skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a [pretty damn good] manager, for over 25 years. I kept employees for decades, under conditions of significantly less pay and perks, than many other companies.

But I also managed a small, high-performing group of mature, experienced C++ programmers, for a corporation that actually believed in retaining talent for years. It was also one of the top imaging companies in the world, and they demanded a lot from us.

When they finally rolled up my team, after 27 years, the employee with the least tenure had a decade. The employees with the most (Yours Truly, and one other), had just shy of 27 years.

I'm pretty sure that my management style would get me fired, at most tech companies, these days.
Don't forget that component/service names will need to be suitably enterprisified like so, for professionalism:

InterceptorWatcherCollectionClientDefinitionIteratorBroadcasterBasedObserver

I always use this tool when I feel that the stuff I'm churning out is substandard:

- https://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
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Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Generative AI (Stable Diffusion, LLMs, etc), Backend, ML-infra, AWS, GCP, Python
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Email: maximepeabody+hackernews@gmail.com
What did GC&CS stand for? (Yes I could search for this but I feel like curious conversation is almost a lost art these days.)
Iphone was filling an existing niche that others did poorly, at a comparable price.

And it turned out that the niche was in huge demand - everybody likes reading the news and chatting with friends on the go.

There were plenty of phones out there that could browse, email, take pictures etc, they just sucked and iphone sucked way less.

It remains to be seen whether the current goggles just suck or the whole concept is for geeks only (even with the geeks that own some kind of vr googles only 10% use them weekly or more often).
Techbro machismo
A plant following the demand curve is called a load-following power plant, and France's NPP are quite good at it, but most recent EU NPP should be able to do it.

> According to the current version of the European
Utility Requirements (EUR) the NPP must be capable
of a minimum daily load cycling operation between
50% and 100% P r, with a rate of change of electric
output of 3-5% P r /minute.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-lo...

> France in particular has a long history of utilizing aggressive load following with their PWRs [...] These reactors have the capability to regularly vary their output between 30–100% of rated power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...
Surprising Results Benchmarking Direct IO vs. Buffered IO Using Fio
> In democracies, there is substantial or complete independence between the branches of govt — legislative, judicial, and executive

I don't think that's true at all, and I believe separation of powers is (to large degree) and Americanism.

I think most democracies lack or have very weak separation of powers, and are ruled under a principle of legislative supremacy.

That's pretty clear in the UK (where parliamentary supremacy is a bedrock principle of their unwritten constitution), and I believe in Napoleonic law countries there's no sense where a court can strike down a law as "unconstitutional," because I understand courts there aren't bound by precedent in the same way common law courts are.
>If you manage to pwn a key, you have access to traffic.

That's why I mentioned "Full (Strict)" SSL. If you configure this in Cloudflare then the entire user <-> Cloudflare <-> origin path is encrypted and attackers can't snoop on the plaintext even if they have access. They'll get some metadata, but every ISP in the world gets that at all times anyway.
Any rocket induced dropped packets will just be resent after the rocket has passed or will be routed over other links.

Lets not forget about clouds, birds, airplanes, hot hair balloons and tons of other things that separate the ground from space.

We have protocols and networks already designed today that deal with this exact problem.
When it was first released, it was not as good as the existing competitors, from my POV anyway. I had a moto 360 gen 1 which was great. The gen 1 iwatch wasn't even water proof.
I would go even further and say watching sports is ultimately boring. There's pretty much nothing you can do to help "your" team to win (well not exactly true since you can often volunteer for "your" team to do some mundane work while the stars earn their millions, and you can buy merch and tickets to fund them too...).

Now don't get me wrong, I still watch sports every now and then. But I don't take it seriously like I did when I was a kid and didn't understand the grim realities of professional sports. It's fun to occasionally see peak human physical performance.
Any such ID would need to be validated by the service. Therefore the service and the authenticator would need to speak. And in doing so, the authenticator will be able to see that an ID issued to you is being used for that service.

