skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We initially started as software to improve the maintenance process for rental homes, then added a 24/7 emergency answering + dispatching component. With those we found that
a) residents loved having a service that actually answered and quickly handled their maintenance, particularly emergencies, and gave them full and complete visibility into their maintenance progress. We see typical companies move from days or weeks to get maintenance scheduled to having maintenance scheduled within minutes (and visible and traceable by the resident). And,

b) property managers can't afford this service. Property owners can--but there aren't that many people or corporations that own hundreds or thousands of units in the single family rental space. It makes distribution and scaling particularly challenging unless you target third party managers. Your average rental property owner in the US rents out fewer than 2 units.

Our customers are almost entirely third party managers, not the property owners. Property management generally gets a bad rap, but the truth is, these are extremely low margin businesses. They have this great pain where they want to provide good service to renters and owners, but they simply don't have the resources to do so. Our current business model is the best vehicle we've found to be able to deliver 4.8/5.0 star maintenance service to renters (and getting better). We want to make it easier for property managers to deliver great service. The feedback we get from the hundreds of thousands of renters on our platform makes me feel like we are providing a valuable service. I, for one, would rather rent in a place that has a program in place that ensures my maintenance calls are answered and will offer specific guarantees for service.
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Figma, Onshape, Arduino, 3D Printing, CNC Machining, Sketching, Rapid Prototyping, Ethnographic User Research, Human Centered Design

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougtarlow/

Email: doug.tarlow@gmail.com

Combining the disciplines of mechanical engineering, interaction design, industrial design and user experience, I lead the design of simple, sleek, utilitarian hardware products from concept to delivery.

Currently I’m accountable for every pixel, curve, and behavior at a NYSE traded company.
I’m a powerful internal design evangelist who’s obsessed with finding and understanding users. I work in a discovery oriented agile process where I am comfortable discovering requirements and coauthoring PRDs. I follow a process of continuously prototyping of and relentlessly testing
Not GP but $work is DRF + React.

For new projects async runtimes are enticing but its really hard to switch to or from a async runtime with an existing project. Similarly moving to or from the Django ORM or SQLAlchemy + Pydantic is too much work for most to justify.

So whatever fully featured framework you start with will be the one you stick with. They all have warts and hurdles but should get you where you need to be from a business perspective.
You end up missing Django's ORM when you can't use it, as well. I've tried my best to recreate the experience with Prisma in JS but it took me awhile to get to a place where I felt like I wasn't duplicating schema...
It feels odd to upvote this type of post. Yet I don't really know what I want to say. It's saddening to say the least. Ever since I heard Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Mr Sakamoto has had a special place in my heart. What gifts he gave to the world.
It is different. JS is popular because people who write SPAs also want to write backends in the same language.

What I really like about Django and Python ecosystem in general is the kind of stability that it doesn't move too fast and break things, which happens in JS land too often. And Python is a nicer language of the two, for me at least.

But at the end of the day, you can combine both. I work for Baserow now and we combine Nuxt + Django. You can also simplify it to Vue/React + Vite + serve it with Django, use cookies-base auth etc.
a few years ago I moved outside the UK and spent the best part of 3 months (on and off) trying to access BBC content, legally, still holding residency, paying domiciliary and employment taxes, and paying for a bladdy TV loicence

of course, I wanted to do this for as close to free as possible, since plugging an aerial into a tv at home also cost next to nothing

VPNs were already being detected and banned. I tried at least 4 extensively, including tcp, udp, socks, wg, obfuscated servers, etc. to no avail

dodgy residential/mobile proxies were too unreliable for live 720p m3u streams, not to mention expensive

I went through a few cheap linux VPSs with UK ip addresses, forwarding their web streams to my tv outside the UK, until I found one that seemed to work well. so much so I even invested in some fancy routing through intermediary countries for almost jitter-free stability

until a few weeks later, back to the same old shite -- everything 403 Unauthorised

after yet a few more weeks of furious head-scratching shame over the stable-now-vanished CBeebies and BritComs daily consumption, I concluded and confirmed the BBC had just started detecting and banning datacentre IPs more aggressively

it was at this ebb I discovered the wonderful world of illegal IPTV streams and adopted a fuck you too, BBC attitude
I fly an SR22, which has a yaw damper. It's not strictly necessary -- the SR22 is quite stable without it -- but I'm familiar with the concept.

