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Qualli Inc | Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA (ONSITE POST Covid) | 120k+ | H1B OK

Economic Infrastructure for Logistics.

We are a seed-stage company focused on fintech in logistics. We want to make the billing and payment process as smooth as consumers paying for online goods. So Qualli can help trillions of dollars move more efficiently and improve millions of people’s livelihood.

We have a team of 6, primarily engineers and data scientists with a logistics background. We're looking for two full-stack engineers. Ideal candidates are experienced in building complex, data-heavy enterprise applications. Experience in fintech or logistics is a plus but not required. Qualli’s tech stack today is mostly typescript with node on the backend and react/redux on the frontend, running on AWS.

We offer company-covered health care, including medical, vision, and dental insurances. We offer unlimited vacation and reimburse gym membership (ski pass or equivalent)

Open Roles
If you do not see your role list here but are excited about what Qualli is building, send a note to founders@qualli.com.
Full-Stack Engineer - https://angel.co/company/qualli/jobs/1398627-full-stack-engi...
C) Incentives are clearer. As an Asperger, dealing with corporate games and social games and the fakery of managing everyone’s mood is unbearable. Now founded a startup, the only job I have kept more than 2.5 years… and 8 in fact, and going strong. Either a customer is happy, or he isn’t because we don’t fulfill his need, and that’s easy to deal with for me.
Almost the only reason I would choose c over c++ for embedded would be if the c++ compiler was garbage for the platform or the team wouldn't allow it.
hangover's get worse when you are older, or when you are older you drink less regularly so you get a worse hangover?
I'm not sure if it was necessary or they just hadn't needed to change it, but one of the undergrad physics practicals at Cambridge used a Windows 9x machine (I think it was 98, at least as of 2008). Seeing "It is now safe to turn off your computer" again at the end of the session was oddly comforting.
Not sure if the nail painting itself is what women pay for when they go to a nail salon.

Carefully scraping old nail polish, treating skin around the nail and nail shape are probably most labor-intensive tasks that many women want to offload to a paid specialist.

Painting already prepared nail is the easy part, AFAIK.

On a scale from Tesla Autopilot (A) to Juicero (J) I would give it G.
> binge drink to party and forget about their troubles

Party, yes. Forget their troubles? Not in the context I’ve seen it happen in.

Drinking was always a strictly enjoyable activity in itself, not something you did to forget your troubles.
Roth ira is not a roth 401k

Ive never been able to figure out why personal finance sites and gurus conflate that, I can find no advantage of a roth ira it looks simply like an inferior product/provision
It isn't ... But HN loves BBC for some reason.
The US indeed has a very unfree health care system, and that is the source of the bulk of the problems with it, such as incredible costs.

It's not a coincidence that the industries heavily distorted by the government in the US are the costliest - health care and education. Ironically, this interference was all aimed at reducing cost.
Shopify for SaaS [1]

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[1] https://opportunities.so/brainstorming-shopify-for-saas-with...
Yeah, trying to infer probabilities from a dataset with one sample point is strange. (Especially when all our priors are from philosophical axioms and not observation.)
Hello Dan! Nice to see you here!

Rereading my previous comment, I realise that part of it could be misinterpreted. The diybookscanner project was wonderful to be part of, to contribute to.

One thing I realise was particularly impressive about diybookscanner.org was how much time you spent making it an environment friendly to broad experimentation and tinkering. Exploring broadly was absolutely necessary for a project like this. Mechanical triggering, the SDM experiments I had forgotten about, lighting, glass experiments, and more.

You sowed some powerful seeds. Your effort nursed diybookscanner.org into something that still speaks to the imagination of so many people. I feel privileged to have been part of that, and I'm more than happy to give you full credit.
Amazon Now Supports Federal Cannabis Legalization
Dengue is a serious health threat in Singapore. Fogging (1) is pretty common.

Now, the Singapore government says fogging should be used judiciously, not routinely. But, that doesn't seem to be the case. Many condos will fog once a week, year-round. Supposedly all operations must be submitted in the an "E-fogging Submission System", but as far as I can tell, there's no visibility into this.

Singapore has also recently declared a "climate change emergency", and I'd consider biodiversity, at the very least, a part of that.

My point is that: if the Singapore Government is unable or unwilling to manage this with a sense of urgency (or "emergency"), then I'm not generally hopeful.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogging_(insect_control)
Instead of "altering" a stream, you use OBS to take the camera input, then output it via virtual cam. Once you have the basics setup, you can get fancy setting up scenes, overlays, color corrections etc. Works great for green screens as well.

https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-use-obss-virtual-camera

(There are other articles that talk about using a plugin, that isn't required after OBS v25, they integrated the feature).
In my experience wiki articles on mathematics are really bad for learning about a new topic. What they are good for is brushing up on something you once knew, or learning a few new details about something.

