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Modern Treasury (YC S18) | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Full-time | ONSITE

We're looking for Full-Stack Engineers to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build innovative payments products that delight both engineering and finance teams. As one of our first engineers, you will help shape the engineering culture of a fast-growing startup.

https://angel.co/company/moderntreasury/jobs/617123-full-sta...
The benefit of "unsafe" blocks is that the surface area to audit is dramatically reduced, so that yes, if you want high performance pointer mangling and arithmetic, you can do it, but your code will require more attention.

In C/C++, undefined behavior and unsafe operations abound and it is nigh impossible to isolate what is "important" to review from a security standpoint.
The same distinction applies in any Western democracy. That said, most European countries wouldn't go about tracking vast numbers of people - especially with such a deep intervention there will be courts involved before they are allowed to start tracking. So while the final evidence is not there there certainly will have been quite strong hints else they'd never have gotten the court order.
Are you saying the world hasn’t benefited from mobile connectivity devices and humanity being more networked than ever in the history of our planet?
A progressive tax change can be revenue-neutral, so that the end result is exactly the same govt size as before. I.e. the govt growth that you're imagining in your last item does not need to happen, even if the previous items occur.

If you try for a revenue-neutral change, and the rich somehow avoid paying their taxes, I fail to see how this would result in the middle class paying more taxes without a further tax change.

If the rich avoid taxes, then we should change the tax code, including incentives and enforcement to overcome this. Don't just throw up your hands when you face a problem.
Khan Academy | Senior Fullstack / Backend Engineers | Mountain View, CA or Remote | https://www.khanacademy.org/careers

Khan Academy is a ten-year-old non-profit with a mission of a "free world-class education for anyone, anywhere". We're used by millions of learners every month both in the classroom and in their homes. We've got tools for teachers and coaches, plus the official SAT Prep, and a bunch more.

I recently blogged about how we're moving from Python 2 to Go: http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm

It's a huge and exciting project.
Why hasn’t anyone simply bought a drone and tracked them to their landing site? They don’t teleport into the air.
Don't rush out and take mushrooms. If you're not taking it in a clinical setting, you're doing it wrong.
How many VPs company with 100+k headcount should have?
Location: Vancouver (looking to move to Montreal though)
Remote: Yes (depending on position)
Willing to relocate: Yes (depending on position)
Technologies: C, C++, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Java.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JemzuonjNJGrK3-QA17R8Q3pe60HOnsr/view?usp=sharing
Email: thiabaud.engelbrecht@gmail.com

I have one term of school left, looking for something for when I graduate.

I've done two internships before, one working on Call of Duty (lower-level C++ work, mainly networking and serialization), one working on an internal tool (React/Redux and Django). I also have some personal projects on GitHub, my favourite of which is a scripting language I wrote from scratch in C: https://github.com/yasl-lang/yasl.

I'm interested in moving to Montreal but am open to hearing from people anywhere, depending on the role.
>Work has to be something we need to do for about 1/3 of our lives.
>1/3 of our lifetime ought to be for family and kin and our own.
>The remaining 1/3 for self development.

and then the fourth 1/3 of the time you sleep
https://hckrnews.com and it’s on the Top10 of the day.
I thought you were tuned into expert research on this topic? Does the financial press really ignore the tofu market?!
Location: Dublin, IE

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Software > Hardware > ?

Résumé/CV: http://cedivad.com/cv.pdf
Evolution of design for a diagramming app over the span of 2 years
Like protection money? Then the Govt is like the mafia?
Origin | https://origin.io | Multiple Software Roles | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite
Origin's mission is to transform the $13tn manufacturing industry with 3D printing technology. We're looking for multiple engineers to complement a small but growing team.

You would help build a modern-day manufacturing platform: https://youtu.be/gwVKoxxZGk8?t=38

Join an experienced team from places like Google, Apple, and Uber to tackle hard problems at the intersection of software, data, hardware, and chemistry. Our ideal engineer is interested in working across disciplines with opportunities for rapid career growth.

Please apply at https://jobs.lever.co/originio
That depends very much on the location. In my area, for example, bikes are allowed on sidewalks if there is no bike lane.
Google Cloud is full of ex-McKinsey people in middle management positions. Add ex-Oracle to that mix and you got yourself a culture war with old-time Googlers.
> If you're not taking it in a clinical setting, you're doing it wrong.

I'd be interested to see some support for this statement.
There's no way to guarantee a powerful, life-changing experience. Some people do have one on their first try, some take more tries, others never do. All one can do is optimize the dose, set and setting to increase the odds that it'll happen.
Strangely I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Amazon one, save for Dan Vassalo which was more of a fatFIRE/entrepreneurial (folks, follow him on Twitter) article than just a stream of elitist, first world complaints.

