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Ceres Imaging | Lead Software Engineer | Full Time | Remote (onsite ok too, we're in oakland) | GMT-4 to GMT-8 ok, EST / GMT-5 ideal

VueJS and other hackers, we’re looking for a UX-savvy software engineer to lead dev for our primary customer facing webapp. We’re looking for the type of engineer who is good at saying: “if we did this instead, it would solve the same customer problem, but this way, the code is way simpler and cleaner”.

Us: Ceres builds multispectral imaging hardware, straps it to planes, and flies it over major agricultural regions like the Central Valley. Our science and eng lets us give farmers important information about their fields, rows, and even individual plants: e.g. are they stressed out? Are they being watered evenly? Were they overwatered?

The App: customers use the app to access maps, imagery, visualizations, and other information about their field and plant’s health, and order flights.
Mobile-first, and geospatial data heavy.
Codebase is clean, terse, DRY & tested.
VueJS + MapboxGL JS frontend, Django Rest Framework + PostGIS backend.

You: skilled hacker, strong UX, kind, good at getting 80/20 type wins, interested in improving the resource efficiency of agriculture, interested in maps OSGeo and data visualization, ready for a technical leadership position and most of all, motivated to make the app better for customers on things both big and small…. i.e. we’re looking for somebody who wants to take serious ownership of the app and do even more cool things with it!

Team Structure and Teammates: The customer facing app team is currently ~4 eng, but we’re not keeping hard team boundaries, and total technical staff is ~~20. Other teams work on physical & ag science, data science, hardware eng, our CV image processing pipeline, and internal flight planning and GIS tools. You’ll also be working with talented designers, product managers, and help iterate prototype and ideas in conjunction with agronomists and farmers (both internal and with external customers).

More About Ceres

Ceres Imaging is a venture-backed agriculture technology company with a mission to drastically reduce farming’s environmental footprint while increasing farmer profitability. Founded out of Stanford in 2013, Ceres Imaging has grown into the market leader in aerial imagery and analytics for agriculture, and was recently cited by Fast Company as one of the 7 leading technologies making global farming smarter and more productive. The 90-person Ceres Imaging team is defined by a passion for science and agriculture, the belief that diverse companies are better companies, and a shared desire to help solve major environmental issues at a global scale.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2380173940/

I'm the principal engineer @ Ceres, if you're a great catch with questions I'm more than happy to answer them, maybe just include a resume for context: seth@ceresimaging.net

-Seth
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HDRP is still new, give it a few years.
Depends a lot on the fuel used. Solid boosters are terrible. Kerosene, like on the Falcon not too bad, but not great. Methane is better, it can in theory be made carbon neutral. Hydrogen is the best because it only produces water, but it’s not great as a first stage.
Nvidia and Luna both took the shortcut of just running a windows VM and running the game as is. Stadia is the only one that actually requires games to integrate with its API, similar to Steam with Steamworks, and this allows them to provide a far more integrated experience, with friend lists, friend invites, voice chat, achievements, and so on. None of the other services can provide that. Well GFN does but that's just running Steam. In the short term it will slow down adoption, but in the long term the experience is night and day, imo. Being thrown into a VM instance where you have to login to Steam is nothing like pressing one button and being thrown right into a game.

Also, yes if you already have a huge Steam collection, the thought of buying games on a different store is not great, but I don't think Stadia is aimed at people with a PC gaming rig and 1000 steam games, it's aimed at people who don't have a gaming PC or console, and want to play the latest EA Sports or AAA game. Having to just pay 60$ is far better than paying 60$ + 500$ fo a console + waiting for shipping and installation.
Honestly,
As someone who lives 3000+ km from the closest cloud
data centre (cable length is closer to 4000 km) I hope that this technology fails. It would really suck if a significant amount of games ended up being exclusively available through streaming.
Woman Records Aerobics in Open in Myanmar Without Realizing Coup Taking Place
The author’s bio.

> Brian DeChesare is the Founder of Mergers & Inquisitions and Breaking Into Wall Street. In his spare time, he enjoys memorizing obscure Excel functions, editing resumes, obsessing over TV shows, traveling like a drug dealer, and defeating Sauron.
Do you know roughly how many "car-hours" this flight would be in terms of green house emissions?
> They couldn't develop a _port_ though, that would violate the GPL.

The person you're replying to already gave you an example of someone who does exactly what you're saying is impossible!

> There are many commercial JDK/JVM offerings that are closed source and survive very well with their "secret sauce" (usually GC related), such as Azul's Zing JVM.

How does that work? Even if code is GPL if you own it you can do what you want with it. That includes licensing it to someone under a _different_ licence. Being available under the GPL does not mean it can't also be available under another licence, such as a proprietary one. Which is what is done in this situation.

