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Truss | Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco or REMOTE | https://truss.works

Particularly looking for Ruby/React and Javascript/React devs!

Truss solves complex technical problems for the private sector and government. We helped rebuild Healthcare.gov after its public failure in 2013. We seek the highest standard both in terms of the technology we build, and the way we run our company. We'd love to chat with you.

We are a software consultancy known for pragmatism, autonomy, expertise, and trust. We build strong relationships with our clients, contractors, and employees and we believe that this is fundamental to doing great work. As a Truss engineer you will facilitate bringing Truss values (https://truss.works/values/) to those truly trying to make a difference in our government, and enable them to understand what their citizens actually need rather than implementing a perceived solution.

Here are some of the things we care about:
* Great communication! Including thoughtful listening skills, the ability to express complex ideas clearly and succinctly, and the ability to communicate well in writing
* The ability to deal well with ambiguity and act with autonomy
* Technology-agnostic and pragmatic engineering sensibility, focused on solving key problems for the customer, not the tools
* Proficiency in at least one commonly used programming language, such as Python, Ruby, Go, Javascript, Java, etc.
* Experience deploying at least one application that other people use
* Have held at least one engineering position post-education
* Initiative, curiosity, a bias for action, and a problem-solving attitude

We expect all Truss engineers to consistently develop new skills, and cross-train into new disciplines outside of their current areas of expertise.

Check us out at: https://truss.works/ and apply at: https://truss.works/jobs/
I think most of the opera developers went to Mozilla when Opera ditched presto.
You can live but you can’t date!
Microservice Architecture (Examples and Diagram)
I'm in a dead end job right now but I'm reluctant to leave because my office is huge. big bookshelf, multiple chairs, nice view. I'm going to need a big pay increase to go back to an open office, and no one is ponying up.
Politics and a Climate and Freedom are interesting, but not what makes Ars Technica interesting.
Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected
This comes across as a total "hit-piece" against Tesla. In looking closely at the article, it is supported by "The Rockefeller Foundation" , which for those who don't know - is linked to history's biggest oil man.

The Rockefeller foundation would like nothing more than to see Tesla fail.
Long-term A/B testing has major problems in the modern world where users can communicate with each other (both onsite and out of band) and can use multiple accounts / devices / browsers
Sometimes it's for a better picture (looking up from under lowered eyebrows, for instance), and sometimes it's just how their faces look - consider the phenomenon of "resting b*&^! face".

Many people do consider a neutral face to be aggressive or unpleasant, studies show, regardless of the intent of the person with the face.
Cool, I'll check those out, thank you!
>Why does the blame always lie with "politicians"? That's unhelpfully reductionist... we are a democracy. Businesses, private citizens, and representives all come together to define our public policy.

You're right. Technically the fault lies in the voters for voting in those politicians. In practice, it's the politicians that fail the voters though. That's literally what the politicians are voted to do, but they obviously operate under their own incentives, which is to get reelected.
Do you mean the city of San Diego got fined for letting their team go? or the team got fines for leaving?
What happens when you try to iterate that iterable twice?
Sony tries to upload movie trailer to YouTube, posts entire movie instead
Not everywhere; even the raiders fans in Oakland appear to be OK with letting the team move to LV because of how shitty the team has treated the city.
If you do not like the compromises reached, you should work harder to convince the politicians to change their mind. Attacking the citizens you disagree with gets nothing accomplished. That is how we got into this crazy polarized political climate in which a solid third of this country thinks a different third are either fascists or Marxists.

While this is true to some extent, changing the minds of politicians sometimes requires changing the minds of voters.
Easily the dirtiest city of the US that I have visited due to conferences. On par with the NYC MTA.
Brad, this is @DieLaughing. I just know you're reading the Hacker News comments. This is an amazing setup. I'm super jealous. ;)
Is https://github.com/Glench/fuzzyset.js/blob/gh-pages/ui/index... generated from something that merges the GitHub UI and data with your own content or was it handmade so to speak?
IIRC, Seattle’s starting to get this too. High levels of income inequality sure are fun!
Banks frequently have signs saying you can't wear a hat, sunglasses, or masks, for what I think should be obvious reasons
It takes 3/4 of the effort - kinetic energy is proportional to the square of speed.
So.. the article concludes that they're "Building Knowledge" on how to maintain data centers housing racks of servers and ASICs doing mining/blockchain work? I wonder if the same argument could be made for the adult content industry, that, for better or worse, has been pushing the barriers of compute and bandwidth since the dawn of the dotcom era.
The only counter argument that comes to mind is that in some foreign countries US dollars are accepted. If that money is in international circulation is might not be picked up. Although, one would assume that over time some of it would make it's way back to the US.
Especially to Western eyes, resting faces--some in particular--can often be interpreted that way because we're so used to forced smiles. This is particularly true for strangers because we don't have the experience to read their individual emotional expressions.

