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Monadical.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / DevOps Engineer | Full-Time | Montreal / Colombia| REMOTE

We're a full-stack consultancy, committed to building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects including building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share datasets, developing custom medical software for doctors, and creating platforms for real estate agencies.
We're growing quickly and we’re short on senior management and engineering talent. We're looking to hire senior DevOps and full-stack engineers with strong Python and/or JS experience, who are driven and want to play a lead role in growing an exciting company. We have dedicated time for self-improvement, blogging, talks, and contribution to FOSS. Our goal is to be a workplace with a strong focus on learning, where client projects provide a base of capital for us to all work on dream projects of our own.
We have an inclusive, transparent culture with a public company principles handbook. See more info and apply here: https://monadical.com/team.html
If you have any questions, drop us an email at apply@monadical.com

We’re looking for:

-Senior Full-Stack and Front-End developers strong at Python and/or JS, experience in client relations, project management, design, Django, React. Experience with mobile and/or Rust is a plus.

-DevOps Engineer with confidence in problem solving and debugging problems across multiple complex systems, and experience with: Sysadmin on unix-based systems, deploying and managing apps w/ kubernetes & docker-compose, managing cloud environments, e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure/etc.,managing traditional Ubuntu VMs with supervisord/bash/fish, developing and debugging data pipelines at scale,configuring and operating PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MariaDB, configuring and operating nginx, haproxy, & other web servers, developing and testing backup solutions using NFS/SSHFS/etc.
I was going to mention Shadow. I see quite a few people who want to play PCVR games using it if they don't have a PC up to the job.

Also with VR, many people use 'VirtualDesktop' to link between a PC and the Oculus Quest wirelessly. I can see a future where they offer remote PCs to connect via their software too.

And to add to that, in the future too, I can see Facebook/Oculus adding 5G connectivity to a next-generation headset alongside a future Snapdragon XR2(+).
I’m not entirely convinced this is true, but equally if it is I see it as an absolute win.
How strange. My initial dose made me feel almost sleepy. I'm usually high-energy at night time, but now I go to bed before midnight.
HDRP begs to differ

https://youtu.be/cQvW0SdprQE

I'm currently building a game in HDRP and it's easily looks just as good as anything I could do in Unreal. I'm only limited by my own time at this point .
Search for manufacturer and disabling telematics/telemetrics

Example:
http://toyota.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7954/rela...

I've heard that SOS collections can be turned off by activating it and telling them you want to opt out.

It would be nice if someone documented where models wifi/cellular antennas are. Perhaps there's a market for faraday cages built by model.
None? Or are we supposed to believe synthetic gene therapy will do a better job than, you know, nature.

I suspect we’ll never know the actual answer because of a very simple reason: a for profit medical system that incentivizes medical interventions over outcome will naturally push what makes them money whether it works or not. Hence the title of this article, notice the lack of “0” or “should they get a shot at all?"

For those that are saying “trust the science!”, that sounds really good on paper but lets be real, medical science was compromised a long time ago. Why would a corporation with shareholders publish studies that directly conflict with their business model? They wouldn’t.

And if that’s not enough, any Covid-19 study that uses a PCR test should include the number of RT cycles used. If that threshold is not noted anywhere, the information can’t be relied upon as accurate and it’s as good as useless.

For fun, go pick a few Covid-19 related studies and see if you can find where the PCR test threshold is noted. I’ll save you the trouble, it’s not there.
I think 'style' would be a much better name. Grammar describes how to put words together, style describes which combinations are a good idea and which aren't.
You can buy on eTrade, Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab, WeBull, and others. As of 4pm EST RH has allowed for each user to have 20 shares of GME, an increase from 1 share which was the max at the opening bell.
Think of it like there’s generally two ways to innovate.

1) Old-school Waterfall: evaluate, commit, and then build (Tesla, Apple, 2000s MSFT are examples)

2) Spray and Pray: build, evaluate, and then commit (Facebook, Amazon are examples)

Google is 2
BigQuery/Snowflake can process Parquet and multiple other formats in Object Storage. You can use them more "freely" if you keep your raw data in open formats.

You need something more complicated than what can be done using BigQuery/Snowflake (that remaining 20%, though I would say 10%)? Export the dataset to CSV/Parquet/Avro/ORC/whatever and process it with anything, including Dataproc/HDInsight/EMR or even Databricks. That's actually a common pattern.
Next episode: why are airline pilots paid more than bus drivers?
What's in it for Valve?
My friend group used to participate in some game jams in high school. Just two weeks ago, we decided that it’s time to take the best one of our creations and extend it so far that we can release it in some stores. We don’t expect to make a lot of money from it, we’re just in for the experience of creating something cool from start to finish.

