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Narrative I/O | Scala/AWS/Spark Backend Engineer, VueJS Frontend Engineer| New York, NY | Full-time | ONSITE, REMOTE | http://narrative.io/

Narrative is building a data streaming marketplace that makes it easy to buy, sell and win.

We do this by creating tools that reduce the friction and increase transparency in the data buying process, creating a win-win relationship between buyers and sellers.

We are a small, early stage team looking for great developers who want to jump in and take major systems and user-facing features from design to launch.

We are building the team with a remote-first mindset, and as a result every team member is expected to have an ability to synthesize business requirements, distill the domain, contribute to high-level design documents, efficiently communicate asynchronously, and more generally work autonomously toward a shared vision.

While the company's headquarter is in NYC, the development team is currently made of engineers working from California (US), Québec (Canada), New Brunswick (Canada) and British Columbia (Canada).

Our technical stack (Scala, AWS, Spark on the backend, VueJS on the frontend) looks like:

- Our webapp frontend projects are written in Vuejs, Sass and Pug. We make use of modern and fuctional JavaScript patterns.

- We sit somewhere in the middle of the “Scala as a worse Haskell” and “Scala as a better Java” spectrum. We love functional programming and we do make use of libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, doobie, but keep a pragmatic stance on purity and are also exposed to the AWS Java SDK/hadoop/spark ecosystems.

- We are operating in Amazon Web Services. Our long-running services are deployed on EC2, Fargate, and Lambda and provisioned with Terraform. Our scheduled (spark) jobs are mostly executing on EMR and triggered by Jenkins Jobs.

- We also heavily use other AWS technologies such as DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Step Functions and EMR.

- Other services we use include: GitHub, Gitlab, Jenkins, DataDog, Crucible.

- Being a small team, we think twice before rolling out custom infra that we need to monitor and maintain.

Job postings and more on our team and culture: https://jobs.narrative.io/

Apply by sending your resume to hiring-dev@narrative.io.
This is very much the trend I saw over the 2000s-2010s.

Most of the people in my personal cohort - with university degrees and good careers - have no problem living a good life in the US. But with the rapid inflation of the cost of healthcare, higher education and housing, I wonder how that lifestyle can possibly become accessible to people who weren't essentially born into it.

I know many people who were born into a middle-class or upper-middle-class lifestyle, pursued career paths that didn't involve the tech industry (because they were specifically encouraged to "do whatever you want"), and are now living below their parents' standards of living and will probably always be poorer than their parents.

They aren't bum artists either; they work in offices 8-6, and have 5+ years of experience and sophisticated professional skills. But they are being paid 2011 wages in a 2021 housing market, and it all strikes me as tremendously unfair.

Median house prices in the USA are now above their pre-crash peak, and have been increasing much much faster than the CPI[0]. Something fucky is going on, and I doubt it's all because of the "free" market.

[0]: chart https://files.catbox.moe/kvppyj.png and data https://files.catbox.moe/tqj9vb.csv
I wasn't arguing that he was anything but a natural born citizen of the US, merely noting that legislation to clarify that case, in particular, was passed at the time.
They aren't using the word "fungible" correctly. These aren't non-fungible objects. They are fungible objects with a DRM scheme attached to them. It is a very good DRM scheme, authenticated via blockchain, but nevertheless is not fundamentally different than any other. The art can be easily copied, making the copies fungible. This is like paying millions for a the one "legitimate" steam key to a game that everyone else is playing for free. I want to meet these people. I have some bridges I need to offload.
Well, nobody cares enough. And that's probably why they find Electron attractive. No need to care, no expectations that you'll ship something good. Hey, look at Slack!
I'm really impressed with how well it was able to place PG on the political spectrum and capture his world view.
I've wondered for ages if it might be possible to transfer energy as information.

Consider a hypothetical setup in which two identical (possibly entangled) systems are run. On the sending side the system is observed and additional energy is spent in computation to compute interventions that would have (but did not) result in free energy. These interventions are then sent to the receiving side where the energy spent in computation on the sending side is partially recovered by actually performing those interventions and recovering free energy.

If something like this or at least loosely analogous to it were possible then it would be possible to do something like put up a Dyson swarm in a close solar orbit around the sun and transmit back the energy not as dangerous and difficult to receive microwave beams but as data feeds containing an endless stream of "cheat codes" to obtain apparent (but not really) free energy at the receiving end.

Energy is conserved because a given cheat code can only be used once to intervene where the sender determined an intervention would have worked. More energy must be spent at the sending side than is obtained at the receiving side.

