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Level 12 | Full Stack Web Developer - Python, React/JavaScript, SQL | Mid-Level & Senior | REMOTE | SALARY:$95K-145K+ | https://www.level12.io/careers/

Level 12 is a software consulting and custom development agency. We have mid and senior level positions. Our job descriptions are written by developers for developers. No HR fluff here, we want you to know what you are really getting into:

https://www.level12.io/careers/

- We have a commitment to transparency and offer a "no surprises experience" throughout the interview and hiring process. We value candor...as evidenced by the length of our job description. :)

- Our CEO prefers the title CED, Chief Executive Developer. Engineering and operational concerns don't take a back seat when potential sales come to the front door.

- You will be working remote with a team that is all working remote and has been for years. Let's make the best use of our time by not commuting.

- We practice and preach sound development practices. You are likely to learn and grow as a developer while working here.

- You are committed to automated testing of all the software you write (our apps typically have 92%+ test coverage).

- We have a no-drama office policy. We value and cultivate enjoyable working relationships among team members. No jerks allowed!

- Are you still reading this? Email me (the CTO) with a dad joke and any questions you have about the job or our company and I'll personally respond with my own joke, and, as best I'm able, the answer to your questions. matthias.hager@level12.io

- We emphasize work/life balance and adopt policies that make sure our people don't get burnt out. For instance, our PTO/Vacation policies are designed so that you actually use them.

- If you apply, we guarantee that we will give you a response, whether "yay" or "nay". No black holes here!
I read the current Starlink system has a limitation where if you move outside of your assigned service "cell", you lose service. Guessing this is still the case.
From TFA:

> A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits, or to the non-distribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes...

That doesn't exactly support the position that everything a publicly traded company does must generate shareholder value. The judgement reads closer to, "You can't run your publicly-traded company like a charity."
AI2 | Full Time, Seattle (REMOTE or ONSITE) | Engineering Managers and Software Engineers | https://allenai.org/careers#current-openings

AI2 is a non-profit research institute working to apply AI research and engineering efforts towards the common good. Part of this, of course, involves writing a lot of code.

You might write code for scheduling machine learning experiments across both on-premise and cloud hardware, or work on a platform we have for handling inference at runtime. Or you might contribute to Semantic Scholar, an AI powered, open academic search index or projects like EarthRanger and Skylight, that use technology to combat illegal poaching and fishing activities.

We're a small, open institution with a lot of really smart, motivated people. There's no shortage of fun problems to work on, and folks are given a ton of autonomy to drive and shape their projects.

Take a look at our job offerings, and send me a note if you have any questions:

https://allenai.org/careers#current-openings

sams [at] allenai.org
I have one and it's really great. Went from high latency 10mbps (calnet) to low latency 150mbps (starlink). Prior to calnet we had geostationary satellite which was unusably bad and would try to tether through Verizon but signal was very weak.

It's life changing if you're in an area without other options (though it does suck it's taking a long time for people to get access).
Not in 1998
The original PLO charter called for the explicit and complete destruction of Israel.

Objective rebuttal to today's report follows

https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-amnesty-report-on-israel-aff...
Art+com doesn't show up in Google search, but it shows up in Bing
I am watching The Billion Dollar Code on Netflix and - of course - I read about the story on Wikipedia (link below) and then I want to take a look at the company involved, you know the one that sued Google? Highlight, right click, search Google for... and, nothing. I tried searching for "ART+COM". Nope.

So, maybe they went out of business, I think. But I thought that at least the Wikipedia entry would shop up.

Nope.

So, I decide to give Bing a try and... lo and behold, there it is, second on the search

ART+COM https://artcom.de/en/

Google: shame on you!

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code

P.S.: I do know evil
hey Sam
Not just America unfortunately.

People at the very top unfortunately now listen to the bean counters far too much.

This really does make social problems of an us vs them sort when all of the money manages to drift up with only the false promises of altruism at charity galas being the sign of any of the generated wealth making its way back down to the workers...
> When a traffic cop or school teacher holds up a hand to stop cars or say "turn left NOW", what training data exists?

This seems like one of the scenarios (multiple but limited in number) explicitly listed in traffic laws which might be scarce in randomly sampled driving data, however, is trivial to artificially manufacture in as large quantities as you need. Go to a local movie producer for their supply of uniform costumes and other varied clothing and the actors/extras to play the role of a traffic cop, and you can get quite a lot of training data in a single week on a budget that's trivial compared to most other self-driving car experiments.
Maybe "Alphabet's revenue this quarter was a million times my annual salary"

- did not calculate, just saying :)
"Often happen at scale"? What on earth are you talking about?

