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Occipital (The Spatial Computing Company) | Full-time | ONSITE | VARIOUS LOCATIONS | Salary range $65-250K

At Occipital, we’re working on spatial computing - using computer vision to 3D reconstruct and understand your surroundings so that software can operate over real-world spaces. We believe it will power the next generation of augmented reality and some of the key parts of virtual reality as well. https://occipital.com

* 3D COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER (MOSCOW)

* CALIBRATION ENGINEER (BOULDER / MOSCOW)

* DIRECTOR, GROWTH MARKETING (BOULDER / REMOTE)

* DIRECTOR, PEOPLE EXPERIENCE (BOULDER / REMOTE)

* EMBEDDED SYSTEMS/FIRMWARE ENGINEER (BOULDER / REMOTE)

* TECHNICAL ACCOUNT MANAGER (BOULDER / REMOTE)

* WEBGL ENGINEER (KHARKIV / MOSCOW / REMOTE)

For detailed information check out https://occipital.com/jobs

Keywords: photogrammetry, geomatics, SLAM
I never understood why Canada would restrict international players from disrupting sectors like telecom (a commodity really) but didn't seem to have any problem with Airbus taking over the CSeries program for almost nothing.
It's not explicitly labeled as CC on the license page, but maybe it's still considered CC due to the wording: https://openby.design/license.html

An asset is typically the final rendering of something, not the source that was used to develop that asset (image of design on Dribbble vs the Figma / Sketch files used to produce it). It's common for renderings to be made available online—although usually not explicitly licensed—but I more rarely see source made available.
People in the summer in the UK spend plenty of time outside, I would think the winter is when things get interesting again. Let’s hope we’re out of the woods but the luck of the uk government isn’t something I’d bank on!
Starship/Super Heavy have the prospect of dramatically reducing the cost of launch to orbit, the moon, and beyond.

NASA has selected the platform for supply to the Lunar Gateway.

SpaceX wants to use it to take humans to Mars.

But it's also a decent platform for just getting lots and lots of mass into LEO.
You don't need to connect your bank account to YNAB. It works fine without it; you just need to manually enter every transaction, which you should do anyway. Linking to your bank account is just to catch mistakes and to auto-add scheduled transactions.

I would never go back to budgeting in Excel. Way too tedious.
Have you done any research into alternatives to concrete? My limited understanding is that besides the actual production process of concrete releasing CO2, the increasing surface area of the Earth covered in concrete is amplifying the effects of global warming. So maybe this process is carbon neutral in the production sense, but remains a net negative? I'm curious about your thoughts there.
> Those animals lack the moral reasoning ability to make a choice between eating meat and not eating meat.

But how can you say that? You can't know what choices an animal makes or doesn't make. In fact, if you have pets or been around animals for some time, it would be blindingly obvious that animals absolutely make choices between whether to eat something or not, be it meat or anything else.

For example, the cats in the farm where I live have no compunction about eating humans' food (for example, one of my cheeses that I foolishly left within their reach), but the dogs will never touch it.

And make no mistake: those are absolutely moral choices. The dogs know it's wrong to eat food that is for humans and that there will be repercussions if they do so. The cats don't care and only mind when they're caught.

Your caricature of animals as unthinking feeding machines is unrealistic and it is not based on any close contact or detailed knowledge of animals. Please re-examine your beliefs because they are unfounded and uninformed.
I've read that in times of economic hardships people survived on cheaper dog food without bad outcomes. Maybe it tastes even acceptable with some Sri Racha on it? Who knows.

Anyways... what I meant to say is probably something like don't be so fucking picky! (Regarding measurments and such.)

Arf! Arf! (SCNR)
> Feds allege it was a money laundering operation.

Feds also routinely mislabel anyone they don't like.
Absolutely, CO2 emissions from transport isn't much of an issue compared with the saving. Hopefully someone like Remora will crack that problem anyhow. We'll most likely need to build our plants closer to where the market is though, to limit the financial cost of transportation
Email?

IMO, no one should have have email that sends notifications.
It's because the DoJ Antitrust Division came down on them hard in 2010[1], and part of the settlement forbade the companies from engaging in that behavior again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Convenient that ;)
I like how you quoted the post without reading it.
There are plenty of tests available since then, we picked some up recently. This was a temporary blip, if anything. You can see the testing rate on the gov dashboard [0] and it hasn’t really changed enough to account for the fall in cases.

