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Singularity 6 | Software Engineers, Artists, Designers | Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time, Remote

COVID NOTE: For the duration of the health crisis, we've transitioned into a fully remote, work-at-home environment. We can interview, hire and onboard you now. We're stable, with money in the bank and we're not going anywhere. While we have a preference to eventually return to an office, most software engineering roles can be remote (in North America) indefinitely.

Who are we?

We're a VC funded (a16z) game studio in the westside of LA building virtual worlds with deep gameplay (not just a hangout space!) that foster vibrant online communities. This first game world emphasizes adventure, co-op, and creative gameplay.

I love working in the game industry and proving we can deliver incredible player experiences without burnout and crunch. Massive online games offer a unique intersection of technical and creative fields, ranging from graphics, animation, AI, cloud native computing, big data and more.

I'm am still growing my launch team! All positions are senior+ levels:

- Game Engineer, gameplay focus with a background in Unreal Engine 4 preferred (will require eventual relocation to LA)

- Software Engineer, backend platform, microservices, Java/Kotlin (remote ok)

- Software Engineer, Cloud infrastructure, container clusters (remote ok)

- Software Engineer, Data & analytics, growth engineering (remote ok)

To learn more, check out our website and feel free to connect to me directly on LinkedIn (please mention Hacker News!):

https://www.singularity6.com/careers

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaaronfarr/
This is the fastest, coolest, humblest response to constructive criticism I've seen in recent memory. Wow!
Hacker Releases Info on Las Vegas-Area Students After Officials Don’t Pay Ransom
How? I read so many felon success stories but I'm a non-violent felon and I can't even get an entry-level interview in IT. I'm multiskilled with a huge focus on security but despite the demand, I've had so much trouble.

In fact, in one very sad case, I showed up to my first day of work as a sys admin and was walked out after 2 hours because the HR department neglected to go over my application and see the felony checkbox until that day, despite having been hired over a month before!
If the law is blind, you expect people with heritable traits associated with criminality to get in trouble with the law more often. I.e. all is as expected.
Everyone's different, but my experience tallies with sokoloff's. With the right technique it's no problem to solder 0603 with the naked eye. 0402 is possible but very fiddly. 0201 is really pushing it. A microscope is a useful aid, especially if you're longsighted.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646620
I go back and forth. It is a good price for a little computer you attach to your tv that can sideload apps and do a lot of the same audio/video things your phone can do. But then, the beauty of the original Chromecast was that it was a wireless external display for your phone, so you didn't need to manage apps and logins on yet another device, just hit the cast button to play music, video, pictures or games on your tv. It was incredibly versatile and really had all capabilities of your phone, with zero setup or fuss. I know you could just use the new Chromecast like the old chromecast by Chromecasting, but sometimes more is not more. I also really hope that little chromecast icon isn't going away in media apps anytime soon.
But why? What’s wrong with having it on a different window?
Russian Hacker Who Targeted Bay Area Tech Companies Sentenced to over 7 Years
Cover (YC S16) | Infrastructure Lead & Frontend Engineer | Los Angeles, CA | Full Time | Onsite post-covid | https://buildcover.com

Come join the team at Cover, where we're reinventing how homes are designed and built. From architectural design through engineering, manufacturing, and installation, we've developed innovative solutions that address fundamental problems in the construction industry. We're a team that's radical in its make up with individuals from software engineering, automotive (Tesla/GM), applied physics and mathematics, architecture, industrial design, and other backgrounds.

We just raised a Series A led by Founders Fund and Lennar Corporation https://www.builtinla.com/2020/07/28/cover-raises-10m-series...

We're currently looking for Frontend Engineers and an Infrastructure Lead.

Learn more and apply at https://buildcover.com/careers or email a resume to join@buildcover.com
Sweden has discredited model responsible for lockdowns
A question about Black Lives Matter sparked an employee walkout at Coinbase
Surely Calvin's worldview is influenced by what his father told him?
That is wonderful news to read. In America, the legal systems convictions really carry no valid meaning. The common person gets punished with a felony for taking a crap, while the "elite" get away with literal murder.
Sotheby's | New York (NY) | Onsite (Remote for now) |

Overview

We need people that can help us drive technical vision, product development, innovate, optimize complex problems and improve efficiency. We’re looking for team players that value opinions other than their own, look to data to support their decisions, take initiative and make things better. Ideal candidates are curious and eager to learn, are comfortable with ambiguity and a fast paced, ever changing environment.

