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UI Engineer For Drag & Drop Website Builder Made With Vue & TypeScript | Remote

$120k/year. 100% remote. Flexible schedule.

Soflyy is looking for a UI engineer to help build a drag & drop website builder for WordPress.

Required Skills:

- Vue + TypeScript

- UI Design

You will be working directly with the founder (me, my name is Louis) on the product.

An example task could be making our icon picker good.

You would be entirely responsible for all aspects of the feature - i.e. going from a GitHub issue that only says “SVG Icon Picker - Make It Good” to a completed, tested, and shipped feature - with very little direction or oversight.

You would design and implement the UI for picking icons, and then do all the coding necessary so it actually works to handle SVG uploads, shows and searches existing icons, etc.

I’d handle the backend stuff and give you some API endpoints to post the uploaded SVG data to, get a list of all the available icon sets the user has already uploaded, etc. If you have PHP / WordPress knowledge and would be interested in doing the backend stuff yourself as well, I'm open to that.

If you think this job sounds like a good fit for you, email me: louis@soflyy.com.

We can talk shop for an hour on Zoom, do some pair programming, etc. and see if we like each other.
That's nothing to be proud of.
You like gwern, legit. But upvoting because of a brand and not because of content is not very helpful for the community.
Just so you have some extra information (I actually build a heart rate monitor and pulse oximiter) skin color and transparency makes a big difference, same with the color of the LEDs. I'm pretty pale and one of my friends is pretty tan, my signal was much stronger than his. The IR (infrared) ones work better as they are able to penetrate the skin better and there are clearer absorption lines from oxidized blood. I also tested different locations to place the device, I did notice most are fingertip or wrist (fitbits and smart watches), but found I got substantially stronger signals by placing the device near the upper forearm (god did this help in debugging). This was true for everyone I tested (unfortunately only white people) and helped smooth out the data a little, but it was still noticeable.

On how these devices work, it is typically two LEDs the produce light that bounces through the skin, some light is absorbed by blood (different absorption by different oxidation and density) then the reflected light is captured by a photodiode. All of this is on one surface, they are very basic. The density changes rapidly and that's how you capture the pulse (easy to get btw) and the oxidation is based on absolute levels (THIS IS THE PROBLEM!!!!). After building one I learned to not take these things too seriously, especially fingertip and wrist mounted ones.

I encourage others to build them. You can do most of it in a weekend if you have some soldering experience (best if you can do surface mount soldering), some programming, and are comfortable doing data analysis. And no, I do not expect my device to be on par with the ones in hospitals, but I was quickly able to match readings from a finger based device that I bought from the local drug store.
The federal tax writeoffs tend to make up for it, AFAIK.
The FBI was investigating a flasher?
This is interesting, the use case I was thinking about is EDA SW, which is very expensive and performance (runtime) can be days in some cases. In the tool installs I only ever see i386 and x86_64. In curious if the EDA vendors have compiled for the lowest common denomnator for these two basic architectures. If so it would seem like they are leaving a lot of performance potential on the table. Is there any tool that explores and executable and reports if vector instructions are present and follows dependencies (like ldd)?
What is more important? Your nan walking home from the corner store after dark under a street light or a beetle?

Germany: beetles!
> This looks amazing! Congratulations.

Thank you!

> What was the most challenging aspect of this?

Wow, that's hard to say! Our work truly stands on the shoulders of giants (Mildenhall et al, 2020). I can list off a few challenges:
figuring out if an idea "kinda works" or "definitely works" or has a bug,
figuring out how to measure progress,
coordinating a group of 6 researchers living 9 hours apart,
and assembling everything together for a simultaneous paper-website-video release!

> I'm curious to see how you performed edge detection on the transient objects and were able to isolate them so cleanly.

We don't! All of this comes by the magic of machine learning :). We train our model to attentuate the importance of "difficult" pixels that aren't 3D-consistent in the training set. We also partition the scene into "static" and "transient" volumetric radiance fields without explicit supervision. We do so by regularizing the latter to be empty unless necessary, and providing it with access to a learned, image-specific latent embedding. We discard the transient radiance field when rendering these videos, thus removing tourists and other moving objects.

> For some reason, the paper isn't loading, so feel free to say it's explained in detail there.

Well that won't do. Download it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02268. It's 40 MB, so your download bar may indicate it's almost done, but it actually has a good bit left to go.

> Do you plan on releasing code?