[0] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing
Nothing says in-person collaboration like mask mandates. Why even bother reopening campuses?
For x64, you don't need to distribute multiple binaries. You can have one binary with variants of a function each optimized for a particular microarch, and resolve which variant to use at runtime using the CPUID instruction. gcc already does this for you with function multiversioning, and glibc makes use of it for its string routines.
Elon Musk claims this is all to establish a civilisation on Mars in order to decrease the chance of humanity destroying itself. He might not have an entirely faithful relationship with the truth, but there is really no other rational reason to be so aggressive with the Starship program. SpaceX already does the vast majority of commercial launches using its Falcon 9 rocket, so they don't need to do anything this drastic.
There is that... ;-)
Anecdotally, I use my Harbor Freight (non-impact) sockets on my impact gun. I've never broken one. I've broken tons of Craftsman sockets with far less force.
I'm 50-50 on that one (used to agree with you more but have since retraced a bit). This may be an overly nitpicky detail, but I you sort of want your own sup tree to not necessarily have a different-ly scoped "microservice" tied to it in terms of failure domains, and also just plain visual organization in your observer/livedashboard. For the 90% use case (e.g. http process pools) an indepentent sup tree is correct, but to your points,

1. it would be nice to have a choice. The library-writer should think about their users and choose which case is more correct. And make it opt-out and easy (let's say 2-3 loc) to implement the "other case", and spelled out explicitly in the readme/docs landing page.

2. PubSub indeed made (IMO) the correct choice when it migrated over from being its own sup tree to moving into the app's sup tree.

Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
I just use “asshole” in all the contexts he mentioned. It just fits perfectly.
Is Target a discount store? It’s not Whole Foods, but I always heard it was a high-end Walmart. Costco is also known for really good quality, though the prices are still cheap.
> disrupting sectors like telecom

Perhaps the government doesn't like foreigns tapping Canadians' communications? The NSA listens in on its own citizens with the coöperation of the US telcos, so what chance would foreigners have?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

As a Canadian I would certainly like more competition, but I can certainly see the reasoning.
Post in the official thread. More details in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
"New" as in new to them, I'd guess.
I don't know anything about the physical feasibility of any of this but honestly I don't think 'argument by video game' is terribly convincing.
>> Notwithstanding the millions that NASA gave them in their early stages.

And the billions spent on the technologies that allow those engines to exist. SpaceX didn't invent rocket engines. It stands on the shoulders of many giants going back through Apollo to the early days. There are even traces of Soviet tech in the raptor (ie closed cycle). Nearly all of that work was funded by taxpayers ... and by whatever funded the soviet programs.

Building a better mousetrap is great, but that doesn't mean that all the previous mousetraps were not also great too.
Does it provide anything an ancient ATM doesn’t?
You can, but it's a constant ongoing maintenance. It's another attack on attention and time
> The universe could possibly avoid eternal heat death through random quantum tunnelling and quantum fluctuations, given the non-zero probability of producing a new Big Bang in roughly 10^10^10^56 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_univers...
There'll always be generational differences. FIRE is no different from normal retirement, only it's taken to greater lengths.

Normally people in generation X spend the first 40 adult years producing goods & services, partly consumed by themselves, partly exchanged for credits with old retired people of generation X-1.

After generation X is done with this working period, they retire, now holding credits. They exchange their credits for goods & services produced by generation X+1.

And so on and so forth.

FIRE simply shifts the lengths of the working periods and generations. Instead of working from 20 til 70, it may be from 20 til 60, or 50, depending on how successful you are in accumulating credits.

The credit system ensures that this doesn't really turn into a big issue. After all, if people are hugely successful accumulating credits and stop producing, and the population of producing people becomes small enough, then the exchange rate of goods&services to credits will worsen. The demand of goods & services will be lower than the supply, such that goods & services cost more credits. This is a natural incentive for people to start producing again, as the value of their accumulated credits goes down, but the value of them spending their time earning credits goes up.

Of course credits is money and the worsening exchange rate is inflation.

In short, we could all FIRE (i.e., every generation can retire at some point). But we cannot all FIRE at extremely early ages. The FIRE movement is essentially exposing the 'true' retirement age possible if we were more deliberate and intentional about our production & consumption. In a world where we all consume as much as we can, it makes sense we may need to work many years till an old age. A world in which we consume much less means we can produce much less, and thereby work less and retire sooner (or retire partially, i.e. parttime work).
As a one-time sub-editor, that was exactly the purpose. The medium has changed, but the aim hasn't, much. Newspapers used to provide information, opinions, diversions, and a guide to the TV listings for when you were tired of reading your newspaper. I got in trouble occasionally for writing overly cynical descriptors of what was on TV that evening and generating upset letters to the editor.
In my experience, React is very particular at how you present your view logic. For state management, though, it has very few opinions and that freedom can be paralyzing. Do you use Redux? Do you just use built-in component state and props? Do you use the Hooks API? React solves one slice of problems in front-end development, but has few opinions outside of the view layer.
> Of course you can write your own libraries, the question isn’t whether you can but whether or not that’s a wise usage of your time and energy. Java gives me a ton of fantastic libraries out of the box that let me focus on my domain, which is a good thing!

