skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm a UX professional trying to transition into becoming a full-time front-end developer.

Here's a taste of something I've made: https://thekakkun.github.io/speed-snek/

Location: Toronto, ON (Canadian PR)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies:
- Languages: Python, JavaScript (TypeScript)
- Front-end: React, NextJS, Flask, Tailwind
- Back-end/data: PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Numpy, Pandas

Website: https://thekakkun.github.io/

Résumé/CV: https://thekakkun.github.io/about-me

Email: check my website!

Let me know if there might be a good role for me, or even if you can just offer me advice on breaking into the field!
"Musk is not "self made rich", "

So his dad gave him $250,000,000,000? Is that really what you're saying?

As you seems to view them as such, I'll say that only a fool under-estimates their enemy. The wise man loves and respects his enemy, and gives credit where credit is due.

Lindell built a large consumer enterprise worth almost 1/4 of a billion dollars. He's had a rough life, struggling with addiction (not unlike Hunter Biden) but got clean and built massively successful business.

Trump built a global brand worth billions on the back of a real estate company worth but a fraction.

Musk is the richest man on planet earth for very clear reasons.

None of those successes were accidents or even luck. It takes vision, foresight, ability, talent, persistence, and hard work to get there. None of the aforementioned traits are traits of stupid people. And none of those three men can be considered stupid. The virtue of their accomplishments are obvious.

Ergo, if they are stupid while being hyper-successful, what does that say about those who are abject failures?

A fool is a genius in his own mind, seeking superiority by bringing other down, yet a genius builds something of value while lifting others up.

Trump, Lindell, and Musk are successful precisely because they are NOT stupid and have built something of value.

What have you built?

You do realize that the three traits in the "dark triad" are also present in people who live on the streets, right? It is almost like every human being is different.
Project Holi | REMOTE (Germany) | Backend Developer, React Native (Web) App Developer | Full-Time / Part-Time

Project Holi is set to change the way we engage in social activity and to help social initiatives thrive. We're building a new community, hosting a whole ecosystem of social and sustainable apps.

We are building the foundation for a bigger movement now. We've got all it takes for the upcoming years to change the world as we're part of the Holistic Foundation. Learn more about us at https://project-holi.org/

The front ends are being developed cross-platform in TypeScript using React Native for mobile in combination with React Native for Web and Next.JS for web. The backend consists of a mix of a few open-source components in different languages (currently mostly TypeScript & Python). We use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as a cloud provider and Terraform for provisioning our services.

In engineering, we currently have two open roles for experienced developers and would love to hear from you!

* Backend Developer: https://projectholi.jobs.personio.de/job/741590?display=en

* React Native (Web) App Developer: https://projectholi.jobs.personio.de/job/739175?display=en

Bonus points if you have good experience with GraphQL, Django, infrastructure/operations or recommender systems.

Feel free to also ping me directly at daniel@holistic.foundation.
This is how it works in Germany and in some other EU countries. Companies need to pay 50% of an average of 3 last months salary in order to enforce a non-compete clause.
If you use "technical" that broadly, then everything is "technical" because at some point code has to be written for it. The design of Twitter is not technical. The fact that there is no "dislike" button is not a technical issue, it is a design decision.

The point is that when pointing out issues with Twitter, everyone is focusing on internals. The issue is not the implementation. It's the design.

It's like everyone's saying "the reason why TV rots your mind is because it uses CRT's! LCD is obviously better." Neither addresses the actual underlying problem.
It's definitely not for everyone. The idea is that you can track things you are interested over your life, when you add new content that is related to something you have added in the past, it creates a link automatically resurfacing the old content. It basically build a knowledge graph of all your interests.
Thanks for your feedback.
My take on this idea (take it or leave it) was a bookmark app for real life. Use cases:
Pass a cool looking restaurant, bookmark it.
Hear about a movie, book or new series, bookmark it.
Concert or event coming to town, bookmark it.

Functionality to build on top of the core concept
Reminders, obviously
Tools to plan & schedule with friends

Business model:
Sell ads or coupons to the bookmarked locations. Unfortunately this model sucks pre-scale, but it could be started locally if that helps.

The idea could definitely be gamified, if people still do that and if the planning with friends feature works there is a viral aspect to the idea.
nushell seems to have better way of parsing the string-only outputs of other commands.

https://www.nushell.sh/book/commands/parse.html

I don't know how to do a similar thing in powershell.

> To me interesting question is that is it even possible to build rich strucure-aware shell-like cli environment that would allow seamless integration of external polyglot programs...