I think I read one from Facebook that blamed the OP quitting on how parking worked (??)
I went with kindle paperwhite simply because I wasn’t aware of alternatives, at least with electronic ink style display, and I have to assume Amazon is making the nicest e-reader since they have market dominance. Also I was trading a very old kindle keyboard, which took a little bit off the full price of paperwhite.

I have an iPad but don’t like reading on it (too big and heavy) , and was previously reading on an iPhone XS Max, but even the phone feels heavy to hold while laying down after a while.
Angaza | San Francisco or Nairobi | ONSITE | https://www.angaza.com/careers/

Angaza makes it possible for life-changing products, such as solar + battery power systems, to be sold _on payment plans_ in off-grid regions across Africa and Asia.

We've reached millions of people whose homes now have electricity for the first time:

- https://youtu.be/2EvEeAs_9R4 and https://youtu.be/onMT6_Yv67I

- https://www.angaza.com/category/engineering/

The technology you build will help reach a billion more. We are hiring software engineers (Python + PostgreSQL, JS + React), an IoT partnerships engineer, and other roles in San Francisco and/or Nairobi:

- https://www.angaza.com/careers/

You can also read more about Angaza engineering culture on our Key Values page:

- https://www.keyvalues.com/angaza
> When we are looking to hit 9 billion soon, it’s probably not best to incentivize rampant population growth and large families.

US fertility rate is already below 2 (per woman), and overall population growth is already very low. It doesn't make sense to use population growth as a reason for anything at this point.

Also, the growth to 9 billion worldwide isn't due to US. It's mostly due to Africa. And we already know what lowers the birth rate - better healthcare, better economy and better education. Nothing to do with tax policy or wealth transfer.
> What? People lifted themselves out of poverty, not the authoritarian regime.

So why can't the north koreans lift themselves out of poverty? I love the anti-china rhetoric. The CCP authoritarians has complete control over the brainwashed chinese people and is responsible for everything in china. 800 million chinese people are lifted out of poverty. No, CCP's not responsible for it.

I'm sure Deng liberalizing the economy had nothing to do with it. I'm sure the CCP's policies the past 40 years had nothing to do with it.

> Are you a CCP troll?

Here we go with the silly ad hominems. I am someone who hates bullshit and trolls. The last resort of a propagandist is accusing others of being trolls because you cannot fight facts and truth.

Is wikipedia and the world bank CCP trolls too?

" According to the World Bank, more than 850 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty; China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity term"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China

> This talking point is frequently used by CCP propaganda.

Because it is true. It is one of the things the CCP actually did well. Amazing huh? There are some things they do well, there are some things they don't do well.

Do you know how I know people are trolls and bots? They accuse other people of being trolls.
You're taxed at that rate because that's what the government thinks is optimal for the economy. It's not punitive and it's got nothing to do with what anyone "deserves" or how much they use.

The point of social security is to mitigate risk, which increases fluidity in the job market. Without that, you have scores of potential successful business owners working in factories, contributing fuck all to the economy.

There's some real positives to progressive taxation too. It acts as a negative tax on risk, incentivising veteran devs to take on more low paying research positions and startups instead of lucrative consulting and big business gigs.

There's a reason almost every highly successful country has a similar tax system. Progressive taxation up to ~50% and not much higher. Because despite what people on the far-left or far-right keep crapping on about, fucking with either free markets or welfare is a recipe for disaster, you need a good balance of both to have a healthy economy.
Will admit i am nitpicking but I feel like biologically is a poor choice of word here.

"Historically, culturally, sociologically, traditionally, anthropologically," all work much better than biologically (which to me would suggest a validated mechanism of action).

I am familiar with Dunbars number and to my knowledge there is no biological mechanism for sustaining friendships in there.
You know what is sad about a small business (kjmagnetics.com) that you linked to? They are exactly what will be killed off by Amazon. The small and knowledgeable specialty store very similar as I am sure many of us remembered happened to 'Stereo Stores' once the big boxes stores came along (or hardware stores). Nothing new about this of course just that with Amazon it's greatly accelerated.
> The fact that it cost $500,000 in real money because of this code is more than enough proof that it’s bad code.

If this is a proof of anything, it’s that it can be optimized; not that it’s bad code.
If you look back at https://www.jefftk.com/money you'll see I wasn't earning more than $12/hr until my first programming job in fall 2008.
Juste to state what is obvious for many but Archimedes CPU is none other than ... arm, the most ubiquitous cpu on the planet nowadays.
I agree, which is one reason the FOSS types really don't like Amazon.
Good point..thirds of our waking life.

