skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Arizona
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Python, C#, F#, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://1drv.ms/b/c/29f41e73a186f9b0/ETOVdm0thvVKoW0aDs0lJ-cBv6YqL6rbGxFz4Q7lDTm3qg?e=g8e5VT
Email: On resume
GitHub: On resume

I'm a passionate Software Engineer with 15 years of experience, and have had worked on a wide variety stacks and frameworks. For example, I've worked on Audio/Video hardware using Rust and C, buildt Authn/Authz systems for PII using Rust, React and TypeScript, and handled SMS using React, TypeScript, MongoDb and Box.
SEEKING WORK | Frankfurt, Germany | Remote or on-site

I'm a software engineer and architect, 10+ years experience in servers, desktops, embedded systems, DSP, and the communication between all of them, experience in interim leadership, helping setup development processes, CI/CD and quality measures.

I prefer to work in Rust, C/C++ and .net and I'm happy to use and Linux, Windows or MacOS as required and additionally target any UNIX server and STM32, ESP32 or other microcontrollers.

Résumé/CV (EN): https://www.maximilian-keller.de/cv-max-keller-en.pdf

Résumé/CV (DE): https://www.maximilian-keller.de/cv-max-keller-de.pdf
The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week
Perhaps drinking soylent didn't improve my productivity after all.
We should have the troops wear Apple uniforms instead of green camo fatigues. Gotta make the ultimate sacrifice for our tech overlords.
Chorus One | https://chorus.one/careers | Platforms Engineer | REMOTE (Switzerland ± 6 hours)

Chorus One operates validators on many proof-of-stake blockchains (the ones where security is based on a Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm rather than wasting energy). We are hiring for several roles, but the one I will highlight is what we call Platforms Engineer. Some companies call this Site Reliability Engineering or Devops.

The main thing we do is take upstream software, build it, run it on our infrastructure, and then monitor it and optimize that setup. Some things that make this interesting are:

* Building automation that enables us to do this for many networks (70+ currently).
* Doing this with high uptime, building automation for failover, etc.
* Working with software that is on the one hand cutting-edge and doing interesting things (consensus algorithms, distributed systems, cryptography), but on the other hand that means it’s immature and often not easy to operate and monitor. Often we have to build custom tools, and dive into the source code of the project. We contribute patches upstream when it makes sense.
* Some of these projects are exercising the limits of what a machine can do, we have to do some low-level investigation that requires understanding of what the Linux kernel and network hardware are doing to properly identify what’s going on.

We do have a small cloud footprint, but run primarily on bare metal. We are looking for people who can not just configure services offered by the public clouds, but who deeply understand what lies below; people who could build their own cloud. That sounds a bit pretentious and it’s not exactly what we do, but it does involve many of the same aspects.

A very recent example of what I personally find fascinating: last week Ethereum’s Holesky testnet experienced loss of liveness. This is a real-world, globally distributed system that implements Byzantine fault tolerance, with multiple independent implementations of the protocol. Several of these implementations had a bug in an update, which caused a split in the network. The protocol is designed to handle this situation in theory, but in practice it is triggering previously unexplored failure modes in the implementations, that are hard to test for in synthetic small-scale tests. I think there are very few places where you get to be involved in a planet-scale distributed system exhibiting “interesting” behavior, especially one that is not in control of a single entity. Of course, there is also the less fun part that the testnet is now broken, alerts are firing, and it’s hard and chaotic to coordinate a fix when the network is not controlled by a single entity. Fortunately it’s a testnet.

Apply at https://careers.chorus.one/o/platforms-engineer-remote.
What's the license of the Python package: https://pypi.org/project/agentsjson/

AGPL? https://github.com/wild-card-ai/agents-json/blob/master/LICE...
The latest version of Tectonic is 0.15.0 (i.e. pre-release), and is dated February 5, 2024. Looking at the contributions on GitHub [1], there's not much activity happening in the repo.

