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Getaround | Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python) [Multiple Openings] | Full-Time | San Francisco, CA HQ or Remote (US, near Pacific Time) | getaround.com

Getaround connects safe, convenient, and affordable cars with people who need them to live and work. Our community includes guests who rely on our cars for on-demand mobility and hosts who share cars on our platform including those who operate their own car sharing businesses. Our connected car technology allows guests to book and unlock a wide variety of vehicles directly from our app without ever having to meet anyone in person, carry an access card, wait in line, or coordinate picking up keys.

Cars are parked 22 hours a day on average. When we share cars, we don’t need as many on the road, which means fewer accidents, reduced traffic, and less space required for parking. Car sharing modernizes mobility by allowing people to connect multiple forms of efficient transportation for any type of use case.

Studies show that when car sharing is available, people drive less and drive vehicles more appropriate for their use case, which can reduce household carbon emissions by up to 40%. Also, shared cars are used more frequently and retired more quickly, accelerating the adoption of newer, more energy-efficient vehicles.

We're hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer with Python experience to join our growing engineering team.

Apply online (https://jobs.lever.co/getaround/d0d01536-80ac-4f3b-95b9-dfe1...) or email me (Sr Director of Engineering) at tareq dot ahmed at getaround dot com to learn more.
Just checked it out, this really is a lovely site you've built.

Side benefits include way better accessibility, zoom isn't broken!, and I can browse with javascript turned off with no problems.

My only complaint on usability is an inability to select intermediate pages down at the bottom on the "ebooks" page. My options are basically just 1st, current and last page. I can see some downsides to that, but the filter functionality works well.
Some attorneys are starting to specialize in consumer arbitration. The attorneys will eventually find a way to put the squeeze on these companies as they try to change the rules.
When “Voluntary” Return Is Not a Real Option for Asylum-Seekers
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My strengths are delivering MVP projects and frontend infrastructure. Looking for part-time engagement or full time contract to help build your product.

Location: Berlin, Germany
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IMessage yes, Signal not as of yet. Once it gets wide spread adaption(if), then it will be the new WhatsApp.
Large North American meat plants stop slaughter after JBS cyberattack
Not for tech jobs, no. Major German companies do not pay major salaries for engineers and programmers, so the Berlin tech scene is competitive.
Anyone who sat through a basic lecture of Fourier series (and had any experience with basic calc) should be able to parse out every single term in that paragraph and then combine them to understand "truncating a Fourier series at a sharp corner creates ringing"
As if they wouldn't spy on it anyway.

Spys can't be trusted.
Kaspar Lund is very smart and amazingly productive so this sales pitch is disappointing. Amazon's work on formal verification of portions of FreeRTOS, for example, is sophisticated and impressive. What Lund misses in his characterization of FreeRTOS as "primitive" is how much refinement goes into simplicity in embedded work.
Here's an example: FreeRTOS' over-the-air update (OTA) mechanism has been formally verified. Why would you formally verify your OTA update mechanism? Because getting OTA updates right is one of those simple things that turns out to be hard. Hard problems aren't solved by just adding another layer of abstraction; my expectation is that it will be more difficult to establish a Toit system is performing correctly than a conventional bare-metal or RTOS-based embedded system.
This is the previous discussion about the project, Rikke presented it at FossNorth today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25497002
Books to Read for Discipline
Spectre is based on a timing attack.

If you don't give your task access to the clock, it can't run a timing attack.

If you don't give your task access to the internet, it can't exfiltrate any data it did get.
Robert Liston
I just get a sign in to confirm age. Are you absolutely certain you weren't on a third party site?
Because an option visible in the UI that nobody is using is visual clutter. You still have it hidden in about:config as you say.
I don't have access beyond the paywall, but it sounds like the same thing that happened to DoorDash: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/12/21133486/doordash-workers-10-m...

As someone who dislikes forced arbitration, allow me to enjoy the schadenfreude for a minute.

Edit: the linked article also points out that the same thing happened to Uber: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-uber-ipo-arbitration-...
Wordy, but we're really cool, smart and doing some interesting engineering over here. :)
Equating a pre-print with a letter because they have both not gone through a review is like equating a skateboard with a car because they both have wheels.

Yes, both are text, written in the english language, shown on a webpage. Beyond that, they share no similarities.
Flight suits are adult onesies. And resistant to fire and McDonald's coffee.
I have cystic fibrosis. It's fairly mild, but I do have to do daily breathing treatments, and it's so nice to be able to take care of those needs while working. To say nothing of when I'm ill but can still be fairly productive around rest. I've even gotten work done from the hospital during an admission.
> Why is that even a metric for a browser UI?