The facts of the MCAS debacle have been litigated to death (literally!) and since you work in the industry you probably know more about them than I do. However, I'm still going to respectfully take issue with this:

> There was nothing wrong with the MCAS concept.

That's a vacuous claim because "the MCAS concept" is not well-defined. If "the MCAS concept" is something like "an automated control system that always does the Right Thing" then obviously there is nothing wrong with that. But MCAS was never an automated control system that always did the Right Thing. The problems with it were known -- indeed, self-evident -- long before anyone actually died. MCAS was explicitly designed to be an automated control system that sometimes did the Right Thing, and sometimes did the Wrong Thing (with a single point of failure), but that was OK because when it did the Wrong Thing, the human pilots would take over and do the Right Thing in its place [1]. I think it's pretty clear, even without the rather definitive evidence in the form of two lost aircraft, that there is quite a bit wrong with that concept. But maybe we'll just have to agree to disagree about that.

And, somewhat less respectfully...

> The new engines gave it 15% less fuel burn. This is massive cost savings (and less pollution, too.)

I'm sure the families of the victims will take great comfort knowing that their loved ones died efficiently.

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[1] UPDATE: And, I might add, that they were expected to do the Right Thing without any additional training because the whole point of MCAS was to make the new plane behave like the old plane. Which is manifestly failed at rather spectacularly. But that is neither here nor there because I think the case can be made that the "MCAS concept" was flawed even without this little detail.
He was also a tutor/TA and I think mostly used it to explain how pointers vs. indexing worked. Or possibly to traumatize students :D
How does FastAPI compare on the ORM and serialization front? I enjoy using djangorestframework and it’s been nice leverage for me, especially dealing with binary formats (eg keys).
How is it possible that it's not a simulacrum of the real world? It seems to me that how good it is doesn't actually enter into it. You're still putting a physical barrier between you and the world.

We see this happen even when AR isn't involved. Just looking through a window introduces a separation between you and the real world. That separation matters a whole lot to people, and changes how people think about, perceive, and react to what they see.
SEEKING WORK | San Francisco, USA | REMOTE

Hi, I’m Jason.

I'm a DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of experience in (CI / Production / Developer Experience / Cloud / Infrastructure) Engineering. My previous projects include:

- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of Kubernetes cluster, running on AWS. This reduced our monthly infrastructure spend by $20,000, decreased deployment time from 1 hour to 10 minutes, and saved developers collectively over 100 hours every week.

- Designed and implemented request tracing system for Golang and Scala based microservices, allowing the team to spot and reduce 99th percentile latency from 1.5 seconds to 400 milliseconds, a 73.3% improvement.

- Built virtual machine images using packer and vagrant saving 500 hours per week in manual environment configuration.

Proficient in: Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Python, Golang, Bash, Java, Jenkins, Chef, Terraform, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, VPC, Lambda, Route 53, EKS, API Gateway), Git, Vagrant

SEO Keywords: Developer Productivity, Developer Experience, Release Engineer, Platform Engineer, Production Engineer, CI Engineer, Infrastructure, DevOps, DevSecOps

What I'm looking for:

I'm looking for a remote DevOps position. This includes CI engineering and Developer Productivity. I do not want a production engineering role, SRE role, or any on-call. I'm open to full-time, part-time, and contract based.

Social links and resume are below:

GitHub
> https://github.com/jason-riddle

LinkedIn
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamjasonriddle

Resume
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aIBYvylZGTEggDQmH9Q2NcgfNy0...

