skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do want scientists who are also devs, but mostly in healthcare related software businesses and data engineering for AI/ML. If you're applying to general "dev" jobs the background won't mean much.
Where I live, YouTube premium costs €5 more than Prime & Netflix
Fair, but maybe it's more of a computer science-cy type of comparison?

We say systems can perform the same types of computations if they're both Turing complete. Yet, we wouldn't implement everything in every "language" that is Turing complete.

Perhaps, every LLM could be represented as a Markov chain, and for some it even makes sense (e.g., easier to train, easier to reason about), but in most cases it's a bad idea (e.g., expensive, bad performance).
Great entrepreneurs convince people that change is possible
It is what separates great entrepreneurs from average ones.

People often do not do something even though they believe it is the right thing to do, simply because they believe change is impossible.

The wonderful thing which great entrepreneurs know in their bones is that you only need to convince a few people that change is possible. Those few people will convince others who will… anybody with a basic sense of math will see how this translates to mass acceptance and market share.

The greatest entrepreneur ever - Steve Jobs - had total mastery of this.
Of course you could "pip install pasta" but there is something special with rolling your own (and the feeling of "woah, I actually can do it").
Location: Long Island, NY, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, C, Python, Rust, Linux, Test Automation, Git

Résumé/CV: https://jesse.tg

Email: jesse@jesse.tg

I’m a software engineer that specializes at the place where systems programming, usability, and automation meet. You want something to run on different platforms? I'm your guy. You want it to come with clear, easy-to-understand documentation? I'm your guy. You want to turn a five-step deployment process into one step? I'm your guy.

My most recent project that exemplifies these skills is melonDS DS https://github.com/JesseTG/melonds-ds, a wrapper around a Nintendo DS emulator that makes it easier to use than most other emulators.
The answer isn't to go back to women requiring a husband.

The problem is that companies were allowed to capture all of the value of women's emancipation, to the detriment of everyone.

Women joining the workforce should have meant two people working 20 hours per week instead of one person working 40. Instead, two person households are working 80 hours and one person households are struggling to get by.
Juni | Senior Backend Engineer | Stockholm/Gothenburg/Amsterdam | Full-time

At Juni, we help e-commerce companies improve their profitability with business accounts and cards, fast and flexible financing, and powerful integrations.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in developing cutting-edge spend management solutions. Your work will directly impact our mission to redefine e-commerce banking.

We value expertise in fintech/banking/accounting, a collaborative mindset and passion for innovation.

If you want to be part of building the neobank for e-commerce, apply to the role here: https://www.juni.co/careers?ashby_jid=0201b608-7922-4c39-8b1... or contact me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aorsedal/
Apollo Agriculture | Engineering & DS | Full-time | Amsterdam, NL | https://www.apolloagriculture.com/team

Apollo Agriculture (YC F1) is bringing modern farming to the world's poorest farmers. Millions of farmers globally don't have access to the basic resources the rest of the world depends on for food production: good seed and fertilizer. We sell these on credit, use ML to figure out who we can lend to profitably, and are growing rapidly (two countries and growing).

We are a small, motivated team with SV roots and an ownership culture. Come help us make a real difference in the world!

Hiring for several roles:

- Software Engineer: Our core engineering team supports a wide range of tools and processes. Our primary stack is Scala 2 w/ cats, backed by psql. If you are an experienced and practical problem solver, we'd love to meet you.

- Machine Learning Engineer: We build and run several different models to determine credit eligibility, detect fraud, etc. Our ml engineers are hands-on and provide production-ready models for other teams to consume.

... due to our size and focus, we look for candidates who are experienced and can be autonomous -- at least at the "senior" level. Visa sponsorship is possible!

Drop me a line at elijahsmith@apolloagriculture.com if you're interested; I'm happy to chat.
Does he actually "represents tech"? I am really not sure about that.
Did he say it was? He is just sharing his experience.
They explicitly opted the YouTube iPad app out of working on vision pro
Now i get it. I mixed it up with "windows type single threaded" where, even if you had a multiple processor machine, windows will run only on one processor.
> It even forces its own built in screensavers to run instead of the OS one if the app is left paused

Eh? YouTube is my most-used app on Apple TV by a country mile and I’ve never seen this, I get the tvOS screensavers. Is it because I have YouTube Premium maybe?