I hope so! As with most code, what ran on our machines may not run on yours. Migrating the code to open source will be a big effort. I hope what we describe in the paper is sufficient to build something like you see here.
Build and Deploy an ML model using only Python
Man, with (currently) four comments mentioning that this is "what bankruptcy is for", I think the point of the article might have been missed. This isn't some sneaky "one weird trick", and that's not the reason Bloomberg is reporting on it. In fact, the tone of the article to me is, "yup, companies do it all the time, but..." And the "but" is:

But the moves threaten to upend huge swaths of the real estate market and the half-trillion dollar market for commercial mortgage-backed securities.

It's not "Busted US Retailers Use Bankruptcy to Break Leases", but more the "...by the Thousands" part. Malls are going to start becoming ghost towns, especially with no anchor stores like Penny's and the since-departed Sears.
But it's how the Republican Party operates every day in Congress. If a registered Republican voter doesn't agree with it, they can either shut up and deal or register as something else.
Marketing based on genetic predispositions...
I very purposefully avoid hypotheticals which is why I didn't reply to @sillysaurusx (because you're just debating fantasy), but this is a good post and seems entirely plausible within the next century.

PS: I really wish people would stop mass downvoting @sillysaurusx. This is a pretty good discussion.
Well, it certainly complicates debugging.
Modeling the Pandemic
That's the whole point of federalism/separation of powers. Our government is not supposed to be efficient. This fact might not always make sense to those obsessed with efficiency, such as as programmers, but in this case it's a feature, not a bug.

Disputes between states and the federal government take years/decades to be resolved, but I'd rather have our inefficient system over a more efficient one that is far more prone to being taken over by demagogues and those who seek ultimate power.
How to Eat: When Good People Gather
It's actually from the University of British Columbia.
Opinion pieces are fine, but if they purport to say something about the world what they should be based on evidence. If I reviewed a Disney movie and said it was good, that would be my opinion, if I said it was one of the last animated films that would be produced, that would be a fact about the world and I should probably explain what I mean by that and how I know it. To more directly tie that analogy to my criticism of this article, I feel the author says that this is the twilight of the celebrity chef but doesn't really back that up with evidence.

I did see the reference to voodoo doughnuts, but I don't think it matters much. Voodoo Doughnuts and a few other places are unionizing. Okay. Is this more or less unionizing than in the past? How do unions affect "Imperial" chefs? Couldn't I have a union restaurant and still celebrate and elevate the chef? Using cinema as an example, I believe there are unions for actors and cameramen and movie editors. That doesn't mean we can't have auteurs and movie stars.

I agree that this is not a great piece but I disagree that this is well sourced. I don't think the sources or examples really prove the point the author is trying to make.

If imperial chefs are declining, let's define what an imperial chef is and count them over time. If you can't do that, let's propose an estimation method. If you can't count or estimate the count of imperial chefs, I don't think you can credibly have an opinion on their decline because it hasn't really been established that they are declining.
Is is possible that corrupted politicians have much better chance to win the election than those honest politician who are able to working towards good governance? So theoretically the solution is expecting a good leader but pragmatically there's little probability for those kind of leader to win?

What if there's some good reasons deep underneath the surface of what happened in so many countries but because of political correctness the researches of the reasons are impossible to start so the real solutions if exists are not available in near future?
> If you find password protected zips in the release the password is probably either "Intel123" or "intel123". This was not set by me or my source, this is how it was aquired from Intel.

Can't say I'm surprised, people are lazy.

Another large tech company I used to work for commonly used an only-slightly more complex password. But it was never changed, so people who had left the team still could have access to things if they knew the password. It was an entry point into the system more than the company's Red team.
The movie is about Thomas Anderson, who lives a secret life as Neo by night. He feels there is something deeply wrong with his experience, but he doesn't know why. He endlessly searches the internet, looking for other people with the same feelings.

He is interrogated by agents, who silence him and reject his chosen identity as Neo. He is then freed by a group of (pretty queer dressing) rebels, who offer him the truth in the form of a red pill (oddly enough, Premarin is also a red pill).

Neo is reborn, and undergoes extensive medical treatments. But he still has the port in his neck reminding him of his old life. As time goes on, his residual self image changes. Even still, he has self doubt about his identity.

When he goes back into the matrix, he is consistently deadnamed by the agents. The movie ends with Neo asserting his true identity, killing Agent Smith, and pledging to free the rest of humanity.

Yep, there's nothing there that could possibly be a trans allegory.
Hey Co-Founder here!

We are listed on this page: https://app.swarm.trade/register - you can see the three of us responsible for this product.

We do encrypt at rest leveraging Amazon RDS + logging / monitoring safeguards to prevent unauthorized data access, and are currently investigating starting a SOC 2 Audit.

Due to having to push out the trades through text messages we do have read access to the data (need to push it through our Swarm Bot).

