skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: USA

Remote: Yes, please

Willing to relocate: No but occasional travel, OK

Technologies: React, Typescript, Next.js, PostgresSQL, Docker, Github (To name a few)

Résumé/CV: Can email if interested:

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

Email: drewskenny@gmail.com

I'm a largely-self taught Full-Stack developer with a focus on the Front-End/Design side of things. I've got ~6 years experience professionally programming. At my last position I went from Developer => Tech Lead in about a year and before I left was leading 5/6 teams without failure to deliver. Knowledgeable in 508 compliance and architecting entire projects/Working within departments to solve issues. I'm the kind of developer who asks a lot of questions to as many people as necessary to get the job done.
Guess on VM written in which language those LAMP stacks run on?
Location: Mexico City

Remote: Please

Willing to relocate: Only to EU

Technologies: React, NextJS, ThreeJS, TypeScript

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-zubillaga/

Email: dariozubi [at] gmail [dot] com
It's surprisingly difficult to look at an idea and figure out from first principles if its any good. Most of the scientists (and people really) rely on comparing it with what they have already seen and using their experiences from things they know to judge the new idea.

So, its really difficult to judge a revolutionary theory. Crackpot theories are easier to judge however. They often have very provable falsehoods.
For clarification, it tests for 47 genes which are associated with increased risk of cancer. It doesn’t help tell you whether or not you have cancer, in contrast to blood tests like Galleri, which can do that.

0: https://www.galleri.com/
For anyone not reading the article, it's done via "next-generation sequencing" of DNA in the blood.
Salary depends on your country (Swiss pays higher wages than Poland), region within your country (South Germany has many more engineering companies and pays higher wages than North Germany) and type of business (banks and high frequency trading companies tend to pay more for a boring onsite experience).

That being said: I am a Systems Engineer in South Germany, huge company, 85k€/year, no need to work overtime.

I asked myself what salary I would expect from an US company and factored in

* paid sick leave
* paid child sick leave
* minimum 30 days vacation a year
* job security
* health care prices
* ...

I would not accept an US position for less than 190k$/year, that is my personal break-even model.

Just for your interest: My salary is too low to buy a house and even buying a 4-room-flat and paying it off before retirement in 30years is out of reach.

Whatever your model, you will find something that works for you.
But for the keys there is Airtags or fingerprint locks...
Read More Fiction
I mean, everyone already has a recording device in their pocket at all times that's more than capable of recording what you say if you filter the noise out. This device is just a microphone that's in a less noisy position along with a subscription.
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C, Go, Python, Rust, x86_64 + MIPS Assembly, SQL, DWARF + PDB, WASM/JS

Résumé/CV: https://colrdavidson.github.io/resume.pdf

Email: colrdavidson@gmail.com

I'm a senior systems-focused engineer with 6 years of experience, working on a range of problems, from linux kernel network-stack debugging, to raw/embedded flash drivers, to web backend infrastructure, to debuggers and profiling tools.

Since my last startup, I've designed and shipped a small product of my own, a high-performance profiler compatible with chrome://tracing but with dramatically better load times, frame rate, and deeper stats.

You can see a conference talk about it here: https://vimeo.com/776796857

Try the free web version here: https://gravitymoth.com/spall/spall-web.html

Check out the native desktop version here: https://gravitymoth.itch.io/spall
Any plans on creating a static site generator?
The front (well, top) panels that could be 3d printed and could have connections were pretty cool too. Too bad they didn't see much use.

But lately the nuc lineup was kinda meh anyway. A lot of models didn't come out in Europe but only Asia. They replaced the aluminium enclosure with plastic. Used realtek chips for network. Kept doing weird things with the ports (mini-HDMI, DisplayPort only over USB-C).

I loved these little things though. I hate laptops due to ergonomics and everywhere I travel (which is super rare anyway) there's screens and keyboards anyway. So I just travel with my nuc. Cheaper, much less fragile, easy to upgrade and lighter and smaller than a laptop. Also no Lithium battery which gives some peace of mind because most of my NUCs run 24/7.

I have 4 of them as really power efficient servers. Unfortunately the realtek thing hurts a bit with the latest ESXi. But you can still pass it through to a VM and use a USB one for management.

And I have one 10th gen as workstation running FreeBSD.

Asus already made pretty nice NUC equivalents by the way, I have one of them with a Ryzen.
While this is fantastic, aren't these genes identified by 23andme other low-cost DNA tests? I'm sure they do the BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants.

Or are there many more variants in this test?
> Is Shrek not art because computers generated it based on input from humans?

Computers didn't "generate" Shrek based on input from humans - human artists used their creativity and expertise to design those models, build the environments and animate the scenes. Those people went to college for years and studied and honed their craft, and applied it.

