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Epigram (https://riftlabs.com/) | Norway, Ås | Full-time
Rift Labs are looking for top talent to join us on our exciting growth journey. Apply now to become our new Software Engineer!

Rift Labs is based in Norway, where we have been developing cutting-edge light technology and sensor-based solutions since 2010, and where we today manufacture and export products which are used primarily in the photo and film industry in the US market.

As Software Engineer you will be a part of the Technology team, responsible for a wide range of software development, including firmware, production systems and consumer-facing applications. You will be expected to be able to fill at least one of these roles (firmware, production, app) at the time of hiring, and gradually build experience within the other roles.

You will join a small but rapidly growing team of highly skilled colleagues who are extremely passionate about innovation and technology, and we expect you to be as inspired as we are by the prospect of exploring the spectrum of light to create amazing products.

Key responsibilities:

• Firmware development (C/C++ on Nordic Semiconductor microcontrollers) for new and existing products, introducing new functionality in collaboration with the commercial team

• Production software development (C#/Python/C++), with examples including camera vision for QA, light calibration, PCB testing and programming, production monitoring web app, etc.
Consumer-facing application development (Dart with Flutter framework)

Required qualifications and skills:

• A relevant bachelor/master is advantageous, but not required if the applicant can demonstrate sufficient knowledge and experience in relevant technologies

• Solid understanding of at least one high-level programming language (C#, Java, Dart, Swift, JavaScript) or embedded programming (C/C++)

• At least a basic understanding of linear algebra

You can find the application here https://nordictechjobs.com/posts/654
Do you have example of a key and keyway that are "extra slim"? I can't quite imagine that it's not possible to adapt some kind of pick - after all the key has to fit, and has to slide int the lock, "pushing" pins out of the way?

I can certainly see how such locks might be more difficult to pick, though.
He's a billionaire because the US is printing money and pumping it into the stock market, and a ton of it goes to him personally.

His salary is only $81,000 a year (and yes, it's tax deductible).
I agree it's a low value discussion, but I'm just fascinated that every comment you make exemplifies my point better than I did. The popularity of your style of interaction is precisely why policitcs should be kept out of the workplace.
Should Amazon give away their money voluntarily?

Just by playing by the rules is not good enough?

When you do your taxes, don't you with your accountant try to pay as little as possible?
Solar farms are an ecological disaster, deserts are complex ecosystems full of life.
Work Package 2: Analysis of Windows 10 (German and English)
> consumer boycotts are happening

I agree with the rest of your comment, yet calling for a boycott of a company that has reached a monopoly position in the US, and will do so soon in Europe (attained through labor rights abuses and union suppression, dirty accounting/law tricks, and lobbying (read: bribery)), is impractical and somewhat misguided. “Billionaires are a policy failure“ - this is a systemic problem and needs a systemic solution.
Thanks for doing the maths - it does seem the sampling method would not be feasible. Taking the statistic of "500 hours uploaded per minute" and assuming the average video length is 10 minutes, we can say about 1.5bn videos are uploaded to YouTube every year or 15bn every 10 years. So it seems likely that YouTube has less than 1tn videos in total.
So investigate and report on the illegitimacy then. This article fails to do that.
Bubble sort was perfectly natural to me before I learned about algorithms. I think your “fairly strong collection of evidence” is weak. We teach it because it’s a study in how not to sort, most of the time.
Perhaps there are 5G radios in the vicinity.
> What type of bad experience you had with other online retailers?

Shipping, shipping, shipping. Amazon ditches shipping providers that provide low quality, with web shops you as the customer have to pray that the shop isn't using <insert name of logistics company that has a particularly moronic local agent here>.

Many German shops ship with DHL which is expensive but has somewhat consistent quality, a wide net of post offices and Packstation lockers where you can pick up stuff yourself and (at least to my knowledge) does not engage much in using shoddy contractors. Others however... are cheap for a reason and the reason is usually underpaid to outright enslaved staff, pressured so hard by ridiculous delivery quota that they count a "not at home" delivery within 5 seconds of ringing the bell and no one answering.

Friends of mine lived in a new constructed area and they had a hard time of getting packages from anyone but DHL for months because the other services always returned packages with "unable to find address". DHL has the advantage that they are connected with the national post service which means the cities and counties provide them with always fresh information about construction works, whereas the competition is stuck on sometimes months old data.
Amazon isn't unprofitable, they just reinvest everything back into developing the company. Politicians just failed to take that scenario into account when designing the tax laws.

I do however agree with you. There is a ton of companies that only survive because investors keep pumping money into them. If you can't turn a profit after ten years, then maybe your company shouldn't exist.
putting meaning into the on-purpose meaningless bit sequence of UUID sounds IMO like a recipe for desaster.
The result mimics a UUID but isn't.
Has the author heard of photosynthesis?

