skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: New Mexico, US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: JS/HTML/CSS, ES6, TypeScript, React, Redux, Git, Shopify, Next.js
Email: davidy889@gmail.com

Résumé: https://quxbaz-resume.vercel.app

I am seeking a position as a mid or senior-level front-end engineer. I have 8+ years of experience working at various levels of responsibility as a front-end developer throughout my career. My previous work was as the creator of a thorough visualization of MMA matchups (https://mmabetsharp.com). The work encompassed a large breadth of skills including core front-end work, design, visualization, scraping, data structuring, as well as social media engagement via public discourse and other various channels.

I consider myself a generalist in the front-end space. I have a good knowledge of web technology fundamentals, but I also rather appreciate the higher level tools brought in by the React-era.

I have experience in ecommerce, both as a developer and administrator. I have worked on the development of inventory management tools for online clothing retailers. I have also used the Shopify platform to create a portal to sell woodworking products.

I have enough maturity as a developer to balance the cost of writing maintainable software with the need to write effective software quickly. I understand software is inherently complex, and if neglected, tends to devolve into something very difficult. I also understand businesses and companies, especially smaller ones, operate with limited resources, and that the ability to drive a product forwards can be essential.

I've been thinking about... The nature of complexity in software. How can we apply functional programming concepts to a domain that is largely event-driven and mobilized by effects? How can we reduce excessive "wiring" between components and increase modularity? How can we create a level of abstraction over system components that ensures logical consistency while avoiding excessive overhead? How do we balance the need for "correctness" (typing, tests, refactoring, experimentation) with the need to deliver a product within limited time and resource constraints?

Aside, I also have some experience with physical goods, having created and operated a small woodworking company for 3 years. During the time I received unsolicited praise for the top quality of my work. I apply the same ethic to my programming work:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DSP6WSP#customerReviews

I value clean design, code consistency, architectural durability, and simplicity whenever possible.

I describe myself as... Easygoing, reliable, flexible, adaptable, and a clear communicator.
I think you have it backward. All that time/energy wasted memorizing multiplications could have been used to understand more complicated topics. It's a cool party trick but it won't make you better at solving problems past high school level. I would prefer to work with someone who understand the concepts well and how to apply them than someone who can recall 32x9 or 10 digits of pi from memory.

When people complain about the difficulty of their college math courses or the math problems they solve at work, I can assure that it's not because they had a hard time remembering the answer to a multiplication. In a lot of cases, the equations they are trying to solve don't even have numbers in them. And when there are numbers, you won't be able to calculate them mentally because they won't simplify like they do in a no-calculator math exam.

You might not have realized, but a lot of the work when designing a no-calculator exam is to make sure people can compute the numbers mentally. When you step out in the real world, 32x9 becomes into 32.091x9.1^1.1. It turns ugly real fast when you have to deal with real numbers instead of a carefully crafted exam question.
XA scales well enough for many workloads. I believe that too many developers discard solutions like XA because it "scales quite poorly" without doing serious analysis of how much scalability they are likely to need and whether XA scales well enough to support it. On the flip side I believe that too many developers underestimate the complexity of managing state and failure in distributed systems.
Perhaps you were using a different version, but I just tried and ChatGPT didn't seem to have any ethical issues with the question (although it was cagey about giving any definite answer):

https://i.imgur.com/5aIjtMz.png
In a broadcast scenario it only takes a temporary instability in the routing tables to cause packets to be duplicated. It's less of an issue nowadays, but you don't control the Internet. It's not a bug because it's not guaranteed that a message won't be delivered twice.
Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (2009)
In the early 1980s, I got a job at Western Union (the old telecom company, not the thing it became). I was programming special reports in 4GL languages like RAMIS and MARK IV plus a little COBOL, and I was asked at one point to see if I could find a use for the Xerox Star, a descendant of the Alto. It was the first time I had ever heard of a mouse, and I had never seen a real GUI before. The system was very cool, but my experience was that it was best used as a word processor and typesetting machine. It had a programming environment, but I did have a language manual and was never able to write any programs for it.

I loved the machine, and even wrote part of a short story using the word processor. They moved it to corporate headquarters after two weeks, so I did not get very far with it, but I remember loving the experience. Windows was a poor substitute to the feel of the Star interface.
How long did your post-offer process take? Specifically the background check process.
> You can launch your own chip (M1), and improve quality (battery, perf), and improve profits, and get back at intel.

