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Applied Intuition | Software, Sr. Software, Sr Frontend | Bay Area, Detroit | Onsite, VISA | Full-time

[ACTIVELY HIRING]. Help determine the future of autonomy. Applied Intuition provides the infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. We've raised funds 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
As someone who coveted the Apple //c in high school, I absolutely loved this.

Does anyone remember Beagle Bros software?
all of africa has 1663 deaths, and india has 1154. So yes likely.
When you own a 200$ second hand bike, their is a weird psychological pressure to not spend 30-50$ on repair because it is 15-25% of the actual cost of bike.

I have definitely experienced it myself.
If you’re right that money in a public health system will pay back dividends I imagine.
If I need your A in order to produce the copyrighted work, it seems likely to me that the argument will be made that it's a derivative work or another way of copying the copyrighted work. It might event work. It would certainly be expensive to find out.

As a rule, trying to get clever with technology to get around the legal system rarely works well. Especially when you can't afford to defend yourself.
I don’t understand what this has to do with my comment. I was just pointing out an example of a mainstream conservative paper in France, not claiming that left-leaning papers don’t exist.

(I don’t read NYT enough to know whether it’s left-oriented, so I’ll take your word for it).
Greta Thunberg Gives $100k Prize Money to UN for War Against Covid-19
Sure, you could implement some kind of anti-scheduler, but that is just plain silly, and really doesn't affect the point at all. You can do anything in any Turing-complete language, but that doesn't mean that Brainfuck is equivalent to Prolog in any way that is actually useful or interesting.
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Zencastr is taking podcasting into the future using cutting edge technology (webrtc, webaudio, ml/dsp).

We are looking for passionate and ambitious developers with 5+ years of experience in: Building scalable consumer applications, Typescript/Node.js, MongoDB, Unit/Integration testing, SQL, cloud infrastructure (GCP, DO).

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Yearly checkup for a bicycle is like 100 euro here.
> The probability of virus transmission is 1% (and I'm generous here) because more people wear masks, because people avoid talking and generally avoid interactions. Probability of transmission over 10 links is 10^-20 and we may stop right here, unless we plan to study quantum particles.

If that were truly the case why are there still transmissions? Wouldn't that imply that in a matter of 5 months it will be impossible to get the disease strictly due to the timeline and required links? ~14 days of transmissible * 10 transmission events / 30 days in a month = 140 days before no more mathematically possible transmissions. Wouldn't that require us being repeatedly exposed to every person on the planet to keep those numbers to a possible level?
Show HN: Language_tool_Python – a Python grammar checker based on LanguageTool
I was recently surprised to find that there are no free, easy-to-use Python grammar-checking libraries. I forked some old code that uses a LanguageTool Java server (languagetool.org) as a backend for a Python grammar checker. I updated it to use the latest versions of Java and the LanguageTool API, added a few features, and voila! There is now a free, easy-to-use Python grammar-checking library :)
Just to highlight it more.

Alarms are critical, if you don't know that everything is working PERFECTLY then you don't know if one of your 20 patients is dying because of a failing $400 machine.

Also so is lifespam. It would suck to get all these ventilators that break down in a few days.

I've seen medical machine designs, and they have to check by the second that everything is working, and redundant systems so that if one system thinks all is well and the other doesn't big alarms start going on. And redundancy so that if part of the machine is failing the patient is kept alive while another machine is gathered. The quality is just as important as the function.
Am glad I have to scroll this far to find a crypto company. In this day and age, given how much money has already been swindled by Bitcoin crapto folks why should anyone want to risk/work in this dangerous snake oil peddling area?
You’re probably right! I do think our culture of praising the wealthy for handing out pennies is a huge smokescreen that avoids actual change, but you’re right that posting comments on HN is not going to do much to change public opinion.
According to the Oxford dictionary, "hire" is "the act of paying to use something for a short time". How an unpaid position fits into this definition?
That's for a fancy bike, not that there's anything wrong with it. You can get by with a tenth of that if you get a "beater", which may or may not be sufficient for your urban transportation needs.
I love POV ray so much. It's what originally got me into programming in the late 90s/early 2000s. Found out about it from a PlayStation 1 Magazine.
Because I have run k3s in production with spot instances for a particular usecase on AWS with all cloud-y features.

