skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I should be asking this here, but is there a specific reason why literally all replies on these whoishiring posts are only about technical roles and never from sales/marketing/consulting?

The HN jobs website itself has plenty of nontechnical job postings meanwhile.
Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Unixen, Internet & web dev, cloud hosting, distributed systems, multi-threading & concurrency, performance & scalability, some math & ML

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

Email:
groglogic+hn2024sep@gmail.com

programming for 40 years (yikes!). solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/architect. SRE-ish. solved hard legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, repeatedly. author of perf cheatsheet. writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

highlights:

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

* research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. "natsec")

* 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. delivered new code, benchmarks, arch diagrams & report detailing how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-realtime (micros mattered), profit-impacting backend

* LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib
Part of the issue here may be the policy of "need to know" for these high profile secret systems. If the only person who "needs to know" doesn't know what they're doing then the proper audits of the code will never be done.
martini.ai | Remote | Worldwide (UTC−05:00) | Full-time | Multiple Roles | $70k - $180k (location-based) + equity
Join martini.ai as we transform the $2 trillion private lending industry. We use cutting-edge AI and deep market insights to provide credit risk estimates for private companies.

We are a small, scrappy team (4 engineers + UX consultants + CTO) with VC funding. The co-founders (CEO and CTO) are repeat entrepreneurs, ex-YC, and ex-Wall Street.

We are looking to bring in people to fill multiple roles.

- Senior Full-Stack Software Developer

- Senior Backend / Devops Engineer

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer

- Quantitative Analyst

We need people who are resourceful, independent and curious, who can thrive in a startup environment. But above all we need people who can be generalists; we are a small team and everybody wears multiple hats. So if you're a dev who is looking to learn a bit about finance, or a quant who is looking to learn a bit more about software, martini.ai is the place for you. Prior experience in finance is a huge plus.

Tech stack: Python, Pandas, React, Next.js, AWS, Pytorch

Interested applicants should reach out to me, Martin Dupont, at my email: DELETED: Applications are now closed.
More spots? The threshold for attending college in general tends to be a score at the 40th percentile.
> Due to high temperatures and a storm, lightning struck the data center, damaging both the primary and secondary connections to our cooling system.
The web stack “they” don’t want you to know about
SEEKING WORK | USA | Remote

Senior Full Stack Engineer

I am a senior software engineer with 10+ years of experience in building web apps.

SKILLS: React.js, Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, Canvas, Konva.js, WebSocket, WebRTC, Socket.io, AWS, GCP, Firebase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Stripe, D3.js, Twilio, Agora, Git, Jira, Figma, Jest, Cypress, Storybook, Styled-components, GraphQL

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I love this website's design. Look at those icons. They have color!
Supposedly this “weapon” had been put in place by the Russians who had used the
Cubans as a proxy, maybe if not the Russians then the Chinese, either way, one of these two big nuclear powers that had almost nothing to fear from the Americans. Or so I gathered by reading “between the lines” when this story first broke out.
When I feel fatigue coming on, I just lie on a sofa with some soundscape playing on my noise cancellation headphones.

I close my eyes and allow my mind to drift. Similar to the phase before falling asleep. Most of the time, this mind drifting is enough but sometimes I fall asleep - both states help.
There's still no standard exports/backup formats, yeah?

Some previous comments made me think there was an acknowledgement that this had to come, that trust us to store and manage this for you wasn't going to be enough, was blocking adoption/acceptance so heavily that the security upsides were starting to look irrelevant.
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It’s a politically-charged talking point to discuss “useless” degrees.

I have a question—should we determine whether a degree is useful or useless based on how much money you can earn using the degree? My answer is no, for the following reason: degrees provide some benefits other than benefits that can be directly realized as salary. If you put universities on the hook for student financial outcomes, what you’ve created is a lever for people to dismantle humanities in universities. You can dismantle the arts, literature, sociology, history, and philosophy.

Regardless of whether you think people should get degrees in those fields, I think we are better off having those fields around, and it is also students’ right to determine for themselves which fields they study. If you want to say that universities are liable for students’ choices, then you have to explain why the students are somehow absolved of personal responsibility. Were they deceived? If they were deceived, why does the legislation not target the deception itself?

This out of the way, we can circle back to the complaint—that students, their parents, taxpayers, and donors are paying a lot of money for these degrees; the students are promised career opportunities afterwards; and they often end up in massive debt but without a solid career path.

I think there are other ways we can approach this problem—we can look at the perverse economics that make tuition so expensive, we can provide loan structures that account for which degree you get and your projected future earnings, and we can look at ways to provide better transparency about career outcomes for different degrees. We can work on this problem without taking away students’ self-determination (they should be able to choose degrees that aren’t economically productive) and without dismantling humanities departments.
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The Sharecropping Problem, and Optimal Innovation
I'm real life, I see brown where others see purple sometimes.
Tax deduction if you need it for business so it’s not a burden, just like lots of other existing taxes.
https://latecomermag.com/article/a-holistic-view-of-the-cell...

