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Nightwatch.io | Remote | Full-time | Elixir, Rust, Ruby, Go

We’re looking for an experienced developer who enjoys working with server side technologies and possesses a good mixture of DevOps and application development chops, has been around the block a couple of times, and would like to build forward-thinking and innovative solutions with experienced teammates in a progressive-oriented environment.

About the role:
You should have plenty of experience in building performant, easy to use, well monitored and well tested APIs, creating and maintaining robust web applications, designing efficient data flows, communicating clearly, usharing knowledge and questioning existing solutions.

If you are a positive-oriented hacker who does not fit the traditional company structure and resonates with the mindset of programming languages and paradigms being just a tool and not a heavy personal attachment and identification, then this role might be the right fit for you.

About the company:
We’re a self funded SaaS company that primarily builds forward-thinking tools for internet professionals. We are a bootstrapped company that believes the future belongs to smaller companies that don’t subscribe to the 9-to-5 corporate way of doing things. We believe that the Silicon Valley era is over, and we are building a business that allows us to enjoy the freedom of working remotely where each of us has the autonomy and flexibility to have a high impact on the world with our work.

Back-end Developer (Elixir, Ruby, Rust, Go):
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/backend-developer

Front-end Developer (Ember.js transitioning to React):
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/frontend-developer

Devops Engineer:
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/devops-engineer

Product Owner:
https://nightwatch.io/jobs/product-manager
Is it a bad idea to use AWS Lambda to serve ML models? If cold-start latency is not much of an issue.
Heritage Type | Software Engineer, Frontend | BERLIN, Germany | ONSITE | Full time

We're building a tool that automates complex design processes to create beautiful professional graphics. Our clients include Netlix, Warner Bros. and thousands of designers.
We search for software engineers with a focus on frontend that have a good understanding of vector graphics, fonts and modern JavaScript. You will be able to have massive influence on the product.

- You’ll work on an exciting new product

- You’ll work with an amazing team of talented people

- Competitive compensation and equity package

- Quality-driven environment

- Top-of-the-line equipment

Please feel free to email me directly at nh(at)heritagetype(dot)com or check our openings for more details here: https://heritagetype.join.com/
China Successfully Lands Chang'e-5 Lunar Sample Mission on the Moon
Can anyone post the article? I'm pay-walled and outline/archive/vpn countries aren't doing it for me...
Too bad its synonymous with bribery.
Yet they still forget about pay to play with ISO standards.
Yeah instead of taking any responsibility for being a bunch of getrichquick assholes let's just say "oh it's always been like this" and keep trucking along. Nice job genius.
Balena | REMOTE | Backend Engineer

Hey there! We're Balena, a startup laser focused on a single goal: enabling every developer to succeed on the new frontier of Edge/IoT computing and building fleets of devices that work as reliably as servers in a datacenter. In the process of creating this bridge, we've built many tools and services, from cloud services (balenaCloud) to desktop utilities (balenaEtcher), to operating systems (balenaOS), single-board computers (balenaFin), and much much more.

Engineers at Balena have the ability to work on issues and features from inception to deployment, from talking to users to solving architectural riddles to learning new technologies as needed. Engineers are empowered to take on a user problem and chase down its solution to any part of the stack, working alone or coordinating other engineers in service of improving users' lives, without regard for internal silos or barriers.

Full description here: https://apply.workable.com/balena/j/8BF6036D98/
So - like a new car, service about once a year then, after the first year?

I wish that was the case.
Scientists set out to recreate and store the smells of historic Europe
> The problem is that Linux GUI and apps generally expect laptop/desktop-ish levels of hardware capabilities because that's what they were developed on/for.

I remember running x11 and Java w/swing on 8MB 486 laptop... So something is off if multiple cores at 30-100 times the frequency can't run a gui?
I think you're missing the benefits outside of scalability. There are a lot of native AWS services that help you to quickly prototype and build reliable solutions. A startup saves a lot of money (and time) by not needing to hire a whole devops team to manage various service clusters.
I agree, but there might be a creative way to do it that increases customer happiness and still is a decent business.
SENIOR FRONTEND ENGINEER / DENVER, CO or SOUTHAMPTON, UK / REMOTE CONSIDERED / $120K - $140K

BiggerPockets is the leading resource for anyone looking to succeed in real estate investing. We offer free content, tools, and a community of 2,000,000 members to help people make the best investment decisions.

We’re hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help us build great interfaces to our software products using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native. Additionally, frontend engineers drive the business forward by participating in product discovery, working with Product Managers and Designers to explore and develop new features and products.

A Senior Frontend Engineer will also shape frontend strategy for the organisation by establishing frameworks and best practices, mentoring, and guiding the whole Engineering team to build kick ass web and native experiences.