Qualifications

5+ years of industry engineering experience with proven track record
Must have proven experience writing, deploying, and running distributed systems
Must have experience writing microservices with clear separation of concerns
Must have expert knowledge and experience with Either Golang or Scala
Must have proven experience using data structures and algorithms especially as pertain to web system design and distributed systems
Must have expert knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrations
Working knowledge of GraphQL and GRPC is a big plus
Working knowledge and experience writing in Golang is a big plus
Working knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
Working knowledge of messaging queue systems

Link to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/senior-backend-software-e...
Employers offer massive salaries when they can't find anyone cheaper. Just like people pay more for desirable beach front or mountain view property. Not only does it have to be desirable, but it has to be in relatively limited supply, such that the seller has options and so the buyer has to compete to win the seller, and obviously payer has to be able to pay.

Edit: If you continue down the road of reasoning, the desirability of an employee is related to how much net income the employee contributes to. The employer is betting that the work a specific programmer does will be integral to yielding billions in profit, so a few hundred thousand is a no brainer.

In contrast, a hotel on a desirable piece of land does not need to offer housekeepers massive salaries even though the work the housekeepers do is integral to the hotel's profits, because the housekeepers individually are more replaceable than a programmer.

Edit #2:

Note that doctors get paid more in rural, low cost of living areas than in high cost of living areas.
It is more fundamental than science.

Trivially, you can show this by pointing to the fact that science branched off of "it".

But more relevantly, if you can't clearly organize your thoughts into a coherent perspective or think critically and draw logical conclusions, you can't follow the scientific method in the first place. Nobody can.
Oh! I didn't know that! I thought work phones also had to comply with KYC at the carrier level. Well, tee eye ell.
Bob Murray, Who Fought Regulations as a Coal Operator, Files for Lung Benefits
Krydus | Various Engineers and Scientists | Full-Time | REMOTE & ONSITE (depending on position) | DC & Seattle

We are a bootstrapped employee owned company. Our primary product is focused on applying active learning to provide data insights and find problems with datasets for deep learning as well as automatically correct them in production while minimizing the human in the loop. We are also using the tool in house to accelerate the development of another dark web search engine product. We have a small team of 8 currently with experience at NASA, Oracle and Microsoft that has been working together on various projects for over 5 years.

You can find my personal website linked in my profile, my email is at the bottom of the main page.

Deep Learning Engineer

FPGA Engineer (onsite)

Full-Stack Engineers

Cloud/Dev/ML Ops
Why doesn't/hasn't some American three letter agency simply seized the bitmex.com domain?

Or will it be seized once they are charged in absentia I imagine?
/yr, surely?
It's perfectly compatible with GC. GC manages memory. RAII manages object lifetime. C++/CLI, for example, has full-fledged C++ RAII implemented on top of GC memory management.
Funny, I was hoping the article would address one of my main gripes with USB-C, but it didn't: the ports and plugs are dust magnets! Sometimes fluff in the port causes the plug to losely attach, making the cable fall off or simply not charging a phone overnight even when apparently connected. A lot of my friends have this issue with their phones, the port is too deep and rounds dirt up from fabric in your pocket. USB-C requires cleaning like no other plug I ever owned.

And in general, dust or no dust, it feels like a flimsy plug. Even the shorter micro USB typically snapped vigorously at their ports.

I think these physical design flaws are also quite an oversight for something that wants to be the plug-to-end-all-plugs.
Good idea on paper but hypocrisy is disturbing because it is obviously not obvious to Mozilla.

"It’s noisy out there. We are inundated with sensational headlines every minute, of every day."

Firefox home page with clickbait from Pocket is not helping. Maybe start with introspection?

"Let’s take back control from those who violate our privacy just to sell us stuff we don’t need."

Maybe continue by not taking a giant check from Google every year before telling others to boycot companies violating privacy.

Mozilla is in such giant conflict of interest and common sense and that reflects on the main product. As a result, web suffers. So as others said, it first has to unfck itself. Sooner the better.
Spruce Systems | Engineering and Design | 4-Hour Overlap with US Eastern | Full-Time | Remote-Only
Spruce is hiring programmers to develop world-class open source products and libraries implementing the W3C Verifiable Credential and Decentralized Identifier standards in identity. At Spruce, we are reimagining trusted interactions for enterprises and governments by creating the world’s best software for packaging beliefs digitally. We hire programmers who love technology and are committed to intellectual honesty, user privacy, and innovation. We are fully remote.

