skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Quality Assurance Manager (m/f/d) to become part of one of our Fulfillment Tech Enabling Team at ABOUT YOU!

Our Fulfillment Tech Team is responsible for efficient and stable system solutions connecting our internal systems with external logistics-driven systems, e.g. warehouse management systems. With a great sense of logistical business processes and deep knowledge of our systems, they ensure the processing of thousands of parcels per day and a smooth customer experience within the fulfillment process.

What you will do

- Perform high-quality manual and automated testing for our middleware backend systems connected to our 3rd party logistics providers

- Introducing standard processes for manual and automated testing to ensure ongoing high quality in deployments & features

- Work together with developers on testing complex issues, working directly with databases & APIs

- Being able to reproduce and provide insights into issues & bug reports by analyzing logs & monitoring

- Coordinate testing efforts with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of quality features

- Join on tech conceptions in order to support finding efficient tech solutions in complex environments

Who you are

- You have at least 3 years of experience in quality assurance, testing, and debugging of the backend complex tech projects

- You are experienced in manual testing (explorative and destructive) as well as automated testing with great attention to detail

- You are able to get a quick grasp of complex technical systems

- You easily build up knowledge of business processes and you keep the business value of the processes in mind

- You possess very good communication skills and the ability to handle different stakeholders

- You speak and write English fluently

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU.
We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture.
Another good property: it's trivial to make tag value autocompletion in query builder. A regular structure forces to partially evaluate a query to get meaningful results. With a metric prefix index it could be perfectly fine to return full scan results.
It's already there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
Figma migrated its compute platform from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) in less than 12 months with minimal customer impact. The company decided to adopt Kubernetes to run its containerized workloads primarily to take advantage of the large ecosystem supported by the CNCF. Additionally, the move was dictated by pursuing cost savings, improved developer experience, and increased resiliency.
The domain appears to be flagged as "gambling" under Cisco Umbrella service. (Yes, I clicked on the link at work.)
Advertising revenue went down while subscription revenue increased and more users joined the platform since Musks takeover.[1]

The advertisement boycott is real but could be reversed restorating the initial value.

1. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
We maintain a two projects for a customer where data for the applications is held in secondary databases, can't count how many sync issues we've had with these projects. Right now there's is a continuous sync that processes tons of redundant data (with a certain latency due to the amount of data).

CDC would enable the processes to focus what's changed instead of continually processing the entire database.

I feel that DB support isn't necessarily the biggest issue for adopting these things, rather it's that it's somewhat more complicated to debug event driven systems for "regular" developers rather than request-response or loop based code.

In that sense delivering the events via webhooks is a good idea since it allows them to work with their regular request-response debugging tools.
EA is such a shitshow. Volkswagen committed two crimes against the US government: First they got caught falsifying their diesel emissions, and as penance the USG forced them to build the EA network.

Second, after VW built the EA network they allocated basically no money to maintain it. AFAIK the USG has not found a way to punish them for that. It's not clear to me that the USG is even aware this second crime was committed.

EDIT: Based on comment from @cure below, my information may need updating.
This is my concern as well, it becomes a weapons race towards the most idiot-sized vehicle possible, since a reasonably sized vehicle will put you at a survival disadvantage.

I live in Denmark, where this problem is yet very much in its infancy, but it's a clear trend. I hope regulation catches up. Some kind of bounding-box volume and weight restriction would be nice.
As the company or as a mentor? How big is the company? How many interns are you expecting? Are you asking about the recruiting funnel or just the day to day?

There are a lot of resources from companies about the internship project, less so on everything else.