I agree though, it is a garbage app. Everything on a TV, from the built-in apps to Roku boxes to Apple TV use basically the same app (certainly the same layout) and it’s really quite bad.
An obnoxious mountain of binary blobs, no 5 GHz, no WPA3, and if you plan on using Bluetooth, you're gonna have to re-flash the ESP every time you want to add a new GATT attribute.
> it's hard to find a single story detached home in the city

Newsflash, this just in: Kids can actually grow up living in an apartment in a multi-story building. Researchers have found that single-family single-story detached housing is not required.
Is your tagline at all associated with CharaChorder?

https://trademarks.justia.com/887/85/type-at-the-speed-of-88...

https://www.charachorder.com/
Australia is on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035
> In a big company it's impossible for a single person to know everything that's happening at every level.

you do not need to know everything about a thing to be responsible for it.

do you own a pet? if yes, are you a veterinarian? if no, how do you care for your pet if you can’t run a blood screen?
> normal

It isn't normal for anyone else, of course. As for Garry, he is heavily invested in SF politics.

> no big deal

It is a big deal only if Garry was consistently inflammatory. Otherwise, it can be safely relegated to careless jibe by a drunkard.

> words are meaningful and have consequences

True, but one is allowed to retract, excuse, apologize. One incident unto drastic consequences will result in heavy-handedness wielded often, a weaponization against anyone standing upto establishment or established norms (which is quite contrary to what either the left or the right would want, in the context of political discourse).

> adolescents, but adults

Are we being too sensitive, vindictive, projecting remorse? One look at tech Twitter (and deleted tweets) and we'd want to cancel them all. What good is that going to bring, other than create an inescapable and ever shrinking echo chamber?

> some modicum of respect, or at least decency

Politics gets dirty from time to time.

> Wishing a slow death on someone, even rhetorically

There is probably a socio-political climate in which such statements could be considered incitement, but in this case, lunatics using Garry's words to threaten and scare their victims is exactly that... a work of an opportunist lunatic who probably thinks highly of themself. That isn't on Garry.
I use it to generate PDF/EPUB versions from GitHub style markdown for my ebooks. The default output was good enough, but I wanted to customize a few things [0]. I didn't know LaTeX, but I was able to use solutions from stackoverflow sites. Later I found that some users had created templates I could've borrowed.

I use mdBook [1] for web versions though. I found the default setup much easier to use. And it came with themes (light/dark/etc) that readers can choose.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
You can read the theory of operation for generating negative voltage in this application note from Analog Devices: https://www.analog.com/en/resources/design-notes/generating-...
>I want emails, phone calls, and texts sent to me to cost the sender some fixed amount of money… which is refunded only if I send a return token confirming it was not spam.

I've thought about that type of spam refund scheme many times and I like it but the potential problem I see with it is the unintended effect of even more spam that you can't ignore by the companies you already have a business relationship with that bill you monthly.

E.g. You get a monthly bill from Comcast to pay for cable tv. With a new hypothetical "spam refund" law, they now abuse it to their advantage by adding a new "Customer Information Updates" fee for $5 to the bill. (They won't call it "marketing fee" or "promotional fee" but something innocuous like "information fee".) The cable company can now can send you more spam by using the "spam refund" law against you.

But... the customer can get a "rebate" on that extra $5 fee by responding to spam and "refunding" it back to the cable company. If the customer chooses to ignore the spam and never refund it, the customer ends up paying the $5 extra fee on the monthly bill. The customer is now paying oneself to to receive more spam that they can't ignore.

A potential spam refund scheme needs protections to prevent abuse like the above.
I used the Airsense 10 and now the 11. The 11 is slightly louder, IMO. Neither were loud enough to bother me.

The perfect mask for me is the nose cushion. N30i for me, if anyone is curious.
Netezza's DWH appliance was built on top of Postgres [1].

Building datawarehouse on top of postgres is not something thats new. It is definitely lost art.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netezza
How come the oklch colors aren't saturated like p3?
Codebraid[0] is another option for integrating code execution with Pandoc. I find myself using Quarto for building sites and Codebraid more for single documents. Both great tools building on Pandoc.

--

[0]: https://codebraid.org/
Seeing the title, I first thought that the leading apostrophe is an application of lisp's `quote` functionality, and after reading the article and particularly about pataphor concept, I'm still thinking that's the case.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Maybe because of a lack of citations?

I'll start. NSW is one of the leading sources of deforestation in the entire world: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/13/australi...
thanks, haven't played with Figma for a while
I've never seen anything but Philips accessories for my Airsense (10 and now 11).
I tried something like that but ended up going with markdown -> html -> puppeteer to generate an A4 pdf -> ghostscript to compress it.

It’s an ugly script that’s been working quite well for more than a decade, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone other than myself.
Researching in Tabooed Phenomena
Well,

1. Votes come at the end of a process starting with someone calling for action. Has to be a first person to bring the idea up; and Twitter is as good a place for public debate as we have. (If only people could master the longform paragraph, or even essay-length debate and move to somewhere a bit more nuanced.)

2. Reflecting on the "Die slow motherfuckers" for a little while - Tan didn't actually make a call for action. Exactly what that means is ambiguous, and it is without a doubt poor form.