Given that there are environments like close solar orbit where energy is stupidly abundant, it could work very well even if the efficiency of transfer were terrible. Even if you only got say 1% of sent energy, a small-ish Dyson swarm in an orbit between the sun and Mercury could easily power the Earth, a Mars settlement, and a few hundred spacecraft with ion thrusters.
Where you were born, or at least the strength of your country's passport has a huge impact[0]

Depending on your passport's strength you may get visa on entry, have to apply for a visa, or can't go to a specific country at all.

[0] https://www.passportindex.org
Video editing has been a thing since there was video, and other types of evidence have been forge-able forever. Frankly, if there's no corroborating evidence and no reliable chain-of-custody, video evidence should be considered just as suspect as anything else. Really, the CSI era where people just trust some arcane source of truth and question neither how that evidence was collected nor interpreted has been extremely harmful, and we should hope it soon comes to an end.
Why would someone use this instead of plain old OpenCL(or CUDA) with C++?

What is the value proposal here?
The Perl.com website is already managed by the Perl Foundation. I feel like it's important enough that it warrants being under the full custody of the foundation.
It's a pity that the whole point seems to be hitting the middle price point but there's no actual pricing info available. Still, once they get closer to shipping this could be interesting to watch. Anything to get better competition in "normal" server space:)
This is a hot garbage of a take.

No one is saying "ELECTRICITY BAD", but futile uses of electricity (most of which is derived from extremely polluting fossil fuels[1]) is bad.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/images/outle...
Location: Amsterdam, NL - The Netherlands

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes to US / UK / Australia / Canada

Technologies: AWS (Developer Certified), PostgreSQL, Redshift, MSSQL, Teradata, Airflow, Tableau, Python, HTML, CSS, Terraform, Matlab, Python, R, Jenkins, Swagger, Flask, Google Analytics

Résumé/CV:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-kim-fon-yip/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19aYUICd8_FYRaopOGWtTqpPRC4X...

Email: bryanyip94 at gmail com

I am a data scientist with a study background in Aerospace Engineering / Control and Simulation. As a data scientist, I like to solve complex business questions with machine learning models. I am seeking a position that will allow me to automate end-to-end AI processes in the cloud at a high-tech company.

With my expertise in use case design, modeling, automating ETL data pipelines and cloud infrastructure (AWS Developer certified), I am often a bridge between technology, analytics, and business to create end-to-end products.

Furthermore, I desire to work in a fast-paced environment, where everyone is willing to teach each other and open to learning and trying new techniques.

Send me an e-mail if you have something interesting that does or does not exactly match my preference.
eBay | Applied Researcher, ML engineer | Full-time | NYC, remote ok

We are hiring applied researchers to change the way eBay does advertising. You will be someone who is comfortable working with the most challenging problems, designing and creating the most elegant systems alike. We need your help to reinvent the recommender systems experience on eBay's item pages. This is a unique opportunity to influence the most visited page on eBay (billions of views a day) and learn recommendation technology which ranks eBay's 1+ billion active items. We apply cutting edge machine learning techniques on petabytes of data and thousands of Spark/YARN nodes. This includes Deep learning, XGBoost and online learning. We are a small team in a growing remote office, building eBay Ads's future and seeking experienced (3+ years) applied researchers. The day to day work includes 50% coding and 50% data science. Our interview consists of two phone screens and one onsite (virtually) to meet the team and do a code test. contact: rashsinghal@ebay.com | Ask for Zhen
GTA loading screen with cyberpunk music on loop intensifies
I think a big part of it is also the moral choices people are willing to make. Most people climb to success because they are incredibly talented (rare), incredibly lucky (nobody likes to admit it), or because it's always bowb your buddy week to them.

Sometimes they are able to do a minor hurt to a vast number of people (marketing, some sales, etc...) and they don't feel like they are doing anything wrong. Sometimes they are just conforming to the standards our society has set, (everybody is doing it).

I myself try to do the best, but I've discovered the only way to advance is to job hop my way to a decent salary. I'm sure this has caused problems for others, but it's accepted in this industry. I've seen others who won't job hop languish with much lower salaries.
Rutherford is only a 26 KN engine. An original Merlin 1 engine was 340 KN, so you would need 15 Rutherfords for each Merlin.

A total of 135 engines for a rocket comparable to the original Falcon 9 which they are targeting.
Software Engineer – Latin America – Remote Only
Foxbox Digital is always looking to work with individuals who value building products that change the world from the ground up--people who want to play a big role in product development.

We build software for our clients using the latest software development and project management practices and we love what we do. We're a remote-first company based in Chicago and we'd love to have you on our team.

Software Engineer (React, React Native, Elixir) - REMOTE, Latin America
Apply here: https://foxbox.com/jobs
I don't see why solar in Arizona would not help Maine.

