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Applied Intuition | Recruiters, Software, Sr. Software, Sr Frontend | Bay Area, Detroit, Tokyo, Munich | Onsite, VISA | Full-time [ACTIVELY HIRING].

Help determine the future of autonomy. Applied Intuition provides the infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. We've raised funds from A16Z and General Catalyst. Applied Intuition equips engineering and product development teams with software that makes it faster, safer, and easier to bring autonomy to market. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Tokyo, and Munich, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top companies in the world (such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Delphi, GM, and Bosch). We are hiring for all roles listed on our website, but the following roles are P0 priorities. We are especially interested in finding more recruiters right now:

-Recruiter (Bay Area)

-Technical Sourcer (Bay Area)

-Product Designer (Bay Area)

-Technical Program Manager (Bay Area) - New Customers

-Information Security Engineer (Bay Area)

-Senior Frontend Engineer (Bay Area)

-Senior AV Engineer (Los Angeles)

-Senior Planning and Control Engineer (Los Angeles)

-Inside Sales Representative (Bay Area)

I joined Applied in 2020, and have only great things to say about the culture[1], the product, and the team. Our tech stack is cutting edge and a blast to work on, our pace is fast but sane, and our customers love us (and demand a lot from our product). If you're interested in bringing a deep software skillset to autonomous vehicles, Applied is a fantastic place to land in this industry. There is a wonderfully wide mix of age and experience here as well.

Apply online, every application is read: https://www.appliedintuition.com/careers or email me (def + @<company address>) with any questions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM3-k-g3CV4
That’s not what the down arrow is for. This is what I’m getting at.

Instead of treating the comment section as a dumping ground for your purely speculative opinions masquerading as authoritative takes, and pushing the burden of nuance onto readers by asking them to downvote if they disagree, I think one should clearly state their opinions in an intellectually honest way. Then there is no need for downvoting if others disagree.
Is this like Node-Red?
Maybe dang deploys to HN using ftp ha ha ha
Interestingly, (nearly) all of the Canadian government public servants are unionized. When you get hired, you can decide whether you wish to join the union or not, but the union will still collectively bargain on your behalf no matter what you choose.

The union is (mostly) in place to work on ensuring benefits such as sick leave, parental leave top-ups, overtime limits, etc. They also are there to ensure that management respects the rules when dealing with the workforce.
Keynesian/neo-keynesian "soft money thinking" kills enough brain cells that people start to believe the CPI formula (that was altered 2-3 times since we closed the gold window to hide rampant inflation) is valid...that is the primary purpose of fiat education and fiat propaganda.

Anybody buying the 2% inflation number doesn't recognize the actual 15-20% hurdle they have to jump over every (non-covid) year and will inevitably get poorer unless they are directly tied to a "cantillon channel"... in which case they will only stay rich thanks to what amounts to fraud.

More accurate inflation calculation - https://chapwoodindex.com
Monograph | Senior Rails Engineer | Full-time, REMOTE in US

We do 4-day (32 hour) work weeks at Monograph, and we've been doing it for 3 years now. I believe we're one of the only companies in SV that are advocates for working less, but more productively. We only have one engineering/product meeting each week and then everything else is heads down work (or one-on-one pairing).

To learn more about our engineering culture check out our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/monograph (Lynne is a good friend!)

We're currently looking for a senior backend engineer (ideally with some production Rails exp) that is interested in building resilient, flexible systems for a thoughtfully moving startup. If you're interested in the built environment (architecture) that's a huge plus!

Here's the full job description: https://monograph.io/jobs/senior-rails-engineer

Reach out directly to me (head of engineering) and mention the HN post: moe at monograph dot io
Devops should have nothing to do with your chat server. It should be your IT department, just as with the email server.
Output dependent feedback is another good way to get creamy, evenly dispersed dots in highlight and shadow areas:

https://levien.com/output_dependent_feedback.pdf
I am so glad that at least today I do not hear that slak annoying sound.
I do really think Slack is not helping me, at all, to concentrate on my job (system administrator): synchronous messages are really the worst, ever, while working: email is much much better
Yep, that is correct...although something of an inevitably given the different historical paths (and isn't true of all countries within Europe either). But what I would add is that downward mobility is just as important as upward mobility: the US is, I think, unique in that rich people can move downwards which doesn't happen in other places.

Btw, neither approach is more optimal than the other. There are trade-offs. What some countries in Europe get wrong is that they are trading off innovation which is going to become more important for growth going forward.
'bean dad' forces hungry child to open tin can
Given that there seems to be an exodus in motion, even as unionization efforts begin, it would seem like this is an industry that can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...

