skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seen Finance | https://seen.com | Multiple Roles | Full time | Berlin | Hybrid on-site

At Seen, we believe that everyone deserves a fair opportunity to (re)build their credit. We understand how tough it can be to qualify for a credit card when your credit score isn't where you want it to be.

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It's a great time to join as the team is small (10 engineers) and we're growing fast. We're a startup but we're also lucky to have the financial support and customer base from our parent company.

We're hiring in Berlin for:

* VP of Analytics

* Senior Software Engineer

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Chance to own a decommissioned US Government supercomputer
Looks cheaper than the Apollo program when adjusted for inflation (Apollo was $257 billion in 2023 dollars)
>my demo would be much better guise --tips fedora--
It's because walls are a bit too steep. If you made them into paraboloid, a per would naturally climb as high as they need to, to be able to run symmetrically.
So run the clinical trial, advertise the product as untested and dangerous-to-lethal in the meantime, and let people make their own choices?
Thanks! We have it in mind but for now prefer to focus on improving the website!
Wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a simpler way to pay money online.
I wonder if my pi-hole setup will work to remove those ads like it does all the annoying and sometimes dangerous android in-app ads my son used to have to put up with.

Still annoyed with Roblox for blocking the Linux (wine) version from working so I have to use my phone to play now. Yes I play Roblox at 45, I get to interact with the kid and keep an eye on what he's doing. Still prefer Minecraft though..
Location: Kazakhstan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Python, Django, Stable Diffusion

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

I am a full-stack developer with expertise in Generative AI and proficiency in Stable Diffusion. I am actively seeking opportunities within the AI industry.

I am also very interested in UI/UX parts of Frontend development and a true believer in simplicity. My goal is to create simple yet highly usable products. If my background and interests align with your needs, please feel free to contact me via email.
That's how I ordered my first CDs online: via a Telnet interface. It sounds crazy 30 years later.
Solon is live on our first customer!
It should and the if it don't this is going to lead to "House Select Committee on Assassinations" levels of distrust with the entire sector.

Its still possible that this is a freak occurrence but any agency claiming that as a proven fact right now is going to look suspicious.
> To hallucinate scenes

Has 'hallucinate' become the new interpolate?
I've been rather nerdy on Operations Research. It seems that today it's a mostly unknown field limited to few companies. Maybe it turned out to be too difficult for ordinary managers, who just wanted dashboards, maybe people weren't really ready for it, maybe it got crushed by the agile industrial context ... but if you look at writings from the 70s and 80s it seems that there is an agreement that for an OR department to be truly successful it would require a mandate to truly transform the business and disrupt common power structures - which is why instead they often get relegated to just doing dashboards.
Over time they became data analysts and then the data scientists of today.

I personally think that there is a LOT of very useful stuff in the field.
> I tried to add a google drive storage backend to camlistore/perkeep (because I had nearly-unlimited free quota at the time)

This explains the quotas now :)
Right. In practice, people don't even realize that Go has an exception handling system (see rest of thread) to use.
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30 to go it seems https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/19/boeing-subject-o...
> Where are the encryption keys stored? Does the client have to type in a password every time?

It depends on the use case. Typing a password to unlock the database when the app is started is a popular approach (e.g., keepassx does this), but you can also hardcode/obfuscate it, fetch it remotely, etc.

> Userspace encryption of user data has been almost universally rejected

Any kind of encryption is better than none. However, an encrypted drive will add zero value if your data and OS can be accessed remotely.
Google paid Apple $20B to be default search engine in 2022
Location: currently in Danang (Vietnam), but overlapping with CET/CEST work hours and EST/ET mornings.

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Figma, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects), Blender

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

Email: egor@klad.design

Hi, I'm creative director and web lead with a decade of experience in developing brands and digital products. I am also a founding art director of a design studio Klad, where I am responsible for the visual direction and strategy. One of my recent prominent projects was directing the development of a new web3 funded 3D visualization platform for Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Interested in web3, AI and FinTech industries.