If you can't see the difference between that and typing words into a prompt and having a machine stochastically generate something that hopefully kind of resembles what you want, but that you wouldn't be able to create on your own, and that you have no real ability to edit or fine tune, then I don't know what to tell you.

And I agree with you - a lot of what AI is generating now looks really good. The thing is, even if it could be considered art, no one using those tools should consider themselves an artist. They didn't create anything, they're not capable of creating anything, and as long as they keep using AI, they will never be capable of creating anything. They're cheating themselves out of the experience of real creativity for instant gratification and a hit of endorphines.

Which is fine as long as that's accepted. That's got to be the deal with AI - you give up the right to ever be talented at anything for the instant gratification machine that makes generic pretty pictures, and you'll never be anything more than a masturbating monkey until you put it aside and actually learn something.
Aren't security cameras also able to record the same data (ok the voice is not as good), plus with video?
> forced to capitulate

There it is again. As if it isn't possible for people to just, you know, decide that it is fine and move on with their lives? Are they really "forced to capitulate"?

I recall working in an office building for a small software company. Due to the growth, the company had people working in hallways. Soon after I joined the company moved offices so they could have more space. The new building was on the other side of town. That would increase the commute for a lot of workers, like adding one hour plus to their lives. Some opted to leave the company.

Was everyone else "forced to capitulate"?

> I agree completely with this author about the dehumanizing nature of these rto mandates.

You don't agree with the quote I pulled. The author isn't calling the "nature of these rto mandates" dehumanizing. He is explicitly saying that the people who submit to this are dehumanizing themselves.
Mastodon instance admin deleted all of our DMs after 15 days
> It's sort of strange to me how many Americans seem to share the same sentiment when my experience has often been the total opposite.

> China has some of the best factories, supply chains, and collaboration in the world. And while yes, of course, loads of intentionally cheap, low-quality goods are churned out regularly, many Chinese companies also make really solid products, often even the best products until you reach a certain ultra-luxury price bracket that they simply aren't trying to compete in.

Rather like conservatives' reflexive dislike for California despite more registered Republicans living in California than any other state.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/registered-...
This is not a matter for science, it's a matter of religion
I don't see why it needs to be a Chromebook. You can install Linux on a regular Windows laptop, and you're probably not really paying extra for Windows preinstalled.
Psychohistory ...
That would be disappointing. The way I've always figured this would work is to just record the wearer using voice recognition and filter out everyone else unless some consent phrase is heard.
I believe Rewind used all MacOS/iOS system API to do OCR (you can try it in shortcut) and Speech-to-Text.

For example - OCR - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/recognizing...
It's also possible to save another ~$30k (depending on employer match) if one's 401k offers the "mega backdoor" option. It's definitely a great option if one can afford it (after regular pre-tax 401k), as it's basically a gigantic Roth IRA (with no RMDs during retirement, like a Roth).
The way to recognise UML is by the wide variety of arrow styles that nobody can remember. I'm 90% sure that's the main reason it didn't catch on.

You have to learn UML because of the stupid arrows. Compare it to something like this which acknowledges the fact that nobody is going to casually memorise 10 different styles of arrow just to read occasional UML diagrams:

https://buck2.build/docs/concepts/concept_map/

Much better.
Pre-order form is broken: "The link is no longer active."
> These properties are assigned to individual characters, not groups of characters or grapheme clusters.

But you need to deal with the whole cluster. You can't just look at the properties on a single combining character and know what to do with it.

If the article's saying to iterate one cluster at a time, then if you're doing properties a direct consequence is that you should be looking at the properties of specific code points per cluster or all of them.
Then where are the videos of western tofu dreg? China has a literal army of propaganda posters. Am I supposed to believe such problems exist and it never occurred to them to push it?
It all depends on how they manage them. You can and should just make a youremail@company.com icloud account. I'm actually surprised that's not the norm so they can take over stuff like activation lock.

I don't use a personal icloud account on my work computer... it's not even allowed lol.
Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying Trump $5B not to run in 2024
"...Lewis said the FTX founder wanted to put a stop to a Trump White House run in 2024 over fears that the former president was a threat to democracy."

So, you're going to attempt to pay him off to "protect" democracy with fraudulent funds used from customers. What a POS, enjoy life in jail you manipulating lying a$$ hat.
I think this is a key point to catch in this discussion. Like a sibling comment said, this is the way things are done in his EU country, but the big difference is that EU countries are higher-trust with way more financial regulation and accountability. China's economy is fundamentally not predicated on the rule of law and that's an important point here.
Do you know if there is similar literature about sim unlocking of old iPhones?
I mean, professional writers are already being replaced by LLMs so it's a fair bar, if high.
Those aren't inherently emojis, the font just shows them as emojis, so you'd have to render the text.
People suck online and off.