You might want to look into hiring someone who has organized these programs before.
NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion
Embracing AI Without Losing the Human Touch
If Revolut is available in your country, create a new virtual card for each subscription and when you can't/don't want to pay them anymore just cancel the card in Revolut.
The Pre-Insulated Pipes Market has been witnessing significant growth, driven by the rising demand for efficient thermal insulation solutions in various industries. These pipes, known for their energy-saving capabilities, are widely used in district heating and cooling systems, industrial processes, and the transportation of hot and cold fluids. As industries continue to focus on energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprints, the demand for pre-insulated pipes is expected to rise substantially.
Any free online YouTube front ends?
I am on an iPod touch second gen, and I want a simple alternative that works with ancient safari. All the functionality I want is search and play, maybe even see comments. I am on iOS 4.2.1, and I am making this post on this iPod because this website works.
The official YouTube client is too old, and ancient safari can't load the website.
This seems to come from a place that "learning virtual environments is too much work". I do not agree with that premise. Having a lab where you introduce environments and the command line (which you can do in a single class for the types of students Paul is talking about) is not a big deal and to me is a good use of time.
AI tool maps out cell metabolism with precision
The telecom situation in Canada is ridiculous. Even in Greater Vancouver, the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Canada and the 34th in North America, there are dead zones everywhere with major providers. I'm in a suburban development that was mostly built in the last 5-10 years, and there still aren't any towers near here so my bedroom and foyer have no reception (not 1 bar, I mean my phone says "no service, you must be in the wilderness"). I have to stand by a window to make calls. And this is a wood-frame building on flat terrain, next to two major highways.
eink display with 8 colors should be perfect for coding. Just good enough colors to highlight terminal or code editor. The refresh rate is fine for cursor based UIs.
I have noticed that sometime in the last decade the message of "it's okay to have a disability" has kind of morphed into, "it's okay to not be a functioning member of society because of your disability".

Maybe it's just because I'm getting older, but I do see less resilience in college students today versus the start of my career.
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I was a bit surprised to not see Infisical mentioned more often.
Both will get you where you want to go, but I don't think the usecase for perl and awk are the same.

I reach for awk when my bash-scripts get a bit messy, perl is/was for when I want to build a small application (or nowdays python).

But both perl and python require cpan/pip to get the most out of and with awk, I just nead awk.
Discord's back end is amazing and they've blogged about a lot of it over the years (https://hn.algolia.com?query=%22How%20Discord%22). Not as smooth sailing on the front end though, and unfortunately they threaten to ban accounts using alternative clients, though there have been several (https://hn.algolia.com?query=Discord%20client).

Discord is good enough for most users and since it was one of the first to fully leverage WebRTC in-browser for voice chat (without requiring an account), the network effect is almost impossible to overcome at this point. This is incredibly unfortunate as closed chat ecosystems are an information black hole (except possibly when user generated content is licensed to the highest bidder for LLM training, what a gold mine!)

PS. It's worth mentioning in any Discord discussion with the (though the usual "could get banned" caveat applies): it is possible to export from Discord using https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
You just described how Tesla supercharging works.
is there an inverse for hypochondria? and if so, how would it manifest?
i haven't made much yet but ig, just don't give up and keep trying and on the side keep an eye to see what works etc. why complicate things, i don't think there's a formula. it's only fair for you to understand the rules of the game after you played it enough times etc.
Memory Breakthrough: Helical Magnets Pave the Way for Next-Gen Storage
Yeah maybe something like that. You'd want some international body to give it legitimacy, maybe have it run by the scandinavians as the British track record and some have mentioned has its blemishes, and you'd need some amount of western military so if local warlords started killing people they could retaliate with himars or fighter jets or some such. And an understanding that they'd support local democracy and be prepared to go home when no longer wanted. Perhaps by referendum - if 50% of the locals wanted the foreigners gone it would be done. Rather than say the Afghan situation where they just disappear at some random point leaving a mess.
I don't see any use for X when we have governments that tell us what the truth really is.
Thanks for sharing your views, these are definitely insightful and valid points. Infosec can never be overstated, and it was perhaps a bit naive of me to just think "treating it seriously" would be enough.

To argue against both the points you made though, there are reverse ETL platforms like Hightouch and Census today which 1. have specific architectures to make data movement from a central warehouse to third-party SaaS platforms seamless and easy, and 2. also access the company's data stores directly. What's the difference between what they're doing, and this hypothetical third-party unifying data integrations?
Honestly, a port to a modern architecture, with more standard looking characters (like using # for comments instead of ~ and \n for newline instead of ! ) would be pretty interesting... It's amazing what that people used to be able to do with such limitations. 2k! I can barely make a CRUD app fit in 2G
> When do we get rid of the traditional finance mental models from history like we are religious mental models from history?

Customers need to stop buying from companies that are publicly listed. Publicly listed companies are designed for the next quarter - cutting corner is the name of the game.

Also see: Boeing, GE, IBM, and recently Meta products that are basically unusable.
Ask HN: Thinking about open-sourcing my paid software
Hi startup experts, I work on Lokal.so for 4 month , but there is another thing I'm need to focus on

now, I really need a suggestion

What I'm gonna do with Lokal is:

1. Making it open source but with BSL License
2. Making it free for personal use (non-profit related)
3. License key needed if you are going to use the software for commercial/profit-related purpose.
4. The cloud version is still there
5. Offer the enterprise version

after that I'm going to move on another thing while I can just wait for Lokal sales

now, is this all are the "correct" way? or there is another better path?