Backend Engineer: Cross-Platform Rust, Tech Standards, CI/CD, LXC, Security Engineering

Application Engineer: Flutter, Webapps, ReasonML/TypeScript, Integrations, CI/CD

Product Designer: Figma/Sketch, Customer Research, UX Design, Wireframing, Prototypes, Design Style Guide

More information here: https://www.spruceid.com/careers
In the good timeline, KitKat had a dash in its name, Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia in its logo, Pikachu had black on the end of its tail, C3PO didn't have a silver leg, and you could go up in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
Outflank-mailman: stop Mailman from breaking DKIM signatures
Ask HN: What tech to use for good old desktop apps?
So I'm currently planning 2-3 different apps which I "need" to scratch a few itches. I'm tired of web apps, so I'm planning to develop off-line desktop apps. I've been a bit out of this world so I'm not sure whats the best way to go forward in terms of tech.

Electron seems to be a good option for someone who, like me, has webdev experience. Also, the huge amount of JS libraries allows you to do plenty of cool stuff (one of my apps needs to deal with audio). But I also know it takes a regular share of criticism.

So apart from that, what are the options for having good features and good GUIs? I'm on linux, but having windows versions working would be neat as well.

.NET sounds like a good contender, but my (brief) research revealed I may have a hard time working with more advanced stuff in audio.

All advice appreciated!
At 800 degrees C
Have you tried doing freelancer stuff? When no one will give you a chance, giving yourself one is probably your best bet.

I have no idea how well that would work, but it seems like the only variable you can control.
Anecdata alert - I grew up on the C64 in (reasonably affluent) Norway. Everybody and their dog had the C64.

For quite a while, I only knew of one household in addition to mine which had a 1541 to go along with it - when I wanted to, ahem, exchange evaluation copies of software with friends, I had to copy it onto tape.

IIRC, a 1541 retailed at 2/3 of the price of a C64. You could buy an awful lot of tape for the money you saved on going with a tape drive instead.
Needs a stray dart on just the heading "Go" :)
We're using vague terms, but the point is that controlling the VM is not the same thing as controlling the VM's traffic, especially in the model where your OS is not actually hosting the VM (since Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor).
Most of the employment agreements I’ve signed with largish tech companies have the non-compete baked in there with language that it does not apply where not enforceable or a specific carve out for California. I know Amazon makes people sign one again when you on board in a new location after a transfer. (There was an article about that recently I think)
Exactly. Just like what the other poster said, the World Police BS has to stop now.
There isn’t a single business model out there that can survive a 90+% reduction in customers. That categorization is absurd. It would be like saying if Google can’t survive a sudden reduction of 90% of people using the internet it should fail.

You can say what you want about bailouts but saying a “business model is bad” because of a once in a lifetime disaster is ridiculous.
Quant Hedge Fund | Greenwich, CT | Onsite / Remote | https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2150954988/

We are a quantitative start up hedge fund with a passion for building world class software. We're looking for a talented developer with 1-3 years of professional experience who's interested in leveraging your coding skills to learn more about quantitative research and trading.

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> Academic historians are concerned with not just what happened in history, but how we know what happened in history.

So they want to ban textbooks and force kids to learn dozens of languages to read primary sources and to travel to places of their origins?
Is USDS recruiting focused solely on tech companies? I know some strong folks looking for work, but they're coming out of being digital people in DC nonprofit world, not working at tech startups.
Can we make AI computers for Venus surface use now?
Good... hope issues are never resolved...
Roostify | San Francisco, CA | Onsite or Remote | Full-Time | Eng Manager, Sr. Software Eng, or Sr. DevOps |

Roostify is a fast growing FinTech startup transforming the mortgage industry with an innovative and integrated platform that’s streamlining the entire digital lending experience.

You can find these and all of our other current openings at: https://www.roostify.com/open-positions

- Sr. Software Engineers: We are looking for someone to lay the foundation for our new Data & Document Intelligence platform in collaboration with a major technology company. You’ll be responsible for seeing the project from start to finish and onward. Preferred experience as Full-Stack eng with AI/ML and Cloud (AWS) experience.

- Sr DevOps: You’ll be working in a team responsible for design, configuration, optimization, and support of our product cloud infrastructure and services that we deploy to our customers

- Engineering Managers: You will manage a team of software engineers to deliver critical services that are part of Roostify’s SaaS solutions and services. This is a high impact, high visibility role reporting directly to the VP Engineering.

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, Java, React, AWS, Python, Bash, JS, CSS
> In your example, even as the legislature performs legislation and the proposition allows, the proposition is unchanged and unchangeable by the legislature.

