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Wanderlog (YC W19) | San Francisco, REMOTE, VISA | Full-Stack Engineer or Intern | https://wanderlog.com/

Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com) is building tools to make planning leisure travel easier. We believe that travel makes us and the world better, and are trying to lower the bar to it. We're one of the top-ranked travel planners on web and Android (and rising on iOS), and have grown even during COVID.

We’re currently a team of 6, including 4 engineers (counting twin-brother founders Peter and Harry as engineers), a designer, and a growth marketer. Our stack is Typescript with Node.js, React, React Native, and excellent front-end and back-end test coverage. We're looking for either an intern who can stay for 6+ months and a full-time engineer.

We also love traveling. Whether it’s a short hop to Austin, Seattle, or New Orleans; or a longer jaunt to Australia, Hawaii, or Banff National Park (all places members of the team have traveled to in the past year!), travel broadens our horizons, builds empathy, allows us to bond with others on our trip! We’re working to bring these experiences to more of the world.

If you're interested in joining us, email me at founders@wanderlog.com or check out our job posting at https://wanderlog.com/blog/jobs/full-stack-engineer/
WELL Health Inc. | Software Engineers | Full Time + Equity | Los Angeles, CA/Santa Barbara, CA/Remote(PDT/CST)

https://wellapp.com/careers/#jobs

WELL is a patient communication infrastructure for healthcare (https://wellapp.com/). We enable enterprise health systems, private practices, and vendors to conduct seamless conversations with patients across multiple channels — including texting, email, telephone, and live chat.

With WELL, patients receive all of their healthcare communication from one trusted source — their provider. The platform empowers service representatives to converse with patients in real time, ensuring patients feel heard while driving staff efficiency and increased revenue.

Founded in 2015, WELL is based in Santa Barbara, California and is the highest rated patient engagement software on G2. WELL serves many of the country’s leading health systems and more than 20 million patients.

WELL is proud to have been named one of the 2020 Central Coast Best Places to Work by the Pacific Coast Business Times and one of the 2020 Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare. To learn more about WELL, please visit our LinkedIn.

Engineering roles include: SR/mid-level backend engineer (node, typescript, GO/python), SR/mid-level Frontend Engineer (react, Sass, JS, HTML, CSS), Software Engineer, API Integrations, SR/JR Integration Engineer, SR Sales Engineer, Sales Engineer Manager, Product Owner, BI Analyst/Developer, Product Manager, Senior UX Designer, AI/NLP Developer, Escalation Engineer, Product Analyst.

Just received our Series C funding and looking to grow our engineering team exponentially! If interested, apply directly (https://wellapp.com/careers/#jobs). You can email jodahara_c@wellapp.com with questions.
I bought a red Gameshell to playtest my Pico8 games on. I love it. High quality kit with solid directions and an active community. At some point I discovered that I could reskin the UI to look like a Teenage Engineering OP-1 and also play Sega Genesis games and now it lives permanently on my coffee table (proof: https://lewsid.com/gameshell.jpg). My only complaint would be the limited battery life.
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
How many people are running their own AD setups? I don't think this is very useful advice.
mate why didn't Mueller arrest him then
Or at least willing to try it out. Critical mass is THE issue and we have a couple ways we're looking to get past it. Ultimately people will have to want to connect with people the way slyde lets you, and want to share it with those people to boot.
I just saw a note this week that in cases like this it might be good to ask 'what have you tried?' before giving any advice. Maybe HN should get into that habit.
Good article, Comrade.
I think they side step this a bit, but please provide the gift givers in your circles with a list. It doesn’t have to be actual specific items you know exist (the cell phone controlled tea kettle is a great example), but it makes life better for everyone as it reveals your preferences.

My in-laws moved to distributing wish lists this year and it is so much less stressful.
Networking for Nerds (2017)
We optimize and cache the image so cold starts times should be the same as with zip functions.
Fauci Says Covid Pandemic Wont End Unless 'Overwhelming Majority' Get Vaccinated
The F-35 is an example of the broken window parable[1] writ large. Sure it created a bunch of jobs, but that same money could have created a similar number of jobs while accomplishing something useful. I often wonder what the eventual consequences of this kind of resource misallocation will be for the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The Arecibo radio telescope's hanging platform has collapsed
Very cool, that matches it. According to Wolfram Alpha, 7:55 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time is 11:55 UTC.
clearly you've never had to deal with physical servers. A dead mouse once caused an outage (fire) that took an entire dev team days to fix. I'd rather not deal with that in my lifetime.
Behavidence – Digital phenotyping for mental health
Last time I looked, you need to jump through some hoops to use a legitimate LTSC install for long-term for personal use.

