skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Turkey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Why not?

Technologies: Go, NodeJS, Rust, AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL, gRPC, REST, React, Flutter

Email: iktisatogrencisi@gmail.com

I am a backend engineer with previous frontend knowledge and have more than 3 years experience building microservices that handles millions of requests per hour.
I haven't used Java for some time, but when I did it didn't have non-nullable types. I think collections were also type erased which is pretty bad.

JNI is a nightmare.

Strings are UTF-16.

Dealing with installing the JVM, whatever the hell "classpath" is, tweaking GC parameters etc. is a big downside.

Despite that it's definitely one of the saner languages out there.
Neither of those are safe either.
Insurance companies know stats. But I don’t think regulators effectively regulate use of these new statistics, which is essential to an business like car insurance.
200,000 Windows PCs in the US among the 600,000 total worldwide. Are there really that many Windows PCs still running vulnerable old OS versions, or were they zero-days in more modern OS versions? These articles never say much about the details.
Much of the use of linear algebra in programming is for machine learning. To a first approximation, ML is statistics on huge datasets, and linear algebra makes it possible because matrix operations are massively, if not embarrassingly, parallel.
Lightning Labs | Senior Engineering Manager, Lightning Protocol Engineer, Senior Security Engineer| San Francisco | Remote | Full-time
https://lightning.engineering/

https://lightning.engineering/join-us

https://github.com/lightninglabs

Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that'll bring Bitcoin to the next billion people. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge of innovation with regard to blockchain scalability, privacy-preserving smart contracts, and cryptocurrency UX. If you’re interested in one of the positions below, please apply using our careers page: https://lightning.engineering/join-us. And if you know someone who might be a good fit, we'd very much appreciate any referrals.

{Protocol Engineer}:

Experienced systems software engineer versed in applied cryptography, peer-to-peer networks, distributed systems, open source software, and cryptocurrency protocols to design and implement core protocol and algorithmic components of the Lightning Network as well as the Bitcoin Network. Solid programming skills, experience with Go, C, or C++. Prior contributions to crypto protocols and open source software collaboration preferred.

{Senior Security Engineer}:

Seeking to hire a Security Engineer for the ongoing scaling of our growing engineering organization. This is a hands-on role that consists of devising and implementing policies and procedures around best practices in systems security. The ideal candidate has experience in securing web, Bitcoin, and other public-facing network services, penetration testing, and both automated and manual source code security reviews. Due to the domain in which we work, experience with Bitcoin and the Lightning Network is extremely desirable as is knowledge of the cryptographic aspects involved in this area.

{Senior Engineering Manager}:

Seeking to hire a Senior Engineering Manager to help scale our growing engineering organization. The ideal candidate has experience managing remote teams across several time zones, has managed their own open source projects or actively contributed to such projects in the past, and has high level working knowledge of Bitcoin. Due to the nature of our software, our ideal candidate is also highly technical as we regularly face novel and challenging decisions that require nuanced and comprehensive analysis of related tradeoffs. In addition, the ideal candidate should have a passion for our mission, as well as for Bitcoin as a whole. Candidates in this position will work directly with the CTO to scale our engineering organization, as well as work across functional team boundaries to ensure proper resource allocation, product quality, and team agility.
I'm sure somebody somewhere is working on it. I've already seen articles teaching LLMs offload math problems onto a separate module, rather than trying to solve them via the murk of neural network.

I suppose you'd architect it as a layer. It wants to say something, and the ontology layer says, "No, that's stupid, say something else". The ontology layer can recognize ontology-like statements and use them to build and evolve the ontology.

It would be even more interesting built into the visual/image models.

I have no idea if that's any kind of real progress, or if it's merely filtering out the dumb stuff. A good service, to be sure, but still not "AGI", whatever the hell that turns out to be.

Unless it turns out to be the missing element that puts it over the top. If I had any idea I wouldn't have been working with Cyc in the first place.
It seems to me that many books on Amazon are now AI generated trash. I received a book as gift for my son, purchased from Amazon, that was completely nonsensical. It was about caves. Here’s a quote:

“Some of the most common animals found in the caves are stalactites and calcite, while others are caves.”

The whole book was absurd sentences like that. Every page was a single paragraph accompanied by a random picture of a cave on the opposite page.

The “publisher” has hundreds of “books” about every topic imaginable. If you search “{topic} for kids” one of their books would come up. These texts have no redeeming quality or value. Their mere existence is a net-negative for society.

Amazon is selling this trash as if it were a real book. It’s predatory at best.
What's preserved is also getting more and more sterile. Material that's now unfashionably rude or just plain unprofitable has a tendency to just be erased. I invite you to look through your Liked YouTube videos and witness how much of what you enjoyed has been taken from you forever.

