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Lightning Estimates | Full Stack Developer | Remote (US only) | Full/Part Time

Lightning Estimates is a SaaS tool for mortgage loan officers that saves them time and effort in creating accurate estimates for customers. I've been developing/selling it all by myself and am looking to bring on a developer to start taking over the tech side of things. The tool has a small user base, but makes enough to cover the cost of running it.

Everything is done using AWS... EC2 for the web server, RDS for databases, Lambda for some process intensive parts. The backend is done in PHP using Laravel while the tool itself is a SPA built using Vue. You'd basically be coming in as a co-founder and would get a good chunk of equity and profit sharing.

I'm happy to chat more about what's going on and what I'm looking for, and willing to work together to figure something out that can help take tech responsibility off of my plate!

Apply at https://angel.co/company/lightningestimates/jobs/1118025-ful...
So you're a radical. You want revolution, not reform. Got it.
No. Because China is working on that too. This is what their Made in China 2025 initiative is all about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

"The plan aims to upgrade the manufacturing capabilities of Chinese industries, growing from labor-intensive workshops into a more technology-intensive powerhouse.[6] The goals of Made in China 2025 include increasing the Chinese-domestic content of core materials to 40 percent by 2020 and 70 percent by 2025."

This is a major source of all the economic anxieties the US government and allies are feeling.

China isn't just a source of cheap labor anymore. Cheap labor was what it had to offer because it was so under developed but they aren't blind to history. They know they have to move up the value chain and have been gradually but steadily moving up.
That mirrors my experience. Before shelter in place I'd go to a café about 2-3 hours every other day in the morning. Technically, I'd rotate between a café and a breakfast place close by that was always abandoned and they had an espresso machine. It was my own secret café.
Cool, just use coal-powered electricity inefficiently instead?
> We also hired a c-level exec who came aboard apparently having already accepted a different offer and came on for under a month to collect pay and get some juicy stock.

At a previous job, I worked fairly closely with a sales representative who, it turned out, was working in sales “full time” for two different tech companies in different fields.

Needless to say, once he was discovered he was jobless (unless, of course, there were more undiscovered jobs out there).
How come almost no company that wants that kind of loyalty is willing to pay for it?

Like, say, 6 months of guaranteed pay if you are let go for any reason non-criminal.
Freud’s work wasn’t science or resembling it. It was a mix of observations and thoughts. Biology at the tine was way closer to modern science.

In fact, Karl Popper’s seminal work that characterized science and is essentially used to define science today, was motivated in no small part by trying to formalize Alfred Adler’s claims in a rigorous consistent verifiable and falsifiable manner - and realizing that was impossible.
Dang keeps HN civilized. As readers we are in his debt.
> But after I announced my departure, a few engineers from other teams came up and told me they wished I'd let them know before quitting, since they would have been glad to have me on their team instead.

You know I know folks who've actually taken these kind of opportunities and sometimes it works, but other times it results in a) you finding out there are problems with the transfer (headcount or manager blocks transfer) and b) being distracted from getting out of your current situation.

It's 20/20 hindsight, for sure - but I like to think of opportunities missed as simply "outside my light-cone". How likely was it you would have broadcast your departure early?
This is an amazing article, which provides both views
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comparativeadvantage.as...
JSONL is often better if you can spec that from scratch, but, sadly, still has somewhat poor support in a lot of environments that support JSON. I've had the most problem with interacting with people using environments that are "helpful" and aren't really programming languages, and I usually end up having to offer them a plain array anyhow.

This can also be helpful when you're outputting, say, a 10MB JSON object, which isn't necessarily that large anymore, on a server where you'd like to not have to allocate 10MB of RAM to it. You can stream out a plain ol' JSON object without the resource usage.

Sadly, it is indeed easier to convince environments to stream JSON out than it is to stream it in.
Replacing all the financial and political elites is a good idea, they have demonstrated incompetence at running the economy.

But it is too easy to blame them and overlook the role of the public. Particularly in politics, where it cannot be overlooked that the voters vote for whoever they want. This didn't creep up on the US - this was a 30-40 year process overseen by the Boomers which anyone could have seen coming had they looked. Many did, it was obvious China was the future. It is well worth being sober, realistic and evidence based about what they did and whether their successes and failures were correctly learned by the next generation.

I think the 30s and under have learned a lot more lessons about the environment and social theory than developed an understanding of why China is becoming the pre-eminent world power, why it is led by Communists and whether the US should have done things differently.
Ukraine Government Picks Stellar to Help Build National Digital Currency
It's so interesting to read about the rediscovery and reengagement with dithering by newer generations. I grew up when dithering was simply a fact of life because of the extremely limited graphics capabilities of early computers.