Because they need to know where to focus their efforts.
It's bad enough when internet providers do it with the rented modem/router/AP/VOIP combo devices, and then it's only the power they're stealing.
I was under the impression that private equity was mainly a vehicle for the rich to get richer. Serious question: Do companies have no choice but to go this route or why are they doing this?
I have pretty beefy hardware so I don't notice the diff in terms of performance. I do however appreciate that the battery life isn't sucked down hard by native apps the way electron does. just having chrome open significantly affects my battery life.
Oh, I'm not necessarily advocating for it but the reasons behind it seem interesting, whatever they might be.

Is it a matter of differences in cultures, that people don't seem to mind ads as much online, or perhaps there'd be backlash from OS app distribution channels, were devs to attempt to monetize software in the Windows Store for example (I don't really use UWP apps so no idea), or perhaps it's something else entirely...

That said, I feel like the option not even being there is limiting in of itself. Suppose I'm a developer who wants to create software that's free to download and use, but ad supported. Now I cannot possibly do that. As for those who would prefer no ads, there would always be the possibility of a paid version with no ads, the possibility of altering the hosts file to block ads, or possibly downloading the source code of the app, removing the ad integration code and compiling the app themselves.

Though there are also interesting technical aspects as well, such as us not being able to sandbox most native apps (short of AppImage and Flatpak as well as Snaps, but even then there are other challenges), which may contribute to spyware in desktop apps. Plus I bet there's a large difference between showing an ad in an app and being able to mess around with the OS default browser settings and so on...
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Replit is the fastest growing developer platform. It’s a great time to be joining the company because we’re still relatively small and growing fast. If you’re talented, like working on hard problems, having a great impact on developer productivity and CS education, and like working with smart, motivated, and kind people then you should apply!
It's been considered best practice (at least according to the people I follow on twitter) that if 1 person is dialed in, the whole meeting is dialed in. The 5 people at a table and some other people on Webex or whatever just doesn't work.
Can someone please tl;dr why this was a requirement in the first place?

I trust the FSF and it seems like a good idea, but I'm not sure why.
Regarding #techrights, reading some of the comments from http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-290521.htm... aimed at libera.chat gives me the real creeps. They seem to come from a person and/or people who have a black-and-white vision of some aspects of the world to the point of sheer fanaticism. It's scary.

Some "mentionworthy" quotes:

> Libera chat: yeah, let's just show how "liber" we are by outsourcing our 1) site code 2) site hosting 3) projects to a bunch of criminals who badmouth and bribe to undermine #freesw

> The free in #freenode stands for freedom. The Liber in Libera Chat stands for (neo) liberal.

> Libera chat is all #microsoft (technially), except the IRC daemons.

> Libre chat: we don't know how to set up and manage a git server (funny that, even I can do that... with little experience) but trust us to run a whole IRC network...

> All you mindless fanatics who flock over to libera.chat (185.199.110.153), be aware that they have outsourced to #microsoft #proprietarySoftware #monopoly ( cdn-185-199-110-153.github.com ). So they don't exactly value freedom or "libera"... it's just shallow rhetoric. Because it's an ego think against #freenode

If that's one of the main channels performing Freenode support, I'm getting convinced that I made a good move by jumping off Freenode.
Yeah, I'm from the poorest county in my state and 10+ beers a day is honestly absolutely nothing to quite a decent part of the population out here.
+1

I suspect anyone that enjoys living in a high cost of living city (SF, NYC, etc) and isn’t obscenely wealthy is working from their living or bedroom. If you’re not living alone, WFH becomes a lot harder.

I would prefer to live in SF and go to the office (because my house/apt is too small) than live elsewhere but be able to afford a house with a dedicated room for an office.
Makes sense I should have been more clear (also why I said I wasnt trying to be snarky because I could easily read my first comment as such). I think at the time this sale happened any messaging service could have been sold to any company without government stoppage. The anti competitive guidelines are as such:

- agreements between competitors, also referred to as horizontal conduct

- monopolization, also referred to as single firm conduct

I think this sale would still go through today as for FB still has messenger and Whatsapp as separate products and (arguably) still free. I havent thought about it Apple purchased it. I think that still may have gone through too unless they stopped the app working on Android.
There once was a time when I was happy to share my wi-fi with my neighbours.

Everyone pays for their own household now, only because of general corporate scaremongering and specific lobbying to claim that the owner is liable for misuse.

I remain surprised there isn't a bigger movement and open source infrastructure for sharing connections locally.

If I was able to share a few connections with my apartment-neighbours, that would be cheaper and more reliable than my current setup.
If society accepts global warming is happening and climate change is a threat, commuting is going to be severely limited in the future. If we don't kill the commute, we're going to kill suburbs(and we may do that either way).

Once you accept AGW, you have to commit to seriously reducing energy expenditures until the planet is 100% renewable and we've maxed out our carbon capture mechanisms. Commuting takes energy. Even in an urban environment.

