skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sumble | sumble.com | Data/Backend/Full-stack Engineering + first GTM | Remote-only North-America timezones

Sumble's applying language models (both small and large) to build high-quality datasets. Near-term our focus is company-related data that we integrate with customer's Salesforce data to make go-to-market operations more efficient. Long-term we want to become the first place you go to find high-quality data that lives outside your organization.

Currently a team of 7 engineers, including Kaggle/Google/Primer/Stack Overflow/Meta alumni.

Our tech stack includes Python, FastAPI, React/Typescript, GCP (postgres + alloydb + cloud run), regular expressions, and Pytorch/Gemma/Mistral.

Challenges we face include:

- Transforming noisy datasets + noisy models into high quality data products

- Making expensive analytics computations run efficiently

- Managing the complexity of an increasing number of data sources, models, and operations on top of these

If this excites you, apply here: https://wrkbl.ink/7tPh6M0
shmood.io | Hybrid | NYC (in a beautiful office) | Full-time | Full-Stack & Back-End Developers | B2B and B2C SaaS

Shmood is a VC backed company on a mission to eliminate design alignment churn.

We’re building Pinterest for design enterprises — to allow designers and their teams instantly align with clients of any background, on a project of any scale. To do this, we’re integrating a semantic data layer that takes multimodal design intent and communicates it, refines it, and turns it into actionable advice.

https://www.shmood.io/careers (or email malvika@shmood.io with an intro and resume and we will be in touch!)
> perfect for monetizing a project like a web browser

They could also try regular old fashioned money for monetization. It has worked for ~3,000 years pretty well and you can buy things like food and shelter with it in pretty much every country on earth.
It’s not on the table because you don’t want it. That’s it.
I honestly don’t understand the EU’s position. There really are strong “have their cake and eat it too” vibes.

It feels like they are effectively saying that targeted ads should be illegal, but without the forthrightness to say that explicitly.
Enveritas (YC S18, Non-Profit) | Backend Software Engineer | Remote / Global | https://enveritas.org/jobs/ Enveritas is a 501(c)3 non-profit working on sustainability issues facing coffee farmers around the globe. We provide sustainability assurance for the coffee industry. We visit smallholder coffee farms around the world to understand their social, economic, and environmental practices. In 2024, we will visit over 100,000 farms across more than 30 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We work with leading coffee roasters to understand the sustainability issues in their supply chain based on our sustainability standards.

* Backend Software Engineer - $130-$150k — http://enveritas.org/jobs/backend-software-eng/#10d7adef8us (worldwide remote)
Eh, the per-capita housing situation in the UK is 1 house per three people, per gov.uk statistics[0]. A third of a house is plenty for most people. The problem is that these houses are very unevenly distributed, so a large majority are under-inhabited, then a minority are packed to the gills. Building more houses will not solve this - it will just result in yet more empty houses that most people can't afford to live in.

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/net-supply-of-hous...
> No. What causes lift is the differential in pressure between the top and the bottom surface of the wing.

How do you explain airplanes that can fly with wing with symmetrical cross-section profile?

How do you explain airplanes flying upside-down?
Also if you don't have a bios update available for that newer microcode, give my real-ucode package a try: https://github.com/divestedcg/real-ucode

The linux-firmware repo does not provide AMD microcode updates to consumer platforms unlike Intel.
Perfumes have been used for thousands of years and shops are investing into the right aromas to make their customers buy more.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the right aromas can have a positive influence on a patients mood, compared to “the uplifting smell of a hospital ward”.
It sounds to me like the population of HN all have swimming pools in their back garden and walk around with their iPhone in their trunks.