Frankly, there are better ways to get and use TeX and friends (i.e. LaTeX, XeTeX, XeLaTeX, etc.); see https://www.latex-project.org/get/

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/graphs/cont...
Huh, are there speciality chewing sticks purpose made for this?
I’m building a local-first web app, and SQLite works well for my case since a single project can be contained in one database file, just like users are used to with existing desktop applications.

What I’d really like is an easy way to sync the SQLite database state to a cloud service. Most existing options expect you to query against a remotely hosted database and charge per read/write.

Since the database will have around 100,000 rows and you're typically working with all the data at once, streaming parts of it doesn’t make sense for my use case.

The closest I’ve found is Turso, which has offline writes in private beta, and SQLite Cloud, which lists local-first and offline sync as "coming soon."

The simplest approach might be letting users push to S3 storage with versioning. Ideally, it would also support point-in-time restores, tracking incremental updates alongside full snapshots.

Even better, I’d manage minimal server-side infrastructure and just pull the SQLite database from a service that handles syncing and management.
Location: Frankfurt, Germany

Remote: Remote, On-Site or hybrid are fine

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, C/C++ (Embedded, Desktop, Servers), .net

Résumé/CV (EN): https://www.maximilian-keller.de/cv-max-keller-en.pdf

Résumé/CV (DE): https://www.maximilian-keller.de/cv-max-keller-de.pdf

Email: mk@maximilian-keller.de
Remembering Duane Blehm
FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies all use background check agencies. They called all my past employers, wanted transcripts, W2s, paystubs.

Source: I've worked at a couple unicorns, 2 FAANGS, current Meta eng, all did full 10-year lookback background checks
Struggling with Errors, Doge Deletes Billions More from List of Savings
unless you understand yourself as part of a larger arc of a story that is told over decades and generations.

learn

create

teach

consult

each has its time
Cool. What do financials/shares look like? How does the company grow from just 6-8 people? I'm curious because this is what I've always wanted to start. I know that worker-owner/member orgs can exist at scale as well (Mondragon is one example) but the internals and growth is fascinating to me.
History shows us that socialism and communism are not remotely immune to inflation, either.
Somewhat in this vein is Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons. I liked it, but I am definitely not a purist.
Depot | Founding Developer Marketer | Remote (US / EU) | Full-time

Depot is a build acceleration platform that makes Docker builds and GitHub Actions faster. We've already helped companies like PostHog, Wistia, Semgrep, and Secoda save thousands of hours in build time every week.

We're looking for our first marketing hire to define and execute our go-to-market strategy. If that's you, you'll own everything from content creation to demand gen, with a focus on developer audiences. We're growing rapidly with 500+ paying customers and double-digit monthly growth.

Requirements:

* 5+ years marketing experience with a focus on developer audiences

* Experience with content marketing, SEO, social, and email campaigns

* Comfortable with analytics tools (Google Analytics, ahrefs, PostHog)

* Experience with paid channels (LinkedIn, Reddit, etc.)

* Strong communication skills and ability to work asynchronously

Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/depot/jobs/307RqGp-fou...

Tech stack: Remix, TypeScript, Go

We're a small, remote team building developer tools we wish we've had. If you're passionate about developer productivity and marketing to technical audiences, we'd love to hear from you.
I got a copy of my background check a few times. They contacted my university (who has my graduation date wrong). I'm not sure if they actually contacted previous employers (who usually just confirm start and end dates) or just checked theworknumber. Contacting references is hit-or-miss.
I suppose there's a different angle, which is that the Open community can distill the privately trained models and then open the distilled model in turn, like many believe Deepseek did. In effect, letting private corps pay for expensive training (w/o paying the authors of the data they are training on, as you correctly point out), but then benefiting from their training labor/cost by copying it back to the open community and making it free again.
This blogspam is attributed to "a Senior Cyber Engineer". Are they (a) ashamed of the nonsense advertisement they wrote, or (b) not actually an engineer, but rather a ChatGPT prompter?
38 years old, 7.1M in the bank.