Here‘s the link to the Ludum Dare entry in case anyone is interested: https://randomaccessgames.itch.io/neon-kata
About 300 million McDonald's Fillet-O-Fish sandwiches, "topped with melty American cheese," are sold each year. I offer this as proof that cheese-on-fish does not violate the American food grammar, just the {haute cuisine,foodie} American food grammar, a very different thing. Just because they say "ain't" ain't right don't mean ain't ain't right.
I think in this case that is true. I sincerely hope they don't plan to do this in lieu of CarPlay/AA. I get that they want to have some kind of infotainment setup for people who don't have a smartphone to use for that, so this can serve that purpose.
I don't use the my Honeywell humidifier regularly, but I use it from time to time and honestly I like it more than any other humidifier I've used. I've found it very easy to keep clean, works really well at increasing the humidity without turning the room into a swamp and I've never had any issues with the wick becoming gross. I exclusively use RO/DI water in the humidifier, never any tap water, so maybe that is helping with a lot of the issues.
Stadia is supported in 21 countries though. A majority of NA and EU.

Totally feel for you, but similar to anything that requires a decent internet connection, NZ and AUS get left in the dust
I own a Tesla so I'm curious, what kind of updates do you get? Are they mostly bug-fixes and performance improvements or does Chevy also send new features and doodads? I'm curious because I took a look inside someone's bolt at a charging station and the interior looked very nice. I was hoping I could get some feedback on it!
Solid is awesome and I'm bullish on this model in the long-run, but it seems to be caught in a classic chicken/egg problem. Nobody is going to use it until there are good apps. and nobody is going to make good apps until there is a market of users. IMO this is the same problem that kept Sandstorm and remoteStorage from getting big.

I see 2 solutions currently:

1. Make an awesome storage product, that just happens to implement Solid. It might have to start out also implementing S3, which unfortunately doesn't support OAuth, which basically kills it for apps. You could try making it compatible with another proprietary protocol like Google Drive, or provide a frontend library that easily talks to all the major cloud storage providers, plus Solid...

2. Take the slow track. If developers themselves want to use it, they'll write useful open source apps over time. This can take forever though. Even after 30 years there are still large feature gaps on Linux because the market is too small to attract big app developers.
I'll echo this; I'm a serial founder who was diagnosed with ADHD in his mid-forties. The stimulant medications do not make me "high", do not provide any kind of buzz. Rather, they have a moderating effect. Explaining this requires correcting the misunderstandings in the public realm of how adult ADHD presents, but in nutshell:

* The (largely mental) hyperactivity is controllable, that is, I retain my creative ideas generation and interest in new things, but I am no longer governed by it, and

* The rarely discussed hyperfocus behaviour (which I frankly regard as a superpower) is more easily snapped out of.

To the uninformed, the most paradoxical outcome is that I can take a powerful stimulant medication, lie down in bed, and fall asleep easily, when normally I'd be staring at the ceiling pondering anything from CSS to soldering and unable to sleep for the rush of ideas.

This response to medication is not diagnostic, but it is indicative that the medication I have is correct. Moreover it allows me to both retain the two traits that have made me a successful systems maker, but permits a less chaotic engagement with the neurotypical-oriented processes of modern human society, so for example I renew my passport before it expires.

I self-medicated with a variety of over-the-counter substances for decades, including nicotine, sugar, and coffee. I am super grateful for the medication since I have now dropped the nicotine and sugar.

My psychiatrist believes the condition is a) misnamed, and would be better titled "Attention Difference Disorder", and b) points out that the twin traits of rapid ideas switching and hyperfocus are only a problem in some aspects of engagement with modern society and that in an pre-agrarian society they'd be excellent traits for a hunter.
Game Streaming also needs typical home internet connections to get better before it can really go mainstream.

Not everyone has low latency, high reliability fibre in their home, yet. If you have some crappy DSL or whatever then the experience isn’t great. Likewise if your WiFi signal is anything less than perfect!

And the people who do pay for the best internet connections are often those who don’t need Stadia, because they already have latest-generation consoles and gaming PCs?
... and I still use it on my phone and my laptop <3
Amphetamine got authorised in Germany a year ago in the form of Lisdexamphetamine under the name of Elvanse: https://www.adhspedia.de/wiki/Elvanse_Adult

I got it from my doctor and have been taking it for a year after trying Methylphenidate which did not show any positive effect on me.
Awesome, glad to see you're thinking about it. I understand the concern around the responsibility but also remember, that's an engineering problem that's been solved many times over.