Problem is that most of the classic Unix programs output in some messy format. It would be nice if we could agree that each command has --json flag (for example) which will make the output trivial to parse programmatically in any other advanced shell.
How to Move on from the Debate over the Origins of the Pandemic
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes, or in person in the LA area

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Javascript/Typescript, React + ecosystem, Node, Postgres, AWS, so much more...

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gGHpw-YKAdGRUHlnPIpeozMIvIF...

Email: brochington@gmail.com

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Senior/Staff Frontend/Fullstack engineer with a decade of experience working for both startups as well as large corporations.

I enjoy working on complex UI applications, such as in browser PDF rendering engines, and intricate dashboards. I also very much enjoy working with other engineers in a leadership role, and helping to mentor and grow teams.

I've been fortunate enough to have written Rust professionally for the past three years both in the frontend (via Wasm), and backend. This is by no means a hard requirement though, as I'm also very comfortable with Javascript/Typescript, React, Node, Postgres, AWS, and many other technologies.

Github: https://github.com/brochington

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/broch-stilley-9481789/
REMOTE|SENIOR BACKEND DEVELOPERS|FULL-TIME

Sourcefield’s mission is to give software developers the ability to see their code and, when they make changes, enable them to assess the possible unintended consequences their changes may make. Even as a small startup, they're bringing in customers like the MLB, NBA, and Tik-Tok!

You'll work alongside a team ranging from the Navy, MIT, Stripe, MLB, Tesla, and On-Deck.

https://www.sourcefield.io/job-listings/senior-backend-softw...
Same. Twitter does a decent job at sorting the replies, though.
Starting up a consultancy to do installation of your former employer's software for clients isn't IP theft. If I worked for Atlassian and then created a company that did consulting for how to install Jira and and organize workflows - there's no IP theft involved there.

Creating a new competitor isn't about retaining employees. Consider the situation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Blumkin

> In 1989, six years after selling 90% of her company to Berkshire Hathaway, Blumkin retired, only to come out of retirement in three months to open up a rival store. It was called "Mrs. B's Clearance and Factory Outlet" and was situated directly across the street from the Furniture Mart. It became profitable by 1991. Buffett acquired the business in 1992. Blumkin continued to be involved in day-to-day operations until shortly before her death at the age of 104.

While this case wasn't covered and Buffett certainly handled it different than the non-compete, but should there be the ability to prevent that sort of behavior with a non-compete agreement?
Good Work!
> I can’t escape the string beforehand, since the escaping rules are all different.

You’re still misunderstanding. You shouldn’t escape at any point, instead you should mark things as safe as early as possible.

“Safe” almost always has a single context, you don’t care if it’s going to go somewhere else because it’s not safe for there.

Anything that’s not marked as safe is then automatically considered unsafe and processed as such by the sink.

> What if I want to use a string as:

It’s not an issue, because by default nothing is safe anywhere, so all those APIs should treat the injected data thus.

There is no escaping, because everything is automatically internally escaped by default.
According to the article, they didn't ban walking children to school - they banned parents going onto school grounds and getting their children.

Presumably that means the kids can simply wait just off of school grounds? The article doesn't even mention this obvious option, so am I missing something?
Elaborate | Senior Backend Engineer | NYC or Remote (US timezones) | Full-time | https://www.elaborate.com

Elaborate empowers doctors to send modern lab results that tell patients what the results mean and what to do next. We integrate with doctors’ EMRs and analyze patient data with our proprietary clinical insights engine, providing a guided, innovative health experience.

We’re a seed-stage startup looking for someone who has built robust backend systems and can think deeply about interesting, messy data from real-world domains, whether that’s in healthcare, fintech, IoT, or something else. Elaborate faces no shortage of interesting backend challenges—I promise you will not just be implementing CRUD for the tenth time. Think scaling our architecture, solving entity resolution challenges, ensuring data pipeline quality and reliability, designing distributed task-based systems, standing up new infrastructure when needed, collaborating with non-engineers, etc. As our third-full time engineer, you will have a ton of influence on our engineering culture and the success of the entire business.

Tech stack buzzwords - Python, TypeScript, SQL, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Docker, Terraform

Compensation and equity is competitive, and our fast-growing team is filled with talented, kind, and passionate people. If you think you’d be a good fit, apply at https://angel.co/company/weareelaborate/jobs/2464782-senior-... or reach out to me at alex dot sherman [at] elaborate dot com.
Last time I checked, there's remarkably few airports in international waters. Most big airports that are cargo hubs are(unsurprisingly) next to major cities.
I just list my GitHub/Bitbucket/Sourcehut/etc. user pages and my website and say "everything listed at these URLs". I've yet to get any complaints about that.
NYT said they’ll have mass layoffs by Nov 1 because of stock compensation expiration. It didn’t happen and Musk refuted it outright.

https://twitter.com/austen/status/1587458237414068224

My generous take on this: Media is incompetent and they need to do more due diligence.

