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World Resources Institute | Global Director of Data Lab & other roles | Washington, DC or REMOTE/Distributed USA | https://wri.org

World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global non-profit, non-governmental organization [501(c)(3)]. Our mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. We were founded in 1982 and are recognized as one of the top environmental and sustainable development non-profits in the world. Our global network extends to over 1000 staff in close to a dozen countries. You may know about some of our signature data initiatives, including Global Forest Watch, Aqueduct, and Resource Watch.

WRI is always hiring, and may have technical roles that interest you - including positions across all of our staff tiers, from research interns through directors. Please see our careers page if you are interested in applying your skills towards a sustainable future for all: https://jobs.jobvite.com/wri/jobs/

One important position that may be of interest to the HN crowd is an opening for our Global Director, Data Lab (job posting: https://jobs.jobvite.com/wri/job/oQKwefw4). From the description:

We seek a Global Director for WRI’s Data Lab with vision, passion, and a deep and broad understanding of the rapidly shifting data technology landscape and how it can be harnessed for good. In this role, you will support WRI’s global programs (Food, Forest, Water, Oceans, Energy, Climate and Cities) and International offices integrate “data for impact” strategies into their theories of change. You will build on existing efforts and ensure that WRI remains a leader in an increasingly crowded and competitive field. Responsibilities include leading the Data Lab’s core team and Institute-wide Impact Council. The Impact Council brings together data technologists from across the institute’s global network to drive good practices in using data to drive impact toward WRI’s mission.
How to Improve AWS Cost Optimization
Facta | San Francisco, Salt Lake City | Go, serverless AWS, React, Typescript | https://facta.io | https://jobs.lever.co/facta

Facta is modernizing the CFO stack for mid-market companies, starting with accounting's month-end close. Come help us empower some of the most undervalued employees (accounting, controllers, finops teams) with tools that automate away their tedious manual workflows.

We are looking for product managers, designers, sales, and engineers.
I just watched episode 4 of Atlanta last night and Donald Glover's character had a really good monologue about being poor after finding out his friend had helped him turn 190$ into 2000$ but that it wouldn't be available right away:

Earn Marks: Poor people don't have time for investments, because poor people are too busy trying not to be poor. Okay? I need to eat today, not in September.

Full scene is worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hOCjX_SSXY&ab_channel=ThaiM...
Chronosphere | Staff level Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers (Onsite NYC/Seattle, US Remote) | Full-Time | https://chronosphere.io/ Chronosphere is on a mission to redefine monitoring for the cloud-native world by building the world’s most scalable, reliable and cost efficient monitoring platform. Chronosphere’s product is built on top of the proven at scale metrics engine, M3, which was developed and open sourced by the founding team while they were at Uber.

Chronosphere is looking for trailblazers who are experts in their space and are passionate about creating meaningful solutions for engineers and digital businesses.

We're hiring multiple senior software engineers; Platform Engineers & Backend Engineers.

You'll be working with Matt Mihic, our Global Head of Engineering, who previously led engineering at Okta, Square, and Uber during their early and hyper growth phases. Read more about our team and career opportunities here: https://chronosphere.io/
What if we found a living Neanderthal village. They’re taking up space that an equivalent human village could, should we get rid of them?
Even you use DynamoDB, you still need to remember to have backupss. I have seen a recent mishap when devops by accident dropped the production tables and restoration requires high IOPs in order to restore it soon enough. The IOPs was not that high for usual use case. But when you wants to reduce MTTR, you need to increase the IOPs (which means $$$, too)

Eventually your dropping of the database is consistent. So back it up no matter what.
Apple needs a solution to this.

People getting their pf rules thrown away each time - it is like unlocking your front door each time you run the vacuum cleaner.
Strateos(YC W15) | Back End and Front End Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer (Scientific Tech) | Menlo Park, CA | https://strateos.com | FULL TIME; TEMP REMOTE

Strateos is turning life science into an information technology by creating a fully automated cloud wet lab. Scientists anywhere can define and (reproducibly!) run experiments over the internet on-demand and without investing up-front in a lab facility.

The Strateos Common Lab Environment (SCLE) takes Autoprotocol (http://autoprotocol.org/), a high-level JSON description of a biological protocol, and executes it on our custom-built robotic workcells. The protocols we handle routinely involve solving constraint programming models with thousands of variables and constraints in order to find the best plan that fulfills the scientist's biological intent.

Scientists manage their experiments through our web application or via our API. We provide a single platform that controls scientific devices from many vendors in a unified way, and an interface to control our automated labs.