> someone who heads a large publicly visible company

If the board wants to sack him I could certainly see that happening. Although as a practical matter, I don't think this is a sustainable standard. A good CEO is worth their weight in gold, sacking them over being a Twitter troll from time to time seems like a bad call. Musk is an example; both a troll and also a pretty amazing CEO. The right thing to do might be to tolerate the situation unless the pressure gets overwhelming.

On that point we've been tolerating outward displays of political speech from corporations for a while. I'm against it both on principle and because it is typically left-wing-aligned but since it happens I don't see why this sort of political diatribe is needs to be stepped on. Dude has political opinions. We all do.
What's going up with him? Looks like he shut down his own company Apex (logs aggregator) and stopped doing open source work. His twitter is also somewhat inactive.
> > drive

> park

Do those look like the same word to you? They look like different words to me.
Such limitation would effectively change the project's license, which would no longer be F/OSS approved. Most people and businesses don't evaluate custom licenses, they'll just skip your project because it doesn't have a well-known, approved license.
Thank you for the resources!
Given that I already can handle myself around viz and algorithmic necessities, I can see the benefit of a centralized source of algorithms and plots. (But, after working a buck with Python and R I still can't find a better plotting library than ggplot2 :D)

My main interest is in algebraic manipulations. like trying to integrate symbolically or mapping between complicated sets, some optimization, etc.
But I'm ahead of myself... I should check those resources you sent me, and then form a better notion of what it is that I want :D

Thank you for those, btw!!
I like Pentaho Data Integration. The community edition does everything I need but there is also a paid version.
> This becomes a huge cost in the form of cognitive overhead for the team in addition to the time and resources it takes to set up, manage and maintain it

The problem with using one system that you know well for everything is it becomes necessary to build (usually suboptimal) systems that emulate well known ones. In the end you trade one snowflake for another.

That being said, there really ought to be standardized approaches to auth, backup and operations as various services today do things very differently and this does indeed increase cognitive load.
A better question is why wouldn't I use the docker image? The docker image is an official work output of the project, handles all dependencies without messing up my target machines (I use the pandoc/extra which includes pretty much every ancillary need such as Latex), and is trivial to keep up to date and current holistically. It is by default isolated and controlled to a degree, and allows me to trivially tape together as necessary.

The other comment nailed it pretty well, though they hedged it by citing habit (presumably to counter the weird anti-docker trend that has arisen). Dockerizing (or simply containerizing) most vendored products is a choice that is often beneficial, and the marginal overhead is a rounding error.
Would you mind explaining your position a little more? Are you saying that walled gardens keep evil away, or are you saying that they can hurt the user?
The real killer app for the Vision Pro. Automated Ad detection and blocking.

I’d buy one today and never take it off.
He was only quoting Tupac…
I'm on the federal do-not-call list. Isn't it $500 per call, and $1500 if they don't give a business address when asked? I get at least 6 per day on average. Occasionally I don't get any.

I stopped answering my phone a the 12 per day peak. I figure if it's really important they'll leave a message.
MaidSAFE is far beyond either Freenet, Hypercore or IPFS.

You should read their primer: https://primer.safenetwork.org/

It's completely uncensorable and unstoppable.

They encrypt every chunk of data, using "self-encryption." They don't require a manual market for hosting (like IPFS) so people can't be intimidated into not hosting something.

They even have their own implementation of the DHT which removes IP addresses after the first hop, so you can't discover the whole network and DDOS it / block it (which is not true of HyperCore, IPFS, etc.)
Honestly? This

The American phone pricing model, charging for "airtime" is absurd

It means that a spammer can pay $10 for 1000s of calls while the same customer receiving the call pays much more than that per minute

It is frankly ridiculous
If we can't make the more efficient cities sustainable, why in the world would it be possible to do the same thing with everyone spread out?
A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure
I'm not a techie, but I love lurking on this website.

My only comments from someone who found Linux in high school, used to love computers, the old internet, and used to do scientific computing in Fortran and matlab.

I read through some of these posts and feel like I'm on a different planet when it comes to computers. So many packages, podmans, stand ups, etc etc. seems like there's a package, library, git runner whatever for everything. Micro services, web apps, the word app in general. Virtualize everything.

When did software design / engineering change so much? Are things really getting better, or is computing power allowing the industry to duck tape a billion things together instead of writing in low level languages and using standard packages and compilers?

What are recruiters and companies looking for?
Location: Bucharest, Romania

Remote: Yes or hybrid in Bucharest

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- development with Python on the web (Django, REST), TypeScript or Haskell

- infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform or Nix/NixOS

Résumé/CV: https://publish.elbear.com/#Work%20Experience

Email: lucian at elbear.com
What IDE do you use? nvim? emacs?
I've dabbled with SymPy in the past. Maybe I should follow the Cassela and Berger appendix with both side by side. Might help me understand if there is some value in it.

