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Ströer Labs Berlin | Berlin | Onsite | Full time and working students

About us:

Ströer Labs Berlin is an AdTech division of Ströer, a leading German online and out-of-home advertisement company. Together with teams in New Zealand, Spain, and Czechia, we develop and run Ströer's tech platform.

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If you're looking for the perfect combination of start-up freedom and enterprise stability, this is it! The office is located in Berlin near Alexanderplatz and is fully stocked with drinks and food. We have generous remote work policies (both pre- and post-Covid!). Our small team offers a relaxed, informal, and inclusive culture. You will get exciting challenges and a high level of freedom and responsibility. Your career and professional development are valuable to us; hence switching teams, projects or trying new approaches are encouraged. Every month you get fully paid days during which you can experiment with new technologies of your choice and learn new skills regardless of ongoing projects. We take the responsibility to provide you with quality onboarding from the first days in our company, and your growth within the company will be transparent, planned and clearly communicated. We have frequent team events organized in Berlin, across Germany, and abroad, allowing different teams to meet in an informal atmosphere.

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Another option is redash.io. I prefer Superset myself, but it's good to have choices.
Renewables are bogus, they require too much energy to be manufactured, maintained and their lifespan is too short. Also as you might have noticed by now they don't produce anything when you need them the most!

Energy has peaked permanently for thousands of years because the sun needs to shine on trees that then die and go into the ground to get more coal, oil and gas!
And the site is so slooow for me.
That doctors being coerced by the risk of losing their job shouldn't be judged as if their choice was based on medical knowledge.
Former Namecheap customer here, thank you for the transparancy. (I only left Namecheap because of the interface, I found that Dynadot was comparable in price and features, but with a nicer GUI. NC seems like a good company otherwise, so I'm always open to the possibility of switching back.)
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The doctors here in Montana I've talked to about it are not exactly advertising it but are unvaccinated and have recommended to me to avoid the vaccine and one intimated it's insane to vaccinate children.

So that's not the case with all doctors.

Then again, I'm fit, healthy, great diet, low stress, eat well, lots of sunlight. Covid poses less risk to me than driving, my kids it doesn't rise to the level of conscious thought.

Covid's over here.
I'd say it's even worse than just derailing an entire semester of school.

If you can get a job full-time at AirBnB you can probably get a good full-time job just about anywhere. So while it may be really bad (I doubt you'll be struggling to put food on the table unless you mismanage your expenses) you can probably land something somewhere else and you usually don't resign until after you've at least signed the paperwork for the offer - at least I wouldn't.

If you get rescinded from AirBnB as an intern that might change your entire life trajectory and that's still true even if you find another internship. You might go from high-growth career opportunities to bottom of the barrel very quickly. Then when you apply for your next internship or job? Guess what now you're competing with all of those who didn't get rescinded offers. It has compounding effects.

So I think we shouldn't really dismiss either. I'd say both are just about as bad as the other in their own ways.
I agree completely that you should be able to take nude photos of yourself, but I still wouldn't use a phone to do it -- my phone's pictures get backed up to the cloud automatically, and even if they didn't, the phone provider is probably the least likely risk that I face. I am probably more at risk from some rogue app that I installed on my phone.

When I have done this in the past, we did it the old fashioned way -- took the pics with a non-connected digital camera, printed the ones we liked, then kept the rest on an encrypted USB drive. Even this has the risk of leaking your photos to the cloud if your computer is set up for cloud backup.
> Also legally, if a company makes an offer and you make a financial change on the basis of that offer, the company is legally liable for all costs incurred.

Can you elaborate on this?
Curative | Full-Time | REMOTE [US] | https://curative.com/

Curative is refactoring healthcare. We've run >24m covid tests and >2m vaccinations in the US.
We're now expanding into building
a new vertically integrated healthcare platform.
We're continuing to support the response to the covid epidemic.

Our open roles:

- Senior Frontend Engineer

- Senior Backend Engineer

- Engineering Manager

Competitive compensation

If you're interested you can see more about our roles and apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/curativeinc

I'm the director of engineering, feel free to reach out: colton@curative.com

Tech Stack: Python, Typescript, React, Terraform, AWS
It's a great thing to teach your children.

Not to tell adults after their privacy has been violated.

Do you really find it a useful comment? Was it not an immediately obvious conclusion that none of this would have happened if they had just fired their phone into outer space rather than hope to have their warranty honored?
> Vaccines should not be a personal freedom choice.