Arguments about the positives and negatives of WFH, which have been discussed in many popular threads on HN ad nauseum, are really secondary. Incentives to reduce energy usage will eliminate commutes and reshape society. Covid helped kickstart the transformation but it would have happened eventually anyway.
I've seen this, too.

Apple: Their device: "Hi, I'm an AirTag! This is my serial number!" Your device: "hey Apple, I was at (X, Y) when I saw this serial number."

Amazon: Their device: "Hi, can I send traffic through your network?" Your device: "sure, buddy!"

They're so fundamentally different that I pretty much assume a bad faith argument from people who say they're similar.
CSS takes another step towards becoming a complete programming language. At some point, you will be able to do front-end and back-end in nothing but CSS in the cloud using serverless code [0].

[0] If you are working on this, you should feel ashamed.
Guys I work at a company that uses Quaternions for rotations of physical objects. PTUs we call them (Pan Tilt Units).

I am telling you Quaternions have HUGE issues. These issues become much more apparent when you deal with physical objects.

Here's the thing Quaternions don't exist in reality. It represents an orientation of rotation but it completely masks the path took to achieve that orientation.

For every gimbal in reality there is an actual YawPitchRoll (YPR) that was executed to achieve that orientation. AS soon as you convert that real YPR into a Quaternion you lose the YPR that was needed to achieve that orienation.

So let's say I need to have one gimbal imitate the position of another gimbal. I take the YPR given to me by gimbal "A" convert the YPR to a Quat, send that Quat over the wire to Gimbal "B" and convert that Quat back to YPR to feed to the gimbal so it can rotate itself to imitate the orientation of gimbal A.

The quat is a higher entropy form of information. Now when converting back to YPR there are MULTIPLE YPRs that yield the same orientation. You can derive a YPR that is out of bounds of the physical gimbal.

Literally you can get a YPR that tells your gimbal to Yaw 190 and pitch all the way back past 90 to 170 degrees and roll 180 degrees until it's right side up. This YPR is identical to a yaw of 10, a pitch of 20 and 0 roll. Quaternions hide the original YPR, you lose information so when you receive a Quaternion it's hard to translate it into a physical realization of the orientation.

The company I work for doesn't realize this. They used Quaternions from day one and we have all kinds of headaches like this when we try to extract the YPR and use these orientations in the real world. Actually I should say only I have these headaches. A lot of people haven't figured out this problem yet.

The only time you should use Quats are if you need to transform an orientation or you're dealing with virtual objects that have no rotational limits. Everybody thinks quats are magic and better. They are not. They have huge downsides. Huge.
The average of the top 10% of anything is going to be absurd compared to the population average; probably around 2 standard deviations over the mean. If you looked at the average caloric consumption at the top 10% of people, you'd probably find the amount similarly unbelievable.

Ten drinks isn't that much hard liquor: it's about 450ml. That's a little more than a can (392ml).
Transit app | Product designer + data scientist + iOS developer + Full-stack web developer | Montreal - Remote | Full-Time | transitapp.com | Company size: 70ish people

Transit is a team of sustainability-minded engineers sailing against the headwinds of car-oriented transportation. We build an app used by millions of people that makes it significantly easier to get around cities without owning an automobile: foregoing the hype around autonomous/electric cars, we are focused on reviving an old and glorious technology (public transportation) which we vehemently believe is urban America's best bet to curb systemic traffic, traffic deaths, pollution, and urban sprawl.

We make public transportation more practical and accessible in a variety of ways. At our core we are a consumer app for open mobility: we not only help our riders find information for public transportation, like arrival times and disruption info. We help them plan trips that involve connections between bikeshare, scooters, ridehail and public transit — we've got the richest playground of mobility APIs around, and we're adding new systems every week. Increasingly this involves payment information. It's hard to imagine a time in which booking airline tickets (or ridehails) required manually stitching together each trip leg yourself — but this is the everyday lived experience of our riders. By giving them an app to plan and pay for any trip (even when it involves more than one transit agency, or more than one mode), we're able to take the convenience of expensive transportation modes, and extend it to the most popular and least expensive forms of urban transportation.

We're hiring for a variety of roles. Including:

* a product designer https://transitapp.com/jobs/design

* an iOS developer https://transitapp.com/jobs/ios

* a data scientist https://transitapp.com/jobs/data-science

* a full-stack web dev https://transitapp.com/jobs/fullstack-partners

We're beloved by cities, transit agencies, and our riders. Our day-to-day work slashes CO2 emissions and traffic deaths, while making cities more beautiful places to live. What can we say. It's a nice perk of our jobs.