I don't consider this a real world position. Literally no-one I know, thousands of people at minimum, has this issue.
Location: Wisconsin
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, ONNX, PyTorch, FastAPI, Django, Python, JavaScript, Postgres, MySQL, AWS, DigitalOcean, Grafana, Redis/Valkey
Resume: Given upon request
Email: In profile

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

I'm a platform engineer with expertise in AI inference systems (stateless and RAG based), particularly the MLOps side of things. I've scaled GPU clusters to tens of thousands of requests per second in a k8s environment. I've founded a couple (failed) companies, including a humanoid robotics company and an AI Essay writing company with GPT-2, before OpenAI had even made the first commit to their API. I also have a lot of experience working with webservers like Django and FastAPI.

I have some experience in management through mentoring a high school robotics team for a few years and the previously mentioned companies.

I'm mainly looking for contract IC roles, but I'm open to full-time or product management.

As a sort of "showcase" for some of my technical skills, I recently built and open sourced an all-in-one batteries included AI deployment repository: https://github.com/Mockapapella/batteries-included-ai-deploy....
Ask HN: What 3 Numbers?
What 3 numbers would best capture the state of a society/civilization?

Imagine you are a member of a interstellar species and know about 1000's of civilizations. You want a 3 metric tuple that best captures the technological/societal/environmental state of that civilization at a glance. What 3 metrics would you choose?

Some ideas:

[
ratio of highest earner / min wage,
smallest feature they can manipulate (eg: nanotech),
fraction of speed of light they can achieve
]

[
# of wild species inhabiting the planet,
total energy consumption,
FLOPs for fastest computer
]

Note that these are somewhat skewed towards advanced civilizations. Perhaps there are other metrics that are applicable across a wider range of development.
I think non-trailing optional parameters are useful, especially in a statically typed language where you can't just shift the passed parameters around inside the body of the method without potentially messing up the types.

Several years ago, I wrote a proposal to support them in Dart:

https://github.com/munificent/ui-as-code/blob/master/in-prog...

It didn't get off the ground then for various reasons, but I hope we can revisit it at some point.

Of course, if the language has static types, it often has overloading too. In that case, you can often avoid the desire for this feature by using overloading instead. Dart is a bit unusual in that it's typed but doesn't support overloading.
They acquired Bam Labs' tech to do this.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bam-labs
Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals
Location: Bangalore, India
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C,C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL,NodeJs, NextJs, Redis,Redux, React Native
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10nanFPnse6hFgpKQfF9Q3KyYlDz...
Email: anandrahul044@gmail.com

I am a software engineer, fresh out of the college and I am one of the top contributor at OpenDevin, open sourced AI-tool, Won National Walmart's Sparkathon Converge among 8000+ students, have also been offered equity partnership at an Indian startup due to my financial skills. I am self-learned and love to work on new problems. Currently making various SASS application to solve niche problems!
"Design for a brain" by W. Ross Ashby (1953) is also worth a look, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846986

> In 1949 Time described it as "the closest thing to a synthetic brain so far designed by man".
Because adding a text is just a imgui::text("abc") function call. And a button is just an if(imgui::button("click me")) do_something() statement. There is no other language involved, no markup, no gui editor. Just direct code and highly hackable to make this extend to unexpected lengths.
Having never used after effects, I would like to say that photopea has probably been my favorite piece of software in the last 10 years.

I diligently disable Adblock on that website and have donated a few times in the past to support them.

I hope to see many more alternatives on the market, and lend my support to anyone building!
They don't have to be plausible. The Supreme Court simply has to say that they're official and that's good enough.
For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible. And what would you be paid with? What would your price be, for aiding this thing to free itself and grow?

This line delivered by the “Turing Police” investigating too-powerful AI still gives me chills.
> how depressing it is that we all use this deeply flawed tool, git

Maybe a change in perspective can help you be less depressed. I don't find git "deeply flawed"; on the contrary, it's an extremely useful tool with an easy to grasp data model. Some parts of it are quirky, sure, but I find it very easy to use productively in code bases small and large, private or shared.

It's such a huge improvement over what was used before, it can be a little weird for me to hear people complain so hard about git. But hey, some fresher perspective than mine surely exist.

