 1 is designed under very very strict, often year specific, rules, from aerodynamics, suspension, to max power capability. I'm not sure it's fair to compare them, since the context is so different. In that video (6:13), they even admit that's the main advantage: the unregulated freedom of the design.

A better comparison would be a Volkswagen ID.R with an ICE compared to an electric Volkswagen ID.R. At this point in the tech, the ICE will almost certainly win.
I recently had over 4,000 tabs opened on Firefox for Android.

The app kept crashing when I tried to "share" (export) them, so I manually selected them in groups of 100 to "share" at a time. Other than that, the only issue I had with the app is that if I was typing something in the URL/search bar, it would take a while to find any matches in my browsing history.

Over half of the tabs were HN posts that I've been meaning to get back to. I keep telling myself (lying to myself?): One day I will.
>Sure, but my point is that you had to actively go out and find it. You didn't get an in-lined feed of social media 'suggested posts' that gradually took you from being angry at the machine to some radicalised position.

That used to be called talking to friends. If anything social media is less dangerous because the _really_ illegal stuff is not something they can show.

Clockwork Orange, the Destructors and Kids were a lot less fiction than people would like to believe today.
I e always imagined for my balcony in Africa a 2d vertical axis laser array that zaps bugs that try to cross. I'm sure it could be done technically but obviously there are safety issues
My thought too: a cheap, simple NN attached to the raw image in scopes and sights, programmed to highlight anything it recognizes.

Now I imagine uniform fabric with adversarial patterns added, for those.
I don't see how this won't push a lot of plaque into the gums overlapping the teeth.
Hightouch | Engineering Leadership, Senior Backend Engineers & Full Stack Engineers | REMOTE (North America time zones) | Full-time

Hightouch provides a low-code/no-code (SQL/UI) tool that enables syncing of company data to nearly 100 different SaaS tools across use cases like marketing, sales, growth, and finance. Many business teams already use data visualization tools like Looker or Tableau, but now these teams can use Hightouch to take automated actions based on data, all in the same tools they already use.

We’re also growing really fast. We’re on track to *5x* our revenue this year, and notable customers already include Plaid, Spotify, New Relic, Retool, Calendly, Ramp, Blend, CircleCI, Zapier, Survey Monkey, Betterment, and over 150 others.

Current roles include:

- Engineering Leadership, Core Syncing Engine: (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4580317004)

- Senior Backend Engineer: (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4005835004)

- Senior Product Engineer: (https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4008092004)

To apply follow the links above OR contact - nathan.budziak@hightouchdata.com
My tabs get as messy as my desk. Eventually, I hit a point where the mess bothers me. So I clear it all out and get back to a clean slate.

With the desk, the “this bothers me” moment is very physical/spatial, when I realize I’m now working around the mess (most often, mail I haven’t yet been bothered to look through).

With the tabs, the mess always builds up when I’m in the early phases of starting or investigating something, but as I get going, the mess becomes a distraction I’m mentally working around. So I’ll start dropping tabs that are no longer relevant. I have a tendency to “group” my tabs in separate windows by topic, and eventually I’ll just start closing a window with a dozen or more tabs at a time when that topic is handled or otherwise irrelevant. It’s like finally going through my mail that’s been piling up.
You would have been a good fit in my old team at Massive.

Might be worth applying there, they help with relocation and the problems are quite unique to your skill set.

https://massive.se
Berets.
Thanks, interesting, I'm thinking about visiting, maybe can be good to know
74 votes and a single comment, I think that is record high ratio.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 11 individuals for their roles in creating and promoting Forsage, a fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme that raised more than $300 million from millions of retail investors worldwide, including in the United States. Those charged include the four founders of Forsage, who were last known to be living in Russia, the Republic of Georgia, and Indonesia, as well as three U.S.-based promoters engaged by the founders to endorse Forsage on its website and social media platforms, and several members of the so-called Crypto Crusaders—the largest promotional group for the scheme that operated in the United States from at least five different states.

I never heard of it. For some reason despite following crypto closely I have never heard to 90% of these frauds despite the frauds being so big. Maybe the fraud is some weird front for money laundering, so they don't try to promote it much.

Also , no end to the YouTube scam livestreams. For some reason, YouTube Saylor and Musk giveaway scams stay under radar forever (no arrests, no indictments) despite many arrests and indictments for other frauds, like ransomware, mlm, insider trading (coinbase & opensea). Goes to show how some scams and criminals are better than others.

Interesting
Simple. One is right wing and the other one is left-wing. The same reason 'fat is healthy' is not misinformation even though ~80% of people in US died with COVID were obese.
You can also blame the fact kids aren't working 16 hour days any more.

Just because you can't doesn't mean you're right.
What is the source for the "Design Goals for AS Macs"? Has Apple or their engineers advertised these?