Services I provide: branding and brand direction, UI/UX design, 3D and motion
You inspired me to look up if there were many still going and I was saddened to discover there are no longer any operational ones left in the UK.
Really cool! A true must-have for SMBs with a social media presence.
I always feel sympathy for the devs on this project as they get so many issues raised by people that are largely lazy (since the solution is documented and/or they left out obvious detail) or plain wrong. I suspect it's a side effect from espeak-ng being behind various other tools and in particular critical to many screen readers, thus you can see why the individuals need help even if they struggle to ask for it effectively.
I can’t wait until private equity companies are exposed as the exploitive side of our current system that needs to be corrected. At the heart of so many good companies are bad decisions driven by PE structures and personalities, most of whom seem very toxic and short sighted. Surely there is a better model of capitalism — I am not so vapid as to turn against the obvious advantages of the system. But I am also not willing to endorse the current approach as anything but exploitation with extra steps.
I think Avalonia is finally emerging as a partial way out of the morass, a qt-for.net. And why? Because it’s from the ground up, and not from Microsoft.
It's understandable if you are a small business owner and someone makes an offer which means you can retire comfortably. The blame here is not with those owners, but with the private equity companies that exploit customers, and also the regulators that allow this monopolization & destruction of value to happen.
One of the commenters here has the right idea. Train riding forever on circular slanted track could easily house some living spaces, offices and gyms. You could book a stay there for few weeks and after that feel like you are walking on air once you come back to normal life.
Python sucks, and why I use it
Happening in Croatia too. The government is chest thumping how we're having stellar economy, high GDP and whatnot. The economists I've listened to are saying that this is mostly propped up by injection of EU funds so the economy artificially looks fine while in reality its in shambles.

At the same time people are emigrating to rest of the Europe (Germany, Ireland mostly). We never had that much emmigration in the history of the country. And people are not leaving because the "economy is stellar". At the same time the government is having no trouble getting immigration historically from Bosnia and nowadays from Asia. "People just don't want to work" the local government is shouting while paying everyone minimum wages, while extracting EU money using their friend's private companies.
Qatari propaganda outlet Aljazeera on the frontpage. Perhaps it could be a replaced by a more credible one?
I wish there was an easy way to vote from RobinHood, Vanguard etc
Not my work alas. Just sharing the knowledge.
Because nobody's counting deaths from "not doing stuff". Everybody counts deaths from actions done (things built, products sold, meds taken) but nobody's counting losses from things (like meds) simply missing.

In effect we regulated doing stuff so much in the name of safety that we ended up in an infinite "analysis paralysis" mode where the you have to absolutely prove zero harm from new products/services while completely ignoring the harm the current status quo does.

See current debates over AI, self-driving cars, and of course, meds.
Location: Edinburgh, UK / Worldwide
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust, EtherCAT
Résumé/CV: https://wapl.es/cv
Email: james+hnhired@wapl.es

Need help with Rust in your EtherCAT deployment? I'm your guy! I'm available for contracting roles to help you implement or debug Rust EtherCAT applications using https://github.com/ethercrab-rs/ethercrab. I've helped various companies implement their first Rust control systems, as well as tune the base Linux installs for best realtime performance.
GPS jamming: no more flights to the airport in Estonia for the time being
Killing XUL was a huge mistake.
Is this related to reflective dialects of Lisp? Or is it just a shallow resemblance?
Do you guys help with visas/residence permits? I'm on a Highly Skilled Migrant visa.

Seems like a cool company!
I'm no stranger to having written papers that follow my own curiosity that didn't show any promising results.

However, I wouldn't blame "the community" for not taking my idea and building on it. There needs to be a seed of hope, a taste of future benefits, or else why is it anybody's obligation to care about something subpar?

The introducer of a novel idea needs to beat the incumbent by a large margin. This is just reality, not injustice.
Smoking is already advertised as dangerous-to-lethal and look how effective it is in preventing people from smoking.

In huge oversimplification some crazy or fraudulent people will claim it cures blindness or cold sores, some other people will believe them and will have to deal with the real danger-to-lethal consequences, with the rest of society paying for their medical care afterwards.
How much easier is this than a folder to store documents and google docs/word/apple pages for writing them?

Writing an invoice, and giving it a number and save to pdf was not something I found difficult and needed online tools.
Why wall of death? It's gonna be just a neat cylindrical room with vaguely paraboloid walls. Even if you stop running suddenly, dropping down from 2-3 meters in 1/6 g shouldn't be anything more than inconvenient.