> but it does redefine the choices to "clone software entirely" or "fork existing software and share changes" .. it removes the option of "fork existing software and DON'T share changes"

None of this is true.
Not a Microsofter, but note that Bing has like "most non-Google search traffic". It's the default on Windows computers, and a lot of other search engines like Yahoo and DuckDuckGo use their data as well. It runs ads, so it's probably profitable.

And it's probably really good, this story as an example, to be in second place, when the first place runner is doing illegal things, under investigation in a dozen countries or more, and likely to face major repercussions going forwards. Being number two means you're number one when the leader gets knocked out of the race.
> Yikes. If you ever find yourself feeling the "need to abuse" a medication, I strongly recommend you keep an eye on those tendencies.

I don't abuse them though. Its just a thought in my head that pops up that I quickly dismiss.

> The real problem is the people who associate taking the pill with getting work done, to the point that they forget how to accomplish anything without first reaching for the medication.

Well, I couldn't accomplish anything before taking the pill. I didn't forget, I just couldn't get anything done ever. I learn stuff ridiculously fast though so I had no problems passing exams, but anything which required effort and focus like doing homework was never possible. Basically I was the best in class at exams and the worst in class at homework, to the point it prevented me from graduating. And as we know a job is more like doing homework than exam, so I never could do the things needed at a job.
Do they limit memory and processor?
Yes, I have a good friend who stopped taking prescription medicine for his severe ADHD long ago. In school he self-medicated with lots of drugs, and the drugs never affected him the same way as others.

Now he just smokes a ton of weed everyday, but you would never know it, he's very normal, stable. Off weed? He's a mess, bouncing off the walls.
I find it funny this spun out of a contrast from Google vs. Microsoft and what you are describing is literally how Microsoft Stores died. It got dragged past the point of anyone caring. Covid happened (big event) and then it got killed fairly quietly. This is how all things get killed. Not unique to Google here. My point with Google is they are learning faster what works and what doesn't. In the limit, maybe they will stop starting things that get killed to begin with.
Uhh, Valve definitely IS in the hardware business. They make streaming boxes, controllers, VR headsets/base stations and BCI tech.
Thanks for getting in touch, happy to share.

1. We ended up using GCP's hosted Composer to get started more quickly, which doesn't seem to have been updated to Airflow 2.0 yet. I'll put that on the list for evaluation.

2. A few usecases that I immediately hit complexity walls on:

A) Having a "staging" version of our pipelines so that we don't break the prod ETL; it was really difficult to find a canonical method for having common DAG code that's parameterizable per env. The fact that all of the DAGs live side-by-side in the same directory means I have to run the same job for a "prod push" as a "staging push" (i.e. if I get the staging deploy wrong I could break prod). Given that we deploy version vN+1 to staging, check it's working, and only then deploy vN+1 to prod, we ended up with some weird config injection code to let us have two folders containing copies of the same DAG scripts with different config. This just felt janky.

B) Managing Python dependencies between different apps was also painful; for example we wanted to add Meltano, and so that app brings in a bunch of deps, which broke our main dags when I naively updated the main python pip env to install the new meltano requirement. Using the K8s operator lets us effectively have a venv per dag but the pattern of using one python env across the whole Airflow install bit me very early on and seemed pretty unscalable.

3. I haven't looked at KEDA, I'll take a look.

4. We're using GCP Composer for now, though I looked at the Helm chart too.
Heart really goes out to the staff at these studios, that really sucks.
GRAIL | Senior and Staff Software Engineers, DevOps, Bioinformatics Scientist, Project Management | Menlo Park, CA and London, UK | Onsite

Grail's blood test, Galleri, can detect 50 cancer types. Software is a key part of our product, from powering our clinical study program, processing samples to managing a large scale compute infrastructure. Our tech stack includes React, Go, AWS and open source programs such as Reflow and Bigslice.

Engineering Blog: https://medium.com/grail-eng

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Location: Philadelphia, PA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript (Angular, Nodejs), Python, PyTorch, Java (Spring), SQL, Linux, AWS

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13aNGaz_v_n9Xh0fI-YN9l00z7ft...

Email: ctombrady@gmail.com

I'm a self-motivated full-stack software engineer with 3 years of professional experience, and I will be completing a master’s degree in computer science focused on machine learning in May 2021. I'm passionate about building impactful technology, solving challenging problems, and learning new things. I am seeking a full-time backend or full-stack software engineering position at a company on the smaller side ideally.
I was able to get latency down to 10-20ms using steam link over ethernet, it works great for pretty much everything. It might give you problems if you're playing at a very high level in csgo/fighting games, but for most people it's pretty solid.
You're not making any sense to me. Steam is just an app store. A "gaming PC" is just a regular PC with more powerful hardware in it, using software on it does not take any special skills specific to gaming PCs.

