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Location: Mpls, mostly (occasionally Greece)

Remote: Preferred/Local companies welcome though

Relocate: No

FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, always open to contracts.

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, ops (heroku/aws/ansible/docker), CI/CD, testing, API design, integrations/plumbing. Some: Python, Elm, IoT/microprocessor stuff, machine learning

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Senior full-stack dev (lean more towards devops->backend than backend->frontend, but I can still sling some React components together and reduce your JS payload size). Lately I've been loving Stimulus Reflex, but now we have Hotwire too?!?!)

I excel at figuring out how to solve problems at all levels of abstraction (including what level of abstraction you should use), getting a solution in place, and then figuring out the feedback loops to iterate on that solution. I'm the senior engineer that knows that most coding is coming to an understanding of what problem you are trying to solve. Sometimes the most impactful code is the code you don't write.

Trying to change the world, still parsing the source code. I've been programming on the web since 1995, had a first career as a social worker and policy statistician, and have worked full-time as a programmer for almost a decade now.

Especially enjoy API/architechture design, integrating with crappy systems, user research, and really weird bugs. Make a decent PM in a pinch, but would prefer you have great PMs.

Will give you more looks if you can tell me why what you are doing makes the world better, but you've got to really believe it in your heart.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/estiens/

Email: hello@ericstiens.dev
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I'm still not sold on the medication and prefer to follow strict routines + good diet + exercise. To me, it's obvious who is taking ADHD pills. People are almost zombie like or they space out, or even on low-doses they almost can't "keep up" in conversation or meetings. Not being drugged and finding coping mechanisms has allowed me to plow through multiple degrees and find career success, albeit at the cost of "other things", relationships, social skills, health, etc. I'm not going to risk my livelihood when life is good-enough atm.
Such a terrible moniker for this swath of land where assembling a jury for a criminal trial would be difficult if not impossible.

"Death" is just related to one of the possible crimes that would be problematic to prosecute.

But even so, the way plea deals work a defendant would have to be quite idealistic or dumb to go to trial with that as a sole defense.

This is the only time in history when a headline like "Yellowstone's one weird trick they don't want you to know" would actually be kind of true.
It's probably more that PC gaming is just saturated anyways, and even throwing money at it won't work unless there is a clear and compelling advantage or hook. There are way too many market killers that just suck up time and attention now, with the rise of games as service.
S3 Director of Predictive Analytics: 113% float GameStop shares shorted (Jan 31)
Check out sharetheboard.com - it solves the same problem in a different way (digitizes handwritten content in real time, using just a laptop cam). This allows you to write on a whiteboard or piece of paper which, in my opinion, provides much better/more natural feedback than any touchscreen or stylus.
ADHD and Software, a Year In
> I don't feel strung out nor is it some addiction. Ignore the people screaming about Adderall being "literal meth" and how it will certainly kill you. Even with an addictive personality, it's very easy to avoid over-doing it (hint: only take it as prescribed).

Low dose meth does work pretty similar to Adderall. Everyone who does meth does not become a meth addict. Most don't. But the people who become meth addicts are the same people who end up using adderall like methheads.

Which is why I personally don't have an Adderall prescription. Because if I have a bottle of Adderall I'm going to attempt a prescribed dose on day one and start snorting it by day three.
Some, not all. You can see escapist users with nearly all drugs that provide it. I have encountered users that are consuming because they dont want to feel anything at least for a little while, to "check out". But most users of a variety of drugs are doing it for entertainment or experience, to enjoy living.
I do agree that it can cause harm long term. It's the same with all medications, that's why I pay doctors to prescribe medication and monitor my health while taking it. I already have physicals every six months because of another condition. With the Adderall, I get blood pressure taken monthly and an EKG every three months.

The goal of almost any medication is to create a stop gap to create or find non-medication solutions. Without Adderall, I can't focus on creating systems and tools to help me stay on track.

Demonizing Adderall isn't helping anyone. No one should be afraid of taking a medication that will change their life for the better. If someone goes through normal channels and gets properly prescribed it, they should be treated no different than any other ailment.
I've been using FastAPI for some time, and now I'm using it as a full web framework (not just for REST APIs). I like writing SQL without ORMs, so the combination of aiosql[0] + FastAPI + Jinja2 works great. Add HTMX[1] and even interactive websites become easy.

That's in fact the stack I am using to build https://drwn.io/ and I couldn't enjoy it more.

Thanks Sebastián for creating it!

[0] https://github.com/nackjicholson/aiosql
[1] https://htmx.org/
Yeah, I think it is a bit tricky to draw the line. Consider brick and motor pharmacy stores putting generic brand white-labeled items next to name brand items. This has helped the consumer (IMO). But, at the same time I can see how it can be abused. The tricky part is coming up with a way to get best of both worlds. Unfortunately, I have personally seen the pendulum swing from one extreme to the other (based on rushed outrage driven legislation) too many times.
Stratasys | Full-Stack Engineer, Embedded Systems Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area | Full-Time | ONSITE

Origin, a 3D printer startup, was acquired by Stratasys. We're building the next version of our printer and scaling up production. Our 3D printer is designed for mass manufacturing, with high accuracy and reliability.