> So Jason Rogers and Abbe Macbeth, behavioral researchers with international research and innovation firm Noldus Information Technology, decided to investigate: Why are some faces seen as truly expressionless, but others are inexplicably off-putting?

> ...

> The researchers enlisted Noldus’s FaceReader.... The software...analyzes the image and assigns an expression based on eight basic human emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt, and “neutral.”

> To establish a baseline, Rogers and Macbeth first had FaceReader assess a series of genuinely expressionless faces. Those expressions registered about 97 percent neutrality, Macbeth said...

> Then they plugged in photos of RBF all-stars Kanye West, Kristen Stewart and Queen Elizabeth. Suddenly, the level of emotion detected by the software doubled to six percent.

> One particular emotion was responsible for the jump: “The big change in percentage came from ‘contempt,’” Macbeth said.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...
>I started to agree with that but then I realized: I don't think you can get getattr to raise an error here at all. The keys are strings, the default value is provided, I don't think there's a fault path here.

Of course you can ;) __getattr__ could invoke a network request that fails for all you know.

But yes this was more a general comment on this layout. The data-driven layout, while very explicit in code, is actually awful when you encounter issues at runtime, for exactly the reasons you describe.

While I'm not a fan of this PEP's syntax, I will say that I do think it someone helps here, it reduces the boilerplate from 3-4 lines in some cases to a single line, which in practice makes this more visually declarative, and keeps tracebacks sane.

That said this pattern is rare enough for me that I don't think I'll be using this tool anytime soon.
Yeah, $80 for gig internet... I wish :(
Truth isn't that different from business. Both are statistical. Making a decision that is not statistically valid is bad business, as you could be making things worth as often as better.
Frankly, that sounds like a motivated reasoning. It just seems that everything is about property rights and market, until it is inconvenient in which case tax is set up so that people who are not you leave, because you want their place.

And you still did not made place for more people. Just changed who is living there. They dont matter, you do.
You would also have to factor the amount of time spent socializing at work versus actually doing work. In Japan most of your friends are at work, and relationships are in work. Lots of coffee breaks, chatting about non work related matters,etc,etc. 8 hours spent at the office in US is much more work being done than 12 hours of busy Asian country. That being said there certainly was a good amount of people actually working themselves to death for 15hours day actually working while their bosses did not much work. Source: Worked at a Japanese company for almost a decade.
The convention told SF travel "that they loved the city, but post-convention surveys revealed their members were afraid to walk the streets amid the open drug use, threatening behavior and mental illness that are common on the streets."

...

"We all know there is a problem, and now, we need to work toward a solution," Carroll said.
Good IRC channels?
Hi, I've been trying to find some interesting IRC channels to hang out in. What are some of your guys favourites?
Maybe they could make a lot of materials out of carbon fiber/nanotubes/etc...? Dunno about the composition of the crust and what you would be able to mine locally.
Paul Allen fully funded Ref 48, spending ~$5m to convince the taxpayers to buy him a stadium.
The '80s in particular were a time of greater trust in government and greater mass conformity in popular culture. The media by and large did not challenge these absurd estimates, nor did schools, nor did, largely, the public. At the time NASA was near the peak of its reputation. It had achieved the moon landing, it was the middle of the Cold War were NASA's achievements were an important battleground, and so on. Overall the tendency was to simply defer to NASA's judgment.

There was also a bit of self-delusion going on. The Shuttle system was, by design, the backbone of spaceflight (manned and unmanned) in the US at the time. On the one hand you could believe that the Shuttle system was a modern miracle, fully capable of achieving (or nearly so) its design promises of cheap and ubiquitous spaceflight, ushering in a new space age, including the launch and assembly of a next generation space station in the near future, and possibly including the realization of manned missions to Mars within the next decade or two. The competing view, that the Shuttle was a risky launch system that could never achieve its design promises even within an order of magnitude, was a vastly depressing (though in retrospect realistic) one. Holding that view meant that we would have to go back to the drawing board and spend maybe another decade building a new launch system that would reset us back to the way things were in the 1960s, and then we'd have to slowly crawl our way toward incremental progress. That was a very difficult truth to accept, ironically more difficult the more you were invested in space exploration.

Sometimes reality is a tough pill to swallow.
Realistically, I think your right to free expression is threatened by the way you can be targeted for harassment or fired if you exercise it, and the mask is one simple remedy. Basically it makes sense for the same reason the anonymous ballot does. No less plausible than the idea that your freedom of speech is abridged if you can't donate millions of dollars to a political campaign.
Even in countries that haven't devolved into a two party system you have the same problem. The political parties are trying to appeal to a similar voter base and they simply go off on just a few issues during campaigns. When they actually get into power they tend to have to make decisions about things that are completely different than what was talked about during the campaign.

