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OpenAQ | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote (US) | https://openaq.org

We are an environmental nonprofit building open data infrastructure and open source tools to help communities around the world fight air pollution, responsible for 1 out of 8 deaths worldwide. The OpenAQ Platform has 3.6 billion realtime and historical air quality measurements from 120 countries and gets ~35 million API requests per month.

Why is this the coolest job ever? You would be the second engineer (along with me, the Platform Lead) so you would have an enormous impact. You get to work with interesting people from all over the world including NASA scientists, government officials from Ghana, data journalists from India, citizen activists from Mongolia, engineers in Berlin (that was just this week). By building data infrastructure that's open source, you get to be a force multiplier for really important, impactful work often at the cutting-edge of what's possible.

Feel free to reach out with questions if this sounds interesting: sruti at openaq dot org

Detailed job description and how to apply: https://openaq.medium.com/openaq-is-hiring-senior-software-e...

P.S. Even if you're not interested in the job, we are always looking for open source contributors: https://github.com/openaq
Yes, but is that an argument against nuclear energy in general or argument against building a nuclear plant in tsunami-endangered area?
Could you explain how CGroup would prevent page-fault causing more disk IO than allocated to the Control group ?

On most LINUX distro I have seen, running a process that allocate too much memory just freeze the whole use interface.

1- mouse cursor move super slowly
2- it become almost impossible to drag window and close windows ...

If what you are saying it true, simply running critical process (mouse driver, X-Windows, Gnome) in a high priority Cgroup would solve this problem.
Heh, I can speak rudimentary Italian, so I used to do the same thing when I was studying Chinese.

Percentage of people I knew in Taiwan who could speak English: 40%
Percentage of people I knew in Taiwan who could speak Italian : 0%
I don't think you're using bike shed in the right context, but let's not go down that rabbithole.

I specifically did evaluate Crystal some time ago, having a set of properties that seemed to hit a sweet spot. I gave it a fair go working on several projects with some of the popular Crystal web frameworks. I went in with full enthusiasm. In the end, only the most basic framework, Kemal (Lightning Fast, Super Simple web framework. Inspired by Sinatra) was tolerable. Definitely not a Rails/Ruby replacement. After that, I favored Phoenix/Elixir for such projects.
Thanks for taking a long view
An investor has other constraints that prevent them from acting in the best interest of the company. Especially VCs have a timeline they need to hit for their fund so they'll push founders to make -EV decisions to speedup the timeframe. Investors also only care about the value of their portfolio, not the value of an individual company. Portfolio infighting, for example lawsuits, is highly discouraged even if it's for the benefit of one company. An advisor is usually an industry professional with fewer constraints and fewer possible sources of conflict.
Ask HN: Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Amok in BigTech
In a FANG/BigTech company and over the last few years DEI culture has grown in an unhealthy manner. Critiquing it is verboten, and for managers is a career-limiting move. Leaders constantly push it, which leads to hours of cringeworthy events examining privilege and race. I'm not even white and I feel bad for all the white people around me who have to take this without speaking up. Ideally race would grow less important over time, but it's the opposite. And apparently saying that one is "colorblind" is "problematic" now. Not to mention the pervasive casual contempt thrown around for conservative ideas and people, when doing the opposite would get you hauled in front of HR. There is a glaring contradiction here in BigTech saying it wants creative, free-thinking people and then creating this stifling environment on the inside. Wondering if others had similar experiences, or felt that this whole DEI thing was still net positive?
> What value is added by using a separate VPC?

Adding more mechanisms on top is pointless when the effort could be invested in, for example, automated auditing of SGs, which is vastly more potent from a hardening perspective than adding additional layers of technical redundancy that are still exposed to the same flawed human processes.

When you reach a team of 10-20 folk on a project, stuff tends to get confusing and/or lazy with elaborate configurations. Security design therefore is about more about managing that outcome through simplicity and process hardening than.. well.. I don't even know what threats a separate VPC protects against
Not just that solar is the cheapest but nuclear is also the second most expensive option. I really don't understand this recent flood of pro-nuclear posts on HN.

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
The fact they think that individual customizations of clothing is a joke, when that's exactly what they advertise, says a lot about the company. You're just cattle, and they think it's hilarious you're actually falling for their marketing wank.

I'd _highly_ recommend M-Tailor however as an alternative. It's not a subscription box, but the clothes are extremely well made and the "body scanning" technology actually works (especially for someone of an odd body size like myself: 6'5", 205lbs, athletic build).