But this is almost a necessity, since people will have so different backgrounds. Just imagine bringing a first-grader up to speed on the gibbs phenomenon. That's a lot of things they need to learn first.

Mathematics is, unlike almost any other subject a tower of learning where everything builds on the previous level. So it's uniquely hard.
World of Warcraft classic is another example. It's a beautiful world thats a pain to get around, but forces you to enjoy it.
Small time farmers who are at the mercy of handful of Big Corp. will do everything at their hands to increase the yield for meeting the demand laid down upon them or they perish.

So this is not just a technical problem.
Great book to read about the history of American drinking is "Drink: A Social History of America" by Andrew Barr <https://www.amazon.com/Drink-History-America-Andrew-Barr/dp/...>. It covers the historical forces behind the current state of drinking, why the drinks are what they are, and more. Fascinating, and full of anecdotes. This is a parallel book to his "Drink: A Social History" which was about the British social history of alcohol. Also fascinating.
I can't agree. It should be enforced with extreme prejudice. Some people's lives may depend on it.
Interesting new fabric tech such as Tencel "cotton" (from fast growth drought resistant trees such as Eucalyptus) and Piñatex leather (food waste of pineapples) are hopeful alternatives.
Is there something similar purely for the frontend? Say I just want that users can explore a given dataset in an Airtable-like interface, whereas I don't need any fancy tools on the backend.
There are two important things here:

1. If the smallest laptop chips are this efficient what do you think a full fat desktop chip will look like?
2. I think desktop/workstation is the only category where energy usage isn’t that important, it’s probably less than $100 per year with our usage patterns (don’t quote me on that)P. But for server and laptop it’s very important (for totally different reasons).

(Realistically it’s probably a max performance vs efficient trade off, but that may be in part because we’ve not seen any large apple chips, so we don’t know how it scales)s
You can always self-host it: https://github.com/financial-times/polyfill-service
Great addition (no pun intended), thanks.
With nearly a million lines (some >100 MB) of dependencies, I can't believe it's not Electron.
I agree with you. It's not that Germans don't drink a lot - but it's just not as much in a single session and generally not for the purpose of getting drunk.

Most people don't understand the concept of standard drink sizes (for medical purposes or blood alcohol calculation). Firstly the standard drink size in the US is larger than in the US, but even so it's still smaller than the typical size drink people actually receive. If there were more awareness around standard drink sizes we might discover that Americans drink more than statistics capture by a lot (though probably not more than Germans)! In Germany most of my friends in the US would be considered alcoholics.

- shots are typically much larger in the US - about 2x-3x

- the standard beer size (for beer on tap) is usually a pint in the US. In Germany it's about a half pint! (That's why Germans can have a lunch beer)

- Canned wine is fairly popular in the US, but nobody realizes that this is essentially half of bottle of wine.

On a related note: most people definitely drive under the influence (legally drunk) in the US! :(

I grew up in Germany in the restaurant business (family business) and was a bar tender from a young age (albeit in a fancy restaurant with a few locals who'd sit at the bar). The most shots I've ever seen someone drink in an evening was 9 shots - my staff and I thought that person was a crazy alcoholic. Those shots are 2cl. When you compare that to the typical tequila shots in US bars it's basically ~3 shots (a little more), which people in their 20s and 30s tend to drink like it's no big deal.

I have lived several places in the Midwest, in SF, Chicago and of course traveled lots of places in the US for business and vacation.

Disclaimer: German in the US for 15+ years.

I'm writing this right now whilst drinking my German Import Pilsener to wind down from work :D
Cedar AI | Seattle | Full-time software engineers

Cedar AI is a small Seattle-based startup building management and automation products for short line and class 1 railroads. Our team is a mix of engineers from major tech companies (AWS, Google, Microsoft, Uber) and railroad industry veterans.

We're looking for frontend and backend engineers. Our current stack is mostly React, Python, and Go on AWS.

Email: hn@cedarai.com

https://www.cedarai.com
Hello! Love the website. I'm 100% going to use it in the future! However, if you use inspect element you can easily see the suit of the card before its flipped.
I've been to Europe many times. It's no better there than here. In the USA it's a bit of a regional thing as well, some states are much worse than others, but I don't think Europeans should feel like they have "superior drinking practices", they're just as bad.
When I was in college the iPad had just come out. I was determined to save money so I snagged an iPad to use as my omnitextbook and built a scanner based upon one of the schematics on this site with a friend.