If none of the political parties talk about increasing internet connectivity, but that's a very important issue for me, then I'm basically picking at random.
I was wondering how r/wsb translates to options. Ah: wsb = wall street bets. Indeed.
It depends on how close to the sales pipeline you are, or whatever creates value in your company. It's still possible to have an outsized, leveraged effect as a developer.
And put my remote hands worker out of a job? No way.
"bunch of black body radiators". Yes, a whole bunch of them, as cooling in space is pretty much horrible. Better to stay on Earth, as you suggest.
> By the way, don't get me wrong, I am totally for cutting waste on the local level

Did you not just literally say that higher energy usage is itself a good thing?

Also on your point about production: My old tv had to be built, my old car also had to be built. It cost energy to replace them, but it does not equate to higher energy usage going forward.

I do agree with one thing you said though. We're swimming in unharnessed energy right now. If we can swap all the coal plants for fusion then maybe we can afford to waste energy on generating digital money, but right now bitcoin server farms mean more carbon in the atmosphere
There are repeater signals for this purpose, see http://railsigns.uk/sect7page1/sect7page1.html
Do you think there are potential problems giving the government the power to pick and choose what public information you should be charged for accessing?
Not any less than spending time on social media or games.
For those unfamiliarwith gerrymandering, I highly recommend the John Oliver explanation, a humorist of actual facts, showing maps and tactics of politicians that are borderline criminal.

https://youtu.be/A-4dIImaodQ
If you own a multi-million-dollar house, you are rich. Even if you are rich with a fixed income, you are still rich.

Prop 13 is framed as something for the rich because it's for the rich and it's the rich who benefit.
> but does nothing to control queue lengths.

For directly managing bufferbloat, I never understood this to be a requirement. Either technique is meant to create back-pressure on the TCP stack so it can more effectively manage it's window.. and both do that perfectly well.

My understanding is that you would want AQM in order to keep your bandwidth utilization closer to the actual wire speed than a simple priority queue would.

So, we've had the tools to deal with bufferbloat for a long time, it's just that this mode now just provides slightly better peak performance.
“When you pick something like a pen up off a table, the first thing you touch is the table.”
I stopped reading for a good two minutes of experimentation.
Yeah, but they must cost you a bundle!
"Fair" taxation is a very slippery term whose meaning varies along the political spectrum and each individual's personal self-interest.

Are you willing to sacrifice many public services to reach the lower taxation level? I'm not talking about light rail and Shakespeare in the Park. In some rural areas the sheriff's jurisdiction is so large they tell 911 callers to get their shotgun and deal with suspicious activity themselves because a deputy won't get there in time. If the answer is yes, I applaud your intellectual honesty. Many people cling desperately to the notion that we can have comprehensive public services and rock bottom taxes, maybe through some magical and simple 10x government efficiency tweak. (At least local government can't deficit spend).
TLBleed is latest Intel CPU flaw to surface: But don't expect it to be fixed
It's funny because my app just got removed from the Play Store for similar (weird) reasons https://twitter.com/edhelas/status/1014265845940441088.

Basically I'm also providing a link to F-Droid on the home screen. The app is blocked and I can only resubmit a new one…
I think we have some examples now where being proprietary ultimately created competition from open source instead of being a moat that protected anything.

Like GitHub vs Gitlab, the people most-affected by GitHub's restrictive code licensing is Github themselves wasting time and effort giving any fucks about it and losing customers anyway. Their proprietary license protecting their code set competitors and intentional clones back days, weeks or months ... years ago.

Restrictive open source licenses seem equally pointless, it's just more clear how you specifically do what you do in what may ultimately be one of many suitable approaches people use to compete with your version.

I feel like we should be using public domain much more and have let ourselves become very distracted by imposing restrictions on our code.
Meanwhile there’s an extension on there with our company name and logo (both trademarked) that might be stealing peoples data and Google have done nothing about it after many submissions of their trademark infringement form.
Hosting a Hugo Site in a Google Bucket
This is my fourth post in a 30 day blog post marathon. It describes how to deploy a simple Hugo static site into Google cloud. Let me know what you think!
Why is Brazil so good at football?
Discussed 1 day ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443550
I look at that and all I want to do is raise my eyebrow. That's like water cooling Celerons or heavy tweaking of Honda Civics - you're not doing all that for redundancy, you're doing that as a hobby and redundancy (or speed) are an excuse.

I've set up ISP redundancy on my home network before, I should probably test to verify that it still works after my update some months back. It's a truly high-tech solution: A Netgear WNDR3700v2 router (5x Gigabit, dual-band, circa 2011) running LEDE (previously OpenWRT).

