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Sofar Sounds | Fullstack, Eng Mgr, Devops | Boston, MA or REMOTE (Eastern Time ±1) | https://www.sofarsounds.com

Sofar Sounds is a global music community which brings people together for concert experiences in unique and interesting spaces.

We're still a small engineering team, our TPD org is ~20 people with ~10 of those being engineers. We use Ruby on Rails, React, and are currently hosted in Heroku.

We're hiring for the following positions:

* Growth engineer, rapidly develop features for new user acquisition and integrate marketing tools with our concert planning platform - https://grnh.se/83629f462us

* DevOps / Infrastructure engineer, as our first DevOps hire, help shape the future of our infrastructure, improve our developer productivity, and increase the speed at which we release features - https://grnh.se/3fa4299d2us

* Engineering Manager, as our team grows we need strong servant leaders to support our engineers and teams - https://grnh.se/21dc82652us

Feel free to reach out to me at eric.lundin@sofarsounds.com
Bit that it'd be very practical, but the data itself is shared so in theory every company could set up their own API to render the blockchain into a readable, quick to access format. Even the vanished poop emoji NFT would reappear once someone else renders their view on the blockchain in the right way.

The problem with this is that running servers that store and process one or even multiple blockchains in a searchable way is terribly costly and inefficient. In theory the public ledgers are all safe against locking away data, like Google or Microsoft could do with your accounts in the real web, but in practice nobody wants to be the guy making a loss on serving blockchain views.

If web3 ever gets off the ground, it needs more of these access provider companies. Perhaps even a prebuilt system you can throw onto your own server to participate, like IPFS and other existing decentralised systems provide.

I'm still not clear on the actual benefit of the cryptocurrency web other than the concept of "owning things without legal protection or oversight" which I (and I believe most people) have very little interest in if it comes at the premium it comes at today. From a technical standpoint all of this blockchain stuff is awesome, but it's an awesome solution in search of a problem.
From a naive perspective, energy is energy, so melting 1 kg of ice eats 300 kJ of energy, and heating 8 kg of water from 20 C to 30C also takes 300 kJ.

But if the ambient temperature is 30 C, how much did it take to make that 1 kg of ice or that 8 kg of 20C water?

With a heat pump, like your refrigerator or freezer, producing cool water is much easier with high efficiency multipliers, while producing ice is a lot harder.

If the outside temperature is 30 C, the the ice machine radiator must be at a higher temperature, say, at 40 C, to radiate heat, and the cold end must be below freezing to actually freeze the water. So, the radiator might be at 40C and the cooler at -10 C. So, the compressor must transport the 300 kJ of heat energy "against the grain" from cool to hot, a temperature difference of 50 C.

With the refrigerator, the hot end might be at 40 C and the cool end at 10 C, meaning the difference is only 30 C.

COP or Coefficient power is the amount of energy (J) the heat engine uses to transfer 1 Joule of energy.

Some formulas:

eff = 1 - T_cold / T_hot

Refrigerator:

T_cold = 10 C = 280 K, T_hot = 40 C = 310 K

eff = 1 - 280/310 = 0.0968

COP = 1/eff = 10

Freezer:

T_cold = -10 C = 260 K, T_hot = 40 C = 310 K

eff = 1- 260/310 = 0.161

COP = 1/eff = 6.2
Yeah but from an operational POV you should factor in competition, efficiency, etc into overhead and profits. I don’t believe the state would be as concerned about keeping out bloat, so it would accrue a different kind of overhead.
Could be some of the crypto (currency) firms in the top-10 market cap (e.g., IOHK/Cardano, crypto.com, etc)
> The wants of someone who is driven enough read and write about the bleeding edge of technology are very, very different from the general population.

This is very insightful. I wonder what else it applies to. I bet there are tons of media sectors writing to irrelevant but interested audiences.