You cannot get around this. The service must confirm with the authenticator. The authenticator must know you are authenticated, and be extension, who you are.
Pasteur Labs – https://pasteurlabs.ai | Full-time | REMOTE (worldwide) | Sr+ Engineers (in Applied Simulation, Data Engineering, Product Dev, HCI Dev, 3D Game/Physics Engines): https://simulation.science/careers

At Pasteur Labs, we develop computing technologies that enable scientific and industrial challenges to be approached in new ways: that is, a first of its kind AI-native, developer-first platform for modeling & simulation (M&S). Our product aim is to enable in-silico playgrounds for human-machine teams experimenting and building in industrial R&D, energy security, & advanced manufacturing arenas. As a public-benefit for-profit startup, our mission is Nobel-Turing [1] technologies to advance science and society for all humankind.

The pursuit calls for industry hardened and intellectually curious builders who thrive in interdisciplinary territories that are often less-traveled. The team brings deep, diverse expertise from Deepmind, Cerebras, Vicarious, SpaceX, NASA, CERN, Sandia, Nvidia, Autodesk, and more. With fresh venture funding and Fortune500 customers (+dozens more on the waitlist), we're looking for ambitious, intellectually curious software engineers that can consistently contribute in non-trivial, impressive ways as we ship and scale our flagship product platform — some call it "live intelligent digital twins" and others say "cyberphysical testbeds for AGI", while most view Pasteur Labs product catalogue as "Unity for industrial R&D."

With HQ in Brooklyn NY [2], we are an internationally distributed team running remote full-time — from San Diego to Stockholm and everywhere in-between. The full team gathers 2x per year for Pasteur Labs "onsites", alternating sites such as Montreal, Amsterdam, Austin, London, NYC etc.

-> https://simulation.science/careers

While we don't list requirements for degrees or years-experience, everyone needs to demonstrate high-caliber engineering and problem-solving in multiple domains; we're dedicated to scientific rigor and robust engineering for complex and dynamic environments, so prove to us that you not only fit in but that you can make us better.

If what we’re doing speaks to you, please get in touch! Send your CV/resume and other supporting info/demos/etc to us at careers@simulation.science

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.03235.pdf

[2] http://newlab.com
Europe uses mostly android, with an marketshare of ~25% its pretty susbtancial,
> Nobody can make someone else motivated.

This is certainly true. But people can easily demotivate others.
Yeah we've kind of been using the block chain since the end of the 15th century. Something using public "double" book keeping to ensure data integrity across a network (digital or otherwise) doesn't magically make that data a currency just because some Japanese guy's pet project became too popular for its own good =)
Honestly it sounds like you’re sheltered due to working in a certain sort of organisation and have had no exposure to the myriad ways in which organisations tend to be run. You’re acting like this is a big surprise, but it’s not.
If you don't know, then I can't tell you.
I'm in same dilemma... that's why now i'm using Bootstrap Studio. This is desktop application for developing static sites.
> git add -p

That command is a UX monstrosity and don't ever prompt any junior to use it. Use magit, use jj, use your IDE, just not that.

I agree with your overall sentiment however. I try to measure up commits in anticipation of future revert(s). A commit is a minimal change that can still (1) pass UT (2) become a sensible revert one day. That's my measuring stick.
>and aren't shy about using lawyers to manipulate the public record

If they were actually any good at the services they offered, they wouldn't need lawyers, they would manipulate the public record by hacking it!
I find this fascinating reminds me of THGTTG
> I kept employees for decades, under conditions of significantly less pay and perks, than many other companies.

I guess you were a good manager for the company, but were you one for your employees?
I love these sorts of comments. Could you please just be more direct and call GP “not a professional” for not working in the way that you do? It’s so unnecessarily passive-aggressive.
I'm really interested to hear what regular customers (not journalists etc) have to say about it. I hope you love yours. I'm jealous!

