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WeLivv | Senior Frontend Engineer (React / Search Experience) | NYC | REMOTE | https://welivv.com

WeLivv is a NYC based startup with a home furnishing search and discovery platform who is being used by 10,000+ interior designers and architect firms and most of the top brands in the home decor space. We’re a fully remote TypeScript and Golang shop with our machine learning stack in Python and ElasticSearch powering the platform that runs on Google Cloud.

We are interested in understanding the visual taste and style of our users and then recommending them home furnishing imagery that bring products and real context of decor to the front. So strategies around building large scale computer vision based data intensive systems are really exciting for us.

WeLivv is dedicated to having a quality work environment for everyone and we are fully remote! On our engineering team we value collaboration over competition, respect work-life balance and solve problems without blaming people.

We have a “no assholes” policy.

We recently closed our funding round and we’re a small group with multiple startup experiences as both founders and early engineers. We believe that someone who is truly a senior software engineer can come from almost any background and pick up a new set of tech in a reasonable amount of time which is why we don’t list much about our tech stack in our job description.

We are looking for an awesome senior software engineer to round out our core engineering team for this year.

If you’ve made it this far and you’re still interested, please apply by emailing our Chief Technology Officer at: s at welivv.com.

Things to include:

* Your background

* What projects you are interested in working on

* A link to your GitHub profile or any place you have publicly available code

* Anything else you would like us to know

(A resume is helpful but not necessary)
Some background

Some head of content made a post defending not enforcing the rules on trump. Trump made a post that incorrectly stated how registration for mail in votes work in california

They wrote 8+ paragraphs of nonsense, starting with "we have seen some upsetting videos, [..] we hope it spurs change" However, even though we know this post clearly violates our community standards, we're going to allow it, because well, he's trump.

Then the post about "looting and shooting" which also violates the community standards as well:

> Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
> Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence

The post came out, and people were already pissed off, knowing that something they were working on was partially responsible for the ratcheting up of violence. Twitter had given facebook cover to enforce it's own rules. but the management "team" chose not to.

Zuckfuck then said "I'm going to spend $10mil on an indulgence" "stop hassling me, I'm not going to give in to employee pressure." (paraphrase)

Then the head of HR made another long rambling post devoid of content along the lines of: "zuck has spaffed $10m on un specified charity for the black people what more do you want [..] blah blah blah freedom of expression"

The management keep on banging on about "private companies shouldn't censor" If you have a set of community standards which are plain and well written, enforce them equally.

Whats in them is up for debate, but we haven't got that far yet, because we seem to be allowing any politician to say what they like (from either side of the debate)

THey don't seem to have noticed that the media have always been deciding what to publish, ever since thomas paine was wafting around being his annoying autistic self.
Do your own homework. It's been going off 24/7 for days on social media or on the news station of your preference. We're talking about the mom and pop shops, not the big chains, but I'm sure you know that already.
There's no virtual DOM implied, userinterface.js is operating on the DOM itself. Thanks for even looking at it, I appreciate.
There is always the trade-off between higher quality through what is essentially regulation and standards and squeezing out those who don't comply (which disadvantages new entrants).

With drugs, we weight that trade-off heavily towards higher quality over new entrants. The question is, is that an acceptable trade off on the web?

Reading this, I now think I should go put AMP on my personal blog. Before that, I needed an HTTPS cert. Before that, I needed to confirm I owned the site to Google.

All things which may make the web better, but it certainly increases the operational burden and may discourage others from bothering in the first place.
A reckoning won't happen until another currency usurps the USD as global reserve currency. The timeline of that is up to speculation but taking historical perspective in mind it's a matter of when not if.
Local elections can be rigged against local voters. I wish I could find the link now, but I recall reading an article recently (was it in The Atlantic?) about how one American town with a huge African-American population was unable to get a single African-American councilman elected, because back in the heyday of segregation the local whites had managed to do some gerrymandering-like trick that made most local citizens’ votes now count for nothing.

You can also see dirty tricks at local council meetings, where those in authority abuse the meeting’s rules of order to quickly shut down anyone speaking up about problems that those in authority don’t want addressed.
yes, the logistics problem--delivering cost-effectively at-scale--is the one-and-only big hurdle in any delivery service, not technology or even marketing, although those things can help solve the core logistics problem.

having fixed routes & schedules sounds like it solves the logistics problem for dabbawalas, insofar as it becomes cost-effective that way.

with that said, i'll repeat my strategic positioning argument about ubereats: it's a flanking product meant to maintain supplier power (power over drivers), so it does not need to be profitable by itself. combined with the additional revenue, ubereats just needs to lower supplier costs enough via lock-in to make its existance worth it.
Same! Though I did love the plot too, but every scene with the Roci or other ships maneuvering, fighting or even in a tense standoff was simply superb.