I don't want to make this into an anti stance, but we have totally loved the experience of using k3s.

The way you use k3s generally is not like the way you read on this post. It's basically a single command experience with sane defaults (e.g traefik). The overall experience is very close to a single click experience...all the way to the cloud.
If future funds aren't investing in Coinbase, Etherscan, and CoinMarketCap because those companies already exist then the risk profile is much higher. All of these companies can make money in up and down markets. It's less obvious that other crypto startups can do the same.
Expat and immigrants are usually completely different categories. Technically both are 'migrants' but it wouldn't be the best term.

If you work for a bank in Ireland and they ship you off to Germany (or wherever) for a 2-year stint, you're an ex-pat.

If you marry a woman from Germany, move there, and start your citizenship process and plan to live there, 'immigrant' is a good term.

In between, it's gray.
A few things here, wd40 actually accelerates the wear on your bike's drivetrain. It's sticky and will attract grime which chews away at your chainring and cassette. It also gets all over your pants and stains your leg. Use some proper chain lube and your drivetrain and clothes will last longer.

If you ride your bike a decent amount you'll need to do morem maintenance. Per mile ridden, cheap Walmart bikes require more maintenance.

Complexity of the bike is also a huge factor. Compare the maintenance needed between a fixie with no brakes and a full suspension mtb with hydraulic disc brakes, tubeless tires 12 gears etc.

Adjusting brake cables and derailer limits needs to happen all the time, probably once per 500 miles. Over time chains stretch and then you need to replace the chain and the cassette.

Of course this entirely depends on how much you ride, where you ride, and what bike you ride.
Amen to this part: "Yes but what PROBLEM are we trying to SOLVE?"

Every time a blockchain-based solution comes up, I try asking that question. There's only occasionally a real answer. Then my next question is, "How EXACTLY does this solve the problem BETTER?" The answers there are almost always tautological, some version of, "because blockchain!"

(For what it's worth, I give the original bitcoin paper [1] full marks on these points. It has a clear thesis: distributed e-cash will solve particular problems for particular people. It turns out it was wrong on every count, but at least the idea was clear.)

A while back a friend asked me to meet with a first-time entrepreneur pal. The entrepreneur had a business plan that was, like so many others, "existing business, but blockchain". After some explanation of how it would work, I asked, "Ok, how does this help your users?" The answer was, "It's more secure, because blockchain!" I said that wasn't sure it really was more secure. But either way, how could customers know it was better? Because the customer experience for the blockchain version and the non-blockchain version were the same. Either way, it came down to a company saying, "Trust us!" Would the new company's customers see a claim of blockchain usage as better? And better enough to compensate for the product limitations imposed?

They didn't really have an answer for that. And, unsurprisingly, I never heard back again. Nobody likes it when you tell them their baby is perhaps not the most beautiful child ever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Yes, but management wants them to be assembly-line workers. A lot of organizational tension in tech companies can be traced back to botched attempts to force-fit artistic pegs into assembly-line holes.
Quibi leaked users' emails to Google, Facebook, and Twitter
WD-40 somehow picked up the reputation for just spraying it on everything where for a lot of uses, it's not really something you want to leave on there and there are better products for lubrication... in almost every WD-40 use case it seems ;)
The 90% economy – Life after lockdowns
ActiveState | Vancouver, CA | Remote | https://grnh.se/772329f92us

ActiveState Platform - made by developers for developers! We are reinventing build engineering with an on-demand SaaS Platform and CLI tool that lets developers automate the building of any runtime environment using any open source language ecosystem on any platform. In Beta right now, we support Python and Perl and we're hiring to add more languages and packages! We’re building an ambitious language distribution platform so that no engineer ever has to suffer dependency hell again, and we need your help to build it.

We have a number of different engineering positions open, which you can find from the link above, including a dev ops position and a number of build engineer positions.