He is making valid point that we would need more energy to capture but we have lot of energy we could use in daytime near equator. Fossil fuel are burnt just because they are easy to work with and could produce energy all the time, but we have lot of solar energy that is wasted.
> Many psychiatric disorders are a function of personal experience and of collective experience of the person

[Citation needed]

That seems like a bold claim relative to our current level of understanding.
Why does the federal government even need to approve a new power plant, solar or otherwise ? As long as it is done to code, legalize building!

I see that they provided 800ha of federal land, that may be why.
I love text walls lol, you’ve come to the right place.

I don’t think what you’ve written is contrary (I know that’s why things are the way they are) except that we disagree on whether it’s really justifiable or acceptable.

I do avoid games with mtx and I do support smaller devs etc., it’d just be nice if fun quality games were profitable enough again. Or if capitalism stopped seeing as it’s the source of this problem. That’s probably a bigger discussion, though.
Wouldn't that be unfair to businesses that _actually_ lose money?
Most often yields a cacophonous mess, it's true - but it really depends how carefully the image is made. If the image was made using a fullly-detail fft of a sound then you could in theory get the exact same sound back out that you put in I reckon! :) (admittedly negative color values will be required (or clever mapping), and spreading time-in-the-sound over space-in-the-image).
> OTOH, SQL is super limiting for a lot of data analysis tasks and you'll inevitably need the data in weird forms that require lots of munging.

OTGH, to some (I suspect often rather large) extent, that's because most people (I suspect including many "data scientists") are pretty bad at doing their data munging in SQL.
What’s the advantages over using group chat in WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat?
When learning about it, I'd thought LTL would be useful for declaratively specifying GUI behaviour. Does anyone know of other work in this, more particular, case?
For me, the action component advice was the worst of all. Its a "component to rule them all" which brings you closer to configuration hell.

There is nothing wrong in having separate components for "Button", "BigButton", "IconButton" and so on. It immediately tells you what the component does and the additional code is minimal.
I suspect Docker-ce to be going closed source as well. They deprecated the repo docker-ce so you can only think what happens next.
Amazon is renowned for choosing growth investments over profit. The latter is taxable; the former isn't. Therefore it's possible that their tax reporting is entirely legitimate. I welcome investigation that shows otherwise, but in the lack of any actual evidence, I don't think it's reasonable to claim tax dodging.
Well, in case you really do not get it, ket me spell it out for you in a small easy to understand sentence with simple words:

Their reported profits are a tax evasion trick.
This is hurting the very same people and nations from which they profit.
How do they impact deserts? Are there some species that can only thrive in the searing sun?

Plus, to my untrained eye, what else, except for bacteria (and even that, in limited amounts) thrives in desert conditions?

Everything I know about biology tells me that deserts are relatively bereft of life compared to temperate or tropical climates.

Also, what alternative is less harmful to life, in general?
Thanks for the super speedy reply! Good to see the intention behind things as well :D

I had no idea about the edit mark tbh - don't think I checked properly ;) cool that makes sense - history perhaps not as much as just signs of editing sounds like a decent balance.

Very very cool - perhaps with follower approval it could just be a mutual follow check. So if my notifications are 'closed' and you follow me, then I need to follow you back to 'approve'. Feels pretty frictionless. :)

Thanks again for a super cool tool!
> Deserts are complex ecosystems full of life

They are the least full of life of usual ecosystems, so if you want to minimize harm when building large infrastructure, they're the logical place to put the infrastructure.

OTOH, you may be interested by the fact that nuclear plants have the best energy density per occupied land surface, if you care about reducing ecosystem impact. That allows minimizing used land.
> When you do your taxes, don't you with your accountant try to pay as little as possible?

As a salary-earning individual, there's very little you can do to actually reduce your taxes by a meaningful amount, let alone down to zero like these corporations can.
There are no profits. Amazon loses money in europe
It would punish the businesses whose margins are low. It's unfair and would be detrimental to the economy.
Corporation tax in the UK is misnamed. It's actually "small business tax" because you don't have to pay of you fit one of: being big, being publicly traded, being multinational. I've paid similar amounts on my little one man company as many mega corps.
I find it remarkable that in this sort of case the public sentiment is to hate on the corporation, rather than on the governments who set the (byzantine) tax rules that the corporation is following.
The project "will be sited on 2,000 acres of federal land": you need owner's approval if you want to do something on his piece of land...
I was hoping for a friend to buy a laptop for me in Germany (generally low availability of new products where I live) and was positively blown away with how detailed and useful their (geizhals.de) search based on laptop specs is. Excellent stuff.
There are also competitions in procedural graphics, here are some recent work:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=procedural%20gr...
Because they cross-subsidise their unprofitable new markets with their profitable established markets, so overall the company makes (historically) a net loss. It's been a great strategy for Amazon and it is what the tax system is meant to incentivise - economic development instead of extraction.
I'm a freelancer, I'm sure many here are as well. I do my own taxes (or more precisely, my accountant does).