Let me know if you have any other questions! What have you worked on in the FinTech space?
California spent millions on Sacramento arena hospital that saw 9 patients
Lost Connections / 100 days to the US election
If they're using PDFs, they're doing it wrong.

Most law firms are fully integrated into the MS Office ecosystem. Even with emailing things back and forth, the Track Changes feature in Word does a decent enough job. (Although transactional lawyers will say it's the bane of their existence.) More advanced firms will use a document management system to save and back up documents to the cloud, and such a system usually also has built-in version control. So, the main technical problem with lawyers emailing back and forth has to do with the fact that no standard exists for the industry for document management, so these document management systems don't talk to each other. Even if the firms are using the same system, the functionality that would allow collaboration between opposing lawyers is terrible, at best.

More importantly, the real barrier to innovations in the legal industry has to do with economics. Lawyers get paid by the hour, so there's almost no incentive to become more efficient. Large clients can demand efficiency in the form of slashing the final legal bill by up to 40-50% sometime.

Finally, even the smallest changes introduce professional liability risks, so lawyers tend to stick to well known and understood processes that have withstood the test of time. Unless there's a concrete, nontrivial incentive for a lawyer to try something new, you're not going to find one voluntarily sticking his neck out in the name of innovation.

If there's an industry that massive savings [to the client] can be had with technological innovations, the legal industry would undoubtedly be it. But for the reasons stated above, startups working in this space will run out of money long before they could introduce meaningful changes.

Read up on Atrium if you want to understand more about the Tech x Legal space: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/03/atrium-shuts-down/
Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
I'm not sure I understand your question.

If the question is, "can you reconstruct a (static) scene from the frames in a video?", the answer is yes!

If the question is, "can you reconstruct a scene with people and other moving objects, and model them moving around too?", the answer is not yet.
It's a bit depressing to see the greed-by-framing here. I feel like the banks are playing musical chairs rather than trying to operate sustainably. It seems like a more efficient approach — one that is not as economically destructive to GDP after the pandemic — would be:

1. Retailer notifies their lease holders that a given location is impacted by public health closures, reducing revenues for products originating from that location from (100% of $X) to (y% of $X), and warns the leaseholder that the retailer may be forced to file bankruptcy if easement is not granted, reducing rent paid to (0% of $X).

2. Leaseholder notifies their mortgage holder of this, and warns the mortgage holder that the leaseholder may be forced to file bankruptcy if easement is not granted, reducing mortgage paid to (0% of $X).

3. Mortgage holder notifies the property tax authorities of this, and warns those authorities that the lendor may be forced to file bankruptcy if easement is not granted, reducing property tax paid to (0% of $X).

4. Property tax authority grants a public health easement to the mortgage holder, conditional on the same easement being granted to the leaseholder.

5. Mortgage holder grants a public health easement to the lease holder, conditional on the same easement being granted to the retailer.

6. Lease holder grants a public health easement to the retailer.

If anyone refuses to grant the easement, they get nothing anyways, because anyone in the stack can just give up and file for bankruptcy as a last resort — and that's where we're at today. It feels like a shell game because they're all trying to extract the maximum amount of money before bankruptcy, while withholding it until they themselves can file bankruptcy. It's such a shame they can't work together to get everyone that's owed a dollar to agree to just suspend their demands for their dollar until this is over. They're not getting their dollar either way, but if they'd rather have their tenants breaking leases left and right, so be it.
> A market naturally matches supply (healthcare infrastructure) and demand (sick people).

Even ignoring that healthcare lacks the factors that approximate the rational choice model’s information requirements well enough for it decisions in that space in a market to even reflect average net utility well, a market matches supply with money; it matches to need only to the extent that willingness to pay is driven only by expected personal utility, which it's not (because money also experiences declining marginal utility) when financial resources of each potential customer vary wildly.
I'm glad we got a black bar for her.
I work in this niche. I actually work a niche within this niche, and have implemented solutions. We do have a couple competitors. But most new players in this arena come in with exactly that statement - "oh, this is like programming, lets bring in markdown and git and solve all the things!" Then they realize that the level of detail and the expectations of legal document authors are far higher than they ever expected. Markdown doesn't cut it. HTML doesn't cut it. CKEditor and tinyMCE don't cut it. We spend a huge amount of effort re-writing plugins for those editors to meet the actual expectations, and defining new data formats for all the citations and interlinking of legal documents.

Not that there isn't room for competition - there is. But the barriers are not what people expect. And the easy answers that coders tend to see aren't the real problems.
I don’t understand. You are ok with a coal plant or wind farm or slaughterhouse being built in a residential neighborhood? That doesn’t happen right now because of zoning.
On the other hand: what would they go do about it then? It the business fails it fails. It's not like you can pretend it is not failing and have them pay rent with their non-existent money.
NY AG files suit to dissolve NRA for fraud and abuse
I wonder if, and how much commercial real estate might be turned into residential living spaces in the next few years. That could be a huge coup for young people in the United States.