Weighted suit wouldn't help with the weight of your organs. They are accustomed to hanging inside you at 1g. Running on wall would provide them with that.
The website is not in use - we started out life building a b2b saas product in e-commerce and several pivots later found ourselves in the warehouse. Cheers for heads-up though!
That's trading one feature for a bunch of others. Users should have the choice of what features they think are important.
The default voice sounds robotic for several reasons. It has a low sample rate to conserve space. It is built using a mix of techniques that make it difficult to reconstruct the original waveform exactly. And it uses things like artificial noise for the plosives, etc.

The default voice is optimized for space and speed instead of quality of the generated audio.
Seems obvious that people have to be at a place to do things there.
Introduction to Vectorization
Ask HN: Anybody notice how Dropbox disabled direct access to files in their App?
Did anybody notice how Dropbox seems to have disabled access to files in the Dropbox (ios) app? Previously, when looking at/selecting files, there was an obvious way to use the built-in "share-to" feature to get files into other apps, share the file itself via e-mail, messengers, open in other software etc. Now, the only thing Dropbox will ever do is create a publicly viewable link to be able to share a file. It will do so automatically, with virtually any sharing button. I presume it's a kind of anti-feature that's supposed to get everybody to use Dropbox, because the receivers will get Dropbox links instead of the files directly.

But it means sensitive files are constantly shared view public links, and you cant get access to the data to use in other apps. I wonder whether the negative sentiment created by hiding direct access to data and constantly trying to publish sensitive private data inside some kind of ad-link is more harmful than the attempt to get more users onto the platform via those links.
Seems like they got the 2FA keys as well[0], so I'm not sure how useful this is in this context. 2FA seems it might be more useful where it's a different site and you've reused the password or had it phished, than in this case where the site is compromised.

I'm still unclear how much I'm impacted. I've used Dropbox Sign / HelloSign but always with my dropbox account. Resetting password and 2FA anyway, because why not.

[0]: They're asking people to reset the 2FA.
Location: US/EU Dual citien
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: STEM PhD
Résumé/CV:
Email: hn1.20.yr888@spamgourmet.com

Start-Up? IT/Tech Company? Want to expand from the US to the EU or from the EU to the US? Need boots on the ground and a Business Development Manager? Lets Talk.
Was the question whether or not it is hypothetically possible to provide an E2EE storage service? Surely you can apply your engineering chops here. Of course it isn’t. But there are trade-offs, as with literally any engineering choice.
If this actually works without the service detecting a violation (doubt it) then LLMs look poised to take crypto's contract fulfilment thunder away from them as well.

There are surely countless ways to use LLMs we have not yet thought of.
Anyone a recommendation for Windows? Something simple and lightweight? (Screenstudio is Mac only)
There already are a lot of ai generated books on Amazon Kindle. Especially books for children (which require less text) are popular. I think that's a big problem, since LLMs are pretty good at imitating the style (good enough to fool a potential buyer) but don't seem to build the story on some sort of good message for the child.
Circular dome colony over a very large rotating space, running on concentric rings of superconducting rails. Spokes of slidable inner-outer weights to counter balance its residence’s movements.

Running on reliable constant nuclear power, from a safe distance.

Maximum gravity at the tilted edges. Only natural gravity at the center. Enter & exit from a tunnel that connects under the center.

Aside from the challenges of location & distance from Earth, if we can build small mobile cities on water (mega cruise lines) on the untamed ocean in Earth gravity, surely a small stationary spinning platter city in low gravity is possible.

I think humans are going to find out that one g has many uses besides health. Good for a lot of manufacturing too. Gravity is a stabilizer, vertical organizer, anchor. Just as low gravity will have many advantages. Being able to quickly “adjust” gravity, by moving location, will be significant.
> When I'm reading something informational (rather than recreational) I'm always asking myself "is this worth my time?"

It doesn't. You will not be using this language. And even if you will, you'll get all the information from a documentation, not from this article. If your time is money you wasted your time reading the article.

Really why some people believe that all the content of Internet must be attuned to their personal quirks? Why they believe that it is better to change internet, than to adapt to what is already here? It is a text, not video or something sequential. You could scan it diagonally looking for something that is interesting for you. You could reject it if nothing was found. Or you could return to the beginning and read sequentially from there. And these features are available for a text structured in any way. I highly recommend to learn the technique, it could deal with whole books, by selecting useful pages to read and rejecting most of other pages, which tell you nothing new.

I'd argue that diverse article styles are much better, because they force you to consciously and actively sort through information you are consuming. You shouldn't do it passively, becouse your mind becomes lazy and stop thinking while consuming.

