skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: San Jose, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies:
Backend: Python, C, Java, SQL, Go
Frontend: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Angular, React Native
Platforms: Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Firebase, IBM DB2, Heroku, AWS services
Résumé / CV: given upon request
Email: noureddin (dot) bakir @ gmail .com
GitHub: noureddinbakir
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noureddinbakir/

Hi, I'm Nour, a software engineer with a strong background in backend development and experience in frontend projects. I've worked on large-scale systems processing millions of ads per minute and have a keen interest in building efficient, scalable applications. I'm currently looking for opportunities where I can contribute to impactful projects and further hone my skills. Feel free to reach out to discuss potential opportunities!
JUPUS GmbH | Senior Software Engineer / Emerging Leader | Cologne | REMOTE

We are JUPUS, one of Germany's fastest-growing legal tech startups, and we are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer - Emerging Leader to join our team. This position offers an exciting opportunity to grow into a leadership role, providing technical guidance and mentorship to our team.

Our stack is Python/Django in the backend and TypeScript/Vue.js in the frontend. Looking for someone who is full stack and can assist leading a team of 6 engineers. Salary is up to 84k/year.

Apply here https://join.com/companies/jupus/11486463 or send me an email at jannis.gebauer@jupus.de
They can model only continuous functions, more specifically any continuous function on compact subsets of ℝⁿ. They can approximate functions to an arbitrary level of accuracy, given sufficient neurons
Nobody writes and maintains fully individual HTML pages, everyone uses partials/templating with server-side code (perl, php, python, ruby, js) since about 1999.

The only difference between SSG and dynamic backends is the point in time that you're generating cacheable static content.
There's a strong argument that the money would have been more effective on local mass transit projects since they'd see more immediate use and are easier to complete.
Mapping Disease: John Snow and Cholera
Have you considered opening a staging or experimental branch on a subdomain perhaps? I think people would definitely be interested in testing out new features before they're released without hosting it themself, and I believe you said hosting Pikimov is very cheap.
40MB seems like a weird requirement. If it’s under 1GB, I don’t think most people really care any more about executable size. Memory usage is still relevant, but 1GB is going to be less than 1% of disk usage for almost everyone.
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C# / .NET (Core), ASP.NET Core, SQL, Entity Framework, SQL Server, TypeScript, JavaScript, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://vladimir.dev

Email: hi [at] vladimir.dev
Normally I'm puzzled when people say "this word reminds me of this other bad word" or "this looks like that" (my brain doesn't really work like that), but in this case, I have to say that it does have the same feeling.

Designing our new company brand: Meta - https://design.facebook.com/stories/designing-our-new-compan...

Apple AI logo is intended to look unthreatening, and non-anthropomorphic - https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/17/apple-ai-logo/

I hate to be a peanut gallery person, but I really hope they reconsider the logo!

The new logo doesn't connote "ladybird" or "ladybug" at all ... it seems like there's obvious room to make it more distinct with that kind of association
this is ridiculous...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240701163334/https://news.ycom...
(European social-democrat here)

I don't think state regulation of private business is an ideology in itself. It's not an all or nothing choice. You may want it for some aspects, not for others. Social democrats tend to use regulation to protect little folk, conservatives see it as a power tool.
The handbook for utilitarians prescribes that the life of one cow is worth the life of seven chickens
My web server is a public s3 bucket :(
I do agree with you: one can absolutely apply the scientific method to their own mind, the subjective experience of consciousness is a largely consistent source of information, and that's all you need for the scientific method. Applying those discoveries to other people is unlikely to be correct. But you're arguing a tautology, you've already accepted the axiom of other minds, and you're working backwards from that premise to find evidence supporting the axiom.

The point of solipsism isn't to actually reject other minds. I'd argue that's quite a useless belief to hold, it provides no predictive power and no additional ways to engage with the world around one self. But there are any number of other equally valid interpretations of the only evidence one has access to: the fact that you yourself are conscious and that you receive input from a remarkably consistent source of information.