There's still a lot of cruft in the LTSC version, too.
> "Yeah, I learn something new every time I meet someone! People are all so interesting and unique!".

If you want to know if people feel that way, would it not be better to ask about that issue directly, such as by asking how much they agree with the above sentiment? It might not be a very reliable way to find out, but I am skeptical that asking "do you always learn something new?" is a better way.

There's also something circular about the idea that "there's a type of person who...", if those types are coming from the surveyor's interpretation of the replies to the questions they asked, especially if the questions themselves were framed on the assumption that there's a type of person who...
Seam (YC S20) | API Lead | SF, Near-Remote | https://getseam.com/
At Seam, we're creating the API for home/building IoT.

Our goal is to put an API endpoint in front of every home and building on earth, to enable developers to open doors, control elevators, read energy meters, control thermostats, and much more. Achieving this requires bridging on-prem devices with our hardware hub as well as providing synchronous APIs to a fundamentally asynchronous world.

We're looking for an experienced backend engineer to lead our API implementation. Full description here: https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/21800

You can email founders@getseam.com or use YC Work at a Startup. Thanks!
Check the price tag.
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D)
I don't think the words deflation/inflation are linked to money. A ball can deflate, which has nothing to do with the value of the ball or money.
The income distribution, housing ownership, education, etc. stats for the USA would seem to disagree. The 3rd world level dilapidation surrounding rich enclaves is very specific to liberal-run cities as far as I can tell (my favorite quote from a Nob Hill condo owner - "It's only nice here because the homeless are too lazy to walk uphill").

Even super depressed places I've been to, like Spokane, WA, or rural Illinois by Kentucky border, look far more orderly, safe and well-run. Clearly you've never been to the actual 3rd world ;)
Yes, with the new container image support, you can use the same docker or ECR images to build, and test your functions locally, and run them on Lambda. Consistent images is super useful.
"A global pandemic in which more people than ever before are applying for unemployment is a situation that COBOL systems were never designed to handle, because a global catastrophe on this scale was never supposed to happen. And yet, even in the midst of this crisis, COBOL systems didn’t actually break down. Although New Jersey’s governor issued his desperate plea for COBOL programmers, later investigations revealed that it was the website through which people filed claims, written in the comparatively much newer programming language Java, that was responsible for the errors, breakdowns, and slowdowns."
> No to be clear I'm saying you are comparing things that are way more different than our friends at Cloudflare would like you to think.

Care to expand on that? What exactly do you mean by "things are way more different"?
It seems like your definition of "why this matters" is "how can this pick me up as a user" but for some projects "why this matters" is "to see if this works as well as we think it could" or similar more abstract goals. If the goal of the project is to try to be as small and simple of a Linux distro as possible by trying a different take and seeing how it pans out (which it seems like this is) then it's accomplishing it's goals whether or not it tells you how you could use such a distro were it to pan out.
I'm not playing devil's advocate.

And I think you can see the weakness in your own argument as well! 'implied expectation' doesn't really hold any water, does it?

Part of creating freedom is you have to be prepared to be disappointed that other people use their freedom to choose to do something different to you and to disagree with you. You should embrace that as a success not complain about it, I think, because you really know you created freedom when people can safely disagree with you.
If a large government decides it's a problem, would they hold it or destroy it?
Hi! On the road right now, but back later :) There's no established cadence yet, but twice a year or so sounds like a reasonable update period to me.
Thanks for coming here to answer questions. Much appreciated!

Does each new Lambda cold start pull the entire image from the repo? Or if I derive from Lambda base images am I likely to get some of the layers already cached?

I'm trying to think about how the data transfer costs are going to each time the Lambda is instantiated. I didn't take this into account with Fargate and got burned when trying to trigger images on demand in a similar way.

This could replace my whole SQS / CloudWatch Events / Fargate setup using Lambda if I can figure out cold start costs ($ not time).
fly.io (upto 8CPUs + 8GiB) and stackpath.com (upto 8CPUs + 32GB) both can run such workloads at the Edge. That said, AWS Fargate and AWS Batch (minus the Edge) are probably comparable services to those than AWS Lambda.

[0] https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

[1] https://www.stackpath.com/products/containers/
Location: Chicago, Ill

Remote: Yes

Relocate: case by case

Technologies: Python, B2B, Professional Services, PostgreSQL, Java, data science, data engineering, technical account management

Resume: idclark.github.io/cv/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-clark/

Xoogler with 8 years of experience looking for solutions engineering, technical account management, or other technical client facing work. Also open to data engineering type positions.
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (2017)
Personally I like the approach the Cardano community has taken, working towards interoperability with pow and pos

https://medium.com/@schwartz4live/invitation-for-community-d...

Congrats to the Eth folks though, this really was a big undertaking.
> Eventually Proof of Work WILL kill Bitcoin [..]

