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New Vector (Matrix.org & Riot.im) | Offices in London, UK, Rennes, Fr | REMOTE | Full-time | Team of 40 growing rapidly

New Vector is the startup which employs the core team behind Matrix (https://matrix.org) - the leading project for secure, open decentralised communication.
Matrix’s mission is to make messaging as open as email -allowing everyone to choose where their data is hosted, enjoy private conversations thanks to multi-device end-to-end encryption, and ultimately be in control of their own communication. We use Matrix to power our flagship apps for the web, iOS & Android (https://riot.im) and our SaaS platform (https://modular.im).

We’re a small mission-led team with early adopters including organic users in the tens of millions, The French Government and others we can’t talk about yet(!). Almost all of the work we do is open source (https://github.com/matrix-org https://github.com/vector-im) and our server stack includes Python/Twisted & Go backed by Postgres and managed by Kubernetes/Ansible. Our client stack includes React, Kotlin, Objective-C and Swift.

We’re currently hiring for:

- Mobile Developer https://apply.workable.com/new-vector/j/4E9E47C166/

- Fullstack Web Developer https://apply.workable.com/new-vector/j/8F95A52698/

- Safety Engineer (London) https://apply.workable.com/new-vector/j/1E79B2C579/

- Data Protection Officer (London) https://apply.workable.com/new-vector/j/49BDBDBFFE/

If you would like to know more, checkout https://vector.im/careers, either apply via the links or reach out on https://riot.im to @neilj:matrix.org

Even if you are not a perfect match for the above get in touch anyway, we’re always keen to talk to people interested in Matrix.
Very anectdotal, but the three Japanese persons I know have told me that people in Japan are generally negative towards holding an Olympics and think it's just a waste of resources.
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I almost closed this page when he suggested LaTeX. Glad I read the next line :).
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Applied Intuition | Software, Sr. Software, Sr Frontend | Bay Area, Detroit | Onsite, VISA | Full-time

Help determine the future of autonomy. Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. We've raised from A16Z and General Catalyst.

Applied Intuition equips engineering and product development teams with software that makes it faster, safer, and easier to bring autonomy to market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top companies in the world (such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch).

We have a few priority roles we are actively hiring for:

- Frontend - Senior & Mid-level

- Senior SWE - Game Engines

- Sensor Simulation Engineer

- Software Test Engineer

- DevOps Engineer

- Security Engineer

- SWE (Detroit)

- Product Designer

- SWE Generalist (Bay Area)

I am a recent addition to Applied, and have only great things to say about the culture[1], the product, and the team. Our tech stack is cutting edge and a blast to work on, our pace is fast but sane, and our customers love us (and demand a lot from our product). If you're interested in bringing a deep software skillset to autonomous vehicles, Applied is a fantastic place to land in this industry.

Apply online, every application is read: https://www.appliedintuition.com/careers or email me (def + @<company address>) with any questions, but do not send me your resume (please apply instead online).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3-k-g3CV4
> we’re just kicking the can down the road

Google "flatten the curve" [1]. The point of a quarantine isn't to stop the infection. It's to slow it down so it doesn't overwhelm healthcare infrastructure.

Given India's population and ICU capacity, a fast spread could kill tens of millions.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/coronavirus-curve...
I've been using ReST w. Sphinx since years and it's not the answer either.

Consider this simple fail of nested styling:

*I am italic but also **bold**.*.

This produces (all in italics but lacking any bold text):

I am italic but also **bold*.*

If you assumed asterisks could be stacked; nope:

*I am italic but also *bold*.*.

Produces (all in italics but lacking any bold text):

I am italic but also *bold.*

ReST/Sphinx can't do this. Doh!
Because of this you can also not have styling in e.g. link texts etc.

These limitations seem unnecessary and random. For example, when the parser handles a table, which is also just marker symbols for cells, you can have styled text or links in the cell's text. Why this works but nesting styles doesn't is completely beyond me.
The only problem I see with markdown is the lack of an IETF spec. But then we run into the XKCD problem...
As a technical writer, I write everything in Markdown.

Sure, it could use some features.

Does anyone know how a developer could contribute to the markdown standard and code up some desired markdown features?
Seems he was ready after all. Look up Event201 and ID2020.
The best part of Markdown is that you can embed HTML, and the author gets it wrong by saying you can't mix the two freely.

In CommonMark (and thus most modern Markdown implementations) you can embed Markdown in HTML like this:

<table><tr><td>

*This is markdown*

</td></tr></table>

You need blank lines before and after the tags.

I think you could do this in markdown.pl but there were some quirks/limitations.