Tech stack includes: Linux, Scala, RabbitMQ, Rails, Typescript, React, Ansible, Postgres

Benefits include: medical/dental/vision insurance; catered lunch and dinner when onsite, and a fully stocked kitchen; flexible vacation policy; 401(k) with matching; gym and commuter reimbursement; and education reimbursement up to $3,000/year.
I'm sorry, but why doesn't the person in the right rear seat have a button to control their own seat heater, without interrupting whatever conversation is going on? Can they at least operate their own window still?
Bay Area's migration is real, but data shows California exodus isn't
Rust does support dependent types via traits, just not as explicit feature and also not in the most intuitive way.
How to you really test that? Any provider is autonomous, you really don't verify delivery. You have few technical options, like DSN or MDNs, but servers or clients don't need honor them.
I didn't mentioned clients, I had few of them too. Some used internal mailing list style things, group addresses forwarded some outside service, like hotmail or gmail. I didn't had any complaints from them. Now talking about personal experience, your assumption is wrong. I don't change mail only with my family or friends. When you write merchant or government agency there is even more initiative to notice missing answer.
The shipped has LONG sinced sailed on my expecting Google to fix Photos in this regard. I've spent literally YEARS dealing with this Photos shortcoming. They have all the information they need.

And even if they fixed it, I've already spent the hours sifting through my repeated Google Take Away downloads and hacking Python scripts to dedupe / etc the issue. Seriously, the support channel reps were saying things like "Oh, just delete all your images then upload again from originals". But what about tagging, meta data, albums, and so on? And how do I know which of the thousands of pictures need this rough handling? "Shrug!" They don't CARE! It's just another data-bucket to them.

Summary: Anyone who cares about the fidelity of their images has long ago stopped using Google Photos. So, as I say, use another photo service and treat Google Photos like a cruddy, light-touch 'microfiche' of your pictures: better than nothing.
Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries into the Ocean?
Just like with internet or other storage platforms, 99% of users are trivial amounts of usage. It's the 1% that use more than the 99% combined that are the problem.
Strictly speaking, yes that violates Tesla's warranty.
> To charge an empty 75kwh car battery in roughly 1 hr today you would need approximately 225 square meters of solar panel

Yes, though most people don’t need to do that. Average miles driven in the USA per year is 13500, and this car (“in a desert”) would generate 12,000.

Yes shade, climate, etc. is relevant, but it’s also true that a significant minority of people just won’t drive the way you’re talking about. (Such people shouldn’t be spending 100k on a car, but that’s a separate issue).
This is probably by accident, not design. In general their web sites are partially non-functional. I am a T-Mobile customer and about 50% of the time I can't even log in and get a non-specific "our wires are crossed" error. Usually clearing cookies or resetting my password fixes it.
For me, removable battery is non-negotiable. Maybe a knockoff will arise.
FDA Authorizes First Robotically-Assisted Surgical Device
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Mon Ami is a social venture that builds SaaS software for sectors traditionally overlooked by technology companies. Our customers are government agencies, social service agencies, and healthcare providers.

We're looking for early engineers to join our team of four experienced developers to make a profound difference in our product and in the lives of those we serve.

We use React / Stimulus / RoR, but a background with those frameworks is not required, provided you have comparable experience.

Learn more & APPLY here: https://www.monami.io/jobs
I’m also very pleased with the results I seem to have wrought myself (with help of course), but I always notice that I’m a bit behind the curve compared to people getting ahead in the workforce, adulting with home refinancing or retirement, entering Ivy league direct from high school, or in high school, the students that seemed to know which classes to take, or what AP was (I took 3 while my peers averaged 6-7 AP courses). Same for sports. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s noticeable when you have parents that can’t help you and while I’m very capable of learning all of these things on my own, and I have, I’m no match for folks basically speed-leveling early in life.

Also wrt money, I always hated spending it, and really hated debt/interest. Now I find myself very willing to spend money on actually useful things like gear and tools, lest the power of money, or my ability to earn it, diminishes in the future.
Mitigate, or offload? Instead of facing a global famine, we're causing a global ecological catastrophe. The world didn't end, but species are rapidly going extinct, and it's only a matter of time before it comes back to bite us.
I never realized that Paul and Jessica have lived in England since 2016. I saw them in 2017 and possibly 2018 in California, and simply assumed they were flying from East Coast.
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This is what people who make bad decisions tell themselves.
You know =what would be cool: If all apps had to register their pref config files into a single dir and that would be tracked and snapshotted - and then you could just have ALL apps look to the same dir for where their configs come from and you could have a single repo for ALL apps on your or ANY system - and then you could walk up to a terminal and plug in your "license key" which said what apps you had access to and what ones you had configs for and you could just run that app with all your input and prefs and mappings etc...