Dijkstra does a commendable job in explaining how people map new ideas to old ones and never really end up looking at things in a new way.
The study we have of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine with one dose administered showed 67% effectiveness, in line with vaccines for other diseases (including eradicated ones - polio vaccine is 80%).
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/12/18/coronavirus-vac...
Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
I'm able to connect to Slack at the moment. My company doesn't use it, but a hobby group I belong to uses it for discussion forums and their instance is up and functional. So it isn't down completely as I write this.
I've used the AWS metadata trick as well. I kind of liked the solution; better use something that the machine is already relying on than adding something extra.

DNS is also usually a much better option than the framework-specific service discovery mechanism that every framework seems to be destined to reinvent. I think the problem is that most computer scientists aren't very well-versed in networking, and DNS doesn't look like the best match at first glance.
Markedly slower than usual here - South Wales, UK - and has been for a couple of hours.

Edited to add: as per comment by @peter_d_sherman all slowness disappears if using the site without being logged in.
I've heard anecdotally that SimCity started at an attempt to model Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language. If I had a "roundtuit" I'd make something like that. I was playing with Godot engine a few months ago and it's pretty fun itself. A city-building game-building game...
Not sure if this is related, but a traceroute is showing a lot of hops between my router and HN.

Me -> My ISP -> (Cogent: AMS -> PAR -> BIO -> PAR -> BIO -> DCA -> JFK -> DCA -> ATL -> DCA -> IAH -> ELP -> PHX -> SAN) -> HN
Let’s take a moment and express solidarity towards the fellow engineers that are currently working like crazy under a lot of stress to fix this.
How to Build an LRU Cache in Less Than 10 Minutes and 100 Lines of Code
It would be interesting to see a plot of activity and new submissions with large outages like slack marked on it.
Mass homelessness isn’t related to income inequality. That’s entirely caused by a failed local government that will not permit housing fast enough to deal with the demand.

Zuckerberg making $80 billion instead of $1 billion has literally no impact on the homeless in the bay. He only buys one or two houses at most. If the Facebook employees made even more money, that would only exacerbate the housing crisis because they could bid prices much higher (thousands of Facebook employees vs 1 Zuck).
May be add slums too, if it does not have them. I found Cities Skylines for example, has not concept of urban squalor.
Unless the entire market switches to BTC, it's not gonna be possible to do a full BTC transaction. Even if your coffee shop accepts it, it's not likely their bean providers might.
I Learned to Love and Fear the Riemann Hypothesis
Some feedback from a random internet person, take it with a fistful of salt.

Why are there non-functioning arrows next to the names of projects, companies, etc.?

Why does it keep randomly re-rendering while I'm trying to read something?

The design is, no doubt to some people, gorgeous, but I'm finding the landing page example completely unusable. If it's intended to show off capability then it needs to be clear that that's the purpose. If it's intended to be usable then it needs to be re-thought.

(Later)

Ah, when I go to an actual example then the arrow isn't functional, but the text on which the arrow is placed, is a link.

My reaction ... I don't want it to be discoverable, requiring exploration to work out the functionality. I want it to be immediately obvious, using existing internet norms. If I visit for the purpose of looking at a CV I don't want to have to learn how to use the site, I want to get the information I'm looking for.
> engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

To do this as a group you will still benefit from an organization to manage it. Its a lot more effective to say, "Stop doing this or we 1500 engineers are all leaving on Feb 1" versus a bunch of engineers seemingly random quitting (although for similar reasons).
Demodesk | Multiple roles | Remote, Munich (Germany) | Full-time | YC W19 | https://demodesk.com

We're building the world's first intelligent online meeting platform with the vision to enable anyone to have great customer conversations. Web conferencing tools that are being used today are purely functional. They hardly offer anything beyond video calling and local desktop sharing.

Stack: WebRTC, Ruby on Rails, Go, Vue.js, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Google Cloud, AWS, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Köln, Stuttgart, tons of fun

https://jobs.lever.co/demodesk
The status page might just lack a branch for when everything is down entirely and only differentiates between "all green" and "not all green".