> People who write these articles need to be thinking about the middle aged woman who still calls every video game system "a Nintendo". There will always be some users for technologies like web3, but until you can clearly demonstrate to that woman that this new technology has value and is easier to use than the status quo, you're never going to get mass adoption.

I don't get it. I thought this used to be common knowledge. I mean it's basically a TV trope, so why and how do industries "forget" this?
It feels like there’s alot of get rich quick types involved (is a gold rush as you say) but over time the decentralised principles will play out
I shun everything MongoDB because of how immature its engineering culture is.
Could it be that people aren't really interested in undoing the mistakes of Web2, but rather just kicking off a new round of consolidation, where they could be the gatekeepers/platform owners?
New products? Would those be more centralized platforms, or is it feasible for me to connect to the blockchain, verify stuff, and so on if I am running my own server?

It still seems that my users on phones and browsers would need to trust me in that case, right?
> Only developers insist on FOSS, and we are the worst kind of customers as we find paying for anything a personal affront.

I think you very well articulated my problem because the software I am writing is for developers.

I like writing tools for developers the most because I'm autistic enough that I struggle to understand the needs and psychology of "normies" enough that I can't effectively write software for them.

However, you are right that developers are the worst kind of customer, and for the reasons you stated.

Maybe this is actually the reason I should not even bother.

> You either need to partner up or become a sales guy who understands "normies" at Fortune 500 type companies. Easier said than done, of course.

My wife is a business type who understands "normies" well enough. She was actually the one who made it clear that a lot of my ideas would never sell. She doesn't think this one would either.

Actually, I asked this question to verify that she is right. So far, I think she is.

Thank you.
Hmm, what do you mean? I have a number of different profiles, all with unique settings (lists). It's to the right of the NextDNS logo in the UI as a dropdown. Then in the client you choose which profile you want to connect to.
People happily run their servers when it's valuable for them. A lot of people have torrent program running in the background.
> the real reason why they're mentioned here

...is simply because they are the most evident and universally recognized symbol of influence of neo-nazism on modern Ukraine's politics.

> Like it or not, Azov Battalion is partially responsible for why Ukraine still has as much territory as it does.

I mean, good for them! Not even sure why you call them and their ideology "pathetic". Millitary-wise, it's a great feat, real-world nazis were also quite efficient. It's just that it is still an evidence of what kind of sentiments are a driving force of post-coup Ukraininan government, which gives a rather clear answer to the question of whether Russia needed to do much (or anything at all) for enough people to turn against new government. As simple as that.
BMW debuts color-changing paint at CES
Article seems to fit perfectly within site guidelines. I don't see any reason it should be flagged.
Hah. Sorry there's no guarantee that the pens in the article could be sold at that store.
There wasn't a tax increase to repeal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform
> I predicted a C# library being used or hitting the kube API directly.

Apparently NuGet doesn't play nicely with Unity.

The README has this to say:

> The game is really just a POC, and I hacked it together pretty quickly. In an ideal world I would have got the C# kubernetes-client library working with Unity and used the kube API. NuGet and Unity don't play nicely together so for a quick hack solution I went with calling out to the kubectl process from in-game. These processes are launched in separate threads to keep the game smooth and pause-free. I don't do any fancy thread lifecycle management, so threads are aborted/killed randomly during the game. Performance still seems fine for the demo.
Because the 12 months are from purchase date not development cycle, so you’d have to track features available to each user.
This is correct. My city has two zones: min 1 acre SFH and min 2 acre SFH.
“The rats are underneath the piles.
The Jew is underneath the lot.“

TS Eliot spent a good amount of time writing negatively about Jews as diseased or as beasts, particularly when you take into account that TS Eliot wrote very little to begin with.

Anti-semitism wasn’t an uncommon feeling during his time, but even then his work was often deemed anti-Jewish by Jewish critics
> I've done more than play with Firefox and Mozilla toolkit code. "All the stuff is done by the C++ parts underneath" is an overstatement.