People suck far more in some environments, online and off, than others.

Which is to say: there's an inherent potential for sucky behaviour, but there are specific circumstances which really seem to amplify and trigger it.

Something like locusts: a behavioural transition of a species under the right environmental stimulus.

Brief (<4m) videos, NatGeo: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uURqcI08IC4>, also PBS: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dt6zCJ2VHok>, and Attenborough/BBC: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lAI6W2TOkh4>.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206555>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239835>

It's pretty clear that the people who engage in toxic behaviours online are no different than they were prior to the emergence of those environments. It's the environment itself which triggers that behaviour.

That's baked into HN's philosophy:

"As a rule, a community site that becomes popular will decline in quality. Our hypothesis is that this is not inevitable—that by making a conscious effort to resist decline, we can keep it from happening." <https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html>

One of dang's fairly frequent observations is that HN tends to operate at the edge of chaos:

- "if moderation doesn't evolve as a community grows, one ends up with the default dynamic of internet forums: decay followed by heat death." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435202> (2019)

- "it's almost impossible to keep this place from collapsing" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164049> (2023)

- "Trying to keep the bottom from falling out on a public forum is harder than it perhaps sounds." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9712216> (2015)

- "[T]he internet doesn't do such fine distinctions. Please just keep away from that rail." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13605136> (2017)

- "If 500-point stories on hot topics were dispositive, HN would be a 500-point-stories-on-hot-topics site. It isn't that kind of site, and intervention is required to keep it from going that way." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14306144> (2017)

- "Our job is to somehow balance the conflicting vectors. That's not so easy, and also not so easy to articulate. The idea is not to maintain a centrist position, it's to try to keep the community from wrecking itself via ideological fracture." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34025076> (2019)

- "It's hard enough to keep these threads from incinerating themselves" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436973> (2022)

- "The important thing is to keep the site from burning in the first place." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28932445> (2021)
A tidally locked planet would be neat if civilization could exist there. One side would be constantly hot, and the other would be frozen, but there would exist a temperate climate zone in a longitudinal ring connecting the poles. Almost like a ring planet from Halo.

I remember an interesting astrobotany paper hypothesizing that if plants were to evolve on a red dwarf planet, there would be selective pressure for them to be black rather than green (for maximum light absorption, as most light would be infrared).
Those mappings are not universal. They are present under Linux but not on MS-Windows.
I don't know about Mac, but the layout has in the past been slightly different there from Windows also.
For privacy aware people, you can diy with something like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608437
Time to start building an AI pendant that is active attacks against surveillance that broadcast distortion and garbling above and below the human voice level to harmonically distort recordings in a known space without disrupting human communication. You can overdrive tiny speakers or disrupt known NLP algos, both, whatever.

Or maybe every house needs a Cone of Silence like in Get Smart.
Yes. We agree.

Fox was telling people "the government is coming for YOUR oven" as if people would have to get rid of their existing ovens.

I support banning or restricting or discouraging the use of indoor appliances that cause documented health issues to any user. I don't support lead paint or leaded gasoline or smoking near gas pumps. The tyranny.
Brave Browser + Pihole ensured I didn't see any. I'd recommend setting those up if you are annoyed by intrusive and abusive ads.
Yeah, makes sense. And the blocking unresponsive thing, I guess I'm just flabbergasted we're still here after all these years.

I know every few months there's a new "I'm rewriting emacs/something-like-emacs" and it's, yeah, a nogo. But I'd actually just really like it if someone really really tried and addressed some of the architecture things :-(
Hi, one of the ML Engs here. Yes you're right, we have lots of non-humanoids, which is something that Mixamo has been missing for a long time! But we also support humanoids. You can try yourself right now (we just launched our autorigging tool) and give us your feedback, we would love to hear it: https://app.anything.world/animation-rigging
There's a short short by Ted Chiang about this concept (he also wrote Stories of Your Life which the movie Arrival is based off of). In the story, a father records his family's entire life but he realizes that he was just living vicariously through the camera instead of truly being present in the moment.
Your footballer could also remove the frustration by playing defense. In your analogy, having pleasure is scoring; reducing unpleasure is finding a new way to contribute to victory
Hello! One of the ML Engineers of Anything World here. I'm really glad that you appreciated the tool and I trully hope that it can be part of your stack and help you on your design.

We can't say all the details about what's under the hood, but you guessed it right. We indeed use ML models that we trained. It's part of a multi-step end-to-end ML pipeline that analyses not only the original mesh you upload, but also the texture and even semantics from the object it represents. Based on that we generate rigging and animations using also proprietary ML models.

Like you said, it's not perfect, but our ML models are learning every day and we just started! I really invite you to use the tool and see that it can be used as a starting point even by skilled artists to have an initial sketch and work from it.