And yeah. Proprietary software sucks. I suggested Mathematica because its what is mentioned in the book, and I don't hear much from others.
In particular, macros work great with s-expressions, not so great with m-expressions.
That statement was based on the old text, correct? The revised law seems to address this in the opinion of experts OSI spoke to:

"In particular, “digital artisans” using Open Source software at small scale – the main concern of Debian – will need guidance from the European Commission. While the experts we have met have all said that using an Open Source software distribution as part of a commercial activity is unlikely to require CE marking of the distribution itself, the interpretation of the key phrase “making available on the market” will need careful clarification."
Oh wow, is this because I have YouTube premium? I absolutely loathe this feature, because 99% of the time I am pausing, it is because I want to read what text is on the screen. It gets completely obscured by the controls, and even the text that is visible is difficult to read because it has a darkened background. Is there a way to turn this feature off?
I saw a clip from a popular right wing podcaster recently in which he was annoyed that his guests kept wishing death on people.

He was mostly annoyed it seemed because this meant he got demonitized or had to pull some content which cost him money. And that people didn't listen to his specific pre-show instruction to not call for death. And that some of his viewers got angry at him about this (I didn't quite follow why, they weren't angry about the death threats but somehow thought his removal of episodes made him a part of the deep state or something).

edit: link to short version of the clip I saw

https://twitter.com/majorityfm/status/1752833975851049108
This is being downvoted but it's probably about right.
> Google isn't willing to take risks like it used to

Has Google ever taken a risk that endangered their ad business?
The Corruption Perception index [1] seems to violently disagree with you.

[1] https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2023
And how about that time our leaders sent the federal police after a reporter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annika_Smethurst#Espionage_exc...
Huge fan of Pandoc. I don't use it for my personal website anymore, but I created a very crude "site generator" that piggybacks off Pandoc called pblog[0].

[0]: https://pblog.btxx.org/
Here is how you could programmatically extract text from pdf files and import them to TextFind.
Then run some semantic queries and post some questions, and see how TextFind will find your answers.
great lets see what you've invented
The argument that the execs must be the one to choose the foam to be liable is a bit silly. While in some white collar crimes, you will find individual actions by execs, such as in banking and tobacco, that's rarely the case.

Here there's evidence of a coverup- of deaths reported and Phillips choosing to not disclose or recall until forced to.

An argument could be made that until that point, there's no action by the executive that is wrong- though again, it's a medical device so it should be held up to high standards. Once the company had reason to believe that their device could be dangerous, it had a duty to act. Executives were surely notified when there was a liability concern, and the decision not to act on them is the trigger event.

Was it the CEO? Maybe not? Phillips is a huge corporation, but I'd venture a guess that even in a company that size, there's a bit of "pass the buck" and higher up executives knew something of the situation, and if someone knew of deaths, they had a responsibility to look into it.
I see that many downvoters don't like that the things are named properly by their intent - I take it as showing support to the genocide in both cases.

It still remains a fact that the genocidal war started by Russia has not yet been decided and both, attacking and defending sides are trying to figure out the weapon systems to accomplish their military goals and these weapon systems are going through rapid development and "field testing".

It also remains a fact that low tech weaponry used by the terrorist organizations in Gaza has had very limited effect against the well equipped and highly motivated IDF.
Of course this is not going to be a free lunch. There are no miracles, just trade offs. From what I have read it sounds like it will be tough to ever stop taking it.

I am on TRT but when I started taking testosterone I knew it was for life. It would be a tough situation if I had taken TRT thinking that a few months would be some kind of long term fix but then find out I am in for life, after the fact.
https://madewithslint.com/
> Recommend you get a free student copy

The only free version I‘m aware of is the Raspberry Pi installation.
Can somebody share (potentially adjusting for IKEA effect) if homemade pasta really tastes better than pre-made one? Barilla? De Secco? Artisan brands?
You probably thought you were being Edgelord-cool-sarcastic, but yes, he is.
I agree, and what I find fascinating is that the 'blind self faith' that pervades the U.S. culture is something that helped it rise earlier in its history.

The faith that help it rise has survived longer than the rise itself. What once was a boon now makes it unable to act to correct a clear downward trend in the society.
> Do you really want to force telcos to block all calls from countries that you cannot collect fines from?

I'd suggest it be optional on a per-customer basis, perhaps with a whitelist.

E.g., the only international calls I ever want to receive comes from family members' cell phones when they're traveling.

I'm 100% okay with blocking all other international calls. If something is that important, they can send me something via mail, FedEx, etc., or send a message courier to my house.
This is great. I just did a better job generating a palette in under a minute, starting from a logo, than I did manually in 30 minutes last time I needed to do it. Nice work!
For a long time, I've been on the lookout for the perfect color tool, but so far haven't found it yet. Something that lets you get as advanced as what's presented by this library: https://colorjs.io/