It's less about "getting back at intel" and more about having so much money that they need somewhere to invest it or increase the dividend and send that profit to the shareholders. The past decade, investors have constantly demanded Apple to turn over more/all of their cash to shareholders. A defense against activist investors is to show shareholders you are investing for the future. Bringing more production in-house is a great way to do it since it would eliminate future expenditures and increase profits in the future. Of course it all depends on execution. If Apple keeps minting money and their in-house hardware stack proves a success, I wouldn't be surprised if they start creating an in-house app stack.
> As the cost of GPUs goes down

Has that been happening? I guess there's been a bit of a dip after the crypto crash, but are prices staying significantly lower?

> or they develop at ASIC or more efficient model

This seems likely. Probably developing in partnership with Microsoft.
"florid" as a word means "excessively complicated", not just "complicated". I'd describe this writing as florid because it its fanciness and complexity is obnoxious and unnecessary. Of course it's my opinion, but yeah, I think it's just bad writing, written to sound pretentious on purpose, doing a shit job of communicating its point because it wants to be inaccessible. You could easily write the same thing more clearly in no more space.

I'm not arguing against beautiful writing or technical writing; I'm arguing against this thing that was pasted above, which is obnoxious, full-of-itself, not-at-all-beautiful writing.
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Craft is a startup with B2B and Consumer products with a simple and beautiful UX. We use Airflow, Python, AWS, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node, Postgres. We're a rapidly growing 80 person team across Europe & US.
Yeah that is actually true.

Yeah that’s probably truest.

But I’m more scared for some than others short term.

I’m less immediately scared for anyone doing work that interacts with the physical world.

Weird how it turned out the robotics was harder than the thinking
Because when they fake using the Apple trademark for Made-For-iPhone, Apple will get them removed from various market places, retailers, or possibly even stopped at customs when importing them.

Apple has no such enforcement capabilities for USB as they don't have any rights to that trademark.
35 yo. Been coding web since 16. Favorite stack. Node + react. I love trpc.

Basically on a sabbatical but listening for very interesting/unorthodox positions

Location: traveling around the world
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: open to the idea
Technologies: node, react, vue, next, prima, Postgres, trpc.
Email: (my username)+Varela at googles email dot com
AFAIK the point of exactly once delivery, in the context of message passing, is to abstract delivery concerns away from the application layer and into the messaging layer, so that the application can depend on the exactly-once semantics without having to write logic for it.

The problem with this is similar to the problems with two-phase commit in distributed databases: there are unavoidable failure cases. Most of the time it works just fine, but if you write your application to depend on this impossible feature, and it fails - which, given enough time, will certainly happen - then the cleaning up the mess can be much more effort (and have much wider business implications) than simply dealing with the undesirable behaviour of reality in the first place.

Or to put it another way: exactly once semantics can never be reliably extracted away from the application, so if you need it, it needs to be part of your application.
Just another example of state capitalism. Another huge handout to Tesla.

I personally happen to think it's fine for a government to do this kind of thing, but let's call it like it is!
Because they don't know how to have any real fun?
Location: US/Eastern (Boston-ish)

Remote: Yes please!

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python, AWS, PostgreSQL, C/C++, Java, Javascript, Linux, ...

Résumé/CV: https://bolson.org/resume/

Email: icic@bolson.org

Principal/Architect Software Engineer with 22+ years of experience. Focuses in high performance, high reliability, distributed networks. Comfortable negotiating with stakeholders to design the right solution. Technical leadership of small groups and mentoring junior engineers while also directly contributing to the Software Engineering effort. Design new high performance software from scratch or analyze an existing system and improve its performance.

I want to make things I'm proud of that matter to people and make the world a better place; and I want to solve interesting technical challenges along the way.
Looks like this is quite old...they will probably find even more introgression. Something like 80% of Australian languages are from Indian-derived language families and developed from around the time of the Dingo introduction (only 4000 years ago), so there basically had to be a substantial amount of gene flow as well. Only a minority of the aboriginal languages come from an earlier substrate. It would be surprising if there doesn't also emerge evidence of substantial conflicts around this time.
Location: Southern CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Potentially

Technologies: Go, Kafka, JavaScript (front & backend), Postgres, Mongo, Dynamo, AWS, Docker

Postgres, AWS, Docker

Resume/CV: https://mhtjung.github.io

Email: themikejung [at] gmail.com

Hi, I'm looking for a full time remote role. My background is in web applications, mostly full-stack with a bias for backend. I've implemented several REST APIs and gRPC services and have built out automated deployment tools. I recently completed work on an open source Kafka consumer proxy and am interested in transitioning to a backend/data pipeline focused role.
Would need to confirm the detail but I think polio and chicken pox appeared before labs were a thing, and HIV came from Africa where they dont have labs.