Tech stack includes:
- Node.js
- Typescript
- Kubernetes
- C++
- React

Full-Stack: https://careers.stratasys.com/job/San-Francisco-Software-Eng...

Embedded/Firmware: https://jobs.lever.co/originio/9acd3e5e-2e21-4aab-8345-1a7e2...
Portable detector of the virus SARS-CoV-2
I think there is a solution and Apple should implement it. But even code we know how to write doesn’t appear overnight, doesn’t work perfectly, and doesn’t suffer from high levels of false positives.
> Don't bias toward taking amphetamines as the parent comment instructs you to do.

What's the alternative? CBT is not sufficient when your brain doesn't want to work. Executive function disorder is a huge part of being ADHD.

> There are serious negative long-term effects from taking amphetamines regularly

Citation needed for therapeutic dosages.

> They cause harm, even at low doses.

Citation definitely needed for therapeutic dosages.

> Ceasing regular [...] subsequent YEARS of oversleeping, lethargy, and depression

Citation really really needed here for therapeutic dosages.

Anecdotal advice like this is exceptionally harmful to those who need these meds to just reach "functional adult" levels of normal.
Could this really even work?
Some of the industry's largest players have been in the game development space for 30+ years and even then are only marginally successful. Xbox itself was on the brink of being shut down/sold off a few years ago. What exactly did Google (and Amazon/Apple/Facebook) expect would happen?

Focusing on Stadia's strength as a platform seems to be a good move forward. It is a technically sound service. I'm sure the massive bump it got from Cyberpunk showed execs that a partnership-only gaming model could be successful. They do need to expand licensing, improve their subscription catalog and get more indie studios involved. Relying on users to consistently pay $60+ for games on top of the monthly fees is a losing business model.
> especially for women, who are severely under-represented in construction and heavy industry

Seems an odd thing to mention/focus on. Any specific reason for including this?
Stimulant addictions are one of the most common functional addictions.

I don't think most people would consider someone servicing an active physical dependency to have a "perfect bill of health", even if you are totally free from disease.
Hi Dan,

For a suitable candidate, what would Rokt's position be on 'visa sponsorship' for the New York office? I know the situation is quite complicated in the US right now but any insights would be great.

Thanks,
David
I mainly became familiar with Argo Workflows when looking at/lightly evaluating Argo Events to run my home-(k8s)-cluster's Event Driven Architecture (as an esb/lambda-architecture/event-fabric/&c system). Also poked at Brigade and Tekton (who sadly are now CI/CD focused, not general EDA) and local Github Actions runners.

Workflow was mentioned in the Argo Events docs a couple times. Events is a pretty general system, but if you need to assemble more complex inter-dependent tasks, they had Workflow integration. I didn't get super far in, look very deep at how the integration worked, or how pleased I was going to be using Workflows, as I was mainly interested in the EDA end to start.

Anyhow, picking through Workflow 3.0, my main interest is:

> Argo Workflows v3.0 comes with a new UI that now also supports Argo Events! The UI is also more robust and reliable.

Really seems like Argo Workflow has been made the over-arching UI for both of these systems in this 3.0 release. There's now some event-flow pages in Workflow 3.0, that will be interesting to check out. I'm very interested in how the APIs have all been updated, how the systems work together. Especially given Argo Event's fall 1.0 release & the new architecture[1].

One other cool feature from the Workflow 3.0 is Widgets. Embed some code in other pages so you can see build status, job status, &c.

[1] https://blog.argoproj.io/argo-events-v1-0-released-b69668de0...
VLC is great. I've been using it since at least 2002 and it works where other players do not, or where other players are missing codecs. I am looking forward to the next 20 years of VLC!
Airtable | San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA | Onsite | Software Engineer, Product Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, SRE, Engineering Manager

[COVID-19: The whole company is currently working remotely. Employees can be fully remote until at least summer 2021.]

Airtable's mission is to expand human productivity by letting everyone create tools to organize their world. Our current product includes a real-time collaborative database and a rich set of components for building tools using this database. Unlike single-purpose apps, we think of Airtable as a toolkit of building blocks that people can repurpose to create their own applications. Our roadmap is filled with enhancements and additions to this toolkit that will push the boundaries of Airtable's capabilities.

I work at Airtable on the platform team where we're allowing others to develop new capabilities for our users/customers. I chose to join after meeting some incredible people and learning about the culture.