1/3 of 16 hours then..
As someone who's been eating these things for a long time, it's notable they made something that's actually good.

Historically, veggie burgers were terrible. Most meat eaters still love their beef, but most of my friends actually like Beyond Burgers and get them not because they care about the environment or animal rights, but simply because they like the taste and want something beside a beef burger for a change.

I'm not saying it can't be replicated. I have no idea how well these companies will hold their share in the future. If I had to bet, I'd bet that McDonald's and Burger King and Wendy's will all make their own version, and Kraft or Frito Lay will make one for supermarkets, too.

But the market has definitely changed with the newer burgers. They're actually good now!
My first HDD has a 540MB drive, I ran DOS. Eventually I upgraded to newer computers, and I opened the old drive, and put in on the wall on display. It stood there for at least a decade, possible 15 years, before I moved to a different country. Before leaving, I decided to connect the old drive to a computer, just for kicks.

Remarkably, I could read data off it. Not much, file i/o mostly ended up in failure, but I could at least see the file structure. I did not expect this.
> I would feel "unsafe" at Google.

What would make you feel unsafe? It seems like you're suggesting the answer is diversity trainings. What about them would make you feel that way?
Everyone is forced to go through diversity training, not just problematic people.
If only one rich person does it, over time they'll be poorer than other rich people who don't do it.

This is no different than saying "We don't need laws to prevent dumping industrial waste into water. If your company thinks it's so important, they should just do it." Which will just result in the environmentally-conscious company being outcompeted by everyone else.
Good analysis.

I've recently been reading The Australian online, and any time there's a climate related article, there are literally 100s of comments almost all of which are rabid climate deniers. It's stomach churning to read.

No idea how representative of general population, but my gut-feeling is that it's a significant minority, e.g. 10-20%.
What is SJW-iam?
What is social progressivism?

Do you think this definition of SJW is correct?

“ "Social justice warrior" (SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism.[1][2][3] The accusation that somebody is an SJW carries implications that they are pursuing personal validation rather than any deep-seated conviction, and engaging in disingenuous arguments”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior
No. We have no knowledge of your neighborhood, whereas US readers have a good-enough picture of the US.

It's also useless because a neighborhood is too small a unit of measurement to be useful, period. Unlike cities, states, or the entire country, the vast majority of neighborhoods have zero vehicle fatalities.
Have you tried the oculus dk2? As I recall text wasn't crisp enough to be usable - wondering if that's much better on the quest?

You're using the quest as a vr headset for your computer? Running W10?
Don't know what the financial press talks about, but just because they talk about it doesn't mean it's something investable for every particular fund. The fund I worked for has certain limitations because of how much capital we invest so we need to find large companies whose stocks trade a certain $mm/day, etc.
JPEG XT, JPEG XS, JPEG XL are all for completely different use cases and built with different technology. XT and XS are more mature standards, but less appealing for the internet use case than XL.
It would be interesting if we could institute a law that would in effect compel companies to open source their technology, patents, trade secrets, etc. after a certain amount of time to force competition and innovation. Wishful thinking I guess but I think we'd be better off if we could get there.
The "appeal to authority" fallacy is one of the fallacies most commonly recognized as such. Usually arguments based on fallacies are classified as "wrong" because no alternate, valid support is given.

> In cases where strikes are illegal, they are made so because voters have determined that it is in society's best interest to make them so.

Laws are seldom (never?) passed by popular vote, and I highly doubt this hypothetical outcome would occur if the question was ever presented to the people. Citizens have little say in legislative matters except when given a choice between 2-3 representatives, the winner of which gets the power to vote in their stead. This obviously makes it easier to influence the legislative process, since you only need to influence the representative and not all their constituents. The representatives are completely unaccountable until they're up for re-election, which occurs every 2-6 years. Passing a law can be done in much less time with zero input from citizens. So using the law as a basis for social approval of policy is obviously moot.

Another point: she never claims to speak for Amazon. Being an Amazon insider doesn't automatically imply that they are a spokesperson for Amazon, it just means they have access to information which does not exist outside Amazon. Your reading of this seems quite charitable to Amazon's case for seemingly no good reason.

Lastly, "confidential information" is often dubiously and vaguely defined to capture all information classified by laws as confidential, but also a lot more than that based on what the company thinks is bad PR. Take for instance the Google controversies last year regarding Search in China and image processing for military drones. When you give a single company the power to both define and enforce what falls under that umbrella, you can't expect them to do anything but use it to benefit the bottom line. This is the reason we have oversight bodies at all.
>A field has certain goals, certain questions it tries to answer. In most intellectual fields, newcomers start by learning the best possible answers to those questions found till now

Not so in philosophy. If philosophy has the aim (if one's idea is that science has some goal, or a goal outside of being done for the sake of being done) to create new answers to old questions, or create new questions which require new answers, one must know (1) what questions were previously asked, (2) why the questions do (or don't) have answers, or what the problems and advantages of the answers are, (3) what these answers were in their original form, such that we have the best access to the most complete argument.