This is compared to the coronavirus which first appeared just down the road from a lab which studies coronaviruses.
It literally just means internally promoted
It’s better than having no job isn’t it?
I always dreamed of something like this where functions could be called as normal but they could be an RPC behind the scenes. The compiler would take care of serialization/deserialization and routing.

But how is it possible to not worry about network. Every function is now able to fail. Why don't you need to handle this explicitly? Or is there just a default behaviour that can be overriden?

Edit: after reading the docs I think I understand a bit more. You'll have have to deal with network errors on anything crossing module boundaries.
>I also can't write my backends and supporting services in GDScript.

I mean technically you can. Godot has a headless mode for servers, etc. I certainly wouldn't pick it as my first choice for all the other reasons you listed though.
The article has no information beyond "Indian". Which part of India? Which clan?
>I heard a story of a...

Sauce?
I can’t wait for all the crypto chuds to go to jail.
Yup, if you need to serialize a complex object manually before piping then you end up paying the price again (like this the multiprocessing Queue)

I'm guessing that's part of the reason the article didn't mention it (it looks like they're talking about a Pandas DataFrame which I would say is non-trivial--compared to a primitive type)

I'd think Pipe + Parquet should beat filesystem though. That really depends on storage I guess

Iirc I played a bit with msgpack and orjson to see if there was anything to gain over Pickle but I don't think it made much difference. You'd probably need to deal with structs

Looking at CPython source (3.10), on Windows, you always get a NamedPipe. On other platforms, you get a OS pipe when duplex=False otherwise a socket (socket.socketpair)
FWIW the equivalent code with this API is:

.BlueSquare {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
anchor-name: --BlueSquare;
}

.RedSquare {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
top: calc(anchor(--BlueSquare bottom) + 10px);
left: calc(anchor(--BlueSquare right) + 10px);
}

https://jsfiddle.net/kbqua1te/
Alexander the Great encountered a tribe which hadn't discovered fire (325 BCE)
There's effectively zero institutional knowledge in software in the Federal Gov anyways, it's been contracted out to lowest bidders with high churn rates for decades at this point. At best you're going to get a big contractor like General Dynamics or Booze-Allen with one person who's been willing to jump between those companies and contracts as they continue to underbid each other, but maintain the effectively identical role, or you're going to get a subcontracting company performing the equivalent.
Name: Sergio Pichardo

Resume/CV: https://sergiojpichardo.com/static/files/resume-sergio-picha...

Email: hello@sergiojpichardo.com

Website: https://sergiojpichardo.com/

Roles interested in: Cloud Engineer, Backend Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Node.js Engineer

Nationality: American

Location: Mississippi

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Linux, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon Web Services (EC2, ECS, ELB, EFS, RDS, Lambda, S3), AWS CDK

Interests/Hobbies: Startups, tech entrepreneurship, AWS cloud, Soccer, Music, Sci-fy movies
just from reading the site, looks like vantage takes a 5% fee vs Usage 20% - but that's a big difference, not sure if it's an apples-to-apples comparison.
Detect and tweet in real time when aircraft are flying in circles
Iron cookware, as opposed to cast iron cookware, is not "basically impossible to get," is composed of iron and contains no alloys.
Similar to the tea house scams in China. Targets mostly tourists at popular sites.
How to Stop Lying to Our Kids About Climate Change
TCP can't do exactly once in every scenario without fail. It does a pretty good job, but failure in the edge cases is the whole point of the difficulty we're looking at.

If the network loses the last packet in a TCP stream, then goes down for an indefinite period, the two ends of the connection have irreconcilable differences of understanding about whether the entire transmission was received. As far as the recipient is concerned, they have an entire message that's fully ack'd and so they should process it. As far as the sender is concerned, they have no ack for the last chunk of data and must redeliver it. This is the crux of the Byzantine Generals problem.

TCP can solve problems that happen in its own domain, and give reliable in-order delivery once over an unreliable network up to a point. It's not able to provide exactly once semantics in all scenarios though. Because that's logically impossible.
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author here: these are great ideas, thank you!
Are you talking about this? https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillN...

