skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voltus | Frontend/Backend/Data/SRE/Systems/Security | Remote | Full-Time

We are a team of engineers and energy experts working on getting our customers paid for using less energy. Our customers are energy consumers who will commit to curtailing their demand. We aggregate "curtailable" buildings into virtual power plants we sell to utilities and other buyers in wholesale energy markets, splitting the revenue with our customers. Our virtual power plants are cleaner and cheaper than coal and oil plants.
Along the way, we have to solve some complex problems:
- trade energy in an international patchwork of wholesale power markets
- convince a wide variety of factory supervisors and building managers to cease their operations when they would rather not
- make hundreds of commercial and industrial buildings behave like a single, reliable generator in every way

We're currently hiring for a wide variety of roles

Check our posts for more info. https://www.voltus.co/join-us/engineering
Location: Manhattan, NYC.

Contracts: No, full-time W2 only.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: C/C++, C#, Win32, Linux, POSIX, SQL, etc.

Projects: Tcl/Tk, Eagle, SQLite, System.Data.SQLite, Fossil SCM, Comdb2

Interests: automation, cryptography, databases, developer tools & SDKs, distributed systems, (Internet) security, public key infrastructure, runtimes, sandboxing, scripting languages, testing, virtual machines

Profile: https://wiki.tcl.tk/Joe+Mistachkin

Affiliations: SQLite ( https://www.sqlite.org/crew.html ), Tcl/Tk ( https://tip.tcl.tk/24 )

Side Project: https://github.com/mistachkin/eagle

Résumé/CV: Available by request.

Email: [put_my_first_name_here] [at] [put_my_user_name_here] [dot] com

Phone: Please see "https://www.mistachkin.com/" for detailed instructions.
"Let's lock down young healthy people's lives for 2 years so that the 86 year olds make it to 87"
I can't stress how much better Kagi is than Google, I'm a paying user. No more scrolling through tons of ads. Filtering by time and language is great, no more GitHub and Stackoverflow clones in the result.
Thank you, I actually haven't realized how small Kagi still is, given how polished that product already is.
This only works if the product in question is not a necessity (and its cost doesn't impact anything else). Especially as the alternatives are limited

I'm all for using fuel taxes to subsidize clean energy and electrical cars though
> websites must collect a ton of personal information about you and send it to the government to verify your age, and also tell them all the websites you visit

None of this is in the bill though.
Use netparcel. It has changed how I view shipping locally within the country and I do it more often now.
I think the AI will find little reason to take us with them to the stars.
What about sending meeting invites via email?
Fortunately my blender doesn't need an incentive to grind fruit, only a hundred and twenty volts.
If Native Americans being put into reservations against their will, being evicted from their homes, being treated as second class people, were launching rockets at US civilians, the US would retaliate, sure. But both parties would be in the wrong, same as Israel/Palestine.
SEEKING WORK | Poland | REMOTE (EU/USA OK)

Software Architect / Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of commercial experience (esp. FinTech, Healthcare) in prototyping, MVP, backend and frontend development as well as maintenance and DevOps. I can work during PT/ET hours!

Technologies:
* Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, GraphQL
* AngularJS, React, React Native, Vue.js
* Airflow, Kafka, ELK, TensorFlow, NLP/NLTK
* AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes

Where I can help most:
* Rapid Proof of Concept / Prototype implementation
* Design of scalable software architecture (Backend + DevOps)
* Cloud Infrastructure (Including HIPAA compliant design)
* API design, implementation and documentation
* Code Reviews, Python/Django mentoring
* Team leadership

Email: michal [AT] michallech.info
GitHub: https://github.com/rootxnet
Website/Resume: https://michallech.info
Skype: ferdezz
> Just stop landgrabbing and/or killing each other jeez.

Both sides think the land belongs to them as both sides inhabited the same land for hundreds* of years. Which side is doing the grabbing then turns into a judgement call.

* - Going by Wikipedia, Muslims Arabs since ~600CE and some form of Israelis since ~1200BCE.
Public transport? Hauling goods?