IMPORTANT:

If emailing or reaching out by LinkedIn, include a short blurb on how you found me. Something as simple as "Followup from Hacker News" is good. No mention of Hacker News will be treated as spam and promptly deleted.
Humans can’t solve this either :)
I don’t think apple had to pay fees
Agreed. Most non-trivial, production-grade software is created by teams, not individuals.
Very unpopular opinion : every dollar spent on SLS is a dollar spent on pushing back Spaceflight. Artemis 2 is not a milestone but a monumental mourning.
>From the DNA results I've seen, I believe most of the Iranic like ancestry in these regions is older and from the BMAC / Oxus civilization

The BMAC/Oxus region is modern day Khorasan, Fergana Valley, Sugdh, and Badhkashan/Pamir Corridor.

Since time immemorial, there always was active trade, travel, and contact between those Iranic regions and Punjab/Kashmir/Pakhtunkwa. Ranging from the Kushans to the Bactrians to the Sakas to the Perso-Turkic Muslim Dynasties to the Indian+Pakistani military and economic presense in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Pamir Corridor.

> Some Syed groups have some recent middle eastern ancestry but substantial amounts are absent from most communities. Coastal South Gujarat seems to be an exception with some Sunni Muslims farmers having substantial foreign ancestry

I think coastal Gujju Muslims had more connection with Gulf Arab communities due to trade relations (there's an Arabic TV show on Netflix about that called Mohammed Ali Road).

For farming groups that had substantial foreign ancestry, was it more Iranic in style. If so, that wouldn't be surprising. A lot of nomadic groups in the badlands of Sistan, Balochistan, and Saraikistan would immigrate between the Indo-Iranian heartlands and the badlands. Jats and Jadejas are two examples of formerly nomadic border groups that emigrated deeper into South Asia, as did Baloch into Sindh.

>Our Islam changed quite a bit during this time due to Wahabbi/Deobandi preachers coming to Gujarat.

And yeah, not surprised by the changes in traditional Gujju Muslim practices due to reformist Sunni practices.

The big 3 indigenous movements - Deobandi, Ahl-i Hadith, and Barelvi - were all a reaction to the subjugation of the Muslim elite in Awadh and Rohilkhand to British Colonial authorities in 1857 (Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, and Lucknow were completely razed and depopulated for example).

The same thing happened in Punjab with the Akali (reaction to the British subjugation of the Sikh Empire and Christian conversions), Arya Samaj (popular in Punjab+Kashmir in reaction to British subjugation of the Sikh Empire and Christian conversions), and the Ahmadhiya Movement (Punjabi Muslim reaction to the collapse of the Sikh Empire and Christian conversions).

Basically, all these reform movements argued that adopting and modernizing Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism would be the only solution to push back against the British and prevent conversions to Christianity.

And yea, I'll get book recs for ya shortly!
Yes, that declarative style makes more sense to me than a forwards build statement of steps.

I developed my own tool for building C/C++ projects which follows this style. It automatically handles things like Qt moc and scans the source files for headers, so in your example even the hdrs line can be omitted.
I have no clue why more people don't agree with his arguments. I tend not to hold strong opinions in general, but for me the danger of AGI is so obvious I'd argue it's even more of a clear and present threat than nuclear weapons. Literally everything about AGI is bad and there's almost zero incentive not to press the metaphorical red button.

The problem with Yudkowsky is that he's too smart for his own good. We need to stop talking about AI safety like it's a field of philosophy and explain the threat very plainly to people who don't understand how neural nets work.

Those who disagree with him from what I see generally fall into three camps:

1. The 99.5% of the population who are not educated enough to speak on the subject. These are the kinds of people who are so misinformed they think AGI will be good because it's smart or because it's "programmed" by humans.

2. Misaligned actors. Eg, CTOs and CEOs of AI startups. These people have both a financial risk and reputation risk from talking about the dangers of their hobby. However, these people are unfortunately the media's favourite gotos when they want to understand the dangers of the technology.