And it was more to demonstrate, does anyone pay more than they have to? Why do we expect businesses to act differently than how individuals do?
Because the byzantine tax rules are set by those same corporations through lobbying (aka corruption).
Maybe when they reach 62^11 + 1?
A plant is basically a self-healing, self-replicating CO2-capturing machine running off solar power and some chemicals.
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Jigsaw: A Google disinformation, toxicity, censorship and extremism control unit
The author does specifically list "planting trees", so presumably yes?

> If we’re going to capture 10 GT of CO2 a year by planting trees, how much water will we need to irrigate them?
Not if you tightly control the streaming rate to not get far ahead of a realtime playback, just mete out the video stream at a rate appropriate for watching, not as fast as the pipe can suck it down.
* you mean https://www.conversation.ai/ ?
Salaries are operating expenses, so if a company makes £1,000 revenue and pays £1,000 in salaries to its staff, it makes £0 profit.
> hit or miss

What a polite way to say it.

CEC and DDC-CI, are these two things that should be absolutely nailed given in terms of low level commands how simple they really are and how long they've been around, yet are thoroughly broken through and through in so many subtle ways, from broken payloads to timing issues.

And even when the low level protocol is correctly implemented you can be sure that the high level behaviour of the devices is not doing what you'd want it to, with no workaround possible.

e.g one device turns -all- devices on/off no questions asked, another would not allow separate configuration of being controlled vs controlling, and/or power on vs power off, a third one would disable CEC the moment you select headset audio output because it goes in the way of their MegaMagicSync+ feature (which is just CEC with a bunch of useless proprietary stuff to talk to other devices of the same brand, coz gotta "add value" and "differentiate")...
I got the impression the problem is not so much the "SELECT *" as the missing "WHERE" clause.
In Spain, Amazon is pretty decent.

I prefer it for buying general stuff just because the delivery is fast and reliable and they have a good choice of items.

For important items though like my monitor, computer components, various electronics stuff where I can't risk getting a dodgy gangplug or whatever I use PCComponentes.

The flood of low-quality and even counterfeit items makes it pretty useless for buying electronic goods.
> despite collecting record income, the Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid no tax.

If they made a loss they pay no taxes. I'm not supporting tax avoidance but this is totally basic stuff. Most likely amazon grows and invests their profits to open new sites like Sweden and it costs money.
> 600L of water for 1L of fuel

Is this actually the problem or is there other factors? A lot more is needed for 1kg of beef or certain crops.

I live in the tropics and water usage is just never an issue and if it was they'd actually store some of what falls from the sky. Truly doubt that water is the real bottleneck here.

edit: From the wiki page

Among algal fuels' attractive characteristics are that they can be grown with minimal impact on fresh water resources, can be produced using saline and wastewater
nice and concise, chapeau.
GPUs have specialized hardware for video transcoding, no? So this actually makes sense. The product was already made (although, perhaps not up to Youtube's standard) by GPU manufacturers.
As the author points out: they are. But you have to look at the CO2 emitted for compressing that gas and creating the containers and so on.
No they do not necassarily reinvest everything back to the company, they just funnel the money to tax heavens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4o13isDdfY
Don't hate the player. If the problem is corruption, then amazon is the wrong target if you want meaningful change.
I've just tried to find Gary Overacre on the web. This page, http://scad-atl-illu.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-weekend.html, has a link to www.garyoveracre.com but it doesn't exist.

Jeff Atwood has the same link on this Coding Horror page: https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-recipes-for-novices/.

Perhaps Atwood knows where Overacre is?

Gary Overacre seems to have been a moderately important illustrator in the US with magazine covers and board games to his credit but now he's slipped into oblivion. Not even a Wikipedia page
The cli from here? https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
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Chunks of “Long March 5B” will hit earth around 10 May 2021 (again)
>nuclear plants have the best energy density per occupied land surface, if you care about reducing ecosystem impact. That allows minimizing used land.

and when it blows it naturally provides for a huge blossoming ecosystem refuge guaranteed to be free of development for the centuries to come like the Chernobyl zone.

Edit in response to the comment below: the false dichotomy. Basically the same old Big Energy tries to blackmail our civilization into nuclear using the threat of coal. No pasaran.
As someone currently dabbling in the space, this is great reality checklist for a majority of research papers (and, unfortunately, a large majority on commercial endeavours, too) on the topic. The author makes a solid delivery on his outset promise.

It just might help to shed some light on something akin to the blockchain/machine learning hypecycle bubbles amongst startups.
They also use "_" and "-" according to Tom Scott.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8
This

I am sure most of Twitter activity is bots and trolls. Banning them will hurt Twitter significantly.