> Right now, most of the mining is financed via inflation. But as this comes to an end, eventually, the cost of mining will be borne by anyone making transactions on the network through tx fees.

> Somebody has to pay the electricity bill on all these ASICs.

This is just wrong.

If the award available to miners decreases due to lack of inflation they will use less power-consuming hardware.

If that still results in loss due to electricity cost then miners will leave the market until the amount of miners in the market is equal to the amount of tx-fees available.

In other words: This is a market with supply and demand. If one decreases the other also goes down until they're balanced. It won't just make the market disappear!

So even if almost nobody was willing to pay any tx-fees and there was no inflation then Bitcoin would still be running. It may just move back to running in the background on consumer hardware which was bought for other purposes instead of having giant mining data centers.

This also means that mining isn't going to infinitely waste energy:

The demand for energy cannot go higher than the offer of tx fees / block reward.

So there is a finite upper boundary to Bitcoin's power consumption. I think a finite upper boundary is enough to justify its existence, the precise value of such a constant is arbitrary so you might as well not waste your time in arguing if it is too high or too low and instead be happy that there IS a boundary :)
Does this mean Apple explicitly allows re-sale (os license follows used laptop if you sell it), and explicitly forbids renting. (I can rent you my laptop, but then there's no way for you to legally run OS X on it)?
You and people posting similar answers miss a very important point. You've mentioned you have over 10 years of experience managing rack servers. That's super great!

This means a company that hires you does not need to use AWS for some of the services, because you've got the necessary expertise to do it yourself. Other companies buy this expertise via fully managed services, like S3 or Aurora.

Once you have expertise doing X, it might seem wrong paying premium to cloud providers to do the same thing for you. But other companies don't have you on board. They save themselves time recruiting two sysops with partcular skillset, and spin up a working HA rdbms in a day.

Comparing ec2 and vms on xenserver doesn't sound convincing because ec2 itself is simple. But comparing HA Aurora or Dynamo cluster to on-prem solution is a different beast. As a dev, I don't really want to know all the gore details of managing HA rabbitmq, and might opt for SQS instead.
If your process takes more than 10 seconds, the extra 100ms charge is pretty much noise.
Personally believe...?

I've been diagnosed Bipolar 1 by a psychiatrist. Primary insomnia is a known symptom of depressive episodes. Uncommon to be sure, but not unknown.

And to prove it really is primary insomnia, let me walk you through the three different kinds of insomnia I deal with.

1. Anxiety-related insomnia. Rare. My brain is stuck in a feedback loop.

2. Manic insomnia. Occasionally. My brain running overclocked and I don't feel tired. Imagine trying to sleep while doing lines of cocaine.

3. Depression insomnia. Common. My body can sleep but brain cannot sleep. I can lay in bed for eight hours, motionless and thoughtless while being fully conscious of every moment while my body rests. I get up with my body feeling great and my mind exhausted.
For me at least, "Imagine the possibilities!" is not an answer to the question, "What's it good for?" Indeed, my experience is that it's almost an anti-answer.

For example, in the mid-aughts I was talking with the CEO of a well-funded "semantic web" company about joining. I liked the people and the tech was cool, but I just couldn't figure out how it would turn a profit. His answer was similar to yours, a "what couldn't they do?" answer. Turns out they never found an answer, and got acquired for their technology without ever turning into a real business.

As somebody who used to write software for financial traders, it's not clear to me that removing clearing houses is a step forward. They provide important services. And I'm even more skeptical that allowing randos to trade in opaque, unregulated assets is a good idea. Music industry actors, for example, have decades of experience in creative accounting and screwing people over. Real estate has a strong caveat emptor tradition, and property management companies are not exactly a watchword for fair dealing. So from you description, I'm mainly imagining people all over the world getting fleeced with no practical legal recourse.

As best I can tell, the cryptocurrency space seems hell-bent on rediscovering why strong markets and government oversight exist in the first place. The only demonstrated market advantage Bitcoin has in a decade of operation is in light financial crime like money laundering, capital control evasion, ponzi schemes, ransom payments, and outright theft.

I do hope these technologies turn out to be useful for something. But the "imagine the possibilities" routine worked much better when there was less of a track record. Now I'd rather examine the actualities.
JS_of_OCaml (Jsoo)
This sounds like a Matthew McConaughey AWS commercial rather than a thought-out technical argument.
There's going to be a lot more information coming about this over the next 3 weeks during re:Invent. A good outside-AWS blog post is this one: https://twitter.com/hichaelmart/status/1333837825222078466
I'm a computer science student at the University of Delaware specializing in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. I've been programming and developing software for well over 5 years now and I have experience in advanced algorithms, web development, machine learning, and game development.