----

Related: CommonMark is a Useful, High-Quality Project

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/02/14.html
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I don't have a strong opinion about the base format, but one of my strongest technical opinions is that all documentation should be computable - that is, it should be generated by a program that's linked together with the code it's describing. You should reference particular code structures in the docs, and if the docs gets out of date it should break so that you're not lying to the reader about what's going on. Depending on how deep you want to go, you can also interact with the base code a bit in the doc-generator, showing particular input/output results, or show a few records from a DB table, etc.
The ocean floor has "almost no oxygen," not "no oxygen." There remain oxygen-burning creatures adapted to living beneath in hypoxic conditions.
I always see comments about how huge and ungovernable India is because of its diversity... doesn't it make sense to break India down into more governable nation-states then?

I read somewhere that there are districts in India with more people than the entire population of Norway!
Also lock free usually means atomics which means memory fences. Those can be slow. It's another tool you should have available though.
I guess it depends on what you consider 'controversial'. Part of what the Republicans want is essentially a $500 billion blank check for Mnuchin to spend as he pleases without strings attached, similar to the ransom note Hank Paulson tried to get away with in 2008.
I thought that the author would make the case that technical doc should we written in some semantic format that could then easily be re-processed for various use cases which I could sort of understand (although any doc is better than no docs, so if Markdown helps with that I'm all for docs.md).

But "my markup language is better than your markup language" is not very productive IMO. The fact that markdown lacks some advanced formatting tools might even be considered a feature, it means that it will render correctly when converted to monochrome output for instance.
Just one example among many for the Jaguar supercomputer, with 18,866 nodes using DDR2. https://arch.cs.utah.edu/arch-rd-club/dram-errors.pdf. 250,000 correctable memory errors per month so quite a bit of data to work with.

This is simply a low effort type of paper on an important issue. So, there are plenty of them out there.

PS: If you want to compare here is one for DDR3 https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gurumurthi/papers/asplos15.pdf
I want my shared whiteboard in VR. My ideal solution is a multiuser tiltbrush.
In all, an average of 32.2 million people watched the evening newscasts last week, a 42 percent increase compared with a year ago. Younger people have tuned in, too: There was a 67 percent rise among adults between the ages of 25 and 54, according to Nielsen.

Wow that's a big increase. But I'm curious how accurate Nielson ratings are.
Two ideas come to mind:

- You can create public pre-signed URLs with an unlimited expiration date using SigV2. I doubt SigV2 will stop working anytime soon.

- Or, if you want the link to provide access to anyone, why not make the object public, but put a UUID in the key name to prevent enumeration?
Sigh. Markdown is "good enough". If it helps writing documentation, it is a good tool.

What I struggle with is documentations that are incomplete (e.g. miss crucial, "obvious" installing steps), out-of-date, or incomprehensible. Often external contributors help (especially newbies), as they look at your project with a fresh eye, taking nothing for granted.

If for a given project .rst is better than .md, cool. And if you generate HTML from it, end-users won't care what was your base format.
I would like to give everyone a different perspective of things

1. As an Indian why do I believe community transmission has not started or rampant: Because our hospitals are not overrun with people with breathing issues

2. Is this the right thing to do? Well, we don't have the capacity to treat the entire population, this we need to "cut the curve" rather than flatten it. Will this work? Your guess is as good as mine.

3. Will people obey the curfew: I really hope so

4. Should we test more? Sure maybe, but here is the thing we can't test someone once and be done with it, constant testing will be needed, and at our size, we can't do it, which is why I believe ICMR started with testing patients with some symptoms. Also, if people get the test, and they are negative, it might feel like a license to go back to regular life, which is a risk.

We are in uncharted waters. I really hope we can get to some scale in temperature surveillance at scale in the near future.
I use Microsoft Whiteboard, it works pretty well. One thing I like is you can put it on a big screen that supports Whiteboard, and also work from a browser or device and it all syncs in realtime, with multiple participants. And it's standalone so you don't have to be in a conferencing tool to use it.

I don't work for Microsoft, but just like Whiteboard.
Any documentation is better than none, so whatever is easiest is the best. And currently that's Markdown. RST isn't even close.

Most projects don't need anything more than the headings, lists, paragraphs, and code-blocks anyway.
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The Testflight link is to a prototype I built last December. It uses a general solution to Apple's new SwiftUI to allow the user to build their own SwiftUI views, test them instantly without compiling, and export them to Swift code. Anything you build from the editor can be used in a real iOS project.

This prototype's main feature is that it uses real iOS Swift code as the "source of truth" for the editor. The current prototype linked mainly demonstrates a proof of concept that it is possible to dynamically generate any SwiftUI view at runtime and run it in a UIWindow. Eventually this will be integrated as part of a real iOS project's build system to automate a lot of the development process.