I assume this doesn't happen all that often.
Building out the infrastructure to automatically give real-time updates to your uptime figure sounds like a terrible use of company resources. Who knows how many person hours to spend on implementing and maintaining a feature that would remove maybe a few minutes of manual work from the incident post-mortem checklist, just for the sake of delighting people who need something else to look at for a workplace distraction now that Slack is down.
> fully cross platform

Does it have a mobile app? This is what’s keeping me on Notion for the time being.
Stationhead | Android Developer (Kotlin) | REMOTE | www.stationhead.com
Hi, I’m Andrew DeFranco, a senior engineer at Stationhead. We’re building a music-focused social network fighting back against algorithmically generated playlists and soulless corporate radio. We’re creating a democratized platform people connect with their music, their favorite artists, and each other. One of our founders is an actual rockstar, and we have artists and industry executives lauding us as the future of music streaming.

We are a small team working collaboratively in a diverse and inclusive workplace. While we're working remote, the team is based in NYC, and we have general availability for meetings and synchronous collaboration 10-4 eastern time.

The position is Android-only. No backend or iOS programming is expected, although some understanding of Swift and iOS fundamentals is helpful since some feature work will be direct ports from our iOS project. Our Android codebase is less than a year old, and uses Kotlin exclusively.

Email me at andrew@stationhead.com if you're interested. Be sure to include your favorite band in the email!
Nobody is arguing about that. The idea that BTC is a currency is long gone. Bitcoin is a store of value, similar to gold (which you also can't use to buy your groceries).
Not every business is large enough to sustain the overhead of a subsidiary in the UK or in any other country. Probably there is an opportunity window for middleman services that collect orders and sell to UK customers, an Alibaba from the EU to the UK.
When google went down recently, HN went completely offline for a while. I suppose this is a side effect of lying status pages.
Start typing "calculator" after pressing WIN.
Sadly, only 40% when your opposition is fragmented and frankly a crap interface.

There are many things I like about Android, but most of them are philosophical.

I find navigating it atrocious and I have spent quite a bit time reverse engineering some applications.

Again, this is the competitor to apple? How much does each market capture. I suspect apple is doing much better here.
Absolutely agree. I like the 1 main discord account but I wish I could have 1 "identity" per-server as well. I don't love that I am in some discords that I don't want tied to my real name and others where I've known these people for over a decade and would see in person multiple times a week (before the pandemic). I know you can set your name per-server but you can't hide your discord username (or make it per-server) which sucks.
Slack seems to be back. Will be interesting to see how long slowness on HN persists.
Unfortunately I don't remember. From the (little) notes I kept, the corruption occurred with restic version 0.9.3. I had also tried restoring with the latest code from git master, but I didn't make a note of the exact commit (it didn't make a difference anyway).

The commands that triggered the corruption were the following. I tested the restore around the 10th run of this.

repo=sftp:chenxiaolong@<ip address>:/home/restic
restic -r "${repo}" backup -x /home
restic -r "${repo}" backup -x --exclude /stuff/Android/AOSP /stuff
restic -r "${repo}" forget --keep-last 3 --prune
What would you be screening for in the target population?
I wasted $4k+ and half a year of my life to develop a game that earned $30
But given the dynamics of PoW mining, isn't bitcoin defacto controlled by a handful of Chinese mining cartels, which are themselves controlled by the CCP?

I feel like this whole pitch makes sense until you get to that part.
> representing speculative things as high-confidence erodes your credibility

I wish you were right, but I actually think most of the time the exact opposite is true: appearing highly-confident about speculative things makes someone seem more credible, rather than less.
Forward | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer - Full Stack, Front End, Mobile, Backend Infrastructure, & more | ONSITE when safe, REMOTE for now

Want to transform healthcare? Now’s the time. We're hiring for our engineering team at Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjxo6SdPT8

We're on a mission to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to those who need it most around the world. We’re looking for detail-oriented, product-focused, impact-driven teammates to help us realize the mission.

We're building an entirely new system to empower our doctors with advanced tools (https://goforward.com/technology) to facilitate early detection, continuous improvement and personalized care – supported by data – with a nationwide network of primary care clinics in cities across the country.

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Check out our founding story here: https://goforward.com/blog/blog-post/health-moves-forward/

If this mission resonates with you, check out our open roles at https://goforward.com/careers, or reach out to me directly at marissa@goforward.com with your resume!
DemandStar | Senior/Lead Frontend Engineers, Full Stack Engineers | Pacific Northwest/Remote (US only) | Full-time | https://www.demandstar.com/ | email me at zcohn@demandstar.com

Governments buy things. Companies sell things. DemandStar is marketplace that connects governments and suppliers, resulting in more competition and taxpayer savings for the government, and more opportunities with more discoverability for suppliers. We have almost 600 active governments and over 100,000 suppliers on our network and are growing quickly.