Certainly the "Open to other OSes" goal seems to contradict much of their trend from the past few years. (and the very same page later goes on to say "...as long as they behave like macOS")
We run a few largish rails apps. Main rails containers, nginx, sidekiq and almost everything in ECS. RDS for postgres. Elasticache redis. Opensearch for ES. We tried moving to k8s but found the current setup simpler. Our terraform state is a huge blob though and if we started from scratch i think we would have defaulted to EKS for more things.
10s isn’t terribly long but, honestly I think 1s should be achievable and would open up more use cases for K8s in general (cloud provider physical machine latency not withstanding of course).
What linting rule would enforce this?
Hey, I know that this is probably too broad a question, but I'm curious: what kind of mathematics did you require to do your doctorate? I'm curious as to what I'd need to (re)-learn to truly understand this.
Congratulations Stefan, "Kaggle for robotics" seems like an exciting direction! I still remember your kindness and just wanted to wish you the best.
how does the shape of data impact the storage applications safety contract?
Debian testing/unstable deserves more user and developer influx from Ubuntu castaways.

Googles change to debian-testing reflects my own rite of distribution passage. I used manual /etc/apt/sources.list upgrades within Ubuntu so often, after Unity was abandoned, there was no reason to stay on Canonicals flavour.

After a year on testing I went to unstable and subscribe to bugs affecting me from time to time. Usually there's either quickly a workaround or a flatpak as last resort. Not something I'd install on the family pc, but testing or unstable is a good choice for developers.

Contributing to Debian and adjacent projects like GNOME and freedesktop.org got easier (or standardized?) since they all run a gitlab instance each.
That made me look a bit more into it. As far as I can tell, garlic (in non-detectable to human concentrations) is used, but there are also references to non-specific pesticides and growth regulators, which they'd naturally emphasize over scary sounding chemicals.

It seems to be a genuinely impressive and comprehensive (and, from experience, effective) program, but it still likely uses some "toxic" pesticides. I figure if mosquitoes could be controlled by water mixed with garlic, we could be making incredible and scalable progress against e.g. malaria in Africa using that approach.

Other methods Disney uses include releasing predators of mosquitoes regularly and sampling mosquito population genetics using CO2 traps to proactively anticipate new problems.
Not nearly as much as requires to overcome the intermittency issue of renewable power sources.
Way better than a bug zapper! Those are commercially available, somewhat popular, indiscriminate killers of any small species that crosses the relevant boundary, and hazardous to humans -- they typically explode the insects, releasing parasites and pathogens that manage to stay alive.
This is a gross misrepresentation analogous to saying the whole world runs on Rolls-Royce's tech, not Boeing's.
Both of those sites are useful and I'd like to add one more: I've been using TheDailyEdit[0] app (it was on the front page here not too long ago). It doesn't tell you what political spectrum the publisher is on, but it does help you identify when the article is using manipulative language. The coolest thing though is that when you're in an article it shows you what was missing but reported by other sources. So I can read news I like but be sure that I'm not missing something because of 'bias by omission' by the publisher.

[0] https://dailyedit.com/
A unrelated item from the department of bad ideas that might be good ideas:

(Horns on)

Maybe voter ID laws aren't such a bad idea. Getting an ID and presenting it is like a "bare minimum" litmus test for whether or not you can comprehend and navigate government bureaucracy. If you can't comprehend and navigate the simplest form of it, how could you be qualified to make decisions on it?

(Horns off)

An unfortunate side effect of both these is that they keep one group in and everyone else locked out.
> if you're smart enough to work at Google, you're smart enough to manage your own OS.

Oh boy, have I got some stories to tell you!

Although to be fair the question of who "manages" a workstation is not always as simple as just "who has the technical ability to manage it". It's the intersection of who is legally responsible for the device and it's data (this is BY FAR the most important part), who has the time to maintain it (that's often NOT the user), and who technically can maintain it according to whatever standard it has to be maintained to (this gets complicated when you factor in reporting, patching etc).

In my experience, a common approach on non-Windows systems is to give the users privileged access to do what they need to do while also monitoring that closely, managing patching for them, and if you have some legal requirement to do so; running some kind of AV for reporting purposes. This tends to strike a happy medium between giving IT/Security peace of mind to some extent while also not totally ruining the developer experience.
Interesting, I've lived in the UK for many years, have heard many times that it is mosquito-free and haven't run into mosquitoes in all my time here. I would still say that the UK has many orders of magnitude less mosquitoes than other countries, from personal experience at least. In any case, the article has been fixed to say "Iceland" instead.
He also put together the Schlieffen plan that led to Germany wagining a 2 front war against superior adversaries that had time tables planned down to the hour that ended up not taking in to account numerous factors that ended up leading to the most horrible experiences in human history.
My theory about the giant comp packages:

1. The board is constantly dealing with the CEO, and CEOs are very good at taking credit for things regardless of their actual impact. So they create a subjective impression of being very important.

2. The CEO is only one person, so throwing (say) 1% of the company's profits at them seems like a great investment for all that stuff they're "doing".

If enough boards play this game, CEO pay is driven through the roof.
Water retention is something but food that isn't as good or yeild that results in not as good food is a even worse problem too though, the specifics about gypsum should be more researched. I suggested transition metals because it's different and it may be safer but even the alternatives associated with fisher are just as scary for food growth too.
SpaceX | Onsite Hawthorne, CA or Mountain View, CA or Redmond, WA or Washington, DC | Full Time | Software & Security Engineering

SpaceX engineers support the development of reusable rockets, spaceships & satellites! SpaceX has built the largest satellite constellation in the world (Starlink) with a goal to provide high speed internet to the over 3 billion people on the planet who don't have access to internet. We have been proud to be the main internet provider for the people of Ukraine right now, as well as bringing swift support to countries dealing with natural disasters like Tonga and Australia.