Controversial posts on social media like Facebook, Twitter etc get most attention and user involvement.

Social media sites will only do virtue signaling but never fix the root problem.
According to Amazon Inc's 2020 10-K filing, Amazon's international subsidiaries paid almost $5bn in royalty fees back to the US parent company[1]. It's hard to make a profit in Europe after you pay all those hefty fees!

[1] https://www.taxwatchuk.org/amazon-tax-structure/
This is the best online course I've ever done.

Not only does it teach you loads, but it teaches you a much greater appreciation of the technology and it's really fun.

I realise this sounds like an advert but honestly I cannot recommend it enough.
Why haven't local shops switched to deliveries in France?
Bezos's billions are from capital appreciation of his Amazon stocks. They are pending taxation, because the US (and pretty much all other countries) don't tax unrealised capital gains, because they are not stable - during a crash Bezos' net worth would drop by tens of billions of dollars, and the government wouldn't want to have to refund the capital gains tax it took from him - and because they are hard to measure for illiquid assets - if Amazon were still a private company, it would be difficult to value. So they wait until a definitive final sale, which provides a convenient line in the sand for both problems. There is, however, a loophole in the US, where capital gains are ignored if you hold your assets until your death - which incentivises people to never sell.
> breaching the sovereign territory of a purported U.S. ally to target an icon of international violence and terror.

so when US does it it's ok.
Yeah, similarly surprised, since I always do sudo tee.
I am really amazed by the comments saying "they did not make profits so it is reasonable they do not pay any taxes". You are skipping the whole point which is that a company that made 44bn sales income didn't really make 0 or negative profits, they are simply tax evading.

I also think that this is very useful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4o13isDdfY
Denmark has LVT for private residences. It's based on the price of the undeveloped land, but it's still in effect for private residences [1].

[1] https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2244323
Okay, so we build out massive renewable capacity. Wouldn't that energy be better used directly, than to run inefficient carbon capture equipment while other people keep pumping the stuff into the atmosphere? Wouldn't that system basically be using the atmosphere as a really crappy battery, where the efficiency is shit and we still have to keep digging up oil to make it work? Yeah, renewables are peaky, but surely there are better ways of solving that problem?
If you actually lose money on a per unit basis at massive scale, then either you're doing it because you've got a long term plan that's going to make much more back and access to investment, or you should stop...

The trickier bit with revenue taxes is that businesses operating in ideally competitive markets naturally have very small margins over the long term anyway, so they (and their consumers) are penalised more than the oligopolies
I assume you mean breastfeeding, which usually only occurs for the first 12-18 months. Further many children are not exclusively breastfed for more than 6 months.
Why wouldn't you use wild type algae, they are already quite efficient in producing biomass?
Its a personal preference for having a device lasting more than a year.
Bezos' billionaire-ness is partly on paper (based on Amazon's valuation) and partly acquired by selling his shares in Amazon. The money comes from investors gambling on the future value of the company, not from skimming off the money that Amazon actually makes. The two things are taxed completely separately, and this article is only about taxing Amazon itself, not its investors.
> Just because they purchase and resell inventory doesn't mean Costco (or Walmart or Sams Club etc) doesn't hold the same power over their product suppliers that Amazon does

With the Costco example, Costco as a retailer holds power over their product suppliers. If they are making an own brand, what they are doing is buying it from another supplier and asking that manufacturer to put their own label on it. These relationships can be anti-competitive and present opportunities for market-abuse, but in a meaningfully different way to the Amazon example.

With the Amazon example, Amazon holds power over other retailers using their platform.

And with the Walmart example you have stated, I do think that suffers from the same problems.
I now see a lot of crypto projects are now using .org domain.
I think it's an interesting idea and I believe Estonia is doing exactly that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Estonia

> However, the system of corporate earnings taxation currently in force in Estonia is a unique system, which shifts the moment of corporate taxation from the moment of earning the profits to the moment of their distribution. In other words, earning profits in itself does not bring income tax liability, which arises only when earned profit is distributed to shareholders.
Amazon has built so much goodwill with me it'll take mountains before I start boycotting it. If they're subsidized by reinvested profits, all the better.

Here's my requirements list for stores I'll patronize: online presence, less than one week delivery, relatively cheap delivery, good selection of items, honest refunds UX, UI patterns that don't say "we're trying to fuck over our customers". Amazon has had all that for 10+ years when no other store would do it, and most stores still don't manage.

The majority of small businesses in my country refuse to do as little as a facebook page and are not accessible so I won't give them money.

For food delivery from supermarkets, I checked a few years back the delivery cost more than the food and they wouldn't ship heavy items.

Almost all other online stores I try to use rely on dark patterns to trick customers, either with fake prices, fake reviews, hidden shipping policies, hidden costs that only appear at the last step of the checkout, complex refund flows, etc...