My cynical take on this: Media is losing its power and influence, this is the last ditch effort to smear opponents.
Ask HN: Do difficult technical interviews make you less likely to quit?
If the job was hard to get, then doesn't this make you want to stay in the job longer so you don't "waste" your achievement of getting it?
Nope, but that looks cool.
I'd say if you don't want to spend a month in sales calls then don't work in procurement. There isn't really a short cut, that's what the job is.
I am a CEO and recognized thought leader in the aviation industry and I say your position is nonsense.

If you truly work in aviation, then you should consider finding another career. Our industry needs less people with your type of thinking.
It'll remain expensive if only countries are launching things. If commercial space launches continue to pick up steam it will get cheaper.
You are correct. The greatest threat to someone providing a service based on an open protocol is that users might pick up and leave.

Consequently, a service provider will plow enormous resources into differentiating their service, and generating other lock-in effects, so the users find it hard to leave.

A popular open source protocol is actually the perfect playing field for a would-be monopolist.

The monopolist can make their service better and better with cash and execution, but meanwhile the protocol is stuck at a baseline since a varied ecosystem doesn't upgrade itself as quickly. So it is less and less attractive.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/40135/will-pare...

That suggests it's real, but I can't find a follow-up.
The relevance is making people aware that secrecy is a choice not a natural law. And while it is not common it is not only Norway that does this, it's a Nordic thing, with the exception of Denmark (which has had tax scandals that would have been found out sooner had the records been public!).
US did sanction all of China's space industry, defense dual use industries since the 1990s, and never let go ever since. That is pretty early. And this is what happens 30 years since the sanctions. But I have no idea what will happen in the future, plus the nature of industry and technology is also different.
Tuxedo is an European brand.

Developers use whatever they can, including crap Chromebooks as thin clients to cloud instances.
Student Infected with Debilitating Virus in Undisclosed Biolab Accident
> Source?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5A5Eu0ra3I

> This just sounds like more of the propaganda you're spreading in this thread, accompanied by no factual evidence.

Just check the video, it's all explained there. It's based on serious research. Of course hard independent data is hard to get from China, but they compare with many different countries, and the conclusions are fairly plausible.

> And why should we trust your "estimate" over what a government representing a bilion people says?

It's not my estimate, and that government has a strong interest in presenting a more rosy picture than reality.

> If you are referring to local officials falsifying data[0] then the government wasn't behind it and actually punished it.

That's not what I was referring to, but it could be related. Unfortunately that article doesn't say in which direction the data was falsified.

However, it does say:

>> There has long been widespread global scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data, especially as the government has sought to ease market expectations of a deepening slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.

> Then we have comparisons with the "night lights" data that show that recent economic data from China actually makes sense[1]:

> "However, while the level of Chinese GDP may remain overstated, both the Li index and estimates from the night-lights data suggest that the recent growth rate numbers for Chinese official data are more reliable."

But also:

>> This sizable gap suggests cumulative Chinese growth over the years could be overstated by as much as 65 percent.

More recent numbers are more reliable than those from before 1994, but still not great.

> Go study how the political system works in China, you'll find out people have much more agency over many things than we have in the West.

Can you provide a source for that claim?
Ask HN: What Mastodon server would you recommend, and why?
Why do you have that hunch? Do you presume good will? My hunch says, what if the conversation started as "how do we make users believe there will be less ads"?
Capitalism: focused on short term profit

Also capitalism: invests billions in Tesla at a p/e ratio that implies a payback period longer than a millennium
The worst is PayPal for iOS. Even with Face ID turned on, I still have to enter my TOTP code, EVERY time I open the app.
I was going to say, I was surprised to see an article like this without at least some mention of Elixir.
> the mere concept of being told you have to take a bus or get dropped off in a car is very baffling to me.

That's not what the article says - that's what the headline says. The article just says parents can't walk onto school grounds to get their kids.
My First Piano
If I understand OP well, normal companies are fortunately still bounded by laws on criminal negligence. People working for most companies also avoid that the situation gets so bad that they risk becoming personally liable.
Microsoft NFT Marketplace
There’s no runtime. Also shadow-cljs is not a compiler, it uses the main ClojureScript compiler.
> There are no modern communist societies.