Consider that everything you witness has an expiration date and if you don't save it maybe nobody else will.
Dear HN: Please stop messing up my userstyle
Every so often, it seems like someone decides to add an extra table row to the very top of the page.

The HTML here has few if any proper `class`es or `id`s, so my userstyle CSS must use `nth-child` instead. So when they add an extra row to the table, it throws off pretty much everything.

Can we stop this please? I don't know what `s.gif` is for but this is infuriating.
Epistemic AI | Data or Full-Stack Eng | Remote | Full-Time | https://www.epistemic.ai

We (Epistemic AI) are looking to hire a new data engineer to work on the data foundations of our Epistemic AI platform – anywhere between UTC-8 and UTC+3.

Requirements:

- you get shit done

- you want to work remotely

- you are great to work with

- you think that working on democratizing access to AI for biomedical research is a very important personal goal

Our technology stack is based on AWS (Cloud), Python 3, Tensorflow, Pytorch (NLP, ML, Deep Learning), Graph databases, Typescript and React (Frontend). We have a CI/CD pipeline and a continuous release process. We train ML and NLP models on clusters of GPUs on Amazon and on Google Cloud TPUs.
Smallpox was eradicated one person at a time
On May 8, 1980. the 33rd World Health Assembly declared the world free of smallpox. This marked the first—and only—time a human disease had been eradicated globally.
Not in the way you probably think (like “V for Vendetta”). Dispensing justice is a core function of the state. The spectators are there to witness the punishment of people who are said to have transgressed against the group.
Im trying to turn my side gig of making e-paper calendars into a business that supports me and hopefully a co-founder.

I am looking for a co-founder mostly because I expect it to help emotionally, with positive effects on motivation, focus and vision.

Also there is lots of stuff to do…

https://www.invisible-computers.vom
I can't have an extension remove every line that contains the string "google" if it can't see every line. It'd still have to be able to access all the content to be able to parse through it for a match.
This isn’t an issue with the “newtype” pattern, it’s an issue with orphan instances. Newtypes have other uses (e.g. contracts, type-safety for integers and other data which has specific meaning). This is just using the newtype pattern to get around the fundamental issue, which is that you can’t define a third-party instance for a third-party type.

Personally, I’d like Rust to have “selectable” implementations, which are named and must be explicitly imported, and explicitly “applied” if there are multiple in scope. Selectable implementations always override regular implementations, so you can also replace the library’s provided implementation if it’s buggy or not what you wanted. I don’t even think there’s an RFC for this though…

Aside: newtype isn’t even Rust-specific. It goes to show how popular Rust is and how much Rustaceons love type safety, that when you search “newtype pattern”, the first results are all Rust. The keyword “newtype” comes from Haskell, which also has the orphan rule and associated issues, but at least lets you disable it with a GHC rule. And a zero-cost wrapper is something you can do in Swift, Kotlin, C++, and even C, and the general newtype pattern (although not necessarily zero-cost) is something you can do in practically any typed language, even untyped ones like JavaScript if you consider runtime exceptions ok (use a struct with the custom type name as the field name).
What was more useful wasn't the question. Social network and social media emerged 20 years ago when people needed a name for following humans.

Usenet was not designed for kill files. Kill files were designed for Usenet. You could construct a very limited social graph from everyone's kill files. But no one had everyone's kill files. And you could construct a limited social graph from everyone's tax records also. Are taxes a social network?
https://archive.is/ZmJhx
Does Calcium supplementation lead to higher levels of arterial plaque? I ask because I take a combined Magnesium/Calcium supplement.
Sorry; I did not make my point clear. Were they his words or is the association made up?

Without direct observation it’s hearsay.

What’s the point of maintaining associations we can’t verify? The truth that Jefferson stated such is only hallucination for us.

The value is in the awareness of the realities mechanisms, not the association with Jefferson.
Location: Boston

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: talking to users, python, pandas/numpy, jupyter, js/ts

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

Email: paddy@paddymullen.com

In my next role, I want a broad mandate to make a meaningful impact within an organization by developing products that address genuine business challenges, with a preference for data related problems.

Recently I built the data table for Jupyter/Pandas that I have
wanted for over a decade. The open source Buckaroo (https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo) data table combines a performant table, summary statistics, and a low code UI to
expedite common data analysis tasks.
A URL is not "new content". I really don't see how they can interpret it as such. And if they are not sure, they should ask. Or is the issue that they have asked and have not received clarification?
You can also buy potassium chloride water softener pellets. On the Lowe's site I currently see a 40 pound sack for $40. I used to grind them up in a coffee maker for making my own custom lower-sodium salt blend for cooking.
Honestly, don’t be a dope is the optimal move. I’ve driven for 25+ years, and barring some stupid teenage male stuff and a few deer, have done so without incident.
On Vim, Modal Interfaces and the Way We Interact with Computers
I think you're misunderstanding the direction and intent of this subthread.