A ton of other reasons where added transport costs add to increased life expenditures. It's not about the private car
The cold war was horrifyingly dangerous, with flights of nuclear-armed bombers routinely scrambling. Dr. Strangelove wasn't fiction: even a single rogue or confused crew could easily have started a world war. The current dynamic is also terrible, but both sides seem pretty determined to avoid a nuclear conflict (which is the main existential risk here, since Russia no longer seems likely to invade other European countries.)
What's keeping electric planes from taking off
Systems Programming and Memory Safety
The iron version of PiPi’s Splashtown
On top of Python's class semantics, if you understand Python's weakref class, you are about 90% of the way to pointers.
I posted a reply to another comment below, but I'm curious how the population difference impacts power generation. Is power more expensive to produce or supply based on your population? Does the power infrastructure not scale effectively to the demand? Nebraska having 2 million people while also requiring a wide land coverage seems like a harder problem to solve. You can't plop a power plant down for a small town easily and if you move the energy across a long distance you now have to cover the cost of servicing the infrastructure for a small population. If anything, shouldn't overhead be cheaper the higher the population density? I'm genuinely curious since this isn't my area of expertise.
Location: Massachusetts, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JS, Ruby, Golang, Python, Express, React/Redux, SQL, NoSQL, Git, Docker, AWS, Redis.

Resume/CV: https://stevenliou.me

Email: stevenliou@gmail.com

I’m a software engineer with a passion for observing, analyzing, and solving problems. Recently, I built Tailslide (https://tailslide-io.github.io), an open source feature flag framework with automatic circuit breaking. I’ve developed applications with Go, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby, and I’m always excited to learn new technologies and collaborate with other software engineers.
Alpha widowing is a thing. Expectations get anchored at a high water mark so that dating most other men is a disappointment and a severe knock to their own self worth.

Ideally people would be realistic but women especially are being encouraged to want more. I think this mismatch of expectations is very damaging to society. I know a lot of alpha widowed women who are now going through a major crisis in middle age and I expect the problem to get much worse.
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, Express, PostgreSQL, React/Redux, AWS (EC2, SQS, S3, Lambda), Docker, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Resume: https://donaldredding.dev/

Email: don@donaldredding.dev

I'm a software engineer with experience building serverless solutions to derive additional insight into existing systems who enjoys collaborating with a team to tackle tricky problems.

I recently built Arroyo, a lightweight framework to rehydrate logs archived in cloud storage into Elasticsearch to breathe new life into older data.

Arroyo's Story: https://www.arroyoframework.com/case-study.html
Building new large reactors is a terrible idea. All the data shows that large reactors are obsolete, too difficult to build in modern economies, and without a good design to build. France's EPR has pretty much failed, and good luck finding any US utility foolish enough to try an AP1000.

I don't understand people's attachment to nuclear. We have far better tech now.

The large transmission lines at DC are incredibly valuable, however. There should be 4-5GW of floating offshore wind built there, and 10-100GWh of batteries at the old DC site.
I think the point is people should use the correct tool for the job. Instead, sites that should (or can) be static sites are unnecessarily using some JS framework.
It matters a lot actually. The noise level is a big deal and also different bars attract different groups and income levels
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £45 billion worth of property, to over 4 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on things that vary from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

We're looking for people with a passion for solving real-world problems. You'll be working in a close-knit team, directly with the founders. You'll have full autonomy to work on, and figure out how best to solve, the biggest problems in the industry. We find problems and improve customer experiences via code every day.

We have a bunch of roles available at the moment and keen to find great people like you!

- Full Stack Web Dev (C#) | All Levels | Equity Available | £35k-£120k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Front-End Dev | Experienced / Senior | Equity Available | £50k-£120k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Product Manager | Experienced | Equity Available | £40k-£70k (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Customer Experience and Product Development | Graduate/Junior | Equity Available | £29k + Quarterly Bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

OpenRent is already impacting millions of tenants and landlords each year, join us and make every tenancy better than the last.
Polling, from even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, says that a majority of Americans support defending Taiwan from Chinese aggression. After Ukraine, support is probably even higher. Even more, there is strong bipartisan support for it.
This same story seems to be playing out anywhere that attracts it and allows it.
I don't care except for the negative impact of getting fired, etc. If it's something I'm fine with doing in public, then I'm fine with it on the internet. I doubt there's very much demand for non-sexual public nudity photos as compared to all the other stuff on those sites. I'd easily be lost in the noise. I'm also a guy, so there's probably a different viewpoint for some women.
The carbon capture crux: Lessons learned
From the report: Captured carbon has mostly been used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR): enhancing oil production is not a climate solution.
> The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop.

It's getting much much better but performance is only "identical to desktop" if you ignore anything about its resource usage or speed increases in processors over the past decades.

> For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance and interactivity on the web. Or pure server-side performance but with full JS interactivity.

For people following JS these are examples of constantly relearning past lessons.
I'm not sure how anyone could reliably expect 100+ms round-trip time (on a good connection) to offer the same experience as something local but I think what it actually means is that the people writing JS-based software haven't actually used a native desktop app for years and have done mostly web-based things.