Your comments really means a lot to me
I think most of the news media has long switched to IPTC meta data.
This is not my claim.
He emptied an entire crypto exchange onto a thumb drive
- https://archive.is/H9Xcv#selection-595.0-595.76
There is weight restriction, 3500 kg albeit that is too much already. I would go just with strict limit on energy consumption, fuel specific one. Effectively stop too large EVs too.
LiquidStack says its new CDU can chill more than 1MW of AI compute
FOSS solutions like Keycloak are absolutely capable but it completely ignores the "tax" you pay in terms of maintenance and setup. For smaller teams, it's not feasible at all to keep something like that up-to-date and running smoothly (i.e. no downtime)
I don't really think it's possible to get rid of the finance mental models. Maybe momentarily at the best -- and that's why excellent engineers leave when "the company becomes too big". Everyone living in the real world has to think about his/her own financials and companies are obliged to do that too.
A friend of mine was on a UK jury for a rape case.

During the trial, every single piece of misinformation regarding rape was echoed by the jury. "She wanted it", "If she hadn't wanted it her body would have rejected it", and "That's not rape, if that's rape then what my husband's been doing to me for 20 years is rape", were all voiced by the jury at one point or another.

Despite copious amounts of evidence, including video evidence, the man went free.

I'm not sure how to fix the problem with the judicial system, but it's very, very clear that there is one. How can a system where criminals go free be called "justice"?

Edit: An additional nice little statistic here is that within the UK, criminal drug possession is overwhelmingly prosecuted at much, much higher rates than robbery, mugging, etc. IIRC it's around 20% for possession and only 5% for theft, violence, arson or house invasion.
> The Swedish government’s report proposed that the apathetic children were from “holistic cultures,” where it is “difficult to draw boundaries between the individual’s private sphere and the collective domain.” They were sacrificing themselves for their family by losing consciousness. “Even if no direct encouragement or directive is given,” the report said, “many children raised with holistic thinking may nonetheless act according to the group’s ‘unspoken’ rules.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/the-trauma-of-...
Agree on the sentiment, though there's quite a lot of hostnames being called on that page, including Google Tag Manager, etc etc.

Giving these large tech companies all the data they could ever need is part of the problem for sure. There are plenty alternatives that can be used which at least is a meaningful course of action to promote diversity away from big tech.
I use the Sublime text one as an extension for VSCode, out of habit
still offline
Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die
It indeed does. Yet, the question remains why so many women who have been raped are not taken seriously by police as they try to report the crime. This is injustice way before the trial could even considered and in some way it prevents trials from happening as evidence can't be collected etc.

I am all for not putting people into jail based on accusations, but I do not want to live in a society where a women who had this done to her needs to fight windmills to get the case started or even be accused herself of being at fault.
> We "old folks" know exactly what to do when it comes to defragging a drive.

Has nothing to do with age. Clearly the game has a host of limitations which has nothing to do with actual disk defragging. (Can only process the blocks one at a time in a specified but unknown to the user order. Blocks move one cell at a time and can't jump over other blocks.) And doesn't have others which are core to disk defragmentation. (Sectors, and files for example.)
DOStodon MS-DOS Mastodon Client
Show HN: A 2D map of the 1000 most popular books on HN
Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to recreate the serendipity of browsing someone else's bookshelf. I scraped 20k posts from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references using GPT, and visualised their embeddings as a map.

- OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those cluster memberships are then embedded using UMAP again, which results in the dense structures I wanted.

- There are multiple books with the same title. Currently, only the most popular one of those makes it onto the map.

- The books' descriptions are based on extractions from individual posts and GPT's general knowledge. Quality levels vary, and it leads to some oddly specific points, but I haven't found any yet that are straight up wrong.

- It's surprisingly hard to get good quality book cover images! I tried Google Books and a bunch of open APIs, but they all had their issues. In the end, I got the covers from GoodReads through a hacked together process that combines their autocomplete search with GPT for data linkage.
Paranoid optimists?
It seems that your argument is, that some marketing is somewhat malicious - and I agree.

But to say that all marketing is ill-intended and manipulative seems way to extreme.

"Providing good documentation" could be considered a marketing move, if that was what would set a product apart, and make it interesting to buyers.