You're right that talking about Jobs is off-topic, though.
I was so excited to see an engineering designer role open, but I can only do remote right now. Either way, I’m a big fan of the product!
No worries! The writing of the article does tend to read that way since they don't introduce her and then immediately start talking about Medical Examiners. That's how I read it at first too.

I only found out because I was trying to see if she got fired. It's one thing to find a random doctor who will say what you want, it's another thing entirely to have bought out the Medical Examiner.
It seems to me that the comment suggested (either intentionally or not) that the same event has been recorded independently in the mythologies of a few separate religions, to which the reply was that these religions have only been split from each other long after these stories have been written down, so in this regard they all should count as just a single religion.
> if someone Zaps me right now, I haven't specified a place for those Zaps to go

then you can't be zapped

you can only be zapped if your profile has a tag in it that tells people where to send your zaps to

without that, a zap button shouldn't show up, and if it does show up, it shouldn't do anything
This feels like another place that libraries can be valuable, as curators of content.
FWIW in the American south it's common for Fraternities to hold BBQs and party outside of executions
not sure it helps but - soulseek is pretty alive
I am a CS major at Georgia Tech with internship experiences in the AI/ML space.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Java, JS, Postgres, Neo4J, AWS, Azure, Docker, REST, GraphQL, Figma, ML (mostly speech models and AI orchestration tools)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinardankhara
Email: chinardankhara@gmail.com
If you're a pedestrian in a city and you're walking between two locations with mailing addresses, then yes, Google is great. For anything outside of those boundaries, OSM is head and shoulders above Google Maps. GMaps is basically unusable for hikers and outdoorsmen because of the asinine offline UX and lack of topo data. I've also seen it make some outright unsafe routes when walking around suburbs and smaller towns.
My story is simple: I supported important historical site, but due to war and personal issues I was not able to transfer money to .ru zone registrar. I have the data, but domain was lost.
That’s my assumption but honestly I don’t know.
I wouldn't be. A lot of people have worked hard on these numbers over the years.

I'm guessing the limitation on supplements assumes a good diet (no shortage of advice from USDA on 'good' and potassium sources) which typically provides the recommended intake. However there can of course be days that's not possible.
Career Magic Happens in the Office
https://archive.ph/oVgcy

subtitle: "You miss out on the human drama of collaboration when you work from home." Personally I don't think 5 days/week is necessary, but I am skeptical of fully remote work. Personally I go in 4 days a week. I understand that circumstances differ.
Heroku | Engineering and Product Roles | Remote
We have a large number openings recently posted as we are making a big investment in Heroku. We're seeking individuals with expertise in AI, DX, Tooling, Data, Operational Excellence, Operations, and more.

Heroku is a remote-friendly team.

https://www.heroku.com/careers#openings
My intuition is that given the literal life or death nature of the enterprise, mushroom pickers should avoid leaning solely on any book, AI produced or not.

Mushrooms in different parts of the world look different. There can be subtleties that the books leave out. Anybody can publish a book and most books disclaim liability.

The best way is probably to find a local trusted, experienced mushroom picker that you trust and follow them around for a bit.

There is a reason that surgeons to be are not just given a textbook on surgery and told to just read the book and they will be fine. Instead they follow around experienced surgeons for a few years learning from them.
Fast ai had a computational linear algebra class iirc
The potassium salt tastes disgusting (try a pinch!). That is my main blocker for having more of it via this route.
Well the simplest example I can give you is overclocking your CPU or GPU. If you do that past a certain limit, it would be damaging to the hardware don't you agree?

The correct implementation of the power-up script for Rock Pi N10 NPU should be as a kernel module, this way we don't have to enable any dangerous #defines in clk.c
Bananas are okay, nothing magical, speaking as a pretty good badminton player. Genetics is a big deal in athletics. You have to supplement whatever your parents didn't pass on to you.
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (not a state :-) )

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: (Skill, rather) UX/UI design, product design, html/css/tailwind code.

Résumé/CV: https://vlad.studio/resume

Email: vlad@vlad.studio

I've been working as a UX/UI/product designer in various forms for almost 20 years now. BTW I got multiple long-term projects from this comment on HN [0]. Safe to say my design skills are optimized for HN audience!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29723734#29724047
The article mentions badly designed roads and badly designed cars/SUVs when comparing with the other countries, but nobody talks about the standards regarding examinations and awarding driver's licenses to people.

Maybe the countries with lower road fatalities have higher examination standards and don't hand licenses out like flyers or take your license away much easier the moment you mess up.
> such that even auto-completing it is considered 'problematic'.