OTOH I would agree with you if it was not a text but a video. I hate videos because you need to decide upfront are you investing time into watching it or not. 2x speed and skips by 5-10 seconds helps somehow, but do not solve the problem.
>is ordering via ssh secure?# you bet it is. arguably more secure than your browser. ssh incorporates encryption and authentication via a process called public key cryptography. if that doesn’t sound secure we don’t know what does.

Strong disagree. The encryption is the easy part, the hard part is the symmetric key exchange. And PKI used by browsers is much more robust for this usecase then TOFU model of ssh. Of course the proper way to fix this is checking the ssh key fingerprint, but almost nobody does this.
ThTs pretty good because glioblastomas are real real bad
I hoped "-ng" would be standing for Nigeria - which would have been most fitting, considering Nigeria's linguistic diversity !
> The technique predates computers; it's basically the same technique used by the original voder [1] just under computer control.

Something similar from the 800s is the Euphonia talking machine ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonia_(device) ).
Project Gutenberg is already a thing and it's apparently not sexy enough to warrant consideration?
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> The underlying assets were worth more than the sale price

That's not so clear to me. The real estate wouldn't have been worth so much without the existing restaurants having to pay rent.
Some Tesla employees have been calling Musk a "pigeon CEO" because "he comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves":

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...
Dissecting LockBit v3 Ransomware
> Gives the primary business (making food profitably) a huge cash infusion

What is "stripping for the sake of stripping" of not this?
That's so cool. Good luck finding who you need. Love the archives work.
Great idea and site looks really good.
I do have the feeling that Canada in general is a little bit complacent - it's been real cozy for a long time. But do I have anything to back this up? Not really other than working at different places and knowing that general feeling of - it's happening somewhere else.
I'm closing up shop on my Mastodon for the foreseeable future
I've stumbled across this post by an ex-COBOL admin YouTube creator I've been following after wondering why she wasn't active on Mastodon.

Definitely some interesting and nuanced points being made there.

She also previously did a video about Mastodon / Fediverse: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mqocW7DUFpg - But that was before she left Mastodon.
https://posthog.com/handbook/people/compensation
Sadly these lessons are always re-learned only in economics downturns, since those who only worked in times of economic boom have the feeling they're special and irreplaceable.

Almost nobody ever irreplaceable.
I'm not sure that something which uses brainfuck as its default example is intending you to take it seriously. Personally I burst out laughing at the introduction of "metacrank".
VMWARE
CA (Computer Associates)
CITRIX
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> Manchester was sentenced to a staggering 45 years in prison for robbing the two McDonald’s, primarily due to kidnapping charges for each employee.

If judges interpret the law so strictly, why don't we replace them by computers?
Before reading TFA: Some folk wisdom says "only arseholes get promoted"; others say "only boot-lickers get promoted". Both are right and wrong: It's not "only" in either case, it's "only people who are arseholes or boot-lickers get promoted (and if someone is both, they've hit the jackpot)".

CNBC usually has a rather corporate perspective, so I'd guess their "experts" are precisely the kind to mistake boot-licking for "being nice". OK, now off to check TFA to see if I'm right...
That's one thing scratch really needs: a quick way to switch back and forth between "visual" programming and text based programming.
No one cares

> He was “funny, romantic, the most sensitive man I’ve ever met,” Wainscott later told the Charlotte Observer. “The guy that every girl would want.”

Then they started having dinners at Red Lobster - presumably that’s what she wanted, and a popular preference? Who cares if other people prefer free diving?
RHEL even shipped upstart before systemd was a thing.
.. because there isn't a framework!
My experience with InteliJ has made me stick to Eclipse and Netbeans, unless external forces require me to use it.
Maybe the flushing of chemicals causes hallucinations (=dreams). Hallucinating when you're awake is typically a bad idea.
Thanks, it's actually the first website I build, I'm a datascientist. I think overall it looks ok but there are a lot of design mistakes haha
I use KWatch.io (https://kwatch.io) for social listening and it works very well for HN monitoring in my case. They also support other platforms (Reddit, Linkedin, Twitter..). But they don't propose advanced features like dashboards, analytics...
That's the choice people face: "native" (different on all platforms) vs "synthetic" (looks the same but loses true native functionality).
Hey terminal.shop, Y U No T? :-(