skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Root Insurance | Columbus, OH / Chicago, IL | Full-time | Onsite Preferred/Remote currently | $100k-$160k

https://root.engineering/

Root is an auto insurance carrier, like GEICO and Progressive. We use data science to identify and insure good drivers, reducing insurance premiums for good drivers significantly as a result. We're still a startup — today, we're ~1,000 people who have been working on this since March 2015. We've built an iOS and Android app that gathers data on how well people drive. We use that to set insurance prices. To build the best possible product and user experience, we went through the arduous process of starting an insurance carrier from scratch with fairness in mind.

We're focused on becoming a national insurance carrier and are now live in 30+ states. We've also successfully launched both a renters and homeowners product and an Enterprise arm of our core business, all in the last year.

We've raised the largest VC round ever for an Ohio technology company and we're scaling rapidly, most recently launching our $6B IPO:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/root-insurance-ipo-poised-to...

We're planning on leveraging that momentum to continue scaling rapidly and build something truly unique in the insurance industry. To do that, we're looking to bring on more exceptionally talented engineers and continue creating great teams around strong leaders and experienced problem solvers.

Our tech stack involves Ruby / Rails and Javascript / React Native. However, we're not only looking for people with experience in our stack, but rather, we're looking for experienced technologists with sound engineering fundamentals using any technology.

We're actively hiring in both Ohio and Illinois, where we have offices in Columbus and Chicago, respectively. Although we're all working remotely for the foreseeable future, we have the utmost intentions of returning to these offices sometime in 2021 when safe. We know we work best together in person, so we're searching for both experienced Engineers and Engineering Leaders who are looking to have a significant impact by building and leading a team from scratch, specifically in both locations.

If you're interested in learning more, feel free to apply at https://root.engineering/ or email us directly at enghiring@joinroot.com, and either Tim or Chris will respond to you promptly.
At current rate of vaccination in the US, it’s going to take more than a full year to get it done.
To maybe help clarify, the author mentions 57M spent over 14 years. My guess is that this was more front loaded given FB dynamics, but evenly distributed that's 300k a month, which might barely qualify you for a small business representative. The size and scale of FB are such that unless you're well over 1M a month you are a small business.
Check out NewCity on Steam if you want a pretty cool advanced SimCity-esque builder. Its quite advanced for early-access.
Likely if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Analysis of Red Hat decision about CentOS
I'm looking for sites/blogs that analyze the Red Hat decision about CentOS and CentOS Stream, showing various and different points. So far, I've only read two extremes:
"Red Hat made a chess master move, people should thank them eternally" or from the other side: "Red Hat always makes crap, that betrayal it's no surprise"

Please could you provide some links?
Thanks in advance
Looking at shared.com content - If I was forced to guess what might justify this apart from an FB screw up, is that while no single post breaks FB rules. The quantity that they are posting now breaks a new FB policy and that shared.com is seen as producing huge quantities of low quality, click bait content that FB see as 'polluting` their platform, leeching away users/ad viewers.

That is just a guess.
I've been fascinated by sites like this most of my life. A bit of searching a decade ago showed the author ended up with an undergraduate Desmond in physics.

What's fascinating is how useful this website still is and how genuinely poor teaching resources become once you leave mainstream education.

Here's another one.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
Ask HN: I could use some career advice
I don't hate my job, but I also don't like it.

I like the flexible work hours that I have. I also like my unlimited vacation. And the Covid Restrictions have been the best thing for me because my company is now permanently remoted based and I can work from home indefinitely. I also generally like my co-workers and managers are alright.

The pay is okay. Supports my cost of living and higher than most people my age, but a little underpaid compared to most Software Engineers in the US.

The thing I don't like is my actual work. From the day I got here (3 years ago) I've found the work to be really boring 90% of the time. I would prefer to work somewhere that I can work on an actual product from start to finish. And also work on products that have some actual value to them. I don't really care much for the code, I'm more interested in building products and optimizing them and learning along the way.

The problem is that I have not been able to find any jobs in my area that actually allow me to do this. Most of the jobs I come across just seem more of the same; I would just be a code monkey on some scrum team working for a boring financial company or something.

My ultimate goal is to start my own business but that takes time. Until then, what do you think I should focus on career wise?