Not for a lack of trying…
For some reason (I never dug deeper), my friend who is an attorney said she prefers arbitration. Maybe because she already is an attorney? The only thing I can think of is that it is more expedient and having seen behind the curtain the talk of biased arbiters (biased towards the Goliath) are exaggerated. But if anyone can opine I'm all ears.
The fact that Java allows and parses Unicode escapes just everywhere in source is a real surprise. That it's the same syntax you see other languages use for string-literal-only escapes and it's the same as Java's own other character literal sequences really adds to the surprise.

Is there any non-sneaky usage of this feature out there in the world? I suppose given the massive amount of Java, there probably is.
I've been using mymind.com (paid), but I like the automatic linking/resurfacing feature of this app.
The best products have one feature that people go crazy for and tell all their friends about. Find that feature, make it great, charge for it.
Let's just hope that nothing like that ever happens on this planet!
No, the only comfort I can give you is that you also have to make deals with companies with list prices. Otherwise you end up paying too much.
The Nikon does minimal post processing. The iPhone throws a metric shit ton of algorithms at the image data to make it passable. For normal people the iPhone output is good enough - though it often looks very over-processed.

Nikon just expects you to handle that post processing part that your iPhone is doing for you. In exchange you get way more control over the final image.

Both devices are aimed at different people. I myself have an iPhone 13 pro and a Nikon Z6ii. I tend to take snapshots with my iPhone because getting out the Nikon + playing around with sliders in Capture One is just too much hassle for a snapshot. Now would I take the iPhone and do a landscape photo where I hiked 6 hours to the photo location at 3 a.m. in the morning? Probably not. ;)
It’s the fatal flaw of capitalism: any time X is actually more important than making money, companies (especially public ones) cannot focus on X above all else. (A great example is health companies, where human health and well-being is the most important variable, but often conflicts with making money.)
The dealership sponsored th LED sign and perhaps the wooden sign that says the name of the school. There is no reason to believe they "sponsored" the rule the principal chose to promulgate.
Thanks for sharing, its a useful idea for me to think about.
Taking a Look at Mastodon
Where is this general rule of $50k-$750k established? I think there are tons of saas products that target enterprises that are as low as ~$2k/month and up and require "contact us".
No it doesn’t this makes zero sense. $40k is way too much for operational costs and way too little for human costs.

If you only count operational costs and a hypothetical skeleton crew to maintain it it probably costs damn near nothing to add another customer.

But once you include the salaries of 20 to 2000 engineers and the rest of the business to support them it’s a whole different ballgame. A major feature that takes one team 6 weeks to build costs a little less than half a mil in engineer salaries.

Software by its nature is weighted heavily in upfront costs and so pricing is “how little can we afford to charge to be in the black with ARR, how much do our competitors charge, and how much would it cost you to build it yourself.”
Ah hey! Should've looked in your profile. We've definitely crossed paths before. Congratulation on another fun project and I hope it scales slowly :)
I think it's processing power and engineering effort. I got a Sony RX100M2 for my mom and it has the same computational photography techniques that Google released the following year (https://ai.googleblog.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dyn...). But Sony's image stacking is only in "Superior Auto" mode, and is only used when necessary. Google's implementation does a lot of advanced work, including selecting and blending parts of the photo depending on motion, that Sony doesn't do. I assume Sony's imaging engineers have less expertise in advanced processing, and didn't have the resources to implement the features that Google did. Sony also has to devote engineering resources to other features - a lot of their sales are to photographers that will edit in post (RAW), and later, videographers. So features that are only in "auto" mode may have limited budget.
Supporting passkeys and hardware keys for MFA should be mandated by statute. I know, heavy handed, but witness the current auth/identity challenges making the need clear.
For a long time I felt Scott was a phony, but he legit walks the walk. But for some reason, his delivery and the vernacular he uses comes off disingenuous to a number of readers / viewers.
I don’t think the price is what bugs him so much as the newly-diminished elite status of the blue check.
Because that argument is as old as the written word, and it works exactly as well now as every time in the past (not at all).

Every job being automated requires its own "we're unique" pitch to get any pity points.
I am glad that I am living in Europe. The moment my boss would try such shenigans I would be laughing at his face and then continue with my 8 hours / day work time.
The HW is intended for and can be used for general purpose computing. I think you seem to think that for something to be general purpose it has to be able to run everything. I've never heard that definition before and honestly, if that's the case then there is no general purpose computing HW in existence. The standard definition is that it can run, in a reasonable way, most consumer/productivity workloads. It's not about saying "This HW doesn't run Linux" or "It doesn't run Adobe Premiere 12.2".

I think you simply want to run other OSes on a device. That's a fine thing to want, but I think you're conflating that desire with other concepts.