The schools I went to very much "politically aware" -- and there was no shortage of drama and controversy in the student newspapers, online and all over campus, in fact. But in the classroom? I literally cannot think of a single instance of "interpersonal conflict" that would have required special "management" skills of any kind (beyond simple decency and common sense). Everyone got along, and it was all pretty mellow and chill, actually.
[Furiously takes notes]
If you are lucky to live in a city covered by them, Citymapper is a very good app for public transit routing.
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Ordered it. I work from home in a rural area that gets only 40 mbps. No brainer.
except in this timeline i don’t think we avoided any deaths we just delayed them
And what about when you’ve exhausted every square inch of land to shove more housing on? Then the city isn’t worth anything to anyone and you move on to the next city to ruin.

At some point, enough is enough and you have to accept that there’s no room for more housing without ruining the city. You could focus on reclaiming AirBNBs and vacant housing and you might be able to make a dent in the problem.

Just announce that your city is full and tell everyone to move on. Ruining the city will make landlords money and everyone unhappy.
You have obstructions. I spent weeks getting mine to work right and had to top a couple of trees and build a custom pole mount to get it even higher on the roof. Being in a remote site around Vancouver, you're probably dealing with lots of tall trees too.
$500/mo.? That's a steep, 400% increase from the base $100/mo. tier. When are we getting Starlink Plus?
The suburban land use pattern doesn't admit good transit because not enough people live close to the stations.

Also, we have bad combinations of when to make things public/private - the US actually has much more public services than many other countries (other places do have privatized mail, transit, etc) but then doesn't fund them. If this was Japan all the good stores would be in the train station and would fund the operations.
One way to look at BTC (and friends) is as a kind of financial heat pump, except moving money instead of heat.

As with the traditional heat pump there is a working fluid - the coins. These coins have a price (in dollars) - this is their temperature.

The market is cycled just as a heat pump, with the working fluid being squeezed by buying pressure to raise the price, then released by selling to reduce the price and start the cycle again.

By controlling the cycle (e.g. by printing USDT out of thin air), the scammers ensure that the marks are buying in when the price is high, because they believe it will continue rising, and sell when the price is low, because they fear a further drop. Thus money is pumped from the marks to the scammers.

MOON->FOMO->HODL->DUMP->MOON->

MOON - scammers buy in to start raising the price. Early marks start entering and the scammers can reduce their buying as the price takes off.

FOMO - late marks come in wanting some of the action. Scammers are now shifting to selling, with max selling as the top is reached and marks buying power becomes exhausted.

HODL - price is dipping, scammers still are selling, but marks are holding expecting prices to recover.

DUMP - heavy price falls are now frightening the marks, who start closing their positions. Scammers are quietly hoovering up the excess, and gradually put a floor to the price.

Repeat.

Note that the scammers coin holdings are conserved across the whole cycle - but because of the price differential between their buying and selling phases, they make a profit over that cycle.

BTC has gone through 2 such cycles in the last year or two, maybe it is just entering the MOON phase again now?
Diving into this topic is a bit like poking a perfectly calm hornet’s nest, but it is humorous to look at this from David’s perspective. He didn’t need much, just a sleeping bag, a place to put his toothbrush, and a good burrito joint. Leaves lots of time to pursue extracurriculars. Poor David got civilized and now spends his time scrubbing toilets :P
Can you use ublock when searching on android or iphone?
They didn't say you can't criticize. They explained why it wouldn't be ironic even if the comparison made sense. Editorial independence is expected.
Anecdote warning:
This is one reason I have not been able to buy/sell google options. (I did around Brexit when google was 650 or so, but not since). Even a single contract is a massive risk for a layman portfolio like mine. 1/20 will imply I will definitely attempt to trade this.
Make a mobile app so you can send push notifications to most customers instead. It seems like this is the way most businesses go, the massive proliferation of one-off apps on customer phones notwithstanding.
Great points, thank you. I've been wondering how to do it in a privacy-preserving way. Also the current implementation is a browser extension, I wonder if there may be a better architecture.
If you're selling a pump and dump like crypto or Uber, you want the CEO to lie to you because it shows he's good at lying! Then you all go out and lie with him, then Softbank gives you a billion dollars for no reason.
Unfortunately this is partly due to FCC regulations.
How Covid Stole Our Privacy
I appreciate your sarcasm.
Because it's closer to the actual cost and not subsidised as much.
Do you think if they focused on creating a monochrome AR display first for applications in engineering and medicine it would have been adopted creating a path for the company to later research and develop a multicolor device?

Seems like they lost. Wouldn't it have been better to start simple? They never released a MVP.
The Supreme Court has ruled in opposition to this perspective [1]:

“Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
Your entry point was sales engineer, was it not?
Thanks,

The rumor mill is that Microsoft has slowed down development of HL3 development with many people leaving. Most famously, Bernard Kress, and optical architect of Hololens 1 and 2 has left for Google.