Like the others in this thread, I'm happy to see Apple investing in truly new, risky ventures. That's real innovation, and I hope they keep that up.
Tesla will hold a shareholder vote to transfer state of incorporation to Texas
> now I find vi/vim verb-object (d[delete]w[ord]) yanky compared hx visual select/object-verb (wd).

I often use `viwd` instead of `dw` to create a selection before deleting.
Constitutional AI with Open LLMs
It's one of the 27 participating countries listed at the top of the page.
Amazon Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results
Quarter:

- Net sales increased 14% to $170.0 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $149.2 billion in fourth quarter 2022
- Operating income increased to $13.2 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $2.7 billion in fourth quarter 2022
- Net income increased to $10.6 billion in the fourth quarter, or $1.00 per diluted share, compared with $0.3 billion, or $0.03 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2022

Year:

- Net sales increased 12% to $574.8 billion in 2023, compared with $514.0 billion in 2022
- Operating income increased to $36.9 billion in 2023, compared with $12.2 billion in 2022
- Net income was $30.4 billion in 2023, or $2.90 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $2.7 billion, or $0.27 per diluted share, in 2022
Yeah, it was pretty clear that wasn't gonna work.
I've used a corp laptop to SCP data onto a non-corp device. Technically both devices were corporately owned, but nobody logging the packets would have known that.
Yes. I was referring to stories like these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8164026 (not the actual one I read, but can't find it right now).

It's about powerful owners exerting pressure on performers at the expense of their health.
Its untrue and derogatory. While both primates, humans don't have any monkeys as ancestors. The term monkey is applied to humans when someone wants to belittle their behavior, often when we want to point out that one group is lesser than another group who does not behave that way.
Well, was it? If you can't show that, this isn't an interesting, clever comment, you're just imagining to yourself an alternate universe where you're right. And I'd be surprised if it was, since LLMs are basically incapable of generating something that isn't vague, generic, and generally in line with common/average sentiments, by virtue of their reward function. AI writing might be indistinguishable from shitty human writing, but not from good human writing.
How did they build churches and stuff without using math?
> have middle managers ever actually had those powers?

Oh, yes, I've had many managers who were empowered over the last 35+ years. I have one right now. But how true this is depends on the company culture.

I doubt that I'd stick around long at a company that wasn't like this. I'd leave on the basis of the company having poor management.
vpn its just small part of what zscaler does. its a bunch of security related products
HR forms require personal information and do not allow anyone to access from anything but a corporate device.
There is no need to break the law if your pockets are deep enough to write it yourself.
Aren't steroids (criminally) illegal in many countries?
It's the tech scene on the Internet, everything is a reference to the CCP! /s
Location: Auckland / New Zealand
Remote: Remote / Hybrid
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust, Python, JS, C# and more. Backend, FrontEnd and application development. Algorithms speciality
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomleys/
Email: tom at gridspy dot com

Experienced software engineer: from firmware, algorithms and optimization to full stack web development including sales and marketing I've done it all. I love the hard problems that lie at the heart of complex systems.

Running my own business has given me a unique perspective as a developer which I can
draw on while problem solving day to day. I’m great at iterating on products with clients
until they meet both their stated and unstated desires.

I have a real algorithms bent so if you want something fancy or complex I can code it up
for you. I'm happy to tear code up and refactor, or can track down that tricky bug and
crush it. Regularly called on to pick the right technology, I make critical and pragmatic
decisions, rapidly becoming productive with whatever is necessary to get the job done
We are probably all little people here, and nothing like this would ever happen, but say you were high profile enough like that Google self-driving guy that Uber poached, and there was a lawsuit - anything you did on that computer would be up for grabs. All your personal projects, documentation, DMs.. it would be super messy. I’m pretty sure companies like having this kind of situation because it gives them legal ammo in the rare case where there is an action.
Location: Bend, OR