Hope to have helped on your questions, and if you need more details, please feel free to reach out to us!
There aren't a lot of people being paid to do this type of work though and social science tends to lag behind on the technology front because people with said skills tend to find more lucrative venues.

I've worked with a few computational social scientists. Personally I've always found the area a bit fascinating. There's lots of agent based models, tie ins with economics, social models, etc. trying to determine how groups of people will behave and interact. Lots of understanding behavior and exploring implications policies may play on behavior from a governing standpoint or how things naturally occur.
Aid for pro-democracy or pro-US policies is standard practice, of course.

But has the US threatened countries if they don't vote with them at the UN, or seized their land and/or assets for non payment of debt?
But are they paying mortgages for something that doesn’t exist at all?
> Where is it written that steam-run will magically execute most binaries without patching them?

Somewhere in here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

:p

But I do get what you're saying. Once Flakes are default, I hope people start a proper push to clear up documentation and streamline the development process. The end-result is amazing, and the perfect OS/packaging system for my needs. The means of getting there... need a lot of work. I'm along for the ride either way.
Safari is faster and uses less memory
This is great! I got the Invitae test (due to this: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce...), and, from what I understand, FDA approval means it'll be covered by insurance.

I've been told by oncologists that blood testing is presently the wild west of cancer profiling. Getting blood testing like CARIS: https://www.carislifesciences.com/products-and-services/mole... or Guardant360: https://guardanthealth.com/products/tests-for-patients-with-... approved seems important from an insurance standpoint.
I hope this is just prohibited in the EU :-) If I see someone recording me(whether they did or not), I'll use my legal insurance to sue them into oblivion.

There's an imaginary boundary of when technology starts to hurt humanity, and this clearly crosses it in so many ways.

I can't believe the people behind this haven't thought about the negative sides, even if they deliver what they said in terms of privacy, it's so wrong in so many levels. Did they use ChatGPT to generate that silly idea?

This is when you know AI hype has hit cryptocurrency level, where stupid ideas start popping all the time and supposedly raising money.

It's time to grab popcorn and see VCs fund those stupid ideas and see them wasting their money.
It undermines the narrative that biological sex can be changed. A skeleton is either genetically XX or XY. That's all that can be determined because that's all there is.
You mean like a deposit, right? Not a mortgage.
In 2000 or thereabouts PacBell was promising ADSL at my apartment. I was well within range of the CO/DSLAM and everything seemed set but the technician could not get the modem to sync with a signal. Turned out the building's phone wiring was a rat's nest of twisted and taped RJ-11.

It really sucked not to get anything faster than dial-up. It also explained why my dial-up couldn't connect reliably at 28k and I'd often be stuck with a 19k connection.

The experience did teach me a lot about Squid as a caching proxy and using wget and screen to do overnight downloads (I didn't learn about whey's background flag until a few years later).
Well, the same happens to me with passwords which I don't use for a long time.

You can use any file, even something you can quickly download from the Internet. Like the Windows 3.11 file manager icon or your favorite Linux torrent. Only the first 1024 bytes are used so be careful with file types which have a big header.
That's exactly why linear interpolation is not used.

The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem says that you can perfectly reconstruct any sampled signal as long as the input signal was bandlimited to 1/2 the sampling rate. Using a low-pass filter to bandlimit your 22 kHz triangle wave will remove all the (inaudible) overtones, leaving you with a single 22 kHz sine wave as input to your ADC. The reconstruction filter on the output DAC will then output a perfect 22 kHz sine wave, with the correct amplitude too!
For me, Typescript is more like documentation combined with Grammarly.
It reminds me of Oliver Sacks' excellent book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

It contains descriptions of several real cases of brain damage, including someone who literally made the mistake in the title of the book. He could still see but was increasing struggling to synthesise understanding of objects from the lines and patterns, culminating in that particular confusion (as he was getting up to leave a consultation with Sacks, he tried to grab his wife to put on his head).

This person was an amateur painter, and his paintings were getting increasingly abstract as his condition worsened. The funny thing is, critics would comment that his art was improving in subtly and insight. In reality, he was losing his grasp of object coherence.
Smaller job pool?

How does learning Rust reduce your chances of getting a new job? Learning new stuff increases your chances, not decreasea them.
The language (seemingly made by the same guy) looks a lot like lisp.

The code is pretty linear/procedural --not sure if "93 lines" is supposed to be viewed as a small amount of code for this program. I believe similar could be done easily in 93 lines or less of C, let alone a language more oriented on code golf.
I use Ardour when I do sound design. A lot of the time you want to be able to automate volume changes, or add a reverb or an EQ(With real-time controls instead of the annoying batch "Change it, then test it" workflow), etc.