There were very few Magic Leap Ones ever sold. The number I hear is between 5,000 and 10,000 units sold for money with about as many units given away.

Hololens 2 seems to be shipping about 70K to 100K units per year but it is not clear if that has peaked or not. The display quality is very poor as I have written about extensively, but the ergonomics are good enough for some industrial applications.

I get the sense that ML2 was too far gone and with money running out to react to ML2 and thus still has terrible ergonomics. With blocking 80% of the light, not supporting ordinary glasses, and having a cable which is a snag hazard, the future looks bleak for Magic Leap 2 as it was for ML1. I don't know if they would have been a success, but at least they would have had a shot in the same space as HL2 if they had reworked the serious ergonomic problems. The dimming feature is a differentiation that resulted in them missing the market altogether.
The population received a significant sum of money but I haven’t seen a data set or statistic indicating people buying discretionary goods rather than paying rent.
Enjoy the break. They'll be back.

There are various features on the search functions on LinkedIn, and most recruiters know that nobody quits the job they just started.
If you can't bear any risk of losing money perhaps you should buy money market funds instead of real estate at 20x leverage.
I had guessed something like this was going on, but reading this just really makes me wonder what's really going on in the minds of a private equity folks. The C-suite and senior leadership were the ones who drove the company to the point that they ended up in the hands of private equity, but they were incentivized to stay.

I get that they exiting leadership knows the company and it's hard to find new people. But it just seems so crazy to me.

We had teams that had 50%+ percent of people gone between layoffs and attrition. It was comical to see how much stuff fell between the newly formed cracks. I still can't comprehend how much they must have been incentivized to stay when the earth was crumbling around them.
This is not great because suppose it cost relatively little to physically build a house but you sold it for a huge amount because it's in some chic architectural style that hasn't arrived yet in this city. So your house was in a crazy seller market and unexpectedly sold for crazy tons. Now you are being seriously penalized for your boldness.
dang can you do something about the redirect link?
History must be replete with situations such as where a music producer buys a song outright from a semiliterate performer for 50 bucks and then turns it into a million selling hit with no royalties for the original writer. And that type of exploitation has historically been enabled or facilitated by a classist or racist framework where the original writer would have no conceivable access to fair compensation nor to proper legal representation. And that is certainly appropriation. But the fact that it's cross-cultural may be relevant to the appeal of the stolen good, but it's incidental to the act of thievery.

Hence, if Sting stole musical licks from specific performer(s), that's a problem. If those people would've been entitled to compensation but for the fact that they were poor island countryfolk incognizant of their rights, that's a problem. But if he just borrowed his musical aesthetic from reggae or from "Jamaican culture," that seems morally uncontroversial to me. Maybe musically derivative, but that's a matter of taste.
What kind of returns?
Jobs as a QA engineer would be doing smoke tests by "eating his own dog food". He would make sure that at least the fundamental tasks of software/hardware work flawlessly.
I think arXiv / LANL preprint service predate PDF and the web (ftp and gopher). tex is seems more popular still in physics than other disciplines.
I agree with most of what you said, United States doesn't care about happiness or peace of foreign countries, only power and influence.

But anti immigration has nothing right wing. Bernie fucking Sanders called it Koch brothers policy. Obama and Biden campaign against it. Obama built the cages. If you want to be treated seriously stop being partisan otherwise you just come across as a cnn watcher with no real grasp on things.
Why is the VPN still not available in Australia?
The Uber trick is that people don't understand how much it costs to own a car, so riders get to extract money from overinvested drivers.
The UX of paying a third-party broker to opt into a semblance of privacy isn't particularly great.

It's amusing (to me) how the cryptocurrency community has managed to convince its members to accept ridiculous amounts of commoditization and middlemen in exchange for anonymity properties that are strictly worse than cash, and arguably worse than payment cards.
I want collaborate on publishable ML research.

I'm currently working as a machine learning engineer, but doing a lot more engineering than learning. I'm also applying to PhD programs with focuses in knowledge graphs and common sense reasoning, but willing to learn any other field. If I don't get in then some independent research is still a good career move.

I have ideas of my own (goal oriented question asking) but happy to run support on other peoples stuff.
It's never gonna work for camping anyways, unless you like to camp in an open field. Trees are the weak spot for Starlink, and even on my 2 acre plot, I could almost not find any clearings free of obstructions. I have a few 40+ foot trees and even though I was over 150 feet away from them, my signal was still getting obstructed.
Tim Cook Pivots to Fitness
> Growth is primarily due to demand - by advertisers, not the users.

