skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glass Health (YC W23) | Full-time | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | HYBRID in office/remote Bay Area | $130-170k + equity

We build a platform for AI-assisted medical diagnosis and clinical decision-making. Doctors spend twice as much time with computers as they do with patients; our product helps doctors make decisions and draft documentation in seconds. Thousands of clinicians use Glass — you can see user love on Twitter [0]. We’ve been featured in leading clinical lectures like UCSF Grand Rounds and news outlets like NPR [1]. We’re seeking an experienced senior full-stack engineer to help us build the next generation of clinical software. As our first non-founding engineering hire, you’ll have the opportunity to lead on challenging technical problems and help build the future of tools for doctors.

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All of these wannabe startups just wrapping ChatGPT or other models and trying to resell them are pretty laughable.

Chatbots are going to become "features" in more tangible products, not "products" themselves that people are going to buy (or at least, they sure aren't going to buy them from "value add" resellers).
Xanadu Quantum Codebook
What's the plan you are thinking of?
Yeah, as with nearly anything taxi-related it was definitely a city-by-city thing to find/evaluate. There was at least one big franchise you could count on to be "computer-dispatched" in several cities, in my experience, if you knew to look for it. Unfortunately, Uber disrupting the traditional taxi companies also has seemed to have disrupted that franchise and the situation actually seems worse today than before Uber existed from that perspective.
So if they don't face adversity when deliverying your package it's just not good enough? That's crazy.

Maybe give them a break, they're working hard.
> We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings (here, https://www.atticus.com/careers).

The "fully remote and spread across the U.S." language in at least one of those job opening makes it sound like it's remote within US? But somewhere else it says "work wherever you are".

Would probably be helpful for everyone to clarify this: for candidates so they don't waste time applying, and for you so you don't get so many useless applications.
My take on remote work as a manager for a company with significant name recognition:

I think it's clear some people prefer working remotely (and the online hacker news crowd leans heavily that way). It's also clear that some people feel real benefits from being in the office.

I think it's inevitable that the culture of a company mirrors the values of it's leaders.

Companies with leaders that value in person communication, place a high premium on random collaboration will prefer their teams to be in office, and hire people based on this. This could involve companies with large amounts of more junior people that need training or experience (and whose leaders feel that training is easier done in person).

Companies with leaders that feel like collaboration is less important, are more willing to set metrics and not be as directly as involved, and hire experienced employees with less oversight, lean towards remote work.

This means you'll see a decline in hybrid teams. Teams want to be made up of people who share values, and this is something that will polarize teams. Companies that prioritize growing talent will prefer to be in person, companies that prefer to hire for specific roles with clear expectations will be OK being remote.

This polarization will be painful and shouldn't happen quickly. I see many companies putting their finger on the scale when hiring, preferring in office roles (and selecting people that want or can't get remote roles). Over time, natural attrition will mean less and less remote workers, and that eventual makes it easier to push others out.

I don't think this is a good or bad thing, but it does mean that if you want to be fully remote, you need to remain very competitive in terms of skills. You're competing against a wider talent pool. I do expect 3 days a week (Tues/Wed/Thurs) to become standard for many companies, and that broadens the "recruiting" radius for in office companies. 1 hour commute 5 days a week is the same time commitment as 1.5 hours commute 3 days a week.
Chained folds (map, filter, etc.) immediately within the same expression really should be easy to optimize, but even if the compiler doesn't do that, if the library provides those methods as operations on iterators, then an unoptimized version should only cause redundant loop counters and a single extra array allocation whenever you materialize it. So the array temporaries are a bad implementation/design choice.

Scala has functional web frameworks that have no problem doing 100k+ requests per second on older mid tier desktop hardware, and while that's slow compared to a good mutable, imperative C implementation, it's fast enough that obviously functional programming per se is not the reason for perceived UI slowness.
Location: Vancouver Canada, Remote Remote: Yes (Remote only)
Willing to relocate: no

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Past project: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

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Were the early episodes slow, or are newer ones faster because they know kids have reduced attention spans?
> the world would magically get 40% more power due to reduction in transmission losses

But what effort is needed? Wouldn’t it require replacing all batteries and transmission lines to realize this efficiency gain?
I've hired someone who lives 2 hours drive from the office.

When they were hired during the pandemic, it was agreed there would be an eventual return to the office at an unknown time in the future. They'd been planning a move to my (high-salary, high-cost-of-living) area before the pandemic, so that was just fine with them.

Now it's several years later. If I order a full return to the office they'll have a choice: Either move house, or move jobs.

Selling a house and buying a new one costs $$$$$ and is a huge hassle.