Requirements:

* 6+ years of experience in software development

* Deep understanding of core web development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React, Stimulus, and experience with React Native

* Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and ERB

* A strong product development mindset and understanding of product design

Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/biggerpockets/j/CFFB25BFB8/ (please include a cover letter!)

Learn more about us: https://www.biggerpockets.com/careers
The option will appear if the machine is not connected to the Internet.
I think it's not just increasing social cohesion either. It's also that we like owning things with a story. It becomes a Christmas souvenir basically.
Chapter 1: World Heritage
Is the display of power, displaying the power of the giver?

Or are you gifting power, that the recipient can then display?

Thanks for the book recommendation.
i like the idea of rethinking surveys.

1) have you thought about voting schemas besides multiple choice? ex. rank choice, weighted preference, exclusion, multiple round voting.. there's a field of economics called "social choice theory" that you might have come across or would be a good area of research.

2) it would be interesting if people could predict survey outcomes, compare predictions with colleagues, and compare predictions against outcomes.

3) how are you thinking about anonymity?..which impacts what people are willing to reveal. we use google forms for surveys at work and you have to be logged in with your company email address. when the survey collects email addresses, it says so, but when that is turned off, it doesn't label the survey as anonymous. it would be nice if anonymity/privacy was more clear, or to have anonymity as an option to the responder.
noob question: why does OP care about background running services? Do these incur a performance penalty on "modern" hardware?

honestly curious about this. Thx
The naming is a bit of a misnomer, today L@E doesn't run at the edge (in our PoPs) but when you deploy it copies to every region and then CloudFront routes you to the lowest latency region for your request.
> LightSail isn't any cheaper than the EC2 instance types backing it.

Sure it is: Lightsail includes plenty of transfer with its price. At the $10 tier you get 3tb thrown in. If you're doing anything that burns even a modest amount of transfer, the price difference will be sizable.
Aka, "I left macOS because I only cared about BSD UNIX and nothing else that actually adds value to Apple hardware".
offline accounts are only available if you are not connected to the internet, or at least you a get a visible create offline user button/link. last month i did a fresh install with the latest iso and i had to unplug my ethernet cable
I tried to back into the estimates here, and I can't quite get my head around them.

$737.19 of transfer out is 8TB per month at standard EC2->internet prices, which is fine; something like 25 Mb/s on average.

$3558.56 for EC2 is something like 20 x m5a.2xlarge ... and that makes no sense to me. That's 160 vCPUs and 640GB of RAM.

How does a WP site like that possibly need that much compute? The whole thing feels like it ought to be a pair of instances plus $20 a month for Cloudflare.
'tis the time of year to wish for miracles. :)
The whole point of my statement was that it's NOT a technical argument.

Anyone with significant experience and maturity knows this already. Being technically correct doesn't matter if you've created more work for yourself than you can handle.

"Scalability" is much more often a people management problem rather than a technical one. Please come back and tell me how you feel about this when you have 10^4+ servers in your care.

The nice thing about well-orchestrated cloud is that you can run your infrastructure the same way whether you have 10^1 or 10^5.
What do you do if you genuinely don't want anything?

It seems like people don't believe you and keep harassing you asking for what you really want, and then get really frustrated when you keep saying "No, really I don't want anything". Then they either respect your wishes and don't get anything, but seem to harbor some kind of resentment against you in their heart, or they get some random garbage you don't want and call you ungrateful when you don't like it.

Really the greatest gift of all would be some kind of exemption from this custom so I don't have to go through this twice a year.
Having created a small concatenative language myself[1], no, the pure concatenative style with no variables and stack combinators is just too much for a normally-wired brain.

BUT! I tried to cheat a little bit to make things more readable. Take this example from the min front page, which showcases its concatenative style:

. ls-r
(mtime now 3600 - >)
filter

Can you guess what it does? You might, but what about this:

. ls-r :files
((mtime > (now - 3600)) ><) =changed-in-last-hour
@files #changed-in-last-hour filter

Now ok, I went insane with sigils and weird operators but:
- creating variables helps
- using infix notation via the infix-dequote (><) operator makes expressions much more readable

Why would I use this rather than a traditional language? It helps reasoning in terms of point-free function composition and in some case it is faster to work with, i.e. processing rules, pipelines, task sequences etc.

[1] https://min-lang.org
This is interesting because it will also help Sybase migrations. SQL Server is the "brand name" but there are still a lot of people stuck on Sybase.
Don't discount the cost, which is borderline astronomical; if you're on Enterprise, you're paying tens of thousands a year. For large installation, potentially six figures. And that's on-prem which is the cheapest way to do it more often than not.