I actually wrote a white paper on just this in ~2003 or so - and met with several engineers from google and they said it was impossible.

The idea being that you only carried around with you your profile, and you could just come to a dumb terminal, plug in your key, three factor auth - and the terminal would give you access to the apps and resources they had...

(I should write ((again)) a short story on this)
Implementing the use of a '?' in order to generate a diamond shaped "if/else" would be nice. For example:

Some text(2)
Yes: (line num)
No: (line num)
I feel like this should be a contender for the Darwin Awards
A real-life carbon coin could save the planet
The next person who decides to buy from this person based on it's previous "perceived" improvement in value....
Almost at the bottom of the industrialized nations. Trying to spin it as a "near-win" is disingenuous. America is closer to Kazakhstan than it is to Germany or France.
Replit (YC W18) | Engineers & Designers | REMOTE (4hrs overlap with PT) | https://repl.it/careers

What if you could influence how an entire generation of programmers code?

Replit is a collaborative in-browser IDE. We're building a stellar compute platform that runs code for millions of users, and hosts millions of apps (cheaply). Replit is the most popular entry-to-programming IDE and is the best in its collaborative capabilities. It's also increasingly the number-one destination for teenage hackers and hobbyists to build and launch apps.

Our work spans the hardest problems in computing (sandboxing, distributed systems, scheduling) and the most interesting problems in HCI ("how do you create a learnable programming environment?").

It's a unique time to join because we proved a huge demand for what we're building while also being early enough to have a huge impact and get a big part of the upside. We are only 18 people.
Yeah there's also thousands of potential opportunities like that over course of years, each with the potential to open new doors. One lucky break does not success make and a lucky break without the talent or drive to back it quickly collapses.
> Google Analytics fires even before the cookie banner

That might well not be a problem, depending on how the configuration and setup of Google Analytics was done in that case.

From https://www.cookiebot.com/en/google-analytics-gdpr/

- turn on IP anonymisation

- don't send personal data

- don't send pseudonymous identifiers

- I add: tell GA to not set cookies and to not track the user (IIRC it's "storage" set to "none" and "storeGac" set to false)

If one does that when the user's not opted-in to "analytics" or "tracking", that ought to be enough to satisfy informed consent, no? The site is then just tracking page views, with no personal information or cookies to fly around.

If the user then opts-in to analytics then the site's code could well send more pseudonymous data to Google Analytics, with the user's consent, as well as tell GA it's fine to track the user around the site using a cookie or whatever other means.

Same goes for the setup for Adwords or similar: it's all in the hands of the website, and so long as things are configured to not track the user, it might be fine.

If a site's livelihood depends on showing ads to users, it doesn't mean that the user has to opt-in to ads. They ought to opt-in to being tracked by the ad provider.

So, configure _that_ -- no opt in? No tracking. Opt in? Tracking, remarketing, retargeting, what-have-you.

It's all about "playing safe" and _not_ tracking when the user's not opted in.

Many sites instead do it the other way around, and do it all until/unless the user's opted-out.

And even then, I wouldn't hold my breath that they're really doing it.

Some are, or at least try hard to.
Yes, but there are usually no exchange fees.
On the contrary, there are MORE viable methods for reuse with a smaller vehicle. They can do mid-air recovery with such an upper stage, for instance, but no hope of that with a Starship-sized upper stage.
Does this product work for non-SaaS products?

I have a product[1] that teaches developers vim. It is a one time purchase. I’ve had many requests for purchase power parity.

I’m currently using stripe checkout.

Could I use your product to get dynamic prices for my product?

[1] https://www.vim.so
Insufferable.
Rocket Lab to go public in merger with SPAC VACQ, valuing company at $4.1B
So I can run a TV, fridge, laundry machine from my car as long as they are not inside my home?

Why doesn't Tesla limit the output current of the battery and be done with it? Why this strange rule?
Introduction to Conflict Free Replicated Data-Type
Great product.

I used a very similar idea with my many clients when I was running a startup. Since my domain was e-commerce, I also used google spreadsheet to manage inventory, images, products etc.

I will recommend that you provide immediate feedback to the user with pre-canned JIRA agile - kanban charts. It is very important that the user feels that they have created a lot of value, otherwise they will not be able to see the value of this extra step.
I think Pocket used to remember my place when I was reading an article, and I find that it no longer does. This is a big problem for long articles. Also, the margins in their web app are enormous, and look ridiculous on iPhone. I've talked with their support about this, but here we are years later and it hasn't been fixed.