If you'd like to join us in making public transportation more dependable in your city (and 200+ others) our team of friendly Canadians would love to hear from ya: jobs@transitapp.com
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Thank you. I'm not even taking my own word for it. I didn't dream up any of what I've said on my own, nor by cobbling together either anything Sean Hannity or Chris Cuomo had to say on the subject. I read the paper from the Imperial College (where "social distancing" and "lockdowns" originated, as far as I know) shortly after it came out and have been trying to follow along with the best sources I have been able to find since then.

But, let me come clean about my prejudices. I live in New York. When Governor Cuomo was on television every day, I saw — every day — comments to his feeds on Facebook and Twitter from people saying things like, "Thank you, Governor. Whenever I listen to you I feel calm and safe. I listen to you every day for my sanity."

I wish I were making this up! But, as I said months ago, I am astounded by the people who I imagine have no qualms going on about "patriarchy" bestowing what I see as sycophantic praise on a governor whose entire affect reminds me of the stereotype of an immigrant family's "papa."

This is, in part, why I say "neurotic." We can't have a free country when we have so many people — voters! — like these. The SARS-CoV-2 virus isn't the scariest thing about this pandemic.
Schedule shifting means you're NOT paying for these months when you didn't have revenue. You'll be paying for later months... at the same time that you'll have revenue for it. Which is drastically unlike the case for renters, which they'll be obligated to backpay in the near future.
I use Todoist and I try to spend 5 minutes twice a day to review my tasks and block out time to accomplish them.

I like Todoist in that it syncs with all my devices and it doesn't force me into a specific paradigm. I keep a simple hierarchical to-do lists, and I have some of my projects as boards (ToDo/Doing/Done) rather than lists. I feel like it helps me spend less time managing my todo list and more time _doing_ things.
I didn't even think of this. That is terrifying.
It seems that Libera Chat is currently the second largest IRC network by user count.
Given they use GPL-x-or-later licenses and are all the authority needed to designate something as GPL 4 or 3.1 or whatever, if they wanted to go evil to utilise their control they already could have.

It's not like they're opposed on principal to new license versions to benefit specific projects either, e.g. GFDL 1.3 has the "Wikipedia can relicense to Creative Commons" exception
No bath bombs?

How do Zoom calls work? Do you just throw on an Afghan monk-style or use a Snap filter?
it's not the large things that
send a man to a
madhouse...
no, it's the continuing series of _small_ tragedies
that send a man to the madhouse...
not the death of his love
but a shoelace that snaps
with no time left...
the dread of life
is that huge swarm of trivial shit
that can kill quicker than cancer
and which is always there--
[list of trivial shit]

with each broken shoelace
one of one hundred broken shoelaces,
one man, one woman, one
thing
enters a
madhouse.

- Charles Bukowski, "the shoelace"
> If anyone wants to try picking themselves back up, take some lessons from that crowd to see how they help vets with PTSD.

as someone suffering who is not a veteran, nor in the US at all, is there something I can read about that outlines their approach or what they are doing to help them that is new?
The group has been restored:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.tcl
Worked at a startup with beer stocked in the fridge. I enjoyed a beer several times a week once it hit 4-5pm. This behavior started as an intern and I still got brought back for full time so apparently they didn't care.
I'm not familiar with how Firefox UI works.
Would it require a non-trivial amount of work to maintain a compact theme?
I'm assuming it's some form of style sheet and they share assets like icons.
Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling
Intel had extensions to let you encourage that to happen CAT and CDP. However they require OS support.

It's a common feature on embedded processors, where portability is less of a concern.
DHIS2 | Multiple Positions | REMOTE (EU timezones) or Oslo, Norway | Full-time or Part-time | https://dhis2.org/careers

DHIS2 is a free and open source global public good, the largest health information system in the world. It is used at the national level in more than 70 mostly low- and middle-income countries [1]. DHIS2 is a general-purpose data collection and analytics platform used to manage routine health service delivery as well as interventions targeting COVID-19, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, vaccination, maternal and child health, and more.

DHIS2 is developed by the Health Information Systems Program (HISP) at the University of Oslo (UiO) in Norway with support from norad.no, PEPFAR, the Global Fund, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CDC, the Global Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, WHO, and others.

The core DHIS2 development team is remote-first with a preference for CET and neighboring timezones. We also have onsite positions available in Oslo, Norway. We build an on-premise server product, more than 30 bundled web applications, and a suite of modern platform tools for application developers working in local contexts [2].

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

- Security Lead (will be listed tomorrow)

- Senior Product Manager, Platform (will be listed tomorrow)

- UX Designer

- Frontend Software Engineer (React, senior and mid-level)

- Backend Software Engineer (Java/Spring, senior and mid-level)

You may apply on Stack Overflow for certain positions or send an email to austin+hn@ or careers@ (domain dhis2.org). Use “HackerNews” and the position you’re interested in as the subject.

We also welcome open-source contributions big and small!

[1] https://www.dhis2.org/in-action

[2] https://developers.dhis2.org