Also, there are moments when I think about going back to school for Neuroscience or something else that I find more interesting but that costs a lot of money.
Perhaps I am feeling similar to what you describe. What I try to do is contributing to society instead of to businesses, like I do on the job. Businesses are part of society of course, but there are more direct ways to contribute to society. Personally I like to make everything free software, which I create in my free time, as well as donating to good causes. If everyone did that, I think we would be a lot further. However, there are so many people on this planet, even if only "a few" of us each do a little bit of work, which results in something, that cannot be taken away from society any longer, it will improve things. And let businesses use things as well, as long as they play according to the rules. I don't mind anyone making money off of things, as long as people's freedom and society in general isn't hurt.
The only plausible reason I can see for the current admin to not invoke the DPA is because it would hurt short term corporate profits. Long term it makes sense that the sooner we contain the pandemic and open up the economy that those same companies would benefit greatly. I have no explanation for why the current admin isn’t spearheading and funding a federal strategy for vaccine distribution.
Amidst all the double negatives, I think that's what the parent poster was saying.
Does Uber/Slack not release in CI/CD? At least in backend?

I don't see any need to deploy a big change at once in the software world today. At worst feature gate the thing you want to do and run it in a beta environment, but still push the actual code down the pipeline.
It's not production that's the problem. It's distribution right now.

We can see states with good resources are vaccinating as quickly as the doses come in (a few days of lag time, but otherwise doing good).

But many states are stuck in logistics hell. These vaccines need -80C or -20C storage to remain unspoiled. And the administrators are overworked nurses who haven't had rest for months, due to the pandemic.

Once a dose leaves the -80C or -20C storage center, you only have a few days before the dose is ruined. So you need careful planning, maybe even allow a bit of waste for easier distribution.

The military / national guard can help with distribution, but once again the nursing shortage is biting America in the ass. I'm not really sure how to solve that issue. (Well... I dunno how to solve it this year. Ultimately we just need more immigrants and/or students)
N8n.io is not open source. It even says so on the landing page.

Edit: the article has since been updated
It may not be typical of employees at FAANG companies but what OP mentions is far from unimaginable for many other non FAANG companies.
I've dined with philosophers. The real problem is splitting the bill.
Upvoted because although I agree with your sentiment, the arguably free market in this case, at this point is going to ramp up production as efficiently as possible. I assume all of these companies are each going to make $ billions even if they overproduce. They're also making a name for themselves/furthering their brand awareness, no doubt every 5-10 years we may have a similar pandemic to counter if bad actors rally to spread viruses, at an exponential rate too via different factors. The best defense is a good offense: UBI so people can survive regardless of working, and culturally people not believing that being safe and wearing a mask isn't preventing their freedoms; culturally that this is an issue is a sign of multi-generational dis-ease progression from citizens not being given enough, organized suffering/suppression of the masses for control/submission purposes. Andrew Yang's core policies will break apart the duopoly and "take the boot off of people's throats" - and then people can start to heal these deep wounds, open their hearts, allow their IQ and reasoning skills to open up/develop, to develop empathy, etc.
This is not likely at all.
and then there was a massive revolution in the way that people consumed content, and now FB and Google account for the vast majority of advertising consumption (not spending: consumption)
I'd want a lot more than a faithful remake of SC4 (although SC4 would be a great starting point) -- the SimCity games have always, to a degree, been games that follow suburban California's zoning laws, and they're really great at making sprawling California suburbs.

Just a few things I'd want to add to city games:

- Model water runoff as pollution from agricultural zones.

- Transport-in-road designs -- surface level transport takes up far, far too much land space because the game doesn't support urban infrastructure properly. In SC4, things like subway entrances and bus stops always take up a full tile, when they're typically no more than a portion of the sidewalk or a road sign (and maybe a shelter), respectively.

- Mixed-use zoning. It's probably been the single biggest wish I've had for the SimCity games. It's impossible to build a vertical downtown if you're stuck trying to mix together commercial and residential plots, when many residential buildings along avenues feature ground-level commercial (making them effectively "light" density commercial contained within "dense" residential).
Well, there goes the credibility one team has in arguing that Slack makes a great knowledge repository.
I find it amazing that we can be about an hour and a half into a service being completely unusable(ie. Slack telling me it 'cannot connect'), yet it's still marked as an 'incident' instead of an 'outage' in their own status page
The reality is that today in southern california, ICUs are at capacity. Most people end up ok. My whole family got it and had basically just congestion for two weeks, including the 90 year old ancients we though were sure goners when they contracted it (we just turned up their oxygen and they were feeling a lot better).

That being said, enough people do need medical care, and thats enough people to entirely burden our capacity to treat any sort of medical emergency, and cases are still going up. It’s not good right now.
At one point, that was more than enough to store DVD rips.
There is a surprisingly large number of people on HN that cannot stand seeing criticism of anything that Dear Leader does.
That was the deal made when those shares were created and sold. Compared to all other parties they seem to be more deserving - at some point shareholders took a financial risk.
You scoff but they did link to a tutorial on how to do it via OBS in their guide[1]. They just made video conferencing the first suggestion.