A 2-core Enterprise license is nearly $14,000.
Formaviva.com | Independent electronic music platform | Remote

We are creating a next-generation music platform for independent creators and electronic music lovers.

Formaviva consciously pursues undiscovered talent and musical experimentation that is inaccessible on mainstream music platforms. We believe in the ability of music that is emotionally driven, and we work towards supporting artists in their creative endeavors by enabling and creating innovative tools for music distribution and monetization.

Back-end Developer:
https://formaviva.com/jobs/backend-developer

Front-end Developer (required Ember.js experience for transitioning to React):
https://formaviva.com/jobs/frontend-developer
Totally correct. I mention that a bit in the video as well. Also - I do not view this as an AWS v. Colo. We use AWS for some services as well so it is a specific part of the workload we run (not just WP) that is in our hosting cluster.

And again, this is a fraction of what we have in data cetners due to the labs and such.
Here it goes - MySQL raytracer https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222
Location: USA
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes, have european and basic slavic language skills
Technologies: TypeScript, JS, Python, Flutter, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Java, Spring, Micronaut
Résumé/CV: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ibejoeb
Email: in bio
AWS gains is like a bell curve, the value is highest in the middle. If you're very small, you probably don't need it, and DigitalOcean without surprise costs should do. When you start getting large enough, AWS starts paying off, as you get really huge, then it might be cheaper to colocate and hire your own admins. However, I think Netflix shows you can't be too big tho for AWS. Their hybrid approach is probably best. Run on AWS/GCP for things that you just can't afford to fail, then move your non critical workload to colocation.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Trumpers in DC are chanting "I am my brother's keeper" and are upset at the US plutocracy and are taking a stand against it, regardless of how misinformed they actually are. Perhaps the progressive left should forgive them, find common ground, display class solidarity, and work together to actually drain the very real swamp.
It depends. Do you need a GPU? If so, your options are more limited. If not, then it's definitely doable!
Not the GP but yes I've seen a lot of folks go through the Data tab in Excel and connect to a SQL database to display data directly.
This reveals the joy of gift-giving. I had always shied away from trying hard to find a great gift. I was afraid I would give a terrible, terrible gift (I'm not great at receiving gifts). Someone I dated years ago had a talk with me about the joy of giving gifts and I've worked on improving. It's actually a lot of fun. A little listening and preparation turns you into a thoughtful gift giver.

I also find it quite satisfying to sneak around and ask family or friends about what we should get so-and-so. It doesn't always work out well but people appreciate you trying and sometimes you really nail it.
> PoS offers much, much stronger security than PoW

Uh, why do you say that?

The security of PoS in fact ought to be much LOWER than the security of PoW:

The goal of requiring proof of work is that you cannot just send multiple versions of the same transaction into different areas of the network to double-spend your money - because you need to commit work for producing a block, and due to consuming energy you can't fake that.

Well, you can compute two (or more) blocks in parallel, but then you'll spend half of your available CPU (or ASIC nowadays) cycles on each block, thus cutting your speed in half. So the non-malicious competitors on the network will produce more blocks meanwhile because they're not splitting their computation power, and thus your fake blocks will get invalidated because they're on the shorter chain.

With PoS on the other hand you can create as many fake blocks as you want and spam them to the network. The only security is the hope that the random network topology arbitrarily results in the double-spending blocks arriving at the targets under attack after the other blocks arrive.

But if you run thousands of nodes on the cloud and thus have better network connectivity than the victims you can make your double-spend blocks arrive first at the victims.

So:

- PoW: Relies on physical limits, you need to have physical hardware and physical energy to conduct an attack.

- PoS: Relies on the network connectivity of the attacker being hopefully worse than the connectivity of the non-malicious network. Who can guarantee that? Nobody.
>Elsewhere in the article, it mentions that all investors were paid out. Startups have no credibility anymore to potential employees

I've been part of two startup acquisitions and the net value of my options (over 1% of the company in one case) was $0. Join a startup for the experience and the ability to have more influence, not for getting rich.
Yes but it isn't Open Source.
Perhaps that could be a positive feedback loop.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/population-growth...

“Population, global warming and consumption patterns are inextricably linked in their collective global environmental impact,” reports the Global Population and Environment Program at the non-profit Sierra Club. “As developing countries’ contribution to global emissions grows, population size and growth rates will become significant factors in magnifying the impacts of global warming.”
You can deploy Win32 application on the store as well, and Project Reunion is about merging both worlds.
American PhDs are failing at startups [pdf]
The thing is for many other people it's not about enjoying work or not. I enjoy my job a lot, it's the best one I've had in the past decade. I also have a toddler. After I finish work promptly at 5 (sometimes before, and I work from home), it's a non-stop series of "work" bathing for the kid, either playing with the kid (while my spouse cooks) or I cook (and she plays with the kid, so either way it's busy work for both of us). For anyone with a 2-year old, you know that dinner time is not relaxation. It's trying to stuff food into your mouth as quickly as possible while being busy either feeding her, picking up her toys, or calming her down. Then it's dishes, maybe a little bit more toddler play time, then it's the whole routine of diapers, brushing for her, changing into pajamas, and trying to put her to sleep which takes another 2 hours.