3. Naive techno optimists. These are the people who don't even bother making counter arguments and instead rely on slandering people like Yudkowsky as doomers or as being anti-progress. They generally think AGI will be good because some incomparable past technology was good.

I've literally never had a good debate on this subject and I've been debating with people about this for over a decade now. It's frustrating to the point of exhaustion trying to explain the risks. Every now and then you come across someone who gets it and that's nice, but they're hard to find. Generally these people are educated and are familiar with ML algorithms despite not having their reputation and income tied to it.

So yeah, if you couldn't tell I think Yudkowsky is a genius and way ahead of most people on this, but by the time humanity realises it it will be too late.
And if you are worried about google handing out things nobody uses.... I have really bad news for you.

As one who used to have enough Microsoft-branded shirts to wear one to work everyday for a month and not repeat myself, I'm under no illusion that a large corporation doesn't hand out a lot of useless junk. :-)
April fools everyone! Seems like ARM got the domain from a trademark dispute. Redirecting it to their own website is a pretty funny self-own .
I think back in 2014 this machine is probably one of the best Macbook pros? Did we have 32GB back then?
Not really. They run a root daemon, and browsers are moved there with no easy alternative. Makes them slower to start up. No way to keep the filesystem and mount table clean without surgery, multiple steps which will need to be repeated after every version upgrade.

If you can avoid all that by using Pop or Mint, why not?
The "shills" are not wrong. Every single currency that ever existed went to zero. The USD will be no exception. Honestly, BTC will be no exception either.
Yeah I don't think it's cheap in absolute terms, just that it's probably as cheap as you can get it right now. I don't think they have left any corners uncut with that car.
Wouldn’t it be better to move to different monitors instead?
I picture you dancing on stage with Ballmer.
Video editing will use all of that and more.
I do not disagree with the composition. The reason I compare them to fingernails is that when a tip breaks off the tip does not regenerate. The broken tip remains broken. The antler may continue to grow out from the base but the tip will stay gone until they shed and regrow new antlers.
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, PHP, Terraform, Go, AWS, React.js,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Chef, Python, RabbitMQ, JavaScript, TypeScript, Load Testing, Capacity Planning,
Automation

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19GW0n5LEqSni1T7ZLP-k5Mguf38...

Email: jasonlotito@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlotito

20+ years of experience as a full-stack developer, with 10+ years of cross functional team management experience.
Moderna | Senior Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA and Norwood, MA | ONSITE | https://modernatx.com

We are a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and are looking for full-stack Senior Software Engineers to join our develompment teams to help enable the next generation of medicines. We have a fully modern approach (typescript, all AWS, agile development etc.) and an exciting future (38 active clinical trials and counting!). You will work directly with users and product owners to understand requirements and then work with other software engineers and data scientists to design, develop, deploy, and maintain custom software solutions.

Check out the positions here: https://modernatx.eightfold.ai/careers?query=Sr.%20Software%...
Location: Midwest US

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, very open to contracts, especially if they can fluctuate between PT/FT, or are contract to hire.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Ops (heroku/aws/ansible/docker), CI/CD, testing, API design, integrations/plumbing. Some: Python, Elm, IoT stuff, machine learning Love: architecture, mentoring, useful and absurd experimentation

Email: hello_from_hn_apr_2023@ericstiens.dev

Resume: https://share.getcloudapp.com/5zurlRrR

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Senior full-stack dev (lean more towards devops->backend than backend->frontend, but I can still sling some React components together and reduce your JS payload size). Lately I've been loving Stimulus Reflex and playing with a lot of micropython/ESP32/IoT stuff.

I excel at figuring out how to solve problems at all levels of abstraction (including what level of abstraction you should use), getting a solution in place, and then figuring out the feedback loops to iterate on that solution. I'm the senior engineer that knows that most coding is coming to an understanding of what problem you are trying to solve. Sometimes the most impactful code is the code you don't write.