There are isolated aspects of cells that are analogous to computation, but it would be extremely misleading to try and think of the cell as a computer or life as a computer, it is far messier than that, and in particular, the analogy implies some teleology or purpose that just isn't there.
This is probably an unpopular opinion and I don't know if it applies in this case, but I'm pretty convinced that a lot of instances like this are social contagions running wild.

Every few years in the city I live in there's a sudden uptick in reports of drinks getting spiked at local bars. I've seen the mere suggestion that there's a risk of heightened risk of getting roofied at a bar make otherwise intelligent people paranoid or start using it as an excuse for their over-indulgence. And of course, there is never any concrete evidence - nothing shows up in bloodwork, nobody is ever caught doing it... the chatter just eventually fades away.

This is obviously a different situation, but I'm weary of the massive scope this has taken on with so little concrete evidence that anything was actually happening. Maybe I'm totally wrong, or maybe it was a real phenomenon that many others hitched onto later on (seems even more plausible.) The point is that we seem to increasingly discount how much incentives and social dynamics play a role in situations like this.
Yes exactly my point - I'm not sure what it was that caused these experiences. I fully believe that he experienced them and they're affecting him, though. I also believe him when he says they were external.
nice explanation of a luneberg lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo38PeJtRT8
'The Linux of processors' – New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil
I have a Kobo Libre 2 which I use purely offline. To transfer files, I drag and drop via a USB cable. It's a comfortable size, has good typeface options, and has two physical buttons for turning the pages. It's a pretty simple setup that I would recommend.
Where you got that from?
Possible with the command line (Homebrew and Macports).
my favorite problem, which I originally read here on hn:

> I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?

Apparently the answer is 13/27

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4400/boy-born-on-a-...
If you ask me to draw you a picture of a cat, I can do that.
If you give me 30 seconds, it’ll be a doodle, maybe drawn in coffee-stain on a napkin but I’ll get you your cat.
Give me 30 minutes and it’ll be on a piece of paper by pen or pencil.
Give me 30 hours and I’ll give you several thumbnail sketches with options to choose from, maybe some more exotic mediums like highlighter on a sunny window. Maybe some documentation to go along with it.
Give me 30 days and I’ll get some art supplies, maybe do some research into popular cat drawing styles, we’ll workshop it a few times. I’ll make a cat drawing design document for the next cat drawer.
Give me 30 months and I’ll take some classes and study cats, we’ll make the best damned cat picture anyone’s ever seen and we’ll build this thing out to be scalable, the foundation for a drawing powerhouse of the animal drawing industry.

Give me 30 years and I’ll dedicate my career to creating a series of cat drawings that will change art and the human perspective forever or I’ll die trying.

As long as I’m getting paid, I’m fine with any of these options, you just gotta let me know when you need it by.
That's not what they are claiming though. They're claiming a sick-ray weapon.
> in that community

My point was that the community of DWE believers know about Seattle. There's entire podcasts dedicated to it.
Am I your target customer?

Here's my two cents: your FTUX has so many steps and so many tour popups, and IMHO these are overwhelm your value prop. You have an opportunity to focus more on your value prop first and foremost. If you like, I can give you my actual use cases.

I use AWS, and I use multi-tenant Postgres such as with a tenant_id row, as well as multi-region setups, and for some projects one database per end organization tenant.

On AWS I use Aurora and also some self-managed Postgres. Some of the Postgres extensions I use are for geofencing, trigramming, etc. and these ideally could/should have tenant-specific instantiations. I code using Go & Rust. I work in regulated industries that use SOX, HIPAA, FERPA, etc.

Can you speak to if/how the Fortress value prop can help me, and if/how/when to get the API in Go and Rust?
Great seeing this here. Some related articles I can suggest include ...

* Matthew Wynn Sivils, "What America's first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation": https://theconversation.com/what-americas-first-board-game-c...

* Adrian Seville, "The geographical Jeux de l'Oie of Europe": https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/11907?lang=en

* Holly Brewer, "The Royal Geographical Pastime: A Game from 1770": https://web.sas.upenn.edu/earlyamericanstudies/2022/07/15/th...