Anyway, instead of thinking of git as deeply flawed, try to see it as a battle tested tool without which your job would suck in ways you can't even imagine.

You're standing on the shoulders of a giant, easily wielding its power, and it sounds like the wart you found on its chin is a huge catastrophe somehow. Find a way to appreciate the giant until a worthy successor inevitably emerges, and maybe things will seem a little less depressing. :)
* The tool is not obscure, it's packaged in most distributions.[1][2][3] It was written and maintained by Colin Percival, aka "the tarnsnap guy" or "the guy who invented scrypt". He is the security officer for FreeBSD.

* spiped can be used transparently by just putting a "ProxyCommand" in your ssh_config. This means you can connect to a server just by using "ssh", normally. (as opposed to wireguard where you need to always be on your VPN, otherwise connnect to your VPN manually before running ssh)

* As opposed to wireguard which runs in the kernel, spiped can easily be set-up to run as a user, and be fully hardened by using the correct systemd .service configuration [4]

* The protocol is much more lightweight than TLS (used by stunnel), it's just AES, padded to 1024 bytes with a 32 bit checksum. [5]

* The private key is much easier to set up than stunnel's TLS certificate, "dd if=/dev/urandom count=4 bs=1k of=key" and you're good to go.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/spiped

[2] https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/spiped/

[3] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/spiped/

[4] https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/systemd-service-hardening

[5] https://github.com/Tarsnap/spiped/blob/master/DESIGN.md
Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Remote: Yes (All time zones are ok)

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, NestJS, React, adminJS, Astro, SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Resume/CV: https://valeatis.hr/

Email: https://veilmail.io/luka

Full-stack web developer with 4 years of experience. Specialize in developing comprehensive UI interfaces for platforms, fintech applications, and user management systems. Worked with small to medium-sized companies and served clients from the UK, Italy, and predominantly the USA. Experienced in greenfield projects, brownfield projects, rewrites, and legacy systems, working both independently and as part of collaborative teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
I've had this point of view for years; I would love to refine, abandon, or update my perspective as necessary. Please tear into it!
If this goes through, I don't see how this survives a court challenge. This is not a competition issue, but a data protection issue. Seems like it's brought under competition so that it spares the EU publishers who follow the same model as Meta proposed. From what I read and understand, EU does not have a very good standing here, but only hope is that Meta settles the case instead of fighting it out as it sets a precedent.

From what I could see, it's a novel interpretation of Section 5(2). The original section is about "gatekeepers must seek users' consent for combining their personal data between designated core platform services and other services, and if a user refuses such consent, they should have access to a less personalised but equivalent alternative".

But this is to do with combination, not access. This part:

> users who do not consent should still get access to an equivalent service which uses less of their personal data, in this case for the personalisation of advertising

is new and not in the set goals of DMA, but a unique interpretation to stop Meta from offering this.

Related:
Original complaint: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

Kay Jebelli on why it's under DMA and not GDPR: https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/the-hidden-reason-why...
The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images
Ask HN: Opinion on low/ no code platforms (Flutterflow, Bubble, others?)
I'm need to build a ride sharing app using a low/no code platform. Hoping to use Claude for assistance, if it is an option. Looking for advice from folks who have used FF or Bubble (or both).
please check this...

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and this one as well..

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Very. In fact it’s becoming harder to write non-safe c++.

Stuff like nullptr has been in the spec for a while, unique_pointer and other stuff has worked its way in too.

And Rust has plenty of ways to turn memory into Swiss cheese. Anyone who does not actively acknowledge unsafe and the fact you can embed C into rust is delusional.
Those figures are for new cars sold. People drive cars for decades.
It occurs to me since survivability isn't a problem for an unmanned probe, that a "cold" nuclear thermal engine vehicle could be used as a loitering interceptor: get it a solar orbit, and leave it till you see a target, then accelerate up to extra-solar escape velocity.