Also in that guide was Discord and Steam Remote Play. It's a surprisingly technical guide (but in a good way) considering the average audience that might read it. It feels to me that some genuine thought did go into that document.

> Maybe Zoom and MS Teams offer(ed) a better fidelity.

Maybe. Anecdotally I've not had any issues with Zoom whereas Google Meets often feels like it's both heavier on the CPU and feeds seem worse. However that's running Meets on Firefox (Linux), it might perform better in Chrome.

[1] https://www.jackboxgames.com/how-to-play-jackbox-games-with-...
COINTELPRO, Operation Mockingbird, Bay of Pigs, the Sept 11 1973 CIA backed coup in Chile, Iranian-Contras, non-existant Weapons of Mass Destruction/Iraq, MKUltra, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Church Committee ... the list is as long as you want to make it.
You might enjoy NewCity on Steam
From the status page (https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1), updated just now:

> We're continuing to investigate connection issues for customers, and have upgraded the incident on our side to reflect an outage in service. All hands are on deck on our end to further investigate. We'll be back in a half hour to keep you posted.
> Jan 4, 5:20 PM GMT+1
The armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is a pretty clear-cut example.
It seems weird to say there are issues with connections but everything else is working fine. Like is the API technically fine on their system metrics but no one can connect to use it so it stays as green? Doesn't really help much in practice it seems if connections are having issues and everything is unusable in practice to keep them as green.

Would be similar if auth was down. You can connect to us, you just can't authenticate so can't actually do anything.

Edit: Looks like they updated the status to properly show an across the board outage
Poll: Do you in general support unions?
In light of the recent discussion, it would be useful to get a general picture of the sentiment here on HN towards unions.

Mostly created this poll as I feel HN is very divisive on the topic after discussing it for a while on the "Google Union" thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25630011
Yes, and I would join one if I could / it existed for my industry
Yes, but I would not join one if I could / it existed for my industry
I don't mind them existing, but I would not join one if I could / it existed for my industry
I don't mind them existing, but I would join one if I could / it existed for my industry
No, I don't support unions
That's what they mean - double negative. It has also been upgraded on their side to 'outage'.
No, I don't support unions and I think they do more harm than good
Took a bit of action at $23k, and a whole lot more at $29k.

We'll see by March or so how it's going for me.
Not true at all. 330k a month might at best get you one representative who has a book of business around 75-100 accounts.
That's certainly true. I kind of like the fact that if you mess with a city too much they'll get mad at you .
My biggest frustration with these outages is they're hard outages across all of Slack. There's no reasonable work arounds or fallback features.

A plaintext web interface would keep my team moving along while they resolve their issues.
A good time to host your own slack-like chat with mattermost instead
>Freebies has been plagued by recent ad violations suggesting they are not following policy for dating ads. Freebies has never run a dating site, nor has it advertised for dating sites on Facebook. The CEO of Freebies, Mike Debutte, tried in vain to reach out to Facebook for help in appealing the supposed violations that are causing major disruptions and loss of revenue to our business. It was frustrating and handicapped the business, but it had become the cost of doing business on Facebook, so we just kept doing the best we could to continue to grow the business.

Isn't this the explanation? I get that they disagree with the substance of the violations, but it doesn't sound like this came out of nowhere like the headline claims. They were repeatedly flagged for ad violations, then their pages were shut down when they ignored these as the "cost of doing business".
I can't find any docs other than what's on the page but my reading suggests that the idea is that you can get/set values "in-band" using a regular lookup query to a resolver rather than the nsupdate style that you'd normally use to remotely configure zones.
Nobody in this union is going to fight against "injustice". Look at their list of demands. It's indeed a red scare because they are really, really red. For example, refusing to work with the defence industry - which country in the world would benefit most from a damaged US/European military? China!

We can see what kind of union this is by the fact that:

1. They aren't going to try and bargain collectively

2. Their announcement claims Timnit Gebru was fired and that was terrible, instead of the obvious truth that she said made obnoxious requests and said she'd resign unless she got them, then was told "OK, we accept your resignation". They're a brand new organisation and they're already misrepresenting reality.

In other words it's going to be nothing like the IBEW or whatever. It's yet another left-wing campaigning organisation, pretending to be a union to try and make the members un-fireable no matter how nasty they become.
I agree. It will be interesting to see it play out.

Members only does lower the bar considerably.

Size matters. If it gets big?

New ideas matter too.