Not all of those interpretations provide the same tools of thought, but some are equivalent in power: For instance you could reject other minds and instead posit that your perception of them is a sophisticated construct created by your own consciousness to simulate interaction with a complex and consistent world. Alternatively, you might consider that other minds are simply facets of your own mind, reflecting your subconscious processes. These constructs are similarly axiomatic, they're unfalsifiable.

A lot of the rest of your argument feels like a straw-man to me. I don't fundamentally disagree with you—I also accept the existence of other minds because it provides predictive power and useful tools of thought. But writing-off people who question this axiom as "irrational", you're just defining "rationality" to include the axiom of the existence of other minds. And "irrational" is a loaded term when used to describe a person or their beliefs.
Biography of a Great Pyramid Casing Stone (2016) [pdf]
Yes, really.

This would be a great point if internal combustion cars didn't have tires, but they do.
Their down weighted method is odd.

It causes stories to essentially die. I saw one get upvotes which turned into going lower down the list until it fell off.

Paste the post id after id=

https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=
Is Shridi Sai Baba a religion?
Not at all—more lucrative to say what people want to hear, raise a bunch of money, and lose, than it is to get in office and need to violate your campaign promises to appease the donors with steering influence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/s-ha...
If you want to learn the arcane ways of m4 (probably already available on your system if you're ever had to build from source a project that uses autotools) you can use the include function without rolling your own with a bit of sed or awk.

https://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/m4_8.html
It should kind of jump out for not being an "actually do something useful" syscall.

Without knowing what your program does, what your syscalls say to me are:

* why are so many files opened but not closed?

* that's probably too much epoll_ctl; try optimistically performing the real syscall once before actually registering. Or, under some circumstances, do a quick few-fd `poll` since it is stateless.

* is mmap really a win here? Unless you need its swap-like behavior, read is often faster (and it avoids ToCToU). Also, why are there fewer `fstat`s than `munmap`s?

* why is there an ioctl so prominent; what is it even doing?

* that's a lot of reading but no writing ... I guess maybe it's split across multiple lower syscalls but it's still weird.

(of course, all these can have legitimate answers, but you need to know them)
Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Remote: Okay, Hybrid preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VQgn5eGzsIHFwuMUexYgtjAD...

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Mid-Senior developer, 7+ years experience, mostly focused on the backend/API side. Ranged from Google to a small blockchain startup (Luther Systems).
Really, my art site has 1600 detail pages, and I wrote my own site generator (in Swift) for it. You think I would want to write all of them by hand?

Sure, I could have a dynamic site (ROR, or Express or whatever) but static is easier to serve, and changes are quickly diffed except once a month when the structure is updated.

If was just doing a small site, sure, but anything substantial requires something better.
Even then it would be a terrible point considering the far greater problem is CO2 emissions.
wood makes sense to pay for. wood doesn't grow on trees. software works a bit differently though it should also be paid for
I know this is a naive view, but in an efficient economy of scale where we are cutting costs to produce a good, the lower the costs, the higher the efficiency to produce that good.

Depending on the efficiency of the economy, if something is expensive, it required more energy or time or resources to produce. Producing (and buying) organic small batch things yields lower _net_ efficiency than mass-produced stuff.

Now, increasing efficiency may mean that _net_ impact is minimized, but tradeoffs are pretty wild. For example, we trade off pollution for cheaper energy production, etc...

Of course this is only fully realized in a spherical economy in a vaccum, but still, some of this is applicable to the real world.
There's also a great book on it too: https://www.amazon.ca/Losing-Signal-Spectacular-Rise-BlackBe...
The scenario I had in mind is simple:

- publish content (music, book, blog post, whatever).

- content gets automatically plagiarized, so that it's not an exact duplicate anymore

- now you'll have to sue and win in court to claim your rights to the content

So the same scenario as with human plagiarizing, but at a scale that makes it harder for authors to claim their copyright or argue against "fair use".