I would usually be the guy that made an email group for everyone to share notes and questions for classes pre all of the blackboard garbage, so I started leveraging those connections and would ask if anyone would let me borrow their book for a scanned version in return. My friends and I would have a book scanning party and would help to scan each others’ books. We’d grab some drinks, find some favorite albums and hang out all night until the wee hours taking turns scanning texts.

After one semester the setup paid for itself. I would supplement some texts with learning trackers like bitme before amazing resources came around like libgen. Good times.
That part of you wants to believe in alien visitors, seems to be independent of the priors you have (about the impossibility of this) that filters your interpretation of the data. I think that's normal. People's ideas do not need to be self-consistent and can "contain multitudes".

To extend the pirate rapists example from my other answer. Maybe you'd never known a pirate that had raped a person, but I think if you knew someone who told you that story, and you'd heard other people had similar experiences, you'd certainly believe them.

Or maybe not pirates but Trump supporters. Or whatever group fit your priors for likely/payoff for you to do this. So the "aliens are not a smart possibility" here is just an interpretation skewed by the way you want to read signal in the evidence.

It's equal that we can look at the same things and come to different conclusions. That's diversity of opinion and experience. But maybe you haven't even looked at the same things. Certainly we look at them in different ways.

I believe aliens are here. But I'm not saying this Navy evidence points to that definitely. I'm saying it doesn't rule it out. It's smart to keep open to it. I'd say the preponderance of witness evidence over decades without a doubt points to that they are here. Does this evidence prove it? No to me. But I know it. It's what I believe based on my own knowledge and experiences.

You have a different belief is normal. I don't think either of us can claim to be "right" on this topic re evidence (tho about the solar system, what do you think about those weird obelisks? structures on the moon? NASA's history of censoring space photos? Lights on Ceres, on Phobos, on Luna?)

In one view, the lack of solid widely accepted data is why there's so much "meat" to be argued about, but actually I don't think that's the meat, that's just reaching the ground consensus that people will reach different conclusions and I think as long as they do so with an open mind to the evidence that's valid.

I do think you have to admit that what you say about it comes not from evidence, but from your interpretation of it. It's not proven either way, it's just your belief that it's so. And that's all that matters so far right.
> (they refused to let me continue any work on the open- source project while I was employed there)

I somehow thought that was illegal for residents of California, and IMHO should be illegal nationwide on general "not indentured servitude" grounds. Then again, I guess who wants to go up against Apple's legal team to find out
> taxpayers who make $452k single/$509k married

I wish I was so unlucky!
Or dinosaurs developed technology, detected the killer meteor, and relocated to Venus.
Having fun with https://www.taskfiler.com/ - an absurdly large list of to-do app reviews.
It definitely wasn't just words to my new college friends as the stories are bad but not so extreme that one can't imagine having such an experience. But as a way to form closer friendships it failed. It was the first time I ever felt someone pitied me. That oddly made me feel ashamed. I'd question if a woman can ever really be attracted to man they pity or a man who has been sexually abused, for example.
Rakuten (Rakuten Rewards) | San Mateo, CA or San Francisco, CA | Some Remote | H-1B Transfer | Full Time | iOS Engineers, Android Engineers

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* Browse / Discovery - this is my squad and we're responsible for helping users discover new merchants on Rakuten and converting new members to making their first of many purchases

* Platform - this squad is responsible for building out the platform that other squads can build their features on such as the design system, headless CMS infrastructure, and everything in between. There are also new exciting features that are being planned but cannot be discussed here yet.

More on Rakuten:

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I think the idea is to highlight this problem - especially as more and more labs have complex machinery with a PC as an essential component of it.

And that this task is often not the responsibility of a research IT professional, but a puzzled grad student.
Terraform and docker-compose can work well together. Terraform to describe the AWS infrastructure, and docker-compose to say what's running on a given VM.
this is a great idea.. i wonder how rapidly youtube cracks down on IPs being used across 1 cookie in a short period of time
Not an option for Australia clients on the free tier - it gets routed through Hong Kong! :(

In any case, Cloudfront has been a cheap value option with a easy DNS based certificate renewal process.
I think it is more so a way to recognize the actual scarcity in the SWE labor pool. I am sick of using apps implemented by the CEOs nephew who is learning to program. I am sick of developers who don't understand a memory corruption vuln. I am sick of people not managing, updating, or auditing dependencies. There is scarcity of talent and we need to stop letting people accumulate and then lose personal data.
>There is no such thing as “survival of the strongest” when everyone is on an equal playing field and has the capability to defend themselves.

well originally of course it was survival of the most fit (assuming we derive our aphorisms from evolution here), that can mean smartest, fastest etc.