Because it seems pretty explicit that it doesn't apply in places where only adults are allowed. And how could a specification of people "who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest" apply to any trans person in a public place?
https://carolinapicknpull.com/price-list/

EV aftermarket is expensive, DRM makes parts picking v difficult, plus few people understand EVs and are scared of being electrocuted.
I agree that learning about a subject without having to unlearn a bunch of misinformation is a lot easier!

> Large chunks of the media assured us that it was not only impossible that the virus came from a lab but also racist and xenophobic to even suggest it.

I don't think that's a fair assessment of "the media", at least not the mass media. When the lab leak theory started there was no evidence at all to support it beyond "A lab exists" and "We don't like China" which gave it status as a conspiracy theory.

As evidence grew suggesting that the virus wasn't engineered in a lab and could have jumped from animals to humans, the people who clung to, and very aggressively promoted, the lab leak theory were rightly called out for it. They were dismissing the evidence that we had which was increasingly suggesting it jumped to humans from animals, to support a fringe theory that had no evidence. Wild fantasies were popping up too, like how the virus was developed in the US or was a bio-weapon attack against China. This was all just conspiracy theory. Some of it was clearly borne from anti-Chinese sentiment. In fact it caused a huge spike in violence against innocent Asian Americans which did kind of spoil the lab leak theory and made people hesitate to consider it for fear of being lumped in with bigots and conspiracy theorists.

We kept investigating the possibility though, and gradually, we started to get evidence that China was hiding things. They hid early cases and pressured doctors to keep quiet about them. They denied investigators access to records and locations they needed. Researches at the lab had been hospitalized with covid-like symptoms. There was still zero direct evidence of a lab leak, everything was circumstantial, but it was suspicious enough that there were lots of people increasingly calling for more investigation. The mass media reported on all of these things.

At a certain point it became actually justified to support the lab leak theory, but people who were spouting off lab leak theories, even the more sensible theories, in the early months of the pandemic were not, and still are not, vindicated. Their suspicions were not based on evidence or reached through investigation of the facts we had.

Today we still have no real evidence for the lab leak theory. The department of energy says they have evidence that they won't share with us, and the other agencies they have shared it with were not impressed and haven't changed their views. At this point I'd say the lab leak theory is about as credible as a natural origin. We just don't have conclusive evidence either way. Because all the information we need is in China's hands, and they've been obstructing investigations, I suspect we might not ever never know the truth.
ChatGPT API Pricing Comparison
I'd like to send the request 0 times and still end up with the expected result, thank you very much
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That information is still in PCR 4, the reason for just encoding the policy and signing key in PCR 7 is that it remains stable even if you update the bootloader.
>It would be distracting to the modern reader to refer to a game which would be obscure and unfamiliar

I find it far more distracting to find a modern term in an ancient text that I know the author couldn't have known about. It's jarring and anachronistic. I would much rather see the original term. I can make a decision about whether to spend a minute to look it up (and learn something!) or skim over it if the meaning is clear enough.
> If you're really hardcore processing multilingual text you need an equivalent to language tags anyway, because you need a dictionary for word-wrapping, date formatting, quote marks etc along with changing fonts (or glyph selectors in the same font.) TeX has them too.

Sure. And once you're doing that you don't gain a lot of benefit from unicode AFAICS, because you have to track these spans of locale-specific text.
What does "im" stand for?
Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Knowledge Pollution
> The future of software is asking smart questions to a mesh of APIs running layered models

Seems like a horrible future and I'm concerned that if enough people keep repeating this, it might happen.
(I work at OpenAI.)

This document is a preview of the underlying format consumed by ChatGPT models. As an API user, today you use our higher-level
API (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat). We'll be opening up direct access to this format in the future, and want to give people visibility into what's going on under the hood in the meanwhile!
I believe that humans adapt to their environment and I think any one can live a happy life without X or Y luxury, in this case a family trip.

What I’m talking about is a sudden change in normalcy - since you were a kid every year there was a trip. Now there’s not a trip.

If I put you in a loincloth with a club in the wilderness, you might be pretty upset at that. But literally millions (billions?) of our cro magnon ancestors did it just fine.
Ask HN: Tailscale vs. Twingate?
I was considering Tailscale, but their lack of DNS based routing is a huge turn off. I'm curious to hear from folks who have used Twingate or Tailscale at work which they like better and why?
Crunch time: the day Roald Dahl spoke to Francis Bacon about censorship