Trying to change the world, still parsing the source code. I've been programming on the web since 1995, had a first career as a social worker and policy statistician, and have worked full-time as a programmer for almost a decade now.

Especially enjoy API and system design, integrating with crappy systems, user research, and really weird bugs. Make a decent PM in a pinch, but would prefer you have great PMs.

Will give you more looks if you can tell me why what you are doing makes the world better, but you've got to really believe it in your heart.
if you are driving defensively? you may think there is potential for brake usage in the upcoming section of highway, so you might take your foot off the accelerator and hover the brake just in case. I believe this is pretty common.

at least when I drove a model s this wasn't really possible because the car would slow rapidly when I took my foot off the accelerator. nice to know that can be disabled, ill look for it next time I'm driving a tesla
They have many op codes that bloat the instruction set, that need to be broken apart to fit into a multi-scalar design. This is over head that takes of silicon space. This is especially painful with multi-core designs since each core needs this.

They may have memory models that make guarantees that are insignificantly secure or impede optimisation.

There is something about condition codes vs explicit checks that made speculative execution difficult. I don't recall the details about this one.
I poked at a couple of these listings, and some seem interesting, but I didn’t see any compensation ranges.
Well...I'm replying to the person above me.

But also: I find this attitude a bit silly. The last 3 years have kindof proven the preppers right, haven't they?
As someone completely unfamiliar with SLS: why?
Don't like the potential of the kite going under the boat and getting wrapped up / destroyed in the prop.
You might be correct that NASA isn't spending the money efficiently, but you need to compare this to the alternative to Artemis, which is probably a bunch of smaller programs that will either be cancelled or forgettable.
The reactions to his research are interesting, but oh my God can I not withstand the obnoxious voice and mannerisms. Why that ?
It says "remote" but also asks if you need visa sponsorship, why is that? Are you able to hire contractors globally?
If nobody needs it, why are people asking for them to buy some?
Sentinel Marine solutions | Backend Engineer (Python) | HYBRID (Ljubljana, Slovenia) | Full-Time

We are looking for a Backend developer with a 5+ years of relevant experience. Our stack is Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, RabbitMQ. We use Docker, Ansible, and more.

Sentinel is the maker of the "App for boats". We help make the ownership experience of the boat easier with telematics, by keeping you connected to your boat, giving you at-a-glace overview of vital boat equipment, and helping you with boat maintenance with reminders. We also connect the boat owner with the dealer and the broader ecosystem of partners relevant for boat ownership. Our products are a keystone piece of equipment on boats from the largest boat builders worldwide. We are still a small team (20 people), and are making waves in the boating industry. Your contributions will have a huge and direct on the boating experience of current and new boats.

This is a position requiring at least partial onsite presence, so it's local to Ljubljana and nearby areas. This is to facilitate working with hardware/firmware engineers when necessary, and mentoring less experienced developers.

To apply, email: jobs {at} sentinelmarine.net
I don't know a single person who had a 6MB 3Dfx Voodoo card back in the day, I know plenty of people with a 24GB VRAM card today. I don't think they (6MB 3Dfx) were even obtainable in my country at the time without special contacts. So by any measure, those cards were not really regular gamer level cards either.
Thought I'd flag that you do not have contact info in your profile!
Thanks! The pricing is there mostly to set expectations for the future. The current release works (for the most part) for individual users and it would not support a team well. Hocus is free for up to 3 users, so we expect people who deploy the alpha version not to pay a thing.
That’s true. The main focus was on forcing OEMs to bundle Windows for kickbacks. The browser stuff came out of the EU.
it's an interesting topic (whether Apple's monopolistic behavior has produced any good), but again, entirely orthogonal to the underlying question, whether Apple is behaving monopolistically (they are).

in the amount equal to how much you like any such benefits, other people dislike the downsides of monopolistic behavior, so we decided that it's bad even if maybe some good comes with the bad
SLS is extremely expensive, has taken a long time, and will have a low mission frequency (if successful at all).