If he can keep his hands to himself that should be enough for a nice early retirement.
I love how folks worship GCC and clang compiler extensions as C and C++ or UNIX compiler vendors in general, including embedded RTOS toolchains, but when Microsoft does it, for whatever reason doesn't count.

Two weights, two measures.
In my experience, none. I've worked for several investment banks, financial software companies, education stuff, engineering, consultancy etc. etc. As far as I can tell (referees would have to ask me for permission to release details) , none of the people that hired me ever chased up reference. This is in the UK.
I repeat my point from other comments again here: If women are so cheap and so talented, they don't need preferential treatment. They will be rewarded naturally according to their abilities without all that. You seem unprepared to accept a world where women aren't given preferential treatment over men under the pretense of victimhood. You claim women are better at various things but refuse to acknowledge that men are discriminated against purely to promote women (because DEI, not because they are better in any way).
Your quaint experience in the barrio isn't justification for having an unlicensed automotive repair business (which process hazardous waste) run out of a personal residence is a good thing.

I'm sure if that guy could move his business he would, if money and personal circumstances dictated otherwise.
It's a great museum, one of the highlights of our short trip to Stockholm for sure.
SEEKING WORK | Remote (based in Denver, Colorado, USA)
EMBEDDED FIRMWARE and HARDWARE

Got an embedded programming or hardware design challenge you need solved? I'll solve it!

15 years of experience consulting, and I've seen it all; for the past decade I've been exclusively consulting independently. Past clients have included companies large and small, with everything from green-field ideas for new products to tricky situations with existing products they needed fixed. Comfortable working under regulatory constraints; many of the projects I've worked on have been medical devices.

C is my bread and butter on the embedded side, and Python is my go-to for developing PC utilities and scripts, but I'm comfortable working in a lot of languages from assembly all the way up to Javascript when needed. I can even patch embedded binaries by hand when needed.

Architectures? Well, these days it's mostly ARM Cortex, but I've done everything from 8051 and 6502 to STM8 to PIC16/24 to all of the modern stuff, plus a handful of really obscure things. Specific chip families that I've dealt with a lot lately include STM32, nRF5x, and PIC16, but again, I've successfully worked with MCUs from ST, Nordic, NXP, SiLabs, Renasas, Atmel, Nordic, Microchip, and various other vendors.

Super comfy with Linux, though most of my practice is bare-metal or with true RTOSes.

Bespoke drivers need development? No problem. USB, I2C, SPI, CAN? Yup, all of those and more. BLE, LoRa? Expert. Power optimization for battery operation? That's a specialty of mine: I squeeze out every last nanoamp -- and quantify the improvement.

BS in EE. Designing analog and digital circuits, laying out PCBs, bringing up boards, debugging hardware, simulating designs (including EM simulations for antennas, transmission lines, etc.), and consulting on hardware improvements are all no problem. I have an extremely well equipped EE lab bench, including for RF out to 8 GHz, and am very comfortable doing fine-pitch soldering under a microscope as needed.

US citizen, masters from Stanford. Licensed professional engineer (PE) in Colorado.

Feel free to reach out and let's see if there's a good fit. Thanks!

jeff@nesota.com
I know that there are hard rubber like material that were made to strengthen jaw muscles.