There is no such thing as a level playing field, Harrison Bergeron has not been implemented.
Does anyone have sources for suggestions about what we should do?

I read these articles, and worry, and wonder what can I do. It's not clear to me that buying organic mono-cropped bananas at the mega mart is in anyway better or worse than buying non-organic mono-cropped bananas.

I'd really like to just build up some more understanding on what I can do in my daily life to make things not worse.
My observation is that smaller farmers, especially cottage farming, have a really good grasp on soil health and actively cultivate soil via grazing.

Grazing is one of the best things we can do to build soil. Animals and the soil grew up and evolved together.

It’s a shame the world is turning so strongly against meat, regardless of how it’s raised.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Worker
I use folks as it’s a better alternative to guys in most conversations.

Now, asking with all curiosity: do people actually feel excluded over this sort of language? If so, what’s your story?
I understand this feeling, as I too have found myself wanting more of a spontaneous community myself. I think the difficulties are In finding the right cohorts of people to make it work.
not legal, but very socially acceptable
Suppose Alice has signed two contracts, one with her employer assigning them copyright in whatever she develops, and another with IndependentSoftwareFoundation assigning them copyright in something particular she develops. Why automatically assume the former contract legally trumps the later?

Also, employees can act as agents for their employers. Suppose Alice falsely warrants to IndependentSoftwareFoundation that she has her employer's approval to submit the code in question. If an employee makes an unauthorised agreement with IndependentSoftwareFoundation, I don't think a court will necessarily automatically invalidate that agreement just because the employee wasn't properly authorised. It depends on the circumstances.

It is like the case of the employee who buys an expensive dinner on the corporate credit card, and then the employer rejects the expense claim as violating policy. The employer can't refuse to pay the credit card company, or the restaurant, because the employee violated policy. The most the employer can do is fire the employee and sue them for damages. The employee entered into a contract with the restaurant on behalf of their employer, and the employer is bound by the contract even if the employee wasn't authorised to enter into it.

> In the same way I can't legally sell you a copy of Windows license that I totally promise I've got an agreement with MS about. It's not a license I have rights to.

Different situation in a couple of ways. Firstly, you didn't have anything to do with developing Windows. Suppose a Windows developer writes some code and puts it in Windows (under their Microsoft employee copyright assignment) then puts the same code in some open source project (under some other copyright assignment they sign without Microsoft's knowledge or consent). That's the scenario I'm talking about here which is rather different from the scenario you are talking about.

Secondly, Microsoft Windows is famous and if some random person (with no apparent association with Microsoft) tries to sell you a license to it you have good reason to suspect the license is invalid. Some random piece of code a developer writes isn't famous and so someone who receives it doesn't have the same grounds for suspecting it. Courts tend to have more sympathy for people who make reasonable good faith assumptions than for people who assume things that a reasonable person should know are unlikely to be true.

As I said, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not claiming any particular answer here is necessarily the right one. I think it likely depends on the jurisdiction and the specific details of each particular case. I just don't think it is as clearcut as some other people (including yourself) seem to think it is.
I recently encountered the "midwit" meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2054904-iq-bell-curve-midwit
..atheism as a symptom of middling intelligence.

as someone who spent their 20s and 30s devoutly atheist I very much appreciate the sentiment - never discount religious people. the smartest person you meet in your life will be religious, probably.
I worked at Cloudera in the early 2010s, before they went IPO. It's a bit sad to see the way things played out. All I can say is, it was a fun ride while it lasted.

Cloudera actually started in the cloud, but quickly moved to selling mostly on-premise software. Back then, cloud was a lot less cost competitive (it still is not really cost competitive) https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...
The on-premise business had much higher margins, which kind of "took the oxygen out of the room" for the cloud side of the business. In retrospect, neglecting the cloud market was a big mistake, of course.

Cloudera management knew even back then that Hadoop was eventually going to be superseded by a newer technology. We tried to build that technology, in the form of Impala, an optimized SQL query engine. Unfortunately, it never really took off in the marketplace, for several reasons. For one, its dialect of SQL was not compatible with Hive, the traditional SQL frontend for Hadoop. For another, early versions of Impala were somewhat unstable, and didn't have the fault-tolerance of traditional Hadoop tools.

From my perspective, the main issue that cloud solves is that managing the server side stuff is really hard, and requires experts. Cloud also aligns expectations: it's really clear to both customer and vendor that a cloud contract is not a stepping stone towards self-managing. Unfortunately, Cloudera just didn't see the shift towards cloud coming, and they're now paying the price.