Another good company, but I don't know much about other than they're based in Southeast Asia is iTailor. They'll build you -exactly- what you want, to a fault in my experience. Get measured professionally by someone with experience if you're going this route.
I was talking with a friend who worked at IBM in the heyday. He mentioned that a lot of the time, it wasn't so much that talent got used, it was that talent was not used elsewhere. Stiffing innovation is just as effective as breeding it when you're already on top.
Xenobots 2.0: These Living Robots Self-Assemble from Frog Skin Cells
Current Firefox shows this error in the page: SyntaxError: import declarations may only appear at top level of a module
I heard a talk from the Space Applications Catapult about this a few months back. It isn't online any more, but some I noted some stats at the time. The station would be 1km wide and 4-5000 tonnes in geostationary orbit, producing >2GW. It would beam power down via microwave to a receiving station 3-5km in diameter, so power density would be sufficiently low to not be a danger - "aircraft flying through it would not burst into flames"

Projected cost was about equal to HS2 (about $100bn) for the pilot station but with much reduced costs for subsequent deployments.
There’s a Lot That Can Go Wrong with ‘Vaccine Passports’
Sounds to me like what they shoukd be doing is instead of trying to "reinvest" profits from ads instead pay them out to shareholders so they can more efficiently redistibute it to multiple smaller businesses
This is flagrantly incorrect. All the really big "lifestyle" brands use sans serif instead.
I like your work on Mito, and I feel like it’s the python answer to a project that I’m working on which is the equivalent but with Haskell, or rather a riff on Haskell to be more amenable to spreadsheets-like programming.

One thing that you can do when you have a pure functional programming language is rather than generating separate cells for modifications, you can go into the code and modify it directly fairly reliably.

I’ve linked my project elsewhere, don’t want to spam the thread.
Probably not. Human has been known to augment intelligence with tool usage throughout history. Better tools will come along and the human+tool fusion will move forward in the intelligence department.
For a sense of scale, the Svalbard archipelago has a population of about 3,000.

Antarctica's seasonal peak is around 5,000.
> there is no reason as a nation a standardized design could not be created and installed with good speed and low costs.

There is, actually, if by "low costs" we mean lower than solar. If you take a nuclear plant and remove the nuclear reactor from it, what you have left is a steam-driven generator and a firebox where the reactor used to be. That's what a coal power plant is. Coal power plants cost about twice as much per watt to build as current solar power plants, and solar power keeps getting cheaper. So it's unlikely that nuclear power plants will start costing less—to build—per watt than coal plants.

(They could of course cost less to operate per watt, since they don't have to buy fuel by the trainload or dispose of fly ash. But just the cost to build a coal plant makes it uncompetitive with solar in most of the world, unless you make very pessimistic assumptions about intermittency and the cost of utility-scale energy storage, which is, however, still an unknown.)

So, it's even more unlikely that nuclear power will get cheaper than solar power. Unless you're in, like, Svalbard or something. Or there's a revolutionary new way to build supercritical steam turbines that makes them much cheaper per watt and isn't also applicable to making solar panels. Steam turbines were invented 137 years ago and have been a big business central to the economy of every developed country for decades, so I'm not holding my breath.
I don't see the specific term "steal." Which paragraph are you referring to?
P/E means price-earnings ratio, earnings means profits rather than revenues. E.g., Walmart has P/E of 28.6 but Price/Revenue=0.68 (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/key-statistics?p=WMT)
My beef isn’t with the measurement, but with the presentation thereof. This problem you have recognized is so common that a framework was developed [1]. I don’t feel the work addresses all element of that framework satisfactorily. Others may disagree, and that’s okay.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthening_the_reporting_...
Running a slow hash operation that should take a non-negligible amount of CPU on your single core per process database server isn’t a great idea.

That’s not a rag on stored procedures more generally. Just that specific use case scales poorly to a large number of operations as its inherently cpu bound.
The worst part is, I'm not sure it was only one person.
maybe you're right. shrug. does your script change the working directory? do all systems have fancy core file management now? does it still cause issues with unmounting?

it is true that it's rare to see a daemonize flag these days...
> (Or maybe I'm 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.)

You're 25 years younger in a corporate environment that has thoroughly taken control of this kind of thing.

> BillG said, in effect, that the prank was not in good taste, and that it made Microsoft look stupid rather than clever - especially as a catch-up to Sun Microsystems.

He was pissed because, while a "joke", it was an valid and accurate criticism as well. Sun was miles ahead of Microsoft and many other companies, in several different ways. Microsoft dominated because Gates was a ruthless son of a bitch who repeatedly broke laws that were poorly enforced back then.

I had a whole tirade typed out, but I realized that HN is full of true believers in the "New Bill Gates". I'm not. He's trying to buy a legacy so he can overwrite the shit one he had when he was at the helm of Microsoft. Sadly, it'll work because people have short memories.
It's possible to learn from someone else acting and observing the results only if you understand what the observed person is doing and could map it to yourself. Which babies for example cannot do. They like you making crazy faces but when very young they don't learn how to do the same thing from that. I think for two reasons, first they don't know what you did to make that face (which in the "experimenting yourself" case they would have known even if it was a random action) and second they can't map what they see to actions with their own body. Both need to be learned first before you can learn from observation. While learning from your own (random) interactions with the world is possible from day 1.
Probably because he's in American academia?
> No, but it's certainly a statement about our ability to operate nuclear power. You really can't separate the two.