Remote: Preferable

Willing to relocate: Not until at least my wife finishes her residency.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Postgres, MSSQL, Linux, BSD, gRPC, some Swift and Go

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-martin-6845841a6/
Website: https://enigmaticbits.com

Github: https://github.com/martintc

email: kj4ntv at gmail.com

I am a software engineer, still a little new into the field. Bottom line, I like building cool shit. I currently work in the Point of Sale world where I have build an application for a mobile solution in .NET Maui utilizing gRPC as a communication means for a device to talk with a client's server. I have also been the main developer taking care of payment processing through World Pay via a payment gateway. Including certifying on new integrations with World Pay. I currently write C# for a paycheck and Rust primarily in my free time and for open source. I enjoy solving problems. As an example, I didn't like the Roku app on iOS or any of the alternatives, so in a day or two, I learned enough Swift and Core Data to build my own for the Apple Watch platform.
> This thing is covered in sensors; it's got two scales, ostensibly for measuring the weight of the hopper and the weight of food dispensed, a pair of infrared sensors to detect when the hooper is empty, sensors that monitor the motor's turning, and others that I haven't figured out the purpose of.

Bad for business if your cat feeder fails to feed the customer's cat and they return from a trip to a very hungry cat.
17 year old 'serial swatter' charged after police say he made threats across US
There's an interesting paper on the subject of alignment here. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...
Someone here estimated the 5k patents alone at about a billion.
Then there's unit production cost and set up costs.
They'll need way more than 200k to break even.
It's obvious that Apple's incentives around developing more standards (that make PWAs more potent) directly conflict with their walled garden (AppStore) revenues.

In this regard, they are remarkably similar to Microsoft's Internet Explorer situation, only in this case there seems to be little to no interest in pursuing an investigation.
If she ever did some sort of surgery, they often have some samples they keep frozen for various purposes.
Could you explain why my comment is a flamewar comment but the comment I was responding to is not?
They're pretty great and compatible with most things. ESPHome [1] is a great resource for getting ESP32's working nicely with HA and you can find lots of projects using it to learn from.

You'll likely need to do soldering if you want to connect sensors, batteries and the like.

Personally I really like what SEEED Studio [2] does with their ESP32 boards and they have nice docs.

1. https://esphome.io/
2. https://www.seeedstudio.com/home-assistant
There is no way around that restriction either.
"relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice."

Sounds pretty literal to me. Not letting a suffering person die.
My question is: how have Tether managed to turn a profit on billions of dollars of long treasuries when the same thing literally bankrupted several banks with actual risk managers. Tether have never admitted to taking a loss, ever - and have continued operating despite admitting to the SDNY being short as much as 1/3 of their entire backing store at one point. Really makes you think. Either they are the single best traders on the face of the earth - and remember there's like 3 of them on a hammock in the Bahamas, including a plastic surgeon who used to sell pirated Microsoft products - or there's something more to this story.

That aside it's hard to see what the crypto community is so in love with here. This is - at best - an opaque, trusted, centralized dollar derivative whose leadership refuses to actually verify their holdings. They also have the ability to randomly freeze coins without due process -- and they do! Even more so than other stablecoin issuers. Far more than Circle. And they cooperate with the US government, allegedly.

Their main differentiator appears to be running a PayPal for pig butchering scams in Cambodia, and they seem to be antithetical to everything crypto stands for.

No idea why we're even giving this story the time of day, it's the same baseless claims they've been making the whole time but with marginally higher numbers. Let's revisit this when they actually post an audit.
Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Remote: Yes.
Relocate: Yes.
Technologies: Rust, Python, GCP, Bare-metal, Linux. & Basically every decent monitoring/logging system.
Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/jharasym
Email: jharasym@linux.com

I'm Jan, I've been CTO for 18 or so months now and I've been doing a pretty good job or so I'm told. Prior to this job I was SRE, focused primarily with always online AAA games. I'm well regarded for my trustworthiness, transparency and integrity. I have a fatal flaw though which is that I am not very good in low-trust environments. I have a strong passion which has stayed with me for 15 years. I will do anything for any price as long as I can take pride in the products.

