Hacker News: mdlincoln

New comment by mdlincoln in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

mdlincoln — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:21:01 +0000

Prolific | Senior Software Engineer | Hybrid ONSIDE 1-2 days/wk Bay Area | $200k-$250k

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

We’re looking for impact-focused Software Generalists to join our specialized team focused on serving frontier model creators and enterprise AI application developers. As a full-stack engineer, you will work across Prolific’s domains to solve customer and product problems.

This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with frontier AI companies, making critical technical decisions that balance scrappy startup execution with scalable, reliable engineering, as Prolific revolutionizes research for the AI community. You'll will have regular in person collaboration with customers and our US team, as well as collaborate closely with our UK-based tech teams.

Unfortunately we don't sponsor US visas at this time.

Apply: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/prolific/jobs/4767348101

William Noel, groundbreaking librarian and open data advocate, has died

mdlincoln — Thu, 09 May 2024 07:15:44 +0000

Article URL: https://whyy.org/articles/william-noel-obituary-death-philadelphia-librarian-open-data-advocate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40306011

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons

mdlincoln — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:22:31 +0000

Article URL: https://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-available-in-1000-prisons/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39513126

Points: 140

# Comments: 96

Misogyny, pornography, and malignant stereotypes in LAION-400M image dataset

mdlincoln — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01963

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28784421

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ghent Altarpiece: latest phase of restoration unmasks 16th century overpainting

mdlincoln — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:01:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/facelift-for-the-mystic-lamb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866795

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by mdlincoln in "I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me"

mdlincoln — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 21:04:47 +0000

context-dependent, or "reified" assertions are a pain point for sure. I come from the perspective of cultural heritage data, where context is king. Which expert made this attribution for this painting? Who owned it _when_? According to which archival document? etc.

Almost all the engineering problems cited in the original post are still basically there, but graphical models are still the least painful way of doing this, particularly when trying to share data between institutions. Example: https://linked.art/model/assertion/

I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me

mdlincoln — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:33:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lespetitescases.net/why-I-dont-use-semantic-web-technologies-anymore-even-if-they-still-influence-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823869

Points: 119

# Comments: 66

New comment by mdlincoln in "Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal"

mdlincoln — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:24:44 +0000

You may be interested in what Birkbeck has been developing: https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/janeway

Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress

mdlincoln — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:16:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.loc.gov/digital-strategy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18857256

Points: 32

# Comments: 6

Azure Government and ICE

mdlincoln — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:35:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuregov/2018/01/24/federal-agencies-continue-to-advance-capabilities-with-azure-government/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339017

Points: 32

# Comments: 34

New comment by mdlincoln in "Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects"

mdlincoln — Tue, 01 May 2018 00:29:22 +0000

Just commenting to add this wonderfully succinct summary of the post by John Overholt:

>It takes a tremendous amount of work to make the work that goes into photographing this goblet invisible.

https://twitter.com/john_overholt/status/991110369082068992

Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects

mdlincoln — Tue, 01 May 2018 00:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cmog.org/2018/04/25/photographing-glass-lighting-techniques-for-transparent-glass-objects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16963721

Points: 137

# Comments: 9

"MS Fnd in a Lbry" (1961)

mdlincoln — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 20:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fnd_in_a_Lbry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16516363

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdlincoln in "50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download"

mdlincoln — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:13:34 +0000

Several hundred publications from the Getty Museum (and the other research arms of the Getty) are available for free download as well: https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/

(I work at the Getty Research Institute)

Humorless Man Yells at English Major Jokes

mdlincoln — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:05:33 +0000

Article URL: http://ryancordell.org/personal/english-major-jokes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15857691

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Tool Safety: Beautiful Soup and Software Ethics

mdlincoln — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/zine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519241

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

Black and Latino representation in Silicon Valley has declined, study shows

mdlincoln — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:36:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/03/silicon-valley-diversity-black-latino-women-decline-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15393105

Points: 55

# Comments: 64

New comment by mdlincoln in "Create Page Layout Visualizations in R"

mdlincoln — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:05:37 +0000

I find that a fascinating reaction given how rapidly %>% have been taken up across a large segment of the R universe, to great excitement! Personally, I find it far MORE legible than endlessly-nested function calls.

It results in code that more closely resembles executed order of operations (e.g. filter -> mutate -> group -> summarize). Context is also key: it's most often used for data processing pipelines in specific analytical scripts or literate-code documents - less so used when defining generalizable/testable functions in packages (again, just a personal perspective - YMMV of course)

Transgender YouTubers had their videos used train facial recognition software

mdlincoln — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:37:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180080/transgender-youtubers-ai-facial-recognition-dataset

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15082928

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Temporality of Artificial Intelligence

mdlincoln — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:18:45 +0000

Article URL: https://quamproxime.com/2017/07/30/the-temporality-of-artificial-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14888407

Points: 7

# Comments: 0