... in tsunami endangered areas. Yes, Japanese made a bad mistake to let Americans build such a badly designed nuclear plant in that region and this was known before the disaster. They did not care - the price was good and the risk was acceptable to the people in charge.

Most of nuclear plants in the world are not in tsunami endangered areas though and are operated safely.
DarkHTTPD appears to be self-hosted on Apache. It's also configured to force HTTPS too, even if the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header isn't present. That's one of my pet peeves.
>Marks was widely regarded as a terrible decision because it made no sense at the time.

Citation? I've looked over _Marks_, and it doesn't seem unreasonable, and the 9th circuit was not the only court to adopt the same interpretation of the statute. I can see why certain industries would lothe that rule, but it doesn't seem to me that the Court's opinion is a fine, if not exemplary, example of legal interpretation. Similarly, it's far from clear that Congress intended that such behavior be permissible when they passed the law.

Honestly, _Marks_ makes more sense to me than the Supreme Court's interpretation does. Reading a law's text in the narrow and formal way that they did causes the law to be nonsensical.
- Monolith/Tokencard: down 90% from peak.[1]

- Funfair: down about 95% from peak.[2]

- Brave basic attention token - actually went up.

- Augur - down about 70% from peak.

- Maker/DAI is a sort-of-stable coin. [4] DAI is supposed to be stable with respect to dollars, but is backed by Etherium and the right to dilute Maker coins. So Maker holders are subordinate creditors. Unclear how that will hold up in a downturn. Interesting, though.

- Filecoin has been going way up lately, with institutional backing. That's interesting and needs further attention. It's a scheme for trading disk storage capacity.

- Chainlink has gone way up. Although the system for actually storing files is only in beta, and hasn't been priced yet.

- Cardano - way up at the ICO, then way down for three years, now back up to slightly above the ICO peak. This is a proof of stake system.

- Etherium - big peak in 2017, crashed to about 15% of peak, now back up.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monolith/

[2] https://icomarks.com/ico/funfair

[3] https://www.coinbase.com/price/basic-attention-token

[4] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/augur/

[5] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/multi-collateral-dai/

[6] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-is-filecoin-a...

[7] https://www.coinbase.com/price/chainlink

[8] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/cardano/
I took a waymo in Chandler that had no safety driver and it was able to make unprotected left turns just fine.
The ones who do it this way, yes. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it looks like he bought the stocks shortly before and then sold shortly after.

That's going to show up in a simple search, and there's not a lot of alternative explanations for it.
Just wanted to say, from the outside, John Krafcik seemed to me like a strong leader.

I used to live in Mountain View and at one point I saw a few Waymo vans (this was 3-4 years ago when they were more active) speeding on El Camino (just barely, and being manually driven at the time, but even though I work for a competitor I was concerned if an accident happened it'd be a bad publicity event; i.e., Waymo vehicles should always be extra, extra careful, etc.); and it just made me wonder what was going on. So I connected with him on LinkedIn; and then ended up reaching out to some QA folks I believe.

Anyway, John was super responsive and I always appreciated that. From what I could see (just one anecdote), he was a CEO who dived deep into customer concerns. There's a lot to be said for that.

My two cents is it's a very delicate space. One bad event and the whole industry can be set back. So it's an area (despite extremely cutting-edge tech; deep learning, etc.) that has to roll out gradually.
When you stop calling something a crime, it no longer contributes to the statistics

If you select the entirety of 2020 on the link you provided, several crimes are in fact up YoY

Also note that the default you are looking at is only a partial time frame, largely pre-COVID, and the same situation applies to the different crimes see different changes. The crimes that did go down make sense with lockdowns (i.e. you can't steal from closed stores or assault people on empty sidewalks)
> the justices made clear that it’s the job of Congress, not the court, to update statutes in the face of technological change.

Uh oh, lobbyists just came in their pants.
Which is why in The Dukes of Hazzard, Bo & Luke carried compound bows (with dynamite tied to the arrows!). Because they were moonshiners (a federal felony) they couldn't have guns.
According to Gwern's theory[0], there's no point dying on this hill right now as future genetic testing will illuminate reality.

[0]https://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#iq
It's true that we know comparatively little about middle paleolithic human culture, but "anything" and "all the settlements" is a stretch. For example, we've found a structure, likely from a seasonal settlement, dated to 100 kYA in what's today southern Egypt.
https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/paleolithic/
My website also got multiple times in the HN frontpage and there was never any lags even on a very cheap VPS. The websites that get the HN hug of death are often the one requiring database access (e.g. wordpress).
I have client who has developed industry-changing medical technology but they do not want to sell any equity.