And as the other commenter points out, playing steam games via geforce now doesn't even require installing the steam app anyway, it's just an account link.
Outschool (YC W16) | Remote | Full-time | Senior software and data engineers https://jobs.lever.co/outschool/
Since 2015, we’ve been growing a community marketplace for live classes that inspire kids to love learning. Now we’re scaling it quickly to support distance learning for kids affected by school closures. Our business is growing explosively and as of December, 600,000 learners have taken more than 4M class hours. We just announced our $45M Series B funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Our sales have grown 2000% in the past year to reach a run-rate of more than $100M. We're also making $1M of live online classes available for free to families in need and adding thousands of new teachers in weeks.

We need senior software engineers to build up a complex product for a highly engaged audience. We have a pragmatic culture that promotes focused collaboration and iterative development.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Node/Express, Apollo GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, AWS Batch, AWS Fargate, SQS.
Not car-hours, but a Falcon 9 launch apparently has similar impact to a 777 crossing the Atlantic. Not nothing, but surprisingly little all things considered.

https://www.treehugger.com/spacex-launch-puts-out-much-co-fl...
Poor interest rates compared to other more established competitors like https://celsius.network/
Multiple mentions of passive investment income taking care of his "basic needs".
You wouldn't say this if you got into Harvard. You've admitted as much in your other comments.
C-f Merkle

It took quite a bit of time to get there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
I'm personally fond of mpv, mostly because it's "light" - it starts faster than VLC, and it (by default) pops up a single window per file (so I can easily have multiple things open, rather than VLC's default of opening everything in one instance), and I personally favor the minimal UI (okay, complete lack of UI).

However.

VLC always works. Sometimes mpv randomly stops working on a machine, or gets undermined by codec support (OpenSUSE, I'm looking at you). So when that happens... I just open my media in VLC. Because VLC works everywhere, on every system (oh, that reminds me that it's the best Android media player), on every format.
wow that is impressive graphics for ps3.

smooth, photorealistic.
For anyone using similar programs for years, they are the exact same

Nexo

Blockfi

Crypto.com

And Celsius

All have the same inherent limitations for insurance coverage and clauses

At least the autonomous onchain services let you purchase smart contract insurance to reimburse community accepted unexpected behaviors like overflows.
Really? What format were they in?
Awesome to see how a tiny convenience fix can turn into something much more substantive. Thanks for sharing.
The comparison shot was taken with a drone at an altitude that corresponds to our 10cm resolution. The 30cm version was obtained through downsampling the 10cm image accordingly. I wish we had a real 10cm satellite image to use, but our satellites won't be on orbit until 2024, so we are using a drone to show examples in the meantime.
Thanks David! It was fun to make something with it :)
More than an internal API, unless the app is compiled in debug mode, don't you get compiled/name-mangled/tree-shaken code and symbols?

I would assume this might change on recompiles or at least library updates, never mind internal code changes. Do you find that it works in practice?
If it helps, apparently the exec in charge of Stadia has left. Whether this is a "you're fired, but you can resign if you want" or a "ship's going down, why would I ride it to the bottom" situation, I don't know.
I don't disagree with anything you've written, but none of it matches my experience, which is interesting.
Nobody said it was new. Gemini is announcing they are offering it.
Nvidia literally throws you in a VM, where you have to log into Steam and use it as a computer. You & I may be gamers or computer users, but normal people don't want to deal with that shit. It also again assumed you have a Steam/Epic account to begin, or else that's another layer you have to deal with.

With Stadia, you press one button and you're in the game 5s later. It also has deep integration, allowing friends list, voice chat, game invites, achievements, etc. Nvidia relies on Steam for those (Epic doesn't have most of it). That's just the surface level integration too. By having games integrate with Stadia's API, they can do other kinds of optimizations, like having simple optimized options, compares to Nvidia where you have to mess around with the settings like on PC.

If you've used both, it's night and day experience. Again obviously for you and me, we're used to PC gaming, but for average people wanting to play some AAA game, GFN is a complete no-go.
Last year Google axed the Chromecast Ultra specifically so they could re-introduce it but with Stadia support. Given that context, this move is shocking.
You literally ignored my last sentence.

> Even if it's optional
This is pretty exciting! I've been wanting to mess around with Darwin without having to own a Mac; FreeBSD features on a microkernel sounds potentially really nice. Trying to bootstrap up from the last available ISOs is terrible though; they're from over a decade ago, for i686...
Wouldn't someone else simply buy the drugs for the suspended person?
> I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn.