The damage caused during ship combat was also pretty interesting. People die not in massive explosions (though there's that, too) but simply as fragments and projectiles perforate the ship's hull and their bodies. Instead of the usual "sparks flying from consoles" like in Star Trek, a hit in the Expanse means you have a kinetic projectile punching through the wall and taking someone's head off.
Density helps if you're delivering a bunch of small things that you can easily batch together. The kinds of things being tried by these VC funded attempts are not where density helps the most as you either have a delivery that requires too much interaction (e.g., groceries with a fixed time slot) or are aiming for speed (e.g., hot food quick delivery). So there's no reason you can't have a postal service in a very equal society as delivering mail and small packages in urban areas is efficient and you can cross-subsidize nationally. Once you get into multi-temperature deliveries in fixed slots and very fast fulfillment and delivery really cheap labor in comparison to the service price is needed to balance the books. Some of that could be fixed by cutting an order of magnitude from the delivery time by use of lockers and other unattended delivery methods but then you have a chicken-and-egg infrastructure problem.
imo, self-driving cars should probably be a separate company owned by the parent... and likely is, and doesn't even apply to the thousands of developers alone they are stafing.

And for each developer there is probably 1:1 for other staff... in my experience for a team of 4 devs, you usually get 1/2 time for a PM, 1/2 time for an owner, a QA, 1/3-1/4 dba and a BA and maybe 1/4 time of a designer.

The primary application could probably do very well with 3-5 dedicated teams to portions of the application with less general conflict and bottlenecking... The support staff would need to scale to meet the larger demands though.

Given their funding, even top-tier engineers at $250-300k (Northern California) base would still be less expensive than hundreds or thousands of developers. Putting the self-driving car research into a separate company.

The site is not THAT complex, and they are, or should be leveraging a number of existing tools. They probably have a byzantine codebase that takes days to make what should be a 15 minute change at this point because of the shear numbers.
The cable provider was literally called @Home so they were definitely geared towards residential customers :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@Home_Network
Thanks for the kind words. If I may ask, what made you think they were lookalike?
Obviously a UV dryer wouldn't have higher UV flux than sunlight, if for no other reason than cost.

Regarding photobleaching, survey the rest of this thread of people complaining clothes dried on the line turning white and then crumbling to dust.
> Windows’ effective 260-char total path limit

was lifted a few years ago.
I use ML in weather research too. That's not the problem. The problem is Dark Sky used more simple radar prediction methods, like taking existing rainfall, using wind speed and 'nowcasting' the rain into the future.

There are severe limits to this technology. It cannot detect the initiation of new precipitation. They never publicly explained what they were doing with their barometer data, which they claimed to collect for forecasting. But in such an active area of basic science research, they did not contribute data or algorithms or papers or any discussion at all. I believe it is because they did not overcome the challenges of using the noisy phone data to produce useful weather forecasts. But they lead people to believe they do. I am suspicious.

Dark Sky didn't use ML AFAIK when they started, it was straight statistics. Maybe they did change to add ML, I don't know, but for my knowledge of the space, they always used core math and statistics while ignoring physical science and not participating in the research community, or any community really.

I would love to know more about how Dark Sky worked. My gut feeling is that it is largely a scam, because they never published any of their own reanalysis data, or verification data for 1-minute forecast accuracy, etc.

They were so closed-off in an industry that is traditionally hugely open, and they made large claims without backing any of it up publicly.
Android 11 power menu leak shows new smart home integration
Many leveraged ETFs can be redeemed or created, though. ETFs and ETNs are two very different products. ProShares, the issuer behind the popular 3x leveraged NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 ETFs TQQQ and UPRO, even publishes a fee schedule for redeeming and creating their products [1]. Also, unlike with ETNs, if the issuer of am ETF goes under, you receive the underlying assets. In other words, there's no counterparty risk.

I agree that leveraged ETFs can be dangerous if used incorrectly (look up volatility decay), but they aren't "trash" and they certainly aren't anywhere near as dangerous as even unleveraged ETNs. Here's a resource about the difference between those two, by the way [2]. In short, ETF shares represent a direct stake in the underlying assets, similar to owning equity in a house or business. ETN shares are more like little IOUs along the lines of bonds and loans. They have their place, but they're difficult to use safely, especially when leverage is involved.