Here are recent blog posts about our integrations capability https://blog.airtable.com/how-to-use-airtable-integrations/ and scripting marketplace https://blog.airtable.com/script-templates/

We're hiring software engineers for web (JavaScript + TypeScript, Node, React), iOS (Objective-C, Swift), and Android, as well as data engineering, data science, SRE, and many other roles.

We're a team with diverse backgrounds. We believe in the power of highly motivated and capable individuals to accomplish great things in small teams, with end-to-end ownership of projects and rapid iteration.

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Weights and Biases raises $45m to build better tools for ML practitioners
Segmed | Software engineering / Product | Menlo Park, CA | REMOTE | Internships / Full-time employment / Contracts | Unlimited vacation | https://www.Segmed.ai

We provide high quality data for medical research. Think of us as Bloomberg for Medicine (or Quandl/Quantconnect for medicine). We ingest and analyze huge amounts of medical data (right now: focusing on radiology), structure it in a database and allow researchers from around the world to safely access it.

We are a startup of 4 cofounders, including ex-Apple/Google/Ericsson/Xilinx/Facebook/Salesforce people with a Stanford radiology expert in the cofounding team. We came out of the Stanford Ignite program, and were in the YC Winter 2020 batch. We're backed by Blumberg Capital, Y Combinator, nina.capital, Alchemist Accelerator, and several prominent angels from the medical industry.

Our core product is a Segmed Insight web platform for dataset building, along with our CLI product for data ingesting.

The current team size: 12

*Open roles*:

- Full-stack engineer, data pipeline (Golang/Postgres/AWS) -- You will join our team and get an opportunity to work on refactoring / improving / scaling our ETL pipeline, where millions of DICOM files need to be unified, organized in the cloud, and exposed in a safe way to the research community. We have a prototype of a search engine running on top of it, and there's a huge opportunity to learn more about scalability here.

- Full-stack engineer, web platform (Golang/PostgreSQL/Javascript) -- You will be taking a feature request from our users/customers and developing it from A to Z, and shipping it to our backend/web platform. We have an early version of our webapp up and running, and you'll be responsible for making it fast and usable. The team has a pretty good usability sense and we're working with a great UX/UI expert. We use React.JS for the exiting frontend.

- Sales person: you will spend time lining up more data partners (hospitals/medical imaging clinics) and customers (AI companies). You will help with outreach, taking introductory calls, pitching our products and interacting with customers on a daily basis.

Send resumes to me: wkoszek@segmed.ai
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Relativity Space | Long Beach, CA | Full Time | Onsite, remote during COVID | Pre IPO Equity Relativity Space is building humanity’s multiplanetary future. We invented a new approach to design, build, and fly our own rockets, starting with Terran 1 – the world’s first entirely 3D printed rocket.

Total funding: $685 million
Tech stack: C++, Python, C#, SQL
No aerospace experience required. Looking for full stack, embedded, test and C++ software engineers excited to dive into problems in controls, computer vision, and robust scalable solutions.
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People medicated for ADHD with stimulants tend to live 7-9 years longer on average.
As far as I can tell they never released a game.
> Clearly I'm missing something in my logic

Your logic may be solid but you probably lack sufficient data. Plato was a pretty smart guy but he thought the four elements were Water, Fire, Air and Earth. His mistake wasn't intelligence or even flaws in his logic - it was missing data. If you begin your logic from one or more faulty assumptions then you will arrive at wrong conclusions regardless of how intelligent you are or how flawless your application of logic is.

I don't have the data either - but you should at least use logic to consider possible reasons why you are seeing the same products you have purchased previously. Perhaps this is a strategy that wins significantly more often than you assume and you just lack the data to illuminate why.

As the other commenter noted, you are but one data point in the literal hundreds of millions of data points available to Amazon. It would be humble to consider that they've tried your best first guess approach and it was suboptimal compared to the alternatives running now. Or maybe you choose to believe you are smarter than every single engineer that has worked on the problem there? And you believe this while lacking any data, having performed no experiments, etc.
That stuck out to me too: they imply obesity and diabetes are some sort of symptom of a diminished immune system, when it can simply be explained by portion size inflation. To add insult to injury, obesity will cause an inflammation response, hampering immune systems. It's also possible obesity could be linked to overall weakened immune systems.
I maintain https://www.kubestack.com, a Terraform GitOps framework to provision managed K8s like EKS, AKS and GKE.

If you're interested to chat, email me. My HN name at the project's .com.
"Great, Old Concerts" - gee, I was imagining Rachmaninov or something hehe, not rock from the 90s. Also I recognize almost nothing in their list of All Artists on the IA.[2]

SugarMegs[0] has an amazing collection of bootlegs. Be prepared to spend days there! It seems to be mostly rock, but also there's a lot of funk, jazz and who knows what else there, from 1930s to present day. e.g. Hundreds of Hendrix gigs. Hundreds of Miles, Coltrane, Keith Jarrett gigs.