Instapaper is definitely coasting right now, and as far as I can tell they haven't made any substantive improvements in half a decade. The reader aspect doesn't necessarily need to change in that timeframe, but the web has changed, and they should be integrating with new/different things to stay current.
Sweet Tech | Oslo, Norway | Full-Time | https://www.thehandy.com/

HEY YOU, DO YOU WANT TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE SEXUAL EXPERIENCE?

Sweet Tech is a sex-tech start-up that combines innovative hardware with customizable digital connectivity to create a complete and fulfilling physical experience. Our flagship product, The Handy, is available worldwide through our online store (www.thehandy.com) and connects out-of-the-box to our digital platform, Handy Feeling (www.handyfeeling.com). Our aim is to be the world-leading provider of tech-enabled personalized pleasure --- transforming the sexual experience while normalizing sexual curiosity and driving sex positivity.

* Fluency in English, our working language.

* A Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, engineering or a related field. Relevant experience can compensate for lack of academic qualifications

* Live in (or be willing to relocate to) Oslo, Norway.

* Firmware engineer should have experience with PCB design

Non-EU/EEA citizens must have completed a bachelor's degree to be eligible for a work permit in Norway.

Tech used:

Typescript, Node.js, Kubernetes, Docker, IoT, NATS, Engine, JSONrpc, Kubernetes, React, Nginx, Esp32, ESP-IDF, Redis, Postgres

Backend developer: https://nordictechjobs.com/posts/12

Backend developer: https://nordictechjobs.com/posts/25

Firmware engineer: https://nordictechjobs.com/posts/24
Fuze | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Ottawa, ON, Canada | https://www.fuze.com/

Fuze is a global, cloud-based unified communications platform that empowers productivity and delivers insights across the enterprise by enabling simplified business voice communications, flexible video conferencing and always-on collaboration. Fuze allows the modern, mobile workforce to seamlessly communicate anytime, anywhere, across any device.

Jobs at Fuze: https://www.fuze.com/careers
Missing Ilograph: https://app.ilograph.com/

It's heavier-duty compared to most of the others you have listed, but should appeal to engineers who want something more robust.
Another similar tool that I have used in the past is https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
Does feel optimized for low friction ambiently available reading queue, a touch less like Instapaper or Pocket, more like “Reading List”?

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s...
The stats show a record low trust in mainstream media. And no one denies narrative pressures in the newsroom, where behaving like Fox News is the norm at places like CNN and MSNBC, and some argue the NYT.

Your comment about objectivity in scare quotes, are you arguing there is no objectivity to seek out? Or are you pointing out that facts can be false? It's unclear why you put that in quotation marks.
there is the similar distribution of self starters in all areas of society, there is a survivorship bias towards upper middle class and upper class people because they get to try again over and over and over again. whereas someone that "makes it out" has pretty much one chance or else they have to pay off all the debt they accrued financially or to society for the next 10 years (or more). let alone if they get a little lonely and create obligations.
That's true. As long as they have not to bear the external cost it's cheap to pollute. But the market is two sided.
We can bring the cost to the polluter if we choose to.
That's assuming that only controlling our own impact is sufficient to limit the problems.
It sounds like the basic idea is the same; perceived relative status is more important than actual status, though the details obviously differ.
I don't see a reason for /proc/meminfo or /proc/cpuinfo to be a stream. Similarly /proc/$pid/{cmdline,cgroup,mounts,..} to be streams.

/proc is a very fine interface for getting realtime basic information about a process. Maybe we should leave it as it is and stop abusing well matured interfaces?

I see red when Chrome uses intentionally broken symbolic links to store information on a system for example.
Or a very realistic hypothesis that the trait has been selected due to numerous tribe-ending disasters in prehistoric times.
weird. they are well known in germany
https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Google-As-a-Proxy ?
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Fun with 3D real-estate listings
Hey World: publishing blog posts just by emailing them
Depending on where you live, you're right to live in fear. In the USA, you're probably one medical emergency (cancer?) away from bankruptcy.

I'm glad you got out, but hard work is no guarantee. A lot in this world is luck and connections.

"I made it and you can too" should be "I made it, but lots of others don't. If you work hard, you might, but don't be discouraged if you don't. It's possible to do all the right things and not make it out. If you make it out, give back to those who are in similar situations, and try to improve the pathway out of the darkness."
>> Through the low voltage architecture, you can get the power from the main battery pack and power several devices on the inverter.

He was pulling 12v from the 12v battery, but the car was topping up that battery from the main power pack. So he was effectively drawing power from the main pack. This would impact more than the 12v battery. I doubt tesla ever anticipated the 12v battery being discharged so quickly/continuously. They probably just don't know how this might impact any number of systems. An overheating 12v charging/rectifier system could fry something totally unrelated. This is exactly the sort of situation where a warranty for the entire car could/should be voided.