You could be forgiven it since HTML/JS as a user interface design language appears to have taken over completely, to the point where even the most popular code editors are now web browser-based.

Seriously though, go load up any natively compiled app on your OS of choice and compare the speed of it doing any given task to what you get out of web-based versions, electron versions, etc. There isn't a comparison.

My griping aside, I recognize JS as a language is here to stay and it's important to stay on top of its developments and improvements.
I suspect if they wanted your advice they would have asked for it.
Motive | Backend Engineers, Fintech Engineers, Mobile (IOS) Engineers, Firmware, Dev Ops | Remote |

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

We are looking to hire engineers around the globe that are passionate about building products that will have a massive impact on the lives of people. We seek and embrace diversity in all of its forms. We continuously push ourselves to think differently and take ownership wherever it's needed. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed. If you share our passion for achieving what some say is impossible, join us.

https://gomotive.com/company/careers/#search-jobs

Visa Sponsorship: We can transfer H1b visas, we are also hiring in Bangalore, Canada, Taiwan, and Pakistan

Sample Tech Stack: Golang, Ruby, Java, AWS, PostgreSql, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.

Contact: becky.diaz@gomotive.com
I went on the site and can't figure out how to subscribe nor what's different about them (although they say a lot that they are). What's so good about them ?
There's lots of cost effective storage methods (compressed air, compressed CO2, pumped hydro, inertial/iron oxide/lithium ion/sand/hydrogen batteries, and so forth), but the costs are all mostly up front, requiring major investments that aren't happening.

Some of them also require non-trivial time to build.
Oh no, I wasn't talking about visibility. Just that a certain tractor company has a trademark on the green and yellow color scheme. And they win in court.
Unsustainable. If you're a wealthy individual living in an expensive residence surrounded by other wealthy individuals living in expensive residences, you still need garbagemen to collect your garbage. You still need food. Whether you order from local restaurants staffed by employees, or buy your groceries at the supermarket, staffed by employees, janitorial personnel, security guards, and managers, you're still relying on the labor of ordinary people.

If your power goes out or there is a water leak in your home, you need an electrician or a plumber. Preferably one who doesn't have to live five hours away. If you need an ambulance and medical attention, you need doctors, nurses, and medical personnel. Hopefully they didn't get priced out of a 50 mile radius of your home.

And if the world consisted of only millionaires and an army of robots, if everyone is a millionaire, no one is. A carton of milk would just cost $700 and a lower end house $30M.

Be a YIMBY. Embrace looser zoning regulations and more and denser housing where you live. And don't jack up the rent to market rates if you're already turning a profit.
Needing to CYA also has pretty low emotional appeal for managers, exec's, and alpha-data-scientist wanna-be's. (Until it's just about too late, obviously.)

And recall Mark Twain's old quip about lies & statistics. The more & bigger data that the folks who control the data & analysis have, the easier it is to make sure that those meet their own emotional & political needs.
Awesome AI image synthesis
You might enjoy the short story collection Children of the New World[1] by Alexander Weinstein. One of the stories, Saying Goodbye to Yang, was recently made into a movie called After Yang[2] staring Colin Farrell. The movie has a super-catchy opening credit sequence.[3]

[1]https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/31cd88d8-d8d3-4414-b38c-...

[2]https://boxd.it/lx5a

[3]https://twitter.com/A24/status/1499114323314151425?ref_src=t...
Location: SF Bay Area, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React/Redux, Golang, Python, SQL, Docker, AWS, Restful API, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Résumé/CV: https://www.lawrencetam.dev/docs/Lawrence_Tam_Resume_20-09-2...

Email: lawrenceatam@gmail.com

I recently built Conifer, open-source test parallelization solution for Cypress. I also authored a case-study here: https://conifer-test.github.io/
On the flip side, in the near future - I can imagine a world where everyone's nudes are floating around, and people just don't care anymore.

In 10-20 years, I imagine the majority of people running for office are gonna have their nudes leaked.
Perhaps a dumb question, but do many houses have chimneys? Would burning wood ameliorate the problem?
While I think the "resumability" that Builder have developed for Qwik is very clever, I increasingly prefer the approach taken by HTMX and Alpine.js. Move back from JSON apis and render your html fragments on the server (you need to anyway!). It removes so much duplication of logic, simplifies your tool stack and reduces your risk of vulnerabilities.

I would even be tempted to say, both "Hydration" and "Resumability" are workarounds.

Attaching your event handlers to the DOM via HTML attributes rendered on the server
à la HTMX, Alpine.js or god forbid even 'on{event}=""' attributes removes so much of this complexity.