Also, everything has a setlist page with tunes, musicians, sometimes the story of the gig etc, which is nice. They appreciate it if you can fill in unknown tunes, fix incorrect details etc. Send them the corrected HTML setlist pages. I started doing that because I felt I owed them so much.

Sound quality varies.. it's lossy too, but the music comes from DIME[1], a private torrent site you can join free and download highest possible quality audio and video. (SugarMegs is audio only). It seems they remove anything that's commercially available from their site, and respect some musicians' wishes to not have their bootlegs distributed anywhere.

[0] search page: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/

[1] http://www.dimeadozen.org/

[2] https://archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=creato...
I remember my time at the OSDL when we got our first itanium servers in. I recall that even though we were "partnered" with Intel, it already felt like an orphaned architecture. once the mainstream press started calling it "itanic", it seemed even more doomed.

I'm mostly sad to remember that the itanium was supposed to be a "replacement" for the DEC alpha, and Compaq selling the IP to Intel. very sad day for computing.
The main issue is that larger capacity drives (> 2TB) seem to be SMR in the 2.5" range. I've looked and haven't found a PMR one (except maybe for "enterprise" drives which cost more than an SSD). Depending on how you want to use those drives, you may be having a bad time. For example when rebuilding a ZFS pool. [0]

If your use case / setup allow you to deal with the complete loss of your array (which, granted, is not 100% likely) or don't use ZFS, then I suppose you could look at Seagate's 2.5 Barracuda line. They're relatively cheap given their capacity and I don't think they're particularly unreliable in and of themselves.

[0] There are many people talking on the internet about ZFS performance with SMR disks. Here's a quick find:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr...
Full agreement that it's a net positive. Nobody should ever get a criminal record for using. I just hope that the messaging is clear that because its legal/decriminalized doesn't mean its good for you.
That is just a sign that we are trying to run before we can walk. They key is in your own comment:

> At least with our current tools

We should be aiming more towards making projects with a scope that we can actually manage, instead of trying to build huge castles of sand and failing spectacularly. And of course continue to improve our tools to properly manage more complexity.
As a gamer, I'll buy a console for the exclusives that I can't experience elsewhere. Having solid AAA content that's exclusive seems to come from having solid first party development studios.
This is a fantastic move by Google. The war for gaming as a service will be on the platform level and something that Google is well positioned to win in. Not saying that Steam, Nintendo, Nvidia won't be some serious contenders as well but the outlook for gamers is quite positive.

I expect to see what the web went through in the early 90s as far as turmoil goes. Lots of platforms with all their quirks and developers getting behind various ones. Eventually (hopefully?) some standards enabling cross platform development of stream gaming. Bandwidth/latency still needs to play catch up but 5G is getting there. Cellular connections are getting more and more stable while landline methods are lagging.

I expect to see each platform playing to their strengths with Google pushing their expertise in infrastructure and Nvidia with their hardware. Also expect to see the space get even more crowded as traditional players join the market.
> The basis for assuming there's reinfection happening seems to be a seroprevalence survey done over the summer which estimated 76% of the population had antibodies to the virus. The accuracy of that survey has been called into question for a variety of reasons.

This is exactly correct. Extrapolating from the Manaus seroprevalence paper is scientifically tenuous, at best. They say so in the Lancet commentary cited in the CIDRAP piece cited by OP:

"In the Lancet report, experts said four factors may be at play, some possibly related. First, scientists might have overestimated the attack rate for the first surge, and infections might have been below the herd immunity threshold"

> The survey was done through blood donors and apparently they incentivized blood donation by offering people the results of their antibodies test as part of donation. Since testing capacity during peak infection was limited, this would give people who thought they might have had the virus (and likely did) incentive to donate blood and made the sample not nearly as random as it was presented to be.

Not just that, but if you read the paper carefully, you'll see that they've applied a number of fairly arbitrary "corrections" to the data, which pull the seroprevalence from an observed 20% range up to the cited "76%" number (Figure 2A in this link):

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/288

While any of these adjustments might be individually merited, when you see a >300% aggregate "adjustment" to the raw data, it should make you very skeptical about any claims made with that data. Particularly when the raw data is below the likely herd-immunity threshold, and has been "corrected" to be above it.

More simply: the most likely conclusion is that the original paper was wrong.

This is perfect example of bad science being propagated by journal title and headline. Whomever wrote that (IMHO, terrible, editorialized) CIDRAP piece didn't bother to read the original data, and just took the first paper's claim at face value. Journalists have been (and continue to be) insufficiently skeptical when it comes to Covid science -- except when it suits the narrative they're trying to create. If a paper supports their desired narrative, any half-baked, highly implausible claim is treated as worth serious consideration. If a paper conflicts with their claim, no counterargument is too implausible to be considered.