[1] https://www.proshares.com/resources/creation_and_redemption_...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0213/etf-or-etn-...
It's a business investment, nothing more. There was a recent story about how M$ treats open-source devs (AppGet vs WinGet). If they could EEE Linux, they'd do it.
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To prevent a chaotic end to lockdown, the public should be told the true risks
It is like a biological mutation, usually nothing. It could result in a massive misinterpretation of prior documents due to a shift in meaning and not understanding the lack of shift in context.
Not very predictable but often hillarious like say Moses being depicted as horned. It probably involves very long timelines even with cultural acceleration.

Imagine "dord" caught on as a synonym for density in all its senses including stupidity. Now imagine one document of a riot caused after accidentally ordering a squad to shoot when calling out about a fire. A poorly chosen "word" causing death gets corrupted to a misplaced "dord" and it gets taken as caused by one idiot who shouldn't have been chosen to lead (also accurate but not intended). A mention of a D or d in the chemical context taken as a stealth insult or joke like 1D10T Error.
My biggest problem with Google is that in the 2010s they began flagging sites that had too many links as "link farms" - this discouraged bloggers from posting blogrolls and killed many directories. This really damaged the Open Web that the author is talking about. You saw a widespread abandonment of blogs during 2011-2015. (People stopped seeing traffic to their blogs and just assumed blogs had died due to lack of interest.)

In a way, yeah, they made the Web safer. And cleared it out almost completely in the process.
> If the author used the same format he used for the summary or for his summary of Windows issues

But there is one:

https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
Location: DC/Maryland/Virginia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, SQL

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> We need more ways to educate individual voters of the complex tradeoffs and compromises in policies, and teach people to appreciate the complexity of system effects

The effort, to be educated, is not optimal on a capitalist playing field withing a nation as large as the USA. The information is overwhelming and the result (individual voter franchise) is pathetically ineffectual. It's a fool's errand, which is the outlook shared by many americans.
Most often, when the media/pr announces a "sophisticated cyber attack" has happened, what actually has happened is that the password was "123456" or the site ran an old WordPress version, etc
Push a static site to netlify for free and all of this is taken care of you for free.

The burden is necessary given the proliferation of bad actors

I would not recommend AMP, but there are dozens of standards that are not part of what the public sees, low level enough they don't care to see. These are the important things Google has caused the world to adopt as best practices. You don't have to have http, but you are telling users you don't care about their security. This was largely pushed by green/red indicators in the URL bar.
Words can have multiple definitions. That you allow some members of the public (your neighbors) onto your private property (your front yard) does not negate your right to control access to your private property, nor does it make your front yard public domain for anybody to gather on without your permission. It doesn’t make it “public”.
That's why the standard comparison in the US would be something like Domino's Pizza, which makes money on delivery while being cheap. I think the answer is somewhere along the lines of route/logistic efficiency.
> you are the part of the problem

Personal attacks on HN are not allowed. Please don't do that again.

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NYPD precincts and officers have all changed their twitter profile picture to a badge with a "thin blue line" band covering the area where the identifying badge number is:

https://twitter.com/jhermann/status/1267524077130039305
I was being hyperbolic, to be sure.

After dealing with decades of "intellectual property" industries waging war against general purpose computing I'm heavily biased against their interests. The amount of needless complexity I've had to deal with, and money I've seen wasted, service of DRM fills me with a simmering rage. They burned much of their goodwill with me a long time ago. Perhaps I take it too personally, but it certainly feels personal when the things I want to do with technology I own are thwarted in the name of serving DRM.

I'm exceedingly frustrated at the concessions made for owners of "intellectual property" in copyright law, too.

I'm particularly miffed by egregiously long copyright terms. These terms prevent derivative works from being made in a culturally-relevant timescale. They prevent the copying of "unprofitable" works that lack mass market appeal and become "out of print". They send orphan works in a legal limbo that prevents their use for fear of litigation. They hold back the progress of "science and the useful arts" for the benefit of incumbent owners by creating a barrier to entry. They create little incentive for new works to be created.

I'm frustrated that the "intellectual property" industry has worked to brainwash the public into believing that the public domain is the exception, instead of the default. They've promoted a believe to creators that their works need to be "owned" by rent seeking middlemen. They've sold a moral argument about creators being deprived of their compensation. St the same time, they use "creative" accounting practices to divert compensation away from creators.

All of that frustration fuels my hyperbole.

We live in a world with ubiquitous copying machines with ubiquitous connectivity. That genie can't be put back in its bottle. It can't be legislated away without ending up in a dystopian "Right to Read"[1] future.