I love the reference to Obra Dinn as the graphics remind me of very fond feelings I had for the first black and white Macintoshes. There was something wonderful about the crisp 1-bit graphics, on a monitor designed for only those two colors, that made it look "better" than contemporary color displays in most respects -- almost higher resolution than it actually was. It's kind of almost impossible to replicate how it looked on modern color displays.

I didn't experience that feeling looking at an electronic display again until the Kindle. It also had the funny side-effect of making art assets on Macintoshes a fraction of the size as on color systems, making both the software smaller, and the hard-drives hold more.

There's also something somewhat unsatisfying about automatically generated dithering patterns used to recast color graphics into 1-bit b&w. It seems to really take an artist's hand to make it look beautiful. However, the author of this post ends up with some very nice examples and it's really well written.

If anybody is interested in seeing how the old systems looked, and some great uses of dithering throughout, I'd recommend checking out this amazing Internet Archive Mac in a Browser - https://archive.org/details/mac_MacOS_7.0.1_compilation

You get dithering literally at the system startup background.
We're lucky we live in a world where people with the means and work ethic can make a better life for themselves doing better things.
Nailed it. At-will employment in CA, so the employee can be fired or laid off instantly in an afternoon - happens all the time. But, they're generally expected (not required) to give 2-3 weeks notice. I always found this a bit asymmetric.
The US also has the highest spending in health care per capita.

Spending does not equal outcomes.
I imagine something like this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2047642/how-a-legendary-pc-m...

Except without the glass top. Or perhaps glass with a very dark tint so that it looks black, but with sufficiently bright internal lighting you can see through it.

The easier and more likely version would be to make the computer fit in a normal desk drawer. Prefer that to a 1U on account of fan size as another commenter mentioned, but being off to one side instead of the whole desk surface has the benefit of not making the whole desk chunkier.
> The stock market and housing prices are higher than ever, so a large part of the population is doing good.

confusing the map for the terrain
The greatest concern by far is terrorism, not military action targeted towards occupation.
You don't have to be mentally ill to do that. I think most people remember something happening to them that didn't, but that they heard about happening to someone else, or saw in a movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus
> Add analysis to each benchmark.

Perhaps you'd like to take on that task?

> Require submissions to come with analysis.

Which raises the barrier for program contributors and presumably would require me to judge whether their analysis was acceptable? Me? Really? ;-)

> disclaimers on the web site more discoverable

The problem is that no one wants to "discover" disclaimers.

We want to see something that supports whatever it is we already believe — and we're very good at ignoring anything else.
Yes! Most of our radio receivers are based on Raspberry Pis. The units we build ourselves have an RPi internally with some custom add-ons, and the DIY units that anybody can put together are often simply RPis with ADS-B USB dongles.
It doesn’t seem self evident to me that we can afford the economic hit. Despite the US being “the richest country in the world” we run massive deficits and have a massive debt. I suspect Euro nations are similar. There are known and unknown economic consequences to just borrowing to pay for a lockdown on top of what we already charge on the card.
Stop posting silly articles on HN...take this down.
Because people are not rational and incineration "seems" dirty somehow, even though it is - by far - the mostly environmentally friendly way to deal with plastic. Far outclassing recycling.

It just looks bad, and recycling is about feeling good, not the environment.

Incineration not only disposes of the plastic, it also gives you back the energy embodied in the raw material used to make it. Then you can avoid burning some other oil, and use that other oil to make fresh plastic.

You can think of it as recycling with extra steps :)
This strongly depends on the company structure and the political structure. There are many managers that would rather have an employee leave than go to a rival team.
O have a favourite zen koan.

"Hakuin used to tell his pupils about an old woman who had a teashop, praising her understanding of Zen. The pupils refused to believe what he told them and would go to the teashop to find out for themselves.

Whenever the woman saw them coming she could tell at once whether they had come for tea or to look into her grasp of Zen. In the former case, she would server them graciously. In the latter, she would beckon to the pupils to come behind her screen. The instant they obeyed, she would strike them with a fire-poker.

Nine out of ten of them could not escape her beating."

If a big part of the nominations is obviously politically motivated, should the others get the tea or the poker?
capital can feel free to take a good faith first step by doing things such as sharing salaries, equity control, how much $ you would actually get were the company to be sold for $1B tomorrow, etc., or offering contractual employment (not at-will).

until then, no thank you - if you are hoping to win people over by using warm-sounding moving targets like "ethics", well, hopefully we've seen enough of that to know better by now.
Termshark v2.2.0 released now with vim support
Location: Seattle area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Python, AWS, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Airflow
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/hardisty/resume/blob/main/Frank_Hardisty_17_Dec_2020.pdf
Email: frank.hardisty@gmail.com
Everything goes down. But it looks like huge complicated distributed services shared by huge amounts of people, that are continuously updated and developed, and are constantly trying to attract more users/load, seem to go down more than a simple service on a simple server.