Seems to me pretty believable that they'd look at other jobs if a full return to office was ordered.
What if Jupyter was ok for code with hundreds of thousands of lines? I suspect it might be.. I think nbdev ameliorates my major gripes with jupyter: it lets you easily maintain a bidirectional jupyter <-> (library as standard python files) mapping, while also giving you the excellent presentational flexibility of Jupyter. Plus a good looking docs site, for free. Since the code is exported as scripts, you can just `pip install -e .` and get all your IDE integration as normal.
I said, "If I look at Yelp reviews, one or two bad reviews are standard." So yes, it IS relevant, whether you forgot that or not.
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Indeed, on top of stacktraces it would be great to have 'value traces' (with functional programming I suppose those would be the same). Especially in testing, what's important are the inputs with the system under test.
Ask HN: Did anyone write a book in Nano?
I discovered that some people deliberately choose to write stories in terminal-based text-editors like Nano or Vim, because it forces you to spend more time on honing the story instead of being distracted by formatting and other fancy features. I'm attracted to this idea, in the same way that the dwm window manager forces me to focus my attention.

I was curious to know if anyone here actually did that, and what their experience was. Did it make you more productive? Was the editing process a mess? Any anecdotes?
What could you possibly mean? Government made it so much better. How else would you know that the cookies (you're going to consent to anyway) are being put on your computer?
Which is a great idea and HN does.

I'd love to see a chatmodel as a forum board moderator. They understand nuances, so it would be able to spot people just fighting or adding too much snark. A real net nanny.
Cracks in the positive electrode of Li-ion batteries reduce battery charge time
Looking at the history, I don't think so (though he has high karma value, I don't know if that is considered by the algo since it's secret). His failure rate is pretty typical. He just submits a lot of posts.
The reason I ask is that I was poking around and saw some projects to help with wasm compilation, and on this random list of wasm-capable languages [0], Nim is listed as "Work in Progress." Notably, Swift is ranked higher, and I view Swift as extremely experimental when it comes to wasm

[0]: https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
Location: Buffalo, NY

Remote: Full-remote

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Technologies: C#/.NET, TypeScript, React, JavaScript, Python, Java, Docker, k8s

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Sales Pitch:

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* Full stack engineer, capable of developing full features

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Ed Zitron wrote about it a lot in his newsletter a while back and I think had some really excellent insights about it. Especially these three factors:

- Executives work in a way that genuinely does probably reward or even require in person interaction. A lot of their job is "intangible" human connection-building stuff with other executives, shareholders, investors, manufacturers, etc. And because of the way executives are selected, a lot of these people haven't worked a "normal" job in decades or sometimes ever. They mistakenly think everyone else's work is, or should be, more like theirs is.

- Ego shit: from executive down to middle management a significant amount of the "reward" of the job is prestige, in the form of authority and control over other workers. Seeing "their" workers all lined up in the office is a visceral experience of this prestige and they don't want to give it up.

- Some significant fraction of middle management is genuinely not necessary or beneficial, but is essentially skimmed off the productivity of the lower workers and presented upwards as managerial competence. And especially, this isn't evenly distributed: maybe all managers do it a little, inadvertently or through bureaucratic structure, but some managers are almost exclusively this. Their actual career is at stake because it makes clear who is doing the work, and prevents them from intercepting it to take credit.

And then finally my own view on it is exposed in the disgusting euphemism "labor discipline." White collar pay went up during the pandemic. WFH is incredibly better for the quality of life of many workers, with few or no downsides. We are realizing we don't have to live and work the way we have been, things can be better for us at no one's expense. We are getting uppity and need to be reminded who is really in control of our lives.
> I know that I found it quite disorienting when I first started interacting with Windows/macOS users who regularly used spaces in their filenames and thought nothing of it.

At least most Windows users are "trained" by the Windows that asterisk, question mark, vertical bar, double quote, prefix and suffix spaces "aren't valid characters for files" (in a weird way, it's a Windows limitation, not a NTFS one). I expect only the worst (case insensitive stuff) naming schemes when the files comes from a macOS user.
A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
Everybody and their uncle has seen this coming for a while. I think it’s mostly priced in. I wouldn’t short it.
And how exactly would that second machine decrypt the packets, given that the keys are only available to the valid one?
This has been argued by David Deutsch for a long time and I'm glad to see it being replicated here. People should be free to pursue problems that interest them without fear of not returning results that are not deemed "favourable" to the institution. This will help speed up the creation of new "good explanations" which leads to new knowledge.
Complexity Bad
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what it is that change on an physical level for electrons to move without resistance in an superconductivity material? What is it that change when it happens and the material become superconductive and why?
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Thank you for this much-needed clarification.
Seems like there's a little bit of Assembly Theory in there as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02279
i liked how the reddit popup had nothing to do with cookie consent and the second site didnt have any popups at all - author could have cherry picked a bad example but for some reason gave us this?
OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Billion Dollar Businesses
OS.Cash lets developers use the power of open-source while still protecting open-source developers.
Copy and paste of a previous article discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36500448

EDIT: And copied and pasted here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956799
Last time I used Uber Eats they had a 2 for 1 burger like deal. The order total was X, but after checking out, the coupon wasn’t applied and my credit card was over charged. I was basically charged double what the invoice said

Impossible to reach customer service, I just issued a charge back. (It wasn’t about the money really, it was the principle.) Then customer service did reach out to me, and asked me to undo the charge back in exchange for a gift card. I said no, I just want a refund of the difference of what I was supposed to be charged. They wouldn’t do it for some reason.