I guess there are a lot of other lagging issues like zoning, rebuilding some places, or just redesigning, so may take quite a while, or not happen at all.
Others are convinced to follow on your footsteps.

The reason I started giving to AMF was because a friend of mine posted about their giving to AMF. I would have been less likely to do so if I hadn't seen that post, so broadcasting probably led to more lives saved. Another friend of mine said he was also motivated to give by seeing the very same post.

Anyway, I didn't claim that broadcasting is positive, or has a point. I simply responded to the claim that broadcasting "cheapens" altruism.
I would have assumed malls were already on the out prior to COVID - I assume this is just accelerating the timeline? I think every mall the knew of growing up and in college is no more except for the largest (Kind of Prussia). Did your Malls usage also include stripmalls?
Adjustable tint sidelite for cars finally available
Russian start-up Octoglass started selling of their new and innovative product after 3 years of developing and testing.
Electrochrome glass is produced for a specific brand and model of a car. Glass Octoglass changes its light transmission in the range from 8% to 75%, it is completely free of haze or distortion, and the tint color is neutral black. Glass is legal in most countries of the world.
The Ratio of Engineers to Sales People in Billion Dollar SaaS Startups (2013)
Facebook employees wonder what would happen if Trump used platform to dispute
I'm a bit new to the field myself, so I'm afraid I can't provide any contacts. Ask me again in a couple of years.

The method presented here wouldn't do well with your problem either. 3D reconstruction of moving objects is an unsolved problem!
From what I've heard there is a significant fraction of carbon monoxide in the exhaust, so there will be a lot less CH4 in the exhaust than you have calculated. CO is only a weak greenhouse gas.
I know this is commercial, but can be good if it drives down property prices and rents. I honestly think a lot of the benefits people want from universal basic income would equally come from just having lower commercial and residential rents. I recognize that's a big "just".
if only the government/bank could've put moratoriums top down, freezing all rent commercial and residential. We'd be in a much better place.

Now we have economic collapse, 40 million looming evictions, people will starve, and freeze, or die in a shelter w/ the pandemic.

Businesses are failing because they have to meet monthly recurring bills w/ or w/out actual sales receipts. They still need to meet payroll if they're even open.

Could've been stopped from the lenders down, instead of try to just throw money every which direction and see which sticks.

I'm for handouts for the poorest, but i think the other handouts were horribly done, and the loan program.
It's implicit in his suggestion that it reflects quality content. Ironically, this is the sort of post that community guidelines suggests not to write. Because it's not helpful for the community.
If it makes you sleep better, these crimes happened 50 ago, it wouldn't be possible to repeat today with the prevalence of technology (phone tracing, fingerprints, cameras, fingerprints, etc...). The perpetrator would be caught fairly quickly.
They probably acquired that domain at the time when advertising wasn't an offense.
>ghost towns

...if rents don't fall. And maybe they should.
There is currently no way i'm aware of to accurately reconstruct a moving 3D scene. Sorry! Ask us again in a few years :)
How so? I'm genuinely curious what the downside for retailers would be in this case. As opposed to staying in place and paying the rent.
Thanks for the pointer to https://historictech.com. There's a ton of neat stuff on there that makes the gearhead in me drool. :)
Dog-walking. My roommate used to make six figures by setting up standing dog walking appointments for affluent clients. She only worked six hours a day. Note that this was before the days of Rover which probably dominates the market in large cities, but I suspect suburbs and rural areas still need help.
Google decided on a cheaper technical solution instead - they only recently started abstracting Android drivers from the linux kernel (Project Treble[1]), which should allow drivers to continue working after the kernel has been updgraded.

1. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/11/an-update-...
The number of killers in the world is significantly dwarfed by all of the people who aren't killers. And even then, among all of the people who have ever killed someone, the number who were not caught but would have been caught if the police only had access to everyone's DNA is so vamishingly small, that there is no reason to take this seriously.

Not to mention that your argument falls apart once you realize that we have no real idea how powerful DNA evidence is, especially when found in small quantities. Is it possible that, if I walk daily by a high-rise that I have never entered, my DNA could be found in a room inside that building (e.g. because a fallen hair or my sneezing got on the clothes/shoes of someone passing by)? Likely, yes.

In fact, I would bet that trying to match all of the DNA at all of the crime scenes with all of the people in America would be much more likely to increase the number of false convictions than to help bring more murderers to justice.