BENEFITS: SpaceX offers competitive base pay, health, dental, vision, and 401k benefits. My personal favorite benefits is our EQUITY – SpaceX is currently the most valuable private company in the US and the 2nd most valuable private company in the world ($127 Billion)!

~~~ Software Engineering ~~~

Software Engineer, Starlink https://grnh.se/d3c4dd432us (Redmond, WA)

Software Engineer, Swarm https://grnh.se/3cec18912us (Mountain View, CA or Redmond, WA)

Software Engineer, Components: https://grnh.se/c6b9cbbd2us (Hawthorne, CA)

Software Engineer, Phased Array Test: https://grnh.se/ff56fad22us (Redmond, WA)

Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink): https://grnh.se/391163be2us (Redmond, WA)

Site Reliability Engineer (Satellites): https://grnh.se/c4e3f99e2us (Hawthorne, CA or Redmond, WA)

Sr. RF Silicon Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/07c80bf92us (Redmond, WA)

FPGA Engineer: https://grnh.se/dffe3afa2us (Hawthorne, CA or Redmond, WA)

~~~ Security Engineering ~~~

*All security positions are open to Hawthorne, CA or Redmond, WA or Washington DC

Principal Security Engineer: https://grnh.se/cbc939632us

Sr. Security Engineer: https://grnh.se/c23fc7e62us

Sr. Security Engineer, Detection: https://grnh.se/8c9d1f2f2us

Security Engineer, Endpoint Tools: https://grnh.se/48501c172us

Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management: https://grnh.se/aa4ba3ec2us

Hope to hear from you!
Sounds as if he did not fire the 33+33% ? The board or the investors wouldn't have liked that? (Or why not)
> I much rather want to talk to the person who reads books written by experts, than to talk to the person who watches the news every day.

I'm inclined to prefer the book-readers too, but the way this is phrased sets up a bit of a false dichotomy.

Lots of stuff that's happening now and is of interest won't make it into books for a while. And there is something moderately interesting (and educational) about following along, thinking about where the world will go and why, and seeing if you turn out to be right a few days/weeks later.

For a while, my entire daily news consumption was just listening to the FT News Briefing [1] during my commute. It's about 10 minutes, and -- most days -- it was just the right amount of news.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/ft-news-briefing
Self-hosted environment for Pi Pico for with Vi and C compiler
Here is exactly why:

In America, this is basically the ONLY way "normal people" can make money (or at least used to be - those of us who didn't "get on the bus" in time have missed out).

Unless you create valuable intellectual property (ie. inventor, etc), or unless you're a doctor or lawyer, you're mostly just barely getting by. Those of us who were able to invest in housing, and take that ride, might actually have enough economic security to retire on.

So why does it have to be that way?

Because the politician who tries to change this system, will get voted out of office.

I don't want to say bad things about democracy. I love democracy, and I think it's one of the most important human innovations of the past 2000 years.

But the way we practice it in the USA; we're basically voting for our own extinction.
=)

I bet the best performing and consistent market makers have a sense of the uncertainty of the direction
Good for whomever ends up scrapping these units for parts :)
> “the market” will fix all inefficiencies.

The market does fix many such inefficiences - just not in the way which most people imagine.

It is rather that the market fix is that in the long term [!] such companies will go bust or at least become shadows of their former selves.
Working with the real thing, I remember the horrible feeling when the rubber band holding the card deck together snaps! The FORTRAN cards all had line numbers, but what a pain for a several hundred line program.
I have always thought that Robert Sedgewick's books are better in this respect (https://sedgewick.io/books/algorithms/). And for interview preparation too.
Once I get past about 15-20 it’s time to go on a ctrl w fest
As long as you can identify which are which quickly and action then 33% hit rate can stack your roster pretty quick. Hiring takes time though, in most cases.
I would have been more convinced if the article hadn't included an ad for a Disney world vacation.
Show HN: GhostLabel – B2B Marketplace for Food and Beverage Manufacturing
For aspiring food and beverage entrepreneurs, finding a reputable food or beverage manufacturer is critical in bringing a new product to market and scaling up. But doing so is challenging, time-consuming and often risky. Without a central marketplace for finding food or beverage manufacturers, people are compelled to rely on brokers–who often take a hefty cut–and word-of-mouth. And manufacturers rarely have digital project management systems in place to streamline project production.

GhostLabel provides a managed marketplace where anyone can get their custom food or beverage products made on-demand. We not only connect clients with reputable manufacturers, but provide project management tools to keep production on track, specify product details, get samples, and make payments.

We are happy to hear any feedback and answer questions!
A market cannot just be two people. If I sell you a brand new Rolex for $1, I would say I’m selling it to you at a discount from the market rate, because if I posted it on an open auction like eBay, I’d receive higher bids than $1.