If Maine has a shortage, they aren't going to get power directly from Arizona, but couldn't they get power from New Hampshire? If New Hampshire doesn't have any spare capacity, couldn't they still supply Maine and get some from Massachusetts to cover for what they send to Maine? And if Massachusetts doesn't have any spare, can't they similarly go ahead and supply New Hampshire, making it up with power from whoever is next west of them, ultimately ending up with Arizona's extra solar power allowing Maine to get through a shortfall?
The comment to which you reply uses the %[] conversion to impose stricter limits on acceptable characters to be interpreted as numbers.

My guess at the historical intention of *scanf is that it was meant for parsing tab-delimited and fixed-width records from old-school data files.
I ran up against this issue when I was creating a parser that parsed debian package information (code here[1]). Trying to match against a line with regex slowed the program down past feasibility. I had to switch to just assuming that two line breaks meant a new package record instead. After that, the program was zippy.

1: https://github.com/djhaskin987/degasolv/blob/develop/cli-src...
3 ways the US economy is uniquely positioned for a great new era in the 2020s
Does OS X not have /etc/sudoers.d?
Yes, this invention appears to resolve a fallacy simply by replacing with another fallacy, perhaps less well known to physicists.
Not very trivial to this reader without a VT account (:
Back in the day I used to tweak my Linux box, win3.1/95, vim, android phone, etc. endlessly.

After awhile they would all become unusable, and I would reinstall everything back to default and try again.
Great for leaning, lousy for day to day work.

Resetting things back to a known state can make life lot easier.

In 10 years I can’t recall needing to reset a Mac.
When Influencers Make Fools of Themselves
Survivorship Bias – Overly Optimistic Beliefs Caused by Invisible Failures
> Seed stores, distributed infrastructure, general survival training, and so on.

If we actually thought like this and prepared ourselves in this manner during good times it’d increase the resilience of our species so profoundly.
I used fish for a couple years but switched back to zsh. I found the incompatibilities with bash/zsh to be annoying at times and finally just decided to do the "When in Rome do as the Romans" do thing and adopt zsh.
Same here. Fish makes certain things easier (working with variables, for example) but sometimes I still drop a bash shell.
"Only about 30kg of raw material will be lost over the lifecycle of a lithium ion battery used in electric cars once recycling is taken into account, compared with 17,000 litres of oil, according to analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E) seen by the Guardian."

The key seems to be "once recycling is taken into account". Does anyone know if many batteries are currently being recycled? Is recycling economically viable without a technological leap?
junk is a character, not a string, though.
But isn't it mighty inconvenient to transfer wet clothes from the washer to the dryer, which the combined machine avoids.

In third world I think only combined machines are available in market usually.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold review: a glimpse at the future of folding PCs
Exactly. And not only being able to pick the correct data structure for the problem, (and possibly the correct implementation), but being able to know what is going to need attention even before a single line of code is written.

Most of my optimization work is still done with pencil, paper and pocket calculator. Well, actually, most of the time you won't even need a calculator.
The contracts (terms of service) with such large service providers are rarely up for negotiation, and often include terms like "we can change anything so long as we give X days of notice".

Even for a major school district, they're millions (or more) times smaller than Google, and don't have the support of their constituents (tax payers) to push back.
>Oh in that case I understand your trauma. But you need to understand that it is trauma and not facts of life.

Thank god you now understand their trauma well enough to explain how they don't comprehend reality the right way.
>> In theory electric motors should be able to last way longer than an ICE

Except that it is very rare for a car to be scrapped because of its engine. IC engines are mature tech. They last forever, longer than the body of the car. Extending the life of the engine further won't extend the life of the vehicle. And for such calculations one must include the battery packs. I think it safe to say that while electric motors might marginally outlast IC engines, I don't think that batteries will every have a functional lifespan longer than a gas tank (many decades, maybe even a century.)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote - Front End Web Developer

Interested in a cool contract opportunity with tabletop roleplaying game company, Bundle of Holding?
We are looking for a contractor to implement a recent brand redesign in HTML & CSS for our website and email campaigns.

Skills and Qualifications:

- Experienced in client side web technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, and “vanilla” JavaScript

- Experienced in SASS/SCSS

- Experienced in one or more CSS frameworks

- Proficient with git and the command line

Please provide links to your portfolio. This position features flexible hours and is 100% remote. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

If you're interested, please email me: stephen@koalephant.com.
> Socially its way better than evading any consequences or getting a bogus sentence like case dismissal because some formality mistake.

But he is getting away without any (real) consequences. Being sentenced guilty without much punishment does exactly nothing to deter a politician from committing crimes, nor does it stop citizens from losing trust in their institutions.
Show HN: Halal.fm – Discover new Islamic recitations and lectures
The K1000 has the K Bayonet mount that superseded the m42 screw mount on Pentax 35mm SLR’s in the 1970’s.

