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Spore.Bio :
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer
- Data Labelling Manager

*Senior Full-Stack Engineer* | fulltime | remote friendly (fr) | Paris, France

Are you ready to revolutionize microbiology monitoring in factories? Spore.Bio is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, develop, and maintain our embedded software and web applications. You will work closely with other team members to develop high-quality products in a fast-paced environment. You will also be involved in technical decision-making and the continuous improvement of our development processes. We are still small and lean, we value pragmatism and curiosity, and we are looking for someone who embodies these qualities to join our team.

stack: Python (django), React, Tailwind, Postgres, SQLite

https://sporebiotechnologies.notion.site/Join-Spore-Bio-3b2d...

*Data Labelling Manager* | fulltime | remote friendly (fr) | Paris, France

Are you passionate about data quality and ready to make an impact in the tech-biology interface? Spore Bio is seeking an Annotations Manager to take charge of our data annotation pipeline. This essential role bridges the work of the biology, optics, and machine learning teams, enabling you to be at the heart of our cutting-edge data operations. Join the team and help us revolutionize microbiology monitoring in factories?

https://sporebiotechnologies.notion.site/Data-Labelling-Mana...
As much as some gTLDs are known for spam, it's dangerous to generalize certain domains as spam. I used to run a website with a somewhat niche gTLD and it was a headache getting blocked by spam filters who just blocked *.mygTLD
Whether or not Zuckerberg himself is alive (he is), this version of him is long dead. One of the sad realities of life under capitalism is that even if you go into something idealistic, hopeful, kind even, is that once it hits a certain scale the only thing you can do is succumb to some kind of greed.

Even if you yourself try to resist, you'll be beat down by market forces until eventually you either give it all up and let someone else do the evil, or discard the idealism and say "That's just the way it is!" and look back on your idealism with shame and grief.

Makes me sad too
>There's a lot of bad poetry in the world that just follows readers' expectations. I should know, I've written some of it.

Apparently, in 'the good old days (of the internet)', your poetry would be published by yourself, on your webpage - complete with a starry-twinkling background, a 'number of visitors' counter in the bottom right, and in a pink font.

I miss those days.
Making it graded tends to F it up bigtime. You waste soooo much time doing overkill process for the sake of proving that you can to get the grade. CAD models will be made. Simulations will be run. Powerpoints will be made to convey the results. When in reality all you needed was one dude to spend two hours prototyping both so that they could be evaluated and the more viable path of development chosen.
Well said. I don't mind that the US is doing what they're doing. It probably even make sense for the US to work against China. What I don't like is the massive "China bad" propaganda campaign when in reality, it's just jostling for power and economics.
As the article states, YC’s key asset is their deal flow. You simply don’t get that if you only write 1% of the best seed checks.

If you don’t eat the pie, someone else will. If someone else eats more pie than you, they will be stronger than you and eat your pie.

Switching analogies, unless you have a defensible niche with a wide moat, your position of power is an unstable equilibrium; in the open market only a monopoly is a stable attractor state.
Why? We have already decimated any semblance of natural selection so death is no longer a necessity from an evolutionary standpoint. Maybe immortal humans would be more beneficent because they wouldn't be scrambling to get ahead in their short time here.

If I didn't only have 30-40ish productive years to achieve whatever I will in this life it would be much easier to donate money or time to charitable pursuits.
Because you are lowering the discourse here.
Is this the biggest industrial espionage campaign in history?
As a duckduckgo user, I think this is great. FWIW, Perl is still on my list to learn :)

edit: fixed spelling
The paradox is; Society should benefit everyone equally. If it doesn't, then the ones who are not benefiting have a social responsibility to adjust it until it does. By hook or by crook, for better or worse.

Equity is usually pretty difficult to swallow for those who are benefiting inequitably. But the thing is, if it's not working for everyone, it isn't working at all and it should probably be broken the rest of the way and rebuilt.

Sorry if you're in the camp that doesn't think anything is broken, but if this many people think it is then maybe you're wrong. At the very least don't pretend to be surprised when the people at the bottom lack any reason to defend your place on top.
That is misleading. The first two authors left Google in August 2022 under unclear circumstances. The code and data were owned by Google, that's probably why Kahng continued discussibg code and data with his Google contacts. He received clear answers from several Google employees, so if they were at fault, Google should apologize rather than blame Cheng and Kahng.
> John Levine is author of the book “The Internet for Dummies” and president of CAUCE. Levine said adding more TLDs without a much stricter registration policy will likely further expand an already plentiful greenfield for cybercriminals.