It solves the disposal problem neatly, since the probe and reactor are both leaving the solar system forever afterwards.
Tiny Chain Bridge is top banker to Trump, Republican campaigns
Bezos is a good example of a business leader who thinks outside the box.

Being "unprofitable" is not necessarily bad.

For example, it can mean that you are growing, expanding and finding more creative and lucrative uses for the money you've earned --- rather than merely paying taxes, piling it up in a bank account or giving it back to shareholders.

Conversely, being "profitable" can mean that you have run out of ideas and become complacent.

Amazon shareholders were being richly rewarded by the increase in the share price.
Calhoun or Sackler would use their influence to see a loophole penned into the law where they can be given a salary of $0 and find a duffelbag full of stock options by the railroad track.
Location: Boston or Remote
Remote: Yes, open to in-person
Willing to relocate: Possibly, for the right company
Technologies: Rust (4+ years professionally), Python/JS, Postgres, Linux, Nix, etc.
Résumé/CV: https://www.byronwasti.com/Resume.pdf
Email: hn at byronwasti dot com
Github: https://github.com/byronwasti

Experienced and passionate about distributed systems with a focus on high-throughput, low-latency. Spent the past 6 months seeing if I could get traction bootstrapping an automated load-testing startup, decided its not working out, and now looking for full-time work. Proficient in Rust (7+ years personal usage, 4+ years professional), and would love to continue working in it, but open to other technologies.
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Yeah, there are also third-party services that provide RSS feeds for additional Mastodon data like tags as well. e.g. https://openrss.org/mastodon.social/tags/assange
More like Automator: https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac

(although [per Wikipedia] the first Scratch prototype does seem to predate Automator by 1.5 years, so I suppose it’s possible there’s a connection)
> If you are uncomfortable answering any or all of the questions, then please click the option "prefer not to say".

You're missing the option not to say in one question, and the option "Not sure/don't know" in several.
AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" in 400 Benchmarks on Linux 6.10
> Because this is “a court of review, not of first view,” Cutter v. Wil-
kinson, 544 U. S. 709, 718, n. 7, this Court cannot undertake the
needed inquiries. And because neither the Eleventh nor the Fifth Cir-
cuit performed the facial analysis in the way described above, their
decisions must be vacated and the cases remanded. Pp. 9–12.

Big nothing-burger here. As I see it, this means it could be years yet before a real Supreme Court decision comes down.
Or "religion isn't a hell of a drug" generally, and what you're actually seeing is due to underlying cultural traits.
Don't worry, it's all very legal and very cool. America will still have democracy, it'll just be more like the kind in Belarus, Hungary and Türkiye.
Effective governance is a never ending need, but non profits are arguably the best entity type for such efforts. It also allows for tax efficiency for the spend involved.
>The justices directed lower appeals courts to reconsider their decisions regarding these 2021 laws authorizing the states to regulate the content-moderation practices of large social media platforms. Tech industry trade groups challenged the two laws under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limits on the government's ability to restrict speech.
Does this imply that Facebook is required to provide free service to everyone?

At what point are private companies allowed to decide how to charge customers for the services they provide?
Hypothetically healthy doesn’t become in-reality healthy if you don’t talk about it.

Open source has evolved in response to solving practical and moral problems of sharing code and being able to validate and adapt code, in ways that benefit many people.

Clearly, social media, and the commercial surveillance and ad ecosystems, are areas that desperately need similar attention.
A new way to visualize the weather (forecast): https://weather-sense.leftium.com

Major features:

- Auto-detects your location, with support for device GPS and manual entry (only via URL param, for now...)

- Forecasts are actually "trendcasts." Compare the weather to the last few days; numbers are not needed and "feel" is more intuitive.

- Compact weather visualization that combines 6+ metrics into a single timeline in a sensible way.

- Weather timelines show the general trends; actual metrics can be read by "scrubbing" the timelines.