The traditional union struggle has become very difficult in the US. The high solidarity numbers required today are 20 to 30 points more than necessary before.
Can you elaborate on this? All you linked is a laundry list of assorted blog posts about bitcoin.
I think the idea is that they might be more likely to reverse the discussion in response to a forum discussion than to being served legal papers.
Seems that it is now. It was originally just Messaging and Connections that had an "incident", so I wonder if something else happened or they manually changed the status to at least own that all their services went FUBAR.
Heh, sorry. Being sarcastic. You’re going into the right direction. A lot of people believe to save the environment (or fight global warming) the economy has to suffer, therefore I will lose my job, won’t be able to put food on the table, and all of that so cute animals can survive.

I was super sarcastic because it’s not a view I share, but pretty common in the US. Heck, it’s similar to the coronavirus situation right now, we can’t stop the economy just to save people who are about to die anyway.
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I work with my wife to help businesses sell online. I mostly do software development & ops, and she mostly does design, marketing, & Shopify. We both recently left our fulltime jobs to work together, and most of our clients so far have been small fashion brands who needed ecommerce solutions.

Rate: US $25/hr for software development, flat fee for Shopify sites

Technologies: React / TypeScript, Shopify, and I’d loooove to do something in Svelte or Elm

Languages: native US English, native Chilean Spanish

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I agree with you. When the issue of Apple's anti-competitive behaviour comes up on HN, it is always rebuffed by saying Apple does not have a monopoly—its US share of smartphone market is merely 40%. This is demonstration that you don't need a 100% market share to act anti-competitively. Facebook and Google each have less than 30% market share in ad spend in the US.
Sounds like a Big ball of Mud. If it solves a real problem then it can be re-invented; by the same people or by someone else. Otherwise it will slowly come to a crawl and eventually be forgotten.
Let's not get carried away, it doesn't even have a steering wheel :)
Except when the unions work to keep non-Union people from working or have ridiculous rules that make producing a film far more time consuming and expensive than it need be.

Have you ever worked on a film set? Want to drive film to the airport? Can’t get paid to do it unless you are in the teamsters. Want to sweep a floor? That’s the janitor Union. “Hey light guy, could you bring me that empty film canister?” Nope. The light guy isn’t in the camera Union. Hey camera guys, can you tape down that cord you keep tripping over? Nope. That’s the gaffer’s job. Are you a brand new sound recordist and want to worn on a Union production? Cant do it unless you join the union first. Need one guy to do a job? If the Union requires three, you end up paying three people to do the job of one.

Hollywood unions are better than the auto workers or teacher unions, but it’s far from “good.”
I uninstalled the app a couple weeks ago. Amazing positive difference in my mental health and focus.

Now to kick my HN habit...
Using the current rate as the constant rate over the next 12 months makes absolutely no sense.
Pfizer is reporting that they have vaccine doses ready that nobody is picking up. Besides, I personally don’t believe the free market is capable of telling states what to do or even knows what would be the most efficient way to distribute the vaccines.
IRC is easy to migrate from since there is nothing to migrate other then chat history. IRC is also missing so many features that slack provides out the box. And a law like that would not work since you would need to write complicated transformation scripts to transform between services. Also not all services are a 1-1 mapping. I like IRC but it has its limitations. That is why slack succeeded where IRC did not.
Yes that is correct. It is not "OSI approved open-source" it is rather https://faircode.io/ licensed instead which is similar but not the same.
To be fair, ads on Facebook aren't generally appearing in response to searches. But there are plenty of high value lower traffic options, such as specialized blogs and newsletters that have audiences fitting your target market - you have to work to find and work with them but at a certain scale it makes sense (at "I have $57m to spend on ads" scale, potentially not).
I don't understand that perspective - large ground armies haven't been relevant to superpower conflicts since pre-Cold War.

Force projection, like the US has been able to do for 30 years, is relevant and when China ramps up in that regard there's no telling how things will change.

IMO China doesn't even need to bother much with military advancement to become a massive threat to Western democracies though, as they can simply continue to build their economic engine and leverage it whenever necessary. They are already doing so to great effect against multinational corporations.
Looks like Slack just updated their status page to show a complete outage, not just an incident for "Messaging" and "Connections."
If you pay such a large amount of money I think “partner” should be the right word... but you are right, they don’t deserve that.
May be “cannibals” is more appropriate.
It's marked as an outage now.
Well, you get to compound the scalability problems twice, that's not nothing!

/s
Maybe. A lot depends on personal cost / risk exposure relative to income.

And that devaluation does mean NOT making billions per employee too.
Speaking as someone who goes from bed to couch to bed during this pandemic due to a lack of desk space in my crampt apartment, I would murder someone if it meant I could claim their chair and desk and have actual lumbar support again.