It is actually both, from q3 10k:

Paid clicks change: 24%
Cost-per-click change: 17%
Zephyr 101: Stack and Heap
Meanwhile, Microsoft buys up all of Activision-Blizzard and Sony buys Bungie and no one blinks an eye. No one even noticed that Zynga just got bought by Take-Two within the past month!
Disclaimer: Previously worked at Amazon but not AWS.

You would typically be right. However, the saying as of 2013 was "At any given second there is always at-least one new computer being plugged in, to support S3's growth."

> Every rack that is sitting there is an opportunity cost for another efficient or more profitable rack.

If AWS wasn't already supply side constrained on new hardware to fill new AWS data centers, you would be correct. However, they do not yet need to re-use those old racks, instead they are accelerating how many new racks they are building.
Didn’t Hotz publicly give up on self driving and say driver assistance is all that will ever be possible?
> If a gunman from Canada fired into the USA, the USA is unlikely to consider it a declaration of war and start nuking Canada!

If the gunman had ties to the de-facto government and the government was unwilling/unable to arrest the gunman, i think it is likely they would.

After all, wasn't that what happened with 9/11?
Which is pretty much Alaska.
The site says it requires a clear sky to connect. So, in cloudy or rainy conditions, is there no connection or is there reduced speed?
i'm more curious why you just joined a new company and care about recruiter messages
Jon Bentley's The Back of the Envelope[0] has a much better lesson about bridge building and software design.

"Most of you," says Vyssotsky, "probably recall pictures of 'Galloping Gertie,' the Tacoma Narrows bridge which tore itself apart in a windstorm in 1940. Well, suspension bridges had been ripping themselves apart that way for 80 years or so before Galloping Gertie. It's an aerodynamic lift phenomenon, and to do a proper engineering calculation of the forces, which involve drastic nonlinearities, you have to use the mathematics and concepts of Kolmogorov to model the eddy spectrum. Nobody really knew how to do this correctly in detail until the 1950s or thereabouts. So, why hasn't the Brooklyn Bridge torn itself apart, like Galloping Gertie?

"It's because John Roebling had sense enough to know what he didn't know. His notes and letters on the design of the Brooklyn Bridge still exist, and they are a fascinating example of a good engineer recognizing the limits of his knowledge. He knew about aerodynamic lift on suspension bridges; he had watched it. And he knew he didn't know enough to model it. So he designed the stiffness of the truss on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway to be six times what a normal calculation based on known static and dynamic loads would have called for. And, he specified a network of diagonal stays running down to the roadway, to stiffen the entire bridge structure. Go look at those sometime; they're almost unique.

"When Roebling was asked whether his proposed bridge wouldn't collapse like so many others, he said, 'No, because I designed it six times as strong as it needs to be, to prevent that from happening.'

"Roebling was a good engineer, and he built a good bridge, by employing a huge safety factor to compensate for his ignorance. Do we do that? I submit to you that in calculating performance of our real-time software systems we ought to derate them by a factor of two, or four, or six, to compensate for our ignorance. In making reliability/availability commitments, we ought to stay back from the objectives we think we can meet by a factor of ten, to compensate for our ignorance. In estimating size and cost and schedule, we should be conservative by a factor of two or four to compensate for our ignorance. We should design the way John Roebling did, and not the way his contemporaries did-- so far as I know, none of the suspension bridges built by Roebling's contemporaries in the United States still stands, and a quarter of all the bridges of any type built in the U.S. in the 1870s collapsed within ten years of construction.

"Are we engineers, like John Roebling? I wonder."

[0] https://www.seltzer.com/margo/teaching/CS508.19/background/p...
I mean, yes, they are different. One is usually explicitly meant to denigrate another group; another is usually not meant to denigrate another group. In that sense, very different.

In another key way they’re absolutely similar: they are modes of expression that (in the eyes of some) harm other groups or (in the eyes of others) are not a big deal. And there are an awful lot of grey areas and nobody agrees on the definitions.
Nothing I'm willing to share right now, but I do want to say that this is a great idea for a recurring thread and very much in line with the hackernews ethos
https://allogov.us/

We're building the first political party that comes with an app.

Imagine if American democracy was improved 10x. A fairer, more representative, more effective government for everyone.

The goal is to start small, provide a 10x better experience for citizens, and gradually overtake/integrate with the 2 major parties:
- The Software layer for the "hardware" of existing political institutions
- Better voting - deliberate in app, and then vote all at once in a bloc
- Better tools outside of voting - perks, feedback, and more

Work with me! Shoot me a message at ztang230@gmail.com. Would love to talk to anyone interested! (or tell me why the idea sucks)