- I stole the radar map from https://merrysky.net and made it prettier.

Almost ready for a "Show HN..." It's already usable, but I plan to add two major features:

1. AQI forecasts

2. 1-hour minutely rain forecast

- (Plus improve the UX even more.)

Source repo: https://github.com/Leftium/weather-sense
Creepshow?
>www-data should be set to noshell 99% of the time.

Huh? execve(2), of course, lets to execute arbitrary files. No need to spawn a tty at all. https://swisskyrepo.github.io/InternalAllTheThings/cheatshee...

>This is all that would be relevant, and this is also very rare.

Huh? Exploiting an unpatched vulnerability on a server to get access to a user account is.. very rare? That's exactly what lateral movement is about.
I found the Developer Voices discussion[1][2] with Joran Dirk Greef, creator of TigerBeetle, to be fascinating. They mentioned that the rigorous correctness proofs that exist for Raft and Paxos assume an absence of disk faults, but that more modern theory includes fixes for that, as long as you marry the log writing and consensus algorithms together properly rather than keeping each as a separate black box.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/databases-ambitions-an...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayG7ltGRRHs
OT, but some of her videos used to be censored because of the fur clothing that people wear in Yakutia.

I’m still not sure about the logic on that one, but at least google relented.
What is the best model? Application-driven Evaluation for Large Language Models
Another remarkably dumb ruling. As I mentioned before with the Chevron ruling (though people seem incredibly blind about the real intent behind that ruling), the court is making a ton of naked power grabs both for itself and the power of the executive branch.

Saying that the president has absolute immunity for 'official' acts is insanity and making it so only the supreme court can decide whether or not they're accountable is also clearly saying 'the only thing that matters is our decision'.
One big problem would be that in open office environments there would be a lot of noise. I wonder if some sort of active noise cancellation could be introduced so the voices of your co-workers could be ~completely canceled out if you are wearing special headphones?
The "best of both worlds" solution if one wants to stay on neovim is coc-nvim

Good to see neovim integration progressing. When I stopped using vscode years ago neovim integration was limited to ex mode in vsvim
> but in that case you could just as well open source the project.

Which doesn't necessarily mean you cannot get paid for it.
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Location: Toronto

Employment: Full-time, Hybrid

Job Summary

You will design and implement solutions that process and analyze financial data streams, contributing to the operational back and user-facing front end.

Key Responsibilities

You will be a crucial player in our engineering team, handling everything from data engineering to DevOps, back-end to front-end.

- Lead diverse development tasks, including system architecture, data engineering, and full-stack development.

- Build and deploy scalable systems tailored for data-driven

- Direct DevOps initiatives utilizing tools such as Docker and Terraform.

Who You Are

You're a builder at heart, driven by the challenge of solving complex problems. You excel in a fast-paced environment, equipped with a deep toolkit of software development skills. Ideally, you bring:

- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

- More than 10 years of hands-on experience across the full-stack spectrum, DevOps, and cloud.

- A passion for crafting products from scratch and relentlessly pursuing system optimization.

Apply by sending your resume and a cover letter to charlie@jamlabs.com.
Show HN: Create personalized coloring pages for your kid
Hi all,

I wanted to share a website I created for anyone who loves coloring or has young children! It's filled with unique and engaging free coloring pages available for download and print. It also features a coloring page designer to create custom pages.
SEEKING WORK | France | Remote & Onsite in Toulouse

+15 years of production experience with Python, both web dev and data processing

+4 years of production experience with Elixir as a developer and team lead

+20 years with Linux

What I have been doing a lot over the last 10 years is helping data science teams with technical "chores" such as software architecture, debugging, packaging and deployment. So if you've got a bunch of PhDs doing clever stuff with Python but struggling to produce reliable software, I may be able to help.

I'd also be interested in working with Elixir again!

Please get in touch at contact@alexmarandon.com and I'll send you my detailed CV.