It's not automatic, but I can set it to act as a wifi client, so if my regular Internet goes down I can simply connect into the router, connect to a phone hotspot, and continue providing internal network access. I don't recall if it's able to act as both a client and an AP on the same frequency at the same time, but since my wife's Kindle and Chumby are the only 2.4-only devices in the house I'm not really that concerned about it either.

And yes, the Chumby does still work though it's just a clock these days.
For anyone else looking, there's quick-and-dirty notes on how to configure this back in the 1.7 release notes. (Search for "smart queue") https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-E...

Note the comment "the actual rate limits will be set to 95% of the specified value". That explains why I saw a 5-10% dropoff in throughput when I enabled it with honest numbers.
Well if they hope to succeed, they better start the long process of laying down some more fiber connections to the rest of the world. They have to go through Greenland or Europe to get the US.

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
I wonder if this mechanism can be used as a molecular solenoid.

I'm endlessly fascinated by the concept of molecular-scale machines.
Thanks for the info! :)
If I remember correctly, he wasn't even streaming during the whole thing. The fans simply pieced it together by things like departure times and roughly where he's going etc.
I'm curious about the redundant power setup. Does each server draw power from both PDUs? Or do you have two servers on one PDU, and one on the other?

With three servers, if you have two power failures then the Ceph monitors will no longer be able to achieve a quorum.
The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom? (1987)
It avoids USD as currency.

The government will keep printing more USD and being opaque...

BTC has 21,000,000 solutions ever ever ever.

(and USD is a decent currency, there are countries with hyperinflation)
But "insulting" a point gives the impression (at least to me, and apparently to others) of insulting the person behind it, as you cannot insult a point, only a person.

Why in the world is saying that a point is intellectually bankrupt "insulting" a point versus criticizing it? The point is made that, "This numerical circumstance doesn't indicate exponential growth." However, an analogous numerical circumstance happened at a number of points, and was followed by exponential growth. Clearly, there is something else needed for justification.

gives the impression (at least to me, and apparently to others)

So factually, no one has done anything but criticize a point, and your reaction is all about your feels, by your own admission. If you want to defend the intellectual merits of the point, then actually defend the intellectual merits of the point. This tactic of acting offended, then offering nothing more is wearing thin. I should hope that going forward from 2018, people will generally recognize that kind of activity for what it is.
I agree with you. The Juggalos painted their faces but someone else discovered its effectiveness in fighting facial recognition.

FTA:

> According to Twitter user @tahkion, a computer science blogger for WonderHowTo, Juggalo makeup outmatches the machine learning algorithms that govern facial recognition technology.
Presently, the Chargers and Rams are sharing the old Coliseum stadium, similar to how the New York Giants and New York Jets share a stadium in New Jersey.
An additional factor is employment laws give strong protection to full time workers. As the economy recovered after the 2008 financial crisis, employers found it cheaper and less risky to use more flexworkers.

Flexworkers come in two main categories:

- Uitzendkracht - agency workers, hired via an employment bureau such as Adecco, Randstat.

- ZZP-ers - often independent consultants, in many cases starting with a former employer as their initial client.
Hey how can i learn more about all this? id love to understand whates going on, on the github page, im following a bit but still want a better understanding the way you and the rest of the commenters have, what are some good starting points?

Any resources, books, links, youtubes especially, that you can point me to?

Also, in his set up, theres no router? He says hes using a VM? What does that mean?
I'm trying to get you to unpack your sentiment that Americans should support Uber and Lyft for nationalistic reasons. If you're going to dodge that, we don't really have much to talk about.

> which i don't agree with( or I don't have the complete picture).

I'm thinking it's the latter.

>>>>> uber and lyft deserve it. I use lyft multiple times/week.

> I use lyft all the time and I have family who are uber drivers. Do you not use uber/lyft?

This idea of yours that use or personal utility justifies support of an company is pretty problematic. It's basically the ends justify the means, coupled with a thorough ignorance of and disinterest in the means.
You're probably thinking of some other voice command system, or Dragon's built-in commands (which are bad because they have no continuous recognition, requiring constant pauses while talking). Voicecode behaves exactly as described in the article.

I just defined a command "return" in Voicecode which presses enter.

"testing return testing test test return test return test" spoken in one breath types the following:

testing
testing test test
test
test

Voicecode defines commands in Dragon by just adding words to the English vocabulary, leaving Dragon in dictation mode, and running a parser on the English output. Commands are executed anywhere they land in the phrase. The Voicecode grammar makes this somewhat less painful by using lots of non-English words for commands... but this approach is convoluted and hurts accuracy quite a bit imo.
This has been my daily driver ever since Github Desktop dumped native in favor of electron. Zero complaints, it’s pretty awesome.