Examples of products that I would be proud to work on would be; GCP (ha!), Mullvad, Tailscale, AAA games (not gambling) and developer tooling (I have a deep passion for this because I like to help people).

I'd like to go back to SRE, or if I am a manager I would like to be hands on, the human element is something I seem to be good at as long as I can take responsibility but that's not something most companies would permit me to do outside of the C-Level and it has been 18 months of 14h days (even weekends) and no vacation. So I'm ready to leave that behind for those reasons.
Location: Paris, France, Europe
Remote: Yes, ideally Europe or the US
Willing to relocate: Under certain conditions, yes
Technologies: SQL, Python, Ruby on Rails
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pil0u/
Email: hn@apidu.xyz

My name is Pierre, French, I am a Senior Data Analyst/Scientist, and a Ruby on Rails fullstack hobbyist. I can help build an Analytics team and platform in early-stage startups, I have a super hybrid profile.

My dream job is joining/building a super young data team for a product built in Rails (or Python). That way, I could support the team across the entire stack.

Cheers!
In Go you rely on convention that if err != nil, the other value is meaningless and should not be used. You have to remember to check this, and some interfaces break this convention and use eg. error+some partial value, or nil+nil or other combination.

With Rust's Result<T> you either get the value, or the error. Never both or neither. Those states are simply unrepresentable. absl::StatusOr does the same in C++, with slightly worse ergonomics.

> If there was an error, the value should be meaningless. I don't understand what your complaint is against returning both the value and the error.

Think of it this way: why are you even returning a meaningless value in the first place?
Yes, that’s literally the point being made. The point is that it isn’t a company-ending event. You are going on an unrelated rant about how those darn dumb executives aren’t as smart as God’s gift to earth, engineers.
26 years at Nikon! Did you work on NIS Elements? Have come across that a few times, we have a buttload of Nikon scopes.
Tiktok has a superpower of injecting random people into your feed, which could be and would be used for manipulation. Or suppressing specific posts. Probably that is why meta did the same (before they could only do it with ads, but nobody watches ads anyway).
Maybe...

Multithreading (async / await?)
Static types
Generics (nullable)
Controls / Widgets / Components which probably means classes and OOP (see flutter and web components)
Makros
Message Senders / Receivers instead of raw properties (smalltalk, Objective-C)
Package manager
Good tooling
I am working on https://photorealisticultrasound.com/. It converts 3D ultrasounds of not yet born babies into photo-like images using AI.

I am experiment with the funnel - how aggressive the preview quality needs to be.
Location: Boston, MA
Work Preferences: Remote/Hybrid/In-Office
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, Python, Flask,
Snowflake, SQL, AWS
Résumé/CV: https://davidthomas-coder.github.io/docs/about/resume.pdf
Email: https://veilmail.io/e/ri1txl

7+ years of data analysis experience in SQL (Oracle, MySQL, etc.) recently completed an intensive full-stack web development bootcamp. On the hunt for Data Engineer, SWE or Web Developer roles. Full-time preferred, open to part-time, freelance or contract work.

Been performing standup comedy for about 7+ years as well if you wanna hear some stories. My side projects include "SWOLmate" - a social fitness platform designed to pair people up with their ideal gym buddy (React frontend, Express/PostgreSQL backend), "Riff" - comedy-based social network inviting ppl to share their responses to a single daily universal prompt (React frontend, Express/PostgreSQL backend), and "Herosmith" - a D&D character creator and eventual full DM companion app (React frontend, Python/Flask backend)
If you use your phone at work, doesn’t that then become discoverable in the legal sense?
Before the privacy concerns? Privacy concerns are baked into the product, no?