* Holly Brewer and Lauren Michalak, "Royal Geographic Game
(1770)": https://slaverylawpower.org/timelines-and-maps/game-age-empi...
Over years of math undergrad and grad school I tried very hard and was never able to get this to work, so you're not alone. I was able to reliably reproduce hopeful feelings after sleep, but upon investigation the "new leads" were either things I had already tried (and forgotten why they didn't work) or they were the type of imprecise high-level vague direction ideas that were never difficult to generate and still had 99% of the true effort remaining to grind through the details.
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I wish them well, but isn’t it too early to speak of Ladybird’s success ?
What ended up working was hiring a Sales Manager instead of a VP.

The lesser title attracted candidates who were happy to take direction from founders, and the founder still stays in the “head of sales” seat.

Once the sales manager is ramped up, grow as much as possible then bring a VP to oversee it all, but with a larger team already in place it will be harder for them to mess up what’s working.
I mean, if you want to argue it's a Non Profit, not a business, go ahead, but I'm not particularly interested in fitting modern tax code and business rules to an entity that has existed for 1500 years.

The organization has existed and has had a need to find funding for it's activities. Since the question was about 'state' run entities, the goal of "making a profit" seemed not particular salient.

Honestly, I thought the more contentious part of this claim was going to be if the Church of Sinai constituted a state.
I know it's lame to link to video, but I saw this pair of videos recently which I thought made an interesting counterargument to the cell-as-machine idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpIqQ0pGs1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhvic-eqbc

Referenced paper: https://philpapers.org/archive/NICITC.pdf

The author's notes on genetics: https://www.subanima.org/mendel/
US varies widely. California drivers are pretty wild. A 65 mph highway will have half the cars going 80, many tailgating. Many don’t let you merge if you use blinker. Michigan can be similarly fast, but less aggressive. PNW is much more reasonable/safe.
Very clever of you to post videos so that people won't actually check what they said.
Was that because your mind was working on it in the background, or because a reset in state allowed the next attempt to find new paths?

I wonder if it would be possible to make a study to someone distinguish between those, like where the control group gets REM sleep and the experimental group gets some kind of anesthesia. Is there a difference on how well each group does "returning" to a puzzle, compared to working on a fresh one?
Google doesn't? Heck, I worked at Amazon, and never more than 40 hours.

I don't think it's axiomatic.
Location: USA

Remote: See below

Willing to relocate: See below

Technologies: Android (Kotlin, Java)

Résumé/CV: See below

Email: p202409@inputs.xyz

I am an Android programmer and I know a number of Android programmers (including myself) at different levels who may be interested in opportunities. This is more for the others than myself but I'll start with myself - they're my friends so I'm not looking for a finder's fee or anything for them.

I myself work on a large company's Android app which has heavy usage and yearly revenues in the hundreds of millions. Have programmed Android for some years. I have some past experience in a lot of IT/tech type things. To make things easy for you, I am not looking to leave for less than $200k (somewhat liquid) total compensation, although if it is an ML/AI-focused company I might be willing to take tens of thousands less. I am willing to relocate, and am willing to work in-person, hybrid or remote. As I'm not actively looking, my interview skills for system design are probably abysmal in an interview sense, and Leetcode is probably middling (I just started practicing Leetcode).

I just worked with an Android programmer who has 30 years experience as a programmer, and over 6 years experience as an Android programmer. He knows Android on a technical level better than I do. If you are looking for a programmer to quickly shovel out features in a crummy way, he is not the person for you. If you need someone to thoroughly architect for features and the entire app, consider all obvious (and non-obvious) edge and corner cases, make suggestions, including for better interaction with the backend, he is someone you want to talk to. He is very averse to companies that want to do a Leetcode interview and he probably does not have that two pointer, sliding window, binary search, BFS/DFS stuff top of mind as some people do. For what he does he is pretty good. He would want to work remote, but I am sure would be willing to fly in a few times a year.

I used to work with a junior/associate level programmer at my big company, he went back to school to learn CS and is graduating soon. He knows Android at a junior/associate level, and has been studying other things in his CS classes. If you need an intern, or a junior/associate level programmer for Android (or other things), he is good. He is not senior though.

As I'm an Android programmer, I tend to know a number of Android programmers, although we three are somewhat available, but I know many others as well. So if you need an Android programmer let me know (if it is for one doing a lot of React Native, I know some who do that but less).
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I've added more non trivial grammars Javascript, Java, Kotlin, PHP, C, CPP, Rust, Ruby, CSS, HTML, Python using a quickjs script to convert "src/grammar.json" to an EBNF understood by https://mingodad.github.io/lua-wasm-playground/ (the script is here https://github.com/mingodad/plgh/blob/main/json2ebnf-lua.js).
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Hypochondria snuck up on me (it's called "Somatic Symptom Disorder" now and it's not something that gets openly diagnosed, in my experience.)