I'm seeking an internship position during spring, summer and/or fall of 2021.

Location: United States (Delaware)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C++, Java, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, Node, Tensorflow, Keras, NumPy, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://jinay.dev/files/resume.pdf

Email: jinaybjain (at) gmail (dot) com
I have an HDPI display, and Plasma Desktop has support for fractional scaling out of the box.
Yes, either those docs will ship today or sometime this week. They are doing everything in batches but I've seen the SAM support pre-launch (which would require it).

- Chris
Not gp, but I prefer landlines--for use as a phone.

I also prefer wires, because they're duplex and not shared, as well as the reliability issues with radio transmission/reception.

But yes, I also use Wi-Fi when wires are infeasible. It's better than nothing, if I need internet.
> If you've run anything at any scale for any length of time you'll know that EC2 hosts frequently get rebooted with short notice.

They do not. We run many thousands of instances on AWS. Sure, given our scale, every week we get a couple of instance retirement emails. Usually they are issued many days in advance(sometimes, weeks). Per year, we may get a handful of instances that are suddenly unresponsive.

And we don't care. You know why? Because it's just a matter of issuing stop/start. Done! Server is back up, potentially even in a different datacenter, but it is none the wiser. It looks like a reboot. Even better, add an auto-recovery alert and AWS will do this for you, automatically. If part of an ASG, add health checks.

For the most part, we don't even notice when instances go down. Our workloads are engineered to be fault-tolerant. If a meteor destroys one AWS datacenter, it might temporarily take out some instances. So what? New ones will be back very shortly, all the while databases will fail-over, etc.

If these were physical instances, someone would have to do the maintenance work, purchase orders, wait for hardware to arrive, and so on and so forth. And, for most "co-location" scenarios, if your datacenter has issues, everything will go down. A single AZ in AWS has multiple datacenters, you might not even be affected if one goes up in flames.

But let's say you run a massive pet server farm and none of then can go down for any period of time. You have given names and everything, and you celebrate their birthdays. Cool. Run that on GCP then. They do auto-migration. I've never seen an instance go down.

> Do you understand that with AWS you still have to setup instances, manage security updates, permission and deal with disaster response

This is true. However, if you are running your own hardware, you have to do that IN ADDITION TO dealing with hardware and datacenter shenanigans, with either a specialized (and expensive) workforce, or a barely capable one that's shoehorned and doing double duty, with zero economies of scale, probably in a single data-center.
Show HN: A Simple Piano PWA
Some time ago I looked for a piano app - something I can use on the go to harmonize with, try some chords, or just play. I wasn't happy with anything that I found, so I made my own:

- It's a progressive web app. Add it to homescreen to avoid multi-touch scroll shenanigans

- just a few hundred KB

- made using web audio, vanilla JS, SVG.

- no annoying popups

Please enjoy and let me know how you like it.
Can someone help me understand why people who have had the virus need to be vaccinated?
You know this how? What is in store for us in 2021?
Cryptos are not considered currencies under the current laws so I dont see how it would be a problem, legally....
Amazing team & product - this is only the beginning for Scale!
Thanks! I mainly just googled together this stuff in a matter of 1-2 hours. So it was an afternoon project :). But maybe I'll write it into a nice format. It wasn't trivial because the WWW interfaces only show earthquakes but this event was likely only registered by one station and had too low magnitude to be registered by others, and was thus filtered out.
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I highly recommend "A Blank Slate of State" by Chris Burniske: https://unchainedpodcast.com/chris-burniske-a-blank-slate-of...

He makes the same argument that I think you're making, that these new types of "more accessible" financial markets in crypto can corrupt people if they only use it to seek out money for money's sake.

TLDR: it's a tool, that can be used for good or for bad, but like any tool it's better to have it than not.
Apparently everyone keeps forgetting about ISO.
I think the benefits of that location were

1: Relatively close to the equator

2: Relatively low noise floor

Even though there are places that probably meet those criteria better than PR, the US Government wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole for political reasons
Is there any potential for extending that limit? I work on a product that uses Fargate Spot as a kind-of lambda substitute to run longer-duration tasks consumed from SQS and being able to use lambda to do that would make life easier :)
My advise as a CTO is to avoid AWS or GCS in all stages of a healthy company. The danger of getting locked-in. The aggressive sales team bugging you every week. The impossible to comprehend pricing model.
Hire yourself a decent set of says engineers and go for VMs in an early stage of the company. A switch to bare metal could be taken in a later stage. No always needed.
The Pac-Man Dossier is also a worthy read. It is listed in sources, but that version is broken among 10 pages.

https://pacman.holenet.info/

Additionally, another pacman submission some months ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24603618
I hope Azure follows this move soon :)