California Constitution, Article II section 10(c) says "The Legislature may amend or repeal a referendum statute. The Legislature may amend or repeal an initiative statute by another statute that becomes effective only when approved by the electors unless the initiative statute permits amendment or repeal without the electors’ approval" [1]

So California's constitution is very clear, the Legislature can amend and repeal initiative statutes (of which 1986 Proposition 65 was one). The only question is whether the Legislature's amending/repealing legislation needs approval by the voters at the next election to become effective, and that question is determined by the text of the initiative statute itself. 1986 Proposition 65 imposes a two-thirds majority requirement and a requirement that the amendment further the same purposes in order to skip another public vote; other initiative statutes have different requirements, yet others require another vote for all amendments.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
It has nothing to do with imprecision. Nor does it have anything to do with objectivity.

I'm more talking about the neutrality and "centrality" of the choices of study.

Something like ethics and religion are more a biased choice that say something like logic from my perspective. What if we encountered an alien race or intelligent beings with no form of religion or ethics? Dolphins or chimpanzees perhaps? It's certainly possible but I would argue it's hard to imagine finding an intelligent race of beings not governed by the rules of logic. That's why I consider logic an unbiased choice and religion and ethics a biased and arbitrary choice. Our bias tends towards the the human experience as opposed to a truly more neutral perspective.
This gives me a warmer feeling watching OpenRC boot on my laptop.
This is interesting, but I'm kind of sceptical. We don't fully understand everything that's going on in a neuron well enough to say if we're replicating that behaviour or not.

We don't even really know how many synapses an average neuron in the human brain has.
The real tragedy is, that this story isn't the norm.

Here is a comparison to a maximum security prison in Norway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpehw-Yjvs
Hopefully no one here is hired...
> I dunno about Stripe, but a lot of folks at Google (and presumably the other FAANGs in the region) have had that option for a decade or more. ... Only restrictions are that you have to be a solid performer beforehand, and you have to find a team that's either in that location or that's willing to have you work remotely (many teams are happy to have remote workers, particularly ones who are high performers).

Anecdotally, I have never heard of anyone getting a job at a FAANG with that kind of salary working remotely from day 1. On the other hand, I have met several people who started on-site but switched to working remotely later. I'm not saying it's not possible to do the former, but it seems like it's way easier to work remotely for a FAANG if you've already proven yourself, which obviously doesn't work if you have already moved to a lower CoL area and are looking for work.
They had an office in Manhattan and customers in the US.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1323316... (Page 8)
Lossless is not equivalent to bijective. Gzip is not bijective. The definition of bijective compression is that an arbitrary bytestream is valid for decompression.

To put it another way: because there are some output files that gzip compression can never create (whatever the input), it's a not surjective function from the set of possible inputs to the set of possible outputs. For this reason it is not bijective.
Companies which are run for good intentions are often hard to work for, pay less etc. You can view it through the lense of employee as consumer - if people are likely to agree with the moral mission of the company, they're likely to be willing to work for less wages.

It's weirdly common and makes no sense to me this line of argument, I've seen independent newspapers attacked for paying less than (evil) big media companies. The devil pays well! That's the deal! Good guys can't/don't because they're trying to venture outside the huge raw capitalistic currents, and the employee-consumer effect. Ironically companies trying to do good which do pay well then get attacked for their profligacy with limited resources.

Underneath all this (especially on a still semi-elite tech site) I think a (societal) system with big problems pushing people into complicity creates a compulsion to attack anyone seemingly slightly nobler in their mission, in an to quash pervasive cognitive dissonance.
The process for forming those guesses is the same whether you're generating text or generating pixels. Data is data. Another risk this poses is that video is not as simple as many assume. A naive approach of simply desaturating or downscaling an EiB of video data is not enough to achieve even a 50% level of historical accuracy because that doesn't address the problem of normalizing those processes across different camera models, lenses, film processes, digital scanning processes, codecs etc.
Are there any states that tax 30+% on income? That's a ridiculously high number. Every other state has lower taxes than California.
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Allumia | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Remote (Seattle-based) | FT | Software Developer

Allumia provides a platform through which utilities can fund, design, install, and maintain energy efficiency upgrades for commercial and industrial buildings. After six years of bootstrapped growth and proven success, several of the nation’s major utilities have now signed on with Allumia.

This is where you come in. We’re seeking a software engineer to join our small, growing product team and help us build out our customer-facing web platform and metering infrastructure to handle the vast volume of work our utility partners are sending our way.

For the web piece, our stack is React/Typescript, GraphQL, Rails and PostgreSQL. Our meters use C++, Python, and Node endpoints. Product thinking, decent design sense, and comfort with/interest in data is also key.

You’ll be working alongside the rest of the tech team, as well as some very sharp minds in a variety of fields, from finance to electrical engineering. We’re a mission focused company and have built a successful business model around saving energy.

If you’re interested in reducing the output of carbon into the atmosphere, working here is a pretty decent way to maximize your impact.

Email tech@allumia.com with resumes and inquiries.