I don't do personal attacks but in your case I'll make an exception: you are a fucking psychopath if you think it's ok to tell people to get a jag for something that is killing literally no one right now!

We're at around 100 deaths per day right now in the UK [0] and those stats don't actually tell you if they died FROM covid or merely had covid 28 days earlier when they died (massive difference!)... completely hides the real data.

In addition, there are on average 450 deaths per day from cancer [1] so where is the big gov. push to eradicate that?

Here are the overall death stats in the UK [2]. COVID is a tiny fraction of it.

[0] - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=over...
[1] - https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
[2] - https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
> > PhDs in freaking computer science can't code

and many graduates in freaking computer science can't read or write proofs, either

> They are two related, but different, skill sets.

exactly.

I think it would be valuable to enforce more crossover in our educational institutions, though. We should have clearer boundaries between computer science and software engineering, and then also require students (at every level) in each to do some study in the other.

Researchers should be in touch with the concerns and needs of ordinary programmers, and ordinary programmers should be capable of looking at the output of researchers to take good ideas and make them practicable and polished.

Sometimes the disconnect means research effort gets wasted and practical technology lingers on designs that serve it relatively poorly.

But of course software engineering and computer science are distinct and deep specializations.
Nope, you cannot. Closed-source software is as important as open-source, because some things will simply never be possible to make with an open source business model. We'll never get an open source edition of Photoshop or AutoCAD, so Linux will remain simply unusable as a daily driver to people who depend on it, hurting OS adoption.

Even if you could theoretically recompile, compiling old unmaintained code on new distributions is a huge pain. Broken/removed API calls for every external library you include will be a huge pain, because they will need to be fixed manually. That's assuming the library still exists, and you don't have to port your software to some entirely new library that suddenly means you have to restructure or refactor the entire codebase to use it.

That's not trivial. You need a programmer to do that, which is outside of reach of most average users.
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> I feel like removable SD card is a tech person solution but ... kinda doesn't solve it for a lot of folks.

What's so tech about removing a physical piece that has data? It's an action pretty much everyone can understand intuitively - "this is where your pictures are, if you remove it they stay yours".
Vote.org | Software Engineer, Product Analyst | Remote (US) | Full-time | https://www.vote.org/

Vote.org is a nonprofit startup that uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy. We believe that Americans want to vote and will vote in higher numbers -- and more consistently -- as voting becomes more convenient. We launched in April 2016, and have since helped millions of Americans register to vote and cast ballots through a combination of best-in-class technology and innovative outreach. Our work has the potential to impact the outcome of elections by bringing millions more voters to the voting booth.

Tech stack: primarily Ruby on Rails, React (Gatsby), Postgres, Redis, both AWS + Heroku

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I don't think I've ever had to do that. Do you also need to sign off on raises or pay cuts?
You got any evidence to back this up? Hardware that supports this feature is basically nonexistent.
I can only assume they're allowing their personal politics to get in the way of making a sound legal decision.
My company started 1/2 day Fridays a few months ago in what was billed as a temporary experiment. Today it was announced that we'd be keeping them permanently. From my point of view it has been a big improvement for everyone there. Having some time to play with my daughter during the day time is great, especially during winter while the days are short and the sun is already down by the time I am done working.
I agree. It's just escapism, no different than WoW or Everquest (and yes, I'm showing my age). This time they're just attaching NFT's to the housing and goods and using Crypto to buy those virtual items.

Most people will still interact with the Metaverse on a flatscreen and not an Occulus. They'll spend money on it like they did/do on mobile games. Some people will spend WAY too much, but most people will spend $20 or so a month for an hour of escapism while they're on the bus. More if they have to be on a plane with WiFi.
There's not much use in reading the comments on /r/HermanCainAward, but the submissions themselves can be quite enlightening (the ones tagged "awarded" or "nominated").

These follow the same general format: assorted social media posts from the subject over the course of the pandemic to the point they are hospitalized or killed by COVID, often followed by social media posts asking for help with medical bills or funeral expenses.

The social media posts are often reposting memes and agreeing with them. People are using these memes to help make medical decisions. Many seem convinced that by taking advice from memes instead their doctor, local or state departments of health, and similar that they are "doing their own research".