> There's too much supply. But that's a good thing for people in general

No, I don't want to listened AI-generated slop "in the style of" my favorite artists.

Music is a great example. For small excerpts and some background listening, I might not notice at first. But after a while, I do.

Same with text: I have not ever read a single piece of original content worth reading that was "created by AI", do you?

The "supply" here is not getting bigger because of AI. It is diluted.

What do you prefer to read, a StackOverflow answer from 2012 with some edits afterwards, or a translated sunmarization with subtle errors and no attribution?

To address your question:

> To help me understand you, imagine if AI were as good as it is but somehow not trained on anyone else's material without their explicit permission. Would everything be OK then? It's still undermining an indie author or musician's ability to earn money from their own work.

I have not yet heard any AI output that was interesting music on its own to me. Interesting sounds and loops maybe, compositions: not so much.

I find AI as a tool for creators more interesting.

What I am worried about is that this won't happen. That it will only be used to plagiarize at scale, and replace creativity with a mixture of randomness and interpolation of already present ideas, optimized for commercial exploitation.

In this scenario, everything that you put on the internet will be merged into mass-produced culture products by large companies, before you even have any chance to try and claim any kind of copyright.

In the short term, it's unimportant then if your work would be used as input/context or training data.

> If AI acted like that, it would be even better, and perhaps artist would no longer be a job but more like a hobby - like gardening or making model railways.

I used to argue against copyright in a similar way. Money is a bad motive anyway, etc

But this is not practical. Cultural progress and interesting works are rarely done as a leisure activity of people who have to work a regular job full-time.
Is this something, as a tech enthusiast that's no expert, I can easily fine tune are run?

My use case would be fine tuning on technical docs. Specific news, 2 years of blog posts, primary source material, and Twitter explainer thread. I want to gather all the niche information of a topic from the last two years, dump it into this and have an LLM that is a subject-matter expert.
Automatically Pre-Pick Tables for AI When Working with Large Database Schemas
Can you please add ONSITE to your post (assuming remote work is not allowed), as requested in the parent post?
I have to agree. we have way too many layers of abstraction in front end development these days. you may be able to generate a static site quickly but good luck coming back to it after 10 years.

how many of the dependencies will still be maintained? will it still even build?

back in the day tools like jQuery were a godsend for ironing out the browser incompatibility but now standards are much better.

well supported tools like that were a great abstraction point to help simplify the codebase and provide consistent functionality in an ever changing landscape of web standards and browser compatibility.

today we have the opposite problem. we have a incomprehensible mess of middleware designed to help out in some way or another but when you add it all together you end up with a 10MB hello world with 3,000 npm dependencies.

recently I decided to write a PWA using only hand rolled HTML and JavaScript and it was a pleasure. the only dependency I had to add was Nosleep.js for safari. it was extremely satisfying compared to dealing with a more modern toolchain.
Location: NY
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Email: hnwhowantstobehired@mutable.cc
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/peterwwillis
GitHub: github.com/peterwwillis
Technologies: AWS, Ansible, Apache, Auth0, Bash, C, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, CFengine, Celery, CircleCI, Cisco IOS, DataDog, Docker, Drone, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, FastAPI, Flask, Google Cloud/GCP, Git, GitHub Actions, Go, GraphDB, Helm, Java, Jenkins, KVM, Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, NFS, NMAP, NewRelic, Nginx, OAuth2/OIDC, OpenShift, OpenVPN, Perl, PostgreSQL, Puppet, Python, QualiSystems CloudShell, RabbitMQ, Redis, Riak, Samba, Snort, Software Development Lifecycle/SDLC, Splunk, TCP/IP, Terraform, VMware, Vagrant, Wireguard, Wireshark, Zookeeper, Linux diagnosis tools, All common network protocols

Principal DevOps, Platform, Systems, Site Reliability Engineer. 19+ yrs experience building/running systems (mostly Linux), writing software (mostly python/perl/c/bash/go), working with dev teams, in-cloud & on-premise, for startups & enterprises.