Holy shit. CAUCE is a name I haven't heard in a long time. He's been around for a while and is one of the good ones.
Not necessarily; if one commit touches all lines (or a bunch), and another reverts that, the blame is thrashed; much worse than having rebased the temp change away. And a commit name of "." is quite significantly less useful in a git blame than "Rewrite foo to use new thing" when looking at reasons for why foo might have broken.
> But basically the entirety of physics works in a time-reversible fashion: if you could flip the direction of all the particles in a system, it would evolve back to its previous state

What does that even mean though? Certain systems may indeed time-reversible, but I would argue that most are not (practically speaking). Imagine for example a meteorite which has fallen to Earth. In order to "reverse the process", not only would it have to "reassemble itself" from the innumerable pieces embedded in the ground, it would also have to be flung back passed the escape velocity of our planet!

> But this seems to break down when it comes to black holes (it also breaks down in the various magical collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics, but the quantum wavefunction itself is also time-reversable)

I still don't understand the issue. Entropy is essentially just a measure of how close to a system is to the "average value". A high-entropy system being very close to it (and hence, "highly disordered"), while a low-entropy system might be two or three standard-deviations from the mean. A black hole with little angular momentum, charge, and/or mass would necessarily have a lower entropy than otherwise, but in any case we can calculate that without knowing a thing about what is going on inside of it. Moreover we can deduce that such a black hole would indeed be "easier to time-reverse" than one with a higher-entropy, but what does that even tell us? As far as I can tell, not a whole lot.
And… predictably, johnsmith.com ends up offering no utility to any of the John Smiths out there because it’s being held for ransom by a squatter:

https://www.afternic.com/forsale/johnsmith.com
In that case, they should post a searchable archive of the Enron email data set (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/) as a "webmail" interface.
Do you mean you don't want to be reminded of the risk of STDs when about to engage is sex?
Thank you for letting me know and for your suggestions on what to do next.
The link you posted is behind a login, do you have a public profile?
The lions share of issues with domains would go away if we made squatting illegal, or at the least, extremely expensive.

Tbh I'm increasingly thinking that just about any speculative instrument in the economy is just grift and drag. If you want to make money, make things. Stop trying to extract rent or exorbitant prices for land, for domains, for PS5s, etc. Feels like 9/10ths of the economy now is nothing but fucking middlemen, when we have a dearth of need of ANY middlemen at all anymore.
Haxe compiled to JS and PHP is my goto for traditional web apps. I get the type safety and access to a vast ecosystem. Bonus, i can share code both on the client and server.
TV screens and monitors are also measured in inches. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> The argument, which one can choose to agree with or not, is that the kind of place where one is buying a $100 bottle of wine has a higher degree of training, care, etc involved.

What if the restaurant serves both $20 and $100 bottles? Do they adjust the quality of service on the fly to make pouring the $20 bottle profitable? Offer extra labor-intensive services only available with the purchase of the $100 bottle?
it's a joke, by the person who did Birds Aren't Real: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-is-behind-enron-...
I do not think so. I think if someone would have made an effort to rip off the real Dell site I would fall for it. I am just so lucky that scammer mostly prefer to go after the easier marks.

I am not sure what a better solution could be. The idea of EV certificates was good but executed poorly. Maybe a way to link certificated to business IDs.

I do however still prefer more gTLDs to minimize domain squatting.
49% here. Maybe I'm missing the point? Something other than playing snake I suppose.
> If their duty is to deliver education, why are they sitting on a $20B hoard?

Rich alumni, patents, etc. Also, it is a warchest for innovation and expansion. Same thing as other businesses, you have a surplus of cash for reinvestment.
Sanctions and tariffs ultimately hurt as much as they help.

These simple minded trade tactics didn't work in the 19th century and they won't work any better in the 21st century.

Anyone who thinks tariffs will "Make America Great Again" would probably fail at running a casino.
How does wide spread PrEP use affect sexual behavior?
Ask HN: Product to improve monitoring and documentation: a good idea?
Hi HN,

I have an idea for a product, but I want to test the waters before building anything.

Here is the landing page I put together today:

https://www.get-aerial.com/

The idea is to make a tool where you can draw documentation diagrams totally freeform, like: User does X, signal gets sent to DB, process X picks up files here, etc. But instead of being static, you'd have the ability to hook that diagram to actually running code.

That way your code could post hearbeats or logs to my endpoint, and you'd see the node being active in the diagram.

The idea is that this would help:

1. keep documentation diagrams up-to-date

2. allow for full-tech-stack logical monitoring

Any takers?
https://speed.pypy.org/
S Korea was a laggard in the years after the war and their economy was modernized by a militaristic authoritarian government. The military authority was harsh but effective and only gave way to democracy in 1988. There is still a lot of sympathy for the authoritarian era.
An artist has to tape them to a wall first.
Some time ago I made a chip-8 emulator with haskell https://github.com/EzequielRamis/chisito. I suppose it may be easier the state management in ocaml.
The car wasn't beat up (I don't see anyone claiming that here) or even all that old... it was just a very modestly-priced choice of vehicle for someone of Zuckerberg's wealth and position. I believe he was still driving it at the time of the red book.