We are looking at a bank loan to fund the factory and growth. They sell products that cost $5 per metre and sells at $500 per metre.

Bank loans are under used in startups but every company is different.
Basically same thing happened to me, except it was my teacher and some angry IT guy that gave me a ribbing, principal called him.

> "it's Evan" (yes, I put my name)

I just sent 'test' and I think it shows IP or computer name, but it didn't really matter, I had to confess when they asked the class who did it.

'net' has so much stuff crammed into it though, it's unbelievable. Feels like a skeleton key that just barely follows rules.
If one did, they would most likely keep it quiet as to not be the next target or seen as a stallman supporter. Anyone that speaks up for RMS under their real name will be blasted all over twitter.
We must have a craving for justice — I feel lifted somehow when I read about criminals being caught.
FWIW, the brain size reduced notecably in the last tens thousand years.

Search internet for more info.

The first link I found:

> Based on measurements of skulls, the average brain volume of Homo sapiens has reportedly decreased by roughly 10 percent in the past 40,000 years.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-human-brai...
If they would pay the copyright holder some defensible amount, then it could be the IP version of eminent domain.
The difference between “selling a growth story” and “selling current profits booked by incurring future liabilities” seems entirely like a semantic one. What’s the practical difference?
> the insurance rates are based on a woeful misunderstanding of the risks

Any self-respecting libertarian would call that a market opportunity. If you're right, there's a lot of money to be made insuring nuclear plants.
Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades.

When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and came back from the trip with a box of Microsoft Coffee. He claimed to have gotten it from a store called Egg-Head’s Software or Egghead Computing or something like that. (EDIT: Upon reading the full article it seems to have been Egghead Software.)

I took it to my computer club and was laughed out of the room for it being fake. I believe he still has it somewhere, in storage...

Needless to say, I have some friends to email given that I’ve been the victim of “my uncle works at Nintendo” style teasing about this for years.
Given the discussion generated here and probably elsewhere, why do you believe the authors chose not to present a matched hospitalization control group alongside their control group? It’s pretty standard: that’s why they included a sentence saying they chose not to (albeit without any justification).

Why deviate?
Åland is in the EU, but the EU tax rules don't apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territori...
I have similar feelings on a larger span of modern life. A big word this day is availability. As today everybody should be able to have every possible capability on their smartphone. And I think it's misguided (but a natural effect of the capacity for modern societies to produce everything fast and cheap now).. it confuses tool for craft. And yeah it kinda creates a race to the bottom, at least as long as the belief holds on the large. One day people will realize that no matter what you give to the mass, only few people will have grit/stamina/talent/luck to do something special with it, and oh surprise, turns out they used a VCR and a piece of cardboard, not your deeplearning infused movie infering app of the day.
Maybe businesses don't need revenue streams. I wonder by how much the Moonshot program, increased Google's Market Cap.
It was extremely popular but I think people started to realize how useless it was after Windows Server 2012.
I am 32. I Could have written this 7 years ago. I no longer accept job offers at any salary in this industry.

In fact, all my emails and communications are written in this style all the time with everyone - what shall I do now wise one? (serious question)

You wanna start a band or whatever. Maybe we can start like an Elks club thing?
I think the major issue is that those uninformed on the subjects treat the energy problem as if there is a singular solution: renewables, nuclear, fossil fuels. Which this is such a weird way to present the problem. But then again I see a lot of people complain about CCS because it "encourages the use of fossil fuels," implying that means emissions, which it doesn't. The conversation has become political and not technical and I think that's what is frustrating to me. (I bring up CCS because it is discussed in the article and also something controversial in the public eye but not in the scientific community)
I agree, fond memories. Today you can get all the popular colors for less than a penny each.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32848810276.html
I maybe wrong, but I was under the impression that trades are essentially anonymous unless they are for a significant percentage of the stock.
It's better to watch these lectures instead: https://justiceharvard.org/ .
Well, no agency in the US can “send” someone to prison, outside the judicial system.

But the SEC can certainly start investigations and then take someone to court in conjunction with DAs the country over, and a possible result can be imprisonment.
Isn't the problem with RMS that he is too tolerant? He is tolerant of people we find bad.
95% of people (which is a "vast majority") could have normal mild to moderate post-viral symptoms which go away entirely in 12 months. If 5% have long term disabilities then with something like ~100M people in the USA having been infected that would be ~5M with long term disabilities. That would be 20 times more people than were affected by Gulf War Syndrome. That amounts to a 1.5% chunk taken out of the civilian labor force participation rate.

A small minority of people having serious difficulties with the virus can turn into a large medical issue when the denominator is 1/3 to 1/2 of the country getting infected.