Making bad ad-copy and intrusive advertising in general is not something I find very interesting personally. That doesn't mean, that it doesn't work, or isn't morally wrong (you mention smoking).

Selling and promoting your product is necessary for most companies. And it can be done in a tasteful, informative and non-intrusive manner.
I'm sure there was a startup a few years ago trying to achieve this. I can't recall the name sadly, it was 10+ years ago. Agar or something perhaps?

I believe you topped up a balance and if the site supported it could access per-article resouces for a one off fee. For this to really work it needs to be site independant however.
It's not founder mode or manager mode. I think it is just about effective management.

When starting up, the founder needs to (1) know what should be done, (2) be able to do it themself, and (3) do it and confirmed it's done. When scaling up, the founder still needs to (1) know what should be done, (2') know who are able to do it, and (3') arrange for those to do it and confirm it's done.

What is called manager mode is just a failure in either (1), (2) or (3). And what is called founder mode is just trying to remedy such failures by exerting themself instead of fixing the structure, thus, also not effective.
The cry to "break up the monopolies" bugs me. Maybe because I am old enough to remember the failed Microsoft case or to have lived the re-unification of AT&T into, well, AT&T.

If you really do believe that the tech giants need to be reigned in, breaking them up is NOT the way to do it. It's a red herring, a quixotical quest that will eat up time, money and opportunity costs for newer, better companies. Break-ups will be litigated endlessly, we'll end up talking about who benefits from what and at the end either nothing will happen or some business unit(s) will be spun out as sacrificial lambs so that the main behemoths can keep printing cash.

The correct answer IMHO is "tax and regulate". Recognize that big tech are now infrastructure companies, massive railways on which international commerce happens and that they need to be taxed as such and regulated. As in regulated for minimum service levels, for liability on what happens on their rails (see Crowdstrike), for access to their platforms to others, for competing against their own customers. Regulate them, tax them, squeeze their margins down to something reasonable, turn them into, well, AT&T.

No, that won't kill them and it would be much less dramatic than a breakup (and would feel less satisfactory, for sure). But it could actually happen relatively quickly and would push them to their natural place, i.e. platforms and utilities on top of which younger, hungrier companies can build.
I'm using a $6000 gaming rig I put together and Discord is one of the worst performing apps I use, so I'm with you on this one.
Show HN: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Mixpanel
Three months ago I shared OpenPanel with you all. Got so many encouraging comments then but one feature that was missing/undocumented was self-hosting.

I just released it today and thought I would share it here.

Keep hosting!

Old post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432213
but there's the principal-agent problem (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/principal-agent-problem...) laying in there somewhere.

The people making financial decisions are incentivized to minimize the financial cost (or maximize the gains), but only for some time period that's shorter than the life-time of the company, which, as far as the owners/shareholders are concerned, should be infinite.

So this has an inherent bias against long term decisions that would've been better, but makes short term look bad, in favour of better short term decisions. Then the agent just leaves for greener pasture after their "short term" is over.
Mushrooms have been around longer than we have, but that doesn't mean they've been making psilocybin that long.
That’s far too reductive a solution. Too single variable.

“Boeing” is a made up idea. Engineering an aircraft is not.

Make HR a government agency, to remove redundancy and extract all gains from a rich minority who aren’t owed the allegiance of 100s of millions and billions across the globe.

American Civic Life: The Story is not one where a handful did all the work, are worth all the prestige. Any one of them dies tonight we all have to move on. This system is so “War is peace.” And plenty of educated geniuses are in on it. If they can’t cope with actual science driven rational take on their value to humanity then more war less peace is what they’ll get. Humans are not philosophy driven they’re biology driven and too many are having their biology strained to the point of snapping
BuildBuddy. Google it.

It's totally next level. My build is 70 crates, hundreds of unit tests, integration tests, multi platform docker images for two platforms, and everything is done in under 2 minutes, if it's slow(!). If I hit only an incremental change, build is completed within 30 seconds.

The future is now!
Phenomenology, Altered States, Individual Differences, and Well-Being (2021)
Comparing Embeds from Short-Form Social Media Sites
Surely it should have a leader board?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni0YfrSK570
> Customers need to stop buying from companies that are publicly listed

This is not going to happen. It’s much easier for a smaller group to coordinate than a larger group. It’s the same reason democracy is so easily exploitable. “Just vote them out” and yet the US has been involved in wars for the entirety of many of our lives.

Fixing our culture and installing elites that uphold it is the only answer. Not that those are easy things to do. Religion was how this was done in the past (and is done in other areas).