I'd really love to work with a high-performing team on challenging problems, but I'd also be happy to help a team level up its performance and product delivery from a systems perspective. Motivated most by industries/products/services that help people & the environment. Also motivated to replace crappy old tooling with modern best practice tools, improving security & reliability, reducing pain/toil, and increasing productivity.
> If you ship alongside your binary a bundle of eg .o files

You might even be able to use partial linking (ld -r) to ship a single .o file instead of a bunch of them.
1GB for each app accumulates really quickly. 40MB is really low, but I wouldn’t be happy with 1GB per app personally. Anything below 500-600MB is fine.

I want my disk space for large medias, not for a desktop app
That is why the government should help the researcher and the tycoon do the right thing by shutting down the AI labs and banning research, teaching and publishing about frontier AI capabilities.
It's control volumes all the way down. Look up "Finite Volume Method" in CFD.
Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go/Golang, Python, Java, C, web dev, SQL, git, Linux, Docker, cloud hosting, distrib sys, threading, concurrency, perf & scalability, some ML (plain math, queries, Bayesian models/inference, OLS regression, game actors, data-driven strategy, real-time planning, constraints, rules)

Résumé/CV:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-Mi...

Email:
groglogic+hn2024july@gmail.com

decades of prog. solid fundamentals. problem solving. comm. (native US English)

tech lead/architect. SRE-ish. solved hard legacy bugs & shipped, repeatedly. author of cheatsheet on perf

highlights:

* ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threading, db conns)

* research & due diligence for US State Dept to bolster public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo

* game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built & ran small sw biz

* recent client: (de facto) sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. deliv new code, benchmarks, a diagram & report demo-ing how to upgrade perf & uptime of their soft-realtime, $-sensitive, ad-bidding backend (where ns diffs impacted $)

* LatLearn: latency instrum & reporting lib (FOSS)
Yeah I mean if an information source is so low signal-to-noise ratio I need to have it summarized, there are probably better sources. And if it's actually high quality, the summarization is lossy.

There's no point to doing this.
Fractional AI | Founding Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | Full-time

Who: We're Fractional AI -- the dev shop for difficult enterprise applications of genAI.

Looking for: You! Full-stack founding engineers (5+ years of experience, 150k-210k cash, meaningful equity, 99% healthcare premium coverage )

How: apply https://jobs.lever.co/fractional or reach out to me (ben@ fractional.ai)

Why we may be a great fit:

-High impact AI projects - we work on companies' hardest problems to get genAI into production (in the same quarter you might build an AI phone agent for one customer and automate a complex workflow for another customer)

-Culture of a startup but substantive problems to solve that impact millions of users

- Curious, humble, banter-y in-person team comprised of multi-time founders

Why we may not be the best fit:

-Excellence isn't really really important to you (this is less of a 'move fast and break things' role, though we respect that ethos!)

-Predictability is important to you - we work across customers, tech stacks, industries etc

-Interacting with customers isn't your thing
I guess this is now the established view of the Chevron decision, by being repeated thousands of times.

But the actual decision is just that when there is no clear rule in the law, the federal agency can no longer unilaterally decide what they want it to be.
Lsm trees also need a log, right?
It's a very long argument and not easily structured into claims. It takes a lot of time to engage with such arguments.
Didn’t realize this was paywalled. Sorry. I’ll leave it up.
Location: Washington State
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: CMS, CRM, ESPs, Documentation, SEO, SSGs, AI Tools
Résumé/CV: https://blueferret.consulting/bfc-content-portfolio/
Email: in résumé

15+ year content developer, tech writer, and SEO looking to branch out. I'm curious about AI research, ethics, and quality assurance. The rich knowledge base between my ears is ready for its next challenge.
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on a backend for Kepler.gl and testing it with public datasets from BigQuery. I thought it might be interesting for the HN audience to see what kind of free spatial datasets exist in BigQuery marketplace and how they can be visualised.