I also have a second project that is more improved and completes more of my vision. I'm slowly copying files over to the current Testflight prototype linked. The new one allows you to include @State vars and pass parameters to views.

I want to eventually have the app sync with a real GitHub project of an iOS app and be able to embed the editor into your build system so that you could have custom components in the editor.
Thinknum | Site Reliability Engineer | Full-Time | Onsite | Visa Sponsorship | New York

Thinknum creates datasets from a broad array of public online sources, capturing ephemeral information on the products, operating markets and labor markets of 400,000+ global companies across sectors, and provides rich toolsets for extracting intelligence. Last year, we closed a $11.6M round.

Thinknum is looking for an experienced SRE to join the team in our NYC office.

Requirements:

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* Experience automating cloud infrastructure using tools such as Ansible, AWS Cloudformation, etc.

* Previous experience enforcing standard development processes through a proper CI workflow

* Basic programming skills

* Degree in Computer Science or related preferred

* Knowledge and experience with AWS

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Thanks for sharing what you could! Stay safe!
WA-state. When I registered a new (to me) car three years ago, the privately-owned licensing agency misspelled my name. I began to receive junk mail to my address with the misspelled name within a week or two and which continues to this day.
"Somehow, as a developer, I was able to avoid all that fancy cloud stuff."

I am genuinely interested in what you think about things like this:

ssh user@rsync.net du -Ahd2 some/directory

pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"

or maybe even:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd"

Setting aside these "rsync.net tricks", I think you should look into the 'borg'[1][2] backup tool. It has become the de facto standard for remote backups because it does everything that rsync does (efficient, changes only backups) but also produces strongly encrypted remote backup sets that only you have a key
to ...

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
Good idea. This will go into the course in the future.
Rust documentation uses markdown and it is amazing. Not sure what this person is on about. Everyone also knows Markdown very well. Also, if you are trying to color certain parts of your documentation blue, I think you're focusing on the wrong things.... Documentation should be about example code, which is perfectly fine in Markdown, you simply go:

```code
<example>
```

Also I don't agree with the author's points about links in Markdown whatsoever.
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You'd think having credentials at hand would be a 10-second check.

What a sad way of handling things.
It would really help if you read at least a little bit into the matter so that we don't have repeat the same arguments over and over again. But, once again: the idea is to manage the spread in such a way that ICU capacity is not overwhelmed. In April or May or whenever we come 'out of quarantaine' it will not go back to what it was before right away, slowly more and more people will be allowed to go back to the way things were and for sure the 'young and the healthy' will be first in line there. But young and healthy, not young or healthy, and even those that don't need hospitalization can still spread it so if someone young and healthy gets infected then right back to quarantine with them until they are healthy once more, with still a chance of them ending up in the hospital.

That virus doesn't actually care about whether you are young, it just has an easier time attacking people that have weaker immune systems, and once overwhelmed your age no longer matters. Finally, since asymptomatic spreading is a thing even those that are young and infected can spread the virus to older and immunocompromised people. So you still have to be careful and avoid contact with the rest of the population until you are 100% sure (two negative tests seems to be the gold standard right now) that you are no longer shedding.
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Well, generally speaking, HN culture frowns upon low-value comments. That doesn't just imply negative comments but also '+1' type comments. Which is part of the reason why threads on HN are of significantly higher quality than those on other platforms.
Just a quick feedback, I'd love to have a setting for custom input, since I use right click as my primary mouse button and virtually no remote desktop software has ever put a feature to support tap as right click.
> doesn't it make sense to break India down into more governable nation-states

Given India's geography, these nation-states would likely find equilibrium in a permanent state of war. Given India's history, this hypothesis has basis.
I tend to use POD, but that's from many years in the Perl ecosystem and the tools like pod2man and pod2html that make it so easy to convert. LaTEX or AsciiDOC - or, heck, XML or SGML or DocBook - also work if you need semantic data.
Ask HN: What systems development R&D opportunities are there for new grads?
For background, I'm currently a junior at a good CS school in the country, and I am interested in operating system and compiler development, as well as low level performance optimization.

I'd really like to work in the R&D sector at a top tech company (I've heard good things about Apple's and Nvidia's systems teams) in any of the fields above, but I'm having a hard time finding people who work in those areas.

I am under the impression that R&D teams are primarily PhD researchers - I am looking for a more development related role on such a team just so I can get some exposure to a research environment; ideally, this would eventually lead to me doing a PhD myself, but I'm hoping to gain some experience before going for one.