I'm a Team Lead here at ActiveState, though none of the open positions are on my team right now. Please email me at autarch@urth.org if you have any questions.
Few years ago I did this transition - I had a MBP that I used for all Unix based things - after realizing how great Ubuntu runs under Hyper-V I just began to use that. It wasn't as seamless but no big deal opening up SecureCrt to connect. Then WSL came along and I used that but found the file system access to be too slow so back to Hyper-V VM. Now that WSL2 is actually a more seamless Hyper-V VM I am planning to just use that. I truly haven't needed a Mac for anything at least 4 years. I do a bunch of Enterprise Java development along with learning Rust etc. - VSCode with Remote Extension Pack makes it all even better.
There's a difference between "might hit the max turbo frequency for a millisecond under light load if the phase of the moon is just right" and "can sustain max turbo indefinitely so long as adequate power and cooling are provided". AMD CPUs are the former, Intel the latter.
Beyond CLV: Modeling meaningful moments in the customer journey
HomeVision | Frontend, Backend, Data Science/ML | REMOTE Only | https://homevision.co

Hiring: full-stack engineers. We work on a "GReaT" stack - Golang on the backend, React/Typescript on the frontend. Remote only.

HomeVision is developing next-generation tools and technology for the real estate appraisals industry. We're obsessively focused on building a platform that will speed delivery of home valuations to the broader financial markets.

Backed by Initialized Capital, we're looking to add talented engineers to our founding team.

Email: jobs@homevision.co
BentoML.ai | Open Source Evangelist / Technical Writer | San Francisco or Remote | Full time or Contract | http://docs.bentoml.org/

BentoML is an open-source platform for high-performance machine learning model serving. We are a small team building the open-source project BentoML as well as a BentoML based SaaS product for enterprise teams. https://github.com/bentoml/BentoML

We are looking for a technical writer with a Machine Learning background, ideally, someone who has experience in either open-source evangelism or solution architect in related space, to help with creating tutorials, blog posts, and documentation for our open-source project BentoML.

Email chaoyu [at] bentoml.ai for more information.
% returns are usually quoted vs AUM; not invested capital.
Front End React Developer looking for a Remote job or onsite in the Bay Area

Location: San Francisco, CA | Remote

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, ES6/7/8, jQuery, JSON, AJAX, React, Redux, RESTful API's, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap, Jest, Enzyme, Photoshop

Interested in: Front End Development, UI\UX

Website/Résumé/CV: https://gjozevkristina.netlify.com/

Email: kristina.gjozev@gmail.com

Hi there, my name is Kristina! I am a front end developer who is passionate and knowledgeable about both the visual and technical aspects of creating an app. Highly motivated working on projects with a team and building powerful products that will provide intuitive and beautiful user experiences.
Do you have any links to resources or blog posts explaining how to do web dev in Arc? A cursory google search turns up ArcGIS stuff.
>Bitcoin lightning makes higher throughput blockchains irrelevant.

Lightning is a UX disaster that is not easily solvable as the headaches are part of the protocol itself (opening/closing channels with nodes etc.). I've used some of the various apps that have been released and I find it very difficult to see how "normal" people are going to understand and use it at all. Instead of trying to innovate with new blockchain designs, there is a significant amount of minds trying to hack together bandaids for Bitcoin, a protocol and blockchain that has already been crippled by Blockstream and the scaling debacle.

If one steps back and takes stock of the ecosystem, I find it very difficult to see what value proposition BTC has other than reputation and being a first mover. Store-of-value is something that Monero can do better as it guarantees privacy which I'm sure a lot of people would like. Instant transactions is something that NANO has solved on the protocol/blockchain layer (and without using clunky hacks like Lightning) whereby transactions are settled almost instantly and at zero cost.

Quite frankly, the only thing BTC has going for it is brand value - technically it has already been superseded by other protocols, but BTC maximalists (such as the author of the article) are ignoring this reality likely due to sunk-cost fallacy.

So no, I disagree strongly with the author. There is a lot that can be built within the cryptosphere, and I think trying to gatekeep innovation by limiting it to the BTC protocol is extremely disingenuous.
I'm fairly certain it's //c to ][c
Well it only means that these 'repairs' are not required for you to ride the bike. Or you don't plan to ride at all.

Either way, the point is that this is windfall spending but does not change anything to the actual daily use of bikes.
So... I agree with all that. It's not over. I just don't think enough attention is paid to just how outrageously bad things looked in late March. At the growth rates we were seeing, we'd have blown right through health care capacity and we'd have been looking at hundreds of thousands of US deaths by the second week of April. And it didn't happen. The growth stopped cold, because the lockdowns worked.