Here's the fear that's driving my thinking: (1) the moment word gets out you have a hotcake on hand, others will clone, particularly in China and (2) unsteady revenue for you, as a business.
Location: NYC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C++, Ruby, Java, Python.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-gorski/
Email: lizkgorski+hn@gmail.com

I'm looking for my first infosec role! I don't have tons of experience, but I am driven to learning more and being the best in all I do. I am looking for a place where I can use my skills and grow them. I have several certifications from CompTIA, GIAC and others. I graduate soon with my bachelor's in cybersecurity.
Fantastic! You're such an engaging writer. Subscribed.

I've gotten a tad weary of only reading programmer's blogs. You can only transfer over things like stateless application design so far into other fields. Mechanical Engineers deserve some love too! Sadly, the closest I've come to a "Hacker News for Mechanical Engineers" is the FSAE forums, aka, not close at all. So your blog is very welcome!
x265 playback on Windows seems challenging; nearly impossible to seek in files using slider bar?
I am very good at creating detail To-Do list and I am on Adderall thus I can concentrate but my biggest issue is doing the most important tasks on the To Do list. These tasks may be things I do not like to do but I have to to do. The feeling is like an invisible rope has tied my hands. Been suffering with this for a long time, has affected my life a lot and still cant find a solution.
Cross platform is old school. You can send email between providers, call people on different phones, and access websites without knowing what kind of server they're on, but can you place a video call from Skype to Google Duo? Send messages from Slack to Discord? Tweet something using your Microsoft account? The open web is dead, it's all big companies' silos now.
My young daughter has grown up with VLC playing our "home movies". We usually end up watching videos from the prior year around Christmastime. The "Christmas cone" (as she calls it) is something she associates with the season. This year she even asked if it was "Christmas cone time" yet.

The cone needs to be festooned as a conical "party hat" on February 1. If I had art skills I'd make this happen.
My Pixel has a headphone jack. It's the larger (3.5mm) of the two holes on top of the phone. However the poster is probably referring to USB or the wireless Carplay/Android Auto equivalents
I don't know about that. Google has even less skin in the game now, with a game studio you could be convinced they were in it for the long haul, but now they can pull the plug almost effortlessly.

IMO the single business decision that doomed it from the start was the fact that you had to buy Stadia game to play on Stadia. Nothing from Steam/Epic/Ubisoft, and no cross-play.

I would not at all be surprised to hear within a year that they stop taking new subscribers, with a sunset a year after that.
Ask HN: Month self study program for data science and for blockchain developer
I'm looking for two (separate) 6 month self study programs: one for data science and the other for blockchain development.

Goal: Be able to get an entry level job (~$75K in San Francisco). Do comment on the feasibility of this goal.

Background:
- Strong Computer Science background with advanced degrees but I went to school when there were green screens, and I have not written a line of production code in ~20 years.
- I have 10-20 hours per week.

Preferences:
- I find that instructor-led programs are too slow and I get bored; hence, a self study program.
- I want something with massive amounts of feedback. The best I've found is Udacity for software development and Dataquest.io for data science. Haven't found anything for blockchain.

Biases: This is not hard. It can't be hard when a non-STEM major can go to a data science bootcamp (like Flatiron) and have an 85% chance of getting a $75K job. Hard is winning the Best Paper Award at NIPS.

Response to "if you could self study, you wouldn't need to ask this question" and similar: Thank you for your input.
Perhaps on a related note, see this discussion about the power of incentives here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994653
Ask HN: Employment Agreements for Early Startup Hires?
1. What's a good template employment agreement that new hires in an pre-seed/seed-stage startup sign? (Thinking an all-in-one document, including confidentiality and IP assignment, except maybe for shares/options terms.)

2. Is it OK if it sounds extremely one-sided and grabbing everything that legally can be grabbed by a company, like one might expect from a huge company (that pays 2x-5x as much)?

3. Do we really need to require people to enumerate in writing everything they've ever invented or authored, and claim rights to anything not listed (even if documentation could be produced)?

4. What about not being able to solicit or hire any employees of the company for 12 months after severing? (What if runway is shorter than that? Etc.)

5. Any other thoughts on these agreements?

The sample 11-page employment agreement for a pre-seed/seed-stage startup that I just read raised a lot of questions in my mind.

Besides all the big-corporate grabbiness (creating over a dozen questions in my mind, which I'll have to pay an external lawyer to review this week), I also don't see explicit mentions of some things that are pretty relevant to a modern early tech startup (like anything regarding passwords and 2FA, such as for SaaSes).