Share more datasets and maps in the comments!
So many "Security Researchers" are just throwing ZAP at websites and dumping the result into the security@ mail, because there might be minor security improvements by setting yet another obscure browser security header for cases that might not even be applicable.

Or there is no real consideration if that's actually an escalation of context. Like, "Oh if I can change these postgres configuration parameters, I can cause a problem", or "Oh if I can change values in this file I can cause huge trouble". Except, modifying that file or that config parameter requires root/supervisor access, so there is no escalation because you have full access already anyhow?

I probably wouldn't have to look at documentation too much to get postgres to load arbitrary code from disk if I have supervisor access to the postgres already. Some COPY into some preload plugin, some COPY / ALTER SYSTEM, some query to crash the node, and off we probably go.

But yeah, I'm frustrated that we were forced to route our security@ domain to support to filter out this nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if we miss some actually important issue unless demonstrated like this, but it costs too much time otherwise.
I suppose if I were posting 5 times a day rather than 5 times a month doing the below would get tedious,

<item>
<title>It's not that hard</title>
<link>http://www.superkuh.com/this-link-doesnt-exist</link>
<description>This is an example of how quickly I can add a new item to my RSS feed.</description>
</item>
Medplum (https://www.medplum.com/) | Founding Developer Experience Engineer | SF | Full time

Medplum (YC S22) is an open source, API first, healthcare developer platform. "Headless EHR", we take care of the security, compliance, and regulatory burdens of healthcare software development. Well funded and growing fast.

We're hiring an amazing Dev-Ex / Dev-Rel engineer to delight customers, build sample apps, and promote the Medplum platform.

Tech stack: TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS

Learn more: https://www.medplum.com/careers/devex-engineer
I've always felt it implied when this is discussed, but you are correct that it was not mentioned above. Wind turbines kill birds so wind farms are bad. But the alternative isn't that we just don't use less electricity. And Wind farms may kill more bald eagles than coal mines, but as a resident of an area where coal was king, I would disagree if anyone said they are less harmful overall.

There is a term for this type of comparison but it is escaping me right now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edLnZgF9mUg
I recommend this MIT opencourseware video to anyone interested in this topic
Our World in Data Argues the other way (https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales) in the first paragraph. With more scientific sources (I’m not saying science is perfect, but the Guardian and Washington Post also not.)

Pollution wise, I think the argument is pretty straightforward. The battery is about 200 liters. So about 200 liters plus some manufacturing costs. After this, there is a chance that the energy comes from renewable or nuclear sources. Conversely, at most 10% of the many hundreds to thousands of liters that go in a petrol car are renewable. And most people even avoid bio petrol because it’s bad for the engine. The biggest part of the oil is not renewable nor shipped to the destination via renewable transport methods. Anyone arguing that EVs are somehow more polluting in all kinds of ways, like tire pollution all of a sudden, are probably being bamboozled by the oil & gas industry.
Fifth and Eleventh Circuits.

The districts are the actual courts at the lowest level; the circuits are the way they're organized into appeals courts.
On the other hand, they eat tons of krill. Bringing back mammoths, however, gives us decent portions from an herbivore, one that I imagine was delicious!
Location: London

Remote: UK timezone

Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity

Technologies: Go, microservices, APIs, micro apps

Resume: https://github.com/asim

Email: asim [at] mu [dot] xyz

Most recent work https://mu.xyz

Prior to that https://micro.dev
I disagree. A bunch of founders out there have a string of failures surrounded by their successes.

Here is a list of a few of them: https://press.farm/startups-fail-founders-bounced-back-and-b...

Some of these founders had two or more failed businesses before reaching success.
That’s a great list thank you