The first thing that surprised me was how weak many of these memes were. For example I've seen several were people seemed to be taking seriously as an anti-mask argument a meme about how underpants and pants can't stop people nearby from smelling your fart so why would you expect a mask to stop a virus?

I don't expect everyone to remember enough from their school days to remember that we sense odor by sensing individual molecules emitted by the source of odor, that these are often quite small (one of the major fart smell molecules just has 3 atoms), and that viruses are much larger (the smallest virus has almost 30k atoms, and the COVID-19 virus has about 6700x as many as that).

But I'd expect everyone, before deciding that a meme is a better info source than the doctor, health departments, etc., to do at least a little checking like Googling what causes farts to smell and Googling the COVID virus and then seeing that the former is a lot smaller, and so yes you should expect some difference in what it takes to filter them.

Furthermore, a lot of these people seem to have quite a few social media friends. So even if they fail to do all of the above I'd expect them to have at least one friend who either remembers how odors and viruses work or who looks it up and warns them that the meme is giving bad advice.

I knew social media exposes you to a lot more misinformation than you would normally get, but I had thought that for people with many social media friends that large friend group would somewhat counter that but that doesn't seem to be the case. For some reason it seems people's friend groups on social media are too homogenous, and so the same weak meme gets them all.

It's similar for most of the other memes common on these posts. Most are as flawed as the fart one, I would have expected a fair number of people to see the flaws immediately just from general knowledge from middle school or high school, and if not I'd have expected many to do the small amount of research to check it out, and for those who do neither I'd have expected some of the friends to do so and post. Seeing how far off my expectations were has been an eye opener.
I've known a number of director and VP level people who negotiate severence on their way in. This is common practice in many industries, and very common in fee for service contracts, where the buyer pays a kill fee of a certain percentage of the total contract value to end it up early.

A problem in the dynamc described in hire-to-fire is that people are waiting to be unemployed before looking for new jobs, so they have no leverage on the hiring discussion. From a reputation perspective, if you are in a role now, I think it's pretty reasonable to assert that for you to move, firing you before 18 months is going to cost them at least a year's salary in severence. If you think this is just an exec level strategy, a company can make its roadmap and quarterly commitments or numbers without a director or VP, but it can't make them without a key engineer to deliver on it.

It depends on what you do, but if you can make a company money or shorten the time between an investment and return on it, learn to be more strategic on the way in.
We had something like that at my work. From June-Aug we had "Summer Hours" where we would not have any meetings after 2pm and could stop working if then if there was nothing vital. Not exactly half day but still nice, though not sure why it's just for summer time...
See also "Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity":

https://www.economist.com/international/2021/11/30/why-the-o...
Yes! Unfortunately the most important one is the App Store, no wonder why PWA have the least and worst support on Apple devices...
Hmmm okay, so first of all I should had said Berlin, as perhaps my experience does not necessarily reflect the situation in the whole Germany. So about Berlin: Aside from the internet paper-based communication, and general love for bureaucuracy, I found the city's infrastructure to be generally deprived. When I arrived Tegel and Schönefeld were the only airports, the state of which I frankly found shameful, especially for the capital of Europe's biggest economy. And the new Brandenburg airport that took 10 years to finish is not great either. I found the state of S-Bahn and U-Bahn pretty disappointing too, and parts of the public transport system to be constantly broken. Also the general customer service is very bad, a lot of places don't even accept credit cards, and overall people seem to be reluctant to adopt new technologies. I have the feeling that Berlin is stuck in it's golden age, and doesn't want to move forward. As for the point of reference, I moved from Hong Kong (not my native country), which I consider to be very modern in these aspects, so the whole experience was like a time-travel back to the 90s :)
Wasn’t there a similar case with apple repair. I vaguely remember seeing that on hacker news too.

Apple repair nude will get you there
A bit under half of Americans have already caught covid.

Even without vaccines, that means nearly half of Americans already have natural immunity which is vastly superior to vaccine immunity.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Even when I took my phone into a third party repair place for a new screen they required me to give them my passcode and disable Find My Phone. Seemed super unnecessary.
If you bill by the hour, it could be a long, fruitful contract.
> The world of "here and now" would be acknowledging that "thousands of dollars" outprices a significant majority of the world. Even if you take a US-centric view, that's going to outprice the majority of the population.

It's significant for me. But I would still be willing to spend it to work on something i cared about. Just like I was willing to spend money on forming a company to protect myself legally.