I love both my work and my family (and my kid). But the fact is, I have no personal free time until about 11pm. If my spouse has household matters to discuss with me, that takes us to maybe 11:45pm if I'm lucky. And if I don't go to bed before 12am, I pretty much automatically get a migraine the next day. You know what? I still stay up late anyway. Sometimes it's hobby side projects, sometimes it's doing absolutely nothing but useless internet surfing. I can't even help it.
The idea of running BSD and it going well is one thing, but in practice you have to really want it. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are better (and easier) than ever, but you still give up a lot in comparison with the average Linux distribution, where more things just work.

The BSDs are often great if you stick to the base system, but once you start adding software, things break way more often than with Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

This is especially true if your hardware is not-a-Thinkpad.

I always wanted to run OpenBSD as my main OS, but for "production" desktop use, I can't deny how much easier/faster it is to get and stay running with Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora.
I didn't know any computer graphics or linear algebra beforehand. I bought a copy of this book[0], which is a bit dated, but goes through the basics really well. I also got a lot out of this lecture series[1].

I ended up doing a lot more math than I expected to understand the fundamentals of projection, basically teaching myself linear algebra, but that was pretty fun in itself.

My goal was to build a minimum-viable software rasterizer for embedded situations (STM32-F7). I still haven't gotten around to getting lighting to work efficiently, or to leverage SIMD, but I intend to whenever I get back to the project.

The source is here if you're curious: https://git.sr.ht/~zjm/Moon3D. There's also some screenshots/progress updates on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/zackmichener

[0]: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/product/Foley-Co...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01YSK5gIEYQ&list=PL_w_qWAQZt...
Gifts Under $50
The paper he cites, Waldfogel's "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas" omits one of the most valuable results of gift exchange. Namely, it only considers the intrinsic value of the object give, and not any goodwill or pleasant feelings that the mere act of giving and receiving itself provides.

In other words, by focusing purely on the material value of the object given, the paper systematically undervalues the benefits of the entire act itself.

Waldfogel himself noted this in a follow up.
Hahaha this is great. Reminds me of my first suspension from school when I used MS Word hyperlinks to get to all the drives "hidden" by the network admins. This included the homework mailbox drives, so naturally I found my least favourite teacher's inbox, hid the folder with the work in it and then created a pair of links pointing to one another. Good times. I wouldn't have been found out if I hadn't removed the graphic for the login screen and replaced it with the Christmas version in May... and then bragged about it when everyone in my class noticed.
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Ask HN: How to Manage Startup Windfall?
I’m expecting a windfall from an upcoming tech IPO. I run a tech startup and have been angel investing in other startups since many years. I’m a business angel in the mentioned IPO and have no lock-up period. I had liquidity events in the past but not at this size. I dont’t plan to sell at IPO nor need the cash. I believe that the company will 10-20x over the next 10-20 years and would love to hold the shares.
That said, I think this is not optimal for my portfolio. Possibly even idiotic. I’m wondering what the optimal play in terms portfolio construction is.

Reading and analysing the data [0] on IPOs over that last decades suggests that I should sell all shares on a schedule, like over 18 months [1], and reinvest in new startup deals.

Who has been in a similar situation and can point me in the right direction?

I do not want to retire. I want to keep investing in startups.

[0]: https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/ipo-data/ [1]: https://blog.wealthfront.com/sell-employee-stock/
I don't know if administrators are what make academic life difficult. It sounds to me like the parent post is saying that it's difficult because there are lots of really smart and motivated people competing at near-maximum effort for limited resources.

That matches my experience in academia. The prof in charge of our lab worked a lot because he was obsessed with the work and wanted to succeed, not because someone was cracking a whip.
I suppose that is the incorrect translation of "speed skating club" (schaats club)
Can this phone run WhatsApp? That is one of the few things that prevent me from making phones like these my primary one
Lambda supports "Provisioned Concurrency" which lets you minimize the "jitter" of cold starts.

That said, it still isn't perfect. But it's much more predictable latency-wise, and AWS has managed to get cold starts down to a level where they're quite decent recently (~500ms would be a "bad" one these days).

Old benchmarks are dated these days. I wish there were some better ones.

Source: I build a Serverless hosting platform built on top of AWS Lambda. https://refinery.io