Nor does the book really "embrace more excess" financially, at least as far as I can remember (and I don't see any of that flipping through my dusty copy briefly just now either). Instead it's the opposite: "Facebook was not originally created to be a company", "We don't build services to make money, we make money to build better services", etc.

Again, this was a period of disappointing post-IPO stock performance. The market wasn't convinced yet that FB could successfully transition to focusing on mobile. It took about 15 months after the IPO for the share price to start looking more positive.

So that was a factor, combined with an obvious desire to keep aspects of "chaotic small nimble startup" vibe/culture at a company that was definitely no longer a startup.
There are a few options, though. The fact that .io got so popular shows that we are not forever chained to .com. It's just that a lot of the nuTLD options are honestly hilariously bad, most of them are just lame. My personal top picks are ".online" and ".software" with mention to ".network" but they're all WAY too long. I actually use ".cafe" for my personal stuff because it's short and cute. Obviously can't use that for your SV rocketship company though.

Would it have been so hard to sit down and pick a couple short ones - yknow, ones people might actually use?
GLFighters Return: Porting a 23-year-old Game to the Web
Heroku launches new Kubernetes based platform, Fir
Hugging Face is doing a free and open course on fine tuning local LLMs
Hugging Face is running a free and open course on fine tuning local LLMs, specifically smol models. You will learn how to fine-tune, align, and use LLMs locally for your own use case.

This is a hands-on course designed to help you align language models for your unique needs. It’s beginner-friendly, with minimal requirements:

- Runs on most local machines

- Minimal GPU requirements

- No paid services needed

*What You’ll Learn*

- Instruction Tuning: Fine-tune models to follow instructions and templates.

- Preference Alignment: Align models with human feedback using methods like DPO and ORPO.

- Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning: Explore techniques such as LoRA and prompt tuning.

- Evaluation: Build benchmarks and test models for domain-specific tasks.

- Synthetic Datasets: Create and validate synthetic datasets for training

- Deployment: Learn to scale and serve models efficiently.

If you’ve ever wanted to fine-tune your own LLM or just avoid the hefty compute bills from major APIs, the smol course might be the perfect way to kickstart your journey.

To get involved, follow the instructions on this repo: https://github.com/huggingface/smol-course
CNN is reporting that parliament has successfully overturned martial law.
Agreed. Laws that protect people from harm by others, intentionally or recklessly, protect the freedom of innocent people.
Regardless of its fame, it is a worthy tool on UNIX environments, even nowadays.
There don’t seem to be any challenges there yet, and the page states it doesn’t begin until December 9th.
I assume it had live data at the time of Black Friday, and the loading bar is showing progress towards them publishing a replay: "FINAL DATA COMING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3"
This project does not seem associated with Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/). Whether or not it's literal trademark infringement, I dislike the name as it's obviously confusing. "AI Paper Advent Calendar" would reuse a generic term. "Advent of Code" is a specific project.

EDIT: "Advent of Code" is a registered trademark and you should change your name. https://adventofcode.com/2024/about
OT: what ever happened to AB repeat?

I remember that most of my CD players, and my MP3 players, and I think my iPods had AB repeat. For those who have not used a player with AB repeat, what it did was let you mark two points on a song ("A" and "B") and then it would loop the section between those two points.

It was great if you were trying to transcribe a song or figure out how to play it on your instrument. You could put a couple chords or a section of the melody on AB repeat until you got it and then move on.

The major streaming players don't seem to have this. Nor does Apple's Music player when playing local files.

You can download a song (if your streaming service supports it) or record it (if downloads are not supported) and then open it in GarageBand or something similar which should have a way to repeat a section.

That works but is a bit of a hassle, and sometimes you might want to try to figure out a song when you aren't at your computer.
I have very similar feelings to the author. I think it was back in 2019ish that I gave up on React & co for good. Since then I have built a number of web apps on a relatively spartan stack of Actix, Tera and HTMX, and they have all stood the test of maintainability over time and have a core group of diehard users.

Last week I shipped another new web app[1] I got an idea for in <24h to closed alpha testers and in <7d to a public beta with no issues or fanfare.

Perhaps part of the increased velocity is my having gone deep and learned the ins and outs of this stack over multiple years and projects, but it is important to note that I probably would never have gained this level of mastery over these tools if I were constantly being hit with what the author calls "dependency management fatigue".