Licorice sticks might be used too.
UK watchdog investigates TikTok and Reddit over child data privacy concerns
No it won't. I could write you very basic, obvious malware that is obfuscated just enough for copilot to miss it 100% of the time. Let alone things like what JiaTan wrote.
One of the last pieces of really good advice I got before I gave up on writing a programming language myself is that if you instrument the paths that are already expected to be slow, you can get most of the value of instrumentation with a fraction of the cost per call. Because people avoid making the slow calls, and if they don’t the app was going to be slower anyway so why not an extra couple percent? Versus the fast path where the instrumentation may be a quarter or more of runtime.
OTOH, If they have production outside of Taiwan, then they can more credibly threaten to destroy the Taiwanese fabs if China invades.
"hard material"
think of the wreck and ruin, if it realy works
it will be possible to detect proximity to the "better" educational institutions just from the amount of gnaw marks
Show HN: Life's Bingo – A bingo for life's misfortunes with a 30-40% win rate
I built a web app that generates personalized bingo boards listing possible life misfortunes based on your configuration (spouse, children, pets). Statistically 30-40% of people will achieve bingo in their lifetime in this game. The board is deterministically generated from your personal identifier, and your progress is saved locally. Good luck!
http://archive.today/PhVaB
The best thing that JSON is good at is human readability. I would say human composibility as well, but YAML and others are better for that. As a machine data exchange and storage format, JSON is extremely inefficient.
This is my experience as well, although I've also found that some of the companies they hire to do these checks are borderline incompetent.

The last time I had a background check, despite providing the name, address, and phone numbers of past employers to the background check firm, the resulting report indicated in several cases they had instead called unrelated companies in unrelated industries in states I had never lived or worked in. There were no repercussions when those companies (understandably) had never heard for me. Presumably, HR had checked the box that the check was performed, but they didn't actually care about the result.

One of the cases they flagged as "unable to verify employment" was a stint at a company I had founded, where I'm still listed as the LLC manager on my state's business registration website, i.e. a simple Google search for company + my name would have sufficed. (The name of the construction firm in a neighboring state that they repeatedly called instead wasn't even similar.)
This is wild! If you want, this could become a great contender to the RPA products out there. I know people who are trying to build AI for RPA, but this seems like a much more solid approach.

Let me know if you are interested in turning this into a startup, happy to direct you to some relevant people.
WunderGraph | Multiple Roles | REMOTE | Full-Time WunderGraph (growing global customer base, 70K weekly downloads and growing) APIs are the backbone of every modern organization. But building and maintaining APIs is hard, especially when you'd like to scale API development across multiple teams. The key to success is collaboration.
Our mission is to take API collaboration to the next level. With Cosmo, we're give platform teams a solution to provide a self-service API Developer Platform to their teams. We believe that Open Source is the key ingredient to become the number one solution for API Development and Collaboration.

The project is completely open-source.

You will be an integral member of an expanding team at a VC-funded startup with a dynamic mission to innovate and transform the field of GraphQL Federation.

Apply here: https://wundergraph.com/jobs#open-positions

* More roles to be added in the next couple weeks. Also looking for junior Full stack engineers and Front-end Devs *
When things like this happen, it just shows me how little I actually know about the world and how it works.
I want to say that it’s not a linear relationship between hardness and cognitive function. There’s something about putting effort into biting something and it “giving” that, to me, makes this super satisfying and kinda puts me into a flow in a way. The tactical feedback is important. Maybe I’m just weird. :)
Suffers from dirty reads: Write to the primary, get confirmation of write-success, reload page, user sees 'stale' data from the read-replica and thinks you lost their data.
Location: Manchester, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: c# .NET, React, Javascript, Typescript, SQL (Full stack .net dev)

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: garethterrace at gmail

It's time for a new challenge. I've been working on https://timetastic.co.uk full time since 2017 and have worn many hats from setting up an API, to setting up blogs and websites, to building features, to design, debugging, vuln scanning, DNS, Email setup and everything in between.

I've been in software for 16+ years and have worked in SaaS, B2B, internal tools and all sorts. I thrive in small, productive teams where I can get deeply involved and get things done.

No recruiters, no gambling/betting.
I wonder if this is also the reason freezing a broken harddrive makes it temporary work again. I have used this trick a few times with success. Either keeping the disk in the freezer with the cable to the outside or putting a bottle or frozen liquid on top of it after it has been in the freezer (but beware of condensation).
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/north-texas-community-say... is another example, even if it might not exactly the fault of state-wide laws.
I wonder if this offers one explanation for nail biting
That reminds me of a specific line from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin.