This was a bug in the Common Lisp community in the early 2000s when I was getting started with it and looking to the community for help identifying libraries for common functionality. People were friendly and helpful, but they gently pushed me to accept that reaching for libraries was a habit I was bringing from other languages, and in Lisp I could (and should) write my own implementations for things like logging and date formatting. Sharing code was for big hard stuff, not easy stuff.

Since then, it seems like a number of people have put a lot of work into moving the community forward from that romantic approach to a more pragmatic one, but if I wanted to use Lisp now, I would scrutinize that aspect of Common Lisp very closely before getting back into it. I would lean heavily towards Clojure instead.
Do you have any idea how much raw material and energy would be available to humanity if we were able to successfully colonize the solar system? The scale of what we could build and learn would be absolutely shaking. Seriously. That's enough 'why' for me.
You should come to Quebec (Canada).
The electricity is cheap and 99% from renewables.
https://www.hydroquebec.com/business/customer-space/rates/
Well, yes, but if you think about it, the whole point of a journalist's work phone is just to aggregate a bunch of "burner" accounts. And that's exactly what an attacker would want to steal from a journalist: conversations between them and (or contact details of) another source.

Which is all to say, ideally a journalist would have N phones, one per source. But that's impractical.
As someone who votes blue, they do not. In addition, their coverage of Jeff Bezos on his space journey really drove home that they aren't without external influence.
He's not claiming there is a national conspiracy against him. He is claiming that between regulatory capture and regulators trying to justify their existence, government agencies are not acting in humanity's interest.
10x Genomics | Pleasanton, CA & San Francisco, CA | Remote (US Only) or Onsite

We're a biotech company that develops software, hardware, and chemistry to accelerate humanity's understanding of biology. 45% of our current employees have been hired over the pandemic and we're expanding to two additional properties near our HQ! One of these buildings is part of our brand new 381,000 sqft campus which is expected to open next year [0]. Additionally, we were named as one of the "Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2021" [1].

We create software that enable scientists to analyze complex biological data. For example, a scientist may use our software to determine precisely which cells types could be cancerous. We utilize Go, React, Typescript, and Electron to create intuitive visualization and web applications. Our data pipelines are primarily written using Numpy/Scipy/Pandas stack, but we're making increasing use of Rust [2].

We've always been and continue to be remote-friendly for many roles. We're looking for awesome people at various levels for the following roles: Frontend Engineer, Product Manager, Full-stack Engineer, Backend Engineer, Security Engineer, Embedded Software Engineer, Director of Platform, Engineer in Test, and many more.

You can learn more and see all our job listings here: https://www.10xgenomics.com/careers/software. Feel free to contact me directly at kevin.wu@10xgenomics.com with your resume.

We look forward to hearing from you and good luck with your search!

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/business/office-space-con...

[1]: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/bay-area/20...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2
In PowerShell you'll get a linter warning because things like (look at the -):

if (@() -eq $null) { 'true' }else { 'false' } # false

if (@() -ne $null) { 'true' }else { 'false' } # false
I feel like this comment accuses me of fetishizing killing, and that disgusts me.

I had something long typed out, but it's just not worth it. When I (rarely) comment, I am usually reminded how debilitating it is. It's probably an indication that I should just stay silent, so I think I'll stick to that more.

I'll try though: People eat meat their whole lives, but never feel the act of killing and consuming first-hand. I find that rather sad, like they have lived their life never emotionally acknowledging this innate drive that enabled their existence. If anything, the act forces upon you greater respect and compassion for life and what it means to be an animal.

Hunting in my part of the US is very common, and over 160,000 deer were taken in my state last season. The deer population is doing well, and the act is well-regulated by government. I don't see anything wrong with killing for sustenance, even though it's no longer remotely necessary.
Then we're back to my original question: why is there no living descendant of the 4.x API, with modern security?
I feel like not replying is a simpler solution.

Text messaging is asynchronous communication, if someone is expecting an immediate response, they should be calling.
> Assuming the worst-case scenario until proven otherwise doesn't work like that. You have to look at the entire range of uncertainty, and choose the worst-case scenario for each question.

It seems to me the worst case scenario is always applied when looking at things like natural immunity from prior infection, long covid, etc

If you model Sars-Cov-2 after Sars-Cov-1 or MERS then you would be lead to believe natural immunity lasts around 5+ years.

Where is worst case scenario not applied? Anything to do with vaccines. We're not even allowed to question it.

We are extremely conservative on one side of the coin, but not the other. Why?
> Why do people think that they get a free pass because they can't see the opponent face to face?