About the company: Have revenue, recently raised a $2M growth round from VersionOne, Advance Venture Partners, and Forefront Venture Partners. 16 person company, 3 person engineering team. Heavy presence in the Greater Pacific Northwest (not just Seattle!), but fully committed to building a remote friendly company in the long term (not just during Covid). Strong belief in building a healthy culture where people aren't working 60 hour weeks.

We're looking for senior and lead frontend and fullstack engineers to build massive new features along the procurement lifecycle and engagement hooks that will directly impact the growth trajectory of the business. We're building a collaborative engineering team that tackles big problems together.

Tech stack is React, migrating toward typescript, .Net backend, and hosted on Azure. Open to introducing new technologies as opportunities arise, but good candidates should have some overlap in the existing stack.
Microsoft hints at coming “sweeping visual rejuvenation” of Windows 10
Ask HN: Is HN Slow Due to Slack and Notion's Outage?
So many levels of indirection is the recipe for the modern goto.
>> It seems like in tech in exchange for high material compensation, the toll is sometimes high psychological and emotional pressure.

Hard things are hard. Building something complex in a competitive environment is going to feel difficult because it is. The company can make it more or less painful and the good ones do a good job, but there's no way around it.

The alternative is not to do difficult things and thus have no pressure and no responsibility. By that definition, the homeless guy on the corner is the most relaxed person (and sometimes it's true, you see them chilled out, nobody depends on them and there's nothing for them to achieve) but if that resonates with you then you shouldn't be working at a company like that in the first place. Try working at the DMV instead - I am being a bit facetious but also serious, people chose their careers based in part of how much pressure/adventure/challenge they have an appetite for.

There's no success without risk, hard work and pressure. The top companies give you a chance to go for such success, they can't change the laws of gravity and somehow enable you to change the world without breaking a sweat.
But it's not really a UK company shipping to Italy, it's an Italian company that owns UK factory shipping to Italy. With a single market, it probably made sense to Selle to have distribution flow from Italy. It's not their fault the UK is being an arse.
Interestingly, nonplussed is one of those words having two meanings that are at odds with each other. According to Google, those two meanings are:

1. (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react.
"he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea"

2.
INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
(of a person) not disconcerted; unperturbed.
There's the asymmetry at play; with their immense wealth, these corporations can more easily pay employees more and have less effect on their bottom line- though perhaps simple math will prove this point wrong- than individual workers choosing to take pay cuts. But while this is a good discussion, I don't see how any of this differentiates being greedy from being a rational actor or homo economicus.
Everyone votes by their own rules. There's no official guidelines on how to use the voting buttons.
We tried to predict 2020, here's what we got right and wrong
Posting a link from a 240-year-old Western medium that was downvoted to -3 from the default 1 was the last time I wasted my time on commenting a HN post.
Virta Health (https://www.virtahealth.com/) | Full Stack, Mobile, Backend, Analytics, Infrastructure and DX Engineers | San Francisco, Denver, or REMOTE (US)
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Apply directly above or message me at aaron@ (our domain)
> Transfer across political boundaries: is there ANY inherent guarantee?

Yes, there is some guarantee. The guarantee is that government already have had numerous motivations to ban bitcoin already, and yet most governments have not seriously attempted to do so, likely due to the very significant efforts that would be required to do that.

I have been hearing "The government is going to ban bitcoin!!!" For 10 years now. And for 10 years, no government has been successful, and most countries simply been dismotivated from doing so.
To court... for what? Choosing not to do business with the author? That's not illegal. That doesn't become illegal just because they've done quite a bit of business in the past.
Natural rights become a social construct the minute you stop enforcing them yourself. You pay taxes to support the system that maintains the property fiction for you.
Alternatively: HN is everyone’s Slack fallback and we’re just hard at work here.
To a first order approximation, nobody. But it was supposed to function as a currency, so if everything had worked as planned it (daily volatility) would matter on a regular basis.

But even as a “store of value”, that’s an issue. Ignoring the fact that everyone values BTC in USD (or a local fiat currency of your choice), a “value” that you never access is meaningless. One day you will want to do something with it, and on that day the risk of a 20% fluctuation is a big problem you’ll have to deal with.
Fine, semantics aside, the federal government is in a unique position to distribute vaccines and testing supplies and PPE with a higher efficiency coefficient than the collection of the states and territories individually. There are people arguing against this in this very thread. In generally, sure the states shouldn't rely on the fed to do everything. In this case it's better for the states to let the fed handle this. If not, why not?