By both, I meant KDE & GNOME. I didn't dive into Mozilla/Firefox stuff, but as far as I understand, since setting enterprise stuff and locking features, etc. (I forgot the name of the enterprise stuff, it's long time ago) is done in JS, JS is more than skin deep in Mozilla/Firefox codebases.

This is understandable though. Firefox is just Netscape, and they just invented JS. Not much involved otherwise.

> These remarks doesn't really make any sense here.

They're not direct counter-arguments to you. Just I've wanted to say that, even though the Electron is built on a C++ core, it's extremely inefficient and wastes a lot resources for what it does, that's it.
I should have said archival nodes, the ones that keep state back to the genesis block. I don't know if that number is even tracked anywhere. I've read estimates ranging from 2 to 5. I'm trying to find where I read that, happy to be wrong - or right, if anyone has data.

[edit] Here. [1] And here. [2]

After examining every which way we could think of to add the Trie state to our Ethereum state, we asked Vitalik for assistance. His first comment to us was “oh you’re one of the few running one of those big, scary nodes.” We asked him if he knew of anyone else running a “big, scary node” to see if we could possibly sync with them. He knew of no one, not even the Ethereum Foundation keeps a full archival copy of the Ethereum chain. [2].

[1] https://librehash.org/ethereum-archival-node-review/

[2] https://blog.blockcypher.com/ethereum-woes-d9b2af62da67
It's actually worse than that because we have a tax code that actively promotes corporate expansion.

If you're Walmart and you're making money and you've got a billion dollars in after-tax profit, what do you do with it?

You could reinvest the money in the company. Open more Walmarts. Then you have a billion dollars to invest.

You could pay it out as dividends to the shareholders. Then the shareholders, they're investors, they go invest in something else. Somebody goes out and builds more Walmart competitors. But dividends are income, even if you reinvest them. So if Walmart keeps the money and uses it to build more Walmarts, they get a billion dollars. If they pay the money out to the investors to invest in something else, and there is a 15% tax rate on dividends, there is only $850M to invest in the competitors. That's a huge disadvantage for the competitors, which induces the shareholders to prefer to invest in building more Walmarts.

Now guess what happens to that incentive if you raise the tax rate on dividends to 25%.

We could fix this by making dividends a tax deduction to the corporation. Right now Walmart makes a dollar, they pay corporate tax on it, then if they reinvest it themselves, no more tax. If they pay it as a dividend, it's taxed again before it can be reinvested in anything else. If the dividend was a deduction to the corporation, it would be taxed either to the corporation or to the shareholder, but not both as it is now -- and so there would be no preference for keeping the money inside the corporation and increasing its size.

This sounds like "tax cut for corporations / rich people" but it's really just doing away with the tax penalty for removing money from a corporation to invest it in a different one. Which is the thing that reduces wealth inequality.
not abstract specific, but sounds like pre-internet days promise of pearl.

sounds like an abstract doom game (pun intended), instead of sysadmin doom, where "surrounding sound would stand in for graph of connected issues.

? customize sound/room features like command line shell to tagging things of interest and/or "group of images" in room related to abstract.

sysadmindoom stuff:
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/01/22/kubeinvaders-gamified-...
https://eric-jadi.medium.com/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-c...

perhaps serve as a gateway/motivation on the promise of ar.
Wow, new to me. Fascinating, thanks!
Great article. Would love to read an equally solid rebuttle. Can I suggest Web2^0?
> rather than give up and give in to centralization

As for why Marlinspike might have abandoned the goal of decentralization, I think Upton Sinclair might have some insight.
Pretty much any additional freedom facilitates crime.
I agree! Logically, this means not having healthcare tied to employment, because an employer that chooses to minimize their contributions ends up making healthcare crappier for their employees.