We don't think that. We think anti-cheating rules aren't important enough to justify shipping literal malware to people's computers and taking over their machines.
Show HN: Last Colony (Android and iOS Game)
> What makes being overcharged due to errors more common than being undercharged?

Design? The people making these systems are doing so at the behest of customers who would find overcharging much more acceptable than undercharging.
Between years of getting stuck in a perpetual loop of thinking "if I make money now I can make games later" and 2020 being the worst fucking year ever (as I'm sure it was for a lot of people); I decided just to take a year and spend it doing what I actually wanted to do.
So I made the mobile game I wish I had access to in 2020, because ironically enough, I spent a lot of 2020 away from my home pc.

The core loop is still pretty simple: craft, loot, fight. I want to make sure I get that to a point that feels really good before adding more to the colony building aspects.

The game is restricted to certain regions on Google Play so if you're on an Android phone and would like to try it out send me an email with your Google Play email and I can add you to the tester list
michael@estes.es

Probably not going to reach my target audience here, but I greatly appreciate any and all feedback from you all!
From Musk's perspective, any timeline which does not establish a permanent presence on Mars within his lifetime is too slow. It looked like that would be impossible before the Starship program, now it merely looks unlikely.
I recommend you read some newspaper articles from the 1920s and 1930s. Witty, well-written, and much less discernible spin than current news articles. Journalism has declined as a trade, there is no question. The real issue is whether journalism is net worse for society than it previously was.
The initial technical goal is "more mass to orbit". Due to the rocket equation, the amount of fuel needed is ~20x the amount of payload to low earth orbit. Any fuel needed to get from low earth orbit to higher orbits needs to get to low orbit first, and so counts as mass. So the more mass and the greater a distance one wants to fly, the larger the required rocket. This rocket is very large.

People and the necessary life support for people are quite massive compared to robots. Once one can get lots of mass to orbit, one can think about things like sending people past low earth orbit (around the moon, to the moon, or to Mars). So far, NASA has committed to sending people to the Moon, but no farther. Elon Musk says that the goal is Mars, but any craft which could be used to start a Mars colony also has the ability to start a much larger moon colony, or perhaps to land on the moon and take off again without leaving (expensive) parts of the rocket behind.

There is some applied science research, such as around methods for reentry, but the final goal is establishing human colonies.
> African Americans may have been treated poorly by the algorithm back in the 1700s

Fucking hell, man.
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It's not the plan, it is probably an inevitability. If you could automate your textiles, with 1/100th the labor, while retaining it all, you'd still want to keep it even at a reduced labor benefit, rather than see it go to China or elsewhere. China would rather keep all of their textile industry and hyper automate it, than see it leave to countries like Vietnam. Keeping industry like that internally has vast benefits, in terms of profit/savings, capital, technology and economic eco-system, leverage, influence, and so on.

If the US could automate low-value manufacturing through robotics and get a significant cost advantage over China and pull back much of the low-value manufacturing that it lost, while getting very little labor benefit in the process, it would still be ideal for numerous reason to achieve that outcome (tax base, deprive China of that value, onshore capital and technology investment, some construction & maintenance value, wider economic ecosystem, and so on).

China's big problem with this process is of course that they have 1.4 billion people. High-value replacement jobs for so many of their low-value manufacturing workers is something beyond difficult (you don't need 100 million software developers to build China's tech infrastructure; you don't need 10x the workers to build as many planes as Boeing or Airbus do). High-value manufacturing for example doesn't absorb labor like low-value manufacturing does. Their social welfare costs over the next 30-40 years will be extraordinary as their demographics rapidly shift toward being an older society. They're already into a workforce decline demographically, those aging & retiring workers begin to shift more to the liability column in terms of cost. They need their workforce employed and pumping tax dollars into the system. Automation is not China's friend, even if they're the ones doing it to themselves (if they had a critical national labor shortage, that would be a different matter).

If China were to take over all of Germany's auto manufacturing (obviously we're talking a huge share of the global auto market), how many jobs is that worth to China and how does that scope to their 1.4 billion context (Germany has a mere 83m people)? What does something like that do for their context. That's the essential China labor and automation problem going forward. They could conquer a lot of high value manufacturing and be worse off overall than they are now, unless they can somehow keep all of their people employed, keep most of their low-value manufacturing employment simultaneously. And if China did use 4x the labor to build the equivalent of Germany's auto output (say they absorb their labor oversupply that way), that then caps the ability for that labor to rise economically, the margins won't be there to support far higher incomes, which has serious social consequences in terms of stability in China long-term. China would probably need to own all high-value manufacturing globally to both keep their people employed and keep incomes rising like they have been.
Amazon union election should be run again, labor board official says