We don't know what the auto-complete would be. It's hard to know how problematic those auto-complete suggestions are.

> Are you suggesting that search results are determined by the quantity of videos are served up based on the number of videos on the same topic?

Not quite. Though I do really appreciate the clarifying question =D

To clarify what I'm trying to convey, as a premise - SEO rankings can be an adversarial game. Auto-complete and search results are a pretty similar side to the same coin.

As an example, I once worked for an online retailer that sold shoes (a lot of them). 80% of those shoes were Crocs! If you searched by "popular", without any curation then the first 200 results would have been the various styles and different colors of crocs. Nobody really wants this, so the algorithm was tweaked (to include manual weights) to not give undue visibility to that excess volume. That same kind of tweaking happens all over the place by google. In part, Google does that to improve results, to reduce "noise". That is a very subjective activity, one persons 'noise' is another persons censorship.

Further, SEO can be an adversarial game. Lots of AI generated videos are being pushed with various networks to up-vote those videos and then give them undue weight. That is to say, curation activities are a necessity (and how that curation is done is not transparent, which is concerning!)

Thus, Google has clearly decided that the auto-complete for 1776 results is problematic, perhaps leading to what they would consider "fringe" videos. I suspect the actual search results have a lot of manual weights added to them as well so that they display as they do.

My point is that kind of activity, with manual weights, is intrinsic to a search engine. At the same time it is also subjective - and in the case of Google, opaque.
AI would be used (unsafely) to classify mushrooms, this exact prediction at 17:09 in Angela Collier's excellent "AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway" video, which I recommend for anyone interested in the subject: https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE?t=1029
Vaguely related, fasting depletes potassium and can make your cardio vascular system really tense and weak.
https://archive.li/fhkvp
Alternatively, use tree-sitter[0] for the tooling.

[0] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
I find `usize` in Rust is like the default unsigned integer, used for nearly everything and especially everything index-related.

I do think in practice using `u64` instead of `usize` is meaningless, since there are so few 32-but systems today. The nice thing with the newtype pattern though is that if for whatever reason your program is going to run on a 32-bit instance and you need 64-bit IDs, it’s a 1-line change.
Using the touchpads as a mouse works really well. I like to set them as trackball, but there are multiple options and configurations that one is going to feel good for you.
For 24/7/365/30 constant airborne capabilities? Seems overkill to say the least. Also, not sure too many people would be happy with a nuclear reactor flying overhead.
I agree with what you’re saying. I just find myself lulled by OSM’s ridiculously high quality in the places I usually go. And I suspect many others feel the same.
That totally depends on the youtube channel. The tech and project channels I follow have excellent comments, often better than HN and proggit. Eg:

https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate

https://www.youtube.com/@scottmanley

https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

https://www.youtube.com/@reps

https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience
> As an aside, I personally find it interesting how this mantra started off as "millionaires and billionaires" being evil, until the movement's leader became an overnight millionaire himself. Now, apparently, it's just billionaires that are evil.

Not sure who you're referring to, but I think it's more likely that, thanks to inflation and other "growth", a far larger portion of the population have reasonable expectations to be "millionaires" on paper in their lifetimes. Even by now the word covers much of the upper middle class by the end of their career (the median US net worth at end-of-career age is ~$250k [0]). All else held equal the median peak wealth could reasonably cross $1M in the next 40 years, and of course half of the population will be above that.

Maybe the more apt word is "oligarch", but the West prefers to deny having those.

[10] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
Cisco's caste discriminations case blew up some years ago and was covered by many mainstream news channels. Seems like a lot of it was targeting for furthering an agenda rather than addressing systematic biases about Indian and South Asian communities.
The thing that prompts for your password is necessarily unencrypted, the evil maid just needs to modify that to e.g. log the decryption key. On linux, this is usually just a shell script invoking cryptsetup somewhere in the initramfs image.
That does still leave 53% in other overhead, and it must be awfully tempting to leave that behind and just cut yourself off from the grid entirely.

That's kinda dicey, since it leaves you without recourse if you get a few days of no sun, unless you've got truly ginormous battery packs. The grid overhead is unfortunate, but it's a great backup that has to be funded even if you rarely use it.

Perhaps some of that overhead can be reduced by more renewables. It does seem awfully high to have more than half of the costs be unrelated to power.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
Nuts: walnuts, cashews, almonds, sunflower seeds
This is the equivalent of chiming in “75% of users eh? So that’s what… 3 out of every 4?”

Yeah, we all know that the problems that AI is likely to amplify are already problems. The question is whether or not those problems will get worse.

No matter how imperfect the current world is, one which is worse is 1) always possible and 2) worth preventing.
Oh yeah, grants are great, but a completely different beast!