I have a year of college left, and I'd like to do some research, but I would appreciate advice on whether there are such opportunities out there - if so, I can tailor the research I do to match the team's focus to increase my chances of working with said team.

To summarize, my questions are:
1. Are opportunities on R&D teams at Apple/Nvidia/MSR/other companies doing systems work available for new grads?
2. If so, are there particular areas of research I can focus on to have some experience when I apply for such roles?

Thank you!
The warning was for us...5 years ago.
It's too early to say that. But if they do lift it next week like Trump is trumpeting, then it will.
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Fun fact: many IETF documents are written in Markdown now and converted to the other formats you are used to.
The font in that excerpt is quite large and contains a third of the pages in the book. Why publish this rather than make a blog post with the full text and a place to donate?
To me this highlights how backwards our way of building software is.

Having a user display and draw on top of an image is trivial, and something our systems have been able to do for decades.

Streaming video bidirectionally is also trivial and well supported by our primitives at this point, even though it's merely a decade or two old rather than almost half a century.

And yet, if you want to combine these two very primitive operations, you need to find the app that supports exactly the use case you want (not guaranteed), or to be a developer yourself.

We're still catching up to Engelbart's demos, and it's disheartening.
The simple explanation is that poor countries usually have a much younger population than rich countries.
I was being facetious my friend. I'm in marketing so I'm well aware.
We've been helping quite a few folks based on the current COVID-19 situation. There's important work to do in the federal government right now.
I have been WFH for more than a decade. I love it. Being a planned transition, I prepared for it, set things up properly, have appropriate separation, etc. If someone didn’t know, they would have no idea that I wasn’t in some type of office. No doorbells, kids screaming, dogs barking, because of a proper setup.

In spite of this, I have been pretty worthless the last couple of weeks, primarily due to all the distractions of what’s going on.

When you consider that for many people, WFH started immediately with little time to prepare a proper setup, who are also trying to figure out how to be part-time teachers, PLUS the distraction of the current state of events, I suspect that most companies that didn’t do WFH before the crisis will reconvene when this is all behind us and say “WFH was a disaster, productivity was trash, and we’ll never do it again.”

If that happens, it would be a sad outcome, because under proper circumstances WFH can be a great lifestyle benefit with equal or greater productivity than an office environment.
Is there not already a run on masks? More like the truth is not being said because then people would be more inclined to ask questions like why the "greatest country on earth" is unable to procure basic necessities for a crisis, especially with two months to prepare.
If the entire point is to stop crowding, then govt should open them as long as possible. 2 hour window is going to create crowd.
Perhaps also of interest, his recent AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill...
Until new community-acquired infections disappear or are severely reduced. We want the epidemic to fizzle out by reducing R0 before the pressure to reopen the economy becomes so great that it begins to spread nationally again. The disease has already had a multitude of mutations. We really don't want to keep it circulating and coming back like the flu, especially if new strains overcome immunity.
There is. But due to the unique social makeup of the internet in India, a lot of people can use social media on mobiles rather that visit websites. It's quicker to use social media for such notifications
When all you have is a hammer everything looks like an IBM clone, I guess.
This was awesome. Thanks!!
> The point of a quarantine isn't to stop the infection. It's to slow it down so it doesn't overwhelm healthcare infrastructure.

The question raised on quarantines, more than their efficacy, is IMO the duration in time: weeks, months, years? There are also side effects, and not only economical, that emerge from keeping people shut in for long times.
There is definite community spread in India. They are not saying the truth either to stop panic or because they have not tested or because they are misinformed (less likely)

I am not sure why he said "no signs", because now the data available publicly proves that there is community spread.

I do not mean to create panic - but I have strong reasons to correlate that the community spread cases that turned into severe respiratory problems started appearing on March 15, 2020. Based on contact tracing, the patients very likely contracted the virus between March3-March5. This was a likely time of the initial community spread and in fact super spread via weddings.

Another timeline possibility is that the community spread started sometime in the last 5-10 days of February. It was also a time when many people were getting cough, cold and respiratory diseases because of a seasonal change. The OPDs were very busy and probably few of the patients were international travelers carrying Covid-19. In the first week of March, there were many cases where patients were seeing weird and elongated respiratory problems that normally do not occur seasonally. However, many of these cases in OPDs also reduced by the second week of March. The first lockdown address from the PM was on March 20.

A better way to confirm is to see whether there is a spike in cases (and severe cases) by March 31 - even after the lockdown
I should have anticipated this response as it’s become as much of a meme as has “it’s just a flu.”

We’re flattening the curve too much here in Seattle. There are 100 new cases identified each day.

So we’ve flattened the curve to last... 60 years of quarantine.

We need to curve the curve. But instead they announced more restrictions.