No hard data though. My mail server only ever went down when I upgraded the server and didn't check that everything was still working right away, or similar maintenance induced incidents. It never went down by itself.

Such systems only ever go down unpredictably on HW issues, or when overloaded/out of resources. Neither is very likely, because you're not trying to grow your service in any sense similar to VC backed enterprises. Most of the time it has constant very low load and resource use. And you can simply stop introducing changes to the system if you need more stability for some time. (stop updating, for example)
>How so?

Yeah, I am confused by that one as well. If you are delivering value in the same capacity as you did before you started the job search (aka you ain't slacking and doing the bare minimum, with the rest overflowing onto the rest of engineers on your team), then how is it harmful or even noticeable to anyone at all?
That site won't even scroll with the 19 ad trackers blocked.
> If 100,000 people are voting on a contract your 1/100,000th share of the influence functionally rounds to zero.

Assuming that you make no effort to influence any of the hypothetical 100,000 people voting on the contract in any way.

> The contract will reflect your coworkers aggregate preferences, which will in general be completely orthogonal to your own preferences.

This is a fairly surprising assertion for me - I can't recall a time I've personally found this to be the case professionally. May I ask how you encountered this in your own professional experience?
Because LC problems has no applications in day-to-day work. You're just doing it for interview practice. It only seems "useful" because it's programming problems, but it's as ridiculous as studying chemistry or calculus as interview prep.
On the point of returning to a company you previously left for good reasons... don’t. I made this mistake, and things of course boiled to a breaking point for me after another year. Chances are nothing has changed, listen to that gut feeling. This probably isn’t everyone’s experience I don’t know, but it’s my experience for what it’s worth to anyone reading this.
>Absolutely destroyed my back. I'd build pillow forts around myself to compensate for increasing weak muscles.

Yep. I had to learn muscle building exercises to get out of that situation. It's totally worth it.
Who is the "you" here? Given that this is a tech focused website, I bet a lot of people on here have done very well in recent years. Hard to consider the 20- and 30- something year olds making $500k/year at a FAANG or a few million dollars when the unicorn they work for IPOs an oppressed class.
I realized a few days into my current job that it was a bad fit for me. Unfortunately I'd have to pay back the $10k relocation package if I left, so I decided to stick it out.

Last year I interviewed with a company and was ready to take the job but I had drinks with the manager and decided it was too much of a brogrammer shop for me. Looking back, if I had taken the job, I would have worked with friends, the brogrammer aspect wasn't as bad as I thought, and I'd be planning my retirement after 3 years of work.

Sometimes you just never know. It does pay to do your due diligence though. Same thing with buying a house. Big changes, like jobs or living arrangements, demand adequate investigation.
Laws and customs of war are not about justice, presumption of innocence, due process or fair trial. I have no idea why you would compare the two, to me this speak to lack of clarity you have on this issue.

An individual can't 'make war', only countries can do that.

We are talking about an allegation (not proven!) of a crime, highly political in nature to boot, not 'retaliation'
Mozilla | Remote (US or Canada) | https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online. We're hiring for a number of operations roles right now, including

* Site Reliability Engineers

* Director of Site Reliability Engineering

* Senior Manager of Operations Security Engineering

If you have any questions about them, you can reach me at bpitts+whoshiring@mozilla.com
Nevro | Sr. Software Engineer | REMOTE US or ONSITE (Redwood City, CA)

Nevro is focused on providing innovative products that improve the quality of life of patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain.

Nevro has developed and commercialized the Senza spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic neuromodulation platform for the treatment of chronic pain. HF10 therapy has demonstrated the ability to reduce or eliminate opioids in ≥65% of patients across six peer-reviewed clinical studies. The Senza® System, Senza II™ System, and the Senza® Omnia™ System are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro's proprietary HF10® therapy.

The Web Services team is building an enterprise data platform that processes device data and presents it to internal business customers.

Tech Stack: C# (.Net Core), AWS, Terraform

Job Posting: Sr. Software Engineer (Web Services) https://careers-nevro.icims.com/jobs/2992/job
This is true when writing to a file. The goal of my PoC was to not write a file and instead to stream to the web browser.
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA

Remote: Yes, or NYC-based

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, C++ (& multithreading in C++), Swift, Node.js (Express.js, MongoDB, Jest, REST API Design), SQL, Version Control (Perforce P4V, Git)

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2LoQdor

Email: nathanch@me.com

Portfolio: https://www.nathanch.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-chmielewski/

I'm a recent postgraduate with an M.S. in Computer Science seeking full-time, internship, or co-op Backend or mobile iOS Software Developer role to make career switch. Informed by an M.A. in Public Relations & Advertising and 7+ years as a consumer and industry researcher.
> This is exactly why those dumb whiteboard problems aren’t good for interviews; you’re not measuring what makes someone successful on a day to day basis.