However, my understanding is Soviet designs used both mounts. Just clarifying not arguing. Out of a fondness for Pentax and tendency to geek.
The danger I describe does exist and needs to be mitigated against. The fact that it's practically never actually applicable exacerbates the problem, and makes de-escalation difficult.
In the face of these (and who knows what future) security issues, how are people still running on shared/cloud/vps servers?
> The value of their work doesn’t factor in as much - An administrative assistant might touch every department in the company every day and facilitate a massive amount of work, but they still don’t get paid much - it’s hard to justify when you could hire and train up someone to do the same thing nearly as well with very little difficulty.

This seems like it exposes a bias toward thinking in terms of large businesses. (That may be a reasonable bias, at least in the U.S. where it seems like big organizations are only getting bigger and small ones are going out of business.)

In a small business there is less likelihood that the administrative work is meticulously spec'd out. So if an administrative assistant in a small business touching every department, and they are good, chances are work has been offloaded onto them in a way that moves them further from "assisting" and closer to "inexpendable employee who is constantly fleshing out an underspecified business model and iteratively improving it."

I can think of examples where a small business didn't realize this (and some where they went out of business for that reason). But only a handful few where this didn't happen.

If competent administrative assistants in small businesses had any idea of their true value, they'd demand their salary be doubled.

Same logic wrt sales reps. Although in that case, companies at least seem to have realized it and responded by the weirdo pattern of a) providing incentives to attract the best reps, and then b) firing the best reps after a few years on the grounds it's too expensive to keep paying them for consistently hitting their goals and collecting the incentives!
WTF are you doing where shell "speed" is the bottleneck? How does it happen that your shell starts "slow". This post has lots of speed comments. I don't get it. Are bash pipes slower than others? Do folk have a shell that takes longer than 250ms to start?
Main tank
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Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Elixir, JavaScript, Ember.js, React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js

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Email: hello@weareevermore.com

We are a small software development agency specialised in the design and development of custom web applications and websites. We are interested in joining projects that bring positive social and/or environmental impact.

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I have, I’ve also lived in a car, showered in gyms/public bathrooms and it sucks. Especially, if you’re trying to keep up an image at work and don’t want them to know you’re homeless.
I wish mermaid was as easy
Seems fair even if I don't agree that Tesla is looking through Facebook to void warranies.

I don't think any other car maker will warranty an abused 12v battery.
> Perhaps fish is not for you?

It nearly is! I love fish powerful completion, just find it annoying that it is triggered automatically. Also fish syntax seems saner than bourne's, and I love it (but miss process substitution from time to time). Unfortunately, I cannot stand the flashiness. With some work, I have managed to disable all colors by setting a lot of fish_color variables in my configuration file. But the auto-completion drains me after a few minutes of use. As if you are speaking to somebody and they complete all your sentences! Even if the completion is correct, isn't that extremely annoying?
I've been in this game since 1998 and I've seen much across the years. Back in the late 90s/early 00s, people started to get a little more sloppy due to less constraints on HW/SW (RAM, etc.). These days it seems people pay less attention to what makes a good programmer and more on the language or framework du jour. Very few people take the time to master not just a language but good habits. They flit from language to language and framework to framework. A good programmer with just a few years of experience should be able to pick up any language within reason. Having said this, going from JavaScript to C++ or Python might be a challenge if all you've ever done is front end work. Concepts like mutable/immutable, etc. can be challenging if you've never dealt with them. Constant learning, constant challenges on and off the clock, always be curious. Too many bootcamps now that don't teach anything other than getting people out the door. Notice that most of these bootcamps are for front end work. There is no way you are going to see a bootcamp cranking out a systems programmer in a few months--there is simply too much to know about how the underlying systems work together (HW/SW). A friend years ago lamented the very same thing he went through as a sysadmin with bootcamps cranking out "paper tiger" MCSEs who didn't know the first thing about running a server or setting up a domain controller or print server.
Bay Area’s migration is real, but Postal Service data shows CA exodus isn’t
This was addressed in the thread: https://twitter.com/Anka213/status/1366219698317053954

> Replying to
> @edwinbrady
> Is it possible to delay adding it but have it compile with a warning, so you can test it out, but still be fairly confident that it won't actually get to prod?

> Replying to
> @Anka213
> You can always add holes, which compile but give a compile time warning and run time error.
Student and tourism rentals are worse than the regular rental market because 9x/10 the people getting screwed out of their deposit can afford it so there's less latent "it might actually be worth someone's time to sue you" to keep the landlords in check.
The vast majority of electrical generation coming online is renewables. The grid is rapidly becoming cleaner, something they does not occur with fossil burning machinery (which burns fossil fuels for its entire lifetime).

Electrify everything (EVs, heat pumps, water heating, etc), and we’ll arrive at 100% clean generation and consumption around the same time.