I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of domains that are owned but not being used aren't truly being squated on for profit but have people sitting on them for side projects they never started/finished and the cost of holding the domain is so little that they'll pay out $20-50 a year. I say this owning about 40 domains and I am not selling domains or even advertising domains. I just bought a bunch in the last year for projects and then decided I didn't like that domain so bought another one. The cost is so low that I can do that without worrying and without thought.

> If you're working at McDonalds for $12/hr with a pet project on the side, a $1,000 domain would take 83 hours of work to pay for. That's two weeks and change of full-time work. You're not going to be able to pay for that while also paying rent and other bills.

If you're working at McDonalds for $12/hr you gotta bigger problems like being able to afford an apartment to stay in. Saying they can't afford luxuries such as domain names when they can't afford the basics such as somewhere to stay, food, etc. is pointless. They can't afford a domain just now.
This is a media outlet reporting on an HN thread. The thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264. Note my pinned comment at the top there - I actually think some of the later comments make for interesting reading but for obvious reasons [1] we couldn't downweight the drama the way we usually would.

When media outlets report on HN threads we normally downweight those pretty heavily since they're just recycling content/discussion that already appeared here. In this case I'm downweighting it less than we normally would, in keeping with the core principle that we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are part of the story [1].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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I think all of these problems boil down financial literacy, IMHO. Once people understand what's at stake they will make better decisions. I do not understand why the education system doesn't help children with these topics overall, but then again if they struggle with simple maths... yeah...
It takes about 90 seconds to load for me, but once it does, it's buttery smooth on my M1 Pro. Unity's web story is still so bad for many reasons, but the initial load times are a huge one (~15MB of wasm for an empty scene last I checked). They were working on Project Tiny[0] to address exactly this, but they've now paused work on it indefinitely :( Someone please build tools to fix this!

[0] https://unity.com/solutions/instant-games
Actually, no. Nice try, though!
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I am generally open to backend (I wouldn't mind going full-stack, but I have limited knowledge of frontend at the moment), data engineering roles, and I don't mind learning new tech - as long as I get to use it in production :)
Always cool to see interesting application pathways. Hats off for the SSH!
I agree that certain forums require perhaps different compulsory actions, and for healthcare certainly the case for more stringent requirements can be made. Nonetheless my previous reply remains accurate, it is quite possible to coherently argue against them in this context, at minimum by way of their political mechanism of enforcement, while also accepting the consensus scientific views.
Can / should you be forbidden from talking about your hiring process, while still employed by that company?

It seems pretty scummy to prohibit or penalize employees for talking about their initial hiring interactions with the company. Especially if they keep their remarks to the period prior to their officially being hired.

At that point... you weren't an employee. And it's pretty odd for a company to assume they have a right to your silence, covering a period before you had entered into a contractual relationship with them and they were paying you.
In the US, they sing a song about the war of 1812 before every major event. People might not remember the details, but it's fully baked into our culture.
Ah, Louisiana, that bedrock of personal liberty.
I see. So you want to go deeper into the workflow, to become something like a issue tracker or a ticketing system?
Which I am. As is implicit in my comment, for those informed enough to interpret it accurately.
I wonder what kinds of tickets, if any, justify them asking you for your unlock pattern.
Use the more modern version it and yell “I have a bomb”.
Hey,
are you willing to do visa sponsorship?
I guess more people will have same question so asking it here.
Since there were throwaway accounts speaking negatively about the company, I was looking for the opposite, throwaway accounts (from employees) speaking positively about the company.

Not sure if they ended up posting but when I was reading the thread there weren't any.
This is interesting, and I've seen a bit of this sort of behavior, too.

Some people seem to confuse expertise for a claim of infallibility, and when some expert get something wrong, the reaction is to conclude that expert advice is worth no more than the guy on the teevee hawking vitamins and anti-expert bile.

It is a sort of Leveler belief wrapped in a search of an Oracle.
I know a dozen or so people who don't have smartphones. They are also work in the tech sector and are the exact opposite of being luddites.

But the comment I was responding to was asserting that going without a smartphone is difficult. It most certainly is not. It's less convenient, but not difficult.
makes me wonder if repeated exposure that doesn't result in the virus replicating enough to take hold in the body gives you any kind of immunity, or if that is even a possibility. like how many viral bodies does it take, just 1?