There will however always be places for client side html rendering though, the closer your webpage becomes to being an "App" the more likely you will need to do client side rendering, especially if you want to work offline.
All else equal, yes.
One would almost have to achieve global importance and big guns before moon mining is within reach. Russia would be more likely than China probably given their level of spacefaring ability right?
The fact that empiricism is false was a revelation to me as a young adult, after reading so much about the triumphs of science and reason and getting very excited (mistakenly) that you can get away without bothering with pesky things like epistemology. Of course, Quine and others pointed out that empirical observations are useless without explanations both of the phenomenon being measured and the measurement device itself (including, for example, the human vision system). And I believe it was Deutschmark who pointed out that empiricism is itself an epistemology which had to be invented. It turns out that it tended to be a significant improvement upon previous widespread epistemologies, but that doesn’t mean it’s not false. :)
If you can scam your way into a few jobs at a time, and keep a revolving door of jobs, you might be able to hold upwards of 10 jobs simultaneously and collect paychecks from each of them until they fire you.
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Flutter/Dart, C, C#, Python, JS
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w3JjRIcIO6mDV5pIgc8ASJj3jXNGLkIo/view?usp=sharing
Email: timo.555@icloud.com

Hey everyone. I want to say upfront that I'm looking for a place that would be open to a 3 days/week schedule.

I'm a software engineer based in Santa Rosa, CA. I have 10 years of experience using a variety of technologies across the development stack. I love learning new things so if you have something in mind that doesn't exactly fit my experience and there is a little room for some ramp-up time I would especially be interested (would love to work with Rust or Go). The most interesting thing I've worked on lately is I developed from the ground up a UI system for an electric car using OpenGL with bindings to Swift which runs on an embedded Linux device.

I'm looking to bring my experience and skills to a new project. Please reach out if you would like to chat.

Thanks for reading!
"You do realize that they were trying to have a rational discussion here, right?"

Rational is another HPMoR red flag word.

All rational means is "follows a rationale," or a rules system. Astrology, anti-vaxxing, belief in Hermetic magic, and chemtrails, while all ridiculous and incorrect, are also fully rational. So is Dungeons and Dragons, or internalizing Star Trek lore.

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"They're pretty unambiguously asking for information and trying to understand your viewpoint."

And I gave it, clearly and politely.

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"If AGI is the wrong term to use"

No, it's not the wrong term to use. Swap it with a synonym and you have the same problem.

Look. What if I started rambling about fixing aging? Like, straight up immortality. Would you think I was a compelling medical light, or an outsider with dreams that don't make sense given today's realities?

Flying cars? Pocket fusion devices?

"bUt ThEyRe ScIeNtIfIcAlLy PoSsIbLe"

It doesn't matter if I'm "using the wrong term." I could call them aerial vehicles, floating carriages, hover-Datsuns, whatever you want.

The problem is the idea. Anyone who's plying these ideas has completely missed the boat, and doesn't recognize that they're reciting bad science fiction.

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"The idea of a self aware AI is a little difficult for most people to define"

I see you're still missing the boat.

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"don't you think it's important that people be able to discuss the topic?"

It is approximately as important as discussing vampire repellant strategies.
Nothing baffling if you look at it this way:

Within Chrome it's Chrome vs Android (and possibly a few other teams). To quote https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

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When performing Valley Kremlinology, it is useful to see Google policies as stemming from a conflict between internal pro-web and anti-web factions. We web developers mainly deal with the pro-web faction, the Chrome devrel and browser teams. On the other hand, the Android team is squarely in the anti-web camp.

When seen in this light the pro-web camp’s insistence on copying everything appy makes excellent sense: if they didn’t Chrome would lag behind apps and the Android anti-web camp would gain too much power. While I prefer the pro-web over the anti-web camp, I would even more prefer the web not to be a pawn in an internal Google power struggle. But it has come to that, no doubt about it.

--- end quote ---
Yes, the state is basically run by Democrats, but there are clear factions within that.

For example the recent special election for California State Assembly 17th district seat (San Francisco) was between Matt Haney and David Campos.

Campos is very much in the progressive camp, and doesn't believe in things like "supply and demand".

Haney used to be in the progressive camp, but he's the kind of politician that adapts his views to what he thinks will get him elected. So over the past few years he's shifted more towards the moderate camp, and ran on a much more moderate platform.

So, what you end up having is a far left group, and then more of a center left.

Then at the local level you have stuff like Shasta county almost getting taken over by far right groups: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-12/shasta-c...