I had definitely flawed perceptions of physicians and health care in general. I viewed a doctor as someone who'd help you heal if you came in with a complaint. Someone who dispensed good advice and recommendations to be your best, like "here's a good diet. get some rest. take 3 days off work to heal. let me list some exercises you can do." And I was primed to trust physicians and eager to follow good orders like that.

After decades of pursuing health and wellness and attempting to partner with my PCP and specialists I've realized that they do none of that. A PCP's primary purpose, for me, seems to be screening and testing until they find disorders that match up with the medications in their formulary and the treatments on the insurance company's list.

I've had multiple encounters where the doc/nurse reassures me that I'm really healthy and there's no issue to treat and I'm making mountains out of molehills. It became frustrating to me because I felt so bad! And perhaps I did have burgeoning issues that were simply untreatable. Physicians are so often frustrated by patients who've abused and neglected their health, then we show up on their doorstep as a hopeless, lost cause wanting to be rescued.

By analogy, I learned that I shouldn't bug my landlady about maintenance unless something is truly broken and inoperable. The fix often causes more problems -- "the cure is worse than the disease", right?

I'm trying to reorient my relationship to HCPs. I need to relate health complaints to my ability to work or function in daily life, rather than minor annoyances or concerns about future problems. It doesn't pay to complain needlessly, and the medications are just a penalty for seeking help.

Hypochondria may be reinforced by physicians' tendency to find treatments and prescribe stuff. You get rewarded with attention and tasks to do, even if they don't heal you. "Oh doc I feel really bad!" Well let's run some tests and go fishing! Daddy needs a new Ferrari! (My dentist literally drove one. My current dentist adorns his office walls with his own photography of exotic travel destinations instead.)
Lol. Sorta flattered to be taken for some sort of automated collection activity. Gotta be the second chance pool
Here's the permanent link (I'm still learning Discord apparently):

https://discord.gg/fdXY9dTFWg
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Yeah. This article is pure politics and nothing more.
You're implying it's because of cost-savings, but OEMs still typically offer 3.5 mm jacks on their lower-end models (even waterproof ones, like the Xperia AceIII). It's the expensive flagships they've removed them from. I think a better explanation is that high-end models are fashion items while lower-end models are functional items, and it's fashionable to copy Apple.
It wouldn't be the most outrageous or illegal thing they have done. In 2022 a Kenyan data labeling firm suddenly cut ties mid-contract because OpenAI was asking them to gather and label CSAM images.[0]

>In February 2022, Sama and OpenAI’s relationship briefly deepened, only to falter. That month, Sama began pilot work for a separate project for OpenAI: collecting sexual and violent images—some of them illegal under U.S. law—to deliver to OpenAI. The work of labeling images appears to be unrelated to ChatGPT. In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson did not specify the purpose of the images the company sought from Sama, but said labeling harmful images was “a necessary step” in making its AI tools safer. (OpenAI also builds image-generation technology.) In February, according to one billing document reviewed by TIME, Sama delivered OpenAI a sample batch of 1,400 images. Some of those images were categorized as “C4”—OpenAI’s internal label denoting child sexual abuse—according to the document. Also included in the batch were “C3” images (including bestiality, rape, and sexual slavery,) and “V3” images depicting graphic detail of death, violence or serious physical injury, according to the billing document. OpenAI paid Sama a total of $787.50 for collecting the images, the document shows.

>Within weeks, Sama had canceled all its work for OpenAI—eight months earlier than agreed in the contracts. The outsourcing company said in a statement that its agreement to collect images for OpenAI did not include any reference to illegal content, and it was only after the work had begun that OpenAI sent “additional instructions” referring to “some illegal categories.” “The East Africa team raised concerns to our executives right away. Sama immediately ended the image classification pilot and gave notice that we would cancel all remaining [projects] with OpenAI,” a Sama spokesperson said.

[0] https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
This comment is so out of touch with the reality of the current medical system that I think you're in for a very rude awakening in the future. I can go on for days about all the stories I have to counteract this point. Even doctors themselves are feeling the diagnostic failure issues. My child's pediatrician went into the ER and said "I think my appendix is about to burst". They thought she was just being dramatic and they wanted to discharge her with Zofran and tell her to come back if it got worse. After hours of arguing with the ER doctors and nurses, she convinced them to do imaging. Boom, appendix about to burst. She had an operation 2 hours later.
> There are often bright spots in these kinds of visuals that you end up seeing over and over again (e.g. clusters of ASCII).

Indeed, this is specially true in the "bigrams" mode, where each point (X,Y) is set if the bytes X and Y (00..FF) appear in that order in the input. If you look at the bigrams example in the README, you can see that there is a bright zone where the lowercase ASCII characters are, since that graph is plotting the .rodata section of the binary (using the bin-graph-section.sh script). These patterns appear with other kinds of data, not just text (e.g. x86 instructions).
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