If that was the case, you think all of the biggest tech companies that have billions of dollars would continue using it? Did you ever consider that you might be wrong?
Birkenstocks + white socks, classic.
It's weird that you're calling it Vector when it's now called Element and it was called Riot for years before that.
I will never do anything you have recommended and I will still be as productive as you are. Thanks though!
It is harmful to the team you're with, but there's no alternative right now. It is substantially easier to find a new position when you are currently employed, even if your stint has been brief. This is common knowledge, and as such self-reinforcing: if you quit, then apply somewhere else, the new place will assume you were forced out, since nobody on their own volition leaves a job before finding another one.
So there's no way around it right now, so here's my advice: unless you are about to have a breakdown, never quit until you find something else.
> Most of the money in the markets are from the average Joe's 401k, or pension.

Can you provide a source for that? I looked for one and couldn’t find one, but if you had one I would love to read it.
Trying hard to empathise with company spending $57m on ads. Failing.
It sounds as if somebody has been reading Our Man in Havana.
Not to mention the scrapped plan to just simply mail masks to every US household:

https://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/white-house-axed-usps-p...
It’s good to see that the inhumane prison system in the US is beginning to become a problem for those who actually implemented it. Regardless how you feel about Assange, and I’m ambivalent about him, the US facing consequences for what we’ve done with our criminal justice system is something to be applauded.
But that's not at all proof of anything.

Do you realise that in two successive comments, you have literally just claimed that hospitals are not really filling up, then claimed that reports from front-line staff working in those hospitals don't prove anything?

There is a reason that wars aren't planned and architected by the foot soldier in the trench. They don't have perspective and the task at hand detracts from the bigger picture.

A curious metaphor. There is a reason for the saying that an army is run by its sergeants. All the plans made by generals aren't worth squat if you don't have boots on the ground who know what they're doing to implement those plans.
Wikipedia: Chinese Social Credit System
Yep, I've stopped recommending Matrix because

1. There is virtually zero user-facing documentation. Need to know how to backup keys, verify another user, or what E2EE means? Ask your server operator. Basically the onus is on operators to document this stuff for their users. Except the stuff we're documenting is hard even for server operators, and especially challenging to document in a way that both nontechnical and technical users can understand.

2. Because this stuff is challenging even for more technically minded users to understand, it leads to a kind of burnout for interested non-technical users where they learn all they can about some feature and how it works at a high level from out of date random blogs, try to use the (complex, multi-step) feature, but then something won't work, and it isn't be clear whether it was because the user did something wrong or because the clients or server implementations are broken

3. Issues where core functionality is broken (e.g. two mutually verified users on my homeserver haven't been able to talk to each other in months -- see [1], [2], [3]) languish for months with zero response from maintainers.

4. While core functionality is both broken and undocumented, the maintainers announce rabbit hole features that no one asked for and seem very much like distractions, like their recently-announced microblogging view/client[4]

In short the Element maintainers have shown little interest in making the platform accessible to the people who need its differentiating features the most, and have prioritized the "mad science"/technical aspect of their platform at the expense of the human element (end-users and operators).

It'd be cool if Element used their resources to hire some UX folks and community advocates whose sole focus is addressing the horrid accessibility of their platform. I think most users would rather see that than further "mad science".

[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3762

[2] https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3572

[3] https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3393

[4] https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean
Yea, it IS true. Do you have a source? The comment above you has a source that includes

> the wealthiest 10% own 84% of all publicly traded stocks, mutual funds, trusts, or various pension account assets

Looks like pensions are included and mutual funds which are likely a majority of 401Ks.
Laravel Nova Resource Stubs for Spark Teams
The problem is that the VAST majority of layman "theories" especially in Theoretical Physics fall into the Not Even Wrong category and are totally without merit or worth discussing.
Leetcode, Project Euler, etc. may not feel like a programmer's daily tasks, but they may yet be a good proxy for many behaviors that large employers desire.

For example, a large employer may want a willingness to do arbitrary, difficult tasks that appear meaningless. These same employers may have a variety of software maintenance tasks that require recognizing a pattern of problem, knowing the appropriate algorithm from Ye Olde Textbook, and quickly applying it.
It means I have to go sign into my email account just to retrieve the OTP to sign into this other account.