From where I stand the "intellectual property" industries want the "Right to Read" future, to the detriment of the good computing provides to humanity. Rather than change their business models and cope with a new reality, the "intellectual property" industries claw fitfully at whatever legislative means they can to preserve their dying business models.

Perhaps it'll take a generation or two dying off before we can come up with new business models that'll make this all irrelevant. I don't have the answers, but I really think that "don't use technology to do what it does best" is a very viable answer.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Grindr removes ethnicity filters in solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Why is Square obsolete, in your opinion?
Another project fighting qualified immunity:
https://ij.org/issues/private-property/project-on-immunity-a...
I think the hardware is sold at a loss to recoup once budget laptop users are locked into the Google ecosystem. I don't think Linux was conspired against but compatibility with Linux was an afterthought or discouraged.
I don’t doubt Trump wants to eat his cake and have it. All politicians do. My problem is with people who say they are just and moral but also want to tell you what is and what isn’t truth and who and who doesn’t have the right to speak freely. People who want to regulate speech are power hungry. They want control. Like Lenin, they know the path to power is communication media that is the goal. Control the narrative.
A normal engineer or designer doesn't have that power either way. The only power they have is staying or leaving.

Upper management, yeah, they might be able to effect change from within. But, even that is going to be severely limited in the face of a big-name founder like Zuckerberg.
I have problems with #3, it incentivizes the wrong type of policing.

The goal of policing should be to make the community safe. If the goal of policing is to rack up violations, and you basically streamline it where a cop can go around and rack up tons of alleged infractions, then that’s what will happen. In fact, that’s exactly what happened when some police departments enforced quality of life infractions. Suddenly every cop had the mandate to write you up to meet their quotas, and they are able to internalize their value system organically since the word from above is zero-tolerance for even the smallest infractions.

I don’t want to live in that kind of society honestly. Take a look at this reddit thread if you want to see examples of this, and get anecdotes of how people get harassed by cops (regardless of race) for the smallest things (and this type of policing is a vector for physical escalation):

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gu8xlv/cops...

This one here is particular infuriating:

https://youtu.be/Q9SZlypyK-4

Your point #1 is a must, tech has to really step up and make this one happen.
No doubt, but I don't see what this has to do with anything. The fact that opportunistic looting took place doesn't refute the fact that the American Revolution was overwhelmingly about independence and representative government.
Chilling? He is absolutely right. The governors are weak. They have no problem arresting Christians and Jews for peaceably worshipping together during a pandemic, but sitting back while rioters burn down city hall, murder a federal officer (who was African American, btw), and destroy the few minority owned businesses there are in this country.

These police needn't charge everyone, just the violent, and detain the rest for 24 hours until the cool down, and keep doing it.

Everyone is outraged and sickened over the murder of Floyd, not just African Americans, not just Liberals. Everyone wants a police force they can trust. No one wants murderers patrolling the streets.

Conservative websites that support law enforcement 99% of the time, like PJ Media and Brietbart were outraged that it took 3 days to arrest Chauvin.
> I don't know anybody who learned math or physics outside of a college classroom.

In fact, I will go one further. Almost all self-taught physicists I have met are kooks - bonkers crazy conspiracy theorists.
I love Arch compared to Ubuntu, but I haven't noticed a speed difference. What kinds of things do you see a difference in?
This is a late reply admittedly, but as a white guy (who has had conversations about this terminology) my rule of thumb is to defer to the people who are hurt/historically marginalized.

It doesn't matter to me what the origins of these terms are. As the phrase goes, intent is not impact.

Who am I to tell someone that they shouldn't feel a certain way? I totally used to be "that guy", but have since realized that it's not about what I think.

I mean, really--if some "innocuous" (to me) word hurts someone, why wouldn't I just avoid saying it. It's literally the least I can do. Not saying it's going to fix systemic racism by itself but it seems pretty thoughtless to continue to use language that people have identified as (for lack of a better word) problematic.
To me Star Trek is another kind of space opera, a different flavor from Star Wars to be sure, but not "hard" scifi either.

This is of course subjective and it's not a binary thing, but a whole continuum from "hard" scifi to "soft" space opera and outright fantasy.

Also, to me this is orthogonal to quality. Space operas are cool.
And once again, no NVIDIA drivers but lots of AMDGPU stuff. How are people still buying NVIDIA?
That's a misnomer. Just as autopilot in an airplane requires active attention by a pilot, so too does autopilot in a Tesla require active driver attention.