The USA should have nationalized healthcare.
Linux Mint 20.3
picture 1000 year old micro humans
I interned at Justworks years ago and it was a fantastic experience! Congrats to the team!
I doubt tax cuts for the rich would do it alone. Perhaps when combined with a 40 year copyright extension will we really see a flourishing of the poors.
That’s preciseLy my point. This looks nice, but it’s too easy to forget tone of those spaces and to hard to spot that.
> There have been decades of criticism of "slumlords", and various laws to bring up the standards of housing to what are essentially middle-class expectations.

Most of the population is working class, and still needs housing. Middle-class standards are driven by middle-class affordability.
It's not just gameboys. 3DS are barely discontinued and priced 2x MSRP. Don't look price trends of any console or game made before 2004. The kids have grown and their disposable income can be spent on their old toys.

Nintendo has a chance to capitalize hard. They just need to offer a good alternative. They have the benefit of always choosing underpowered hardware because now they should be able to cram all of the native consoles into a single chip for nearly no money. With proper hardware scalers to properly simulate old LCD and CRT displays and they could charge whatever they want and still make a killing. It would just require a bit of engineering effort and, more critically, a willingness to admit the value of old content. Nintendo is a very conservative Japanese company and can not tell them anything.
> When does Zuckerberg have more wealth? When Facebook has a 900 billion dollar market cap and he pays a 70% tax rate, or when Facebook has a ten billion dollar market cap and he pays a 30% tax rate?

This is a bad example. All else being equal, society doesn't care if there's one 100-billionare, or 100 1-billionares, if the rest of the income- and wealth- distributions remain the same. What really drives the inequality is, as you noted, consolidation, lack of antitrust enforcement. When a market is reduced to a handful of companies, that don't compete, but collude. And lack of labor organization to serve as a counterweight.

(This is meaningful because, if you split ownership of a company among more people, their personal wealth may be lower, but the company still acts as a unit on the market.)
> Unfortunately, it turns out that "fake it til you make it" doesn't work with some problems that are seemingly unsolvable (at least by the approach they took).

IOW, it turns out that "fake it til you make it" doesn't work if you don't actually make it.
>A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform. After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted

Traffic between email clients and servers is encrypted so can be emails themselves; PGP can be used for encryption of emails and authentication between email senders. But another story is majority of people do not use PGP because of its bad UX.
We can moralize 2nd but fundament is always numbers.

To remind ~150K earners pay ~50% of CA taxes.

Let that sit in your mind 1st, then ask yourself if ~1/2 of those flee to where it is better for them, the effect is and can only be either or both; worsening of health care and/or further raising the taxes. This is known effect that happens.
Major HighTech companies are disincentivized and are already taking difficult decision. The question is when the avalanche effect happens? If it happens or if it is gradual race to the socialist bottom, then you can moralize 'til the cows come home, but guess what they won't be coming back.

Silicon Valley CAN become Detroit and it is already on initial phases of the path in that direction, although still far. Capacity of derangement of the CA government is not yet reached and ~70% Blue is not making any constructive dialogue to balance things here.

I am high earner and for a while I can bear still ok health care here and then I could enjoy early retirement (i.e. freedom 55) with this new socialized HC while it is still "ok". After a while I guarantee it will go worse and even I will be forced to re-evaluate and possibly move.
You do know that a lot of culture and science is not actually funded by scientists, actors and musicians themselves? In fact, there are people that advocate such funding is so important that we need to have the state take money from people - even not billionaires, but people earning very average salaries - and direct these money into financing people that are following some or other kind of philosophical dreams? If you are aware of that, I would like to hear how comes you think when the millionaire - after paying all the money allocated for all of the above - still wishes to spend money on financing even more people pursuing philosophical dreams, there's something wrong and shameful in that? Is that because this time politicians did not intervene in the process?
I think you can use geth --syncmode snap to get a snapshot quickly with which you can interact with the Blockchain.
This is about data used in the vaccine approval. If you think vaccines don't need data to approve them then that throws science out the window and if that is the case then turns whatever theory into an actual conspiracy. Also, do you ever comment on anything technical or is it just pro vaccines and corporate interests?
They would probally fine him for the sign.
There's nothing magical about it. All that's needed is control of the media your target consumes. "Manufacturing Consent" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky covers how this works.