[1]: https://blucerne.app
Because the US does not have a particularly powerful federal government and these sorts of decisions are left to the States. In my state our prices are advertised at the total cost to the consumer. But this is pretty easy because we do not have a sales tax. Every jurisdiction makes different choices.
The opposition is whoever is not in power. Anyone complaining about being locked out is clearly not in power, making them the de facto oppposition party regardless of official labels.
It can be obvious and go to the heart. I'm not sure Wilfred Owen's Dulce et decorum est is anything other than straight down the line, but it made me cry when I first read it.

That said, maybe the subversion is in how the reality is contrasted with the marketing.
Oh, I agree that via the use of force he can do what he likes, at least so long as that force is loyal to him and other forces aren't stronger.

It's just harder to create a veneer of the constitutional necessity of such a move when your own highest profile political allies apparently condemn it and pledge to "stop it with the people" instead of queuing up to rubber stamp it and do "this is a small problem with criminal elements in one party which is all resolved now" briefings to confused foreigners wondering who the real government of South Korea is.

Edit: reportedly the National Assembly has actually managed to hold a vote against it. Not sure how or what the constitutional quirks are, but that's probably going to make it considerably less likely the military unites behind the President...
A: This is great! Perl is much maligned but a fantastic Swiss army chainsaw and still runs so much critical infrastructure.

B: I find it concerning that $25k is a notable donation; is the Foundation doing that poorly? I would have hoped this number to have two more digits in it for it to be a front page worthy item.
It's disrespectful to candidates time to play misdirection games like this. If the form wasn't put up to mislead people, it would be different. There's a reason most places don't do stuff like this. The problem isn't the extra 30 seconds requires to open gmail, the problem is the kind of immature culture it signals.
We've reached the era of Trurl's Electronic Bard.

https://electricliterature.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Tr...
Can you share the playlists?
Domain names becoming cheaper (and having greater variety) is a good thing. Yes that comes with an equivalent rise in scam domains, but the answer isn't to add further barriers to entry for everyone else.
Surely the number 14 is likely to get misheard as 40. And 13135432 is easily typo'd to 13134532.
There it is. I knew Trump and white males would eventually be blamed from the radical far left.
Isn't their main advantage that every student at USC is rich AF? It's one of the wealthiest student bodies in the land.
This is country with compulsory military service, where young people patrol a very dangerous border where infiltrators operate, plant land-mines, etc. Shootings aren't uncommon.

Had a coworker whose best friend got lost on night patrol. Another unit killed him when he didn't come up with the password of the day quick enough. The coworkers comment? "He screwed up."
Moving validation to an app store is doable but it’s very costly and not a complete solution. Sandboxing is here. Multiple layers is generally better, and you can configure your system as you see fit.
I had a Nikon Coolpix 950 in 2000 or 2001. I loved it.

https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Nikon_Coolpix_950
>The lions share of issues with domains would go away if we made squatting illegal, or at the least, extremely expensive.

How do you define squatting? Is the owner of nissan.com "squatting" on it because he wouldn't sell to the japanese car company? How much interest do you need in a given domain before it's not squatting?
His point was that Westerners aren't necessarily going to be fooled, with the example of the AP (Western) viewing his declaration of martial law unsympathetically.
I have "A People's History of the United States," I've been too busy to read it. What I've read so far though made the cycles obvious.

I didn't know the NYT has always been right-leaning and letting folks with dubious intentions guest write. I thought that was recent! Nope.
Here's some details about the foundation's financials - https://blogs.perl.org/users/makoto_nozaki/2024/10/understan...
Last I heard, DDG used it in production.
Or both. You don't have to choose one or the other and I think the two skills could be very complementary.
It's hard to disentangle motivations as treating people well is also usually good business too but in my experience a lot of people are motivated by doing good as well as making an income. If you look at the history of YC, Paul and Jessica started it primarily to help out the young would be founders without much expectation of making money. And in the story here it seems his main motivation was to stop the founders being screwed over rather than to enrich himself.

The attitude that all business / political people are no good can be counterproductive as it can lead to not differentiating between the helpful and iffy ones.
It is not referred to as a change in pitch, usually people call it intonation or accent, but the actual change in sounds is a change in pitch.

The closest thing in English is "uh-oh" (said when you make a mistake). It goes high-low. If you reverse the pitches it sounds completely wrong.

The pitch change in Japanese words is smaller than "uh-oh" but it's the same basic idea.
Youre right. The interesting things we learned came from visiting dozens of local producers, farmers, and villages where coffee has it roots around Vietnam. Have you had a chance to visit Vietnam and sample the egg coffee?
I think it's a bit absurd to care about trademark infringement of a social activity like this, but it should have been "Advent of AI Code" at least.