> The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.
Is it remote USA only?
The very fact that new crypto coins are about to be (or even ever could be) sanctioned by different governments/nations, is proof positive that the concept of scarcity is a myth.

Even Diamond-Hands Hodlers all admit that without scarcity there is no value either.
The Microsoft support page you linked says that it's unsupported.

I don't know what point you're trying to make here, but it's falling flat.
google argued with me. a lot. I went to school but didn't graduate. not something they were prepared to deal with. never claimed I had a degree. but the fact that they called the school and the school said I didn't have a degree was a huge red flag.

I did a startup. the year before we were incorporated I was doing prototypes and fund raising. We called the company and you're weren't employed until 20xx, but you listed 20xx-1 as the start date! now you're in trouble.
In my previous companies for most post-screen candidates we would reach out behind the scenes through our personal networks (or worst case via our investors networks getting an intro) to a person with a chain of trust back to us who has worked with the candidate.
The Taiwan Strait is around 180 KM long, UK to France is around 30 to 40 KM in comparison. That same strait is also not safe to traverse except for two periods each year, so if they are going to invade we will know beforehand.

China needs to win this quickly, because any sort of kinetic war is going to put freeze the global economy and likely cause a mass recession, while the USA (& India) can blockade China's supply and oil chains from the Middle East beyond their force projection. Russian-Chinese infrastructure in Siberia isn't well developed and could also easily destroyed with strategic weapons from Alaska. Not to mention the sheer logistics of sending and maintaining millions of men across the strait. One missile and those troops sink into the ocean.

Trying to do a blockade on Taiwan premature isn't a good idea either, because it's conversely giving the USA the first move to organize it's forces out of harm's way, and basically turns a signficant chunk of the PLAN into sitting ducks out at the sea. Most Chinese victories are predicated on the China quickly wiping out US assets in Japan, Korea and Guam, if they don't manage to do that and fail to achieve air superiority, their troop carriers are going to sitting ducks for drones and fighters in the air.
> that's the perspective of a veteran of the industry

Yes, of course. The target audience for that comment is today's version of my younger self, the one who thinks that if you haven't made ten million dollars by the time you turn 30 (or won a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal or published a novel or had a screenplay produced or whatever) you're a failure.
Happy Roland TB-303 Day
Our current theories only work if spacetime is not quantized. Any theory that tries to quantize spacetime needs to somehow replace special relativity and its Lorrentz transform with something completely different, while still remaining consistent with the huge number of observations that confirm SR works - especially the extremely precise experiments that confirmed QFT. This is one of the reasons why LQG is almost certainly wrong, by the way.

Note that this is separate from the problem with GR-QFT inconsistencies. All of our current theories are based on and only work if spacetime is continuous. While it's not impossible that a new theory with quantized spacetime could exist and work, it's not at all required.

The one thing about spacetime that we do believe might be quantizable, and would have to be quantized for GR and QFT to be compatible, is the curvature of spacetime. But even if spacetime can only be curved in discrete quanta, that would not mean that position would be quantized.
In the us it’s all for profit. You give up blood and plasma and get make obscene amounts if money for the executives
imagine the horror of being shown ads you find useful
Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics
Location: Greater Boston, MA, USA
Remote: preferred
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, SQL, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Swift, Rust, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, DuckDB, Firebase, BigQuery, Redshift, Pandas, Polars, Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Redis, FastAPI, Flask, Docker, Kubernetes, Matplotlib/Seaborn, Plotly, Tableau, Superset
Résumé/CV: available upon request
Email: crucialcoral at proton dot me

data/backend engineer with over 10 years of experience solving increasingly complex problems across retail, banking, and technology sectors. experience bringing products from 0 to 1 in both large corporate settings and small early-stage startups. passionate about working on side projects that expand my tech stack while providing assistive and adaptive technology.