Strange company. Strange practices.
Sure buddy, you do that. Hire your own sheriffs and they'll defend you against the mean central government.
What's in a Module?
And think, if website operators chose to actually use the DoNotTrack signal from your browser, you wouldn't have such a terrible experience on their websites.
SDR is a tool, like a hammer.

If you have a nail to hammer in, SDR will help you do it. Having a hammer and not knowing what to do with it is either boring or breaks glass.
> The experiment revealed that the cathode particles’ charging speeds did not depend on their size. Li and Min think that the most likely explanation for this unexpected behavior is that larger particles actually behave like a collection of smaller particles when they crack. Another possibility is that the lithium ions move very quickly in the grain boundaries—the tiny spaces between the nanoscale crystals comprising the cathode particle. Li thinks this is unlikely unless the battery’s electrolyte—the liquid medium in which the lithium ions move—penetrates these boundaries, forming cracks.
The comparative link [1] is outdated and/or has mistakes. For example, in MySQL 8.0.31 (current 8.0 version is 8.0.34; latest 8.x version is 8.1), the `INTERSECT` and `EXCEPT` operators were added. Not that you couldn't get the functionality before, but now it's easier.

Similarly, while MySQL doesn't have `NULLS {FIRST, LAST}` for `ORDER BY`, you can get the same functionality with `ORDER BY -<COL>`, which is shorthand for `ORDER BY (0 - <COL>)` - this places NULL values last.

Some other things I noted:

They claim that MySQL can't index on JSON documents, but as I pointed out in my parent comment, that is only true in the technical sense of it, since creating an index on a generated scalar column produces the same desired result.

MySQL has booleans, in that they're aliases for `TINYINT`, which consumes 1 byte. AFAIK, Postgres stores booleans as a single `CHAR` internally, in order to display `t` or `f`, which would also consume 1 byte.

MySQL has the `INTERVAL` keyword for date time comparisons.

MySQL doesn't have a [working] `DROP TABLE CASCADE` (it exists, but is a no-op), but you can just as easily use `SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; DROP TABLE` for a session, if you want to leave the foreign key index dangling.

I'm not trying to say here that MySQL is as feature-rich as Postgres, only that it has more features than people seem to give it credit for.
They can use this method to break the bedrock and reach the void - https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Breaking_bedrock...

It is important to note that you need to be very careful near the void, as it is very hard to escape, and 64 blocks down you get instant damage which would get you killed.
Walmart is bringing ads to an aisle near you as retailers chase new money-makers
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We're looking for a full stack engineer who can run the gambit from CI to UI. If you are interested in scaling infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tools, or relational databases, we have a lot of greenfield projects in these domains. We want someone who can humbly, but effectively, help us keep pushing our level of engineering excellence. We're open to those who don't already know our stack, but have the talent and drive to learn.

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I recall seeing some statistics that the death per kilowatt ratio of different means of energy production is higher for all other forms of electricity than nuclear.

No need for name-calling here.
This article makes no claim as to why CBT may work better for white people—except for a few one-off muses about authority or family structure—which I find to be more interesting than what they're actually talking about. Maybe CBT is more effective for white people because it operates on a set of assumptions that align with Western values, in which case, since most white people are western, it would work better for them. One way to test that would be to find non-white people who broadly follow western norms, have a native language of English, and are assimilated into american culture, and see if there's a difference.

Perhaps this difference is also caused by wealth, many of the examples listed are of refugees and recent immigrants to the US, groups who are probably poorer than the average American. Maybe since white people are simply richer (*on average) and have less cognitive stress from being poorer, CBT tends to work better for them. In this case, design a study to see whether the race effects persist when adjusting for income.
Interesting, pre-systemd the best practice everywhere I worked was to always restart. IME that's kind of the point of a supervisor in the first place.
so don't track race, but track location of birth, location of birth of parents (and grandparents) and all their respective native languages and local language capacity.

in europe most of that should correlate with the questions we want to answer since there shouldn't be many immigrants that have been here for more than a few generations and speaking the local language fluently. those who have been here longer should be well integrated by now.

in the US that wouldn't work because discrimination happens despite people having been there for many generations all speaking fluent english.
My last comment before this one was 56 days ago. You are not exactly making a case for your argument.

As to the ban - I asked you to delete my account years ago and you refused. So it's not something you can credibly threaten with, if I don't care. What I do care is you retaining my personal data against my will. But if I need a ban for you to purge it - please go ahead.

Maybe some helpful feedback for you: I would be more inclined to pay attention to the guidelines if those were not used to reinforce the site's obvious political biases. Yeah, you *say* HN is neutral, but for some reason only a certain kind of opinion gets promoted. I've read this site for 12 years in one account or another and the groupthink has only gotten worse. How are you going to solve this?
To be generous. I think he was being sarcastic, in the theme of language war debate. By having an over-the-top reaction.

White space haiku

WHITE SPACE, LANGUAGE, OH
HOW CLEAR FUNCTIONS SPELLBOUND, {_}
CURLY BRACES {FOG}
Hm, are these automatically revoked then as part of the service, or did somebody just revoke it?

Update: Seems to have just happened – after restarting, Firefox now does not accept it anymore!