Endless rephrasing of texts didn't get us from Newton to Einstein. Even if one accepts that philosophy makes progress (internally), it doesn't in any way imply that one can get away without reading both old (to see what remains uncovered, and there is plenty to this day) and new.
NZ has very high inequality already and has been on the same course as the rest of the English speaking world. If there is real unrest in the US it is going to spread to other western countries. Why they think NZ’ers wouldn’t come for them in their Queenstown compounds in that case is naive and beats me.
See I am an individualist, not a Collectivist,

I believe the only role government should have is protect my individual human rights from other individuals

Not to pick and choose what is "best" for society, governments have a terrible track record at picking winners and losers

What is the saying, if left of to government we would have the best iron lungs money could buy but we would not have a polio vaccine
huey is solid. I use it in prod.
5k people per VP seems reasonable, so 20? Then they can have 10 senior directors each with 500 persons under them.
Two other things come to mind...
- culturally, people in the US just don't walk for transport (outside NYC and a few other places). So, when they get in cars, they don't think to look for pedestrians or cyclists.

- the roads are more car-centric than European cities and suburbs. Crossings are poorly timed, poorly lighted, too wide, in the wrong places, etc.
> Additionally your 10% additional cost of energy is nonsense. Australia hasn't had a functioning energy policy is 10 years, which is the primary reason costs are so high. Any kind of policy which both sides of politics agree on (at least roughly!) will provide investment certainty and cut that cost.

Finkel review [0], page 201, Levelised Cost of Electricity in 2020 estimates solar at ~91 $/MWh vs ~76 $/MWh supercritical coal.

So you were right that I was using an unsourced number. Now I've sourced it and am revising it to 20%. And I have a source that says if we just twiddle our thumbs for 10 years we should get a much better deal, with no extra cost given we produce somewhere between 1 and 5% of the worlds emissions depending on how we account for exports.

[0] https://www.energy.gov.au/sites/default/files/independent-re...
The thing is, unless you operate in a system that also has a pipeline for manufacturing and delivering medical marijuana to pharmacies—and the patient is likely to take advantage of that, rather than just using their medical-marijuana card to go to their local head shop—then you as a doctor have a choice to make, between "prescribe them something they can only [in this country] get at a pharmacy, which is therefore likely to be okay", and "prescribe them something they will get wherever the market allows, and thus is of whatever quality the market will bear."

It's the "whatever quality the market will bear" part that I worry about.

Consider: if you buy a bottle of ground willow-bark sitting on a store shelf in a random bodega... where did it come from? Who made it? Where did they grow it? What are the legal requirements re: pesticides, soil toxicity, etc. in the country they grew it [since it probably wasn't here]? And how certain are you of those answers?

And mind you, Chinese herbs are a bit better, even, since they're mostly just considered "food" by standards bodies, and so it's pretty hard to import them (or even derivatives of them) and local growers get regulated for "food purity" by entities like the FDA. (No standards body can protect you from things that inherently contain compounds nobody is aware they inherently contain, of course. Unless some other compound in the herb was considered the active ingredient, and isolated out...)

But, well, let me put it like this: my local pharmacy has some homeopathic tinctures (for some reason. At least they're on the bottom shelf out of most people's sight.) Who made those? And, given that they started as poisons before being diluted, how sure are you that they actually "did homeopathy correctly" and diluted them so that they're not actually going to poison you? DIY, then? How sure are you that you can "do homeopathy correctly", instead of accidentally poisoning yourself because you didn't stir your cyanide tincture well-enough? And then, how confident would you be that some big-pharma company could—if they wished—do homeopathy correctly? I'm guessing a lot more than your confidence in either BestElsewhere Imports Co or in your own two hands.

That's what I'm getting at. It's not about what happens when you grow it yourself. It's about the worst quality of product the market could potentially deliver to you when you go looking, and what that means for a doctor considering which delivery-vehicle to prescribe.
No? The mafia fucks your shit up if you don't pay. The government protects you from civil unrest, which is instigated by all the other people that aren't millionaires.

If the mafia protected you from other people robbing you, then they'd be a legitimate business. It's called a security company.
It makes sense, a lot of native Americans cultures have either very specific rain rituals (including sacrifices) or stories of drought.