I don't know about this, I would be a bit hesitant if the carpenter to build my kitchen cabinets only knows how to use hammer and a chisel.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes (or SF)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Rust, PHP (+ React, Vue, Django, Rails, Actix, Laravel, Symfony)
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/desmondw/resume
Email: resume@desmondw.com

Have full-stack experience working at several SF-based startups. Interested in working at a 20+ person company with a startup culture.
That's such a silly way of measuring the answer. Books existed in the Middle Ages (e.g. Dark Ages, yes people will say we don't call it that anymore but still). Tech could have regressed our society in manifold ways and destroyed and rotted away many many institutions and there would still be books.

They should have a measure by which to mark this bet's conclusion. Arguments can be made for both sides.
That's the plan! The incumbent SaaS providers are effectively charging a premium over the underlying storage. Their business is really reselling storage. Removing that premium via a self-hosted system then greatly reduces the need to structure your applications to fit the cost of monitoring it. This also means that any negotiated discounts and features they may use (e.g., S3 Standard-IA) are also applicable to data in Opstrace.

We will also have a blog post about bad UX in a couple weeks… stay tuned. What are some of your biggest gripes about UX?
>the last two are net deficits for Stadia if you have an ISP or router that's not up to the job.

If we're speaking in net good/bad, I'd wager the last two end up being net positives when you consider how many people think their ISP/router isn't up to the job (and therefore don't try Stadia at all) compared to how many actually aren't up to the job.

The minimum speed Stadia requires is 10 Mbps, or 35 Mbps for 4K streaming; I'd personally recommend at least 20 Mbps without 4K though, since it's "playable" below that at the cost of graphics artifacting. To put these numbers into context though, Speedtest/Ookla reported an average USA broadband speed of 135 Mbps and an average worldwide broadband speed of 64 Mbps for 2019 [1], rising every year.

It's a lot harder to measure latency, though, which is the biggest variable IMO for whether Stadia works for you. It doesn't work well on my parents' HughesNet satellite internet, but I regularly got <4ms ping when I lived in Kansas City and rarely go above 10ms round trip here in Oregon (on Comcast, even!). They seem to have done really well with their edge node placements, because even in small cities like Joplin/Bentonville (both around 50k pop.) and in Netarts (800 pop.!) the latency feels on par with native games. Luna latency here in Portland spikes to multiples seconds at a time on occasion, and GeForce Now was pretty much unplayable in many cities/towns outside of Kansas City back in the Midwest (but seems to work fine most of the time here). In my experience, Stadia's been by far the most consistent experience wherever I went.

I'd wager that the the subset of [people Stadia would work well for but they think their connection isn't good enough so they don't try it] is larger than the subset of [people that would try Stadia but don't have a good enough connection for it].

[1] https://www.speedtest.net/insights/blog/global-index-2019-in...
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Apparently there a decent chunk of the Apple Silicon files come in the form of binary files which seem to fall under the APSL. From the sounds of it, the binaries may be quite useful for reverse engineering and putting to use in the Linux port.

From Marcan (who is porting Linux to the M1)

> Wait no, hold on, WTF. They do supoprt M1. Just not in source code. They freaking bundled some .a files with uncensored binaries of the parts of xnu that need to support M1.

More details here:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1355907973776723971

While the binaries aren't quite as nice as source, its a good basis for reverse engineering some of the M1 specific code needed.
About 8.4 car seconds of fuel.

Data: Us burns about 390,000,000 gallons of gas per day.

SpaceX Falcon9 uses about 38,000 gallons of RP-1.

390000000/86400 = 4513 (gallons per second of fuel in the US).

38,000/4500 = 8.4 seconds.

On the day this launches, it will represent about 0.0097% of the fuel used for that day in the US.

There are about 280 cars in this photo: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/ibimg/hgm/450x253-1/100/226/parking-...

If you printed out this image 40 times, you could delete ONE car from this image for one day. That's the difference that this launch will make.
You're a tiny minority among the people who spend money on games. Every single gamer I have ever known has at least a few high replay value games that they come back to every few years or games that they don't finish and revisit later. Beyond that, it's not about "owning games forever" it's about owning what you purchase on your own terms not on the basis of a capricious corporation's disposable business model.
Great question. The 3 tiers correspond to how much imagery is ordered per year, the more you order the cheaper the per unit price is. The "minimum order" corresponds to the area size on the ground for a single tasking order (a single image).
As are the modern cards that cost $1000. You can spend significantly less that that and still play all the modern titles at high settings and 1080p60fps easily. (Or 4k if you're willing to make the same compromises on framerate that consoles do)