The Taliban consume the Koran. They reject most forms of mass media. Thus it's very hard to manipulate them into a western lifestyle. The alternative would be to find their "opinion leaders" and coerce them. Anyway, it's naïve to think these techniques are not used at home and abroad.
The Advanced Technology Transit Bus Index [pdf]
> For example, whether it’s running on mobile or the web, a dApp like Autonomous Art or First Derivative needs to interact with the blockchain somehow – in order to modify or render state (the collectively produced work of art, the edit history for it, the NFT derivatives, etc). That’s not really possible to do from the client, though, since the blockchain can’t live on your mobile device (or in your desktop browser realistically). So the only alternative is to interact with the blockchain via a node that’s running remotely on a server somewhere.

> As it happens, companies have emerged that sell API access to an ethereum node they run as a service, along with providing analytics, enhanced APIs they’ve built on top of the default ethereum APIs, and access to historical transactions.

> Almost all dApps use either Infura or Alchemy in order to interact with the blockchain. In fact, even when you connect a wallet like MetaMask to a dApp, and the dApp interacts with the blockchain via your wallet, MetaMask is just making calls to Infura!

> Imagine if every time you interacted with a website in Chrome, your request first went to Google before being routed to the destination and back. That’s the situation with ethereum today.

This is a very common complaint about anything that claims to be decentralized. It was also surprising to me years ago when I first read about Bitcoin and realized that it's not practical to maintain the whole blockchain on most clients. However, how do ISPs fit into this analogy with "web 1"? Since we're assuming that the original world wide web was worthy of being called "decentralized," doesn't this same criticism apply to ISPs? Even if you ran your own web server from your own facility, presumably the ISP was a third party that you had to (in some sense) trust.
150% shameless cash grab and one of the largest wastes of community goodwill in some time.

Honestly if it weren't for the shady actions you described, I maybe could have bit my tongue.

But the wizard-of-oz game they are playing has been enough for me to tell people to contact me on Telegram instead.

Do they not realize they are taking trust away from signal? (aka the primary reason people use the app)
He's focused on Ethereum and NFTs, which is certainly the most popular/obvious place to research. I think his analysis is excellent and the article is worth reading.

But he does say:

> I have only dipped my toe in the waters of web3

Notably he doesn't even mention IPFS (which uses the pre-image of an JPG to form the URL.) Nor does he mention Bitcoin (which provides a shared state layer as well as a currency and makes it much easier to run a full node than Ethereum, which by most measures makes the network more decentralized.)

I prefer to use the term "Decentralized Web" or "Decentralized Internet" and I agree with Moxie that it will take a long time.

I think Ethereum is fascinating and an amazing innovation and (who knows) maybe eventually the off-chain pieces of its ecosystem will become more decentralized.

Keep building, folks!

(Slightly edited to fix/improve punctuation)
> Arguing that two outcomes are equally likely when one has happened many more times than the other is an exercise in frustration

Are they actually equally likely though? Perhaps there comes a point where one must consider if observed outcomes match with assumed probabilities.

Or are you just having arguments about whether the unfavored outcome is 'overdue.'
How can you surrender if they shoot without warning?
Lenovo announces an ultrawide laptop with an extra screen
One possibility: Western Germany is more industrialized and urban, with higher population and population density. Thermal measurements in the west are more likely to be taken in urban heat islands?
Why would they need that? They already have the job and could easily pay a MBA Duke grad for advise if needed which probably isn't. 12 years at IBM ending up as director advise could be bought but not sure how important it is. All other CEOs don't share that experience and get on fine without it.
Does loopy pro have a retrospective looper?

By retrospective looper I mean can it loop audio after it happens, as opposed to punching in?

I learned about this approach using https://endlesss.fm and have been looking for a standalone version ever since.