That's good news, and needs to be celebrated, so that we can continue the work. Instead, people on the left think "It's still serious!" and refuse to celebrate what we've achieved. And people on the right, not invited to the party, are being led to believe that the lockdowns somehow weren't the victory they actually were.

And that's bad. We won the war. The battles aren't over, but we know we can beat this.
Is anyone really waiting for €50 to use or not use their bike on a regular basis?

I'm highly skeptical.

This seems like it will just benefit folks already doing it anyway.
This sounds like a scam to me.
Disabling TCP offload to hardware makes this comparison much less useful. TCP has hardware offload right now, and QUIC will take years to get at that level.
Lightning is a complex piece of technology. It basically requires an ISP-like layer-2 solution where nodes peer with each other in order to route payments. This is not a silver-bullet solution to scaling. ZK rollups[0] are another solution and are live on Ethereum right now.[1]

[0] https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/layer-2-scaling/zk-r...

[1] https://loopring.org/#/protocol
Everyone repeat after me: "we need a baseline model".

You should always try some "dumb" models first. You'd be surprised how hard is to beat (of course depends on your KPIs) a historical average model with a more sophisticated method.
Its true that blockchains don’t scale, but it doesn’t follow that Lightning is the answer. Especially since it always seems like lightning will be ready for public use “soon”.
Again, that has nothing to do with the "technical debt" of x86 as an instruction set per se.
Thank you, that's helpful.

Is a Mealy state machine implied in your description?
Show HN: A layer on top of Google maps for lockdown-related adjustments
An important part of the criticism is that the apps being proposed won't tell you who or where you had a contact, just that it occured anywhere. This leaves you with no capacity to judge the actual danger of being infected. An app being used to augment practical contact tracing, for example by reminding you who you'd been in contact with, would be potentially useful, but that isn't what's proposed.

Another way that such apps become useless is their voluntary nature. Ie that use of the app, and self-quarantine in response to an alert, are an individual's choice. Obviously, if you passed by a sick person in the grocery store, you do have a chance of being sick, and therefore quarantining is still useful. But most people will feel silly about quarantining themselves in response to such a low probability event. Having even a small fraction of people act on these alerts would therefore require enforced compliance of some sort.

Note that I'm not per se advocating either that the app be less privacy aware, nor that compliance be enforced, just expanding on the source of the impotency schneier talks about.
An interesting blog post. Because there is nothing "to play with or try out," blog posts aren't really in the spirit of Show HN. They are better as just regular submissions even when posted by the author. But to be clear, I learned something. Thanks.
Arachnys | Sr Engineers, Product Designer| London | Remote during pandemic, then onsite/flexible

Arachnys is a data gateway to capture, curate and connect the information needed to make good decisions about risk. This helps banks to manage know-your-customer checks and anti-money laundering (KYC/AML). It's perhaps what's most broken about banks today and we're helping to fix it. Our customers are tier-1 financial institutions and large multinationals.

At the moment we're looking for senior engineers working mainly in Python and JavaScript, as well as a Product Designer. Check out our github - https://github.com/arachnys.

Email anais.marsac@arachnys.com or click https://www.arachnys.com/careers to apply, linking to your GitHub, some other code or a portfolio that tells a good story about you.
I suspect they may have been spoiled by their hotspot location's selection bias (higher end talent isn't always in the expensive area with high pay but they would be more tempted to it), tried to pay comparable peanuts on remote talent and got relative monkeys or both.
Tesla shares tank after Elon Musk tweets the stock price is ‘too high’
Abine - the online privacy company | REMOTE or BOSTON, MA | PART Time or Full Time | Web application and Full Stack Developers | https://www.abine.com/

We are a small company focused on making better online privacy easy.

We make two products. Blur is a password manager with support for creating alias email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. DeleteMe is a service for removing private information from data broker sites.

We're looking for strong web application and full-stack developers who are interested in making a difference in the fight for privacy. We are profitable, have been doing this for years, and have millions of users.

Please contact us at jobs at getabine dotcom. Please detail part or full time preference and desired compensation if possible. No recruiters, thanks.
I would conjecture this is the result of the FAANG culture and its historical lack of support for widespread remote work. It seems like it's the sort of comment that telegraphs, "this is the way we've always done it, why change it?"
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 100k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 11 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://careers.substack.com