My immediate goals (besides perhaps prompting some interesting discussion that helps our industry) are to arrive at an agreement that: (a) covers reasonable things it should cover, (b) doesn't make prospective new hires ill as they're about to sign, and (c) that I'd be willing to sign retroactively myself as a non-founder with effectively no influence over how the signed document is wielded.

Your thoughts and/or other examples to look at are appreciated.
U.S. Cuts $231M Deal to Provide 15-Minute Covid-19 At-Home Tests
I have found their reviews very extensive, more than any other free alternative that covers so many product categories, and typically they match what you get if you purchase one of the products. You'd think having NYT behind them would lend some legitimacy, at least as far as it concerns outright fabrications. Typically I don't mind if their recommendations are sourced from just a handful of retailers in that case.

All that is to say, that's quite alright with me.
ffmpeg would be a better tool for that. Handbrake too I think, if you prefer a GUI.
I used to live in China a decade ago and everyone used ultrasonic humidifiers there. When I moved back to the US, I searched for one of them and could only find steam and evaporative humidifiers like this Honeywell one. Having small children, I went for the Honneywell humidifier and hated it - I was stupefied that it had such good reviews. So I searched for "safe" steam humidifiers and couldn't find one, so I gave up.

Last year, I noticed that ultrasonic humidifiers were now very popular and cheap on Amazon, and got one. The review sites recommended against them, due to supposed calcium and bacteria build-up, but I haven't seen any problems, and the Honeywell was definitely worse on these fronts.

Get an ultrasonic humidifier - they are cheap and if they break, you can get another one. Just used filtered water in them.
I'm fine with using your arbitrary power to regulate companies in an effective way, but when you leave them no recourse but to agree to your demands or pull their most useful product out of your country, you don't get to turn around and act like they're leaving out of spite.
As far as I can see you have Citadel on the short side hemorrhaging cash. On the long side you have mutual funds like Blackrock, but they can’t close their position, and they’re making money lending their shares. I don’t see a Citadel-sized institutional interest and influence on the long side. Only retail investors would go all in on a stock trading at 20x earnings or whatever it is.

We have congressional corruption on the record for 6 figure payments. Billions at stake at Citadel can get a percentage changed on a risk management formula used for liquidity requirements at DTC, especially when they can easily justify it. Like I said, plausible deniability. If you disagree maybe you haven’t personally witnessed the levels of institutional corruption I have.
yeah, valve has its own ecosystem it wants to lock people into
What about this comically expensive https://www.venta-air.com and it’s ripoff: https://www.xiaomitoday.com/2020/06/30/get-the-xiaomi-smartm...

It blows ambient air directly onto the wetted disks; it will empty a full tank in a day and haven’t cursed anymore that usual while cleaning.

I did use a disinfectant additive
Asking that question after winning an employee game wouldn't give you much insight. He or she would say they are working towards some goal and ask you to join the committee on women's pay.

If you asked HR they will probably give you more of an honest answer. We are trying to pay people as little as possible.
Valve has the games and tried to build their own console and failed. Google has now effectively built their own console and doesn't have the games.
Google generally doesn't do BD that well. I think it's something to do with their start as a consumer-facing company. They prefer making a thing and then marketing it rather than using partnerships to get in.

The Android stuff seemed to suffer quite a bit from this early on, though they seem to have a handle on it now.
What Does a Computer Scientist Look Like?
Do you "like" the IINA project, assuming you're familar with it, and is there anything you can "take" from it? What are your thoughts on it?

I used to always install VLC in all my machines. One day, I found a file that had wonky audio -- it randomly sped up and slowed down, but in a somewhat bearable way (it was a 2h-movie,) like some weird flutter was going on. I didn't make much of it at the time. Later, I got another file that would randomly lose audio. As in, sometimes, the audio would cut for a while and then come back. Except I used to replay this file often and noticed it happen in different places every run -- this got me thinking it could have been a software issue.

At the time (this was roughly 4 years ago, I believe), I happened to see IINA mentioned somewhere, and I therefore gave it a go. It seemed to consume more CPU, but it didn't have the wonky audio in neither of these files. I became a fan and, while I keep VNC installed "just in case", I get this feeling that IINA has higher compatibility and a better interface. For example, IINA has what seems like a better algorithm for finding subtitles from a path, and it's just more well integrated with macOS.

I wish I could go back to VLC, but I keep feeling like it's going to fail me or that the UI isn't as polished/well-integrated into macOS. I hate that I feel this way because I honestly feel like I'm "betraying" this wonderful piece of software that is VLC.

I guess there isn't really another question. I'd like to say thanks, and here's to hoping that in the near future I'll go back to VLC. You have done a remarkable job and I think you should be extremely proud of yourself! VLC rocks! :)